Re: Question about hard disk partition strategy for debian

2005-05-09 Thread marc racal
On 5/9/05, Lian Liming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I have 35 GB hard disk space for installing debian/ustable.I am a > common linux user and would like to do some web programming that means > I need X winodows with KDE and LAMP(linux, apache, mysql, php). To > limit damage upon syste

Installation help.

2005-05-09 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi, i would like to know if it's possible to install debian (preferably the unstable one) on a firewire external hard drive. Thanks in advance, MC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X session error

2005-05-09 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 05:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am having problems logging into my gnome desktop environment as my > regular users. I can however log into it as root. When I attempt to log > in as a regular user I get a message which states the following,"Xsession > warning: unalbe

php problem with gallery

2005-05-09 Thread Alan Chandler
Yesterday I tried to install the gallery package which allows you to store pictures on a web site. One of the early parts of the setup is to point your browser at http://site.url/gallery/setup/index.php from whence it is supposed to allow you to set up some parameters. Unfortunately for me, a

Re: X session error

2005-05-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 5/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am having problems logging into my gnome desktop environment as my regular > users. I can however log into it as root. When I attempt to log in as a > regular user I get a message which states the following,"Xsession warning: > unalb

Re: alsa

2005-05-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 5/9/05, hja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have installed alsa and alsaconf. not sure if this is sufficient or it > is properly setup. there is no kde menu item for alsa, no means to > config it. still no sound while playing vcd under kaffeine. You didn't describe the problem very well, to be h

Re: Need help recovering from a power outage

2005-05-09 Thread Robert Brockway
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Paul E Condon wrote: > Any ideas? Have you tried remaking the journal with tune2fs -j ? I've never tried this on a filesystem with an already existing journal (corrupt or otherwise) but it may rebuild the journal from scratch (which would be the smart thing for it to do).

X session error

2005-05-09 Thread Mrbizz4
I am having problems logging into my gnome desktop environment as my regular users.  I can however log into it as root.  When I attempt to log in as a regular user I get a message which states the following,"Xsession warning: unalbe to write to /tmp;xsession may exit with an error."  When I

Need help recovering from a power outage

2005-05-09 Thread Paul E Condon
I have a Sarge machine on which there is a 60GB HD I use it to run simulations. About 30GB on HD is some useful results, but it has suddenly become somewhat inaccessible because the ext3 journal became corrupted during the outage. By mounting the partition ext2, I can see the data files and they lo

alsa

2005-05-09 Thread hja
i have installed alsa and alsaconf. not sure if this is sufficient or it is properly setup. there is no kde menu item for alsa, no means to config it. still no sound while playing vcd under kaffeine. suggestions welcomed. hja -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Translate inotify fix from Gentoo to Debian?

2005-05-09 Thread Stephen R Laniel
inotify doesn't seem to work with GNOME; with kernel 2.6.11, GNOME locks up my entire machine after only a few seconds if I move the mouse. If I don't move the mouse, a lockup takes longer, if it happens at all. If I use the kernel option 'noinotify', the lockup doesn't happen at all. All of this

Re: Grub - change boot options

2005-05-09 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:43:23PM -0400, Ryan D. Egeland wrote: > Just go to /boot/grub/menu.lst and edit the default boot item. It's > commented with one hash, but is actually read by grub. Specifically, check out /usr/share/doc/grub/examples/menu.lst . It features this bit: # For booting Win

Re: NFS failover

2005-05-09 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 05:04:35PM -0700, liz wrote: > Quick question, in Solaris I have the option of specifying multiple > NFS servers for failover purposes? Does debian have support for this. > I edited the /etc/fstab and added multiple hostnames but I get an > error saying that they are not sup

Re: Bind keypress to shell command?

2005-05-09 Thread Bob Freemer
Almut, Thanks so very much for the tips here below! I'm fiddling with this right now and will let you know what I come up with. I like the perl approach. I guess this means I have to learn perl and python now :-) Bob Almut Behrens wrote: On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 09:31:05AM -0400, Bob Freemer w

Re: Grub - change boot options

2005-05-09 Thread Ryan D. Egeland
RSiffredi wrote: How can I change my grub install if I want to make the windows partition the default boot option? Just go to /boot/grub/menu.lst and edit the default boot item. It's commented with one hash, but is actually read by grub. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Libranet / Ubuntu --> Debian?

2005-05-09 Thread Bob Freemer
Kent West wrote: Bob Freemer wrote: I've discovered one of the remaining few areas where Debian can be a real pain is in hardware detection. I've tested on a number of machines and even debian-installer can't match libranet/ubuntu/knoppix. Any tips on using one of these distros to install plain

Re: Grub - change boot options

2005-05-09 Thread Bob Freemer
RSiffredi wrote: How can I change my grub install if I want to make the windows partition the default boot option? Just go to /boot/grub/menu.lst and edit the default boot item. It's commented with one hash, but is actually read by grub. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: journalling options [WAS: optimizing ext3...]

2005-05-09 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 01:59:42PM +0100, michael wrote: > I've been trying to get somewhere with the below (seems easier to top > post this time - apols!) and have come across the "data=journal" mode > for ext3. Journaling data instead of just metadata will cause higher disk I/O, not less. > Is

Grub - change boot options

2005-05-09 Thread RSiffredi
How can I change my grub install if I want to make the windows partition the default boot option? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

quantlib-python doesnt work?

2005-05-09 Thread r help
hi before filing a bugreport i thought i should doublecheck whether im doing something silly. i installed quantlib-python (im running testing, python 2.3.5) im attaching what happens when i try to run scripts in /usr/share/doc/quantlib-python/examples. seems like a straightforward problem, the

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Evolution Not seeing cyrus subscribed directories

2005-05-09 Thread Adam Done
Platform: PPC Debian Sarge I have been using a cyrus imap mail server for our business for quite some time now. There are some imap directories on the server which are shared amongst the users but can not get access (reading, posting, or writing) to using evolution 2.2.1.1 for sarge. Access perm

Re: .bash_profile not sourced on login

2005-05-09 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 10:17:40PM -0400, Luis R Finotti wrote: > > Sorry for not mentioning it. It was under X... I guess in that case I > don't have a "login shell". So what would be the proper place to set > variables for terminals running in X? If you are running from *DM, use .xsession;

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-09 Thread Colin
John Moore wrote: > I'm a total Linux newbie who'd like to install Linux on my really old > PC. It has 64MB of RAM and a 4GB hard disk. The installation > documentation I've read at debian.org seems to indicate that this is > sufficient. Is that right? Thanks. 64MB ought to be enough. (sorry, cou

NFS failover

2005-05-09 Thread liz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, Quick question, in Solaris I have the option of specifying multiple NFS servers for failover purposes? Does debian have support for this. I edited the /etc/fstab and added multiple hostnames but I get an error saying that they are not support

Re: Bind keypress to shell command?

2005-05-09 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 09:31:05AM -0400, Bob Freemer wrote: > Hi, guys, well, I'm a gal... but I'll reply anyway :) > > I've searched everywhere on Google and the group for postings about this, > but can't find anything. I'm setting up an "appliance" machine and want > to simply bind shell com

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Re: ldap, kerberos and ssh-krb5

2005-05-09 Thread David Parutki
Ok, problem solved. I turned out that my nsswitch.conf was in error: passwd: files ldap group: files ldap shadow: compat snip... is not going to do it, but passwd: files ldap group: files ldap shadow: files ldap snip... is! And I can now return

Strange problem with programs doing dns lookups..

2005-05-09 Thread Christopher Rueber
Okay, I've been looking for an answer for tihs for a little while, and have been unable to find one. Here's the problem: I have four boxes on my internal network. A debian box, solaris, gentoo, and a windows box (*ducks any incoming tomatoes*). All my *nix based boxes are being very strange: DNS l

Re: smp kernel boots from Knoppix but not Sarge

2005-05-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On (09/05/05 23:28), michael wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 23:20 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a couple of servers (identical spec) with the advertised cpu as: > > 3.2GHz 3.2GHz Intel P4 Prescott > > > > If I boot from Knoppix I get: > > # uname -a > > > > Linux Knoppix 2.6

Re: access from cups to a remote printer with authentication?

2005-05-09 Thread Stefan
Yes, it works. You've to put userid and password in the printer URL: => ipp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:443/printe­rs/HP/.printer Thanks Andreas. Stefan

Re: smp kernel boots from Knoppix but not Sarge

2005-05-09 Thread michael
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 23:20 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > Hi > > I have a couple of servers (identical spec) with the advertised cpu as: > 3.2GHz 3.2GHz Intel P4 Prescott > > If I boot from Knoppix I get: > # uname -a > > Linux Knoppix 2.6.7 #2 SMP Wed Jul 28 04:25:36 CEST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux >

smp kernel boots from Knoppix but not Sarge

2005-05-09 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi I have a couple of servers (identical spec) with the advertised cpu as: 3.2GHz 3.2GHz Intel P4 Prescott If I boot from Knoppix I get: # uname -a Linux Knoppix 2.6.7 #2 SMP Wed Jul 28 04:25:36 CEST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cp

Re: ldap, kerberos and ssh-krb5

2005-05-09 Thread David Parutki
Thanks to Mark for the debug hint. I did the debug thing for two users, one local to both client and server, and one in ldap. For the local user a few lines from the logs look like: Authorized to test1, krb5 principal [EMAIL PROTECTED] (krb5_kuserok) debug3: PAM: do_pam_account pam_acct_mgmt = 0

Re: problems with a new kernel

2005-05-09 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Marc Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running debian linux on an Alpha machine. I've > made a new kernel > in order to support iptables. When I try to boot, > using the new > kernel, I get an error message about aboot not > knowing the compression > method. I checked in

RE: Recommended kernel?

2005-05-09 Thread Rob Brenart (TT)
Debian-kernel list, or bugzilla.kernel.org are where I've gotten most of my information (linked from here by helpful people) -Original Message- From: Deboo Geek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 4:53 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Recommended kernel?

access from cups to a remote printer with authentication?

2005-05-09 Thread Stefan
Hello, how can I access form cups with IPP (Internet Printing Protocoll) to a remote printer which requires a login (Basic Authentication)? I've a cups installation and I add a printer class for a remote printer (ipp://192.168.1.10:443/printers/HP/.printer). The remote print server requires a log

Re: Audio CD Burning Perplexities

2005-05-09 Thread Rob Sims
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 04:06:43PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I have on the hard drive 20 wav files (Signed 16 Bit Little Endian, Rate > 44100 Hz, Stereo). >ln -s filename.wav trackxx where xx runs from 01 to 20 > > and then burning the cd with the command > >cdrecord -v dev="ATA

Re: no mouse under 2.6.8 kernel

2005-05-09 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am Montag, 9. Mai 2005 21:17 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > i tried modprobe mousedev. That did create the /dev/psaux > and /dev/input/mice. But neither of them work. It allows me to > start X, but the mouse won't move. You need mousedev for the generic mouse support and a second module specific

Re: Broken part of ram -- 100% broken?

2005-05-09 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am Montag, 9. Mai 2005 21:44 schrieb Alexander Toresson: > Could linux be setup to not use this area of the ram? Getting > new ram for this computer may not be easy, it's a compaq, so it > may need special compaq ram... dunno if pc100/pc133 would do... Such a kernel patch does exist: http://rick

Re: Broken part of ram -- 100% broken?

2005-05-09 Thread michael
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 12:44 -0700, Alexander Toresson wrote: > My brother has an old computer, a Compaq Presario, which he is running > windows 98 on. He's not running any game on it, and win98 is really > unstable on it, so I've manage to persuade him to make me install > debian on it. However, ju

Re: script with passwd

2005-05-09 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:06:51AM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 5/9/05, STEPHANE DURIEUX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > more generally, how to answer question to a script > > with always the same response > > I ve tried > > echo passord |passwd user > > but the passwd need to be put several t

Re: DisplaySize ignored?

2005-05-09 Thread Carlos Rodrigues
Brian Potkin wrote: The FAQ in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common deals with how to change the dpi value used by the X server and gives a list of scripts to alter. Could it be you have not done this correctly and the dpi setting in, say, /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc is overriding your DisplaySize setting? I

Broken part of ram -- 100% broken?

2005-05-09 Thread Alexander Toresson
My brother has an old computer, a Compaq Presario, which he is running windows 98 on. He's not running any game on it, and win98 is really unstable on it, so I've manage to persuade him to make me install debian on it. However, just to check, I ran memtest86 on it, to check the ram. Result: lots of

Re: no mouse under 2.6.8 kernel

2005-05-09 Thread Adam Mercer
On 09/05/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am currently running Debian with a 2.4 Kernel. I recently upgraded to the > 2.6.8-k7 kernel, but now my X Windows will not work. I get an error saying > that it couldn't initialize the mouse because /dev/psaux doesn't exit (i > don't k

Re: no mouse under 2.6.8 kernel

2005-05-09 Thread jroed
> try: modprobe mousedev > > that should make /dev/input/mice show up for you. > > -davidc i tried modprobe mousedev. That did create the /dev/psaux and /dev/input/mice. But neither of them work. It allows me to start X, but the mouse won't move. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:06:32AM -0400, J. Van Lierde wrote: > John Moore wrote: > > >I'm a total Linux newbie who'd like to install Linux on my really old > >PC. It has 64MB of RAM and a 4GB hard disk. The installation > >documentation I've read at debian.org seems to indicate that this is >

Re: Question about hard disk partition strategy for debian

2005-05-09 Thread dexter2
have a look at: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/index.html On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 17:30 +0800, Lian Liming wrote: > Hi all, > I have 35 GB hard disk space for installing debian/ustable.I am a > common linux user and would like to do some web programming that means > I ne

Re: xdm background with qiv

2005-05-09 Thread Andras Lorincz
Well, I don't know what's the problem. When trying qiv image.jpeg get this Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) serial 115 error_code 8 request_code 2 minor_code 0 Anyway, I tried xli and it works. On 5/9/05, Almut Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2005 a

Re: Dydns service

2005-05-09 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:53:57PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > > I have configured ddclient to update dyndns and when I type ddclient > -ip my.ip.add.ress, the address gets updated at dyndns in mintes but I > want to make ddclient do this automatically. I tried a number of > options but ddclient fails

Configure X on virtual pc 2004

2005-05-09 Thread Michael Martinell
I just downloaded 3.01 r5 and wanted to try it out. I set up an virtual pc 2004 session in and installed it. I can only get X to start in 256 color 640x480 mode. Not a very useful mode. I have tried just about every combination of xf86config and dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 however I always

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:18:12AM +, John Moore wrote: > I'm a total Linux newbie who'd like to install Linux on my really old PC. > It has 64MB of RAM and a 4GB hard disk. The installation documentation I've > read at debian.org seems to indicate that this is sufficient. Is that > right? T

problems with a new kernel

2005-05-09 Thread Marc Jackson
Hello, I'm running debian linux on an Alpha machine. I've made a new kernel in order to support iptables. When I try to boot, using the new kernel, I get an error message about aboot not knowing the compression method. I checked in the config file and it's using gzip -9. I've seen this error m

Re: Debian Installation

2005-05-09 Thread Kent West
Yelamanchi, Yamuna wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded the FULL CD set of 14 CDs from the Debian website for > i386 processor. > > I installed the OS successfully using CD 1 (out of 14). > > During installation, it did not ask me to load the additional 13 CDs… > > I read the instructions on CD 2 on how

Re: Debian Installation

2005-05-09 Thread Rajesh Menon
You don't need the other 13. You just needed ~100Mb of the first cd. Then used apt-get for whatever you needed. If I had downloaded 14 cd's, then I would have 13 coasters (I'm on a fast connection.) Suggestion: Read up before doing something. It'll help your customers if you know. On 5/9/05, Yel

Re: Debian Installation

2005-05-09 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Le lundi 09 mai 2005 Ã 11:10 -0700, Yelamanchi, Yamuna a Ãcrit : > Hi, > Hi, > > > I downloaded the FULL CD set of 14 CDs from the Debian website for > i386 processor. > It's a shame there are only 14 of them. Wait until Etch, the next next stable Debian, there are more than 20 DVDs planned

Re: Debian Installation

2005-05-09 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:10:32AM -0700, Yelamanchi, Yamuna wrote: > I downloaded the FULL CD set of 14 CDs from the Debian website for i386 > processor. > > I installed the OS successfully using CD 1 (out of 14). Great, you now have at least a basic Debian install with some functioning applicat

Re: Libranet / Ubuntu --> Debian?

2005-05-09 Thread Kent West
Bob Freemer wrote: I've discovered one of the remaining few areas where Debian can be a real pain is in hardware detection. I've tested on a number of machines and even debian-installer can't match libranet/ubuntu/knoppix. Any tips on using one of these distros to install plain debian? Or

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2005-05-09 Thread info
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Re: Libranet / Ubuntu --> Debian?

2005-05-09 Thread Lee Braiden
On Monday 09 May 2005 19:29, Bob Freemer wrote: > I've discovered one of the remaining few areas where Debian can be a real > pain is in hardware detection. I've tested on a number of machines and > even debian-installer can't match libranet/ubuntu/knoppix. Any tips on > using one of these distro

Libranet / Ubuntu --> Debian?

2005-05-09 Thread Bob Freemer
I've discovered one of the remaining few areas where Debian can be a real pain is in hardware detection. I've tested on a number of machines and even debian-installer can't match libranet/ubuntu/knoppix. Any tips on using one of these distros to install plain debian? Or even better, an apt-get m

Debian Installation

2005-05-09 Thread Yelamanchi, Yamuna
Hi,   I downloaded the FULL CD set of 14 CDs from the Debian website for i386 processor.   I installed the OS successfully using CD 1 (out of 14).   During installation, it did not ask me to load the additional 13 CDs…   I read the instructions on CD 2 on how to install it but they

Re: Dydns service

2005-05-09 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/8/05, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 08 May 2005 11:45 am, Deboo Geek wrote: > > Anyone knowing of a dydns.org kind of cheap service? I would like to > > use my own domain yet a cheaper service, because I would need it only > > for a few minutes everyday and not after that. >

Re: xdm background with qiv

2005-05-09 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 06:48:34PM +0300, Andras Lorincz wrote: > But I also can see from xdpyinfo this: > > root window id:0x49 > > Should that be 0x23? don't think so... "visual id" and "window id" refer to different things. > > On 5/9/05, Andras Lorincz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I

Re: A Vi (Vim) question

2005-05-09 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/9/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Deboo Geek wrote: > > > On 5/8/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> Deboo Geek wrote: > >> > >> > A small Vi

[solved] Re: Ctrl + F11 not working in Eclipse

2005-05-09 Thread Almut Behrens
Just realised this message had been sent to me only, though I presume it was meant to go to the list as well... BTW, as this is the second incidence within a short period of time, I'm starting to wonder whether it's me who is tricking people's MUAs into replying privately _only_. I've just checke

Suspend2 BIG FAT WARNING: failed to translate the device name

2005-05-09 Thread Mohammad Halawah
Hi guys, I have been in troubles for several days trying with suspend2 and stable kernel 2.6.11.8 without patches.(from kernel.org). I managed to suspend (go from live to shutdown) but I get the following message while trying to boot to the saved suspend image. Error message (1):

Re: no mouse under 2.6.8 kernel

2005-05-09 Thread David Clymer
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 12:26 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am currently running Debian with a 2.4 Kernel. I recently upgraded to the > 2.6.8-k7 kernel, but now my X Windows will not work. I get an error saying > that it couldn't initialize the mouse because /dev/psaux doesn't exit (i > do

Re: A Vi (Vim) question

2005-05-09 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deboo Geek wrote: > On 5/8/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Deboo Geek wrote: >> >> > A small Vi question: How to move ahead/forward a line when in insert >> > mode. I always

no mouse under 2.6.8 kernel

2005-05-09 Thread jroed
I am currently running Debian with a 2.4 Kernel. I recently upgraded to the 2.6.8-k7 kernel, but now my X Windows will not work. I get an error saying that it couldn't initialize the mouse because /dev/psaux doesn't exit (i don't know why it doesn't) i had heard that there were some changes t

Re: do I really need "make-kpkg clean"?

2005-05-09 Thread Peter van Rossum
> 4) do the change in the config file of 2.6.11.myver and recompile it > (same version same revision, everything is the same) without doing > "make-kpkg clean"? You could try rm stamp-build debian/rules build fakeroot debian/rules kernel_image or just make fakeroot debian/rules kernel

Re: raid error after aptitude upgrade

2005-05-09 Thread Ralf Herrmann
Hi, I had a similar problem yesterday and came across your post while searching for a glue. There was no reply, so just in case.. I found something, might be a problem when using devfs and udev at the same time with 2.6 kernel or something. You might want to look at the following page http://bu

Re: X-server display problem

2005-05-09 Thread Jon Dowland
Jiang Wu wrote: xeyes -display :0.0 will display the application, but xeyes -display 127.0.0.1:0.0 will get an error message: Error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1:0.0 What might be the problem? Thanks X using UNIX sockets rather than TCP sockets? If you want to connect to a remote X server, I sugg

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-09 Thread Jon Dowland
Rogério Brito wrote: Indeed, fluxbox is an amazing window manager for those with little resources. Highly recommended, especially if you use it with the "Minimal" style, where gradients etc are not used (which are said to consume some memory). I'm certain fluxbox is much more resource-heavy than mo

Re: i915, xinit: Xfree86 4.5 giving errors

2005-05-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-05-09 15:11:48 +0530, Atul Talesara wrote: > I know you might want to look at my XF86Config file, it's not > available with me right away. But I thought if someone already > has an insight into this problem might solve it without config > file details. I have the following: Section "Devic

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X-server display problem

2005-05-09 Thread Jiang Wu
xeyes -display :0.0 will display the application, but xeyes -display 127.0.0.1:0.0 will get an error message: Error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1:0.0 What might be the problem? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xdm background with qiv

2005-05-09 Thread Andras Lorincz
But I also can see from xdpyinfo this: root window id:0x49 Should that be 0x23? On 5/9/05, Andras Lorincz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can see > > default visual id: 0x23 >visual: > visual id:0x23 > class:TrueColor > depth:24 planes > > when I run xdpyinfo

Re: xdm background with qiv

2005-05-09 Thread Andras Lorincz
I can see default visual id: 0x23 visual: visual id:0x23 class:TrueColor depth:24 planes when I run xdpyinfo. So that is not the problem. Any other idea? On 5/9/05, Almut Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 03:00:57PM +0300, Andras Lorincz

R: Mail Delivery (failure support@tomtom.com)

2005-05-09 Thread TomTom Support
    Dear Customer,Thank you for your email. Due to extensive changes in our support systems, we are no longer monitoring this email box, and are therefore unable to respond to this message.Please go to our website http://www.tomtom.com : we have redesigned this site to make it easier for you

Re: .bash_profile not sourced on login [Solved]

2005-05-09 Thread Luis Finotti
Dear all, Rogério Brito wrote: On May 08 2005, Luis R Finotti wrote: Sorry for not mentioning it. It was under X... I guess in that case I don't have a "login shell". So what would be the proper place to set variables for terminals running in X? I think that the best option would be to give

Re: can't change saslpasswd2 via squirrelmail plugin SOLVED

2005-05-09 Thread w trillich
On Sun, May 8, 2005 7:10 pm, Herisanu Alexandru said: > Since nobody replied to this message, I will. > > /etc/sasldb2 is owned by root:sasl. > > If you change it to cyrus:sasl, it will work. boy this was from a LONG time ago. :) the whole paradigm there is nefarious, the way that plugin works.

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-09 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 09 2005, J. Van Lierde wrote: > If you want to use your mouse, I think you have to pick your window > manager (a lot of posters seem to like flux box) and apps for their size Indeed, fluxbox is an amazing window manager for those with little resources. Highly recommended, especially if you

Re: i845

2005-05-09 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Le lundi 09 mai 2005 à 09:16 -0500, Kent West a écrit : > debian wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > I have debian installed on a new pc (P4, 512mb ram, intel onboard i845). > > Everything works, i installed latest kernel (2.6.8.11), i have i810 as > > driver in my XF86config file but the problem is t

audio system

2005-05-09 Thread hja
when i played a vcd wkaffeine, there is no sound. then i realised i have not build sound into the kernel. its my first time building audio into the kernel 2.6.8. my intelmotherboard tech ref shows that its audio system consists of the i82801EB and the Anaolog Devices AD1985 codec but these are not

Re: AMD cooling utility in debian

2005-05-09 Thread Wim De Smet
On 5/6/05, Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I don't think that is the case--at least, not in stock Debian kernels. > >I have an Athlon XP 1700+, and it idled at 45C until I installed > >athcool. Now it idles below 40C, sometimes as low as 30-32C in cooler > >weather. > > I have to agre

Re: Eclipse: X eats up 280 MB of memory

2005-05-09 Thread Wim De Smet
On 5/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using KDE, six virtual desktops and a two-head setup with two > screens of 1280x1024 resolution. When my machine is started top > shows that X takes about 40 MB of memory. That seems normal to > me. But when I start Eclipse X ea

Re: Removing what a meta-package provided

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Déchelotte
Jon Dowland a écrit : | aptitude does what you want by marking which packages were | automatically installed, so if you had done | | $ aptitude install kde | $ aptitude remove kde | | The desired result would be achieved. You are right, but consider a more realistic situation, such as "install

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 09:50 -0400, J. Van Lierde wrote: --snip-- > I don't think you'll find Java development on such a system to be very > rewarding. I'll definitely second that. And wrt to the OP's initial question, a machine with 64MB of RAM is not going to run X very well, especially with any

Re: KDE

2005-05-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On (09/05/05 15:54), Paul Akkermans wrote: > Dear Debian list users, > > I was asked to paste my /etc/apt/sources.list into a reply. > This is in my /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb ftp://ftp.snt.utwente

Re: Eclipse: X eats up 280 MB of memory

2005-05-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 10:11 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using KDE, six virtual desktops and a two-head setup with two > screens of 1280x1024 resolution. When my machine is started top > shows that X takes about 40 MB of memory. That seems normal to > me. But when I start Eclip

Re: KDE

2005-05-09 Thread Kent West
Tony Austin wrote: >I have just installed woody on a Dell 600M. I choose kdm as the >xserver manager during setup, however I only get a unix prompt for >login. At the end of the boot sequence it states that it is not >starting xdm,kdm,gdm... because it is not the default manager. How do >I acti

Re: i845

2005-05-09 Thread Kent West
debian wrote: > > Hello, > > I have debian installed on a new pc (P4, 512mb ram, intel onboard i845). > Everything works, i installed latest kernel (2.6.8.11), i have i810 as > driver in my XF86config file but the problem is that i only can use > 1024x768 with a default depth of 8. > > If i take 1

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-09 Thread Adam Funk
John Moore wrote: > Thanks. The primary purpose is to study and understand Linux and the > programming environment. I'd also like to install Apache and Tomcat and do > some Java programming (again, just experimental stuff - nothing commercial > grade). I'll definitely need to run a browser and an

Re: Audio CD Burning Perplexities

2005-05-09 Thread Wackojacko
So why am I perplexed? I have no confidence that I know a sure way to burn a good music cd which will play on fussy cd players that have no trouble playing commercial cd's. TBH, I doubt that this is a problem with the burning process. It is more likely to be a problem with the quality/age of

Re: KDE

2005-05-09 Thread Lee Braiden
On Monday 09 May 2005 14:40, Tony Austin wrote: > I have just installed woody on a Dell 600M. I choose kdm as the > xserver manager during setup, however I only get a unix prompt for > login. At the end of the boot sequence it states that it is not > starting xdm,kdm,gdm... because it is not the

Re: script with passwd

2005-05-09 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/9/05, STEPHANE DURIEUX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > more generally, how to answer question to a script > with always the same response > I ve tried > echo passord |passwd user > but the passwd need to be put several times (two > exactly). Take a look at "expect". -- Michael A. Marsh http:

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-09 Thread J. Van Lierde
John Moore wrote: I'm a total Linux newbie who'd like to install Linux on my really old PC. It has 64MB of RAM and a 4GB hard disk. The installation documentation I've read at debian.org seems to indicate that this is sufficient. Is that right? Thanks. __

Re: makefile not taking aliases into account

2005-05-09 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/8/05, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Marsh wrote: > > In general, though, it's better to set everything that you need in the > > makefile, since relying on your aliases makes your makefile highly > > non-portable. I usually do something like (using your example): > >

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