Re: On unresponsive maintainers (was: Re: On using magicfilter and gs)

2004-11-30 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Rogério Brito: > On Nov 27 2004, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > I don't know anything about the packages in question or their maintainer, > > but if he's really being unresponsive, somebody should look into it in a > > serious way. > > Actually, I think that there are quite a lot of

Re: ftp.au.debian.org mirror

2004-11-30 Thread Brendon Higgins
Stef VK5HSX wrote (Tuesday 30 November 2004 11:05 pm): > Anyone else having problems accessing the ftp.au.debian.org mirror for > downloads and updates? I noticed the same thing. www.planetmirror.com, the mob that hosts this mirror, had on their webpage at the time a note explaining they knew it

Re: Question about Dual boot Linux on one box

2004-11-30 Thread Lian Liming
Sun Liwen wrote: Thank you very much for reply. i think you can install only one grub to boot the two system with editing menu.lst. Do you mean that when i install Debian, I can skip "the boot loader installation" ? ps: two grub is ok. The boot loader on Gentoo is installed on MBR. So if i want

Map router software and gps - hardware

2004-11-30 Thread andreas . sumper
Hi Guys! I am looking for some software to generate my routes for journeys and stuff like that. I need european cards, espcially austrian ones... In Windows, there is a programm. In linux all I found was routeplanner, which did not work with my debian testing. the other thing I would like to kno

Re: FW: Wireless nic recommendation ?

2004-11-30 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sorry, I'm a twit, that would be a PCMCIA wireless nic. see the list of supported cards for each driver: http://www.linux-wireless.org/Wireless/Drivers/ - better still, looka t your neighbor and see what they are running == CAUTION == =

Re: HTML debloater for reading on PDA

2004-11-30 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
Dan Jacobson wrote: Any package for converting the average bloated webpage into slim and trim HTML for a turn of the century browser on a weakling black and white PDA? There is a perl script developed by the BBC to turn pages into something accessible - it's called 'betsie'. You could combine t

Re: FW: Wireless nic recommendation ?

2004-11-30 Thread lukek
> Sorry, I'm a twit, that would be a PCMCIA wireless nic. (B> (B> Matt Joyce (B> Children's Cancer Institute Australia (B> http://www.ccia.org.au (B> (B> (B> __ (B> From: Matthew Joyce (B> Sent:Wednesday, 1 December 2004 4:55 PM (B> To:[EMAIL PR

FW: Wireless nic recommendation ?

2004-11-30 Thread Matthew Joyce
Sorry, I'm a twit, that would be a PCMCIA wireless nic. Matt Joyce Children's Cancer Institute Australia http://www.ccia.org.au __ From: Matthew Joyce Sent: Wednesday, 1 December 2004 4:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Wireless ni

Wireless nic recommendation ?

2004-11-30 Thread Matthew Joyce
Title: Wireless nic recommendation ? Hi, Can anyone recommend a wireless (b) nic or chipset to use with Debain ? Either woody, knoppix or ubuntu. Thanks Matt Joyce Children's Cancer Institute Australia http://www.ccia.org.au

RE: Question about Dual boot Linux on one box

2004-11-30 Thread McLaughlin, Toby
Some of the filesystem lend themselves better to dual-mounting than others. As Sun Liwen pointed out, mounting the swap partition on both systems makes is a good idea. Mounting /home on both systems is also an excellent idea. If you do this, all you applications should maintain settings acroos b

wireless mouse: buttons not working

2004-11-30 Thread James Abella
It's a Memorex RF7000 wireless mouse. I can use this mouse move the cursor, scroll the web just fine. However, the buttons are not working. Has any one figured it out? I googled and found other users had the same problem. Thanks James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Question about Dual boot Linux on one box

2004-11-30 Thread Sun Liwen
- Original Message - From: "Lian Liming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 12:14 PM Subject: Question about Dual boot Linux on one box Hi all, I have a box with a pre-installed gentoo system. Since that system is installed by my friend an

Re: On unresponsive maintainers (was: Re: On using magicfilter and gs)

2004-11-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
RogÃrio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyway, I have already merged some bugs on the BTS, but I myself can't do > much. I would invite other users to help with this. Perhaps this way the > bug count will drop and the maintainers will give up maintaining their > packages, leaving room for som

Re: parport printer problem under kernel 2.6 with asus mainboard

2004-11-30 Thread Promocao NetBotanic
Try to load the modules:   ppdev and lp, my lsmod is following:   Module  Size  Used byppdev   8544  0lp 11852  0parport_pc 38880  1parport    41672  3 ppdev,lp,parport_pcautofs4    16320  0e100  

Question about Dual boot Linux on one box

2004-11-30 Thread Lian Liming
Hi all, I have a box with a pre-installed gentoo system. Since that system is installed by my friend and we share the same box, i can't destroy it. I'd like to use Debian system. So i am thinking about two boot linux system -- Gentoo && Debian -- working on the same box. There are sever

Re: "Grub Hard Disk Error", after installing from sarge floppies

2004-11-30 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Joao Clemente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 30 20:09 -0600]: > >grub is "unreasonably" finicky > > What means "finicky"? 1rst time I see this word Probably the best way to explain it is to say that it is very particular about everything being setup the way it likes it and if not then it fa

Re: "Grub Hard Disk Error", after installing from sarge floppies

2004-11-30 Thread Joao Clemente
Joao Clemente wrote: [snip] 3) install into the boot sector of the partition (/dev/hda1 ) instead MBR of the disk ( /dev/hda ) - but the mbr must be empty too I am not certain of you're refering to grub, lilo, or both. I see no reason why grub (or lilo) would fail when installed in MBR bu

RE: memory usage

2004-11-30 Thread McLaughlin, Toby
Also, running 'top' will show the memory usage of every process. Pressing 'M' while inside top will sort the list by memory consumption. For a gui equivalent, you could try 'gnome-system-monitor'. Toby McLaughlin. > -Original Message- > From: Rogério Brito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: memory usage

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 01 2004, Christian Christmann wrote: > I tried all most of the tools. But they just show the entire usage > of memory. What I'm looking for is a tool which list all the running > processes incl. their memory usage. Perhaps the package memstat would do what you want? It doesn't have a nice g

Re: disappointment with linux icq clients

2004-11-30 Thread David P James
On Tue 30 November 2004 01:21, Steve Lamb wrote: > Right now, for example, I > am trying to use Kopete after getting used to Trillian on the Win2k > side of life. I don't like how I have to hit CNTL-Enter instead of > just enter to send the message. You can change this in Settings | Configure Sh

Re: On unresponsive maintainers (was: Re: On using magicfilter and gs)

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 27 2004, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I don't know anything about the packages in question or their maintainer, > but if he's really being unresponsive, somebody should look into it in a > serious way. Actually, I think that there are quite a lot of maintainers being unresponsive to users's

Re: "Grub Hard Disk Error", after installing from sarge floppies

2004-11-30 Thread Joao Clemente
Hi Alvin. Once again, thanks for your ultra-fast reply. I have not been able to understand completly what you've said so I'll comment along your mail, ok? Alvin Oga wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Joao Clemente wrote: ...but when one is suposed to get the GRUB menu, I get simply a "GRUB Hard Disk Er

Re: StarOffice 7

2004-11-30 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 05:36:03PM -0800, tjm3 wrote: > Thanks for the info. > > Just making sure that the installation was correct. It is a > blank window, not an empty document. Seems like Sun would at > least put some sort of logo here or provide an option to start > the application with a em

Re: how does mutt send?

2004-11-30 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:31:25AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > > I didn't know, BTW, that exim could use SMTP AUTH. Thanks for pointing that > out. Which version of exim are you using? exim or exim4? > Currently am using exim4. Both the versions can do SMPT AUTH. Regards, -- S

Re: StarOffice 7

2004-11-30 Thread tjm3
Thanks for the info. Just making sure that the installation was correct. It is a blank window, not an empty document. Seems like Sun would at least put some sort of logo here or provide an option to start the application with a empty default document of my choice. tony Maurits van Rees wrote: On

Re: StarOffice 7

2004-11-30 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:12:43PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 15:47 -0800, tjm3 wrote: > > Hello. Has anyone tried the StarOffice 7 application? Trying > > to find out what it's supposed to look like when it first starts. > > What I get is a blank window and a menu bar to s

Debian Sarge on HP B2000

2004-11-30 Thread Michael Madden
Has anyone gotten X working for Debian Sarge on a hppa machine? I am using the 11/22/04 snapshot on a HP B2000, and no matter how many times I run 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' with various options, I cannot get X configured correctly. Here are the last things I see in the XFree86.0.log; I as

pdftohtml

2004-11-30 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, I have a few problems with pdftohtml (unstable) : with one pdf file I get a suitable html file but with another one I get an unreadable html file. I tried "pdftohtml -c -l 1 file.pdf" but the output is always unreadable and I get the message: free(): invalid pointer 0x80f02e0! Page-

Re: Boot-time loading of modules...

2004-11-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Colin Alie (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how boot-time loading of modules is > controlled. I'm trying to keep vesafb from loading. I'm running the > stock 2.6.8-1-386 kernel from sarge. Below is a little bit of > information regarding what I've tried so far: >

Re: memory usage

2004-11-30 Thread Adam Aube
Christian Christmann wrote: > I'm looking for a GUI tool which shows the current memory usage for each > running process of my debian box. How about KDE System Guard (ksysguard)? Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Re: memory usage

2004-11-30 Thread Ralph Katz
Package: gnome-system-monitor That should do it. Regards, Ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: StarOffice 7

2004-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 15:47 -0800, tjm3 wrote: > Hello. Has anyone tried the StarOffice 7 application? Trying > to find out what it's supposed to look like when it first starts. > What I get is a blank window and a menu bar to start applications > or documents. It works OK but is there supposed

StarOffice 7

2004-11-30 Thread tjm3
Hello. Has anyone tried the StarOffice 7 application? Trying to find out what it's supposed to look like when it first starts. What I get is a blank window and a menu bar to start applications or documents. It works OK but is there supposed to be something running in the initial startup window?

Re: Boot-time loading of modules...

2004-11-30 Thread Francois Cerbelle
Le Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:54:54PM -0500, Colin Alie ecrit : > - I remved the parameter vga=xxx from my kernel command line; it now > stands as root=/dev/hda1 ro ---end quoted text / fin de citation--- Instead of removing it, try to put : vga=normal or vga=extended Francois -- Le travail c'est l

Re: memory usage

2004-11-30 Thread Christian Christmann
>> > I'm looking for a GUI tool which shows the current memory usage for >> > each running process of my debian box. > > asmem > bubblemon (Gnome applet) > dmachinemon (network) > gdesklets (Gnome) > loadmeter > procmeter3 > xmem > xosview > xsysinfo I tried all most of the tools. But they just

Re: Installing 2.6.9 Kernel

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
Please reply to the mailing list using your mailer's Reply-to-List function instead of Reply to Sender. On Tuesday 30 November 2004 2:15 pm, Shawn McCuan wrote: > Alright, im doing apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.9-1-686 > Its doing its download of 15.7 MB - > Will it automatically install

Re: rescue disk

2004-11-30 Thread Jason Rennie
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 07:56:43PM +0200, George Iordanou wrote: > Unfortunately i haven't exactly understood the procedure. Do i need > knoppix? I have the installation cd of sarge. Knoppix is a "live" Debian distribution on a CD. I.e. you don't have to install it, just put in the Knoppix CD, bo

Boot-time loading of modules...

2004-11-30 Thread Colin Alie
Hello all, I'm trying to figure out how boot-time loading of modules is controlled. I'm trying to keep vesafb from loading. I'm running the stock 2.6.8-1-386 kernel from sarge. Below is a little bit of information regarding what I've tried so far: - I remved the parameter vga=xxx from my kerne

Re: Installing 2.6.9 Kernel

2004-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 16:31 -0500, Shawn McCuan wrote: > I am running Debian Unstable. Currentley I have the 2.4.27-1-386 debian > default kernel installed. I want to install kernel 2.6.9 because it has > support for certain features of my hardware. (such as my soundcard that > is "disturbingly

Re: Installing 2.6.9 Kernel

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 1:31 pm, Shawn McCuan wrote: > I have read through various sites about how to install kernels, but, I > want to know what you think is the BEST option for installing. > > (preferablly the EASIEST method as I have never installed a kernel > before. I have been using de

Re: 2.6.7 kernel panic

2004-11-30 Thread Justin Guerin
On Monday 29 November 2004 23:04, machoamerica wrote: > i compiled the 2.6.7 kernel from source using make-kpkg. when i > boot i get this: > > UDF-fs: No partition found (1) > Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block(3,4) > Can you post a couple more lines before the panic? > /

HTML debloater for reading on PDA

2004-11-30 Thread Dan Jacobson
Any package for converting the average bloated webpage into slim and trim HTML for a turn of the century browser on a weakling black and white PDA? "tidy" even with all options turned on isn't aggressive enough. Maybe I will just end up doing lynx -dump|txt2html. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: iTunes Replacement for Linux

2004-11-30 Thread Sudarshana Koushik
> For using your iPod, there seems to be two options: gtkpod and gnupod-tools > (the latter being a suite of scripts). Well, actually you should be able to recompile rhythmbox to connect to iPod as well. For some reason, the debian version is not compiled with iPod support. But it is possible to

Re: rescue disk

2004-11-30 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Hugo Vanwoerkom, > George Iordanou wrote: > >I want to create a rescue disk. I went to debian's official webpage > >and i downloaded the unstable version which consists of the following > >files: > > > >boot.img > >cd-drivers.img > >net-drivers.img > >root.img > > > >How can i create a

Re: Re: All mozilla-based browsers crash on some sites

2004-11-30 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Allan Wind, > On 2004-11-30T11:25:38+0100, Juergen Neumann wrote: > > Have you ore anyone else found a solution for this problem yet? > > Do you have flash installed? It seems you have choice between one that > cause 100% cpu utilization (swf-player) or crashing > (libflash-mozplugin

Re: Debian Sid clean installation problem ?

2004-11-30 Thread Kent West
Aleksic Predrag wrote: Hello, I have try to install Debian Sid from 15 cd`s i have buy somewhere on the net . When i boot from cd`s after couple of steps (language, keyboard map ...etc) i got to the end point "ash shell" which is quite wierd . Can somebody help me to finish installation , i have

Installing 2.6.9 Kernel

2004-11-30 Thread Shawn McCuan
I am running Debian Unstable. Currentley I have the 2.4.27-1-386 debian default kernel installed. I want to install kernel 2.6.9 because it has support for certain features of my hardware. (such as my soundcard that is "disturbingly un-functional" in 2.4.27. I have read through various sites ab

Re: usb vs. drivers

2004-11-30 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 06:48 am, Christian Convey wrote: > >>Another thing maybe you can clarify for me: > >>Suppose that my camera supports a USB mass storage interface as > >> well as a camera (PTP?) interface. Is it the case that only one > >> driver at a time, either mass-storage or ptp, i

compiled nvidia module fails

2004-11-30 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am unable to use the nvidia module compiled from nvidia-kernel-source that is used with the nvidia-glx package. On boot-up, the computer freezes when gdm starts. The error message I get in the logs is Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread David
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:09:45AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Mauro Darida wrote: > >hello debianers, > >I have always been wondering what is the difference between a fresh > >kernel from linus and a debian kernel; I have always been using the > >first one, maybe I have always been wrong?? No

Re: 2.6.7 kernel panic

2004-11-30 Thread machoamerica
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > machoamerica wrote: > > i compiled the 2.6.7 kernel from source using make-kpkg. when i > > boot i get this: > > > > UDF-fs: No partition found (1) > > Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block(3,4) > > [snip] > > > > worse, my old 2.4.18 kernel no

Debian Sid clean installation problem ?

2004-11-30 Thread Aleksic Predrag
Hello, I have try to install Debian Sid from 15 cd`s i have buy somewhere on the net . When i boot from cd`s after couple of steps (language, keyboard map ...etc) i got to the end point "ash shell" which is quite wierd . Can somebody help me to finish installation , i have read similar thr

Re: remote build of Debian router

2004-11-30 Thread Mike M
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:59:38AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 30 November 2004 11:56 am, Mike M wrote: > > > If risk is manageable then I choose a). If not, then b) or c) father > > buys router/firewall appliance. > > Finagle's Law dictates that A will inevitably lead to B. That's a

Re: CUPS Server Error

2004-11-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Noah Durell([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Noah Durell wrote: > > >Richard Lyons wrote: > > [ cut here ] over 20 K of previous posts deleted [ cut here ] > > > >-Noah > > > > > Hey Guys, > Very weird. I tried running the KDE printer utility again today and it >

Re: rescue disk

2004-11-30 Thread Wayne Topa
George Iordanou([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Thanks a lot for your help. > > > > if you have a bootable disk with chroot, you can run the mkrescue (or > > maybe mkboot for a bootdisk). I usually use knoppix. > Unfortunately i haven't exactly understood the procedure. Do i need >

Re: remote build of Debian router

2004-11-30 Thread CW Harris
Ray you sent this to me privately... Fwd this one back to the list... CW Harris wrote on 2004-11-30 02:33: > You might google, or ask, over on debian-firewall... I seem to recall > someone mentioning a package or setup they used that allowed one to > restore the old ruleset after a defined time

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:14:53 -0800, Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Debian Kernel 2.6.8 could burn CD's. > Linus' Kernel 2.6.8 couldn't. I'm not sold on 2.6 yet. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 17:14, Ken Bloom wrote: > > Debian Kernel 2.6.8 could burn CD's. > Linus' Kernel 2.6.8 couldn't. Except for me. I can't burn CDs on either. I now understand why though (afre a massive debugging effert), its a timing issue with my drive. -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROT

Re: remote build of Debian router

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 11:56 am, Mike M wrote: > Yep. Now, how to get it in. > > a) ssh over Internet to unprotected box and recompile kernel and play >with config > b) drive 6h to get box; install behind my f/w; fix it; drive 6h to put >box back > > If risk is manageable then I

Re: remote build of Debian router

2004-11-30 Thread Mike M
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:19:04AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 30 November 2004 10:59 am, Mike M wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 02:01:17PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Monday 29 November 2004 1:04 pm, Mike M wrote: > > > > > > > 1) connect Deb box to cable modem > > > > 2) s

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:54:45AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 08:08:03PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:38:12PM -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > > > > I've used Linux virtually exclusively for ten years. About the only > > thing I current

Re: remote build of Debian router

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 10:59 am, Mike M wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 02:01:17PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Monday 29 November 2004 1:04 pm, Mike M wrote: > > > > > 1) connect Deb box to cable modem > > > 2) ssh to Deb box to test access > > > 3) have father install 2nd NIC on Deb b

Re: rescue disk

2004-11-30 Thread Chris Lale
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 16:29, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > George Iordanou wrote: > > I want to create a rescue disk. I went to debian's official webpage > > and i downloaded the unstable version which consists of the following > > files: > > > > boot.img > > cd-drivers.img > > net-drivers.img > > root

Re: remote build of Debian router

2004-11-30 Thread Mike M
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 02:01:17PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 29 November 2004 1:04 pm, Mike M wrote: > > > 1) connect Deb box to cable modem > > 2) ssh to Deb box to test access > > 3) have father install 2nd NIC on Deb box > > 4) using ssh, install iptables and configure iptables on

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:51:24 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > >> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:09:45 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> In general I would run WITH the patches, since powers greater than I >>> have decided they would be a good i

Re: creating images

2004-11-30 Thread Chris Lale
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 14:31, James LeClair wrote: > Can someone recomend an app, and maybe linkage to docs, for creating an > image of system partition? As well, what about restoring the image in > case of disaster/emergency? > > I just spent the whole weekend rebuilding 2 routers and 1 server:-

Re: CUPS Server Error

2004-11-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:29:23AM -0500, Noah Durell wrote: > Here it is: Well, I asked for it, so I had better say something. I'd better come clean and admit that I am no expert. It looks alright to my untutored eye. There are rather a lot of comment lines so a bit of help from sed gives:

Re: creating images

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
James LeClair wrote: Can someone recomend an app, and maybe linkage to docs, for creating an image of system partition? As well, what about restoring the image in case of disaster/emergency? I just spent the whole weekend rebuilding 2 routers and 1 server:-( Good learning experience, but at my

ASUS P5P800 Motherboard support

2004-11-30 Thread Syed Huq
Hi, Can you pls tell me if the ASUS P5P800 Motherboard would work with Debian ? OR Can you point me to a Motherboard Hardware listing that shows which Motherboard's would work with Debian. Thanks in advance, Rathon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Where is the modversions.h in 2.6.9 kernel?

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Collet Brunel wrote: I recently downloaded the 2.6.9 kernel-source package from debian repository and tried to compile it on my wood y system. I followed the general instructions.. go to the src, make menuconfig and the make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image.. Also did make-kpkg kernel_headers to generate

Re: simple problem

2004-11-30 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 29 November 2004 13:45, Paul Akkermans wrote: > Hi group, > > I am trying to find a specific function/procedure in the kernel 2.6.7 > kernel source. But the problem is that there are so many files I have to > search through that it could take hours to find this procedure. Isn't there > an

Re: rescue disk

2004-11-30 Thread George Iordanou
Thanks a lot for your help. > if you have a bootable disk with chroot, you can run the mkrescue (or > maybe mkboot for a bootdisk). I usually use knoppix. Unfortunately i haven't exactly understood the procedure. Do i need knoppix? I have the installation cd of sarge. > Is a bootable rescue CD

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Ken Bloom
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:51:24 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:09:45 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> In general I would run WITH the patches, since powers greater than I >> have decided they would be a good idea. Debian certainly is something >> greater t

Re: creating images

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 6:31 am, James LeClair wrote: > Can someone recomend an app, and maybe linkage to docs, for creating an > image of system partition? As well, what about restoring the image in > case of disaster/emergency? dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/path/to/image.img To restore, just switc

Re: TV Tuner / Sound Card issues

2004-11-30 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 02:59:54PM -0600, Chad Davis wrote: > Okay, I seem to have gotten it to work through the mic line. Should I > let this be? Is Mic really the same as another line in? Don't use the mic in, the sound will suck. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://w

Re: TV Tuner / Sound Card issues

2004-11-30 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 01:50:12PM -0600, Chad Davis wrote: > How do I get the line out jack to work on the back of this pc? A lot of those via-based onboard sound cards actually assign a dual purpose to the line-in jack. On mine, it doubles as a line-out jack, I think for surround sound or somet

RE: running scripts when logging in (via X)

2004-11-30 Thread Mark D. Hansen
When I first log in (after reboot), I'm logging in to an fvwm session. /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile definitely are not being run. Any ideas? > -Original Message- > From: Sam Watkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 10:26 AM > To: Mark D. Hansen > Cc: [EMAIL

Re: cdrom upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday 28 November 2004 11:51 pm, rogerwphx wrote: I installed debian and it boots up in bash ok, but the cdrom images are .iso images. How do you upgrade the installation from bash with iso's. What's wrong with using apt-get over the network? Good point. Nothing. However

Re: iTunes Replacement for Linux

2004-11-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:15:17 -0200, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 29 2004, Mike wrote: > I think that iTunes unites an amazin set of resources together that makes > the life of its users so easy. It should be the prototype of application to > pursue, as far as I am regarded (ye

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:09:45 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In general I would run WITH the patches, since powers greater than I > have decided they would be a good idea. Debian certainly is something > greater than I ;-) I'm going to look at what these patches are. Back in t

Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Pau Rul·lan Ferragut
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 15:54, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Nov 30 2004, Richard Hult wrote: > Also, which one integrates better with laptop-mode? I'm thinking of using > laptop-mode even for my i386 Desktop (since I can't stand the noise of its > HD). Umm... perhaps it is a long shot, but I wou

Re: rescue disk

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
George Iordanou wrote: I want to create a rescue disk. I went to debian's official webpage and i downloaded the unstable version which consists of the following files: boot.img cd-drivers.img net-drivers.img root.img How can i create a bootable rescue disk? I want to get into my system using the fl

Re: iTunes Replacement for Linux

2004-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:12 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > > On Nov 29 2004, Mike wrote: > > > >>I use my ipod frequently. What program would you guys recommend I use > >>in a linux world. > > > > > Anyway, I just hope that we soon have a Desktop-agnostic version of iT

Re: Re: All mozilla-based browsers crash on some sites

2004-11-30 Thread Allan Wind
On 2004-11-30T11:25:38+0100, Juergen Neumann wrote: > Have you ore anyone else found a solution for this problem yet? Do you have flash installed? It seems you have choice between one that cause 100% cpu utilization (swf-player) or crashing (libflash-mozplugin.so). /Allan signature.asc Descri

re^2: daytime

2004-11-30 Thread petereasthope
Joost Witteveen and anyone interested, jw> Maybe something in /etc/hosts.allow ... ? Yes. hosts.allow needed an improvement. Thanks. The oberon client still reports no response. Someone please tell me what in debian is a daytime client? Google finds nothing helpful in http://www.tldp.org/.

Re: iTunes Replacement for Linux

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Rogério Brito wrote: On Nov 29 2004, Mike wrote: I use my ipod frequently. What program would you guys recommend I use in a linux world. Anyway, I just hope that we soon have a Desktop-agnostic version of iTunes for Linux (I use fluxbox on an old machine with low RAM). I want to be DFSG as much

Re: 2.6.7 kernel panic

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
machoamerica wrote: i compiled the 2.6.7 kernel from source using make-kpkg. when i boot i get this: UDF-fs: No partition found (1) Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block(3,4) /dev/hda4 is the root partition and has /boot on it as well. it's an ext3 partition. i have no U

Re: Re: usb camera / filesystem question

2004-11-30 Thread Jim McCloskey
Ron Johnson, Jr. wrote: |>> To use a Sony digital camera with my Debian laptop, all I had to do |>> was to include this line in /etc/udev/udev.rules: |>> |>>BUS="scsi", SYSFS_vendor="Sony", NAME="camera" |> |> If you ever get another hot-pluggable Sony device, your rule |> will fail. Be

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mauro Darida wrote: hello debianers, I have always been wondering what is the difference between a fresh kernel from linus and a debian kernel; I have always been using the first one, maybe I have always been wrong?? No visible side effects here, though... Saluti, Mauro. -- On this laptop no Window

Where is the modversions.h in 2.6.9 kernel?

2004-11-30 Thread Collet Brunel
I recently downloaded the 2.6.9 kernel-source package from debian repository and tried to compile it on my wood y system. I followed the general instructions.. go to the src, make menuconfig and the make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image.. Also did make-kpkg kernel_headers to generate a headers package...

Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 30 2004, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > This is likely to shorten the life of your old HD enough that the noise > won't be an issue for too long. > > Spin-up and spin-down cycles on old equipment is *never* a good idea. Yes, I know about this issue. I think that getting some more RAM

Re: running scripts when logging in (via X)

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 30 2004, Mark D. Hansen wrote: > How to I get these scripts to run when I login via X ?? Just put whatever you want in ~/.xsession. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Learn to quote e-mails decently at: http://pub.tsn.dk/how-to-quote.php http://learn.to/quote http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpol

Re: CUPS Server Error

2004-11-30 Thread Noah Durell
Noah Durell wrote: Richard Lyons wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:09:12AM -0500, Noah Durell wrote: Adam Aube wrote: Noah Durell wrote: Adam Aube wrote: Noah Durell wrote: [...] Also when I try to access the CUPS web interface on http://localhost:631 it says: Forb

Re: All mozilla-based browsers crash on some sites

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Juergen Neumann wrote: Hi Dan, I've just run apt-get update && upgrade and since then I have just the same problem that you experienced: All my mozilla-based browsers crash on some sides. I have no clew how this could happen. But then of course you used partimage or mondo to back up your partition

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 07:04 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 29 23:03 -0600]: > > > My uncle uses SR (speech recognition) when "writing". He speaks > > the paragraphs in while walking around (long cord on the mic :) > > or laying back thinking. Then he ed

Re: freeswan

2004-11-30 Thread avr
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:51:25PM +, Alexey Toptygin wrote: > > I've been trying to get the freeswan modules to compile against various > 2.6.8 kernels in testing, with no luck. I've been trying from both > kernel-patch-freeswan (which dies with an unknown make target) and > freeswan-patch

Re: usb vs. drivers

2004-11-30 Thread Christian Convey
Another thing maybe you can clarify for me: Suppose that my camera supports a USB mass storage interface as well as a camera (PTP?) interface. Is it the case that only one driver at a time, either mass-storage or ptp, is allowed to bind to the camera (i.e., /proc/bus/usb/001/005) ? Probably true,

Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Rogério Brito wrote: > laptop-mode even for my i386 Desktop (since I can't stand the noise of its > HD). This is likely to shorten the life of your old HD enough that the noise won't be an issue for too long. Spin-up and spin-down cycles on old equipment is *never* a good ide

Re: running scripts when logging in (via X)

2004-11-30 Thread Sam Watkins
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:04:17AM -0500, Mark D. Hansen wrote: > When I reboot my Debian box, the login comes up in an X environment. I > notice that my login scripts (e.g., /etc/profile, .bash_profile) do not run. > > How to I get these scripts to run when I login via X ?? /etc/profile and ~

Re: creating images

2004-11-30 Thread Laurent CARON
James LeClair wrote: Can someone recomend an app, and maybe linkage to docs, for creating an image of system partition? As well, what about restoring the image in case of disaster/emergency? I just spent the whole weekend rebuilding 2 routers and 1 server:-( Good learning experience, but at my

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