Re: Gnome Volume Control, not the panel applet

2004-12-20 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 01:07:01 +, Cliff Flood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:21:59 +, Cliff Flood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Hi, running Unstable. > >> > >>When I use bound keys to modify my volume up or down I see the volume > >>bar m

Re: Fresh Sarge Install - 2.6.8 Kernel Panic

2004-12-20 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:36:44PM -0800, technoMyst wrote: > There is no initrd.img file for my current kernel in /boot. I tried > making a new one with "mkinitrd -k -o /boot/initrd.img -r /dev/hda2" but > booting with it caused the following error to repeat and eventially give > a kernel panic

Re: NeverEverNoSanity WebWorm???????

2004-12-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 11:43 +1300, Simon Buchanan wrote: [snip] > this is wierd, you cant ssh into the box. its got pureftpd/apache/php/mysql > running on it. with only ftp/http ports open, all else firewalled out So, either: a) there's a root-exploitation bug in pureftpd b) there's a root-e

Re: The Debian IRC channel

2004-12-20 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 06:11:52AM +0100, housetier wrote: > I don't think that #debian is a place for newbies to turn to when they > need help. When newbis ask for help they face a very urgent problem > and are usually overwhelmed by it. For their questions to be answered That's precisely the wro

Qmail Replacement?

2004-12-20 Thread Jacob S
Ok, I know Postfix is the mail server most people use when they're leaving qmail, but that's only the first part of the solution I'm looking for. My current setup is using qmail in conjunction with vpopmail and qmailadmin. Vpopmail is handy not just because I host several virtual domains, but also

Re: The Debian IRC channel

2004-12-20 Thread housetier
I don't think that #debian is a place for newbies to turn to when they need help. When newbis ask for help they face a very urgent problem and are usually overwhelmed by it. For their questions to be answered in #debian they must follow a certain protocol which is strictly enforced with all means p

Re: Old Release

2004-12-20 Thread Muhammad Reza
Ok, you are asking two questions here, Before answering them, can I point you at http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html which will make getting answers to your debian based questions easier. Thanks for the link, This is because you are running woody, also known as stable. The idea be

Re: usb flash stick on 2.6.8.1 kernel

2004-12-20 Thread Vijaya S
Hi . I compiled it myself as make bzImage make modules make modules_install cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1 other way too i treid using make-kpkg make-kpkg --revision-=custom-1.0 kernel-image kernel-headers dpkg -i kernel-image-custom-1.0.deb But the same thing for the other m

Re: /etc writeable [was: etc writeable blah]

2004-12-20 Thread William Ballard
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:34:10PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > if space and mem is an issue, motd is bells & whistles > for gigb-byte sized installs Actually, since I don't use KDE or Gnome, but use only gnome-control-center and kcontrol and fluxbox, I have been able to install almost everything on

Re: /etc writeable [was: etc writeable blah]

2004-12-20 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, William Ballard wrote: > > most everything under /var/log /var/spool /var/run /var/tmp > > My bad. I should have said "what other files in /etc think you did say /etc ... but i added the other junk about /var and gazillion other places > need to be writeable." not man

Re: Novice Questions

2004-12-20 Thread William Ballard
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:49:06AM -0800, Joseph Schumacher wrote: > I will sincerely appreciate any advice you might offer. Many thanks - Joe Make a list of the hardware in your machine. Download and burn a Mandrake ISO, and a Knoppix ISO. use the lspci command Keep a windows PC up with google.

/etc writeable [was: etc writeable blah]

2004-12-20 Thread William Ballard
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 12:36:04PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, William Ballard wrote: > > What other files need to be writeable? > > most everything under /var/log /var/spool /var/run /var/tmp My bad. I should have said "what other files in /etc need to be writeable." BootCD

Re: debian boot slow due to 2min 40 sec pause during exportfs in S20nfs-kernel-server

2004-12-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Monday 20 December 2004 11:09 pm, Darryl Clarke wrote: > Do you have host-name based authroity in your /etc/exports file? > ex: > /mirror host1,host2(ro) Bingo!! you are amazing. here is my /etc/exports /mirror192.168.*.*(ro) is what it is. Also, to compound problem,

Re: nVidia Video Drivers Need Reinstalled After Reboot

2004-12-20 Thread Scarletdown
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: That problem has been solved. As per someone else's suggestion in this thread, a simple modprobe nvidia installed the drivers without having to run the nVidia installer. After that, I added nvidia to /etc/modules, and now the drivers load automatically. So that is one

Re: nVidia Video Drivers Need Reinstalled After Reboot

2004-12-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
> That problem has been solved. As per someone else's suggestion in this > thread, a simple modprobe nvidia installed the drivers without having > to run the nVidia installer. After that, I added nvidia to > /etc/modules, and now the drivers load automatically. > > So that is one task down, a b

Re: debian boot slow due to 2min 40 sec pause during exportfs in S20nfs-kernel-server

2004-12-20 Thread Darryl Clarke
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:52:22 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I am using a notebook to share a debian mirror via a nfs mount. > > However the bootup of the notebook has become very slow, due to a 2minute 40 > second 'pause' in the script S20nfs-kernel-server in /etc/rc2.d

Re: best IRC client for Debian

2004-12-20 Thread James Vahn
Kirk Strauser wrote: >> Yes, it's a problem with AOL. The date was 05/09/1953 and variations of it. >> The page kept returning an error with the date highlighted. > > Lie. No, seriously: lie. 01/01/1981 got me in, but it all ended up in "/:misc error" I'll have to give it another shot later. Ma

debian boot slow due to 2min 40 sec pause during exportfs in S20nfs-kernel-server

2004-12-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi. I am using a notebook to share a debian mirror via a nfs mount. However the bootup of the notebook has become very slow, due to a 2minute 40 second 'pause' in the script S20nfs-kernel-server in /etc/rc2.d while the program /sbin/exportfs -r is run. I am booting up not connected to the netwo

Re: nVidia Video Drivers Need Reinstalled After Reboot

2004-12-20 Thread Scarletdown
Pau Capdevila wrote: I just solved this issue removing the package nvidia-glx. Firstly chek the nvidia kernel module loading in /etc/modules That problem has been solved. As per someone else's suggestion in this thread, a simple modprobe nvidia installed the drivers without having to run the

TV Tuner Not Working - scantv Finds No Channels

2004-12-20 Thread Scarletdown
Here is another problem that had been resolved at one time, but it has been so long, I don't remember how it was achieved. I am trying to get my TV Tuner card working with either xawtv or TVTime. The card is a bt878 type, and connected to the TV cable (us-cable, NTSC). However, neither scantv

OT Debugging PHP "Error 500" errors

2004-12-20 Thread William Ballard
Helping a friend debug a PHP error on a hosted site. A certain operation (building a large PDF) causes an Error 500. Running same operation offline doesn't throw error. A larger PDF (running different code) succeeds. How can I debug this error? I can't find wherever the hosting provider hid apache

Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card

2004-12-20 Thread Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie
Adam Aube wrote: Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie wrote: I already used the alsaconf tools. It says "No supported PnP or PCI card found. Would you like to probe legacy ISA sound cards/chips?" I answer yes and then it starts probing for ISA card. It didn't find any. That was t

Re: discover seems to have changed my NICs

2004-12-20 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Jeremy Turner_, on 20/12/04 17:39,typed: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 03:59:15PM -0500, H. S. wrote: I then realized that I had updated discover just recently. Maybe that detected the NICs in a different way and made eth0 as eth1 and vice versa. That sounds like what happened. When you m

Re: Debian file check

2004-12-20 Thread James Vahn
MJang wrote: > Just wondering if there's a dpkg (or maybe debsums) command functionally > equivalent to > > rpm -Vf /path/to/filename > > Which checks and verifies a specific file against the original package - > or do I need to resort to a Tripwire check. Yes, debsums. Some packages don't have

Re: discover seems to have changed my NICs

2004-12-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Monday 20 December 2004 05:39 pm, Jeremy Turner wrote: > (atleast a 2.4 to a 2.6) the order in which modules load might change. > > If you use a kernel with modules for your NICs, I would suggest using > aliases to explicitly name your ethernet cards. Something like: > > # echo "alias eth0 3c5

Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card

2004-12-20 Thread Adam Aube
Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie wrote: > I already used the alsaconf tools. It says "No supported PnP or PCI > card found. Would you like to probe legacy ISA sound cards/chips?" I > answer yes and then it starts probing for ISA card. It didn't find any. That was the only suggestion I had. What kernel

Re: Re: Cdrom Problems

2004-12-20 Thread bill
I beleve it was kio_audiocd preventing me from ejecting the cd. I removed the kdemultimedia-plugin package and it seems to fix the problem. I don't use music cd's on the system anyway. Thanks for your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card

2004-12-20 Thread Adam Aube
Please don't top post (which is replying above the original message, making the thread hard to follow). Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie wrote: > Adam Aube wrote: >> Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie wrote: >>Please turn off HTML when posting to mailing lists. > I'm sorry. Here it is again in plain text Thanks.

Re: Cdrom Question

2004-12-20 Thread Adam Aube
bill wrote: > When I mount the cdrom in kde, half the time, I can't unmount it or > can't eject it > Can anyone offer me some information on this or let me know where I > might find it? Try using fuser to see what is keeping the CD-ROM busy: fuser -m /media/cdrom (Change /media/cdrom to the mou

Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card

2004-12-20 Thread Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie
I already used the alsaconf tools. It says "No supported PnP or PCI card found. Would you like to probe legacy ISA sound cards/chips?" I answer yes and then it starts probing for ISA card. It didn't find any. I got: Unloading sound driver modules...done. modinfo: could not find module snd-op

Re: best IRC client for Debian

2004-12-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 20 December 2004 07:10 pm, James Vahn wrote: > Yes, it's a problem with AOL. The date was 05/09/1953 and variations of it. > The page kept returning an error with the date highlighted. Lie. No, seriously: lie. > My daughter is an AOL'er. She was camped out there and I couldn't reach >

Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card

2004-12-20 Thread Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie
I'm sorry. Here it is again in plain text I'm running Sarge with an old Ensoniq Sounscape Elite ISA card. I read a lot during the past few month to get this card working but everything I tried didn't work so far. It's a pretty old card and all the information I could find was outdated. One t

Re: best IRC client for Debian

2004-12-20 Thread James Vahn
Peter wrote: > On Monday 20 Dec 2004 21:02, James Vahn wrote: >> Just this morning I was trying to get kopete to talk AIM and it led >> me to an AOL registration page, which kept refusing my birthdate. >> Methinks it is broken, although I'd like to refuse any more birthdays >> too.. > > From my qu

Re: Cdrom Problems

2004-12-20 Thread Kent West
tech wrote: When I mount the cdrom in kde, half the time, I can't unmount it or can't eject it Can anyone offer me some information on this or let me know where I might find it? Thanks for your time, Bill H. I believe it may have to do with famd; try killing that process and see if it releas

Re: Cdrom Question

2004-12-20 Thread Robert Vangel
Posting the same question twice, under different names/emails isn't likely to get you help quicker.. if anything, slower due to people being annoyed. bill wrote: When I mount the cdrom in kde, half the time, I can't unmount it or can't eject it Can anyone offer me some information on this or le

Re: hangup during boot (kernel 2.4.27)

2004-12-20 Thread James Vahn
Michiel wrote: > Yes, this is all built into the kernel (including ext3 and jbd). > I read something about that you need to use an initrd image file when > the root partition has an ext3 filesystem. But I guess this is only > needed when the ext3 drivers are loaded as a module? I have an ext3 ro

Cdrom Question

2004-12-20 Thread bill
When I mount the cdrom in kde, half the time, I can't unmount it or can't eject it Can anyone offer me some information on this or let me know where I might find it? Thanks for your time, Bill H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Cdrom Problems

2004-12-20 Thread tech
When I mount the cdrom in kde, half the time, I can't unmount it or can't eject it Can anyone offer me some information on this or let me know where I might find it? Thanks for your time, Bill H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: discover seems to have changed my NICs

2004-12-20 Thread Adam Aube
H. S. wrote: > Yesterday, due to some weird reason, my network went down yesterday. > When I rebooted into Fedora to see if it worked, it did. Then I rebooted > into 2.4.26 kernel in Debian. That worked too. Then I tried again in > 2.6.9 and 2.6.7 kernels in Debian and networking failed again. >

Re: Novice Questions

2004-12-20 Thread Kent West
Adam Aube wrote: Kent West wrote: (PS, don't bottom post.) Like you just did? I think you meant "don't top post". Adam Oops. Thanks for catching that :-^ -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Novice Questions

2004-12-20 Thread Adam Aube
Kent West wrote: > (PS, don't bottom post.) Like you just did? I think you meant "don't top post". Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sony Vaio Problems

2004-12-20 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
Hello All, Kernel: 2.6.8-1 Debian: Testing I have a couple of problems I hope someone can help me: First the hardware that I have: :00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Host Bridge (rev 02) :00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Memory I/O Control Registers (rev 02)

Re: hangup during boot (kernel 2.4.27)

2004-12-20 Thread Adam Aube
Michiel Jansen wrote: > James Vahn wrote: >> Michiel Jansen wrote: >>>No my customized kernel does not load an initrd.img file. It is also not >>>generated during kernel compilation. >>Is ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support built in? >>PCI IDE chipset support? > Yes, this is all built into the kernel (inclu

Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card

2004-12-20 Thread Adam Aube
Please turn off HTML when posting to mailing lists. Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie wrote: > I'm running Sarge with an old Ensoniq Sounscape Elite ISA card.  I > read a lot during the past few month to get this card working but > everything I tried didn't work so far. > I know the dma, irq, etc.but it d

Re: questions about disk partitions

2004-12-20 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Eric wrote: > Hello all. > > I was in need of some more hard disk space and so I figured I'd reclaim some > of the unused space in my rarely used XP partition. XP is located on hda1. > I resized hda1 from 35GB to 15GB using ntfsresize leaving ~20GB of free > space, but I c

Re: make-kpkg modules_image

2004-12-20 Thread John
On (20/12/04 15:30), Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > hello, > trying to get the hostap modules working: > # aptitude install hostap-source > $ make-kpkg --append-to-version=.20041220.0 kernel_image modules_image > # dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image2.6.9.20041220.0_10.00.Cus

Unidentified subject!

2004-12-20 Thread John
On (20/12/04 15:30), Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > hello, > trying to get the hostap modules working: > # aptitude install hostap-source > $ make-kpkg --append-to-version=.20041220.0 kernel_image modules_image > # dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image2.6.9.20041220.0_10.00.Custom_i386.deb > # dpkg -i /usr/src/h

ot, changing screen numbers

2004-12-20 Thread Robert Vangel
This isn't specifically debian, but everyone seems to know what they are talking about so I figured what the hey :) Does anyone know if it's possible to change the number of each individual screen, in a screen session. eg.. I run screen from my login, it gives me a new screen session with bash

Re: pdftohtml

2004-12-20 Thread Gerard Robin
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 01:39:49PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:48:33AM +0100, Gerard Robin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a few problems with pdftohtml (unstable) : > > > > with one pdf file I get a suitable html file but with another one I

questions about disk partitions

2004-12-20 Thread Eric
Hello all. I was in need of some more hard disk space and so I figured I'd reclaim some of the unused space in my rarely used XP partition. XP is located on hda1. I resized hda1 from 35GB to 15GB using ntfsresize leaving ~20GB of free space, but I can't create a new partition since I've already g

Re: best IRC client for Debian

2004-12-20 Thread Robert Vangel
I only ever use XChat for gui (whether I'm in KDE or Gnome), just because it looks nice and fairly easy to use. For CLI, I'm most partial to irssi. Once again, it looks fairly nice, easier to use, and just seems a whole lot easier than bitchx/epic. Shaikh Quader wrote: What is the best IRC clie

Debian file check

2004-12-20 Thread MJang
Folks, Just wondering if there's a dpkg (or maybe debsums) command functionally equivalent to rpm -Vf /path/to/filename Which checks and verifies a specific file against the original package - or do I need to resort to a Tripwire check. Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: No CD sound

2004-12-20 Thread Ted Parks
Andrea, I am using ALSA. I now have gotten XMMS to work, I think consistently, by configuring the CD plugin to read the CD through Digital Audio Extraction. But I still don't understand why, before, XMMS would work some of the time. And is there a way to configure GNOME-CD or KsCD to read the CD

Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card

2004-12-20 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 06:00:11PM -0500, Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie wrote: > html > > meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> > title> > /head> > body bgcolor="#ff" text="#00"> > Hi, > > I'm running Sarge with an old Ensoniq Sounscape Elite ISA card.  I

Re: best IRC client for Debian

2004-12-20 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Monday 20 Dec 2004 21:02, James Vahn wrote: > Peter Nuttall wrote: > > guy then it should be good for you. Kopete is in the style of a IM > > client, and in fact supports all the common IM protocols, but if you > > are a power irc users it isn't for you. > > Just this morning I was trying to get

Re: NeverEverNoSanity WebWorm???????

2004-12-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Simon Buchanan wrote: Hi, A little over an hour ago.. all our PHP and HTML files got changed to this on my little develpoment box: This site is defaced!!! This site is defaced!!! NeverEverNoSanity WebWorm generation 11. this is wierd, you cant ssh into the box. its got pureftpd/apache/php/m

Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card

2004-12-20 Thread Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie
Hi, I'm running Sarge with an old Ensoniq Sounscape Elite ISA card.  I read a lot during the past few month to get this card working but everything I tried didn't work so far.  It's a pretty old card and all the information I could find was outdated.  One thing I know is that I had sound with

swsusp wipes out the swap file

2004-12-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I am trying to get swsusp working in the 2.6.8 kernel that comes with the installer rc2. I have asked this question before, but now I know more. So I recompiled the kernel with: # Power management options (ACPI, APM) # CONFIG_PM=y CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y CONFIG_PM_DISK=y CONFIG_PM_DI

NeverEverNoSanity WebWorm???????

2004-12-20 Thread Simon Buchanan
Hi, A little over an hour ago.. all our PHP and HTML files got changed to this on my little develpoment box: This site is defaced!!! This site is defaced!!! NeverEverNoSanity WebWorm generation 11. this is wierd, you cant ssh into the box. its got pureftpd/apache/php/mysql running on it. wi

Re: discover seems to have changed my NICs

2004-12-20 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 03:59:15PM -0500, H. S. wrote: > I then realized that I had updated discover just recently. Maybe that > detected the NICs in a different way and made eth0 as eth1 and vice versa. That sounds like what happened. When you move between kernel versions (atleast a 2.4 to a 2.

Re: hangup during boot (kernel 2.4.27)

2004-12-20 Thread Michiel Jansen
James Vahn wrote: No my customized kernel does not load an initrd.img file. It is also not generated during kernel compilation. Is ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support built in? PCI IDE chipset support? I'm out of guesses, sorry. Yes, this is all built into the kernel (including ext3 and jbd). I read s

Re: The Debian IRC channel

2004-12-20 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:49:31 -0800 Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > That being said: Why is this so hard to grasp? Until you can comply > with this list's rules on conduct, this conversation is over. Paul, are you sure he's hitting "reply to all"? There certainly might be something munged on my e

Re: hangup during boot (kernel 2.4.27)

2004-12-20 Thread James Vahn
> No my customized kernel does not load an initrd.img file. It is also not > generated during kernel compilation. Is ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support built in? PCI IDE chipset support? I'm out of guesses, sorry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: The Debian IRC channel

2004-12-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 20 December 2004 11:32 am, you wrote: > Ok, so where did I say that?? I NEVER talked about switching IP's. So > this is the time when I am right to start adressing you as a FOOL!? > Because you made a mistake? According to you and a couple of other > geeks it is! > [...] > If both su

Re: best IRC client for Debian

2004-12-20 Thread Scarletdown
Ben Bettin wrote: I think I've always found Xchat to be the best GUI, especially in terms of it's similarity to mIRC. I'd be curious to see what everyone's favorite CLI client is. I've heard a few mentions of irssi in the past, but I've never tried it. Ben On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:02:21 -0400, Shai

Re: Fresh Sarge Install - 2.6.8 Kernel Panic

2004-12-20 Thread technoMyst
Roby wrote: Kent West wrote: Ryan Foley wrote: Hey, I'm new to this mailing list. I'm pretty familiar with linux administration but I'm fairly new to using it as a workstation. I'm hoping to solve a problem that I've run into several times with sarge, usually causing me to fallback on pre-c

make-kpkg modules_image

2004-12-20 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
hello, trying to get the hostap modules working: # aptitude install hostap-source $ make-kpkg --append-to-version=.20041220.0 kernel_image modules_image # dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image2.6.9.20041220.0_10.00.Custom_i386.deb # dpkg -i /usr/src/hostap-modules-2.6.9.20041220.0_0.2.5-1 +10.00.Custom

Re: hangup during boot (kernel 2.4.27)

2004-12-20 Thread Michiel Jansen
James Vahn wrote: Michiel wrote: Everything boots fine, but I wanted to recompile a customized kernel, because of a new video driver that I want to install, but I cannot get it to boot with my customized kernel. Look in /boot/grub/menu.lst and see if you are telling grub to use a non-exista

Re: best IRC client for Debian

2004-12-20 Thread James Vahn
Peter Nuttall wrote: > guy then it should be good for you. Kopete is in the style of a IM client, > and in fact supports all the common IM protocols, but if you are a power > irc users it isn't for you. Just this morning I was trying to get kopete to talk AIM and it led me to an AOL registratio

Re: Sarge and sound

2004-12-20 Thread James Vahn
Ted Parks wrote: > I am trying to configure the sound card on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 using > Alsa drivers. The Sarge kernel includes OSS drivers, I think. > > I cannot get the snd-opl3sa2 driver to load, despite the fact that > modinfo shows the driver is there. I had the same trouble with an HP ze

discover seems to have changed my NICs

2004-12-20 Thread H. S.
Yesterday, due to some weird reason, my network went down yesterday. When I rebooted into Fedora to see if it worked, it did. Then I rebooted into 2.4.26 kernel in Debian. That worked too. Then I tried again in 2.6.9 and 2.6.7 kernels in Debian and networking failed again. This morning I ran pp

Re: hangup during boot (kernel 2.4.27)

2004-12-20 Thread James Vahn
Michiel wrote: > Everything boots fine, but I wanted to recompile a customized kernel, > because of a new video driver that I want to install, but I cannot get > it to boot with my customized kernel. Look in /boot/grub/menu.lst and see if you are telling grub to use a non-existant initrd.img ..

Re: Novice Questions

2004-12-20 Thread Kent West
Joseph Schumacher wrote: Hope you do not mind an inquiry from a Linux novice. Not at all. We do usually expect you to do your homework first, which you indicate you've done further down, when you mention googling. Good for you. I do not know much about Linux but I do know that I'm tired of Mic

Re: What files in /etc must be writable?

2004-12-20 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, William Ballard wrote: > However, the liveCD had errors during boot, because some files > apparently have to be writeable during boot. what error messages ?? it tells you what it can't write to > For example, I guess, /etc/mtab. yup and your hostname, ip# and gateway in

Re: /etc/apt/preferences problem - might cause problems when Sarge goes stable!

2004-12-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 03:21:47PM +, Ben Bettin wrote: > I recently started using the /etc/apt/preferences file to get > Firestarter from unstable into my testing install of Sarge. My file > follows: > > -- > Package: * > Pin: release a=testing > Pin-Priority: 900 > > Package: fires

Re: Sarge and sound

2004-12-20 Thread Midnight
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 15:20:39 + "Pedro M (Morphix User)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think we would create debian-sound list. Now that is a brilliant idea. Cheers Midn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: distro for novices

2004-12-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:56:03PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > Hi folks, > > this is not a troll, really! I'm just looking for some advice. > > I've been using Debian exclusively for about 2.5 years, and it's the > only linux with which I really have any experience. I teach in the > history

Re: Need help with XF86 config

2004-12-20 Thread James Vahn
Andrew Konosky wrote: > After I got the base system installed, I selected "Desktop Environment" > and apt installed both KDE and Gnome, Gnome as default. I would like to see "KDE Desktop" and "GNOME Desktop", and not have both installed. > I switched it over to KDE and KDM, but the installer did

Re: best IRC client for Debian

2004-12-20 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Monday 20 Dec 2004 18:02, Shaikh Quader wrote: > What is the best IRC client for Debian? > In particular, I am looking for an IRC Client which is functionally > similar to mIRC. > > Thanks, > Shaikh Hi, I have used four over the last couple of months, kopete, konversation, x-chat and irssi.

Why do I have to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH & LD_LIBRARY_PATH to compile, link, and run my app??

2004-12-20 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
Hi, I am currently developing an app that uses two libraries (ClanLib & MySQL++). I installed clanlib through configure, make, make install as the clanlib package for debian is way too old. Clanlib is installed in /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/include, and /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig. If I don't set

Re: Fresh Sarge Install - 2.6.8 Kernel Panic

2004-12-20 Thread Roby
Kent West wrote: > Ryan Foley wrote: > >>Hey, >> >>I'm new to this mailing list. I'm pretty familiar with linux >>administration but I'm fairly new to using it as a workstation. I'm >>hoping to solve a problem that I've run into several times with sarge, >>usually causing me to fallback on pre-co

Re: The Debian IRC channel

2004-12-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Kim wrote: Saying that I soon experienced a lot of rudeness and after only posting I think about 5 messages in total I got banned. And since I sit on a wan which has only one public IP the entire wan is actually banned. aptitude -t unstable install tor What do you think? But ya didn't hea

hangup during boot (kernel 2.4.27)

2004-12-20 Thread Michiel Jansen
Hello, I've installed debian Sarge on my system successfully, using the iso image sarge-i386-netinst.iso Everything boots fine, but I wanted to recompile a customized kernel, because of a new video driver that I want to install, but I cannot get it to boot with my customized kernel. Debian is insta

Re: What files in /etc must be writable?

2004-12-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Sam Watkins wrote: You can find out which /etc files are touched during boot by taking a look at the `date`, then booting, then typing: ls -ltc /etc | less Wouldn't this be better? find /etc -mmin -5 | less ls -ltc presumes all the modified files are in the top level of etc. Find with a

hangup during boot (kernel 2.4.27)

2004-12-20 Thread Michiel Jansen
Hello, I've installed debian Sarge on my system successfully, using the iso image sarge-i386-netinst.iso Everything boots fine, but I wanted to recompile a customized kernel, because of a new video driver that I want to install, but I cannot get it to boot with my customized kernel. Debian is insta

Re: OT: Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Karsten M. Self wrote: # aptitude install mencal ...now if we can just get Bill and Steve's start days According to my wife I don't have a stop day. :P -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the

Re: Gnome Volume Control, not the panel applet

2004-12-20 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:21:59 +, Cliff Flood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, running Unstable. > > When I use bound keys to modify my volume up or down I see the volume > bar move up and down but there is no change to the volume of the audio I > hear, probably because the volume on the wrong c

Re: No CD sound

2004-12-20 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:14:43 -0600, Ted Parks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running Sarge, my Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop loads the proper sound > module, snd-OPL3SA2. But XMMS and GNOME-CD will only occasionally play > the sound from an audio-CD, even though they read the titles from the > CD tracks.

Re: Novice Questions

2004-12-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:39:44PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > > > 4) Lastly, I hope you will not mind me mentioning Knoppix but I have seen > > impressive screen shots of it while there are very few available for Debian. > > Knoppix however appears to be merely an introductory vehicle f

Re: Novice Questions

2004-12-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/12/04 13:39), Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > > > 4) Lastly, I hope you will not mind me mentioning Knoppix but I have seen > > impressive screen shots of it while there are very few available for Debian. > > Knoppix however appears to be merely an introductory vehicle for Linux so my > > th

Re: The Debian IRC channel

2004-12-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 20 December 2004 10:20 am, Peter Nuttall wrote: > > 01:39 PerfDave> macon: But the people who are less than entirely > > friendly are also the people who are most helpful and > > knowlegeable. Which is why they get to be so snarky, > > whe

Re: Novice Questions

2004-12-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:49:06AM -0800, Joseph Schumacher wrote: > Hi Folks - > > Hope you do not mind an inquiry from a Linux novice. I do not know much about > Linux but I do know that I'm tired of Microsoft and I write to seek advice as > to whether or not my system is suitable for Linux. >

Re: Need help with XF86 config

2004-12-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:35:47 -0600, Andrew Konosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what command do I run to reconfigure > the graphics setup? > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 might be what you are looking for. You can also source /etc/bash_completion and then press tab after entering the command mi

Automating DebConf answers

2004-12-20 Thread William Ballard
I'm aware that a "text" frontend for DebConf is available, where one can simply provide keystrokes to DebConf on stdin. Is there a frontend that informs me "which" package is being configured, and lets me decide what answers to provide based on that? Otherwise my scripts are brittle and break i

Re: usb flash stick on 2.6.8.1 kernel

2004-12-20 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
the 2.6.8 (custom compile) kernel had troubles recognizing my mass storage devices, 2.6.7 and 2.6.9 worked fine. ive never tried a stock debian kernel, maybe there is magic there. -matt zagrabelny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: Novice Questions

2004-12-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
> > 4) Lastly, I hope you will not mind me mentioning Knoppix but I have seen > impressive screen shots of it while there are very few available for Debian. > Knoppix however appears to be merely an introductory vehicle for Linux so my > thinking is that I may as well skip it and instead go straig

Re: The Debian IRC channel

2004-12-20 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Monday 20 Dec 2004 14:13, Stephen Rueger wrote: > This is what actually happened: > Hi all, Since I both lurk on #debian and debian-user, I thought I would comment. First off, irc is the wrong place to be asking questions. This is because irc answers are lost after a couple of days but answer

Re: nVidia Video Drivers Need Reinstalled After Reboot

2004-12-20 Thread Pau Capdevila
I just solved this issue removing the package nvidia-glx. Firstly chek the nvidia kernel module loading in /etc/modules cu On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:59:55 -0500, Darryl Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 04:06:42 -0800, Scarletdown > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just recent

Re: The Debian IRC channel

2004-12-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 20 December 2004 10:00 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Actually, according to Debian's website (http://debian.org/support), the=20 > > IRC channel is the Debian official IRC channel. > > No you are wrong it is not: > http://www.debian.org/vote/2001/vote_0002 > > QUOTE: > 2. Problems

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-20 Thread Sam Halliday
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Sam Halliday wrote: Ralph Katz wrote: For searching *within* a web page in firefox sorry if i was unclear... i mean the search bar at the top. the one that requires search engines, like google. OH that one! If you mean the one just to the right of the basic url textbox, then

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