Re: Enabling telnet access

2004-06-17 Thread Ronny Aasen
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 08:46, Paal Marker wrote: > debian 3.0r2 kernel 2.2.20 > I have got some workstations inside a network, and I will need telnet > access to them. > > I have installed telnetd, and it is running. why ohh why are you using telnet when you can use ssh ? i know it was not a an

what type of package is *.udeb ?

2004-06-17 Thread cwinl
hi all, i find that there are lots of packages which name's *.udeb thanks. -- P4/2.4B ELSA 528/128 512MB DDR333 240GB MSI 845PE BenQ FP557s Pioneer DVD-120A LG GCE-8320B

Enabling telnet access

2004-06-17 Thread Paal Marker
debian 3.0r2 kernel 2.2.20 I have got some workstations inside a network, and I will need telnet access to them. I have installed telnetd, and it is running. When telneting the box I get into the login, asked for username. When entering a valid username I get this message: "System bootup in pro

Re: Creating a backup of the system

2004-06-17 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 09:37:40PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > To clear /var/cache/apt/archives run > apt-get clean > Again, here the man page for apt-get will be useful. > apt-get autoclean is a safer alternative. It deletes old versions of debs, while keeping the current ones around.

Re: Debian equivalent for RedHat 9 X login manager startup

2004-06-17 Thread Michael B Allen
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:00:59 +1000 James Sinnamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > In RedHat Linux 9.0 the X login manager (and eventually KDE) > is started at boot-up time from the following line in /etc/inittab: > > x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm > > Can anyone tell me the eq

Re: How to get Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard working

2004-06-17 Thread James Sinnamon
Dear Debian users/developers, I am uncertain about the best means to get my Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard working with Debian. I also need the Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard to work with the terminals tty1, tty2, tty3 etc when I am not using X. At the moment I don't even have acc

Re: Open URL link to Mozilla from Kmail

2004-06-17 Thread Joost De Cock
On Friday 18 June 2004 08:06, Joost De Cock hurled the following on the wire: > > } How do i make changes for Mozilla firefox to open an url in Kmail. [...] >> You need to change the file associations for text/html in the control >> panels. [...] > I tried that recently, but it didn't do too well.

fam - what is it?

2004-06-17 Thread richard lyons
Ok, it a file alteration monitor. but why? Kmail froze up in horror at a trivial post I tried to send. Kmail does this occasionally, but this time there was only one xterm and kmail running. So, I looked at top and pamd was king of the castle. Eight hours later, nothing had changed: --

Re: programming editor

2004-06-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 11:05:24PM -0500, Rob Benton wrote: > William Ballard wrote: > > >On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 12:07:18AM +0100, Anders Karlsson wrote: > > > > > >>XEmacs is another editor that could be worth looking into. Bit nicer > >>interface than plain Emacs, and should not take up too m

Re: Open URL link to Mozilla from Kmail

2004-06-17 Thread Joost De Cock
On Thursday 17 June 2004 12:47, Gregory Seidman hurled the following on the wire: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 09:37:41PM +0530, Vijaya S wrote: > } How do i make changes for Mozilla firefox to open an url in Kmail. It > } uses Konqueror when i click on a url to open in a mail.I want it to open > } M

Debian equivalent for RedHat 9 X login manager startup

2004-06-17 Thread James Sinnamon
Dear Debian users, In RedHat Linux 9.0 the X login manager (and eventually KDE) is started at boot-up time from the following line in /etc/inittab: x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm Can anyone tell me the equivalent way to do this with Debian? TIA -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph

Re: programming editor

2004-06-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:51:56AM +0900, Victor Munoz wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 12:39:35AM +0100, Anders Karlsson wrote: > > > I am sure there is an Emacs mode *somewhere* that would allow this. Perhaps > > in picture mode it can be done. > > > > > XEmacs does rectangular cut/paste wi

Re: ftp.uk.debian.org not allowing connections?

2004-06-17 Thread richard lyons
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 18:56, Tristan Mills wrote: [...] > I hope a replacement service emerges, the UK will be short of a > fantastic resource otherwise. The City grows fat while Academe starves. And still the Tonyblur smiles... What's new? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

CBQ for DEBIAN

2004-06-17 Thread Umar Draz
hi dear members! i have configure Debian Proxy Server and i have Cable network. Now i want restirct my user on spacific bandwidth so thats why i choose cbq. I alreday have Redhat Linux 7.3 and there also run cbq on that. but when I want run  CBQ.INIT script on debian i a got erorr **CBQ: ip-route

Re: Creating a backup of the system

2004-06-17 Thread Shaun Jackman
To save and restore the list of installed packages use dpkg --get-selections dpkg --set-selections The man page for dpkg will be useful here. From a console run 'man dpkg', or from KDE point Konqueror to '#dpkg'. To clear /var/cache/apt/archives run apt-get clean Again, he

Re: Setting up a printer

2004-06-17 Thread welly hartanto
--- cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone point me to a page where I can setup my > printer? I have > downloaded what I think are the appropriate > packages. > Cecil what theappropriate packages do you mean ? CUPS. If you've it installed then http://www.linuxprinting.org http://localhost:

Re: 2nd network card

2004-06-17 Thread Shaun Jackman
If you're comfortable with editing config files by hand, you need to modify two files: /etc/network/interfaces /etc/modprobe.conf modprobe.conf is for the linux kernel 2.6. If you're running linux kernel 2.4 (likely) then create a new file (any name) in /etc/modutils/ and run upd

Re: Setting up a printer

2004-06-17 Thread Shaun Jackman
When asking a question like this it's important to specify which environment you're using, for example KDE, gnome, or other. For KDE click K -> Settings -> Printing Manager -> Add -> Add Printer/Class or K -> Run Command... -> Command -> kcmshell printmgr Print Manager is in the package kdeprint

can't change saslpasswd2 via squirrelmail plugin

2004-06-17 Thread Will Trillich
we've got squirrelmail (all php) and cyrus21 running, and they work like a dream. the not-so-dreamy part is when we try to give users the option of changing their own passwords via the web interface-- we did the standard (testing distro) "apt-get install squirrelmail" to get it started, and then d

mod_throttle makes apache really slow.

2004-06-17 Thread dking
Im running a Pentium 3 (coppermine) based server running at 850mhz, and its runs debian stable 3r2. However I recently got mod_throttle via apt-get, enabled it and suddenly the server is very slow. It turns out that each apache thread is running at least twice as slow and taking up allot more

Re: Sarge install - where are ext3 and reiserfs?

2004-06-17 Thread Katipo
Juan Nin wrote: Hi, Yesterday morning I downloaded a Sarge unofficial ISO from ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/sarge/ I haven't install it yet, but I booted my pc with it so as to see how the new debian-installer was I liked it, but saw something strange... Download it from

Re: Creating a backup of the system

2004-06-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, [ISO-8859-15] João Silva wrote: > Hi all, > > how can I create a backup of the system? What I mean is, I have lots of > packages installed; is there a way to save the list of packages that are > installed, and then use that list in another computer to create a system

Re: atmalwlandriver, 2.6 kernel and Debian

2004-06-17 Thread Brent Miller
Lorenzo Prince wrote: >I have an 11wave WaveBuddy PCMCIA wireless network card, and I want to use it >with the 2.6.6-1-686 kernel on Debian Sid. I have the kernel-source-2.6 package >and hav untarred it and symlinked the resulting directory to >/usr/src/linux-2.6.6-1-686, which is apparently wher

Re: programming editor

2004-06-17 Thread Rob Benton
William Ballard wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 12:07:18AM +0100, Anders Karlsson wrote: XEmacs is another editor that could be worth looking into. Bit nicer interface than plain Emacs, and should not take up too much more space than plain Emacs. For vim, you can always install Gvim to give yo

Creating a backup of the system

2004-06-17 Thread João Silva
Hi all, how can I create a backup of the system? What I mean is, I have lots of packages installed; is there a way to save the list of packages that are installed, and then use that list in another computer to create a system similar to mine? I know there is /var/lib/dpkg/status; is there a way

Re: programming editor

2004-06-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Rob Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Jun 17 14:20 -0500]: > I really like Kate (the kde editor), but I really don't like the 70+ MB > of disk space that KDE takes up. Is there any other editor out there > similar but not dependent on KDE? I've tried Gedit and I like it but I > miss the sideb

Re: installing packages from a list.

2004-06-17 Thread Tom Allison
Bob Schlärmann wrote: On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 23:47:22 -0400 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 21:39, Tom Allison wrote: I have two machines that I would like to have the second one installed with the same list of packages as the first. I know I can find out what is insta

Creating a backup of the system

2004-06-17 Thread João Silva
Hi all, how can I create a backup of the system? What I mean is, I have lots of packages installed; is there a way to save the list of packages that are installed, and then use that list in another computer to create a system similar to mine? I know there is /var/lib/dpkg/status; is there a way to

Re: Debian on a small PC?

2004-06-17 Thread Nicolas
On Thursday 17 June 2004 17:59, Silvan wrote: > > computing/mapping on a more powerfull computer) and maybe a OBDII > > interface (it will go in a car). > > OBDII interface? Is there something like that available for Linux? Take a look here http://freediag.sourceforge.net/ If you look around, you

Re: Problem with GDM setting ugly system fonts

2004-06-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 01:04:56AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 06:27:10PM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > After a long while, finally got GDM to work with Windowmaker, but the > > system fonts are a little horrible - am trying to fix it. After > > exte

2nd network card

2004-06-17 Thread Tom Brown
How do I setup a second network card and have it activated upon boot? And how do I change which card is at eth0 and which card is at eth1? Thanks, Tom

Re: Synaptics Touchpad Troubles

2004-06-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 05:42:23AM +, Milen Dzhumerov wrote: > Hello people :) > > I have terrible problems with my laptop and my touchpad. It blocks the > PS/2 mouse, so I can't use my mouse. I have read about this problems and > installed the synaptics driver and set my XF86Config-4, but the

Re: Problem with kernel boot with version 2.4.25 or later

2004-06-17 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 01:13:56AM -0800, Scott A. Henderson wrote: > The following is how I compiled the kernel > >* tar jxf kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 >* ln -s /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 linux >* cd /usr/src/linux >* cp /boot/config-2.4.18-bf2.4 ./.config >* make-kpkg cl

Re: Question about X Window Crashing

2004-06-17 Thread Haoyu Zhang
Thanks a lot, Aaron. I am going to try your way. Best, Haoyu Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Two thoughts: > > 1) When you got stuck during X configuration, and had to reboot, did you > press the 'ctrl-alt-backspace'? If so, did it respond? This

Re: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

2004-06-17 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Michael B Allen wrote: > > Although, I hope you never do this on a machine you sysadmin where you > > have other people using it. > > > > I have to contend with a stupid SuSE system at work where the > > /etc/profile* scripts are so absolutely full of cruft > > Well we're not

Re: programming editor

2004-06-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 05:43:12PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 16:23, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > Rob Benton wrote in linux.debian.user: > > > I really like Kate (the kde editor), but I really don't like the 70+ MB > > > of disk space that KDE takes up. Is there any other

Re: programming editor

2004-06-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 12:39:35AM +0100, Anders Karlsson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 18 Jun 2004 00:18, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Anders Karlsson wrote: > > > Best editor I have ever used though was CygnusED on the Amiga. 65kB in > > > size and everything yo

Re: Sarge install - where are ext3 and reiserfs?

2004-06-17 Thread Adam Aube
Juan Nin wrote: > Yesterday morning I downloaded a Sarge unofficial ISO from > ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/sarge/ > I liked it, but saw something strange... > > At the moment of partitioning the hard disk, it only offered me to > format as ext2, xfs, fat16 and fat32. This

Re: programming editor

2004-06-17 Thread Victor Munoz
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 12:39:35AM +0100, Anders Karlsson wrote: > I am sure there is an Emacs mode *somewhere* that would allow this. Perhaps > in picture mode it can be done. > XEmacs does rectangular cut/paste with regular text files. Hold Alt- and drag the mouse, and you will be markin

configuring sound

2004-06-17 Thread Jim Ricken
Can anyone help me with configuring sound? I don't have a clue on how to do it . Here is my insmod history: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su Password: debian:/home/jim# insmod dmasound_core & insmod dmasound_pmac [1] 980 Using /lib/modules/2.4.25-powerpc/kernel/drivers/sound/dmasound/dmasound_core.o Using /

Re: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

2004-06-17 Thread Rich Johnson
On Thursday, June 17, 2004, at 01:14 AM, Michael B Allen wrote: So all we have to do is detect when a user is logging in and exec their default shell with the login option. Debian does that when you ssh in or login on the console but not when you login with X. Say WHAT! I didn't catch it before, bu

Re: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

2004-06-17 Thread Michael B Allen
Tim Connors said: > Christian Riedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:28:54 > +0200: >> Hi, >> >> On 17.06.2004 15:40, Freivald, Joseph A, GVSOL wrote: >> > /etc/X11/Xsession.d > cat 98login-shell-settings >> > # Debian specific environment settings >> > source /etc/environment >> >

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 06:50:27PM -0400, Silvan wrote: > > > The hell with the money. There are people running Linux on P-II 450MHz > > systems that can't even carry more than 512MB RAM. That's half their > > memory, right there. > > I'm running a 512 MB box and typically have three KDE users

Sid 20040518 - not able to install from CD

2004-06-17 Thread Christian Eyrich
Hi! In the "Debian installer main menu" I get Choose language Choose country Select a keyboard layout Detect and mount CD-ROM Load installer components from CD Change debconf priority Check the CD-ROM(s) integrity Execute a shell Abort the installation and reboot and that's all. No entry where I

Re: programming editor

2004-06-17 Thread John Hasler
Anders Karlsson writes: > Personally, if there is something quick I have to edit, vim is the > default choice, but as soon as I start hacking anything larger, Emacs is > what I fire up. Same here. > Seems like it depends on the first editor any given person used whether > they become Emacs or VI

LOL

2004-06-17 Thread Lenny Humphrey
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Re: programming editor

2004-06-17 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 12:07:18AM +0100, Anders Karlsson wrote: > XEmacs is another editor that could be worth looking into. Bit nicer > interface than plain Emacs, and should not take up too much more space > than plain Emacs. > > For vim, you can always install Gvim to give you more of a GUI

Setting up a printer

2004-06-17 Thread cecil
Can someone point me to a page where I can setup my printer? I have downloaded what I think are the appropriate packages. Cecil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Software for webcam@

2004-06-17 Thread Paul Johnson
Didier Caamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was just wondering if there is a software that I could use with my > webcam, specially if I could chat with my friends and at the same time > using the webcam. came - Rewrite of the xawtv webcam app using imlib2 camorama - Gnome2 tool to view, alter

Re: (dvix,avi) to (svcd,vcd) script

2004-06-17 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 03:41:14PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 06:39:02AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > Does any one has any idea of how to convert an avi to svcd or vcd? Do > > we have any scripts packaged as debs? > > If you have Christian Marillat's current site in y

RE: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

2004-06-17 Thread Michael B Allen
Freivald, Joseph A, GVSOL said: > Ok, so I'm pretty new to Debian, and I have never created a .deb package > (except for the kernel using the kernel tools), but isn't this the kind > of thing that could be put into a package so that people who want it > could install it? I mean, if I'm reading thi

Re: programming editor

2004-06-17 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-17, Anders Karlsson penned: > > Seems like it depends on the first editor any given person used > whether they become Emacs or VI zealots. I would agree that your first editor has a lot to do with your later choice. My first unix-based editor was pico, which is why I appreciate vim so

Re: saslauthd segfaults with pam_krb5

2004-06-17 Thread Matthew Cocker
I just did a default install of testing with deb supplied cyrus21 and using testsaslauthd, salsauthd segfaults Cheers Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: programming editor

2004-06-17 Thread Anders Karlsson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 Jun 2004 00:18, Steve Lamb wrote: > Anders Karlsson wrote: > > Best editor I have ever used though was CygnusED on the Amiga. 65kB in > > size and everything you'd expect an editor to do and then some (still > > have not found an editor th

Re: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

2004-06-17 Thread Tim Connors
Christian Riedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:28:54 +0200: > Hi, > > On 17.06.2004 15:40, Freivald, Joseph A, GVSOL wrote: > > /etc/X11/Xsession.d > cat 98login-shell-settings > > # Debian specific environment settings > > source /etc/environment > > # Global settings just like

squirrelmail plugins -- via apt-get?

2004-06-17 Thread Will Trillich
looking for "apt-get" enabled plugins for squirrelmail... we're using debian testing with cyrus21-*, sasl2, and exim4-daemon-heavy; getting squirrelmail up and running was a snap with apt-get install squirrelmail and then running squirrelmail-config to get the settings in place

Re: programming editor

2004-06-17 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 11:18, Steve Lamb wrote: > Anders Karlsson wrote: > > For vim, you can always install Gvim to give you more of a GUI version. > > Or kvim for KDE... Or even vim-part so that it can be embedded in KDE > apps that support the editor part. :D > > > Best editor I have ever

lpr: Printer queue is disabled error

2004-06-17 Thread Kent Andersen
still cant seem to figure out why my lpr command will print as root but will not print as any user on my box. when attempting lpr -h it comes back and says lpr: Printer queue is disabled any clue to what I have done to cause this or what must be changed to allow printing for users.. Thanks Ke

Re: programming editor

2004-06-17 Thread Steve Lamb
Anders Karlsson wrote: > For vim, you can always install Gvim to give you more of a GUI version. Or kvim for KDE... Or even vim-part so that it can be embedded in KDE apps that support the editor part. :D > Best editor I have ever used though was CygnusED on the Amiga. 65kB in size > and e

saslauthd segfaults with pam_krb5

2004-06-17 Thread Matthew Cocker
Hi Not sure if this should be to sent to debian-user or debian-testing I am trying to use saslauthd -a pam to authenicate a cyrus 2.2.5 server against a MIT kerberos. If I enter the wrong password for a user the login fails and saslauthd stays running. If I enter the correct password for kerber

Re: programming editor

2004-06-17 Thread Anders Karlsson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 Jun 2004 23:43, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 16:23, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > Rob Benton wrote in linux.debian.user: > > > I really like Kate (the kde editor), but I really don't like the > > > 70+ MB of disk space that

LCD monitor and VGA/DVI-A vs DVI-D interface & 25ms vs 16ms LCD refresh

2004-06-17 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I'm guessing that when using a DVI-D interface (digital, as opposed to analog), then you get a more solid display - ie. no subtle flicker, which looks to me like a refresh artifact (it's very very subtle, and only noticable with the standard X background, and if I look at it in just the right way)?

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-17 Thread Silvan
> The hell with the money. There are people running Linux on P-II 450MHz > systems that can't even carry more than 512MB RAM. That's half their > memory, right there. I'm running a 512 MB box and typically have three KDE users logged in at any given time. Looking at memory with KInfoCenter ->

Re: programming editor

2004-06-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 16:23, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Rob Benton wrote in linux.debian.user: > > I really like Kate (the kde editor), but I really don't like the 70+ MB > > of disk space that KDE takes up. Is there any other editor out there > > similar but not dependent on KDE? I've tried Ged

Re: programming editor

2004-06-17 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-17, Bas Zoetekouw penned: > Rob Benton wrote in linux.debian.user: >> I really like Kate (the kde editor), but I really don't like the 70+ >> MB of disk space that KDE takes up. Is there any other editor out >> there similar but not dependent on KDE? I've tried Gedit and I like >>

Re: System problem..

2004-06-17 Thread Kent West
Ishwar Rattan wrote: I was running Debian/testing (/dev/hda5) and Mandrake-10.0(/dev/hda6). The booting was achieved with lilo for Debian on MBR (/dev/hda) and lilo for Mandrake on it's partition (/dev/hda6) which was chained using Debina lilo entry other=/dev/hda6 labe="Mandrake" I have disk p

Re: xmms strangeness

2004-06-17 Thread cecil
Jacob S. wrote: On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:25:35 -0500 cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jacob S. wrote: On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:37:07 -0500 Cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rene 'RvB' van Bevern wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cecil wrote: What do

Re: Debian on a small PC?

2004-06-17 Thread Silvan
> computing/mapping on a more powerfull computer) and maybe a OBDII interface > (it will go in a car). OBDII interface? Is there something like that available for Linux? I finally moved into the 21st century (or the latter half of the 20th anyway) and bought a car with the new computer flummie

Network access gone after recompile

2004-06-17 Thread Aaron Robertson-Hodder
Hi,   I’m pretty new at this Linux stuff so go easy on me!   I installed the latest Debian distro using the network install, so obviously my internet access was working fine. Then I compiled the 2.6.6 Kernel and installed that and now I have no internet access.   I searched the kerne

Software for webcam

2004-06-17 Thread Didier Caamano
Hello everyone: I was just wondering if there is a software that I could use with my webcam, specially if I could chat with my friends and at the same time using the webcam. Thanks in advance, Have a nice day everyone, Didier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: programming editor

2004-06-17 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Rob Benton wrote in linux.debian.user: > I really like Kate (the kde editor), but I really don't like the 70+ MB > of disk space that KDE takes up. Is there any other editor out there > similar but not dependent on KDE? I've tried Gedit and I like it but I > miss the sidebar filesystem sel

Re: Software for webcam@

2004-06-17 Thread Frederik Dannemare
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 June 2004 23:32, Didier Caamano wrote: > Hello everyone: > > I was just wondering if there is a software that I could use with my > webcam, specially if I could chat with my friends and at the same > time using the webcam. http://www.gn

System problem..

2004-06-17 Thread Ishwar Rattan
I was running Debian/testing (/dev/hda5) and Mandrake-10.0(/dev/hda6). The booting was achieved with lilo for Debian on MBR (/dev/hda) and lilo for Mandrake on it's partition (/dev/hda6) which was chained using Debina lilo entry other=/dev/hda6 labe="Mandrake" I have disk partition corruptio

Software for webcam@

2004-06-17 Thread Didier Caamano
Hello everyone: I was just wondering if there is a software that I could use with my webcam, specially if I could chat with my friends and at the same time using the webcam. Thanks in advance, Have a nice day everyone, Didier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Installation Problems: Debain 3.0r2 on Toshiba 3440ct

2004-06-17 Thread Mumtaz Ahmed
After trying debian-laptop mailing list, google, and a number of web forums I am posting my query on this list so that I could get a solution, and peace of mind :) I am trying to install Debain 3.0r2 on Toshiba 3440ct laptop which has a bootable USB floppy, a non-bootable PCMCIA CD drive, and a h

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-17 Thread Steve Lamb
Micha Feigin wrote: > I do believe big = bad especially when you can keep it small and get > the same result, but I guess you won't convince me and I won't convince > you so I will drop it at this point, you can keep going if you want. But that's just it, isn't it? It isn't the same result.

Re: xmms strangeness

2004-06-17 Thread Jacob S.
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:25:35 -0500 cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S. wrote: > > >On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:37:07 -0500 > >Cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Rene 'RvB' van Bevern wrote: > >> > >>>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >>>Hash: SHA1 > >>> > >>>Cecil wrote: > >>> >

Re: xmms strangeness

2004-06-17 Thread cecil
Jacob S. wrote: On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:37:07 -0500 Cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rene 'RvB' van Bevern wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cecil wrote: What do I need to do to get my music back? You need to tell us the last message from xmms. (start i

Re: installing packages from a list.

2004-06-17 Thread Bob Schlärmann
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 23:47:22 -0400 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 21:39, Tom Allison wrote: > > I have two machines that I would like to have the second one > > installed with the same list of packages as the first. > > > > I know I can find out what is installed

Re: programming editor

2004-06-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 02:13:43PM -0500, Rob Benton wrote: > I really like Kate (the kde editor), but I really don't like the 70+ MB > of disk space that KDE takes up. Is there any other editor out there > similar but not dependent on KDE? I've tried Gedit and I like it but I > miss the sideb

Sarge install - where are ext3 and reiserfs?

2004-06-17 Thread Juan Nin
Hi, Yesterday morning I downloaded a Sarge unofficial ISO from ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/sarge/ I haven't install it yet, but I booted my pc with it so as to see how the new debian-installer was I liked it, but saw something strange... At the moment of partitioning the

Re: Synaptics Touchpad Troubles

2004-06-17 Thread Ricardo Catalinas Jimenez aka TH1NK3R
Hello, are you sure that the protocol must be "ImPS/2" ??, have you tried with "PS/2", I use my synaptic touchpad with it. Bye. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 11:32:36AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > And you neither. > > > What about the usage of the graphic hardware BTW, I don't see it in > > there, plus a bunch of other system resource usage. > > > You do like looking at the small picture. > > Uhm, no

Synaptics Touchpad Troubles

2004-06-17 Thread Milen Dzhumerov
Hello people :) I have terrible problems with my laptop and my touchpad. It blocks the PS/2 mouse, so I can't use my mouse. I have read about this problems and installed the synaptics driver and set my XF86Config-4, but the mouse isn't working at all :( Here is my config: # XF86Config-4 (XFree86

Re: (dvix,avi) to (svcd,vcd) script

2004-06-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 06:39:02AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Does any one has any idea of how to convert an avi to svcd or vcd? Do > we have any scripts packaged as debs? If you have Christian Marillat's current site in your sources.list, mplayer/mencoder comes with mencvcd, which works at

programming editor

2004-06-17 Thread Rob Benton
I really like Kate (the kde editor), but I really don't like the 70+ MB of disk space that KDE takes up. Is there any other editor out there similar but not dependent on KDE? I've tried Gedit and I like it but I miss the sidebar filesystem selector. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

OO & jvmsetup

2004-06-17 Thread Wayne Topa
Hey guys. Have recently upgraded OO to 1.1.1-3 and also installed the Sun j2sdk1.4.2_04. Now I would like to let OO kno about it bet is seems that jvmsetup is no longer part of the package. I have searched the OO docs and the OO site without success. Google didn't get and current pointers and

Re: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

2004-06-17 Thread Michael Graham
Wayne wrote: > > Huh? > > % which sh > /bin/sh > % ls -l /bin/sh > /bin/sh -> bash >From man bash If bash is invoked with the name sh, it tries to mimic the startup behavior of historical versions of sh as closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as well. Also /bin/sh doesn'

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-17 Thread Steve Lamb
Micha Feigin wrote: > And you neither. > What about the usage of the graphic hardware BTW, I don't see it in > there, plus a bunch of other system resource usage. > You do like looking at the small picture. Uhm, no, that's you. You only see "more memory means more crap going on." What abo

OT: Dual Monitor Video Card Recommendations...

2004-06-17 Thread Michael Kahle
I am replacing my Debian workstation with a new machine. On my old workstation I have been using a Matrox G400 video card that I have been fairly happy with. One strange problem however. When booting into GDM and then login into Gnome, the right hand monitor displays the desktop with wavy lines,

Re: Problem with GDM setting ugly system fonts

2004-06-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 10:15:49AM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: > Micha, > > Well, I was using KDM before and the fonts were perfect - when I switch > back to KDM, the fonts are fine, but when I switch to GDM the fonts goes > ugly. But anyway, tried your method, but when I do an "startx" it loads

Re: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

2004-06-17 Thread Michael B Allen
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:18:28 +0100 Michael Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now I'm on a RH 7.3 system right now and I've never had this profile > > issue on RH systems so if I look at their scripts I see: > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > > lots of stuff ... > > > > # otherwise, take default

Re: Problem with GDM setting ugly system fonts

2004-06-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 10:15:49AM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: > Micha, > > Well, I was using KDM before and the fonts were perfect - when I switch > back to KDM, the fonts are fine, but when I switch to GDM the fonts goes > ugly. But anyway, tried your method, but when I do an "startx" it loads

Re: Gnome AddressBook?

2004-06-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 11:09, Ed Sutherland wrote: > On Thursday 17 June 2004 01:43 pm, Chris Metzler wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:23:24 + > > > > Ed Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm running on the PPC version of Debian -- probably explains this: > > > I don't think so. Aft

Re: starting error with thunderbird 0.7 on woody-system

2004-06-17 Thread Bluejack
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:11:38 +0200, Palfalvi Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just downloaded the thunderbird-mail-client vers. 0.7, installed/moved it with tar -xvzf thu* to my /usr/local/share-directory and tried to start thunderbird in a console-window which failed with the follow

Re: Gnome AddressBook?

2004-06-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 03:09:23PM +, Ed Sutherland wrote: > On Thursday 17 June 2004 01:43 pm, Chris Metzler wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:23:24 + > > > > Ed Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm running on the PPC version of Debian -- probably explains this: > > > I don't t

Re: xmms strangeness

2004-06-17 Thread Jacob S.
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:37:07 -0500 Cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rene 'RvB' van Bevern wrote: > > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >Cecil wrote: > > > > > >>What do I need to do to get my music back? > >> > >> > > > >You need to tell us the last message from xmms

Re: (dvix,avi) to (svcd,vcd) script

2004-06-17 Thread Frederik Dannemare
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 June 2004 12:39, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Does any one has any idea of how to convert an avi to svcd or vcd? Do > we have any scripts packaged as debs? Try something along the lines of: MOVIE="videofile.avi" ASPECT_RATIO="3" # Ty

Re: xmms strangeness

2004-06-17 Thread Cecil
Rene 'RvB' van Bevern wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cecil wrote: What do I need to do to get my music back? You need to tell us the last message from xmms. (start it from a terminal window) Rene -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) i

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