Re: Please, no GUI boot.

2003-11-17 Thread guran
tisdagen den 18 november 2003 05.37 skrev Richard Hector: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:31:43PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux X display manager disabling you may > > find useful, at: > > > > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html > > My pre

Re: Debian for enterprise

2003-11-17 Thread Joe Rhett
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 03:12:43PM -0500, Sven Heinicke wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:22:33AM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: > > > When you do 'apt-get upgrade' you will only update stable->stable and > > > (maybe) testing->testing updates. If it doesn't do testing->testing, > > > then you have t

Re: Install Report from a Linux newbie - some comments

2003-11-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Replying with CC since I'm not sure if Eric is still subscribed. Eric: You might want to subscribe to debian-boot and repost your experience there; be sure to reference this thread by subject -boot folks can find the user discussion. On Sun, Nov 16, 2

Re: iming

2003-11-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul Valley (" pvalley""@) [031117 22:11]: > could anyone sugg a replacement for ymessenger for some reason i cant > get it running under linux even thou i downloaded the .deb file Install psi and I'll see you on jabber =) gaim is a very popular choice for aol/yahoo/etc. proprietary messaging

iming

2003-11-17 Thread Paul Valley
could anyone sugg a replacement for ymessenger for some reason i cant get it running under linux even thou i downloaded the .deb file -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Just curious about system LOAD

2003-11-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Graeme Tank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031117 17:15]: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:38:54PM +0100, Paul Sommer wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > this is nor really a problem, but I'm curious about what the system load > > exactly is. > > > > Please share your wisdom with me :-) > > > > Paul > > I was won

Re: Suggestions for a window manager to replace Enlightenment

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:32:56PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > After years of running E (without gnome), I might be tempted to use > something else. Any suggestions appreciated. Intall and try a few. Launch X from console with: $ startx $( which xterm ) ...and k

Re: Please, no GUI boot.

2003-11-17 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:31:43PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux X display manager disabling you may > find useful, at: > > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html > My preferred method - which leaves them all installed and configured -

Re: How to install ?

2003-11-17 Thread eric brown
--- "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:00:32AM +0200, Touhid > Ghasemi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hello > > I want to join to Linux Users , now i'm using > MS-Win XP Home , but i > > want to install Debian on my computer, i'v > downloaded all of 7 CD > >

Re: How to install ?

2003-11-17 Thread Kent West
Touhid Ghasemi wrote: Hello I want to join to Linux Users , now i'm using MS-Win XP Home , but i want to install Debian on my computer, i'v downloaded all of 7 CD Images from FTP site and already have em on CD. problem is here that , i want to keep my windows xp and use linux behind my windows w

Re: How to install ?

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:00:32AM +0200, Touhid Ghasemi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello > I want to join to Linux Users , now i'm using MS-Win XP Home , but i > want to install Debian on my computer, i'v downloaded all of 7 CD > Images from FTP site and already have em on CD. > > problem is her

Re: instaleren op 486 met 128 mb hd

2003-11-17 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 01:34:52AM +, ben wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:15:14 GMT > Ken Gilmour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Wot? > > > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:45:39 +0100, E. Tijseling wrote: > > >?ik heb een vraag over het instaleren van debian op een 486 met een > > >?128 mb hd. max

Re: Suggestions for a window manager to replace Enlightenment

2003-11-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Chema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:32:56 -0500 > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PSG> After years of running E (without gnome), I might be tempted to use > PSG> something else. Any suggestions appreciated. > > Try blackbox or one of its derivates. It has

Re: Suggestions for a window manager to replace Enlightenment

2003-11-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > After years of running E (without gnome), I might be tempted to > > use something else. Any suggestions appreciated. > > > > Here's what I really like about E: > > > > - minimal screen real estate lost. I don't mind selecting an

Re: network/name resolution problems

2003-11-17 Thread Dan Davison
> Should be fine. (Debian kernel, or custom-built? Which Debian custom-built > (And if you've built your own kernel, there are a couple of kernel > options that need to be enabled, namely the CONFIG_PACKET and > CONFIG_FILTER ("Packet socket" and "socket filtering") options; check Thanks D

Re: Problems partioning XP disk

2003-11-17 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 November 2003 04:05 pm, Eric Dickner wrote: > Hello All. > > Starting right off the bat in the set of instructions for installing > on an existing disk running Windows I have a problem. Section > 3.6.1.1 tells you to create a bootable flo

*plonk* Re: Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:19:48AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:48:14 -0800, > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > [...] > > > As several (in or out of the) closet anarchists have replied > > that self-control is apparently beyond their mein, I'll remind > > them that con

*plonk* Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:54:46PM -0500, M. Kirchhoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Don Werve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>For those wealthy enough to attend college, many > >>will attain near-useless English and Liberal Arts degrees, because >>they > >>lack the impetus, drive, and determination t

Re: instaleren op 486 met 128 mb hd

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:45:44AM +0100, Christian Schnobrich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 02:34, ben wrote: > > > he's got a 486 with a 128 meg hard drive, and three dimm slots with a > > total capacity of 48 megs of ram, [...] > > use the box as a printserver and/or(?) ev

Re: well its about time

2003-11-17 Thread p
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:40:06PM -0600, Paul Valley wrote: > Hi all: > __deletia__ > I would > like to say thank you to all those who made it possiable including ian > murdock for making Debian linux __deletia__ > > replacment word for freedoom?Linux! > > > > Paul > > > // pin

Re: making /dev entries

2003-11-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 11:26, LeVA wrote: > Hello! > > I accidentally deleted my /dev/dsp0 file. Is there any way, to remake > that device? I have recompiled my kernel, and run /sbin/MAKEDEV, but no > success. You might try: man MAKEDEV It is literally amazing what that script can do. -- greg

Re: X 4.3.0

2003-11-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 18:33, Bill Moseley wrote: > I plugged in Knoppix 3.3 and noticed both better fonts and a number of > Xinerama problems gone over my X4.2 Sid setup. On Xinerama problem that > was fixed was the display of text on the wrong monitor. > > What's involved in installing the 4.3 p

Re: Suggestions for a window manager to replace Enlightenment

2003-11-17 Thread Chema
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:32:56 -0500 Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PSG> After years of running E (without gnome), I might be tempted to use PSG> something else. Any suggestions appreciated. Try blackbox or one of its derivates. It has most of what you want; at first it can feel a

Re: Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

2003-11-17 Thread csj
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:48:14 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: [...] > As several (in or out of the) closet anarchists have replied > that self-control is apparently beyond their mein, I'll remind > them that consequences for actions are also their > responsibility. Including finding themselves igno

Re: Suggestions for a window manager to replace Enlightenment

2003-11-17 Thread csj
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:32:56 -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > After years of running E (without gnome), I might be tempted to > use something else. Any suggestions appreciated. > > Here's what I really like about E: > > - minimal screen real estate lost. I don't mind selecting an > applicat

Re: Howto reconfigure alsa-modules-2.4.22-1-k6

2003-11-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 15:10, Otto Wyss wrote: > I've installed alsa-modules-2.4.22-1-k6 but made a mistake when > selecting the driver. So I tried > > dpkg-reconfigure alsa-modules-2.4.22-1-k6 > > but this doesn't show the driver list again! Okay getting dselect out, > purge the package and in

well its about time

2003-11-17 Thread Paul Valley
Hi all: Afew days ago i posted a msg asking for help with a tulip driver guess what i am now using Debian linux for my operating system I would like to say thank you to all those who made it possiable including ian murdock for making Debian linux and all those who helped me get over my tuli

Re: instaleren op 486 met 128 mb hd

2003-11-17 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 02:34, ben wrote: > he's got a 486 with a 128 meg hard drive, and three dimm slots with a > total capacity of 48 megs of ram, [...] > use the box as a printserver and/or(?) eventually an apache server, > mysql, etc. he's got a harware router for his home network which And, i

Re: Install Report from a Linux newbie - some comments

2003-11-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 06:00:24AM -0500, WinXperts wrote: > You should give other distributions based on Debian a try there are many > Libranet, Xandros, Lindows, etc... No, no! Just join debian-boot and repost the install report. debian-boot goes

Re: Problems partioning XP disk

2003-11-17 Thread Bojan Baros
If you ever wondered about the i386 install with Windows, you probably would have remember the section 3.6.1.1 from the Debian Install document ;) http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-Lossless Bojan > What are you actually trying to do? > Install Debian? > On the sam

Re: making /dev entries

2003-11-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 05:26:45PM +0100, LeVA wrote: > Hello! > > I accidentally deleted my /dev/dsp0 file. Is there any way, to remake > that device? I have recompiled my kernel, and run /sbin/MAKEDEV, but no > success. su cd /dev ./MAKEDEV audio

Re: LKM Trojan

2003-11-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 04:52:56PM +, Richard Kimber wrote: > > You just upgraded to unstable, eh? :-) > > It happens in testing too. bugreport chkrootkit and look for the bug in question and attach that information if you don't already see it.

Re: LKM Trojan

2003-11-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 05:10:00PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > (shouldn't this be more severe than wishlist, I mean, as the reporter > says it almost gives people a heartattack...?) No. /usr/share/doc/chkrootkit/README.Debian - -- .''`. P

Re: How to start a user process on boot?

2003-11-17 Thread Anita Lewis
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:45:41 + (UTC), Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Beside using start-stop-daemon, su or sudo, you could just use cron. As >>> the user run "crontab -e" and use @reboot as time argument. >>> >

How to install ?

2003-11-17 Thread Touhid Ghasemi
Hello I want to join to Linux Users , now i'm using MS-Win XP Home , but i want to install Debian on my computer, i'v downloaded all of 7 CD Images from FTP site and already have em on CD. problem is here that , i want to keep my windows xp and use linux behind my windows without loosing any

Re: Permissions problem

2003-11-17 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:16:38AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all and excuse my noobitis, but I haven't found the answer to this > anywhere and it's time for bed. > > I'm trying to set up IP masquerading as described at > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/. This involves crea

Re: Problems partioning XP disk

2003-11-17 Thread Kent West
Eric Dickner wrote: Hello All. Starting right off the bat in the set of instructions for installing on an existing disk running Windows I have a problem. Section 3.6.1.1 tells you to create a bootable floppy with the "sys a:" command, something that I have done in the past on older versions of Wi

Re: Problems partioning XP disk

2003-11-17 Thread Tom
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:36:08PM -0500, Nathan wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 20:20, Tom wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:05:58PM -0500, Eric Dickner wrote: > > > What do we do for a "lossless" XP install? > > > > In the world of 'pooters, there's what you *can* do, and what you > > *shoul

Permissions problem

2003-11-17 Thread spam
Hi all and excuse my noobitis, but I haven't found the answer to this anywhere and it's time for bed. I'm trying to set up IP masquerading as described at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/. This involves creating and saving a file called /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall-2.4, which I'm attempti

Re: Problems partioning XP disk

2003-11-17 Thread Nathan
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 20:20, Tom wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:05:58PM -0500, Eric Dickner wrote: > > What do we do for a "lossless" XP install? > > In the world of 'pooters, there's what you *can* do, and what you > *should* do. What you *should* do is called a "best practice." > > Here'

Suggestions for a window manager to replace Enlightenment

2003-11-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
After years of running E (without gnome), I might be tempted to use something else. Any suggestions appreciated. Here's what I really like about E: - minimal screen real estate lost. I don't mind selecting an application by clicking the mouse first to get a menu. Minimal or no icon box. -

dynamic "domain-name-servers" field in dhcpd.conf?

2003-11-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hello, Is is possible to have the equivalent of a dynamic "domain-name-servers" field in dhcpd.conf? ie - My gateway/NAT box gets its IP address and DNS servers from my DSL provider's DHCP server. The boxes in my private LAN in turn get an IP and DNS servers from my gateway/NAT box. Currently,

Re: Problems partioning XP disk

2003-11-17 Thread Tom
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:05:58PM -0500, Eric Dickner wrote: > What do we do for a "lossless" XP install? In the world of 'pooters, there's what you *can* do, and what you *should* do. What you *should* do is called a "best practice." Here's what you *should* do: *Back up your data. *Boot fro

Re: Problems partioning XP disk

2003-11-17 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:05:58 -0500 "Eric Dickner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All. > > Starting right off the bat in the set of instructions for installing on an > existing disk running Windows I have a problem. Section 3.6.1.1 tells you > to create a bootable floppy with the "sys a:" com

Re: X 4.3.0

2003-11-17 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Roberto Sanchez: > I have been using X 4.3 since July with no problems. I have been experiencing some minor annoyances with the experimental 4.3 packages (squirreliness with caps lock, inability to switch to virtual terminals, occasional lost characters while typing), but nothing forcin

Re: Just curious about system LOAD

2003-11-17 Thread Graeme Tank
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:38:54PM +0100, Paul Sommer wrote: > Hi there, > > this is nor really a problem, but I'm curious about what the system load > exactly is. > > Please share your wisdom with me :-) > > Paul I was wondering about the load average the other day and googled across the follo

Re: Bug#221273: /usr/bin/make-kpkg: Patches not applied cleanly

2003-11-17 Thread David
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:53:52PM +, Richard Kimber wrote: > > Testing whether "Low-latency patch for the Linux kernel" patch for 2.4.22 > applies (dry run): > 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file arch/i386/config.in.rej > 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/c

Problems partioning XP disk

2003-11-17 Thread Eric Dickner
Hello All. Starting right off the bat in the set of instructions for installing on an existing disk running Windows I have a problem. Section 3.6.1.1 tells you to create a bootable floppy with the "sys a:" command, something that I have done in the past on older versions of Windows but apparently

Re: exim - changing smtp server ip in headers & send fail timeout

2003-11-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:02:06PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I am using exim as my transport agent. currently its sending mail > directly to the internet and is not using a smarthost (I am not sure > if this is the best option but works as long as

Re: alien / radeon 9600 graphics card probs

2003-11-17 Thread Tom
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:46:31PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Dan Davison wrote: > >I have downloaded a driver for an ATI radeon 9600 graphics card from ati's > >website. They provide it as a .rpm file and suggest that debian users use > >alien to convert it to a .deb. I did Google for "flgrx

Re: X 4.3.0

2003-11-17 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Bill Moseley wrote: I plugged in Knoppix 3.3 and noticed both better fonts and a number of Xinerama problems gone over my X4.2 Sid setup. On Xinerama problem that was fixed was the display of text on the wrong monitor. What's involved in installing the 4.3 packages from experimental. Are people u

Re: how can I change the language from the prompt(loadkeys doesn't work)

2003-11-17 Thread ben
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:13:21 -0500 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using a japanese laptop to install debian...After I load the > rescue floppy it says boot: > > I want the output to be in english...loadkeys en doesn't work...I'm > looking for a boot argument that will allow me to view the inst

Re: alien / radeon 9600 graphics card probs

2003-11-17 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Dan Davison wrote: I have downloaded a driver for an ATI radeon 9600 graphics card from ati's website. They provide it as a .rpm file and suggest that debian users use alien to convert it to a .deb. I did alien --to-deb filename.rpm and got the following error output: Package build failed. Here'

Re: Exim

2003-11-17 Thread Stephen
Daniel Schömer wrote: Stephen wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: How does one configure Exim (Woody) to work with smarthost using AUTH PLAIN? Is the pwd/log supposed to be entered in the exim.cnf file? I've tried what has been suggested in the archives, but it ain't working. I'm using the fol

Re: instaleren op 486 met 128 mb hd

2003-11-17 Thread ben
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:15:14 GMT Ken Gilmour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wot? > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:45:39 +0100, E. Tijseling wrote: > > ik heb een vraag over het instaleren van debian op een 486 met een > > 128 mb hd. maximaal heb ik drie dimm sloten , voor een totaal van > > 48 mb geheuge

Re: X 4.3.0

2003-11-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 03:33:15PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > I plugged in Knoppix 3.3 and noticed both better fonts and a number of > Xinerama problems gone over my X4.2 Sid setup. On Xinerama problem that > was fixed was the display of text on the wrong monitor. > > What's involved in install

Re: Exim

2003-11-17 Thread Stephen
Daniel Schömer wrote: Stephen wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: How does one configure Exim (Woody) to work with smarthost using AUTH PLAIN? Is the pwd/log supposed to be entered in the exim.cnf file? I've tried what has been suggested in the archives, but it ain't working. I'm using the fol

sftp file creation mask

2003-11-17 Thread Lynn W
Where do I set up the file creation mask so that when someone uses sftp to upload a file to a Debian system, it results in file permissions other than rw-r--r-- ? I have tried adding umask in .bash_profile for the username of the uploader, but it has no effect. Thanks in advance! Lynn _

Re: problems starting x

2003-11-17 Thread shawn
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 09:53:42PM +, navaja wrote: > navaja wrote: > i noticed that dpkg-reconfigure didnt seem to update > the XF86config file, even though i ran it several times, thats why this > error > kept showing up. Which XF86config file? When dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

Re: Integrated Broadcom nic on Dell times out with dhcp

2003-11-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/11/03 17:17), Kent West wrote: > I have a new Dell Dimension 2400 with an integrated Broadcom BCM4401 > 100Base-T nic. > > When I first installed Woody on it, with a 2.4.18-bf kernel, the nic was > not recognized. > > When I upgraded the kernel to a stock 2.4.22-1-686 kernel, the nic >

X 4.3.0

2003-11-17 Thread Bill Moseley
I plugged in Knoppix 3.3 and noticed both better fonts and a number of Xinerama problems gone over my X4.2 Sid setup. On Xinerama problem that was fixed was the display of text on the wrong monitor. What's involved in installing the 4.3 packages from experimental. Are people using that package w

Re: Integrated Broadcom nic on Dell times out with dhcp

2003-11-17 Thread Pete Harlan
> and get a DHCP address, but the network remains broken with errors such as: > b44: eth0: Link is down > b44: eth0: Link is up at 10 Mbps, half duplex. > b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX. [...] > Using the default interface 'eth0'. > Basic registers of MII PHY #1: 1000 782d

Re: problems with cdwriter on woody-system

2003-11-17 Thread duck
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:19:47PM +0100, Palfalvi Richard wrote: > I 've got the solution :-)) > ... > > The floppy disk may be a factor. I'm not sure. I don't boot off > > floppy disk and I don't use LILO (switched to GRUB). Check out > > dmesg. You should have a line similar to > > > > Kern

Re: How do I use dpkg without superuser privileges?

2003-11-17 Thread Travis Crump
Matt Zimmerman wrote: (this is debian-user; please read the descriptions of the various lists) On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:02:27AM -0800, Debs Spammagnet wrote: I've been trying to de-deb a .deb file without root permission. I just want to unwrap the file like a tar file. I DO NOT WANT TO INSTALL

Integrated Broadcom nic on Dell times out with dhcp

2003-11-17 Thread Kent West
I have a new Dell Dimension 2400 with an integrated Broadcom BCM4401 100Base-T nic. When I first installed Woody on it, with a 2.4.18-bf kernel, the nic was not recognized. When I upgraded the kernel to a stock 2.4.22-1-686 kernel, the nic worked. Later, for other reasons, I needed to compile

Re: Just curious about system LOAD

2003-11-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul Sommer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031117 14:56]: > Hi there, > > this is nor really a problem, but I'm curious about what the system load > exactly is. > > The following scenario happens several times an hour: > > xosview and gkrellm meters say: CPU load is about 25% to 50%, disk and swap > act

Re: instaleren op 486 met 128 mb hd

2003-11-17 Thread Ken Gilmour
Wot? On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:45:39 +0100, E. Tijseling wrote: > ik heb een vraag over het instaleren van debian op een 486 met een > 128 mb hd. maximaal heb ik drie dimm sloten , voor een totaal van > 48 mb geheugen. > > kan ik hierop makkelijk debian instaleren en up to date houden? ik > wil hem g

Re: Exim

2003-11-17 Thread Daniel Schömer
Stephen wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How does one configure Exim (Woody) to work with smarthost using AUTH > PLAIN? Is the pwd/log supposed to be entered in the exim.cnf file? > I've tried what has been suggested in the archives, but it ain't > working. I'm using the following lines at

instaleren op 486 met 128 mb hd

2003-11-17 Thread E. Tijseling
ik heb een vraag over het instaleren van debian op een 486 met een 128 mb hd. maximaal heb ik drie dimm sloten , voor een totaal van 48 mb geheugen.   kan ik hierop makkelijk debian instaleren en up to date houden? ik wil hem gaan gebruiken als printerserver en evt apache php en mysql phpmya

Re: blank screen in Xvnc / xrdb can't open display - on Woody

2003-11-17 Thread John Stumbles
"Jonathan Dowland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 07:04:42PM -, John Stumbles wrote: > > > xrdb: Connection refused > > xrdb: Can't open display 'Hostname:1' > > > > I think I read somewhere else that it could be an Xauth cookie issue, but

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Just curious about system LOAD

2003-11-17 Thread Paul Sommer
Hi there, this is nor really a problem, but I'm curious about what the system load exactly is. The following scenario happens several times an hour: xosview and gkrellm meters say: CPU load is about 25% to 50%, disk and swap activity is low, even Network traffic is low, but the load starts incre

Re: install on toshiba laptop

2003-11-17 Thread Klaus Imgrund
Hello - got minor difficulties installing debian on a toshiba laptop. Did try the regular netinstall,the XFS-kernel netinstall and the unofficial sid CD's (well actually only disc1). Didn't get anywhere with each of those.Both netinstalls died somewhere in the process even before I got to select

Re: dhcp 2 nics

2003-11-17 Thread Henrik Christian Grove
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I am trying to setup 1 box to run dhcp for 2 different networks. I > have 2 network cards running each with a static IP on its network. I > just cant figure out how to make the dhcp request from one nic give > out a 192.168.1. address and the other nic give out a 10.1

Re: USB storage device, devfs, and /dev/scsi/*

2003-11-17 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 at 21:43 GMT, Hugo van der Merwe penned: > I've got a USB storage device (what should one call these things? I > hate calling it a "flash disk" since I feel it's not a disk (disc?) ;) > It worked great at one point. However, recently, it still seems to > register fine, etc etc,

Re: problems with cdwriter on woody-system

2003-11-17 Thread Palfalvi Richard
I 've got the solution :-)) Am Don, 2003-11-13 um 23.54 schrieb duck: > > > As I am booting from floppy-disk: Does the kernel read my /etc/lilo.conf > > on my harddisk or is there some /etc/lilo.conf on the floppy itself. > > Maybe this is the reason why it doesn't work?? > > The floppy disk ma

USB storage device, devfs, and /dev/scsi/*

2003-11-17 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
I've got a USB storage device (what should one call these things? I hate calling it a "flash disk" since I feel it's not a disk (disc?) ;) It worked great at one point. However, recently, it still seems to register fine, etc etc, but the mountable device no longer appears in my devfs /dev/. How can

Re: [OT] RE: Opium (Proposal?)

2003-11-17 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:32:09 -0500 Alfredo Valles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 17 November 2003 11:33 am, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > No, the way to avoid the flamewars is for you to be less selfish and > > have them somewhere else where they might actually be approximately > > on-topic.

Re: network/name resolution problems

2003-11-17 Thread Werner Scharinger
Hi, Am Montag, 17. November 2003 18:07 schrieb Dan Davison: > The network settings I am using work under windows on my other partition, > and worked on another machine running debian with a 2.2.xx kernel. > > I am running kernel 2.4.22. If this is unwise for someone as > linux-incompetent as me, m

Re: network/name resolution problems

2003-11-17 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Dan Davison wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 at 17:07 GMT, Dan Davison penned: I am trying to make an ethernet connection to a university network. The network settings I am using work under windows on my other partition, and worked

Re: network/name resolution problems

2003-11-17 Thread David Z Maze
Dan Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to make an ethernet connection to a university network. ...from your other message, using DHCP. What does /etc/network/interfaces say? It should have a stanza that looks more-or-less like auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp (If you have so

Re: java plugin for mozilla 1.0.0 - woody

2003-11-17 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:22:14PM +0100, josep wrote: > Hi, > > I'm Trying to install the java plugin in my mozilla 1.0.0 on woody. But > not succesfully. > > I've dowloaded de java JRE 1.4.2 from Sun, and linked the plugin they > bring in my ~/.mozilla/plugins directory, but nothing happens. >

Re: network/name resolution problems

2003-11-17 Thread Kent West
Dan Davison wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 at 17:07 GMT, Dan Davison penned: I am trying to make an ethernet connection to a university network. The network settings I am using work under windows on my other partition, and worked on another mach

Re: Big fonts again

2003-11-17 Thread user list
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:06:06PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:13:56AM -0700, user list wrote: > > I have been struggling with fonts, with some success, for the last few > > months. Now I have fonts that have nice shapes, but are HUGE. I'm > > running a testing box. > >

Re: virtual terminals become unusable when starting x on sid

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:38:16PM +, navaja ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi, > > i boot up, and get command prompt login. can use all vitual termninals. > then i start x, with "startx" (with login manager i get the same > problem). x starts, then i try to go back to a virtual terminal, and

Re: Please, no GUI boot.

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:10:20AM +0100, guran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi > > I have a sarge installation and only got to chose between gdm and xdm. > > I have read the thread on "GUI login screen" and have a difficulty to decide > what to do to get rid of a graphic login. There's a short

Howto reconfigure alsa-modules-2.4.22-1-k6

2003-11-17 Thread Otto Wyss
I've installed alsa-modules-2.4.22-1-k6 but made a mistake when selecting the driver. So I tried dpkg-reconfigure alsa-modules-2.4.22-1-k6 but this doesn't show the driver list again! Okay getting dselect out, purge the package and install it again. But now the list isn't shown either. How do

test(ignore)

2003-11-17 Thread smittysworld
this is just a test post -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alternative to mrproject (gnome project planner)

2003-11-17 Thread Sourian
..this includes the above Taskjuggler? afaik there are two different projects. Taskjuggler looks a lot less mature. ..uhoh. I would have called it 0.10.0, 0.10.1, and 0.11.0 etc until I had postgresql support, or some other transaction lock control. And Sourceforge might wanna know about the dot

Re: Debian for enterprise

2003-11-17 Thread Sven Heinicke
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:22:33AM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: > > When you do 'apt-get upgrade' you will only update stable->stable and > > (maybe) testing->testing updates. If it doesn't do testing->testing, > > then you have to do each one of them manually. > > > > This allows you to use stable

how can I change the language from the prompt(loadkeys doesn't work)

2003-11-17 Thread smittysworld
I'm using a japanese laptop to install debian...After I load the rescue floppy it says boot: I want the output to be in english...loadkeys en doesn't work...I'm looking for a boot argument that will allow me to view the install screens in english. what can I do ??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: perl_tie_hash: Can't locate object method "TIEHASH"...

2003-11-17 Thread Pete Harlan
Following up to myself, a workaround for this particular problem is to patch Cookie.pm (Version 1.24) as follows: --- Cookie.pm.orig 2003-11-17 14:04:13.0 -0600 +++ Cookie.pm 2003-11-17 14:06:20.0 -0600 @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ my $r = shift; $r ||= eval { Apache->request() }

Re: How do I use dpkg without superuser privileges?

2003-11-17 Thread Matt Zimmerman
(this is debian-user; please read the descriptions of the various lists) On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:02:27AM -0800, Debs Spammagnet wrote: > I've been trying to de-deb a .deb file without root > permission. I just want to unwrap the file like a tar > file. I DO NOT WANT TO INSTALL IT. I just want t

perl_tie_hash: Can't locate object method "TIEHASH"...

2003-11-17 Thread Pete Harlan
Sorry if this was already discussed recently. I just subscribed to the list and couldn't find anything in the archives. After the most recent perl 5.8.2-2 update, mod_perl scripts on our apache server die with: [Mon Nov 17 13:28:19 2003] [notice] Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_perl/1.29 confi

dhcp 2 nics

2003-11-17 Thread reevesb
I am trying to setup 1 box to run dhcp for 2 different networks. I have 2 network cards running each with a static IP on its network. I just cant figure out how to make the dhcp request from one nic give out a 192.168.1. address and the other nic give out a 10.1.2. address. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: mailbox

2003-11-17 Thread claus larsen
Micha Feigin wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 04:44:52AM -0800, claus larsen wrote: Hello - I have tried hard to setup a mailbox without lock. I have tried a courier-imap solution and i have tried a exim. But i cannot get it to work. Do anybody know a very basic howto to setup a simpel mailbox?

[OT] RE: Opium (Proposal?)

2003-11-17 Thread Alfredo Valles
On Monday 17 November 2003 11:33 am, Colin Watson wrote: > > No, the way to avoid the flamewars is for you to be less selfish and > have them somewhere else where they might actually be approximately > on-topic. This is *debian-user*, so please keep threads here at least > vaguely related to Debian

Re: java plugin for mozilla 1.0.0 - woody

2003-11-17 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 November 2003 17:22, josep wrote: > I'm Trying to install the java plugin in my mozilla 1.0.0 on woody. But > not succesfully. > > I've dowloaded de java JRE 1.4.2 from Sun, and linked the plugin they > bring in my ~/.mozilla/plugins direc

alien / radeon 9600 graphics card probs

2003-11-17 Thread Dan Davison
I have downloaded a driver for an ATI radeon 9600 graphics card from ati's website. They provide it as a .rpm file and suggest that debian users use alien to convert it to a .deb. I did > alien --to-deb filename.rpm and got the following error output: Package build failed. Here's the log: dh_test

exim - changing smtp server ip in headers & send fail timeout

2003-11-17 Thread Micha Feigin
I am using exim as my transport agent. currently its sending mail directly to the internet and is not using a smarthost (I am not sure if this is the best option but works as long as I am connected). I have two problems currently. 1. Exim write in the headers the address of the server (not the from

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