Re: ibm xseries

2004-11-18 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El jue, 18-11-2004 a las 06:18 -0800, mchael chileshe escribió: > Hi > > I have a ibm @server xseries 220 machine, and debian installation can > not pick the on board ethernet card. > > How can i configure the on board card? > > I have already installed debian 3.0 using a 3com pci network car

Re: XFree86 and USB Mouse & Keyboard ---> Frustrating!

2004-11-18 Thread mj-barton
In the root I run: "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86"  disabled (NO) --  "frames interfaces kernel frames" and selected /dev/input/mice instead.   Still no luck.  However the error message pumped out something about fonts.   -- Original message -- > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at

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lxr-cvs woes

2004-11-18 Thread Alan Chandler
I am trying to get lxr-cvs running under apache2 I think the package needs several perl packages that are not in its dependencies. So far I have installed extra libdbi-perl libdbd-pg-perl but now its failing with the following in the apache log. I assume I am missing yet another package - bu

Re: XFree86 and USB Mouse & Keyboard ---> Frustrating!

2004-11-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 06:45:50AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the root I run: > "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" > > It prompts me with the instructions about drivers, resolution, and refresh > rates. I enter in the correct responses. Then it comes to the mouse. > > Reference (both

XFree86 and USB Mouse & Keyboard ---> Frustrating!

2004-11-18 Thread mj-barton
In the root I run: "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86"   It prompts me with the instructions about drivers, resolution, and refresh rates.  I enter in the correct responses. Then it comes to the mouse.   Reference (both USB):  Microsoft USB Mouse: Product URL: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct

Re: Why is subversion 1.1 remaining in experimental?

2004-11-18 Thread David Kimdon
> Unfortunately, I didn't get any meaningful reply - so I thought I would ask > you as the package maintainer directly. sure, actually, I've gotten asked this a number of times. I wrote a response to [EMAIL PROTECTED] a while back, I have included that here. I'm happy to talk about the issue a

Re: Partitioning hard drives

2004-11-18 Thread Joao Clemente
Well, I in particular am a fan of using at least a separated /boot and /usr partitions, because I like to make them read-only and "noatime". When having multiuser machines I also keep /home separated. How much space for each? Well, some 8MB to /boot is more than enough and as /usr is pretty much

Problems copying files from digital camera (sid)

2004-11-18 Thread Victor Munoz
I had some problem copying files from my camera recently. Could it be a kernel issue? Here the details in case someone can help me trace the problem: I've been happily using a digital camera (Minolta) for several months now. Since it uses USB Mass Storage, I only need to define an entry in my fs

Re: have a question about /proc

2004-11-18 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 12:09:44AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was browsing through my file system one day on my linux partition and > noticed somthing that i never did before in the /proc directory. firstly what > is > this directory I now that it has somthing to do with the proce

have a question about /proc

2004-11-18 Thread XxterminialxX
I was browsing through my file system one day on my linux partition and noticed somthing that i never did before in the /proc directory. firstly what is this directory I now that it has somthing to do with the procedure file system what ever that is I dont know, secondly why does it duplicate

Re: Partitioning hard drives

2004-11-18 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:41:02AM -0500, Robert Storey wrote: > There are security issues - some experts think it's a really good idea > to keep /tmp and /var away from the root partition. Especially if for some reason a process starts spewing out junk to a logfile, filling up your entire / part

Re: Partitioning hard drives

2004-11-18 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:54:53PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Tim Kelley wrote: > > Not to be pedantic, but /srv is for that ... > Eh? Never heard of that one before. It's a new addition to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS). See: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSE

Grub special boot

2004-11-18 Thread Jim Hall
On a dual boot system (W98 & Sarge), I have to restrict all except specific users from using W98. I've read the Grub manual and need to know if a modified "menu.lst" will do the job. First, I believe I use the 'hide' command so the normal menu isn't seen. Then, use 'title' as a message to the u

Re: Why is subversion 1.1 remaining in experimental?

2004-11-18 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 04:23:11PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > I hope you don't mind, but several weeks ago I asked debian-user mailing > list if anyone knew why subversion 1.1 was remaining in experimental and > had not migrated into unstable. Packages don't migrate out of experimental. --

Re: Partitioning hard drives

2004-11-18 Thread Robert Storey
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:35:48 -0600 Tim Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, if you are going to have all these filesystems on the same set > of drive spindles, there really isn't any use to carving up /usr and > everything else at all. There are security issues - some experts think it's a r

Re: printing from firefox

2004-11-18 Thread Ivan Teliatnikov
Add to your /etc/profile and make sure it is sourced at the start up. #get xprint to work # needed for mozilla oofice to print XPSERVERLIST="`/etc/init.d/xprint get_xpserverlist`" export XPSERVERLIST To check if it sourced, reboot, login as usual, open terminal and execute command: $ env | grep

Re: Partitioning hard drives

2004-11-18 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Tim Kelley wrote: > On Wednesday 17 November 2004 08:06, Bob wrote: > > Hello list, I've read the section in the install manual about > > recommended partitioning schemes, but thought I would also see what the > > collective wisdom has to say on the matter. rest of the "col

Re: Partitioning hard drives

2004-11-18 Thread Steve Lamb
Williams, Allen wrote: I was going to respond to this thread mentioning the LVM, but this looks like an excellent stragegy I haven't considered. Have you ever used the LVM to sort of accomplish the same thing by assigning extents? To be honest, no. No idea what the LVM is or what it offers so

Re: Partitioning hard drives

2004-11-18 Thread Steve Lamb
Tim Kelley wrote: Not to be pedantic, but /srv is for that ... Eh? Never heard of that one before. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+--

Re: Partitioning hard drives

2004-11-18 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 08:06, Bob wrote: > Hello list, I've read the section in the install manual about > recommended partitioning schemes, but thought I would also see what the > collective wisdom has to say on the matter. Well, if you are going to have all these filesystems on the same s

Re: Partitioning hard drives

2004-11-18 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 17:35, Steve Lamb wrote: > I tend to put /, /usr and /var on their own partitions of decent size > (180Mb, 2.7Gb, 1.8Gb on my laptop) and then take the remainder and mount it > under it's drive name in /mnt. So for my laptop /dev/hda7, a 15Gb > partition, is mou

Re: SATA controller recommendations

2004-11-18 Thread Arne Götje (高盛華)
On Friday 19 November 2004 08:51, Matt Perry wrote: > Can anyone here recommend an SATA controller that works well under > Debian Sarge? Recommendations on controllers with 5 or more > connectors is welcome as I'm upgrading a five drive RAID-5 array to > SATA. 3ware Escalade 8000 series work perf

Re: updated, now no system sounds

2004-11-18 Thread Alvin Smith
On Thursday 18 November 2004 07:05 pm, Alvin Smith wrote: > Updated Sarge yesterday and afterwards I cannot get system sounds.   > > Error messages: > > Sound server informational message: > Error while initializing the sound driver: > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device) > The sound se

Re: Creative SoundBlaster Live! - how to get it working?

2004-11-18 Thread John covici
You should do a lspci -v and make sure you really have a sound blaster live -- it should tell you its identity. If you can't modprobe emu10k1, my guess is that you do not have that chip. Make sure its the correct version for the kernel as well. on Friday 11/19/2004 robin([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrot

Correct Email (debian-user@lists.debian.org) ?

2004-11-18 Thread Greens Solutions
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Re: Creative SoundBlaster Live! - how to get it working?

2004-11-18 Thread robin
michael wrote: robin wrote: michael wrote: robin wrote: michael wrote: michael wrote: robin wrote: michael wrote: I've looked but can't find anything that definitely explains this, so... I have a new Creative SoundBlaster Live! 24 bit sound card in my machine (dual Xeon box). The card works - he

Re: Thunderbird & Clamav

2004-11-18 Thread ms linux
Rick Friedman wrote: > I would like to try clamav but, before I do, I'd > like to know if it's possible to have clamav scan > emails with Thunderbird as the email client? > Does it have anything like a pop3-proxy to sit > between Thunderbird and the pop3 server I use? > > Rick my apologize to

Re: synchronize PDA with Linux and Windows

2004-11-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:34:25AM +0100, Christian Christmann wrote: > Yes, I know. But these progs just run with Linux but not with Windows. So > I couldn't use both OS for syncing my Palm. Why not? You can sync to the Palm Desktop under Windows XP and JPilot under Linux -- I know because I do

Re: synchronize PDA with Linux and Windows

2004-11-18 Thread Christian Christmann
>> I've a Palm IIIxe PDA. Now I'm looking for a tool which is running with >> Linux and Windows to manage the data of the PDA. My idea was to put the >> data directory on my debian server and to access it with my notebook >> which is running both Debian and Windows XP. Thus, I could manage the >> d

Re: print to a Windows machine's printer

2004-11-18 Thread Pascal Bonesh
> > > > Hi Michael, > > > > to make this a bit more verbose: > > -point your browser to http://localhost:631, that's the cups > > administration > > -click on 'printers', then click on 'add printer' > > -give it a name and such and click next > > -choose 'Windows Printer via Samba' > > -write the

SATA controller recommendations

2004-11-18 Thread Matt Perry
Can anyone here recommend an SATA controller that works well under Debian Sarge? Recommendations on controllers with 5 or more connectors is welcome as I'm upgrading a five drive RAID-5 array to SATA. -- Matt Perry | matt at primefactor dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ALSA sound on 2.4.20 kernel

2004-11-18 Thread downtime null
On Thursday 18 November 2004 04:47 pm, downtime null wrote: > First, let me explain why I'm running such an old kernel. This is the most > recent one that allows ACPI to start even when it doesn't find the proper > table entry. And I need ACPI on my laptop. > > That said, I'm now trying to get ALSA

downloading CD images using jigdo

2004-11-18 Thread Jan Fiala
Hi guys!   I'm downloading the CD images using jigdo. Last time I did it it seemed fine but this time jigdo connects and logs in with each package. What a terrible waste of time!   Is there a setting I can set when starting jigdo or will I have to suffer through this with the remaining CD ima

Re: Bold Fonts Not Working in OpenOffice (Sid)

2004-11-18 Thread Robert Storey
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:05:03 -0500 Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this may be a problem with the rendering of text onscreen. In > particular I notice that Bitstream Vera Charter (which was the default > font when I first installed OOo) Bold does not look any different > ONSCREEN than the

Re: printing from firefox

2004-11-18 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 18 November 2004 10:51 am, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > Invoking any firefox printing function (preview, print) is *extremely* > slow.  It now takes on the order of 15-20 seconds for the "print > dialog" to appear.  Clicking OK takes an add'l 5-10 seconds before the > printing begins.  Stran

updated, now no system sounds

2004-11-18 Thread Alvin Smith
Updated Sarge yesterday and afterwards I cannot get system sounds.   Error messages: Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. # ls -l /dev/dsp lrwx

Re: custom compiled kernel

2004-11-18 Thread homeless
Yes the old kernel works fine. However, indeed memtest even under a debian precompiled kernel gives a segmentation fault. Time to replace the DIMMs. Thanks Paolo. Would have taken me a while to get to that. -- On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:35:00 -0500, homeless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi all, i

RE: change conffiles

2004-11-18 Thread Michael Sims
Richard Kemp wrote: > Yes, I tried with dpkg-divert but the result is very odd, I asked to > the list 2 days ago but I hadn't any answer .. :( Have you thought about maybe taking a different approach to this altogether? I'm assuming the point of this is to make it easier to manage the configurat

Re: change conffiles

2004-11-18 Thread Richard Kemp
Michael Spang wrote: Maybe so. I just read the dpkg-divert manpage and it won't divert conffiles, either. So I don't think this is possible. Yes, I tried with dpkg-divert but the result is very odd, I asked to the list 2 days ago but I hadn't any answer .. :( Here what I did, it carries out we

Re: install package - dependies

2004-11-18 Thread Michael Spang
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Mariusz Antonik wrote: Hi. I want try to build a kernel 2.6.9 To do this I nead install qt develop package. Why not just get the Debian 2.6.9 kernel-source package or get the Linux 2.6.9 kernel, get you favorite .config, use make menuconfig to tune it, run make-kpkg --rev

Postfix + SPF

2004-11-18 Thread Jacob Friis
For a Debian testing release, which packages do I need to enable SPF checks in Postfix? And how do I configure it? I hope you will help me, as I didn't find any help via Google. Thanks, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: Vendors supporting Linux (Debian)...

2004-11-18 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: > Yes, "anybody can ship anywhere", but not all US businesses *want* > to deal with the import duties, taxes, fees, shipping, insurance, > wire transfer fees, etc, when they already have a continent-wide > nation that they can sell to w/ ease. yup but

Re: change conffiles

2004-11-18 Thread Michael Spang
Richard Kemp wrote: I know that it's not recommended. But that would be very practical to be able to maintain its own conffiles easily. Maybe so. I just read the dpkg-divert manpage and it won't divert conffiles, either. So I don't think this is possible. Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Emacs suppress loading of semantic

2004-11-18 Thread michael
> Hi, > today I did a upgrade, now semantic (a ultra powerful programming package > for Emacs) is dependant of JDE. This wouldn't be a problem by default but > somehow when I start emacs even for editing just text semantic is loaded, > its doing "compiling-grammar" and lots of stuff like that I don

Re: install package - dependies

2004-11-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mariusz Antonik wrote: Hi. I want try to build a kernel 2.6.9 To do this I nead install qt develop package. Why not just get the Debian 2.6.9 kernel-source package or get the Linux 2.6.9 kernel, get you favorite .config, use make menuconfig to tune it, run make-kpkg --revision 1 kernel_image or

Re: change conffiles

2004-11-18 Thread Richard Kemp
Michael Spang wrote: Richard Kemp wrote: How to install my own conffiles like /etc/bash.bashrc or /etc/screenrc with a debian package without conflicts with the real package ? This is strongly not recommended (by some Debian doc..somewhere..), though it might be possible to divert the original

frame size of PAL

2004-11-18 Thread Smith J
i have bt-based card and use PAL-DK, i knew PAL has 25 frames/second, but do you know the frame size? Thanks! _ 与联机的朋友进行交流,请使用 MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com/cn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Woody -> Sarge with apt-cdrom

2004-11-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Felixk Karpfen wrote: Although this query may already have been answered several times in recent postings, as a new arrival to Debian, I venture to check that I have understood the docs correctly before plunging into an upgrade via "apt-cdrom". I have used this routine successfully to add the "Debi

Re: Bold Fonts Not Working in OpenOffice (Sid)

2004-11-18 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:37:08AM +1100, Bernard Lineham wrote: > Many thanks for your reply. I did not have the theasaurus or the help > package installed so I added those but unfortunately it did not correct > the problem. > On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 14:04 -0500, H. S. wrote: > > Bernard Lineham wro

Re: change conffiles

2004-11-18 Thread Michael Spang
Richard Kemp wrote: How to install my own conffiles like /etc/bash.bashrc or /etc/screenrc with a debian package without conflicts with the real package ? This is strongly not recommended (by some Debian doc..somewhere..), though it might be possible to divert the originals. Packages aren't su

change conffiles

2004-11-18 Thread Richard Kemp
How to install my own conffiles like /etc/bash.bashrc or /etc/screenrc with a debian package without conflicts with the real package ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: daytime

2004-11-18 Thread Joost Witteveen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /etc/inetd.conf in Sparc Woody contains these lines. daytime stream tcp nowait rootinternal #daytimedgram udp waitrootinternal Anyone have an idea about making this system respond to a daytime request from another system on the L

Kernel 2.4

2004-11-18 Thread Michael Spang
Although this questionis not specific to Debian, it is relevant and I figure someone here has the answer. Why is the Linux community so opposed to moving to Kernel 2.6? Is 2.4 really that much more stable? Familiar? Upgrading to much trouble? Too many things changed too much? I think not--the o

ALSA sound on 2.4.20 kernel

2004-11-18 Thread downtime null
First, let me explain why I'm running such an old kernel. This is the most recent one that allows ACPI to start even when it doesn't find the proper table entry. And I need ACPI on my laptop. That said, I'm now trying to get ALSA sound working. Everything looks fine, but I get a permissions err

Re: Bold Fonts Not Working in OpenOffice (Sid)

2004-11-18 Thread Bernard Lineham
Many thanks for your reply. I did not have the theasaurus or the help package installed so I added those but unfortunately it did not correct the problem. On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 14:04 -0500, H. S. wrote: > Bernard Lineham wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I'm running a recently installed up to date Si

Re: custom compiled 2.6.9 kernel; broke gcc

2004-11-18 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:35:00 -0500, homeless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > > i've been custom compiling kernels for a while now and just tried the > 2.6.9 version. i use kernel-package and debian's packages. running > my 2.6.8 kernel i compiled a 2.6.9 kernel using make oldconfig, > not

Woody -> Sarge with apt-cdrom

2004-11-18 Thread Felixk Karpfen
Although this query may already have been answered several times in recent postings, as a new arrival to Debian, I venture to check that I have understood the docs correctly before plunging into an upgrade via "apt-cdrom". I have used this routine successfully to add the "Debian 3.0R2" upgrade di

Re: synchronize PDA with Linux and Windows

2004-11-18 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:22:34 +0100, Christian Christmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've a Palm IIIxe PDA. Now I'm looking for a tool which is running with > Linux and Windows to manage the data of the PDA. My idea was to put the > data directory on my debian server and to access it with

Re: ibm xseries

2004-11-18 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 06:18:49 -0800 (PST), mchael chileshe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > I have a ibm @server xseries 220 machine, and debian installation can not > pick the on board ethernet card. > > How can i configure the on board card? > > I have already installed debian 3.

Re: NFS permissions question

2004-11-18 Thread Joost Witteveen
Christian Convey wrote: My understanding of NFS permissions is that for any file appearing on an NFS share, the username/uid and groupname/gid mappings should (ideally) be identical on both the NFS client and the NFS server. So consider my home situation: I'm running two computers, each with lo

Re: print to a Windows machine's printer

2004-11-18 Thread michael
> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 17:09, michael wrote: >> > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:15:48 - (GMT), michael >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I've looked about for how to print from this Debian box to a printer >> (HP >> >> LaserJet-2100) hanging off a Windows (Win2000 I do believe) box for >> >> whic

Re: last update / upgrade killed grub ...Attention !

2004-11-18 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:20:48PM -0500, Rick Friedman wrote: > Uwe Dippel wrote: > >If you need grub, take care, the last upgrade (17-18 Nov.) killed grub > >here on Sarge (no, not SID !). hmmm was just wondering, have one machine down, completely due to the malfunction of grub > >Somehow gr

Re: print to a Windows machine's printer

2004-11-18 Thread Pascal Bonesh
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 17:09, michael wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:15:48 - (GMT), michael > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've looked about for how to print from this Debian box to a printer (HP > >> LaserJet-2100) hanging off a Windows (Win2000 I do believe) box for > >> which > >> I h

Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

2004-11-18 Thread Juha Siltala
On 2004-11-18, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We agree! Woo hoo! :) Well, that didn't take long. Still, I think I need a cigarette =) -- Juha Siltala http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/activity/people/jsiltala/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

something wrong with 'who' 'w' 'uptime'

2004-11-18 Thread Bert Verslegers (Mobile)
Hello, i have the following problem: When i typ 'w' he gives me 2 users logged in.(correct) When i typ 'who' he gives me all the users from the past 5-6 days. When i typ 'uptime' he says 16 users logged in. I saw some stuff about it, googled the whole day, something with libc5&6 but what can i

install package - dependies

2004-11-18 Thread Mariusz Antonik
Hi. I want try to build a kernel 2.6.9 To do this I nead install qt develop package. I find a libqt3-dev but when i try it give me a long list of dependies: apt-get install libqt3-dev libqt3-dev: Depends: xlibs-static-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going to be installed De

custom compiled 2.6.9 kernel; broke gcc

2004-11-18 Thread homeless
hi all, i've been custom compiling kernels for a while now and just tried the 2.6.9 version. i use kernel-package and debian's packages. running my 2.6.8 kernel i compiled a 2.6.9 kernel using make oldconfig, nothing relevant appeared (though i did add an extra version tag), so the config file i

Emacs suppress loading of semantic

2004-11-18 Thread Thomas Ruschival
Hi, today I did a upgrade, now semantic (a ultra powerful programming package for Emacs) is dependant of JDE. This wouldn't be a problem by default but somehow when I start emacs even for editing just text semantic is loaded, its doing "compiling-grammar" and lots of stuff like that I don't nee

Re: Root on RAID 5 + LVM will only boot in degraded mode

2004-11-18 Thread Laurent CARON
Dag Sverre Seljebotn a écrit : On reboot the last disk to be added to the array is kicked out of it and the array starts in deprecated mode. (If this is not the right place to ask, could someone please forward me to more suited place?) Long story: My setup is with six disks on a Promise TX4 serial

Re: slightly OT: debian-friendly print server?

2004-11-18 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 03:09:31PM -0600, Jacob S wrote: > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:41:00 -0500 > > > > network currently runs through a smc2404wbr wireless (802.11b) router > > (which I confess doesn't work all that well). I'm looking for > > something that would make one or, preferably, both the

Re: slightly OT: debian-friendly print server?

2004-11-18 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:41:00 -0500 Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi folks, > > this is a hardware question, so maybe slightly OT. I am looking for a > way to make our 2 printers easily accessible over the 'net, nad wouldl > ove to hear back on other people's experience. here's > what

slightly OT: debian-friendly print server?

2004-11-18 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, this is a hardware question, so maybe slightly OT. I am looking for a way to make our 2 printers easily accessible over the 'net, nad wouldl ove to hear back on other people's experience. here's what we have: 1 brother hl-1440 laser printer 1 canon s520 inkjet printer 2 debian boxes (

Re: Mouse ps/2 doesn't work

2004-11-18 Thread kajko04
Can somebody tell me where I can reconfigure a mouse? > > If it is just the mouse issue, you can make the changes in > /etc/X11/XF86config-4 directly using a text editor. I have these in mine: > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver "mouse" >

Re: playing mkv files.

2004-11-18 Thread Alex Polite
On tor, nov 18, 2004 at 03:41:16 -0500, Michael Spang wrote: > There is no Debian package for mplayer, which plays mkv files (and just > about anything else imaginable) extremely well. I am curious as to what > you tried if you didn't build it from source. You can get the source > from their we

Re: Problem with apt-get and circular dependencies

2004-11-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Christian Renz wrote: > apt-get wants to install libc6_2.3.2.ds1-18_sparc.deb (to replace > libc6-2.3.2-7). However, the installation aborts telling me that "You > have a cpu which requires kernel 2.4.21 or greater in order to > install this version of glibc." I tried to fix it by installing > ker

Re: Newbie looking for some answers please...........

2004-11-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:17:02AM -0800, Chad wrote: > I just installed Debian 3.0 r3. I'm a newbie and looking for some > anwers to some of my questions...if someone can anwser one, some, or > all Please > > 1. I know that apt-get is the main utility to add and remove programs > (in Debian a

Re: playing mkv files.

2004-11-18 Thread Michael Spang
Alex Polite wrote: I'm trying to play som mkv (matroska) video files. So far I've tried mplayer, xine, vlc and gstreamer, all from unstable. None of them are able to play the files. Xine complains about a missing demuxer. I know that these programs support matroska so I guess the problem is the deb

Re: Oh, NO! Not that same "No Sound" question again... (Sound now working)

2004-11-18 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:46:51 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just in case anyone can use the two bits of information I turned up... > > Having tried everything I could find to try to make the OSS > ("i810_audio") driver work, based on what little information I > could find ab

Re: sound driver

2004-11-18 Thread Pedro M (Morphix User)
Justin Guerin escribió: On Thursday 18 November 2004 07:59, Jason Rennie wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:25:51PM -0700, Justin Guerin wrote: The size discrepency is most likely due to differing kernel versions. What kernel are you using in Sarge? How about in Knoppix? Both are 2.

Problem with apt-get and circular dependencies

2004-11-18 Thread Christian Renz
My Sparcstation 20 is currently running Debian-stable with a 2.4.18 kernel. I want to do a dist-upgrade, but I'm running into a problem I don't know how to resolve: apt-get wants to install libc6_2.3.2.ds1-18_sparc.deb (to replace libc6-2.3.2-7). However, the installation aborts telling me that

Re: Oh, NO! Not that same "No Sound" question again... (Sound now working)

2004-11-18 Thread listcomm
Just in case anyone can use the two bits of information I turned up... Having tried everything I could find to try to make the OSS ("i810_audio") driver work, based on what little information I could find about it in the docs or online , I finally gave up and compiled and installed Alsa drivers fo

Re: Standard practice with missing dependencies?

2004-11-18 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:37:19 -0500, Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I went to "apt-get install sun-j2sdk1.4debian", but I was smacked down > with this error: > [...] > > So my guess is that there's *probably* something lacking about my > sources.list file. > > What'

Re: Mouse ps/2 doesn't work

2004-11-18 Thread H. S.
Mariusz Antonik wrote: Hi. I just install a debian sarga from internet. Probably during intalation I bad chose a mouse and now it doesn't work. Can somebody tell me where I can reconfigure a mouse? If it is just the mouse issue, you can make the changes in /etc/X11/XF86config-4 directly using a t

RE: Mouse ps/2 doesn't work

2004-11-18 Thread Williams, Allen
Since your making reference to kde I assume you want the mouse for X instead of using with console programs (about which I know nothing). You may have to do some "find"'s and stuff, but somewhere in one of your X directories there is an x86cfg or X86Config or something like that. If you run it, i

Re: Mouse ps/2 doesn't work

2004-11-18 Thread K-sPecial
Mariusz Antonik wrote: Hi. I just install a debian sarga from internet. Probably during intalation I bad chose a mouse and now it doesn't work. Can somebody tell me where I can reconfigure a mouse? Under konsole from KDE package when I run a "mc" , it doen't look nice. TO change it to normal vi

Re: Xvfb and X authorization

2004-11-18 Thread Matt Price
Matt Price wrote: hi, I have a script that opens Openoffice in an X session managed by Xvfb. I initiate the X session with: Xvfb :86 -screen scrn 800x600x32 & This used to work fine. But sometime in the recent past, presumably since an unobserved update or something, I get this error when tryin

Re: Creative SoundBlaster Live! - how to get it working?

2004-11-18 Thread michael
robin wrote: michael wrote: robin wrote: michael wrote: michael wrote: robin wrote: michael wrote: I've looked but can't find anything that definitely explains this, so... I have a new Creative SoundBlaster Live! 24 bit sound card in my machine (dual Xeon box). The card works - heard it when boo

Re: Bold Fonts Not Working in OpenOffice (Sid)

2004-11-18 Thread H. S.
Bernard Lineham wrote: Hi folks, I'm running a recently installed up to date Sid distribution. I am having a problem where text in OpenOffice Writer that is marked as bold is still showing up as plain text. Can anyone advise how I might solve this problem? Cheers, Bernard Lineham Hi, I had exact

Re: Creative SoundBlaster Live! - how to get it working?

2004-11-18 Thread robin
michael wrote: robin wrote: michael wrote: michael wrote: robin wrote: michael wrote: I've looked but can't find anything that definitely explains this, so... I have a new Creative SoundBlaster Live! 24 bit sound card in my machine (dual Xeon box). The card works - heard it when booted WinXP. H

Mouse ps/2 doesn't work

2004-11-18 Thread Mariusz Antonik
Hi. I just install a debian sarga from internet. Probably during intalation I bad chose a mouse and now it doesn't work. Can somebody tell me where I can reconfigure a mouse? Under konsole from KDE package when I run a "mc" , it doen't look nice. TO change it to normal view I have to set a font

Root on RAID 5 + LVM will only boot in degraded mode

2004-11-18 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
On reboot the last disk to be added to the array is kicked out of it and the array starts in deprecated mode. (If this is not the right place to ask, could someone please forward me to more suited place?) Long story: My setup is with six disks on a Promise TX4 serial ata controller. I have a wor

Re: sound driver

2004-11-18 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 18 November 2004 07:59, Jason Rennie wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:25:51PM -0700, Justin Guerin wrote: > > The size discrepency is most likely due to differing kernel versions. > > What kernel are you using in Sarge? How about in Knoppix? > > Both are 2.4.27 > > > Hmm, the above

Re: Newbie looking for some answers please...........

2004-11-18 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed Debian 3.0 r3. I'm a newbie and > looking for some > anwers to some of my questions...if someone can > anwser one, some, or > all Please > > 1. I know that apt-get is the main utility to add > and remove programs > (in Debian anyways), a

Re: dual-OS system

2004-11-18 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
I found this package in stable: Package: libntfs3 (1.6.0-1) Library that provides common NTFS access functions. The Linux-NTFS project (http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/) aims to bring full support for the NTFS filesystem to the Linux operating system. libntfs provides common NTFS access funct

Re: Newbie looking for some answers please...........

2004-11-18 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from charlie derr: > Chad wrote: > >I just installed Debian 3.0 r3. I'm a newbie and looking for some > >anwers to some of my questions...if someone can anwser one, some, or > > $ export COLUMNS=150 > $ dpkg -l You don't need the export. Here's a nice alias: pkgl='COLUMNS=120 dpkg -

Re: Newbie looking for some answers please...........

2004-11-18 Thread Francois Cerbelle
Le Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:17:02AM -0800, Chad ecrit : > I just installed Debian 3.0 r3. I'm a newbie and looking for some > anwers to some of my questions...if someone can anwser one, some, or > all Please Welcome to our fabulous world ! > 1. I know that apt-get is the main utility to add and

Re: Vendors supporting Linux (Debian)...

2004-11-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://www.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed > > - by now, everybody probably install anything you want > if you're buying in enough volume for them to sell to you Nope. I used to work for a guy who

Re: Newbie looking for some answers please...........

2004-11-18 Thread charlie derr
Chad wrote: I just installed Debian 3.0 r3. I'm a newbie and looking for some anwers to some of my questions...if someone can anwser one, some, or all Please 1. I know that apt-get is the main utility to add and remove programs (in Debian anyways), also to veiw what is installed on your OS. But

Re: Newbie looking for some answers please...........

2004-11-18 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 18 November 2004 10:17 am, Chad wrote: > I just installed Debian 3.0 r3. I'm a newbie and looking for some > anwers to some of my questions...if someone can anwser one, some, or > all Please > > 1. I know that apt-get is the main utility to add and remove programs > (in Debian anywa

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