Re: audacity problem: no I/O devices

2005-05-22 Thread Jonathan Kaye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La Marty ha escrit, a 22/05/05 22:19: |> /dev/dsp; no /dev/dsp1 nor /dev/dsp2. Do you know what's using these |> /dev's? Have you run alsaconf, etc. and all is well? | | | Here is where I suspect a problem, since alsaconf fails to find any | devic

Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-05-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Carlos Rodrigues wrote: > And after 8 years using Linux all the time, I came to find the MS-land > rituals somewhat exotic (if unix filesystems take care of themselves, > why can't the so called New Technology File System?). It can. NTFS is a dirivative of OS/2's HPFS. HPFS didn't have a def

Re: HOWTO reverse proxy through an internal-server-initiated ssh tunnel?

2005-05-22 Thread Josh Rehman
I also tried other ports but without success.-- "It seemed to them that they did little but eat and drink and rest, and walk among the trees; and it was enough."- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, "The Mirror of Galadriel"

Re: HOWTO reverse proxy through an internal-server-initiated ssh tunnel?

2005-05-22 Thread Josh Rehman
On 5/22/05, André Carezia <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: ssh -R 8080:localhost:80 [EMAIL PROTECTED] My apologies, I should have mentioned that that was what I tried. Here is the result: external>$ telnet localhost 8080 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused

How to enable a user access to fsck at boot up.

2005-05-22 Thread Ivan Teliatnikov
Good day. When machine reboots and there is problem with file system one has an option to enter root password and user fsck utility to check and fix file system errors. I think this is done via sulogin utility and /etc/init.d/fscheck.sh script. On some machines I have trusted users who can su v

Re: dnscache: readproctitle service errors

2005-05-22 Thread Jacob Friis Larsen
On 5/21/05, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 21 May 2005 18:10:01 +0200 > Jacob Friis Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/21/05, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 21 May 2005 15:47:23 +0200 > > > Jacob Friis Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 5/20/05, Jac

Regarding unresponsive Debian maintainers (was: Re: Open-Source environments for Java)

2005-05-22 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 22 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > > In my very humble and uninformed opinion, some maintainers should > > really give up maintaining their packages or should try to get other > > people as co-maintainers, if they lack the time to fix their > > packages. :-( > > > >

Re: Howto make a boot floppy for my broken system.

2005-05-22 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 03:21:31PM +0300, Meni Shapiro wrote: > > Check your /boot dir for an initrd file (usualy initrd. or > something like that) > then edit lilo.conf (usualy /etc/lilo.conf) > add the following in your specific boot option: > init= > eg: > init=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-5-386 >

Re: vim and regex construct [^...]

2005-05-22 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 01:30:56AM -0300, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragão wrote: > I have just observed that vim handles negated character classes [^...] > in an apparently odd fashion: > > [\n] matches \n as expected > [^\n] matches \n ??? > [^^M] doesn't match \n ??? >

Re: Can't boot after ghost restore

2005-05-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Matthew Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Dear Debian-user I'm building anew intranet, and though, as I have two identical machines to do some DR tests. I have Ghosted the newly commissioned machine and Ghosted that image to the other machine. When it boots, it hang with the word GRUB in the

Can't boot after ghost restore

2005-05-22 Thread Matthew Joyce
Dear Debian-user   I'm building anew intranet, and though, as I have two identical machines to do some DR tests. I have Ghosted the newly commissioned machine and Ghosted that image to the other machine.   When it boots, it hang with the word GRUB in the top left of the screen, nothing el

Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-05-22 Thread Carlos Rodrigues
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Thanks for the reply as I would like to get to the bottom of this. I get the general message. However, contrary to what has been said, I have at least one partition with 4.5% fragmentation(e2fsck reports) which I don't consider a trivial amound. It is a trivial amo

Re: Booting from floppies

2005-05-22 Thread Bill Marcum
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 07:33:28AM -0700, Amira Youssef wrote: > Hello, > > I've a problem booting from the cdrom although the cd drive is wokring > fine. I had to boot from a rescue drive and then root.bin "worked and > when it start asking about the soure to install the kernel I selected > the

Re: RAID+LVM migration, need help

2005-05-22 Thread Bill Mair
Bill Mair wrote: I was looking into other options available. Considering that I am already using LVM, one that caught my eye is pvmove and the other was snapshots. Snapshots don't work the way I thought, but oh well you live and learn. I used pvmove after updating to LVM2. It worked like a c

Re: Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-05-22 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
On Sunday 22 May 2005 03:33 pm, Bill Mair wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: > Leonard Chatagnier wrote: >>Ok, I get your message, but for my gratification, insight and knowledge >>of Linux how do I get the programs to run without error and not distroy >>my harddisk? debian FS != DOS FS This is about

Re: cannot mount cdrom! - fixed now

2005-05-22 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Sunday 22 May 2005 01:11 am, Roy Pluschke wrote: > Since it works as root you probably haven't added yourself to the > group "cdrom" Yep, that was it. I thought it was starting to smell like something simple like that :) Everything works now. Thanks! > Hope this helps, > Roy It did :) --

Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-05-22 Thread John Hasler
Rob writes: > This is about the best explanation I've ever seen, even if it a couple of > years old now: > http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.mandrake/msg/38a9eeb8d01b1dbb?hl=en Also of note is the fact that ext2 uses a loosest fit algorithm (also known as "worst fit") rather than t

Re: How to make Firefox default to CUPS printer (rather than Xprint spool dir)

2005-05-22 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 5/22/05, Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know exactly when this happened, but some time recently, > firefox decided to by default send print jobs to a new "Xprintjobs" > directory in my home directory. This even though I have an installed > CUPS printer that works. i.e. if I

Root window slideshows?

2005-05-22 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm using xslideshow to display some images. But, it's not exactly what I'd like. Maybe someone knows of another program or how to make xslideshow do what I want. I'd like to just point it at a directory and give a slide show of, say, the latest 50 photos in random order. A few fast dissolves/

screen keeps dumping screen captures to printer

2005-05-22 Thread Micha Feigin
For some reason my computer started sending screenshots of the console (running screen with several session in it) to the printer lately. Any idea what could be causing this? These seem to be text captures and not graphic captures of the console. Thanks

How to make Firefox default to CUPS printer (rather than Xprint spool dir)

2005-05-22 Thread Jason Rennie
I don't know exactly when this happened, but some time recently, firefox decided to by default send print jobs to a new "Xprintjobs" directory in my home directory. This even though I have an installed CUPS printer that works. i.e. if I select my printer, whatever I want to print prints great. B

Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-05-22 Thread Adam Fabian
On 5/22/05, Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Fabian wrote: > > >On 5/20/05, Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>more than 5 months old and has never been defragged but I'm still very > >>much a newbie. > >> > >> > > > >It's very unlikely that your file

software to catalog my movies

2005-05-22 Thread Hossam Hassan
hi all, my movie collection is kind of getting more than i can manage so is there any software that catalog movies on debian?i searched on the google for software for cataloging movies and stuff,all i found is under windows also most are not free or opensource ones. any advices??? thanks a

Re: DCOP problems with kate and konquerer (KDE problem?)

2005-05-22 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Marc Shapiro: > > Just yesterday, I started having problems with kate. It will start up, > and then give me errors about not being able to start the DCOP server The last time I complained about something like that, some kde person said I needed to restart kdeinit. -- Any techn

zip 750 eide

2005-05-22 Thread Conangle Frédéric
hello guys I installed a zip 750 and when I try to mount it ,the following message appear "bad fs type" . knowing that before a zip 250 worked properly . I didn't find howto on google. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: HOWTO reverse proxy through an internal-server-initiated ssh tunnel?

2005-05-22 Thread André Carezia
Josh Rehman wrote: >A solution which I believe is quite elegant involves ssh'ing from the >laptop to my external, statically IP'd host. I would then need to >notify the externally running httpd that a tunnel is now available, >and then use something like the ProxyPass directive to seemlessly >forw

DCOP problems with kate and konquerer (KDE problem?)

2005-05-22 Thread Marc Shapiro
I tried sending this from a different account, and it never went through, so I am resending it. (No erro messages, or bounce back, just no posting on the list.) I appologize now if the original makes it through some time and you get a double post. Just yesterday, I started having problems wi

Peinture de Levente Kovac

2005-05-22 Thread J-LucPaquet
Hello. Sur les lieux d'une d'un marché au puces,J'ai eu l'occasion d'acheter deux peinture de Levente Kovacs.En regandant le dos des pièces,j'ai décidé de faire une recherche sur le sujet,vu surtout les dates ne 1962. 1-  Kovac Art Creation Ltd, 3121, 36 st Street,St-Michel,Montréal 38,.Québ

Re: No "Beep" from PC Speaker

2005-05-22 Thread Marty
Kenneth Jacker wrote: martyb> Possibly because PC Speaker support (INPUT_PCSPKR) is not martyb> enabled in your kernel or the corresponding module is not martyb> loaded. Thanks for the suggestion! I installed the 'pcspkr' module using 'modconf', but still hear nothing. Other ideas? Than

Re: No "Beep" from PC Speaker

2005-05-22 Thread Kenneth Jacker
martyb> Possibly because PC Speaker support (INPUT_PCSPKR) is not martyb> enabled in your kernel or the corresponding module is not martyb> loaded. Thanks for the suggestion! I installed the 'pcspkr' module using 'modconf', but still hear nothing. Other ideas? Thanks, -Kenneth -- To

Re: Cannot update from www.mirror.ac.uk

2005-05-22 Thread Marty
Rich Stanton wrote: Hi, I run sarge and usually update my debian systems from www.mirror.ac.uk because it gives the best speeds of all I've tried. However recently I've been unable to grab certain updates - apt-get update works fine, the package lists are downloaded fine. However when I run

Cannot update from www.mirror.ac.uk

2005-05-22 Thread Rich Stanton
Hi, I run sarge and usually update my debian systems from www.mirror.ac.uk because it gives the best speeds of all I've tried. However recently I've been unable to grab certain updates - apt-get update works fine, the package lists are downloaded fine. However when I run apt-get dist-upgrad

Re: Is there a way to get 30 GB files through the net ...

2005-05-22 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday May 22 2005 22:26, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: > The only way I can share files between the OSs is through FAT32 disks. > But those only support files up to 4GB. So I'm in trouble. You could try a tool like EXT2IFS to access you Linux partitions from Windows: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn

Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-05-22 Thread Rob Bochan
On Sunday 22 May 2005 03:33 pm, Bill Mair wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > > Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > >>Ok, I get your message, but for my gratification, insight and knowledge > >>of Linux how do I get the programs to run without error and not distroy > >>my harddisk? > debian FS != DOS FS This i

Re: /etc/modules comment is wrong

2005-05-22 Thread David Jardine
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 10:05:05AM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from David Jardine: > > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 03:08:02PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > > David Jardine wrote: > > > > > > >I've never had the courage to file a bug and wouldn't know where to > > > >start, but I'm sur

Re: Is there a way to get 30 GB files through the net ...

2005-05-22 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Marty wrote: > Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 16:43:49 -0400 > From: Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian User List > Subject: Re: Is there a way to get 30 GB files through the net ... > Resent-Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 15:43:57 -0500 (CDT) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: Is there a way to get 30 GB files through the net ...

2005-05-22 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Marty wrote: > Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 16:43:49 -0400 > From: Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian User List > Subject: Re: Is there a way to get 30 GB files through the net ... > Resent-Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 15:43:57 -0500 (CDT) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: Is there a way to get 30 GB files through the net ...

2005-05-22 Thread Marty
Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: Hi all, I am in a bit of weird situation. I am running a dual boot system. I need to be able to let someone I know but lives far be able to upload 30 GB or so of data to my PC or download stuff off of it. I also need to be able to get it all to the windows side. Yeah, I kn

Re: Hard disk becoming full quickly; available space inconsistencies.

2005-05-22 Thread Keith Edmunds
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The server has only been up for a month, and over the last two weeks the available disk space of /dev/sda1 is constantly decreasing. I'm now nearly running out of space. # du -s / |sort -n ...and then drill down to find where the space is being taken. This isn't perfe

Re: Hard disk becoming full quickly; available space inconsistencies.

2005-05-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > I have a server running Debian, with kernel 2.4.28-bf2.4 > > There is a single RAID 1 array of two 146GB SCSI hard disks partitioned as > /dev/sda1 (25G) (which is /) > and > /dev/sda3 (112G) (which is /home) > > The server has only been up for a month, and ove

Hard disk becoming full quickly; available space inconsistencies.

2005-05-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi I have a server running Debian, with kernel 2.4.28-bf2.4 There is a single RAID 1 array of two 146GB SCSI hard disks partitioned as /dev/sda1 (25G) (which is /) and /dev/sda3 (112G) (which is /home) The server has only been up for a month, and over the last two weeks the available disk space

Re: Small issues, but still annoying

2005-05-22 Thread Marty
Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: Hi, Each time my kernel boots, I see flashing on my screen for a sec the word "FATAL" followed (on a seperate line) by kernel modules' names. I am not sure what the FATAL error message is as it goes out of my screen way too fast. I tried a few log files in /var/log such a

Re: Is there a way to get 30 GB files through the net ...

2005-05-22 Thread Keith Edmunds
Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: Any thoughts? Any docs talking about a similar issue? Use separate machines, host the data under Linux and make available to the Windows system via Samba. -- Keith Edmunds +-+ | Tiger Computing Ltd

Is there a way to get 30 GB files through the net ...

2005-05-22 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
Hi all, I am in a bit of weird situation. I am running a dual boot system. I need to be able to let someone I know but lives far be able to upload 30 GB or so of data to my PC or download stuff off of it. I also need to be able to get it all to the windows side. Yeah, I know you don't like win, bu

HOWTO reverse proxy through an internal-server-initiated ssh tunnel?

2005-05-22 Thread Josh Rehman
I would like to expose a web server running on a personal laptop elegantly and securely. This laptop is not always connected at the same point, so a static IP will not do. I am also familiar with dynamic dns however my laptop will sometimes be behind firewalls over which I have no control. A solut

Re: audacity problem: no I/O devices

2005-05-22 Thread Marty
Jonathan Kaye wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La Marty ha escrit, a 22/05/05 17:03: | Jonathan Kaye wrote: | |> Audacity, at least the one I'm using (ver. 1.2.3) wants /dev/dsp as its |> i/o device. Have you got that? | | | Not automatically. (I'm using udev). If I crea

Gnome Sound Recorder problem

2005-05-22 Thread Marty
I have tried both 2.6.8 and 2.6.10 kernels with ALSA support and all ALSA OSS emulation options enabled for my motherboard sound chip, a VIA 8233 When I try to record via Gnome Sound Recorder, I get the following error message: ALSA device "default" does not exist. ALSA is otherwise working f

Small issues, but still annoying

2005-05-22 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
Hi, Each time my kernel boots, I see flashing on my screen for a sec the word "FATAL" followed (on a seperate line) by kernel modules' names. I am not sure what the FATAL error message is as it goes out of my screen way too fast. I tried a few log files in /var/log such as dmesg, messages, syslog

cant write national characters - locales issue?

2005-05-22 Thread Michal Simovic
hi, i've got problems with writing some national (slovak) characters in my system. i've got Debian Sarge and i'm running KDE 3.3.2. i've got "locales" package installed and configured to support both "en_US.ISO-8859-1" and "sk_SK.ISO-8859-2", "sk_SK" configured as default. i also checked my

Re: fanless, Debian, experience?

2005-05-22 Thread Glenn English
On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 20:16 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Yikes! Profoundly expensive is a fitting description at that price tag. It is, indeed. One is tempted to say "preposterously." But it's *quiet*! Quiet enough to use in a recording studio control room. And if you leave out the tape drives, it

Re: audacity problem: no I/O devices

2005-05-22 Thread Jonathan Kaye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La Marty ha escrit, a 22/05/05 17:03: | Jonathan Kaye wrote: | |> Audacity, at least the one I'm using (ver. 1.2.3) wants /dev/dsp as its |> i/o device. Have you got that? | | | Not automatically. (I'm using udev). If I create a link to /dev/dsp,

Re: No "Beep" from PC Speaker

2005-05-22 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Sonntag 22 Mai 2005 19:49 schrieb Marty: >  (Why the kernel > configuration routines consider the PC speaker an "input device" is a > separate mystery, unless it contributed to your not finding this > option and consequently not running this driver.) Good question. It took me also some times to

Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-05-22 Thread Bill Mair
Steve Lamb wrote: Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Ok, I get your message, but for my gratification, insight and knowledge of Linux how do I get the programs to run without error and not distroy my harddisk? I'd say you're not getting the message. You don't need to do it. Period. Full st

Re: fanless, Debian, experience?

2005-05-22 Thread Adam Hardy
On 22/05/05 08:49 Glenn English wrote: On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 11:27 -0700, Andrew Porter wrote: Have any on the list had experience with fanless PCs running Linux, more especially Debian? The Zalman TNN 500A does a good job running Debian sarge on an Intel 865 mobo, 2.8GHz P4, 1GB RAM, 79G SC

kernel-2.6.8 USB problem

2005-05-22 Thread Thomas H. George
On shutdown the system locks up when it tries to disconnect the Sony DRX-510UL USB dvdrw drive. This lockup did not occur when discovery was installed but with discovery installed the drive was reported in /proc/bus/usb/devices but with no mount point. A posting on the list suggested switchi

Re: Recommended Debian book?

2005-05-22 Thread Glenn English
On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 23:17 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > wget -O - http://rute.2038bug.com/rute.html.tar.bz2 | \ > tar -xvvjf - > > I hunted for rute for ages and gave up until someone on a newsgroup > kindly posted the above link. That's somewhat more than just a link. Very thoughtful. Thank

Re: problem of bringing up pppoe on boot

2005-05-22 Thread Marty
Yuwen Dai wrote: Deal all, I used /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot to have pppoe bring up on boot time. Although ppp_on_boot is an obsolete method, it worked well untill I made an "apt-get dist-upgrade" yesterday. My Linux box has two ethernet cards, eth1 for internal networking and eth0 for pppoe. I found

Re: Installproblem: Sarge on PI-166MMX

2005-05-22 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hello, Am Samstag, 21. Mai 2005 12:50 schrieb Andreas Mantke: > Hello, > > I had problems to install Sarge on a PI-166MMX with a Atapi-Cdrom I should make an additional remark to this: The mainboard is a FIC PA 2005, Memory 2x64 MB, 2x16 MB (BIOS knows only 64 MB). In the box there are two hardd

Re: wireless pcmcia works/doesn't work

2005-05-22 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sun, 22 May 2005 10:05:25 -0400 Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 05:11:42PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > >> > >>Now when I try to add the wireless info below, I cannot connect; > >> > >>wireless-essid blahblahblah > >>wireles

Re: Configuring X on Intel 82845 gl board

2005-05-22 Thread shatam bhattacharya
>But as mentioned, I'm unclear on what you're seeing, so something odd >may be happening. You should just be able to: Very true. It just needed a apt-get -f install. Everything (except  low quality graphics and unavailable sound), is working fine. I m lovin' it!!! Trying to update xfree86 to 4.3;

Re: No "Beep" from PC Speaker

2005-05-22 Thread Marty
Kenneth Jacker wrote: [sarge; 2.6.8-2-686; KDE; SBL!] I can't get my PC speaker to "beep" in a "console" or "Konsole" session ... I guess there are worse problems! ;-) Anyway, this, $ echo -v-g produces no sound. Neither does 'xalarm' with the "-alarmaudio beep" option. I've enable

debian satge and vaio VGN-FS115Z

2005-05-22 Thread Jérôme Gaulin
Hello ! serialata, pci express, 1280x800, centrino wifi. Hmm, sarge freeze at startup when it want to detect pcmcia card. Any idead ? If i do this expert26 vga=771 hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false , insatllation work but freeze at next reboot. Thanks all. vive debian ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

No "Beep" from PC Speaker

2005-05-22 Thread Kenneth Jacker
[sarge; 2.6.8-2-686; KDE; SBL!] I can't get my PC speaker to "beep" in a "console" or "Konsole" session ... I guess there are worse problems! ;-) Anyway, this, $ echo -v-g produces no sound. Neither does 'xalarm' with the "-alarmaudio beep" option. I've enabled it via 'alsamixer', ch

Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-05-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday May 22 2005 2:55 am, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > Adam Fabian wrote: > >On 5/20/05, Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>more than 5 months old and has never been defragged but I'm still > >> very much a newbie. > > > >It's very unlikely that your filesystem needs defragmentin

Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-05-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday May 22 2005 2:24 am, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > Ok, I get your message, but for my gratification, insight and > knowledge of Linux how do I get the programs to run without error > and not distroy my harddisk? I'll run e2fsck to check on > defragmentation b

Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-05-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > Ok, I get your message, but for my gratification, insight and knowledge > of Linux how do I get the programs to run without error and not distroy > my harddisk? I'd say you're not getting the message. You don't need to do it. Period. Full stop. There is no i

Re: Help with Zip drive

2005-05-22 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi Jerry, maybe you should use the imm module rather than ppa. It depends on the type of drive, just try. On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 07:39:13AM -0700, Jerry Turba wrote: > I just got a parallel port Zip 100 drive. I have the ppa module loaded, > along with scsi support, scsi disk support. I do not h

Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-05-22 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Adam Fabian wrote: On 5/20/05, Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: more than 5 months old and has never been defragged but I'm still very much a newbie. It's very unlikely that your filesystem needs defragmenting after 5 months. As other have already noted, ext3 isn't pron

Re: /etc/modules comment is wrong

2005-05-22 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from David Jardine: > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 03:08:02PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > David Jardine wrote: > > > > >I've never had the courage to file a bug and wouldn't know where to > > >start, but I'm sure someone else on the list can explain. > > > >It is really easy to

Re: Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-05-22 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Ok, I get your message, but for my gratification, insight and knowledge of Linux how do I get the programs to run without error and not distroy my harddisk? I'll run e2fsck to check on defragmentation but would still like to know how to run the defrag program. Thanks f

Re: wireless pcmcia works/doesn't work

2005-05-22 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Ryan Nowakowski wrote: On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 05:11:42PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: Now when I try to add the wireless info below, I cannot connect; wireless-essid blahblahblah wireless-key 1234567890 I cannot get connected. I've double checked the essid & wifi key (I have them printed ou

Re: audacity problem: no I/O devices

2005-05-22 Thread Marty
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Audacity, at least the one I'm using (ver. 1.2.3) wants /dev/dsp as its i/o device. Have you got that? Not automatically. (I'm using udev). If I create a link to /dev/dsp, it disappears after rebooting, and in the meantime my OSS mixer in Gnome Volume Control 2.8.0 disap

Re: Open-Source environments for Java (was: Re: java)

2005-05-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 22 May 2005 08:38 am, Rogério Brito wrote: > Do you really need proper Java from Sun/IBM? Unless things have changed drastically in the past year or so, if you're doing ANYTHING with a GUI, yes, you do. Hal

Any experience with oolatex?

2005-05-22 Thread Andrew Perrin
I'm trying to use the oolatex script for tex4ht so I can submit a manuscript currently in LaTeX to a press that needs it in RTF. I'm currently having two problems: 1.) oolatex stops with a puzzling error: ! Misplaced \span. \span ...ew:span {\new:span \HRow .\HCol ;}\:span l.7 ...mn{2}{r|}{\tex

Re: Open-Source environments for Java

2005-05-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Rogério Brito wrote: > In my very humble and uninformed opinion, some maintainers should really > give up maintaining their packages or should try to get other people as > co-maintainers, if they lack the time to fix their packages. :-( > > If they applied to the project, then, they committed them

Re: wireless pcmcia works/doesn't work

2005-05-22 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sun, 22 May 2005 08:14:40 -0500 Ryan Nowakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 05:11:42PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > I just got my wireless pcmcia wireless card working, sort of. > > > > It's a jaht wn-4054p, it works with the prism54 module, with a > > firmware up

Open-Source environments for Java (was: Re: java)

2005-05-22 Thread Rogério Brito
Do you really need proper Java from Sun/IBM? If not, then you can use one of the OpenSource offerings already in testing/sarge (including sablevm, kaffe, GNU classpath, jikes, among others). You can have a reasonably good development system if you install the package free-java-sdk. It *won't* be

Re: wireless pcmcia works/doesn't work

2005-05-22 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 05:11:42PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > I just got my wireless pcmcia wireless card working, sort of. > > It's a jaht wn-4054p, it works with the prism54 module, with a firmware > update from prism54.org > > With out wep, I can connect with the Linksys wrt54g wifi route

Your PC will thank you.

2005-05-22 Thread Hershel
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Help syslog/cron

2005-05-22 Thread John Fleming
I'm getting a cron message every morning (snippet below) that is getting irritating! I've deleted the syslog and started fresh, but it always comes back, and with the same date. It involves everything that uses syslog, e.g. spamd and fetchmail, and there for is not imited to one process that I

Re: CUPS: client-error-not-possible

2005-05-22 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Meni Shapiro wrote: > Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 13:54:12 +0300 > From: Meni Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Ernst-Magne Vindal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Debian users > Subject: Re: CUPS: client-error-not-possible > Resent-Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 05:54:19 -0500 (CDT) > Resent-Fr

Re: Configuring X on Intel 82845 gl board

2005-05-22 Thread Kent West
shatam bhattacharya wrote: > >Also, is 192.168.1.1 a real DNS server? I suspect that is pointing to > >your router, and I suspect it should be pointing to your ISP's DNS > >server(s). That might be configurable in your router's web interface, or > >you can just change your resolv.conf file for a q

Re: Sarge Performance

2005-05-22 Thread Lars Roland
On 5/21/05, Lars Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I just replaced my company anti-virus/anti-spam mail gateway from a > Redhat 7.3 with kernel 2.4.24 to Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.8.1. I > had hoped that this transition would lead to better performance (new > perl, better drivers i

Re: Recommended Debian book?

2005-05-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 09:29:26AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (16/05/05 22:54), Deboo ^ wrote: > > What is a good book on debian for and intermediate users? > I would endorse Linux Administration Handbook mentioned by someone else > and Rute Users Tutorial and Exposition by Paul Sheer which y

Re: CUPS: client-error-not-possible

2005-05-22 Thread Meni Shapiro
I configured a network printer (hp 4050) with the printing (gui) utility. I can print a test page from the properties or from mozilla cups administration (localhost:631) But i can't print nothing exect that!! what the [EMAIL PROTECTED] is going on My network is 10.0.0.x/24 the printer is 10

Anyone using libasound2-plugins?

2005-05-22 Thread Thomas Hood
Does anyone use the libasound2-plugins package? If so then please send me a note. If not then the package will be omitted from the 1.0.9 release of the Debian ALSA packages. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Installing Newest Kernel

2005-05-22 Thread dexter2
1. Downoad kernel source 2. unpack it 3. congigure it: make menuconfig 4. install it as root: make install 5. install modules 6. setup boot loader (Grub or Lilo), but this i think is done during make install, so just check it. It's not a dificult task. During configuration, there is explana

Re: Installing woody 3.0r5 on HP Proliant DL140

2005-05-22 Thread dexter2
Looks like you don't have correct kernel for this server. If you do not find kernel allready compiled for this server, you will have to configure and compile kernel yourself. Dexter2 On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 09:08 +, Nicola Guarracino - Dip. Fisica UniCal +39 984 496030 wrote: > Hi, > > after

(OT) gv multiple print -> square numbers

2005-05-22 Thread Richard Lyons
Has anyone worked out why ghostview prints not the number of prints requested, but the square of that number? I assume it is not just me, because it happens on all my debian systems. I have cups, and sarge and sid boxes. When viewing a ps or pdf in gv, select any print function, add to the small

Re: Network Setup Help

2005-05-22 Thread Thomas Hood
On Mon, 16 May 2005 21:50:18 +0200, Donald Perkovich wrote: > I installed Debian 3.0r4 onto a machine yesterday and things seemed to > go alright. When I started the machine up today, I found I have no > networking. OK, let's try to figure out what's wrong. > There are two NICs but no device

Re: Gaim

2005-05-22 Thread Adam Mercer
On 22/05/05, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Installing Gaim (apt-get just does not work for me), it says this: whats the problem with the gaim package? why does it not work? Cheers Adam

Re: esd hanging

2005-05-22 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:40:11 +0200, Chuck Williams wrote: > I've got a problem with esd hanging in certain circumstances but not > others. Usually this is the result of multiple applications trying to open /dev/dsp at the same time. If you run esd then you have to make sure that no other audio

Re: cannot mount cdrom! - a clue

2005-05-22 Thread Roy Pluschke
On May 22, 2005 00:27, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > On Saturday 21 May 2005 11:36 am, Keith Edmunds wrote: > > Audio CDs don't usually have an ISO9660 filesystem on them. > > Ah. I get it now. I was confused about the actual problem here. > > The issue is that I cannot access audio cds on my cdrom driv

Re: how to change hostname

2005-05-22 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 20 May 2005 10:00:19 +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote: > What is the debain way to change to hostname of a system. Run "hostname NEWHOSTNAME" and put NEWHOSTNAME into /etc/hostname. If occurrences of OLDHOSTNAME appear in /etc/hosts, change them to NEWHOSTNAME. The mailname serves a different

Re: java

2005-05-22 Thread steef
Ivan Teliatnikov wrote: Streef, I never had any problems with SUN Java on Sarge. Sun Java 1.5 installed by the method described below works with all browsers including konqueror-browser. I have installed: ii java-common0.22 Base of all Java packages ii java-package 0.24

Re: fanless, Debian, experience?

2005-05-22 Thread Glenn English
On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 11:27 -0700, Andrew Porter wrote: > Have any on the list had experience with > fanless PCs running Linux, more especially Debian? The Zalman TNN 500A does a good job running Debian sarge on an Intel 865 mobo, 2.8GHz P4, 1GB RAM, 79G SCSI, 120G SATA, a CD RW, DAT, DLT, a fl

Installing woody 3.0r5 on HP Proliant DL140

2005-05-22 Thread Nicola Guarracino - Dip. Fisica UniCal +39 984 496030
Hi, after Debian 3.0r5 installation on HP Proliant DL140 the system is rebooted and I get this message LILO 22.2 Loading Linux... but the system hangs. If anyone has successfully installed this version on same server type and have some tips, I'd greatly appreciate it. Nicola Guarracino Dipar

Re: [debian] Re: cannot mount cdrom!

2005-05-22 Thread Keith Bates
On Sun, 22 May 2005 09:42:58 +0300 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is endemic. Open up a root session and see it mount as easily as > anything. > > Here is line from my fstab: > /dev/hdc /mnt/hdc iso9660 > defaults,sync,users,noexec,noauto,umask=022 0 0 > > Anybody know of a fi

Re: cannot mount cdrom! - a clue

2005-05-22 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Saturday 21 May 2005 11:36 am, Keith Edmunds wrote: > Audio CDs don't usually have an ISO9660 filesystem on them. Ah. I get it now. I was confused about the actual problem here. The issue is that I cannot access audio cds on my cdrom drive. I'd like to rip the music stored on this Groove Ar

Re: Sarge Performance

2005-05-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 05:06:47PM +0200, Lars Roland wrote: > Hi all > > I just replaced my company anti-virus/anti-spam mail gateway from a > Redhat 7.3 with kernel 2.4.24 to Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.8.1. I > had hoped that this transition would lead to better performance (new > perl, better

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