Re: Copying a file from a floppy (diff formats)?

2004-07-10 Thread Ralph Bacolod
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 07:12:06PM -0400, disciple wrote: > I'm installing debian on my laptop. The laptop uses a winmodem. > Downloaded the driver for it on my Windows box... XP (NTFS); ... The > file that I downloaded is a linux compressed file extension is > .gz. The exact file name

Re: Gnome configuration

2004-07-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 06:43:34AM -0600, Jules Dubois wrote: > On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 20:04:59 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I like gnome-terminal [...] But, it used to be that the > > browser was selectable via alternatives. Now it seems not to be. > > >From the GNOME menu, look at > > Des

Re: force check on boot

2004-07-10 Thread Ralph Bacolod
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:43:34AM -0400, Silvan wrote: > On Friday 09 July 2004 10:39 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > /dev/hda1 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced. > > > > I'm getting this every time I boot my system. When I shut down, I do > > either exit or logout, and then manually shut

apt/preferences origin pins for file:// sources

2004-07-10 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Hi, A couple of weeks ago, I switched over to Debian from RedHat. So far things are fine, but I am facing a problem with apt-get. I have downloaded the first few iso images of sarge and have them lying on my hard-disk. I have the following lines in my '/etc/apt/sources.list' === deb file:/mnt/sar

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-10 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 05:29:13PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Has anyone invited our Mozilla packager to participate in this > discussion? The numerous bugs that have been filed, and the way they've been dealt with, would seem to indicate that he's not interested in participating. -- Marc Wilson

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-07-10 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 05:49:42PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Problem I've had with GAIM on WinXP Pro (pardoning the OT issues) is > that the installer fails with what appears to be a Win32/16 problem in > the command interpreter. I found some MSFT KB articles referencing > solutions in NT

Re: [OT] squidguard, dansguardian, other?? on a 486?

2004-07-10 Thread Silvan
On Saturday 10 July 2004 08:06 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > > (I hear Bill Gates has a lot of money. I should look him up and see > > if he wants to fund the development of a simple-to-use p0rn filter for > > Linux. :) > > It already exists. It's called squidguard. No, I said "simple to use." I'

menu 2.1.15 sorts sections differently: how to sort sections?

2004-07-10 Thread William Ballard
I have added a /etc/menu/menu.frequent with my frequently used commands: ?package(local.mystuff):needs="x11" section="0Frequent" sort="001" title="Name 1" command="Command 1" ... ?package(local.mystuff):needs="x11" section="0Frequent" sort="001" title="Name n" command="Command n" Because I want

Re: Resolution & recovery: Re: Slow disk - hdparm, S.M.A.R.T, badblocks, what else?

2004-07-10 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 20:03:32 -0500 "Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:41:58 -0700 > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > - The 'Knoppix' hostname worked its way into a few config files. > > > > # find /etc -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -il

Re: Resolution & recovery: Re: Slow disk - hdparm, S.M.A.R.T, badblocks, what else?

2004-07-10 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:41:58 -0700 "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - The 'Knoppix' hostname worked its way into a few config files. > > # find /etc -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -il knoppix > > ...and clean those up. One question, in hopes that I can learn someth

Re: GUI-tool for network configuration

2004-07-10 Thread Joe Potter
Karl Hegbloom wrote: > aptitude install configure-debian > configure-debian > Very nice. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is it safe to use disk with many bad blocks?

2004-07-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 08:02:17PM -0400, Ben Russo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have an 80GB hard disk. > badblocks shows that it has about 78M blocks. > The first 50 million or so can be checked (write patterns) > for many days with no problems. > Beyond that I start to get errors. > > Does an

Re: Debian on a Dedicated Server

2004-07-10 Thread Stelios Asmargianakis
> On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:13:01 -0700 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm, that's odd, there's apache2 packages in unstable. Are you sure > > you bothered to answer this for yourself before you mailed? It would be better to say something about the subject than replying like that

Re: Debian on a Dedicated Server

2004-07-10 Thread Paul Johnson
"Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:13:01 -0700 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > For example if I need apache 2, it would be necessary to compile >> > that than starting straight editing httpd.conf as it will be in >> > RedHat as it is installed by the d

Re: mounting floppy with fs auto doest recognize vfat

2004-07-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 12:30:53PM +, Stephen Patterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 13:10:04 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > When I try to mount a floppy with file system marked as auto in fstab > > it does recognize vfat file system (disks from windows), I have to > > speci

Re: Debian on a Dedicated Server

2004-07-10 Thread Paul Johnson
Stelios Asmargianakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:08:26 -0700 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Wrong question. Right question is: "Why should I chose Fedora or ES >> when they ship by default with software that wasn't thoroughly tested, >> when I can get a

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-07-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:40:53PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > on Thu, 24 Jun 2004 04:13:03PM -0500, Kirk Strauser insinuated: > > On Thursday 2004-06-24 03:47 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > > > dude, i totally would, but this one is not under my control -- my > > > company

Re: many packages depend on mozilla-browser but I build it from source

2004-07-10 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:40:55 -0700 William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 05:32:50PM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > > ... However, > > many other interesting packages also depend on mozilla-browser. > > Strike that: apparently I was way off base. A lot of the

Re: Debian on a Dedicated Server

2004-07-10 Thread Stelios Asmargianakis
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:08:26 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wrong question. Right question is: "Why should I chose Fedora or ES > when they ship by default with software that wasn't thoroughly tested, > when I can get a well-tested, rock solid OS from Debian instead?" > I like

Resolution & recovery: Re: Slow disk - hdparm, S.M.A.R.T, badblocks, what else?

2004-07-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 02:17:04AM -0700, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > on Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 05:59:57PM -0400, Silvan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thursday 08 July 2004 06:59 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > - Bad drive? > > > That's pretty much the conclusion I'm co

Re: many packages depend on mozilla-browser but I build it from source

2004-07-10 Thread Thomas Adam
--- William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suppose I'll just have to make a dummy mozilla-browser package with > equivs and install that, and deal with breakages myself. Do you think > that will be feasible? Yes, this is exactly what equivs was designed for. > Why do all these packa

Re: many packages depend on mozilla-browser but I build it from source

2004-07-10 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 05:32:50PM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > ... However, > many other interesting packages also depend on mozilla-browser. Strike that: apparently I was way off base. A lot of the things like "c-cpp-reference" don't explicitly depend on mozilla-browser; they only de

Re: Debian on a Dedicated Server

2004-07-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:13:01 -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Retard-style quoting fixed. Please do it yourself in the future. > http://learn.to/quote/ > > Stelios Asmargianakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:13:40 -0400 Ryan Waye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

many packages depend on mozilla-browser but I build it from source

2004-07-10 Thread William Ballard
I want to try monodevelop, which depends on libgecko-cil (a mono binding for embedding Moz) which in turn depends on mozilla-browser. However, many other interesting packages also depend on mozilla-browser. I build mozilla from source, and don't install it via a .deb or even install it at all,

Re: No CTRL-F1..F6 anymore

2004-07-10 Thread Kent West
Otto Wyss wrote: Since yesterday I install a new Debian/Sarge system and it's somehow working but after installing x-window and xfce I've lost CTRL-ALT F1..F6 (resp. CTRL-F1..F2 in console). Does anyone know how that could happen, which package does this? How can I restore CTRL-F1..F6 again? O. Wys

Re: Debian on a Dedicated Server

2004-07-10 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:13:01 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For example if I need apache 2, it would be necessary to compile > > that than starting straight editing httpd.conf as it will be in > > RedHat as it is installed by the default installation. > > Hmm, that's odd, there

Re: Debian on a Dedicated Server

2004-07-10 Thread Paul Johnson
Retard-style quoting fixed. Please do it yourself in the future. http://learn.to/quote/ Stelios Asmargianakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:13:40 -0400 Ryan Waye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I am not sure what you mean by "...But if it needs to compile >> everything fro

Re: Debian on a Dedicated Server

2004-07-10 Thread Paul Johnson
Stelios Asmargianakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to ask why to choose Debian than Fedora or ES for example that > comes with 2.6 kernel and latest packages. Wrong question. Right question is: "Why should I chose Fedora or ES when they ship by default with software that wasn't thorough

Re: [OT] squidguard, dansguardian, other?? on a 486?

2004-07-10 Thread Paul Johnson
Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Are there any idiot friendly docs for this sort of thing yet? The last > >> If you want a *caching* proxy, then an out-of-the-box Squid install, with >> _very_ few (if any) tweaks, works great. >> >> If you wnat a *filtering* proxy, dansguardian seems to be

Re: dd to make full copy of dvd?

2004-07-10 Thread Paul Johnson
Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > would dd make a full-complete copy of a dvd? checking with dvd::rip, > the obetained directory is almost twice as large. That would not fit > in a 4.7 g regular dvd, which is the size of the original. Hmm. > ? I don't see why dd wouldn't result in a

Re: Debian on a Dedicated Server

2004-07-10 Thread Stelios Asmargianakis
For example if I need apache 2, it would be necessary to compile that than starting straight editing httpd.conf as it will be in RedHat as it is installed by the default installation. By the way any suggestions about email servers? I am between qmail and postfix Thanks On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:13:

Re: GUI-tool for network configuration

2004-07-10 Thread Karl Hegbloom
aptitude install configure-debian configure-debian -- Karl Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GUI-tool for network configuration

2004-07-10 Thread Adam Aube
Otto Wyss wrote: >> To use etherconf, run this as root: >> >> dpkg-reconfigure etherconf >> > Thanks a lot, how nice would it be if these two lines where in a README > in /usr/share/doc/etherconf. >From the package description (available via "dpkg -l etherconf" or "apt-cache show etherconf"):

Re: Debian on a Dedicated Server

2004-07-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 12:02:42AM +0100, Stelios Asmargianakis wrote: > The server is gonna be an email, web and database server. That's what the server I run does. > I want to ask why to choose Debian than Fedora or ES for example that > comes with 2.6 kernel and latest packages. Do you need

Re: Mplayer Anyone?

2004-07-10 Thread Ryan Waye
when you compile mplayer, use the "--enable-gui" option. Just make sure you have libpng3 and libpng-dev installed. On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 22:41:53 -0400, Paul Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for a good general purpose media player, like Mplayer , > which does everything I want. Howe

Re: Debian on a Dedicated Server

2004-07-10 Thread Ryan Waye
I am not sure what you mean by "...But if it needs to compile everything from scratch..." can you please clarify? > in order to have everything up ands running On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 00:02:42 +0100, Stelios Asmargianakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello guys, > > I will order next week a dedicat

Debian on a Dedicated Server

2004-07-10 Thread Stelios Asmargianakis
Hello guys, I will order next week a dedicated server as I need more band with for my sites and I have some questions. I can order the server with Debian Stable, RedHat ES (extra cost), Fedora The server is gonna be an email, web and database server. I want to ask why to choose Debian than Fedo

Re: is it possible to change apt-get's access priorities?

2004-07-10 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 18:00:25 -0400 * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 20:14:05 -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > > > If I'm understanding you properly, you want apt-pinning to work with > > 4 repositories: 1) CDs, 2) stable on debian.org servers, 3) testing > > on debian.org server a

transfering home video MiniDV to DVD

2004-07-10 Thread H. S.
I was experimenting with Kino and dvdauthor. Today finally I and my brother were able ot make a DVD on Debian Unstable. Here is process (let me know if you want more detaisl): 1) Captured the complete MiniDV in DV format (not quicktime format, there have been reports of bugs in quicktime library

Re: reportbug (was: About emacs)

2004-07-10 Thread Silvan
> I remembered when I first tried reportbug, I didn't want to send out > anything so I choose "not connected to the internet" to the first > configuration question (of reportbug). But I am not asked about those > questions again. And, "dpkg-reconfigure reportbug" won't help... I had the same prob

Re: dd to make full copy of dvd?

2004-07-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 06:13:34PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > would dd make a full-complete copy of a dvd? checking with dvd::rip, > the obetained directory is almost twice as large. That would not fit > in a 4.7 g regular dvd, which is the size of the original. Hmm. > ? > Forgot to mentio

Re: Gnome configuration

2004-07-10 Thread Jules Dubois
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 20:04:59 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I like gnome-terminal [...] But, it used to be that the > browser was selectable via alternatives. Now it seems not to be. >From the GNOME menu, look at Desktop Preferences -> Advanced -> Preferred Applications -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

reportbug (was: About emacs)

2004-07-10 Thread * Tong*
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:39:41 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > However consider filing a bug if the source package for emacs does not > build correctly with all the build-depends installed and using the > standard debian package building scripts. Yes, that seems to be what's happening here. Hmm, do I

DebianInstaller and USB HD box: cannot boot

2004-07-10 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, since a while I am trying to install Sarge on a box (OpenBrick NG) with an USB HD via DebianInstaller: I succeeded to install it through different methods, but each time I cannot reboot my computer: before the Kernel panic message "Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init", I got messages t

Re: [OT] squidguard, dansguardian, other?? on a 486?

2004-07-10 Thread Silvan
> > Are there any idiot friendly docs for this sort of thing yet? The last > If you want a *caching* proxy, then an out-of-the-box Squid install, with > _very_ few (if any) tweaks, works great. > > If you wnat a *filtering* proxy, dansguardian seems to be the way to go, > again, very few tweaks

Re: is it possible to change apt-get's access priorities?

2004-07-10 Thread * Tong*
On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 20:14:05 -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > If I'm understanding you properly, you want apt-pinning to work with 4 > repositories: 1) CDs, 2) stable on debian.org servers, 3) testing on > debian.org server and 4) unstable on debian.org servers. This is really a good and comprehensive ar

Re: Mplayer Anyone?

2004-07-10 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:15:40AM -0400, Paul Tsai wrote: > Jerome R. Acks wrote: > > >On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:41:53PM -0400, Paul Tsai wrote: > > > > > >>I am looking for a good general purpose media player, like Mplayer , > >>which does everything I want. However, there is no debian pack

dd to make full copy of dvd?

2004-07-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
would dd make a full-complete copy of a dvd? checking with dvd::rip, the obetained directory is almost twice as large. That would not fit in a 4.7 g regular dvd, which is the size of the original. Hmm. ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Keeping a customized file from being updated during package upgrade

2004-07-10 Thread Silvan
> > use colorized prompts. Red is root, cyan is local user, purple is local > > user with developer environment variables, green is remote, etc. It > > helps when you have as many different terminal sessions open at one time > > as I do. > > Wow, how could you do that? Can you share your code wi

Re: GUI-tool for network configuration

2004-07-10 Thread Otto Wyss
> To use etherconf, run this as root: > > dpkg-reconfigure etherconf > Thanks a lot, how nice would it be if these two lines where in a README in /usr/share/doc/etherconf. O. Wyss -- How to enhance your code, see "http://freshmeat.net/projects/wxguide/"; -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Keeping a customized file from being updated during package upgrade

2004-07-10 Thread * Tong*
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 00:55:08 -0400, Silvan wrote: > anyway. One thing I've done to help me keep track of where I am is to use > colorized prompts. Red is root, cyan is local user, purple is local user > with developer environment variables, green is remote, etc. It helps when > you have as m

No support for device type: thermal

2004-07-10 Thread wolfgang pauli
Hi, I have a acpi problem under debian testing. I can start acpid load all modules I want and everything seems fine: Loading ACPI modules: battery ac processor button fan thermal Starting Advanced Configuration and Power Interface daemon: acpid. But if I try acpi -V I ge

Re: Image viewer that support keyboard panning and zooming

2004-07-10 Thread dircha
* Tong* wrote: Is there a ready-made debian image viewer package/tool that supports keyboard panning and zooming? 'display' in the imagemagick package should do what you want. You'll want to at least look at the manual page before you do anything with it, or you will be frustrated. I just use x

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-10 Thread Carl Fink
Has anyone invited our Mozilla packager to participate in this discussion? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Missing KDE widget styles

2004-07-10 Thread Adam Aube
Nicos Gollan wrote: > Since yesterday, I'm missing the KDE widget styles. All I can get are > the ones that come with Qt. I had this problem before, and adding the > plugin path in qtconfig resolved it, but now the path is set to where > the kdeartwork-style package installs the widget libraries.

Re: Gnome configuration

2004-07-10 Thread * Tong*
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 20:04:59 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > opens the URL. But, it used to be that the browser was selectable > via alternatives. Now it seems not to be. I'm pretty sure that A side question, How to configure the bg/fg color for Gnome/gtk applications? I think I could previously, b

Linux Debian Woody und AC97-Sound

2004-07-10 Thread debianuser
Hallo an alle; Ich habe da mal ne Frage: Ich hab ein wenig Probs hier mit einem Rechner, AC97 Intel i8x0 on Board, KDE 3.2 Beim Start von KDE bekomme ich immer die Meldung, dass /dev/dsp nicht geöffnet werden kann bzw. keine Fehlermeldung und es kommt kein Sound, obgleich Sound conf. ist. kudzu

Re: number of processors detected

2004-07-10 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 10 July 2004 21:12, Joakim Franzen wrote: > Hi, > > Just installed the latest debian-sarge and have the 2.6.6-smp kernel > package added. What is really strange is that debian detects 4 > processors but the server only has 2. > > The system is a Dell PowerEdge 1600 with dual 2.4GHz Xeon

Re: GUI-tool for network configuration

2004-07-10 Thread Adam Aube
Otto Wyss wrote: > I installed etherconf to see what it makes but it doesn't install an > etherconf command, no man page and nothing in share/doc. Well I just > remove it. To use etherconf, run this as root: dpkg-reconfigure etherconf Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Image viewer that support keyboard panning and zooming

2004-07-10 Thread * Tong*
Hi, Is there a ready-made debian image viewer package/tool that supports keyboard panning and zooming? I used to use xv, but it is not available in debian. I use gqview a lot, but it is not good enough for a one-picture-quick-view task. I'm currently using eog, but it can't quit by keyboard (re

Re: number of processors detected

2004-07-10 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 22:12:13 +0200 Joakim Franzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Just installed the latest debian-sarge and have the 2.6.6-smp kernel > package added. What is really strange is that debian detects 4 > processors but the server only has 2. > > The system is a Dell PowerEdg

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-10 Thread Florian Weimer
* Don Armstrong: > Perhaps I've missed something, but everything that I've read in the > threads so far amounts to people either assuming that there's an issue > and not defining it, or attempting to figure out where the issue is. This summary is correct as far as I can see. No real security iss

number of processors detected

2004-07-10 Thread Joakim Franzen
Hi, Just installed the latest debian-sarge and have the 2.6.6-smp kernel package added. What is really strange is that debian detects 4 processors but the server only has 2. The system is a Dell PowerEdge 1600 with dual 2.4GHz Xeon. Anyone know why this is happening? Regards, Joakim -- To UNSUBS

Re: Printing an image

2004-07-10 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 10:07:01AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > I'm running CUPS. I've got a large image that I want to print > landscape and scale to fit a single page. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ identify 1.jpg > 1.jpg JPEG 1232x962+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 308kb 0.000u 0:01 > > > I can use "displa

ACPI (WAS: Re: [I'm too lame to use Subjects...])

2004-07-10 Thread Thomas Adam
--- wolfgang pauli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a acpi problem under debian testing. It would have been nice to have seen that reflected in the topic. > No support for device type: thermal > > Maybe a ls of my /proc/acpi helps: > ac_adapter battery embedded_controller fan

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Michael B Allen wrote: > My impression was that the PostScript generator had the security > issue Can someone please state, for the record, definitively and precisely what this "security issue" is? The fact that PS is a turing complete language isn't a security issue, beyond

Re: Debian's javac vs Sun's new installation of j2sdk

2004-07-10 Thread David Baron
On Friday 09 July 2004 14:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The following url for a forum thread on Java's site probably has the > answer for your error. I was getting the same error and used the unpack > rt.jar method mentioned on the following thread. > > http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=

Re: GUI-tool for network configuration

2004-07-10 Thread Ryan Waye
KDE has a nice network configuration tool on the control panel, but as stated above the config-file is probably easier and more straightforward. On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 12:06:27 -0700, Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 08:40:57PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > > I wonde

Re: tmda (was Re: Attach filter)

2004-07-10 Thread David Fokkema
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 04:46:24AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:37:45PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On 2004-06-25, Paul Johnson penned: > > > --=-=-= > > > > > > "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >> You can use pro

No CTRL-F1..F6 anymore

2004-07-10 Thread Otto Wyss
Since yesterday I install a new Debian/Sarge system and it's somehow working but after installing x-window and xfce I've lost CTRL-ALT F1..F6 (resp. CTRL-F1..F2 in console). Does anyone know how that could happen, which package does this? How can I restore CTRL-F1..F6 again? O. Wyss -- How to en

Re: GUI-tool for network configuration

2004-07-10 Thread Otto Wyss
> --- Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I wonder if there isn't any GUI-tool which allows to configure the > > network since I haven't found any. Does anybody know any? > > Why would you need one? $EDITOR /etc/network/interfaces, is just fine for > most cases. Still, if you cannot live

[no subject]

2004-07-10 Thread wolfgang pauli
Hi, I have a acpi problem under debian testing. I can start acpid load all modules I want and everything seems fine: Loading ACPI modules: battery ac processor button fan thermal Starting Advanced Configuration and Power Interface daemon: acpid. But if I try acpi -V I ge

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-10 Thread Michael B Allen
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:19:03 -0400 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excuse the cross posting, but many are "discussing" on all of these > lists. > > On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 06:47, Magnus Therning wrote: > > > > > > "If I were to dselect today, would I still > > >be able to print to f

Re: acme

2004-07-10 Thread Alban Browaeys
Le Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:29:50 -0700, Paul Yeatman a écrit : > Hi, for anyone running Sarge, the "acme" package was a cool new feature to > me that allowed you to set up "multimedia keys" on whatever keyboard one > has. Starting with updates a couple weeks ago, "acme" now conflicts with > "gnome" a

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-10 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 09 July 2004 11:34 pm, Nate Bargmann wrote: > I realize that all package maintainers are short of time, but in this > case I think it would be wise for the maintainer to have a package with > PS enabled and another with XPrint enabled to satisfy the needs of both > sets of users.  To do o

Re: GUI-tool for network configuration

2004-07-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 08:40:57PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > I wonder if there isn't any GUI-tool which allows to configure the > network since I haven't found any. Does anybody know any? try apt-cache search network administration or other such keywords. I seem to recall at least one li

Re: GUI-tool for network configuration

2004-07-10 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if there isn't any GUI-tool which allows to configure the > network since I haven't found any. Does anybody know any? Why would you need one? $EDITOR /etc/network/interfaces, is just fine for most cases. Still, if you cannot live without a GUI,

GUI-tool for network configuration

2004-07-10 Thread Otto Wyss
I wonder if there isn't any GUI-tool which allows to configure the network since I haven't found any. Does anybody know any? O. Wyss -- How to enhance your code, see "http://freshmeat.net/projects/wxguide/"; -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Apt Questions

2004-07-10 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Paul Tsai (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > How do you install a package including all the suggested packages? Aptitude can do that, if it is configured properly. Go to Options Dependency handling. > Also, is there a way to remove a package along with all the > dependencies? If I remember c

Re: Apt Questions

2004-07-10 Thread Ryan Waye
Please disregard my last post. I didn't read the "suggests" part of your question. Sorry! Ryan Waye On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 14:07:33 -0400, Ryan Waye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To install the package, the command is apt-get install "packagename" > (without the quotes. To remove, apt-get remove "

Re: Apt Questions

2004-07-10 Thread Ryan Waye
To install the package, the command is apt-get install "packagename" (without the quotes. To remove, apt-get remove "packagename" Ryan Waye On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:58:47 -0400, Paul Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A couple of apt questions, > How do you install a package including all the sugge

Re: Apt Questions

2004-07-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 01:58:47PM -0400, Paul Tsai wrote: > A couple of apt questions, > How do you install a package including all the suggested packages? > Also, is there a way to remove a package along with all the dependencies? > Paul > > Apt per se is not meant to do this. Apt-get install w

Re: Apt Questions

2004-07-10 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Paul Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A couple of apt questions, > How do you install a package including all the suggested packages? You have to do this with 'aptitude' via the --with-suggests > Also, is there a way to remove a package along with all the > dependencies? Again, only using

Apt Questions

2004-07-10 Thread Paul Tsai
A couple of apt questions, How do you install a package including all the suggested packages? Also, is there a way to remove a package along with all the dependencies? Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: update-rc.d usage

2004-07-10 Thread * Tong*
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 03:34:22 +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: >> what is the right way to specify a service that only has start but no >> stop? > > station:~# update-rc.d local start 80 2 3 4 5 . > Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/local ... >/etc/rc2.d/S80local -> ../init.d/local >/etc/rc

Re: Request Info

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Printing an image

2004-07-10 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm running CUPS. I've got a large image that I want to print landscape and scale to fit a single page. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ identify 1.jpg 1.jpg JPEG 1232x962+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 308kb 0.000u 0:01 I can use "display" to print, but it only prints a small image. I can pull it up in mozilla an

Re: Gnome configuration

2004-07-10 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Paul E Condon: > I am trying to make a configuration change in Gnome, but I'm not > sure where I should look to make the change. > > My problem is that I use gnome-terminal to run an instance of > mutt to read my email. I like gnome-terminal for this because I like xterm for this

Re: Sluggish Ripping speeds

2004-07-10 Thread Ryan Waye
It is a frown all the time, but I fixed the problem. My drive was crap; I replaced it and now I get 5+x speeds. But thanks for asking. On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:46:36 +0200, Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:49:32 -0400 > Ryan Waye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Problem with boot-up

2004-07-10 Thread Rafael Arco Arredondo
Hi, I have a problem during system boot-up. Currently, I use Sarge with kernel 2.6.6 and APM support, compiled as a module with the following options: - Enable PM at boot time - Make CPU Idle calls when idle The first time I power on my computer (after shutdown), it doesn't finish the boot-up p

Re: 2.4.X to 2.6.X pb

2004-07-10 Thread Yohann Desquerre
Markus Meyer wrote: Yohann Desquerre wrote: Hi all, Hi alone, VFS : unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) Have you compiled in your filesystem driver? If you have ext3 you need ext3 not as module, but compiled into the kernel? i use reiserfs it is compiled as a module b

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-10 Thread Greg Folkert
Excuse the cross posting, but many are "discussing" on all of these lists. On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 06:47, Magnus Therning wrote: > > > > "If I were to dselect today, would I still > > be able to print to file a website page > > as ps?" [Y/N] > > Yes. Printing PS to a file is still p

Re: Mount of ext3 Partition on other hardrive does not work

2004-07-10 Thread Markus Meyer
Silvan wrote: > How about mounting the partitions in question as ext2 temporarily until > you can work out what's going wrong? Nice try, but mount spits out the same error like before. Cheers, Markus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: [OT] squidguard, dansguardian, other?? on a 486?

2004-07-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 01:39:45AM -0400, Silvan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Friday 09 July 2004 03:05 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I'm running a computer lab for a kids/teen center, and am using both > > Squid and Dansguardian. I've got Squidguard installed but not > > configured, more t

Fixing missing ALSA devices in /dev on 2.6 kernels? Re: Kernel 2.6 and sound ymfpci

2004-07-10 Thread Silvan
On Saturday 10 July 2004 08:54 am, Christoph Sticksel wrote: > | open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY)= -1 ENODEV (No such device) > | open("/dev/aloadC0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENODEV (No such device) > | open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDWR) = -1 ENODEV (No such device) > | open("/dev/snd

Re: 'en_US.UTF-8' locale missing

2004-07-10 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 18:59:20 +0530 Rajasekaran Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If "export LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8'" is done in .bashrc, > programs give errors like: > locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or > directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale

File system help

2004-07-10 Thread Jimmy Liang
Hi All, I tried out the util convertfs, trying to convert an ext3 filesystem into reiserfs. The program failed in the middle, and now, I've ended up with only 2 files on my ext3 partition, and nothing else. The 2 files are named fsimage and fsindex. It seems like the fsimage file is the same siz

Re: Sluggish Ripping speeds

2004-07-10 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:49:32 -0400 Ryan Waye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a problem: Whenever I try to rip CDs, I get extremely sluggish > data rates (0.1x-0.3x). I know it is not a CDROM drive problem > because it transfers my UT2004 cd in its entireity in about 2 minutes. > Is this norma

Re: Mount of ext3 Partition on other hardrive does not work

2004-07-10 Thread Silvan
On Saturday 10 July 2004 09:47 am, Markus Meyer wrote: > I have no idea what's wrong there, except it's a bug in 2.6. Any ideas or > suggestions are _very_ welcome. I nearly despair. How about mounting the partitions in question as ext2 temporarily until you can work out what's going wrong? I

Re: 'en_US.UTF-8' locale missing

2004-07-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 06:59:20PM +0530, Rajasekaran Deepak wrote: | If "export LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8'" is done in .bashrc, | programs give errors like: | locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory | locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file

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