Re: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker

2004-09-24 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _H. S._, on 09/24/04 19:18,typed: The only thing remaining to be seen is the user who uses KDE is also free from these problems. Okay, so alsamixer worked ... when I mute IEC958 the hissing from the left speaker goes away. The hissing comes back, or in other words the IEC958 becomes

Re: Firefox extensions/themes don't install

2004-09-24 Thread Jacob S
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Re: Firefox extensions/themes don't install

2004-09-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 23:49:52 -0500, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:32:20 -0400 > > > Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's probably a permissions thing - isn't it always? - but when I try > > to install Firefox extensions and themes (on debian testin

--configure error fam and gnome?

2004-09-24 Thread xucaen
is anyone else running testing getting this error when installing anything? dpkg: error processing fam (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-desktop-environment: gnome-desktop-environment depends o

Re: Firefox extensions/themes don't install

2004-09-24 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:32:20 -0400 Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's probably a permissions thing - isn't it always? - but when I try > to install Firefox extensions and themes (on debian testing with > firefox 0.9.3), most just fail silently. I have a feeling this is a > FAQ, bu

Re: HUB with multiple LANs?

2004-09-24 Thread Adam Aube
Curtis Vaughan wrote: > If my internal LAN is 10.0.1.x and I attach another LAN - say, > 192.168.1.x - to the same HUB will they conflict with one another, or > do I have to put the other LAN on another HUB? No, they will not conflict - hubs work at a lower layer than IP addresses. Adam -- To

RE: routing table question

2004-09-24 Thread John Smith
I would add some 'up' statements to my /etc/network/interfaces, like: iface eth0 inet static address 10.x.y.z netmask 255.255.255.0 network 10.x.y.0 broadcast 10.x.y.255 up route add -net 1.2.3.4 down route del -net ... Sincerely, Jan On Fri,

Re: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker

2004-09-24 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Rob Sims_, on 09/24/04 13:45,typed: Use kmix, alsamixer, etc. to check your levels on various (especially unconnected) inputs - mic, line in, etc. Set them to zero/muted. It seems to have worked. By muting IEC958 the hissing sound has gone away, and to my utter delight my ayttm soun

Re: Small problems with Sarge net-install

2004-09-24 Thread Art Edwards
Loïc Minier wrote: Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fri, Sep 24, 2004: My original problem was with md5. Can anyone tell me how to turn on md5 AFTER installation? bee% grep -i md5 /var/cache/debconf/config.dat Name: console-data/bootmap-md5sum Template: console-data/bootmap-md5sum Name: pa

Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-24 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 08:00:35PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > is changed to point to sarge and oldstable points to woody. Immediately > after the release, testing will continue to work as it does now. Except the thing testing is symlinked to is no longer sarge but etch, which is a cloned copy

Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-24 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 06:14:32PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > When Sarge is released does Unstable suddenly become Testing or is > > Testing simply empty until new programs gradually migrate from > > Unstable to Testing? > > Testing becomes f

Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-24 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Johnson wrote: William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:28:22AM -0700, Zachary Rizer wrote: No. Unstable (sid) will always be unstable. Testing becomes the new stable, and then a new testing is born (etch?). Could you be more precise? What is renamed, what is fo

Dual Boot

2004-09-24 Thread Matthew Jackson
I am trying to dual boot, so I am copying the boot sector from linux using the dd command. I copy the 512 byte file to my XP machine and setup boot.ini. When I reboot and I select Debain instead of XP, the screen just says "GRUB " in the top left and then a flashing cursor. I cannot enter an

Re: X not loading fonts [solved]

2004-09-24 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:16:26 -0400 JoeHill disseminated the following: > > RTMing, adding this to ~/.vncrc should do it: > > > > $fontPath .= "$ENV{HOME}/.fonts"; > > ...as soon as I do that (create a ~/.vncrc), I get a 'connection refused'. ...turns out I needed to add the full path to the fon

Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-24 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:28:22AM -0700, Zachary Rizer wrote: >> No. Unstable (sid) will always be unstable. Testing >> becomes the new stable, and then a new testing is b

Re: ftp vs samba

2004-09-24 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Sherman, Michael (GE Energy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just wanted to know what your experience was with samba and ftp with regards > to speed. FTP beats samba hands down for speed. Be warned, though: Internet E

Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-24 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When Sarge is released does Unstable suddenly become Testing or is > Testing simply empty until new programs gradually migrate from > Unstable to Testing? Testing becomes

Firefox extensions/themes don't install

2004-09-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
It's probably a permissions thing - isn't it always? - but when I try to install Firefox extensions and themes (on debian testing with firefox 0.9.3), most just fail silently. I have a feeling this is a FAQ, but Googling hasn't helped, and there's nothing obvious (to me) at the extensions and the

Re: X not loading fonts

2004-09-24 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:50:13 -0700 Stefan O'Rear disseminated the following: > > I tried adding the 'xset +fp ~/.fonts' to my ~/.xsession, but still no go. > > It > > was creating the ~/.xsession file that originally allowed my to override the > > global setting to load Gnome, so I can only assume

Re: df returning negative file sizes and apt-get not very happy

2004-09-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 05:14:20PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > Reinstall woody :) As an alternative, install Sarge. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: X not loading fonts

2004-09-24 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 08:26:42PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: > On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:58:03 -0700 > Stefan O'Rear disseminated the following: > > > > X should load the same set of fonts no matter the desktop or WM, no? > > > > The script I sent is very minimal. You probably need to add > > /home/$USE

Re: X not loading fonts

2004-09-24 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:58:03 -0700 Stefan O'Rear disseminated the following: > > X should load the same set of fonts no matter the desktop or WM, no? > > The script I sent is very minimal. You probably need to add > /home/$USER/.fonts to the fontpath yourself. > > You might want to make a bit of

Re: df returning negative file sizes and apt-get not very happy

2004-09-24 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 05:07:20PM -0700, Pritpal Dhaliwal wrote: > so today I was trying to install testing mysql-server and I think I > messed couple of things up.. > > here is what df returns: > > bigmonster:~# df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda2

df returning negative file sizes and apt-get not very happy

2004-09-24 Thread Pritpal Dhaliwal
so today I was trying to install testing mysql-server and I think I messed couple of things up.. here is what df returns: bigmonster:~# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2-3159243779106k 1.0k 0.0k 7% / bigmonster:~# Here is what apt-cache policy

sarge + sympa

2004-09-24 Thread Axel
hi. i noticed that theres no sympa packages in sarge. is this temporary?? cheers, http://www.axeltabs.com/ http://roundhound.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X not loading fonts

2004-09-24 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:48:11PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > If I fire up a vncserver with Gnome (very slwly), the Artwiz fonts I > installed in ~/.fonts are 'available'. > > However, when I run a vncserver that loads Pekwm instead, those fonts are not > available, I just get the default

Re: SLRN random-sig files, found this but stilll

2004-09-24 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:40:18 -0400 Michael Marsh disseminated the following: > I found that running it in my .cshrc changed my signature often enough for my > tastes, but you could go nuts and set up a cron job that runs every minute if > you really want to (not that I could stop you anyway). I d

X not loading fonts

2004-09-24 Thread JoeHill
If I fire up a vncserver with Gnome (very slwly), the Artwiz fonts I installed in ~/.fonts are 'available'. However, when I run a vncserver that loads Pekwm instead, those fonts are not available, I just get the default 'fixed' font in the menus and titlebars. X should load the same set

What is packet mode

2004-09-24 Thread James Kirk
Hi, Does anyone know what activating packet mode is in linuxspeak ? I'm trying to debug a dialup connection problem. I have a chatscript setup that has been working for years. Last week the connection quit working. The chat exchange breaks down after my password is sent. Instead of th

Re: SLRN random-sig files, found this but stilll

2004-09-24 Thread Michael Marsh
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 01:55:23 +0200, Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > looking to set up random sig with SLRN I found this link: > http://lists.infodrom.org/debian-user-de/2001/03/att-0026/01-slrn-random-sig Here's what I wrote for my own use. It uses a single file of quotes. Consider thi

Re: SLRN random-sig files, found this but stilll

2004-09-24 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 24 September 2004 12:25 pm, Josef Oswald wrote: > I have no fortune installed here that's why I searched the net for > random signatures :-) > I have a tar-ball of sigs and my sigmonster online here: http://home.insightbb.com/~bmsims1/Sigfiles/current_sigs.tar.gz http://home.insightbb.

Re: 802.11g

2004-09-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Chris Evans wrote: > Back on Debian-user for a bit with some questions. Quick vote of > thanks for Debian which fuels my server and firewall in a home office > set up. > > Background: I want to use 802.11g networking at home, sadly it'll > mainly be to connect in three

Re: Wine on Debian

2004-09-24 Thread Joris Huizer
Andrew Schulman wrote: I'm thinking about trying Wine out on Debian. I've tried it out under a number of other distributions, and it's been a disaster for the most part. However, I've heard a few good things about Debian's Wine being very stable. Any thoughts or recommendations before I dive into

Parallel port at install

2004-09-24 Thread g00se
I think the module complications really came about from using "bf.24" instead of the default ("linux"). I simply chose 'lp' and the parallel port modules kind of fell into place -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Steven Jones,John Summerfield,Alvin Oga

2004-09-24 Thread g00se
>> I'm running Sarge on a DELL Optiplex GX150 without ahitch..If you need help, give me a mail... >> That sounds good. Mine is a GX110 actually. I found that some of my problems were down to attempting to install bf2.4 instead of the default 'linux'. There are still problems though. dbootstrap exi

Re: A Little Confused

2004-09-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from John Lowell: > A little confused by the Debian login process when using a window > manager like fluxbox. In the past, I've always started the X window > system after a console login and startx after having first written an > ~/.xinitrc. I was a little surprized after the Debian ins

Re: Firefox 'stretched' printing

2004-09-24 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:32:50 -0400 Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > / Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > | This sounds like a xprt problem. If your printer is setup with cups, > | try printing using the Postscript/default option and see if that > looks| better. > > Success!

Re: sarge install no network

2004-09-24 Thread Joe
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Hello Frank Kaldewey (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: in sarge install dialog are no network configure options. only option to configure PPP for ISP Somewhere during the installation you can choose from the main menu to load in

Re: A Little Confused

2004-09-24 Thread Sergio Basurto
On the inittab you must change your init runlevel, try with a value of 3 if you are on SuSE or 2 if you are under Debian # The default runlevel is defined here id:5:initdefault: You can find more info at: www.tldp.org On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:36:07 -0400, John Lowell wrote: > > A little confu

ftp vs samba

2004-09-24 Thread Sherman, Michael (GE Energy)
Hi all. Just wanted to know what your experience was with samba and ftp with regards to speed. I have a Sarge on the local Windows network and I have both (samba and ftp) and I am wondering which one is staying. Also speedwise how does Debian compare with FreeBSD? (Don't want to start any wars, jus

RE: routing table question

2004-09-24 Thread Sergio Basurto
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:51:01 -0400, Tony Uceda Velez wrote: > > right but is there a route.conf like there is in suse. > there has to be a > place where you can store routes besides in memory. > doing a route add > simply stores in memory and a reboot clears the routing > table. > > Tony Uceda

Re: Question about installing with Intel Ethernet Pro 100 (82557) PCI card

2004-09-24 Thread Sergio Basurto
On 24 Sep 2004 12:36:51 -0700, Gary wrote: > > I am getting ready to install 'woody' from CD and just > want to make > sure I understanding this correctly. My reading of the > Ethernet HOW-TO > is that a driver for the Intel 82557 Ethernet Pro 100 > has been > included since early 1.3.x kernels.

RE: routing table question

2004-09-24 Thread Tony Uceda Velez
right but is there a route.conf like there is in suse. there has to be a place where you can store routes besides in memory. doing a route add simply stores in memory and a reboot clears the routing table. Tony UcedaVélez Security Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] 877.884.1110 -- SecureWorks. Ro

No text in buttons

2004-09-24 Thread Prashant Kumar
Hi all I upgraded my testing version of Sarge, now buttons of linpopup and yahoo messenger dont show any text, if somebody is facing similar problem or knows a solution please help me . TIA Prashant kumar home page http://home.iitk.ac.in/student/prashkr +---

Re: Japanese characters in firefox

2004-09-24 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
BTW, Maybe checking the results in Mozilla as well will help you find the way out. I remember doing this before I got FireFox working with japanese fonts. Experiment a little, you'll find out. Cheers, Sylvain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: routing table question

2004-09-24 Thread Sergio Basurto
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:16:15 -0400, Tony Uceda Velez wrote: > > sorry to have recycled the subjectreal question > below. > > Tony UcedaVélez > Security Analyst > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 877.884.1110 > -- > SecureWorks. Rock-solid Internet security. > No hassles. No headcount. No capital

Re: Japanese characters in firefox

2004-09-24 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
On Friday 24 September 2004 21:02, ScruLoose wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get Firefox set up so it'll display Japanese pages > properly, but I don't seem to be having any luck. > > I'm using Firefox 0.9.3 in Sarge. > > Whenever I view a page with Japanese characters in it, they get > represen

Re: KDE Startup - FURTHER INFO ON QUESTION

2004-09-24 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 24 September 2004 09:16, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > On Friday 24 September 2004 09:38, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > I'm making some minor changes to KDE 3.3. They've been made and tested, > > so now I need to tell KDM to start the NEW version of KDE. > > > > Where are the configuratio

RE: SSH/Putty password problem

2004-09-24 Thread Michael Sims
Andrew Schulman wrote: >> with a working SSH client I see this message before each prompt: >> >> Postponed keyboard-interactive for ... >> >> whereas I see the following message before the second prompt when >> using PuTTY: >> >> Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for ... > > That's good detective wor

Re: Wine on Debian

2004-09-24 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I'm thinking about trying Wine out on Debian. I've tried it out under a > number of other distributions, and it's been a disaster for the most > part. However, I've heard a few good things about Debian's Wine being > very stable. > > Any thoughts or recommendations before I dive into it? Most o

routing table question

2004-09-24 Thread Tony Uceda Velez
sorry to have recycled the subjectreal question below. Tony UcedaVélez Security Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] 877.884.1110 -- SecureWorks. Rock-solid Internet security. No hassles. No headcount. No capital outlay. -- http://www.secureworks.com -Original Message- From: To

Re: SSH/Putty password problem

2004-09-24 Thread Marcos Carneiro da Rocha
Hi Michael, try to check out /etc/pam.d/ssh if there is any restriction or misconfiguration On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 16:31, Michael Sims wrote: > Sorry if this is a silly or obvious question, but I've Googled and search the > mailing list archives and cannot find anything relevant. > > I'm using Pu

RE: SSH/Putty password problem

2004-09-24 Thread Tony Uceda Velez
where are the routing tables stored persistently in debian? Tony UcedaVélez Security Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] 877.884.1110 -- SecureWorks. Rock-solid Internet security. No hassles. No headcount. No capital outlay. -- http://www.secureworks.com

RE: SSH/Putty password problem

2004-09-24 Thread Michael Sims
vizi0n (debian-user) wrote: > Michael Sims wrote: >> I'm using PuTTY 0.53b from a Windows 2000 machine to SSH to a Debian >> Sarge server running OpenSSH 3.8.1p1-8. The problem I am having is >> that I am only given one chance to enter my password correctly. If >> I mistype it on the first attemp

Re: SSH/Putty password problem

2004-09-24 Thread Andrew Schulman
> with a working SSH client I see this message before each prompt: > > Postponed keyboard-interactive for ... > > whereas I see the following message before the second prompt when using PuTTY: > > Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for ... That's good detective work. It seems that PAM doesn't wan

Re: parallel port using lots of CPU

2004-09-24 Thread Ross Boylan
I decided to give USB a try, but am not having any luck. I also encountered some more oddities with the parallel port. Details below. If any USB gurus can give me any hints, I'd be very grateful; I've spent a couple hours fiddling and browsing the net, to no avail. On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:17

Re: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker

2004-09-24 Thread vizi0n (debian-user)
check if your cables are touching something else, i have that problem too when my hard drive accesses the data, my speaker does a weird sound. if the speakers are turned off, it wont do it, i have to see if i can put my wires somewhere else viz - Original Message - From: "H. S." <[EMAI

Re: SSH/Putty password problem

2004-09-24 Thread vizi0n (debian-user)
first of all, i would try using the 0.55 version of putty, that might solve your problem a list of mirrors is available at this address: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html viz - Original Message - From: "Michael Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Firefox 'stretched' printing

2004-09-24 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | This sounds like a xprt problem. If your printer is setup with cups, | try printing using the Postscript/default option and see if that looks | better. Success! Once. After the first time, each attempt to print with Postscript/default produces the

Re: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker

2004-09-24 Thread H. S.
Rob Sims wrote: Use kmix, alsamixer, etc. to check your levels on various (especially unconnected) inputs - mic, line in, etc. Set them to zero/muted. I already tried alsamixer this morning. I will do it again when I go home this evening and specially pay attention to the ones that are unconnec

Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 02:31:12PM -0400, William Ballard wrote: > What is renamed, what is forked, what is cloned? > > What properties will hold true after the fork? > > I presume that "stable" simply becomes symlinked to "sarge" instead of > "woody." Correct. > Is a copy of the "sarge" arch

Question about installing with Intel Ethernet Pro 100 (82557) PCI card

2004-09-24 Thread Gary
I am getting ready to install 'woody' from CD and just want to make sure I understanding this correctly. My reading of the Ethernet HOW-TO is that a driver for the Intel 82557 Ethernet Pro 100 has been included since early 1.3.x kernels. So I won't have to build it into the "vanilla" kernel, right?

Question about installing with Intel Ethernet Pro 100 (82557) PCI card

2004-09-24 Thread Gary
I am getting ready to install 'woody' from CD and just want to make sure I understanding this correctly. My reading of the Ethernet HOW-TO is that a driver for the Intel 82557 Ethernet Pro 100 has been included since early 1.3.x kernels. So I won't have to build it into the "vanilla" kernel, right?

SSH/Putty password problem

2004-09-24 Thread Michael Sims
Sorry if this is a silly or obvious question, but I've Googled and search the mailing list archives and cannot find anything relevant. I'm using PuTTY 0.53b from a Windows 2000 machine to SSH to a Debian Sarge server running OpenSSH 3.8.1p1-8. The problem I am having is that I am only given one c

Wine on Debian

2004-09-24 Thread Phil Bardanes
I'm thinking about trying Wine out on Debian. I've tried it out under a number of other distributions, and it's been a disaster for the most part. However, I've heard a few good things about Debian's Wine being very stable. Any thoughts or recommendations before I dive into it? Most of our Debian

HUB with multiple LANs?

2004-09-24 Thread Curtis Vaughan
If my internal LAN is 10.0.1.x and I attach another LAN - say, 192.168.1.x - to the same HUB will they conflict with one another, or do I have to put the other LAN on another HUB? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Japanese characters in firefox

2004-09-24 Thread ScruLoose
Hi all, I'm trying to get Firefox set up so it'll display Japanese pages properly, but I don't seem to be having any luck. I'm using Firefox 0.9.3 in Sarge. Whenever I view a page with Japanese characters in it, they get represented as a box with a four-character alphanumeric (hex?) code in i

auctex, C-c C-c calls only latex

2004-09-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Where should the change be made to make auctex-emacs (up-to-date sid) call tex instead of latex? >From the auctex manual: When invoking one of the commands TeX-command-master (C-c C-c) or TeX-command-region (C-c C-r) LaTeX is run on either the entire current document or a given region of it. I hav

Re: System user accounts lost after system halt

2004-09-24 Thread Bill Marcum
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:16:02AM +0800, lianliming wrote: > Hi all, > After a system halt, i find all the users in my system seems been > lost. I can't login in as any id. > I tried to use linux single mode to boot. but after system setup, > the system give me a prompt said "you have no

Re: Parallel port at install

2004-09-24 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 10:42:10AM +0100, g00se wrote: > >> > If you are installing a stock debian kernel, modprobe lp > should load the appropriate modules. > >> > > That sounds promising, but are you suggesting that i issue that command? And > if so, are you saying i don't then need to explicitl

A Little Confused

2004-09-24 Thread John Lowell
A little confused by the Debian login process when using a window manager like fluxbox. In the past, I've always started the X window system after a console login and startx after having first written an ~/.xinitrc. I was a little surprized after the Debian installation and the addition of X wi

Postfix does not start

2004-09-24 Thread Robert Golovniov
Hello, I am trying to set up Postfix on a Sarge system. When I start the server, everything seems to go well, but I cannot telnet to port 25. When I checked mail log, I saw this: localhost postfix[...]: fatal: /etc/postfix/postfix-script: Permission denied Could somebody please tell me what is

Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-24 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:28:22AM -0700, Zachary Rizer wrote: > No. Unstable (sid) will always be unstable. Testing > becomes the new stable, and then a new testing is born > (etch?). Could you be more precise? What is renamed, what is forked, what is cloned? What properties will hold true aft

Re: Help: Embedded Debian

2004-09-24 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Stefan Drees wrote: > Hi, > i´m using debian for now two years and i created lots of servers for our > customers. > I also tried to create an very small debian install with postfix, bind, > dhcp, webmin, > squid etc. I was able to cut it down to 100 MB but i want it make small

Re: auth.log webmin[xxx]: Timeout of admin

2004-09-24 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Robert S wrote: > I've installed webmin 1.16 (from the webmin site) on woody. I have the > webmin daemon running but haven't used webmin for several days, but I keep > getting these messages in my /var/log/auth.log - which are reported to me by > logcheck. > > Unusual System

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-24 Thread jochen
I had all oss-stuff removed from the kernele and checked the loaded modules via lsmod, all the right modules were loaded. Now that I'm using oss everything is fine. I don't know what the problem was but at least it works. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Firefox 'stretched' printing

2004-09-24 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:48:06 -0400, Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > For a few weeks now I've been getting "stretched" printing from > Firefox. By that I mean that all the text is vertically elongated so > that the page runs off the bottom of the physical paper. > > Printi

Re: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker

2004-09-24 Thread Rob Sims
On Friday 24 September 2004 09:49 am, H. S. wrote: > I am not sure this will work since if I boot in Windows the speakers > work perfectly well. It is only if I boot into Debian that the hiss > comes back during the boot process someplace (which as I mentioned is > around when lp0 starts). > Note

Re: 2.6.8-3 kernel freezes on Inspiron 8100 at isapnp

2004-09-24 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:51:09 +0800, Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (today I'm kind of unlucky with the daily update, it seems: Thunderbird > broke, XMMS broke and now:) > After the update from 2.6.8-2 (??), but 2.6.8 in any case 2.6.8; the > kernel freezes at isapnp. I tried three times (P

Re: SLRN random-sig files, found this but stilll

2004-09-24 Thread Josef Oswald
s. keeling wrote on Fri, 24 Sep 2004 03:10:06 +0200: > Incoming from Josef Oswald: >> >> looking to set up random sig with SLRN I found this link: >> >> http://lists.infodrom.org/debian-user-de/2001/03/att-0026/01-slrn-random-sig >> >> At the end it says one need to create for each quote a sin

Re: Lesstif over VNC a problem?

2004-09-24 Thread Thomas Adam
--- David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > box. Unfortunately, I can't read boxes, certainly not when they all look > the same. This is a locale issue. > I further tried to tunnel from my server to my laptop (at home) running > sid, but xmgrace still shows me boxes and it depends on lesstif

Re: sharing a printer with windows

2004-09-24 Thread J. Hannemann
--- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 21 September 2004 01:17 am, Christian > Benito wrote: > > I have small network, two windows 2000 boxes and a > debian box. The > > two windows machines share a laser printer that is > attached to one of > > them. I'd like to be able to print fro

Re: gnome-python-vfs

2004-09-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Blake Swadling: > I've been having a peek at gdesklets and quite a few are non functional > due to missing python bindings for gnome-vfs. > > anyone know where i might find this mythical beast in unstable? No, but this might point out the way: (0) keeling /home/keeling_ apt-cache s

Re: Firefox 'stretched' printing

2004-09-24 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:48:06 -0400 Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I mentioned[1] this problem a few weeks ago, in the hopes that someone > would be able to tell me how to fix it. A few people replied that they > were experiencing the problem, but no suggestions were forthcoming for > ho

Re: How to remove escape sequences from a existing file

2004-09-24 Thread diego
Perfect, this did the trick!!! I had seen this somewhere, but where?... Thankyou very much, now I can head the following step... El jue, 23-09-2004 a las 07:08, Kevin Mark escribió: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:53:26AM +0200, diego wrote: > > I have a log file with escape sequences like "ESC]00m

Re: Setting font in Eterm

2004-09-24 Thread Zachary Rizer
--- Prashant Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > First of sorry for my previous query as a reply for > a unrelated thread, this time I am initiating a new > thread. > > I need to chnage font and font size in Eterm, Shift > Right click brings a menu for font(1-4), but that > does not se

Re: Run Application?

2004-09-24 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 08:29, Father Parthenios wrote: > Running Unstable, and am stuck with something: > > > In gnome2-user-guide, section 4.6.4, the Run Button is described. > > What is the command I could run from the command line to run the Run > Application Dialog? I am having trouble findi

Re: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker

2004-09-24 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Raghavendra Bhat_, on 09/24/04 11:29,typed: H. S. The first thing you have to do is to get the chassis of the machine earthed properly, either via your power plug or 'crocodile-clipping' a good earth-wire to the chassis. Later you can screw on a pucca earth-wire. It is

Run Application?

2004-09-24 Thread Father Parthenios
Running Unstable, and am stuck with something: In gnome2-user-guide, section 4.6.4, the Run Button is described. What is the command I could run from the command line to run the Run Application Dialog? I am having trouble finding the name of this program. TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Setting font in Eterm

2004-09-24 Thread Peter J Ross
On Saturday 25 Sep 2004 01:43, Prashant Kumar wrote: > Hi > First of sorry for my previous query as a reply for a unrelated > thread, this time I am initiating a new thread. > > I need to chnage font and font size in Eterm, Shift Right click > brings a menu for font(1-4), but that does not ser

Re: Setting font in Eterm

2004-09-24 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 20:43:16 -0400 (EDT) Prashant Kumar disseminated the following: > I need to chnage font and font size in Eterm, Shift Right click brings a > menu for font(1-4), but that does not serve the purpose, what I wanted is > how to set these font 1 - 4 and their size. Some help wit

Re: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker

2004-09-24 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
H. S. >> there is a constant hissing noise coming from the left speaker The first thing you have to do is to get the chassis of the machine earthed properly, either via your power plug or 'crocodile-clipping' a good earth-wire to the chassis. Later you can screw on a pucca earth-

Re: KDE Startup - FURTHER INFO ON QUESTION

2004-09-24 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 September 2004 09:38, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > I'm making some minor changes to KDE 3.3. They've been made and tested, so > now I need to tell KDM to start the NEW version of KDE. > > Where are the configuration parameters / startup sc

Setting font in Eterm

2004-09-24 Thread Prashant Kumar
Hi First of sorry for my previous query as a reply for a unrelated thread, this time I am initiating a new thread. I need to chnage font and font size in Eterm, Shift Right click brings a menu for font(1-4), but that does not serve the purpose, what I wanted is how to set these font 1 - 4

Re: apt problem - ldconfig segmentation fault

2004-09-24 Thread Graham Smith
A re-install seems to have fixed it. Although I have no idea how it broke in the first place. Thanks Joris Huizer wrote: Graham Smith wrote: I tried installing nmap a couple of days ago and ran into a bit of a problem. ldconfig seems to have died with a segmentation fault. In the past when I ha

Re: Small problems with Sarge net-install

2004-09-24 Thread Loïc Minier
Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fri, Sep 24, 2004: > My original problem was with md5. Can anyone tell me how to turn on md5 AFTER > installation? bee% grep -i md5 /var/cache/debconf/config.dat Name: console-data/bootmap-md5sum Template: console-data/bootmap-md5sum Name: passwd/md5 Templat

Keyboard don't run when boot with Debian-Installer release candidate 1 sarge

2004-09-24 Thread dayer
Hi, I have a Packard Bell iGo and I don't know boot correctly. I try start with the command "expert26" for install a kernel 2.6 series, but when I see the screen of select language, the keyboard not go, and I can't write nothing. When I try with "expert" for install a kernel 2.4 series the keyboard

Firefox 'stretched' printing

2004-09-24 Thread Norman Walsh
I mentioned[1] this problem a few weeks ago, in the hopes that someone would be able to tell me how to fix it. A few people replied that they were experiencing the problem, but no suggestions were forthcoming for how to fix it. Is there anyone out there who has had this problem and successfully fi

Re: apt problem - ldconfig segmentation fault

2004-09-24 Thread Joris Huizer
Graham Smith wrote: I tried installing nmap a couple of days ago and ran into a bit of a problem. ldconfig seems to have died with a segmentation fault. In the past when I have had problems with apt they have resolved themselves in a couple of days when a working version of a package appears but

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