Re: subscribe Henning_Meyer@gmx.net

2004-10-02 Thread Henning Meyer
Hello, I'm running a HD-install of Knoppix 3.6 on a pretty old Laptop (a Siemens 266MHz Machine), and try to get WLAN running with a Corega PCCL-11 (Prism 3.0 chipset) PCMCIA-Card. I want to connect to the net via my netgear fm314p router, which is running fine (and can be accessed from WinXP vi

Re: home video, PAL to NTSC conversion

2004-10-02 Thread Mark Lanett
MPlayer, or more specifically mencoder, can transcode anything video to anything else video. ~mark Antonio Rodriguez wrote: :: Does anyone know of a script to convert a home video from PAL to :: NTSC? :: :: :: -- :: To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Is there a stable mail client for linux?

2004-10-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Ritesh Raj Sarraf: > On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > Emacs Gnus rocks the house, as does mutt. > > But IMO the configuration sucks. Gnus or mutt? mutt is ~/.muttrc. What could be simpler?!? Punch F1 (mutt manual). -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is

Re: Mutt Error: Can't Open Temporary File

2004-10-02 Thread Ed Sutherland
Paul E Condon wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 11:45:01PM -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote: I'm trying Mutt and keep running up against "Could not open temporary file" whenever I attempt to open a message. What's the cause or solution? Thanks. Ed I'm not sure, but mutt is a pure text email reade

Re: Is there a stable mail client for linux?

2004-10-02 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Paul Johnson wrote: <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> Ed Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Is there a secure, solid and stable e-mail client built for linux? I don't want applications to have a mind of their own. ;) Emacs Gnus rock

Re: Mutt Error: Can't Open Temporary File

2004-10-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:08:29PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm not sure, but mutt is a pure text email reader. If some (many) of your > email correspondents send HTMLonly email, you will have to putz around a bit > to get display of html working to your satisfaction. Maybe this is the proble

Re: Mutt Error: Can't Open Temporary File

2004-10-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 11:45:01PM -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote: > I'm trying Mutt and keep running up against "Could not open temporary > file" whenever I attempt to open a message. What's the cause or > solution? Thanks. > > Ed > I'm not sure, but mutt is a pure text email reader. If some (man

Re: Mutt Error: Can't Open Temporary File

2004-10-02 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 11:45:01PM -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote: > I'm trying Mutt and keep running up against "Could not open temporary > file" whenever I attempt to open a message. What's the cause or > solution? Thanks. I'd try: strace -o mutt.strace mutt Looking at the output from that on my

home video, PAL to NTSC conversion

2004-10-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Does anyone know of a script to convert a home video from PAL to NTSC? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mutt Error: Can't Open Temporary File

2004-10-02 Thread Ed Sutherland
I'm trying Mutt and keep running up against "Could not open temporary file" whenever I attempt to open a message. What's the cause or solution? Thanks. Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to shut down all X apps?

2004-10-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 07:39:31AM -0700, Eric Dickner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm trying to install libc6 and it wants all of the X > stuff shutdown. I can't recall the command to do > this, but I thought there was one that brought the > whole thing down for you... > > For whatever reason

Clarification needed for dist-upgrade instructions

2004-10-02 Thread Eric Dickner
> > Change woody to sarge in your /etc/apt/sources.list > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade I received the above instructions from this mailing list. The bottom lines seem to be a little different from the documentation but it is the top line that lost me, and the docs didn't help. I have

Re: dist-upgrade . . . to what?

2004-10-02 Thread Tim Kelley
On Saturday 02 October 2004 21:19, David A. Cobb wrote: > I can't find anything in the docs to give me a clue. > If I do apt-get dist-upgrade, how do I direct it which of [stable, > testing, unstable] to target? Or am I misunderstanding the whole thing? > > Dist-upgrade seems to have been the cau

Re: cron, or something, chatters too much

2004-10-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from David A. Cobb: > > PROB: While I'm working (TTY1 as root) I get interrupted every minute or > so by about 10 lines of: > > PAM_unix[12345] (cron) session started for user [root, mail, > amvis-stats] . . . > and > PAM_unix[23456] (cron) session ended for > > I guess the infor

Re: Chroot Debian

2004-10-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 04:45:21PM -0700, Dean Montgomery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > We are currently managing around 50 Terminal Servers, each terminal server > is running RedHat. The terminal servers have been heavily customized and > hacked. Each of the 50 Terminal Servers can have anywher

dpkg-query --showformat

2004-10-02 Thread David A. Cobb
Trying to use --showformat to get information from the package database. I'm fine with everything EXCEPT the Filename. All the other items I've tried, the syntax "${Package} . . . ${Version} etc" the "variable" matches the tag on the lines of the available file -- Package: ... Version:

Re: dist-upgrade . . . to what?

2004-10-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:19:46PM -0400, David A. Cobb wrote: > I can't find anything in the docs to give me a clue. > If I do apt-get dist-upgrade, how do I direct it which of [stable, > testing, unstable] to target? Or am I misunderstanding the whole thing? Um, you're misunderstanding the wh

Re: If ATI and nVidia don't support their own products, who does?

2004-10-02 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jules Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a disingenuous excuse, if indeed Nvidia has made it. They > have refused, time and time again, to release details of the > programming interface for their cards. It's

dist-upgrade . . . to what?

2004-10-02 Thread David A. Cobb
I can't find anything in the docs to give me a clue. If I do apt-get dist-upgrade, how do I direct it which of [stable, testing, unstable] to target? Or am I misunderstanding the whole thing? Dist-upgrade seems to have been the cause of my present brokenness -- a lot of packages got removed or

cron, or something, chatters too much

2004-10-02 Thread David A. Cobb
Trying slowly to recover from what I think was a "dist-upgrade" that downgraded everything until damn little works. Ah, but I did finally get nVidia stuff working, so at least I'm on-line after a fashion. PROB: While I'm working (TTY1 as root) I get interrupted every minute or so by about 10 li

Re: flphoto and usb permissions

2004-10-02 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/02/2004 11:41 PM, John Kerr Anderson wrote: > Hi Clemens, > > Thank you so much for the advice! I followed your instructions and > now my camera works for regular users. I can't thank you enough, I was > *very* frustrated. No problem. Hap

Re: flphoto and usb permissions

2004-10-02 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/03/2004 12:26 AM, David Goodenough wrote: > I found one place you might get the userid of the user currently logged using > either xdm or kdm, and that is the current owner of /var/run/xdmctl/xdmctl-:0 yeah but that might not bee the konsole ow

Re: CD-rom access

2004-10-02 Thread Jules Dubois
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 18:51:00 +0200, Arnfinn Gjostol wrote: > I have installed Debian for my very first time and want to install > packages from my CD-rom, but I do not know how to get access to mu > CD-rom You don't need to do this. Run 'apt-cdrom', if you haven't already, to tell APT have ha

Re: If ATI and nVidia don't support their own products, who does?

2004-10-02 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 04:22:48PM -0400, Brendan wrote: > On Saturday 02 October 2004 08:29, Wim De Smet wrote: > > linux support sooner). Now GPL-ing their drivers isn't going to > > happen. Drivers need to know certain things about the hardware that > > these companies just aren't willing to sha

Re: sources.list entries?

2004-10-02 Thread robin
Carl Fink wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 03:27:13PM -0400, Skip Evans wrote: Could someone send to me, or the list, entries from their own sources.list file that I can use to access a wider range of repositories? Instructions: 1. Load www.debian.org. 2. Click on Sea

Re: Accented characters

2004-10-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 02:46:41PM -0500, Rich Wellner wrote: > I have two debian boxes and unable to get accented characters to work. I am > attempting to do this via: > > xmodmap -e "keycode 117 = Multi_key" > > On machine one it works perfectly. I can multi-key my accented characters to > m

Re: icecast package

2004-10-02 Thread Caveman
Um anyone?? DUMP Caveman On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:27:11 +1000, Caveman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > have been trying to use the icecast-server package, but I am having troubles. > Whatever I do I get a error about connection refussed incorrect password. > > I know the icecast-server package req

Re: If ATI and nVidia don't support their own products, who does?

2004-10-02 Thread Jules Dubois
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 16:22:48 -0400, Brendan wrote: > That's not why NVIDIA cannot open their driver. It's been said by them time > and time again that the drive contains 3rd party code that they have a > limited license for, and as such, cannot expose that code to non-licensees. This is a disin

Icon bug in Nautilus (SARGE) still not fixed ?

2004-10-02 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
Back in mid June, there was a bug in Nautilus from Sarge which broke all the icons. I was told by other Sarge users that it already had been fixed but till now that problem still happens to me. My Sarge system is up-to-date, it only uses packages from the official Debian apt repository. The

Re: XFree86-DRI missing

2004-10-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Jule Slootbeek wrote: Debian-users, another something i've been trying to figure out for a while. I have a nVidia GeForce MX 420 running the latest drivers, but whenever i try to run a opengl prog, like glxgears i get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ glxgears Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on d

Re: sources.list entries?

2004-10-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 03:27:13PM -0400, Skip Evans wrote: > Could someone send to me, or the list, > entries from their own sources.list file that > I can use to access a wider range of > repositories? Instructions: 1. Load www.debian.org. 2. Click on Search. 3. Search for sources.list 4. C

Re: Login

2004-10-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 03:30:48PM +0200, Arnfinn Gjøstøl wrote: > I have just installed Debian. After boting, entering username and password, > the boot progress stops at > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > What next? # apt-get -i aptitude # aptitude press "u", scrolll down to desktop environment task The

sources.list entries?

2004-10-02 Thread Skip Evans
Hello all, I am using Xandros 2.0 for a workstation environment (it is based on Debian), but it only comes with a single entry in the sources.list file, one of its own that does not access any of the packages I need. Could someone send to me, or the list, entries from their own sources.list f

Re: UTF-8 locale, strange chars in X terminal pager(s), specifically man pages

2004-10-02 Thread Martin Dickopp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederick B. Henry Jr.) writes: > As a final minor issue, not critical for me by any means, when I use a > working pager like less to view the UTF-8-demon.txt file, the only text > that gives a problem (boxes) is Amharic Ethiopian. Same here. It seems the X11 fonts do not (yet

Re: If ATI and nVidia don't support their own products, who does?

2004-10-02 Thread Brendan
On Saturday 02 October 2004 08:29, Wim De Smet wrote: > linux support sooner). Now GPL-ing their drivers isn't going to > happen. Drivers need to know certain things about the hardware that > these companies just aren't willing to share with their competitor. > Tough luck, start your own graphics c

Re: newbie trying to install usb modem - works now

2004-10-02 Thread Stephen Puttick
installed now thanks I ended up using http://speedtouchconf.sourceforge.net/ ran the script, went back and installed make and gcc. Ran the script, and now it works. I believe the other approach to get it running in kernel space is summarised at this site. http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/inde

Re: Gnome-Panel no longer starts at login, or after

2004-10-02 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:34:35 -0700, Ian Thomas wrote: > $ panel & I didn't think of trying to start the panel manually. > No panel starts. I haven't found any information > about how to fix this problem from the following > sources: I'm unable to get the panel to start automatically using Saw

Re: CD-rom access

2004-10-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Arnfinn Gjostol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041002 18:51]: > I have installed Debian for my very first time and want to install > packages from my CD-rom, > but I do not know how to get access to mu CD-rom from the root promt, or I > do not know which > command to type in addition to for example "ap

Re: CD-rom access

2004-10-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Arnfinn Gjostol([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I have installed Debian for my very first time and want to install > packages from my CD-rom, > but I do not know how to get access to mu CD-rom from the root promt, or I > do not know which > command to type in addition to for exam

Re: Accented characters

2004-10-02 Thread Rich Wellner
Follow up on my own note. I've now tried setting my keyboard to "us_intl" instead of "us" and also fails to produce any accented characters, though in this configuration when I ssh to machine one (the one which works correctly) I can't produce accented characters in that session either. Help is s

Re: SSH Cracking Attempts

2004-10-02 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:08:35AM +0200, Francois Cerbelle wrote: > Le Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:55:59PM +0200, Matthijs ecrit : > > Some applications were named in the article - if you want, I can look > > them up and post the names. > > I am interested too by theses apps. Event if secret based pr

Re: How to patch..

2004-10-02 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 12:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have just installed the debian kernel source package: > > kernel-source-2.6.8 This is not upstream source. That means the patches you speak of will probably fail (especially the mm patches). If you want to run from the mm tree, yo

How to patch..

2004-10-02 Thread condor_rl
Hi, I have just installed the debian kernel source package: kernel-source-2.6.8 Now, I would like to patch to 2.6.8.1 but I do not know if I need to find a debian package or I can download the patch-2.6.8.1.bz2 from kernel.org. Suppose I apply the patch, how can I patch again the 2.6.8.1 to 2.6

Re: wvdial doesn't seem to use login strings

2004-10-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Eric Dickner: > > "wvdial" seems to be doing the wrong thing; instead > [snip] > Am I doing something wrong? Or is there another > dialer program? I never liked wvdial myself, but there's not really anything wrong with it. Instead, you can fiddle with /etc/chatscripts and /etc/p

Re: Two compilation errors

2004-10-02 Thread Tong
Thank you very much Eric, you solved all the problems. and thanks again for the two extra posts. On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:42:35 -0700, Eric Gaumer wrote: > On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 16:57, Tong wrote: >> On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 14:32:13 -0700, Eric Gaumer wrote: >> >> > On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 14:10, Tong

wvdial doesn't seem to use login strings

2004-10-02 Thread Eric Dickner
Hello, "wvdial" seems to be doing the wrong thing; instead of sending the Username and Password it seems confused and tries things like "ppp" and "pppd" when prompted. I tried to remove them hoping to handle the prompts by hand (which I'd like to do anyway...) but it won't dial then. Am I doing

Re: DVD drive?

2004-10-02 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I got this strange phenomenon going on. When i physically look at my > /dev/hdc drive in my computer it says CD-ROM drive on it, when dmesg > looks at it i see this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg | grep hdc > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA > hdc: SAMSUNG CD-

Re: DVD drive?

2004-10-02 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Jule Slootbeek (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I got this strange phenomenon going on. When i physically look at my > /dev/hdc drive in my computer it says CD-ROM drive on it, when dmesg > looks at it i see this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg | grep hdc > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf

Re: Recommendations for Linux compatible wireless LAN PCMCIA card

2004-10-02 Thread Damon
Alex Polite wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 02:29:00PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: I have a Dell Latitude C640 laptop [1] that I would like to get hooked to the network via wireless. Any recommendations for good PCMCIA WLAN cards (802.11b/g/a)that are Linux-compatible as well (native driv

Re: Is there a stable mail client for linux?

2004-10-02 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Paul Johnson wrote: > You think Mutt takes a long time loading a big mailbox? Try PINE. > Looking at the better part of half an hour to load a 4MB mailbox in PINE. > Something is terribly wrong with your setup then. Currently my debian-devel-changes mbox has approximately 60

XFree86-DRI missing

2004-10-02 Thread Jule Slootbeek
Debian-users, another something i've been trying to figure out for a while. I have a nVidia GeForce MX 420 running the latest drivers, but whenever i try to run a opengl prog, like glxgears i get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ glxgears Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". X conne

Re: New Grub user?

2004-10-02 Thread Don Jackson
On Saturday 02 October 2004 11:11 am, Edward Shornock wrote: > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > >Try this link. It was just the thing for me. > > > >http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php$sid=4622 > > Try this link, the non-404 version. :) > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4622 Ano

Re: Login

2004-10-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Arnfinn Gjøstøl([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I have just installed Debian. After boting, entering username and password, > the boot progress stops at > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > What next? Depends on what you want to do with your new OS. It hasn't stopped, it is waiting for you to

DVD drive?

2004-10-02 Thread Jule Slootbeek
Hey debian-users, I got this strange phenomenon going on. When i physically look at my /dev/hdc drive in my computer it says CD-ROM drive on it, when dmesg looks at it i see this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg | grep hdc ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hdc: SAMSUN

CD-rom access

2004-10-02 Thread Arnfinn Gjostol
I have installed Debian for my very first time and want to install packages from my CD-rom, but I do not know how to get access to mu CD-rom from the root promt, or I do not know which command to type in addition to for example "apt-get install aptitude" Anybody who knows? Arnfinn Using Opera'

IRQ settings for PCMCIA wi-fi cards

2004-10-02 Thread Chris
I see some others discussing successful wi-fi under debian - hope someone has a hint on this one. Debian - unstable with a 2.6.8 kernel. It's a 3com OfficeConnect g card. With the prism54 drivers I get: Oct 2 18:24:26 chris kernel: Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.2 Oct 2 18:24:26 chris kerne

Re: apache2 and php - firefox wants to download phtml file?

2004-10-02 Thread Jule Slootbeek
Did you add index.php to apache's httpd.conf DirectoryIndex ? that directive tells apache to also look for index.php when a directory is accessed. -JSS Micha Feigin wrote: I installed some php application of a server here which I installed with apache2 (prefork). When accessing the directory wit

unsubscribe

2004-10-02 Thread Gregorio Bartayrés
El Sábado, 2 de Octubre de 2004 09:19, David Fokkema escribió: > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 05:26:33AM +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Friday 01 October 2004 08:24 pm, David Fokkema wrote: > > > Hi group, > > > > > > I broke my cd-rw drive. I really hope this has nothing to do with a > > > poss

Re: New Grub user?

2004-10-02 Thread Edward Shornock
Kenward Vaughan wrote: Try this link. It was just the thing for me. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php$sid=4622 Try this link, the non-404 version. :) http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4622 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Problems with prebuilt kernel ALSA

2004-10-02 Thread Gregory Pierce
Ryan, Just curious whether sound still emanates when you use XMMS? I had a similar problem recently. Could get sound out of XMMS, but couldn't adjust the tab in the volume control icon. Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: flphoto and usb permissions

2004-10-02 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 02 October 2004 09:42, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/02/2004 12:05 PM, John Kerr Anderson wrote: > > I have the hotplug package and even installed usb-perms, but I still > > have the same problem. If anyone can give me some poin

Re: UTF-8 locale, strange chars in X terminal pager(s), specifically man pages

2004-10-02 Thread Frederick B. Henry Jr.
On Saturday 02 Oct 2004 10:52:28 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2004-10-01 22:52:49 -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote: > > I note some differences with your output...just not sure how to > > interpret them. :( > > It seems to be OK. You have the ASCII hyphen, and the correct UTF-8 > sequenc

Re: flphoto and usb permissions

2004-10-02 Thread John Kerr Anderson
Hi Clemens, Thank you so much for the advice! I followed your instructions and now my camera works for regular users. I can't thank you enough, I was *very* frustrated. Sincerely, John Kerr Anderson On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SH

Re: UTF-8 locale, strange chars in X terminal pager(s), specifically man pages

2004-10-02 Thread Frederick B. Henry Jr.
On Saturday 02 Oct 2004 12:43:08 +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote: > If you type > > PAGER=cat man cat > > do you see a coypright symbol in the "Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software > Foundation, Inc." line (i.e., in the place where I have written "(C)" > here)? If you type > > printf \\302\\251

Re: Recommendations for Linux compatible wireless LAN PCMCIA card

2004-10-02 Thread Adam Aube
Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > Any recommendations for good PCMCIA WLAN cards (802.11b/g/a)that are > Linux-compatible as well (native drivers that is)? I have a NetGear WG511 that uses the prism54 built-in driver (2.6 kernel). > How would I configure the wireless interface in /etc/network/inter

Re: Help

2004-10-02 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:47:30 +0100 (BST), Mr JoÃo Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I have been trying to install Debian 3.1 in my laptop > but I have a problem that I have no idea how to solve > and I have been searching through the forums with out > sucess... > > My laptop is

Re: Problem booting 2.6.8 kernel

2004-10-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Robert D. Hilliard([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I have built a 2.6.8 kernel, but booting it fails with the > following message: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount ro

Re: apt-get 'search'?

2004-10-02 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:26:01AM -0400, Tony Uceda Velez wrote: > Anyone know what is comparable to Gentoo's 'emerge search' in apt-get? Man > pages didn't reflect something similar? Want to search for list of packages > that start with a certain string. > > Thanks. ~ %% apt-cache search foob

Re: apt-get 'search'?

2004-10-02 Thread Brett Carrington
man apt-cache On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 10:26:01 -0400, Tony Uceda Velez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know what is comparable to Gentoo's 'emerge search' in apt-get? Man > pages didn't reflect something similar? Want to search for list of packages > that start with a certain string. -- To UN

apt-get 'search'?

2004-10-02 Thread Tony Uceda Velez
Anyone know what is comparable to Gentoo's 'emerge search' in apt-get? Man pages didn't reflect something similar? Want to search for list of packages that start with a certain string. Thanks. Tony UcedaVélez Security Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] 877.884.1110 -- SecureWorks. Rock-solid Int

Re: Gnome-Panel no longer starts at login, or after

2004-10-02 Thread Ian Thomas
--- Jules Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:19:38 +0200, Andrea > Vettorello wrote: > > > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:31:48 -0700 (PDT), Ian > Thomas > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> [GNOME panel doesn't start using Sawfish WM] > >> > > Have you deleted the ~/.sawfi

Re: Login

2004-10-02 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Andrea Vettorello (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 15:30:48 +0200, Arnfinn Gjøstøl > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have just installed Debian. After boting, entering username and >> password, the boot progress stops at >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ >> What next? >> > > New to

Re: Login

2004-10-02 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 15:30:48 +0200, Arnfinn Gjøstøl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just installed Debian. After boting, entering username and password, > the boot progress stops at > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > What next? > New to *nix? Now you can launch your preferred command. =) If you want a

Re: swapping master & slave HDs: what to change? (solved - pls comment!)

2004-10-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On 2 Oct 2004, SpamHog wrote: to swap disks ... == make sure you have a boot floppy and a boot cd == that can boot into that disk you are currently using /dev/hda --> /dev/hdb change hda->hdb in /etc/fstab change hda->hdb in /etc/lilo.conf

Login

2004-10-02 Thread Arnfinn Gjøstøl
I have just installed Debian. After boting, entering username and password, the boot progress stops at [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ What next? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is there a stable mail client for linux?

2004-10-02 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 21:30:17 +0200, Douglas G. Phillips wrote: > It's a lot faster than some others, especially Evolution with huge mbox > files, IMHO. If you have issues with the speed, try switching to > maildir format -- much faster with large mailboxes. Evolution is *much* happier with large

Re: New Grub user?

2004-10-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 11:31:28AM -0400, Robert Harris wrote: Try this link. It was just the thing for me. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php$sid=4622 Linux Journal: File Not Found Kenward -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Advice on quiet but powerful hardware for Debian

2004-10-02 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 01 October 2004 11:15, Chris Evans wrote: > Another request to this amazing list. I've run a web server which > has a few simple perl CGI scripts but also some moderately CPU heavy > R statistics CGI things. The box also runs SMTP (postfix) and double > opt-in Email lists (ecartis). It

Re: If ATI and nVidia don't support their own products, who does?

2004-10-02 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 22:41:06 -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Paul Johnson wrote: > >> <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> > >> Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >

Re: Recommendations for Linux compatible wireless LAN PCMCIA card

2004-10-02 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 02 October 2004 12:27, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya palolo > > On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > > > what is the output of lspci ?? > > > > :02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 > > :02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 > > that is probably

Re: Recommendations for Linux compatible wireless LAN PCMCIA card

2004-10-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya palolo On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > > what is the output of lspci ?? > > :02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 > :02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 that is probably your wireless card... you need to install the ti wireles

swapping master & slave HDs: what to change? (solved - pls comment!)

2004-10-02 Thread SpamHog
*Thanks to John Summerfield for the pointers* If you have multiple Linuces on a couple of drives, and for whatever silly reason you want to swap IDE master and slave drives, here's what to look out for, using GRUB as bootloader and GAG as boot selector. 1) PREPARE BOOT MEDIA 1.1) Make a GRUB-on

Video capture through USB-streaming

2004-10-02 Thread Johann Spies
I have bought a "Dazzle Digital Video Creator 120" from Pinnacle and want to use it on Debian to capture video's from my analog video camera and from my VHS videorecorder/player. When I plug it into the usb-port I see the following in /proc/bus/usb/devices: T: Bus=03 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=0

Re: [OT] Video card recommendations.

2004-10-02 Thread Mike Chandler
On Friday 01 October 2004 07:28 pm, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Greetings list, > I would like to hear what models and brands of nVidia > cards the list members use and what their experiences > with those have been. My card is a Radeon 9000 Pro > 128 MB that cost US$ 85 in July '03. I am looking f

Re: Is there a stable mail client for linux?

2004-10-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-10-02 20:04:52 +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:30:46AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre said > > is still annoying. I don't have this problem with the mbox format. > > Mail won't be delivered to a mbox while you're reading it. No, while the *MUA* is reading the file. What I mea

Re: UTF-8 locale, strange chars in X terminal pager(s), specifically man pages

2004-10-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 12:03:49AM -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote: > Greetings, > > Context: Debian unstable. I have the ucs fonts package installed, as well > as several classical polytonic Greek fonts, which render very well in > Mozilla Firefox. I can start an xterm thusly: ... > S

Re: UTF-8 locale, strange chars in X terminal pager(s), specifically man pages

2004-10-02 Thread Martin Dickopp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederick B. Henry Jr.) writes: > I note some differences with your output...just not sure how to > interpret them. :( They are likely not to be significant; you just seem to have a different version of the man page. If you type PAGER=cat man cat do you see a coypright s

Re: Recommendations for Linux compatible wireless LAN PCMCIA card

2004-10-02 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 00:59:07 -0700 (PDT), Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > > > I have a Dell Latitude C640 laptop [1] that I would like to get hooked > > to the network via wireless. Any recommendations for good PCMCIA WLAN > > cards

Re: Is there a stable mail client for linux?

2004-10-02 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:30:46AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre said > is still annoying. I don't have this problem with the mbox format. Mail won't be delivered to a mbox while you're reading it. -rob -- Words of the day:Rand Corporation propaganda Pine Gap enigma Panama CIA signature.asc

Re: SSH Cracking Attempts

2004-10-02 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 07:55:09PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:55:09 -0400 > From: Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: SSH Cracking Attempts > > On 10/01/04 03:30, Alexei Chetroi wrote: > ... > > > If you are desktop user, do you really

Re: Is there a stable mail client for linux?

2004-10-02 Thread messmate
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 14:50:40 -0700 Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:02:52AM -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote: >> Is there a secure, solid and stable e-mail client built for linux? > I'm usig sylpheed-claws /sarge/ With the anti-spam 'cm114'; great fast and very usefull

Re: UTF-8 locale, strange chars in X terminal pager(s), specifically man pages

2004-10-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-10-01 22:52:49 -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote: > I note some differences with your output...just not sure how to > interpret them. :( It seems to be OK. You have the ASCII hyphen, and the correct UTF-8 sequence for the copyright symbol. If you do "man cat" and look at the COPYRIGHT se

Re: UTF-8 locale, strange chars in X terminal pager(s), specifically man pages

2004-10-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-09-30 10:18:45 -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 30 Sep 2004 16:39:20 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > It may be a problem with your terminal. I've attached a small file > > containing characters in UTF-8. Could you save it and cat it in your > > terminal to see if there a

Re: Recommendations for Linux compatible wireless LAN PCMCIA card

2004-10-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 01 October 2004 10:29 pm, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > I have a Dell Latitude C640 laptop [1] that I would like to get > hooked to the network via wireless. Any recommendations for good > PCMCIA WLAN cards (802.11b/g/a)that are Linux-compatible as well > (native drivers that is)? How wo

Re: Is there a stable mail client for linux?

2004-10-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-10-01 14:44:21 -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 02:23:53PM -0500, Douglas G. Phillips wrote: > > > It might not complain, but it'll take its sweet ass time loading > > > a large mailbox. > > It's a lot faster than some others, especially Evolution with huge mbox > > file

Re: flphoto and usb permissions

2004-10-02 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/02/2004 12:05 PM, John Kerr Anderson wrote: > I have the hotplug package and even installed usb-perms, but I still > have the same problem. If anyone can give me some pointers on how to > get the camera accessible to users other than root I wou

Problem: pppd keeps connection up

2004-10-02 Thread bmward
I have a Debian gateway system, doing pppd demand dialling. ISP gives a new IP address with each connect. No problems with that - it works as advertised. My problem is that once up, it often does not shut down even when there has been no traffic from me for longer than the set time-out period.

Re: aptitude: packages have been kept back?

2004-10-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can someone please explain why some packages might be "kept back", or > how I might find out? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=aptitude Enjoy. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor"

Re: Recommendations for Linux compatible wireless LAN PCMCIA card

2004-10-02 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > I have a Dell Latitude C640 laptop [1] that I would like to get hooked > to the network via wireless. Any recommendations for good PCMCIA WLAN > cards (802.11b/g/a)that are Linux-compatible as well (native drivers > that is)? How would I configur

Re: broken cd-rw drive

2004-10-02 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 05:26:33AM +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Friday 01 October 2004 08:24 pm, David Fokkema wrote: > > Hi group, > > > > I broke my cd-rw drive. I really hope this has nothing to do with a > > possible bug in linux and/or cdrecord. Here's my story... > > > > I have an ASU

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