Re: console keyboard setup question

2004-06-02 Thread Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler
Thanks! with your hint I did an apt-cache search on "keymap" and found console-data, a dpkg-reconfigre console-data and subsequenty on console-common followed by a reboot got my keyboard set correctly. My console still wont display umlauts though, I still need to figure out how to set that up.

Re: network options

2004-06-02 Thread Andreas Eichner
Am Wed, 02 Jun 2004 19:09:22 -0400 schrieb Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > Can someone explain how this is used for the iptables configurations and > for setting /proc/sys/net/ipv4/... options? > > I am also interesting in knowing if I can replace: > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo

Re: win4lin howto

2004-06-02 Thread glenn
Hi Robert Try this: https://www.netraverse.com/member/downloads/misc.php 7th-11th from bottom Glenn On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 15:22, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 15:13:38 +1000 > glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Makes sense. Well I never wrote a HOWTO, but I can give you vague >

Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?

2004-06-02 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 20:39:46 -0400, Ignatz Sol wrote: > I hadn't thought of using unstable. [...] What do you mean "it doesn't > break much"? I've been running unstable since January. Occasionally, Aptitude reports "upgradable" packages for which I have unsatisfied dependencies that I have to r

Re: TMDA and other challenge-response systems considered harmful

2004-06-02 Thread dking
Keeping spam out of my inbox is easy; I just delete every email that has a link to a known spam site in the body before it goes through my other regex filters; If they do not add a site for the product they are trying to sell (and that's rare) the other filters get it easily, after the first co

Re: win4lin howto

2004-06-02 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 15:13:38 +1000 glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Makes sense. Well I never wrote a HOWTO, but I can give you vague > memories :-) > I've installed win4lin on very old suse, rhat, mandrake and debian - > all by 'manually' applying kernel patches, which was a first for me - > t

Re: win4lin howto

2004-06-02 Thread glenn
Makes sense. Well I never wrote a HOWTO, but I can give you vague memories :-) I've installed win4lin on very old suse, rhat, mandrake and debian - all by 'manually' applying kernel patches, which was a first for me - thats the worst case scenario, and it works out well. Debian isn't officially s

Re: TMDA and other challenge-response systems considered harmful

2004-06-02 Thread Tim Connors
"Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Wed, 2 Jun 2004 09:24:20 -0600: > On 2004-06-02, Tim Connors penned: > > > > If challenge response ever becomes ubiquitous, then spammers will > > trivially be able to verify the responses without providing their own > > email address. They will simpl

Re: Strange lockups in X

2004-06-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Nate Bargmann wrote: Hi. About two weeks ago I updated both of my machines to the then latest versions in Testing. At the same time the xfree packages of version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1. Shortly after that I began to experience instant freezes on both the laptop and the desktop which are two very differe

Re: win4lin howto

2004-06-02 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 13:07:20 +1000 glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How far have you got? > Have you got the debian win4lin patches from the misc downloads > section on the win4lin site? > Glenn > On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 12:23, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > I've searched through the archives, and i d

Re: win4lin howto

2004-06-02 Thread glenn
How far have you got? Have you got the debian win4lin patches from the misc downloads section on the win4lin site? Glenn On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 12:23, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > I've searched through the archives, and i don't see any mention of a how > to. > > Does anyone here, on the list, have a HO

Strange lockups in X

2004-06-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
Hi. About two weeks ago I updated both of my machines to the then latest versions in Testing. At the same time the xfree packages of version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1. Shortly after that I began to experience instant freezes on both the laptop and the desktop which are two very different machines, but i38

Re: Need to prevent X from restarting

2004-06-02 Thread Kent West
Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Matthias Czapla wrote: :On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 06:50:46PM -0500, Kent West wrote: :> >Do you have any good reason for running [xkg]dm at all? You don't :> >need it to run X. Disable it, then login to X with "nohup startx & :> >exit". :> :> Instead of "n

Fetchyahoo to amavisd-new?

2004-06-02 Thread Bojan Baros
Hello deb-users. I have a problem with my configuration, and I would need some help. I just installed amavisd-new and clamav on my mail server running postfix/procmail. The entire system is based on the unstable dist. So far, I have everything configured for the local mailbox delivery, but I am

win4lin howto

2004-06-02 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I've searched through the archives, and i don't see any mention of a how to. Does anyone here, on the list, have a HOWTO written for getting Win4Lin patched into the kernel, and getting things installed? I'm trying to dump my windos machine, but I need 7-10 programs (HAM radio programming softwar

Re: Need to prevent X from restarting

2004-06-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Matthias Czapla wrote: :On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 06:50:46PM -0500, Kent West wrote: :> >Do you have any good reason for running [xkg]dm at all? You don't :> >need it to run X. Disable it, then login to X with "nohup startx & :> >exit". :> :> Instead of "nohup startx & exit", w

aptitude: wild dist-upgrade ???

2004-06-02 Thread Michael D Schleif
Can somebody please explain this? # sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. # sudo apt-get -u upgrade

Re: Printing from firefox (xprt)

2004-06-02 Thread Paul Stolp
* Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-02 12:44]: > > > Since a recent upgrade of firefox (Sid) I find that printing from > Firefox still works but it is now very small. Previously it used to fill > up an A4 page,but now it prints a very small area in one corner. > Fiddling with the sett

Re: broken cups in sid

2004-06-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 05:47:54PM -0400, 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 KD

Re: Need to prevent X from restarting

2004-06-02 Thread Matthias Czapla
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 06:50:46PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > >Do you have any good reason for running [xkg]dm at all? You don't > >need it to run X. Disable it, then login to X with "nohup startx & > >exit". > > Instead of "nohup startx & exit", why not just "startx"? Looking at the > man and in

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

2004-06-02 Thread Nick Wilson
Here's a step-by-step guide for installing Java on Debian: http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/DEV/Java+on+Debian Graham Williams wrote: Received Thu 03 Jun 2004 2:37am +1000 from David Baron: On Friday 14 May 2004 12:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I remember correctly, all the Java stuff is install

Re: Apt-announce

2004-06-02 Thread dircha
Pedro M. (Morphix User) wrote: It would be very intesting the user could utilize Synaptic to recieve automatically information about the update of certain packages, to upgrade them . This is, mark the packages to recieve information about the package update (only of this/these package/s). While

Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?

2004-06-02 Thread Kent West
Ignatz Sol wrote: Knoppix, which is Debian-based, installed to the hard drive? Then as your skills grow, you'll eventually be able to convert it to pure Debian. -- Ah, I didn't know that Knoppix was Debian-based! Knoppix was the first Linux that I saw, as I guess it is for many. That sounds

Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?

2004-06-02 Thread Lance Simmons
* Ignatz Sol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040602 19:40]: > > I hadn't thought of using unstable. I'm learning on woody stable, > though I have pulled a few components from backports.org. What do you > mean "it doesn't break much"? I can't speak for the original poster, but my experience is that debian

[Fwd: Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?]

2004-06-02 Thread Mal Beaton
Ignatz Sol wrote: Knoppix, which is Debian-based, installed to the hard drive? Then as your skills grow, you'll eventually be able to convert it to pure Debian. -- Ah, I didn't know that Knoppix was Debian-based! Knoppix was the first Linux that I saw, as I guess it is for many. That sounds lik

Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?

2004-06-02 Thread Mal Beaton
Sometimes I might do an apt-get update and upgrade and my menus will stop working sort of I usually check http://bugs.debian.org to see if any bugs are listed on it. however I have used unstable on my laptop with kde for over a year and it works very well. when I say breaks they are usually no

desktop Linux for a debian user?

2004-06-02 Thread Ignatz Sol
> > > Knoppix, which is Debian-based, installed to the hard drive? Then as > your skills grow, you'll eventually be able to convert it to pure Debian. > > -- Ah, I didn't know that Knoppix was Debian-based! Knoppix was the first Linux that I saw, as I guess it is for many. That sounds like it m

Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?

2004-06-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Ignatz Sol wrote: I'm fairly new at Linux, but I really enjoy using Debian. I'm looking to install a desktop Linux at home in a dual-boot mode. As the Debian desktop still has a ways to go, can ya'll recommend a distro for me? It needs to be slick to please my wife, but I love the Debian spirit.

Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?

2004-06-02 Thread Kent West
Ignatz Sol wrote: I'm fairly new at Linux, but I really enjoy using Debian. I'm looking to install a desktop Linux at home in a dual-boot mode. As the Debian desktop still has a ways to go, can ya'll recommend a distro for me? It needs to be slick to please my wife, but I love the Debian spirit.

Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?

2004-06-02 Thread Antony
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 07:47:30PM -0400, Ignatz Sol wrote: > I'm fairly new at Linux, but I really enjoy using Debian. I'm looking > to install a desktop Linux at home in a dual-boot mode. As the Debian > desktop still has a ways to go, can ya'll recommend a distro for me? > It needs to be slic

Re: Debian downgrade from unstable to testing

2004-06-02 Thread Antony
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:57:00AM -0600, Joseph wrote: > I did change in source.list unstable to testing: apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade but it didn't do anything. I still can not > reinstall the evolution nor samba. > > They are experimenting with unstable too much, it is not for me. Yo

Re: script to stay connected//dynamic IPs

2004-06-02 Thread Mal Beaton
Sturla Holm Hansen wrote: David Baron wrote: On Wednesday 02 June 2004 03:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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"

Re: Linux on a Windows XP computer?

2004-06-02 Thread Silvan
On Wednesday 02 June 2004 01:50 pm, alex wrote: > As a test, I installed KNOPPIX on the harddrive and it works fine > except for the modem and sound so I'd like to fix this problem. > .I could use some recommendations about installing a modem that is more > suitable for Linux, an internal P

Re: script to stay connected//dynamic IPs

2004-06-02 Thread Mal Beaton
Sturla Holm Hansen wrote: David Baron wrote: On Wednesday 02 June 2004 03:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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"

Re: Need to prevent X from restarting

2004-06-02 Thread Kent West
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Aldous Huxley: Yes, I already knew that trick. It's just that sometimes I need to back out of X completely to free up system resources to allow me to play mp3s using console-based players like "splay". Do you have any good reason for running [xkg]dm at all?

pcmcia modems with debian

2004-06-02 Thread Mal Beaton
I finally have the need for a modem on my laptop before diving in a purchasing a pcmcia modem would like to hear what people are using out there and how easy or how much trouble they were to set up any advice would be greatly appreciated -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

desktop Linux for a debian user?

2004-06-02 Thread Ignatz Sol
I'm fairly new at Linux, but I really enjoy using Debian. I'm looking to install a desktop Linux at home in a dual-boot mode. As the Debian desktop still has a ways to go, can ya'll recommend a distro for me? It needs to be slick to please my wife, but I love the Debian spirit. A friend recomme

Re: network options

2004-06-02 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 07:09:22PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > I found this in my /etc/network/options > > ip_forward=no > spoofprotect=yes > syncookies=no > > > Can someone explain how this is used for the iptables configurations and > for setting /proc/sys/net/ipv4/... options? > > I am also

Re: TMDA and other challenge-response systems considered harmful

2004-06-02 Thread John Hasler
Rob writes: > http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/05/27/tech.spam.reut No cracked machines involved. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: automatic login (NOT gdm)

2004-06-02 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
> > 1) Upon boot, automatically log in as 'kiosk' user and issue the 'startx' > > command. This is easy using gdm but I don't really want to use a window > > manager at all: is there a way to do it before x is launched? > > Well, startx is a shell script, you might be able to edit it and execute

network options

2004-06-02 Thread Tom Allison
I found this in my /etc/network/options ip_forward=no spoofprotect=yes syncookies=no Can someone explain how this is used for the iptables configurations and for setting /proc/sys/net/ipv4/... options? I am also interesting in knowing if I can replace: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore

Re: automatic login (NOT gdm)

2004-06-02 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 21:50:15 +0200, Matt Kay wrote: > 1) Upon boot, automatically log in as 'kiosk' user and issue the 'startx' > command. This is easy using gdm but I don't really want to use a window > manager at all: is there a way to do it before x is launched? Well, startx is a shell script

pcmcia-cs in sarge not deconfiguring network interfaces

2004-06-02 Thread Stephen Patterson
I've just upgraded a sarge laptop after running for a few weeks without updates, and now pcmcia-cs (3.2.5-5) doesn't automatically deconfigure the network interface when I remove the NIC though the old version and the current woody version (3.1.33-6woody1) do. I don't have any filesystems mounted

Re: TMDA and other challenge-response systems considered harmful

2004-06-02 Thread Rob Sims
On Wednesday 02 June 2004 11:25 am, John Hasler wrote: > monique writes: > > At least that method of circumvention is a serious legal offense ... > > If so why have none been prosecuted for it? http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/05/27/tech.spam.reut/ -- Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: [OT] List of dates from evolutions calendar

2004-06-02 Thread Paul Scott
I did just discover that my script doesn't handle korganizer's method of using recurrent events so it will only show the first occurrence. Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux on a Windows XP computer?

2004-06-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
alex wrote: The motherboard has integrated video and integrated sound and it has an Agere Systems PCI Soft Modem . As far as I can tell, video seems OK in Linux, at least it's there but I'm just comparing it to another WinXP computer where the video didn't work at all in Linux. Perhaps some

Re: apache/php/mysql help

2004-06-02 Thread Shane Liebling
> > choices; downgrade php4-mysql, or upgrade the rest of your php4 > > packages, and possibly apache and mysql, too). > > > > > > If you would like to have the more or less "newest" versions, you should > really consider taking the ones from http://www.backports.org Uh, hate to be a bugaboo, but

Re: Need to prevent X from restarting

2004-06-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Aldous Huxley wrote: Yes, I already knew that trick. It's just that sometimes I need to back out of X completely to free up system resources to allow me to play mp3s using console-based players like "splay". So I'd like to be able to boot into X login, then back out of X when I'm through "working"

Re: console keyboard setup question

2004-06-02 Thread Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler
I just did a dpkg-reconfigure console-data and kbdconfig, I guess this will take effect when I reboot?? Thanks, Chris On Wednesday 02 June 2004 12:10, Johann Spies wrote: > On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 12:10:58AM +0200, Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote: > > I need to set my keyboard to german, and I'd li

Re: Need to prevent X from restarting

2004-06-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Aldous Huxley: > > Yes, I already knew that trick. It's just that sometimes I need to > back out of X completely to free up system resources to allow me to > play mp3s using console-based players like "splay". Do you have any good reason for running [xkg]dm at all? You don't need

Re: Taming the new fvwm

2004-06-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Andrew Perrin: > Has anyone managed to tame (e.g. get the menus to obey) the new fvwm > package: I can only say that this was hashed out on the list a few months ago. A search of lists.debian.org should turn it up. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently adv

Re: Passwordless SSH setup

2004-06-02 Thread Will Trillich
very nicely explained! (interested in fleshing this out some to make a newbiedoc out of it? :) On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 07:37:42AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > And in case anyone finds this in the archive, on SSH Secure > Shell you need to convert the keys. So on Debian, create a > keypair called

Re: charset of ext3 drives

2004-06-02 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 19:23:18 +0200 "J. Preiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isnt there a way to use utf-8 encoding for ext3 partitions? I urgently > need umlauts and cyrillic characters, so utf 8 would be the best > choice. Now I run in trouble when I try to create m3u playlist. The > filesnames do

Celebrity, we need your help for a new book

2004-06-02 Thread Contact Any Celebrity
Celebrity, We're working on a new book about how to contact celebrities to get autographs, charitable contributions, etc. We'd like to know your questions and/or tips...things that have worked well for you, etc. If we use your tip we will send you a free copy of the book, which should be out i

Re: Need to prevent X from restarting

2004-06-02 Thread Joris Huizer
Aldous Huxley wrote: Yes, I already knew that trick. It's just that sometimes I need to back out of X completely to free up system resources to allow me to play mp3s using console-based players like "splay". So I'd like to be able to boot into X login, then back out of X when I'm through "working"

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

2004-06-02 Thread Graham Williams
Received Thu 03 Jun 2004 2:37am +1000 from David Baron: > On Friday 14 May 2004 12:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > If I remember correctly, all the Java stuff is installed in one place > > (e.g. /usr/local/java/j2sdk1.4.2_04), so it is easy to maintain. You > > can however create a deb package

Re: Need to prevent X from restarting

2004-06-02 Thread Aldous Huxley
Yes, I already knew that trick.  It's just that sometimes I need to back out of X completely to free up system resources to allow me to play mp3s using console-based players like "splay". So I'd like to be able to boot into X login, then back out of X when I'm through "working", free up that precio

Re: possible to use windows 2003 logins in debian

2004-06-02 Thread Adam Aube
Michael Martinell wrote: > Is it possible to configure debian to authenticate using an windows 2003 > active directory? It can be done with Samba (Winbind) or LDAP. > Would you need to have the following installed? apt-get install slapd > ldap-utils libnss-ldap and libpam-ldap should be suffic

Taming the new fvwm

2004-06-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
Has anyone managed to tame (e.g. get the menus to obey) the new fvwm package: ii fvwm2.5.10-6F(?) Virtual Window Manager, version 2.5 Upon upgrade, it stopped paying attention to the .hook files in /etc/X11/fvwm, and even though there are vague reference to new configuration tools, n

Re: Changing Default Display Mgr

2004-06-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:06:15PM +0200, J. Preiss wrote: | > What are you trying to do with kwin? I don't understand the problem. | | The main problem is, that I only had the choice between xdm and gdm. And I | think I want to use kwm, because I think it is the [xyz] manager which is | respon

cdrecord warning

2004-06-02 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi everybody, when I try to burn a CD as a normal user, I often get this warning: cdrecord.mmap: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler cdrecord.mmap: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority(). cdrecord.mmap: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer

Re: handling runlevels independently with update-rc.d

2004-06-02 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-01, Sebastian Kügler penned: > 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 stuf

automatic login (NOT gdm)

2004-06-02 Thread Matt Kay
Hi there. I've configured some older computers at college to be simple web kiosks, for webmail and library catalogue browsing via Mozilla Firefox. I would like to do two things: 1) Upon boot, automatically log in as 'kiosk' user and issue the 'startx' command. This is easy using gdm but I don't

re^2: routing in presence of PPP

2004-06-02 Thread petereasthope
John Hasler said, > You or some script erroneously created > a default route to your LAN. Get rid of it. Last weekend find / -type f -exec grep "add default" {} \print found only documentation. The offending installation is nicely hidden. Paul Galbraith said, > ... try changing [add defaul

Re: Radeon 8500 and SID

2004-06-02 Thread Manu
> Does "export LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose" and running > glxinfo give any hints? does not give me much I can understand.. anything in particular you are thinking about? > Are you sure the cirrect gl library is loaded (check > with ldd `which > glxinfo`)? How can make sure it is th correct gl library? h

Re: Need to prevent X from restarting

2004-06-02 Thread richard lyons
On Wednesday 02 June 2004 14:54, Steve Witt wrote: > But this isn't really a problem I don't think, as you can get > access to a console screen when you are in X. You press "cntl - alt > - F1" (or F2 or F3) to get a console screen. To get back to X press > "cntl - alt - F7". or just "alt-F7" -

Re: Need to prevent X from restarting

2004-06-02 Thread Kent West
Steve Witt wrote: To get back to X press "cntl - alt - F7". Actually, by default, the "cntl" is optional when going from text console to X, but not optional the other way around. But learn it Steve's way, so you don't have to remember which way is which. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Linux on a Windows XP computer?

2004-06-02 Thread Kent West
alex wrote: My grand children gave me a Windows XP computer (made for Staples by Northgate) good kids (sortta - Windows?!) for my 86th birthday Happy Birthday! not realizing that I do Linux You've got some proselytizing to do. and now I'm trying to make the best of the situation. I had 7 diffe

Re: Linux on a Windows XP computer?

2004-06-02 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello alex (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I could use some recommendations about installing a modem that is > more suitable for Linux, an internal PCI.Hardware version or > external (which is preferable, series or USB?) I've been under the > impression that any external modem will work in

Re: Radeon 8500 and SID

2004-06-02 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Manu wrote in linux.debian.user: > (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Initialized kernel GART heap > manager, 5111808 > (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering enabled > - > > but glxinfo return the following: > > Paris:# glxinfo > name of display: :0.0 > display: :0 screen: 0 > dir

Re: Changing Default Display Mgr

2004-06-02 Thread Kent West
J. Preiss wrote: What are you trying to do with kwin? I don't understand the problem. The main problem is, that I only had the choice between xdm and gdm. And I think I want to use kwm, because I think it is the [xyz] manager which is responsible for the login process. But, as I looked for

Re: Linux on a Windows XP computer?

2004-06-02 Thread David Piniella
I would recommend picking up an internal pci modem -- 3com, usrobotics and xircom are usually well supported under linux in general (I don't use modems, so I can't give a more specific recommendation, sorry,) and for sound a soundblaster. Remember to disable the on-board devices via the BIOS b

Re: Need to prevent X from restarting

2004-06-02 Thread Kent West
Aldous Huxley wrote: Thanks to the advice of this group, I can now dual-boot using Lilo. Thanks again. Now I need to figure out how to configure the proper file that controls how Debian boots up. I like having the automatic X login screen, but whenever you try to logout or explicitly kill the pro

Re: Need to prevent X from restarting

2004-06-02 Thread Steve Witt
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Aldous Huxley wrote: > Thanks to the advice of this group, I can now dual-boot using Lilo. > Thanks again. Now I need to figure out how to configure the proper > file that controls how Debian boots up. I like having the automatic > X login screen, but whenever you try to logo

Re: [OT] List of dates from evolutions calendar

2004-06-02 Thread Paul Scott
Joerg Johannes wrote: Hi again this script is exactly what I wanted. Only one problem: It freezes on dates containing non-ASCII characters, especially "Ã". Any idea how I could solve this? Apparently this is not a problem with the script, but with the file encoding. The console freezes on this ch

Poor Fileserver Performance with Multiple Accesses

2004-06-02 Thread myren, lord
A confession, its just a dual-IDE software-raid-0 (each drive is the single master on its chain), my personal media server. Still, performance is absolutely perposterous. Debian testing with 2.6(.6-mm2) kernel. hdparm speed testing is ok, about what i'd expect, but anything where there's mul

Re: Changing Default Display Mgr

2004-06-02 Thread J. Preiss
> What are you trying to do with kwin? I don't understand the problem. The main problem is, that I only had the choice between xdm and gdm. And I think I want to use kwm, because I think it is the [xyz] manager which is responsible for the login process. But, as I looked for kwm (apt-cache), I

Debian

2004-06-02 Thread fred cox
Hello, My name is Fred, I'm wanting to put Debian on a modded Xbox with a Evo-x installed.. I've been told I can put Debian on the xbox with the Evo-x mod.. I will be upgrading the HDD to 250 Gig... I was wandering if I can use a usb modem 56k with debian and if so which one do you recommend

Radeon 8500 and SID

2004-06-02 Thread Manu
Hi I am still having problem with my Radeon 8500 and Xfree 4.3.0, and kernel 2.6.6 I have the followin in my Xfree86.log -- (II) RADEON(0): X context handle = 0x0001 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler (II) RADEON(0): [DRI] installation complete (II) RADEON(

charset of ext3 drives

2004-06-02 Thread J. Preiss
Isnt there a way to use utf-8 encoding for ext3 partitions? I urgently need umlauts and cyrillic characters, so utf 8 would be the best choice. Now I run in trouble when I try to create m3u playlist. The filesnames dont match. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Changing Default Display Mgr

2004-06-02 Thread J. Preiss
Am Mittwoch, 2. Juni 2004 17:15 schrieb richard lyons: > On Wednesday 02 June 2004 07:58, J. Preiss wrote: > > Hi, > > may there is a harder way? I tried dpkg-reconfigure kwin, the > > answer is "could not init kde". Isn't it simply change a config > > file? > > For me this worked: create a file ~/

Linux on a Windows XP computer?

2004-06-02 Thread alex
My grand children gave me a Windows XP computer (made for Staples by Northgate) for my 86th birthday not realizing that I do Linux and now I'm trying to make the best of the situation. I had 7 different Linuxes, 5 were Debian and its derivatives installed on my old computer and I'd like to

Re: TMDA and other challenge-response systems considered harmful

2004-06-02 Thread John Hasler
monique writes: > At least that method of circumvention is a serious legal offense ... If so why have none been prosecuted for it? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Printing from firefox (xprt)

2004-06-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Jun 2004, Seneca wrote: > On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 07:20:20AM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > > And xplsprinters clearly doesn't know about it: > > > > $ xplsprinters > > xplsprinters: no printers found for printer spec "". > > > > Suggestions? > > Is $XPSERVERLIST set? In my .xsession, I ha

Re: Changing Default Display Mgr

2004-06-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 11:15:40AM -0400, richard lyons wrote: | On Wednesday 02 June 2004 07:58, J. Preiss wrote: | > Hi, | > may there is a harder way? I tried dpkg-reconfigure kwin, the | > answer is "could not init kde". Isn't it simply change a config | > file? What are you trying to do with

vim folding for c code

2004-06-02 Thread Alex Lorca
hi all: i am trying to setup folding for c code in gvim i put this in my .vimrc augroup C au FileType c set foldenable foldmethod=syntax au FileType c syn region Comment start="/\*" end="\*/" fold augroup END but when i open a c file the syntax hiligth is ok but the folding does't work...

Re: script to stay connected//dynamic IPs

2004-06-02 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 02 June 2004 17:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just run a cron-job with a script like this > > #!/bin/bash > > ifconfig ppp0 > if [ $? != "0" ] > then >     ifup ppp0 > fi This an another, similar script posted did not quite work. Ifup says ppp0 is an unconfigured device if not conn

Re: Boot partion too small

2004-06-02 Thread Patrick Beard
next partition, but another has / as the adjacent partion. > > Is there anyway I can grow these partions and shufle/shrink the others > with out loosing information? > Thanks all > Glenn > Glen, I had a similar problem. I looked at parted but on certain filesystems the start of the partition had

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

2004-06-02 Thread James Keasley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

Apt-announce

2004-06-02 Thread Pedro M. (Morphix User)
It would be very intesting the user could utilize Synaptic to recieve automatically information about the update of certain packages, to upgrade them . This is, mark the packages to recieve information about the package update (only of this/these package/s). Regards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: handling runlevels independently with update-rc.d

2004-06-02 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 01:16:08AM +0200, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > Hi, > > I am in the course of writing a graphical runlevel editor, and I happen to > have the following questions: > > 2) If I remove all symlinks in all runlevels (basically "update-rc.d -f > proftpd remove"), create a startup

Re: TMDA and other challenge-response systems considered harmful

2004-06-02 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-02, Tim Connors penned: > > If challenge response ever becomes ubiquitous, then spammers will > trivially be able to verify the responses without providing their own > email address. They will simply do what the currently do - open up > millions of backdoors on cracked computers, go thro

Re: Exim4 frozen messages

2004-06-02 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-01, Peter Hicks penned: > > to view the messages that are frozen, type exim4 -bp. The command > exim4 -Mvl will show you the relevant logs regarding that > message. Thanks for this! What a useful option (-Mvl). -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Pointer to AST laptop with dock install

2004-06-02 Thread Mark Gillingham
I've successfully installed Debian on an AST Ascentia M Series laptop and found some documents related to the topic. I've not been successful finding information about docks. This model has a large dock with one PCI port, speakers, and the usual other ports. I'd like to make use of these docks

Re: D-I Issue on partitioning. [Was: Re: Debian vs. other distros]

2004-06-02 Thread Joey Hess
Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > Thanx for the reply, but unfortunately... What you mention is exactly what > I did. This gave me a new screen which had only *one* option: whipe my > whole drive first before you partition manually. > > Sorry, I cannot describe the *exact* dialogs, I am doing this

RE: Anyone recommend a multi-serial card?

2004-06-02 Thread Croy, Nathan
> -Original Message- > From: Freivald, Joseph A, GVSOL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 9:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Anyone recommend a multi-serial card? > > > Anyone have great things to say about any particular > Multi-Serial Card? I need to p

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

2004-06-02 Thread David Baron
On Friday 14 May 2004 12:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I remember correctly, all the Java stuff is installed in one place > (e.g. /usr/local/java/j2sdk1.4.2_04), so it is easy to maintain. You > can however create a deb package from the JSDK or JRE, either be > downloading the RPM and using al

Re: Boot partion too small

2004-06-02 Thread glenn
too cool - I've just install parted, thanks to the previous post, but qt_parted probly means I wont have to think! Gota love that :-) Thanks all Glenn On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 01:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Glenn: > > qtparted will do this. I find the easiest way to run it, including usable >

Re: Anyone recommend a multi-serial card?

2004-06-02 Thread Bill Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 09:34:56 -0500 "Freivald, Joseph A, GVSOL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone have great things to say about any particular Multi-Serial Card? > I need to purchase a card with at least 16, preferably 32 RS-232 ports > on a single

Re: Boot partion too small

2004-06-02 Thread kd4d
Hi Glenn: qtparted will do this. I find the easiest way to run it, including usable support for resizing NTFS partitions, is from the system rescue cd at sysresccd.org. Just enter "run_qtparted" from the Linux Live CD. Good luck! Usual disclaimers apply...if it erases your data, it isn't my fa

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