Re: cannot open root device "801"

2004-12-29 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:45:27 -0800, Eric N. Valor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello. > > I recently recompiled my 2.6.8 kernel. Now I can no longer boot my > system. It fails with the message "cannot open root device "801" or > unknown-block(8,1)". > > I am using a Symbios SCSI card without

Re: debsign problem

2004-12-29 Thread Alexis Huxley
On 2004-12-30, Choy Kho Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Now signing changes and any dsc files... >> signfile dri-trunk-sid_2004.02.28-2.dsc Michel Daenzer >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg: skipped `Michel Daenzer >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>': secret key not available gpg: [stdin]: >> clearsign failed: sec

Re: Frustration with Firefox extension update

2004-12-29 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:27:38 -0500, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apologies for asking here, as it's probably not specific to Debian, > but I am a Debian user (testing system) and this is a very > knowledgable group (about lots of things :). > > I use the gmail notifier extension, w

KDE 3.3.1 issue

2004-12-29 Thread Aditya Pratap
Hi, Yesterday I tried to upgrade KDE from 3.2 to 3.3.1. This is how I tried to do $ apt-get install kdebase $ apt-get install kde After the installation, I tried to log into KDE. After loging in I found that no applications are listed in the K-Menu. That is, when I click on the "K" button, there

Re: minimal x11 for sarge?

2004-12-29 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:28:20AM -0600, Jacob Johnson wrote: > What packages are needed for a bare bones working XFree86 4.3 on Sarge? I'm > trying to trim down my testing system as it will eventually be used as the > master image in a netboot situation for many public kiosks. I don't use a gr

Spamassassin package bug ?

2004-12-29 Thread Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 01:49 -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: > What ancient version of SA are you using? RCVD_IN_ORBS hasn't been a > part of SA in a LONG time. The last version of SA to include this > test in > the ruleset at all was 2.55 (may 2003). I already heard that on this list, and I have

Re: ide-scsi with 2 drives

2004-12-29 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Robert Epprecht wrote: > >> > /dev/hda hd > >> > /dev/hdb dvd writer > >> > /dev/hdc hd > >> > /dev/hdd dvd rom bad idea .. esp if the drives are NOT the same ata-33, ata-66 or ata-100 or ata-133 speeds == == you cannot mix devices with different ata

Re: ide-scsi with 2 drives

2004-12-29 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 09:31 pm, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 12:38 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > >> On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:35 am, Robert Epprecht wrote: > >> > Up to now I had one hd and one dvd writer and everything work

[SOLVED] Re: Kingstron Data Traveller giving Buffer I/O error

2004-12-29 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Ron Johnson_, on 29/12/04 21:35,typed: On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 20:37 -0500, H. S. wrote: Looks fine to me. A hard drive that I tried this on the other day, and there were lots of errors. I formatted the usbstick. First I make the parition (whole disk) at FAT32 from cfdisk. Wrote the

minimal x11 for sarge?

2004-12-29 Thread Jacob Johnson
What packages are needed for a bare bones working XFree86 4.3 on Sarge? I'm trying to trim down my testing system as it will eventually be used as the master image in a netboot situation for many public kiosks. My current "basic" installation of Sarge works great. But I don't need FreeType, I d

Re: ide-scsi with 2 drives

2004-12-29 Thread Robert Epprecht
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 12:38 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: >> On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:35 am, Robert Epprecht wrote: >> > Up to now I had one hd and one dvd writer and everything worked fine. >> > Now I have added a second hd and a dvd rom drive: >> >

Re: USB cardreader

2004-12-29 Thread jeff elkins
On Thursday 30 December 2004 12:09 am, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 23:55 -0500, jeff elkins wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 December 2004 7:34 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 19:11 -0500, jeff elkins wrote: > > > > On Saturday 25 December 2004 4:04 pm, jeff elkins wrote

Re: USB cardreader

2004-12-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 23:55 -0500, jeff elkins wrote: > On Wednesday 29 December 2004 7:34 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 19:11 -0500, jeff elkins wrote: > > > On Saturday 25 December 2004 4:04 pm, jeff elkins wrote: > > > > On Saturday 25 December 2004 3:19 pm, H. S. wrote: > > >

Re: USB cardreader

2004-12-29 Thread jeff elkins
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 7:34 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 19:11 -0500, jeff elkins wrote: > > On Saturday 25 December 2004 4:04 pm, jeff elkins wrote: > > > On Saturday 25 December 2004 3:19 pm, H. S. wrote: > > > > Apparently, _jeff elkins_, on 25/12/04 09:06,typed: > > > >

debsign problem

2004-12-29 Thread Choy Kho Yee
Hi, I have posted the same problem to debian-powerpc list but I have got (Bno reply there yet. I think this is a problem general enough to post (Bhere, too. (B (BI am trying to get vga-out to work on my iBook with reference to this (Bsite: http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto-

Re: PVR recomendations?

2004-12-29 Thread Brendan
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 20:49, Curt Howland wrote: > > going to be 3D TV from the future? 2D TV is just fine... > > I prefer not to reward hardware manufacturers who obfuscate their > APIs. Yes, we are all impressed by your wording, but do you have any idea why they have to? They don't own

Connection timeouts with SSH and CVS

2004-12-29 Thread Norman Davis
Hi there, I'm having problems using SSH and CVS at my work. The connections timeout. However I can browse the internet with Mozilla just fine. But this only happens on my network at work. When I dial in to my ISP from home, in SSH and CVS both work fine. The network at work mostly has Windows mac

Re: How can I make a kernel package that is _identical_ to those available for download?

2004-12-29 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 01:45:46PM +1000, R G Cottrell wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > >On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:17:44PM +1000, R G Cottrell wrote: > > > > > >>Hi folks, > >> > >>I asked this on debian-kernel about 8 hours ago but didn't > >>get any replies. > >> > >>I've tried about half a d

Re: apache & apache-ssl

2004-12-29 Thread Adam Aube
Ivan Wills wrote: > Matthew Joyce wrote: >> Roberto Sanchez wrote: >>>Matthew Joyce wrote: 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 th

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-29 Thread Nayyar Ahmed
Hello All, The religion is the holy belive, which give all human inner satisfaction, no metter who is beliving which one. But the way you people are making other disgrace is not like Respected people do. I think every body should find his/her own way instead of looking and saying, that one is w

Re: How can I make a kernel package that is _identical_ to those available for download?

2004-12-29 Thread R G Cottrell
Paul E Condon wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 01:22:01PM +1000, R G Cottrell wrote: cancer wrote: as far as i know xconfig should read the .config file of the running kernel if there is no other. i have poor experience with that, but it worked for me for a couple of times. In my exper

email forwarding setup

2004-12-29 Thread Simon Buchanan
Hi There, postfix with amavis and dbamil on debian. I have everthing sorted, but now need to have clients setup some forwading mail addresses... example is this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] => delivery to user1 (dbmail box) [EMAIL PROTECTED] => devliery to user2 (dbmail box) [EMAIL PROTECTED] => forward to

Re: How can I make a kernel package that is _identical_ to those available for download?

2004-12-29 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 01:22:01PM +1000, R G Cottrell wrote: > cancer wrote: > > >as far as i know xconfig should read the .config file of the running > >kernel if there is no other. i have poor experience with that, but it > >worked for me for a couple of times. > > > > > In my experience, make

Re: How can I make a kernel package that is _identical_ to those available for download?

2004-12-29 Thread R G Cottrell
Paul E Condon wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:17:44PM +1000, R G Cottrell wrote: Hi folks, I asked this on debian-kernel about 8 hours ago but didn't get any replies. I've tried about half a dozen times over the last year to compile a working kernel for my old 233MHz machine. I thought I migh

Re: How can I make a kernel package that is _identical_ to those available for download?

2004-12-29 Thread R G Cottrell
Benjamin A'Lee wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:17:44PM +1000 or thereabouts, R G Cottrell wrote: As far as I can tell, the latest testing kernel image for Pentium is: kernel-image-2.4.27-1-586tsc_2.4.27-6_i386.deb (11.5M) What commands do I need to issue in order to generate a .deb that is

Re: How can I make a kernel package that is _identical_ to those available for download?

2004-12-29 Thread R G Cottrell
cancer wrote: as far as i know xconfig should read the .config file of the running kernel if there is no other. i have poor experience with that, but it worked for me for a couple of times. In my experience, make xconfig and make menuconfig both read the .config file in the source directory, whi

Re: apache & apache-ssl

2004-12-29 Thread Ivan Wills
Matthew Joyce wrote: -Original Message- From: Roberto Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 17 December 2004 11:49 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: apache & apache-ssl Matthew Joyce wrote: Dear debian-users, I have 2 woody boxes, one has apache+php and the o

Re: How can I make a kernel package that is _identical_ to those available for download?

2004-12-29 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:17:44PM +1000, R G Cottrell wrote: > Hi folks, > > I asked this on debian-kernel about 8 hours ago but didn't > get any replies. > > I've tried about half a dozen times over the last year to compile > a working kernel for my old 233MHz machine. I thought I might > have

Re: Using killfiles

2004-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 03:26 pm, Ron Johnson wrote (Re: Sue Spence): > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 13:33 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > So what's your excuse for using Reply-to-All instead of > > Reply-to-mailing-list, like the list rules also encourage? > > She's a bad netizen, and should be f

Re: what is experimental?

2004-12-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:45:02PM +0100, Mauro Darida wrote: > On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 at 13:57:44 +, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:02:41AM +0100, Mauro Darida wrote: > > checkout my picture: > > http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/debian.png > Thanks, but I cannot access the above p

Re: How can I make a kernel package that is _identical_ to those available for download?

2004-12-29 Thread cancer
as far as i know xconfig should read the .config file of the running kernel if there is no other. i have poor experience with that, but it worked for me for a couple of times. On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 02:45:48 +, Benjamin A'Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:17:44PM +1000

Re: How can I make a kernel package that is _identical_ to those available for download?

2004-12-29 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:17:44PM +1000 or thereabouts, R G Cottrell wrote: > As far as I can tell, the latest testing kernel image for Pentium is: > > kernel-image-2.4.27-1-586tsc_2.4.27-6_i386.deb (11.5M) > > What commands do I need to issue in order to generate a .deb that is > _identical

Re: Kingstron Data Traveller giving Buffer I/O error

2004-12-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 20:37 -0500, H. S. wrote: > Apparently, _Ron Johnson_, on 29/12/04 19:36,typed: > > > > > > > Yes, you could try formatting it with ext2, for example, to see > > what happens. > > > > "mkfs -c" would help with that. > > > Here is what I got: > #--

How can I make a kernel package that is _identical_ to those available for download?

2004-12-29 Thread R G Cottrell
Hi folks, I asked this on debian-kernel about 8 hours ago but didn't get any replies. I've tried about half a dozen times over the last year to compile a working kernel for my old 233MHz machine. I thought I might have had a defective processor (a K6) but I've changed it to a genuine Intel Pentium

Re: PVR recomendations?

2004-12-29 Thread Curt Howland
Brendan wrote: > So, the 'nv' driver is not included with distributions anymore, or is this > going to be 3D TV from the future? 2D TV is just fine... I prefer not to reward hardware manufacturers who obfuscate their APIs. > Starting out with such a righteous bias and lack of knowledge... And

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-29 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Monday, 27 December 2004, Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: >On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote: > >> what i did try was Alan's suggestion of the Debian rescue disk. I >> have never used it in a capacity such as this. I used the 2.2.20- >> compact rescue, root, driver-1 a

Re: Kingstron Data Traveller giving Buffer I/O error

2004-12-29 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Ron Johnson_, on 29/12/04 19:36,typed: Yes, you could try formatting it with ext2, for example, to see what happens. "mkfs -c" would help with that. Here is what I got: #-- # mkfs -c /dev/sda mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) /dev/sda is en

Re: Backing up a running system

2004-12-29 Thread Mateusz Łoskot
User Sebastiaan wrote:: On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Robert S wrote: [...] Is there a way of doing this (preferably remotely) without unmounting the filesystem (like the new version of Norton Ghost is able to do in Windows)? I would write an image from the partitions. If you have no 'spare' disks in the co

Re: Kingstron Data Traveller giving Buffer I/O error

2004-12-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 19:18 -0500, H. S. wrote: > Apparently, _Ron Johnson_, on 29/12/04 19:05,typed: > > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 18:40 -0500, H. S. wrote: > > > >>I have this Kingston Data Traveller 256MB USB stick that I am trying out > >>on my Linux boxes and am facing some problem. The stick wo

Re: USB cardreader

2004-12-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 19:11 -0500, jeff elkins wrote: > On Saturday 25 December 2004 4:04 pm, jeff elkins wrote: > > On Saturday 25 December 2004 3:19 pm, H. S. wrote: > > > Apparently, _jeff elkins_, on 25/12/04 09:06,typed: > > > > Merry Christmas, List! > > > > > > > > I've built a new sid-based

Frustration with Firefox extension update

2004-12-29 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Apologies for asking here, as it's probably not specific to Debian, but I am a Debian user (testing system) and this is a very knowledgable group (about lots of things :). I use the gmail notifier extension, which lets me know whether I have new email. But I cannot update from 0.3.3 to 0.4 - it a

Re: modem for potato

2004-12-29 Thread John Hasler
Any external modem that connects to the computer via a serial port will work. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kingstron Data Traveller giving Buffer I/O error

2004-12-29 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Ron Johnson_, on 29/12/04 19:05,typed: On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 18:40 -0500, H. S. wrote: I have this Kingston Data Traveller 256MB USB stick that I am trying out on my Linux boxes and am facing some problem. The stick worked properly in WinXP and showed no errors. I have used other st

Re: USB cardreader

2004-12-29 Thread jeff elkins
On Saturday 25 December 2004 4:04 pm, jeff elkins wrote: > On Saturday 25 December 2004 3:19 pm, H. S. wrote: > > Apparently, _jeff elkins_, on 25/12/04 09:06,typed: > > > Merry Christmas, List! > > > > > > I've built a new sid-based system (kernel 2.6.9) and I'm having a bit > > > of trouble with

Re: Kingstron Data Traveller giving Buffer I/O error

2004-12-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 18:40 -0500, H. S. wrote: > I have this Kingston Data Traveller 256MB USB stick that I am trying out > on my Linux boxes and am facing some problem. The stick worked properly > in WinXP and showed no errors. > > I have used other sticks (Lexar) and digital cameras and CF ca

Re: Using killfiles

2004-12-29 Thread ABrady
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:01:07 + Sue Spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 03:32 pm, John Hasler wrote: > > > >>Please stop changing the subject of this thread. It makes it hard > >to >keep it killfiled. > > > > > > Filter smarter, not harder

Kingstron Data Traveller giving Buffer I/O error

2004-12-29 Thread H. S.
I have this Kingston Data Traveller 256MB USB stick that I am trying out on my Linux boxes and am facing some problem. The stick worked properly in WinXP and showed no errors. I have used other sticks (Lexar) and digital cameras and CF card readers without any problem on Debian Sid and Debian S

Re: When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 15:26 -0500, Brendan wrote: > On Wednesday 29 December 2004 14:35, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: [snip] > You've got to be a socialist. ;-) Hey, let's throw even *more* gas on the fire! Woo Hoo! -- - Ron Johnson, J

Re: ide-scsi with 2 drives

2004-12-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 12:38 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:35 am, Robert Epprecht wrote: > > Hello > > > > Up to now I had one hd and one dvd writer and everything worked fine. > > Now I have added a second hd and a dvd rom drive: > > > > /dev/hda hd > > /dev/hdb d

CD writing with newer kernels

2004-12-29 Thread Marcos Nunes
Greetings Debianists! I have been happily using make-kpkg to build my own kernel debs for a while, and recently found that the cdrecord version in sid will not play nicely with new kernels (2.6.9-something and above). I am using kernel 2.6.10, running sid on an Athlon 1.3 (tb), and got an LG CD-wr

Re: Using killfiles

2004-12-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 13:33 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 29 December 2004 01:01 pm, Sue Spence wrote: > > List subscribers shouldn't have to clean religious/political flamebait > > (& flames) from the messages they receive. To have to do this means > > that there are people on the li

Re: kernel panic on recompiled kernel

2004-12-29 Thread Aldebaran
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:36 am, Eric Persson wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to recompile my kernel to a 2.6.8 one on debian sarge. > But no matter what I do it seems to get kernel panic when I try to boot. > See the message at > http://www.persson.tm/debian_install/debian_boot_2.6.8.gif

Thunderbird 1.0

2004-12-29 Thread Christopher L. Everett
What are the plans for T-Bird 1.0? I want to make it the company standard email tool, but I need some features in 1.0. -- Christopher L. Everett Chief Technology Officer www.medbanner.com MedBanner, Inc. www.physemp.com -- To

modem for potato

2004-12-29 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, I installed potato on an old 486 for a friend. I can send and recieve mails, and browse the web. I used an extern "US ROBOTIC 56 FAX/MODEM", which is mine and I tried other modems for my friend and they don't work. Can someone advise me a type of extern modem, other than "US ROBOTIC 56

Re: mysql-server package not innodb ready?

2004-12-29 Thread Darryl Clarke
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:31:18 -0700, Nathan Zabaldo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I hope I am posting to the correct list for this question. > > I have recently apt-get'd dbmail-mysql from testing so I am running mysql > 4.022. It has not been compiles with innodb support and I need it.

Re: /dev/video0

2004-12-29 Thread YH
Thanks Andreas. Sorry I am new to linux. I didn't know there are xawtv packages in Debian. Anyway, I compiled xawtv, but it runs an error: $ xawtv $ This is xawtv-3.94, running on Linux/i686 (2.2.20-idepci) can't open /dev/video0: No such file or directory v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to con

Thunderbird 1.0

2004-12-29 Thread Christopher L. Everett
What are the plans for T-Bird 1.0? I want to make it the company standard email tool, but I need some features in 1.0. -- Christopher L. Everett Chief Technology Officer www.medbanner.com MedBanner, Inc. www.physemp.com -- To

Re: KDE screen problems

2004-12-29 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Roger Creasy wrote: > I just installed sarge on an older machine. I do not > know the video > card specs. what is the output of: lspci > In kde the screen is pixelated. How can I > change the > settings to try a different resolution or whatever I > may need to ch

Re: KDE screen problems

2004-12-29 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:21:18 -0800 (PST) Roger Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed sarge on an older machine. I do not > know the video > card specs. In kde the screen is pixelated. How can I > change the > settings to try a different resolution or whatever I > may need to > chang

KDE screen problems

2004-12-29 Thread Roger Creasy
I just installed sarge on an older machine. I do not know the video card specs. In kde the screen is pixelated. How can I change the settings to try a different resolution or whatever I may need to change? __ Do you Yahoo!? Send holiday email and

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-29 Thread Pascal Bonesh
Hi, I wholeheartedly disagree with anyone trying to construct a difference between book A and book B when they are just the same, and unspeakable things have been done in both books name and still are in the name of both books. And I also disagree at least as much when I see actions carried out by

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-29 Thread Daniel B.
Steve Lamb wrote: ... ObUselessGeographyLesson: East/West numbered high/free-ways in the US are even numbered. North/South are odd numbered. > They are numbered low-to-high from south-to-north and west-to-east. Actually, that's just for Interstate routes. US route numbers (the pre-inters

mysql-server package not innodb ready?

2004-12-29 Thread Nathan Zabaldo
Hello, I hope I am posting to the correct list for this question. I have recently apt-get'd dbmail-mysql from testing so I am running mysql 4.022. It has not been compiles with innodb support and I need it. Is there a way to enable innodb support after installing the mysql-server package? Than

Re: ide-scsi with 2 drives

2004-12-29 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:35 am, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Hello > > Up to now I had one hd and one dvd writer and everything worked fine. > Now I have added a second hd and a dvd rom drive: > > /dev/hda hd > /dev/hdb dvd writer > /dev/hdc hd > /dev/hdd dvd rom > > A short test with a

Re: Using killfiles

2004-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 01:01 pm, Sue Spence wrote: > List subscribers shouldn't have to clean religious/political flamebait > (& flames) from the messages they receive. To have to do this means > that there are people on the list who are perfectly prepared to send > out messages containin

Re: Installation

2004-12-29 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello YH (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Thanks Dani, that fixed the the permission denied error, but actually, > it came another "No such device" error message: > > Sound Server information Message: > Error while initializing the sound driver, device /dev/dsp can't be > opened (No such device).

Re: Installation

2004-12-29 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello YH (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > BTW, speaking xawtv, I've just have an error during "make xawtv": > "/usr/bin/ld cannot find -lXaw", but I can see > /usr/X11/R6/lib/libxaw.so.7 on my machine. Does anyone know what I am > missing? You are missing the developement packages (e.g. libxaw-dev

Re: Using killfiles

2004-12-29 Thread Sue Spence
Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 28 December 2004 03:32 pm, John Hasler wrote: Please stop changing the subject of this thread. It makes it hard to keep it killfiled. Filter smarter, not harder. Most email filters out there these days have the concept of threads. If you use procmail, check out

cannot open root device "801"

2004-12-29 Thread Eric N. Valor
Hello. I recently recompiled my 2.6.8 kernel. Now I can no longer boot my system. It fails with the message "cannot open root device "801" or unknown-block(8,1)". I am using a Symbios SCSI card without any IDE devices (save the CDROM) in my system. My lilo.conf properly identifies the boot dev

Re: Installation

2004-12-29 Thread YH
Thanks Dani, that fixed the the permission denied error, but actually, it came another "No such device" error message: Sound Server information Message: Error while initializing the sound driver, device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device). The sound server will continue, using the null ou

Re: When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-29 Thread Brendan
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 14:35, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I think it would be wise to implement a way of stopping a thread at > the top level when it goes to far off topic. It has been the case is > several of them very recently. In the last DWN there are some > references about it, with some

Re: Exim4 config help request

2004-12-29 Thread Joe
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes I just installed ProMepis and it installs by default exim4 SMTP service. I am looking for a simple working configuration for exim4 (I have been using Sendmail and have tried Postfix too!). Requirements is that it should send

pppd: CHAP authentication failed

2004-12-29 Thread Mauro Darida
Hello, I am experiencing a weird thing: I have got KDE kppp perfectly working but when it comes to use pppd directly with the pon script even from root pppd won't start. I have the following /var/log/ppp.log: Dec 29 19:49:50 ifi pppd[1302]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 Dec 29 19:49:50 ifi ppp

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 08:49 +0100, Pascal Bonesh wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 21:26 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > [snip] > > What a wonderful world it would be if all people would just throw away > their holy books and start thinking and acting as humans. But "man created God in his own imag

Re: [[offlist] Re: [Way off topic] the Quran

2004-12-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Syed Huq wrote: Then why do early verses in the Quran say that Jews and Christians (people of the Book) or OK and can continue practicing their religion and later say that they must be converted? That would seem like a contradiction to me. The Quran considers Jews and Christians as people of the

Re: [[offlist] Re: [Way off topic] the Quran

2004-12-29 Thread Syed Huq
> Then why do early verses in the Quran say that Jews and Christians > (people of the Book) or OK and can continue practicing their > religion and later say that they must be converted? That would > seem like a contradiction to me. > The Quran considers Jews and Christians as people of the Book

Re: When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-29 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 02:35:41PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I think it would be wise to implement a way of stopping a thread at > the top level when it goes to far off topic. It has been the case is > several of them very recently. In the last DWN there are some > references about it, with

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-29 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:31:33PM -0700, CW Harris wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:33:14PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:19:23AM -0700, CW Harris wrote: > > > There are source packages kernel-latest-{version}-{arch}. Is this what > > > you are looking for? (E.g

Re: When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 11:35 am, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I think it would be wise to implement a way of stopping a thread at > the top level when it goes to far off topic. It has been the case is > several of them very recently. In the last DWN there are some > references about it, with s

[[offlist] Re: [Way off topic] the Quran

2004-12-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Syed Huq wrote: The Muslims believe in a conecpt of "nullification" (I forget the correct term) that essentially states that later verses in the Quran that contradict with earlier verses, contradict or "trump" the earlier verses. Read the book I mention above and you will see what I mean. The Qura

When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-29 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I think it would be wise to implement a way of stopping a thread at the top level when it goes to far off topic. It has been the case is several of them very recently. In the last DWN there are some references about it, with some propositions about implementing a list moderator I think. It is putti

ide-scsi with 2 drives

2004-12-29 Thread Robert Epprecht
Hello Up to now I had one hd and one dvd writer and everything worked fine. Now I have added a second hd and a dvd rom drive: /dev/hda hd /dev/hdb dvd writer /dev/hdc hd /dev/hdd dvd rom A short test with another OS (no, it's debian woody ;-) without ide-scsi seems to do fine with all of

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-29 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:33:14PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:19:23AM -0700, CW Harris wrote: > > There are source packages kernel-latest-{version}-{arch}. Is this what > > you are looking for? (E.g. kernel-latest-2.6-i386) > > Do you mean kernel-source-2.6? No.

Re: Webcam in Debian

2004-12-29 Thread Barrett Dillow
I've tried using a Logitech Quickcam Express before, but never with any success. I knew the camera worked in Windows, but I could never get past whatever step should come after loading the kernel module for it. I wouldn't know which devices in /dev/ to use, etc. That was a while ago, however. I

Re: kernel panic on recompiled kernel

2004-12-29 Thread Eric Persson
Bob Alexander wrote: Eric, what bootloader are you using ? Please post what is in your lilo.conf or grub/menu.lst I'm using grup and the contents of my menu.lst is at http://www.persson.tm/debian_install/menu.lst Aslo, what version of sarge are you using ? cat /etc/debian_version gives me 3.1 Wha

Re: [Way off topic] the Quran

2004-12-29 Thread Syed Huq
> > The Muslims believe in a conecpt of "nullification" (I forget the > correct term) that essentially states that later verses in the Quran > that contradict with earlier verses, contradict or "trump" the earlier > verses. Read the book I mention above and you will see what I mean. > The Quran d

Re: Debian package containing perl Date/Parse.pm

2004-12-29 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:18:02 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) wrote: > William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 05:18:34PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > Does anyone know in which Debian package the perl module > > > Date::Parse is hidden? > > > > apt-get instal

Re: Debian package containing perl Date/Parse.pm

2004-12-29 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 07:18:02PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > Sorry I don't use apt and "dpkg -S Parse.pm", which probably is the same > as "apt-file search Parse.pm" doesn't find anything. dpkg -S only searches already installed packages. apt-file does the same thing but includes not-installed pac

Re: alsaconf failing on sarge, depmod says unresolved symbols

2004-12-29 Thread bandito
Yep, that is installed as well Bill On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 07:19:05PM +0100, kurtz wrote: > bandito escribe: > > I installed alsaconf, alsamixer, alsa-base, etc. etc. and met all > > package dependencies. > > What about alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-k7? > -- > http colon slash slash kurtz dot blogsite

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-29 Thread Wim De Smet
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 08:45:06 -0600, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 08:49 +0100, Pascal Bonesh wrote: > --snip-- > > What a wonderful world it would be if all people would just throw away > > their holy books and start thinking and acting as humans. > > Bravo! I

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2004-12-29 Thread bandito
agreed, the intended effect of DU rounds versus dirty bombs are quite different. but while it certainly may be easier to clean up than other more common contaminants, i think the people who live in the areas where we're firing this stuff are pretty content to let it sit there and have their kids mu

Re: Debian package containing perl Date/Parse.pm

2004-12-29 Thread Otto Wyss
Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know in which Debian package the perl module Date::Parse > > is hidden? > > According to packages.debian.org, it's in the package libtimedate-perl. > Thanks a lot. It didn't occurred to me to look at packages.debian.org, I only tried "dpkg -S Pa

Re: Debian package containing perl Date/Parse.pm

2004-12-29 Thread Otto Wyss
William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 05:18:34PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > Does anyone know in which Debian package the perl module Date::Parse is > > hidden? > > apt-get install apt-file > apt-file update > apt-file search Parse.pm Sorry I don't use apt and "dpk

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-29 Thread David P James
On Wed 29 December 2004 02:49, Pascal Bonesh wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 21:26 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > > > > Your religious-right-wing crap belongs off-list, this is about debian > and linux. It would if he had written any, but so does your willfully-ignorant-left-wing crap. > > I

Re: alsaconf failing on sarge, depmod says unresolved symbols

2004-12-29 Thread kurtz
bandito escribe: > I installed alsaconf, alsamixer, alsa-base, etc. etc. and met all > package dependencies. What about alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-k7? -- http colon slash slash kurtz dot blogsite dot org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

alsaconf failing on sarge, depmod says unresolved symbols

2004-12-29 Thread bandito
Howdy yall, I'm in the process of setting up a brand spankin' new sarge box, but I'm having a little trouble with alsa... I couldn't find anything in the mailing list archives referencing the error I'm getting and google has been no help to me. --- Here's the backgrou

Re: [SOLVED] Re: permissions with udev/pmount?

2004-12-29 Thread Nicolas de Sereville
Hi, Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:05:11 +0100, Nicolas de Sereville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Thank you to H.S. and Andrea! It is now working. The point is that while trying to understand my problem I erased me from the "hal" group. After adding me back to this group, ever

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2004-12-29 Thread dorn hetzel
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:48:56AM -0800, bandito wrote: > i think they'd be used more as an environmental contaminant than > something intended to actually cause death... setting off a big one in a > city wouldnt kill THAT many people, but it'd keep them out of the > contaminated area until the ra

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2004-12-29 Thread bandito
i think they'd be used more as an environmental contaminant than something intended to actually cause death... setting off a big one in a city wouldnt kill THAT many people, but it'd keep them out of the contaminated area until the radioactive material was cleaned up (or a few millions years passes

LDAP auth problems

2004-12-29 Thread Romel Sandoval
Hi everybody :-) I'm trying to configure a LDAP server with Debian Sarge. But I have some problems with the packages. First I make... #apt-get install slapd ldap-utils libsasl2-modules And then debconf ask... Do you want to omit the configuration for slapd? Ans=No Enter your dns domain name: A

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