scsi emulation: atapi reset irq timeout and other nasties...

2003-10-21 Thread Garrett P. McLean
hi, i've been trying to get scsi emulation working. i've compiled and installed my own custom kernel the debian way and i enabled the following as modules: ide-cd, scsi_mod, sr_mod, sg, and ide-scsi. i've also added a file called ide-cd to /etc/modutils with the following in it: options ide-c

Re: dependency problems

2003-10-21 Thread kmark
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 01:46:19PM +0200, Martin Wegmann said > > hello, > > > > I have some dependency problems - broken packages and tried to fix them with > > > > apt-get -f install/remove > > > > but that does not work, any advice how to proceed? using

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-21 Thread kmark
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, [loonyx | rolf joho] wrote: > hi there > > even though i load the ide-scsi module at boottime, i can not mount my > ide-dvd-writer. since i was perfectly able to do that on earlier > installations, i am asking for hints. > > through /etc/modules i successfully load this: > s

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-21 Thread kmark
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Rob, > > Thanks much for writing this up. > > One issue I have problems with is solving font problems with specific > applications. It think that's due to my general lack of understanding > of fonts, and that there's more than one font system in us

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-21 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:28:56AM +0300, Alexei Chetroi wrote: > From: Alexei Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > lsmod-output: > > Module Size Used byNot tainted > > nls_iso8859-1 2880 0 (autoclean) > > ide-cd 26176 0 (autoclean) > Have you tried

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-21 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:27:04PM +0200, [loonyx | rolf joho] wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:27:04 +0200 > From: "[loonyx | rolf joho]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: ide-scsi problem on woody > > even though i load the ide-scsi module at boottime, i can not mount my > ide-dvd-writer. since

how to get 2.4.18 device driver 3c59x

2003-10-21 Thread Tom Eugelink
I was running kernel 2.2 and I used dselect to download 2.4.18 (binary). That came with drivers for pcmcia, but nothing else, especially not for my networkcards, requiring the 3c59x driver. I downloaded the 2.4.18 kernel sources and compiled a kernel, but no driver is present (and I got a way t

Re: allowing a "normal" user to work efficiently

2003-10-21 Thread kmark
HI B, On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hi, > > i'm wondering what the best method is of allowing a normal user account to > do stuff like writing cd's, accessing local webpages (/var/www) and so on. > There are a couple of methods like: > > 1. Making a group, put the user in that g

Can Anyone tell me what this is?

2003-10-21 Thread John Foster
The message below is the result of a posting to debian user earlier today. Any idea what /why I recieved it. BTW if it get returned I will assume I have been unsubscribed fro the mailing list. -

gdm/X broken by recent update

2003-10-21 Thread Robert William Hutton
Hi, Last night's update in unstable has killed my xserver. I'd normally be able to work out what's going on, but nothing is showing up in my logs. The symptoms of the problem are also different than the usual ones: - The X server starts, I get the grey background, and the cross, which is the d

Re: mouse

2003-10-21 Thread Stephen Cormier
On October 20, 2003 02:57 pm, Marlin Unruh wrote: >I would like to know how to move around > without the mouse just for convenience sake anyway. I am new to debian but > have tried red hat and suse some time back. > > I understand that 'real men' use debian. > > -marlin unruh You would be interest

Best way to combine file systems?

2003-10-21 Thread Ross Boylan
My partitions are filling up and I need to start juggling parts of my filesystem. Although some of one disk is under a volume manager (LVM via EVMS), I don't want to fiddle with it. Mostly this is because I don't want to extend the container to include a second disk, thereby doubling my chances o

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-21 Thread David Lloyd
Monique, > I'm a little confused at this point. I'm always confused--it's when I understand something that confuses me even more ;-) > I originally assumed you were the OP, but skimming the archives, it > appears that you are not. I wasn't. > But then you also mention your own troubles, to wh

Re: Routing table drops packets via ppp0

2003-10-21 Thread Mark Devin
Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 03:39, Mark Devin wrote: I am having some trouble getting routing to work properly on a box with three network connections. One, eth0, is connected to a router and is the default gateway. Another, ppp0 (eth1 - ADSL) is connected to a private network o

Re: Kernel panic error

2003-10-21 Thread Bill Marcum
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:27:29AM +0100, Anim Asante wrote: > I have got a grub menu.lst file with a section of the > file looking like this >  root (hd1,0) >  kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 >  boot >   > When I restart my machine and select this option, the > boot up process begins up > to a poin

Re: Is testing somewhat stable again>

2003-10-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I heard that sarge was going through convulsions because changes in the C implementation, were making its packages incompatible. Has this process finished yet? Is sarge now as stable as it usually is? Is it safe to upgrade? (I need a new X for my Radeon card -- and the st

Re: running XFce4 under KDM

2003-10-21 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Joel Alexandre wrote: i have the same problem. With kdm, xfce4 doesn-t start. but with gdm > >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 >raj So, does xfce4 not appear in the menu? Or is it that

Re: Search feature in PDF files

2003-10-21 Thread Brian Nelson
Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there any Free Software PDF viewers that have the ability to search > and copy/paste text and graphics? I ask because I find that sometimes > I have to use acroread (non-free, of course) becuase I have a large PDF > file and I need to search for a

Is testing somewhat stable again>

2003-10-21 Thread hashi
I heard that sarge was going through convulsions because changes in the C implementation, were making its packages incompatible. Has this process finished yet? Is sarge now as stable as it usually is? Is it safe to upgrade? (I need a new X for my Radeon card -- and the stuff I downloaded from the

Re: X 4.3 mouse cursor

2003-10-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:07:48PM +0200, Nicos Gollan said > On Tuesday 21 October 2003 20:02, David Fokkema wrote: > > Hm. I already have the 4.3 xlibs packages and it still doesn't work, :-( > > Did you make sure the xserver-xfree86 and xserver-common packages are at 4.3? > There's quite a lot

Re: Search feature in PDF files

2003-10-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Dave Thayer wrote: For a simple string search, the button with the binoculars in xpdf will do the trick. Copying is limited to text using the X selection buffer (Hilight a section and paste with the middle mouse button). AFAIK xpdf doesn't handle image copying. HTH dt Come to think of it, I remem

Re: Search feature in PDF files

2003-10-21 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:27:14PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Are there any Free Software PDF viewers that have the ability to search > and copy/paste text and graphics? I ask because I find that sometimes > I have to use acroread (non-free, of course) becuase I have a large PDF > file and I

Re: More on spam

2003-10-21 Thread Bill Marcum
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 06:56:59AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..Swen is no different than 9/11. So, next time someone points a gun > your way, you do not want the police doing _anything_ about it? > How many people have been killed by swen? Should the US shut down all internet traffic like

Re: mouse

2003-10-21 Thread Russ Pitman
Marlin Unruh wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed debian 3.0r1 and the mouse will not work. I have a serial > track ball with a PS/2 adapter, and have it plugged into the PS/2 port. The > track ball is a Kensington Expert Mouse. > > Do I need to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file? If so what should I t

Re: what exactly does "init_module: No such device" mean?

2003-10-21 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 02:09:22PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > When trying to load a driver reports "init_module: No such device", > what exactly does that mean? > > Does it mean that the module couldn't find any instances of the type > of hardware device that the module handles, using whatever

Re: Verify that spamc is using Bayesian?

2003-10-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:02:49PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 05:52:40PM -0400, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: > > On 03-10-18 12:47 -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > > > > > > So if I'm reading things right, the situation is like so: > > 1) If I want to smtp-time reject mail based

NFS has a file size overflow problem

2003-10-21 Thread Neal Lippman
I don't know if this is known or not known, so I am throwing it out here first to see if anyone has heard of this one before. My guess is this is a known problem... I use nfs to share my /home and a /shared directory on my fileserver to workstations. The fileserver runs testing and is up to date.

Advanced printing... continued

2003-10-21 Thread Christian Schnobrich
Hello, after some try-and-error I eventually got printing to work; cups, foomatic and xpp now work hand-in-hand. One issue left: my paper size is A4, but xpp won't let me select anything other than US Letter. Or rather, I can point at A4, do the selection, and end up with US Letter still being hi

Re: Verify that spamc is using Bayesian?

2003-10-21 Thread ScruLoose
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 05:52:40PM -0400, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: > On 03-10-18 12:47 -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > > > I think what most people do for systems with more users is to scan > incoming mail from the users' ~/.procmailrc, which does seem a little > cleaner wrt custom BAYES rules Hm, y

Re: Using apt-get/dselect to download from a un-official repository.

2003-10-21 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Joseph Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031022 10:31]: > I'd like to download xfree86 4.3.0 from this repository: > http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/ > > I found it whilst Googling round for 4.3.0 for Debian, it was mentioned > in a mailing list archive. Could anyone tell me

Re: Eclipse installation: j2re1.4 has no installation candidate (Debian SID)

2003-10-21 Thread John Foster
ananymous wrote: Hi! I tried to install eclipse on my Debian SID box using: apt-get install eclipse-sdk aclipse-jdk eclipse-platform apt-get said that eclipse-platform depends on j2re1.4 or j2re1.3 or java2-runtime but these packages are not available. How can I install eclipse? And is there a d

Search feature in PDF files

2003-10-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Are there any Free Software PDF viewers that have the ability to search and copy/paste text and graphics? I ask because I find that sometimes I have to use acroread (non-free, of course) becuase I have a large PDF file and I need to search for a string, or copy a long selection of text. I would p

Re: how do i read from memory stick, fire wire?

2003-10-21 Thread TR
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 00:24:53 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joachim Fahnenmueller) wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 06:04:43PM -0400, TR wrote: > > I want to be able to access the pics and short movies in my memory > > stick, but I can't figure out how to do it. After googling, I found > > some recommen

Re: Verify that spamc is using Bayesian?

2003-10-21 Thread ScruLoose
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 03:17:30PM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 at 16:47 GMT, ScruLoose penned: > > > > So I know that if I call spamassassin (as "spamassassin") it is using > > the bayesian test, but the question is: How can I tell whether > > spamc/spamd is using it as w

SOLVED Re: GIMP and TTF without a font server

2003-10-21 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
I found the fonts...this is what I had to do: I modified /etc/fonts/local.conf and added /usr/local/share/fonts/ttfonts just inside Then I had to run fc-cache (which took a while so I had a moment of panic). Started up The GIMP (1.3) and all my fonts were there! Hurrah! Thanks to the GIMP Use

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-21 Thread ScruLoose
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:13:11PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:32:57PM -0700, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:17:42PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > Why would anybody read an inheirently monospace medium in anything but > > > a monospaced font? > >

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-21 Thread ScruLoose
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:56:34AM -0700, Tom wrote: > He was in PsOps -- told me some great stories. Hehe! No doubt he did. After all, if he's in PsyOps that is his job. Cheers. -- ,-. > -ScruLoose- |

Re: UPgrade to testing breaks atitvout?

2003-10-21 Thread Deryk Barker
Further investigation reveals that atitvout *does* work when the display is in text mode (i.e. if I Ctrl-Alt-F1) but refuses to work (VBE call error) when it's in graphics mode (i.e. when I'm, looking at the X display) I tried reverting to the saved XF86Config-4 but that didn't seem to make any s

Re: what exactly does "init_module: No such device" mean?

2003-10-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 02:09:22PM -0400, Daniel Barclay said > When trying to load a driver reports "init_module: No such device", > what exactly does that mean? > > Does it mean that the module couldn't find any instances of the type > of hardware device that the module handles, using whatever d

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:32:57PM -0700, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:17:42PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Why would anybody read an inheirently monospace medium in anything but > > a monospaced font? > > The web is a monos

Re: cdrom not working

2003-10-21 Thread Kent West
Jose Colmenares wrote: About two months ago I installed woody on a HP pentium, and worked just fine. A few days ago I tried to reinstall the thing, but suddenly the the machine wouldn't boot from the cd. It's the same cd I used the first time. I have even checked it out in other computers. I

cdrom not working

2003-10-21 Thread Jose Colmenares
About two months ago I installed woody on a HP pentium, and worked just fine. A few days ago I tried to reinstall the thing, but suddenly the the machine wouldn't boot from the cd. It's the same cd I used the first time. I have even checked it out in other computers.   I changed the cdrom about tw

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-21 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:17:42PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Why would anybody read an inheirently monospace medium in anything but > a monospaced font? The web is a monospaced medium? Since when? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP K

Re: tar question

2003-10-21 Thread Ralph Alvy
Ashish Ariga wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:47:29PM -0700, Ralph Alvy wrote: >> A newbie question. I'm trying to bakup the current directory to my MO >> device. That device is registered in the system as >> >> /dev/sda >> >> and is mounted on >> >> /mnt/mo >> >> Neither of

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-21 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > Hi Rolf, > > maybe load ide-scsi *before* sr_mod ? if a module needed to be loaded in the right order, it'd complain about missing symbols not yet defined when its dependency modules needed to be loaded first manually loading um might show y

Re: Initrd trouble

2003-10-21 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 02:07:39AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:13:59PM -0400, Jerome R. Acks wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 05:39:49PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > > > > modprobe: Can't locate module cramsfs > > > mount: fs type cramfs not supported by kernel >

Re: tar question

2003-10-21 Thread Ashish Ariga
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:47:29PM -0700, Ralph Alvy wrote: > A newbie question. I'm trying to bakup the current directory to my MO > device. That device is registered in the system as > > /dev/sda > > and is mounted on > > /mnt/mo > > Neither of the following attempts success

Re: update-modules not working

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 00:12:19 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joachim Fahnenmueller) wrote: > > what am I doing wrong? > > Don't know: according to man update-modules, it should work like this. > It may help to remove that /etc/modules.conf (or rename it) and then run > update-modules. Thanks. Yes, tha

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 at 22:34 GMT, David Lloyd penned: > > Look, I knew *something* was wrong and I had my suspicions about > libbonobo-activation4 but not about fontconfig. I'm not entirely adept > at backtracking versions of packages (I always get the syntax wrong > and I need to read more of th

Re: Back up to ATAPI zip 100

2003-10-21 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 01:50:26AM -0600, Dan Roscoe wrote: > Hello again! > > I'm running a very small web server on my lan, with maybe a half dozen > people that have accounts on it. > > > > I am wondering if anyone out there is Debian Land, knows of a simple cli > utility that my remote user

Re: cdrecord problem recording audio CD

2003-10-21 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 06:10:25AM +0800, csj wrote: > At Sat, 18 Oct 2003 13:01:08 -0400, > stan wrote: > > > > I'm using gramofile to record tracks from an LP and split them > > into indivudal .wav fies. I've done this a lot in the past, and > > have always been able to go to the individual tarc

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-21 Thread James W. Thompson, II
Boy has this thread gone out into left/right field, however you want to term it, and gotten off topic. Why do we allow ourselves to be distracted and flame back and forth, completely ignoring why this list exists, we're here to form a constructive dialogue and to help each other solve real problems

tar question

2003-10-21 Thread Ralph Alvy
A newbie question. I'm trying to bakup the current directory to my MO device. That device is registered in the system as /dev/sda and is mounted on /mnt/mo Neither of the following attempts success in creating a backup.tar.gz file on my MO drive: tar cvzf /dev/sda bac

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-21 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:57:27PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: I like the way you think man! Highly consistent... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how do i read from memory stick, fire wire?

2003-10-21 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 06:04:43PM -0400, TR wrote: > I want to be able to access the pics and short movies in my memory > stick, but I can't figure out how to do it. After googling, I found some > recommendation about adding the /etc/fstab entry: /dev/sda1 etc... > Well, I tried that, but when I t

Re: update-modules not working

2003-10-21 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 09:28:45PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > If I try to do an update-modules, I am told to use > update-modules force > because /etc/modules.conf is not automatically generated > > However "update-modules force" merely repeats the error message: > > /etc/modutils>update-modu

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031021 15:32]: > Have we figured out who owns the Moon yet? Narrator: The moon. For several years, she has fascinated many. But will man ever walk on her fertile surface? [cut to a shot of Adlai Stevenson at some sort of press conferen

Re: allowing a "normal" user to work efficiently

2003-10-21 Thread Edward Murrell
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 02:53, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > On Windows, by default, there's no restrictions on who (or what) can > install or run software. That's partially why MS is it such deep > trouble right now in terms of security. However, if you prefer that > level of convenience while knowingl

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-21 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:28:12PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 12:24, Nathan Eric Norman wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:12:38PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > > Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:19:15:19:21+0200] scribed: > > > > > > > > > > Red China Com

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-21 Thread David Lloyd
Clive, > Ouch ! Hi David Yes; ouch indeed. > I'm not any sort of geek, dumbass or otherwise. The assumption is that > if you're running "sid" then you are a geek (or very brave). I run > woody because it is stable (and OK the packages are a bit old) with > KDE3.1. I happen to be both. I've

Re: Newbie .deb question, help needed

2003-10-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 06:01, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: > I am new to Debian, one week old, and still trying to come to grips with the > differencies. I have a deb which carries the dependiencies for sid. I am > running a up to date sarge. All dependiencies are meet excepet for kdelibs, I > am one

Using apt-get/dselect to download from a un-official repository.

2003-10-21 Thread Joseph Jones
I'd like to download xfree86 4.3.0 from this repository: http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/ I found it whilst Googling round for 4.3.0 for Debian, it was mentioned in a mailing list archive. Could anyone tell me how I would go about installing from this repository (so I can pl

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 12:24, Nathan Eric Norman wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:12:38PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:19:15:19:21+0200] scribed: > > > > > > > Red China Communism came from where? ;-) > > > > Just to quickly jump in, then back

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-21 Thread Thomas Pomber
Fuck off!  Are you serious?   Do you think you've got a bigger dick than me, too, just because you're an American?   I was talking to this electrician who just relocated here to Canada from Russia, and I was blown away when he told me that they didn't brainwash their people in The Commie Days half

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Kimber
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:17:42 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > try it without a monospace font. > > Why would anybody read an inheirently monospace medium in anything but > a monospaced font? > > - -- > .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : :' : > `. `'` proud

Re: Help with VIA EPIA-CL mini-ITX with two onboard ethernet ports

2003-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 12:57, Chris Evans wrote: > Ho hum, do hope I haven't got myself ahead of Debian hardware > compatibility. > > Situation is that I have to replace an ageing three port firewall on > my home/ADSL network. I wanted something small and quiet so have > bought a little box wit

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-21 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi Rolf, maybe load ide-scsi *before* sr_mod ? Joachim On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:27:04PM +0200, [loonyx | rolf joho] wrote: > hi there > > even though i load the ide-scsi module at boottime, i can not mount my > ide-dvd-writer. since i was perfectly able to do that on earlier > installations

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-21 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:35:18PM -0200, Klaus Imgrund wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:56:34 -0700 > Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > He was in PsOps -- told me some great stories. > > > Is there a point to this? Besides of believing any story some guy makes > up. > For your info - guys in spec

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-21 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya loonyx On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, [loonyx | rolf joho] wrote: > hi there > > even though i load the ide-scsi module at boottime, i can not mount my > ide-dvd-writer. since i was perfectly able to do that on earlier > installations, i am asking for hints. list of modules look good from eyebal

Re: CVS /var/lib/cvs filesystem standard

2003-10-21 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Frank" == Frank A Uepping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Frank> Hi, Debian creates a CVS reposetory in /var/lib by default. I Frank> have some misgivings about this location. Doesn't the filesystem Frank> standard allow to delete all files below /var? No, that is /tmp. /var is for files th

Re: CVS /var/lib/cvs filesystem standard

2003-10-21 Thread David Christensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Frank A. Uepping wrote: > Debian creates a CVS reposetory in /var/lib by default. 1. Both Cederqvist and Fogel refer to /usr/local/cvsroot. 2. I put my CVS repository under /cvs so I don't have to type a long path name. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:56:34 -0700, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 01:26:38PM -0400, Thomas Pomber wrote: > > But I suspect American feelings about their military might are > > over-rated. For instance, if they gave a shit, China would ki

Re: Driver Support for Intel Motherboard

2003-10-21 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dilluns 20 Octubre 2003 20:27, en Srikanta Prasanna va escriure: > I recently installed Debian (Knoppix > 3.2) on my system (P4, 2Ghz, 845 GLAD Intel motherboard). I am not able to > find a driver for my motherboard (the audio is not detected) Try r

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-21 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:56:34 -0700 Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 01:26:38PM -0400, Thomas Pomber wrote: > > But I suspect American feelings about their military might are > > over-rated. For instance, if they gave a shit, China would kick > > your ass in a war. > > >

Re: how do you fix a lost interrupt error?

2003-10-21 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 02:03:11PM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote: | Anyone got any ideas on how to properly exit from a lost interrupt error? | Occasionally my cdrom will hang and I get this: 'hdc: lost interrupt' Uh-oh. But this is a cd drive? I don't know, but I used to see this with the hard

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-21 Thread Johann Koenig
On Tuesday October 21 at 08:12pm Olav Lavell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, learning every day :) > > Op di 21-10-2003, om 19:26 schreef John Hasler: > > > Olav Lavell writes: > > > Why would one ever install Exim in a _base_ system? To name just > > > one. > > > > Exim isn't part of the De

Re: Exim4 won't send mail - what does this error message mean?

2003-10-21 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 02:55:13PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm getting serious trouble with exim4. > > A lot of mail, incoming and outgoing, just sits in /var/log/exim4/input > indefinitely. This includes even messages I email to myself. > > However, some things do go out (including this

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Aaron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031021 06:12]: > Also, what constitutes "distribution"? If it is a web-based system > wherein the functionality is distributed through access to the site but > the source code package itself isn't distributed, does the license > compel the author to offer the source cod

Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning

2003-10-21 Thread Kent West
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:31:44AM -0500, Kent West wrote: | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk:> mozilla-thunderbird | find: /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/startup-hooks.d/*: No such file or | directory | | and then just dies. So I'd say there's still some brokenness in s

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:50:16PM -0500, Ray wrote: > try it without a monospace font. Why would anybody read an inheirently monospace medium in anything but a monospaced font? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'`

Re: allowing a "normal" user to work efficiently

2003-10-21 Thread Mark Roach
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 12:03, Bijan Soleymani wrote: [...] > For example imagine you make "cat" suid... > > Then someone can do: > cat /bin/rm /bin/cat > cat -rf / This would just output both /bin/rm and /bin/cat to your screen... if you were to "cat /bin/rm > /bin/cat" you would get [EMAIL PROTEC

UPgrade to testing breaks atitvout?

2003-10-21 Thread Deryk Barker
I've got a Dell Latutude Cpx notebook: P-III 650, 256MB RAM, ATI Mach64 video. For several months I've been happily running woody plus the backported KDE3.1. Last night I dist-upgraded to testing, although I'm still using the KDE3.1 for woody. (This combination has been running successfully on my

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* David Palmer. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031019 13:50]: > One of the most central policies of the German Nazi party was the > banishment of national boundaries, a centralised world government, and > international free trade. > > I don't see any difference to what is happening now. You don't see any d

CVS /var/lib/cvs filesystem standard

2003-10-21 Thread Frank A. Uepping
Hi, Debian creates a CVS reposetory in /var/lib by default. I have some misgivings about this location. Doesn't the filesystem standard allow to delete all files below /var? This would be rather fatal for the development team if some careless admin follows this rule. /FAU -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: X 4.3 mouse cursor

2003-10-21 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 20:02, David Fokkema wrote: > Hm. I already have the 4.3 xlibs packages and it still doesn't work, :-( Did you make sure the xserver-xfree86 and xserver-common packages are at 4.3? There's quite a lot of stuff that doesn't get upgraded implicitly. -- Got Backup? --

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:53:41PM +0200, Olav Lavell wrote: > Op di 21-10-2003, om 19:13 schreef Roberto Sanchez: > > Olav Lavell wrote: > > > Why would one ever install Exim in a _base_ system? To name just > > > one. > > > > I believe because certain things (like the daily update of the man and

Newbie .deb question, help needed

2003-10-21 Thread Ralph F. De Witt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I am new to Debian, one week old, and still trying to come to grips with the differencies. I have a deb which carries the dependiencies for sid. I am running a up to date sarge. All dependiencies are meet excepet for kdelibs, I am one version ba

Re: Your debian-user@lists.debian.org subscription has been terminated

2003-10-21 Thread Pascal Hakim
Hi, On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:42:38PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > From whom were 1478 messages received? What kind of messages are these? There was a bug in reaper.pl which removes bouncing email addresses. That should have been just 1, which as it was under that period's threshold would no

Re: Configuring three nics on a gateway/web server

2003-10-21 Thread David Z Maze
Lucio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've successfully installed and configured Apache on a already > working gateway box. > > I know this can play a little unusual (web and gateway server in the > same box) but unfortunately at the moment I just have this hardware > at my disposal. > > However, I

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-21 Thread John Hasler
Olav Lavell writes: > Then how do I install a _base_ system? The base system is what is installed after you have done everything except run dselect. It consists only of those packages in section "base". -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBS

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:08:41PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:12 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: anti-spam idea for this list > > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 21,

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-21 Thread Nathan Eric Norman
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:12:38PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:19:15:19:21+0200] scribed: > > > > Red China Communism came from where? ;-) > > Just to quickly jump in, then back out of this trivial, off-topic > polemic: > > [a] There is not, nor

Re: X 4.3 mouse cursor

2003-10-21 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 16:48, Stephen Cormier wrote: > On October 20, 2003 11:13 am, David Fokkema wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 17:59, Rob Weir wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 02:22:37PM +0200, David Fokkema said > > > > > > > Hi group, > > > > > > > > I finally decided to try out mouse cur

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-21 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 01:26:38PM -0400, Thomas Pomber wrote: > But I suspect American feelings about their military might are over-rated. For > instance, if they gave a shit, China would kick your ass in a war. > > America has become a bully. And pride comes before a fall. You haven't seen

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-21 Thread Olav Lavell
Okay, learning every day :) Op di 21-10-2003, om 19:26 schreef John Hasler: > Olav Lavell writes: > > Why would one ever install Exim in a _base_ system? To name just one. > > Exim isn't part of the Debian base. Don't confuse 'base' with 'standard'. Then how do I install a _base_ system? I am

what exactly does "init_module: No such device" mean?

2003-10-21 Thread Daniel Barclay
When trying to load a driver reports "init_module: No such device", what exactly does that mean? Does it mean that the module couldn't find any instances of the type of hardware device that the module handles, using whatever degree of scanning or probing that that particular module performs? (Does

Help with VIA EPIA-CL mini-ITX with two onboard ethernet ports

2003-10-21 Thread Chris Evans
Ho hum, do hope I haven't got myself ahead of Debian hardware compatibility. Situation is that I have to replace an ageing three port firewall on my home/ADSL network. I wanted something small and quiet so have bought a little box with a VIA EPIA-CL mini-ITX motherboard which has two ethernet

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-21 Thread Tom
God, y'all I promise I'll shut up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-21 Thread Olav Lavell
Op di 21-10-2003, om 19:13 schreef Roberto Sanchez: > Olav Lavell wrote: > > >>The Debian base system is too much? > > > > Isn't it? > > > > Why would one ever install Exim in a _base_ system? To name just > > one. > > I believe because certain things (like the daily update of the man and > lo

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-21 Thread Ray
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 12:08, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > How about using ASCII art instead (a la figlet or somesuch)? > > $ figlet -w 72 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Makes perfect sense to a human eye, but should foil spam harvester > bots. try it without a monospace font. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

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