Re: What is the best postscript printer??

2003-06-29 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 11:57:59PM -0700, Jake Johnson wrote: > Hi Everyone, > I am in the market for a new all in one postscript printer. Any > suggestions? What do you recomend as the best printers. For a variety of answers, check the list archives at www.debian.org. This has come up several

scrollkeeper

2003-06-29 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I think I'm having problem with scrollkeeper. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/dpkg/info# scrollkeeper-update /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dtd/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd:121: warning: failed to load external entity "/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dtd/xml/4.1.2/dbgenent.mod" %dbgenent; ^ Entity: line 1:

Re: How to apply no-debianized kernel patch to debianizedkernel-source?

2003-06-29 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:57:07 +0200 Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody > > I (like many others in the last few days) have a problem with kernel > 2.4.21. I have downloaded the kernel-source-2.4.21 deb, and want to > apply the acpi patch from acpi.sf.net to it. So here we

Re: How to resize Pictures

2003-06-29 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 07:18:22AM -0700, Jake Johnson wrote: > Hello, > I need to know a fast way to convert 1600x1200 to 800x600 pictures from > the command line. Any ideas on how to do this? Install ImageMagick and use convert or mogrify to resize. They can do a number of other handy things, t

Re: release source code

2003-06-29 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 11:35, Fabio Miranda Hamburger wrote: > Hi, I would like to know Where Can I get the linux debian source code? All > I can see are binaries. I need the full directory in a ftp serfver (ej: > ftp.debian.org) > > By the way, I have found Linux instalation annoy, so much warning

Re: release source code

2003-06-29 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 09:35:17AM -0600, Fabio Miranda Hamburger wrote: > Hi, I would like to know Where Can I get the linux debian source code? All > I can see are binaries. I need the full directory in a ftp serfver (ej: > ftp.debian.org) Well, apt

Re: Debian lilo won't boot Redhat

2003-06-29 Thread Kevin McKinley
On 26 Jun 2003 17:57:34 -0700 Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got a system with Red Hat 9 preinstalled, booting with lilo. After > making some space, I installed Debian (testing) on it. I thought it > would be good to preserve the ability to boot into RH, so I mounted its > partitions

Re: Remove With Understanding Due Work, Power And Nature Of I Associative We

2003-06-29 Thread ScruLoose
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 03:59:36PM +1200, cr wrote: > On Friday 27 June 2003 11:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > LABOR TRUE SOLUTIONS WITH RESOLVE TOMORROW METABOLIC MIXTURE > > THE TRADE WITH PEACE IS NOT CONSUMPTION CONTROVERSIAL DEALINGS > > Datum technocratic fellowship, where concerning house

Re: wxPython not in debian?

2003-06-29 Thread M. Kirchhoff
Quoting Alfredo Valles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all: > The problem is that there is no wxPython or related package in debian!!!?? > Is this true or I'm missing something? > Alfredo The following copied verbatim from http://www.wxpython.org/download.php : "Debian users can get wxPython from the

Re: Mozilla on local server

2003-06-29 Thread Travis Crump
[replying to OP cause the lists have been screwy the last couple of days] Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, I'm using mozilla to get email from the ISP pop3 account and make posts using its own smtp. Now i set up fetchmail, exim, and procmail to deliver to the mozilla ~/Mail/Inbox, but mozilla doesn't show

ACPI & button "reset"

2003-06-29 Thread Egor Tur
Hi folk. I installed kernel 2.4.21 with support acpi & buttons. Machine shut down correctly when use "power" button. But there is other button - "reset" & I do not know how use it with ACPI. How can I reboot machine by button "reset" correctly with ACPI. Or may be this button switch off? Thanx. -

Re: Junk mail on the list.

2003-06-29 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 01:39:12PM -0400, alex wrote: > I'm getting a lot of junk mail that is addressed to this list. Am I > the only one getting this stuff? Nope. Over the last few days I've been getting very little legitimate traffic from this list, and an unusually high proportion of junk

Re: How to resize Pictures

2003-06-29 Thread Kent West
Jake Johnson wrote: Hello, I need to know a fast way to convert 1600x1200 to 800x600 pictures from the command line. Any ideas on how to do this? I did this a few months back, and once I figured out the command to use and the syntax, it was really easy. mogrify -resize 800x600 *jpg I bel

Re: Linux debian source code.

2003-06-29 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 01:15:08PM -0600, Fabio Miranda Hamburger wrote: > How can i get the source code of linux debian -stable? > If I want to get it from a ftp mirror, what would be the full directory > to reach it? Some of the mirrors provide the source ISOs and some only offer binary. The fu

X doesn't exit nicely

2003-06-29 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
>From the land of magical, mystical problems...when I first boot Debian I have a lovely non-graphical environment. If I then startx (into fluxbox) I have a lovely graphical environment. HOWEVER if I exit from fluxbox the non-graphical environment flickers and the colors are slightly different. I'm

Re: Remove With Understanding Due Work, Power And Nature Of IAssociative We

2003-06-29 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:59:36 +1200 cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 27 June 2003 11:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > LABOR TRUE SOLUTIONS WITH RESOLVE TOMORROW METABOLIC MIXTURE > > THE TRADE WITH PEACE IS NOT CONSUMPTION CONTROVERSIAL DEALINGS > > Datum technocratic fellowship, where con

Re: weird tcpdump dependency on libaviplaydha

2003-06-29 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 14:28:02 +0200 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > weird, huh? i just suffered from major reiserfs corruption, so that > may be one reason. but the md5sum is correct, and a reinstall yields > the same result. When you have things settled down, could you describe the c

Re: 2.4.20 => no wireless network

2003-06-29 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 23:47:05 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:17:58PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > but the versions seem to be the same: > > simmel:/var/log# dpkg -l | grep pcmcia > > ii pcmcia-cs 3.1.33-6woody1 PCMCIA Card Services for Linux. > >

Re: AMD processor compatibility

2003-06-29 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 10:13, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 04:40:15PM -0500, bbarrett74 wrote: > > I have compaq presario with AMD 1.2Ghz processor. Is it compatible with Debian? > > Thank you for your attention to this matter. > > This was already answered on Usenet, correctly. > >

Re: Backup XP box to Debian system

2003-06-29 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 09:15:08PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Question: I have a Windows-based laptop. (I need to run Windows > software for business, no harassment please.) I would like to back > it up, before converting it to dual boot Debian/XP. > > Can anyone recommend a backup package from t

ruby-qt in woody

2003-06-29 Thread Dragón
Does anybody have it working in woody? Any advices? Thanks. ___ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... http://messenger.yahoo.es -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Please help with SCSI transport error...

2003-06-29 Thread Jake Johnson
Has anyone seen this before? What should I do about it? SCSI transport error: timeout waiting to read packet scsi_read error: sector=248559 length=13 retry=0 Sense key: 0 ASC: 0 ASCQ: 0 Transport error: Error reading command from device System

Re: emu10k1 WILL NOT load!

2003-06-29 Thread B P
Hey, As far as I know the emu10k1 drivers that are included in the kernel will not work for the audigy. Go here for an explanation of the emu10k1 alsa drivers: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=Creative+Labs&card=Soundblaster+Audigy+Platinum&chip=Audigy&module=e

Re: Remove With Understanding Due Work, Power And Nature Of IAssociative We

2003-06-29 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 23:59, cr wrote: > On Friday 27 June 2003 11:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > LABOR TRUE SOLUTIONS WITH RESOLVE TOMORROW METABOLIC MIXTURE > > THE TRADE WITH PEACE IS NOT CONSUMPTION CONTROVERSIAL DEALINGS > > Datum technocratic fellowship, where concerning house of space abun

ext3 and Kernel 2.4.18

2003-06-29 Thread Adam Gent
Hi All, I am running debian (woody) with the standard kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4-xfs which was installed when I installed debian. >From looking through the modules dir for the kernel it looks like it loads ext3 as a module. I want to run my main file system as ext3 and have already converted it to ext3

X Server fails to notice loaded agpgart module

2003-06-29 Thread Joseph Barillari
[This is a duplicate of an earlier message; I don't think the first actually got to the list.] Hi. The following message appears in my XFree86 logs... (WW) R128(0): [agp] AGP not available (WW) R128(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize -- falling back to PCI mode. (WW) R128(0): [agp] Make sure you

Re: Junk mail on the list.

2003-06-29 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 01:39:12PM -0400, alex wrote: > I'm getting a lot of junk mail that is addressed to this list. Am I > the only one getting this stuff? No, the list server had some major difficulties with it's spam filters last week. -- Jamin W. Collins To be nobody but yourself when

Re: emu10k1 WILL NOT load!

2003-06-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 01:47:30PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My sound card is a Creative SoundBlaster Audigy MP3 and so the corresponding > driver should be emu10k1. I am running a 2.4.9 kernel and have tried compiling > the driver module directly into the kernel with no luck. Not with a 2

Re: simple bash loop problem ...

2003-06-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 03:03:27PM +0100, David selby wrote: > I am writing bash a bash & sed script, it has been going suprisingly > well. I need a loop to count 9 times & the variable n to the count .. > > for n=1 to 9 > > next for n in $(seq 1 9); do ... done > kind of thing, bu

Re: Junk mail on the list.

2003-06-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 01:39:12PM -0400, alex wrote: > I'm getting a lot of junk mail that is addressed to this list. Am I > the only one getting this stuff? Spam filtering on Debian lists was temporarily broken recently. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sed expression problem ?

2003-06-29 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 12:54:27AM +0100, David selby wrote: } I am starting to use sed but am having a problem with one expression in ... } } cat /mnt/archive/fluxbox/keys | sed 's/:ExecCommand//g ;s/^Mod4 \(.\) Mod } 4 \(.\)/WinKey \1\2/g' } } works except I hoped s/\/[^ ]+\///g would match any

Sound packafe issues in "testing"

2003-06-29 Thread stan
I was wondering if anyone could give me any information as to what the plan for sound related packages is in "testing"? This has been going on for over a month now: Script started on Sun Jun 29 11:28:10 2003 teddy:~# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... 0%Reading Package Lists... 0%Reading

nonUS sid/unstable iso ?

2003-06-29 Thread Yotam Medini
... oh, I did searched the FAQ. Is there a NONUS of the first iso CD for the sid/unstable release? So far, on the net I've noticed nonUS iso images only for stable releases. -- yotam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: simple bash loop problem ...

2003-06-29 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Sam, 2003-06-28 um 16.03 schrieb David selby: > Hello, > > I am writing bash a bash & sed script, it has been going suprisingly > well. I need a loop to count 9 times & the variable n to the count .. > > for n=1 to 9 > > next > > kind of thing, but this is not BASIC !! > > My best gues

Re: emu10k1 WILL NOT load!

2003-06-29 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Sam, 2003-06-28 um 19.47 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] > My sound card is a Creative SoundBlaster Audigy MP3 and so the corresponding > driver should be emu10k1. I am running a 2.4.9 kernel and have tried compiling > the driver module directly into the kernel with no luck. So I currently ha

Re: GDM Problem

2003-06-29 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 05:19:03PM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: > Hello all > > Changed my apt sources to get the testing packages, did an apt-get > update then apt-get upgrade, and now GDM won't work properly - when the > PC boots up and loads GDM, I just see the default grey/white screens on >

Re: AMD processor compatibility

2003-06-29 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* bbarrett74 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030628 23:40]: > I have compaq presario with AMD 1.2Ghz processor. Is it compatible with Debian? > Thank you for your attention to this matter. Yes, it is. Yours sincerely Alexander pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: KDE problem on startup

2003-06-29 Thread Brian Gonzales
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 06:38, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > When KDE is starting, it goes through like 5 stages represented by > icons. Unfortunately, I can't remember them all but on the second one, > where it's starting system something or other it hangs for a long time, > then the startup screen di

Re: AMD processor compatibility

2003-06-29 Thread Adam Gent
Hi,   Debian should run fine, with the default kernel.   It may be worth while updating to the K7 kernel after you get the box set-up.   Adam - Original Message - From: bbarrett74 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 10:40 PM

Re: A4 paper size not available for printer

2003-06-29 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 01:25:18AM +0100, Mark C wrote: > Hi, > > I done a upgrade to sarge, and so far its been great, I have now just > come to setup my printer and discovered that there is no 'A4' size > listed to use. > > During the install I can remember something regarding the printer paper

Software management

2003-06-29 Thread james leclair
Hello all. Can anyone suggest, or would you even recommend at all for that matter, some good non-official apt sources for debs that are not officially supported by the project? Particularly for software that is not available in any of the current active branches of woody. And while were on the

Re: Looking for tips on ppp problem: LCP ConfReq

2003-06-29 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:33:46AM +0200, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed Jun 25, 2003 at 11:46:00PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > gateway/firewall/webserver. I had to move it to a modem for a while, > > however, it refuses to connect. The laptop, however, with pretty much > > a

Re: Recent dist-upgrade in Sarge

2003-06-29 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:47:03PM +0700, arief_mulya wrote: > Dear all, > > > I've recently done apt-get --fix-missing --fix-broken > dist-upgrade on debian-testing (Sarge). Lots of package got > thrown out but I see some of them got thrown back in. > > After the process done. I can see I'm i

Re: emu10k1 WILL NOT load!

2003-06-29 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Saturday 28 June 2003 19:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My sound card is a Creative SoundBlaster Audigy MP3 and so the > corresponding driver should be emu10k1. I am running a 2.4.9 kernel and > have tried compiling the driver module directly into the kernel with no > luck. You should try the A

How to upgrade to latest PHP version?

2003-06-29 Thread Richard Cunningham
Would someone please explain what I need to do in order to upgrade my PHP to the lastest version. Consider me a newbie. TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backup XP box to Debian system

2003-06-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 12:19:33AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > your basic WinXP files are already on the original cdrom, and > all your basic patches are already on the microsoft update site And my applications, which I'd rather not reinstall en masse, are ignored in your system. I may just instal

Re: How to resize Pictures

2003-06-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 07:18:22AM -0700, Jake Johnson wrote: > I need to know a fast way to convert 1600x1200 to 800x600 pictures from > the command line. Any ideas on how to do this? convert -resize 800x600 imagename newimagename Convert is in the imagemagick package. -- Carl Fi

ext3 and Kernel 2.4.18

2003-06-29 Thread Adam Gent
Hi All, I am running debian (woody) with the standard kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4-xfs which was installed when I installed debian. >From looking through the modules dir for the kernel it looks like it loads ext3 as a module. I want to run my main file system as ext3 and have already converted it to ext3

Re: simple bash loop problem ...

2003-06-29 Thread Martin Fritsche
David selby schrieb: PS is there a more ellagent way to do a counted loop as well as a way that works ? This should do it: for ((n=1; n < 9; n++)) do ... done Maddin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: inetd on a desktop machine

2003-06-29 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Sun Jun 29, 2003 at 01:59:28AM +0800, ZHAO Wei wrote: > Any insights why I should run inetd on a desktop machine ? > I use ppp which depends on netbase which depends netkit-inetd which runs > an inetd daemon but I have no use of it at least it seems to me . Because exim runs per default vi

Re: emu10k1 WILL NOT load!

2003-06-29 Thread Mika Fischer
Hello! * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-06-29 14:02]: > Hello debian-user, this is my first submission and is unfortunately due to the > My sound card is a Creative SoundBlaster Audigy MP3 and so the corresponding > driver should be emu10k1. I am running a 2.4.9 kernel and have tried

Re: simple bash loop problem ...

2003-06-29 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 11:50:06 +0200, David selby wrote: > Hello, > > I am writing bash a bash & sed script, it has been going suprisingly > well. I need a loop to count 9 times & the variable n to the count .. [...] > kind of thing, but this is not BASIC !! ... and honestly, I'm glad it isn't BA

Re: allow sftp, deny ssh login

2003-06-29 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:42:06AM -0500, matt zagrabelny wrote: > hello, > > i would like to allow sftp, but deny ssh login for particular users. how > do i do this? > > i have read about people using a commercial version of ssh and that > version provides ssh-dummy-shell. others have written sh

Re: simple bash loop problem ...

2003-06-29 Thread Seneca
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 03:03:27PM +0100, David selby wrote: > I am writing bash a bash & sed script, it has been going suprisingly > well. I need a loop to count 9 times & the variable n to the count .. [...] > My best guess is > > declare -i n=1 > while [ $n < 9 ]; do > . > n=$((n+=1)) > d

Re: sed expression problem ?

2003-06-29 Thread Seneca
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 12:54:27AM +0100, David selby wrote: > I am starting to use sed but am having a problem with one expression in ... > > cat /mnt/archive/fluxbox/keys | sed 's/:ExecCommand//g ;s/^Mod4 \(.\) Mod > 4 \(.\)/WinKey \1\2/g' > > works except I hoped s/\/[^ ]+\///g would match any

Re: locale not supported by C library

2003-06-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 16:10:05 +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: >dpkg-reconfigure locales ># and if you're still seeing problems >locale-gen But what if one isn't the administrator of the machine? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: - 100% validated

Startup Problem

2003-06-29 Thread Richard Cunningham
Okay folks, here's one I can't solve no matter what. I've even used a kazillion search engines to locate a hint. I downloaded and built Xitami 2.5b4 using their build script. The server runs flawlessly if I do switch to the directory for it and run: xitami -s I read everything I could about star

apt resources

2003-06-29 Thread james leclair
Hello all. Can anyone suggest, or would you even recommend at all for that matter, some good non-official apt sources for debs that are not officially supported by the project? Particularly for software that is not available in any of the current active branches of woody. And while were on the

Re: Why aren't my mails reaching the mailing list!?!?

2003-06-29 Thread Pascal Hakim
Hi, Your messages are reaching the mailing list. We've just been having a few problems on lists.debian.org. Things are getting normal again on that machine, and most missing messages have been put through the queue again. We have been having problems with spamassassin, and the load on murphy (the

Re: Abiword dependency problem in testing?

2003-06-29 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:38:48 +0200, Jakob Sandholm wrote: > If this should be reported as a bug, what package should then get the > report? Not really AFAIU... from time to time packages will enter testing in the wrong order. In this case, you really need to run apt-get update every day

Re: Evolution 1.4 bug?

2003-06-29 Thread Dominique Deleris
On 27 Jun 2003 17:18:23 -0400, "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Mark> I had the crash with Evolution 1.2 most of the time, but with Evolution Mark> 1.4, I get a taskbar for the Calendar, but the Task List comes up in the Mark> window (most recent Debian edition of Evolution1.3 package.

Re: Junk mail on the list.

2003-06-29 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:39:12 -0400, alex wrote: > I'm getting a lot of junk mail that is addressed to this list. Am I >the only one getting this stuff? No you aren't. The problem is that this is meant to be a *user* list, and lots of users don't know how to subscribe... the

Re: Why aren't my mails reaching the mailing list!?!?

2003-06-29 Thread Nicos Gollan
They are... just give 'em some time, sometimes the server is a little overloaded and it can take up to several hours. -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How do you creat an alias in postfix.

2003-06-29 Thread Marino Fernandez
I am trying to configure amavis with postfix. Apparently you have to create an alias named virusalert. I read the man page for alias, but it sounds like chinese to me. Any help would be appreciated -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Remove With Understanding Due Work, Power And Nature Of I Associative We

2003-06-29 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 09:40:14 +0200, cr wrote: > ... and so it goes on, for about 70K (well, that's what Kmail says) of > incomprehensible gobbledygook. > > OK, so it's spam.What baffles me is how someone managed to produce such a > volume of verbiage that appears to have some vaguely gramma

Re: Backup XP box to Debian system

2003-06-29 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 03:50:08 +0200, Carl Fink wrote: > Question: I have a Windows-based laptop. (I need to run Windows > software for business, no harassment please.) I would like to back > it up, before converting it to dual boot Debian/XP. > > Can anyone recommend a backup package from the Deb

Re: How to resize Pictures

2003-06-29 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 08:30:13 +0200, Jake Johnson wrote: > Hello, > I need to know a fast way to convert 1600x1200 to 800x600 pictures from > the command line. Any ideas on how to do this? You can use mogrify from the imagemagick package, thusly mogrify -geometry 100x100 file -- Stephen Patterso

GDM Problem

2003-06-29 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all Changed my apt sources to get the testing packages, did an apt-get update then apt-get upgrade, and now GDM won't work properly - when the PC boots up and loads GDM, I just see the default grey/white screens on both of my monitors and the pointer is the black cross. Exiting GDM and disab

Re: simple bash loop problem ...

2003-06-29 Thread Russell Shaw
David selby wrote: Hello, I am writing bash a bash & sed script, it has been going suprisingly well. I need a loop to count 9 times & the variable n to the count .. for n=1 to 9 next kind of thing, but this is not BASIC !! My best guess is declare -i n=1 while [ $n < 9 ]; do . n=$((n+

Re: wxPython not in debian?

2003-06-29 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:43:27 -0400 Alfredo Valles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is that there is no wxPython or related package in debian!!!?? > Is this true or I'm missing something? You are missing something. wxPython isn't called wxPython in the packages. Take a look at the w

Re: simple bash loop problem ...

2003-06-29 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 03:03:27PM +0100, David selby wrote: > Hello, > > I am writing bash a bash & sed script, it has been going suprisingly > well. I need a loop to count 9 times & the variable n to the count .. [snip] for N in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 do echo $N done I'm sure someone will point o

Re: Debian lilo won't boot Redhat

2003-06-29 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:51:54PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > image=/red/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.9smp > label=linux > initrd=/red/boot/initrd-2.4.20-18.9smp.img > read-only > append="hdb=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/" > root=/dev/

Re: Ouch... kernel-image-2.4.21 - now all I get is LIL at boot

2003-06-29 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 08:31:19PM +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > Installed kernel-image-2.4.21-1-686. Updated lilo.conf to use this as > default. Ran lilo. Now all I get when I reboot is "LIL" and it then > hangs. > > What's the next step.. no

Re: New To Debian

2003-06-29 Thread Andrea Balzi
Alle 18:48, giovedì 26 giugno 2003, Abrasive ha scritto: > Hello all. I'm fairly new to debian, and mostly new to linux. I've got > two major problems. I'm running debian 3.0r1on a Compaq computer: EVO D3 > 1.8ghz computer. [...] > > Any ideas? You need to upgrade the kernel version to 2.4.20, I

Making Xitami Start Automatically

2003-06-29 Thread Richard Cunningham
Okay folks, here's one I can't solve no matter what. I've even used a kazillion search engines to locate a hint.I downloaded and built Xitami 2.5b4 using their build script. The server runs flawlessly if I do switch to the directory for it and run:xitami -sI read everything I could about st

Re: sed expression problem ?

2003-06-29 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Sat Jun 28, 2003 at 12:54:27AM +0100, David selby wrote: > works except I hoped s/\/[^ ]+\///g would match any /path/to/file/ and > delete it. It refuses to match. > > Idealy ... > /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla -edit -splash > > would become > mozilla -edit -splash sed s/'\/.*\/'// should

Re: wxPython not in debian?

2003-06-29 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Fri Jun 27, 2003 at 11:43:27AM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > But in their web site they say you need wxPython. which, as I understand, is > a module to do X window stuff. > The problem is that there is no wxPython or related package in debian!!!?? $ apt-cache search wxpython searches fo

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Re: Backup XP box to Debian system

2003-06-29 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Saturday 28 June 2003 8:15 pm, Carl Fink wrote: > Question: I have a Windows-based laptop. (I need to run Windows > software for business, no harassment please.) I would like to back > it up, before converting it to dual boot Debian/XP. > > Can anyone recommend a backup package from the Debian

Re: How to apply no-debianized kernel patch to debianizedkernel-source?

2003-06-29 Thread K S Sreeram
Your best bet would be to use the vanilla linux-2.4.21. untar it in /usr/src/linux-2.4.21 and apply your patch.. Keep in mind that you can use 'kernel-package' to build debs even for the non-debian kernel sources. I am currently using vanilla kernel 2.4.21 with the IMQ bandwidth shaping patch. An

Re: Backup XP box to Debian system

2003-06-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ay carl On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Carl Fink wrote: > Question: I have a Windows-based laptop. (I need to run Windows > software for business, no harassment please.) I would like to back > it up, before converting it to dual boot Debian/XP. if you were good about usage of your PC.. \My

Re: release source code

2003-06-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Fabio Miranda Hamburger wrote: Hi, I would like to know Where Can I get the linux debian source code? All I can see are binaries. I need the full directory in a ftp serfver (ej: ftp.debian.org) apt-cache search kernel-source By the way, I have found Linux instalation annoy, so much warning and exp

What is the best postscript printer??

2003-06-29 Thread Jake Johnson
Hi Everyone, I am in the market for a new all in one postscript printer. Any suggestions? What do you recomend as the best printers. Regards, Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the

Re: Activating vim color?

2003-06-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Steve Lamb wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:37:45 -0400 The default setting for 'background' is "light". If you use a terminal with a dark background, also run :set bg=dark Now if only there was a way to get the same color set between vim and gvim. That always boggled me. I haven't installed

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plugger-4.0 shows Image Magick gif of a cartoon wizard rather than tiff file in netscape plugin

2003-06-29 Thread J F
Re-post, didn't make it to usenet last few times. Subject: plugger-4.0 shows Image Magick gif of a cartoon wizard rather than tiff file in netscape plugin I wanted to look at .tiff files at the uspto.gov website. Netscape lists the plugin: http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html I had to change

re: tasksel, first time with debian

2003-06-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, I'm having some trouble getting tasksel to install packages past the base system. I'm not new to linux, (bsd, redhat) but I'm new to debian. I'm assuming the problem is not with taskel itself, but rather with some dependencies or broken packages, but I don't know quite how to interpret th

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-29 Thread cr
On Friday 27 June 2003 04:28, Anita Lewis wrote: > cr, it looks like /boot is available from both /etc/fstab and from your df > listing. I am assuming that you ran 'update-grub' first to produce > menu.lst, but even if you hadn't done that, by now you have rerun > grub-install enough. > > I notic

X Server fails to notice loaded agpgart module

2003-06-29 Thread Joseph Barillari
Hi. The following message appears in my XFree86 logs... (WW) R128(0): [agp] AGP not available (WW) R128(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize -- falling back to PCI mode. (WW) R128(0): [agp] Make sure you have the agpgart kernel module loaded. ...even if I load the agpgart module before starting X.

question on "dselect"

2003-06-29 Thread Terence Ng
Hi! I did not select any package using "dselect". But when I select "install" in "dselect", there is a bunch of packages requested to be installed. Why? Is it because I am using "stable" release with some "testing" packages? Best regards, Terence __

Correct way to add things to shell profile?

2003-06-29 Thread Ari Pollak
[ Please CC me on replies ] Hi, what is the correct Debian way to get a shell to evaluate something when it starts (e.g. like /etc/profile)? I'm trying to add things to the PATH for a group of machines. Other distributions have something like /etc/profile.d, but Debian does not. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Kernel 2.5.44

2003-06-29 Thread Lord Khaos
I recently asked my local Debian guru the exact same question and this was his reply: "Don't use 2.5 yet. I looked at it a few months ago when they said it was useful for normal users and it still was quite incomplete, so I didn't trust it. If you know you need it, use it, if you don't know, sta

reinstall probs (bug,spamassassin,gettext)

2003-06-29 Thread Rick Pasotto
Today I reinstalled my system and have lost several programs and am having troubles with others. This is to be expected but I'd like to know how to resolve them. 1) I used to be able to type 'bug ' at the command line and an email would be composed listing the characteristics of my system and the

run-parts bug (maybe)

2003-06-29 Thread David
While grappling with getting kernel 2.4.21 to compile, I checked to be sure that the make-kpkg routine was accessing the patch-kernel files.. In the process of attempting various combinations of files, I found that run-parts was ignoring the proper script (run-parts /usr/src/kernel-patch/all/a

Re: You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'make menuconfig'

2003-06-29 Thread Vineet Kumar
* John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030627 15:02]: > On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, nori heikkinen wrote: > >on Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:04:20PM -0500, Nathan Poznick insinuated: > >> Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> > However, I *do* have libncurses5 installed, as well as every other > >> > packages which matched

Re: Evolution 1.4 bug?

2003-06-29 Thread Oki DZ
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 05:10:28AM -0700, Terry wrote: > Debian/testing with some packages from unstable and gcc 3.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l | grep gcc ii gcc3.2.3-0The GNU C compiler. ii gcc-2.95 2.95.4-7 The GNU C compiler. ii gcc-3.03.0.4-13

Sb Audigy, how?

2003-06-29 Thread Jimmy Johansson
Hi, I consider myself very newbie. I've just finished my first install of Debian (Woody 3.0 r0). I had some trouble getting my Geforce Ti 4400 up and going, but I solved that. The problem I'm currently having is that I can't get my Sb Audigy working... I have no clue which modules to use and so on

Re: Trouble compiling 2.4.21 kernel

2003-06-29 Thread David
On Thursday 26 June 2003 01:42 am, Nick Hastings wrote: > Hi, > > * Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030626 12:48]: > > I just downloaded the new kernel-source-2.4.21-1 package. When I > > unpacked it and tried 'make xconfig', I got this: > > > > rm -f include/asm > > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm

Re: Evolution 1.4 bug?

2003-06-29 Thread Oki DZ
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:11:59AM +0200, Gavrila wrote: > What do you mean with "it runs no X"? I had no X server running on the server. Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome-vfs-sftp

2003-06-29 Thread Oki DZ
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 03:49:52PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > It does work in nautilus, however you seem to need passwordless rsa > authentication setup beforehand, Hey, it works now; great. BTW, the gnome-vfs-sftp's description is only: Description: SFTP method for gnome-vfs This is a gnome-vfs

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