Re: scanner setup

2004-04-22 Thread Chris Eisley
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 20:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the scanner it is USB. also i did: > debian:~# insmod scanner > insmod: can't read 'scanner': No such file or directory > debian:~# > any ideas? > The scanner module was removed in 2.6.X. If your scanner device was supported under the gene

Re: Re: new install, sound not working (+2 bonus problems)

2004-04-22 Thread Phil Ramey
Well! With a little poking around and Kevin Mark's advice, I added both the iRiver and the second unrecognized HD to fstab, and got them both working! Very excited about all that. 2 bonus problems, check. Sound... still a no go thanks, all! (hope i'm not a bother) --Phil Ramey --

Re: new install, sound not working (+2 bonus problems)

2004-04-22 Thread Phil Ramey
Kevin Mark: Thanks for replying! Attaching my iRiver to my usb2 card gives me this output in /var/log/messages, do i need to add a listing in /etc/fstab or sommat? i can't mount it, there's no listing... Apr 22 22:59:50 box kernel: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using address 2 Apr 22 22:59

Re: new install, sound not working (+2 bonus problems)

2004-04-22 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:26:56 -0700 (PDT) Phil Ramey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) in first attempt to get sound working, i compiled a > new kernel, 2.6.5, with ALSA, but the wrong drivers sid + 2.6 kernel is pretty bold for a new user, to be blunt. I don't mean to dissuade you -- just that it

Fwd: Out of Office AutoReply: sound card not working (+2 bonus problem s)

2004-04-22 Thread Daniel Asarnow
I'm sure yo've been noticing this... Kind of annoying. Apparantly, he wont be back for a while. -Daniel Asarnow Note: forwarded message attached. = -Daniel Asarnow BoxBattle.com - Semper Absurda--- Begin Message --- Ich bin heute (16.04.04) ab 17:00 nicht mehr im Hause und habe bis einsch

Re: sound card not working (+2 bonus problems)

2004-04-22 Thread Daniel Asarnow
Hi Phil, You can add your other hard drive to /etc/fstab manually (with your favourite text editor). Use the other entries as a guide for the syntax, and man fstab to find the proper entries for your format. Referencing man fstab, the first field will be something like /dev/hdc1, the second will

Re: Autodock/Linux/Makefile

2004-04-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 09:54:28PM -0700, Y.Gu wrote: > Dear All, > I am trying to compile the Autodock3 on RedHat9 > Linux/Intel. I have the compiling error as following, > could anyone advise what's happening here? > > Best wishes > > Yijun Hi Yijun, not to be snippy but this is a debian gnu/li

Re: So is this a kernel bug?

2004-04-22 Thread John L Fjellstad
I think it has to do with the NFS implementation in Linux. I remember running similar problem when I tried to copy a couple of 100+ Mb MPEG file from one Linux system to another over NFS. Try increasing the wsize and rsize in the mount options. That might help. Otherwise, I would suggest to try u

Autodock/Linux/Makefile

2004-04-22 Thread Y.Gu
Dear All, I am trying to compile the Autodock3 on RedHat9 Linux/Intel. I have the compiling error as following, could anyone advise what's happening here? Best wishes Yijun ... gs.cc: In constructor `Genetic_Algorithm::Genetic_Algorithm(EvalMode, Selection_Mode, Xover_Mode, Worst_Mode, int, f

Re: Multiple sound cards and hotplug.

2004-04-22 Thread John L Fjellstad
Scott Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > udev has been suggested, but as far as I can tell the naming structures for > ALSA and OSS emulation cannot be affected. They don't provide the necessary > information via sysfs. Not sure what you mean by naming structure. You are able to change ALSA

Re: new install, sound not working (+2 bonus problems)

2004-04-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 09:26:56PM -0700, Phil Ramey wrote: > Howdy, > > So last tuesday I got fed up with windows and > formatted C: it was very satusfying > > Anyway, I went through a couple of installs that were > broken (PIBKAC, i assure you), until I landed on this > install... let'

Re: Re: 2.6.4 to 2.6.5 problems w/ a sarge machine

2004-04-22 Thread Mike Chandler
I have been able to duplicate the problem you describe, to the letter. But, I can't say why, or what to do about it. You're not alone! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: new install, sound not working (+2 bonus problems)

2004-04-22 Thread Mike Chandler
I see you did that already, sorry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new install, sound not working (+2 bonus problems)

2004-04-22 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 22 April 2004 09:26 pm, Phil Ramey wrote: > Howdy, > > So last tuesday I got fed up with windows and > formatted C: it was very satusfying > > Anyway, I went through a couple of installs that were > broken (PIBKAC, i assure you), until I landed on this > install... let's see if

new install, sound not working (+2 bonus problems)

2004-04-22 Thread Phil Ramey
Howdy, So last tuesday I got fed up with windows and formatted C: it was very satusfying Anyway, I went through a couple of installs that were broken (PIBKAC, i assure you), until I landed on this install... let's see if I can re-construct, step by step: 1) installed using woody isos, b

Odd postfix behavior

2004-04-22 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I have postfix running on Woody. The problem I just came across is that someone trying to use me as an open relay to spam an aol adress can use me as a relay. I have postfix setup to only accept mail from my private subnet and clients that authenticate with SMTP AUTH. However, since I am on a Bel

Re: IBM Tivoli Storage software

2004-04-22 Thread John Hasler
Drogo Bumbleroot writes: > IIRC there is a DEB package for the RPM command. Yes, but it is only there to support alien and LSB packages. It's almost always a bad idea to use it to install an rpm. > For starters it says that it can't find /bin/sh, but it's here... But it isn't in the rpm databas

Re: IBM Tivoli Storage software

2004-04-22 Thread Drogo Bumbleroot
Em Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:06:16 -0400, Drogo Bumbleroot escreveu: I have tried installing the Tivoli RPM to the Woody machine without any luck. Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: How did you do? The way is converting the RPMs with alien. IIRC there is a DEB package for the RPM comm

Re: Exim + OpenWebmail

2004-04-22 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-04-23, Support penned: > > > Hi! Monique > > When I try to use dselect I can't find openwebmail debian package. So > I download it from the source file. > > How to install with the apt-get ? > I'm running unstable. Perhaps you're running stable? Please don't CC or email me directly. I'm

Re: Simple Qmail Setup

2004-04-22 Thread Nate Duehr
Bill Carlson wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, David Baron wrote: I have not found understandable documentation. I have the webmin qmail but do not know what to do with it. I want qmail as daemon to service a couple of email addresses, sending through one of them, as well as the system notification

Re: Configuring /etc/apt/preferences

2004-04-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-04-22 23:49:49 +0200, Andrei Badea wrote: > Having a slow Internet connection, I want to set /etc/apt/preferences so > that packages from the CDs have a greater priority that those on the > network. So I put in preferences: > > Package: * > Pin: origin ftp.cz.debian.org > Pin-Priority: 5

RE: unlock a locked up tty session

2004-04-22 Thread Michael Martinell
-Original Message- From: Matt Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 5:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: unlock a locked up tty session On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:15:11PM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > This has happened several times recently. I have c

Re: 2.6.4 to 2.6.5 problems w/ a sarge machine

2004-04-22 Thread Richard Weil
I used all the right options, like --initrd, when building the kernel. I've been building my own kernels for awhile, and actually only recently switched back to using debian sources, and I've never had a problem like this before. Of course it's on the remote machine, so my diagnostics are limited .

Re: The Traps Of Linux...&open Source Software

2004-04-22 Thread Derek Broughton
> The Traps Of Linux...&open Source Software > A scandalous book published on-line right... > Just look at this... > > [URL=http://www.e-balkani.com/book]The Traps of Linux...[/URL] Oh please no, don't make me read it. Get a _translator_!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: USB camera is not recognised as a SCSI device

2004-04-22 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Tom Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I don't get the proper name for the valid device from that. > If I am not misguided by the manuals, there is a vfat filesystem on the > memory card, and we are supposed to use the ide-scsi driver, so access it > as a SCSI disk. As I said, that is how it w

Re: grub/dual-boot problem

2004-04-22 Thread Derek Broughton
Chris Metzler wrote: > Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > bootloader. This happened to me before, but you said you installed > > Debian AFTER you installed Windows, so this shouldn't be an issue. > > I agree that it shouldn't be an issue; but that's very much what > this smells like.

Re: 2.6.4 to 2.6.5 problems w/ a sarge machine

2004-04-22 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [sorry Kenneth if you got a private copy. my bad...] > On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 20:41, Richard Weil wrote: > > > > The source for 2.6.5 came into Sarge a day or two ago. > > I complied it using the exact same configuration as > > 2.6.4. I checked

Re: Exim + OpenWebmail

2004-04-22 Thread Support
At 12:36 AM 4/23/04, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2004-04-22, Martin penned: > Hello, i'm gone that without any problem and all works fine at first > try. Simply go apt-get install OpenWebMail package and do > run-at-first basic setup (locale, mail spool directory etc.) > I have done this as well.

RE: Exim + OpenWebmail

2004-04-22 Thread Support
Hi! Martin When I try to use dselect I can't find openwebmail debian package. So I download it from the source file. How to install with the apt-get ? Best Regards, Support At 07:12 PM 4/22/04, Martin wrote: Hello, i'm gone that without any problem and all works fine at first try. Simply go apt

Wierd behavior gnome search

2004-04-22 Thread user list
I just installed a testing box running the 2.6.4 kernel. I was trying to search for xemacs files, including the icons. However, the gnome search tool failed to find any files starting with xema. The standard linux find was successful. I even tried inside of /usr/bin, where xemacs resides without su

Re: Nautilus CD burner

2004-04-22 Thread David Clymer
First off, some list etticate ;o) Since a mailing list is intended to be a place of public discussion, it is proper to reply to the list rather than directly to an individual - no need to CC anyone either (unless they specifically request it), since most people who post to the list are already subs

MailScanner setup with Postfix

2004-04-22 Thread Matt Krause
I setup MailScanner according to the directions on the website and created /var/spool/postfix.in and /etc/postfix.in as well as /var/spool/postfix and /etc/postfix. Can someone tell me the difference between the two? I assume that postfix.in is for all incoming mail and postfix is for all outgoing

Re: unlock a locked up tty session

2004-04-22 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:15:11PM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > This has happened several times recently. I have changed from one tty > session to another, come back to the first, and the session is locked up. > If I was in an application, it just sits there, if I was at the command > line, I

Re: Your identity is a mere email address: a SPAM criterion ?

2004-04-22 Thread Wilko Fokken
o/o -- Wilko Fokken Education is a man's going Landschaftspolder 67 from cocksure ignorance D-26831 Dollartto thoughtful uncertainty. Tel. 04953-382 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Sound on Sarge

2004-04-22 Thread Katipo
john gennard wrote: I had tried that, David, and only got the offer of 'xmms', repeating shows:- - Leary:/home/john# apt-get install alsa-xmms Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Note, selecting xmms instead of alsa-xmms This looks like alsa-xmms predepends o

Victory at last

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utterly strange single-pixel font problem

2004-04-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
hi, i have installed a lot of debian systems and this one is the strangest and most frustrating issue i've ever come across, and i seriously need help or i will blow this machine away with a reinstall. yes, that's right - a debian system that i will be forced to treat as lowlife scum like windows:

Re: Sarge Version of Debian?

2004-04-22 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 22 April 2004 11:38 am, David Piniella wrote: > This is of interest to me because I 'm about to reinstall debian on a > machine and I'd like to go straight to sarge. What's the preferred or > ideal method? I don't mind net installs, but I don't know whether to use > the 100MB image, or

Re: Cannot launch remote apps on X

2004-04-22 Thread Paul Johnson
"Linux Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry top poster for life, not scrolling all the way to the bottom to get a > reply I know what the previous email said and donʼt need to read it again. You're supposed to trim your quoting, not quote the entire email. Cut for context. Don't just turn

Re:O.T. Limiting bandwidth used by Exim

2004-04-22 Thread Katipo
Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 11:44:48PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Tom Simnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Private run telcos. Not a lot you can do. They all offer pretty much the same deal. And its all pretty much the same price. It just isn't worth it for small businesses to ge

Re: apt-get upgrade chokes in alien package

2004-04-22 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qui, 2004-04-22 Ãs 18:00, Tom Peters escreveu: > Thanx both for your suggestions. Leandro, exactly where do you get your > j2re? deb http://www.tux.org/pub/java/debian/ unstable non-free deb http://jrfonseca.dyndns.org/debian/ ./ Is there a way of knowing where exactly did an instal

Re: Sound on Sarge

2004-04-22 Thread john gennard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 22 Apr 2004:- >>john gennard wrote: >> I am trying to install sound, using Alsa, in Sarge. [snip] >> he refers to a package 'alsa-xmms'. This I cannot find >> anywhere. Can anyone help please? > > Hello John, > alsa-xmms is definitely in the pool. > I was go

Configuring /etc/apt/preferences

2004-04-22 Thread Andrei Badea
Hello all, my sources.list file contains - 3 deb lines for my older 3 Debian CDs with Sid from which I usually install packages, - a deb line for Sid on a ftp mirror (ftp.cz.debian.org) Having a slow Internet connection, I want to set /etc/apt/preferences so that packages from the CDs have a g

The Traps Of Linux...&open Source Software

2004-04-22 Thread users
The Traps Of Linux...&open Source Software A scandalous book published on-line Just look at this... [URL=http://www.e-balkani.com/book]The Traps of Linux...[/URL] No comment... Message posted via www.linuxforums.org . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Problem with apt-get

2004-04-22 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:10:19 -0600 Brad Camroux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Reading Package Lists... 1% > Reading Package Lists... 16% > Reading Package Lists... 32% > Reading Package Lists... 49% > Reading Package Lists... 62% > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room

Re: grub/dual-boot problem

2004-04-22 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:58:12 -0500 Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Based on the partition listing you gave in your original message, grub > should be set up as follows: > > Windows: root (hd0,0) > Debian: root (hd0,2) > > Keep in mind that in grub, partition 1 is actually 0, 2 is

Re: Cannot launch remote apps on X

2004-04-22 Thread Kent West
Chris Metzler wrote: On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:27:14 -0400 "Linux Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry top poster for life, not scrolling all the way to the bottom to get a reply I know what the previous email said and don_t need to read it again. Yes, but it completely discourages *anyone*

unlock a locked up tty session

2004-04-22 Thread Michael Martinell
This has happened several times recently. I have changed from one tty session to another, come back to the first, and the session is locked up. If I was in an application, it just sits there, if I was at the command line, I cannot type. I can change back to other tty sessions and continue to do w

Re: finding bugfixed version of unstable package?

2004-04-22 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:28:37 - "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm sure I should know this ... > > Okay, I'm subscribed to the debian security announcement list, and I > often see something like: > > [quote] > For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed s

Re: USB camera is not recognised as a SCSI device

2004-04-22 Thread Tom Peters
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 12:22:11AM +0200, Tom Peters wrote: > > Following the HOWTO's I try to mount my digital USB camera in the > > following way: > > > > sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /camera > > mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device > > This work

Re: 2.6.4 to 2.6.5 problems w/ a sarge machine

2004-04-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:41:35AM -0700, Richard Weil wrote: > A 2.6.4 versus 2.6.5 oddity in Sarge ... > > I have a hosted machine that is running Sarge with a self-compiled > 2.6.4 kernel. The kernel matches the hardware very well, the kernel > was made using kpkg, and update-grub is linked int

Re: apt-get upgrade chokes in alien package

2004-04-22 Thread Tom Peters
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > Em Qua, 2004-04-21 às 14:44, Derek Broughton escreveu: > > On April 21, 2004 01:33 pm, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > > > > > > Bad idea. Go for the original deb packages, find them at > > > http://apt-get.or

Re: grub/dual-boot problem

2004-04-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 14:09, Richard Weil wrote: > I don't have the machine in front of me, but I'm > nealry certain that I don't have "savedefault" set. I > believe my grub entry for win xp was essentially the > same as what is shown in the grub docs: > > title win > root (hd0,1) > makeactive >

Re: Cannot launch remote apps on X

2004-04-22 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:27:14PM -0400, Linux Nick wrote: > Sorry top poster for life, not scrolling all the way to the bottom to get a > reply I know what the previous email said and don’t need to read it again. > I tend to agree with you. Sometimes, when the thread is long and known, there i

Re: Cannot launch remote apps on X

2004-04-22 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:27:14 -0400 "Linux Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry top poster for life, not scrolling all the way to the bottom to > get a reply I know what the previous email said and don_t need to read > it again. Yes, but it completely discourages *anyone* from jumping in late

Re: Cannot launch remote apps on X

2004-04-22 Thread Andy Firman
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:27:14PM -0400, Linux Nick wrote: > > [-- Autoview using /usr/bin/lynx -dump -force_html ''/tmp/mutt.html'' --] > >Sorry top poster for life, not scrolling all the way to the bottom to >get a reply I know what the previous email said and don't need to read >it

Re: 2.6.4 to 2.6.5 problems w/ a sarge machine

2004-04-22 Thread Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 20:41, Richard Weil wrote: > A 2.6.4 versus 2.6.5 oddity in Sarge ... > > I have a hosted machine that is running Sarge with a > self-compiled 2.6.4 kernel. The kernel matches the > hardware very well, the kernel was made using kpkg, > and update-grub is linked into the proce

RE: Cannot launch remote apps on X

2004-04-22 Thread Linux Nick
Sorry top poster for life, not scrolling all the way to the bottom to get a reply I know what the previous email said and don’t need to read it again.   > -Original Message- > From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 2:11 PM > To: diego >

Re: grub/dual-boot problem

2004-04-22 Thread Richard Weil
I don't have the machine in front of me, but I'm nealry certain that I don't have "savedefault" set. I believe my grub entry for win xp was essentially the same as what is shown in the grub docs: title win root (hd0,1) makeactive chainloader +1 I set root to (hd0,1), which is the /boot directory

Re: Sarge Version of Debian?

2004-04-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:38:30PM -0400, David Piniella wrote: > This is of interest to me because I 'm about to reinstall debian on a > machine and I'd like to go straight to sarge. What's the preferred or > ideal method? I don't mind net installs, but I don't know whether to use > the 100MB i

Problem with apt-get

2004-04-22 Thread Brad Camroux
Hello, I appear to be having some trouble with apt-get. First of all, apt-spy won't run complete - it freezes at some point. Then, when I try to run apt-get update, I get the following error: Reading Package Lists... 1% Reading Package Lists... 16% Reading Package Lists... 32% Reading Packag

netpipe-tcp: help or alternative?

2004-04-22 Thread Paul Mackinney
netperf was recommended to me as a basic tool for checking network performance, a search through the archives led me to netpipe-tcp which fails uniformly. Per suggestions in the man pages, I run the following: remote host: # ./NPtcp -r Resetting connection after every trial Send and receive buffer

Re: grub/dual-boot problem

2004-04-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 13:35, Richard Weil wrote: > I'm having a grub/dual-boot problem. > > I'm running Sarge with the kernel from the initial > install. The hard drive has 4 primary partitions: > > part 1 = win xp > part 2 = /boot --> marked bootable in partition table > part 3 = / > part 4 = sw

Re: Cannot launch remote apps on X

2004-04-22 Thread diego
El jue, 22-04-2004 a las 20:11, Paul Johnson escribió: > English is read from top down with the flow of context, not newest > information on top. Please learn to quote accordingly. > http://learn.to/quote > http://ursine.ca/jargon/html/email-style.html > > You sent a private-mail reply to my atte

Re: udev, ttys, and other pseudo-devices

2004-04-22 Thread Simon Cahuk
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 18:59, Luke A. Kanies wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get udev to work on Debian unstable, and although I've kind > of succeeded I still don't have a functional system. > > I can now successfully boot and log in via SSH, but to do so I have to > manually create /dev/conso

Re: [Postfix/TLS] "/etc/init.d/saslauthd script start" gives nothing

2004-04-22 Thread Poster
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Bob Snyder wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 07:18:49PM +0530, Poster wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Till Dörges wrote: [Snip] > What do you have in /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf? Mine is: > pwcheck_method: auxprop > auxprop_plugin: sasldb I didn't have this smtpd.co

2.6.4 to 2.6.5 problems w/ a sarge machine

2004-04-22 Thread Richard Weil
A 2.6.4 versus 2.6.5 oddity in Sarge ... I have a hosted machine that is running Sarge with a self-compiled 2.6.4 kernel. The kernel matches the hardware very well, the kernel was made using kpkg, and update-grub is linked into the process of installing or uninstalling a kernel. The source for 2.

Re: Sarge Version of Debian?

2004-04-22 Thread David Piniella
This is of interest to me because I 'm about to reinstall debian on a machine and I'd like to go straight to sarge. What's the preferred or ideal method? I don't mind net installs, but I don't know whether to use the 100MB image, or the 30MB net-installer or the PGI GUI installer or install a b

grub/dual-boot problem

2004-04-22 Thread Richard Weil
I'm having a grub/dual-boot problem. I'm running Sarge with the kernel from the initial install. The hard drive has 4 primary partitions: part 1 = win xp part 2 = /boot --> marked bootable in partition table part 3 = / part 4 = swap I installed win XP into part 1. I then installed Sarge and upda

We are unable to process your service request - MAR (KMM49717237V57216L0KM)

2004-04-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear debian-user, Thank you for contacting PayPal! Unfortunately, we were unable to process your service request. This was due to a change in the original email subject or not utilizing the customized contact form via the website. In order for us to provide the best customer service possible, an

Re: Cannot launch remote apps on X

2004-04-22 Thread Paul Johnson
English is read from top down with the flow of context, not newest information on top. Please learn to quote accordingly. http://learn.to/quote http://ursine.ca/jargon/html/email-style.html You sent a private-mail reply to my attempt to help you on a mailing list, and failed to mention having don

Re: Cannot launch remote apps on X

2004-04-22 Thread diego
Yes there it is. What is more strange is that even from the culprit machine it doesn't work: I do a ifconfig and it says 172.16.10.1 is one of its network interfaces (no firewall active) so if I do: export DISPLAY=:0 . ==> It shows up the window export DISPLAY=172.16.10.1:0 ==> Complaints

Re: Newbie to SID: How to install the previous version of a package?

2004-04-22 Thread Daniel Cardenas - AZ
Paul Johnson wrote: Sylvain Vedrenne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: How to install the previous version of a package ?    If you need to ask this question, you should *NOT* be running sid.   I was new to Linux and had used Mandrake for a few months when I switched to Debian unstable.

Re: fullscreen movie playback blurry: nvidia or TFT?

2004-04-22 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-04-22, Paul Johnson penned: > --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain > > "Maik R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I had the same problem. But I didn't realize that it only occurs at a >> resolution of 1280x1024 (in other words: using the resolution of the >> TFT). >> >> I tried changing the ver

Re: Cannot launch remote apps on X

2004-04-22 Thread diego
Already changed. No luck this way... Thanks for the hint anyway. El jue, 22-04-2004 a las 07:45, George Cristian Birzan escribió: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 11:32:48PM +0200, diego wrote: > > Hello, I have a knoppix just installed and network configured with a > > fixed IP (lets say 172.16.10.1) a

finding bugfixed version of unstable package?

2004-04-22 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
I'm sure I should know this ... Okay, I'm subscribed to the debian security announcement list, and I often see something like: [quote] For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. Refer to Debian bug #226103 for status information. [/quote] Given this information, how do

Re: [PATCH] restoring tg3 driver to latest 2.6.5 source

2004-04-22 Thread Eric Sproul
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 13:32, Angel L. Mateo wrote: > Hello, > >Thank you for distributing this patch. I have some IBM xSeries servers that > also has a network card that uses the tg3 module (I don't know if it's the same > card or not). I have them with a customized 2.6.3 kernel. This week I

Re: How to make your own customised Debian CD?

2004-04-22 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:11:10PM +0200, Tauber, Mathias Mailing wrote: > # apt-cache show bootcd > > Package: bootcd > Priority: extra > Section: utils > Installed-Size: 152 > Maintainer: Bernd Schumacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Now, what do you consider a best way, bootcd, or mondoarchive? --

Re: kde and sound

2004-04-22 Thread Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 01:08, Mike Chandler wrote: > On Wednesday 21 April 2004 11:26 am, Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen wrote: > > Hi. > > Im new to kde (used enlightenment for years now) > > How do i turn off these stupid sounds in kde when i open a program, > > switch desktop and so on? > > Im using te

Re: [PATCH] restoring tg3 driver to latest 2.6.5 source

2004-04-22 Thread Angel L. Mateo
Hello, Thank you for distributing this patch. I have some IBM xSeries servers that also has a network card that uses the tg3 module (I don't know if it's the same card or not). I have them with a customized 2.6.3 kernel. This week I have tried to update to 2.6.5 in debian way, that is, make

Re: Getting ogg123 to output using alsa

2004-04-22 Thread Soumyadip Modak
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 23:36, George Cristian Birzan: > > __ > From: George Cristian Birzan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian User List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Getting ogg123 to output using alsa > Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004

Re: IBM Tivoli Storage software

2004-04-22 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:06:16 -0400, Drogo Bumbleroot escreveu: > I have tried installing the Tivoli RPM to the Woody > machine without any luck. How did you do? The way is converting the RPMs with alien. -- Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra +55 (11) 5685 2219 Av Sgto Ge

Re: fullscreen movie playback blurry: nvidia or TFT?

2004-04-22 Thread Paul Johnson
"Maik R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had the same problem. But I didn't realize that it only occurs at a > resolution of 1280x1024 (in other words: using the resolution of the > TFT). > > I tried changing the vertical frequency from 75Hz to 60Hz -> Problem > solved. :) Yick. 60 Hz eyestrain

Re: us international keyboard, 104 keys

2004-04-22 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Wed, 21 Apr 2004 23:15:46 -0400, Antonio Rodriguez escreveu: > I trying to figure out how I can get the apostrophe in my keyboard. Have you tried the us_intl layout? -- Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra +55 (11) 5685 2219 Av Sgto Geraldo Santana, 1100 6/71

Re: Sarge Version of Debian?

2004-04-22 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 22 April 2004 09:33 am, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > Em Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:47:05 +0100, users escreveu: > > I > > was wondering if I can download the complete Sarge version somewhere?? > > No. One has only small CD images of around 100 MiB. > > > -- > Leandr

Re: resolves all non-existent address to my local host

2004-04-22 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:55:47 -0400, marcelo escreveu: > My debian box (woody) resolves all non-existent hostnames to the local > host. You certainly have a very strange bind9 configuration. You'll have to post it here. -- Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra +55 (11) 5685

Re: Exim + OpenWebmail

2004-04-22 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-04-22, Martin penned: > Hello, i'm gone that without any problem and all works fine at first > try. Simply go apt-get install OpenWebMail package and do > run-at-first basic setup (locale, mail spool directory etc.) > I have done this as well. The particulars of the mail server shouldn't

Re: mozilla not resolving dns names

2004-04-22 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:20:57 +1200, Paul William escreveu: > Mozilla and Firebird takes ages to resolve host names. Other > browsers and programs (host, nslookup etc.) resolve very quickly. The program to check is dig, which tells you what's your server. But are you sure the prob

udev, ttys, and other pseudo-devices

2004-04-22 Thread Luke A. Kanies
Hi all, I'm trying to get udev to work on Debian unstable, and although I've kind of succeeded I still don't have a functional system. I can now successfully boot and log in via SSH, but to do so I have to manually create /dev/console (otherwise I get a kernel panic when init runs), /dev/null (ma

Re: Sarge Version of Debian?

2004-04-22 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:47:05 +0100, users escreveu: > I > was wondering if I can download the complete Sarge version somewhere?? No. One has only small CD images of around 100 MiB. -- Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra +55 (11) 5685 2219 Av Sgto Geraldo Santana, 1100 6/7

RE'ORDER

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Re: serious apt error after aptitude catastrophe

2004-04-22 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:03:40AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > tried switching to aptitude and, while I was't looking, aptitude > > started to uninstall a whole slew of fundamental packages from my > > computer! > > You did that. Aptitude warned you

Re: Newbie to SID: How to install the previous version of a package ?

2004-04-22 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-04-22, Paul Johnson penned: > --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain > > Sylvain Vedrenne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> How to install the previous version of a package ? > > If you need to ask this question, you should *NOT* be running sid. Oh, bah. You might say, "If you're going to be run

Re: 'no screens found' -- how & why?

2004-04-22 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 01:24:41PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > [sorry Ian, couldn't seem to write back to you directly, and anyway > seemed relevant to the whole list] > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 06:07:27PM +0100, Ian wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Matt Price wrote: > > > > > (II) Unloading /usr/

Re: pdf to text

2004-04-22 Thread Diego Martínez Castañeda
> if you've installed xpdf-utils, use pdftptext. the correct name is pdftotext. sorry. diego -- Diego Martínez Castañeda Técnico de Sistemas dmartinez @ keekorok.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree86

2004-04-22 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Greg Madden wrote: On Wednesday 21 April 2004 08:12 pm, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from blaze: I've got Debian 3.0r2 (Woody). Everything is unstalled, but my XFree does not working! I've also got Radeon 9000 videocard. startx says that "No devices at PCI:1:0:1,No screens detected". Please, hel

Re: [Postfix/TLS] "/etc/init.d/saslauthd script start" gives nothing

2004-04-22 Thread Bob Snyder
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 07:18:49PM +0530, Poster wrote: > On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Till Dörges wrote: > > Have you had a look at > > > > README_FILES/SASL_README > > > > in the postfix-sources yet? > > Sorry but I'm running debian sarge and didn't install from source. > Installed sarge

Re: fullscreen movie playback blurry: nvidia or TFT?

2004-04-22 Thread Maik R.
I had the same problem. But I didn't realize that it only occurs at a resolution of 1280x1024 (in other words: using the resolution of the TFT). I tried changing the vertical frequency from 75Hz to 60Hz -> Problem solved. :) [At least this works for WinXP] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: [Postfix/TLS] "/etc/init.d/saslauthd script start" gives nothing

2004-04-22 Thread Poster
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Till Dörges wrote: > Poster wrote: > > Running postfix, I get an error which says: "fatal: no SASL authentication > > mechanisms" > > > > How do I need to run saslauth or what else do I need to run postfix-tls? > > Have you had a look at > > README_FILES/SASL_README > >

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-22 Thread Jerry Turba
Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:22:20AM +0300, Kristian Niemi wrote: Is there a GUI available? I'm also thinking of switching a relatives computer from win 98 to debian, and currently the only obstacle is ... access. And perhaps I could learn mySQL, but she /really/ doesn't wan

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