Re: Kernel 2.6.8 won't boot

2005-01-03 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 02:16 +0700, Muhammad Reza wrote: > debian:/usr/src/linux# lspci > :00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. > VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10) This is a serial ATA chipset. http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html Make sure

Re: Kernel 2.6.8 won't boot

2005-01-03 Thread Muhammad Reza
Eric Gaumer wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 02:05 +0700, Muhammad Reza wrote: Eric Gaumer wrote: Dear Lists, I'm stuck with compiling debian kernel-2.6.8 source at Sarge, this is what exactly i did... debian:/usr/src# ln -s kernel-source-2.6.8 linux debian:/boot# cd /usr/src/linux debian:/us

Re: Kernel 2.6.8 won't boot

2005-01-03 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 02:05 +0700, Muhammad Reza wrote: > Eric Gaumer wrote: > Dear Lists, > > I'm stuck with compiling debian kernel-2.6.8 source at Sarge, this is > what exactly i did... > > debian:/usr/src# ln -s kernel-source-2.6.8 linux > debian:/boot# cd /usr/sr

Re: Sarge

2005-01-03 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 03 January 2005 23:07, YH wrote: > Hi, Its bad ettiquette to reply to a message with a completely new thread > > Is sarge stable to install? I want to use 2.6 kernel, either I can > upgrade kernel from woody or re-install completely from Sarge, which one > is better? Read the following

Re: Kernel 2.6.8 won't boot

2005-01-03 Thread Muhammad Reza
Eric Gaumer wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 01:23 +0700, Muhammad Reza wrote: Eric Gaumer wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 00:44 +0700, Muhammad Reza wrote: Dear Lists, I'm stuck with compiling debian kernel-2.6.8 source at Sarge, this is what exactly i did... debian:/usr/src# ln -s kerne

how run zsh script through ssh and telnet

2005-01-03 Thread Umar Draz
hi Deear memberrs!      i have a user devish with zsh shel i want when this user access my sever remotly through ssh or telnet a zsh script run which i have already copy in /home/devish home directory.  script name is devish.zsh     so please help me how i can do that?   thanks & regards   Umar Dra

Re: mknod, /dev/hdb, /dev/cdrom problem

2005-01-03 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 02:45:23 +0200, Necati DEMiR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > >On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:38:34 +0200, Necati DEMiR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >[...] > > > > > > > >>> > >>> > >>it is a cd-writer. i think debian knows a cd-writer is connected

Re: Kernel 2.6.8 won't boot

2005-01-03 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 01:23 +0700, Muhammad Reza wrote: > Eric Gaumer wrote: > > >On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 00:44 +0700, Muhammad Reza wrote: > > > > > >>Dear Lists, > >> > >>I'm stuck with compiling debian kernel-2.6.8 source at Sarge, this is > >>what exactly i did... > >> > >>debian:/usr/src# ln

Re: Kernel 2.6.8 won't boot

2005-01-03 Thread Muhammad Reza
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Muhammad Reza wrote: Dear Lists, I'm stuck with compiling debian kernel-2.6.8 source at Sarge, this is what exactly i did... debian:/usr/src# ln -s kernel-source-2.6.8 linux debian:/boot# cd /usr/src/linux debian:/usr/src/linux# cp /root/config .config debian:/usr/src/linux#p

Re: Kernel 2.6.8 won't boot

2005-01-03 Thread Muhammad Reza
Eric Gaumer wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 00:44 +0700, Muhammad Reza wrote: Dear Lists, I'm stuck with compiling debian kernel-2.6.8 source at Sarge, this is what exactly i did... debian:/usr/src# ln -s kernel-source-2.6.8 linux debian:/boot# cd /usr/src/linux debian:/usr/src/linux# cp /root/co

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread William Ballard
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 09:33:52PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > Maybe only a handful for sure, but they > do cast a wide pall. So you don't disagree that nowadays most people aren't racists in the south, which was the original point. A couple people will complain about ubuntu being an African n

Re: Kernel 2.6.8 won't boot

2005-01-03 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 00:44 +0700, Muhammad Reza wrote: > Dear Lists, > > I'm stuck with compiling debian kernel-2.6.8 source at Sarge, this is > what exactly i did... > > debian:/usr/src# ln -s kernel-source-2.6.8 linux > debian:/boot# cd /usr/src/linux > debian:/usr/src/linux# cp /root/config

Re: Kernel 2.6.8 won't boot

2005-01-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Muhammad Reza wrote: Dear Lists, I'm stuck with compiling debian kernel-2.6.8 source at Sarge, this is what exactly i did... debian:/usr/src# ln -s kernel-source-2.6.8 linux debian:/boot# cd /usr/src/linux debian:/usr/src/linux# cp /root/config .config debian:/usr/src/linux#patch -p1 but new compi

Kernel 2.6.8 won't boot

2005-01-03 Thread Muhammad Reza
Dear Lists, I'm stuck with compiling debian kernel-2.6.8 source at Sarge, this is what exactly i did... debian:/usr/src# ln -s kernel-source-2.6.8 linux debian:/boot# cd /usr/src/linux debian:/usr/src/linux# cp /root/config .config debian:/usr/src/linux#patch -p1 debian:/usr/src/linux#make menuc

Re: cd burning oddities

2005-01-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 05:43:25AM +0100, Chrissie Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello! > > Me and a friend of mine are both running Debian unstable, Kernel 2.6.7. At > the last dist-upgrade ~1 month ago we began suffering from the following > issues: > > I am a Gnome User and want to burn

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 21:18 +, Sue Spence wrote: > William Ballard wrote: > > > > You need to broaden your horizons. Besides, I didn't say it's hard to be > > racist if you live in a mostly-white area: I said it's easy not to be. > > > > I was born in and frequently spend time in a major Am

Re: can't the shell do a better job

2005-01-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 02:52:12PM +0800, Smith a ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > when i am in command line , i often use up arrow key to get commands used > before, but if i have used a command several times, the up arrow key will > display the same command several times, this is not welcome. >

Re: can't 'apt-get install' fr a site

2005-01-03 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 the mental interface of jianan told: [...] > Seems like my current version is too too high for the package. Any suggestion? What do you want to install? I suppose digikam. Just apt-get install -t sid digikam HANN Elimar -- You cannot propel yourself forward by pattin

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread William Ballard
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:43:42PM -0800, Seeker5528 wrote: > > I can't spread for Oregon, but in the Tacoma area I knew somebody was going to bring up Tacoma. I'll grant you that Tacoma isn't lilly-white. But a couple points: what kind of stories come on the 6 o'clock news about Tacoma? Is eve

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Seeker5528
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:24:45 -0500 William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And you'll find exactly what the guy said: a few people are racist, a > much larger number are not. And it's really easy to not be racist in > the Pacific Northwest -- there aren't any black people to be racist > ab

Re: Re: can't 'apt-get install' fr a site

2005-01-03 Thread jianan
What really happened is that I had keyed in mpq rather than mpg. The underlined 'g' looks like a 'q'. Thanks. Right now I have a dependency problem as follows. The following packages have unmet dependencies: knemo: Depends: kdelibs4 (>= 4:3.2.3-3.sarge.1) but 4:3.2.3-2 is to be installed See

Re: cut&paste doest not work with mozilla-firefox on some hosts?

2005-01-03 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 02:21:50PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > Cut & paste from xterm via mouse-middle-click does not work with > mozilla-firefox on a Debian Sarge desktop. It used to work with Mozilla 1.7 > and it does work on my Debian Sid desktop at home. Are you sure the text is remainin

Re: cut&paste doest not work with mozilla-firefox on some hosts?

2005-01-03 Thread JohnOfArc
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 14:26:15 -0500, Ralph Katz wrote: > > You missed this in searching for your answer. :) > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/10/msg03534.html > > $ gnome-keybinding-properties > > Regards. "To fix (in firefox and all/many? other gnome apps), eighter run gnome-keybin

Desktop Background

2005-01-03 Thread Richard Lessard
Hi guys, This is going to sound like a really dumb request, but I've wasted a couple days looking for this, and it's really bugging me. Within that past year, I downloaded this background that had a starry sky with a detailed moon, and tux flying in a hot air balloon. Because I accidently delete

Re: different gecko-based browsers?

2005-01-03 Thread David Garamond
Travis Crump wrote: Ctrl-Alt-+ :), That's font scaling, not optical zooming :) No, font scaling is Ctrl-+, Ctrl-Alt-+[and for me only the + on the keypad works not the += key] zooms the entire desktop while keeping the same virtual desktop size[as opposed to xrandr which adjusts the virtual desk

GTKLookAndFeel works in Java 1.5

2005-01-03 Thread William Ballard
If you use java-package to package Sun's 1.5 Java, the GTKLookAndFeel option works. It was in Java 1.4.2 but it didn't work. I patched Freemind (and filed bugs against it) to support the GTKLookAndFeel. It makes working with Java applications not like pulling teeth with an ugly hygenist. -- T

Re: different gecko-based browsers?

2005-01-03 Thread David Garamond
David P James wrote: - when middle-clicking on a non-link area it pops an error "Invalid URL" (I misclick often, so that's very annoying) Good grief, that's one of the best features of *nix-based browsers that doesn't really exist elsewere - highlight a url-like block of text, say www.debian.org

Re: can't 'apt-get install' fr a site

2005-01-03 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 the mental interface of jianan told: > Hi, > The site I'm trying to download from is > 'http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/debian/sarge ./' > I've checked the non-US distribution list and its not there. > Any reason for this? Try deb http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/debian sarge/ in your /

Re: Re: can't 'apt-get install' fr a site

2005-01-03 Thread jianan
Hi, The site I'm trying to download from is 'http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/debian/sarge ./' I've checked the non-US distribution list and its not there. Any reason for this? Jianan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mouse jumping all over the place >> more info

2005-01-03 Thread J.F.Gratton
I totally forgot to mention that I'm running a kernel 2.6.10 vanilla on a Intel machine. Jeff > Is there a way to get some verbose output out of the mouse/keyboard > subsytems ? I have here a MS Wireless Optical keyboard + mouse (USB, 'f > course). > > Something is happening: from time to time

Mouse jumping all over the place

2005-01-03 Thread J.F.Gratton
Now that I've settled my PDA questions, there's a new phenomenon on my haunted system :) Is there a way to get some verbose output out of the mouse/keyboard subsytems ? I have here a MS Wireless Optical keyboard + mouse (USB, 'f course). Something is happening: from time to time my mouse will jum

Re: Synaptic - toolbar - help

2005-01-03 Thread Bezecný Martin
..same problem. jim píše v Po 03. 01. 2005 v 03:30 -0500: I am running sarge with kernel 2.6.10 Somehow the icons have vanished from the synaptic toolbar. I have set "text under icons", but no icons appear - therefore no text. Does anyone know how I can get them back? Thanks

ACPI battery state doesn't get updated

2005-01-03 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Dear list, after installing Debian on an old IBM Thinkpad everything seems to be working fine, except that the battery state is constant, i.e. it is read once correctly at bootup and doesn't change afterwards. On the other hand, the ACPI system does recognise when I plug/unplug the AC (which sets

Re: mknod, /dev/hdb, /dev/cdrom problem

2005-01-03 Thread Necati DEMiR
Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:38:34 +0200, Necati DEMiR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] it is a cd-writer. i think debian knows a cd-writer is connected and loads the module ide-scsi, but it doesn't create hdb,cdrom or sr* under /dev/ directory. it is not problem for

Re: "best" high performance video card for debian

2005-01-03 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Mike wrote: > Yeah, pretty much no question there. Get nvidia if you want 'high > performance 3d' on linux. While ATI cards are nice, they really havn't > shown much improvement of supporting linux over the past year. yup ... > (and the > support that 'is' there, you mi

Re: "best" high performance video card for debian

2005-01-03 Thread Mike
dorn hetzel wrote: Ok, I know this is a subjective question with subjective answers, but would anyone care to venture personal recommendations on good high performance video cards which work well and are relatively easy to get X up and running well on. Platform would be some flavor of debian with

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 21:18 +, Sue Spence wrote: > William Ballard wrote: > > > > You need to broaden your horizons. Besides, I didn't say it's hard to be > > racist if you live in a mostly-white area: I said it's easy not to be. > > > > Tell you what you can live in the 50% black city and I

cd burning oddities

2005-01-03 Thread Chrissie Brown
Hello! Me and a friend of mine are both running Debian unstable, Kernel 2.6.7. At the last dist-upgrade ~1 month ago we began suffering from the following issues: I am a Gnome User and want to burn a Data CD via eroaster. I get the following Message: A programming error has been detected during

Re: Sarge

2005-01-03 Thread YH
Hi, Is sarge stable to install? I want to use 2.6 kernel, either I can upgrade kernel from woody or re-install completely from Sarge, which one is better? Thanks and please CC my email address. YH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: "best" high performance video card for debian

2005-01-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
dorn hetzel wrote: Ok, I know this is a subjective question with subjective answers, but would anyone care to venture personal recommendations on good high performance video cards which work well and are relatively easy to get X up and running well on. Platform would be some flavor of debian with

Re: gaim won't resize horizontally

2005-01-03 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Mon, 03 Jan 2005 06:04:33PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: > on Mon, 03 Jan 2005 04:50:51PM -0600, Jacob S insinuated: > > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:39:31 -0500 > > Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > hey all, > > > > > > after upgrading to gaim version 1.1.0, i can no longer re

Re: amanda troubles

2005-01-03 Thread Glenn English
More diagnostics. when crontab line is "* * * 7 * echo [`whoami`]" running the job prints "[backup]" if line == "echo `mt -f /dev/nst0 status`" output == "mt: /dev/nst0: Permission denied" command line: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo [`whoami`] [backup] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo `mt -f /dev/nst0 sta

Re: gaim won't resize horizontally

2005-01-03 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Mon, 03 Jan 2005 04:50:51PM -0600, Jacob S insinuated: > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:39:31 -0500 > Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hey all, > > > > after upgrading to gaim version 1.1.0, i can no longer resize the > > gaim buddy window horizontally to smaller than 216px. i tried > >

"best" high performance video card for debian

2005-01-03 Thread dorn hetzel
Ok, I know this is a subjective question with subjective answers, but would anyone care to venture personal recommendations on good high performance video cards which work well and are relatively easy to get X up and running well on. Platform would be some flavor of debian with 2.6.10ish kernel.

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2005-01-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/01/05 23:09), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > I used the lpr command to print an image, which gave me great problems. > The printer writes text on every 4th page saying: > %!PS-Adobe-3.0 > %%Creator: The X Print Server's PostScript DDX (xprint.mozdev.org) > > I tried deleting the pri

Re: gaim won't resize horizontally

2005-01-03 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:39:31 -0500 Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey all, > > after upgrading to gaim version 1.1.0, i can no longer resize the gaim > buddy window horizontally to smaller than 216px. i tried downgrading > to version 1.0.2, but the problem persists. has anyone else

Re: amanda troubles

2005-01-03 Thread Glenn English
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 09:55 -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > First I would check that the 'backup' user is part of the 'tape' > group. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep tape /etc/group tape:x:26:backup > If not a permissions setting of 660 owned by root:tape would give > exactly what you describe

gaim won't resize horizontally

2005-01-03 Thread Nori Heikkinen
hey all, after upgrading to gaim version 1.1.0, i can no longer resize the gaim buddy window horizontally to smaller than 216px. i tried downgrading to version 1.0.2, but the problem persists. has anyone else seen something like this? did i somehow remove a package that allows me to resize gtk

Re: mknod, /dev/hdb, /dev/cdrom problem

2005-01-03 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:38:34 +0200, Necati DEMiR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > > > it is a cd-writer. i think debian knows a cd-writer is connected and > loads the module ide-scsi, but it doesn't create hdb,cdrom or sr* under > /dev/ directory. > > it is not problem for me to use my

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2005-01-03 Thread Wim De Smet
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 15:37:17 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 10:13 -0500, Christopher Judd wrote: > > On 29 Dec, dorn hetzel wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:48:56AM -0800, bandito wrote: > > >> i think they'd be used more as an environmental contaminant

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread William Ballard
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 09:18:19PM +, Sue Spence wrote: > I was born in and frequently spend time in a major American city which > has a "white" population of ~30%. About 60% are African-American. My > father grew up there, and my sister still lives there. I can't say that > we have ever fou

HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2005-01-03 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
I used the lpr command to print an image, which gave me great problems. The printer writes text on every 4th page saying: %!PS-Adobe-3.0 %%Creator: The X Print Server's PostScript DDX (xprint.mozdev.org) I tried deleting the printer with 'localhost:631' and 'apt-get --purge remove cupsys

evolution and courier-imap-ssl

2005-01-03 Thread Darryl Cousins
Hi all, Evolution is reading correctly mail folders on my remote courier-imap-ssl server but is not downloading any mail or headers. On the server: ~/Maildir was created with maildirmake and mail is coming through procmail into the .* subfolders (also created with maildirmake) and are being stor

Torrent client kills my sound

2005-01-03 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
Hi List. This is the third time I've had a Linux OS where a torrentclient has stopped the sound. It's beginning to bother me. Today I run Debian Sarge, earlier I had Debian Sarge and Mandrake 10.0. What happens is: I extract the folder containing the bittorrent-client Azureus, and start the progra

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 10:54 +0100, René Seindal wrote: > Alvin Smith wrote (03-01-2005 04:01): > > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 05:45 pm, Mauro Darida wrote: > > > > > Yeah, I've gotta admit, I'm a bit turned off by the name, "Ubuntu." > >>> > >>>Perhaps the poster would be turned off by any n

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2005-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 10:01 -0500, Christopher Judd wrote: > On 29 Dec, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 08:28 pm, Sam Watkins wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:46:33PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: [snip] > Wrong. Natural uranium is >99% U238, with trace amounts of

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2005-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 10:13 -0500, Christopher Judd wrote: > On 29 Dec, dorn hetzel wrote: > > 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

Re: Connection timeouts with SSH and CVS

2005-01-03 Thread Norman Davis
Problem solved! Our firewall is blocking ranges of incoming ports that just happens to incidentally work (usually, but not always) for windows. Too see your settings, type sysctl net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range The default is 32768 61000, and so my system had been picking incoming ports for SSH

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Sue Spence
William Ballard wrote: You need to broaden your horizons. Besides, I didn't say it's hard to be racist if you live in a mostly-white area: I said it's easy not to be. Tell you what you can live in the 50% black city and I'll live in the 90% white city. Then you can demonstrate your "tolerance" an

Re: cut&paste doest not work with mozilla-firefox on some hosts?

2005-01-03 Thread Ralph Katz
On 01/03/2005 03:00 PM, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 02:26:15PM -0500, Ralph Katz wrote: You missed this in searching for your answer. :) http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/10/msg03534.html $ gnome-keybinding-properties Is there an equivalent answer for folks not runnin

Re: mondoarchive - error in mkisofs

2005-01-03 Thread Robert S
> Was there such a file? Which file do you refer to? > Anyway, this: http://www.sorcerer.mirrors.pair.com/sources/mindi/ and > mondo has other levels. I use mondo 1.67 and mindo 0.87 with a > mindi-kernel with great success. So I tend not to change levels until my > system hardware changes and th

Re: Compiling xterm with 256-color support

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> are three old-fashioned-looking buttons, something out of the earliest > That's the toolbar option (which you can turn off). Here's a screenshot, for context: ftp://invisible-island.net/temp/utf8-demo.png and the bugs you're describing were fi

Re: Tool for finding and choosing access point.

2005-01-03 Thread Alex Polite
After some more googling I found kismet. It does just what I want. It's also packaged for Debian. alex -- Alex Polite http://polite.se -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Integrated sound / ALSA / New Hardware

2005-01-03 Thread Zachary Rizer
Thanks Andreas.  I'm going to attempt to upgrade the machine to 2.6 (as I had this planned anyway).  I did an upgrade via apt, and rebooted remotely and it hasn't come back up.  I'll check it once I get home.  Thanks again for your help, it explained it very well.   ~Zaq   p.s. -- Sorry for top-pos

Re: Where to put the PDA ?

2005-01-03 Thread J.F.Gratton
Thanks for the info and since I'll get another PDA this week, I'll look into the udev tweaking just as you did. This reply gives me plenty of information on stuff I thought abnormal (for instance, seeing the PDA registering 2 ttys). Hotsyncs now work properly on my system, with a difference with w

Re: cut&paste doest not work with mozilla-firefox on some hosts?

2005-01-03 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 02:26:15PM -0500, Ralph Katz wrote: > You missed this in searching for your answer. :) > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/10/msg03534.html > > $ gnome-keybinding-properties Is there an equivalent answer for folks not running GNOME or KDE? I'm stumped, at presen

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread William Ballard
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 09:45:24AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > No, Couer d'Alane, ID is *quite* racist despite having only one black > person as far as I can tell. Scary place, I'm a Scottish white boy and > I felt too black to be there. CdA is home of the KKK... You need to broaden your hori

Re: mknod, /dev/hdb, /dev/cdrom problem

2005-01-03 Thread Necati DEMiR
# dmesg|grep hdb ide_setup: hdb=ide-scsi ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA hdb: HL-DT-ST GCE-8400B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive # ls /dev/ MAKEDEVinitctl ram14tty10 tty3 tty49 ttyS1 ttyS29 ttyS48 adsp inputram15tty11 tty30 tty5 ttyS10

Re: cut&paste doest not work with mozilla-firefox on some hosts?

2005-01-03 Thread Ralph Katz
On 01/03/2005 08:30 AM, Christian Hammers wrote: Hello Cut & paste from xterm via mouse-middle-click does not work with mozilla-firefox on a Debian Sarge desktop. It used to work with Mozilla 1.7 and it does work on my Debian Sid desktop at home. When I paste it via middle-click into a gnome-termin

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 09:46 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 03 January 2005 08:48 am, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > Portland ranks among the top three cities I've lived in for smiles > > from strangers, but if being 'in tune enough' is a now a requirement > > for residency it's sadly slipped

Re: Whence cometh grove.log

2005-01-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I have a file, 'grove.log' in my root folder: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 65 Oct 28 22:24 /grove.log > > It contains just one line: > > 20041028 22:24:51 grove: client (pid 20227) exited with 1 status > > Does anyone know where such a file may come from and what it means? > Log files in the

Re: Need Camcorder Firewire Help - Thanks

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas H. George
Thanks for the suggestions which solved my problems. I installed gscanbus and when it aborted, I ran strace gscanbus which showed the problem was a failure to open /dev/raw1394. A check showed this file was owned by root and disk but with only 660 permissions. I changed the permissions to 666 an

Re: Where to put the PDA ?

2005-01-03 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 11:27:19AM -0500, J.F.Gratton wrote: > Besides trying my PDA into each and every USB port (trial/error), is > there a way to know which port is actually ttyUSB[01] ? The USB ports on your computer do not actually correspond to specific devices. The device nodes are mapped

Re: aic7xxx won't load, SOLVED?

2005-01-03 Thread Didde Brockman
I noticed that 2.6.10 actually contained a new aic79xxx driver which is working like magic at the moment. I managed to build a boot cd from this after quite a lot of work... Later on I also noticed that the boot disks from http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/LNX/Debian+on+Dell+Servers would work as wel

Re: different gecko-based browsers?

2005-01-03 Thread Travis Crump
David Garamond wrote: Travis Crump wrote: - No optical zooming (is it possible with gecko?) Ctrl-Alt-+ :), That's font scaling, not optical zooming :) No, font scaling is Ctrl-+, Ctrl-Alt-+[and for me only the + on the keypad works not the += key] zooms the entire desktop while keeping the same

Re: amanda troubles

2005-01-03 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:45:48AM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > Amanda is installed and commands and scripts are working well from the > command line (I did have to add the sbins to backup's path to run the > amanda utilities). > > But when I run a shell script as a cron job as user backup, acce

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 03 January 2005 08:48 am, Rich Rudnick wrote: > Portland ranks among the top three cities I've lived in for smiles > from strangers, but if being 'in tune enough' is a now a requirement > for residency it's sadly slipped over the last 10 years. What are you talking about? Portla

amanda troubles

2005-01-03 Thread Glenn English
Amanda is installed and commands and scripts are working well from the command line (I did have to add the sbins to backup's path to run the amanda utilities). But when I run a shell script as a cron job as user backup, access to the tape drive is denied -- /dev/nst0 is root:tape, permissions are

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 03 January 2005 06:24 am, William Ballard wrote: > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:04:39PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sunday 02 January 2005 07:15 pm, John Hasler wrote: > > > Alvin Smith writes: > > > > To put it bluntly, the issue is whether white people will accept a > > > > product

Re: OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

2005-01-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 02 January 2005 11:53 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 23:15 -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 20:30 -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > Tom Allison wrote: > > > > > > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > >> On Monday 27 December 2004 02:56 pm, Kent West wrote:

dbischema [ was: Re: [OT], Database Comparer ]

2005-01-03 Thread Sam Watkins
Hi there, database people. I have persuaded my database munger program "dbischema" to work properly again, written some manpages for it, and put it in a .deb The company I wrote it for has given me permission to release it under the GPL. http://nipl.net/dbischema/ Dbischema lets you automatic

Re: Integrated sound / ALSA / New Hardware

2005-01-03 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Zachary Rizer (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I recently moved an installation to a new box, which has integrated > audio. Specifically, from lspci: > > :00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM > AC'97 Audio (rev 01) > > A bit of googling shows what module to use

Re: OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

2005-01-03 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 05:36 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 12:48:11AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Monday 03 January 2005 12:03 am, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > > > Poets aren't always stupid, but they do fall within Sturgeon's Law: > > > 80% of everything is [crap]. > > >

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 00:47 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 03 January 2005 12:15 am, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > How about an expired Oregon Driver's License? I've moved up and down > > the coast over the years. By the way, experience tells me that the > > Willamette Valley fails the 'soun

Re: different gecko-based browsers?

2005-01-03 Thread David P James
On Mon 3 January 2005 01:59, David Garamond wrote: > I found these gecko-based browsers in the repository. > > mozilla-browser > mozilla-firefox > kazehakase > galeon > epiphany > > Any others that I missed? > > I wonder if there's a browser with different/alternative UI. All of > the abo

Re: Palm-Tool (something like JPilot) for console?

2005-01-03 Thread ViCToRy
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:59:21PM +0100, Dani Belz wrote: > I already have pilot-xfer installed. I use it to get data out of my > Palm. But it is binary data I can not edit. What I search is a > console tool to edit my todos, appointments, etc. based on this data > and then sync it back to my Palm

Re: grep & tar segfault - broken system

2005-01-03 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Monday 03 January 2005 12:59, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > [0] GREP segfaults: > helios:/# grep > Segmentation fault > [1] TAR segfaults too: > helios:/# tar -cf boot.tar boot/ > Segmentation fault On closer inspection, I realised that "find" segfaulted too. I also checked the md5sums of

Re: Integrated sound / ALSA / New Hardware

2005-01-03 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday January 3 2005 16:48, Zachary Rizer wrote: > I recently moved an installation to a new box, which has integrated audio. > Specifically, from lspci: > > :00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 > Audio (rev 01) > > A bit of googling shows what module to use (

Re: Is there any Open Source Community of Scientists?

2005-01-03 Thread Olav Lavell
Op ma, 03-01-2005 te 08:28 -0700, schreef Paul E Condon: > CERN, the European center for research in high energy physics has > a very active computer group that supports high energy physics and > is energetically international. All of their work has financial > support from governments and is gen

Integrated sound / ALSA / New Hardware

2005-01-03 Thread Zachary Rizer
Hello d-u,   I recently moved an installation to a new box, which has integrated audio.  Specifically, from lspci:   :00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 01)   A bit of googling shows what module to use (ac97_codec).  However, the system says that /dev

Re: Is there any Open Source Community of Scientists?

2005-01-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 03:43:10PM +0500, Nayyar Ahmed wrote: > Hello All: > > It want to have knowledge about some Open Source > Community that is involued in developing applications and > tools to supports various fields of science like Physics, Bio, Chemistry etc. > > As Govt. Of Pakistan have

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2005-01-03 Thread Christopher Judd
On 29 Dec, dorn hetzel wrote: > 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 t

Re: Upgrade kernel from 2.67?

2005-01-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 04:05:35AM +0100, Agustin wrote: > On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 02:10:05 +0100, David Mandelberg wrote: > > > Agustin wrote: > >> Thanks, Adam. This is exactly what I want to do, but I'm not sure what I > >> can delete or move. How will I find this out? > > You can get rid of older

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2005-01-03 Thread Christopher Judd
On 29 Dec, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 08:28 pm, Sam Watkins wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:46:33PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: >> > >The worst "terrorist" is America, with your depleted uranium >> > >"dirty-bombs" which you throw around at every opportunity, > > A

Re: Is there any Open Source Community of Scientists?

2005-01-03 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Nayyar Ahmed wrote: Hello All: It want to have knowledge about some Open Source Community that is involued in developing applications and tools to supports various fields of science like Physics, Bio, Chemistry etc. The Python programming language is widely used in science and engineering: http://w

Re: Compiling xterm with 256-color support

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been fighting with this for a couple of days now and getting > nowhere; any help would be much appreciated. I want to compile xterm > with 256-color support. I downloaded the source from Debian (which > comes as a small part of the MUCH larger xfree86 package), an

Re: can't 'apt-get install' fr a site

2005-01-03 Thread Darryl Clarke
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 22:19:44 +0800, jianan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Someone recommended me a site to download a Debian package. But 'apt-get > install' complained that it could not resolve the site address. Is there an > approved list of sites for Debian packages? The package 'knemo' i

Re: aic7xxx won't load?

2005-01-03 Thread Tim Kelley
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 04:16:30PM +0100, Didde Brockman wrote: > After trying a stable install which of course could not find the > drive(s) I resorted to the Debian Installer which has helped in the > passed when I had to deal with hardware not supported by woody's boot > disks. Sarge seems t

Re: can't 'apt-get install' fr a site

2005-01-03 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:19:44PM +0800, jianan wrote: > Someone recommended me a site to download a Debian package. But 'apt-get > install' complained that it could not resolve the site address. Is there an > approved list of sites for Debian packages? The package 'knemo' is not yet a > 'sarg

can't 'apt-get install' fr a site

2005-01-03 Thread jianan
Hi, Someone recommended me a site to download a Debian package. But 'apt-get install' complained that it could not resolve the site address. Is there an approved list of sites for Debian packages? The package 'knemo' is not yet a 'sarge' package. Any suggestion? Jianan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

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