Re: Webcam versus still camera: howto get correct kernel modules loaded?

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 08:17:42PM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 07:31:16AM +0200, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > > Root can rmmod those modules, but I need to find a way for ordinary > > users to use this camera alternatively as a webcam or with gphoto2. I

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:19:06 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 21:29 -0800, Steven Yap wrote: >> >> BUS="scsi", SYSFS{vendor}="Zynet*",SYSFS{model}="USB Storage-CFC*", >> NAME{all_partitions}="compact_flash" > > Where does this go? /etc/udev/udev.rules? It could, but I think it'

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:43:31 -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > Is there a general concensus about whether udev makes life better or worse? udev is, conceptually, a much better naming scheme than is devfs. This purported goodness comes at a price: udev is not able to do directly some of the things

Re: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and other questions...

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:50:38 -0500, Williams, Allen wrote: > 2. My desktop went from KDE to Gnome. Is this normal? Where do I set the > default desktop? When you boot, do you get a graphical login screen? Is there a session icon or menu item? If there is, you should be able to choose a KDE "

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 19:04 -0700, Jules Dubois wrote: > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:21:16 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 01:57 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > >> in udev.rules I have: > >> BUS="usb" , KERNEL="sd?1",SYSFS_serial="07381C501259, NAME="usbkey" > >> I then can: > >> mount

RE: Is life with 'udev' good?

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:41:32 -0500, Williams, Allen wrote: > What did you have to do to get it to work with the nvidia driver? Apparently -- I don't buy closed hardware -- udev is not able to create the device nodes needed by X quickly enough to satisfy the NVidia server. So, as others have point

Re: framebuffer in 2.6.9, anybody got it working?

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 09:59:48AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Sridhar M.A. wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 03:55:23PM -0500, H. S. wrote: > > > I have been trying to get frambuffer bootup work in 2.6.9 without > > > success so far. Cannot get the logo at all. > > > >I

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:55:42 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:32 -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: >> Don't know about a "general concensus" but I'm quite happy with udev's >> operation and having consistent device names for my USB and Firewire >> devices. > > What kind of names

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:21:16 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 01:57 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: >> in udev.rules I have: >> BUS="usb" , KERNEL="sd?1",SYSFS_serial="07381C501259, NAME="usbkey" >> I then can: >> mount /dev/usbkey /mnt/usbkey >> or some other magic for automounting. >

Re: Nvidia Kernel Drivers ( Sarge )

On Saturday 20 November 2004 22:03, Tomy Alarie wrote: > Hi ! I just want to know if anyone here has installed yet these > drivers with Sarge and how did you do. Newbie with NVIDIA-Linux > drivers ! Though it doesn't cover the fancy module-assistant, it's still a pretty easy task (especially if y

Re: courier-mta + amavisd-new + spamassassin

On Saturday 20 November 2004 14:56, Horst Bursik wrote: > hi, > > Does anybody have experiences with courier-mta + amavisd-new + > spamassassin? > > Amavisd-new works great with postfix and sendmail but the last time i > tried to use amavisd-new in combination with courier it was nearly > impossibl

incorrect processor speed detection

I am running debian kernel 2.4.25 (in the form of demudi: 2.4.25-1-multimedia-686) on a toshiba portege 7140CT laptop (this message has also gone to debian-laptop but as yet i have had no replies) I am having a strange and very impeding issue which is that on boot the processor is sometimes misdi

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:55:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:32 -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > > Don't know about a "general concensus" but I'm quite happy with > > udev's operation and having consistent device names for my USB and > > Firewire devices. > > What k

Re: Limiting User Commands

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 07:36:05 -0700, Wesley J Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday, 07 November 2004 18:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You just need to add group(access) to that system accounts that you > > want or that you think that they'll break in unexpected places... > > Don't you

Re: Kernel 2.4

| You could say more about your connectivity problem | in a new thread for this subject. Ralph Thanks for the reply I hadn't intended to try and diagnose specific problems at this time, since I'm using 2.4.27 and only contemplating moving on up to 2.6 and wondering about connectio

Re: ssh w/o password?

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 11:20:55AM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: I have a two machine network at home and I want to replace ftp and telnet with ssh for security reasons. I am under the impression that it is possible to set things up so that I do not have to login with my password, but I have not b

Re: Nvidia Kernel Drivers ( Sarge )

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 04:03:48PM -0500, Tomy Alarie wrote: > Hi ! I just want to know if anyone here has installed yet these drivers with > Sarge and how did you do. Newbie with NVIDIA-Linux drivers ! > > Thanks, > Tomy Yep, I installed the nvidia modules. It's a shame that's so badly made! O

Re: courier-mta + amavisd-new + spamassassin

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Horst! I saw I did not include debian-users in my previous email. sorry about that... Horst Bursik wrote: | | Hi Mark, | | Thanks a lot for your answer! | | I'm using courier because the courier-packages includes everything "from | one source". I hav

Re: courier-mta + amavisd-new + spamassassin

Hi Horst! I saw I did not include debian-users in my previous email. sorry about that... Horst Bursik wrote: Hi Mark, Thanks a lot for your answer! I'm using courier because the courier-packages includes everything "from one source". I have the user information stored in couriers userdb an ever

Re: updated, now no system sounds

On Thursday 18 November 2004 08:42 pm, Alvin Smith wrote: > 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 d

Re: Re: Kernel 2.4

On 11/20/2004 08:00 AM, Cousin Stanley wrote: [...] > Although many reasons for upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 > seem compelling to me, internet connectivity problems > on the 5.5 year-old machine I use with 2.6 kernels > and an early version of Mandrake 10 and also > with the Knoppix 3.4 CD and HD

Re: Evolution Mail Filters

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 13:23 -0700, Derek Neighbors wrote: > I am running Debian Unstable on two different machines. I recently > upgraded Evolution. > > ii evolution 2.0.2-3The groupware suite > ii evolution-data 1.0.2-2evolution database backend server > > Everything is g

Re: which kernel patches should I apply while compiling Debian kernels?

H. S. wrote: This may sound like a dumb question but should one apply debian kernel patches to a Debian source kernel before compiling one? e.g. I am right now working on kernel source of 2.6.9. Are the patches included in this source or should I select and install the ones listed by: $> COLUMNS

Re: Nvidia Kernel Drivers ( Sarge )

Hello Tomy Alarie (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Hi ! I just want to know if anyone here has installed yet these > drivers with Sarge and how did you do. Newbie with NVIDIA-Linux > drivers ! The easiest way is probably to install nvidia-kernel-source and module-assistant. After the installation,

Nvidia Kernel Drivers ( Sarge )

Hi ! I just want to know if anyone here has installed yet these drivers with Sarge and how did you do. Newbie with NVIDIA-Linux drivers ! Thanks, Tomy - Debian enthusiast, since I've tried Mandrake :P " When I talk to "technical" people, I call myself a hacker, but when I talk to medias, I

Re: ssh w/o password?

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:20:55 -0500, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a two machine network at home and I want to replace ftp and > telnet with ssh for security reasons. I am under the impression that it > is possible to set things up so that I do not have to login with my > passwor

Re: install HTML Parser

Rodney Richison wrote (20-11-2004 21:03): Is there a "debian way" to install this rather than cpan? cpan install HTML::Parser Just curious apt-get install libhtml-parser-perl -- René Seindal ([EMAIL PROTECTED])http://linux.seindal.dk/ Seindal Consult

Re: testing .v. unstable .v. sarge (WAS Re: apt-get Failure)

Brian Nelson wrote: > First of all, the sarge security autobuilders are still not yet > functional, which is the biggest thing holding back the release. But until we have released, those autobuilders would not be used for security updates for sarge anyway. Security fixes are currently reaching sar

Evolution Mail Filters

I am running Debian Unstable on two different machines. I recently upgraded Evolution. ii evolution 2.0.2-3The groupware suite ii evolution-data 1.0.2-2evolution database backend server Everything is great except the mail filters appear to be inconsistent. The filters "con

Re: Webcam versus still camera: howto get correct kernel modules loaded?

Hi, On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 07:31:16AM +0200, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > I have a cheap camera that works both as a webcam and a still > camera. So I can use it both with xawtv and gphoto2. The problem is, > when I plug it in USB, stv* modules are loaded automatically. These > modules prevent gphoto2

Re: which kernel patches should I apply while compiling Debian kernels?

H. S. wrote: This may sound like a dumb question but should one apply debian kernel patches to a Debian source kernel before compiling one? e.g. I am right now working on kernel source of 2.6.9. Are the patches included in this source or should I select and install the ones listed by: $> COLUMNS

install HTML Parser

Is there a "debian way" to install this rather than cpan? cpan install HTML::Parser Just curious -- Highest Regards, *Rodney Richison [EMAIL PROTECTED] * *RCR Computing www.rcrcomputing.com * *PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway* *Cleveland, OK 7

Fresh Debian Sarge Install ( no sound + keyboard )

Hi, I just installed Sarge and I found it is a real good work ! But, my onboard sound card doesn't work. ASUS P4P800-SE ( ADI AD1985 Audio Chipset ). Anyone has ever make it work and how to ? Second point, my keyboard is normally Canadian French, when i've installed XFree86, i choosed fr_CA, di

Re: problem about starting KDE and Gnome

Manlin Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed Debian testing version on my IBM T42. And I use ndiswrapper > as wireless driver. Every time I activate the wlan0, I can not start kde > or gnome. Kde stops at "Initializing System Service" and Gnome stops at > "Session Manager". Is there anyone

Re: Base system install- eval: 3: Syntax error: newline unexpected (expecting ")")

Allen Williams wrote: > dists/sarge/main/binary-i386/Packages, which doesn't exist. You have a broken CD or a broken CD reader. This file exists on all netinst ISOs. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [OT] Can I make a prototype Free and sell the final product?

As Michael says, it's your code and you can do as you like. There is nothing special about "dual licensing". You can give out one copy of a work of yours under one license and the next one under an entirely different one. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: ssh w/o password?

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 11:20:55AM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I have a two machine network at home and I want to replace ftp and > telnet with ssh for security reasons. I am under the impression that it > is possible to set things up so that I do not have to login with my > password, but I ha

Re: ssh w/o password?

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:20:55 -0500, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems to me that I need to set up personal keys and this is what I am > lacking, but I have not determined how to do so. The host keys were > created at setup, but I have no clue how to create personal keys. How > d

Re: which kernel patches should I apply while compiling Debian kernels?

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 11:47 -0500, H. S. wrote: > This may sound like a dumb question but should one apply debian kernel > patches to a Debian source kernel before compiling one? e.g. I am right > now working on kernel source of 2.6.9. Are the patches included in this > source or should I select

which kernel patches should I apply while compiling Debian kernels?

This may sound like a dumb question but should one apply debian kernel patches to a Debian source kernel before compiling one? e.g. I am right now working on kernel source of 2.6.9. Are the patches included in this source or should I select and install the ones listed by: $> COLUMNS=160 dpkg -l

Re: sound driver

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 04:41:26PM -0700, Justin Guerin wrote: > These won't work, because the arguments are provided to the kernel, not to > the module. If your sound driver were compiled into the kernel, this would > be the proper way to provide the argument. Since it's not, you've got to >

ssh w/o password?

I have a two machine network at home and I want to replace ftp and telnet with ssh for security reasons. I am under the impression that it is possible to set things up so that I do not have to login with my password, but I have not been able to do so. My user name is the same on both boxes. I

Re: Trying to install alien made wxPython .deb package.

On November 19, 2004 06:52 pm, Micha Feigin wrote: > At Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:59:41 -0700, > > Anthony Hoskins wrote: > > Good day folks, > > > > I am trying to update my wxPython package so I can run Boa Constructor. > > I have tried installing from source, but encountered some errors which I > > do

Re: framebuffer in 2.6.9, anybody got it working?

Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 03:55:23PM -0500, H. S. wrote: > I have been trying to get frambuffer bootup work in 2.6.9 without > success so far. Cannot get the logo at all. I have it on my machine with a custom logo on bootup. I thought I would like to see something other t

Re: radius/pppd problems

Nathan Kroll wrote: I am setting up a PPTP VPN that authenticates users against a radius server. I compiled pppd with radius support and made the changes to the pptpd and pppd configurations that I found online (they are below). The FreeRADIUS server is set up to authenticate via LDAP. When I te

Re: mozilla crashes on loading some sites

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:14 +0100, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > > true64 port on an Athlon 3200+ ??? > > Athlon-64 3200+ . Yeah. You got a problem with that? :-) It was late and I read "tru64" (the DEC/Compaq/HP version of Unix) instead of true64, the Linux version. Never mind.. -- ---

Re: framebuffer in 2.6.9, anybody got it working?

H. S. wrote: I have been trying to get frambuffer bootup work in 2.6.9 without success so far. Cannot get the logo at all. Screen is blank till X starts up. I have same experience on Sid machines, one uses nv driver and the other ati. If somebody has that high resolution screen boot up working

Re: [OT] Can I make a prototype Free and sell the final product?

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:20:09 -0500, William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm hacking together a little prototype for somebody, mostly as > a curiosity and kindness. It'll be just a prototype. > If they like it, I'll flesh it out and charge them money. > > Regardless, I'd like to put the p

Re: radius/pppd problems

I read that PPP is PAM enabled by default, but I can't seem to get pptpd to authenticate using PAM. Do I have to something special in the pptp config or the chap secrets file? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Limiting User Commands

On Sunday, 07 November 2004 18:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You just need to add group(access) to that system accounts that you > want or that you think that they'll break in unexpected places... > Don't you think? Why not do this the other way around; it's much simpler: e.g. add users you don'

Re: fullscreen with mplayer

> > I've just installed mplayer from the Sarge packages. I can play my video > files but the option fullscreen is not available. The screen remains > always in the small size. > > My graphics card is a Viper 770. lsmod prints: "nVidia Corporation NV5 > [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 P ro] (rev 11)" > > I've tr

Re: mozilla crashes on loading some sites

Figured it out. It was the flash player plugin. Ahem. Which the alioth true64 HOWTO clearly warns does not work and the only way to use it is to install a 386 system and chroot to that... Sorry. Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: mozilla crashes on loading some sites

> I think this is because of the java plugin. Try disabling it. Disabled it. Makes no difference. Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

courier-mta + amavisd-new + spamassassin

hi, Does anybody have experiences with courier-mta + amavisd-new + spamassassin? Amavisd-new works great with postfix and sendmail but the last time i tried to use amavisd-new in combination with courier it was nearly impossible. With a lot of hacks in the amavis-code i accomplished what i wante

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

On Nov 19 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:32 -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > Don't know about a "general concensus" but I'm quite happy with udev's > > operation and having consistent device names for my USB and Firewire > > devices. > > What kind of names? Can you give som

Re: time out

michael wrote: I can't see any discussion on this list of the merits (or otherwise!) of timeoutd or autolog (or better equivalent)... thoughts? Michael running on 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 3 06:34:36 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Actually autolog doesn't do what it claims. I logged in to a console

Re: mozilla crashes on loading some sites

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 03:26:21 +0100, Alexandru Cabuz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Mozilla crashes when trying to load this site (and others, this is an > example). > > http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=41713 > > I just disappears all of a sudden. No fuss. > > Is anybody else's

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

Chris Metzler wrote: *Please* trim the replies folks. As far as your problem . . . On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:18:22 + michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay, it seems to be module emu10k1 that I require but I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ sudo modprobe emu10k1 /lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kern

Re: A bit off subject - Some may even give a crap.

DC Parriss writes: > I will probably have to set it up the old fashioned way, dialup scripts. You can if you wish, of course, but you don't have to. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FireFox + SOUND

Tom Allison wrote: How do I get sound into the FireFox application? I am unable to play the sound bytes of Macromedia files. xmms works. xine works. I can play mp3 files just fine. You can get the Macromedia Flash7 plugin for firefox on the Firefox site. I'm using debian sarge with Firefox 1.0 an

fullscreen with mplayer

Hi, I've just installed mplayer from the Sarge packages. I can play my video files but the option fullscreen is not available. The screen remains always in the small size. My graphics card is a Viper 770. lsmod prints: "nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 P ro] (rev 11)" I've tried all avail

Re: /var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 04:30:11 +0100, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Christian Christmann wrote: >> I've just installed Cyrus-imap and sasl2-bin from the Sarge packages. >> Everthing works fine, but in the /var/log/mail.log I get permanently the >> error message: >> server

Re: Kernel 2.4

| | Andreas Thanks for posting the above link entailing Linux kernel 2.6 advantages, changes, problems, etc. I'm relatively new to Linux, only 3.5 months with Debian Sarge using kernel 2.4.27, have been curious about

Re: mozilla crashes on loading some sites

> true64 port on an Athlon 3200+ ??? Athlon-64 3200+ . Yeah. You got a problem with that? :-) Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: about cups-client

On Saturday 20 November 2004 00:24, tiger wrote: > However, I installed cupsys-client pacakage, and added the ServerName in > /etc/cups/client.conf. After that lpstat could see the printer name and > status. But when I use lp -d printername filename, lpstat said " sending > 341515 bytes. " som

Re: CD malfunction on Sarge "testing" install

Thanks for this bit of instructions. It worked great. Walt On Thursday November 18 2004 5:16 pm, Steve Pacenka wrote: > On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 13:56, Walt L. Williams wrote: > > Greetings > > > > This may be a little off topic. I just tried to install Sarge "testing" > > for Sparc which I downloa

Re: autofs or am-utils?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If I just want my USB pen drive to be automounted & dismounted, >it sounds like autofs would be the one to use, then. Or supermount. That's a seperate kernel patch, though. http://supermount-ng.sourceforge.net/ http://ck.kol

Re: Firefox image rendering

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:46:07 +1100, nornagon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In firefox (version 1.0), often images and input widgets are rendered > incorrectly. > > Screenshots: > Image rendering problems: http://www.nornrock.com/ffprob/imgprob.gif > Input rendering problems: http://www.nornrock.com

Re: Want to upgrade from Woody to Sarge. [Source.list]

Hi On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 08:56:13AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to upgrade from woody to sarge. Can someone post the appropriate > source.list. Thank you. You can change all entries from woody to sarge in your /etc/apt/sources.list > > Then aren't you supposed to run apt-get dist

Want to upgrade from Woody to Sarge. [Source.list]

I want to upgrade from woody to sarge.  Can someone post the appropriate source.list. Thank you.   Then aren't you supposed to run apt-get dist-upgrade or something?  Moving to sarge is to new to me.  I feel lost.  Any help will be appreciated.  Thanks

Re: Linux and IPR

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:54, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 02:29:33 -0800 (PST), ken keanon > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > MS boss was reported to have warned Asians govts that they could face > > IPR-infringement lawsuits for using Linux. > > > > How was the outco

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 01:21:16AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 01:57 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:55:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:32 -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:43:31PM -0500, Chr