Re: Compiler choice for OSS (WAS: Re: Trouble with Mozilla Java plugin)

2003-06-01 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 01 June 2003 14:09, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > This is something I have always wondered about. Why do OSS projects use > gcc for every platform except Windows? I thought one of the great > advantages of gcc was that is was ported to pretty much every operating > system. Why not just alwa

Lost user access to dos partition

2003-06-01 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
The following used to work before changing to testing: [as user] cd /dosd In which /dosd is an ms-dos partition (containing my mp3's). /etc/fstab says: /dev/hda5 /dosd vfat defaults,user,rw0 1 But after the upgrade I get [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /dosd -bash: cd: /dosd: Permissio

ALSA: Kernel Oops...

2003-06-01 Thread DJTB
Hi, I switched to unstable (from testing) a week ago, and since then, I can't get ALSA working for my ICE1712 chip. This is what I did: - I downloaded alsa-source, to build a kernel module. (using make-kpkg modules_image) - I installed alsa-base and alsa-utils This is what I get when I try to

Re: Address book sharing

2003-06-01 Thread Pierre THIERRY
> Does anybody know whether it is possible to share the Mozilla address > books of the Windows and of the Debian partition? And how? I think by symlinking the files on the Debian partition to the Windows one... The LDAP solution could enable sharing it with even distant systems, but it a bit more

Re: DVD ripping in 100 words or less

2003-06-01 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, Bill Moseley wrote: > I used acidrip and was able to generate a avi image in about 15 or so > minutes that plays just fine. I used the default "copy" settings for > codec and audio. How big is this file? I guess several Gigabytes for a movie. > Oh, now dvd::rip just went on to "pass 2" w

Re: Strange file in my /etc

2003-06-01 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 09:38:02 +0800, Jimmy Lu wrote: > There is a binary file in my /etc directory. The file name is "-src". I am very > worried because I've > never noticed this file before. Can someone tell me what is this file for? I am > using Woody 3.0r1, > -r1root

Compiler choice for OSS (WAS: Re: Trouble with Mozilla Java plugin)

2003-06-01 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Aryan Ameri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > The compiler version is always important (due to the nature of C). > For example Mozilla 1.4 can be compiled with gcc on windows, but no > plugin would then work with it, because all the plugins have been > compiled with the Microsoft compiler. T

Re: Trouble with Mozilla Java plugin

2003-06-01 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 12:39:41 +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote: > On Sunday 01 June 2003 07:15, Roberto Sanchez wrote: >> >> That sure did the trick (I didn't realize the gcc version had an >> impact). Thanks. > > The compiler version is always important (due to the nature of C). Any pointers to

Re: cdrom symlink won't stay linked to /dev/cdrom1

2003-06-01 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 01 June 2003 11:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > You're using devfs which means that the whole /dev structure is > > > generated dynamically. You'll have to edit /etc/devfsc.conf (search for > > > cdrom) to preserve the change. > > > > I think you just had a typo there; the real filenam

Re: boot-floppies package

2003-06-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 06:06:08AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: ... > If you do have a running system, then simply have root visit grub's > working directory and copy the two stage files over to an unmounted > floppy: > > # dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 > # dd if=stage2 of=/dev/f

Re: woody 2.4 kernel netinstall and NIC autodetect?

2003-06-01 Thread Geordie Birch
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 12:57:02PM +0200, Steinar Bang wrote: > However, the e100 NIC wasn't detected either. Was it supposed to have > been? Would it have, if the NIC had been connected? (it wasn't)> Check the comprehensive install manual at debian.org. If it's not in there, it's not part o

Re: Strange file in my /etc

2003-06-01 Thread eamon-roque
Hi! I would move it to '-src.old' or something else and see what happens. '-src' is quite an strange name for a config file. : ( Are you noticing anything else on your system, a.e. strange network activity, folders (w)out groups or owners, inexplicable SUID files et al.?! HTH Eamon Roque. ---

mozilla fails to launch the program to view a file after download

2003-06-01 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, As all of the mozilla users here likely know, when you click a binary link in mozilla it allows you to choose either to download this file and save it, or to open it immediately (if it is in a known format). Lately though, opening or viewing files doesn't seem to work. eg with video files, moz

Re: Anti Open Source Psyops / "Mind Tweakers"? (they'll never believe we're really aliens dept)

2003-06-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 01:23:29AM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Happy un-halloween. The truth is out there -- apt-get into it, local > shadow repositories potentially excepted. You know, I was just saying on #debian-devel within the past couple of days how I missed Karl Hegbloom's psychotical

Re: boot-floppies package

2003-06-01 Thread Haines Brown
Floris, I have also found it advantageous to create a grub boot floppy. You can then select among kernels or fiddle with the bootloader configuration actually in the course of a boot. If you do have a running system, then simply have root visit grub's working directory and copy the two stage file

firewire card for sony dcr trv33

2003-06-01 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I got a sony camcorder (trv33), and a firewire, but I am not sure about what firewire card would work with debian( have a woody, kernel 2.4.18 running). Another question: From what I have read, kino seems to be the application to install, any other ideas? Thanks to all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Trouble with Mozilla Java plugin

2003-06-01 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Sunday 01 June 2003 07:15, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > --- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > That is almost undoubtedly due to that version of Java being > > compiled with gcc 2.95, and mozilla being compiled with gcc 3.x. > > The dates on the files from that mirror are quite old..

Re: Help with XMMS radio, specifically KPFB

2003-06-01 Thread paul
Dale Hair declaimed: > On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 12:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Silly question 3 of 3: XMMS used to come up with KPFB in the playlist, > > and it would work! Now after tweaking and geeking and getting XMMS to > > actually play CD ROMs for the first time, I've lost the radion statio

Re: cdrom symlink won't stay linked to /dev/cdrom1

2003-06-01 Thread paul
Vineet Kumar declaimed: > * Nicos Gollan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030530 10:58]: > > On Friday 30 May 2003 19:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > This is silly question 1 of 3. Every time I restart, the /dev/cdrom > > > symlink "magically" gets remapped to /dev/cdrom0. Which is the wrong > > > device, s

Re: Address book sharing

2003-06-01 Thread Thomas Elsen
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 00:33, Piero wrote: Does anybody know whether it is possible to share the Mozilla address books of the Windows and of the Debian partition? And how? Put the file on a small, shared partition? (Yes, it's a kludge.) If you have another computer, yo

problems with ifup/ifdown/interfaces.

2003-06-01 Thread Paul Matuszewski
I'm attempting to add additional ip's to my interfaces and am having trouble..: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.110 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1 # Second auto eth0:26 iface eth0:26

X needed on printserver?

2003-06-01 Thread Russ Pitman
If a client workstation is passing X data to a printserver does the printserver machine need to have X installed? I find much documentation confuses me using the single word 'server' for both the machine and the software that may/should reside on a different machine which in turn may also be a

Re: Fonts with wine a real mess!

2003-06-01 Thread Roman Joost
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 03:38:06PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I can start various application for M$ windows (among them Abiword for win32) but > the fonts are a real mess, absolutely unreadable, they look like symbols not > characters! > > What shouild I do? > Maybe rewrite the font

Re: ssh setup

2003-06-01 Thread Jon Haugsand
* Jeff Elkins > Yep, X11Forwarding is set to yes in /etc/ssh_config for both the client and > the server. SSH seems to function normally in all other respects... On the server side, it is the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSU

weird TCP/IP interface problems

2003-06-01 Thread Paul Matuszewski
I have the built in Ethernet card on a thunder k7xpro card.. I used the epro100 driver to get it working.. seems cool.. however.. I ahve the debian box going right now, through my win2k box.. whenever i Initialize an ftp session with another host.. my windows machine goes BLUE screen oh death.. an

Re: testing: dist-upgrade to perl-5.8 removes modules

2003-06-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 06:28:06PM -0700, Randall Hansen wrote: > I'm running testing, and a week or two ago apt [dist-upgrade] wanted > to install a new Perl (5.8) to replace my current 5.6.1. I've no > special preference for 5.6x, but apt also wants to remove several Perl > modules on which I de

[OT] prune cups job log

2003-06-01 Thread Alex Polite
The log of our CUPS server is so full that loading the "completed jobs" in the CUPS www interface takes quite some time. I've been trying to find out how to prune the log of old jobs with no success. Ideas? alex -- Alex Polite http://plusseven.com/gpg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Gnome 2.2 panel config

2003-06-01 Thread Neilen
Hi. I recently upgraded to sid, and of course, got gnome 2.2. Looks quite nice, but I can't get the panel to do quite what I want. In Gnome 1.4 I had a really broad, auto-hide panel on the top-right hand side of my screen, which had the desktop switcher and a tasklist. I liked to have it really

Re: nvidia video cards

2003-06-01 Thread Dan Hunt
> Go to the NVIDIA web site and download their drivers, or get the packages > nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src from Debian. > > Follow the instructions. > I went "apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src" and "apt-get install nvidia-glx-src" and I found the instructions a bit confusing, /usr

Re: InCD Like software

2003-06-01 Thread David Purton
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 10:01:14AM +0530, SRIKANTH NS wrote: > Hi Listers, > > Is there an InCD like program for Linux in which we can copy files to > CDRW disks like a large floppy ? > > Google brought up packet-cd.sourceforge.net in which a patch is given > to 2.4.10test kernel. One is asked to

Re: Remote KDE desktop over SSH?

2003-06-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 28, 2003 at 07:08:47PM -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > For months now, while I'm at work, I've been running a couple programs > in SSH, displaying on my computer at work. Now I'm curious if I can > do something similar to get a KDM login on my home box. > > Using knop

RE: AIC7xxx drivers Thunder K7x Pro

2003-06-01 Thread Paul Matuszewski
Turns out.. that my network drivers aren't supported through 30r1 'cause of .18.. so I'm going to install to IDE.. using my realtek NIC.. grasp all the drivers.. get my scsi working... and try to make my own install disk.. any hints on where to find info on making my own kernel to load MY scsi driv

Re: Anti Open Source Psyops / "Mind Tweakers"? (they'll never believewe're really aliens dept)

2003-06-01 Thread Adam Heath
On 31 May 2003, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > [snip] HAHAHAHAHAHA. I needed that. Thanks for the laugh. Made my day. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tuxracer: extension "GLX" missing (was: nvidia video cards)

2003-06-01 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 31 May 2003 21:23:19 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: >From the utah-glx FAQ: "GLX is basically the glue that ties OpenGL and X together. Most of the code in Utah-GLX is actually dealing with graphics chipset specific drivers code. Most of the OpenGL support is provided by Mesa

DVD ripping in 100 words or less

2003-06-01 Thread Bill Moseley
Got a flakey DVD so I figured a good time to try this stuff out. I'm looking for a short overview of dvd ripping and what (or more why) codecs to select. I've got all the tools and libraries installed and I'm trying out two front-ends: dvd::rip, and acidrip. I used acidrip and was able to gene

Re: Anti Open Source Psyops / "Mind Tweakers"? (they'll never believe we're really aliens dept)

2003-06-01 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Sat, 31 May 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 01:23:29AM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > [snip paranoid ravings] > Holy s**t you really are nuts. If this is serious, I second your opinion. Unfortunately, being totally, completely, and absolutely unhinged must be o

RE: AIC7xxx drivers Thunder K7x Pro

2003-06-01 Thread Paul Matuszewski
NO go on the compact install -Paul --- Paul Matuszewski Systems Administration In Office Networks http://www.inofficenetworks.com V:(516) 816-4871 V:(305) 799-4871 F:(305) 441-2804 -Original Message- From: Greg Madden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May

InCD Like software

2003-06-01 Thread SRIKANTH NS
Hi Listers, Is there an InCD like program for Linux in which we can copy files to CDRW disks like a large floppy ? Google brought up packet-cd.sourceforge.net in which a patch is given to 2.4.10test kernel. One is asked to recompile kernel . I do not know that deep to include such support in kern

Re: Trouble with Mozilla Java plugin

2003-06-01 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > That is almost undoubtedly due to that version of Java being compiled > with gcc 2.95, and mozilla being compiled with gcc 3.x. The dates on > the files from that mirror are quite old... Try using: > ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/JDK-1.4.1/i386/01

Re: Balky Netgear FA311 ethernet card

2003-06-01 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a very small home network consisting of two computers connected > by ethernet via a hub. One computer is currently Windows only, and > the other is a Debian/Windows dual boot. The dual boot machine is an > elderly Pentium Pro system with the Netgear FA31

Re: nvidia video cards

2003-06-01 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 31 May 2003 18:41:45 -0300 james leclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Setting up woody on my main box. Using geforce4 mx pci video card. After > installing x and running starx, I get error messages stating "no screens > found". When installing x, I had chose the nv server. Was this co

tuxracer: extension "GLX" missing (was: nvidia video cards)

2003-06-01 Thread Bob Proulx
[Drifting from original topic and on to tuxracer problems...] Ron Johnson wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > The framebuffer is needed for some programs, notably tuxracer, which > > use it and you won't be able to run those programs without it. Darn! > > Are you sure? I'm running XFree 4.2.1 with t

Re: Balky Netgear FA311 ethernet card

2003-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 21:31, Rick wrote: > I have a very small home network consisting of two computers connected > by ethernet via a hub. One computer is currently Windows only, and the > other is a Debian/Windows dual boot. The dual boot machine is an > elderly Pentium Pro system with the Ne

Balky Netgear FA311 ethernet card

2003-06-01 Thread Rick
I have a very small home network consisting of two computers connected by ethernet via a hub. One computer is currently Windows only, and the other is a Debian/Windows dual boot. The dual boot machine is an elderly Pentium Pro system with the Netgear FA311 card. This goes on a PCI bus. I re

Re: Trouble with Mozilla Java plugin

2003-06-01 Thread Richard Heycock
What exactly is the problem? Which version of java are you using? which Debian release are you running and which version of mozilla are you using? The following worked for me: * untar the sdk (the jre should work also). With Sun sdk1.4.1 it "just works". With 1.3 (I think) it may or may not wor

Re: Trouble with Mozilla Java plugin

2003-06-01 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Roberto Sanchez: > Hi all, > > I can't seem to get Mozilla (unstable) to recognize the Java plugin. I > and installed by had the J2RE, first from Sun then from Blackdown. When > neither of this worked, I added a Blackdown mirror to my sources.list. > > deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/l

Re: nvidia video cards

2003-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 19:34, Bob Proulx wrote: > james leclair wrote: [snip] > The "nv" driver does not support framebuffer. But if you were like me > that option pulled you in. Find this in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > file and comment it out. > > Option "UseFBDev" "true" > > T

Re: Address book sharing

2003-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 00:33, Piero wrote: > Does anybody know whether it is possible to share the Mozilla address > books of the Windows and of the Debian partition? And how? Put the file on a small, shared partition? (Yes, it's a kludge.) If you have another computer, you could set up OpenLDAP

Strange file in my /etc

2003-06-01 Thread Jimmy Lu
Hello all,   There is a binary file in my /etc directory.  The file name is "-src".  I am very worried because I've never noticed this file before.  Can someone tell me what is this file for?  I am using Woody 3.0r1, kernel 2.4.18-586tsc. ls -l shows the following info. of this file.     -r-

Re: ssh setup

2003-06-01 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 31 May 2003 8:16 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > > I'd be inclined to use -vvv. > > > Is root enabled to open a remote X session? > > That's irrelevant to ssh X forwarding. > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's -vvv: (I've tried both with my user ac

Re: DVDs reproduction a little "slow"

2003-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 14:20, Florentin Ionescu wrote: > Try to compile mplayer, cvs version and read DOCS/cd-dvd.html to improve > performance - mplayer has support for debian package - http://www.mplayerhq.hu. Add this to sources.list: deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main It has pre-comp

Re: AIC7xxx drivers Thunder K7x Pro

2003-06-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 04:05:41PM -0400, Paul Matuszewski wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 08:40AM, Pigeon wrote: > > On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 04:18:01AM -0400, Paul Matuszewski wrote: > > > Hi all, newbie here. > > > > > > I've installed plenty of non-scsi systems.. but one of the first systems >

testing: dist-upgrade to perl-5.8 removes modules

2003-06-01 Thread Randall Hansen
Folks ~ I'm running testing, and a week or two ago apt [dist-upgrade] wanted to install a new Perl (5.8) to replace my current 5.6.1. I've no special preference for 5.6x, but apt also wants to remove several Perl modules on which I depend. To wit: Digest::MD5 appears to be replaced with libmd5-p

Re: apt-get Newbie

2003-06-01 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 00:22:38 +, Alan C wrote: > I'm a Debian newbie. Welcome, you sure sound like one! > I would now like to follow just the 'stable' updates and > let my non-stable stuff stay as it is until it enters the > stable 'stream'. Well then, you can just take th

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Re: nvidia video cards

2003-06-01 Thread Bob Proulx
james leclair wrote: > > Setting up woody on my main box. Using geforce4 mx pci video card. After > installing x and running starx, I get error messages stating "no screens > found". When installing x, I had chose the nv server. Was this correct? Had > good experiences on my test comp with Debi

Re: nvidia video cards

2003-06-01 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Sat, 31 May 2003 18:41:45 -0300 james leclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Setting up woody on my main box. Using geforce4 mx pci video card. > After installing x and running starx, I get error messages stating "no > screens found". When installing x, I had chose the nv server. Was this > co

Re: Inserting a into sed's replacement string

2003-06-01 Thread Bob Proulx
bob parker wrote: > I want to be able to insert tab chars into the output lines eg > sed = somefile | sed 'N;s/\n/\t/' > just gives me the literal 't' immediately following the number at the start > of each line. > [...] > Is there some way of inserting the tab in octal or hex? This comes up peri

Making dead-keys from us_intl layout work with all characters? (fwd)

2003-06-01 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear readers, I sent the message below to debian-x, but I received no response. I would like to know if other people have solutions for the problem of making dead-keys work with all caracters and not only with letters that can receive accents (see

apt-get Newbie

2003-06-01 Thread Alan C
Hi All I'm a Debian newbie. I understand it's possible to use apt-get once every couple of weeks or so to keep a system up-to-date. When I installed Debian 3.0r1, some of the software I wanted to use specified Gnome2.2, so I've gone beyond stable and put the following 'backports' at the top o

Re: ssh setup

2003-06-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 11:35:24PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sat, 31 May 2003 the mental interface of > Jeff Elkins told: > > On Saturday 31 May 2003 4:09 pm, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > more specifically, I take it you mean you have "X11Forwarding yes" on > > > the server's sshd_config,

Trouble with Mozilla Java plugin

2003-06-01 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Hi all, I can't seem to get Mozilla (unstable) to recognize the Java plugin. I and installed by had the J2RE, first from Sun then from Blackdown. When neither of this worked, I added a Blackdown mirror to my sources.list. deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian

Re: Why "./configure" script of some projects doesn't work in Debian

2003-06-01 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Hamid wrote: > But in this specific case, i.e. kdevelop, I still have problem. > I have installed all the necessary packages for Qt (binary and headers) > using debian packages and I use a lot of "--with-qt-" to pass the right > directories to the script and it still does not feel like helpi

Re: ssh setup

2003-06-01 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 31 May 2003 the mental interface of Jeff Elkins told: > On Saturday 31 May 2003 5:35 pm, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: [...] > > > > > ** CRITICAL **: Unable to open display > > > > > > > > > > X11 forwarding is turned on. What have I forgotten? > > > > > > Is root enabled to open a remote X

Re: moving root (/) to new drive...

2003-06-01 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeff Hahn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030531 05:42]: > I'm clearly missing a step here, any help would be appreciated... > > copy drive to new partition, edit /etc/fstab. > > Once I copy drive contents to a new partition, I am unable to get a clean > boot using the new partition as root even when boot

Re: boot-floppies package

2003-06-01 Thread Charles Roberts
Floris Bruynooghe wrote: Why can't I find the boot-floppies package anymore? Or is there an other way to make custom Debian boot-floppies. In the installation manual for Woody however they are still mentoined under the section `Chapter 10 - Technical Information on the Boot Floppies'. (I could f

Re: Why "./configure" script of some projects doesn't work in Debian

2003-06-01 Thread Hamid
Thank you all for the responses. As you said, I could solve some of the problems by installing the relative "-dev" package. But in this specific case, i.e. kdevelop, I still have problem. I have installed all the necessary packages for Qt (binary and headers) using debian packages and I use a lot

Re: DVDs reproduction a little "slow"

2003-06-01 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Sara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Saturday, 31 May 2003, 06:26 PM +0200): > I wondered if anyone knew anything I could do to improve the reproduction of > DVDs. Trying different players (Ogle, Xine, Vlc), and running them even as > root, I always have the same problem: the images "freeze" a l

Re: ssh setup

2003-06-01 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 31 May 2003 5:35 pm, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sat, 31 May 2003 the mental interface of > > Jeff Elkins told: > > On Saturday 31 May 2003 4:09 pm, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > * Jeff Elkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030531 12:42]: > > > > I'm setting up a previously working woody mp3 serve

Re: /etc/profile no longer used

2003-06-01 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Kevin McKinley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030531 13:54]: > On Sat, 31 May 2003 11:57:39 -0600 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > > > Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > > > Perhaps not exactly, but wider: /etc/environment is meant to be used > > > by all shells, ... > > > > Reall

Re: Help with XMMS radio, specifically KPFB

2003-06-01 Thread Pamela Hair
On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 16:20, Haines Brown wrote: > > http://www.shoutcast.com/ is a good place for mp3 streams. > > http://www.webradio.com lists radio stations and has links to streams > > but no mp3 streams. That should have been http://www.web-radio.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

nvidia video cards

2003-06-01 Thread james leclair
Setting up woody on my main box. Using geforce4 mx pci video card. After installing x and running starx, I get error messages stating "no screens found". When installing x, I had chose the nv server. Was this correct? Had good experiences on my test comp with Debian and would really love to get

Re: ssh setup

2003-06-01 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 31 May 2003 the mental interface of Jeff Elkins told: > On Saturday 31 May 2003 4:09 pm, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * Jeff Elkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030531 12:42]: > > > I'm setting up a previously working woody mp3 server after a crash, but > > > when I try to run xmms via ssh I get: > >

Re: strange mutt / imap error

2003-06-01 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 04:52:31PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > Hi group, > > Out of nowhere, I'm now getting a strange error when connecting to an > imap folder using mutt: > > Message 4 UID 108 greater than last 3 > > I get this in all imap folders and I don't understand any of it. > Ignoring

Re: Anyone using an LS-120 or "Superdisk" with debian?

2003-06-01 Thread Henrik Christian Grove
Nomad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you remember those 120MB floppies that weren't quite as popular as > ZIP disks? > > I was the guy that bought it. Did anyone else on the list get one, > and if so, did you get it to work with linux? Not until kernel 2.0.31-pre4. (That was the summer of 199

Re: Help with XMMS radio, specifically KPFB

2003-06-01 Thread Haines Brown
> http://www.shoutcast.com/ is a good place for mp3 streams. > http://www.webradio.com lists radio stations and has links to streams > but no mp3 streams. Pamela, Thanks. Although www.webradio.com seems to have come down, I was able to use your information to do a little search on line and pull

Re: ssh setup

2003-06-01 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 31 May 2003 4:09 pm, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Jeff Elkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030531 12:42]: > > I'm setting up a previously working woody mp3 server after a crash, but > > when I try to run xmms via ssh I get: > > > > ** CRITICAL **: Unable to open display > > > > X11 forwarding is tur

Re: /etc/profile no longer used

2003-06-01 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 31 May 2003 11:57:39 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > > Perhaps not exactly, but wider: /etc/environment is meant to be used > > by all shells, ... > > Really? Can someone point me to documentation or standards which > desc

Address book sharing

2003-06-01 Thread Piero
Does anybody know whether it is possible to share the Mozilla address books of the Windows and of the Debian partition? And how? Thanks, Piero. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

eth0: tx interrupt but no status

2003-06-01 Thread Wojtek Fratczak
Hello, I am a new user. I installed Debian over the net then for the sake of exercise I compiled a newer kernel 2.4.17 and replaced the original. My machine is an older Compaq  Deskpro 166 Pentium. NIC Intel EtherExpress 16. Whenever I use ftp or http (logged on from another host) services o

Re: How do I make a recovery floppy ?

2003-06-01 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Al On (31/05/03 09:48), Al Dykes wrote: > I didn't have a floppy drive when I set up my system, so I skipped > the "make a floppy" step. How do I make one after the fact. > > My #1 priority is protecting my multi-boot setup (LILO), including the MBR. > so i can boot w2k, in an NTFS partit

Re: AIC7xxx drivers Thunder K7x Pro

2003-06-01 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 31 May 2003 04:39 am, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 04:18:01AM -0400, Paul Matuszewski wrote: > > Hi all, newbie here. > > > > I've installed plenty of non-scsi systems.. but one of the first > > systems that i am isntalling is no

AIC79xx.o Trying to load driver

2003-06-01 Thread Paul Matuszewski
Hi all.. I found a web site http://www.imonk.com/jason/hacks/ that has an aic79xx.o module/driver that I want to install. However, I'm working on a new installation here.. so I have to load it through the installer.. the problem is that when I try loading it it say that there are unresolved symbo

Re: ssh setup

2003-06-01 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeff Elkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030531 12:42]: > I'm setting up a previously working woody mp3 server after a crash, but when I > try to run xmms via ssh I get: > > ** CRITICAL **: Unable to open display > > X11 forwarding is turned on. What have I forgotten? more specifically, I take it yo

Re: JPG image help needed please :-)

2003-06-01 Thread Bill Marcum
On Fri, 30 May 2003 18:40:14 +0200, Maria Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using the bootsplash kernel patch to get a nice background when my computers start up, but am having a strange problem. > > It appears that it will only accept JPGs when the "aspect ratio" is 1x1. I don't

How do I make a recovery floppy ?

2003-06-01 Thread Al Dykes
I didn't have a floppy drive when I set up my system, so I skipped the "make a floppy" step. How do I make one after the fact. My #1 priority is protecting my multi-boot setup (LILO), including the MBR. so i can boot w2k, in an NTFS partition. Thanks -- Al Dykes --- [EMAIL PRO

Re: Solved: Re: DVDs reproduction a little "slow"

2003-06-01 Thread Jeremy Petzold
On Saturday 31 May 2003 02:16 pm, Sara Gil Casanova wrote: > > Check that DMA is turned on on the DVD-ROM > > > > hdparm -d /dev/hdc > > No, it wasn't. I turned it on on the hard disk, but did'n't think of the > DVD-ROM. I can't try it right now with any DVD, but I guess now it will > work fi

Re: Options for mkisofs

2003-06-01 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I was under the impression that the -A option (the application id) was > basically the title of the CD. However, after I burn the CD and mount > it under Gnome (by right clicking in the desktop) or pop it into the > drive on a windoze machine, the tit

Re: AIC7xxx drivers Thunder K7x Pro

2003-06-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 04:18:01AM -0400, Paul Matuszewski wrote: > Hi all, newbie here. > > I've installed plenty of non-scsi systems.. but one of the first systems > that i am isntalling is not working 'out of the box' per say. > > It is a thunder k7x pro w/ the adaptec aic-7902W scsi chip onbo

Re: Options for mkisofs

2003-06-01 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
> I use the following commandline to make my .iso images: > > mkisofs -A Some\ title -JR /burndirectory /tmp/some_img.iso Try mkisofs -V label. HTH, Jan C. Nordholz pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DVDs reproduction a little "slow"

2003-06-01 Thread Florentin Ionescu
Try to compile mplayer, cvs version and read DOCS/cd-dvd.html to improve performance - mplayer has support for debian package - http://www.mplayerhq.hu. On Sat, 31 May 2003, Sara wrote : » Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 17:32:54 +0200 » From: Sara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> » To: debuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> » S

ssh setup

2003-06-01 Thread Jeff Elkins
I'm setting up a previously working woody mp3 server after a crash, but when I try to run xmms via ssh I get: ** CRITICAL **: Unable to open display X11 forwarding is turned on. What have I forgotten? TIA Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Solved: Re: DVDs reproduction a little "slow"

2003-06-01 Thread Sara Gil Casanova
> Check that DMA is turned on on the DVD-ROM > > hdparm -d /dev/hdc No, it wasn't. I turned it on on the hard disk, but did'n't think of the DVD-ROM. I can't try it right now with any DVD, but I guess now it will work fine. Thanks a lot :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Help with XMMS radio, specifically KPFB

2003-06-01 Thread Pamela Hair
On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 10:44, Haines Brown wrote: > In connection with this thread, is there a web site that keeps track > of various internet radio and TV resources that can be used by xmms or > xine? I find that the information that accompanies xine is inaccurate. > http://www.shoutcast.com/ is

Re: startup scripts

2003-06-01 Thread VEGH Karoly
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:45:52PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i have a script which i want to run just aftert the system has booted > up and > > before the login prompt is shown to the user...where do put this > script ? i > > am running debian woody. > > I think you can put it in /etc/rc

Options for mkisofs

2003-06-01 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I use the following commandline to make my .iso images: mkisofs -A Some\ title -JR /burndirectory /tmp/some_img.iso I was under the impression that the -A option (the application id) was basically the title of the CD. However, after I burn the CD and mount it under Gnome (by right clicking in th

Re: DVDs reproduction a little "slow"

2003-06-01 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Sara ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi again! > > I wondered if anyone knew anything I could do to improve the reproduction of > DVDs. Trying different players (Ogle, Xine, Vlc), and running them even as > root, I always have the same problem: the images "freeze" a little. I can > watch the

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: fetchmail incorrect headers retention

2003-06-01 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 05:55:57PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 31 May 2003 3:56 pm, Paul M Foster wrote: > > I'm having a problem with testing's version of fetchmail (6.2.1). It is > > leaving mail on my pop server, with the error

Re: horse at the gate

2003-06-01 Thread Mike M
On Friday 30 May 2003 20:16, Mark Roach wrote: > then run "file filename" for detailed info. for simpler things, try 'ls > --color' this will hilight normal files/directories/executables > differently to keep from having to type this every time, you can do > > alias ls='ls --color' > > you can also

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