Re: 2.6 and nvidia

2004-05-13 Thread Jim McCloskey
* hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> My nvidia is due in the mail soon. The nvidia packages from |> apt-cache search seem to depend on the 2.4 kernels. Could you walk |> me through the steps to get get the nvidia drivers built/installed |> on kernel 2.6.x? I have built the kernel with make-kpk

Re: Find string and cut file

2004-05-13 Thread Jacob Friis Larsen
How can I find which line number contains "1083300070" and then slice the file from that line number and to its end? sed read about ranges, complements (!), and d delete Would it be easier if I already now the line number? (I found it with grep) I think this will do it: sed '/1083300070/,$!d' fi

Re: 3ware support on debian 3.0r2

2004-05-13 Thread Michael Biebl
Constantin CHARISSIS wrote: Hi, I want to buy a 3ware raid card to install my debian on it. Do you know what 3ware raid card are natively supported by debian 3.0r2 ? IDE or SCSI? We use an 3ware 7000 ATA Raid Controller for our mail server and it works flawlessly. It's natively supported by the

here's how I installed Sun's Java, comments are welcome

2004-05-13 Thread H. S.
Recently I installed Sun's Java j2sdk-1.4.2 on my Sarge and Sid sytems. I was not sure if a Debian package exists, and was not clear about Blackdown's Java (I had always used Sun's Java), so I just downloaded and installed the SDK in /usr/local. The steps I followed are given below. But the thi

Re: cdrecord error

2004-05-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Peter Rohrman wrote: David, That sounds like a plan. Next week, I'll wipe out Sol x86 and put Debian back on. I don't think that sarge gives me the 2.6 kernel, so I guess that I don't have to worry about what Greg added to this thread. I'll let you know how it goes. Pete Oddly enough, I just t

Re: Careful Dave: Re: cdrecord error

2004-05-13 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Peter Rohrman: > > To Everyone else out there on the debian-user list: > > THIS LIST ROCKS!! I've only been on this list about a week, and I can > see so much great information being passed. This is the best email list I If you like the list, you'll love the archives. Search

Re: 2.6 and NVIDIA kernel ( FINAL )

2004-05-13 Thread welly hartanto
--- welly hartanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: well I realized that I had not installed any games ( except gnome games ) at all... I did find some slow performance to play tuxracer, chromium, etc... So, I should installed NVidia driver then. Last night I installed the driver and thank

Re: https

2004-05-13 Thread Ping Wing
> I have set up my ADSL modem to work in Linux. I can > read mails and surf web. There's a slight problem > though. I can't do login from within a site, e.g., > login to yahoo mail. A window would pop up with a > msg "The protocol https is not supported". I had > checked that the kdebase-libs is in

Re: 2.6 and NVIDIA kernel

2004-05-13 Thread welly hartanto
well I realized that I had not installed any games ( except gnome games ) at all... I did find some slow performance to play tuxracer, chromium, etc... So, I should installed NVidia driver then. Last night I installed the driver and thank God I'm successfull... Here's what I did : debian box s

Re: Is newsgate used|useable?

2004-05-13 Thread Erik Christiansen
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:32:42AM +0100, Randy Orrison wrote: > Did you check /usr/share/doc/newsgate? That's the standard place for > debian packages to install documentation files. Thank you, Randy! Seems that the little that I have previously installed had executables, and manpages, matchin

Re: Careful Dave: Re: cdrecord error

2004-05-13 Thread Peter Rohrman
Greg, Thank you for the advice, but I think the version of Debian that I had didn't have the 2.6 kernel. To Everyone else out there on the debian-user list: THIS LIST ROCKS!! I've only been on this list about a week, and I can see so much great information being passed. This is the best em

Re: https

2004-05-13 Thread Michael Banta
  - Original Message - From: jack kinnon To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 9:10 PM Subject: [SPAM] https Hi folks,   I have set up my ADSL modem to work in Linux. I can read mails and surf web. There's a slight problem though. I can't

Re: cdrecord error

2004-05-13 Thread Peter Rohrman
David, That sounds like a plan. Next week, I'll wipe out Sol x86 and put Debian back on. I don't think that sarge gives me the 2.6 kernel, so I guess that I don't have to worry about what Greg added to this thread. I'll let you know how it goes. Pete On Thu, 13 May 2004, David Cunningham wrot

https

2004-05-13 Thread jack kinnon
Hi folks,   I have set up my ADSL modem to work in Linux. I can read mails and surf web. There's a slight problem though. I can't do login from within a site, e.g., login to yahoo mail. A window would pop up with a msg "The protocol https is not supported". I had checked that the kdebase-libs is in

init: Default runlevels

2004-05-13 Thread Paul Johnson
Please read ESR's tips for asking for help. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to boot the machine to run level 3 only (no kdm etc.), > in Mandrake I used to use (in /etc/inittab) > > id:3:initdefault: > > at top and

Different ip table and missing /dev/usb/lp after using udev

2004-05-13 Thread welly hartanto
hi all.. First...I've got debian sid 2.6.5-1-686 in my office. We've got a pretty large network over here, and as long as I know, divide into two ip tables. One got 172.16.1.xxx the other 172.16.2.xxx But somehow I can't use my Samba to browse those computers connected into different ip table wit

Re: Find string and cut file

2004-05-13 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:10:15AM +0200, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: > >>How can I find which line number contains "1083300070" and then slice > >>the file from that line number and to its end? > > > >sed > > > >read about ranges, complements (!), and d delete > > Would it be easier if I already n

Re: apt-get dist-upgarde error: can't perform configuration on initscript

2004-05-13 Thread dircha
Aryan Ameri wrote: I downloaded the weekly debian Sid CDs produced by fsn.hu and added those 14 CDs to my sources.list using apt-cdrom. Then I proceded to upgrade my woody/ Sarge/Sid mixture to Sid. Everything seemed to work fine, I resolved a couple of problems with 'apt-get -f install' and then

Re: kernel source

2004-05-13 Thread Adam Aube
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello I am looking for linux kernel source any version Check www.kernel.org - the official repository. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fat32 access for user

2004-05-13 Thread Adam Aube
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > apparently umask=000, or 002, or 004, or 007, or 022, it does not give > write access for the user. what is it going on? ia m confused. Do the uid and gid setting you used match the user's uid/gid? Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: fat32 write access for user

2004-05-13 Thread Adam Aube
Isaac To wrote: >> "Adam" == Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> World-writable directories are generally discouraged unless you >> really know what you're doing - that's why I suggested 004 >> instead. > > Then you'd want 007 or 002, not 004. You are indeed correct - I just grabbed the

Re: dfsg compliant X

2004-05-13 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 05:46 pm, Greg Madden wrote: > I noticed that X-window-system is now dfsg.1-1. I guess this means > all the firmware with no source has been removed. I am not sure what > effect removing the firmware actually will have. I have a fairly new > laptop using the Radeon chip & s

Netinstall

2004-05-13 Thread Marc Beyer
Hi, I'm trying to install Sarge on a Toshiba Portege R100 laptop. This machine does not have a CD-ROM or floppy drive built in and I don't have access to any USB drives, so I'm doing a network install over PXE/TFTP. I've successfully set up the TFTP server and the laptop is loading images from

Mysql stack currupt?

2004-05-13 Thread dking
A debian stable (woody) box just crashed and after doing a full file system check and rebooting, I was able to retrive the following from syslog: May 13 15:19:24 cgi2 kernel: kmem_free: Bad obj addr (objp=ddb25240, name=dentry_cache) May 13 15:19:24 cgi2 kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL poi

Re: dell poweredge 2200 scsi installation problem

2004-05-13 Thread Scott Kveton
> > that did the trick thanks > > Excellent. Would be worth reporting this to Scott Kveton so he might > add the 2200 to his list of machines his Debian Install disk is known > to work on. Added ... thanks. Scott :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

root-tail in unstable

2004-05-13 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, After my latest upgrade, root-tail didn't start with X. I have the following in my .xsession: |root-tail -f -g 80x9+67+0 -color gray procmail/pmlog |root-tail -f -g 80x9+1055+1065 -color gray /var/log/messages I tried to run it manually, and got: |antgel $ root-tail -f -g 80x9+67+0 -co

Re: Find string and cut file

2004-05-13 Thread Jacob Friis Larsen
How can I find which line number contains "1083300070" and then slice the file from that line number and to its end? sed read about ranges, complements (!), and d delete Would it be easier if I already now the line number? (I found it with grep) Thanks, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Find string and cut file

2004-05-13 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 12:45:56AM +0200, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: > How can I find which line number contains "1083300070" and then slice > the file from that line number and to its end? sed read about ranges, complements (!), and d delete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Find string and cut file

2004-05-13 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 12:45:56AM +0200, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: > How can I find which line number contains "1083300070" and then slice > the file from that line number and to its end? sed it has a notion of ranges, complements, and the d delete command -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Download utility

2004-05-13 Thread Silvan
On Thursday 13 May 2004 06:28 am, JFL wrote: > > It depends from what kind of server you are downloading. Depending on > > the services available you could try tools like rsync, lftp (the > > mirror option), wget (also the mirror option) or unison. > > I'll be downloading from web servers. > Wget

Careful Dave: Re: cdrecord error

2004-05-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 18:25, David Cunningham wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Peter Rohrman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Thomas Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 1:23 PM > Subject: Re: cdrecord error > > Is there a volmgt on Debian in

Re: upgrade to 2.6.5 problem

2004-05-13 Thread csj
On 12. May 2004 at 8:59AM +0100, Keir Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 06:22 +0800, csj wrote: > > On 11. May 2004 at 7:34PM +0100, > > Keir Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I recently upgraded from kernel 2.4.25 to kernel 2.6.5 (im using > > > unstable) - the

Find string and cut file

2004-05-13 Thread Jacob Friis Larsen
How can I find which line number contains "1083300070" and then slice the file from that line number and to its end? Thanks, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dell poweredge 2200 scsi installation problem

2004-05-13 Thread Graham Williams
Received Fri 14 May 2004 8:14am +1000 from Stu Woodbridge: > that did the trick thanks Excellent. Would be worth reporting this to Scott Kveton so he might add the 2200 to his list of machines his Debian Install disk is known to work on. Regards, Graham Received Fri 14 May 2004 8:14am +1000

Re: cdrecord error

2004-05-13 Thread David Cunningham
- Original Message - From: "Peter Rohrman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Thomas Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 1:23 PM Subject: Re: cdrecord error > Well, I couldn't get "cdrecord" to work under Debian, so I went back and > installed Solaris x86

Re: Another Newbie question..

2004-05-13 Thread panda
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Ishwar Rattan (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: I have made progress on apt-get and othe info. I installed the system from Knoppix-3.4, it is 2.6.5 kernel and testing packages. Is there a way to boot the machine to run level 3 only (no kdm etc.), in Mandrake I used to us

Re: 2.6 and nvidia

2004-05-13 Thread csj
On 13. May 2004 at 4:56AM -0700, welly hartanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running debian sid 2.6.5-1-686 with Nvidia > GeForce4 MX 440. > I'm not using the driver from NVidia web site, since > I'm too lazy to search for it...;-) > What I did is : > - apt-get install nvidia-kernel-common > -

Re: Another Newbie question..

2004-05-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Ishwar Rattan (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have made progress on apt-get and othe info. > > I installed the system from Knoppix-3.4, it is 2.6.5 kernel > and testing packages. > > Is there a way to boot the machine to run level 3 only (no kdm etc.), > in Mandrake I used to use (in /et

Re: Newbie question on cdrom..

2004-05-13 Thread Jacob Bresciani
I assume your running scsi emulation on hdc. this would change it from hdc to sr0 ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom should fix it. --- Jacob Bresciani Systems Analyst Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Alberta Bus: (780) 492-7368 Fax: (780) 492-1811 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: choise of HDD

2004-05-13 Thread S.Squarepants
On Thu, 13 May 2004 20:56:37 +0200 "Pim Bliek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I read somewhere else (sorry, can't find the URL anymore) that there > were some probs with Seagate drives on linux? > > Anyone aware of issues? I've used Seagate for over 10 years. Only 2 have failed out of about 20 tha

Re: Download utility

2004-05-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 12:28:43PM +0200, JFL wrote: > >It depends from what kind of server you are downloading. Depending on > >the services available you could try tools like rsync, lftp (the > >mirror option), wget (also the mirror option) or unison. > > I'll be downloading from web servers. >

Re: fat32 access for user

2004-05-13 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-05-13, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > apparently umask=000, or 002, or 004, or 007, or 022, it does not give > write access for the user. what is it going on? ia m confused. Did you mount the drive read-only? -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: dell poweredge 2200 scsi installation problem

2004-05-13 Thread Graham Williams
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 07:09, Stu Woodbridge wrote: > I have a dell poweredge 2200 and a problem with installing debian. > I am using a net install from cd, the installation process does not > detect my hard drive and asks for > essential modules to be loaded from floppy. I have also tried from >

Re: View Samba file permissions from Linux?

2004-05-13 Thread Paul Johnson
Jens Benecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > we have a Samba server whose shares are mounted by Windows (2000) machines > and Linux machines. We mount the SMB shares with fstab lines like > > //getserver1/GET-Gruppe /smb/get-gruppe smbfs > uid=benecke,gid=benecke,credentials=/home/benecke/.smb-log

Newbie question on cdrom..

2004-05-13 Thread Ishwar Rattan
Another one. Debian with 2.6.5-kernel (from Knoppix-3.4, distrubution testing?). The entry in /etc/fstab is: /dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0 so no entry for /dev/cdrom (?). 1. /dev/dvd is a link to /dev/cdrom 2. no /dev/cdrom entry 3. cdrom is detected as hdc,

Re: Alias problem

2004-05-13 Thread Aldous Huxley
Whether I am he or he is me, it's all relative to your doors of perception.  :)[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you really called Aldous Huxley, or is this just an "alias problem"? :)...most of my signature quotations are from "you"!! Thanks for all thoseenlightening toughts :>On 130504, 09:39, Aldous

Re: Download utility

2004-05-13 Thread Paul Johnson
JFL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It depends from what kind of server you are downloading. Depending on >> the services available you could try tools like rsync, lftp (the >> mirror option), wget (also the mirror option) or unison. > > I'll be downloading from web servers. > Wget is an option bu

Re: Download utility

2004-05-13 Thread Paul Johnson
JFL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need a command line utility than can download several files > simultaneously and only if they have been updated. Sounds like wget is exactly what you are looking for. -- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux. You can find a worse OS, but it costs more. pg

Re: last test, sorry people

2004-05-13 Thread Paul Johnson
Wolfgang Zocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are *.test groups in usenet news He's using email. In which I don't understand where the misunderstanding is: If you can send mail, and you are receiving mail, then the mailing list is working and there is zero reason to send a test. Even

exim4 on sid-"smtp transport process returned non-zero status 0x000b"

2004-05-13 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
Sending mail to one particular domain always causes the above error, and the message is frozen. How do I go about debugging this? I did a google search on the error, but the three hits didn't produce anything useful. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: mutt in xterm fun

2004-05-13 Thread Paul Johnson
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 01:50:14AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: >> Incidentally, I used shift L in mutt to send a reply and normally it >> won't cc you but it seems to have done - is there something in the way >> your setup is inhibiting normal behaviour?

Re: mutt in xterm fun

2004-05-13 Thread Paul Johnson
Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simply, when I resize my rxvt, mutt goes to a 20-ish line display - the > rest of the window is blank. Also happens with xterm, so it's not an > rxvt bug. Is it something in your mutt configuration perhaps causing mutt to play with the terminal until

rescue boot with module

2004-05-13 Thread Paul Maser
I'm trying to boot from the woody cd using "rescbf24 root=/dev/sda3", but I also need to load a module "megaraid.o" from the floppy. How do I include that on the command line? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

dell poweredge 2200 scsi installation problem

2004-05-13 Thread Stu Woodbridge
I have a dell poweredge 2200 and a problem with installing debian. I am using a net install from cd, the installation process does not detect my hard drive and asks for essential modules to be loaded from floppy. I have also tried from disk1 of the full set (which I downloaded and burned)

Re: IMAP tunnel thru http proxy - possible?

2004-05-13 Thread Paul Johnson
Deboo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I just have http access from office (thru a proxy gateway), and >no outside POP/IMAP/SMTP access. Is it possible to somehow tunnel >all the IMAP(S)/POP(S) requests thru the proxy? The proxy allows >http/https and ftp only. Well, you also have the

Re: Shell scripting

2004-05-13 Thread Paul Mackinney
Pete Clarke declaimed: > > The core loop is clearly > > > > > for file in "$1" > > > do > > > filename=${file%.*} > > > echo "Adding $file to $filename.zip..." > > > $ZIP $ARGS "$filename" "$file" > /dev/null > > > > > > let "nofiles += 1"

Re: error while processing console-common_0.7.41_all.deb

2004-05-13 Thread Iwan van der Kleyn
Xavier Pitz wrote: Thank you verry much for this tip. I hope that this package will be updated and fixed soon. Hi there, Got the same problem today and I found a working solution through Google: move or remove /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz (I moved it to /root just to be sure, so I could have

Another Newbie question..

2004-05-13 Thread Ishwar Rattan
I have made progress on apt-get and othe info. I installed the system from Knoppix-3.4, it is 2.6.5 kernel and testing packages. Is there a way to boot the machine to run level 3 only (no kdm etc.), in Mandrake I used to use (in /etc/inittab) id:3:initdefault: at top and it does not wor

Re: test, please ignore

2004-05-13 Thread Paul Johnson
Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please don't CC me. Also _please_ read the following before posting: > Documentation - http://www.debian.org/doc/ > FAQ - http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ > Install manual (i386) - http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install You'd think he'd real

problem with X-4.3 + flat panels using dvi cables and nvidia graphics card

2004-05-13 Thread James D. Freels
I am having a nagging problem with my Nvidia-GeForce FX 5200 video card. I am hoping to get some help from this forum(s) on how to correct the problem(s). Please reply directly or through the forum with advise on this problem. First, let me give some details of my setup. The video card is a PCI

Re: ext2 to reiserfs conversion

2004-05-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 10:27:37AM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > from what I know, you can not. > > That is to say, that you can not do it without backing up or > > transferring you data. > > Actually, you might be able to. Look at > > http://tzukanov

Re: cdrecord error

2004-05-13 Thread Peter Rohrman
Well, I couldn't get "cdrecord" to work under Debian, so I went back and installed Solaris x86. Funny thing happened when I did that. Solaris x86 was giving me the same error when I tried to run "cdrecord." After poking around for a while, I noticed that volmgt was on. I shut off volmgt, and v

Re: Restoring /etc/inittab

2004-05-13 Thread Adam Funk
On Thursday 13 May 2004 08:20, Pierg75 wrote: > It works for sure, because somewhere i use it too. > I was meaning about the comcept: > because if you get use of this approach, when you go to work on a > machine that doesn't have this alias, immagine what you coul do if you > write rm /etc/apache/

Re: Does nice-ness exist for bandwidth? [sic]

2004-05-13 Thread Bob Schlärmann
On Wed, 12 May 2004 17:56:17 +0200 Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 May 2004 02:52:33 +1000 > Lex Hider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Now if I'm web-browsing and reading a page already loaded > > all the bandwidth goes to wget/apt-get. > > But when I am loading a web-site o

Re: Local plugins for FireFox?

2004-05-13 Thread Chris Black
On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 11:29, Paul Smith wrote: > But, I want to install some plugins in my local plugin directory; > according to all the docs, Google searches, etc. I found that should be > ~/.mozilla/plugins (even for FireFox). > > But, when I add things there and restart my browser, they aren't

RE: choise of HDD

2004-05-13 Thread Pim Bliek
I read somewhere else (sorry, can't find the URL anymore) that there were some probs with Seagate drives on linux? Anyone aware of issues? > -Original Message- > From: Cristi Banciu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 8:30 PM > To: Pim Bliek > Cc: 'debian' > Subject:

apt-get dist-upgarde error: can't perform configuration on initscript

2004-05-13 Thread Aryan Ameri
Hi, I downloaded the weekly debian Sid CDs produced by fsn.hu and added those 14 CDs to my sources.list using apt-cdrom. Then I proceded to upgrade my woody/ Sarge/Sid mixture to Sid. Everything seemed to work fine, I resolved a couple of problems with 'apt-get -f install' and then issued the 'a

Re: choise of HDD

2004-05-13 Thread Cristi Banciu
Pim Bliek wrote: Hiya all, I am in the market for a new HDD for my Debian (Sarge) Desktop. I have an NForce2 ASUS A7N8X Deluxe 2.0 motherboard with 2 PATA connectors and 2 SATA ones. I guess I prefer SATA because.. well, it's the future :). Any suggestions? I am looking for something fast, in the

Re: graphic card problems

2004-05-13 Thread Jacob Bresciani
I had a lot of problems with i810 video cards (intel graphics extreme2's in particular). I ended up add the i810 framebuffer to the kernel, setting "vga=791" in lilo.conf and using fbdev as the video driver in XF86Config. if it's an integrated card you may also need to allocate more memory to

Re: Keysigning in Omaha, or Lincoln for that matter?

2004-05-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-05-12T16:11:35Z, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm going to be in Omaha, NE, USA on May 14 and 15 (Friday and Saturday). > Anyone want to get together to trade PGP/GPG signatures? Furthermore, since I have roughly 12 hours to kill on those two days, I could make a detour to

Re: graphic card problems

2004-05-13 Thread Kent West
Thanks for all the surggestions, I have tried adding agpgart but there was not change. Now the first error message is (EE) I810: Given depth (1) is not supported by i810 driver I have played around with the colour depths, evening setting to 1 didn't change this situation. Did you play with these

Re: Alias problem

2004-05-13 Thread Aldous Huxley
Great advice.  Thanks to all.   Problem solved! Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2'

Re: graphic card problems

2004-05-13 Thread James Hosken
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Mark wrote: | On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 12:48:55PM +0100, James Hosken wrote: | |>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |>Hash: SHA1 |> |> |> |>James Hosken wrote: |>| |>| |>| James Hosken wrote: |>| | I've tying to configure xfree86 on a old PIII450

Exim errors

2004-05-13 Thread Jorge Santos
Hello, I've been getting the following mail from Exim for about four days now, about once a day: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb ]; then /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim retry >/dev/null; fi To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sa

kernel source

2004-05-13 Thread XzbenjudahX
 Hello I am looking for linux kernel source any version I am not sure what the magic words are, but from what I have been able to gather it is the source trees. I have seen the free dos kernel source for the command shell  command.com  io.sys  dos.sys, but I am not sure if linux is the same. I am

postfix not connecting to mysql

2004-05-13 Thread Gerard Ceraso
I am trying to set up postfix to use mysql, and I seem to be having a few issues. Here are some of the errors I am getting. May 13 10:10:39 debian postfix/trivial-rewrite[942]: warning: connect to mysql server localhost: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.so

Re: Alias problem

2004-05-13 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Aldous Huxley: > Whenever I create the alias: [alias 'ls=ls --color=auto'] it works > just fine until I log out and then log back in, then, magically, it's > not there. Why doesn't linux save these changes to disk? That's a feature. The way to do this is: - try it out at the co

Local plugins for FireFox?

2004-05-13 Thread Paul Smith
Hi all; I have the latest FireFox from sid installed on my system, and I'm invoking it with /usr/bin/firefox. If I add plugins to the system plugin directory, /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins, then they work fine. But, I want to install some plugins in my local plugin directory; according to all

cached tex fonts

2004-05-13 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Is there a simpler way to purge the cached font metrics in /var/cache/fonts than something like find /var/cache/fonts -type f -name "*.pk" -o -name "*.tfm" | xargs rm ? In particular, I find that upgrading tetex packages doesn't do this automatically. Should it? Is this a bug? -- Nothing c

Samba and network printing

2004-05-13 Thread John L Fjellstad
I'm running a Debian Woody system with Samba 3 from backports.org. What I'm trying to do is set up the Adobe Postscript Windows drivers to a Epson printer I have with CUPS and Samba. I have no problem printing through CUPS on the UNIX side, nor printing through Samba on the Windows side as long a

exim: permission denied

2004-05-13 Thread Peter
Hello everybody. I'm new to the list, and this is my first time posting a question here. Thanks in advance for your patience! I recently installed woody 2.4 for use as a POP3/SMTP server. I configured exim and qpopper. the pop side is working like a dream, but I'm having an intermittent SMTP pro

Re: Alias problem

2004-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 06:49:16AM -0700, Aldous Huxley wrote: > Whenever I create the alias: [alias 'ls=ls --color=auto'] it works > just fine until I log out and then log back in, then, magically, it's > not there. Why doesn't linux save these changes to disk? Because it doesn't work that way (

Re: Alias problem

2004-05-13 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Aldous Huxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whenever I create the alias: [alias 'ls=ls --color=auto'] it works just > fine until I log out and then log back in, then, magically, it's not > there. Why doesn't linux save these changes to disk? Alias are added to ~/.bashrc To do this though,

Re: Alias problem

2004-05-13 Thread David Cannings
On Thursday 13 May 2004 14:49, Aldous Huxley wrote: > Whenever I create the alias: [alias 'ls=ls --color=auto'] it works just > fine until I log out and then log back in, then, magically, it's not > there. Why doesn't linux save these changes to disk? Try adding the alias command to ~/.profile, ~

Alias problem

2004-05-13 Thread Aldous Huxley
Whenever I create the alias: [alias 'ls=ls --color=auto'] it works just fine until I log out and then log back in, then, magically, it's not there.  Why doesn't linux save these changes to disk?     Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2'

Debian install on ibook, blank screen

2004-05-13 Thread Ben Cade
I am in the process of setting up a dual boot with OSX and debian on my ibook. I have partitioned accordingly, and installed debian to the first partition correctly. Also, yaboot seems to be working correctly.When rebooting, i can do one of two things: 1. Hold the option button to get

Re: mutt in xterm fun

2004-05-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (13/05/04 12:27), Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 01:50:14AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Incidentally, I used shift L in mutt to send a reply and normally it > > won't cc you but it seems to have done - is there something in the way > > your setup is inhibiting normal behaviour

Re: date locale problem

2004-05-13 Thread cantona
Yes, it works! thanks On Mon, 2004-05-13 at 13:46 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 08:32:50PM +0800, cantona wrote: > > However "LC_TIME=C date" still display the zh_HK date > > "LC_ALL=C date" works, but it change all locate to C.. > > I dont want like that. > > Have you s

Re: last test, sorry people

2004-05-13 Thread Wolfgang Zocher
There are *.test groups in usenet news -- Wolfgang Zocher http://www.wolfgang-zocher.privat.t-online.de/ Registered Linux User #337888 using Debian GNU/Linux 97.025% of statistics are wrong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: Download utility

2004-05-13 Thread Jacob Bresciani
if the webserver is running sshd rsync can be tunneled through ssh. --- Jacob Bresciani Systems Analyst Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Alberta Bus: (780) 492-7368 Fax: (780) 492-1811 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 13-May-04, at 4:28 AM, JFL wrote: It depends from what kin

Re: Failed to open /dev/ttySO

2004-05-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am using smsclient with a normal user. > I changed some settings and smsclient works with root and normally > also with a normal user but i have troubles with /dev/ttyS0 > > The user has no rights for ttyS0 ? > ==> Failed to open /

Re: date locale problem

2004-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 08:32:50PM +0800, cantona wrote: > However "LC_TIME=C date" still display the zh_HK date > "LC_ALL=C date" works, but it change all locate to C.. > I dont want like that. Have you set LC_ALL=zh_HK? Don't - use the LANG variable instead of LC_ALL if you want to be able to ov

Re: Failed to open /dev/ttySO

2004-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 01:31:51PM +0200, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > I am using smsclient with a normal user. > I changed some settings and smsclient works with root and normally also > with a normal user but i have troubles with /dev/ttyS0 > > The user has no rights for ttyS0 ? > ==> Fail

Re: rpm and Debian

2004-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 03:32:57PM -0400, Lee Hanxue wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 2004 00:58:58 -0500 > dircha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [1] http://packages.debian.org > > [2] http://apt-get.org > > [3] http://www.backports.org > > [4] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ > > [5] http://lists.d

Re: date locale problem

2004-05-13 Thread cantona
Hi, However "LC_TIME=C date" still display the zh_HK date "LC_ALL=C date" works, but it change all locate to C.. I dont want like that. Regards, cantona On 四, 2004-05-13 at 12:17 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 02:33:17AM +0800, cantona wrote: > > I am using locale zh_HK, t

RE: VIRUS DETECTED! - Protected Mail System

2004-05-13 Thread contentfilter
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Re: 2.6 and nvidia

2004-05-13 Thread welly hartanto
I'm running debian sid 2.6.5-1-686 with Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440. I'm not using the driver from NVidia web site, since I'm too lazy to search for it...;-) What I did is : - apt-get install nvidia-kernel-common - apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source and I've got my kernel source installed too. My XF86

debian-sparc tg station SDT400 INSTALL

2004-05-13 Thread Shirley
I am having problems with the installation of v.3 debian on the above TG Station SDT400 sparc.  I cannot find any record of the machine at the Sun site so am not 100% sure if the machine is 64 bit or an early 128 bit model.  I believe, however, that the sbus was / is 64 bits wide. I get as f

Failed to open /dev/ttySO

2004-05-13 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Hi, I am using smsclient with a normal user. I changed some settings and smsclient works with root and normally also with a normal user but i have troubles with /dev/ttyS0 The user has no rights for ttyS0 ? ==> Failed to open /dev/ttyS0 How can i change my /dev/ttyS0 so that a regular user can

Re: Install NVIDIA NV17 GeForce4 MX 440 for newbie please

2004-05-13 Thread welly hartanto
First... What kind of debian you're using ? ( woody, sid, sarge ) Second...Please supply your kernel version. By typing uname -a on console... For an example, this is what I did last time with my debian sid box on 2.4.25-686 kernel : - installing nvidia-kernel-2.4.25-1-686 by executing apt-get i

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