Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-30 Thread saravanan ganapathy
--- saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > How did you compile your kernel? Did you use > > > > make-kpkg? Did you use > > > > /boot/config-2.4.18-686 for building new > kernel? > > > > > > > > I'd suggest you to do the following: > > > > > > > > 1. unpack > /usr/src/kerne

Re: xdm modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-13

2004-12-30 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 03:12:14PM -0500, jose isaias cabrera wrote: > 1. How do I stop xdm from loading at boot? Don't install it. > 2. How do I fix this error message above? 13 charInput core 0 = /dev/input/js0First joystick 1 = /dev/input/js1

Re: xdm modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-13

2004-12-30 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 04:22:28PM -0500, Jeremy Melanson wrote: > I would love to tell you to just uninstall XDM, but unfortunately, some > X Windows components depend on the package (blah!). No, there are no X components that depend on xdm: rei $ sudo apt-get remove --purge xdm Reading Package

Re: How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 21:32 -0800, Syed Huq wrote: > > > > If you're lacking space in /usr, how is booting from a Sarge CD going to > > help? Are you planning on > > wiping/repartitioning/resizingpartitions/reinstalling, or what? > > > > Exactly yes. I just added a 2nd hard hard drive and I inte

Re: How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Syed Huq
It's Working!! Strange but this is what I did: I put my "Woody"-CD#1 and restarted my PC. It booted from the CD. ( ??) I shutdown the PC and then.. Then I put "Sarge"-CD#1 and now it is booting from the PC.. Problem solved but not sure how.. Thanks for all the fast responses from many of you..

Re: How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Syed Huq
> > If you're lacking space in /usr, how is booting from a Sarge CD going to > help? Are you planning on > wiping/repartitioning/resizingpartitions/reinstalling, or what? > Exactly yes. I just added a 2nd hard hard drive and I intend to wipe it all out/re-parition/re-install from scratch. This 2

Re: How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Kent West
Syed Huq wrote: Hi, I have downloaded the .iso image of Sarge CD#1. Even though I have set the first boot device to boot from is my CD-Drive(in my BIOS setting). It is not booting from CD-Drive. I went to the ./install dir of this CD#1 and cannot see any files I can run to make it boot from the CD-

Re: How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Syed Huq
The ./install/floppy dir has some .img file. I do not have a floppy drive. So still not sure how to run the installer... Isn;t there any type of a .bat file I could run to envoke the installer ? - Rathon On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:08:44 -0500, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Syed Huq wrote

Re: How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Joey Hess
Syed Huq wrote: > I have downloaded the .iso image of Sarge CD#1. Even though I have set > the first boot device to boot from is my CD-Drive(in my BIOS setting). > It is not booting from CD-Drive. > > I went to the ./install dir of this CD#1 and cannot see any files I > can run to make it boot fro

Re: debsign problem

2004-12-30 Thread Choy Kho Yee
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:10:42 -0600 (BJohn Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (B (B> Choy Kho Yee writes: (B> > control file which means...? (B> (B> man deb-control (B> -- (B> John Hasler (B (BThanks for the enlightenment! :) (BSo that means I just need to change the "Maintainer" fie

Re: Installing old tarballs on a new Debian system

2004-12-30 Thread cga
Jim McCloskey wrote: cga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> I am currently switching to Debian and I have a bunch of utilities, |> wmaker applets, etc.. in source format that I would like to reinstall |> on the new system. Unfortunately a number of these are not available |> as .deb's. |> |> As I see it

How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Syed Huq
Hi, I have downloaded the .iso image of Sarge CD#1. Even though I have set the first boot device to boot from is my CD-Drive(in my BIOS setting). It is not booting from CD-Drive. I went to the ./install dir of this CD#1 and cannot see any files I can run to make it boot from the CD-Drive or how t

Re: [VPNC] Keine Datenuebertragung im VPN trotz aufgebauter Verbindung

2004-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 02:27 +0100, Christian Riedel wrote: > Hi, > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > [...] > > > > > Shouldn't this be on debian-german? > > > > of course it should - sorry. I accidently sent the message to the wrong > list. I hope you can forgive my mistake. We, no. But if

Re: Help with install

2004-12-30 Thread Kent West
Bruce Smith wrote: I downloaded the ISO images and burned them to CD. But I cannot boot from the CD, even though it is supported by my system BIOS. Also, when I burned the images, they copied exactly as the downloaded images, just an ISO image. Shouldn't there be individual files such as the

libc6 upgrade: device or resource busy

2004-12-30 Thread Spencer Russell
Hello, I'm trying to upgrade libc from 2.3.2.ds1-19 to 2.3.2.ds2-20, and apt-get install libc gives the following error message: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-20_i386.deb (--unpack): unable to install new version of `./lib/ld-2.3.2.so': Device or resource busy dp

Re: cannot open root device "801"

2004-12-30 Thread Eric N. Valor
lspci reports I'm using the Sym53C859 (which agrees with the POST messages my SCSI controller gives me...). However, I still can not seem to boot anything other than the 2.2.20-compact-ide Debian 3.0 kernel. I am going to attempt to pull my lilo.conf and .config file to post. On Thu, 2004-12-30

Re: network connection fails after setup

2004-12-30 Thread jose isaias cabrera
> setup was complete, I have no internet or network > connection. Any suggestions for a fix? first, go to the command prompt and type dhclient and see if you get a dhcp ip from that. I had the same problem. Somehow, the NIC lost the IP, but the DHCP picked it up and then I knew what to do. --

Re: Help with install

2004-12-30 Thread jose isaias cabrera
What I did was create the two floppies and installed it that way. You may need to use the cd to get the tar balls from there. - Original Message - From: "Bruce Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 9:44 PM Subject: Help with install I downloaded the ISO ima

Re: USB printer installation(How to do)

2004-12-30 Thread Michael Marsh
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:56:27 +, Telmo Filipe Tavares da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an HP / DeskJet 3650 printer and wish to install it on my Debian > Sarge OS. I have read documentation over linuxprinting and installed > cups, but whenever I install my printer throw "printconf",

Re: modem for potato

2004-12-30 Thread John Hasler
Gérard writes: > When we buy a modem we get the driver for this modem but unfortunetly it > is for windows not for linux. External modems do not require drivers. > My problem for the moment is to find a second-hand modem which works fine > with a 486 and potato.(i.e. such that potato contains the

Help with install

2004-12-30 Thread Bruce Smith
I downloaded the ISO images and burned them to CD. But I cannot boot from the CD, even though it is supported by my system BIOS. Also, when I burned the images, they copied exactly as the downloaded images, just an ISO image. Shouldn't there be individual files such as the kernel on the CD.

Re: network connection fails after setup

2004-12-30 Thread Roger Creasy
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 03:34:53 -0800 (PST), Roger > Creasy > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Howdy! > > > > I set up sarge with kernel 2.4. > > This setup was done via a startup cd and http. > During > > setup files were downloaded with no problem. After > the > > setup was complete, I have no inte

Re: Connection timeouts with SSH and CVS

2004-12-30 Thread Norman Davis
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:32:22 -0500, Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What kernel are you using? Linux version 2.4.27-1-386 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-2)) #1 Wed Dec 1 19:43:08 JST 2004 >Post the output of the following command: > > head -v `ls /proc/sys/net/ipv

Re: Installing old tarballs on a new Debian system

2004-12-30 Thread Jim McCloskey
cga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> I am currently switching to Debian and I have a bunch of utilities, |> wmaker applets, etc.. in source format that I would like to reinstall |> on the new system. Unfortunately a number of these are not available |> as .deb's. |> |> As I see it I can either copy t

Re: Installing old tarballs on a new Debian system

2004-12-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
cga wrote: I am currently switching to Debian and I have a bunch of utilities, wmaker applets, etc.. in source format that I would like to reinstall on the new system. Unfortunately a number of these are not available as .deb's. As I see it I can either copy them to /usr/local/tarballs & do the usu

Re: Backup-software FTP

2004-12-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 06:04:53PM +1100, Sam Watkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 02:09:43PM +0100, Jon-Eirik Pettersen wrote: What would you recommend of software to do simple directory-based backups to an FTP-server? I like "lftp", it can do recursive

Re: [VPNC] Keine Datenuebertragung im VPN trotz aufgebauter Verbindung

2004-12-30 Thread Christian Riedel
Hi, Ron Johnson wrote: [...] Shouldn't this be on debian-german? of course it should - sorry. I accidently sent the message to the wrong list. I hope you can forgive my mistake. For the German speaking amongst you: of course I would appreciate any hint if you have any - maybe in the answer shoul

Re: Displayed Image Quality

2004-12-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 11:51:59PM -0600, John and Holly Klug ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I recently downloaded Sarge. The appearance of images in gpdf appears > to be quite poor compared to adobe acrobat when the image is viewed at a > lower resolution than originally scanned. There appears

Re: modem for potato

2004-12-30 Thread Gerard Robin
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 08:01:36AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Gerard Robin wrote: > > >On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 10:01:27AM +0100, Dani Belz wrote: > > > > > >>* John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-12-30 01:03]: > >> > >> > >>>Any external modem that connects to the computer via a serial port wil

i82365 and Cirrus Logic CL 6729

2004-12-30 Thread John Heim
I'm trying to install debian on a Gateway 2100 laptop. It's a really old machine but I'm blind and I can't afford a new one. It's currently running suse 7.something with kernel 2.2.18. I downloaded the debian installer and wrote it to a CD. I boot from the CD and enter a command at the boot pro

Re: Connection timeouts with SSH and CVS

2004-12-30 Thread Adam Aube
Norman Davis wrote: > On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:12:01 -0700, Norman Davis > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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 d

Re: Connection timeouts with SSH and CVS

2004-12-30 Thread Adam Aube
Norman Davis wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:02:26 -0500, Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Is ECN off (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn)? You can check/set it with >> sysctl. > net.ipv4.tcp_ecn was 0. So it was already off. > I just now set it to 1. CVS and SSH still don't work. Turning EC

Re: Installing alsa-modules will remove discover1

2004-12-30 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Thursday 30 Dec 2004 22:07, kurtz wrote: > # apt-get install alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-k7 > (...) > The following packages will be REMOVED: > discover1 > > This is not what I am intending. Am I missing something? can you show us the lines in between and tell us what version of debian you are run

Re: [VPNC] Keine Datenuebertragung im VPN trotz aufgebauter Verbindung

2004-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 00:51 +0100, Christian Riedel wrote: > Moin zusammen, > > seit einiger Zeit plage ich mich mit VPNC herum, das ich benutzen > moechte, um mich damit - anstatt mit dem original cisco vpn client - ins > VPN des HRZ an unserer UNI einzuloggen. Das eigentliche Problem ist > nich

Re: OpenOffice (sid) just quit , WHY?

2004-12-30 Thread John Foster
On Thursday 30 December 2004 11:56 am, Adam Aube wrote: > John Foster wrote: > > I was using OpenOffice as a web writer and it seemed to be running > > sporadically, slowing way down, then it crashed and now will not start at > > all. I removed it from my system and reinstalled it and it still doe

[VPNC] Keine Datenuebertragung im VPN trotz aufgebauter Verbindung

2004-12-30 Thread Christian Riedel
Moin zusammen, seit einiger Zeit plage ich mich mit VPNC herum, das ich benutzen moechte, um mich damit - anstatt mit dem original cisco vpn client - ins VPN des HRZ an unserer UNI einzuloggen. Das eigentliche Problem ist nicht das Einloggen, sondern dass keine Daten gesendet oder empfangen werden

USB printer installation(How to do)

2004-12-30 Thread Telmo Filipe Tavares da Silva
Hi, I have an HP / DeskJet 3650 printer and wish to install it on my Debian Sarge OS. I have read documentation over linuxprinting and installed cups, but whenever I install my printer throw "printconf", which supposely should be on /dev/usb/lp0, it istalls it over "usb://3650?serial=TH39J1800Z6B

Installing old tarballs on a new Debian system

2004-12-30 Thread cga
I am currently switching to Debian and I have a bunch of utilities, wmaker applets, etc.. in source format that I would like to reinstall on the new system. Unfortunately a number of these are not available as .deb's. As I see it I can either copy them to /usr/local/tarballs & do the usual ./co

Re: Ignore question

2004-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 15:26 -0500, Scott Mohnkern wrote: > Ignore my 2nd drive question, I figured it out. And the solution is -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "If you wish fo

AirLink+ AWLC3025

2004-12-30 Thread stan
I'm trying to get one of these cards working: http://www.airlinkplus.com/wireless/awlc3025.htm The web page says it uses a TI chipset Can anyone sugest what module I might need to load? Any other sugestions also greatly appreicated. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporar

Re: cdcd question

2004-12-30 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 the mental interface of Lance Hoffmeyer told: > There are certain modes one can go into other than the default "cdcd" > such as "edit" and "site". If I go into "edit" mode I don't know how > to get back to the default mode without quitting cdcd and restarting. > How does one g

META: Re: When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 10:19:46AM +0100, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > I wonder if one could implement a kind of "p2p-killfile". A group of > people that trust another share a list of Msg-IDs. If one member kills a > mail, it is killed for the others - possibly eben whole threads. So much easier

cdcd question

2004-12-30 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
There are certain modes one can go into other than the default "cdcd" such as "edit" and "site". If I go into "edit" mode I don't know how to get back to the default mode without quitting cdcd and restarting. How does one go from "cdcd/edit" back to "cdcd"? Lance --

Re: ide-scsi with 2 drives

2004-12-30 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: > The thing is that, unlike SCSI, only one device can be using an > IDE bus at any one time. a common misconception ... electrically ... only one ide disk can drive the signals on the ide cable at any time similarly, even scsi

Re: Connection timeouts with SSH and CVS

2004-12-30 Thread Norman Davis
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:12:01 -0700, Norman Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: what is experimental?

2004-12-30 Thread Mauro Darida
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 at 15:32:11 +, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/debian.png > > > Thanks, but I cannot access the above picture (?) > > > > Works for me. What error message do you get? > > konqueror-3.1.4 flashes it

Re: ide-scsi with 2 drives - tests

2004-12-30 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Robert Epprecht wrote: > I agree that in general this is a bad idea, but some tests seemed to show > me that pluging the optical drives as slaves to the hd's as masters does > *not* slow them down with my specific hardware. simple speed test ... ( must write and read at the

Installing alsa-modules will remove discover1

2004-12-30 Thread kurtz
# apt-get install alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-k7 (...) The following packages will be REMOVED: discover1 This is not what I am intending. Am I missing something? -- http colon slash slash kurtz dot blogsite dot org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Backup-software FTP

2004-12-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 06:04:53PM +1100, Sam Watkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 02:09:43PM +0100, Jon-Eirik Pettersen wrote: > > What would you recommend of software to do simple directory-based > > backups to an FTP-server? > > I like "lftp", it can do recursive upload

Re: xdm modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-13

2004-12-30 Thread Jeremy Melanson
Hello Jose. I would love to tell you to just uninstall XDM, but unfortunately, some X Windows components depend on the package (blah!). I like my text-console login, so I just rename /etc/init.d/xdm to /etc/init.d/xdm.disabled. This is sufficient enough to break the symbolic links in the /etc/rc[x

Re: New drive, problems with old drive

2004-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 15:21 -0500, Scott Mohnkern wrote: > Critical info: > > Debian with 2.22 Kernel > I386 infrastructure > 2 120 GB hard drives Out of curiosity: why install Woody, when you could install Sarge? > > We were having problems with the old drive, to the point it was getting > m

Re: kernel version

2004-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 09:37 +1300, YH wrote: > Thanks Glenn. I guess you are talking about Debian next release Sarge > for 3.1? > > If I understand correctly that woody (As I installed 3.0 r2) uses 2.2 > kernel, if it is correct I'll be really surprised, the 2.2 kernel was > the version ages ag

Re: kernel version

2004-12-30 Thread Glenn English
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 09:37 +1300, YH wrote: > I guess you are talking about Debian next release Sarge > for 3.1? Well, the words sound right, but I don't know about the numbers. But at the Debian website, it's the current SARGE (testing) net install CD. Small download, and it gets the debs from

Re: Mysterious use of bandwidth? Any tools to nail it?

2004-12-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 30 December 2004 12:09 pm, R G Cottrell wrote: > While I'm waiting for my kernel to compile I've been noticing that > from time to time there's a lot of activity on my modem at times > when I'm not doing anything to cause any transfers. That's normal. You are on the same broadcast do

Portsentry Question

2004-12-30 Thread "Sergio Cuéllar"
Hi, I really not sure whats happening with portsentry, before I start the daemon I use nmap to see the open ports: And I get only: 22/tcp open ssh 25/tcp open smtp 80/tcp open http 111/tcp open rpcbind Then i use nestat too, and I get something like this: tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:111

Re: ide-scsi with 2 drives

2004-12-30 Thread Robert Epprecht
Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > /dev/hda hd >> > > /dev/hdb dvd writer >> > > /dev/hdc hd >> > > /dev/hdd dvd rom >> > >> > I have found mixing hd's & cd'd on the same IDE controller to cause >> > issues. I have even had issues with the position of the drives on the

Ignore question

2004-12-30 Thread Scott Mohnkern
Ignore my 2nd drive question, I figured it out. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel version

2004-12-30 Thread YH
Thanks Glenn. I guess you are talking about Debian next release Sarge for 3.1? If I understand correctly that woody (As I installed 3.0 r2) uses 2.2 kernel, if it is correct I'll be really surprised, the 2.2 kernel was the version ages ago, wasn't? Kind regards, YH Glenn English wrote: On Fri,

New drive, problems with old drive

2004-12-30 Thread Scott Mohnkern
Critical info: Debian with 2.22 Kernel I386 infrastructure 2 120 GB hard drives We were having problems with the old drive, to the point it was getting memory errors on boot. We installed a new drive in, and put the old drive as master. Installed Debian on the new drive, no problems, and duri

Re: Mysterious use of bandwidth? Any tools to nail it?

2004-12-30 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:09:46 +1000, R G Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > While I'm waiting for my kernel to compile I've been noticing that > from time to time there's a lot of activity on my modem at times > when I'm not doing anything to cause any transfers. My modem only > has

Re: xdm modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-13

2004-12-30 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:12:14 -0500, jose isaias cabrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings! > > I just installed Debian on a Dell Inspiron 7500. It's running pretty good, > but I loaded xdm and now it goes right into xdm and fails with the > "modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-13" an

Re: ide-scsi with 2 drives

2004-12-30 Thread Robert Epprecht
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 I agree that

Re: Mysterious use of bandwidth? Any tools to nail it?

2004-12-30 Thread Steve Lamb
R G Cottrell wrote: Is there any simple tool that will show me (in realtime, preferably) any processes on my box that are accessing the PPP interface? If memory serves I believe "ntop" will suit your needs. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PG

Mysterious use of bandwidth? Any tools to nail it?

2004-12-30 Thread R G Cottrell
Hi all, While I'm waiting for my kernel to compile I've been noticing that from time to time there's a lot of activity on my modem at times when I'm not doing anything to cause any transfers. My modem only has a single data LED, so I can't tell whether the data is coming or going. My guess is tha

Re: PDF Form Editing.

2004-12-30 Thread Olav
Op do, 30-12-2004 te 13:29 -0600, schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom: > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Nayyar Ahmed wrote: > > > >> Hello All, > >> > >> I want to edit a PDF form, is there any utility ? > >> > >> TIA, > >> > >> > > > > Are you referring to a fillable PDF form, as one created in > > Acrobat Pro

xdm modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-13

2004-12-30 Thread jose isaias cabrera
Greetings! I just installed Debian on a Dell Inspiron 7500. It's running pretty good, but I loaded xdm and now it goes right into xdm and fails with the "modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-13" and I can't go back to the xterm. It's at the xdm logon screen. Two questions: 1. How do I sto

Re: kernel version

2004-12-30 Thread Glenn English
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 08:45 +1300, YH wrote: > Thanks all for the help. How can I type the "uname -r" and get > "2.2.20-idepci"? I really didn't know what that means as I am only aware > of most distributions use the kernel 2.4.x or 2.6.x? Any explain please? 'uname -a' is a little less cryptic

Re: ide-scsi with 2 drives

2004-12-30 Thread Robert Epprecht
Greg Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 29 December 2004 09:31 pm, 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... >> >> > The trouble starts when I want to use ide-scs

Tool for finding and choosing access point.

2004-12-30 Thread Alex Polite
What debian packaged tool will let me choose a wireless access point to attach to? I have this in /etc/network/interfaces --- auto ath0 iface ath0 inet dhcp wireless_mode managed --- That's fine when I'm at home and there is only one access point in range,

mplayer package compiled with jack support

2004-12-30 Thread Alex Polite
I use the mplayer package from here: deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main It lacks jack support. Does anyone know of a mplayer package compiled with jack support? alex -- Alex Polite http://polite.se -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: LDAP auth problems

2004-12-30 Thread Mart van de Wege
Romel Sandoval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I create a people.ldif file containing: > > dn: ou=people,dc=antalnet,dc=com > ou: people > objectClass: organizationalUnit > > But when I try to... > > #ldapadd -f people.ldif > SASL/DIGEST-MD5 authentication started > Please enter your password: > >

Re: kernel version

2004-12-30 Thread YH
Thanks all for the help. How can I type the "uname -r" and get "2.2.20-idepci"? I really didn't know what that means as I am only aware of most distributions use the kernel 2.4.x or 2.6.x? Any explain please? Thank you. YH Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 08:17 -0500, Ryan D'Baisse wrote

Re: PDF Form Editing.

2004-12-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Nayyar Ahmed wrote: Hello All, I want to edit a PDF form, is there any utility ? TIA, Are you referring to a fillable PDF form, as one created in Acrobat Professional or some such Adobe product? If so, try installing the acroread package from: ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-mar

Re: kernel version

2004-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 08:17 -0500, Ryan D'Baisse wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 22:12:19 +1300, YH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've installed 3.0 r2. From kernel package, it seems the kernel version > > is 2.4.18. Is here any command / utility to check kernel version? I > > would like to chec

Re: ide-scsi with 2 drives

2004-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 09:41 -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: [snip] > An optical drive (slow) running on the same IDE channel as a hard drive > (fast) will slow down data transfer to and from the hard drive, when the > optical drive is operating (by forcing a lower DMA mode?). So in the > configur

System will not reboot

2004-12-30 Thread Olav
Hi, Today I have taken out two IDE harddisks (RAID1 set with Sarge installed on them) from computer A and put them in computer B. Both A and B are older machines, with exactly the same CPUs. A has more RAM (256 MB) than B (96 MB), but that does not seem to make much of a difference. After plugging

Re: ntp-server doesn't sync time correctly?

2004-12-30 Thread Alexis Huxley
As someone else suggested run 'ntpq -p' or quicker is 'ntpq -pn' and look for a '*' in column 1 of any row; if none then you're not synced with the server. Another common problem is that if your collection of machines are on a private LAN and their gateway machine has only a transient connection

Re: debsign problem

2004-12-30 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 the mental interface of John Hasler told: > Choy Kho Yee writes: > > ...ran "debuild -us -uc" instead of just "debuild" and it completed > > flawlessly. I don't know why but it did the trick. > > Because that says not to attempt any signatures at all (which is fine for > your

Re: PDF Form Editing.

2004-12-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Nayyar Ahmed wrote: Hello All, I want to edit a PDF form, is there any utility ? TIA, Are you referring to a fillable PDF form, as one created in Acrobat Professional or some such Adobe product? If so, try installing the acroread package from: ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main Su

Re: OpenOffice (sid) just quit , WHY?

2004-12-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
John Foster wrote: I was using OpenOffice as a web writer and it seemed to be running sporadically, slowing way down, then it crashed and now will not start at all. I removed it from my system and reinstalled it and it still does not work. Any one know of this? The only thing that I had done was

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-30 Thread CW Harris
Putting this back to the list... On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 04:33:43PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:45:09PM -0700, CW Harris wrote: >> 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 We

Re: Connection timeouts with SSH and CVS

2004-12-30 Thread Norman Davis
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:02:26 -0500, Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is ECN off (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn)? You can check/set it with sysctl. > net.ipv4.tcp_ecn was 0. I just now set it to 1. CVS and SSH still don't work. I guess I want to leave net.ipv4.tcp_ecn at 0? -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Connection timeouts with SSH and CVS

2004-12-30 Thread Adam Aube
Norman Davis wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 05:27:50 -0800, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Norman Davis wrote: >>> 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

Re: Script similar to Redhat chkconfig

2004-12-30 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:41:41 -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 05:33:28PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:15:47 -0500, Ian Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does something like this exist for Debian? > > > > > > I know th

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

2004-12-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 09:22:22PM +1000, R G Cottrell wrote: > I'm back after getting some sleep. > > Paul E Condon wrote: > > >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 Cot

Re: OpenOffice (sid) just quit , WHY?

2004-12-30 Thread Adam Aube
John Foster wrote: > I was using OpenOffice as a web writer and it seemed to be running > sporadically, slowing way down, then it crashed and now will not start at > all. I removed it from my system and reinstalled it and it still does not > work. Any one know of this? The only thing that I had

clients database

2004-12-30 Thread erkanevat
Hi! Clients Database. Clients.rar attached. In clients.rar: clients.csv - database in Microsoft Excel. X.chm - help file with another information about our clients. Password on archive: 123. Best regards, Alex. clients.rar Description: Binary data

Re: Why the constant conflicts between Apache2 & PHP4, Now Gallery has quit!

2004-12-30 Thread Michael
> There seem to be constant conflicts between Apache2 & PHP4 as far as > getting > the apache2-mod-php4 and any dependent applicatione to work properly. Any > one > know why this condition is predominent. I think there is a bug in the > configs > as Debian installed them as I have tweaked them to g

Minimalist mailing list

2004-12-30 Thread Tom Allison
I am trying to set up the minimalist mail server and ran into a problem with logging. My configuration states: Directory: /var/spool/minimalist Administrative password: ok Logging: /var/log/Minimalist.log Log info about messages: yes But I can't get anything to log. There is no file in /var/log/

Re: debsign problem

2004-12-30 Thread John Hasler
Choy Kho Yee writes: > control file which means...? man deb-control -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ntp-server doesn't sync time correctly?

2004-12-30 Thread Glenn English
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 19:13 +0800, Cameron G wrote: > I have a handful of debian servers going, and I've done an apt-get install > ntp-server on all of them. They all seem to have "server pool.ntp.org" in > the config file, yet they're all out of sync a little bit, by a couple of > minutes in some

PDF Form Editing.

2004-12-30 Thread Nayyar Ahmed
Hello All, I want to edit a PDF form, is there any utility ? TIA, -- Nayyar Ahmad Lecturer Faculty Of Computer Science, Institute Of Management Sciences, Hayat Abad Peshawar , Pakistan. Office : 92-091-9217404 , 9217452 Cell : 92-0333-9139461 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

"It could be that your whole purpose is..."

2004-12-30 Thread martin f krafft
We all know the image all the way at the bottom of http://www.funroll-loops.org/. I recall that Debian has a similarly witty/punny image and quote, but I cannot find it. Would you know a pointer to it, and share it with me, please? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :pro

Re: Script similar to Redhat chkconfig

2004-12-30 Thread Ian Meyer
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 05:33:28PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:15:47 -0500, Ian Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does something like this exist for Debian? I know the update-rc.d is there to add/remove services to rcX.d but chkconfig will list t

Re: debsign problem

2004-12-30 Thread Choy Kho Yee
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:04:28 -0600 (BJohn Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (B (B> Choy Kho Yee writes: (B> > ...ran "debuild -us -uc" instead of just "debuild" and it completed (B> > flawlessly. I don't know why but it did the trick. (B> (B> Because that says not to attempt any signatures

Re: Script similar to Redhat chkconfig

2004-12-30 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 05:33:28PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:15:47 -0500, Ian Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does something like this exist for Debian? > > > > I know the update-rc.d is there to add/remove services to rcX.d but > > chkconfig will list the servi

Re: Script similar to Redhat chkconfig

2004-12-30 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:15:47 -0500, Ian Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does something like this exist for Debian? > > I know the update-rc.d is there to add/remove services to rcX.d but > chkconfig will list the services and what their runlevels are and > whether or not they are started/stoppe

ALSA broken after upgrade

2004-12-30 Thread Hank Marquardt
Did and update/upgrade cycle on my SID box last night and again just now. alsa-base, alsa-headers and alsa-utils were all upgraded; alsa-modules was not and is at alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-k7_1.0.6a+5_i386.deb I now no longer have sound I get this on boot and when run from the command line: Starti

Re: /dev/video0

2004-12-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello (please don't top-post) YH (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Andreas Janssen wrote: >> 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. D

Why the constant conflicts between Apache2 & PHP4, Now Gallery has quit!

2004-12-30 Thread John Foster
There seem to be constant conflicts between Apache2 & PHP4 as far as getting the apache2-mod-php4 and any dependent applicatione to work properly. Any one know why this condition is predominent. I think there is a bug in the configs as Debian installed them as I have tweaked them to get them to tr

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