j Mak:
> --- Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Then do 'aptitude install xserver-xfree86' (and yes,
> > 86 not 89). I am
> > very sure it's on the first CD.
>
> The aptitude install xserver-xfree86 command worked.
Great.
> Now i have x window and kde up and running.
> But now
Hey all! Was wondering what a DECENT fron end for KDE or GNOME and sane
would be?
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It's working now: It just takes an astonishing amount of time to load.
In /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (the file it recommends to alter), I've two Input Devices:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "P
Tried what sort of thing? What didn't work?
Because for once I'm going to take some sympathy, instead of doing the right
thing and trying to get you to learn how to do something, I'm going to
spoon-feed you.
You want lo to come up at boot?
Edit /etc/network/interfaces, add the following lines:
En/La David R. Litwin ha escrit, a 13/06/05 06:57:
> My mouse has a button where my thumb is. This, in Windows, is used to go
> back in a web-browser. In linux, it does not recognise this button.
>
> So: How do I make it recognise the button; and how do I set it to go
> back in a web-browser?
>
>
I tried that sort of thing. It didn't work. I've tried quite a few
things and none of the worked. I really do need some one to tell me.
Sorry.
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 09:18:13PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> It's a bug in the "Simple" theme for GNOME, known already I think. Try
> changeing to a different one, gtk2-engines-clearlooks is my favourite
> at the moment :)
No, it's a Firefox bug which, like most Firefox appearance bugs, they
On 06/12/05 22:42, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
openbox -- it's very small, fast and configurable.
Hi, J.
I benchmarked the memory usage of openbox (which I installed given your
suggestion here some time ago) and I didn't see any difference between
it and fluxbox with the "Minimal" style.
Pe
On 06/12/05 22:43, Tom Allison wrote:
A thousand pardons.
It found version 10 that was replaced by version 11.
I was looking at version 11 being in use, not 10.
You're right, I'm wrong.
Sorry for the waste in bandwidth.
No problems. BTW, here is the command that I use with deborphan:
apt-get
on Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 03:38:04PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Have just finished installing sarge (am a first-time debian user, very
> impressed), and now am chosing a window manager. I have fond memories
> of using a little-known WM called VTWM on SunOS, but that was al
Hi all,
Please let me know if it is all right to use LAMP packages from dotdeb
http://dotdeb.org/
for Sarge?? Since it is a new distribution will it work properly??
Thankyou so much
Kind Regards
Siju
I have no insight into this particular problem but the config file
/etc/network/interfaces might give you some clue?
-jd
On 6/13/05, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have set my ifconfig (via pppoeconf) to start up a ppp and eth0
> connection.
>
> My ifconfig, when working properl
On 6/9/05, Colin Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Siju George wrote:
>
> >
> >The Installation of this module failed so now could someone please
> >tell me how I ca install this NIC??
> >
> >
> >
> I assume you mean the sk98lin module that I suggested to use? Exactly
> what failed? Did you tr
on Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:07:15PM -0400, theal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Does anyone know how to tell what program or PID is causing swap
> usage? I have a system with 2 GB RAM so it should using little or no
> swap, but at times it does and I need to determine what the cause is.
Processes are
I have set my ifconfig (via pppoeconf) to start up a ppp and eth0 connection.
My ifconfig, when working properly, reads thus:
ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:DA:B8:AE:EA
inet6 addr: fe80::250:daff:feb8:aeea/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU
Hi there, we are running debian sarge for a virtual hosting box. PHP
safe mode is on for all users with a host of other php_admin_values etc.
We are running name based virtual hosting for all hosts except SSL hosts
which have their own IP... We are using pureftpd for our FTP server,
with the u/
Sorry, I triggered the send button before finishing. Here is the full story:
My installation procedure is as follows:
1. Install Sarge with a single IDE drive attached to the machine;
2. after a successful installation, attached a SATA drive the machine,
did cfdisk/mke2fs, added into /etc/fstab to
My mouse has a button where my thumb is. This, in Windows, is used to
go back in a web-browser. In linux, it does not recognise this button.
So: How do I make it recognise the button; and how do I set it to go back in a web-browser?
Thank you in Advance.-- —Moose Moose Jam Sausage Meow-Mix.—My Ho
Here is my installation procedure:
1. Install Sarge with a single IDE drive attached to the machine;
2. after a success install, attached a SATA
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 11:28:34PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 08:53:15PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> >
> > I just did a dist-upgrade of a spare box from Sarge to Etch. The contents
> > of /etc/debian-version was 3.1 before the dist-upgrade and remain the
> > same
You are right - after switching to another theme (I settled on
SphereCrystal, not bad ;) , the problem disappeared. Thanks for the
tip Sven!
-jd
On 6/12/05, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> john doe wrote:
> > After installing "mozilla-firefox" package, go into gnome desktop, launch
>
Jerome BENOIT writes:
> what must /etc/debian_version contain for an Etch box ?
Whatever you want it to say. On this machine it says "testing/unstable".
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Paul E Condon writes:
> Etch, of course, has no version number. So there is no way to test a
> script that has version dependency until it is released into stable.
In order to test your script you can make up a number and put it in there.
The real version number will be assigned and new base-files
On 12 Jun 2005 15:38:04 -0700
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> Not so keen on KDE/GNOME because as I understand they are somewhat
> CPU-intensive and take longer to load than the traditional WMs.
They do take up more resources than lightweight window managers, but if
your box has the capability of hand
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David Jardine([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 07:08:33PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
>
> >
> > apt-cache policy base-files
> > base-files:
> > Installed: 3.1.2
> > Candidate: 3.1.2
> > Version Table:
> > 3.1.4 0
> > 300 http://http.us.debian.
--- Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> j Mak:
> >
> > /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: xserver-xfree89 is not
> > installed
>
> Then do 'aptitude install xserver-xfree86' (and yes,
> 86 not 89). I am
> very sure it's on the first CD.
>
Thanks Jochen
The aptitude install xserver-xfree86
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A personal recommendation of your favourite window manager would be
> much appreciated.
I'd say give XFCE4 a try. While I generally use KDE it wasn't practical
on my laptop w/only 192Mb of RAM. I tried different WMs and found most to be
either too bare bones, ugly
At 03:40 PM 6/12/2005, Craig Russell wrote:
Phil wrote:
The linux server running file and printer sharing for windows, Apple and
linux clients does not get the internet in KDE.
I get an IP address and subnet mask info, and RX & TX packet flow when I
issue a ifconfig command on eth0 (th
David P James wrote:
> On Thu 9 June 2005 22:12, Paul Johnson wrote:
> The only time when top-posting is equal (not superior - equal) to
> interspersed is under the following strict set of circumstances:
Even under those circumstances it isn't because most people don't
naturally do answer/ques
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> A personal recommendation of your favourite window manager would be
> much appreciated.
I used twm/awm back in the eighties. I've been using enlightenment for
years now though. I tried wmaker and sawfish but they lacked features
from enlightenment that I discovered I r
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 08:53:15PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> I just did a dist-upgrade of a spare box from Sarge to Etch. The contents
> of /etc/debian-version was 3.1 before the dist-upgrade and remain the
> same afterwards. Etch, of course, has no version number. So there is no
> way to t
On Thu 9 June 2005 22:12, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> You've been around too many Outlook Express and Outlook users, then.
> Those are the only two clients that encourage top posting by default
> and make you strain to post properly, instead of the other way
> around.
Sadly, Novell GroupWise encourage
Clinton V. Weiss wrote:
On a stable Debian machine, would cronning
apt-get -y upgrade
(with the apt-get -y update of course) on a daily or weekly basis have
any fault points?
I'm asking since I'd like to ensure that upgrading of a server's
packages is safe and secure without the need to SSH
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 07:08:33PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Jerome BENOIT([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I have just migrate to Etch, and I have a naive question.
> > My current /etc/debian_version file still contains "3.1",
> > which is valid release for Sar
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Have just finished installing sarge (am a first-time debian user, very
impressed), and now am chosing a window manager. I have fond memories
of using a little-known WM called VTWM on SunOS, but that was almost 10
years ago now. I'm guessing the are other, at least equa
Quoting "Clinton V. Weiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On a stable Debian machine, would cronning
apt-get -y upgrade
(with the apt-get -y update of course) on a daily or weekly basis
have any fault points?
I'm asking since I'd like to ensure that upgrading of a server's
packages is safe and secure
On 2005-06-13, Anders Breindahl wrote:
> On Monday 13 June 2005 00:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Have just finished installing sarge (am a first-time debian user, very
>> impressed), and now am chosing a window manager. I have fond memories
>> of using a little-known WM called VTWM on SunOS, but
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 10:26:19PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 08:12:46PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> >
> > It purports to be information that is available to script writers
> > when, if fact, it is not information. It does not, in and of itself,
> > cause a proble
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 03:47:16PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I am attempting to set up apt_preferences to pin priorities on
> the basis of the name of a release rather than on the basis of
> (stable|testing|unstable). I tried a line :
>
> Pin: release a=etch
>
> but this is ignored by aptitud
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Sent: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:04:27 +0800
Subject: Re: Help: keybboard problem with 2.6.8 kernel
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:30:41PM +0800, Marc wrote:
> > > Ever since upgrading to
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Sent: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 21:15:36 +1200
Subject: Re: Help: keybboard problem with 2.6.8 kernel
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:30:41PM +0800, Marc wrote:
>
> > Ever since upgrading t
On Jun 12 2005, Ishwar Rattan wrote:
> 2. fluxbox
I also recommend fluxbox, especially when used with the "Minimal" style. It
is quite functional and lightweight.
I measured its memory consumption and that of openbox (which was claimed to
be faster and lighter) and I could not find any difference
Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1] what must /etc/debian_version contain for an Etch box ?
I don't think the version number has been decided yet. Probably won't
until Etch gets closer to release
> 2] does it really matter ?
Not really.
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On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 10:02:08PM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote:
> Thank you all kindly, the Problem has been solved. Much appreciated.
David,
It's a good and courteous idea to finish a thread like this
with a "solved" message, but for future reference, think of
the people who may one day be g
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 08:12:46PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> It purports to be information that is available to script writers
> when, if fact, it is not information. It does not, in and of itself,
> cause a problem. It just misleads script writers into believing that
> there is a really si
Hi,
I've got kernel 2.6.8 running well, compiled using the debian kernel tools.
I have all my IDE compiled into the kernel, no modules.
For my SATA disk I have the SCSI libsata as kernel modules.
For my USB I have EHCI,OHCI and UHCI as kernel modules.
This seems to work very well.
However if
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 06:45:25PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Paul E Condon wrote:
> > Jochen Schulz wrote:
> > > Jerome BENOIT:
> > > > I have just migrate to Etch, and I have a naive question.
> > > > My current /etc/debian_version file still contains "3.1",
> > > > which is valid release for Sar
Thank you all kindly, the Problem has been solved. Much appreciated.
This topic may be a few days old, but this is apparently exactly what
happened to a server I admin remotely. When I upgraded to the new
stable packages, I saw nothing that affected the kernel, therefore
rerunning LILO didn't occur to me as something that needed to be done.
Hopefully someone repo
--- Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 03:38:04PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Not so keen on KDE/GNOME because as I understand they are somewhat
> > CPU-intensive and take longer to load than the traditional WMs.
> >
> > A personal recommendation of
Rogério Brito wrote:
On Jun 11 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote:
Will try again. But ... Is it possible to resume the broken upgrade?
Yes, it is. But besides the hint given by the previous poster, it would be
nice if you could purge some unneeded packages, install both debophan and
debfoster and re
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 03:38:04PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Not so keen on KDE/GNOME because as I understand they are somewhat
> CPU-intensive and take longer to load than the traditional WMs.
>
> A personal recommendation of your favourite window manager would be
> much appreciated.
ope
Rogério Brito wrote:
On Jun 11 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote:
Will try again. But ... Is it possible to resume the broken upgrade?
Yes, it is. But besides the hint given by the previous poster, it would be
nice if you could purge some unneeded packages, install both debophan and
debfoster and re
On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 21:22 +1000, James Buchanan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For some reason, cdrecord is very slow. It never burns anything faster than
> 4x, even though I instruct it on the command line to burn at 32x. Also, DVDs
> will only burn at 1x. I've read that automounting seems to slow it do
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 07:08:33PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
>
> apt-cache policy base-files
> base-files:
> Installed: 3.1.2
> Candidate: 3.1.2
> Version Table:
> 3.1.4 0
> 300 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
> *** 3.1.2 0
> 500 http://http.us.debian.o
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 02:39:48AM +0200, Anders Breindahl wrote:
> Well -- I like wmaker, so that'd be my recommendation. Quite lightweight, a
> part of the GNU project, and awesome if you never maximize windows -- like
> me. :)
>
> Screenshots at http://www.windowmaker.org/gallery.html.
>
Di
Sven Arvidsson wrote:
>Arthur Barlow wrote:
>
>
>>After updating the latest set of Gnome libraries for Debian unstable, I
>>noticed that the "Applications" menu and submenus have changed. However,
>>Iam not able to right click and delete an item. Enough when I log in as
>>root I don't have thi
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 12:56:08AM +0100, Graham Seaman wrote:
> In the end I went with some advice from the fedora forums; step 4 of
>
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-26912.html
>
> (explicitly installing grub on both drives) was what fixed it.
>
In the end, that is a good
Paul E Condon wrote:
> Jochen Schulz wrote:
> > Jerome BENOIT:
> > > I have just migrate to Etch, and I have a naive question.
> > > My current /etc/debian_version file still contains "3.1",
> > > which is valid release for Sarge:
> > > 1] what must /etc/debian_version contain for an Etch box ?
> >
This topic may be a few days old, but this is apparently exactly what
happened to a server I admin remotely. When I upgraded to the new
stable packages, I saw nothing that affected the kernel, therefore
rerunning LILO didn't occur to me as something that needed to be done.
Hopefully someone repo
This topic may be a few days old, but this is apparently exactly what
happened to a server I admin remotely. When I upgraded to the new
stable packages, I saw nothing that affected the kernel, therefore
rerunning LILO didn't occur to me as something that needed to be done.
Hopefully someone r
On Monday 13 June 2005 00:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Have just finished installing sarge (am a first-time debian user, very
> impressed), and now am chosing a window manager. I have fond memories
> of using a little-known WM called VTWM on SunOS, but that was almost 10
> years ago now. I'm gues
Al Bayrouni wrote:
> what this means?
> locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
That means there is no locale data
Try:
1. w9wm (it is cool)
2. fluxbox
3. ion
I am sure there are others..
-ishwar
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A personal recommendation of your favourite window manager would be
> much appreciated.
>
> Thanks for your attention,
> Herminio Gonzalez
>
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j Mak wrote:
I ran tasksel. The first item on the list was Desktop
environment. It was already selected then I hit enter
and nothing happened. I was back to the prompt.
Did I do something wrong?
Are you sure tasksel selected the desktop environment, or did it only
"highlight" it? You ha
Dave Babb wrote:
> The responses indicate that Debian is a distro to take into any server
> room, deploy it, and not loose sleep about something blowing up when you
> leave.
Definitely one of the strongest points. But you are missing another
strong point of Debian...
> I've already rolled out
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:30:41PM +0800, Marc wrote:
> > Ever since upgrading to kernel 2.6.8 on Debian (sarge) I've had a problem
> > with keys auto-repeating in X Windows.
> >
> > The problem only shows up in X windows. While typing in a terminal window
> > (for example) the key auto-repeat k
David R. Litwin wrote:
> Then, I ran make install:
>
> make install
> chmod 755 src/webdec/webdec src/webman/webman src/gwebdec/gwebdec
> cp src/webdec/webdec src/webman/webman src/gwebdec/gwebdec /usr/bin
>
> It says in the README to "fire up the gui". Not really knowing how to
> do this (but not
Robert Vangel wrote:
> belahcene wrote:
> >I want to send a file from one remote machine to another one like this
> >scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home2/dsl-1.2.iso [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/debian
> >Password:
> >Host key verification failed.
> >lost connection
>
> You need to make sure 172.19.5.75 alr
Florian Ernst wrote:
> MicheleM wrote:
> > all worked fine untill I rebooted the machine and...ooops! The boot
> > loader LILO failed with the "LI" code error.
> > [...]
> > But what did it happen? I think there is a bug somewhere.
>
> lilo should have detected it needed to be re-run and should ha
Have just finished installing sarge (am a first-time debian user, very
impressed), and now am chosing a window manager. I have fond memories
of using a little-known WM called VTWM on SunOS, but that was almost 10
years ago now. I'm guessing the are other, at least equally noteworthy
WM's around.
N
(Sorry, I didn't send this to the List.)
Alright. I installed the gtk2.0-dev package. I ran make:
# make
make -C src/webdec
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/david/Pictures/Webshots/gwebdec-0.24.1/src/webdec'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/Pictu
Florian Ernst wrote:
> PK wrote:
> > I've removed BIND 8 from Sarge with:
> >
> > # apt-get --purge remove bind
> > # apt-get clean
> >
> > [...]
> > but I still have BIND 8 startup scripts links in:
>
> Hmm, I cannot reproduce this behavior...
Me neither. But I will guess that package is remov
Jerome BENOIT([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> Hello All,
>
> I have just migrate to Etch, and I have a naive question.
> My current /etc/debian_version file still contains "3.1",
> which is valid release for Sarge:
> 1] what must /etc/debian_version contain for an Etch box ?
> 2] do
Clive Menzies wrote:
>You might find the following useful:
>
>http://unthought.net/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO.html
>http://juerd.nl/site.plp/debianraid
>http://rootraiddoc.alioth.debian.org/
>http://deb.riseup.net/storage/software-raid/
>http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2002/
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Jaime wrote:
> > Everything apart from the dependant version of libc6 is identical. So
> > why does apt-get want to upgrade one, but not the other?
>
> With your homebuilt version installed, run 'apt-cache policy less' to
> see what priorities it gives the two. You will
As others have pointed out: you do not have
X-wondows installed. Install the software FIRST
or re-install from scratch from install media.
One way to see if the needed package is installed
is via dpkg program:
# dpkg -l
-ishwar
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Colin Ingram wrote:
packages with the same version number have the same binaries and are
exactly the same no matter if they are in unstable, testing, or stale
Bob and Colin,
Thanks for giving me all these informations and lead my behaviour in the
right way.
Yes, i missed something : i th
On 10/6/2005, at 1:55, David Jardine wrote:
be getting out of hand :)
us a lecture on top posting sometime soon? It seems to
Isn't some authoritative voice on the list going to give
I gave up lecturing people about top quoting. Non Technical People,
and those are the most in most companies
j Mak wrote:
>--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>j Mak wrote:
>>
>>
>>>--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
Try "aptitude install x-window-system".
>The problem is that I cannot make my Internet
>connection work with sarge. The only way
On (12/06/05 23:34), Graham Seaman wrote:
> I just bought a new machine and installed the new debian on it. It has 2
> drives and I wanted
> to run software raid on them so I was really impressed when it came up
> as an install option.
> The problem is, now I can't always boot: as far as I can work
Arthur Barlow wrote:
> After updating the latest set of Gnome libraries for Debian unstable, I
> noticed that the "Applications" menu and submenus have changed. However,
> Iam not able to right click and delete an item. Enough when I log in as
> root I don't have this functionality. Any suggesti
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 10:26:14PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Jerome BENOIT:
> >
> > I have just migrate to Etch, and I have a naive question.
> > My current /etc/debian_version file still contains "3.1",
> > which is valid release for Sarge:
> > 1] what must /etc/debian_version contain for an
j Mak:
>
> /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: xserver-xfree89 is not
> installed
Then do 'aptitude install xserver-xfree86' (and yes, 86 not 89). I am
very sure it's on the first CD.
J.
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I am attempting to set up apt_preferences to pin priorities on
the basis of the name of a release rather than on the basis of
(stable|testing|unstable). I tried a line :
Pin: release a=etch
but this is ignored by aptitude.
I can set the priority of testing with a line :
Pin: release a=testing
I
I just bought a new machine and installed the new debian on it. It has 2
drives and I wanted
to run software raid on them so I was really impressed when it came up
as an install option.
The problem is, now I can't always boot: as far as I can work out (after
about 10 attempts,
so it does seem to be
After updating the latest set of Gnome libraries for Debian unstable, I
noticed that the "Applications" menu and submenus have changed. However,
Iam not able to right click and delete an item. Enough when I log in as
root I don't have this functionality. Any suggestions?
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> After relocating my Linux drive to my new computer, I've been able to
> resolve most problems; however a few remain:
>
> Audio -- ???
> Video -- i810 works (Direct Rendering: NO), however i915 doesn't
> My /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 loads both "glx" and "dri". Additionally
On a stable Debian machine, would cronning
apt-get -y upgrade
(with the apt-get -y update of course) on a daily or weekly basis have
any fault points?
I'm asking since I'd like to ensure that upgrading of a server's
packages is safe and secure without the need to SSH into the machine
just fo
Jochen Schulz:
>
> # vim /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
> #!/bin/sh
> exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 93 -nolisten tcp
What I forgot was: add a this line with your values to the
"Monitor" section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:
Displaysize 286 214 # size in millimeters
J.
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I throw away plastics an
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> j Mak wrote:
>
> >--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>It looks like you don't have X [completely]
> >>installed.
> >>
> >>Try "aptitude install x-window-system".
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I tried the aptitude install x-window-system and i
--- Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 10:17:53AM -0400, j Mak
> wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> > have any graphical interface.
> > I logged in and run /etc/init.d/kdm start as you
> > suggested. But I got the message: Starting K
> Display
> > manager kdm . And the prompt
Guillaume TESSIER writes:
> A package with the same version number won't contain the same binaries at
> different T time in the different trees.
What ever gave you that idea? of _course_ it will. In fact, it is exactly
the same _file_. Look up "package pools".
> This means : the package-2.0 is
Joe Potter wrote:
He may be close to trolling, but I am glad they all got those posts out
of you.
I'm not trolling nor did I make up idea of the "debian version." I just
asked a few questions about it, seeking clarification. Thanks to all
who responded, and thanks for your patience too.
Wh
On Sunday June 12 2005 10:10 am, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > Unlike vi v. emacs or KDE v. Gnome, there's actually an RFC about
> > this one. It's a dead issue. If you don't conform, people will be
> > less liekly to reply to you.
>
> Really? an RFC? Which one, and where might I find it?
http://ursin
On Sunday June 12 2005 6:15 am, Micha Feigin wrote:
> When I use fetchmail to import my mail through exim4 it only
> flushes the first few messages imidiatly and the rest are delayed
> quite a bit unless I do /etc/init.d/exim4 restart.
> Any way to disable this behaviour with exim?
Don't, there is
Bob Proulx wrote:
> Marty wrote:
>
>>Bob Proulx wrote:
>>
>
> You are very close to trolling. Please don't do that.
>
> Bob
Hi Bob,
He may be close to trolling, but I am glad they all got those posts out
of you. What great explanations of the situation. I have tried to impart
this informatio
Jerome BENOIT:
>
> I have just migrate to Etch, and I have a naive question.
> My current /etc/debian_version file still contains "3.1",
> which is valid release for Sarge:
> 1] what must /etc/debian_version contain for an Etch box ?
This is not yet decided, I think. The file is part of the packa
Marty wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > APT does not know or care about any "Debian version" that you seem to
> > be trying to make up. It does not exist. Don't try to create one.
>
> I guess these guys didn't hear the news:
>
> algernon:/home/marty# dlocate debian_version
> base-files: /etc/debia
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