Re: How to change the font size for the mozilla firefox interface?

2004-09-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Sep 2004, Lian Liming wrote: > > [snip] > I can only find two css file under ~/.mozilla/firefox/defaultXXX/chrome: > "userChrome-example.css userContent-example.css". > It seems both are *example* file. I wonder where i can set the *real* > configure file, under the same directory? You

Re: Network setup problems

2004-09-15 Thread Nayyar Ahmed
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 06:34:01 +0200, Ogya Chief <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a Win2K laptop with a full computer name like henry.workdomain.com > and a domain name like workdomain.com. This gets assigned an automatic ip > address anytime I log onto the work network. > > I have a

Re: Firefox with flash and sound

2004-09-15 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:58:27 +1000, Caveman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have noticed a strange issue with the firefox debian package. > When you use flash everything works fine except sound with flash. > It works fine on mozilla however. > > But I have just discovered that the firefox binary fr

BOOT

2004-09-15 Thread matko
Dober dan, Hello, Hallo, I'm from Slovenia, and I have a question, i've downloaded the Debian 30r2-i-binary1 til 7.iso files and i'd like to know how do i burn booable CD to boot linux from CD. I've burned CDs and i couldn't boot from CD and i don't know what i did wrong. i've also downloa

Network setup problems

2004-09-15 Thread Ogya Chief
Hi All, I have a Win2K laptop with a full computer name like henry.workdomain.com and a domain name like workdomain.com. This gets assigned an automatic ip address anytime I log onto the work network. I have a small linux network at home and I wanted to setup samba to be able to use the laptop at h

Re: Install to USB HD

2004-09-15 Thread Laurent CARON
Matthew Jackson wrote: Does anyone know if it is possible to install debian to an external USB 2.0 Hard disc? Thanks You can install it on a "standard" internal HDD and then copy it to the external one. -- You learn to write as if to someone else because NEXT YEAR YOU WILL BE "SOMEONE ELSE." -

Re: [Dave Thayer] Re: devfs -> udev, user mounting etc

2004-09-15 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 02:16:09PM +0200, Chris Searle wrote: > > However - I need the Lexar* links to go to /dev/sd?1 where ? is the sd > device for each in turn - in the above example > > LexarSM -> /dev/sda1 > LexarCF -> /dev/sdb1 > LexarSD -> /dev/sdc1 I don't have any multi-function devices

Re: [Way OT] Re: GMAIL Invites..!

2004-09-15 Thread Ryo Furue
Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... [...] > (I'm bottom-posting only because this list - uniquely, in my > experience - insists on it. You really should try reading your email > in reverse chronological order. It works.) Top posting may work. But I t

Re: Getting Started with Debian 3.0

2004-09-15 Thread Silvan
> installation and when system is availble, the first thing is to convert > the ext2 to ext3. Such conversion is not safe sometimes. > I am confused that why "ext3" filesystem is not supported whithin the > installer, is it unstable? It probably didn't ship with Woody because it was probably sti

problem with mplayer and xv on debain/unstable

2004-09-15 Thread JSS
After a recent upgrade of debian/unstable my mplayer (1.0pre5) has stopped showing any video. I found out that xv output is not working (which was working without any problem before the upgrade). I tried to localize the problem and found that following libs have been upgraded (earlier version w

Re: Differences between binary images and compiled kernels

2004-09-15 Thread Silvan
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 10:23 pm, Eric Dickner wrote: > kernels handle hardware. My questions are these: > 1) How did the seller of my original binary kernel > compile it to be specific to certain hardware? > RE question 1, if the answer is just in standard > configuring why did the "ma

Re: DHCP Question

2004-09-15 Thread Silvan
> You can also apparently specify "hwaddress" in the stanzas (once you know > them), so that you can autoload the modules and have eth0 and eth1 assigned > consistently. I would guess that's the point of having hwaddress. It > would look > something like: > > hwaddress ether 01:23:45:67:89:

Re: How to change the font size for the mozilla firefox interface?

2004-09-15 Thread Brian Pack
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 15:50, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:58:11AM -0700, Zachary Rizer wrote: > > > I have a related question: My fonts are too large > > (10pt, as opposed to my desired 8pt) in gtk-based apps > > until I run the gnome-control-center, and open the > > font properti

Install to USB HD

2004-09-15 Thread Matthew Jackson
Does anyone know if it is possible to install debian to an external USB 2.0 Hard disc?   Thanks

Firefox with flash and sound

2004-09-15 Thread Caveman
I have noticed a strange issue with the firefox debian package. When you use flash everything works fine except sound with flash. It works fine on mozilla however. But I have just discovered that the firefox binary from mozilla.org works fine with exactly the same plugin and settings etc. So I a

Re: Samba: is there a "findsmb" command?

2004-09-15 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 03:51:25AM +0200, Olav wrote: > According to the man page, findsmb is just a perl script. You could copy > it over from the other system, and try if it works. The manual also says > the script calls nmblookup and smbclient, when the script doesn't work > you could use those

USB Mass Storage - Kernel Bug?

2004-09-15 Thread Damien Solley
Greetings, I am having trouble using an external USB 2.0 to IDE converter box with recent 2.6 kernels. The box houses a 200GB IDE drive. When I try to perform large transfers (eg 500MB files) to the box it aborts after a variable proportion of the file/s have been transferred. The dmesg output ca

Differences between binary images and compiled kernels

2004-09-15 Thread Eric Dickner
I have two kernels on my system, one I bought and installed from CD's: 2.2.20-idepci, and the other is 2.4.27 that was compiled from sources from kernel.org. I'm having some hardware issues that I was confident could be handled by installing modules, but now I'm not so sure. Close inspection of th

Re: Network connectivity problems w/default 2.6.8.1 sysctl settings

2004-09-15 Thread Adam Aube
Adam Aube wrote: > The problem sysctl is net/ipv4/tcp_default_win_scale. On vanilla 2.6.7, > this defaults to 0. On vanilla 2.6.8.1, this defaults to 7. With it set to > anything higher than 4, I have problems with Gmane. More info: - This has been discussed at length on kernel mailing lists - a

Re: Samba: is there a "findsmb" command?

2004-09-15 Thread Olav
Op wo 15-09-2004, om 23:44 schreef Robert S: > I have just installed woody on a server at work. My home machine has > samba3+gentoo and has a "findsmb" command which lists PCs connected to the > network. I use it in a php script to allow users to send popup messages to > connected machines. > >

Re: Getting Started with Debian 3.0

2004-09-15 Thread Lian Liming
Andrew Konosky wrote: Hello, I started out in Linux with RedHat 8.0, then 9.0, and now I run Fedora Core 2 on my primary computer. I have used the Knoppix cd a lot, which I know is based on Debian, so I wanted to try out the full version of Debian. I just installed Debian on my old computer, whi

Network connectivity problems w/default 2.6.8.1 sysctl settings

2004-09-15 Thread Adam Aube
Starting last night I was unable to access Gmane via either NNTP or HTTP. The TCP handshake succeeds, but nothing further happens. After a great deal of troubleshooting (including about an hour on the phone with my ISP this evening), I finally determined that the problem is with a sysctl setting th

Re: [Way OT] Re: GMAIL Invites..!

2004-09-15 Thread John Summerfield
Patrick Wiseman wrote: Have those posting their invites acutally READ http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/index.en.html#ads ? Cheap shot. I'm not pushing gmail, but the people who are offering gmail invites do not remotely fall within that policy. Whether gmail sends them itself, it's still

Re: How to change the font size for the mozilla firefox interface?

2004-09-15 Thread Lian Liming
Andrew Schulman wrote: Hi all, I am using mozilla firefox under KDE, and find that the font size on toolbar and menu is too small to watch clearly. I tried to enlarge the font size in firefox toolbar Edit->Preferences->General->Fonts & Colors. But the changes only apply to the content of the

Re: DHCP Question

2004-09-15 Thread Michael Marsh
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:13:22 -0400, Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have 2 NIC cards in my computer [...] > They both need to have entries in /etc/network/interfaces > > It might look something like this: > > # the router NIC > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > # a local NIC with a static IP > if

Re: Getting Started with Debian 3.0

2004-09-15 Thread Kent West
Andrew Konosky wrote: It is now a Win98SE/Debian 3.0 dual boot system. I was a little uneasy about the text-only installation after getting used to RedHat's anaconda installer and Suse's fully automatic YaST (which is pretty cool if you've never tried it!), and even more puzzled when I started u

Re: Getting Started with Debian 3.0

2004-09-15 Thread Silvan
> and the release date of Nov 21, 2003 explains that. So I have an > out-of-date system. Seriously out of date. It hasn't had any non-security upgrades since even longer ago than that. It originally released in mid-2002. > And lastly, any general tips/hint/suggestions? I think if I were in y

Re: ximian-connector under debian

2004-09-15 Thread Clifton Sluss
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:12:29 -0500, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 06:14 -0400, Clifton Sluss wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:06:12 -0700, Rich Rudnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --snip-- > > > Have you tried evolution 1.5 and evolution-exchange in experiment

Re: Getting Started with Debian 3.0

2004-09-15 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 06:52:45PM -0500, Andrew Konosky wrote: > Hello, > > I started out in Linux with RedHat 8.0, then 9.0, and now I run Fedora > Core 2 on my primary computer. I have used the Knoppix cd a lot, which I > know is based on Debian, so I wanted to try out the full version of >

Getting Started with Debian 3.0

2004-09-15 Thread Andrew Konosky
Hello, I started out in Linux with RedHat 8.0, then 9.0, and now I run Fedora Core 2 on my primary computer. I have used the Knoppix cd a lot, which I know is based on Debian, so I wanted to try out the full version of Debian. I just installed Debian on my old computer, which was running SuSe 9

Re: DHCP Question

2004-09-15 Thread Silvan
> How do I install DHCP Client? What should be the content of this file? Either install dhcp-client or dhcp3-client. I don't know what the difference is in practical terms. If you have the hardware in place at install time, Sarge's installer will set up up with dhcp-client. > I have 2 NIC

Re: Campus Monitoring System...!

2004-09-15 Thread Bjørn
Hi, I have a home network, one linux box and a router that i'm using SNMP and MRTG on. I dont know if you need snmp on this or if there are any other things that you can try. Mrtg homepage http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/ How i have set it up. http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/

Re: [Way OT] Re: GMAIL Invites..!

2004-09-15 Thread Raquel Rice
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:19:43 +0200 Wim De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:57:41 +1000, Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 10:37:11PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman said > > > (I'm bottom-posting only because this list - uniquely, in my > > > ex

Re: Browser Based E-Mail

2004-09-15 Thread Scarletdown
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 23:29, Dave Thayer wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:28:43PM -0700, Roger Creasy wrote: > > In yahoo mail, I can get to my account main page, but when I try to > > go to my in box, Mozilla times-out. I do not have this problem with > > my inferior in all other ways, w

RE: DHCP Question

2004-09-15 Thread Steven Jones
from memory,   cp /etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/orig-interfaces   Pretty easy, install dhcpcd with   apt-get update ; apt-get install dhcpcd   Then /etc/network/interfaces needs the interface thats going to run dhcp to be setup   have these 2 lines, auto eth0iface etho inet dhc

Re: Developing flash on debian

2004-09-15 Thread Hasan
Check this http://f4l.sourceforge.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Samba: is there a "findsmb" command?

2004-09-15 Thread Robert S
I have just installed woody on a server at work. My home machine has samba3+gentoo and has a "findsmb" command which lists PCs connected to the network. I use it in a php script to allow users to send popup messages to connected machines. Is there an equivalent command in woody, or has somebody

DHCP Question

2004-09-15 Thread ccgius
I am a novice in Linux.  The computer running Debian connects to the router (Linksys 4 port. Model #: NR041).   [The router connects to the DSL Modem.] It connects to the Ethernet Port.  I have enabled DHCP in the Router.    How do I install DHCP Client?   What should be the content of thi

Invisible fonts in Xpdf widgets

2004-09-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi all, On my iBook I have for some time had the weird problem that some Xpdf widgets do not show any text. (Running Debian powerpc/unstable.) For instance, the magnification level pop-up menu, the "Quit" button in the lower right, and the context menu that pops up when the document is right-cli

Re: Developing flash on debian

2004-09-15 Thread FireBright, Inc.
Just to back up Zachary's most excellent point on accessibility, here is my favorite article on how to create "accessible" flash content: http://www.webaim.org/techniques/flash/ I think you'll find that Zachary is correct. Flash is for advertising, kiosk, and limited web use where accessibility

Re: Campus Monitoring System...!

2004-09-15 Thread Bill Carlson
On 15 Sep 2004, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:20:15 +0200, Eduard Bosma wrote: > > Hi All! > > > > I'm looking at the home site of Nagios, and although it looks very > > promising, I can find the last missing piece of information: how does > > Nagios monitor the host? > > > T

Re: initrd / linuxrc: /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

2004-09-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I been trying for what feels like ever to build an initrd to boot an > LVM 2 root partition on a foreign architecture. Unfortunately, I keep > seeing: > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.

initrd / linuxrc: /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

2004-09-15 Thread ms419
I been trying for what feels like ever to build an initrd to boot an LVM 2 root partition on a foreign architecture. Unfortunately, I keep seeing: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 164k init 4k chrp 32k prep /bi

Re: How to change the font size for the mozilla firefox interface?

2004-09-15 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:58:11AM -0700, Zachary Rizer wrote: > I have a related question: My fonts are too large > (10pt, as opposed to my desired 8pt) in gtk-based apps > until I run the gnome-control-center, and open the > font properties, then merely close the box. (I don't > have to change

Re: Developing flash on debian

2004-09-15 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 07:41:32AM -0700, Zachary Rizer wrote: > You could also learn MING. There was also a recent > story about a replacement for MING; check slashdot, I > don't remember exactly, because I didn't pay much > attention to it. If you are using flash, I must warn > you to only us

Re: Campus Monitoring System...!

2004-09-15 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:20:15 +0200, Eduard Bosma wrote: > Hi All! > > I'm looking at the home site of Nagios, and although it looks very > promising, I can find the last missing piece of information: how does > Nagios monitor the host? > > I need a tool where I can monitor my machine park of AIX/

Re: Upgrading from Redhat to Debian, want to preserve home dirs, etc.

2004-09-15 Thread Pene Chamuscado del Caballo
> I don't care about dual-booting, but I want to preserve the existing > directories on /dev/hda for the obvious reasons home directories > has all my stuff in it and usr dirs has a lot of usr/local stuff, etc. I think this should be fine. When installing, you can repartion hdc and leave hda a

Re: How to change the font size for the mozilla firefox interface?

2004-09-15 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Hi all, >I am using mozilla firefox under KDE, and find that the font size on > toolbar and menu is too small to watch clearly. I tried to enlarge the > font size in firefox toolbar Edit->Preferences->General->Fonts & Colors. > But the changes only apply to the content of the browser. The

Re: Help with kernel module

2004-09-15 Thread Sergio Basurto
Ok, It makes more sense, Well that can be a couple of things that you can do before you go to recompile your kernel. 1. Check if your build soft link is pointing to the right directory which is /usr/src/linux '/lib/lib/modules/2.6.8-1-k7/' being on the directory /lib/lib/modules/2.6.8-1-k7/#l

Upgrading from Redhat to Debian, want to preserve home dirs, etc.

2004-09-15 Thread Gary
I have an old Redhat 6.2 system with kernel 2.2.14 on it from the year 2000. I am bringing it out of retirement and am switching to Debian. I need some advice. The system has two IDE hard drives on it configured like so: /dev/hda3 1.4G 923M 484M 66% / /dev/hda1 23M 3.4

RE: kernel panic on remote server after security update

2004-09-15 Thread Dan Roozemond
> Then the machine rebooted itself and it has come up > with a kernel panic. My guess is that this is related > to some problem with the bootloader or LILO. I was > just hoping that someone could refer me to a likely > fix for this since I'm not even in the city with the > machine and I have to for

Re: How to change the font size for the mozilla firefox interface?

2004-09-15 Thread Zachary Rizer
--- Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:40:25 +0800 > Lian Liming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > >I am using mozilla firefox under KDE, and find > that the font size > >on toolbar and menu is too small to watch > clearly. > > Firefox is based on

Re: Help with kernel module

2004-09-15 Thread Sergio Basurto
In my experience I had received this kind of message when I am trying to install a module from a diferent kernel, nevertheless there are a good source of information that I can recommend to you http://www.geniusweb.com/LDP/HOWTO/html_single/Module-HOWTO/#AEN597 One more question, are you sure tha

Re: Diagnosing faulty hardware

2004-09-15 Thread Lucas Albers
Kent West said: > James Foster wrote: > >>I believe this is most likely a hardware problem. >>Generally, the system is capable of staying up, although it has locked >>completely once or twice. You can also install the ltp kernel test program. This is an extensive test of hte kernel, and will crash

Re: How to change the font size for the mozilla firefox interface?

2004-09-15 Thread Ulisses Reina Montenegro de Albuquerque
Nicos Gollan wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:40:25 +0800 Lian Liming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I am using mozilla firefox under KDE, and find that the font size on toolbar and menu is too small to watch clearly. Firefox is based on GTK, so you need to set the font properties fo

Re: Athlon 64 Architecture

2004-09-15 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:50:42 +0200, Floris Barthel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks :) Is is possible to netinstall this distro? I am asking since > my current computer doesn't even have a burner~ > You can try here http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status and look for amd64 (

Figured out Sarge kernel issue re: automatic configuration...

2004-09-15 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Hi, all. Just a quick note for anyone who'd read my previous email regarding getting my eth0 configured automagically under Sarge, with my custom kernel. The short version: I wasn't using any modules, and evidently this meant that the Debian infrastructure wasn't configuring my cardbus Ethernet ca

kernel panic on remote server after security update

2004-09-15 Thread Erisian St. Vinge
Hello, My remote server is down right now and I think it is because of the kernel-image update from security.debian.org. I've been running woody for about a year and the machine has been up and going and I've updated the kernel-image. Then the machine rebooted itself and it has come up with a ke

Re: Athlon 64 Architecture

2004-09-15 Thread Floris Barthel
Thanks :) Is is possible to netinstall this distro? I am asking since my current computer doesn't even have a burner~ Floris On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:38:13 +0200, Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Floris Barthel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What computer architecture does the A64 us

Re: Help with kernel module

2004-09-15 Thread Sergio Basurto
from where did you get the module, I mean you compile your own kernel or what? which version of debian you are using? whic kernel is already installed on your system? On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:13:52 -0500 (CDT), Nick Longo wrote: > > I am trying to install a kernel module on my Debian > system b

Help with kernel module

2004-09-15 Thread Nick Longo
I am trying to install a kernel module on my Debian system but I am getting the error... /lib/modules/2.6.8-1-k7/build/include/linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory. I have installed the appropriate kernel-headers package so I am a bit confused. Any suggestions, NPML -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: How to change the font size for the mozilla firefox interface?

2004-09-15 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:40:25 +0800 Lian Liming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, >I am using mozilla firefox under KDE, and find that the font size >on toolbar and menu is too small to watch clearly. Firefox is based on GTK, so you need to set the font properties for that toolkit. Th

How to change the font size for the mozilla firefox interface?

2004-09-15 Thread Lian Liming
Hi all, I am using mozilla firefox under KDE, and find that the font size on toolbar and menu is too small to watch clearly. I tried to enlarge the font size in firefox toolbar Edit->Preferences->General->Fonts & Colors. But the changes only apply to the content of the browser. The font size

Re: installation of sarge on 486

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Bochan
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 09:15 am, Marcos Carneiro da Rocha wrote: > i think that sarge needs at least 32 MB. > That sounds correct. According to: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/rc1/doc/manual/en/ch02s05.html "You must have at least 32MB of memory and 110M

Re: Nikon Coolpix 990 USB with kernels 2.6.X

2004-09-15 Thread Steve Mandelmore
Alan E. Davis wrote: > Can someone correspond about how to use photopc and xphoto (no debian > package I think) to communicate with this camera over USB? > > Somewhere along the line, a package is mentioned that would set the > permissions for the usb devices in /proc/bus/usb/, but that package i

[SOLVED] Re: Squid + Dansguardian + freshclam

2004-09-15 Thread Joao Serrachinha
Joao Serrachinha said: Sam Snow wrote: Joao Serrachinha said: I'm using Debian Sid full updated, kernel-2.4.27. I'm using a transparent proxy on port 3128 and dansguardian in 8080. Since i install dansguardian, i change my netfilter nat rules to redirect http to 8080. Everything works fine except

Re: Developing flash on debian

2004-09-15 Thread Zachary Rizer
--- Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:09:27 -0500, Kent West > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Miguel Griffa wrote: > > > > >Hi all > > >I was wandering how easy is to develop flash > on debian, are there > > >any tools? official or not... I'm quite new to >

Re: question

2004-09-15 Thread Michael Marsh
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:24:19 +1000, Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm pretty sure you need the headers to build against the library. If > you mean "link" as in "link up at runtime", then yeah, my wording was > sloppy :-) Sure, but the error that the OP pasted into his message was a link e

Re: Developing flash on debian

2004-09-15 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:09:27 -0500, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Miguel Griffa wrote: > > >Hi all > >I was wandering how easy is to develop flash on debian, are there > >any tools? official or not... I'm quite new to flash world, and old on > >java and c world, but I never had contac

Re: installation of sarge on 486

2004-09-15 Thread Marcos Carneiro da Rocha
i think that sarge needs at least 32 MB. On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 21:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:21:49 +0800 John Summerfield replied, > "Testing isn't so silly." > > Seemed hopeful. The Sarge boot diskette goes OK. > The root diskette starts OK but soon this message > ap

Re: ximian-connector under debian

2004-09-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 06:14 -0400, Clifton Sluss wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:06:12 -0700, Rich Rudnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --snip-- > > Have you tried evolution 1.5 and evolution-exchange in experimental? > > I've been using 1.5 for mail only (not exchange, tho) for months with no > > pr

Re: Developing flash on debian

2004-09-15 Thread Kent West
Miguel Griffa wrote: Hi all I was wandering how easy is to develop flash on debian, are there any tools? official or not... I'm quite new to flash world, and old on java and c world, but I never had contact with flash beyond .swf before. Thanks for any advice OpenOffice.org (Drawing / Present

Re: Squid + Dansguardian + freshclam

2004-09-15 Thread Sam Snow
Joao Serrachinha said: > Sam Snow wrote: > >>Joao Serrachinha said: >> >> >>>I'm using Debian Sid full updated, kernel-2.4.27. >>>I'm using a transparent proxy on port 3128 and dansguardian in 8080. >>>Since i install dansguardian, i change my netfilter nat rules to >>>redirect http to 8080. >>>Eve

Re: Is it possible to access an iMac over LAN from Debian ?

2004-09-15 Thread Douglas G. Phillips
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I see evidence of Samba in the "Sharing" setup screens, but I > don't see anything about NFS. If it is there (I hope), its > hidden. Does anyone know how to have it reveal itself on the > Mac? NFS (and a number of other things you'd expect to find in

Developing flash on debian

2004-09-15 Thread Miguel Griffa
Hi all I was wandering how easy is to develop flash on debian, are there any tools? official or not... I'm quite new to flash world, and old on java and c world, but I never had contact with flash beyond .swf before. Thanks for any advice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Campus Monitoring System...!

2004-09-15 Thread Nayyar Ahmed
Hello Douglas, On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:14:26 -0500, Douglas G. Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nayyar Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > is there any open NMS availabel for this purpose. > > to maintan campus network > > We're using Nagios to monitor over 400 different systems, includi

Re: question

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:05:33AM -0400, Michael Marsh said > On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:43:15 +1000, Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 10:52:26AM -0400, Michael Marsh said > > > >/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lvte > > > >collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > > >make[2]: **

Re: question

2004-09-15 Thread Michael Marsh
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:43:15 +1000, Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 10:52:26AM -0400, Michael Marsh said > > >/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lvte > > >collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > >make[2]: *** [cssed] Error 1 > > > > It looks like you're missing the package libv

Re: testing SILENTLY removed mozilla-firefox

2004-09-15 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:39:52 +1000, Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:29:25PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman said > > How annoying! The current versions of mozilla-diggler and > > -tabextensions are apparently incompatible with the current version > > (in testing, that is) o

Nikon Coolpix 990 USB with kernels 2.6.X

2004-09-15 Thread Alan E. Davis
Can someone correspond about how to use photopc and xphoto (no debian package I think) to communicate with this camera over USB? Somewhere along the line, a package is mentioned that would set the permissions for the usb devices in /proc/bus/usb/, but that package isn't any longer available ei

RE: Debian on A Cobalt RaQ4

2004-09-15 Thread Michael Bellears
> Cole S. Ashcraft wrote: > > >I'd like to run Debian on my Cobalt RaQ4, but I can't exactly figure > >out what branch to use and how to do it. The RaQ4 is not a > MIPS box. It > >has a K6 AMD processor. It doesn't have a CD or floppy drive, making > >the install process difficult. How should

Re: [Way OT] Re: GMAIL Invites..!

2004-09-15 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:57:41 +1000, Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 10:37:11PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman said > > (I'm bottom-posting only because this list - uniquely, in my > > experience - insists on it. You really should try reading your email > > in reverse chro

Re: Debian on A Cobalt RaQ4

2004-09-15 Thread Laurent CARON
Cole S. Ashcraft wrote: I'd like to run Debian on my Cobalt RaQ4, but I can't exactly figure out what branch to use and how to do it. The RaQ4 is not a MIPS box. It has a K6 AMD processor. It doesn't have a CD or floppy drive, making the install process difficult. How should I do this? Cole via

Re: Is it possible to access an iMac over LAN from Debian ?

2004-09-15 Thread Olav
Op wo 15-09-2004, om 05:37 schreef Paul E Condon: > (I'm not much interested in Samba. I would have to learn about > windoze. Don't want to do that, even a little bit. At least, > I'll resist until I'm convinced that there is absolutely no > alternative.) I don't think you need to learn about W

Re: installation dies on ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6

2004-09-15 Thread Dave Howorth
FireBright, Inc. wrote: Howdy list! Howdy and welcome. I'm trying to get Debian to install The installation dies on both the image of cd1 and the netboot Now, I have an Intel d865gbf motherboard with a 3.2 1 meg p4 in it, and about a gig of ram. I've got an OEM Dell DVD+ drive in there, and a sing

Re: Cannot get this virtual package right!

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:15:02PM -0400, David A. Cobb said > REPLIES INLINE > > Travis Crump wrote: > > >David A. Cobb wrote: > > > >>I currently am running kernel-2.6.7-1 and I've slowly brought many > >>key components up to the bleeding edge. > >>I have apt at 0.6.25 > >> > >>I keep getting

Re: Gdk-ERROR **: BadValue

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 12:11:50AM +0800, Cathayan said > Hi, friends, > > I am using Debian Unstable, and try to switch from xtt font engine to > freetype. But when I change this in XF86Config-4, xmms, rxvt can not > run. The error is: > > Gdk-ERROR **: BadValue (integer parameter out of range

Re: [Linux newbie asks:] Why "dhelp_parse: no title found for directory "

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:44:59PM -0400, David A. Cobb said > On several of my recent installs, (I'm using dpkg --install -R You could just chroot into it from a working linux system... > because I still haven't got my Linux talking to my > network controller ) I get a boatload of > "Unpackin

Re: Can't get a gnome gui

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:10:19AM -0300, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra said > Em Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:40:19 +0200, Paul Akkermans escreveu: > > > I was hoping to get a Gnome environment > > dpkg -l gnome* > > aptitude gnome-desktop-environment You need an "install" in betw

Re: How to Get Latest Thunderbird, KDE?

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 11:02:40PM +0300, Ivan Adams said > I think that the right server was: > ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main > > this have to be in first place in /etc/apt/sources.list apt (unless you're pinning) will use the most recent version of each package, regardless of th

Re: Printing From Browser Uses Ugly Font

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:13:35PM -0500, Jacob S. said > I'm not exactly sure when this started, as I've done a couple of > updates recently. This is on a box running all of the latest updates to > Sarge. > > Whenever I print from Mozilla, Firefox or Galeon, all using the > 'Postscript/default' p

Re: [Way OT] Re: GMAIL Invites..!

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 10:37:11PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman said > (I'm bottom-posting only because this list - uniquely, in my > experience - insists on it. You really should try reading your email > in reverse chronological order. It works.) Every single technical list (far too many) I'm on is *

Re: blackbox broke

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:13:59PM -0600, statik tzu said > i recently did an `apt-get update; apt-get dist-ugprade` and one of the packages > it touched was blackbox. since then, i haven't been able to get blackbox to just > start, it says something about not being able to connect to the screen. i

Re: NOT ALL of the packages are in CD

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:30:23PM -0700, belahcene abdelkader said > Hi, > I checked all the 13 CD of the sarge version, I didn't > find the lyx package, but I lyx exists in the sarge > (testing) in editor section. does that mean that NOT > ALL of the packages of the sarge, are in the 13 CD's. Ly

Re: overriding files in nfs mount

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:52:53PM +0300, Micha Feigin said > Bottom line, is it possible to mount /etc through nfs and the override > some of the files with local ones without resorting to playing around > with links? Yes, use bind mounts to mount dirs and files from the local disk into /etc/. e

Re: question

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 10:52:26AM -0400, Michael Marsh said > >I am trying to compile a structure editor which I found on the > internet. But I get the following >message: > >---

Re: How to Get Latest Thunderbird, KDE?

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 01:50:37PM -0400, Ed Sutherland said > What do I add to my sources.list to apt-get install the latest > mozilla-thunderbird and kde 3.3? Software doesn't magically get packages, someone has to do them. KDE 3.3 is partially in unstable, but I'm not sure if it's usable or n

Re: bind in jail?

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 01:03:51PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone said > Now should bind run in a chroot'd environment, an entry using a remote > exploit in bind would be contained inside the confines of the chroot > jail. In theory damage can be compartmentalized to the directory > hosting the jail.

Re: Command line arguments in applications and X

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 07:58:31PM +0200, Inge Thorin Eidsaether said > > Hi all! > > Does anyone have an idea what command line arguments or switches to > pass to an MDI application, so that, when a running instance of the > application exists in system memory, a new one isn't spawned? > > I be

Re: testing SILENTLY removed mozilla-firefox

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:29:25PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman said > How annoying! The current versions of mozilla-diggler and > -tabextensions are apparently incompatible with the current version > (in testing, that is) of mozilla-firefox, so an aptitude update > removed firefox. I know it's 'testin

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