Re: keymap

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:08:19PM +0200, Hans Gubitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When I try to reconfigure the broken keymap by > install-keymap /usr/share/.. > I get: > > Warning: cannot access console; > deferring until console is accessible. This is a bug that's appeared in some recent up

Modem strangely answers my phone, when ppp is not connected.

2003-09-06 Thread Alan Davis
When I have killed all pppd, after running poff, when we pick up to answer a phone call, we are getting a modem screech, which we have to physically remove the line to get rid of. I use modem lights to dial in, or alternately pon. Previously, I had configured ppp to "persist" when disconnected; h

Xinerama + triplehead + y = FREEZE; y = ?

2003-09-06 Thread Shaun Crossley
I've got a system with three video cards (all ATIs) running Xinerama, and there are a number of applications which will completely freeze X such that I must do an Alt-SysRq-k to kill all processes on the current virtual terminal in order to return control of the system to me. One such application

Re: Debian Installation Problem

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 05:26:41PM +0800, Nikolai Dobrev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > I try to install Debian 3.1 sorge, but it gaves me that problem : The Sarge installer is experimental and under development. It isn't meant for production use. If you want to install Debian, go to:

Debian HW/Support vendors (was Re: compatibility)

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:18:35AM +0200, J?r?mie MARTIN ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > I want to implement Debian on 6 Intel servers and am looking for > servers that support DEBIAN. I unfortunately do not know who (HP/ IBM/ > NEC???) supports DEBIAN. Could you please help me?? If the quest

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-06 Thread Travis Crump
Vikki Roemer wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:14:02PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: In same directory: dpkg-source -x metalog_0.7beta-3.dsc cd metalog_0.7beta dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot cd .. dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb Ok, I did all that, but when I try to run dpkg -i, I get the

Re: Script help

2003-09-06 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 10:03:09PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > I'm doing a lot of work with a Sharp Zaurus which requires several re-flashes > of the box daily - With my initrd.bin, ssh keys on the Z regenerate with each > flash. As a consequence, my host .ssh/known_hosts is frequently outdated

proftp. Accessing an FTP server

2003-09-06 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I've got proftp running and it works great, in fact perfect inside our company LAN. So, I thought everything was perfect. HA! Outside in the real world, I am able (through a terminal session) to ftp in (login and password checked) but I can't do anything. Here as an example is what happens insi

Re: Script help

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 10:03:09PM -0400, Jeff Elkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm doing a lot of work with a Sharp Zaurus which requires several > re-flashes of the box daily - With my initrd.bin, ssh keys on the Z > regenerate with each flash. As a consequence, my host .ssh/known_hosts > is

Re: How stable is SiD ?

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 11:08:07PM -0400, Johan Kullstam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 1. Report this problem to your video card vendor. I don't care if > > you're CTO of IBM or a one-week-temp and Spam-R-Us or Joe's Internet > > Taco Cafe

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New ATI drivers available

2003-09-06 Thread TR
On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 20:57:59 -0500 "Scott C. Linnenbringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 03:08:11 +0200 (CEST), Roberto Sanchez > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just checked out the ATI website, and they have some new linux > > drivers. The new version is 3.2.5, with versi

Re: Unicode: is it safe to use it ?

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 07:28:36AM +0200, Xavier Maillard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Christophe Courtois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The only problem is to have a nice font to display the message. For > > example, I use Bitstream fonts. > > Hmm, AFAIK, for me, Bitsream has no way to h

apt-get-listchanges/listbugs (was Re: Which release)

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 04:33:32AM -0700, Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 12:46:31 +0200 > "Stefan Waidele jun." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But with debian-unstable the chance of 'getting the workstation hosed' > > during and 'apt-get upgrade' is greater than with d

Re: How stable is SiD ?

2003-09-06 Thread Johan Kullstam
"Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:23:43PM -0400, Johan Kullstam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:27:47PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > > > Can anyone advise on starting to use

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-06 Thread Dave Thayer
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:02:24PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > I've just been given a copy of the Farnell Electronics catalogue CD. > This has the unfortunate design of wanting to install some Windoze > package in order to read the catalogue. > > I suspect that they've used a customised version of some

Re: Why held back? Command ...

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've a bunch of machines on unstable ... one is holding back a lot of stuff on update/upgrade ... is there a command/switch that will tell me what dependency is holding things up? ... I'll just kill it off if it's non critical, as it's holding up postgres, openoffice, php a

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New ATI drivers available

2003-09-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- "Scott C. Linnenbringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 03:08:11 +0200 (CEST), Roberto Sanchez > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just checked out the ATI website, and they have some new linux > > drivers. The new version is 3.2.5, with versions for Xfree86 4.1, 4.2, >

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Vikki Roemer wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:14:02PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: In same directory: dpkg-source -x metalog_0.7beta-3.dsc cd metalog_0.7beta dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot cd .. dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb Ok, I did all that, but when I try to run dpkg -i, I get the f

Re: woody newbie help

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
mnicolet wrote: Hello I am a newbie to Linux, but not to the *NIX world. I allways tried Debian distros. But I had no time to go too far. Now I installed woody ( bf2.4 ). All went ok exception of 1) My Debian box has a generic two button serial mouse. Using some utility ( don´t remember which one )

Re: dpkg fails after removing some packages

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hello, i reinstalled a local broken server using my own desktop backups. It's a mixed testing/unstable system. All went well but when i tried to remove some packages, something went wrong with dpkg. It seems linked to base-files. dpkg is version 1.10.10, base-files 3.0.10

Re: dynamic dns IP assignment from behind router

2003-09-06 Thread Dave Thayer
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:44:24AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:42:11PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > > there's some serious problem with my setup. > > Yup. You've exceeded the functionality of what that little barricade > router can do. Time to get a 486 or Pentium with

Re: How stable is SiD ?

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Johan Kullstam wrote: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:27:47PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: Can anyone advise on starting to use SiD as resource for my Debian Workstation ? Doesn't it have to many issues left open, broken dependencies etc. If you have to ask, s

Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Russ Cook wrote: Russell, The sources.list file was OK, but it referenced a local mirror for apt-move, which wasn't valid yet. I corrected that, and ran 'apt-get update' again, and then ran apt-get install -t testing zope, as you recommend. Attached is that script file. The errors are essentia

Script help

2003-09-06 Thread Jeff Elkins
I'm doing a lot of work with a Sharp Zaurus which requires several re-flashes of the box daily - With my initrd.bin, ssh keys on the Z regenerate with each flash. As a consequence, my host .ssh/known_hosts is frequently outdated and I must edit it to remove references to z,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. I'd

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New ATI drivers available

2003-09-06 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 03:08:11 +0200 (CEST), Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just checked out the ATI website, and they have some new linux > drivers. The new version is 3.2.5, with versions for Xfree86 4.1, 4.2, > and 4.3. I just installed the drivers and built the new kernel > modu

Why held back? Command ...

2003-09-06 Thread hank
I've a bunch of machines on unstable ... one is holding back a lot of stuff on update/upgrade ... is there a command/switch that will tell me what dependency is holding things up? ... I'll just kill it off if it's non critical, as it's holding up postgres, openoffice, php and a bunch of other stuff

Re: Xserver follow-up + thanks!

2003-09-06 Thread Kent West
J Y wrote: I still have an inability to connect to the internet with debian. I can't manually enter my modems port which is /dev/ttyS4. Some of the other distro let me do that. I know this port is not standard, but I didn't know that when I built/put together this computer. You don't mention what

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-06 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:14:02PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: > > In same directory: > > dpkg-source -x metalog_0.7beta-3.dsc > cd metalog_0.7beta > dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot > cd .. > dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb Ok, I did all that, but when I try to run dpkg -i, I get the foll

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:28:33AM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 03:57:23AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:02:24PM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I've just been given a copy of the Farnell Electronics catalogue CD. >

Re: How stable is SiD ?

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:23:43PM -0400, Johan Kullstam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:27:47PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > > Can anyone advise on starting to use SiD as resource for my Debian > > > Workstation ? Doesn't

[ANNOUNCE] New ATI drivers available

2003-09-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I just checked out the ATI website, and they have some new linux drivers. The new version is 3.2.5, with versions for Xfree86 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3. I just installed the drivers and built the new kernel module, and I can already see that things have improved (no more segfaults when running fgl_glxgear

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-06 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 03:57:23AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:02:24PM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've just been given a copy of the Farnell Electronics catalogue CD. > > This has the unfortunate design of wanting to install some Windoze > > package

Re: woody newbie help

2003-09-06 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 06:10:32PM -0300, mnicolet wrote: > Hello > I am a newbie to Linux, but not to the *NIX world. I allways tried Debian > distros. But I had no time to go too far. > Now I installed woody ( bf2.4 ). All went ok exception of > > 1) My Debian box has a generic two button serial

Solved: centrino: changing cpu freq

2003-09-06 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Don't know why, but I had to reboot to let cpufreqd + cpudynd work... now it works fine ;) Es Dissabte 06 Setembre 2003 19:19, en Joan Tur va escriure: > Hallo! > > I've purchased an Acer TM290, installed sid, downloade and installed > vanilla kern

Re: dhcp/ethernet question

2003-09-06 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 09:11:47AM -0700, Alice Pinard wrote: > hi, I'm trying to set up a firewall to connect to my cable modem ISP > (comcast) using DHCP ... > I am getting a 'weirdness' and I'm not sure if it's on the DHCP end or the > ethernet end. > > Basically if I do an ifconfig the etherne

IRQ pileup

2003-09-06 Thread Nathan Malmberg
Debian Users, I sent a similar message a few days back, but I don't believe it was ever posted to the list. A second effort... I've been trying to use my PCMCIA wireless network card on my laptop, but whenever I insert the card, I get the message: orinoco_cs: RequestIRQ: Resource in use I thin

xf86 3.0, i845, no go

2003-09-06 Thread Joe Paxton
I am using the vesa driver of XFree86 3.0 from experimental with i845 chipset; when doing 'startx', one of two things occurs: either the server aborts, giving a "no screens found" error, or else multiple lines and dots of various colors appear on the screen and the machine locks. I have used debco

Re: Similar app for Disk Catalog?

2003-09-06 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030907] [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's this handly tool: > http://www.rob.cybercomm.nl/diskcat/index.html > I found for windows, is there an app similar to this? It basically scans > cd's, directories for filenames/directories and catalogs them, it then > saves the datab

Re: mutt: thread reconstruction?

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:49:55AM -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:05:37PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > OK, is there a way to do this in bulk, in a way other than simply > > tagging all messages with a common subject as being threaded replies , > > o

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 09:46:32AM -0500, Todd Pytel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 06:36:56 +0100 > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Waddyaknow (not much, you?). PLIP works. Sorta. > > > > I get some long periods of timeout, but currently have an ssh session

File blocked - ScanMail for Lotus Notes --> Thank you! (One or more files where removed from this message)

2003-09-06 Thread USCSTMS01/US/CSG
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File blocked - ScanMail for Lotus Notes --> Thank you!

2003-09-06 Thread USCSTHB01/US/CSG
An attachment was removed from your e-mail due to mail restrictions. Date: 09/06/2003 06:27:16 PM Subject: Thank you! Virus: Blocked; File: your_document.pif From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@CSGEXT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bcc:Mark White Action: Blocked; Scanned by ScanMail for Lotus Not

Re: woody newbie help

2003-09-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- mnicolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hello > I am a newbie to Linux, but not to the *NIX world. I allways tried Debian > distros. But I had no time to go too far. > Now I installed woody ( bf2.4 ). All went ok exception of > Welcome back. > 1) My Debian box has a generic two button ser

Re: insmod tun fails. modprobe tun succeeds.

2003-09-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > # insmod tun > Can't open 'tun': No such file or directory > # lsmod |grep tun > # modprobe tun > # lsmod |grep tun > tun 7776 0 > > And /dev/net/tun do exists. > > Am I doing something wrong or is i

Re: alsa modules for kernel 2.4.21

2003-09-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Antonio Rodr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Are there any alsa modules for kernel 2.4.21? $ apt-cache search alsa-module alsa-modules-2.4.20-3-386 - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (drivers) alsa-modules-2.4.20-3-586tsc - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (drivers) alsa-modules-2.4.20-3-6

btc webcam and its app not work, please help

2003-09-06 Thread eric lin
Dear Linux users: I had a btc webcam, I try using gnomemeeting(come with rh9 default), it fail on both audio and video, my onboard ac 97 sound it work fine when I test it in install rh9 process camorama, from video4linux.net and http://camorama.fixedgear.org/, it response Cound not connect

Re: AOL!=USA - was (no subject)

2003-09-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 15:46, Katipo wrote: > On Saturday 06 September 2003 11:14, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 17:10, Katipo wrote: > > > On Saturday 06 September 2003 02:26, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 04:18, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote: > > > > > Paul Johnson wr

Re: Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 05:24, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 04:44:56AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > H, I wonder where diesel oil comes from? Ooo, ooo, I know! > > Diesel oil comes from the Diesel Oil Fairy, who comes around p

Re: Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 11:36, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 03:24:38AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 04:44:56AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > I think Ron's point was, though, that the people in the Hindenburg may > not necessarily have agreed that burning up i

Re: (no subject)

2003-09-06 Thread csj
At Sat, 6 Sep 2003 01:48:48 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 05:51:50AM +0800, Katipo wrote: > > Definitely Windows. > > Why do AOLers think this is the place to get help with their > broken-ass OS? AOL Windows? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: When is the time set to local time?

2003-09-06 Thread John Hasler
Hugo writes: > Is there something else I can look at to find out what is happening? Check /etc/default/rcS. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Unicode: is it safe to use it ?

2003-09-06 Thread Xavier Maillard
Christophe Courtois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Vendredi 22 Août 2003 00:08, Alex Malinovich a déclamé : > > Assuming you're exchanging messages with friends who have French, > > Japanese, and English fonts installed, and that their mailers > > support Unicode, you'll obviously have no pr

Re: libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 error when running gdeskcal

2003-09-06 Thread James Strandboge
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 13:42, Pim Bliek wrote: > Hi, > > I installed gdeskcal using apt-get (off course i first did an update, > upgrade). When I try to run it, I get the following error: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/gdeskcal", line 8, in ? > import gtk > File "/

Re: lpd doesn't work

2003-09-06 Thread Frank Hrebabetzky
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Jason Chambers wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 09:26:35PM -0300, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Christoph Simon wrote: > > > > > lpd certainly does work. I don't know printtool though. You can `prove > > > that, tracing it down. E.g., if you replace if=XX by

woody newbie help

2003-09-06 Thread mnicolet
Hello I am a newbie to Linux, but not to the *NIX world. I allways tried Debian distros. But I had no time to go too far. Now I installed woody ( bf2.4 ). All went ok exception of 1) My Debian box has a generic two button serial mouse. Using some utility ( don´t remember which one ), the mouse is

Re: How stable is SiD ?

2003-09-06 Thread Joris
Johan Kullstam verraste ons met de boodschap: > Perhaps his video card isn't supported with the woody shipped xfree86? > That's why I went straight for sid last August. (ATI Radeon 8500 > needs 4.2.1.) At work I just got some crap corporate box with i845g > graphics. I need xfree86 4.3. Please

Re: Problems with SSH and X11

2003-09-06 Thread Mariano Kamp
Silly me. After running xhost .. even those last problems vanished... On Saturday 06 September 2003 18:28, Mariano Kamp wrote: > Hi Christophe, > > thanks for taking the time. > > I double checked the syntax with the man pages and I believe I already > set it up this way ... with no success. >

Re: Dual Parallel Ports and a PLX 9052 chip

2003-09-06 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 01:24:51AM -0400, Jody Grafals wrote: > I just bought cheepy PCI dual Parallel Port card with a PLX 9052 chip > for my home linux server so I can add a second printer and a Old school > Connectix Web Cam but I can not get it working. I already have a Zip > drive and a pri

Re: (no subject)

2003-09-06 Thread Katipo
On Saturday 06 September 2003 16:48, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 05:51:50AM +0800, Katipo wrote: > > Definitely Windows. > > Why do AOLers think this is the place to get help with their > broken-ass OS? This person is French, and appears to be new on the net. I had a communicatio

Re: AOL!=USA - was (no subject)

2003-09-06 Thread Katipo
On Saturday 06 September 2003 11:14, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 17:10, Katipo wrote: > > On Saturday 06 September 2003 02:26, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 04:18, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote: > > > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > [...] > > > > > First, since you're on

insmod tun fails. modprobe tun succeeds.

2003-09-06 Thread Shaul Karl
# insmod tun Can't open 'tun': No such file or directory # lsmod |grep tun # modprobe tun # lsmod |grep tun tun 7776 0 And /dev/net/tun do exists. Am I doing something wrong or is it a bug? -- Shaul Karl,shaulk @ actcom . net . il --

dpkg fails after removing some packages

2003-09-06 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hello, i reinstalled a local broken server using my own desktop backups. It's a mixed testing/unstable system. All went well but when i tried to remove some packages, something went wrong with dpkg. It seems linked to base-files. dpkg is version 1.10.10, base-files 3.0.10 This is what happens when

keymap

2003-09-06 Thread Nacho de los Ríos Tormo
> When I try to reconfigure the broken keymap by > install-keymap /usr/share/.. > I get: > > Warning: cannot access console; > deferring until console is accessible. Same thing happens to me in my Knoppix hard disk installation: I had the spanish map working fine, then one day after an apt-get

When is the time set to local time?

2003-09-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I think this subject has been beaten to death, but... I set /etc/localtime to point to /usr/share/zoneinfo/SystemV/CST6CDT, I set /etc/timezone to say "SystemV/CST6CDT" and I install chrony (or ntpdate) and they promptly set the clock to GMT, 7 hours ahead. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Clock.ht

alsa modules for kernel 2.4.21

2003-09-06 Thread Antonio Rodr
Are there any alsa modules for kernel 2.4.21? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to tell apt-get or dpkg to forget about a package?

2003-09-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
I thought too about hold... So I did set the package to hold, has no effect: I apt-get install he gets and first tries to reinstall the kernel-package again, when I Ctrl-c out of that, he installs . May be I'll try the developers group. Thanks!! Hugo. __ Do yo

Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

2003-09-06 Thread Russ Cook
Russell, The sources.list file was OK, but it referenced a local mirror for apt-move, which wasn't valid yet. I corrected that, and ran 'apt-get update' again, and then ran apt-get install -t testing zope, as you recommend. Attached is that script file. The errors are essentially the same. Can

Re: Similar app for Disk Catalog?

2003-09-06 Thread desiderata
On 10:18 Sat 06 Sep?, Dave Carrigan wrote: > On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 06:16:03AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > There's this handly tool: > > http://www.rob.cybercomm.nl/diskcat/index.html > > I found for windows, is there an app similar to this? It basically scans > > cd's, directories for

eTrust Antivirus Lotus Notes Domino Option detected virus!

2003-09-06 Thread eTrust Antivirus Lotus Notes Domino Option
eTrust Antivirus Lotus Notes Domino Option detected a virus infection in an e-mail from [<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject [* MAYBE SPAM * Re: That movie]. Infected attachment(s): [document_9446.pif] Action taken: File Deleted -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Problems with Promise PDC 20265 raid on ASUS Motherboard

2003-09-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > If your RAID HW controller was a top-notch one, with lots of buffers and a > proper HW engine... maybe. But el-cheap-o Promise PDC20265 is worth very > little (I have an Asus A7V with a PDC20265. I talk from experience). > > Th

Re: Which release

2003-09-06 Thread Geordie Birch
Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06 Sep 2003 14:09 +0200]: > > Very good advice, I'd only add to read debian-devel list before > upgrading packages. The topic of #debian-devel on irc.freenode.net is a good place to check for unstable upgrade warnings and is much easier to scan than -devel. Geo

POSIX spec (was: Linux permissions and which(1))

2003-09-06 Thread moseley
Ok, I'm seeing different behavior with differnet shells and different operating systems. I've tried looking for the POSIX spec to see the correct behavior but not having much luck with my googling skills today. Anyone know where to look up the POSIX spec on how a shell is suppose to use the PAT

Re: Problems with Promise PDC 20265 raid on ASUS Motherboard

2003-09-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 06 Sep 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Don't use PDC20265 RAID. Instead, use software RAID1. It is much faster. > > And safer, probably. > > How is that possible? The point of the hardware RAID is to hide the For reading operations, the OS can do simultaneous reads of different data fro

Re: Verizon DSL success?

2003-09-06 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sat, September 06 at 8:10 AM EDT Michael Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Has anyone had success getting Verizon DSL to work? I did the setup in >Windows :( and then rebooted to try w/ Linux. I am running Woody, >pppoe, and I ran through the pppoeconf setup. Been doing it for 2 years with r

Re: Similar app for Disk Catalog?

2003-09-06 Thread desiderata
On 10:31 Sun 07 Sep?, elijah wrote: > On 15:42 Sat 06 Sep?, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Something like this (using PostgreSQL)? > > > > $ psql -d mydatabase -c "CREATE TABLE diskcat (directory text not null, > > file text not null, primary key (directory, file))" > > > > $ for f in `find mydirector

Re: Problems with Promise PDC 20265 raid on ASUS Motherboard

2003-09-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On Sun, 07 Sep 2003, Darryl Barlow wrote: > > controllers, but using the ide=reverse option does not help. Any ideas > > welcome. > > Don't use PDC20265 RAID. Instead, use software RAID1. It is much faster. > And safer, probably.

[LONG] Re: Problems with Promise PDC 20265 raid on ASUS Motherboard

2003-09-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Darryl Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I have this working well using the 2.4.18bf24 kernel. However, it fails on > both 2.4.20 and 2.4.21 kernels with the message unable to mount root fs. > This is the case even when the later kernels are compiled with the same > options as the w

Re: Problems with Promise PDC 20265 raid on ASUS Motherboard

2003-09-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 07 Sep 2003, Darryl Barlow wrote: > controllers, but using the ide=reverse option does not help. Any ideas > welcome. Don't use PDC20265 RAID. Instead, use software RAID1. It is much faster. And safer, probably. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring

libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 error when running gdeskcal

2003-09-06 Thread Pim Bliek
Hi, I installed gdeskcal using apt-get (off course i first did an update, upgrade). When I try to run it, I get the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/gdeskcal", line 8, in ? import gtk File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 4

Re: /home partition

2003-09-06 Thread alex
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:36:31AM -0400, alex wrote: I opted for a separate partition (hda2) for /home during the installation of Debian and it was duly formatted. However, the partition doesn't seem to be as performing as a /h

Problems with Promise PDC 20265 raid on ASUS Motherboard

2003-09-06 Thread Darryl Barlow
I have this working well using the 2.4.18bf24 kernel. However, it fails on both 2.4.20 and 2.4.21 kernels with the message unable to mount root fs. This is the case even when the later kernels are compiled with the same options as the working 2.4.18 kernel. A Google search reveals that there

Re: How stable is SiD ?

2003-09-06 Thread Johan Kullstam
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:27:47PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > Can anyone advise on starting to use SiD as resource for my Debian > > Workstation ? Doesn't it have to many issues left open, broken > > dependencies etc. > > If you have to ask, sid i

Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Russ Cook wrote: Russell, I did as you suggested, but it made no difference in the errors I received. I scripted the output of apt-get, which I have compressed and attached. Can you make sense of this? The errors seem to occur in /usr/lib/python1.5/* and /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/* Thanks for a

Re: Wheel mouse with mutt

2003-09-06 Thread Michael D Schleif
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:09:05:18:26:05-0700] scribed: > Trying to get the mouse wheel to work in the Mutt pager or index > screens. > > I found a few google hits on the subject but I can't make it work. > > > .Xdefaults: > >mutt.vt100.translations: #override \n\ >

Re: Linux permissions and which(1)

2003-09-06 Thread moseley
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:55:35PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > See it again... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/which-2.14$ which foo > /usr/bin/foo > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/which-2.14$ bash -c foo > foo in /usr/bin > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/which-2.14$ foo > bash: /usr/local/bin/foo: Permission denied A

To centrino owners: changing cpu freq

2003-09-06 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I've purchased an Acer TM290, installed sid, downloade and installed vanilla kernel 2.4.22 and 2.4.22-ac1 patch (containing cpufreq support for centrino), and... ...theoretically I can switch among the following cpu speeds: - - [EMAIL PR

Re: Similar app for Disk Catalog?

2003-09-06 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 06:16:03AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There's this handly tool: > http://www.rob.cybercomm.nl/diskcat/index.html > I found for windows, is there an app similar to this? It basically scans > cd's, directories for filenames/directories and catalogs them, it then > save

Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

2003-09-06 Thread Russ Cook
Russell, I did as you suggested, but it made no difference in the errors I received. I scripted the output of apt-get, which I have compressed and attached. Can you make sense of this? The errors seem to occur in /usr/lib/python1.5/* and /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/* Thanks for any additional sug

Re: Emacs not creating cvs backups

2003-09-06 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El sábado, 6 de septiembre de 2003, a las 12:36, Bijan Soleymani escribe: > So it would seem that this feature of making local backups is only > enabled for remote repositories. I checked that. Indeed, having a local repository, it seems obvious that backups are not needed. I only wanted to feel

Re: pwc webcam freeze: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout

2003-09-06 Thread Niels L. Ellegaard
Nicolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > pwc44748 1 (autoclean) > > usb-ohci 20040 0 (unused) > > The problem is right there, pwc and ohci don't realy like each > other. I have the same camera as you. I used a OHCI computer with > motion and it always stop

Re: Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-06 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 03:24:38AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 04:44:56AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > And poorly maintained diesel engines burn soo much cleaner than > > gasoline engines, why it just takes my breath away! > > A poorly maintained diesel still runs cl

Re: Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-06 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 12:38:48AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:53:53PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > Well, it does sound like they have much bigger engines than what they > > replace. > > Not really, they sound like they're the identical engine. The > difference is hydrauli

Re: Wheel mouse with mutt

2003-09-06 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 06:26:05PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > Trying to get the mouse wheel to work in the Mutt pager or index > screens. > > I found a few google hits on the subject but I can't make it work. > > > .Xdefaults: > >mutt.vt100.translations: #override \n\ > None

Re: Problems with SSH and X11

2003-09-06 Thread Mariano Kamp
Hi Colin, Ismael, thanks very much for the help ... I can see progress now. > I bet you don't have xbase-clients installed on the remote system. Yeah, the settings of the DISPLAY variable works fine now. rock:~# xterm Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAG

Re: how to fix broken package

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Shaw wrote: john john wrote: Hi, I messed up my xserver-xfree86 package. I had already installed this package and then I had some X driver issues so I went into the directories, and deleted a couple of files ie. /usr/X11R6/lib/modules stuff. You probably broke another package. dpkg -S

Re: dhcp/ethernet question

2003-09-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Alice Pinard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > hi, I'm trying to set up a firewall to connect to my cable modem ISP > (comcast) using DHCP > > I've got a 3c905 ethernet card and I've got the 3c59x module running. I've > got the auto eth0 and iface eth0 inet dhcp lines in the > /etc/network/int

Re: Emacs not creating cvs backups

2003-09-06 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 12:05:00PM +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > Hi, > > Using my office computer, while editing files checked out a remote > pserver repository, emacs is working as expected, that is, backups are > created appending the current repository version as extension, > somethi

Re: Problems with SSH and X11

2003-09-06 Thread Mariano Kamp
Hi Christophe, thanks for taking the time. I double checked the syntax with the man pages and I believe I already set it up this way ... with no success. black:/etc/ssh# grep orward * ssh_config:ForwardAgent yes ssh_config:ForwardX11 yes sshd_config:X11Forwarding yes rock:/etc/ssh#

Re: how to fix broken package

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
john john wrote: Hi, I messed up my xserver-xfree86 package. I had already installed this package and then I had some X driver issues so I went into the directories, and deleted a couple of files ie. /usr/X11R6/lib/modules stuff. You probably broke another package. dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/lib/modules

dhcp/ethernet question

2003-09-06 Thread Alice Pinard
hi, I'm trying to set up a firewall to connect to my cable modem ISP (comcast) using DHCP I've got a 3c905 ethernet card and I've got the 3c59x module running. I've got the auto eth0 and iface eth0 inet dhcp lines in the /etc/network/interfaces file. The ethernet cable is plugged in on both ends,

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