UW-IMAPd doesn't Authenticate users

2004-04-07 Thread Brad Anderson
Hey guys, I'm trying to get UW-IMAPd working under Debian but it fails to authenticate users properly. It should be using PAM authentication. Here's some snippets from related files: abdon:/var# cat /etc/pam.d/imap # # The PAM configuration file for the UW IMAPd `imap' service # # The standard

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

2004-04-07 Thread Frédéric Dreier
Actually I have more 'diffcult' experience with ATI than nvidia... the last time I checked, framebuffer still hangs when I switch from X to consoles with my ATI 9700. Your point? Even Linus tells people not to use framebuffer for anything unless they have to. my point is: In my case, fra

Wireless Network Pcmcia card

2004-04-07 Thread Jesse Hein
I've installed a wireless network card and gotten it working using /etc/network/interfaces. The glitch is that from bootup or insert to get it working I have to do an ifdown then an ifup -- somthing else is trying (unsuccesfully) to bring it up. Any thoughts on what could be doing this? And ho

Re: Recommendations for a small, light, app-launcher button bar

2004-04-07 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:11:00PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > where the fixMenu is a simple shell script to update things when new > apps are installed. > > This gives me a list of my common apps at the top of the main menu. > > Don't know if this is what you really want, though. HTH. That

Re: Placing package on hold

2004-04-07 Thread Bill McCarty
Hi Bob, Doh! Now I see it in the man page. Thanks for the pointer! Cheers, --On Wednesday, April 07, 2004 11:36 PM -0600 Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bill McCarty wrote: What command-line incantation can be used to place a package on hold, in the same way that entering = in dselect do

Re: Recommendations for a small, light, app-launcher button bar

2004-04-07 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 01:23:43PM +0800, Katipo wrote: > (3) Why are you calling yourself 'Tom,' William? I dunno, KATIPO. I swear to Christ I am *not* hearing people complaining about me using my own name. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!

2004-04-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Horn wrote: > cc: me on your reply, as I'm not subscribed)! > Running '/etc/init.d/ntpdate start' does not fix the problem. What do the logs say in /var/log/syslog? I suspect you have a firewall in the way. Try running ntpdate interactively. /etc/init.d/ntp stop# or /etc/init.d/ntp

Re: ssh configurationquestion

2004-04-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Jochen Kaechelin wrote: > what parameters must iset in my sshd configuration > that my sshd only accepts public/private key logins > and no longer username and passwort combinations? PasswordAuthentication no Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Placing package on hold

2004-04-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Bill McCarty wrote: > What command-line incantation can be used to place a package on hold, in > the same way that entering = in dselect does? echo packagename hold | dpkg --set-selections Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: uname -m and arch on athlon64

2004-04-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Adam Aube wrote: > I have an Athlon XP, with a custom kernel compiled for Athlons, and uname -m > returns "i686" for me as well (though it should probably say "K7"). But it is an implementation of the i686 architecture. > According to the uname info page: > > "Some systems provide a mechanism to

Re: Recommendations for a small, light, app-launcher button bar

2004-04-07 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 09:00:46PM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > I use fluxbox with 2 desktops, with apps basically covering the entire > screen (4 terminals on one, Firefox on the other): ... > I need a small lightweight app launcher to put in the upper right hand > corner. It needs to be ver

Re: package removal

2004-04-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Sebastiaan wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Chris Metzler wrote: > > For something to be removed, you have to answer "y" to the question > > of whether you want them to be. Presumably, you did. > > > true, and I was intending to reinstall it after the upgrade was complete. > > Problem is: apt doesn't

RE: Problem with eth0 after compiling kernel 2.6.5

2004-04-07 Thread Pericles Cheng
I am using Woody. I then compiled kernel 2.6.5. As for the drivers they are compiled in not as modules. Pericles -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Aube Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 4:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem with eth0 afte

Re: Problems installing sid. CD boot up crashes.

2004-04-07 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 03:16:21PM -0500, Brian McRae wrote: > I burned CD 1 of the 4/2/04 version of sid from ftp.fsn.hu. The debian > boot up screen comes up with the boot: prompt. ... it doesn't work ... > What am I doing wrong? You're trying to install unstable directly from an unofficial

Re: Recommendations for a small, light, app-launcher button bar

2004-04-07 Thread Katipo
William Ballard wrote: I use fluxbox with 2 desktops, with apps basically covering the entire screen (4 terminals on one, Firefox on the other): http://home.comcast.net/~40311.nospam/snapshot1.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~40311.nospam/snapshot2.jpg (Other apps are transitory and get tab-docked a

gv rendering slow with -Ppdf option

2004-04-07 Thread H. S.
Hi, This may by off topic here, but I am hoping somebody using Debian has encountered this or at least can point me in the right direction. When I generate a ps file from dvi (obtained by running latex on a tex file): 1) If I use -Ppdf option in the dvips command, gv takes quite a few seconds

no sound with 2.6.3, nForce2, and ALSA

2004-04-07 Thread Tom Schutter
I am having no luck getting sound to work. I have a ASUS A7N8X motherboard with the NVIDIA nForce2 chipset. I am running the 2.6.3 kernel on sarge. I am getting no sound at all. If I play a .wav file using aplay, it pauses for a few seconds and then returns to a command prompt. I have tried di

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 07 Apr 2004, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Now, putting together what you and Roberto said, what about if the > machine is in your home, then what, leave it on for days and months > and months is better than shutting it down once in a while? Who takes > it better, AMD or INTEL, or even Cru

Recommendations for a small, light, app-launcher button bar

2004-04-07 Thread William Ballard
I use fluxbox with 2 desktops, with apps basically covering the entire screen (4 terminals on one, Firefox on the other): http://home.comcast.net/~40311.nospam/snapshot1.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~40311.nospam/snapshot2.jpg (Other apps are transitory and get tab-docked as needed). There is onl

Unidentified subject!

2004-04-07 Thread James Baer
Hello, I've got an HPPA B1000 box, and have tried installing CDs for it. It will boot (I've tried both vmlinux32 and 64) but it doesn't recognize either my keyboard or mouse, so I can't get past the "release notes" screen. Is there a patch or something I should download that will allow it to se

Can't update date/time with KDE

2004-04-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I upgraded to KDE 3.2 a few weeks ago and everything seemed fine, but tonight I noticed something odd: I can't set the Date/Time within KDE. When I try to do that, I get an error that seems to indicate the following: /usr/bin/kcmshell clock --lang en_US doesn't run... I get a "There was an erro

Xfree86 Meltdown on shutdown

2004-04-07 Thread Jesse Hein
Installed debian on a "new" Toshiba Tecra 780CDM. It was going fine until I got to installing X. X comes up, but it seems to flicker, comething I didn't know LCDs could do. Worse, when I shut down X the screen goes into a "meltdown" -- random splotches of overburnt color and nothing I do gets

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Julian Mehnle wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: That's why I think it is better to use standard names, even though some of them might be objectionable from certain perspectives. But that's the point! The name is objectionable from a technical perspective: it's unnecessarily long and bulky. We are not

Re: ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!

2004-04-07 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 05:04:46AM +0200, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > IIRC, ntpdate (and ntpd and chrony) will not set your clock if it is off > by too much. I think by default it is 1 hour (3600 sec) for all three of > them. ntpdate just adjusted my clock which was off by 3602 seconds 7 Apr 1

ayttm blocks /dev/dsp

2004-04-07 Thread J.S.Sahambi
I am using ayttm with Debian/unstable. When I start ayttm and send my first message, a blip is heard from the speakers. But after that no further sounds can be heard. Then, with "fuser /dev/dsp/", I find that /dev/dsp is blocked by me. At ths point, other applications, like mplayer, also dont g

Re: ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!

2004-04-07 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Thursday 08 April 2004 03:04 am, Christian Schnobrich wrote: >I can merely point you to the (quite exhaustive) documentation you get >when installing ntp-doc. As quick fix, you may manually set the time to >something that's reasonably close and re-run ntpdate. Sorry, this just doesn't work. A

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Raiz-mpx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >For the past 7 years I have had nothing but AMD, besides a single >Compaq >laptop. I have, found problems mainly to be BIOS related and not >CPU. > >Although, AMD give more heat, as I am sure you are aware. Heat is >bad >for processors, heat=resistance. It is also pla

Placing package on hold

2004-04-07 Thread Bill McCarty
Hi all, What command-line incantation can be used to place a package on hold, in the same way that entering = in dselect does? Cheers, --- Bill McCarty, Ph.D. Professor of Information Technology Azusa Pacific University -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!

2004-04-07 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Don, 2004-04-08 at 04:20, Chris Horn wrote: > Okay, I'm completely lost on this one. I have one box that can't tell time > and I don't know what's the matter with it. > > when UTC is around Thu Apr 8 02:16:20 UTC 2004, this machine reports: > > # date -u && date > Wed Apr 7 22:16:37 UTC 200

Re: ssh configurationquestion

2004-04-07 Thread Allan Wind
On 2004-04-08T04:44:38+0200, Jochen Kaechelin wrote: > what parameters must iset in my sshd configuration > that my sshd only accepts public/private key logins > and no longer username and passwort combinations? Not sure what you are asking, really, but you probably want to check out the man page

terminal line length problem (aptitude | more, mutt, etc.)

2004-04-07 Thread michf
I am having problems with the number of columns used in the terminal. Aptitude search ... shows the full length but when piping it into more or less the lines are truncated. So aptitude search ... would give ... p xautomation - Control X from the comman

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

2004-04-07 Thread Paul Johnson
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 6. April 2004 at 10:38AM -0700, > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...] > >> Even Linus tells people not to use framebuffer for anything >> unless they have to. > > So how do you get the cute bootup penguin? Who needs a boot penguin when you only

Re: ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!

2004-04-07 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Thursday 08 April 2004 02:20 am, Chris Horn wrote: >Okay, I'm completely lost on this one. I have one box that can't tell time >and I don't know what's the matter with it. > >when UTC is around Thu Apr 8 02:16:20 UTC 2004, this machine reports: > ># date -u && date >Wed Apr 7 22:16:37 UTC 200

ssh configurationquestion

2004-04-07 Thread Jochen Kaechelin
what parameters must iset in my sshd configuration that my sshd only accepts public/private key logins and no longer username and passwort combinations? Thanx -- Jochen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-07 Thread Joey Hess
Erik Steffl wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > >Erik Steffl wrote: > > > >> well, yes. but: in slovakia the name for the country is holandsko > >>(slovak spelling for holland). maybe it insults some people in > >>netherlands but that's how it is. so for me it makes perfect sense to > >>call that countr

ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!

2004-04-07 Thread Chris Horn
Okay, I'm completely lost on this one. I have one box that can't tell time and I don't know what's the matter with it. when UTC is around Thu Apr 8 02:16:20 UTC 2004, this machine reports: # date -u && date Wed Apr 7 22:16:37 UTC 2004 Wed Apr 7 18:16:37 EDT 2004 # hwclock --show --utc Wed Ap

Re: udev and CD or DVD drives

2004-04-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-04-08T01:24:42Z, "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:03:09AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: >> Hmmm, you may be onto something. I don't have /dev/scsi at all, although >> my CDROM *is* visible under /sys: > Odd. Yeah, I thought so. >> Should m

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

2004-04-07 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I am facing a problem in installing the nvidia binary driver with > the latest kernel 2.6.5. > > With the earlier kernel versions, I could install the driver without any > hassles. I get the following error message when I try to > install it with kernel 2.6.5: > > ERROR: Unable to determine t

Re: International Fonts: 3Anoppix; Arne Goetje; al-jazeera

2004-04-07 Thread Arne Götje (高盛華)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 April 2004 06:31, William Ballard wrote: > Arne Goetje pointed me to excellent Chinese truetype fonts in: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200310/msg03881. >html, they handle most encodings correctly. > > I cannot r

Re: something wrong with BIG jigdo templates?

2004-04-07 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Mit, 2004-04-07 at 20:00, CW Harris wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 06:53:01AM -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > > > > Seem OK to me: > > > > sarge-arm-1.template1979 KB 04/04/0403:46:00 > > > Yes but OTOH: > sarge-arm-8.template 640676 KB 04/04/0410:59:0

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Mit, 2004-04-07 at 15:18, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > > > I have no first-hand experience, but from stories I heard it seems that > > Intel has some benefits over AMD. [...] > /rant on > > I should have said this in my first reply. It's common knowedge that AMD > based systems has, compared

Time screwup

2004-04-07 Thread Jeff Elkins
I've screwed up the time on my workstation and am confused on how to recover. I installed Fedora on a spare partition to play with and when I rebooted to Debian my time was four hours off. Lo, when I reset the clock to true local time then ran ntpdate my time was bumped up four hours. Thanks f

Re: Upgrade and instillation problems

2004-04-07 Thread Adam Aube
Brian wrote: > HELP! Sid image is BROKEN! That's why it's called Sid - it breaks things. http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.en.html#s-sid Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with eth0 after compiling kernel 2.6.5

2004-04-07 Thread Adam Aube
Pericles Cheng wrote: >> Device Drivers -> Networking Support -> Ethernet (10 or 100 MBit) >> - Generic Media Independent Interface device support >> - RealTek RTL-8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support > > PC - These drivers are already selected. Hmm. Compiled in, or as modules? If as modu

Re: udev and CD or DVD drives

2004-04-07 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:03:09AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: | At 2004-04-07T15:01:54Z, "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Do you, by any chance, have the file /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd | > (or something very similar)? | | Hmmm, you may be onto something. I do

RE: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-07 Thread Julian Mehnle
Erik Steffl wrote: > That's why I think it is better to use standard names, even though some > of them might be objectionable from certain perspectives. But that's the point! The name is objectionable from a technical perspective: it's unnecessarily long and bulky. We are not writing "Germany (F

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Katipo
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Now, putting together what you and Roberto said, what about if the machine is in your home, then what, leave it on for days and months and months is better than shutting it down once in a while? Who takes it better, AMD or INTEL, or even Crusoe? I can only speak of AMD

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

2004-04-07 Thread csj
On 6. April 2004 at 10:38AM -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Even Linus tells people not to use framebuffer for anything > unless they have to. So how do you get the cute bootup penguin? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

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Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Katipo
Antony Gelberg wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 05:17:08PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: There are current known issues with nForce2/AMD combo. It has to do with a race condition during the C1 disconnect. The solution is to disable APIC, either in the kernel config or by passing apic=off (or noa

Re: Does mozilla hang on some sites for you?

2004-04-07 Thread Paul Stolp
* hugo vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-07 13:11]: > Bill Moseley wrote: > >This is on sid, but this has been an ongoing problem for quite some time. > > > >Mozilla hangs on some sites, and I'm wondering if anyone else has this > >same problem. It seems to always hang at http://abcnews.go.c

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

2004-04-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 02:50:45PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: >> This is an English-speaking mailing list. English is read from the >> top, down by the flow of context, not random order. Even first-year, >> non-native speakers pick up on this. > > It'

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Katipo wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: Incidentally, since you mention looking for a new board, if you plan to get an ATI video card, get a non-nVidia mobo. I really did the hat trick (nVidia mobo, AMD CPU, and ATI video card). The machine is rock solid now, but it took me several months of tweakin

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Naturally, leaving my laptop plugged in and turned on all the time > killed the battery after a few months. But, it was already a couple > of years old at the time. That's why you should run from the battery until it runs down at least once a week or

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 7, 2004 05:09 pm, Ken Gilmour wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:21:07 -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > > >40 GB IBM 60GXP Hard Drive > >40 GB Western Digital 400JB 8MB Cache Hard drive > > Aha! Both on the same IDE cable? > > If they are, try switching it to having one on each cable, if you

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 7, 2004 05:03 pm, Ken Gilmour wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:07:13 -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > > >It's really annoying.. Could this be a misbehaving driver? How would I > >find out? > > What is the output of "ps -uagx"? Are there any defunct processes there? A whole crapload of pro

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Katipo
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Katipo wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: There are current known issues with nForce2/AMD combo. It has to do with a race condition during the C1 disconnect. The solution is to disable APIC, either in the kernel config or by passing apic=off (or noapic, I can't remember) on th

Re: install help: boot floopies + sarge-i386-netinst.iso (d-i beta3)

2004-04-07 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Andrés A. Rocchia wrote: Hello, first sorry for my english I´m trying to improve it :) I´m trying to install debian sarge with boot floppies and sarge-i386-netinst.iso (d-i beta3) mounted as a loop device in the ramdisk. I put the sarge-i386-netinst.iso in a ext2 partition /dev/hda6 (/home) then

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 08:11:55PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Antony Gelberg wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 05:17:08PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > >>There are current known issues with nForce2/AMD combo. It > >>has to do with a race condition during the C1 disconnect. > >>The solut

I need a Quantum SE32A011 urgently - Please answer

2004-04-07 Thread Francisco Cesar da Silva
Dear Debiam Team, I am a Brazilian student, who is living and studying in Germany. My drive does not work, I am very desperate. Please tell me if you can help me and if yes, how much should I pay. My friend, who is a IT-Teacher has been able to determine that the disk has suffered from an electro

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 08:06:51AM +0800, Katipo wrote: Antonio Rodriguez wrote: What about the shutting down, booting process? I've heard several opinions about it, probably from incompetent people mostly. Some say that it is better to leave the machine on without booti

Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-07 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Stefan Bellon wrote: I'm running Debian GNU/Linux unstable on my box here. For some reason I was running fvwm 2.4.16-2 till today (not sure why it didn't get updated). Just right now there was an update to fvwm 2.5.10-2. The problem now is, that I had my whole configuration in a file ~/.fvwm/post.h

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-07 Thread Erik Steffl
John Hasler wrote: Erik Steffl writes: so you're going to call germany deutschland? Is Deutschland being labeled "Germany" to appease a powerful neighbor despite the objections of the inhabitants? I thought we're not into political disputes. that could make the list of countries quite incompr

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Antony Gelberg wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 05:17:08PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: There are current known issues with nForce2/AMD combo. It has to do with a race condition during the C1 disconnect. The solution is to disable APIC, either in the kernel config or by passing apic=off (or noapic

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:21:07 -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: >40 GB IBM 60GXP Hard Drive >40 GB Western Digital 400JB 8MB Cache Hard drive Aha! Both on the same IDE cable? If they are, try switching it to having one on each cable, if you only have two IDE bays on your motherboard try putting the CD

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 08:06:51AM +0800, Katipo wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > > >What about the shutting down, booting process? I've heard several > >opinions about it, probably from incompetent people mostly. Some say > >that it is better to leave the machine on without booting on and

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:07:13 -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: >It's really annoying.. Could this be a misbehaving driver? How would I >find out? What is the output of "ps -uagx"? Are there any defunct processes there? Also try these following commands: df -h free vmstat Could even be a problem wit

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 05:17:08PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > There are current known issues with nForce2/AMD combo. It > has to do with a race condition during the C1 disconnect. > The solution is to disable APIC, either in the kernel config > or by passing apic=off (or noapic, I can't remem

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Joey Hess wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: well, yes. but: in slovakia the name for the country is holandsko (slovak spelling for holland). maybe it insults some people in netherlands but that's how it is. so for me it makes perfect sense to call that country holland, I didn't even knew it's called n

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Joe Rhett
We've been 100% AMD for 5 years now, and we have seen no such problems. And all we do is file and application servers, where IO is king ;-) For reference, we use Asus motherboards. On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:44:48PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > I am a huge fan of AMD, not only because their pr

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

2004-04-07 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 02:50:45PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > This is an English-speaking mailing list. English is read from the > top, down by the flow of context, not random order. Even first-year, > non-native speakers pick up on this. It's not what you say, so much as how you say it. *PLO

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Katipo wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: There are current known issues with nForce2/AMD combo. It has to do with a race condition during the C1 disconnect. The solution is to disable APIC, either in the kernel config or by passing apic=off (or noapic, I can't remember) on the kernel command line. Ev

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Katipo
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: What about the shutting down, booting process? I've heard several opinions about it, probably from incompetent people mostly. Some say that it is better to leave the machine on without booting on and off, others say that it is better to turn it off. Supossedly in the booti

International Fonts: 3Anoppix; Arne Goetje; al-jazeera

2004-04-07 Thread William Ballard
Arne Goetje pointed me to excellent Chinese truetype fonts in: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200310/msg03881.html, they handle most encodings correctly. I cannot remember which I want: ukai-mbe/, ukai/, uming-mbe/, uming/ from http://debian.linux.org.tw/pub/3Anoppix/peop

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Katipo
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Katipo wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: martin f krafft wrote: I am a huge fan of AMD, not only because their processors are cheaper. Recently, however, I have experienced random crashes on two machines that run AMDs. The crashes seem to be related to IO and happen usually w

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 April 2004 02:14 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > I understand Crusoe is amazing in Linux. I'm a fan of Intel hardware > in general. But I'm biased: I buy Oregonian products first, and the > vast majority of Intel's hardware is made in Hill

Re: Cron output logging

2004-04-07 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Richard Kimber: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:50:36 -0400 (EDT) > "Bojan Baros" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> /script.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 > > > Non of these options seem to work. > > > > Ok, let's try something different... Where do you see this logging? > > syslog? message? scree

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 08 Apr 2004, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.04.07.1633 +0200]: > > Let me guess: VIA chipset? I have a A7V motherboard that does the > > same, unpredictably. The PCI bus just hangs the entire machine. > > After that one, I tried

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > What about the shutting down, booting process? I've heard several opinions about it, probably from incompetent people mostly. Some say that it is better to leave the machine on without booting on and off, others say that it is better to turn it off. Supossedly in the boo

Re: Wheel Mouse

2004-04-07 Thread Greg Heilers
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 12:57:58 -0400 (EDT) Krikket <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, this is something that I've done before, but something is different > this time around that has me stumped. > > Usually to get a the wheel on a mouse to run, it's just a matter of adding > one line. Only in this

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread martin f krafft
First off, thanks for the replies so far. Let me address some points in turn: also sprach Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.04.07.1436 +0200]: > This has nothing to do with CPU. Things to check: 1. Hard > drive/CD-ROM data cable. Especially if it is the thin (ATA-66 and > up) - they damage

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Paul Johnson
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Recently, however, I have experienced random crashes on two machines > that run AMDs. The crashes seem to be related to IO and happen > usually when there is a lot of disk activity. The disks themselves > are fine, though, and also the controller appea

Re: How to Eliminate Popups?

2004-04-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Brian Brazil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 03:10:04PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> how much? > > apt-get install lynx > > They'll never bother you again. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antiphishing.org/ -- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description:

Re: User manager

2004-04-07 Thread Paul Johnson
"Michael Alle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i wonder if theres any grafical usermanger (based on qt, tcl/tk) to do > more comfortable jobs like adding / deleting users, groups, adding > groups to users, changin their passwd ... What's wrong with the command-line tools, which get the job done und

Re: ALSA problems sarge 2.4.25

2004-04-07 Thread David
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 10:01:17PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Thanks for the reply Dave but it seems in this kernel version the > > modules are not even loading., I just get a failed message after > > /etc/init.d/alsa start. I do not see a

Re: usb 7 in 1 card reader -- not working

2004-04-07 Thread jcmd
Did u search in sdb or sdc?? $mount /dev/sdb1 /card the output of lsmod? Regards!! On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Rodney D. Myers wrote: {On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 17:24:48 -0400 {Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: { {> Rodney D. Myers wrote: {> > This may be a case of operator error, but... {> > {>

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

2004-04-07 Thread Paul Johnson
This is an English-speaking mailing list. English is read from the top, down by the flow of context, not random order. Even first-year, non-native speakers pick up on this. Please turn your line wraps on, 72 columns is good. "Freivald, Joseph A, GVSOL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How is the A

use ramdisk_size=10240

2004-04-07 Thread Brian
Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > I have been using unstable for a fiew months now. today, I used > apt-get update/upgrade. After reboot, I can not use my motherboard > ethernet or sound. > I downloaded the current sid (4/2/04) disk 1 to reload debian. On

Problem: 2.6.x and network (e1000 Intel 82546EB)

2004-04-07 Thread W. Borgert
Hi, after installing a fresh sarge on a Sun (dual XEON) with two e1000 Intel 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller everything worked fine so far with the default 2.4.x kernel. But after changing to 2.6.x the network just does not work anymore. I use e1000 as the driver and the official kernel imag

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:25:16PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 12:44:48 +0200 > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thus I am logically considering chipset and processor. I can hardly > > imagine that this is a problem with AMD, but I would like to know > > fr

Re: usb 7 in 1 card reader -- not working

2004-04-07 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 17:24:48 -0400 Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > This may be a case of operator error, but... > > > > I just received my "Syntax IC Card Reader - 7-in-1 external Card Reader" > > > > > > when I plug the reader into a USB port, it shows

Re: Frontpage ext

2004-04-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 06 April 2004 07:24, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> What is your final goal? I see three distinct possible courses of >> action. > Weller... to host frontpage sites on my webserver? Right, but for those

fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-07 Thread Stefan Bellon
I'm running Debian GNU/Linux unstable on my box here. For some reason I was running fvwm 2.4.16-2 till today (not sure why it didn't get updated). Just right now there was an update to fvwm 2.5.10-2. The problem now is, that I had my whole configuration in a file ~/.fvwm/post.hook which got include

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Justin Guerin
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 11:58, Brent Miller wrote: > Justin Guerin wrote: > >My CPU is 100% utilized, but no processes seem to be using the CPU. I > > can't seem to figure out what's causing the load. I know that > > something is, though, because xscreensaver is running very slow. > > Some dae

Re: usb 7 in 1 card reader -- not working

2004-04-07 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Rodney D. Myers wrote: This may be a case of operator error, but... I just received my "Syntax IC Card Reader - 7-in-1 external Card Reader" when I plug the reader into a USB port, it shows via dmesg; hub.c: new USB device 00:10.2-1, assigned address 4 WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread ed
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 12:44:48 +0200 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus I am logically considering chipset and processor. I can hardly > imagine that this is a problem with AMD, but I would like to know > from you success and failure stories of AMD processors and Linux. For the past 7

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Katipo wrote: martin f krafft wrote: I am a huge fan of AMD, not only because their processors are cheaper. Recently, however, I have experienced random crashes on two machines that run AMDs. The crashes seem to be related to IO and happen usually when there is a lot of disk activity. The disks th

frau behavior

2004-04-07 Thread dimanch245
 what connection do you have with this email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 7, 2004 08:35 am, Justin Guerin wrote: > I am wondering if anyone has seen anything like this. Here's a copy of > top: > > > My CPU is 100% utilized, but no processes seem to be using the CPU. I > can't seem to figure out what's causing the load. I know that something > is, though, be

Re: Upgrade and instillation problems

2004-04-07 Thread Brian
Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > I have been using unstable for a fiew months now. today, I used > apt-get update/upgrade. After reboot, I can not use my motherboard > ethernet or sound. > I downloaded the current sid (4/2/04) disk 1 to reload debian. On

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