Re: Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems

2003-07-29 Thread Michael Waters
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003, Neal Lippman wrote: > can you post the output of: > > 1) ls -l /dev/sd* > > and > > 2) cat /proc/devices Hi, thank you again for trying to help me. I appreciate it. Below is the output. I apologize to the list for the size of this email but I hope someone can see somethi

DVD audio extraction

2003-07-29 Thread Bill Moseley
I can get audio extracted from vob files with mplayer, but I was wondering if there were any tools to make it a bit easier. For example, I might like to say, extract enough chapters from title 1 to fill up no more than 30 minutes of audio, but don't break any chapters in the middle. And then fade

Re: Getting man pages in color

2003-07-29 Thread Robert Storey
On 28 Jul 2003 02:44:23 +0300 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I get man pages to show in color? > used to have it on mandrake at one of the workplaces but never figured > out how to enable it under debian. > > thanx As others have said, "most" is what you want. To install and co

Re: system has started e-mailing me, cron demon

2003-07-29 Thread David selby
Stephen Touset wrote: Did you try restarting anacron when you made the /etc/anacrontab changes? The reason it's working now is probably because you added that line into /etc/cron.d/anacron, and it restarted the next time it came across that. Try taking out /etc/cron.d/anacron and see if it s

no days in uptime

2003-07-29 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I have encountered a strange problem in my uptime status. I have a computer running for over 500 days and a script that displays the uptime in days with MRTG. For some reason, after 497 days the uptime doesn't return day information any more: $ uptime 08:36:00 up 14:48, 2 users, load aver

Re: voodoo 3500 tv tuner

2003-07-29 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:48:07PM -0400, -Art- wrote: > Forgive me if this isn't the proper newsgroup. > > Newbie here, seeking Help/info/suggestons on how to > get my VooDoo 3500 tv tuner to work > in Debian/Knoppix distro. rotsa ruck man. You *might* be able to get it working with the v3tv

Kernel 2.6.0-test2,Nvidia and The story of the missing X :)

2003-07-29 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hi there, I have a NVidia GeForce2 MX 400 card and I'm trying to use kernel 2.6.0-test2 with it. The kernel compiles fine but I don't have X. I tried recompiling the driver I was using with kernel 2.4.18 but I get the message that the kernel doesn't support 2.6.x and newer kernels. I downloade

Re: Activating ACPI supend and ACPI Hibernate in klaptop

2003-07-29 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 11:19 pm, Mark Roach wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 23:43, Marino Fernandez wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 July 2003 4:05 pm, Mark Roach wrote: > > [snip] > > > > My laptop only gives: > > > $ cat /proc/acpi/sleep > > > S0 S3 S4 S5 > > > > > > so no acpi sleep for me. If you have

Re: (progress) Network card not detected or listed in installation

2003-07-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 01:49, ThinKer wrote: > I downloaded new boot disks from > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/bf2.4/ > > and this kernel 2.4.?bf4 actually had the natsemi driver listed... > Hey, why not try a new method: http://twiki.iwethey.

Re: 2.4.20 autofs: non-toplevel mounts broken?

2003-07-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 01:39, Bob Proulx wrote: > > So load them ... in /etc/modules > > Great idea! Which modules would you suggest? I can't guess at what > additional module would be needed. Googling reveals a large amount of > information, way too much, but nothing that points me to a soluti

Re: (progress) Network card not detected or listed in installation

2003-07-29 Thread ThinKer
I downloaded new boot disks from http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/bf2.4/ and this kernel 2.4.?bf4 actually had the natsemi driver listed... but I am getting the same errors. A message saying the installation was a success. An offer to configure th

Re: 2.4.20 autofs: non-toplevel mounts broken?

2003-07-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Greg Folkert wrote: > Modules not being loaded is typically the problem. That or the > rpc/portmap/...blah not compiled in. > > So load them ... in /etc/modules Great idea! Which modules would you suggest? I can't guess at what additional module would be needed. Googling reveals a large amount

Re: evolution - how to enable spell check

2003-07-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 00:54, John Hedge wrote: > I gather pspell is part of Debian 'base' package. > > Anyway I've just followed the install instructions and apt-getted > aspell-en (I couldn't find aspell-en_gb) and gnome-spell and when I > compose a new e-mail with incorrect spelling it underline

Re: 2.4.20 autofs: non-toplevel mounts broken?

2003-07-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 01:18, Bob Proulx wrote: > Something really strange to my thinking is that the automount daemon > from autofs did not change. Only the kernel was updated. The autofs > side should not have changed. But since it is now not working I can > only assume this is an interaction

RE: Arpwatch (was : mac addresses)

2003-07-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 01:13, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > I have being running Arpwatch now for a couple of days and I am getting an > awful lot of emails about the Macintosh devices we have here. > > hostname: > ip address: 0.0.0.0 > ethernet address: 0:3:93:53:fe:7e >

2.4.20 autofs: non-toplevel mounts broken?

2003-07-29 Thread Bob Proulx
After upgrading to 2.4.20 I seem to have lost the ability to autofs mount non-toplevel mounts. This worked in 2.4.18. Does not work in 2.4.20. Has anyone else seen this? Here is the situation. An NFS server machine exports /mnt/a, /mnt/b, etc. but does not export the root filesystem. With 2.4

Re: sudo doesn't work

2003-07-29 Thread Yves Goergen
sorry for the long lines... thought your mail reader can do word wrapping at the end of a line :/ using my own mailer now, since i'm at work (and so i can't test that pathname thing right now). i have already tried to do this with 'NOPASSWD:', but then it wanted a password from me... too bad th

RE: Arpwatch (was : mac addresses)

2003-07-29 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I have being running Arpwatch now for a couple of days and I am getting an awful lot of emails about the Macintosh devices we have here. hostname: ip address: 0.0.0.0 ethernet address: 0:3:93:53:fe:7e ethernet vendor: Apple Computer, Inc. old ethernet address: 0:3:9

Re: evolution - how to enable spell check

2003-07-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 00:45, Kevin Mark wrote: > > the article said you need: gnome-spell, aspell, aspell-en and pspell. > BUT I CAN'T FIND PSPELL. > I look a few months a go andalso now with NO LUCK! > so what up whit tha? > do I have to get SOURCE and use equivs to make a package? According to

Re: evolution - how to enable spell check

2003-07-29 Thread John Hedge
I gather pspell is part of Debian 'base' package. Anyway I've just followed the install instructions and apt-getted aspell-en (I couldn't find aspell-en_gb) and gnome-spell and when I compose a new e-mail with incorrect spelling it underlines any doubtful word in red. This happens without me editt

Re: RH to Debian migration

2003-07-29 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 19:29, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > and VMWare > workstation for each machine (I would need some help for doing this on Debian > since they don't officially support Debian as a distro). You didn't mention which version of VMware. If it's as old as 2.x (like me) I can tell you i

Re: evolution - how to enable spell check

2003-07-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 00:32, Titus Barik wrote: > As far as I know, I already have these packages installed, except > perhaps pspell, though locate returns: > the article said you need: gnome-spell, aspell, aspell-en and pspell. BUT I CAN'T FIND PSPELL. I look a few months a go andalso now with

Re: evolution - how to enable spell check

2003-07-29 Thread Titus Barik
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:21:18PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > Try the third link down on this page: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=evolution%20enable%20spell%20check Hi, As far as I know, I already have these packages installed, except perhaps pspell, though locate returns: /usr/lib

nfs problem

2003-07-29 Thread gerard
Everything was working fine with my nfs, rebooted, and now when I try to mount an nfs drive this is the error I get "mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused". Any ideas? I havent changed anything either, thats why I find it strange. ~gerard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Activating ACPI supend and ACPI Hibernate in klaptop

2003-07-29 Thread Mark Roach
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 23:43, Marino Fernandez wrote: > On Tuesday 29 July 2003 4:05 pm, Mark Roach wrote: [snip] > > > > My laptop only gives: > > $ cat /proc/acpi/sleep > > S0 S3 S4 S5 > > > > so no acpi sleep for me. If you have a similar situation, try swsusp > > > Thank you Mark > > I have the

Re: RH to Debian migration

2003-07-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Roberto Sanchez wrote: > -The lab director does not want to pay for support or for RH Enterprise > Workstation, so they setup one RHN account, added all 10 machines and then > rotate the demo entitlement amongst them to be able to run up2date for each > one. I don't know about the Enterprise Work

Re: kernel-source-2.5.69.tar.bz

2003-07-29 Thread Rodney D. Myers
Well, on of the maintainers closed the report. Seems it's supposed to be a bad download. Just tried again, and the file size is the same, and the same result. Oh well, I guess tinkering with building kernels' wasn't meant to be -- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux User #9

Re: Zlib

2003-07-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Reaz Baksh wrote: > I have a program that needs Zlib installed. I checked using dpkg and > found that zlib1g and zlib1g-dev was installed. Whenever I tried to use > the program I get the following: 'Zlib support must be enabled on your > server'. How do I enable it even though dpkg says it is i

Re: sudo doesn't work

2003-07-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Yves Goergen wrote: > what i would like to do: > a php-based web-interface should be able to run some special system commands in the > name of another user, i.e. 'apache' needs to 'makemaildir /some/path' as 'exim'. In the future if you would word wrap your postings to some column such as column

Re: Activating ACPI supend and ACPI Hibernate in klaptop

2003-07-29 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 4:05 pm, Mark Roach wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 09:32, Marino Fernandez wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 July 2003 6:02 am, Wim De Smet wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 01:24:05 -0500 > > > > > > Marino Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] >my machine to go to sleep! >

Re: rpms and dependencies-SOLVED

2003-07-29 Thread Bob Proulx
J. Zidar wrote: > One question: What is the point of the rpm command if it is unsafe > to install RPMs directly? The rpm command is a multifunction tool. It installs and removes packages, sure. But it also builds packages. Therefore if you are going to build an rpm package on Debian or unpack a

Re: nvnet module troubles (WAS: Re: I can't find the file /usr/src/linux/scripts/modpost but I need it)

2003-07-29 Thread ramzez
Le Mercredi 30 Juillet 2003 02:40, Roberto Sanchez a écrit : > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > > so, after regenerating modpost, I succeed in compiling nvnet > > the patch which work (at least with test2-mm1) is here : > > http://penna.dyn.dhs.org/nvnet.2.5-1.diff > > Can you give me a step-by-s

Re: evolution - how to enable spell check

2003-07-29 Thread Mark Roach
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 22:03, Titus Barik wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running Debian testing and Evolution 1.0.5. It seems that no matter > what I do I cannot get the 'Spell check document..." menu option to > become enabled. > > I have aspell installed, as well as gnome-spell. Try the third link d

sound recording - sid

2003-07-29 Thread Roy Pluschke
Greetings, I recently installed gnome-meeting in sid and noticed that in the installation wizard I wasn't getting the delayed recording played back. I have since tried to record with other applications (gnome-sound-recorder, audacity, krec) also without luck or useful error messages. I am run

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-29 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 03:22:54PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > What's the big deal about formatting and partitioning? Takes a couple of > minutes with cfdisk and mke2fs. > > On the other hand, I have use dd to clone boot floppies, so?? My two pennorth: I would only use dd in cases whe

grip and suspend problems

2003-07-29 Thread matt zagrabelny
hi, while using grip my laptop suspends itself uncontrollably. i have a thinkpad t20 using debian sid, kernel 2.4.21, and grip 3.0.7 scenario: on some random track all of a sudden my laptop is suspended. i un-suspend it. roughly 5-25 seconds later it suspends again. this process continues until

evolution - how to enable spell check

2003-07-29 Thread Titus Barik
Hi all, I'm running Debian testing and Evolution 1.0.5. It seems that no matter what I do I cannot get the 'Spell check document..." menu option to become enabled. I have aspell installed, as well as gnome-spell. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance, -- Titus Barik ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Zlib

2003-07-29 Thread Reaz Baksh
Hello I have a program that needs Zlib installed.  I checked using dpkg and found that zlib1g and zlib1g-dev was installed.  Whenever I tried to use the program I get the following:  ‘Zlib support must be enabled on your server’.  How do I enable it even though dpkg says it is installed?

Re: compiling uw imapd

2003-07-29 Thread Will Yardley
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:09:45PM -0500, Will Yardley wrote: >> I can make my changes to the package and rebuild it if necessary, but >> I'd rather just build from source. > If all you want is to get plaintext logins to work then you don'

Re: more install problems

2003-07-29 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 02:20:47AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > Realtek CardBus Ethernet Card Installation on Linux > > 1. Compile the source code : >->Copy the source code rtl8139.c (ver 1.08 above) to a directory > and execute "gcc -DCARDBUS -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall >-Wstric

Re: more install problems

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Lyons
Okay, this supersedes the previous. I have succeeded in installing Woody on the Thinkpad, using the 'dummy' network interface. A stack of errors which will be easily cleared up as soon as I actually can connect to the internet, via our home-office ethernet. The interface card claims to suppo

Re: (progress) Network card not detected or listed in installation

2003-07-29 Thread Kent West
ThinKer wrote: What kernel are you running? If it's 2.2, you might need to upgrade to 2.4. When the rescue disk boots, it says "This disk uses the Linux kernel 2.2.20. These disks came from ... http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/ Should I download

Re: (progress) Network card not detected or listed in installation

2003-07-29 Thread ThinKer
> What kernel are you running? If it's 2.2, you might need to upgrade to 2.4. When the rescue disk boots, it says "This disk uses the Linux kernel 2.2.20. These disks came from ... http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/ Should I download from http://ht

Umfrage Internet Portal fuer behinderte Menschen

2003-07-29 Thread Andreas Riechmann
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, ich beabsichtige in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kreisbehindertenring im Kreis Göppingen, eine Homepage für Menschen mit Behinderung Ihrer Familie, Freunde wie Interessierte zu erstellen. Für die Gestaltung der Homepage ist Ihre Mithilfe von unschätzbaren Wert. Deshalb

Re: flphoto program to deb?

2003-07-29 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:25:05PM +1000, Chris Kenrick wrote: > > You can also rotate losslessly via jpegtran in libjpeg-progs (or > libjpeg-mmx-progs. It also can preserve the EXIF data if passed the > "-copy all" option. Works fine in the stable version of jpegtran. > Will try

nvnet module troubles (WAS: Re: I can't find the file /usr/src/linux/scripts/modpost but I need it)

2003-07-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > > so, after regenerating modpost, I succeed in compiling nvnet > the patch which work (at least with test2-mm1) is here : > http://penna.dyn.dhs.org/nvnet.2.5-1.diff Can you give me a step-by-step on this, because I patched my nforce driver and compled it with

Re: (progress) Network card not detected or listed in installation

2003-07-29 Thread Kent West
ThinKer wrote: 1. pinged the dhcp server by typing '192.168.1.1' and got ... '98 packets transmitted, 0 packets recieved, 100% packet loss' 2. I tried the 'tulip' module and the installation failed. I am wondering if there is a way to get the real 'natsemi' module as suggested by Michael Waters on

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 18:00, Rob VanFleet wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:16:15PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Nope. :-( > > Hmm, do you have hotplug or discover installed? Those will attempt to > autodetect hardware and load modules for them. Granted they're supposed > to load driver

Re: Postfix

2003-07-29 Thread Mick Reichelt
Thanks Florian! Sorry couldn't say thanks earlier, first day back in a while I also found a backport of postfix here deb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/debian/woody/backported/ ./ and works pretty good. On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 18:25, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello Mick! > > At Wednesday 23

Re: I can't find the file /usr/src/linux/scripts/modpost but I need it

2003-07-29 Thread ramzez
Le Mercredi 30 Juillet 2003 01:05, Roberto Sanchez a écrit : > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > > I try to test the kernel 2.6-test1 with my nforce2 > > so when I compile the nvnet driver, i need the file modpost in > > /lib/modules/2.6xxx/build/scripts > > in fact, i have modpost.c and modpost.h

Re: compiling uw imapd

2003-07-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--EuxKj2iCbKjpUGkD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:09:45PM -0500, Will Yardley wrote: > I can make my changes to the package and rebuild it if necessary, but > I'd rather just build from source. If all you want is to get plaintext

Mutt and locale

2003-07-29 Thread Lonnie Sutton
I seem to have munged something up somewhere, as I get a "?" where I should be getting accented letters, and I often get emails with "\227", or "\223", etc. where I should be getting punctuation. Locale reports the following: LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE=en_US LC_NUMERIC="en_US" LC_TIME="en_US" LC_COLLATE

voodoo 3500 tv tuner

2003-07-29 Thread -Art-
Forgive me if this isn't the proper newsgroup. Newbie here, seeking Help/info/suggestons on how to get my VooDoo 3500 tv tuner to work in Debian/Knoppix distro. TIA, -Art- Art's little corner on the internet, http://mywebpages.comcast.net/ArthurLuttrell2nd/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: moving mail to imap

2003-07-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 04:18:51PM +0100, Craig Tinson wrote: > Hey all.. >=20 > I use mozilla mail for my email.. and (at the moment) I have about > 15,000 emails

Re: Shared memory

2003-07-29 Thread Paul Brossier
maybe you need this : $ grep shm /etc/fstab none/dev/shmtmpfs defaults 0 0 $ grep TMPFS /boot/config-`uname -r` CONFIG_TMPFS=y and read this : /usr/src/linux-`uname -r`/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt btw, i think best is not to use reply for starting a new th

Re: Difference between dhcp clients

2003-07-29 Thread Paul Brossier
i needed to install a dhcp3-client to get a hook on my lan. probably the dhcp server is dhcp3 too ... last time i tried, dhcp-client (and thus server) was still installed as default client at debian install. piem On Wednesday 23 July 2003 02:14, Nicolas wrote: > Which of the dhcp client is the

Later kernels

2003-07-29 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, Is there any reason why I can't grab kernel-source-2.4.21 from testing and build it for stable? My system satisfies all the dependencies. Antony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RH to Debian migration

2003-07-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Greetings list, I have recently taken over as the admin of a small lab at school. The current admin has graduated and gone off to grad school and today we spent the day going over the lab setup. Anyhow, the point is that I don't particularly care for the current setup (10 machines running RH 9)

Re: I can't find the file /usr/src/linux/scripts/modpost but I need it

2003-07-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > I try to test the kernel 2.6-test1 with my nforce2 > so when I compile the nvnet driver, i need the file modpost in > /lib/modules/2.6xxx/build/scripts > in fact, i have modpost.c and modpost.h but it seems it is not compiled > Do you know how I can get it compil

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-29 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:16:15PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:21:31PM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > Check /etc/modules. Any module entry in that file will be loaded at > > bootup. > > Nope. :-( Hmm, do you have hotplug or discover installed? Those will attemp

Re: LANG in /etc/environment and in .bashrc

2003-07-29 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Robin Gerard (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I would like to understand why, when I set LANG to C, in > /etc/environment and LANG to fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 in my .bashrc, after the > login, I can't write te letters with accents. Are you talking about a login shell? .bashrc is used for non-login s

Re: debconf wonky

2003-07-29 Thread Joey Hess
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:41:31PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Apparently this backport did not take the po-debconf conversion into > > account, and just tossed "_Description" fields into the .debs. Not > > correct. > > Uhm... what does it mean? Do I need to ba

compiling uw imapd

2003-07-29 Thread Will Yardley
I'm building UW imapd on a Debian Woody (x86) box. Building works fine, and I can login via SSL, however plaintext logins are still not working. I want to use either PAM or shadow passwords for cleartext logins. /etc/pam.d/imap has: #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_unix_auth.so account requ

Re: resolv.conf

2003-07-29 Thread Timo Kamph
I did an apt-get update/upgrade using the server's IP addresses. After that DNS works fine. Unfortunately I've no idea what happend. Timo -- COMPUTERBILD 15/03: Premium-e-mail-Dienste im Test -- 1. GMX TopMail - Platz 1 und Testsieger! 2. GMX ProM

Re: kernel-source-2.5.69.tar.bz

2003-07-29 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:36:04 +0200 Tobias Bär <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rodney D. Myers schrieb: > > Who do I contact about a bad *.deb file? > > > > Everytime I try to "bzip2 d" the above file I get; > > > > bzip2 --test kernel-source-2.5.69.tar.bz2 > > bzip2: kernel-source-2.5.69.tar.bz2: d

LANG in /etc/environment and in .bashrc

2003-07-29 Thread Robin Gerard
Hello, I would like to understand why, when I set LANG to C, in /etc/environment and LANG to fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 in my .bashrc, after the login, I can't write te letters with accents. ( However if I launch mutt, for example, the messages send by mutt are in French. ) On the other hand, if I run "bash

Re: new-bie problem

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 20:05, Mark C wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 14:13, Joydeep Bakshi wrote: > > Hi all, > > I can enter into the interactive mode of Redhat by pressing * key > > i * at the time of booting. but this technique doesn't work in > > Debian . how to get the same thing in Debian ? >

Re: (progress) Network card not detected or listed in installation

2003-07-29 Thread ThinKer
1. pinged the dhcp server by typing '192.168.1.1' and got ... '98 packets transmitted, 0 packets recieved, 100% packet loss' 2. I tried the 'tulip' module and the installation failed. I am wondering if there is a way to get the real 'natsemi' module as suggested by Michael Waters onto a floppy and

Re: debconf wonky

2003-07-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:41:31PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Apparently this backport did not take the po-debconf conversion into > account, and just tossed "_Description" fields into the .debs. Not > correct. Uhm... what does it mean? Do I need to backport a newer debconf or do I need to a

Re: debconf wonky

2003-07-29 Thread Joey Hess
Antony Gelberg wrote: > They're all good questions. :) It's only happening with X. > > brain:/home/antgel# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > debconf: Unknown template field '_description', in stanza #1 of > /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.templates > > It's backport city, I'm afraid... > >

Re: Python bindings for libglade

2003-07-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 03:10:17PM -0500, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: | I am trying to compile a program called gramps from SourceForge. apt-get install gramps | Running ./configure gives the error message that the python bindings | for libglade were not found. Is there a Debian package that will

Re: Any help for GNOME 2.2 on Sarge

2003-07-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 04:24:46PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Any new ideas for those of us that did a d-st-upgrade opn Sarge and went > from a perfectly working GNOME 1.4 to a seriously broken GNOME 2.2? I > have tried upgrading to GNOME in Sid, I have tried getting back to 1.4. > I really

Re: kernel-source-2.5.69.tar.bz

2003-07-29 Thread Tobias Bär
Rodney D. Myers schrieb: Who do I contact about a bad *.deb file? Everytime I try to "bzip2 d" the above file I get; bzip2 --test kernel-source-2.5.69.tar.bz2 bzip2: kernel-source-2.5.69.tar.bz2: data integrity (CRC) error in data You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover data

Re: kernel-source-2.5.69.tar.bz

2003-07-29 Thread Tobias Bär
Rodney D. Myers schrieb: Who do I contact about a bad *.deb file? Everytime I try to "bzip2 d" the above file I get; bzip2 --test kernel-source-2.5.69.tar.bz2 bzip2: kernel-source-2.5.69.tar.bz2: data integrity (CRC) error in data You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover data

Re: kernel-source-2.5.69.tar.bz

2003-07-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:41:58PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > Who do I contact about a bad *.deb file? File a bug report; see http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: sudo doesn't work

2003-07-29 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Tue, July 29 at 10:41 PM EDT "Yves Goergen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >what i would like to do: >a php-based web-interface should be able to run some special system >commands in the name of another user, i.e. 'apache' needs to >'makemaildir /some/path' as 'exim'. > >how i tried this: >installe

Re: Activating ACPI supend and ACPI Hibernate in klaptop

2003-07-29 Thread Mark Roach
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 09:32, Marino Fernandez wrote: > On Tuesday 29 July 2003 6:02 am, Wim De Smet wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 01:24:05 -0500 > > > > Marino Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > > In klaptop there is the configure acpi option, and then it ask for you > > > to enter th

Re: I'm a Bastard Operator... From Hell.

2003-07-29 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Aaron wrote: > I had someone SSHed into my box the other day (my laptop) while at > work and I wanted to screw with him by booting him off. I obviously > have root on my box, but I wonder if there is any "official" or > "proper" way to make a user leave the system? > > Someth

Re: Python bindings for libglade

2003-07-29 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:10:17 -0500 "Larry W. Irwin Sr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to compile a program called gramps from SourceForge. > Running ./configure gives the error message that the python bindings > for libglade were not found. Is there a Debian package that will fix this?

Any help for GNOME 2.2 on Sarge

2003-07-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
James Strandboge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: xfree86 4.3 requires freetype 2.1.3, which conflicts with fontconfig in the backport. fontconfig is required by libpango1.0-0 and pango is required by gtk+2.0 and everything else depends on that. So nothing installs. If you have an up to date xfree86 4.

sudo doesn't work

2003-07-29 Thread Yves Goergen
hi list, i have a little problem with my sudo here on debian v.3. what i would like to do: a php-based web-interface should be able to run some special system commands in the name of another user, i.e. 'apache' needs to 'makemaildir /some/path' as 'exim'. how i tried this: installed the sudo pac

Re: (progress) Network card not detected or listed in installation

2003-07-29 Thread Kent West
ThinKer wrote: I typed 'ping www.wired.com' and got .."ping: www.wired.com: Host name lookup failure" Try pinging by address instead of by name. Your DHCP server would be a good box to hit. Now my question is, is it possible that the "natsemi-scyld' module that I loaded was a close match to t

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-29 Thread mody
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:21:31PM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Check /etc/modules. Any module entry in that file will be loaded at > bootup. Nope. :-( Mody # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at

Python bindings for libglade

2003-07-29 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
I am trying to compile a program called gramps from SourceForge. Running ./configure gives the error message that the python bindings for libglade were not found. Is there a Debian package that will fix this? Thanks, Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: (progress) Network card not detected or listed in installation

2003-07-29 Thread ThinKer
I typed 'ping www.wired.com' and got .."ping: www.wired.com: Host name lookup failure" Now my question is, is it possible that the "natsemi-scyld' module that I loaded was a close match to the suggested 'natsemi', but not exactly right, considering that DCHP didn't work? I have checked the DHCP se

Re: Understanding LILO

2003-07-29 Thread Andrés Roldán
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have to ask a dumb question. When booting is lilo.conf read? > Or is lilo.conf only used for writing the MBR plus the additional boot > sectors? I assume it's not read while booting. > > I'm trying to understand the "disk", "boot", and "root" options in > lilo.conf

kernel-source-2.5.69.tar.bz

2003-07-29 Thread Rodney D. Myers
Who do I contact about a bad *.deb file? Everytime I try to "bzip2 d" the above file I get; bzip2 --test kernel-source-2.5.69.tar.bz2 bzip2: kernel-source-2.5.69.tar.bz2: data integrity (CRC) error in data You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover data from undamaged sections

libapache-mod-ssl

2003-07-29 Thread Francisco Castellon
Hello: Any help that anyone can give me or if you can at least point me in the right direction I would really appreciate it. I installed libapache-mod-ssl (on a debian system) last week and I haven't been able to get it to work. I got to the section in the readme file (from the libapache-mod-ssl

Re: hardware question

2003-07-29 Thread Rodney D. Myers
Thanks to all who responded. I wanted to make sure before I spent the money on something that may or may not function. -- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty t

Re: new-bie problem

2003-07-29 Thread Mark C
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 14:13, Joydeep Bakshi wrote: > Hi all, > I can enter into the interactive mode of Redhat by pressing * key i * at the > time of booting. but this technique doesn't work in Debian . how to get the > same thing in Debian ? I know what you mean, as I do not run redhat anymore

Re: hardware question

2003-07-29 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Rodney D. Myers (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > My desk is getting quite cluttered, using a KMV for 4 computers. I > started looking for wireless keyboard(s) & mice, and ran across this > item, and was wondering whether it was supported, or were there any > tricks in getting it running. > >

Re: Understanding LILO (was: Using dd to copy a disk)

2003-07-29 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:45:03AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have to ask a dumb question. When booting is lilo.conf read? no. lilo cannot read filesystems. The inverse is what is s good about grub. > Or is lilo.conf only used for writing the MBR plus the additional boot > sectors?

Kernel Stream Problems

2003-07-29 Thread Account for Debian group mail
I have just set up a new computer and have found a problem. I get messages like the following: Jul 28 16:58:47 dsl-gte-router kernel: adding ftp stream: 23027f41 -> 2eca9a0c port:1379 Jul 28 16:58:47 dsl-gte-router kernel: call add_protocol_stream: prot:70013 2eca9a0c->23027f41 0->1379 Jul 28 1

Re: (progress) Network card not detected or listed in installation

2003-07-29 Thread Kent West
ThinKer wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 03:32, Michael Waters wrote: Network Card Netgear Fa311 10/100 NIC (PCI) Thanks! As soon as I loaded the module closest to what you recommended "natsemi-scyld" the installation said it was successful and the Automatic Network Configuration menu came u

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-29 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 06:46:13PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:21:28AM -0500, Darin Strait wrote: > > After a little poking around, I found that all sorts of oddball modules (for > > which I don't have the hardware. serverworks?) had been loaded. After >

Re: new-bie problem

2003-07-29 Thread Kent West
Harry Brueckner wrote: Hi, --On Tuesday, July 29, 2003 10:32:17 AM -0400 David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joydeep Bakshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I can enter into the interactive mode of Redhat by pressing * key i * at the time of booting. but this technique doesn't work in Debian .

Re: konqueror

2003-07-29 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, gerard wrote: > I am using openbox and I like to use konqueror for my file browser. > Generally it works very well but sometimes it will come up with an > error. The error is "Could not start process. Can't talk to klauncher" > Any ideas why this happens or how to fix it? Som

Re: hardware question

2003-07-29 Thread Jacob S.
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:16:13 -0700 "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My desk is getting quite cluttered, using a KMV for 4 computers. I > started looking for wireless keyboard(s) & mice, and ran across this > item, and was wondering whether it was supported, or were there any > tricks

Re: (progress) Network card not detected or listed in installation

2003-07-29 Thread ThinKer
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 03:32, Michael Waters wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003, ThinKer wrote: > > Network Card > > Netgear Fa311 10/100 NIC (PCI) > > I haven't used this NIC but it appears to use the module "natsemi". > I'd try to load that and see if it talks to your card... and then set > up the

Re: moving mail to imap

2003-07-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 12:07, Craig Tinson wrote: > Does imap support folders/sub-folders/sub-sub-folder setups? > > I've tried making a folder under the imap connection.. but then it > doesn't let me create a sub-folder under the newly created folder.. is > that right? No that is wrong. Courier-

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