alsaconf

2004-11-07 Thread Rick Pasotto
I have installed libasound1, alsa-base, alsa-utils. When I run alsaconf it says it can't find any PCI sound cards even though I have an Ensoniq AudioPCI (ES1371) that is detected on startup. I get gnome window sounds and xmms plays mp3 files so I do have sound. What I ultimately want to get workin

Re: how I got usb sticks and card reads mounted/unmounted automatically (using udev)

2004-11-07 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 00:26:36 -0500 "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First of all, here is what I have installed: > #> dpkg -l gnome-volume-manager gnome-desktop* udev hotplug | grep > '^ii' ii gnome-volume-m 1.0.2-3GNOME daemon to auto-mount and > manage media > ii gnome-desktop-

Re: dselect not respecting holds ?

2004-11-07 Thread James Kirk
--- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:47:24AM -0800, James Kirk > wrote: > > Does anyone else (who still uses dselect) find > that > > dselect does not respect holds ? A couple of > packages > > (tetex-bin, gramofile) I've installed have > > recommends/suggests (

Re: Passwd fails - what went wrong?

2004-11-07 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 November 2004 09:55 am, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > No that is not the problem. The passwd itself fails and I cannot change > passwd for any user. In fact the above transcript points this out. > > passwd: Authentication token manipulat

Re: strange umask behaviour

2004-11-07 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 November 2004 05:15 am, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (07/11/04 18:04), Ali Alphan Bayazit wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 22:05 +, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > Hi > > > > hello, > > > > > In my .bashrc and .bash_profile I have umask set at

Re: USB flash disk

2004-11-07 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Sridhar M.A._, on 07/11/04 20:14,typed: > I am using 2.6.7 debian kernel and USB sticks and flash card readers > work fine for me. Since I started using udev, they also get mounted and > unmounted automatically. If anyone wants details on how to do that, just > let me kn

Re: USB flash disk

2004-11-07 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Jacob S_, on 07/11/04 21:49,typed: On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 06:44:59 +0530 "Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using 2.6.7 debian kernel and USB sticks and flash card > readers work fine for me. Since I started using udev, they also > get mounted and unmounted automatical

how I got usb sticks and card reads mounted/unmounted automatically (using udev)

2004-11-07 Thread H. S.
First of all, here is what I have installed: #> dpkg -l gnome-volume-manager gnome-desktop* udev hotplug | grep '^ii' ii gnome-volume-m 1.0.2-3GNOME daemon to auto-mount and manage media ii gnome-desktop- 2.6.1-2Common files for GNOME 2 desktop apps ii gnome-desktop- 60

MS OutLook Unknown Options ???

2004-11-07 Thread Nayyar Ahmed
Hello All, I am working in an enviroment where LINUX + QMail is configured as Mail Server, when my clients check thier mail from MS Outlook the whole Inbox is shift to that desktop, which left no Mail copy at server and give a huge tension to my, I am un-able to find out any option in MS Outloo

Re: Passwd fails - what went wrong?

2004-11-07 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Kam-Ming Siu wrote: Try adduser -G users lata May be the group "lata" does not exist as you adding the new user. As I know by default debian would not create individual group for new user. Regards, Ming On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 07:07:00PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Hi, I have not chan

Re: graphical console problem

2004-11-07 Thread Kam-Ming Siu
Try to pass "video=sisfb:mode:none" to your kernel, just like pass vga=ask. This options tells kernel does not turn on the sis framebuffer. If this option works, you will bootup your machine in text console. At that point you can try to activate standard framebuffer by passing "vga=791" to your ker

Re: Passwd fails - what went wrong?

2004-11-07 Thread Kam-Ming Siu
Try adduser -G users lata May be the group "lata" does not exist as you adding the new user. As I know by default debian would not create individual group for new user. Regards, Ming On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 07:07:00PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > Hi, > > I have not changed passwd o

Re: IDE not detected

2004-11-07 Thread Kam-Ming Siu
May be your system does not load a kenrel module - ide-disk. Try to load it. And then mount your windows partition. May be you can access your ide harddisk again. Regards, Ming On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 09:43:44AM -0800, mamas wrote: > My Debian testing system (2.4.27-1-386) has two SCSI hds and S

graphical console problem

2004-11-07 Thread Luis Finotti
Hi, I am running Debian on my laptop and after an upgrade, it tries to enter in "graphical console mode". On boot I get: sisfb: Using MMIO qeue mode the screen goes blank and it enters in graphic mode (with the penguin on the screen), but it's all fuzzy. I can't use the text consoles (Ctrl+Alt

Re: USB flash disk

2004-11-07 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 06:44:59 +0530 "Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am using 2.6.7 debian kernel and USB sticks and flash card >> readers work fine for me. Since I started using udev, they also >> get mounted and unmounted automatically. If anyone wants details >> on h

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-07 Thread ea
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 07:53:33PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >In regards to the latter method, would it be possible for me to change >> >the group ownership of the commands I don't want users to have access >> to >> >and revoke execute permission from that group? >> >> Yes, you can make

Re: howto close a Debian bug?

2004-11-07 Thread John Hasler
Carl Fink writes: > I was under the impression that the DEVELOPER had to close bugs. The submitter of a bug can close it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: howto close a Debian bug?

2004-11-07 Thread John Hasler
Alexander Schmehl writes: > One solution would be send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Containing the following: > == > close #1234567 > thanks > > == Don't use the control server to close bugs. Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing an explanation (nnn is the bug

Re: USB flash disk

2004-11-07 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 05:47:02PM -0500, H. S. wrote: > >On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 01:32:41PM +0100, Cristian Toraci wrote: > > > I recently installed a Sarge with kernel 2.6.8. When I plug my USB > > flash disk > it doesn't work. The syslog messages are: > > > > > > Nov 7

Re: strange umask behaviour

2004-11-07 Thread Ali Alphan Bayazit
On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 23:30 +, Clive Menzies wrote: > a shell script for example? What actually alerted me to this was > a .sh > to back-up a file to a series of backup files as an exercise. But it > couldn't seem to create the files. > most programs specify their file creation permissions

Passwd fails - what went wrong?

2004-11-07 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I have not changed passwd or added user for quite some time. This has been the case across several apt-get upgrades. Finally when I got to a point I wanted to setup an account, I ran into the following difficulty. lata [root] 54 > adduser lata Adding user lata... Adding new group l

Re: howto close a Debian bug?

2004-11-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041107 17:51]: > No, that way is deprecated. See: > > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.en-gb.html#closing Oh, I'm Sorry. Thanks for the hint! Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: howto close a Debian bug?

2004-11-07 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 12:51:33AM +0200, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > Following the instructions at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting I > filed a couple of bugs. Now one of them has been resolved, how can I > report this and therefore close the bug? I was under the impression that the DE

Re: howto close a Debian bug?

2004-11-07 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 01:39:55AM +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > * Alexandros Papadopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041107 23:51]: > > Following the instructions at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting I > > filed a couple of bugs. Now one of them has been resolved, how can I > > report this and

Re: howto close a Debian bug?

2004-11-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Alexandros Papadopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041107 23:51]: > Following the instructions at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting I > filed a couple of bugs. Now one of them has been resolved, how can I > report this and therefore close the bug? > > I don't see the answer anywhere in the docume

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-07 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > No need for C. Perl suffices. Stephen Le writes: > I should be able to restrict a user's Perl scripts using Apache's > suEXEC. I don't see how a user would be able to remotely execute a > compiled C program outside of their priviledges. I meant that they can do anything with Perl that

Re: howto close a Debian bug?

2004-11-07 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 17:51, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > Following the instructions at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting I > filed a couple of bugs. Now one of them has been resolved, how can I > report this and therefore close the bug? > > I don't see the answer anywhere in the document

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-07 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 14:54, Stephen Le wrote: > > > Note that neither my approach nor yours really stops someone who is > > determined - all of the functionality of the above programs could be > > replicated in perl, python, etc, so you've only made it difficult, not > > impossible. Then there

Re: 'rpm --freshen': dpkg Equivalent?

2004-11-07 Thread Kenneth Jacker
ne> if (dpkg -l package-name | grep -c ii ) dpkg -i ./package.deb; Though I might again consider using 'apt-zip', a slight variation of the above should do what I need ... Thanks, Niels! -Kenneth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: strange umask behaviour

2004-11-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On (07/11/04 18:04), Ali Alphan Bayazit wrote: > On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 22:05 +, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Hi > > > hello, > > > In my .bashrc and .bash_profile I have umask set at 022 however when I > > create a file, the permissions look like this: > > > > -rw-r--r-- > > > that looks correc

howto close a Debian bug?

2004-11-07 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
Following the instructions at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting I filed a couple of bugs. Now one of them has been resolved, how can I report this and therefore close the bug? I don't see the answer anywhere in the documentation. Cheers -A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: USB flash disk

2004-11-07 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Sridhar M.A._, on 07/11/04 09:20,typed: On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 01:32:41PM +0100, Cristian Toraci wrote: > I recently installed a Sarge with kernel 2.6.8. When I plug my USB flash disk > it doesn't work. The syslog messages are: > > Nov 7 12:25:51 localhost kernel: Initi

Re: Alt Gr + key doesn't generate "extra" symbols any more

2004-11-07 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 21:22:08 +0100, Bram Mertens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 19:13, Nicos Gollan wrote: [...] > > > If there isn't, you have to create that mapping yourself. Try running this > > command from an X terminal: > > > > xmodmap -e "add mod5 = ISO_Level3_Shift" >

starting gnome-settings-daemon WAS: Alt Gr + key doesn't generate "extra" symbols any more

2004-11-07 Thread Bram Mertens
On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 18:59, Andrea Vettorello wrote: [...] > Do you run some DE, like Gnome or KDE? In Gnome you can modify your > keyboard layout with "gnome-keyboard-properties", and IIRC with Gnome > the XF86config XkbLayout option are overridden with the Gnome one... Thanks for pointing this

Re: Squelching sound and increasing console size on bootup

2004-11-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 07 Nov 2004, Charlie Zender wrote: > 1. The pcmcia card beeping is really loud and always evokes evil >stares from others in the library, airplan, etc. That is probably something to fix kernel-side :( But if the PCMCIA stuff is a module that is being loaded by hotplug (ick), get the A

strange umask behaviour

2004-11-07 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi In my .bashrc and .bash_profile I have umask set at 022 however when I create a file, the permissions look like this: -rw-r--r-- instead of: -rwxr-xr-x Am I being really dense or is this a bug? umask 555 creates files as --w--w--w- which looks fine. TIA Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk

Squelching sound and increasing console size on bootup

2004-11-07 Thread Charlie Zender
Hi, I am running fully updated Debian Sid with kernel 2.6.7 on a Dell Precision M50 laptop. I would like to modify two annoying system behaviors during boot-up. 1. The pcmcia card beeping is really loud and always evokes evil stares from others in the library, airplan, etc. How do I turn down

Re: USB flash disk

2004-11-07 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 07 2004, Cristian Toraci wrote: > Nov 7 12:27:21 localhost kernel: usb 1-3: control timeout on ep0out > Nov 7 12:27:26 localhost kernel: usb 1-3: control timeout on ep0out (...) These messages are quite similar to those that I've been having during the past year, before Alan Stern finally

gnome-cups-manager setup of DLink DI-704P print server (Sarge) - HELP!

2004-11-07 Thread Jack Dodds
I have a Pentium 4 machine with Sarge newly installed. It connects to the Internet through a DLink DI-704P router, which also has a printer port. I have a printer connected to the router's printer port - a Canon BJC250. I have installed various cups related packages. Before installing Sarge I h

Re: Alt Gr + key doesn't generate "extra" symbols any more

2004-11-07 Thread Bram Mertens
On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 19:13, Nicos Gollan wrote: [...] > As Andrea already said, it might be a problem with your DEs setup. If you're > running unstable, there was an update to KDE 3.3 recently. That broke AltGr > for me. Personally I use fluxbox as WM (without DE) but I run several Gnome apps t

gnome-cups-manager setup of DLink DI-704P print server (Sarge) - HELP!

2004-11-07 Thread Jack Dodds
I have a Pentium 4 machine with Sarge newly installed. It connects to the Internet through a DLink DI-704P router, which also has a printer port. I have a printer connected to the router's printer port - a Canon BJC250. I have installed various cups related packages. Before installing Sarge I had

Re: IDE not detected

2004-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 14:54 -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 09:43 -0800, mamas wrote: > > > >>My Debian testing system (2.4.27-1-386) has two SCSI hds and SCSI DVD > >>reader and CD burner. The only ide device is a 60GB hd in which I > >>installed a WinXP

Re: IDE not detected

2004-11-07 Thread Travis Crump
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 09:43 -0800, mamas wrote: My Debian testing system (2.4.27-1-386) has two SCSI hds and SCSI DVD reader and CD burner. The only ide device is a 60GB hd in which I installed a WinXP environment. Linux is booting without problems, but it does not detect (discov

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-07 Thread Stephen Le
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 14:41:42 -0500, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-get remove --purge ftp telnet wget gcc > rm /usr/bin/ssh /usr/bin/scp Unfortunately, I can't do that since I still want some users to be able to access those commands. I just want to restrict access to those commands

remote printing cups to lpd

2004-11-07 Thread Will Parsons
I've been using lpd for printing on my home desktop machine running woody and am comfortable with it. Recently I acquired a laptop machine pre-installed with sarge which uses cups. The laptop is connected to the deskton via a LAN, and I would like print from the laptop using the printer on the d

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-07 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Stephen Le said: > On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 14:14:16 +, Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lots of people have commented already, but I've not seen any > > discussion on why you might want to do this. What kind of bad > > commands are you trying to prevent? >

RE: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-07 Thread Dan Roozemond
> For example, as I mentioned in an earlier reply, I might not want > normal users to be able to run ftp, telnet, ssh, wget, gcc, or any > other number of commands. I still want users to be able to run the > bulk of the commands available on the system, though. I might also > want to allow another

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-07 Thread Stephen Le
On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 10:10:31 -0600, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Kemp writes: > > If you give people the ability to upload CGI scripts, like the perl > > example you mention, you've already lost - a malicious user could compile > > some C code statically and exectute that remotely

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-07 Thread Stephen Le
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 14:14:16 +, Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lots of people have commented already, but I've not seen any > discussion on why you might want to do this. What kind of bad > commands are you trying to prevent? > > Most of the dangerous commands like fdisk, etc, w

Re: playing cds

2004-11-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, I have my cd-rom drive conected to my sound card.and normal sound > works but cd's do not. I am a member of groups audio and disk. cdcd > doesn't give me any error messages, but nothing plays. What am I > m

Re: 'rpm --freshen': dpkg Equivalent?

2004-11-07 Thread Curt Howland
Hi. This isn't a silly question at all. For a long time I would use dselect to just update the list of available packages, then I have to view them just to get back out to the prompt to "update". However, this will do the same: apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade The first updates the list of av

Sound problems

2004-11-07 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
A recent upgrade (Sid) killed my sound. I decided to start all over and removed any and all programs related to sound, now I cannot find OSS anywhere. Is ALSA my only option? Cybe R. Wizard -- Unofficial "Wizard of Odds," A.H.P. Original PORG "Water Wizard," R.P. "Wize(ned) Wizard," A.P.F-P-Y.

Re: IDE not detected

2004-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 09:43 -0800, mamas wrote: > My Debian testing system (2.4.27-1-386) has two SCSI hds and SCSI DVD > reader and CD burner. The only ide device is a 60GB hd in which I > installed a WinXP environment. > Linux is booting without problems, but it does not detect (discover1) > the

Re: 'rpm --freshen': dpkg Equivalent?

2004-11-07 Thread Niels L Ellegaard
On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 11:05:01 -0500 Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I use 'dpkg' to install a new .deb, but *only* if the package > is already on a machine? With RPM, you can use the "freshen" option > ("-F" or "--freshen"). But how with 'dpkg'? > > In other words: > o If t

Re: 'rpm --freshen': dpkg Equivalent?

2004-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 13:06 -0500, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > jh> why would you just one specific package to be updated? > > Sorry I didn't explain more. Here's the situation ... > > I have an office machine, O, and a home machine, H both using > sarge/testing. O has a high-speed connection to t

Re: Alt Gr + key doesn't generate "extra" symbols any more

2004-11-07 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday November 7 2004 18:09, Bram Mertens wrote: > Recently I edited my XF86Config-4 file (in an attempt to get the nvidia > drivers to work) and ever since something in my keyboard setup is > screwed up. > > The keyboard layout is azerty and before messing things up pressing the > Alt Gr key i

Re: Out of room on /usr partition

2004-11-07 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 10:54:03 -0600, Ian T. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there. > I have run out of room on my /usr/bin partition (95%). I have a couple > of hard drives in that box but Debian resides on a 10 gig scsi. The box > is an old PII with 256 RAM. > > I have room elsewhere but searchi

Re: 'rpm --freshen': dpkg Equivalent?

2004-11-07 Thread Kenneth Jacker
jh> why would you just one specific package to be updated? Sorry I didn't explain more. Here's the situation ... I have an office machine, O, and a home machine, H both using sarge/testing. O has a high-speed connection to the Internet, but H doesn't. After "updating" O, I copy all the .deb

IDE not detected

2004-11-07 Thread mamas
My Debian testing system (2.4.27-1-386) has two SCSI hds and SCSI DVD reader and CD burner. The only ide device is a 60GB hd in which I installed a WinXP environment. Linux is booting without problems, but it does not detect (discover1) the ide controller and drive, thus making it impossibile to mo

Re: playing cds

2004-11-07 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 09:56:43 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sean wrote: > > Ok, I have my cd-rom drive conected to my sound card.and normal sound > > works but cd's do not. I am a member of groups audio and disk. cdcd > > doesn't give me any error messages, but nothing plays.

Re: Alt Gr + key doesn't generate "extra" symbols any more

2004-11-07 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 18:09:45 +0100, Bram Mertens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > The subject line may not be defined very well but I don't know how to > formulate it any better. > > Recently I edited my XF86Config-4 file (in an attempt to get the nvidia > drivers to work) and ever since somet

Re: 'rpm --freshen': dpkg Equivalent?

2004-11-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041107 17:42]: > * Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041107 17:05]: > > How can I use 'dpkg' to install a new .deb, but *only* if the package > > is already on a machine? With RPM, you can use the "freshen" option > > ("-F" or "--freshen"). But how with

Alt Gr + key doesn't generate "extra" symbols any more

2004-11-07 Thread Bram Mertens
Hi The subject line may not be defined very well but I don't know how to formulate it any better. Recently I edited my XF86Config-4 file (in an attempt to get the nvidia drivers to work) and ever since something in my keyboard setup is screwed up. The keyboard layout is azerty and before messing

Out of room on /usr partition

2004-11-07 Thread Ian T.
Hi there. I have run out of room on my /usr/bin partition (95%). I have a couple of hard drives in that box but Debian resides on a 10 gig scsi. The box is an old PII with 256 RAM. I have room elsewhere but searching didn't turn up any recipes for linking or otherwise telling the system to us

Re: 'rpm --freshen': dpkg Equivalent?

2004-11-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041107 17:05]: > How can I use 'dpkg' to install a new .deb, but *only* if the package > is already on a machine? With RPM, you can use the "freshen" option > ("-F" or "--freshen"). But how with 'dpkg'? The only way I know (got through the package localepur

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-07 Thread John Hasler
Steve Kemp writes: > If you give people the ability to upload CGI scripts, like the perl > example you mention, you've already lost - a malicious user could compile > some C code statically and exectute that remotely. No need for C. Perl suffices. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Enhancing video

2004-11-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Nick Lidakis wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: That's right: MX-440 + Nvidia driver 1120.200 FPS TNT2 - 440.800 FPS Running 2 cards with two monitors, two kbds, two mice for two users, and 2 X servers from Sarge and the Nvidia driver. Hugo May I ask if that video card has a fan or if it's of the si

Re: 'rpm --freshen': dpkg Equivalent?

2004-11-07 Thread Joris Huizer
Kenneth Jacker wrote: How can I use 'dpkg' to install a new .deb, but *only* if the package is already on a machine? With RPM, you can use the "freshen" option ("-F" or "--freshen"). But how with 'dpkg'? In other words: o If the package is already installed, then update it o If the package is

'rpm --freshen': dpkg Equivalent?

2004-11-07 Thread Kenneth Jacker
How can I use 'dpkg' to install a new .deb, but *only* if the package is already on a machine? With RPM, you can use the "freshen" option ("-F" or "--freshen"). But how with 'dpkg'? In other words: o If the package is already installed, then update it o If the package is not installed, do

Re: Enhancing video

2004-11-07 Thread j64669
On (07/11/04 16:12), mark wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Enhancing video > Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 16:12:41 +0100 > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham > version=3.0.1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Secti

Re: playing cds

2004-11-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sean wrote: Ok, I have my cd-rom drive conected to my sound card.and normal sound works but cd's do not. I am a member of groups audio and disk. cdcd doesn't give me any error messages, but nothing plays. What am I missing here? Where should I look for any error messages. Sean A few days

Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

2004-11-07 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 05 November 2004 14:30, Rich Rudnick wrote: > "You do not need Magicfilter for CUPS. CUPS has its own filtering > system and you can send text, PostScript, PDF, HP/GL-2, and many image > formats directly to a CUPS queue. See also the special options which > CUPS provides for text, HP/GL-

Re: Enhancing video

2004-11-07 Thread mark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Radeon 7500" Driver "radeon" Option "AGPMode" "4" Option "AGPFastWrite""on" Option "EnablePageFlip""on Option "UseFBDev""false"

Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

2004-11-07 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 05 November 2004 14:30, Rich Rudnick wrote: > Quoting Till Kamppeter of linux printing.org: (first hit for > 'magicfilter cups' on google) > > http://www.linuxprinting.org/pipermail/general-list/2001q3/000889.html > > "You do not need Magicfilter for CUPS. CUPS has its own filtering >

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-07 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 03:35:11PM -0800, Stephen Le wrote: > See the example above. Users would still be able to upload their own > Perl scripts and get Apache to execute them without restriction - the > Perl script could call commands that I want to ban the users from > executing. Lots of peo

Re: Memory Management in Linux

2004-11-07 Thread Mauricio Lin
I guess if you want to develop a program to monitor the memory usage, you have firstly check the /proc directory to figure out if this provides the information you need. The link below explain what is /proc and how to access the many entries in /proc from the user application: http://docs.linux.c

Re: USB flash disk

2004-11-07 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 01:32:41PM +0100, Cristian Toraci wrote: > I recently installed a Sarge with kernel 2.6.8. When I plug my USB flash disk > it doesn't work. The syslog messages are: > > Nov 7 12:25:51 localhost kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... > Nov 7 12:25

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.11.07.1514 +0100]: > If you're operating a shared system and want to keep seperate > web users isolated from each other using rbash, chroots or > similar should be sufficient. Neither rbash not chroots are security measures. They are hurdles at

Re: USB flash disk

2004-11-07 Thread Mauricio Lin
Why do not you install the kernel 2.6.9 in your system? I do not know if this is a bug, but AFAIK the 2.6.9 has fixed some bugs. Mauricio Lin. On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 13:32:41 +0100, Cristian Toraci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently installed a Sarge with kernel 2.6.8. When I plug my USB flash

Re: permissions problems in ssh session as root (WAS: apt-get install and upgrade errors)

2004-11-07 Thread belahcene
An idea , may be !! in fact when you use su , without dash ( - ) , you log with the normal Environment and not with the root environment !!! try instead : su - , perhaps ?? any way since you are new to linux (or debian) I think it is better for you ( I repeat what I had said ) " I sug

USB flash disk

2004-11-07 Thread Cristian Toraci
I recently installed a Sarge with kernel 2.6.8. When I plug my USB flash disk it doesn't work. The syslog messages are: Nov 7 12:25:51 localhost kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Nov 7 12:25:51 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage Nov 7 12:25:51 localhost

Re: Scripting

2004-11-07 Thread Silvan
Thank you very much! Everything works fine now :-). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fonts in Debian Sarge

2004-11-07 Thread Jack Dodds
Can someone point me to a good overall discussion of how fonts are handled in Sarge? There seem to be fonts in directories all over the place. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: playing cds

2004-11-07 Thread robin
Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 01:37:00 -0700, Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, I have my cd-rom drive conected to my sound card.and normal sound works but cd's do not. I am a member of groups audio and disk. cdcd doesn't give me any error messages, but nothing pl

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 07:53:33PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >In regards to the latter method, would it be possible for me to change > >the group ownership of the commands I don't want users to have access to > >and revoke execute permission from that group? > > Yes, you can make somethin

Re: kjournald high cpu usage

2004-11-07 Thread Stephan Zehrer
Justin Guerin wrote: What is the nice value of X? If it's -10, set it to 0. The 2.6 scheduler doesn't need X niced to -10, but it was useful in 2.4. Mmm no X is running with nice 0 as same as kjournald. I tried to renice kjournald to a lower priority but it does not help. kjournald is still us

Re: dselect not respecting holds ?

2004-11-07 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:47:24AM -0800, James Kirk wrote: > Does anyone else (who still uses dselect) find that > dselect does not respect holds ? A couple of packages > (tetex-bin, gramofile) I've installed have > recommends/suggests (texi2html, mctools-lite, cddb) > that don't interest me. I

Re: Enhancing video

2004-11-07 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El sábado 6 de noviembre de 2004 a las 13:45:51, Ron Johnson escribe: > Out of curiosity, will it ever be as fast as, say, a GeForce FX5500 > using the nvidia binary? This could be easily tested using glxgears, I suppose... Cordially, Ismael signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Enhancing video

2004-11-07 Thread Mark Maas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Maas wrote: | Hello All, | | After tinkering with Linux for a few years now I feel i'm getting to a | point that I can say: I can use Linux for everything. | | Except for games... I've got good video cards, but I just can't get the | quality out of

Re: playing cds

2004-11-07 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 01:37:00 -0700, Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I have my cd-rom drive conected to my sound card.and normal sound > works but cd's do not. I am a member of groups audio and disk. cdcd > doesn't give me any error messages, but nothing plays. What am I > missing here? Whe

Re: Enhancing video

2004-11-07 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 13:45:51 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 20:20 +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 18:57:25 +0100, Mark Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > > > You need to enable DRI, look in the maling list, it was asked some

playing cds

2004-11-07 Thread Sean
Ok, I have my cd-rom drive conected to my sound card.and normal sound works but cd's do not. I am a member of groups audio and disk. cdcd doesn't give me any error messages, but nothing plays. What am I missing here? Where should I look for any error messages. Sean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema