GNUPG: down from v1.2.0 to v1.0.6

2003-09-16 Thread Abdul Latip
Hi, Since I have less clue on keeping the pace of SARGE, I have down-graded back to WOODY. The problem is that the GNUPG keys made by version 1.2.0 can not be read by version 1.0.6. May I know, if there is a quick and dirty way to convert? regards, -- Abdul Latip -- Junior Staff -- Angkasa In

Re: debian package install problem

2003-09-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 03:43:13PM -0700, gerald simpkin wrote: > I am a new user of Debian. I have the operating system installed but > due to some difficulties cannot seem able to install packages. At > install when I use apt it starts okay but then I get a configuration > error in configuring Bi

Re: OT: email style flames, was: Can't mount cdrom

2003-09-16 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Arnt Karlsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030916 19:44]: > > Since we're all picking on each other's email styles; Arnt, what's up > > with all the ellipses? (Been wanting to ask that for a while :-) ) "ellipses" is the plural of "ellipsis". An ellipsis a punctuation mark used to denote an omission, wr

Help! FATAL: kernel too old

2003-09-16 Thread David A. Greene
Hi folks, I think I have a hosed machine but maybe someone here is smart enough to recover it. I dusted off an old 2.0.x machine and decided to upgrade its Debian install (I believe it was running pre-potato install). Anyway, the first thing I did was upgrade libc6, libstdc++ and apt to the woody

Re: Pinning question

2003-09-16 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:06:48 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote: > ... > No, I installed woody's apt, and apt-utils first, as I did read that > potato's apt didn't do pinning. > > You're right though, I'm don't think I'll bother with a mixed system, > too much hassle. One thing I know will work fine, is us

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian?

2003-09-16 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Kevin McKinley wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 00:46:41 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's possible that this is caused by the substantial divergence between testing and unstable due to glibc 2.3.2 over the last month or so. 6.5Gb kind of shocks me, but it's a possibility. The b

Which FS to use ?

2003-09-16 Thread Willem . Smit
Hey guys (are there any girls on this list - hmm) Which filesystem would you recommend for a biggish (10 gig) partition ? At the moment I'm using Ext2fs and I really have to use something else, it's just way to slow. So should i use Reiser or Ext3fs ? Or is there maybe another fs I can use ? Wille

Re: Verisign and spam blocking

2003-09-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 10:51:11AM -0700, Bill Moseley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sorry if this is old news. > > One more reason not to like Verisign: > > http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/16/0034210.shtml?tid=126&tid=95&tid=98&tid=99 > > So Verisign added DNS wildcards for .com and .net -- N

Re: Intel 10/100 VE and eepro100

2003-09-16 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unfortunately, I tried 2.4bf with no luck. It includes eepro100, which > fails, but not e100 (as far as I could tell). I used the information on this webpage to do a net install from my desktop. I needed drivers that weren't in the 2.4bf kernel: http:

Re: Not impressed with 2.6.0-test2 so far...

2003-09-16 Thread Willem . Smit
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 22:11, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:07:38PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > > I'm wondering if anyone has gotten 2.6.0-test2 compiled and runnign at > > all 2.6.0-test2/4/5 was the only kernels i actually could get my system running on after i installed

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian (Mirror)?

2003-09-16 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Kevin McKinley wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:51:35 -0600 Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: du -hs debian 15G debian One of us does unless another 6.5 GB has been added in the last two days. I use to be closer to 10GB, and as of last Saturday morning I am up to 15GB. (I mirror once

Re: Computer won't boot without video cable

2003-09-16 Thread Brian Nelson
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why not just pull out the video card? Because I thought for sure it wouldn't work without it. Surprisingly (to me, anyway), it works fine without it. Thanks for the tip. -- I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. pgp0

Re: Not impressed with 2.6.0-test2 so far...

2003-09-16 Thread Christopher Swingley
Greetings, * Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Sep-16 19:17 AKDT]: > Unfortunately, it's a bit hard to provide full details because, as I > outlined above, I cannot even get a system working well enough to log in > and review dmesg. Does it get far enough to log messages to /var/log/kern.log

Re: Pinning question

2003-09-16 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Ryan Walters wrote: The reason, is that I have an old laptop that runs perfectly well in X with potato. The minute I upgrade to a later distribution, X is completely not usable no matter what window manager I choose. However, running potato by itself means I can't run most of the software out the

Re: libc broken?

2003-09-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 07:03:45AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 03:14:57PM -0300, Raul Montagne wrote: > > and upgrading "some" libraries, one of the libraries was libc6... > > and was not completely upgradedit might be broken giving as a result > > an useless linux installati

Re: NIS problem

2003-09-16 Thread Ernest Johanson
Try editing your /etc/nsswitch.conf file, changing the entry for passwd and group to "files nis" instead of "compat". Ernest Johanson Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Xavier Andrade wrote: > Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:51:01 -0400 (CLT) > From: Xavier Andrad

Re: JAVA

2003-09-16 Thread Jacob Anawalt
setty wrote: get a error dealing with (application/x-java-vm) that can only be viewed with the appropriate plugin..?? i have the java 1.4.2 run time installed abd i am running Sid Is this Java 1.4.2 runtime environment from Sun, something related to the ibm-jdk1.1-installer package you talk

Re: command line workspace switch

2003-09-16 Thread Neo
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 02:30, David Z Maze wrote: > Neo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > anybody know of a way to switch workspaces in gnome/ any > > windowmanager? (on Debian of course ;-) ) > > > > Background: I want a central monitoring station in a 24x7 monitoring > > environment to cycle auto

Re: CUPS insisting on completing print job

2003-09-16 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 12:00:23PM -0700, Deryk Barker wrote: > I'm running woody with CUPs controlling an Epson C82. > > Problem: while configuring and testing a PDF converter in Open Office > I accidentally sent a raw pdf file to the printer. 200+KB... > > And here is where the problem starts:

Connecting to ntl:home UK with Debian

2003-09-16 Thread Pigeon
A friend of mine is two network cables away from being able to install a firewall for his Windoze box. I shall be setting this up, using Debian of course. He has an ntl:home "broadband" (150kbps) connection via a cable modem whose external interface is via coax and connects to the PC either by eth

Re: Is gdm in sid broken?

2003-09-16 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: Hi, Is gdm broken in sid? I couldn't get it to upgrade. It still works though. Infact I think it was a bit faster (maybe just a placebo) So is gdm being "held back"? Do you know what dependancy is missing on your system? What tool are you using to upgrade with? I ha

Re: Teergrubing (Was: Bouncing emails via procmail)

2003-09-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 03:22:05AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Speaking of teergrubing has anyone come up with a method of doing so with > exiscan-acl in Exim4? Now that Andreas compiled it in I'm considering moving > SA processing from sa-exim to exiscan-acl. I can get the temp and permanent

Re: No sourcing of ~/.profile at login

2003-09-16 Thread Daniel B.
Paul Smith wrote: > > .. If you're using a graphical login manager like GDM or > XDM, then these methods of login never actually invoke a login shell, Why not? (Why shouldn't logging in via GDM execute your login-time shell initialization?) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To U

debian package install problem

2003-09-16 Thread gerald simpkin
I am a new user of Debian. I have the operating system installed but due to some difficulties cannot seem able to install packages. At install when I use apt it starts okay but then I get a configuration error in configuring Binutils . I do not need to tell you how important this feature is. It ret

failed upgrade to unstable... libxrender1

2003-09-16 Thread Michael Kahle
Hello, I am getting an error when upgrading my distribution to unstable... dpkg-divert: 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender-1.1.so.1 by libxrender1' clashes with 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to /usr/share/libxrender1.1/diversions/libXrender.so

Re: Pinning question

2003-09-16 Thread Ryan Walters
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:21:29 +0100, you wrote: >On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:00:11 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:29:49 +0100, you wrote: >> >> >On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:24:54 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote: >> >> Hi, I've been trying to figure this out for a few days now, and can't >> >>

Re: lilo problem

2003-09-16 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 16 September 2003 07:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 15:03, Michael Bellears wrote: > > > > Ensure that /vmlinuz exists. > > > > > > It does on /dev/hdc8 > > > > Please show the output of mount. > > No output. It mou

Re: Network Rail - UK business opportunity for the Debian Community

2003-09-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 01:47:58 +0100, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On (17/09/03 02:14), Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:23:14 +0100, > > > On (15/09/03 22:51), Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > .Shri's NetRail list announcement should come any

Re: Sources.list

2003-09-16 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 16 September 2003 08:25 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: > Would someone send me a copy of their sources.list? Mine is missing > a few on update and want to try some known good sources. > > Thanks There is a program that will build a sources.list

RE: lilo problem

2003-09-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 15:03, Michael Bellears wrote: > > > > > > Ensure that /vmlinuz exists. > > > > It does on /dev/hdc8 > > Please show the output of mount. No output. It mounts without any problems, I am currently chrooted into it. Thanks for trying to find a solution :) -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Not impressed with 2.6.0-test2 so far...

2003-09-16 Thread Neal Lippman
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 22:11, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:07:38PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > > I'm wondering if anyone has gotten 2.6.0-test2 compiled and runnign at > > all > > Of course; tons of people are running it. It's what I use for most of > my daily work. My lap

RE: lilo problem

2003-09-16 Thread Michael Bellears
> > > > Ensure that /vmlinuz exists. > > It does on /dev/hdc8 Please show the output of mount. MB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: lilo problem

2003-09-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Ensure that /vmlinuz exists. It does on /dev/hdc8 I imagine that /vmlinuz exists on all debian installs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: lilo problem

2003-09-16 Thread Michael Bellears
> Fatal: open /vmlinuz: No such file or directory > image=/vmlinuz ^^ > label="Debian" > root=/dev/hdc8 > boot=/dev/hdc8 > install=/boot/boot.b > map=/boot/map > read-only > > What should I do? Pretty self expl

lilo problem

2003-09-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I have installed debain (woody) next to my current dist (mandrake 9.1). I added entries to mandrakes lilo.conf so that I could boot both debian and mandrake, I am sick of mandrake and want to completely switch to debian. I get the following error message when running lilo (on mandrake): Adde

OT: email style flames, was: Can't mount cdrom

2003-09-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On 16 Sep 2003 20:30:29 -0400, Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 10:12, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 10:17:49 +0100, "Chris Wilcox" wrote > [...] > > > On a side note, I would personally find it a tad nicer if your > > > r

Re: Am I ready for the internet?

2003-09-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:19:08 +0200 (CEST), Jimmy Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > * Jimmy Johansson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030915 09:43]: > > > Hello, I'm just wondering if I am ready for the internet? > >

Re: Not impressed with 2.6.0-test2 so far...

2003-09-16 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:07:38PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone has gotten 2.6.0-test2 compiled and runnign at > all Of course; tons of people are running it. It's what I use for most of my daily work. My laptop, alas, is a little unstable under 2.6, but two other compute

Installing nvidia driver ; Detecting ethernet card with new kernel

2003-09-16 Thread Shriram Ramanathan
Hi, I just installed woody. The installation discs installed kernel 2.2.20-compact. I have been struggling with installing the nvidia Riva TNT-2 driver. I downloaded the package "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run" from the nvidia site. I tried the following steps : 1) As per instructions, I

Re: NIS problem

2003-09-16 Thread Rishikesh
Thanks for your replies. I made the following changes and it worked. added ypserver in yp.conf I changed 192.168.2.31/255.255.255.0 to 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0 in hosts.allow The second step was neccessary although logically both are equivalent. Rishi * Ernest Johanson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [0

Re: Not impressed with 2.6.0-test2 so far...

2003-09-16 Thread daniel
Neal Lippman wrote: Well, so far I'm less than impressed with 2.6.0-test2. Specifically, although I have installed both the source and run several compiles, as well as the pre-compiled kernel-image version, I have yet to get a running and working 2.6.0. The precompiled package in testing doesn't wo

Re: Sound capture via fake driver

2003-09-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 07:57:57AM +0800, csj wrote: > Why not try mplayer? Because it doesn't work well with streaming stuff in general and never with RealAudio, on my system. > If the url's plain http://, wget. Will wget work with rtsp streams? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xfree86 security update overwrites XF86Config-4

2003-09-16 Thread Mike Mueller
On Monday 15 September 2003 16:47, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Matthias Czapla wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I just want to say... ARRRGHHH! > > since X11 is sometimes messy always do: > root# cp -p /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.works > root# cp -p /etc/X11/XF86C

RE: Q: Oracle vs Debian?

2003-09-16 Thread Joyce, Matthew
"very high volume, very low signal," Much like this thread has become. The first 3 posts were useful, the other 7 (8) were totally off topic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Not impressed with 2.6.0-test2 so far...

2003-09-16 Thread Neal Lippman
Well, so far I'm less than impressed with 2.6.0-test2. Specifically, although I have installed both the source and run several compiles, as well as the pre-compiled kernel-image version, I have yet to get a running and working 2.6.0. The precompiled package in testing doesn't work at all; after

Re: Sources.list

2003-09-16 Thread daniel
Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 12:25, Trey Sizemore wrote: Would someone send me a copy of their sources.list? Mine is missing a few on update and want to try some known good sources. Thanks http://www.gregfolkert.net/files/sources.list My suggestion is you use apt-setup t

Re: DVD RW on Debian

2003-09-16 Thread csj
At Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:18:09 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:58:12PM -0500, wsykes.lists wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a good internal or external DVD RW drive > > i could use with Debian? > > The Panasonic drives are always a good bet. I have a A05 in my > main box wi

Re: Sound capture via fake driver

2003-09-16 Thread csj
At Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:40:44 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > I remember, sometime last year, using a replacement sound > module to capture streaming audio to a file. It worked quite > well. > > Then I didn't have to do it for over six months and completely > forgot what the program was called. > >

Re: sed, bash script

2003-09-16 Thread csj
At Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:08:51 +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 07:39:39AM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > > Hi, I would like to run all of the files in some directories > > through sed, in order to edit the files. I can do it for > > individual files by typing: cat filename|sed c

Re: gdm/desktop password protected shutdown

2003-09-16 Thread csj
At Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:34:42 -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: [...] > The last couple of weeks have been full of updates to packages > in Sid, thanks to the hard work of the maintainers. I decided > to give gdmgreeter a go again, and it works. > > I am still not prompted for a password to shutdown or

Re: Network Rail - UK business opportunity for the Debian Community

2003-09-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/09/03 02:14), Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:23:14 +0100, > > On (15/09/03 22:51), Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > .Shri's NetRail list announcement should come any minute now, > > > I'm #2 enlisted. ;-) > > .ok, as far as I know it is ready and I guess the worst thing I risk >

Re: weak perfomance on woody

2003-09-16 Thread daniel
Rich Puhek wrote: [loonyx | rolf joho] wrote: hi there on my new woody-box i experience some major performance problems. thez appeared a day a go and i can not link this to any of my activities... >>> what i observe: * there is constantly a hell lot of disk-activity. * starting X/gdm at boot

Re: No sourcing of ~/.profile at login

2003-09-16 Thread Johann Koenig
On Tuesday September 16 at 03:23pm David List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way I can see *precisely* what happens during a user's > login - what files are being sourced and such? 'strace bash' Be forewarned, there is a lot of output. Type 'exit' to get back. -- -johann koenig Now P

Re: Upgrading to testing

2003-09-16 Thread David Z Maze
"Valter G. Nogueira Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to use sarge. ... > 2. apt-cdrom add (sarge cds) ... > Now I want to make gnome my desktop but I am not sure about what package > should I install. > > In order to get it, I tried to install several packages but I get nothing ... >

Re: Can't mount cdrom

2003-09-16 Thread Mark Roach
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 10:12, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 10:17:49 +0100, "Chris Wilcox" wrote [...] > > On a side note, I would personally find it a tad nicer if your replies > > could use a more polite tone! It could just be me, but I find your > > abrupt responses annoying and ofte

Re: .config file for kernel-2.6.0-test4

2003-09-16 Thread Neal Lippman
>From what I have read (see my later post re inability to get 2.6.0 working, btw), there are enough incompatibilities between 2.4.x and 2.6.0-test-n that just copying the .config will not work. You could use that as a starting point, but you shoudl go through the config line by line and modify as n

Re: command line workspace switch

2003-09-16 Thread David Z Maze
Neo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > anybody know of a way to switch workspaces in gnome/ any > windowmanager? (on Debian of course ;-) ) > > Background: I want a central monitoring station in a 24x7 monitoring > environment to cycle automatically through each workspace which each > contains a monito

Re: Installation and Ethernet Cards

2003-09-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Eric Etheridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hi, I'm having trouble installing Debian because I > can't figure out how to get the installer to recognize > my ethernet card. There's a relatively short list of > cards listed by modconf and although similar cards are > listed, none of the card

Re: Sources.list

2003-09-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 12:25, Trey Sizemore wrote: > Would someone send me a copy of their sources.list? Mine is missing a > few on update and want to try some known good sources. > > Thanks http://www.gregfolkert.net/files/sources.list -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.i

Re: Verisign and spam blocking

2003-09-16 Thread Michael D Schleif
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:09:16:16:54:01-0400] scribed: > Bill Moseley wrote: > In the short term, you can patch your DNS server to avoid verisin's > stupidity. http://www.imperialviolet.org/dnsfix.html has patches for > most DNS servers, all hard-code the current IP address of verisign

Re: ..chroot-installs onto RAID-1 disks ,was: Evolving Debian from Red Hat

2003-09-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 01:04:51 +0100, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 04:38:50PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 03:40:40 +0100, > > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message

Re: Computer won't boot without video cable

2003-09-16 Thread Mark Roach
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 16:22, John Hasler wrote: > Why not just pull out the video card? Most systems will not boot if no video card is present. I imagine there is some guide on line on how to fool the video card into thinking a monitor is present using some sort of loopback adapter, possibly as si

Re: Network Rail - UK business opportunity for the Debian Community

2003-09-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:23:14 +0100, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On (15/09/03 22:51), Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > I'm sending this to the list because my message to you bounced. > > > > .Shri's NetRail list announcement should come any minute now, > >

Re: libc broken?

2003-09-16 Thread Oki DZ
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 03:14:57PM -0300, Raul Montagne wrote: > and upgrading "some" libraries, one of the libraries was libc6... > and was not completely upgradedit might be broken giving as a result > an useless linux installationisn't it? > In fact, the booting process just freezes! Ha

Re: Q: Oracle vs Debian?

2003-09-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 23:36:41 +0100, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In fairness to Wayne, a preference for top or bottom posting isn't > indicated. Casual review of formats shows that bottom posting is the > vastly preferred format. ..uh, _isn't_ t

JAVA

2003-09-16 Thread setty
get a error dealing with (application/x-java-vm) that can only be viewed with the appropriate plugin..?? i have the java 1.4.2 run time installed abd i am running Sid i get a error in apt-get upgrade saying (1 not fully installed it is) this is what i get but the site is bad and i caint locate t

Sources.list

2003-09-16 Thread Trey Sizemore
Would someone send me a copy of their sources.list? Mine is missing a few on update and want to try some known good sources. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrading to testing

2003-09-16 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 16 September 2003 12:22 pm, Valter G. Nogueira Jr. wrote: > I am trying to use sarge. > > To do so I followed these steps > > 1. Installed woody > 2. apt-cdrom add (sarge cds) delete Woody sources from sources.list. > 3. apt-get update I

Re: can't make debconf handle X-config

2003-09-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:26:34 -0700 (PDT) Lars Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I make debconf handle the X-configuration? dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common It's the first question. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Installation and Ethernet Cards

2003-09-16 Thread Eric Etheridge
Hi, I'm having trouble installing Debian because I can't figure out how to get the installer to recognize my ethernet card. There's a relatively short list of cards listed by modconf and although similar cards are listed, none of the cards I have available are. Is there a page out there that explai

Re: cant find es1371 (audio) module

2003-09-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On 16 Sep 2003 21:21:46 +1200 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > How do I load the es1371 kernel module? I need it for my sound card. It > is not in modconf, I can modprobe or modinfo it and it is not in > /lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci directory[s]. I am running woody. > > I i

Re: Q: Oracle vs Debian?

2003-09-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:46:00PM +0800, David Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tuesday 16 September 2003 20:45, Kent West wrote: > > > thread he was otherwise not involved in.> > > > > > For clarity and to support conversational discussion style, please > > > use bottom-posting format: you

Re: /etc/aliases

2003-09-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:14:36AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:58:54AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > Here's my list of aliases. Do any processes/applications send to these > > > addresses? > > > > In general, they may. > > > > In g

burning a lot of coasters

2003-09-16 Thread Mark Roach
I recently acquired a dvd+rw drive for archival of a few hundred gigs of document images and have been fairly disappointed with the performance of the device. I have gotten a total of 7 good, 4 bad dvds from the drive. It's a firewire device, I'm using growisofs as a normal user, and this is the er

Re: USB device not claimedby any active driver?

2003-09-16 Thread Mark Roach
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 15:14, Joan Tur wrote: [...] > When I plug an USB to RS232 converter I get the following output from dmesg: > - - > hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.1-1, assigned address 2 > usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x403/0x6001) is not claimed by any active > driver. > - - > > I'v

Re: GnuPG, self signature not trusted

2003-09-16 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ismael Valladolid Torres ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030916 11:26]: > Hi, > > When verifying a signature created by myself, I get: > > $ gpg --verify bookmarks.asc > gpg: Signature made Tue Sep 16 19:06:09 2003 CEST using DSA key ID > 1542E793 > gpg: Good signature from "Ismael Valladolid Torres <[EMA

Re: Pinning question

2003-09-16 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:00:11 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:29:49 +0100, you wrote: > > >On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:24:54 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote: > >> Hi, I've been trying to figure this out for a few days now, and can't > >> seem to get it to work. I want to pin not based on [

Re: Intel 10/100 VE and eepro100

2003-09-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
Unfortunately, I tried 2.4bf with no luck. It includes eepro100, which fails, but not e100 (as far as I could tell). Thanks though. -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Car

Re: Intel 10/100 VE and eepro100

2003-09-16 Thread Rich Puhek
Andrew Perrin wrote: Greetings- Setting up a new computer (an IBM NetVista) that has an Intel 10/100 VE adapter built in, I'm unable to use a net install. What I did was to burn a CD with the vanilla kernel setup, and boot to it. I can boot fine, but when I try to load the eepro100 module, I get

Re: weak perfomance on woody

2003-09-16 Thread Rich Puhek
[loonyx | rolf joho] wrote: hi there on my new woody-box i experience some major performance problems. thez appeared a day a go and i can not link this to any of my activities... >>> what i observe: * there is constantly a hell lot of disk-activity. * starting X/gdm at boot takes around 2 minu

Re: Verisign and spam blocking

2003-09-16 Thread Joey Hess
Bill Moseley wrote: > Sorry if this is old news. > > One more reason not to like Verisign: > > http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/16/0034210.shtml?tid=126&tid=95&tid=98&tid=99 > > So Verisign added DNS wildcards for .com and .net -- No wonder I started > getting more spam lately -- my checks fo

Upgrading to testing

2003-09-16 Thread Valter G. Nogueira Jr.
I am trying to use sarge. To do so I followed these steps 1. Installed woody 2. apt-cdrom add (sarge cds) 3. apt-get update 4. apt-get upgrade 5. apt-get install x-window-system Are these the best options? Now I want to make gnome my desktop but I am not sure about what package should I install

Re: Computer won't boot without video cable

2003-09-16 Thread John Hasler
Why not just pull out the video card? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: .config file for kernel-2.6.0-test4

2003-09-16 Thread mess-mate
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 03:33:07 +1000 Darryl Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Download the equivalent kernel-image file, assuming there is one. Then | extract the files to an empty directory with dpkg-deb (see man for info). | The config file will then be in the subdirectory boot. You can sim

Re: cant find es1371 (audio) module

2003-09-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On 16 Sep 2003 21:21:46 +1200, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > How do I load the es1371 kernel module? I need it for my sound card. > It is not in modconf, I can modprobe or modinfo it and it is not in > /lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci directory

Re: .config file for kernel-2.6.0-test4

2003-09-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:00:05 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian P. Flaherty) wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > mess-mate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > So, can I use my .config file from the 2.4.20 kernel ?? > > Does 'make oldconfig' work? It should read through an old config, > taki

kernenl compiling ? nvidia and acer 630 laptop

2003-09-16 Thread ingirafn
Hello, I have a acer 630 laptop and I have debian unstable on it. I am trying to have the nvidia module work. There are two nvidia-glx drivers I find in dselect. nvidia-glx-s and nvidia-glx they conflict so I have to chose either of them. Which should I use. In the /usr/share/doc/nvidia-ke

Re: Improved responsiveness: Galeon over remote X11

2003-09-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:39:29 +0200, Sebastian Kapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 04:30:10 +0200, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:08:21PM -0500, Nathan Poznick > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >> Just out of curiosit

command line workspace switch

2003-09-16 Thread Neo
Hi All, anybody know of a way to switch workspaces in gnome/ any windowmanager? (on Debian of course ;-) ) Background: I want a central monitoring station in a 24x7 monitoring environment to cycle automatically through each workspace which each contains a monitoring app.

running XFce4 under KDM

2003-09-16 Thread Rajkumar S
Hi, I tried out the latest xfce4, and it's pretty cool. One of the best desktops around. I want it to run under kdm, but so far I could not figure out how to do it. Any one tried that? Any help in this will be much appreciated. with warm regards, raj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian?

2003-09-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:47:33 +0200, Sebastian Kapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:20:18 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 19:25, Colin Watson wrote: > > > >> Any chance of making this signature a bit shorter? Four lines

Re: Installation problem

2003-09-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:01:20 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi people, > > at first, my English is very bad, so please don't wonder about this > mail. > > I tried to install Debian 3.0 from the CD's I loaded. But after > booting I'm not in the Standard boot-pr

USB device not claimedby any active driver?

2003-09-16 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! When I plug an USB to RS232 converter I get the following output from dmesg: - - hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.1-1, assigned address 2 usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x403/0x6001) is not claimed by any active driver. - - I've got hotplu

Re: Using Japanese (and Chinese) on an prodominantly english system

2003-09-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 00:17:35 -0700, Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * Rebecca Dridan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030915 22:24]: > Your message was labeled iso-8859-1, and here's what I see: > > > For those who read Japanese (if it works): > > Æɤá¤ì¤Ð¡¢¤ªÊÖ»ö²¼

Re: adding a directory to apt source

2003-09-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:05:18 -0400, David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jerry Turba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've been reading and trying the same procedure. I noticed that in > > the example given (deb file:/root debs/) there is no forward slash >

Computer won't boot without video cable

2003-09-16 Thread Brian Nelson
I have a monstrous roaring beast of a computer that I want to hide away in a closet and admin remotely. However, I've run into a problem I've never seen before: the damn thing won't boot unless a video cable is plugged in to the video card. I think the problem is either with the video bios or the

Re: Please

2003-09-16 Thread Neo
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 16:00, Danielle Côté wrote: > Hello > > How can I get full screen on the laptop ? > > Thank you > > Bernard > Assumption: you use Debian Linux/GNU on an Intel machine (regular PC or laptop) and login through a graphical login. full screen for a terminal window: click th

Re: .config file for kernel-2.6.0-test4

2003-09-16 Thread Darryl Barlow
Download the equivalent kernel-image file, assuming there is one. Then extract the files to an empty directory with dpkg-deb (see man for info). The config file will then be in the subdirectory boot. You can simply copy it to your kernel sources directory and rename it to .config. Good luck.

Verisign and spam blocking

2003-09-16 Thread Bill Moseley
Sorry if this is old news. One more reason not to like Verisign: http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/16/0034210.shtml?tid=126&tid=95&tid=98&tid=99 So Verisign added DNS wildcards for .com and .net -- No wonder I started getting more spam lately -- my checks for a valid domains were disabled by

Re: Internet connections on windows machines

2003-09-16 Thread Darryl Barlow
Tom, Setting up connection sharing is very easy in Windows. Just look at the help topic internet connection sharing which should take you through it. I haven't used it since an early version of Windows 2000. Generally windows will set up the gateway machine on 192.168.0.1 and the gateway wil

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