Re: simple IMAP mail server to install/setup

2004-12-16 Thread Steve Block
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:20:24PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > I'm looking at trying to install an IMAP mail server. > > Which one(s) are fairly simple to install/setup/configure? > > Looking at "practicing" getting one installed, for future reference. I use Cyrus IMAP. It isn't terribly dif

Re: LDAP Authentication issue.

2004-12-16 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El jue, 16-12-2004 a las 15:24 +, U n d e r a c h i e v e r escribió: > My problem is that local logins for the new (ldap only) users don't > work where password authentication is required:- > Can you bind to the ldap directory using that user? I think that userPassword has t

[To: Debian ML] Default font in URXVT

2004-12-16 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
I want the default font of urxvt to be "xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=17" (which works fine when I pass that to the -fn argument). I put the line URxvt*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=17 in ~/.Xdefaults as suggested from other resources online but doesn't seem to work.

Re: using cd-rw

2004-12-16 Thread Graham Williams
Received Fri 17 Dec 2004 3:15pm +1100 from jack kinnon: > Hi, > > Is there a 'cd-rw howto' for Debian? Or one that is > applicable to Debian too? Some information at http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/CD_Reading.shtml Hope it might help. Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Printing to smb shared printer on windows network

2004-12-16 Thread Vikas B N
Wayne Topa wrote: Vikas From my Cups Printer setup: Device: Windows printer via Samba Device URL: smb://winme/Epson (the Windows Box/The printer ) Hi Wayne, thanks for the info. :) Will try this out. -vikas Hope this helps Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya william On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, William Ballard wrote: > I looked at apt-move but I didn't want a http based mirror. the local mirror can be anywhere but okay on not using httpd/ftp > /a "this is all related to apt" okay on the directory subtreee ... make it according to the scripts > I c

re: using cd-rw

2004-12-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, jack kinnon wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a 'cd-rw howto' for Debian? Or one that is > applicable to Debian too? generic cdrw and collection of other cdrw howto Linux-1U.net/CDRW c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: mounting cd-rw

2004-12-16 Thread Wayne Topa
jack kinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I havd tried that. It doesn't help. > Let's start from the beginning. > If I have a blank cd-rw that I want to use in Linux. > Do I have to do any steps before even attempting to mount it? Yes. You have to format it and then you have t

Re: Please--sound

2004-12-16 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Ted Parks_, on 17/12/04 00:22,typed: I have posted several queries, but no response. I would appreciate any help. After numerous attempts to load the ALSA driver snd-opl3sa2 on my Toshiba Tecra 8000 running Sarge, I finally figured out the parameters to pass to modprobe. The driver now

Re: udev and gnome-volume-manager not working in Sarge

2004-12-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 19:59 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:11:38PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > This is just a copy of your pre-udev device entries. They're not used > > for anything, they're just pretty much there for your reference. > > I've been wondering about this

Re: mounting cd-rw

2004-12-16 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _jack kinnon_, on 16/12/04 21:40,typed: I havd tried that. It doesn't help. Let's start from the beginning. If I have a blank cd-rw that I want to use in Linux. Do I have to do any steps before even attempting to mount it? I had assumed that all I need is to mount it and then do the fi

Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

2004-12-16 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 07:23:21PM -0500, Ben Bettin wrote: > Well, I don't know, but it wasn't available for me. It's not available to me either. > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sarge/non-US main contrib non-free >

Please--sound

2004-12-16 Thread Ted Parks
I have posted several queries, but no response. I would appreciate any help. After numerous attempts to load the ALSA driver snd-opl3sa2 on my Toshiba Tecra 8000 running Sarge, I finally figured out the parameters to pass to modprobe. The driver now loads, but manually. I cannot get ALSA to run p

Re: xml viewer?

2004-12-16 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 02:17:24AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2004-12-16 20:39:52 +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > Has anyone mentionned mozilla or firefox yet ? If you only want to > > view an xml file, and not edit it, this works quite well. > > Yes, or any text viewer or text editor, fo

OT: Oops: Debian and Dell?

2004-12-16 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: I like your sig, and agree with it completely. Sorry; that was meant to be taken off-line and just sent to Nathanael. I failed to hit Cancel quick enough to stop the sending. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Debian and Dell?

2004-12-16 Thread Kent West
Nathanael Hasbrouck wrote: I believe in de-evolution. God made the world perfect, man fell, and its been going downhill ever since. I like your sig, and agree with it completely. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: Trackball Problems

2004-12-16 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:59:43 -0500, tech wrote: > I have just installed Debian testing. I have a Logitech Trackman Wheel > Trackball. > As a trackball it works fine. But I can't seem to get the wheel to work. > Any help would be appretiated. In this section of your X11 configuration file: Sec

Home Network

2004-12-16 Thread Vin Jacob
What is a good setup for two machines, Desktop P3 650 256MB RAM + Laptop 2.6MHz 512 RAM ? The laptop is almost just to my liking, sid running a custom compiled 2.6.9. I have an internal winmodem in the laptop, which works. All I have right now is dial-up. On the desktop I have another USR Serial m

Re: Debian and Dell?

2004-12-16 Thread Nathanael Hasbrouck
On Thursday 16 December 2004 2230, somebody named Kevin B. McCarty inscribed this message: > The equivalent x86 tools are lilo or grub. One thing you need to be > aware of: the x86 BIOS is much dumber than OpenFirmware. So if you use > lilo, you must re-run the "/sbin/lilo" program every time th

Re: Converting from KMail

2004-12-16 Thread Jules Dubois
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:01:39 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > Does anyone know of a tool to convert > from mdir to mbox format? KMail? Create an (mbox) mail folder in KMail and copy all the messages from your maildir message folder into it. Copy the resulting mbox file to a place where your

Re: Installation shadows: where is mkinitrd ?

2004-12-16 Thread Joey Hess
Andrea Tasso wrote: > I am installing a sarge with uml; everything works well until kernel > installation, then it tries to start mkinitrd. > I get something like: uml device is not a valid block device. > I wanted to bypass the problem commenting out some lines of mkinitrd > script, but I cannot f

Re: Thunderbird's IMAP connections.

2004-12-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Lamb wrote: Ok, does anyone know why TBird opens up 4-5+ IMAP connections? I don't think it is standard as Evolution v2.x only opens 1 for the exact same account with the exact same settings. Well, didn't take me long to figure it out. Got to thinking it might be in prefs.js. Su

Thunderbird's IMAP connections.

2004-12-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Ok, does anyone know why TBird opens up 4-5+ IMAP connections? I don't think it is standard as Evolution v2.x only opens 1 for the exact same account with the exact same settings. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 |

CD ripping with CDParanoia gives silent WAV files on Sarge?

2004-12-16 Thread Carl Fink
In the past week (I can't pinpoint a date), ripperX stopped working correctly on my frequently-updated Sarge system. It gave no errors, but the MP3 files it created were silent, contained no actual encoded audio. I quickly traced the problem to CDParanoia, which was producing silent WAV files whe

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 07:37:37PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > /a/o/YYMMDD_HHNNSS/*.deb - the debs which were replaced at > > okay... i'm confused ... what does each subdir dor ?? Facilitates rollback, similar to snapshot.debian.net. It goes like this: apt-get update aptitude upgrade /a/u <--- s

re: using cd-rw

2004-12-16 Thread jack kinnon
Hi, Is there a 'cd-rw howto' for Debian? Or one that is applicable to Debian too? Jack __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:08:25PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 07:37:37PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > /var/lib/cache into /home/httpd/local-deb-mirror ? I looked at apt-move but I didn't want a http based mirror. I access my via file protocol. My scripts are a hack. I lik

Using cd-rw

2004-12-16 Thread jack kinnon
Hi, I have read from the Net a howto about using cd-rw. It suggested that for a ide-atapi drive, of which mine is, the first thing to do is to config kernel to emulate scsi drive. Is this a must? Jack __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Ma

OpenGL for xmame

2004-12-16 Thread Lian Liming
Hi all, I am using deiban/unstable with xfree86 and i have installed "nvidia-kernel" and "nvidia-glx" for my nvidia video card. The option for "video driver" in XF86Config have also be changed from "nv" to "nvidia". But i still have a problem starting the xmame with the following error

Re: udev and gnome-volume-manager not working in Sarge

2004-12-16 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:11:38PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > This is just a copy of your pre-udev device entries. They're not used > for anything, they're just pretty much there for your reference. I've been wondering about this. Say you're not interested in the usual "my /dev is emptier th

Re: mounting cd-rw

2004-12-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:10:03PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: > So you are attempting to use a CD-RW as a regular read/write media, in a > manner similar to that provided by Windows XP and certain CD writer > packages. AFAIK, Linux has no program that provides this capability. Depends on what you m

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, William Ballard wrote: > I've posted these a bunch: > > /a/l/*.deb - The set of .debs which is the "current" plus "new" >dpkg-scanpackages is run on this > /a/o/YYMMDD_HHNNSS/*.deb - the debs which were replaced at >HH:NN:SS on MM/DD/20YY

Re: Debian and Dell?

2004-12-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi Ed, Ed Sutherland wrote: > I just purchased a Dell for my home office and am interested in using > Debian on a partition. As my only Linux experience comes from a Mac, > I have some questions: > > 1) Will I be able to easily dual-boot Windows or Linux using yaboot, > or will I need to go thro

Re: mounting cd-rw

2004-12-16 Thread Adam Aube
jack kinnon wrote: > Let's start from the beginning. If I have a blank cd-rw that I want to use > in Linux. Do I have to do any steps before even attempting to mount it? I > had assumed that all I need is to mount it and then do the file copying. > Have I missed a step or two, like formatting, fo

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:52:29PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > By its very operation it writes only the latest, yes? Yes, that's a built-in feature that comes for free, and is the real magic. The rest is incidental. > > Then what exactly are those last 2 steps you mention? I've posted these

Re: mounting cd-rw

2004-12-16 Thread jack kinnon
I havd tried that. It doesn't help. Let's start from the beginning. If I have a blank cd-rw that I want to use in Linux. Do I have to do any steps before even attempting to mount it? I had assumed that all I need is to mount it and then do the file copying. Have I missed a step or two, like format

exim4, tls & failing message delivery

2004-12-16 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I have a Debian sarge exim4 mail server that is having some trouble delivering messages to several clients behind Postini's mail service. I see these errors in my logs: 2004-12-16 18:35:22 1Cf1IT-0007mU-Ry TLS recv error on connection to oomc.com.s8a1.psmtp.com [64.18.7.10]: A TLS packet wit

Re: Marvell 88E8053 (Asus P5GD1) not detected by sarge installer...

2004-12-16 Thread Joao Clemente
Joao Clemente wrote: Maybe I should put another (temporary) NIC in the machine to do the installation, then get the module for the Marvell compiled and remove the temporary NIC? Would it be easier? Just to finish this thread (maybe someone gets a P5GD1 also) I already got the NIC of this board w

Re: Limiting Disck Cache

2004-12-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 16 December 2004 4:35 pm, Ivan Garcia wrote: > --- Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > Uggh... I ran into that when experimenting with > > UML's. Good lord, it > > hurt performance badly. > Does it mean that it's posible? > > So how does it work? Again, unless you have

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-16 Thread Mario Menezes
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:56:39 -0500, Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And it really is the case that I've never happened to see a blue screen > of death on my XP system. I agree that old versions of Windows had this > problem. But I'm just comparing the most recent versions of Window

Re: Debian and Dell?

2004-12-16 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Vincent Lefevre, > On 2004-12-15 22:30:34 -0500, Ed Sutherland wrote: > > I just purchased a Dell for my home office and am interested in using > > Debian on a partition. As my only Linux experience comes from a Mac, I > > have some questions: > [...] > > First, you should have aske

Python error causes reboot

2004-12-16 Thread Brendan Simon
I'm writing a Python application using the wxWidgets binding and calling the net-snmp command line utils via popen. Often when I make a simple mistake in the python code, something goes horribly wrong and the machine (PowerMac running testing and kernel-2.6.8.1) reboots. I'm running is user sp

Re: AMD 64 with woody or sarge

2004-12-16 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Tim Kelley, > On Thursday 16 December 2004 10:38, Nick Miller wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I am wondering what experiences, positive or negative, you all have had > > running woody or sarge with AMD's line of 754 & 939 64bit processors. I > > would really like to push my company to rep

Re: apache & apache-ssl

2004-12-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Matthew Joyce wrote: -Original Message- From: Roberto Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 17 December 2004 11:49 AM You can either use apache-ssl or apache + libapache-mod-ssl. These are two different things, but I have used both and they work. As a matter of preference, I w

Re: xml viewer?

2004-12-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-12-16 20:39:52 +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > Has anyone mentionned mozilla or firefox yet ? If you only want to > view an xml file, and not edit it, this works quite well. Yes, or any text viewer or text editor, for many XML files. An XSLT stylesheet can be used to do the indentation and

Re: Debian and Dell?

2004-12-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-12-15 22:30:34 -0500, Ed Sutherland wrote: > I just purchased a Dell for my home office and am interested in using > Debian on a partition. As my only Linux experience comes from a Mac, I > have some questions: [...] First, you should have asked if Debian was supported. With recent Dell

RE: apache & apache-ssl

2004-12-16 Thread Matthew Joyce
> -Original Message- > From: Roberto Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 17 December 2004 11:49 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: apache & apache-ssl > > Matthew Joyce wrote: > > > > Dear debian-users, > > > > I have 2 woody boxes, one has apache+php and the other

Raid1 device disappears on reboot

2004-12-16 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi After failing to resolve this problem at the time of install (d-i rc2), I created a Raid1 array manually. This box has 1 80Gb ATA disk with sarge installed. Plus 2 SATA 120Gb drives with the following: description: RAID bus controller product: 82801EB (ICH5R) SATA (cc=RAID)

Re: Debian and Dell?

2004-12-16 Thread Jon Dowland
Writing this using Debian/sarge kernel 2.4.27-1-686 on a Dell Optiplex GX270 with a 17" Dell TFT (not sure of model #). So far no problems although I think I faffed around with XF86Config quite a bit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-16 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: Check: bibletime, gnomesword, sword-comm-mhcc, sword-comm-pers, sword-dict-naves, sword-text-web, bible-kjv You can also try running e-Sword in WINE. -Roberto Sanchez Thanks to all who replied. Unfortunately I've looked at the

Re: mounting cd-rw

2004-12-16 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 06:31:40AM -0800, jack kinnon wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have problem trying to mount my Benq 52x32x52 cd-rw > with command and error as attached. Next time try pasting that text in your mail instead of using an attachment. I think most people on this list find that the bett

Re: Printing to smb shared printer on windows network

2004-12-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Vikas B N([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi All, > > I am running debian sid at office. However, the only > thing that I havent yet got to work is printing over > the network. > > My requirement is to print to a printer which is > smb shared. I have googled around. I know tha

Re: What happened to kdebase-libs on Sarge?

2004-12-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Midnight([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I'm running Debian Sarge and recently upgraded to KDE > 3.2.3. As a consequence my sound no longer works. It is > apparently looking for libkcm_arts.la which is part of > Debian stable release and I'm on the testing release. > > Googling has

Re: apache & apache-ssl

2004-12-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Matthew Joyce wrote: Dear debian-users, I have 2 woody boxes, one has apache+php and the other has apache-ssl+php. Physical space is tight, and neither of these boxes are ever very busy, I'd like to combine them. Are there any problem with these apps co-existing ? Do they need to have the same ho

apache & apache-ssl

2004-12-16 Thread Matthew Joyce
Title: apache & apache-ssl Dear debian-users, I have 2 woody boxes, one has apache+php and the other has apache-ssl+php. Physical space is tight, and neither of these boxes are ever very busy, I'd like to combine them. Are there any problem with these apps co-existing ? Do they need to

Re: Limiting Disck Cache

2004-12-16 Thread Ivan Garcia
--- Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Steve Lamb wrote: > > > * A machine whose sole purpose is to host UMLs > being the one case I can > > think > > of that would require the OS to not use cache. > This is because the UMLs > > themselves are caching the files thus there is no > need

Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

2004-12-16 Thread Ben Bettin
Well, I don't know, but it wasn't available for me. In previous posts to this list you can see what my sources.list contained, it wasn't missing anything. But in aptitude I couldn't find it. I didn't try the apt-cache command because I try to stick to aptitude, but from what I understand the sea

Re: cdrecord in 2.6.9 (vanilla vs debian kernel package)

2004-12-16 Thread Ken Bloom
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:43:08 -0500, H. S. wrote: > > I have this odd situation. I am running 2.6.9 in Sarge which I compiled by > downloading the 2.6.9 kernel source from kernel.org since Sarge doesn't > have this as a package yet. In this kernel, I am not able to use the > cdrecord to burn CD's

Re: Trackball Problems

2004-12-16 Thread J.A. de Vries
bill wrote: I have just installed Debian testing. I have a Logitech Trackman Wheel Trackball. As a trackball it works fine. But I can't seem to get the wheel to work. Any help would be appretiated. Hi Bill, This is what I have in XF86Config-4 for my Trackman Marble+. It should work just fine fo

LILO HANGS-Linux Nor Windows Wont Bootup

2004-12-16 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
After several apt-get updates, upgrades and pkg-upgrades Lilo hangs and wont boot.  The Lilo screen comes up clean and starts with LI and a blinking cursor and that's it.  My linux boot disk wont boot either saying to use another disk.  Windows boot disc wont work either, just hangs in the f

[Solved] ls color for bad symbolic link

2004-12-16 Thread Tong
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:51:22 +, Jason Chambers wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 07:29:22PM -0500, Tong wrote: >> On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:48:34 -0500, Tong wrote: >> >> > I remember that my previous distro can distinguish symbolic links as good >> > or bad: good links are show as normal link co

Re: Installing Nvidia Drivers in Sarge

2004-12-16 Thread Paul Tsai
Toufeeq Hussain wrote: HOWTO available for installing the NVIDIA Driver through the default NVIDIA Installer at nvidia.org ? When I run the installer it says kernel source not found even after I provide the --kernel-source-path= I apt-get 'ed the kernel source too, still it fails to build the mod

Re: AMD 64 with woody or sarge

2004-12-16 Thread Tim Kelley
On Thursday 16 December 2004 10:38, Nick Miller wrote: > Hey all, > > I am wondering what experiences, positive or negative, you all have had > running woody or sarge with AMD's line of 754 & 939 64bit processors. I > would really like to push my company to replace some of our lower end > servers

Re: cdrecord in 2.6.9 (vanilla vs debian kernel package)

2004-12-16 Thread Rodney Gordon II
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 15:43 -0500, H. S. wrote: > I have this odd situation. I am running 2.6.9 in Sarge which I compiled > by downloading the 2.6.9 kernel source from kernel.org since Sarge > doesn't have this as a package yet. In this kernel, I am not able to use > the cdrecord to burn CD's an

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
William Ballard wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:56:53AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: True, but fitting it on one CD seems a problem with an existing system. I am going to try building one from scratch to keep watch on the size. I keep a local mirror of all the .debs I have installed. I have a s

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 14:29 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 22:44 +0200, ocl wrote: > >>It's not that we won't want to let /them/ *ever* use such > >>devices, the imperative thing is who + where + when. > > > Some places *do* want such restrictions. > >

Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

2004-12-16 Thread John Fleming
> After a lot of reading, the problem is solved. I'm running > firestarter on Sarge and it works great :) > > I read through Chapter 6 of the Debian Reference manual, > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html. I > created the file /etc/apt/prefences and placed the following

Re: Samba not accessible with 3.0.8

2004-12-16 Thread Brian Brazil
I'm having similar problems on win98 and Samba 3.0.9-1 (on Sarge). I've found a slight workaround: if I access samba by the ip address of the server from the win98 system it starts working. E.g. goto Run... and type '\\124.47.34.97' and press enter. Then I'm able to use the NetBIOS names as norm

Re: gnome file picker

2004-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark Roach wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 16:12 -0500, Matt Price wrote: hi folks, trying out a couple of gnome programs that seem to use the "gnome file picker" for file selection (i'm running the xfce desktop, not gnome). I find this incredibly frustrating to use, as it doesn't have a command line

Re: cdrecord in 2.6.9 (vanilla vs debian kernel package)

2004-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H. S. wrote: I have this odd situation. I am running 2.6.9 in Sarge which I compiled by downloading the 2.6.9 kernel source from kernel.org since Sarge doesn't have this as a package yet. In this kernel, I am not able to use the cdrecord to burn CD's and K3b does not see my cdwriter as a write

Re: Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

2004-12-16 Thread Ralph Katz
Ben, This is getting more interesting While I am using firestarter obtained from a periodic update from testing, you are again correct that firestarter does not appear in the testing archives *today*! I don't know why. ~$ apt-cache policy firestarter firestarter: Installed: 0.9.3-6 Cand

Re: Marvell 88E8053 (Asus P5GD1) not detected by sarge installer...

2004-12-16 Thread Joao Clemente
Googling for help didn't help much. It seem it is suposed to work with the module "sk98lin". This module fails to load... no device found, it says... Asus has, altough, Linux "drivers" for this thing. They compile a driver using existing kernel sources. So I think I could use another machine to

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 22:44 +0200, ocl wrote: It's not that we won't want to let /them/ *ever* use such devices, the imperative thing is who + where + when. Some places *do* want such restrictions. Web Cafes come to mind. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest,

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
William Ballard wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:56:53AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: True, but fitting it on one CD seems a problem with an existing system. I am going to try building one from scratch to keep watch on the size. I keep a local mirror of all the .debs I have installed. I have a s

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 22:44 +0200, ocl wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote on 2004-12-16 18:20: > >>IMO, anything that is likely to bring in, or take out data (inc. > >>binaries) needs to be authorized and authenticated. Linux is no > >>exception. > > > > Here, Linux is at an advantage, since if "IT" doesn

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Re: cdrecord in 2.6.9 (vanilla vs debian kernel package)

2004-12-16 Thread Yves Grenier
H. S. wrote: I have this odd situation. I am running 2.6.9 in Sarge which I compiled by downloading the 2.6.9 kernel source from kernel.org since Sarge doesn't have this as a package yet. In this kernel, I am not able to use the cdrecord to burn CD's and K3b does not see my cdwriter as a write

Re: distro for novices

2004-12-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Nathanael Hasbrouck wrote: > > - knoppix-live cd, suse-live cd, slackware-live cd... > > ( i'm not sure if there is a debian-live cd ) > > Something like MEPIS? we always build our own distro or install what the paying customer wants those that want "free" or out

[SOLVED]Re: gnome file picker

2004-12-16 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 05:06:14PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 16:12 -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > hi folks, trying out a couple of gnome programs that seem to use the > > "gnome file picker" for file selection (i'm running the xfce desktop, > > not gnome). I find this incredib

Re: Wlan adapter

2004-12-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Gerard Ceraso wrote: > I have broadcom wireless built into my laptop and I am using NdisWrapper > with the drivers from windows, everything has been working fine. You can > get some more information here http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/. as long as you have specific req

Re: FAT32 (was: dual-OS system)

2004-12-16 Thread CW Harris
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:12:35PM +, Daniel Goldsmith wrote: > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:44:40 +, David Dorward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Daniel Goldsmith wrote: > [...] > > > o Why were the dos/win filesystem supports removed from Sarge's > > > kernels? > > > > They aren't, as far as

Re: gnome file picker

2004-12-16 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 16:12 -0500, Matt Price wrote: > hi folks, trying out a couple of gnome programs that seem to use the > "gnome file picker" for file selection (i'm running the xfce desktop, > not gnome). I find this incredibly frustrating to use, as it doesn't > have a command line to type i

Re: yeah yeah it's OT as heck -- Re: OT anova.org: Cool Bibles and Porn [was Re: e-Sword under Linux?]

2004-12-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
kurtz wrote: El jueves 16 de diciembre de 2004 a las 16:34:36, Roberto Sanchez escribe: Then on his list of top 10 tips for developers he seems to think that the only reason to write software is to sell it and make money. No concept of Free software. Let us not forget, of course, that it is perfe

Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

2004-12-16 Thread Ben Bettin
After a lot of reading, the problem is solved. I'm running firestarter on Sarge and it works great :) I read through Chapter 6 of the Debian Reference manual, http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html. I created the file /etc/apt/prefences and placed the following in it: ---

Re: distro for novices

2004-12-16 Thread Nathanael Hasbrouck
On Tuesday 14 December 2004 1325, somebody named Alvin Oga inscribed this message: > > I *am* looking for out-of-the-box usability, > > sounds like you need to use "live (standalone) linux cd" to know that > hardware all works ... > - installing from cdrom to hardisk is a separate problem >

Re: Wlan adapter

2004-12-16 Thread Gerard Ceraso
Thomas Ruschival wrote: I like to buy a 54 Mbit PCI-Wlan card for my PC, I googled a bit through the internet and discovered that most Cards are only supported through Ndiswrapper. What is a good, cheap naively supported adapter? I know there are Atmel and Prism chipsets that are supported, unfort

Re: cdrecord in 2.6.9 (vanilla vs debian kernel package)

2004-12-16 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 16 December 2004 03:43 pm, H. S. wrote: > I have this odd situation. I am running 2.6.9 in Sarge which I compiled > by downloading the 2.6.9 kernel source from kernel.org since Sarge > doesn't have this as a package yet. In this kernel, I am not able to use > the cdrecord to burn CD's a

Re: yeah yeah it's OT as heck -- Re: OT anova.org: Cool Bibles and Porn [was Re: e-Sword under Linux?]

2004-12-16 Thread kurtz
El jueves 16 de diciembre de 2004 a las 16:34:36, Roberto Sanchez escribe: > Then on his list of top 10 tips for developers he seems to > think that the only reason to write software is to sell it > and make money. No concept of Free software. Let us not forget, of course, that it is perfectly po

Re: Preserving directory sort order in mkisofs

2004-12-16 Thread Nathanael Hasbrouck
On Thursday 16 December 2004 0726, somebody named Jean Hoderd inscribed this message: > Btw, the reason why I wanted to preserve the original > order is simple: I am burning a CD with MP3s for a > hardware player. I wanted the tracks to appear in > a certain order, which is not the same as the >

Re: yeah yeah it's OT as heck -- Re: OT anova.org: Cool Bibles and Porn [was Re: e-Sword under Linux?]

2004-12-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
William Ballard wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:02:39AM -0500, William Ballard wrote: http://www.anova.org/software/ This is just bizarre. "Zaine Ridling, Ph.D." is listed as the "editor" in the PDF file. This same twit who put together this list of his favorite Closed Source applications a

Re: free swap

2004-12-16 Thread Nitebirdz
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:29:02PM +, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > I am just wondering naive questions about the swap memory: > does it make sens to free the swap ? > how can we free it ? > Other than actually disabling swap with the 'swapoff' command, I simply cannot see how else

Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

2004-12-16 Thread Travis Crump
Ralph Katz wrote: Oops! I looked at my sources.list and made a wrong accusation about a typo in yours. Yours looks correct. Sorry about that. But do switch to a mirror, I'll stick with that suggestion. :) Ralph (using firestarter in sarge) Ok, I am confused. Isn't us.debian.org just a round ro

Re: cdrecord in 2.6.9 (vanilla vs debian kernel package)

2004-12-16 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _David Raleigh Arnold_, on 16/12/04 15:55,typed: On Thursday 16 December 2004 03:43 pm, H. S. wrote: I have this odd situation. I am running 2.6.9 in Sarge which I compiled by downloading the 2.6.9 kernel source from kernel.org since Sarge doesn't have this as a package yet. In this ker

gnome file picker

2004-12-16 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, trying out a couple of gnome programs that seem to use the "gnome file picker" for file selection (i'm running the xfce desktop, not gnome). I find this incredibly frustrating to use, as it doesn't have a command line to type in & doesn't show dotfiles. I am looking for a way to set pre

Re: [Solved] ls color for bad symbolic link

2004-12-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Tong([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:51:22 +, Jason Chambers wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 07:29:22PM -0500, Tong wrote: > >> On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:48:34 -0500, Tong wrote: > >> > >> > I remember that my previous distro can distinguish symbolic li

Re: Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

2004-12-16 Thread Ralph Katz
Oops! I looked at my sources.list and made a wrong accusation about a typo in yours. Yours looks correct. Sorry about that. But do switch to a mirror, I'll stick with that suggestion. :) Ralph (using firestarter in sarge) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

cdrecord in 2.6.9 (vanilla vs debian kernel package)

2004-12-16 Thread H. S.
I have this odd situation. I am running 2.6.9 in Sarge which I compiled by downloading the 2.6.9 kernel source from kernel.org since Sarge doesn't have this as a package yet. In this kernel, I am not able to use the cdrecord to burn CD's and K3b does not see my cdwriter as a write but as a read

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-16 Thread ocl
Ron Johnson wrote on 2004-12-16 18:20: IMO, anything that is likely to bring in, or take out data (inc. binaries) needs to be authorized and authenticated. Linux is no exception. Here, Linux is at an advantage, since if "IT" doesn't want lusers to to able to use thumb drives, iPods, external USB/ie

Re: udev and gnome-volume-manager not working in Sarge

2004-12-16 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Alex Malinovich_, on 16/12/04 15:11,typed: On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 16:41 -0500, H. S. wrote: --snip-- Okay, here is what I get when I list the hd[cd] permissions and those of the device link created by pluggin of a USB stick based on my rule in udev: ~# ls -l /dev/hd[cd] /dev/*hs* brw-r

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