XKB-Error Message on logon after upgrade to Gnome 2.6 in SID

2004-06-01 Thread Christian Riedel
Hi, after having upgraded to gnome 2.6 on sid yesterday, I now get an error message when logging in: Fehler beim Aktivieren der XKB-Konfiguration. Vermutlich liegt ein internes Problem mit dem X-Server vor. Versionsdaten des X-Servers: The XFree86 Project, Inc 4031 Sie verwenden XFree 4.3.0.

Re: Reset sound card in alsa?

2004-06-01 Thread Silvan
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 12:08 am, Mark Par wrote: > On Mon, 31 May 2004 19:02:39 -0400, Paul Galbraith wrote: > > Does anyone know of a way to reset (for lack of a better word) my > > card so that I don't need to reboot the machine? I'm using 2.4.25 > > kernel with sarge alsa packages. > > To rest

Re: dhclient restriction in Unstable?

2004-06-01 Thread Silvan
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 11:38 am, Robert L. Harris wrote: > Is there a simple way to tell the stock dhclient to only listen on eth0 > and not eth1? I'm working remote for a couple days and can't afford to > take it offline again (giving my wife directions to remove the default > route was a coupl

Re: can not access my disk with cfdisk

2004-06-01 Thread Silvan
On Monday 31 May 2004 11:52 am, LeVA wrote: > > If that doesn't work, you will have to use sfdisk, it usually always > > works, but is much more difficult to use than cfdisk or fdisk. > But what should I do with fdisk or sfdisk? I don't have any idea about > howto fix this. I don't even know what

Passwordless SSH setup

2004-06-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 12:42:38AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > /usr/bin/rsync \ > -vaz\ > -e /usr/bin/ssh \ > --delete\ > /home/office/ \ > 10.1.1.5:/home/shared/ > > this assumes passwordless ssh connecti

Re: Using rsync over SSH

2004-06-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:12:27PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > I need to setup a way to rsync from a Solaris machine to a > Debian machine. I don't have root on the Solaris box and I > don't want the Debian user to have access to the Solaris > machine other than to rsync some files in read_only m

Re: TMDA and other challenge-response systems considered harmful

2004-06-01 Thread Tim Connors
richard lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 1 Jun 2004 12:36:59 -0400: > On Tuesday 01 June 2004 08:29, Tom Allison wrote: > [...] > > They are also a pain in the neck when you get a CR sent to a > > mailing list. > > > > But most importantly, and this is from personal experience here, > > they

Re: problems with sound

2004-06-01 Thread Eric Cheney
On Tuesday, 1 June 2004 at 21:21:34 +0900, B. L. Jilek wrote: > Hi Eric! > > On Mon, 31 May 2004, Eric Cheney wrote: > > > On Monday, 31 May 2004 at 21:22:49 -0500, dircha wrote: > > > Eric Cheney wrote: > > > >Hi People. I am trying to get a box up and running and am stuck with > > > >sound pro

Re: suffering from an apparently broken tcp

2004-06-01 Thread Ignatz Sol
> what's going on. I *think* the tool I used was called netperf. > http://www.ethereal.com/";>ethereal is a great packet analyzer... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libhtml-mason-perl + perl 5.8.4 : Missing File::Glob.pm?

2004-06-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 08:32:31PM +0100, James Keasley wrote: > I'm playing with Perl's HTML-Mason module at the moment on my > unstable box. > > Right now, however, the config appears to be failing to work > for some reason. I have checked the bug reports, and there > doesn't seem to be anything

xfree86 'make isntall' error

2004-06-01 Thread jack kinnon
Hi Thomas, My earlier msg about "c++ not available" was a mistake. The following is the error msg. make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/xc/lib/GL/GL' make[4]: *** No rule to make target `../../../lib/GL/glx/?*.o', needed by `libGL.so.1.2'. Stop. make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/xc/lib/GL/G

Re: Samba LDAP Help

2004-06-01 Thread Stephen Touset
I'm still going through the same hassle you are. Let me tell you, it's not simple at all. webmin-ldap-useradmin helped with some of the setup, but it was only a small step in the right direction. Right now, I'm working on a fork of it that should simplify the backend administration. However, as

Re: suffering from an apparently broken tcp

2004-06-01 Thread Paul Galbraith
Kim Sparrow wrote: So I managed to set up a Debian Woody box with Tomcat + Scarab, Apache + Subversion, winbind authentication, Mailman, and a few other goodies. I thought that everything was fine, until I tried to move the existing Subversion repository over to the new system via SMB. I then found

Re: Backup to CD-RW

2004-06-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, jack kinnon wrote: > Hi folks, > > It's time for me to work out a good backup system. I am looking for a reliable > software which is able to do incremental backup to a CD-RW. A search thro' the net > throws up a lot but which one is best for Debian? # # change -90 to be

suffering from an apparently broken tcp

2004-06-01 Thread Kim Sparrow
So I managed to set up a Debian Woody box with Tomcat + Scarab, Apache + Subversion, winbind authentication, Mailman, and a few other goodies. I thought that everything was fine, until I tried to move the existing Subversion repository over to the new system via SMB. I then found that files larger

Re: routing in presence of PPP

2004-06-01 Thread Paul Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When ppp is started, these messages are recorded in the syslog. ... pppd[n]: Couldn't set pass-filter in kernel: Invalid argument ... pppd[n]: not replacing existing default route to eth0[192.168.1.1] ... pppd[n]: Cannot determine eth

Re: routing in presence of PPP

2004-06-01 Thread Paul Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When ppp is started, these messages are recorded in the syslog. ... pppd[n]: Couldn't set pass-filter in kernel: Invalid argument ... pppd[n]: not replacing existing default route to eth0[192.168.1.1] ... pppd[n]: Cannot determine eth

Backup to CD-RW

2004-06-01 Thread jack kinnon
Hi folks,   It's time for me to work out a good backup system. I am looking for a reliable software which is able to do incremental backup to a CD-RW. A search thro' the net throws up a lot but which one is best for Debian?   Would appreciate some suggestions   Cheers   Do you Yahoo!?Friends. Fu

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2004-06-01 Thread Marino Daniele
Hi Staff, I’ve got a problem when i try to download. with apt-get, KDE. The screen shows that there are unmet dependencies for KDE. The repository is debian.fastweb.it.   How i solve the problem??   Thanks a lot Best regards Daniel  

Re: how-to: wine with 256 color depth

2004-06-01 Thread welly hartanto
> welly hartanto wrote: > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > > Choose 8 bit color. This will probably mess up the > colors for some > normal X apps. I'm not sure if you can make > multiple configuration so > that Ctrl-Alt-+ will switch between these modes. > With KDE (the only way > I kn

Re: routing in presence of PPP

2004-06-01 Thread John Hasler
Peter Easthope writes: > Does anyone recognize the problem or have a suggestion? Yes. You or some script erroneously created a default route to your LAN. Get rid of it. You neither need nor want it. Ignore the pass-filter and proxy arp messages. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) D

Re: Reset sound card in alsa?

2004-06-01 Thread Paul Galbraith
Thanks Mark, I did try this and it didn't fix anything for me. When I've got a bit more time I think I'll have to dig around and see if I can find a hardware utility that will let me get directly at my specific card. Cheers, Paul - Original Message - From: "Mark Par" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Since Gnome 2.6 upgrade, no option for us international map in gnome keyboard applet

2004-06-01 Thread Jerome
As with other Debian unstable users, I've moved up to Gnome 2.6. It's great, BUT, I can't get the gnome keyboard applet to switch to us international (I like to use accents for other languages sometimes). I see maps for Us and US iso as well as foreign options, but nothing with us international

Re: script to stay connected

2004-06-01 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time s. keeling said... > Incoming from David Baron: > > Is there a little script that can be cron-d to check if the internet > > connection (pptp -> ppp0) is up and if not, reconnect? > > Try using the keyword "persist" in /etc/ppp/options. For some reason, that does not work for me

routing in presence of PPP

2004-06-01 Thread petereasthope
When ppp is started, these messages are recorded in the syslog. ... pppd[n]: Couldn't set pass-filter in kernel: Invalid argument ... pppd[n]: not replacing existing default route to eth0[192.168.1.1] ... pppd[n]: Cannot determine ethernet address

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/01/04 19:50, Mark Crean wrote: Thanks very much. Helpful. Zless works fine and so does vim (checking, though I don't use it). Anyone know of a gui viewer as well? gvim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Can't Access DVD-ROM, Inspiron 8100

2004-06-01 Thread Bill Holloway
Hello, I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 and am using Gnome (no kde) and the testing/unstable debian with kernel-source-2.6.6. I'm trying to access the CD/DVD-ROM in the fixed bay on the box's left side. The BIOS reports the optical drive as "DVD-ROM". I have not changed it since purchase. There is n

Re: Thanks; introductions; my question.

2004-06-01 Thread dircha
Pigeon wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 10:51:16PM -0500, dircha wrote: The case for (b) is inaccurate... the filesystem *will* be readable under Windoze, but will contain a whole bunch of files and directories as opposed to a single file called something.iso. I'm betting it's (a), and all you need t

Re: Masterizzare immagin iso

2004-06-01 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 12:21:43PM +0200, guido wrote: > Esiste una guida per poter masterizzare le immagini iso > di debian, utilizzando mandrake 9.2? grazie guido cdrecord dev=x,y,z debian-cd-image.iso x,y,z = bus/unit/LUN for your CD writer debian-cd-image.iso = filename of the immagini iso di

Re: Thanks; introductions; my question.

2004-06-01 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 10:51:16PM -0500, dircha wrote: > Howard Levine wrote: > >I have learned that the CD that I had burnt at the public library is > >an ".iso" image and is unusable, whereas I could have programmed NERO > >to reinterpret the image when it was created. Is the ISObuster > >utili

Re: broken cups in sid

2004-06-01 Thread Tristan Mills
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 22:47, richard lyons wrote: > On Tuesday 01 June 2004 14:39, Tristan Mills wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 19:10, richard lyons wrote: > [...]> > > cupsys shouldn't be depending on libcupsys2. Its kdelibs4 (and > > probably 3) which do. If you can live without KDE then gettin

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from richard lyons: > On Tuesday 01 June 2004 17:37, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > Paul Scott wrote in linux.debian.user: > > > > Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the > > > > /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that > > > > > > zless > > > > Or simpl

Re: Changing Default Display Mgr

2004-06-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 06:49:49PM -0500, Bill Holloway wrote: | How may I change my default display manager? Thanks in advance. First ensure that you have two or more installed. Then run dpkg-reconfigure on one of the packages. For example have both xdm and gdm installed and run 'dpkg-reconfig

Re: kernel upgrade: mkinitrd: module raid1 not found

2004-06-01 Thread Bob
Hi Justin, Thanks for your help, I got it working now, but it is weird. This is what I read at http://www.wlug.org.nz/SoftwareRaid: "The most recent versions (eg LinuxKernel2.6) of the Debian kernel-image packages build a new initrd image upon installation. They should automatically notice if the

Re: kernel upgrade: mkinitrd: module raid1 not found

2004-06-01 Thread Bob
Hi Justin, Thanks for your help, I got it working now, but it is weird. This is what I read at http://www.wlug.org.nz/SoftwareRaid: "The most recent versions (eg LinuxKernel2.6) of the Debian kernel-image packages build a new initrd image upon installation. They should automatically notice if the

Changing Default Display Mgr

2004-06-01 Thread Bill Holloway
How may I change my default display manager? Thanks in advance. Lovin' Debian, Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread Mark Crean
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 22:37, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Paul Scott wrote in linux.debian.user: > > > Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the > > > /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that will > > > allow me to read them without having to decompress them first

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread richard lyons
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 17:37, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Paul Scott wrote in linux.debian.user: > > > Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the > > > /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that > > > will allow me to read them without having to decompress them > > >

Re: Missing Modules for lm_sensors, where do they come from?

2004-06-01 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:50:21 +0200 Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chris, > thanks for your answer, I spent most of yesterday googling and looking > at the lm-sensors website. I found various module packages, but never > did actually find one for my Kernel, but I also never ever found > anythi

handling runlevels independently with update-rc.d

2004-06-01 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hi, I am in the course of writing a graphical runlevel editor, and I happen to have the following questions: 1) What would you recommend to create the symlinks in the various runlevels, what is the preferred way of manipulating the runlevel stuff? a) ln -s  b) update-rc.d My firs

enabling windows key in X

2004-06-01 Thread Nuno Lopes
hello, I've been trying to enable the left "windows menu" key in my laptop as "Super_L" but I haven't been able to do it.. I tried changing the config files and adding Option "XkbOptions""altwin:menu, altwin:super_win" to my XF86Config-4 file but it didn't work.. I'm running d

Re: script to stay connected

2004-06-01 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from David Baron: > Is there a little script that can be cron-d to check if the internet > connection (pptp -> ppp0) is up and if not, reconnect? Try using the keyword "persist" in /etc/ppp/options. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)

Re: Exim4 frozen messages

2004-06-01 Thread Peter Hicks
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 09:41:07AM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote: >Hi there: > >I recently installed a sid system from scratch, and am in the process of >setting it up and using it as my main desktop system. The default MTA comming >with sid is Exim4, and I am having difficulty setting it up. I have e

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Paul Scott wrote in linux.debian.user: > > Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the > > /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that will > > allow me to read them without having to decompress them first? > zless Or simply put "eval `/usr/bin/lessfile`" in ~

script to stay connected

2004-06-01 Thread David Baron
Is there a little script that can be cron-d to check if the internet connection (pptp -> ppp0) is up and if not, reconnect? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samba LDAP Help

2004-06-01 Thread Ignatz Sol
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:00:23 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How is debian's samba package configured? Does it come with acl support > or LDAP back-end support? How does someone find out what a package was > precompiled with. I was reading a web site on how to set tup sam

Samba LDAP Help

2004-06-01 Thread David . Grudek
How is debian's samba package configured? Does it come with acl support or LDAP back-end support? How does someone find out what a package was precompiled with. I was reading a web site on how to set tup samba with LDAP and finding a good how to that steps a newbie though how to set up LDAP

互動雜誌 issue 011

2004-06-01 Thread peter
互動雜誌 issue 011 "GOOD NEWS" Online Magazines issue 011 『集合你我專長,凝聚互動力量』 看後,請繼續轉寄! ( 請按 F11 轉至全畫面 ) http://wwc.debian-user+lists.debian.org.magazine.issue11.ourhappyday.sytes.net:13792/main.php

Re: Very OT (and probably politically incorrect) - trivial programming language

2004-06-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > I don't actually think anyone has a child for the child's sake. It's > not like growing up, being a human being, is necessarily fun, and it's > certainly not easy. It's awfully hard to read the newspaper headlines > and believe that anyone is bringing a child into the w

Re: Very OT (and probably politically incorrect) - trivial programming language

2004-06-01 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-01, Steve Lamb penned: > This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) > --enig9BC6864AA68831B94623 Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Christopher Judd wrote: >> ? What do you base this on? In my experience,

Re: broken cups in sid

2004-06-01 Thread Curt Howland
richard lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Unfortunately, I cannot duplicate this on my system. I have the >circular dependency problem > cupsys depends on libcupsys2 >=1.1.13-1 > libcupsys2 conflicts with libcupsys2-gnutls10 > cupsys depends on libcupsys2-gnutls10 >with a few complications

console keyboard setup question

2004-06-01 Thread Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler
I have a sarge system that was upgraded from woody a while back. At some point during an apt-get update/upgrade my keyboard and locale settings were lost. My console keyboard settings seem to have reverted to default, but kbdconfig returns "Looking for keymap to install: None". I need to set

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Mark Crean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040601 21:27]: > Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the > /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that will allow > me to read them without having to decompress them first? Put »eval `lesspipe`« in your ~/.bashrc, and you c

Re: broken cups in sid

2004-06-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 02:10:35PM -0400, richard lyons wrote: > On Saturday 29 May 2004 20:29, Micha Feigin wrote: > [...] > > Here is a list of the cups related packages I have installed if it > > helps (I am not sure all are needed but I didn't feel like trying > > to figure which to throw out):

Re: broken cups in sid

2004-06-01 Thread richard lyons
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 14:39, Tristan Mills wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 19:10, richard lyons wrote: [...]> > cupsys shouldn't be depending on libcupsys2. Its kdelibs4 (and > probably 3) which do. If you can live without KDE then getting rid > of it should sort this out, otherwise wait for updat

Re: Kernel 2.6

2004-06-01 Thread Joris Huizer
Gilberto Villani Brito wrote: Hi, I'm using Kernel 2.6.4 in my desktop, so I didn't note difference about velocity, but I liked. I have a nvidia and I need to create the devs to use the driver, but when I restart my computer this devs disappear. How can I do to this devs become permanent??? When I

Log out in Gnome 2.6 hangs PC

2004-06-01 Thread Jaap Haitsma
After running upgrading to Gnome 2.6 also X got upgraded my PC hangs after I click on logout in the gnome menu. Any ideas how to get this fixed?? Thanks Jaap -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread Philippe Berini
* Mark Crean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 08:27:26PM +0100]: > Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the > /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that will allow > me to read them without having to decompress them first? most -- Philippe Berini

X resolution changed by upgrading to Gnome 2.6

2004-06-01 Thread Jaap Haitsma
I just upgraded to gnome 2.6, also X got upgraded. Problem is that resolution of X changed from 1024x768 to 800x600. Running xf86config does not seem to help and in desktop preferences / screen resolution in gnome the 1024x768 resolution is not even listed. Any ideas?? Jaap I'm running SID on a

UPS Package Tracking Information

2004-06-01 Thread customer . service
Sorry, a valid UPS tracking number was not found in your message. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel-2.6.5 and modules question..

2004-06-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 10:40:57PM -0400, Jerome R. Acks wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 12:29:15PM -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > > > I am running kernel 2.6.5. I removed the ide-scsi line from > > /etc/modules but it is loaded all the same. Looks like a fresh > > /etc/modules is generated at e

Re: Integrate DRI Mach-64 into 2.6.* kernels?

2004-06-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 08:55:26AM +0300, David Baron wrote: > Some have managed to compile and get this working. I have not. > > Even so, one would need to redo this for any kernel upgrade and there is no > guaranty it would work this time around. > > Maybe it is time to integrate this module i

Re: VMware-4.5 workstation under Debian/testing?

2004-06-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 12:10:23PM +1000, glenn wrote: > Hi Ishwar > I run vmware workstation on sid (upto date latest, you know the one that > unistalls samba and kde and messes with cups) with 2.6.6, and have done > on 2.6.5 for ages, and server out windows advanced server to upto 3 > clients wit

"Permissions on the file /dev/pmu are broken"

2004-06-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
I just upgraded to the Gnome 2.6 packages in unstable on my iBook laptop. Upon logging in to Gnome 2.6 the first time, I receive an error dialog popup message titled "Error" whose text is "Permissions on the file /dev/pmu are broken". Does anyone know what program pops up this error message (so I

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread Paul Scott
Mark Crean wrote: Hi Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that will allow me to read them without having to decompress them first? zless Paul Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Tue, 01 Jun 2004, Mark Crean wrote: > Hi > > Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the > /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that will allow > me to read them without having to decompress them first? > I use vim Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang ba

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread Daniel Teichert
And I heard Mark Crean exclaim: > Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the > /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that will allow > me to read them without having to decompress them first? I use zless, or you can pipe the output of zcat to anything that'll

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread Carlos Hanson
On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 20:27:26 +0100 Mark Crean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the > /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that will allow > me to read them without having to decompress them first? > > :) > > Fish

Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread Mark Crean
Hi Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that will allow me to read them without having to decompress them first? :) Fish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Very OT (and probably politically incorrect) - trivial programming language

2004-06-01 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-05-31, s. keeling penned: > > ii) I think it's time we changed your other name. You're obviously > a lightning rod for controversy for some using your present one. > How about "Fred", or "Joe?" Bah! I like my name. It's going nowhere. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

writing huge files on DVD

2004-06-01 Thread David Andel
Hi I've made a strange observation: I can write files up to ~100M on DVD without problem (using k3b, which in turn uses dvd+rw-tools). But everything >1G gets written corrupted and takes up only about 15M on the DVD, even though k3b does not find any difference while validating after the write!

Re: Very OT (and probably politically incorrect) - trivial programming language

2004-06-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Christopher Judd wrote: > ? What do you base this on? In my experience, it's a very > small minority who have children for purely selfish reasons. Just take a look at their actions and the reasons they give. Most reasons are quite selfish in that they have very little to do with the chi

Kernel 2.6

2004-06-01 Thread Gilberto Villani Brito
Hi, I'm using Kernel 2.6.4 in my desktop, so I didn't note difference about velocity, but I liked. I have a nvidia and I need to create the devs to use the driver, but when I restart my computer this devs disappear. How can I do to this devs become permanent??? When I create a symbolic link in /dev

Re: Kernel-2.6.6 compilation??

2004-06-01 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:41:51 -0400 (EDT) Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In kernel config step for ATA/ATAPI.. support section > for 'scsi emulation support'--> > > Warning: ide-scsi is no longer needed for cd writing. > The 2.6 kernel supports direct writing to ide-cd. etc. > > What u

Re: Kernel-2.6.6 compilation??

2004-06-01 Thread Ishwar Rattan
In kernel config step for ATA/ATAPI.. support section for 'scsi emulation support'--> Warning: ide-scsi is no longer needed for cd writing. The 2.6 kernel supports direct writing to ide-cd. etc. What utlility can be used to burn CDs? -ishwar On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > I am run

Re: Kernel-2.6.6 compilation??

2004-06-01 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:14:30 -0400 (EDT) Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running debian/testing/kernel-2.6.5 (from knoppix-3.4 cd). > > I want to compile kernel-2.6.6. > I have downloaded the kernel-sources-2.6.6 and unarchived in > /usr/local/src/kernel-source-2.6.6 > made make xc

Kernel-2.6.6 compilation??

2004-06-01 Thread Ishwar Rattan
I am running debian/testing/kernel-2.6.5 (from knoppix-3.4 cd). I want to compile kernel-2.6.6. I have downloaded the kernel-sources-2.6.6 and unarchived in /usr/local/src/kernel-source-2.6.6 made make xconfig, make-kgpg clean, fakeroot make-kgpg --revision=custom1.0 kernel-mage The image install

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-06-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 09:40:49PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: | On 2004-05-29, Steve Lamb penned: | > | >> Syntax highlighting (at least full syntax highlighting), you | >> certainly don't have. | > | > Which would be the one. | | At the risk of undermining my own argument, if you use vim

raid5, grub?

2004-06-01 Thread Richard Weil
Is it possible to put /boot and / directories on a RAID5 device? I've found examples of RAID1 using GRUB, but not RAID5. RAID5 seems tricker, because you can't do something like: grub>root (md0,0) grub>setup (md0) and in the context of RAID5, referring to the individual drives isn't very helpful

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-06-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 07:45:41PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: | Kai Grossjohann wrote: | > If you have more than one level, then you need to hit >> more often. | > (At least if my understanding of >> does is right.) Correct. | As I said, meaningful problem. | I certainly don't see this a p

Re: broken cups in sid

2004-06-01 Thread Tristan Mills
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 19:10, richard lyons wrote: > On Saturday 29 May 2004 20:29, Micha Feigin wrote: > [...] > > Here is a list of the cups related packages I have installed if it > > helps (I am not sure all are needed but I didn't feel like trying > > to figure which to throw out): > > > > i

ext3 and charsets

2004-06-01 Thread J. Preiss
Hi, I just "updated" from Suse 9.1 to debian testing, therefore I'm wondering how to change the mount charset of ext3 devices. I tried to use the suse feature "charset=utf8" in fstab, but this seems not to be recognized. The problem is, that I read about 200 cds with kaudiocreator and sorted the

Re: broken cups in sid

2004-06-01 Thread richard lyons
On Saturday 29 May 2004 20:29, Micha Feigin wrote: [...] > Here is a list of the cups related packages I have installed if it > helps (I am not sure all are needed but I didn't feel like trying > to figure which to throw out): > > i cupsomatic-ppd - linuxprinting.org printer > i

Re: xserver future?

2004-06-01 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 31 May 2004 22:49, Matt Price wrote: > Hi folks, > > after not noticing for months, I've finally beocme aware of the major > behind-the-scenes feuding btwn xfree86 & x.org. From browsing the > debian-x lists, I see that xfree86 will likely no longer be supported > by debian after the cur

Re: Very OT (and probably politically incorrect) - trivial programming language

2004-06-01 Thread Christopher Judd
On 30 May, Steve Lamb wrote: > Monique Y. Mudama wrote: >> Ignoring the first sentence, I agree. > >> I'm a very selfish person right now; I don't get enough sleep, enough >> toys, and enough time with my hubby as is. I don't have the time and >> resources for a dog, so I don't have one of those,

Problems recognising second debian sarge CD

2004-06-01 Thread Rich
We've been having a go at installing Sarge. We have got the base system installed OK but have come up against a problem when trying to install the remaining packages. The installer (base-config) asks us to insert the second CD Debian GNU/Linux testing _Sarge_ - Official Snapshot 1386 Binary-2 (200

Re: broadcom BCM5700 2.6 kernel (tg3 module)

2004-06-01 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Try booting with "pci=noacpi". I bet the devices will show up in lspci then. There's a known bug with broken BIOSes. -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will d

Re: mutt transparency

2004-06-01 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 10:13:28AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Why is mutt not transparent in my transparent Eterm? That would look > > very nice, I guess... I suspect it has something to do with ncurses, but > > is there any way to fix it? > > Cha

Re: [OT] List of dates from evolutions calendar

2004-06-01 Thread Paul Scott
Joerg Johannes wrote: usage: portcal.pl Paul Scott Thanks Paul, this script is exactly what I wanted. Only one problem: It freezes on dates containing non-ASCII characters, especially "ß". Any idea how I could solve this? This was a quick solution to a problem. These lines would have to

Re: TMDA and other challenge-response systems considered harmful

2004-06-01 Thread Steve Lamb
richard lyons wrote: > Wow, what nice spammers you meet: give you real addresses. Mine all > use fake sending addresses, so would never receive any challenge I > sent. In fact, that is why I always thought some sort of challenge > system would be effective - it would remove 99% of the spam tha

grsecurity ending

2004-06-01 Thread Lucas Albers
It appears the grsecurity kernel hardening project is ending support, perl slashdot: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/31/1949241&mode=thread&tid=106&tid=126&tid=172&tid=185 End Of Development For Grsecurity Announced? Posted by simoniker on Monday May 31, @03:58PM from the futur

Re: TMDA and other challenge-response systems considered harmful

2004-06-01 Thread richard lyons
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 08:29, Tom Allison wrote: [...] > They are also a pain in the neck when you get a CR sent to a > mailing list. > > But most importantly, and this is from personal experience here, > they are not very useful. I played with a CR mechanism for a few > months on my own mail ser

how to set time-out for smbmount?

2004-06-01 Thread Andreas Eichner
Hi list, I've set up auto-mounting for a samba-share. My problem is that xmms probes all directories, including the share's mount-point. When the server is down, it hangs there... But on a LAN it shouldn't take too much time to connect, so I want to set up a slow time-out of 1 second for examp

Re: usable subnotebook?

2004-06-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I carry a Zaurus 860 it fits in my pocket, I have a gig flash and another 512 meg SD card in it, and I also have a bluetooth and 802.11b card for it. It runs a Debian-based distribution, as a bonus :) The best thing is the battery-life (works all day for me -- not continuous, but heavy use)

Re: [OT] List of dates from evolutions calendar

2004-06-01 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Sa, den 29.05.2004 schrieb Paul Scott um 9:39: > Joerg Johannes wrote: > > >Hi everybody > > > >Does anybody use the calendar function of evolution? I do, and I like > >it, but I'm missing one feature. I'd like to let the program make a list > >of dates such as: > > > >2004/06/05 10:30 Choi

dhclient restriction in Unstable?

2004-06-01 Thread Robert L. Harris
I've got 2 systems which are confusing each other. Basically the fileserver is supposed to be serving out dhcp services for some laptops that connect on my subnet but giving out a range of 192.168.0.240-249. This worked great until the dhcp client running on my firewall grabbed that IP for it's

Re: Need Lilo Configuration Advice for Dual Boot Setup

2004-06-01 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 06:40:16AM -0700, Aldous Huxley wrote: > I'm hoping that this group will again, offer up great, effective advice > for an issue I'm grappling with. > I have a computer with Windows 98 installed on the primary hard drive > (c: windows; hda1 linux) and Woody installed on a sec

editing (switching?) the Fixed font

2004-06-01 Thread Shot
Hello. Lately, due to a bug (#251355) in gnome-terminal, I switched from using Andale Mono to Fixed (a bitmapped font) in all my terminals. I like Fixed 9 more and more, and would love it if I somehow managed to do at least one of these two things: - get the Fixed 9 in gnome-terminal to look the

Re: Need Lilo Configuration Advice for Dual Boot Setup

2004-06-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya aldous On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Aldous Huxley wrote: > I'm hoping that this group will again, offer up great, effective advice > for an issue I'm grappling with. > I have a computer with Windows 98 installed on the primary hard drive > (c: windows; hda1 linux) and Woody installed on a second ha

Re: kernel upgrade: mkinitrd: module raid1 not found

2004-06-01 Thread Justin Guerin
On Monday 31 May 2004 12:00, Bob wrote: > Hi, > > I'm attempting to upgrade from 2.6.2 to kernel 2.6.6, compiling from the > kernel-source package, > make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image modules_image > and trying to install with dpkg -i > > This used to work fine, but now I get > > Setting up kernel-im

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