Re: "cdrecord -scanbus" - was Re: Cd burning with kernel 2.6.10

2005-05-30 Thread Margaret Aranyosi
I was having a lot of trouble with my cd burner (on an HP Pavilion ze4610us) after upgrading to a 2.6.10 kernel from 2.4.27, where it had worked flawlessly as ide-scsi. The solution for me was really simple - modprobe sg Apparently even with ide-cd it needs scsi generic to be loaded It still occ

Re: MySQL Performance Woody Vs Sarge

2005-05-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 09:53:53PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Roberto C. Sanchez: > > On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 12:39:25PM +1200, Simon wrote: > > > > > > How do i start figuing out this issue? > > > > Step 1. Switch to Postgres. > > Life's far too short to waste time reading replie

Re: All browsers crash on button click (java?)

2005-05-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 11:53:19PM -0400, Winston Smith wrote: > All browsers I've tried including Mozilla, Firfox, and Epiphany > crash (all browser windows cease to exist) > when I click on the "generate map" button on this page: > http://www.epa.gov/air/data/monloc.html?st~VA~Virginia > > It m

Re: X.org 6.8.2

2005-05-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 09:46:48PM +0200, gustavo halperin wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > >> > >Hi Sven, > >I have for the past 2 month been using an unofficial Xorg from > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] at: > > > >deb http://www.acm.cs.rpi.edu/~dilinger/xorg/ ./ > >deb-src http://www.acm.cs.rpi.edu/~dilinger

Re: Debian Sarge 3.1

2005-05-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:13:41AM +0800, Mitja Podreka wrote: > Maybe there is an boot option or some other way, but a simple solution is: > Install Woody and then upgrade the distribution to Sarge with apt-get > dist-upgrade. > Install the base Woody system and then change the /etc/apt/sources.l

Re: debhelper

2005-05-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 03:57:59AM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: > Hi All, > > I have debhelper 4.0.2 installed. How do I download and install debhelper >= > 4,1,46 without going from the stable distributon of Debian Linux? > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > Stephen Grant Brown > Hi S

Re: Diagnosing a printer problem

2005-05-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 12:06:58PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > > I'm on a modified Mepis system, and my apt.preferences are sitting now > at "experimental", probably a bad idea, but I did that so I could get > kde 3.4 installed. I just didn't set it back, and the other day I ran > an apt-get upda

Re: Installing Sarge -- Any reason to wait?

2005-05-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 03:24:28PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I have two production systems that I've been working with. Right now they > are > on Mepis while I'm testing. I want to change both over to straight Debian > for stability. I know Sarge is due to be declared stable in about a week

Re: VPN server recommendation

2005-05-30 Thread Chavdar Videff
On Monday 30 May 2005 21:50, Matthew J. Harmon wrote: > Even though everyone recommends OpenVPN, and I have great success with it, > I must also recommend CIPE[0] (Crypto IP Encapsulation), I've found it to > have much less overhead than OpenVPN and be very robust in difficult > environments > > Ad

alsa & kernel-image upgrade

2005-05-30 Thread Jonathan Kaye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This morning I installed via wajig what should have been a routine kernel-image upgrade from 2.6.8-15 to 2.6.8-16. Of course alsa is now toast. Ok I've been here before, no need to bother debian.user over this. FATAL: Error inserting snd_pcm (/lib/mod

Re: grub vs lilo

2005-05-30 Thread Jon Roed
On May 31, 2005 12:44 am, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Grub is uninstalled, but it is still written to your MBR. You'll need to > run 'lilo' as root (no options necessary) to get it to re-write itself > to the MBR and overwrite Grub. > > Just out of curiosity, why are you switching FROM grub TO lilo? M

Re: grub vs lilo

2005-05-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 00:22 -0500, Jon Roed wrote: > I am currently running Debian and i am trying to change my boot loader. I > have GRUB right now, but i want to switch to LILO. I uninstalled GRUB with > KPackage and installed LILO. I ran liloconfig and everything seems to be set > up prope

grub vs lilo

2005-05-30 Thread Jon Roed
I am currently running Debian and i am trying to change my boot loader. I have GRUB right now, but i want to switch to LILO. I uninstalled GRUB with KPackage and installed LILO. I ran liloconfig and everything seems to be set up properly. But somehow when i reboot i still get GRUB. I checke

Re: All browsers crash on button click (java?)

2005-05-30 Thread Jonathan Kaye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La Winston Smith ha escrit, a 31/05/05 05:53: | All browsers I've tried including Mozilla, Firfox, and Epiphany | crash (all browser windows cease to exist) | when I click on the "generate map" button on this page: | http://www.epa.gov/air/data/mon

Re: All browsers crash on button click (java?)

2005-05-30 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 30 May 2005 07:53 pm, Winston Smith wrote: > All browsers I've tried including Mozilla, Firfox, and Epiphany > crash (all browser windows cease to exist) > when I click on the "generate map" button on this page: > http://www.epa.gov/air/data/monloc.html?st~VA~Virginia > > It may have to d

Re: How to move debian from one drive to another and keep it working?

2005-05-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 08:10:05PM +0200, Elvis Cehajic wrote: > Unix compatibility Huh? Please quote relevant part you are replying to so the message makes sense. -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Debian Sarge 3.1

2005-05-30 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:13:41AM +0800, Mitja Podreka wrote: > Maybe there is an boot option or some other way, but a simple solution is: > Install Woody and then upgrade the distribution to Sarge with apt-get > dist-upgrade. This hasn't been necessary for a long time. Just download the netboo

Re: All browsers crash on button click (java?)

2005-05-30 Thread Wulfy
Winston Smith wrote: All browsers I've tried including Mozilla, Firfox, and Epiphany crash (all browser windows cease to exist) when I click on the "generate map" button on this page: http://www.epa.gov/air/data/monloc.html?st~VA~Virginia It may have to do with java. I downloaded jre-1_5_0_0

Re: MySQL Performance Woody Vs Sarge

2005-05-30 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Roberto C. Sanchez: > On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 12:39:25PM +1200, Simon wrote: > > > > How do i start figuing out this issue? > > Step 1. Switch to Postgres. Life's far too short to waste time reading replies like that. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficient

All browsers crash on button click (java?)

2005-05-30 Thread Winston Smith
All browsers I've tried including Mozilla, Firfox, and Epiphany crash (all browser windows cease to exist) when I click on the "generate map" button on this page: http://www.epa.gov/air/data/monloc.html?st~VA~Virginia It may have to do with java. I downloaded jre-1_5_0_02-linux-i586.bin from sun

coder front end

2005-05-30 Thread Dale Anderson
I want to write some code.  Can you make an apt package, debian style which makes one's own workstation come alive with modern development utilities?  Thus far. I have yet to right click on my neat KDE twinview kdesktop situation and see an option to edit the code. Food for thought gentlemen; whic

Re: CUPS? Printer.

2005-05-30 Thread David R. Litwin
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up worked. The other things you suggest tell me that it can't read the interfaces file (which may or may not be a problem unto itself). Any way, how do I make it run ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up with out my having to do that? Thank you very much.

Re: External modem

2005-05-30 Thread John Hasler
> Here is a link to help setup Debian for dialup. > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/peripherals/modem.html It isn't necessary to install pppconfig. It's in the base system. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: External modem

2005-05-30 Thread John Hasler
Muhammad Ali quotes: > I have configured my external modem (it has been detected by debian) > according to this article http://www.aboutdebian.com/modems.htm This is unnecessarily complex. All you need to do to configure your modem is run pppconfig as root and follow directions. When you are don

Re: MySQL Performance Woody Vs Sarge

2005-05-30 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 31 May 2005 12:39:25 +1200 Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi There, I have a strange issue with mysql performance... We are > running sarge on our production web server and woody on our dev > server... MySQL is the only issue we have: > > Both servers are running MySQL 4.0.24, one D

Re: MySQL Performance Woody Vs Sarge

2005-05-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 12:39:25PM +1200, Simon wrote: > Hi There, I have a strange issue with mysql performance... We are running > sarge > on our production web server and woody on our dev server... MySQL is the only > issue we have: > > Both servers are running MySQL 4.0.24, one Debian_4 (wo

Re: Debian Sarge 3.1

2005-05-30 Thread Mitja Podreka
Maybe there is an boot option or some other way, but a simple solution is: Install Woody and then upgrade the distribution to Sarge with apt-get dist-upgrade. Install the base Woody system and then change the /etc/apt/sources.list so that it points to the repositories of your choice. Something l

Re: External modem

2005-05-30 Thread peter colton
On Monday 30 May 2005 17:38, Muhammad Ali wrote: Hello Muhammad. Here are the steps I take to setup a dialup connection. If the box as a ethernet card installed you will need to set up the system for a static ip address for that ethernet card. The ethernet card static ip needs no gateway ip

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 28, 2005 at 04:33:53PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 12:03:21PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'm trying out Firefox again, and am dogged by slow performance, > > particularly on startup and window/tab operations. The browser lags >

MySQL Performance Woody Vs Sarge

2005-05-30 Thread Simon
Hi There, I have a strange issue with mysql performance... We are running sarge on our production web server and woody on our dev server... MySQL is the only issue we have: Both servers are running MySQL 4.0.24, one Debian_4 (woody) and one Debian_5 (sarge)... Both my.cnf files are pretty much

Re: exim SMTP Authentication (Follow-up)

2005-05-30 Thread Dave Patterson
> it doesn't thread the mail (like my post you replied to). > > The problem isn't with mutt or exim4, its the setup of the smtp server. > > Thanks for the pointer tho Dave. > > Wayne Yeesh. -- Regards, Dave After all, it is only the mediocre who are always at their best. -- Je

Re: please help a poor student

2005-05-30 Thread Dave Patterson
> > More than that. Could XP run with 128MB of RAM ? > > > >Cyp > > Minimum RAM for xp pro is 64 (from microsoft), minimum recommended 128. Experience shows sluggishness at half a gig. -- Regards, Dave My notion of a husband at forty is that a woman should be able to change him, like a bank

Re: please help a poor student

2005-05-30 Thread Cyprien
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 08:50:33PM +0200, Debian User wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 06:55:22PM +0200, Cyprien wrote: > >>lay awake whole night. I have a very low-end computer > >>with 5GB hard disk and 122MB RAM. It can boot from > >>CDROM. I am running WinXP Pro successfully on it. I > >>can no

Re: [xine-user] Cracking noise playing Audio CDs on kaffeine/xine

2005-05-30 Thread Paulo M C Aragão
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 06:55:15PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > Perfect application for strace. Use: > > strace -o LOG.txt kaffeine > > Wait until you see kaffeine issue "device is busy" and then kill kaffeine. > > Load up the file LOG.txt with an editor. Do a search for "device is busy"

Re: [xine-user] Cracking noise playing Audio CDs on kaffeine/xine

2005-05-30 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 30 May 05, 7:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 06:11:54PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > Try this: > > > > 1. Open kaffeine/xine and start playing something. 2. Open a mixer > > program. Make sure the settings are not cranked up while kaffe

Re: Disk encryption questions

2005-05-30 Thread Lee Braiden
On Monday 30 May 2005 23:47, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Symbolic links only contain the path. There is no inode information > involved. This is not, however, the best way to deal with an encrypted > disk. I much prefer to put LVM on top of an encrypted loop device to > provide whatever partitions I n

Re: Disk encryption questions

2005-05-30 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 11:19:22AM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: } In an effort to secure my system without degrading performance too much, } I've created an encrypted disk, then moved various directories onto that } disk, with softlinks from the original disk to there. So, for example, I } have stuff

Re: Kernel, install manually or through apt?

2005-05-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 11:26:00PM +0200, Vegard|drageV wrote: > Hi everybody, > I'm experimenting with the linux kernels, and have so far tried to > kernels available through apt-get, namely 2.4.27-1-386 (standard with > the installation in sarge) and 2.6.8-2-686 (running today). > > Is there an

Re: [xine-user] Cracking noise playing Audio CDs on kaffeine/xine

2005-05-30 Thread yagpaulo-listas
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 06:11:54PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > Try this: > > 1. Open kaffeine/xine and start playing something. 2. Open a mixer > program. Make sure the settings are not cranked up while kaffeine is > playing. Thanks for the persistence ! After I replied to your 1st e-mai

Re: Squid and Transparent Proxy for just one box

2005-05-30 Thread Romulo Sousa
On 5/30/05, Joe Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joe Potter wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I need to test some proxy methods for our school lab. I seem to have hit > > a brick wall. > > > > I have squid running just fine on this Debian Sid box. I use Firefox and > > manually tell it where to find

debhelper

2005-05-30 Thread Stephen Grant Brown
Hi All, I have debhelper 4.0.2 installed. How do I download and install debhelper >= 4,1,46 without going from the stable distributon of Debian Linux? Thanks in advance for your help. Stephen Grant Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: [xine-user] Cracking noise playing Audio CDs on kaffeine/xine

2005-05-30 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 30 May 05, 6:19 PM, Paulo M C Aragão <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi Peter, > > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 04:56:13PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > james was suggesting to kill arts and see if your sound is any better. this > > effectively kills the middleman -- your audio program wi

Re: display problem?

2005-05-30 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 01:06:30PM -0500, kenny B wrote: > Yes, Console is fine. only the GUI > > > -Kenny > > On 5/29/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 29/05/05 18:06 kenny B wrote: > > > I've just done a new installation > > > > > > On 5/28/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Kernel, install manually or through apt?

2005-05-30 Thread Vegard|drageV
Hi everybody, I'm experimenting with the linux kernels, and have so far tried to kernels available through apt-get, namely 2.4.27-1-386 (standard with the installation in sarge) and 2.6.8-2-686 (running today). Is there an easy to understand howto on manually installing a kernel from kernel.org e

Re: "Upgrading" to sarge when it goes stable?

2005-05-30 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Charles Read wrote: Hey everybody! I currently run sarge (debian testing that is) on a few important servers, how should I handle sarge going from testing to stable? Is it like at an instant all the testing repositories will be labeled stable and from that moment forward everybody with wood

Re: [xine-user] Cracking noise playing Audio CDs on kaffeine/xine

2005-05-30 Thread Paulo M C Aragão
Hi Peter, On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 04:56:13PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > james was suggesting to kill arts and see if your sound is any better. this > effectively kills the middleman -- your audio program will interact directly > with the sound hardware instead of needing to interact with

Re: Installing Sarge -- Any reason to wait?

2005-05-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 30 May 2005 03:36 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 03:24:28PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I have two production systems that I've been working with. Right now > > they are on Mepis while I'm testing. I want to change both over to > > straight Debian for stabilit

Re: [xine-user] Cracking noise playing Audio CDs on kaffeine/xine

2005-05-30 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 30 May 05, 4:40 PM, Paulo M C Aragão <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi James, > > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 06:13:29PM +0100, James Stembridge wrote: > > > > I hear a constant cracking/skipping noise when I play Audio CDs with > > > kaffeine/xine. I'm using both straight out-of-the-box, instal

R4025 Laptop

2005-05-30 Thread Chris Swanson
Hi Anyone had any success getting Debian running on a Compaq R4025 laptop? I know there are some issues with the built in video (ATI's 200m). If someone has (or hasn't) been able to get this to work right I would be interested to know your experience. Also if anyone has a good suggestion for an

Re: [xine-user] Cracking noise playing Audio CDs on kaffeine/xine

2005-05-30 Thread Paulo M C Aragão
Hi James, On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 06:13:29PM +0100, James Stembridge wrote: > > I hear a constant cracking/skipping noise when I play Audio CDs with > > kaffeine/xine. I'm using both straight out-of-the-box, installed from > > Debian binary packages. > > > > Some info about my setup: > > > > OS

Re: VPN server recommendation

2005-05-30 Thread Franki
Glenn English wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 18:06 +0300, Chavdar Videff wrote: Is OpenVPN a good choice? Are there better alternatives? I've used it, and I'm completely satisfied with it. I installed it between an office in TX and my house in CO about 2 years ago. It's used for cron job r

Re: Installing Sarge -- Any reason to wait?

2005-05-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 03:24:28PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I have two production systems that I've been working with. Right now they > are > on Mepis while I'm testing. I want to change both over to straight Debian > for stability. I know Sarge is due to be declared stable in about a week

Re: please help a poor student

2005-05-30 Thread Debian User
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 06:55:22PM +0200, Cyprien wrote: lay awake whole night. I have a very low-end computer with 5GB hard disk and 122MB RAM. It can boot from CDROM. I am running WinXP Pro successfully on it. I can not upgrade my PC due to money problems. mmm XP with 122MB of RAM ... no mone

Installing Sarge -- Any reason to wait?

2005-05-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have two production systems that I've been working with. Right now they are on Mepis while I'm testing. I want to change both over to straight Debian for stability. I know Sarge is due to be declared stable in about a week (could that change?), but it might be easier for me to install in th

Diagnosing a printer problem

2005-05-30 Thread David E. Fox
I'm on a modified Mepis system, and my apt.preferences are sitting now at "experimental", probably a bad idea, but I did that so I could get kde 3.4 installed. I just didn't set it back, and the other day I ran an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, and it upgraded a couple hundred packages in the

Disk encryption questions

2005-05-30 Thread Lee Braiden
In an effort to secure my system without degrading performance too much, I've created an encrypted disk, then moved various directories onto that disk, with softlinks from the original disk to there. So, for example, I have stuff like this: /home -> /crypted/home /var/mail -> /crypted/var/mai

Re: Squid and Transparent Proxy for just one box

2005-05-30 Thread Joe Potter
Joe Potter wrote: > Hello All, > > I need to test some proxy methods for our school lab. I seem to have hit > a brick wall. > > I have squid running just fine on this Debian Sid box. I use Firefox and > manually tell it where to find the proxy, i.e. at 127.0.0.1 and port > 3128. The logs (/var/lo

Re: VPN server recommendation

2005-05-30 Thread Matthew J. Harmon
Even though everyone recommends OpenVPN, and I have great success with it, I must also recommend CIPE[0] (Crypto IP Encapsulation), I've found it to have much less overhead than OpenVPN and be very robust in difficult environments Additionally, I have implemented it on mobile devices with mediu

Re: "Upgrading" to sarge when it goes stable?

2005-05-30 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 30 May 2005 12:44 pm, Jacob S wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2005 12:28:21 -0400 > Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey everybody! > > > > I currently run sarge (debian testing that is) on a few important > > servers, how should I handle sarge going from testing to stable? Is >

Re: X.org 6.8.2

2005-05-30 Thread gustavo halperin
Kevin Mark wrote: On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 09:25:51PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: gustavo halperin wrote: I almost try it, but isn't the problem. There is also a problem with a "LD_LIBRARY_PATH", the aren't contain the "/usr/X11R6/lib" and nothing almost is work at the time that I ad

Debian Sarge 3.1

2005-05-30 Thread Dr.Byte
Hello, I'am having a problem with installing Debian Sarge 3.1 on my HP LH3000 server. The problem i have is that he doesn't detect my scsi hd's, however when i do a debian woody 3.0 r5 install with the boot option vanilla het detects everything at once. The problem in my opinion is that sarge does

Re: display problem?

2005-05-30 Thread Adam Hardy
On 30/05/05 19:06 kenny B wrote: Yes, Console is fine. only the GUI On 5/29/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 29/05/05 18:06 kenny B wrote: I've just done a new installation > On 5/28/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 28/05/05 22:10 kenny B wrote: Hi. i n

Re: VPN server recommendation

2005-05-30 Thread Glenn English
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 18:06 +0300, Chavdar Videff wrote: > Is OpenVPN a good choice? Are there better alternatives? I've used it, and I'm completely satisfied with it. I installed it between an office in TX and my house in CO about 2 years ago. It's used for cron job rsync backups every couple

Re: display problem?

2005-05-30 Thread kenny B
Yes, Console is fine. only the GUI -Kenny On 5/29/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29/05/05 18:06 kenny B wrote: > > I've just done a new installation > > > > On 5/28/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On 28/05/05 22:10 kenny B wrote: > >> > >>> Hi. i need to

Re: [xine-user] Cracking noise playing Audio CDs on kaffeine/xine

2005-05-30 Thread James Stembridge
On 5/22/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hear a constant cracking/skipping noise when I play Audio CDs with > kaffeine/xine. I'm using both straight out-of-the-box, installed from > Debian binary packages. > > Some info about my setup: > > OS: Debian Sarge with KDE 3.3.2 > So

Re: please help a poor student

2005-05-30 Thread Cyprien
> He described its features in a manner which made me to > lay awake whole night. I have a very low-end computer > with 5GB hard disk and 122MB RAM. It can boot from > CDROM. I am running WinXP Pro successfully on it. I > can not upgrade my PC due to money problems. mmm XP with 122MB of RAM ... no

Re: i810 and Direct Rendering X11

2005-05-30 Thread Derek \"The Monkey\" Wueppelmann
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 18:04, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote: > Check the permissions on /dev/dri/card0 (or similar). You should have > one of these two blocks in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 as described here: > http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/DRI6.html#10 > > # All users get full access > Section "DRI" >

Re: i810 and Direct Rendering X11

2005-05-30 Thread Derek \"The Monkey\" Wueppelmann
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 12:09, hacker wrote: > Not sure then. I know I ran out of ram (192 MB here) on some games, > but tuxracer and chromium were ok. Also, when running lots of > windows, the glxgears sometimes jumped up to 1000+ fps (it seemed like > the more load I put on the higher it was able

Re: "Upgrading" to sarge when it goes stable?

2005-05-30 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Charles Read: > > I currently run sarge (debian testing that is) on a few important > servers, how should I handle sarge going from testing to stable? Is it > like at an instant all the testing repositories will be labeled stable > and from that moment forward everybody with wood

Re: VPN server recommendation

2005-05-30 Thread Michael Perry
Chavdar Videff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hello List. > > At our site we have to establish a secure VPN to a partner site in > order to interconnect our subnetworks. On both sides we have Linux > routers. > > A fellow administrator suggested that we used OpenVPN. >

Where find network adapter's configurations in Knoppix?

2005-05-30 Thread Master Millenium
Where can I find my network adapter's configurations in Knoppix? _ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "Upgrading" to sarge when it goes stable?

2005-05-30 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 30 May 2005 12:28:21 -0400 Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey everybody! > > I currently run sarge (debian testing that is) on a few important > servers, how should I handle sarge going from testing to stable? Is > it like at an instant all the testing repositories will be l

External modem

2005-05-30 Thread Muhammad Ali
Note: forwarded message attached.__Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --- Begin Message --- Hi, I have configured my external modem (it has been detected by debian) according to this art

"Upgrading" to sarge when it goes stable?

2005-05-30 Thread Charles Read
Hey everybody! I currently run sarge (debian testing that is) on a few important servers, how should I handle sarge going from testing to stable? Is it like at an instant all the testing repositories will be labeled stable and from that moment forward everybody with woody has sarge, and like

Re: VPN server recommendation

2005-05-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 05:22:47PM +0200, Christopher Pharo Glæserud wrote: > Chavdar Videff, > > > A fellow administrator suggested that we used OpenVPN. > > The only VPN I have heard about is Poptop. > > > > Is OpenVPN a good choice? Are there better alternatives? > > Insofar as I haven't us

Re: VPN server recommendation

2005-05-30 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 30 May 2005 18:06:44 +0300 Chavdar Videff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello List. > > At our site we have to establish a secure VPN to a partner site in > order to interconnect our subnetworks. On both sides we have Linux > routers. > > A fellow administrator suggested that we used Ope

Dual booting with XP: trouble with grub

2005-05-30 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Hi all, I'm a recent lilo convert, so I'm rather new to grub. Summary === I recently had to reinstall MS Windows XP (sigh), and I'm now having trouble getting grub to boot it. Debian boots OK. When booting XP, I see: Disk error Press any key to restart Missing operating system

Re: VPN server recommendation

2005-05-30 Thread Christopher Pharo Glæserud
Chavdar Videff, > A fellow administrator suggested that we used OpenVPN. > The only VPN I have heard about is Poptop. > > Is OpenVPN a good choice? Are there better alternatives? Insofar as I haven't used OpenVPN, I do not know if the alternatives I have are better or not... I've only used Fr

Re: VPN server recommendation

2005-05-30 Thread Lee Braiden
On Monday 30 May 2005 16:06, Chavdar Videff wrote: > At our site we have to establish a secure VPN to a partner site in order to > interconnect our subnetworks. On both sides we have Linux routers. > > A fellow administrator suggested that we used OpenVPN. > The only VPN I have heard about is Popto

VPN server recommendation

2005-05-30 Thread Chavdar Videff
Hello List. At our site we have to establish a secure VPN to a partner site in order to interconnect our subnetworks. On both sides we have Linux routers. A fellow administrator suggested that we used OpenVPN. The only VPN I have heard about is Poptop. Is OpenVPN a good choice? Are there bette

Re: dbDesigner 4

2005-05-30 Thread Rafael Gomes Sasaki
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 11:04:39AM -0300, Ribeiro Emerson Gomes wrote: > Alguém ai já conseguiu instalar o dbDesigner 4 no linux ? > Na verdade, eu uso Mandrake 10.1 e não Debian, mas é que a lista do Debian > tem os melhores profissionais! :-) > Eu baixei o .rpm do dbExpress, ai faltou umas lib

Squid and Transparent Proxy for just one box

2005-05-30 Thread Joe Potter
Hello All, I need to test some proxy methods for our school lab. I seem to have hit a brick wall. I have squid running just fine on this Debian Sid box. I use Firefox and manually tell it where to find the proxy, i.e. at 127.0.0.1 and port 3128. The logs (/var/log/squid/access.log) show everythin

Re: exim SMTP Authentication (Follow-up)

2005-05-30 Thread Wayne Topa
[EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Hopefully this will assist others running into these problems. > > > > What is very sad is that the only way I can reliably send mail to > > mailing lists, and having them passed through the server, is with > > Kmail in X. My bel

Re: please help a poor student

2005-05-30 Thread Robert Epprecht
ratikanta rath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please help this poor student by mailing me the CDs if you have Did you check if you would not have to pay high import taxes if somebody sends you CDs from abroad? I think you would better try to get them from within India. Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: problems with eps

2005-05-30 Thread Steve A
On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 10:55:42PM +0200 or thereabouts, Felix Natter wrote: > Steve A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Is there any particular reason for using '.eps' ? Is it to be printed ? I > > would > > use gif or png and make the background transparent. > > I am using a standard LaTeX d

Re: can ping but mozilla doesn't work

2005-05-30 Thread Meni Shapiro
Hi, Have you try telnet from consol to domain port 80? or to IP port 80? Did you get a connection? If not, do you run a firewall? if so reconfigure it or just disable it. If you do get a connection with IP and not domain name, then you should check /etc/resolv.conf and put there you ISP nameserver

Re: can ping but mozilla doesn't work

2005-05-30 Thread Kent West
Daniel McBrearty wrote: >Hi > >Have an odd problem that I can't work out. > >I I recently took out my wireless networking (driver was ndiswrapper >for a dlink card) and replaced it with a normal wired connection via >eth0. Since then, I can ping any website as a normal user, but mozilla >waits ind

Do not have money , get software cds from here!

2005-05-30 Thread Morris
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Re: mouse and keyboard lock up

2005-05-30 Thread Francois
With some more testing, putting "options psmouse proto=exps" in /etc/modprobe.conf does not change. To hang the pc, I have to open some (five for example) nautilus windows and click upon the upper bar of each of them successively. Within 5-50 click, the screen freeze, and the keyboard is locked. So

Re: Xen Virtual Server

2005-05-30 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
On Thu, 26 May 2005 21:10:16 +0200, Timothy Spear wrote: > Hello all, Hi Timothy, > Before I try the Xen Virtual Server from unstable, on my Sarge > based desktop, is there anyone out there running Xen on Sarge and can give > some pointers or howto information? Yup - runs fine. The howto is av

Re: USB Pen Drive

2005-05-30 Thread Meni Shapiro
You are right but you are jumping ahead... First create a dir in /mnt and call it something familiar like /mnt/pen then mount it (as root) : #mount -tvfat -oumask /dev/sda1 /mnt/pen #cd /mnt/pen #ls MeniOn 5/30/05, Rafael Gomes Sasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Software Development Group <

Re: can't find compile option for 2.6.8 kernel module uninstall

2005-05-30 Thread Rafael Ostertag
Hi Daniel On vanilla 2.6.8 kernels, the option is right in the section "Loadable module support". Of course you need to enable "Enable loadable module support" in the same section. Hope this helps regards rafi On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 09:28 +0200, Daniel McBrearty wrote: > Hi > > recently upgrade

can't find compile option for 2.6.8 kernel module uninstall

2005-05-30 Thread Daniel McBrearty
Hi recently upgraded to 2.6.8 (because I want the firewire support). Now when I boot I see the following message during the boot process: FATAL: Kernel does not have unload support. but when I go into menuconfig for the kernel, I cannot find the option for this anywhere (3 options under the mod

can ping but mozilla doesn't work

2005-05-30 Thread Daniel McBrearty
Hi Have an odd problem that I can't work out. I I recently took out my wireless networking (driver was ndiswrapper for a dlink card) and replaced it with a normal wired connection via eth0. Since then, I can ping any website as a normal user, but mozilla waits indefinitely for a response from tha

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-30 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 01:39:54PM -0400, Selva Nair wrote: > Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 13:39:54 -0400 > From: Selva Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: root compromise on debian woody > [snip] > I was running debian 2.4.18-k7. Now I notice that there is another kernel > image available for k7