installation and set up

2003-07-12 Thread Jianan Huang
Hi folks, I realised that I had sent an earlier mail to 'users' rather than 'debian-user. I'll repeat some stuff I wrote there. First, allow me to clarify on my mail name. Jianan and Jianan Huang is the same person. I have decided to use hotmail for debian msg. The disk burnt-out that I experi

why does debian undo boot text size

2003-07-12 Thread briand
I'm using a boot time text setting (using the vga= setting in lilo) which sets up a 80x50 screen size. Some time during the boot process this gets undone and I'm back to 80x25. This start happening a while back. Anyone know why this might be happening ? Of course, advice on how to fix it is als

Check out alien! was Re: Hi, how to install rpms on Debian??

2003-07-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 11:21:30AM +0800, Zhao You Bing wrote: > Thanks!!! You're welcome! -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the

LCDproc client problem!

2003-07-12 Thread Rthoreau
I have a CrystalFontz 20x4 lcd without keypad, that I am trying to get LCDproc setup on. I am using the current stable version .0.4.3. The LCDd is working ok, I have the server screen displaying on my lcd with the main LCDd heartbeat. It is just waiting for a client to connect, when I run lcd

Debian Installation- difficulties configuring system and installingpackages

2003-07-12 Thread Allasso
Hello, I am installing Debian Woody on my second hard-drive, using my existing system to install. Completed to the point of installing dbootstrap, (following the instructions outlined in "Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 for Intel x86", specifically, "Installing Debian GNU/Linux from a Unix/Lin

Re: ATAPI CD-writer

2003-07-12 Thread cr
On Sunday 13 July 2003 06:30, Pigeon wrote: (some snips for bandwidth) > > The first CD actually gives a choice when starting the install, of > > idepci, compact, vanilla or bf24, IIRC. But they don't seem to be in > > deb package form. > > What you get on the first CD are kernel boot images, s

Re: ATAPI CD-writer

2003-07-12 Thread cr
On Saturday 12 July 2003 22:12, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > cr wrote: > > On Friday 11 July 2003 04:11, Pigeon wrote: > >> Try apt-cache search kernel-image > >> > >> Most of the kernel-image packages are on CD 5 IIRC, so you need the > >> full set of CDs - I think if you've only got the fir

Re: How "unstable" is unstable?

2003-07-12 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 09:07:42PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > I'm wondering, from those running sid, just how "unstable" is it at the > present time? > > The reason I am asking is that I would like to move on to KDE 3 and am > feeling behind the times, still using KDE 2.1 in woody. I've been > r

Re: windowmaker not showing icons for running applications

2003-07-12 Thread K S Sreeram
Hi The pixmap path and the icon path can be used for wmaker specific images for the various applications. But doesnt the application itself choose an icon at runtime, when it is getting started. That icon doesnt get used by wmaker, whereas in other window managers (icewm,kde etc), it works. For

Re: Hi, how to install rpms on Debian??

2003-07-12 Thread Andrey Vlassov
Well you can try package "alien" but be warned that it didn't work properly with some packages for me. Andy On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Zhao You Bing wrote: > Thanks!!! > -- > Zhao YouBing, Ph.D student > State Key Lab of CAD&CG,Zhejiang University, > Hangzhou, 310027, P.R.China > Tel : 0571-87951045

Hi, how to install rpms on Debian??

2003-07-12 Thread Zhao You Bing
Thanks!!! -- Zhao YouBing, Ph.D student State Key Lab of CAD&CG,Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P.R.China Tel : 0571-87951045(O), 87933444(H) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: openoffice hangs machine

2003-07-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Chris Adams([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:34:02 -0400 > Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > James Mathers([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I recently installed Debian 3.0 on my laptop, and have installed > > > openo

Re: Question about kernel upgrade

2003-07-12 Thread James Ng Yuen Sum
Hi Jocahim, Roberto Sanchez wrote: --- Joachim Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: I have 2 controllers, 1 is on board and the other a PCI controller, not a 3com. I will try it again WITH support for 3com. Kind regards, Joachim Smit What onboard controller (chipset) do you have? -Rober

Re: installing a Debian system on a 2nd hdd while booted off the first

2003-07-12 Thread Haines Brown
> also sprach Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.12.2213 +0200]: > > Using chroot did the trick for me, > > chroot. Then, how did you invoke the installation interface? Here'a simple outline of a cross-installation, based on a the debian installation guideline and some other sources, adapt

Re: Change font?

2003-07-12 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 07:50:20PM -0400, The Nyc0n wrote: > I just upgraded my stable install to testing and now the font is changed > from a readable one to a very tiny long hand font, it doesn't show up > everywhere, all that I have seen so far is at the GDM login, gaim, > programs like that, ho

Re: Change window manager to blackbox

2003-07-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Makes me (a long time unix user, more recently Debian user) wonder what > > else I've been forcing that I should be doing The Debian Way. > > I remember well that feeling. (I still get it sometimes.) I am feeling that right now! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Line drawing character missing?

2003-07-12 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 02:33:08 +0100 Paladin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've posted before on this list about this problem, I've had some > help in my quest for solving this problem but it still exists. > > Programs like "make menuconfig" and "aptitude" that use line drawing > c

Re: naming of debian distributions

2003-07-12 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:05:02 -0600 Francisco Castellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you installed it using the official woody CDs it's very unlikely that > you > have an unstable source in you apt list. But to answer your question: I don't believe this is correct. I recall there was (is?) a

Re: Line drawing character missing?

2003-07-12 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 02:33:08AM +0100, Paladin wrote: > There are no problems when running the same programs in the console, > so the problem resides only in X. This may seem obvious but which fonts have you installed in X. Also what happens if you run: xterm -fn 9x15 Bijan pgp0.pgp Des

Line drawing character missing?

2003-07-12 Thread Paladin
Hi everyone, I've posted before on this list about this problem, I've had some help in my quest for solving this problem but it still exists. Programs like "make menuconfig" and "aptitude" that use line drawing characters have problems doing so. Instead of lines I get characters like 'Ú' and 'Ä'.

Re: naming of debian distributions

2003-07-12 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 05:05:02PM -0600, Francisco Castellon wrote: > So which one is potatoe? Potato is version 2.2 it used to be the stable version before Woody (3.0) was released. Bijan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: openoffice hangs machine

2003-07-12 Thread Chris Adams
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:34:02 -0400 Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Mathers([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Hi, > > > > I recently installed Debian 3.0 on my laptop, and have installed > > openoffice from both a apt source, and compiled the program myself, > > with t

Re: Radeon 9000 Pro

2003-07-12 Thread Antony Gelberg
Antony Gelberg wrote: > Maybe not. The site is NLA. I've emailed Daniel Stone to see where > his Woody backports live these days, meanwhile if anyone knows where > they are, please feel free to share! > > Antony Right - apparently apt-get.org is wrong and Daniel never had any XF86 4.3 for Woody.

Re: bash: let exp ? exp : exp problem

2003-07-12 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 01:20:08 +0200, David selby wrote: > Hello, I am trying to get a bash script to work which will hibernate > till 1:00 am, it appears to work OK Ahh, the bash :-) > let $_mintoone -gt 1440:_mintoone=$_mintoone-1440 let 'toone = toone > 1440 ? toone - 1440 : toone' sh

Re: installing a Debian system on a 2nd hdd while booted off the first

2003-07-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.12.2213 +0200]: > Using chroot did the trick for me, chroot. Then, how did you invoke the installation interface? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud D

Re: the evergreen: mozilla 1.0 and gnome2

2003-07-12 Thread Evan Martin
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 05:47:05PM +0200, Andreas Wüst wrote: > I've installed gnome2 from unstable and am running mozilla 1.0 from > stable. To go straight, the mozilla ui (i.e. menu, bookmark bar, etc.) > fonts are just ways too big! With gnome1.4 this hasn't been a problem > since mozilla 1.0

remote esound problem

2003-07-12 Thread Henning Moll
Hi! I try to get remote sound working with esound. I have two computers (surprise!) connected through LAN. The connection is up and running. Computer A is running sid Computer B is running sarge If i start esd on 'B', i can redirect sound from A via esddsp as normal user. That doesn't work in

Re: The correct?(best?) way to install a sarge kernel into woody?

2003-07-12 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 18:12:54 -0400 > Charles-Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How can I set up apt's preference file so I do not have to do this 'try >> then add' thing? How should I have accomplished the new kernel-image >> install? > > dselect? *shudder* Be

bash: let exp ? exp : exp problem

2003-07-12 Thread David selby
Hello, I am trying to get a bash script to work which will hibernate till 1:00 am, it appears to work OK # ensure script executes next at 1:00am let _mintoone=(1440-($(date '+%H')*60+$(date '+%M')))+60 if [ $_mintoone -gt 1440 ] ; then let _mintoone=$_mintoone-1440 fi sleep $_mintoone'm' However

RE: naming of debian distributions

2003-07-12 Thread Francisco Castellon
So which one is potatoe? -Original Message- From: Christian Schoenebeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 8:10 AM To: matt zagrabelny Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: naming of debian distributions Es geschah am Sonntag, 15. Juni 2003 15:10 als matt zagrabelny schri

Pixels get messed up in X

2003-07-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I installed Debian for the 1st time last night but I am having trouble with X. Where I click buttons or drag windows the pixels get messed up.This is only around the area where I have clicked and moved the mouse. I am using Xfree 4 with a 15 inch monitor and a alliance promotion AT25 graphic

Re: Radeon 9000 Pro

2003-07-12 Thread Antony Gelberg
Antony Gelberg wrote: > Roberto Sanchez wrote: >> --- Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm trying to get XFree86 going with my Radeon 9000 Pro in Woody. >>> >> >> There is your problem. The Radeon 9000 Pro is too new for that >> X-server. It is even too new for the

Re: Hercules 9800 Pro and XFree under unstable.

2003-07-12 Thread Nick Lidakis
Rus Hughes wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get a Hercules Radeon 9800 Pro running with XFree86 (version 4.2.1) in Debian Unstable. After reading the readmes, I turned the fglrx-glc22-4.2.0-2.9.13.i586.rpm into a deb with alien and installed it. I rolled my own kernel (2.5.73), and tried to build the Fir

RE: Hercules 9800 Pro and XFree under unstable.

2003-07-12 Thread Rus Hughes
Cheers, Ill have a look at them later tonight! Are they compiled against the default Debian kernel though, or will it not matter that I am using a different kernel? Rus > -Original Message- > From: Haralambos Geortgilakis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 13 July 2003 14:23 > To: Debia

Re: The correct?(best?) way to install a sarge kernel into woody?

2003-07-12 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 18:12:54 -0400 Charles-Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I set up apt's preference file so I do not have to do this 'try > then add' thing? How should I have accomplished the new kernel-image > install? dselect? *shudder* Best way? Download the kernel source

RE: Hercules 9800 Pro and XFree under unstable.

2003-07-12 Thread Rus Hughes
> Until you get the DRM module to compile, try > > Option "no_dri" "yes" > > and disable loading the dri module in your XF86Config. That way, it should > not > be dependent on DRM. Thanks, I just tried this and it works, which is great! \o/ The performance is utterly lous

The correct?(best?) way to install a sarge kernel into woody?

2003-07-12 Thread Charles-Roberts
After installing woody and getting it to work fine, for some insane reason I wanted to install a kernel image from sarge! I put the following into /etc/apt/sources. A pointer to the testing deb files. Then I put the following into apt's preference file: Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Pri

Re: Radeon 9000 Pro

2003-07-12 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi Yall & Antony, who is having some grief, with his Radeon 9000 Pro (full text below). My previous card is a Power Colour Radeon 9000 Pro & I am now on a 9500 Pro. I had my Radeon 9000 Pro up last year, using the DRI project stuff & it is good for 2D & ok for 3D. Now for a quick cup & paste.

Re: Radeon 9000 Pro

2003-07-12 Thread Antony Gelberg
Roberto Sanchez wrote: > --- Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm trying to get XFree86 going with my Radeon 9000 Pro in Woody. >> > > There is your problem. The Radeon 9000 Pro is too new for that > X-server. It is even too new for the version of the X-server in > Sa

Re: Radeon 9000 Pro

2003-07-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get XFree86 going with my Radeon 9000 Pro in Woody. > There is your problem. The Radeon 9000 Pro is too new for that X-server. It is even too new for the version of the X-server in Sarge. You can either get a Woody

Re: Kernel module 'mga_vid' problem / XV problem

2003-07-12 Thread Jakob Sandholm
On ons, 2003-07-09 at 15:48, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > --- Jakob Sandholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > Hello > > > > I have a Matrox Millennium G200 graphics card. When I use the XV > > extension, videos render scrambled. This does not happen with XSHM (but > > XSHM is too slow). Does anybod

Radeon 9000 Pro

2003-07-12 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, I'm trying to get XFree86 going with my Radeon 9000 Pro in Woody. Here's the X output: > (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device > (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found > (EE) No devices detected. > Fatal server error: > no scr

Re: Question about kernel upgrade

2003-07-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Joachim Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I have 2 controllers, 1 is on board and the other a PCI controller, not a > 3com. I will try it again WITH support for 3com. > > Kind regards, > > Joachim Smit What onboard controller (chipset) do you have? -Roberto _

Settings for Konsole? Where are they? (KDE3.1.2 Debian sid)

2003-07-12 Thread Kay Obermueller
Hello all, where are the settings for the Konsole stored? The display of midnight commander in konsole is terrible. Where there should be a frame line there are lines of 0's. I think mc uses ncurses?? This doesn't work. My KDE 3.1.2 runs on Debian sid. Where can I start searching? Thank you in adva

Re: Hercules 9800 Pro and XFree under unstable.

2003-07-12 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi Yall & Rus, who is having some grief with his Radeon 9800 under Tux. Yeah, I've been down that road too & now have my 9500 Pro up with full 3D, on a nForce2 board [EMAIL PROTECTED] haralambos]$ glxgears 13880 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2776.000 FPS 17298 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3459.600 FPS

exim: local vs. remote smtp ???

2003-07-12 Thread Michael D. Schleif
I have had email running quite well on my internal network. However, I have a few quirks that need straightening out, and this week I have become quite confused regarding how to finish this ;> Internet ^ | v qmail gateway (trout) <--> main workstation (bragi) ^ ^

Re: installing a Debian system on a 2nd hdd while booted off the first

2003-07-12 Thread Haines Brown
> This may be trivial, but I could not find definitive information on > this. I know about debootstrap, but I was wondering how I would go > about to install Debian onto a second harddrive from within a > currently booted system. I would like to be able to run the > installer just as if I had boot

Re: ATAPI CD-writer

2003-07-12 Thread Andreas Janssen
Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 04:51:52PM +1200, cr wrote: >> cdrecord -scanbus >> Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J?rg >> Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. > I take it you're either doing this as root or your cdrecord is

Re: Hercules 9800 Pro and XFree under unstable.

2003-07-12 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Saturday 12 July 2003 18:57, Rus Hughes wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get a Hercules Radeon 9800 Pro running with XFree86 > (version 4.2.1) in Debian Unstable. After reading the readmes, I turned > the fglrx-glc22-4.2.0-2.9.13.i586.rpm into a deb with alien and > installed it. I rolled my own k

Re: I have a problem with this list

2003-07-12 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 14:06, Colin Watson wrote: > murphy, a.k.a. lists.debian.org, has been having some major problems > over the last day or two. Just wait a while for things to clear. I am curious, what sort of problems ? I remember murphy having some problems a while ago as well although that

Re: Troubleshooting Unresponsive Computer

2003-07-12 Thread Kent West
Dan Hunt wrote: Here are the symptoms. Debian Stable with 2.4 kernel becomes unresponsive. Uptime average is only one or two hours. I have also had the same symptoms with a knoppix 3.2 boot disk. I think it even happened with out the X-window system running. Nothing but pulling the power cord ou

civilization 3

2003-07-12 Thread gerard
I have had civilization 3 working on my linux machine for a while now with winex3. I recently tried running a trainer the same way with winex3 and it doesn't seem to work. I was wondering if anyone has gotten a trainer to work if it is even possible. ~gerard signature.asc Description: This is a

civilization 3

2003-07-12 Thread gerard
I have had civilization 3 working on my linux machine for a while now with winex3. I recently tried running a trainer the same way with winex3 and it doesn't seem to work. I was wondering if anyone has gotten a trainer to work if it is even possible. ~gerard signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: some dev files disappeared, mouse doesn't work, no hostname

2003-07-12 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: [When] I try to do a "sudo", even something simple like "sudo ls", I get: sudo: unable to lookup westk03 via gethostbyname() (westk03 is the name of this computer), and once I got something like "hostname does not exist", even though the command "hostname" reports "westk03"

Re: X's "default console input source" = /dev/what? [Solved]

2003-07-12 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 09:27:46PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:23:15PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > My own > > suspicion is that it *could* be looking for the virtual console on which > > X11 is running, particularly if the virtual consoles are broken into > > multiple inpu

Re: ATAPI CD-writer

2003-07-12 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 04:51:52PM +1200, cr wrote: > On Friday 11 July 2003 04:11, Pigeon wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:19:36AM +1200, cr wrote: > > > It looks as if the kernels on the Woody CD-ROMS aren't actually in the > > > form of packages, since 'apt-cache search vanilla' (or compac

Re: ? about browser's talk

2003-07-12 Thread Bill Morgan
On 7/12/03 1:25 AM, "John Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also, the html page has a few input box, when you > enter values and click submit button, the browser will > return info based on your input. i want to write a > program to repeatedly get info from the server, what's > uri to get that dat

Re: Eject problem

2003-07-12 Thread Henning Moll
On Saturday 12 July 2003 03:28, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ eject /dev/hdc < eject returns an error > eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument I got the same problem here. But then i realised, that the command works for root. So i think it's a problem of permisso

Re: Change window manager to blackbox

2003-07-12 Thread Kevin McKinley
On 12 Jul 2003 17:56:41 - "Cameron L. Spitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a complete list of the Debian-specific administration commands > someplace? Now and then I run into one here, or in the FAQ. > dpkg-divert? > update-alternatives? > Makes me (a long time unix user,

Re: Question about kernel upgrade

2003-07-12 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 18:13:55 +0200 "Joachim Smit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is what I did: (according to documentation from www.debian.org) Try this: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html In the kernel configuration, you need to include support for both your onboard co

SOLVED !!!(Re: Palm Zire 71 & Debian)

2003-07-12 Thread Christophe Courtois
Okay, according to what I've found on Google (comp.sys.palmtops 2003-05-26 23:44:38 PST), a 2.4.20 kernel does not automatically links visor and usbserial. [Stewart, which kernel do you use?] The steps for a Zire 71 are : - be sure /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1 exist (/dev/pilot is only a li

Re: Kernel compile error with make-kpkg

2003-07-12 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:15:13 +0200 "Esben Laursen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please trim replies. > The funny part is that if I do a "make dep && make && make modules" there > is no error message and it compile correct. why is that? > > Could it be possible that I are missing some kind of lib t

Re: Change window manager to blackbox

2003-07-12 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob VanFleet wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 07:37:21PM +1200, Paul William wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to use blackbox as my defualt window manager, I cant figure >> out how to do this. > > "update-alternatives --config x-window-manager" should do the trick

Re: Kernel compile error with make-kpkg

2003-07-12 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 13:39:35 +0200 "JZidar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't the correct syntax something like: > make-kpkg --append-to-version=.something kernel_image (note the = and .)? The period isn't required; I used it to separate the kernel version from the rest of the append-to-version

Re: Accidently uninstalled KDE

2003-07-12 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 10:15:08AM -0600, Brian Gonzales wrote: > Used apt-get to install a couple of packages the other day, and somehow > uninstalled KDE (should've known when the installer asked if I wanted to > stop the KDE daemon :). > > If I apt-get install kde or kde-core or kdebase, it eve

Re: DNS for small network with internet connection

2003-07-12 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 10:56:42AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > It was to solve exactly this sort of problem that I created the > resolvconf package. With resolvconf installed, DHCP clients > send their information to resolvconf; resolvconf then generates > a /etc/resolv.conf file for applications

Re: Hercules 9800 Pro and XFree under unstable.

2003-07-12 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Rus Hughes wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get a Hercules Radeon 9800 Pro running with XFree86 (version 4.2.1) in Debian Unstable. After reading the readmes, I turned the fglrx-glc22-4.2.0-2.9.13.i586.rpm into a deb with alien and installed it. I rolled my own kernel (2.5.73), and tried to build the Fire

Re: Eject problem

2003-07-12 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sat, July 12 at 7:59 AM EDT Jerry Van Brimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ eject -v /cdrom >>eject: device name is `/cdrom' >>eject: expanded name is `/cdrom' >>eject: `/cdrom' is not mounted >>eject: `/dev/hdc' can be mounted at `/cdrom' >>eject: `/dev/hdc' is a multipart

Installing Intel Fortran on debian - db3 errors ?

2003-07-12 Thread B Thomas
Hi, I am trying to install intel fortran 90 compiler on debian unstable. I get the following error : error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm Installation failed. I would be greatfull if you could give me a p

Re: Accidently uninstalled KDE

2003-07-12 Thread Christophe Courtois
Le Samedi 12 Juillet 2003 18:15, Brian Gonzales a déclamé : > Used apt-get to install a couple of packages the other day, and somehow > uninstalled KDE I know this problem :-) I suppose this is KDE3. The second time, I was fed up with this dependency problem, and each time I use dselect, I mak

Hercules 9800 Pro and XFree under unstable.

2003-07-12 Thread Rus Hughes
Hi, I'm trying to get a Hercules Radeon 9800 Pro running with XFree86 (version 4.2.1) in Debian Unstable. After reading the readmes, I turned the fglrx-glc22-4.2.0-2.9.13.i586.rpm into a deb with alien and installed it. I rolled my own kernel (2.5.73), and tried to build the FireGL kernel modules

Re: Question about kernel upgrade

2003-07-12 Thread Joachim Smit
> > When you went into menuconfig, did you enable support for the 3com NIC > specifically (either as a module or as a compiled in feature)? If not, > that could be the problem. > In menuconfig, I enabled support for: Network device support -> Ethernet 10 or 100 Mbit -> EISA, VLB, PCI and on boar

Re: Question about kernel upgrade

2003-07-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Joachim Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > > > did u make a "make modules && make modules install" ??? > > > > This is what I did: (according to documentation from www.debian.org) > > login root > apt-get install gcc kernel-package kernel-source-2.4.18 libc6-dev tk8.3 > libncurses5-

Re: installation of new compiled alsa modules failing

2003-07-12 Thread Roman Joost
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 05:18:54PM +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > That module is now called snd-via82xx. Probably you need to reconfigure > alsa-base. (dpkg-reconfigure alsa-base) Thanks - that was my problem. I figured out, that /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9 doesn't have an autoconfiguration tag. So i

Accidently uninstalled KDE

2003-07-12 Thread Brian Gonzales
Used apt-get to install a couple of packages the other day, and somehow uninstalled KDE (should've known when the installer asked if I wanted to stop the KDE daemon :). If I apt-get install kde or kde-core or kdebase, it eventually states I need kdelibs, kdelibs-data kdelibs4, all of which I've tr

Re: Question about kernel upgrade

2003-07-12 Thread Joachim Smit
> > > did u make a "make modules && make modules install" ??? > This is what I did: (according to documentation from www.debian.org) login root apt-get install gcc kernel-package kernel-source-2.4.18 libc6-dev tk8.3 libncurses5-dev fakeroot adduser joachim src logout login joachim cd /usr/src tar

Re: Question about kernel upgrade

2003-07-12 Thread Esben Laursen
- Original Message - From: "Joachim Smit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 5:39 PM Subject: Fw: Question about kernel upgrade > > > > > >I'm a newbie with Debian. > > > > > >I've upgraded my kernel from 2.2.20 to 2.4.18. > > > > > >After

Fw: Question about kernel upgrade

2003-07-12 Thread Joachim Smit
> > > >I'm a newbie with Debian. > > > >I've upgraded my kernel from 2.2.20 to 2.4.18. > > > >After a reboot I was running the new kernel indeed, but my eth0 was gone. > > > >What did I do wrong ? > > > >Thanks in advance. > > > >Joachim Smit > > have you loaded the module for the NIC in modconf ??

Re: installation of new compiled alsa modules failing

2003-07-12 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:20:08 +0200, Roman Joost wrote: > Storing ALSA mixer settings ... failed > Shutting down ALSA (version 0.9.3a): done. > Starting ALSA (version 0.9.3a): card-via686a-failed failed That module is now called snd-via82xx. Probably you need to reconfigure alsa-base. (dpkg-reconf

Re: Kernel version, apt-get, modem

2003-07-12 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:00:10 +0200, Jianan Huang wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am exploring the Linux that I had recently installed. > > 1) I downloaded the kernel from the site recommended by a documentation > that is supposed to be for Rel 3.0. but the kernel version is 2.2..Why? It's quite simple

Re: Kernel compile error with make-kpkg

2003-07-12 Thread Esben Laursen
- Original Message - From: "Chris Metzler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Esben Laursen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 3:18 PM Subject: Re: Kernel compile error with make-kpkg > On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 13:08:39 +0200 > "Esben Laursen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about kernel upgrade

2003-07-12 Thread Esben Laursen
> >- Original Message - >From: Joachim Smit >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 5:05 PM >Subject: Question about kernel upgrade > > >I'm a newbie with Debian. > >I've upgraded my kernel from 2.2.20 to 2.4.18. > >After a reboot I was running the new kernel indeed, but m

Question about kernel upgrade

2003-07-12 Thread Joachim Smit
I'm a newbie with Debian.   I've upgraded my kernel from 2.2.20 to 2.4.18.   After a reboot I was running the new kernel indeed, but my eth0 was gone.   What did I do wrong ?   Thanks in advance.   Joachim Smit  

Re: Eject problem

2003-07-12 Thread Jerry Van Brimmer
Johann Koenig wrote: I thought you had been saying something about having to log out/in to eject (in linux.debian) Indeed, that is true. But somewhere during my troubleshooting, manually ejecting the cd started to work. Then I posted the above to debian-user. Since then I powered down/up my mach

Re: rsync or wget?

2003-07-12 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 06:24:55AM +1000, bob parker wrote: > I believe that ftp servers these days all support resume, no idea about http. This is true of unix ftp servers. The same can't be said about Windows ones. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[

Re: DNS for small network with internet connection

2003-07-12 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 10:56:42AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > It was to solve exactly this sort of problem that I created the > resolvconf package. But the resolvconf package is not needed for this situation. Instead only reading the man page for the dhclient.conf and then a simple editing of

Re: Kernel version, apt-get, modem

2003-07-12 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Jianan Huang wrote: > 1) I downloaded the kernel from the site recommended by a documentation > that is supposed to be for Rel 3.0. but the kernel version is 2.2..Why? Debian Woody (3.0) cones with both 2.2 and 2.4 Kernels. You can also use apt-get to install prepackaged kernel images. Try

installing a Debian system on a 2nd hdd while booted off the first

2003-07-12 Thread martin f krafft
Hey folks, This may be trivial, but I could not find definitive information on this. I know about debootstrap, but I was wondering how I would go about to install Debian onto a second harddrive from within a currently booted system. I would like to be able to run the installer just as if I had bo

Re: Kernel compile error with make-kpkg

2003-07-12 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 13:08:39 +0200 "Esben Laursen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Chris Metzler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 23:50:06 +0200 > >"Esben Laursen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Here is the error I get: >>> >>> cd /usr/src/linux/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.4

installation of new compiled alsa modules failing

2003-07-12 Thread Roman Joost
I compiled new alsa modules with "make-kpkg modules" and installed them: dpkg -i alsa-modules-2.4.20_0.9.3a-1+10.00.Custom_i386.deb The problem occures during the installation process: Storing ALSA mixer settings ... failed Shutting down ALSA (version 0.9.3a): done. Starting ALSA (version 0

Re: Palm Zire 71 & Debian

2003-07-12 Thread Christophe Courtois
Le Samedi 12 Juillet 2003 04:24, Stewart Jenkins a déclamé : > Happy to report that the Zire 71 synced with Debian Woody just fine. > You must have the kpilot daemon running first, then plug in the cradle > the Zire 71, wait two seconds and press Hot Sync and all should then > work. Thank you ve

Re: ? about browser's talk

2003-07-12 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:25:02PM -0700, John Joe wrote: > do you know how to monitor browser's talk with the > server? i mean is there any Linux tool that can > cpature that sesstion? netcat is a Debian package and includes the abilty to do what you want. There is also HttpSniffer, a perl scrip

Kernel version, apt-get, modem

2003-07-12 Thread Jianan Huang
Hi folks, I am exploring the Linux that I had recently installed. 1) I downloaded the kernel from the site recommended by a documentation that is supposed to be for Rel 3.0. but the kernel version is 2.2..Why? 2) How to control the speaker volume of my 3Com US Robotics modem? It is embarassing

Re: Change window manager to blackbox

2003-07-12 Thread Johann Koenig
On Saturday July 12, 2003 at 10:20 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried that but it still dosnt work. KDE isnt even on the list and I > get to choose the defualt wm from. Blackbox is defentally set as the > defualt. That is because KDE is not a window manager. It actually runs

Re: Kernel compile error with make-kpkg

2003-07-12 Thread JZidar
- Original Message - From: "Esben Laursen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 1:08 PM Subject: Re: Kernel compile error with make-kpkg - Original Message - From: "Chris Metzler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Esben Laursen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:

Re: mozilla-firebird packaging error?

2003-07-12 Thread Adam Garside
James, if you believe there is a bug or problem with a debian package, please check the BTS (bugs.debian.org) and see if the problem has already been reported. If not, please file a bug providing as much information as possible. You can use the 'reportbug' tool to do this. asg On Fri, Jul 11, 200

fixed fonts defekt nach upgrade

2003-07-12 Thread Jan Torben Heuer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [debian testing] Hallo, trotz googeln kein Erfolg: Seit einem upgrade (und möglicherweise einer zu hastigen Bestätigung irgendeiner Frage :-( ) sind meine nichtproportionalen schriften (z.B. lucidiatypewriter) kaputt - einfach in die Länge gezogen.

Re: rsync or wget?

2003-07-12 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 04:51, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 03:53:31AM +1000, bob parker wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 00:48, David Fokkema wrote: > > Hmmm... IIUC, wget only supports regetting a file (if the server also > supports it) and this only resumes download at the point it w

Re: Kernel compile error with make-kpkg

2003-07-12 Thread Esben Laursen
- Original Message - From: "Chris Metzler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Esben Laursen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 12:43 AM Subject: Re: Kernel compile error with make-kpkg > On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 23:50:06 +0200 > "Esben Laursen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ATAPI CD-writer

2003-07-12 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello cr wrote: > On Friday 11 July 2003 04:11, Pigeon wrote: >> Try apt-cache search kernel-image >> >> Most of the kernel-image packages are on CD 5 IIRC, so you need the >> full set of CDs - I think if you've only got the first CD all you've >> got is a source package and enough tools to buil

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