Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Jules Dubois
On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 10:58:07 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: >> - You don't have to rerun grub every time you changed the config file > > Except that you do, unless you believe in symlinks for your kernels.. Except that you don't, as I don't use symlinks for my kernels. >> - Grub understands file sys

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Daniel L. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>You have a basic shell. You can type the name, and IIRC, there is tab >>autocompletion. >> > So you can't have an unattended boot? What would give you that idea? You ca

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

2004-10-03 Thread Jules Dubois
On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 20:26:41 +1000, Caveman wrote: > Frankly I think nvidia should get a clap on the back for making a > driver. A kick in the front for being completely closed. > So its not Open Source, well frankly you are never going to > get totally open source. I may never get totally open

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Paul Johnson wrote: <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Daniel L. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I don't understand that - unless your different kernel versions are all using the same filename. You have a basic shell. You can type the name, an

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Daniel L. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't understand that - unless your different kernel versions are > all using the same filename. You have a basic shell. You can type the name, and IIRC, there is tab

Re: How to restore files without deleting existing

2004-10-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 07:57:33PM -0700, Jeff Chimene wrote: > > --- Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 07:33:04PM -0700, Jeff > > Chimene wrote: > > > > > > --- Rajesh Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > As far as I know, if you operate on the sy

Re: apt-get 'search'?

2004-10-03 Thread Rajesh Menon
apt-get update apt-cache search "blah" for the list on your machine - dpkg -l | grep "blah" Kevin B. McCarty wrote: 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 tha

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Paul Johnson wrote: <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:22:28AM -0700, Jonathan Byrne wrote: - With grub, the boot process will never freeze at LI Sure, instead it'll freeze a

Re: apt-get 'search'?

2004-10-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
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. grep-available -r -F Package '^prefix' The -r tells it to accept regular expres

Re: Re: Mozilla startup error msg -> no XBL binding for browser <-huh ?

2004-10-03 Thread Bojan Karan
hi, i did the procedure but i dont have a phoenix folder and i am the admin...is there anythin else i can do? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firefox 'stretched' printing

2004-10-03 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 00:44:14 +0100 Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > / Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > | On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:32:50 -0400 > | Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > |> How can I "stop using xprt"? > | > | When I was doing the same, I used 'apt-g

Re: Installing

2004-10-03 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 03 October 2004 16:12, Kent West wrote: > >Last week, one of you gave me the suggestion to manually insmod the > > driver. Sounds like a great idea, and I'm *SURE* I'm missing something > > obvious, but ... I'm running from the installer CD.

Re: Linux gamers with Matrox cards, speak up please!

2004-10-03 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 19:30:38 -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Alex Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Please don't modify your reply-to header to exclude the list. I'm > > interpreting th

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 01:31:00PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >> Jonathan Byrne wrote: >> > Of course, Debian _still_ doesn't install to, or support booting from, >> > software RAID

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:22:28AM -0700, Jonathan Byrne wrote: >> - With grub, the boot process will never freeze at LI > > Sure, instead it'll freeze at stage 1.5. Hardly an

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - Grub has an interactive shell, so that if you do foul up the > config file, you have a pretty decent chance of saving yourself and > navigating to a bootable kernel. Th

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

2004-10-03 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Caveman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Frankly I think nvidia should get a clap on the back for making a > driver. So its not Open Source, well frankly you are never going to > get totally open source. Not with that atti

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Setup a new computer from Sarge. Everything is perfect, but I liked > and was comfortable with Lilo. Are there compelling reasons to switch > to Grub or can I go back to

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

2004-10-03 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wim De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You're looking at it wrong. Nobody really wants them to open source > their driver. Okay maybe because it's easier. But people really want > to be able to write their own driver.

Linux gamers with Matrox cards, speak up please!

2004-10-03 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please don't modify your reply-to header to exclude the list. I'm > interpreting the header as a wish to be CCed, which I respect; I expect > my signature to be treated with

Re: How to restore files without deleting existing

2004-10-03 Thread Jeff Chimene
--- Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 07:33:04PM -0700, Jeff > Chimene wrote: > > > > --- Rajesh Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > As far as I know, if you operate on the symlink, > you > > > are operating on > > > the files/dir that it points to. Unli

Re: How to restore files without deleting existing

2004-10-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 07:33:04PM -0700, Jeff Chimene wrote: > > --- Rajesh Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As far as I know, if you operate on the symlink, you > > are operating on > > the files/dir that it points to. Unlike hard links, > > which are actual > > copies of the link point

Re: How to restore files without deleting existing

2004-10-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 06:52:42PM -0700, Jeff Chimene wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to resolve a tar restore issue. Using the > newest gnu tar. > > While using tar to deploy software, today I wiped > clean my destination directory. This was somewhat of a > surprise. The only files left in the dest

Re: How to restore files without deleting existing

2004-10-03 Thread Jeff Chimene
--- Rajesh Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I know, if you operate on the symlink, you > are operating on > the files/dir that it points to. Unlike hard links, > which are actual > copies of the link pointed to. > And if I recall right, tar's behaviour, by default, > is to over-writ

Chroot SSH problem (Sarge)

2004-10-03 Thread Eriberto
Hello, I want to make chroot on ssh. My option: http://chrootssh.sourceforge.net and http://debian.home-dn.net/sarge/openssh . After the implementation, when I use /./ in /etc/passwd, I don't can login locally or remotely. The system returns: Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).

Re: HP 2210 USB printer problems in Sid

2004-10-03 Thread Curt Howland
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh was heard > to say: >See the kernel logs. You need to find something like this: >Oct 3 15:28:52 khazad-dum kernel: printer.c: usblp0: USB >Bidirectional >printer dev 13 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x6004 dmesg did show disconnect and reconnect messages for bo

How to restore files without deleting existing

2004-10-03 Thread Jeff Chimene
Hi, I'm trying to resolve a tar restore issue. Using the newest gnu tar. While using tar to deploy software, today I wiped clean my destination directory. This was somewhat of a surprise. The only files left in the destination were those present in the source archive. The destination directory i

Re: Icon bug in Nautilus (SARGE) still not fixed ?

2004-10-03 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
Pau Capdevila wrote: Yes it is fixed. But when you launch nautilus out of a gnome-session nautilus misses something that by now I don't know what it is. It happens as well when you launch nautilus from xfce4 or when you have a gnome session opened and you open another one by VNC or NX. So it is

Re: Login

2004-10-03 Thread robin
Arnfinn Gjøstøl wrote: I have just installed Debian. After boting, entering username and password, the boot progress stops at [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ What next? If X-window-system is installed type startx. If you want a graphical login apt-get install gdm or kdm or wdm od xdm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Fixed Mutt Error

2004-10-03 Thread Ed Sutherland
I fixed the problem I was experiencing with Mutt complaining it couldn't open a temporary file." I changed the "set tmpdir" in .muttrc from /tmp to ~/Mail/tmp (and after creating the directory) restarted Mutt and the pager works fine. I think I need just a bit more GUI for my mail app. Thanks

Re: flphoto and usb permissions

2004-10-03 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 02 October 2004 12:42 am, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: > 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 u

Re: apt-upgrading Bluefish (not) ?

2004-10-03 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 12:10:16PM +1300, Adam Bogacki wrote: > It keeps foundering with the following message. What's happening ? > > Is the Bluefish maintainer still around ? > > >Tux:~# apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing > >Reading Package Lists... Done > >Building Dependency Tree... Done > >C

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Oct 03 17:54 -0500]: > Marc Wilson said on Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:58:07AM -0700: > > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:22:28AM -0700, Jonathan Byrne wrote: > > > - You don't have to rerun grub every time you changed the config file > > > > Except that you do, un

Re: mount xfs filesystem as noneroot user

2004-10-03 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time bing yu said... > thanks I got the problem solved by another path : mount the device to > none-root user, so I need no su to root when I locate to my /mnt/media > > the vfat file system go well by add this in the /etc/fstab > /dev/hda7 /mnt/media vfat umask=0,uid=1003,gid=1003,

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Marco Bertorello
On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 13:31:00 -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonathan Byrne wrote: > > Of course, Debian _still_ doesn't install to, or support booting from, > > software RAID > > Yes it does. > I've tried with the last debian installer and it doesn't work during the installation, b

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Marc Wilson said on Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:58:07AM -0700: > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:22:28AM -0700, Jonathan Byrne wrote: > > - You don't have to rerun grub every time you changed the config file > > Except that you do, unless you believe in symlinks for your kernels.. Minor nit: you don't ha

Altering screen resolution (was: Help)

2004-10-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Olav Sindre Vik Støylen: > Hi :) Hi. Please use a better subject line next time. Thanks. > I've just installed Debian on my computer laptop, but the screen size is > disapointingly small.. > What can i do, i've searched all over the web for drivers, but cannot find > anything.

Re: Problems with prebuilt kernel ALSA

2004-10-03 Thread Salvatore Sittinieri
Ryan Waye wrote: After a short testing run of SuSE, I have decided to come back to Debian (it is much faster and customizeable) But for some reason my sound will not work. I boot using linux26 to install, and everything goes smothely. I go into gnome, and I attempt to adjust the volume, but there

Help

2004-10-03 Thread Olav Sindre Vik Støylen
Hi :) I've just installed Debian on my computer laptop, but the screen size is disapointingly small.. What can i do, i've searched all over the web for drivers, but cannot find anything. I have a "Standard PCI graphic card". On advanced, i thank you. Olav Sindre Vik Støylen, Norway _

Re: Installing

2004-10-03 Thread Kent West
Michael Satterwhite wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to get Debian up on my Dell Dimension system, but I can't get my network configured. I was going to try again last week, but then real work intruded on me. My network card is a 3C905C-TX. It's well supported by L

Re: Netgear WG311v2 54M wireless card - drivers, kernel?

2004-10-03 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 the mental interface of Andrew M.A. Cater told: > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:11:50PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 the mental interface of > > Andrew M.A. Cater told: > > > > > I've just installed the appropriate source / modules (acx111) to > > > d

Re: Netgear WG311v2 54M wireless card - drivers, kernel?

2004-10-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:11:50PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 the mental interface of > Andrew M.A. Cater told: > > > I've just installed the appropriate source / modules (acx111) to > > drive the above card. Having rebuilt the modules and downloaded the > > (Windows

Re: Netgear WG311v2 54M wireless card - drivers, kernel?

2004-10-03 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 the mental interface of Andrew M.A. Cater told: > I've just installed the appropriate source / modules (acx111) to > drive the above card. Having rebuilt the modules and downloaded the > (Windows XP driver) firmware for the card, it fails. Default Debian 2.6 > kernels (curre

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 03 October 2004 06:47 am, Thomas H. George wrote: > Setup a new computer from Sarge. Everything is perfect, but I liked > and was comfortable with Lilo. Are there compelling reasons to > switch to Grub or can I go back to Lilo without losing anything > important? > > Tom George Most ev

Netgear WG311v2 54M wireless card - drivers, kernel?

2004-10-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
I've just installed the appropriate source / modules (acx111) to drive the above card. Having rebuilt the modules and downloaded the (Windows XP driver) firmware for the card, it fails. Default Debian 2.6 kernels (currently on 2.6.8 running Debian unstable) don't include some magic wireless ingr

Installing

2004-10-03 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to get Debian up on my Dell Dimension system, but I can't get my network configured. I was going to try again last week, but then real work intruded on me. My network card is a 3C905C-TX. It's well supported by Linux - and a reply from t

Re: Setting Ink Density?

2004-10-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 03 Oct 2004, Ed Sutherland wrote: > Is there any way to set ink density, through CUPS, perhaps? Pages Depends on the printer. If the PPD in www.linuxprinting.org has the data for ink density, then yes, you can. Otherwise, your chances are slim. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk

Re: fvwm question..

2004-10-03 Thread Erik Steffl
bing yu wrote: I can not get message from fvwm list, Please forgive me posting here. in my .fvwmrc Key rA MExec exec crxvt-gb so Alt+r can open a crxvt terminal After I open crxvt, I usually do this : $su password:(enter my pwd) # cd /mnt/media/ my question is straitforward(l

Re: Mutt Error: Can't Open Temporary File

2004-10-03 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 16:10:06 +0200, Frederick B. Henry Jr. 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. Check your diskspace, I've seen this happen once before when a runawa

Re: HP 2210 USB printer problems in Sid

2004-10-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 03 Oct 2004, Curt Howland wrote: > On Sunday 03 October 2004 14:11, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh was heard > to say: > > Is usblp loading and finding the printer ? It needs to. > > usblp is loaded, but this is all I can find: See the kernel logs. You need to find something like this: Oct

Re: desktop

2004-10-03 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 05:06:03 -0800, Theo Lehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Wim De Smet wrote: > > >Hi, > >On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 02:53:58 -0800, Theo Lehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>please help I installed debaian and when I boot up I can > >>loggin fine but I know I chose to in

Re: Chroot Debian

2004-10-03 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 07:44:02PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > While I find chroot _installs_ of Debian, as a way of getting the distro > onto a computer, useful, I wouldn't run a production system as a whole > in chroot mode. Specific services (e.g.: bind), sure, but that's a > specialized s

Re: Can't see second CD-ROM [was: Unidentified subject!]

2004-10-03 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:36:00PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i have recently installed debian woody 3.0 i have two cdrom drives but > only have access to one of them debian just acts as if it isn't there > i also have windows installed (for wine only) and when i load that up > both of my

Re: Firefox 'stretched' printing

2004-10-03 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:32:50 -0400 | Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] |> How can I "stop using xprt"? | | When I was doing the same, I used 'apt-get remove xprt'. Yep. The odd thing is, I thought it got installed because it was require

Re: HP 2210 USB printer problems in Sid

2004-10-03 Thread Curt Howland
On Sunday 03 October 2004 14:11, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh was heard to say: > Is usblp loading and finding the printer ? It needs to. usblp is loaded, but this is all I can find: # lsmod usblp 13088 0 How do I access it to see what it sees? There's no man page for it, and

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:47:22AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > Setup a new computer from Sarge. Everything is perfect, but I liked > and was comfortable with Lilo. Are there compelling reasons to switch > to Grub or can I go back to Lilo without losing anything important? > > Tom George >

Setting Ink Density?

2004-10-03 Thread Ed Sutherland
Is there any way to set ink density, through CUPS, perhaps? Pages printed now appear as if all text is set to bold. Within Mac OS X, on the other hand, I can set ink density and pages printed appear much crisper with bolded text appearing darker than normal fonts. Any tips on how to emulate this fr

Re: HP 2210 USB printer problems in Sid

2004-10-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 03 Oct 2004, Curt Howland wrote: > correct new ports. USB thumb-drives and memory-sticks function. By > this I assume that the usb subsystem is working. Probably it is. > However, hpoj simply does not detect the printer. Is usblp loading and finding the printer ? It needs to. Is /dev co

HP 2210 USB printer problems in Sid

2004-10-03 Thread Curt Howland
Hi, all. Sid, latest 2.6.8-1-686 kernel. I went back through the archives and found where I had asked about getting this printer connected before, and followed those directions, but it's failing right at the outset. The hpoj documentation suggests ensuring that the USB drivers are compiled for

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 01:31:00PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Jonathan Byrne wrote: > > Of course, Debian _still_ doesn't install to, or support booting from, > > software RAID > > Yes it does. Of course, that begs the question... why in the world would you want to do that in the first place? --

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:22:28AM -0700, Jonathan Byrne wrote: > - With grub, the boot process will never freeze at LI Sure, instead it'll freeze at stage 1.5. Hardly an improvement. > - You don't have to rerun grub every time you changed the config file Except that you do, unless you believe

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Joey Hess
Jonathan Byrne wrote: > Of course, Debian _still_ doesn't install to, or support booting from, > software RAID Yes it does. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Tom Pfeifer
"Thomas H. George" wrote: > > Setup a new computer from Sarge. Everything is perfect, but I liked > and was comfortable with Lilo. Are there compelling reasons to switch > to Grub or can I go back to Lilo without losing anything important? > > Tom George Sure, you can still use Lilo. Both work

Re: XFree86-DRI missing

2004-10-03 Thread Jule Slootbeek
Thanks! installing the nvidia-glx pakcage did wonders -JSS Roberto Sanchez wrote: 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 ge

Re: How to patch..

2004-10-03 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 01:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Eric and all boys on the list... > > > > > > > To patch the 2.6.8.1 to 2.6.8.1-mm4 should I patch to > > > 2.6.8.1-mm1, 2.6.8.1-mm2, 2.6.8.1-mm3, and at the end the 2.6.8.1-mm4? > > > Or can I patch the 2.6.8.1 only with the 2.6.8.1-mm4?

Re: Thunderbird 0.8 and Filters

2004-10-03 Thread Alexander Sack
Joost Witteveen wrote: Ed Sutherland wrote: Alexander Sack wrote: Ed Sutherland wrote: What's happened to filters in mozilla-thunderbird 0.8? The menu I have no problems running filters etc.. Anyone having filter problems too, please attach more info to: bug #272954. The problem is that when Thu

Re: fvwm question..

2004-10-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
bing yu wrote: I can not get message from fvwm list, Please forgive me posting here. in my .fvwmrc Key rA MExec exec crxvt-gb so Alt+r can open a crxvt terminal After I open crxvt, I usually do this : $su password:(enter my pwd) # cd /mnt/media/ my question is straitforward(l

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Jonathan Byrne
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:47:22AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: and was comfortable with Lilo. Are there compelling reasons to switch to Grub My top handful of reasons why I like GRUB (a lot) better than LILO are, in no particular order: - With grub, the boot process will never freeze at LI - Y

Re: Clarification needed for dist-upgrade instructions

2004-10-03 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 08:18:50PM -0700, Eric Dickner wrote: > > > > 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 documen

Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Thomas H. George
Setup a new computer from Sarge. Everything is perfect, but I liked and was comfortable with Lilo. Are there compelling reasons to switch to Grub or can I go back to Lilo without losing anything important? Tom George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Kooka/xsane only see scanner as root

2004-10-03 Thread Jonathan Byrne
I'm running Sid, 2.6.8-1 kernel. I don't often use my scanner, and today was the first time since I moved to the 2.6 kernel. Running as root, scanimage -L correctly shows: device `epson:libusb:002:004' is a Epson GT-8200 flatbed scanner sane-find-scanner correctly shows: found USB scanner (vendor=

mount xfs filesystem as noneroot user

2004-10-03 Thread bing yu
thanks I got the problem solved by another path : mount the device to none-root user, so I need no su to root when I locate to my /mnt/media the vfat file system go well by add this in the /etc/fstab /dev/hda7 /mnt/media vfat umask=0,uid=1003,gid=1003,defaults,iocharset=cp936 0 0 BUT when I co

Re: Accented characters

2004-10-03 Thread Rich Wellner
Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 pe

Re: Mutt Error: Can't Open Temporary File

2004-10-03 Thread Frederick B. Henry Jr.
On Saturday 02 Oct 2004 23:45:01 -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. Check in ~/.muttrc or /etc/Muttrc to see which path is given to "set tmpdir,

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

2004-10-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Wim De Smet wrote: On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 16:22:48 -0400, Brendan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 no

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

2004-10-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Alex Nordstrom wrote: Now, I'm not sure how well Matrox meets the requirements of the OP in terms of price and 3D game performance. They seem, however, not to be quite as intent on being altogether evil as ATI and Nvidia, and they should be great fun if you like triple-head setups, but I do beli

Re: desktop

2004-10-03 Thread Matt Johnson
--- Wim De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 02:53:58 -0800, Theo Lehr > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > please help I installed debaian and when I boot up > I can > > loggin fine but I know I chose to install a > desktop interface > > during insalation but all I get is

Re: fvwm question..

2004-10-03 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 21:02:19 +0200, bing yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can not get message from fvwm list, Please forgive me posting here. > > in my .fvwmrc > > Key rA MExec exec crxvt-gb > > so Alt+r can open a crxvt terminal > > After I open crxvt, I usually do this : > $su

Re: desktop

2004-10-03 Thread Theo Lehr
please help I installed debaian and when I boot up I can loggin fine but I know I chose to install a desktop interface during insalation but all I get is what look like a beefed up version of ms dos (discrpition not to insult anyone) I am very profishant w/ windows half that on macs but still go

Re: desktop

2004-10-03 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 02:53:58 -0800, Theo Lehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > please help I installed debaian and when I boot up I can > loggin fine but I know I chose to install a desktop interface > during insalation but all I get is what look like a beefed > up version of ms dos (discrpition

fvwm question..

2004-10-03 Thread bing yu
I can not get message from fvwm list, Please forgive me posting here. in my .fvwmrc Key rA MExec exec crxvt-gb so Alt+r can open a crxvt terminal After I open crxvt, I usually do this : $su password:(enter my pwd) # cd /mnt/media/ my question is straitforward(let alone the

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

2004-10-03 Thread Wim De Smet
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 16:22:48 -0400, Brendan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 w

Unidentified subject!

2004-10-03 Thread oliverheard
i have recently installed debian woody 3.0 i have two cdrom drives but only have access to one of them debian just acts as if it isn't there i also have windows installed (for wine only) and when i load that up both of my cdrom drives are accessible their, when i boot debian and i see all the te

Re: windows locks up while accessing samba shares

2004-10-03 Thread Alban Browaeys
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:06:20 +0100, Ognjen mailshack.com> wrote: > > I have a server running debian (testing) with samba. All permissions etc... > > work and i can create folders etc my problem is that when i try to > > transfer files on the server windows (win2000 prof) locks up. after >

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

2004-10-03 Thread Alex Nordstrom
Please don't modify your reply-to header to exclude the list. I'm interpreting the header as a wish to be CCed, which I respect; I expect my signature to be treated with the same courtesy. On Sunday, 3 Oct 2004 18:26, Caveman wrote: > Frankly I think nvidia should get a clap on the back for maki

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alsa on 2.4.27-1-686

2004-10-03 Thread Schelstraete Bart
Hello, Did some compile ALSA on the 2.4.27-1-686 kernel? and did it work? I tried it (no deb packages available yet), but it's giving unresolved symbold. Bart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is there a stable mail client for linux?

2004-10-03 Thread Francois Cerbelle
Le Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:41:22AM -0700, Brian Nelson ecrit : > On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 04:30:15PM +0200, Francois Cerbelle wrote: > > Le Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:02:52AM -0400, Ed Sutherland ecrit : > > > had to log-out and reboot in order to regain control. Is there a > > > secure, solid and stab

Re: dist-upgrade . . . to what?

2004-10-03 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 02:23:28AM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:34:25PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > The difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade is this: dist-upgrade > > automatically tries to resolve problems with dependencies when upgrading > > packages. That is, f

Re: how to auto-start programs

2004-10-03 Thread Eddy
B.R. Cadellon a écrit le 02/10/04 23:41 : I can't figure out how to make an application start on reboot. Can anyone help? Since I can't see any reply yet, I'll try to help. Keep in mind I'm no specialist. It depends on what you want to do exactly (are you sure it's on *re*boot that you want you'r

Re: Icon bug in Nautilus (SARGE) still not fixed ?

2004-10-03 Thread Pau Capdevila
Yes it is fixed. But when you launch nautilus out of a gnome-session nautilus misses something that by now I don't know what it is. It happens as well when you launch nautilus from xfce4 or when you have a gnome session opened and you open another one by VNC or NX. Anyway I don't care. GNOME could

desktop

2004-10-03 Thread Theo Lehr
please help I installed debaian and when I boot up I can loggin fine but I know I chose to install a desktop interface during insalation but all I get is what look like a beefed up version of ms dos (discrpition not to insult anyone) I am very profishant w/ windows half that on macs but still goo

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

2004-10-03 Thread Caveman
> > Thank you! That was my point. Which is why I asked where I could > find a board made by a company that isn't as selfish and petty as > Microsoft. Frankly I think nvidia should get a clap on the back for making a driver. So its not Open Source, well frankly you are never going to get totall

cron + apache problem - I think

2004-10-03 Thread Richard Lyons
I have a server that runs apache1.3. Every sunday morning at 06:30 it stops. /var/log/apache/error.log says [Sun Oct 3 06:30:59 2004] [notice] SIGUSR1 received. Doing \ graceful restart but it gracelessly doesn't. /etc/crontab has 47 6* * 7 roottest -x /usr/sbin/anacron |

Re: Mutt Error: Can't Open Temporary File

2004-10-03 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 the mental interface of Ed Sutherland told: > 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. Is /tmp, where mutt places it temp-files, read and writeable for you? Ciao

Re: Icon bug in Nautilus (SARGE) still not fixed ?

2004-10-03 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 20:09:28 -0400, ThanhVu Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: sources.list entries?

2004-10-03 Thread Joost Witteveen
robin wrote: 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 Search. 3. Sea

Re: flphoto and usb permissions

2004-10-03 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 03 October 2004 03:05, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: > -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 o

Re: dist-upgrade . . . to what?

2004-10-03 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:34:25PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > The difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade is this: dist-upgrade > automatically tries to resolve problems with dependencies when upgrading > packages. That is, for instance, it will remove conflicting packages. Uh, no, the differ

Re: How to patch..

2004-10-03 Thread condor_rl
Hi Eric and all boys on the list... > > > > To patch the 2.6.8.1 to 2.6.8.1-mm4 should I patch to > > 2.6.8.1-mm1, 2.6.8.1-mm2, 2.6.8.1-mm3, and at the end the 2.6.8.1-mm4? > > Or can I patch the 2.6.8.1 only with the 2.6.8.1-mm4? > > > > The mm4 patch is against 2.6.8-1. You should not apply m

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