Re: /usr/sbin/pppd: bad local IP address 127.0.0.1

2003-08-12 Thread Shaul Karl
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:30:25AM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > Hi, > Shaul Karl (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > Package: ppp > > Version: 2.4.1.uus-5 > > > > $ /usr/sbin/pppd call provider dryrun > > /usr/sbin/pppd: bad local IP address 127.0.0.1 > > $ > > > >

Re: Debian way to make lmsensors working with kernel 2.6 ?

2003-08-12 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I would like to make i2c working with kernel 2.6 to use lmsensors > the problem is that I havent /proc/bus/i2c directory anymore > I read sometimes that I need a /sys directory which is not present > in Debian I can at least tell you that you're probably not going to h

Re: debian mutt questions answered by myself

2003-08-12 Thread Cheryl Homiak
thought i'd explain this in case anybody else wants to try it. You can fetch your mail from your popserver in two ways. You can press c to change mailboxes, then type in pop://popserver (or pops if you have ssl). You can also add in username and port: see formatting in the manual 4.11. I think the

RE: Helping the newbie

2003-08-12 Thread Wendell Cochran
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:35:49 -0400 From: "Jeremy Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thanks to everyone that has answered my questions. My linux requirements are pretty minimal compared to that of desktop users. I pretty much just use apache, perl, php, exim, proftpd, mrtg, iptables for custom packetf

Testing->Unstable question

2003-08-12 Thread moseley
On a laptop I had only sources for stable and testing. I had also just done apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. I then added unstable to sources.list and created apt.conf: laptop:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Default-Release "testing"; APT::Cache-Limit 1000; and then did another apt-get

Alsa Install, VIA VT8235 and ASUS A7V8X-X

2003-08-12 Thread Daniel Reginald Hunt
Re-installing Stable to make this on board sound work. Installed the 2.4.21 kernel from kernel.org source used the "The Very Verbose Guide to Updating and Compiling Your Debian Kernel" Picked up everything from this apt-get.org backport source. deb http://prometheus.psico.unimib.it/debian/ . Ho

Re: hot boxes and power consumption

2003-08-12 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 07:14:58PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Pigeon wrote: > >I'm going to guess that you maybe have more capable motherboards but > >fewer hard drives, and your PSUs are running at around half their > >capacity or a little more, which is good. > > > > No. I have at best a 750MH

Re: Debian Woody, KDE startup does not go past "Peripherals"phase

2003-08-12 Thread Wayne Gemmell
Hi, I have the same problem with my laptop with a similar setup (ATI Mobility 7500 running the vesa driver), a quick question, did you install from the debian site or from the KDE debs? The reason I ask this is that I installed from the KDE site and I've been contemplating removeing all the KDE pac

make-kpkg detects wrong processor type

2003-08-12 Thread Wayne Gemmell
Hi, I'm trying to make my own kernel useing make-kpkg to solve my earlier problems with DMA etc. When I start the first processor family gets answered for me as i386. I run an AMD K7 chip and I would like to compile accordingly. How do I change this default and what possible implications ,if any

Re: Good Debian-based distro

2003-08-12 Thread bob parker
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 19:26, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 02:28:38AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > From: Loren M Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Debian-User Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Good Debian-based distro > > > > You might want to try burning them

Re: Good Debian-based distro

2003-08-12 Thread tallison
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:22:40 -0400 (EDT) > Because Debian is available for nearly ever hardware out there. > http://www.debian.org/ports > > Redhat supports significantly less platforms. > http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/platform/linux/redhat.com/dist/linux/9/en/os/ > shows only i386. They can afford to t

Need LDAP assistance (I've RTFM & HOWTOs)

2003-08-12 Thread Paladin
Hi everyone, I've been trying for some time to change from NIS to LDAP. But, as the first step, I just wanted to use the database backend "PASSWD" to try everything out. After choosing that I needed to install and configure SASL so that I had encryption for the all process. At that time I had to c

Re: Linux logical volume manager - a few questions

2003-08-12 Thread Corey Ralph
Hi Neal, On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 12:50 PM, Neal Lippman wrote: 1) Which lvm package to install? There are two obvious choices, lvm10 and lvm2. While lvm2 is the new rewrite, which is supposedly "stable", it apparently lacks some features and according to the debian.org description of the pa

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at

2003-08-12 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:10:03AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > I hate to have to do this, but I own an apology to Paul Johnson. Apology accepted. Sorry if I laid in kind of hard on my last response to you. > (Having received a mail from a list membe

Re: Kernel version confusion

2003-08-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 09:04:08PM -0500, Tim McDaniel wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you using 'apt-get update' rather than 'dselect update'? If so, > > use the latter instead. It's confusing, granted; the reasons are > > mostly historical. > > Well, ain't that a kick in

Re: make-kpkg ( line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file)

2003-08-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Engosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > Yes, I've got the same errors as you, but no with the 2.6.0-test3 kernel. > Another problem I have is that with the 2.6 kernel I'm not able to make > kernel-nvidia module. And have somebody tried to execute modprobe with the > 2.6 kernel, 'cause I get

Re: Things changing overnight

2003-08-12 Thread David
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 10:47:27PM -0700, Ken Bloom wrote: > Sometime in the past few days, my modem /dev/ttyS4 changed its > permissions from 660 to 640 without my intervention. My first question: > is there any kind of security package on debian that might have done > this as a cronjob? I don'

Re: CD-Writer on Debian Woody

2003-08-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > vinz (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I've tried everything from a tonn of manuals... I still can't get my > > aopen cd-writer to work. is it listed ?? http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private

CD-Writer on Debian Woody

2003-08-12 Thread vinz
I've tried everything from a tonn of manuals... I still can't get my aopen cd-writer to work. and anyone help me please I'm dying here. :D vinz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My xserver crashes once my monitor goes to sleep...

2003-08-12 Thread Damien Solley
Use xscreensaver-demo to control power management for your monitor. If you're using KDE or GNOME, this is available in the preferences section of your main menu. On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 06:04, Jake Johnson wrote: > My xserver crashes once my monitor goes to sleep. Any way to not make it > sleep or

Re: nforce kernel modules

2003-08-12 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:05:43PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 03:22:23PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > > You can try using the i810 alsa module inplace of the nvaudio module > > (at least it works here). > > That's interesting. My friend has an nforce2 mobo, an

One Last Note

2003-08-12 Thread Alan Connor
You have 3 spammers on the list, that I have been able to identify for sure. You can figure it out: They are the ones that spearheaded the opposition against CR. "No!" you say, in shock, "It couldn't be HIM?!" Oh yes it could. And it is. They were the main reason I chose the list for my provoc

Re: CD access prob

2003-08-12 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Richard Lyons (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm feeling perticularly dim today. Having messed up my RH boot while > setting up Debian (Knoppix) on my desktop box, I was about to shrug > and say @so what > - now I'll just have to use the Debian. But one or two bits aren't > working, and I

Re: Hard Drive Going - Need a good backup utility

2003-08-12 Thread R Ransbottom
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 09:47:32PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > if the disk is dying ... doing a full disk backup will probably > kill it completely just as easily as it could keep going a few more > reads/write > mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1 > tar cvf - /dev/hda1 | ( cd /mnt/hdc1 ; tar xvfp - ) > syn

Re: [OT]: TLA ARCH or Subversion ?

2003-08-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 23:12:29 +0200, Xavier Maillard wrote: > I found out 2 possible replacements to it: subversion and tla. > > I just wanted to have feedback on the use of each other by some of you. I've been using Subversion for personal use for almost two months, and it works very well (an

Re: Good Debian-based distro

2003-08-12 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 11:48:14PM -0700, Loren M Lang wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm looking for a good debian-based distro with a good and user friendly > install program. I love debian much better than redhat based distros > mostly for the packaging system, es

Eroaster as user?.

2003-08-12 Thread ZekeVarg
Hi! I'm running debian-sid with eroaster-2.1.0. It works as root but not as a user, I get a error message: Couldn't detect your reader/recorder! Please make sure thet you are root or that you're allowed to read /dev/sg*! I have checked all sg devices under /dev and they are readably for root:use

Drawing a database structure

2003-08-12 Thread Elie De Brauwer
Is there a program in the debian tree (or on the internet ) capable of creating a drawing a database structure (with tables and fields and such), something like dia but with database capabilities. greetings Elie De Brauwer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Let's Put SCO Behind Bars

2003-08-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 08:48, TR wrote: > > Michael, this is very much within the topic. Whoever says that this has not much to > do with Debian is a little blind, or naive. But for sure that person (consciously or > not) is cooperating with the forces trying to break the free sofware movement,

Re: Who owns /dev/dsp?

2003-08-12 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 10:40:05PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 05:21:40PM -0400, Nyc0n wrote: > >> From: Ross Boylan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 4:13 PM > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Cc: Ross Boylan > >> Subject: Who owns /dev/dsp? > >>

Re: Wierd apt-get error?

2003-08-12 Thread Johann Koenig
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 22:08:39 +0200 j2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing x3270 (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList > /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.du.se_debian_dists_uns

Re: Debian Woody, KDE startup does not go past "Peripherals" phase

2003-08-12 Thread Luc Lefebvre
Hi, I have a similar experience with Woody on a laptop. If I turn off the sound daemon I can then get into KDE. In the KDE control center the aRts should be off. This did it for me. Interestingly Knoppix 3.2 recognizes the sound card but fails on modprobe "sound-slot-0". You can go to th

Wierd apt-get error?

2003-08-12 Thread j2
Running a unstable/stable system and i got the below and would apreciate any hints?   cookiemonster:~# apt-get updateHit http://ftp.du.se unstable/main PackagesHit http://ftp.du.se unstable/main Release Hit http://ftp.du.se unstable/non-free Packages    Hit http://ft

Re: Ooops. I've broken my command line.

2003-08-12 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Mark Roach wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 12:01, Kent West wrote: chris harrison wrote: [...] I've been trying to configure my machine (woody) to authenticate with the PDC on the local win2k network, using samba, winbind and pam. Without accounts on the local machine?