Re: alsa problem

2005-05-25 Thread steef
Colin wrote: Ionut Georgescu wrote: default=Linux-2.4.27 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-686 label=Linux-2.4.27 append="initrd=image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-686" read-only I thought initrd can go on a line of its own like: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-686 l

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-25 Thread steef
shatam bhattacharya wrote: >... guess you installed your kernel-headers and alsa-utils as well? with alsaconf you should be able to install your soundmodule. *not* with modconf in this case.. alsaconf loads no drivers, does not detect any PnP or pci cards, neither it detects any legacy dri

Re: Move from i386 to ia64?

2005-05-25 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On 5/26/05, Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a Dell PowerEdge SC1425 with Sarge running on it. > Apparently the box supports Intel's EM64T, but it's currently running > a standard i386 kernel. > > What are the advantages of running an x86_64 / ia64 kernel? It's amd64

Laptop Network Card and X-windows Issues...

2005-05-25 Thread Will Ness
Hello All!! I have some vexing problems that I have tried to solve on my own, and I am at last beyond my capabilities Ok heres the sitrep: My system is setup on a Compaq Presario 1230. You may rember me posting issues on this machine months earlier. Anyways I managed to get the network card

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-25 Thread Jonathan Kaye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La shatam bhattacharya ha escrit, a 26/05/05 06:26: | | >... guess you installed your kernel-headers and alsa-utils as well? | with alsaconf you should be able to install your soundmodule. *not* with | modconf in this case.. | | alsaconf loads no

Laptop Network Card and X-windows Issues...

2005-05-25 Thread Will Ness
Hello All!! I have some vexing problems that I have tried to solve on my own, and I am at last beyond my capabilities Ok heres the sitrep: My system is setup on a Compaq Presario 1230. You may rember me posting issues on this machine months earlier. Anyways I managed to get the network card

Re: Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread John W Mislan
Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: Well, I am not bypassing anything. I am using make-kpkg. I use this guide http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html.en | Sorry. Your mention of grabbing a kernel off of kernel.org is what threw me off. I had thought you had to use the debian-patched k

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-25 Thread shatam bhattacharya
>... guess you installed your kernel-headers and alsa-utils as well? with alsaconf you should be able to install your soundmodule. *not* with modconf in this case.. alsaconf loads no drivers, does not detect any PnP or pci cards, neither it detects any legacy drivers!!! Any clues Shatam

Re: Please add support for Broadcom 440x NIC to sarge release

2005-05-25 Thread Marty
Michael Patrick wrote: you have probably recieved this before but i would really appreciate it if you added support for the broadcom 440x nic in the upcoming release of sarge. That's a kernel issue. Debian developers have no control over the kernel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Please add support for Broadcom 440x NIC to sarge release

2005-05-25 Thread Michael Patrick
you have probably recieved this before but i would really appreciate it if you added support for the broadcom 440x nic in the upcoming release of sarge.

Two IDEs - KDE and Gnome

2005-05-25 Thread Punit Ahluwalia
I had two machines, one had KDE on it, and the other had Gnome. Now, I want to put both the hard drives in one machine. I have already recompiled the kernel for the hard drive that I want to install. But I did so by temporarily disconnecting the existing hard drive. Now, I want to have both on

Re: non-network printer in a network.

2005-05-25 Thread Jason Rennie
Hey Derrick, Many thanks for the "internet printer" tip. I had been trying to use samba to print from Windows XP with varying success. Specifying the CUPS http address worked like a charm. Some minor notes for others who are trying this: - The URL that worked for me was http://server:631/print

Re: CT4810 Sound Card

2005-05-25 Thread Kent West
Landy Bible wrote: > Hello, I'm trying to get a Creative Labs CT4810 sound card to work. > I'm a windows user most of the time, and don't have a clue what do to. > I'm running Sarge, with kde installed. Add yourself to the audio group: # adduser landy audio This may be all that's needed, especia

Re: Move from i386 to ia64?

2005-05-25 Thread Jason Rennie
Some useful reading: http://www.nl.debian.org/ports/amd64/ https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firefox and MIDI [SOLVED]

2005-05-25 Thread Jim Hall
Jim Hall wrote: Again, replies are inline. Jim Peter J Ross wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:25:28PM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: Replies are inline. Jim Nicos Gollan wrote: On Saturday May 14 2005 05:02, Jim Hall wrote: A user needs MIDI to work in Firefox. I installed kernel-image-2.

Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'

2005-05-25 Thread Marty
Dan Fulbright wrote: When I try to mount an NFS filesystem, I get this error: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs' Here's the mount command I'm using on host2: mount host1.domain.com:/tmp /mnt On host1.domain.com, I have this in /etc/exports: /tmp host2.domain.com(ro,sync) Do a `grep nfs /

Re: CUPS? Printer.

2005-05-25 Thread Jim Hall
Brendan wrote: On Wednesday 25 May 2005 12:02 pm, Stephen Queen wrote: I can think of a couple of things to try here, depending on how you do things. 1. When you run kprinter, make sure that the pull down list about 75% down in the kprinter window that is labeled "Print system currently used:"

CT4810 Sound Card

2005-05-25 Thread Landy Bible
Hello, I'm trying to get a Creative Labs CT4810 sound card to work. I'm a windows user most of the time, and don't have a clue what do to. I'm running Sarge, with kde installed. Could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Landy -- Landy J. Bible The University of Tulsa Computer S

Re: The dumb things we do to ourselves.

2005-05-25 Thread Robert Vangel
Adam Funk wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Hopefully, someone gets a chuckle out of this. My recent prize-winner was this # ifdown -a over an ssh connection. Fortunately the computer I was^H^H had been logged into was in the same room as the one I was typing on. I've done that. I thou

Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'

2005-05-25 Thread Dan Fulbright
Have you actually checked that you have NFS support? What does grep NFS /boot/config* give you? It gives me nothing, but it also gives me nothing on host1, where NFS is working fine. In what way is it working fine? I though the whole point was that you couldn't mount it on a clie

Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'

2005-05-25 Thread David Jardine
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 06:23:19PM -0500, Dan Fulbright wrote: > When I try to mount an NFS filesystem, I get this error: > > mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs' > > Here's the mount command I'm using on host2: > > mount host1.domain.com:/tmp /mnt > > On hos

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread David Jardine
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:44:49AM -0700, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: > --- Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think this is normally done by the command "make modules install" > > (after > > compiling the modules using "make modules." There is a more > > fundamental > > issue here, however, regard

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
--- Phil Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm guessing that you do have initrd enabled in the kernel? > > Block Devices -> RAM Disk Support -> Initial RAM disk (initrd) > > phil Actually, I didn't. I never had it turned on. But I went ahead and got back to the debien kernel-source package and

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-25 Thread Colin
Ionut Georgescu wrote: > default=Linux-2.4.27 > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-686 > label=Linux-2.4.27 > append="initrd=image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-686" > read-only I thought initrd can go on a line of its own like: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-686 label=Linux-2.4.27

Re: Sound over X (was Re: X and sound on debian, really wanted!)

2005-05-25 Thread Marty
TreeBoy wrote: Do you mean NAS (Network Audio System) which is available on Debian now. That seems to be something else. The slashdot discussion is about X.org's MAS (media application server), and the posting links to this web site: http://www.mediaapplicationserver.net/ Since this is an X.

Re: Changes to apt-get

2005-05-25 Thread David Jardine
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 12:36:17PM +0700, Alex Grigorovich wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 18:49 -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > > vim has multiple-undo, which classic vi doesn't, for one. > > Classic vi does have multi-level undo, it just works differently from > the one in vim. > > In nvi undo

Re: Sound over X (was Re: X and sound on debian, really wanted!)

2005-05-25 Thread TreeBoy
Do you mean NAS (Network Audio System) which is available on Debian now. I'm intending to try and sort this out for myself this very weekend. I'll post if you're interested. Cheers, TreeBoy On Wednesday 25 May 2005 18:36, Marty wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > >Suddenly I see something I real

Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'

2005-05-25 Thread Dan Fulbright
When I try to mount an NFS filesystem, I get this error: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs' Here's the mount command I'm using on host2: mount host1.domain.com:/tmp /mnt On host1.domain.com, I have this in /etc/exports: /tmp host2.domain.com(ro,sync) Do a `grep nfs /proc/filesystems' and

Re: non-network printer in a network.

2005-05-25 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:07:58PM +0200, Hans wrote: | Enlighten me please. | | I have an HP Office Jet 5505 all-in-one on my main box. This isn't a | network printer, and by that I mean no build in network card, it just | plugs into the USB port. | | I like to make the printer part available

CD-ROM and CDRW no longer found since switch to g-v-m

2005-05-25 Thread Brent Bailey
Last week I switched from using magicdev to gnome-volume-manager for all its hotplug goodness. The hotplug works fine, but for some reason I can't see my CD-Rom and CDRW. The versions used are: # dpkg -l hal hotplug dbus-1 gnome-volume-manager Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=N

Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'

2005-05-25 Thread David Jardine
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 12:25:41PM -0500, Dan Fulbright wrote: > >>When I try to mount an NFS filesystem, I get this error: > >> > >>mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs' > >> > >>Here's the mount command I'm using on host2: > >> > >>mount host1.domain.com:/tmp /mnt > >> > >>On host1.domain.com, I h

Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'

2005-05-25 Thread Marty
Dan Fulbright wrote: In the meantime you might just try "exporting" /tmp or something just to see if the client starts working. I tried that, and now when I start nfs-kernel-server, I get this: host2:~# /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart Stopping NFS kernel daemon: mountd nfsd. Unexporting

Re: Installing X / Gnome / KDE onto an old laptop

2005-05-25 Thread jim biri
OK, well I've gone for aptitude install gnome-core: let's see what happens. On 5/25/05, jim biri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've setup a "fileserver" on Debian SARGE - I'd now like to install > GNOME or KDE on it. > > What's the correct packages to ask aptitude for? There's loads ...

Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'

2005-05-25 Thread Dan Fulbright
Sorry, wrong script. On my system mountd is started in nfs-user-server. (You may have a different one if you are using the kernel server.) It also starts nfsd, which also seems missing on your system. Why would I need to run this script on the client? Good question. I've never tried to ru

Re: Use of ":" (was: Re: mtab very long)

2005-05-25 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 08:28:40AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > The most common usage these days is in conjunction with :=, like this: > > : ${TMPDIR:=/tmp} > > The := form assigns the value if the variable is empty, but it _also_ > substitutes the value. Adding ":" to the front makes that val

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-25 Thread steef
Jonathan Kaye wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La shatam bhattacharya ha escrit, a 25/05/05 21:05: | Hello list, | As instructed I am starting a new thread. I saw the previous | posts regarding alsa and did this | apt-get install alsa alsamixer alsamixergu

non-network printer in a network.

2005-05-25 Thread Hans
Enlighten me please. I have an HP Office Jet 5505 all-in-one on my main box. This isn't a network printer, and by that I mean no build in network card, it just plugs into the USB port. I like to make the printer part available to other machines with SAMBA. I haven't succeeded yet. I will one

Re: No faces in gdm browser

2005-05-25 Thread Olivier Laurent
On mer, 25 mai 2005, at 08:04, Kent West wrote: > Olivier Laurent wrote: > > [ Snapped 574 characters ] > >Do you have any clue on what's going on ? > > > Perhaps this page will help: > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/postlfs/etcshells.html > > which basically says that gdm check

ecasound features slow recording

2005-05-25 Thread Hans
Hello list, I've stumbled upon a problem with no clue of my own on where to start looking for a solution. I am converting some old tapes into wav files. The box is a Celeron 700 with the latest update of testing, ALSA to control the Intel 82810 sound chip on board. Direct to disk recording i

Re: DCOP problems with kate and konqueror

2005-05-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
"s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Incoming from Marc Shapiro: "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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

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Re: Oracle 9i on Sarge

2005-05-25 Thread J. Van Lierde
Cool! That got me moving again and I learned a new Debian survival skill. thanks Roberto. /JVL Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 03:01:32PM -0400, J. Van Lierde wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get Oracle 9i going on my new sarge system. The installer fails with the following er

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-25 Thread Jonathan Kaye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La shatam bhattacharya ha escrit, a 25/05/05 21:05: | Hello list, | As instructed I am starting a new thread. I saw the previous | posts regarding alsa and did this | apt-get install alsa alsamixer alsamixergui | This went fine. I did

Re: Sarge Performance

2005-05-25 Thread Joris Huizer
Lars Roland wrote: So now the load looks ok, still the old Redhat is holding its head above but now it is only with 10%. This may be due to further bugs in the tg3 driver that hopefully a new kernel will fix - if not then I must fill a bug report and send it to the driver developers, it can not

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-25 Thread Ionut Georgescu
alsa-modules-2.4.27-2-k7 have been compiled for kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7, they won't work with 2.4.18. If the guy says it won't work, it doesn't mean it will break your system :-) Install initrd-tools. Then the new kernel. Don't abort this time. Then, if you you use lilo, create the following en

Re: Firefox pdf plugin suddenly broken

2005-05-25 Thread Andrew Schulman
>> If you don't have the mozplugger package installed, try installing it. That >> might fix it for Firefox. Make sure you have a symlink in your >> mozilla-firefox plugins directory that points to mozplugger.so > > I tried using mozplugger and in my case it stopped acroread (as plugin) > from

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-25 Thread shatam bhattacharya
  On Thu, 26 May 2005 Ionut Georgescu wrote : >I think you don't have the alsa kernel modules installed. There are none >for your kernel, so I think you should upgrade: > >apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7 alsa-modules-2.4.27-2-k7 When I try to upgrade it gives the following error - gin

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ibrahim Mubarak said: > OK. So I went ahead and downloaded the latest kernel off of kernel.org, > compiled it and installed it. Still mkinitrd doesn't output the image. > So I tried to mkinitrd of the running kernel. Still nothing. I am > guessing it i

Re: how to determine why system rebooted

2005-05-25 Thread Marty
michael wrote: I thought this would be easy to discover but I've just come back and my server has rebooted itself. From various /var/log files I can see when but I can find NO reason or even hints why. I've poked Google and peeked the Debian web pages but have come no closer to this. Any idea

installing debian

2005-05-25 Thread Giancarlo Bruno
Hi,   I have tried to install Debian Sarge on my notebook, a Toshiba Satellite P10-792 with an Intel Pentium 4 processor, which has currently Windows XP running. I installed Debian from the CD and apparently it was all ok, but as I rebooted the system I got teh following error:   Code: 0f b

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-25 Thread Ionut Georgescu
I think you don't have the alsa kernel modules installed. There are none for your kernel, so I think you should upgrade: apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7 alsa-modules-2.4.27-2-k7 Ionut On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 07:27:28PM -, shatam bhattacharya wrote: > > >Please post the output of "l

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Marty
Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: Well, I am not bypassing anything. I am using make-kpkg. I use this guide http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html.en Sorry. Your mention of grabbing a kernel off of kernel.org is what threw me off. I had thought you had to use the debian-patched kernel

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-25 Thread Ionut Georgescu
Alsa module names start with snd (snd_ac97_codec) I think you still run OSS. However, it is very important to know: do you run kernel 2.4 or 2.6 ? Do you have hotplug installed ? Ionut On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 02:12:45PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > shatam bhattacharya wrote: > > > I saw the prev

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-25 Thread shatam bhattacharya
>Please post the output of "lspci" and "uname -a" and "groups". ginie:/etc/modutils# lspci :00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01) :00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrat

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Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Marty
Charles Hallenbeck wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2005, Marty wrote: apt-get install make-kpkg;man make-kpkg I tried to fetch that package, with this result: hhs48:~# apt-get install make-kpkg Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package make-kpkg I am tra

Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'

2005-05-25 Thread Ionut Georgescu
What about installing a newer kernel? apt-cache search kernel-image-2.4 choose the one which suites you apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7 # for example Don't wipe your old kernel yet. Edit /etc/lilo.conf (or /boot/grub/menu.lst), rerun lilo and reboot. Hope it helps ... Ionut On Wed, M

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-25 Thread Kent West
shatam bhattacharya wrote: > I saw the previous posts regarding alsa and did this > apt-get install alsa alsamixer alsamixergui > This went fine. I did modconf and loaded the ac97 and ac97_codec > modules. But still it is not working. On trying to use alsamixer it says - > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ als

Re: Oracle 9i on Sarge

2005-05-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 03:01:32PM -0400, J. Van Lierde wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get Oracle 9i going on my new sarge system. The installer > fails with the following error: > > error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open > shared object file: No such file o

alsa problem

2005-05-25 Thread shatam bhattacharya
Hello list,             As instructed I am starting a new thread. I saw the previous posts regarding alsa and did this apt-get install alsa alsamixer alsamixergui This went fine. I did modconf and loaded the ac97 and ac97_codec modules. But still it is not working. On trying to use alsamixer it

Oracle 9i on Sarge

2005-05-25 Thread J. Van Lierde
Hi, I'm trying to get Oracle 9i going on my new sarge system. The installer fails with the following error: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory After some googling, it turns out that Oracle 9i needs glibc

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Marty wrote: apt-get install make-kpkg;man make-kpkg I tried to fetch that package, with this result: hhs48:~# apt-get install make-kpkg Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package make-kpkg I am tracking unstable through mirr

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
--- Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this is normally done by the command "make modules install" > (after > compiling the modules using "make modules." There is a more > fundamental > issue here, however, regarding custom kernels in a debian system, > which I > address below. > > > > >

how to determine why system rebooted

2005-05-25 Thread michael
I thought this would be easy to discover but I've just come back and my server has rebooted itself. From various /var/log files I can see when but I can find NO reason or even hints why. I've poked Google and peeked the Debian web pages but have come no closer to this. Any ideas? -- Michael Ban

Re: Xvideo, gmplayer and xawtv goofiness

2005-05-25 Thread Marty
Alban Browaeys wrote: Marty ix.netcom.com> writes: My graphics driver is ATI with a Radeon 7500 on stock sarge. If I run gmplayer with xvideo enabled, subsequently xawtv displays no video, only a black screen. I have to restart xawtv with the "-noxv" option (turning off xvideo) I can s

Re: Firefox pdf plugin suddenly broken

2005-05-25 Thread Alban Browaeys
Patrick Wiseman gmail.com> writes: > http://www.plr.uk.com/forms&leaflets/assigningrights/assigningindex.htm > > not only don't display but break my browser's ability to display pdf > files. So maybe the problem is there not here. But those files look > fine when downloaded and viewed in acror

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Marty
Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: --- Ibrahim Mubarak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I am trying to make my custom-compiled 2.6.11 kernel (source package version 2.6.11-5) bootable. For lilo and since 2.6, i have both vmlinuz links and initrd images for my kernels. For some reason, this one is not goi

Re: Xvideo, gmplayer and xawtv goofiness

2005-05-25 Thread Alban Browaeys
Marty ix.netcom.com> writes: > > My graphics driver is ATI with a Radeon 7500 on stock sarge. If I run > gmplayer with xvideo enabled, subsequently xawtv displays no video, only a > black screen. I have to restart xawtv with the "-noxv" option (turning > off xvideo) > I can sometimes run b

Re: ia64 available packages

2005-05-25 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 09:27 am, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I'm thinking of getting an AMD-64 machine. Is there an easy way to > see if all the packages I currently have installed are available in > the ia64 distribution? Some helpfull links. The IA64 is for Itanium, separate from the amd64/emt64 ar

Re: CUPS? Printer.

2005-05-25 Thread Brendan
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 12:02 pm, Stephen Queen wrote: > I can think of a couple of things to try here, depending on > how you do things. > > 1. When you run kprinter, make sure that the pull down list > about 75% down in the kprinter window that is labeled > "Print system currently used:" is set

Re: X and sound on debian

2005-05-25 Thread shatam bhattacharya
Ok guys,         I got your point. I hope you all would overlook this mistake as a first timer. I will take care of the points that have been told to me. please help me out with my new thread regarding alsa Bye

Sound over X (was Re: X and sound on debian, really wanted!)

2005-05-25 Thread Marty
Hendrik Boom wrote: Suddenly I see something I really *want*: audio to go over an X connection from one machine to another! And then it turns out just to be two separate topics. A few months ago there was a slashdot discussion on this subject: http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/03/02

Move from i386 to ia64?

2005-05-25 Thread Chris Boot
Hi all, I've got a Dell PowerEdge SC1425 with Sarge running on it. Apparently the box supports Intel's EM64T, but it's currently running a standard i386 kernel. What are the advantages of running an x86_64 / ia64 kernel? Are there any special steps to take to upgrade it? Can I upgrade the kerne

ia64 available packages

2005-05-25 Thread Rick Pasotto
I'm thinking of getting an AMD-64 machine. Is there an easy way to see if all the packages I currently have installed are available in the ia64 distribution? -- If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe. -Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROT

Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'

2005-05-25 Thread Dan Fulbright
When I try to mount an NFS filesystem, I get this error: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs' Here's the mount command I'm using on host2: mount host1.domain.com:/tmp /mnt On host1.domain.com, I have this in /etc/exports: /tmp host2.domain.com(ro,sync) Also, to make sure that you have all t

Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'

2005-05-25 Thread Dan Fulbright
When I try to mount an NFS filesystem, I get this error: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs' Here's the mount command I'm using on host2: mount host1.domain.com:/tmp /mnt On host1.domain.com, I have this in /etc/exports: /tmp host2.domain.com(ro,sync) Do a `grep nfs /proc/filesystems' and

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
--- Ibrahim Mubarak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to make my custom-compiled 2.6.11 kernel (source package > version 2.6.11-5) bootable. For lilo and since 2.6, i have both > vmlinuz > links and initrd images for my kernels. For some reason, this one is > not going through.

Re: Open-Source environments for Java

2005-05-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 12:40:02PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 09:55:09AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > other developers or users. Then when someone NMUs their package to > > I'm sorry. I don't know what MNU means. > Non-Maintainer Upload. That means that a

Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'

2005-05-25 Thread Marty
Dan Fulbright wrote: When I try to mount an NFS filesystem, I get this error: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs' Something must not be loaded. What do you get by running "rpcinfo -p"? On host2 (the client), I get: program vers proto port 102 tcp111 portmapper

Re: X and sound on debian, really wanted!

2005-05-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 08:10:23AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > And I would recommend that in the future, you might have better success > at getting responses (and it'll make more sense in the archives) if two > separate disparate topics such as these (video and sound) are broken > into two separat

Re: Open-Source environments for Java

2005-05-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 09:55:09AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > other developers or users. Then when someone NMUs their package to I'm sorry. I don't know what MNU means. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: The dumb things we do to ourselves. (SPOILER)

2005-05-25 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
Yes, exactly. > It defines a shell function ":" that calls itself and executes it. It's as > short a bash (also sh?) forkbomb as you get and it's pretty efficient at > cleaning your memory and swap partition to a bare minimum if you don't ulimit > it. Killing it was not too difficult the one tim

Re: CUPS? Printer.

2005-05-25 Thread Stephen Queen
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Brendan wrote: > What happens is amusing. > I am using a Samsung 1740 (relatively new, but comes with a ppd and they ok it > for Linux) on a server of mine. It shares a LAN with my workstation. Neither > of them can print to it, but both of them can see it and "install it" via

Installing X / Gnome / KDE onto an old laptop

2005-05-25 Thread jim biri
Hi, I've setup a "fileserver" on Debian SARGE - I'd now like to install GNOME or KDE on it. What's the correct packages to ask aptitude for? There's loads . it's an old laptop. Thanks for any advice, Jim.

Re: Gnome on Knoppix?

2005-05-25 Thread A Mennucc
John Conover wrote: Anyone installed Gnome on Knoppix? Thanks, John look at http://www.gnoppix.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No sound (no /dev/dsp) on newly installed 2.6.8-2-386 with Intel 82801.

2005-05-25 Thread Adam Funk
Kent West wrote: >>I think the easiest solution may be to find a spare PCI sound card (older >>and more likely to be supported) and stick it in this computer. That's what I did. >>Would the onboard sound hardware interfere >> > You might want to deactivate the onboard hardware in the BIOS. We c

RE: Small issues, but still annoying

2005-05-25 Thread Eric van der Paardt
> 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,

Use of ":" (was: Re: mtab very long)

2005-05-25 Thread Paul Smith
%% Maurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mvr> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ : > temp mvr> Does anyone know any other uses for this ':' command? The most common usage these days is in conjunction with :=, like this: : ${TMPDIR:=/tmp} The := form assigns the value if the variable is empty,

Re: CUPS? Printer.

2005-05-25 Thread Brendan
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 08:48 pm, Stephen Queen wrote: > Can you ping localhost? Yep. Both the print server and workstation I am trying to print from can ping their respective localhost and each other. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: CUPS? Printer.

2005-05-25 Thread Brendan
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 09:00 am, Stephen Queen wrote: > Are you having the same problem as the original poster, that > is that your browser times out when trying to access > http://localhost:631 > or do you have another problem? If your having another > problem, could you describe it? What happe

Re: X and sound on debian

2005-05-25 Thread Kent West
Ionut Georgescu wrote: >On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 06:54:52AM -, shatam bhattacharya wrote: > > >> At present I am having a couple of problems. >> >> > >And now to the [first problem] > >PS With respect to [the second problem], I can only second Jonathan's advice > > > A

Re: No faces in gdm browser

2005-05-25 Thread Kent West
Olivier Laurent wrote: >Hi everybody, > >I'm tring to configure gdm to show faces in the face browser. > >After trying to figure out why there are no faces, I discovered that >gdm does not like zsh in /etc/passwd > >For example: >toto:x:1004:1004:,,,:/home/toto:/bin/zsh >tata:x:1005:1005:,,,:/home

Re: CUPS? Printer.

2005-05-25 Thread Stephen Queen
> See, this is useful, not like somebody saying they "read the docs" and "it > works for them". > I have tried for quite awhile on cupsd.conf, so mine will deviate quite a bit > from what you would call "normal" or "good". I figured since I already tried > the simple stuff (including older backups)

Re: The dumb things we do to ourselves. (SPOILER)

2005-05-25 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday May 25 2005 13:38, michael wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 22:04 -0500, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: > > and what about this: > > > > $ :(){ :| :&};: > > > > Try it at your own risk. :P > > I've tried to decypher this but failed... can somebody enlighten me pls It defines a shell func

Re: want to change /var/log partition to a directory in /var --help

2005-05-25 Thread Urs Thuermann
Ionut Georgescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please send fdisk -l /dev/hda. Judging by your /etc/fstab, you can't do > anything because you have /home and /tmp between /var and /var/log. The > best you cand do is to move /tmp and /var/log to /var and extend /home > :-) > > I will describe the ne

Re: The dumb things we do to ourselves.

2005-05-25 Thread michael
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 22:04 -0500, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: > and what about this: > > $ :(){ :| :&};: > > Try it at your own risk. :P I've tried to decypher this but failed... can somebody enlighten me pls -- Michael Bane Atmospheric Physics Group University of Manchester

Re: cant write national characters - locales issue?

2005-05-25 Thread Michal Simovic
and i forgot: i have logged out and in, even rebooted the machine. it seem like some applications ignore the locales setting? -- miso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mtab very long

2005-05-25 Thread michael
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 12:40 +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:28:04AM +0100, michael wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 12:00 +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote: > > > : > /etc/mtab > > > > what's the ':' do??? > > Nothing. At least hardly anything worth mentioning. See this s

Re: cant write national characters - locales issue?

2005-05-25 Thread Michal Simovic
i run dpkg-reconfigure locales, chose sk_SK.UTF-8 and set it to default. but the sitiation remains the same. i'm still not able to write two of these characters in KWrite, Kate, Quanta: ľščťžýáíé but as you can see i can write them all here in Thunderbird.. -- miso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Making kaffeine/xine play audio properly

2005-05-25 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragão
Hi, I installed kaffeine/xine to play audio CDs and some web radios but I just can't get them to work properly. I'm hitting the following problems: - Audio CDs play but there's a kind of cracking/scratching noise all along, like when you listen to scratched vynil records. There's no noise whe

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