Re: moving an installed Debian system onto RAID-1

2004-07-05 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 22:59:29 MDT, Nate Duehr writes: >> Thanks, but I'm not using an initrd kernel in this case. >Sorry, I don't have any other thoughts for you then. I'm not sure how >that works... Without an initrd kernel, and booting from the initrd, >GRUB/LILO would have to hand off the bo

Re: problem with invisible/disappearing files - but inodes there

2004-07-05 Thread invader_zim
After a bit of investigation, I have found that a statically linked version of 'ls' is able to see the files, which suggests a problem with a library somewhere. The odd thing is, this is just a plain vanilla install of woody, updated from security.debian.org. I have run chkrootkit on the machine,

Re: backing up to ftp server

2004-07-05 Thread Vadik
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, [iso-8859-1] Thomas Adam wrote: --- Vadik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want to start backing up to ftp server and I was not able to find package which does that. My only requirement that it should do daily backups and keep last 7 backups (or do

Re: Problem with Lomboz Plugin activation : J2EE plugin

2004-07-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 10:50:18AM +0530, Sanjay Chigurupati wrote: > Hi, > We are using Eclipse 3.0 RC2 on windows 2000 for J2EE project with JBOSS > 3.0RC1. > Lomboz installation is not working. > > we are using build-06302004 and installed Lomboz 3rc2 and emf-so-runtime. > > I extracted both

Re: what's the diff between 'aptitude upgrade' and 'aptitude dist-upgrade'?

2004-07-05 Thread Silvan
> And dist-upgrade is for when you want to get all the new funky features. > Which many of us do :-). It only breaks things if the packages uploaded > by the maintainers are broken. Ok, that occasionally happens, which is > why you don't use "dist-upgrade" on your production servers except with >

Re: modprobe -v snd-seq-oss freezes (sb live! kernel 2.6.5)

2004-07-05 Thread Silvan
On Monday 05 July 2004 04:35 am, Erik Steffl wrote: >alsa used to work on my system, I didn't change anything I think > might be related and suddenly the modprobe -v snd-seq-oss freezes. I don't know anything about the root cause of the problem, but FWIW someone just reported problems with a

Re: debian kernel: what to do with everything

2004-07-05 Thread Silvan
> project become useful parts of future projects. Sometimes only for > jigs and other things. Sometimes for entire projects themselves. > Sometimes they are too small to be useful and the shop must be cleaned > out. Everything is relative. Oh no. Another guy with too many boxes of scraps that

Problem with Lomboz Plugin activation : J2EE plugin

2004-07-05 Thread Sanjay Chigurupati
Hi, We are using Eclipse 3.0 RC2 on windows 2000 for J2EE project with JBOSS 3.0RC1. Lomboz installation is not working. we are using build-06302004 and installed Lomboz 3rc2 and emf-so-runtime. I extracted both the zip files to eclipse directory with Lomboz extraction followed by emf-runtime.

Re: moving an installed Debian system onto RAID-1

2004-07-05 Thread Nate Duehr
On Jul 5, 2004, at 3:56 AM, Robert Waldner wrote: Thanks, but I'm not using an initrd kernel in this case. Sorry, I don't have any other thoughts for you then. I'm not sure how that works... Without an initrd kernel, and booting from the initrd, GRUB/LILO would have to hand off the boot to a ker

Re: PHP Image Uploader / Viewer

2004-07-05 Thread S.D.A.
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 08:47:25PM -0500 or thereabouts, Jacob S. wrote: > > If I'm remembering right, gallery has the ability to run with php in > safe mode, it just loses a feature or two, mainly dealing with how > "pretty" the urls look. That's interesting. I guess I should take a look at the

Re: PHP Image Uploader / Viewer

2004-07-05 Thread S.D.A.
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 09:37:14PM -0400 or thereabouts, Michael B Allen wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 20:17:48 -0400 > "S.D.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 07:13:55PM -0400 or thereabouts, Michael B Allen > > wrote: > > > Can someone recommend a PHP script that will all

excellent advice for x-server driver [was Re: Unidentified subject!]

2004-07-05 Thread p
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 10:00:58PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: __deletia__ > to configure your graphics card, which can > be tricky if you have newer hardware. If you are unsure, select the > 'vesa' server, that will give you the best chance of success. > > __deletia__ > HTH, > David > __del

Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-05 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
Hello all, I have just discovered that the Mozilla and Firefox old-style printing option "PostScript/default" is gone. Apparently we are now supposed to use the Xprint printing stuff; unfortunately, Xprint is broken for me in at least two ways. Now I can't print. Justification, as far as I can te

Re: PHP Image Uploader / Viewer

2004-07-05 Thread Jacob S.
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 10:39:20PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 20:47:25 -0500 > "Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I'm remembering right, gallery has the ability to run with php in > > safe mode, it just loses a feature or two, mainly dealing with how > > "pretty

Re: home videos to DVD

2004-07-05 Thread Bill Kalebaugh
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Monday 05 July 2004 12:57 pm, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Bill, in the name of all debian users home-movie makers, you deserve recognition in the hall of fame for your good howto. Bill's post begins with: +-+ | DV-to-DVD-HOWTO | +---

Re: PHP Image Uploader / Viewer

2004-07-05 Thread Michael B Allen
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 20:47:25 -0500 "Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually apt-get install gallery and following the instructions in > > /usr/share/doc/gallery/README.Debian seems to be what I want. The > > configuration wizard is a very nice touch. I'm just worried about > > scripting b

Re: PHP Image Uploader / Viewer

2004-07-05 Thread Jacob S.
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 21:37:14 -0400 Michael B Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 20:17:48 -0400 > "S.D.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 07:13:55PM -0400 or thereabouts, Michael B > > Allen wrote: > > > Can someone recommend a PHP script that will allow

Re: PHP Image Uploader / Viewer

2004-07-05 Thread Michael B Allen
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 20:17:48 -0400 "S.D.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 07:13:55PM -0400 or thereabouts, Michael B Allen > wrote: > > Can someone recommend a PHP script that will allow me to upload to > > occasional jpeg and then view it, the filename, and perhaps a little

Re: which is faster ? ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs

2004-07-05 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > here's the fun freebie script to test which filesystem is faster > > - format the disk(partitions) once > > - do 3 passes copying 2.3GB of files from /dev/hda to /dev/hdc > > Your benchmark is fundamentally skewed. It uses tar to copy fil

Re: home videos to DVD

2004-07-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 01:57:47PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 08:36:39AM -0500, Bill Kalebaugh wrote: > > H. S. wrote: > > Bill, in the name of all debian users home-movie makers, you deserve > recognition in the hall of fame for your good howto. This is a > very com

Re: PHP Image Uploader / Viewer

2004-07-05 Thread S.D.A.
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 07:13:55PM -0400 or thereabouts, Michael B Allen wrote: > Can someone recommend a PHP script that will allow me to upload to > occasional jpeg and then view it, the filename, and perhaps a little > caption. I don't want a full blown CMS -- just a simple tool that does one >

Re: which is faster ? ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs

2004-07-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
> here's the fun freebie script to test which filesystem is faster > - format the disk(partitions) once > - do 3 passes copying 2.3GB of files from /dev/hda to /dev/hdc Your benchmark is fundamentally skewed. It uses tar to copy files from your root dirctory to $MNT without caching

Matrox Framebuffer (was: Lost lilo.conf vga setting on 2.6 upgrade)

2004-07-05 Thread Bill Moseley
Ok, the reason I didn't have my nice small fonts was simply that I didn't enable framebuffer console support. Since I have a Matrox G550 Dual-Head card I decided to try the Matrox fb (Matrox Acceleration) instead of the vesafb. That works fine for console mode (although I'm not sure what dual-hea

PHP Image Uploader / Viewer

2004-07-05 Thread Michael B Allen
Can someone recommend a PHP script that will allow me to upload to occasional jpeg and then view it, the filename, and perhaps a little caption. I don't want a full blown CMS -- just a simple tool that does one function and does it well. Mike -- Greedo shoots first? Not in my Star Wars. -- To

which is faster ? ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs

2004-07-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya for the long weekend ... i spent about 8hrs playing.. here's the fun freebie script to test which filesystem is faster - format the disk(partitions) once - do 3 passes copying 2.3GB of files from /dev/hda to /dev/hdc http://www.linux-sec.net/FS/Scripts/ (

Re: Re : L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-05 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Owen Jones on Monday, 2004-07-05 at 21:49:19 +0100: > This is my lilo config file minus the comments: > > lba32 > boot=/dev/hda > root=/dev/hda1 > install=/boot/boot-menu.b > map=/boot/map > delay=20 > vga=normal > deafult=Linux Is it really spelled like this? Should be default=Linux > i

Re: Scrolling beeps while playing music.

2004-07-05 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I had something like that happening way back, when testing the later 2.3 kernels and I think for a little while into 2.4. Someone told me it was caused by the video driver hanging on to the PCI bus, and not allowing other devices to access it. In my case the beeps would persist until I clicked

Re: home videos to DVD

2004-07-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 05 July 2004 12:57 pm, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Bill, in the name of all debian users home-movie makers, you deserve > recognition in the hall of fame for your good howto. Bill's post begins with: +-+ | DV-to-DVD-HOWTO | +-+ v1.0, 2004

diagram of the debian organisation

2004-07-05 Thread martin f krafft
Hi all, Sorry to pester y'all, but I have looked and looked and was not successful in finding... a diagram depicting the Debian organisation and SPI, with the various official positions and all that. Does such a diagram exist? Where could I find it? Thanks, -- Please do not CC me when replying

Re: home videos to DVD

2004-07-05 Thread H. S.
Bill Kalebaugh wrote: +-+ | DV-to-DVD-HOWTO | +-+ This might give some more helpful information: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6953 ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re : L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-05 Thread Owen Jones
This is my lilo config file minus the comments:   lba32boot=/dev/hdaroot=/dev/hda1install=/boot/boot-menu.bmap=/boot/mapdelay=20vga=normaldeafult=Linuximage=/vmlinuzlabel=linuxread-onlyimage=/vmlinuz.oldlabel=linuxoldread-onlyoptional   Tried this http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Linu

Re: jewel for lcd users

2004-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 12:56:24PM -0500, Randall Smith wrote: > Found a jewel for lcd users I'd like to share > > xset dpms force off > > It turns off your lcd backlight. Moving the mouse turns it back on (on > my machine). It turns off any monitor that supports APM. It's cool, but it's not

IceWM on Testing

2004-07-05 Thread Jacob S.
Ok, so I'm really liking the new features in Testing so far, but I'm still learning about various little kinks. One is the "command line" in the taskbar for IceWM. In Woody, this worked great. In Testing, I'm finding that an occasional program doesn't like to be started from this command line, but

kwiki

2004-07-05 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
I am trying to build a wiki using the kwiki (0.18-2) package. I have some problems with permissions, httpd.conf settings, and speed (where libapache-mod-perl might help, although so far it didn't in my case). Would anybody familiar with the kwiki package be willing to help me sort this out (off

Re: Copyright/License of Debian Constitution

2004-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:55:28PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > a) Go try and 'reword' a book and try to pass it off as your own. Perfectly legal. Note that WEST SIDE STORY is not ROMEO AND JULIET for copyright purposes. Yes, ROMEO is in public domain ... but WSS is not, which it would be if it

Re: How do i configure XF86Config-4 for a iD865glc desktop system

2004-07-05 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 04:33:59PM +0200, Eric van Rheenen wrote: > Hello, > > I have a PC with an Intel D865GLC motherboard and i'm running > Debian Linux 2.4.26. > > I have had some trouble in getting this motherboard to work fine, but > now the ide, and ethernet are working as they should. >

Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-07-05 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 09:11:04PM +0100, JOHN WALL wrote: > could some one help please. Have installed debian GNU v3.0r2(non us) > Everything seemed to go in fine, except for some seek errors which I > assume is normal. Got to user name and password OK. then nothing, > I was expecting some format

Re: New installation has no GUI [was: Unidentified subject!]

2004-07-05 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 07:52:16PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You haven't installed the GUI. Run tasksel (as root) and select "X > > Window System" and probably you'll want "Desktop Environment" as well. > > ... which is bad advice since it will insta

Re: xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-05 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 11:33:55AM -0400, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 20:13:17 +0200 > David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I (think I) have read the previous thread about the license change, but > > probably not good enough. Would someone care to explain to me what > > ex

office suite capable of importing/converting applixware aw & ag files?

2004-07-05 Thread stephen parkinson
got caught by proprietary file formatting :-) my applix was purchased approx 4-5 yrs ago i tgz'd the applix dir and now uncompressed on a libranet 2.8.1 box, applix complains loudly of missing libstdc++ 2.8 libs so do i build & install libstdc++2.8 sources or hope for a open source program that w

Re: Printing problems with mozilla

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Brad Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hrm did you compile your own links? Because the version I apt-got didn't > seem to have the -g option compiled in. just wondering if there is a > package > I missed . There used to be an unofficial package for it, but the repository seems to have vanis

Re: APM and DPMS not working together

2004-07-05 Thread smjn
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Whenever APM puts my computer in supend or standby mode, the monitor > will come out of any power saving mode that is in and it will not > suspend, standby or go off after that. What could be the cause of this? Is this in X11 or at the console, or both? A read of 'm

Re: Printing problems with mozilla

2004-07-05 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 02 July 2004 10:07 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: >  In the meantime, Moz 1.6 works just fine when > 'links -g' won't, and still prints when I want it to. Hrm did you compile your own links? Because the version I apt-got didn't seem to have the -g option compiled in. just wondering if there is

Re: home videos to DVD

2004-07-05 Thread H. S.
Bill Kalebaugh wrote: +-+ | DV-to-DVD-HOWTO | +-+ Bill K Thank you so much! This is one of those rare posting of a reply that is so helpful and insightful. This is really a huge glimmer of hope in this home movie making project I have undertaken in Debian

Lilo warning about /dev/mapper/control

2004-07-05 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm seeing this upon running lilo: laptop:/home/moseley# lilo /dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel? /dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel? Incompatible libdevmapper 1.00.17-ioctl (2004-04

Re: Copyright/License of Debian Constitution

2004-07-05 Thread Travis Crump
John Hasler wrote: Dwayne C. Litzenberger writes: I'm not sure if this is the right list to ask on, but what's the copyright/license status of the Debian Constitution? http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution I'm heading up changes to the constitution of a local non-profit member organizatio

Re: disable boot logo from LILO (kernel boot command line)?

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 03:57:30PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > > --- Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > How come graphics mode? Isn't that called FrameBuffer Mode ? > > > > Yes, or "video mode" -- FrameBuffer forces your display to do

Re: New installation has no GUI [was: Unidentified subject!]

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You haven't installed the GUI. Run tasksel (as root) and select "X > Window System" and probably you'll want "Desktop Environment" as well. ... which is bad advice since it will instal; *both* KDE and GNOME. So, somthing a little better is to do the follow

Re: disable boot logo from LILO (kernel boot command line)?

2004-07-05 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 03:57:30PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How come graphics mode? Isn't that called FrameBuffer Mode ? > > Yes, or "video mode" -- FrameBuffer forces your display to do graphics > drawing. It's the only way it can be for

Re: New installation has no GUI [was: Unidentified subject!]

2004-07-05 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 09:11:04PM +0100, JOHN WALL wrote: > could some one help please. Have installed debian GNU v3.0r2(non us) > Everything seemed to go in fine, except for some seek errors which I > assume is normal. Got to user name and password OK. then nothing, > I was expecting some format

Re: Re : L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-05 Thread Kent West
Owen Jones wrote: I think i did re run lilo, how would i get to lilo.conf?i am a complete newbie i dont know any linux commands, i still can only get into the cdrom because of this problem im not getting into linux itself Strictly speaking, if you've booted off the Linux kernel, you're "into l

Re: Copyright/License of Debian Constitution

2004-07-05 Thread John Hasler
Dwayne C. Litzenberger writes: > I'm not sure if this is the right list to ask on, but what's the > copyright/license status of the Debian Constitution? > > http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution > > I'm heading up changes to the constitution of a local non-profit member > organization,

Re: jewel for lcd users

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Randall Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Found a jewel for lcd users I'd like to share > > xset dpms force off This action is usually the default for some kind of screen-blanking anyway. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor"

jewel for lcd users

2004-07-05 Thread Randall Smith
Found a jewel for lcd users I'd like to share xset dpms force off It turns off your lcd backlight. Moving the mouse turns it back on (on my machine). Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re : L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Owen Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think i did re run lilo, how would i get to lilo.conf?i am a complete > newbie i dont know any linux commands, i still can only get into the > cdrom because of this problem im not getting into linux itself [..skip message.. grr, sodding top-posting.]

Re: How do i configure XF86Config-4 for a iD865glc desktop system

2004-07-05 Thread Ricky Clarkson
On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 16:33:59 +0200, Eric van Rheenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a PC with an Intel D865GLC motherboard and i'm running > Debian Linux 2.4.26. > The problem i stil have is how to configure the video chip. Which > driver should i choose within XF86Config so that the X-Wind

Re : L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-05 Thread Owen Jones
I think i did re run lilo, how would i get to lilo.conf?i am a complete newbie i dont know any linux commands, i still can only get into the cdrom because of this problem im not getting into linux itself   - Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: kppp problem

2004-07-05 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Tadek (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > >> Tadek (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >> >> > I am having a problem with KPPP (2.1.4 KDE 3.2.2 sarge >> > distribution). The same connection using command line utility >> > (pppconfig and pon) >> > works just

Re: APM and DPMS not working together

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Whenever APM puts my computer in supend or standby mode, the monitor > will come out of any power saving mode that is in and it will not > suspend, standby or go off after that. What could be the cause of this? Is this in X11 or at the console, or both? A read of '

Re: home videos to DVD

2004-07-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 08:36:39AM -0500, Bill Kalebaugh wrote: > H. S. wrote: Bill, in the name of all debian users home-movie makers, you deserve recognition in the hall of fame for your good howto. This is a very complete introduction to the trade. Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

APM and DPMS not working together

2004-07-05 Thread smjn
Whenever APM puts my computer in supend or standby mode, the monitor will come out of any power saving mode that is in and it will not suspend, standby or go off after that. What could be the cause of this? Before I compiled APM-support into the kernel, the APM BIOS would still work automatically a

Re: downloaded txt.iso file: how to make a bootable cdimage out of it??

2004-07-05 Thread steef van duin
Jérémie Knuesel wrote: when I burn this file of about 599 MB with cdrecord and i mount this file the only thing i see is < debian xxx.iso > I don't know what's going on but instead of wasting CD-Rs you can mount the iso file directly with the loop device. For example, instead of burning the i

Re: audio on DELL latitude d400 screwed up

2004-07-05 Thread Philipp Weis
On 05 Jul 2004, Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you using ALSA or OSS? I have the same notebook and had problems > > with the ALSA driver. The OSS driver works fine for me and therefore I > > haven't bothered to take a closer look at the ALSA driver. > > And how do you do that ?? (Us

Re: Re : L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-05 Thread Kent West
Owen Jones wrote: Hi, got the disk working in rescue mode, once i ran that to remount my harddrive it actually ran linux for a bit (however it was command line based so i was lost) but when i rebooted the same error ocured but i think its L 40 now. Can someone give me more detail on how i clean

Re: supermount/Iomega ZIP disc change not recognized

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Francesc Oller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > echo "/dev/hdb4 release" >/proc/fs/supermount/subfs The use of "supermount" is deprecated. It's evil, it continually probes devices for change of disk, and supermount has been buggy in its original concept. Don't use it, look at "autofs", and even t

supermount/Iomega ZIP disc change not recognized

2004-07-05 Thread Francesc Oller
Hi all, I'm running supermount patch v 1.2.11 for kernel 2.4.24. It drives an ATAPI 100MB ZIP unit but disc changes don't get recognized. Floppies work flawlessly, however. I've to do as root: echo "/dev/hdb4 release" >/proc/fs/supermount/subfs in order for "ls /z" to physically read the direct

Re: backing up to ftp server

2004-07-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya thomas On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, [iso-8859-1] Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > tar zcvf today.tgz `find /etc /home -mtime -7 ( -type f -o -type l ) > > -print > > I think you'll find you'd need to escape the brackets, above. yes, \( > > > Why ftp? Why no

Re: kppp problem

2004-07-05 Thread Tadek
Andreas. Thank you it worked for me. I guess the question remains why did I have to do it since 'customize pppd arguments...' setting (gui KPPP configuration tool) was noauth? I understand /etc/ppp/options is global for all connection definition. Do you know where particular connection definition

Re: suspend to disk and sound

2004-07-05 Thread Scetbon Cyril
Bob Proulx wrote: There have been changes to the driver architecture with the 2.6 kernel. Not all of the drivers have been fixed up for things like suspending. Until they all do get fixed unloading and reloading the drivers is about the best you can do. OK. let's hope it'll be fixed soon :-) -- T

Re: Re : L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Owen Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, got the disk working in rescue mode, once i ran that to remount my > harddrive it actually ran linux for a bit (however it was command line > based so i was lost) but when i rebooted the same error ocured but i > think its L 40 now. Can someone give

Re: Copyright/License of Debian Constitution

2004-07-05 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 22:22:40 -0600, Dwayne C. Litzenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure if this is the right list to ask on, but what's the > copyright/license status of the Debian Constitution? > > http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution > > I'm heading up changes to the con

Re : L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-05 Thread Owen Jones
Hi, got the disk working in rescue mode, once i ran that to remount my harddrive it actually ran linux for a bit (however it was command line based so i was lost) but when i rebooted the same error ocured but i think its L 40 now. Can someone give me more detail on how i clean out my MBR? is

Re: How do i configure XF86Config-4 for a iD865glc desktop system

2004-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Eric van Rheenen wrote: > I have a PC with an Intel D865GLC motherboard and i'm running > Debian Linux 2.4.26. Sounds reasonable. > The problem i stil have is how to configure the video chip. Which > driver should i choose within XF86Config so that the X-Windows system > wil start. I run xf86co

Re: debian kernel: what to do with everything

2004-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Having compiled my own kernel from a kernel downloaded from ftp.kernel.org > or a mirror thereof for years, last night I finally got brave and > installed a kernel from DEBIAN sources. Many people would say the reverse. That running the distro kernel is the safe thing and

Re: backing up to ftp server

2004-07-05 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 14:39:12 -0700, Vadik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to start backing up to ftp server and I was not able to find > package which does that. > > My only requirement that it should do daily backups and keep last 7 > backups (or do incremental backups). Take a look at http:

Re: Re: sendmail and procmail , spamassaign

2004-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Amrita Priyadarsini wrote: > I have installed spamassassin & procmail in my system. > However when I try to start the spamd daemon,it gives the following error.. > "Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at > /opt/perl5/lib/5.6.1/Cwd.pm line 92." The problem is that the PATH

Re: www.apt-get.org

2004-07-05 Thread Frédéric Dreier
Keith O'Connell wrote: Hi, When I go to http://www.apt-get.org/main/, I am getting a weird character set on the screen. I haven't changed my mozilla (1.6) browser since the last time I was there. Is anyone else experiencing this, or do I have to start hunting foe

Re: udev question

2004-07-05 Thread Sam Halliday
John L Fjellstad wrote: > Sam Halliday writes: > > i would very much like to have a symlink set up by udev > > (/dev/input/mousemain or similar) which points to the /dev/input/mouseX > > unless it has been removed, in which case it should be pointed to > > /dev/input/mouse1. > > > > unfortunately

Re: xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-05 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 20:13:17 +0200 David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I (think I) have read the previous thread about the license change, but > probably not good enough. Would someone care to explain to me what > exactly is the fuss about the license change? I understand that XFree86 > has

apache2 and amavisd-new

2004-07-05 Thread Stefan Vunckx
I wanted to upgrade from apache1.3 to an apache2 environment, but found myself puzzled with the following dependency problem: # apt-get install apache2-common -s Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libmagic1 The followin

Re: X crashes on video replay

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- akintayo holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > are a few error messages, but none that would explain why xine is > killing X, in fact it seems the other way around. Try using another codec. From what I can tell from that, Xine hates it. Are you using Xv, or Xshm ? = "The Linux Weekend Me

Re: www.apt-get.org

2004-07-05 Thread Nico
same thing here (konqueror/kde3.2.3). seems to be a PostgreSQL problem... Le lundi 05 Juillet 2004 17:14, Keith O'Connell a écrit : > Hi, > > When I go to http://www.apt-get.org/main/, I am getting a > weird character set on the screen. I haven't changed my mozilla > (1.6)

Re: www.apt-get.org

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Keith O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone else experiencing this, or do I have to start > hunting foe a problem at this end? Yes, it's broken. Try backports.org -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://

www.apt-get.org

2004-07-05 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, When I go to http://www.apt-get.org/main/, I am getting a weird character set on the screen. I haven't changed my mozilla (1.6) browser since the last time I was there. Is anyone else experiencing this, or do I have to start hunting foe a problem at thi

X crashes on video replay

2004-07-05 Thread akintayo holder
Hi, I am having a problem with video replay on Linux, I am running testing with 2.4.19. The problem is that when I attempt to run a video X crashes and restarts, this occurs with GTV and xine. I attempted to delete the .xine directory, and the xine bug report does not seem helpful. There ar

Re: xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-05 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 00:39:37 - Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > essentially it demands equal treatment - the notion of which is repugant > to some people While (as posts of mine in this list will demonstrate) I'm no big fan of Slashdot, it's easy to see why you don't like it. From

Re: disable boot logo from LILO (kernel boot command line)?

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How come graphics mode? Isn't that called FrameBuffer Mode ? Yes, or "video mode" -- FrameBuffer forces your display to do graphics drawing. It's the only way it can be forced to provide displays at higher resolutions. -- Thomas Adam P.S. This

Re: what do I do when depmod fails and I KNOW the drivers are valid?

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > depmod: ELF file /lib/modules.2.4.18/misc/[filename] not for this > architecture Have up updated the 'module-init=tools' package? If not, do so. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://li

Re: backing up to ftp server

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tar zcvf today.tgz `find /etc /home -mtime -7 ( -type f -o -type l ) > -print I think you'll find you'd need to escape the brackets, above. > > Why ftp? Why not use rsync? > > because rsync doesn't keep a copy of the last set of changes > before it o

Scrolling beeps while playing music.

2004-07-05 Thread Adam Funk
Whenever I'm playing sound files (using xmms, grip and other applications), the computer adds very short, high-pitched beeps when lines scroll on any visible application. In other words, if I have something spewing a lot of output to an xterm, it beeps a lot if the whole xterm is visible; not at a

How do i configure XF86Config-4 for a iD865glc desktop system

2004-07-05 Thread Eric van Rheenen
Hello, I have a PC with an Intel D865GLC motherboard and i'm running Debian Linux 2.4.26. I have had some trouble in getting this motherboard to work fine, but now the ide, and ethernet are working as they should. The problem i stil have is how to configure the video chip. Which driver should i

Re: postfix + amavisd-new + clamscan

2004-07-05 Thread German Gutierrez
> I suspect that the best thing for me to do at this point is to discard > the Debian postfix readme for amavisd-new and RTFM for postfix and work > it out on that list. Once understood, post a bugreport on clarification > of the documentation. As it is, this is a non-functional installation. >

Re: kppp problem

2004-07-05 Thread Majid Ziaee
On 4 Jul 2004 21:05:41 -0700, Tadek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having a problem with KPPP (2.1.4 KDE 3.2.2 sarge distribution). > The same connection using command line utility (pppconfig and pon) > works just fine. With KPPP program attempts to connect (login > script's debug window displa

RE: how to use Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 in Woody

2004-07-05 Thread Chris
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 13:43, askar wrote: > Thank you. > > > > Are the nvidia-kernel-common and nvidia-kernel-source included as a > > > stable package? > > > > They most likely are too old. Get the drivers from Nvidia, or get an > > XFree backport. > What does it mean to get XFree backport? It

Re: kppp problem

2004-07-05 Thread Majid Ziaee
-- Forwarded message -- From: Majid Ziaee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 18:31:46 +0430 Subject: Re: kppp problem To: Tadek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 4 Jul 2004 21:05:41 -0700, Tadek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having a problem with KPPP (2.1.4

RE: how to use Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 in Woody

2004-07-05 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello askar (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >>> Are the nvidia-kernel-common and nvidia-kernel-source included as a >>> stable package? >> >> They most likely are too old. Get the drivers from Nvidia, or get an >> XFree backport. > What does it mean to get XFree backport? To install XFree 4.2 or 4

Re: audio on DELL latitude d400 screwed up

2004-07-05 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 10:58:36 +0200, Philipp Weis wrote: > Are you using ALSA or OSS? I have the same notebook and had problems > with the ALSA driver. The OSS driver works fine for me and therefore I > haven't bothered to take a closer look at the ALSA driver. And how do you do that ?? (Using OS

Re: home videos to DVD

2004-07-05 Thread Bill Kalebaugh
H. S. wrote: I am planning to save all the MiniDV tapes (recorded with Sony TRV25 camcorder) on DVDs. I guess to capture the tape data to disk I can use dvgrab or Cinelerra. And for editing and captioning I could use Kino. But how do I record the video on to a DVD? Or if I just want to dump a t

debian kernel: what to do with everything

2004-07-05 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Having compiled my own kernel from a kernel downloaded from ftp.kernel.org or a mirror thereof for years, last night I finally got brave and installed a kernel from DEBIAN sources. this was due in large part to the simple and straightforward howto at www.desktop-linux.net/debkernel.htm. But now

Re: backing up to ftp server

2004-07-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya stephen On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Stephen Le wrote: > > > Why ftp? Why not use rsync? > > > > because rsync doesn't keep a copy of the last set of changes > > before it overwrite it ?? > > Actually, rsync can be used to make incremental backups. Please see: > http://www.mikerubel.org/computers

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