Re: Still not fixed ipup problem.

2005-07-07 Thread Arias Hung
Okay, I've been having this exact same problem the last week or two and have had to resort to manually bringing up eth0 with dhclient. the auto ifup always assigns me that bogus 169.254.x.x address too ... very annoying. What I think this is related to though for me is a recent aborted install

Re: device problem

2005-07-07 Thread ken keanon
Hi, Thanks for the reference to udev. I have managed to get hold of a web doc titled "Writing udev rules" and started grappling with writing rules. The first wall I encounter is that the default rule file mentioned in the doc is not even in my dirs. Is there a write-up more suitable for Debian?

AWStats browser.pm issue

2005-07-07 Thread Steve Å
Just installed this on Sarge, using Debian package. On running I'm presented with the following error; Error: Not same number of records of BrowsersSearchIDOrder (96 entries) and BrowsersHashIDLib (95 entries without msie,netscape,firefox) in Browsers database. May be you updated AWSta

Re: external USB acomdata drive

2005-07-07 Thread Ephemeral Root
Quoting Pete Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 04:38:55PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:52:59AM -0700, Pete Hicks wrote: > > > > > However, when I try and mount the drive, I can an error > > > saying wrong fstype: > > > > > > % sudo mount -t vfat /dev/

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-07 Thread Lorenzo Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen R Laniel's comments on Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting were as follows: # I've had similar ideas recently about using XML for conf # files in /etc, but that would take a bit of elaboration. # I'll save that for another time. Wow! A good

Re: what to do if package can not be removed?

2005-07-07 Thread Laurent CARON
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi list! I have a strange behaviour with openvpn. I wanted to upgrade from 1.6.0 to 2.0 by typing apt-get install openvpn after inserting the sarge entries in my sources.list. But it stopped with some strange error-codes like 143 So I tried to remove it by typing

no /dev/dsp

2005-07-07 Thread Art Edwards
I have seen one thread on this, but it really didn't satisfy. I am running a system with via 8235 (Asla) onboard. This has worked very well in the past with a 2.6.8 kernel. However, I now find that I have no /dev/dsp at all. Why would this go away? Art Edwards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: System needs repair after fsck

2005-07-07 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:08:05 +0800, Robert Vangel wrote: > What about `apt-get install --reinstall' Tried, been there: # apt-get install --reinstall Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Actually, I tried a

upgrade to Sarge stopped nic

2005-07-07 Thread Rick Weinbender
Hi, I recently made the mistake of upgrading to Sarge without reading up on the process. Dumb mistake, but it's just a test system. I did an apt-get update, then apt-get dist-upgrade. The update finished and I was getting internet connectivity until I rebooted the machine. Now the link light on the

Re: How to play WMA and MP3 files on Sarge?

2005-07-07 Thread Kent West
hell0 un1verse wrote: >Hi, as in the title, thanks a lot:) > > > MP3 is easy; xine, totem, noatun, xmms, a dozen other players WMA is a bit harder; you'll probably have to get the codecs from mplayerhq.org (I think), and even at that, there are different versions of WMA, some of which may not b

How to play WMA and MP3 files on Sarge?

2005-07-07 Thread hell0 un1verse
Hi, as in the title, thanks a lot:) -- hell0 un1verse

Re: how to start sarge installation from DOS

2005-07-07 Thread Kent West
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:59:08PM -0700, smith wrote: > > >>i have download 1st CD image of sarge, and boot >>ms-dos, and type the command below: >> >>loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/ram initrd=initrd.gz >> >> >>note vmlinuz and initrd.gz are from 1st CD image, but >>that c

Re: System needs repair after fsck

2005-07-07 Thread Robert Vangel
Uwe Dippel wrote: Last night at boot the system checked (after 30 boots or so) my /usr partition. It dropped me to console; I did the suggested fsck /dev/hda8. After the lengthy check it came up; but with some errors; like screwed up XFCE configuration (some apps missing); some screwed up fonts;

System needs repair after fsck

2005-07-07 Thread Uwe Dippel
Last night at boot the system checked (after 30 boots or so) my /usr partition. It dropped me to console; I did the suggested fsck /dev/hda8. After the lengthy check it came up; but with some errors; like screwed up XFCE configuration (some apps missing); some screwed up fonts; and "can't set the

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-07 Thread Andy Streich
On Thursday 07 July 2005 07:45 pm, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > The trouble is that everybody has different standards: some > like inline quotes, some like top-posting, and some like > bottom-posting. Rather than get exercised about others' > aesthetic choices, we should let our programs format our >

Re: how to start sarge installation from DOS

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:59:08PM -0700, smith wrote: > i have download 1st CD image of sarge, and boot > ms-dos, and type the command below: > > loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/ram initrd=initrd.gz > > > note vmlinuz and initrd.gz are from 1st CD image, but > that can't start installation! > > Coul

Re: jEdit

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:32:08PM -0700, Andy Streich wrote: > Hi again, > > I'm wondering if there is any awareness in the Debian community of the jEdit > editor? I writing a plugin for jEdit that enables people, some of whom are > non-technical, to create and maintain websites and would lik

how to start sarge installation from DOS

2005-07-07 Thread smith
i have download 1st CD image of sarge, and boot ms-dos, and type the command below: loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/ram initrd=initrd.gz note vmlinuz and initrd.gz are from 1st CD image, but that can't start installation! Could you please help me? __ D

Re: convert wmv video format ?

2005-07-07 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 04:07:44AM +0200, Anders Breindahl wrote: > BTW, I suppose the thing you mention about the Windows machine would only be > a > juridical issue. Mr. Marillat packages a bunch of them. They're in general packaged as x86 executables. You'd need either an x86 box, or an emu

Re: windowmaker

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:20:04PM -0700, Andy Streich wrote: > Hi, > > Based on advice on this list to maestro I'm considering switching to > windowmaker: > > > I no longer have time to spend hours tweaking config files, and thus > > prefer an integrated desktop environment, but GNOME and KDE a

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-07 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:22:23PM -0400, Lorenzo Taylor wrote: > Wow! I really like the XML approach. But how are you going to get all the > email programs in the world to use it? It seems too late to make such a smart > new approach to email a standard now as old as email is. Then again, if H

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-07 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:47:48PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > Ugh... and I thought HTML e-mail took a ton of disk space compared to > plain text. An inline reply would make the e-mail more than double in > size! XML is chatty. But please: a few hundred extra megabytes won't kill you. Not on hard disk

Re: windowmaker

2005-07-07 Thread Anders Breindahl
On Friday 08 July 2005 04:20, Andy Streich wrote: > Hi, > > Based on advice on this list to maestro I'm considering switching to > > windowmaker: > > I no longer have time to spend hours tweaking config files, and thus > > prefer an integrated desktop environment, but GNOME and KDE are too

jEdit

2005-07-07 Thread Andy Streich
Hi again, I'm wondering if there is any awareness in the Debian community of the jEdit editor? I writing a plugin for jEdit that enables people, some of whom are non-technical, to create and maintain websites and would like to get a sense of how wide-spread jEdit usage/awareness is among Debi

windowmaker

2005-07-07 Thread Andy Streich
Hi, Based on advice on this list to maestro I'm considering switching to windowmaker: > I no longer have time to spend hours tweaking config files, and thus > prefer an integrated desktop environment, but GNOME and KDE are too > bulky for my PIII-650 / 320MB workstation I'm even resource-poorer

Re: convert wmv video format ?

2005-07-07 Thread Anders Breindahl
On Friday 08 July 2005 03:29, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > That only works if he has the win32 codecs installed. He may not have > access from a Windows machine from which to obtain them, or he may not > be on an x86 machine. Sadly, the support for wmv and other proprietary > video formats is

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-07 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 19:22:23 -0400 Lorenzo Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Stephen R Laniel's comments on Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting > were as follows: # On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:52:41PM -0500, Kent West > wrote: # > # > #

Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread David Clymer
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 12:10 -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > an aside: what is the command to invoke the raid software w/o using the > setup disk? mdadm is the most common raid management software nowadays. $ mdadm --run /dev/md0 will start up the first raid device that you have already config

Re: Speedtouch+pppd+br2684ctl

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:25:33PM +0100, Paladin wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I've recently installed an ADSL modem as my primary connection to > the internet. The modem that my provider gave me is a Speedtouch. I > have this installed on a Debian sarge machine, which uses a 2.4 > kernel. This

Re: LIBSTDC++-LIBC6.1-1.SO.2

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:40:42PM +0300, Bogdan Sicleru wrote: > Well...this program was on my cd that came with the UPS.That's why I > wanted this one.At your advice I searched a little through the packets > and I found something called upsd. > I installed it..but I don't know how to use it.It's

Re: GNUstep still kicking?

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:59:12AM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:49:25 -0400 > "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There was a recent major release of WindowMaker to 0.91. I don't > > think it is dying at all. To the best I can figure, there are still >

Re: convert wmv video format ?

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 12:58:23AM +0200, Anders Breindahl wrote: > On Friday 08 July 2005 00:25, belahcene wrote: > > Is there possibility to convert the wmv window video format to one > > which is recognized by a linux reader > > `mencoder infile.wmv -ovc lavc -ovc lavc -o outfile.avi' should

Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:34:15PM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > > On Thu, July 7, 2005 11:11 am, Andy Smith said: > > >> If the first hard drive crashes how do you recover? > > > > You restore from backups or do a new install. > > > > There has got to be a better solution than that. I neve

(SOLVED) Re: Ethereal - Assertion Failed when starting (Sid)

2005-07-07 Thread Adam Aube
Adam Aube wrote: > When starting ethereal on Sid, the following error message occurs: [snipped] > Ethereal then quits. Ethereal and all its packages are completely > up-to-date (as of 7/2/05). Searching the archives provided no information. > I filed a bug report about this (#316650), but it do

Re: DBM support for mod_rewrite

2005-07-07 Thread PJ
Nicklas, Create this symbolic link: ln -s /lib/libdb1.so.2 /usr/lib/libdb1.so and then run configure again. Resgard Pj

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-07 Thread Lorenzo Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen R Laniel's comments on Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting were as follows: # On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:52:41PM -0500, Kent West wrote: # # # This is some stuff that a guy wrote # # # # I dis

Re: convert wmv video format ?

2005-07-07 Thread Anders Breindahl
On Friday 08 July 2005 00:58, Anders Breindahl wrote: > `mencoder infile.wmv -ovc lavc -ovc lavc -o outfile.avi' should work. Sorry, I meant to say: `mencoder infile.wmv -ovc lavc -oac lavc -o outfile.avi' Regards, Anders Breindahl. pgpsLHqS7wksB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: external USB acomdata drive

2005-07-07 Thread Pete Hicks
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 04:38:55PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: >On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:52:59AM -0700, Pete Hicks wrote: > >> However, when I try and mount the drive, I can an error saying wrong >> fstype: >> >> % sudo mount -t vfat /dev/uba /mnt/extdrive >> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad su

Re: convert wmv video format ?

2005-07-07 Thread Anders Breindahl
On Friday 08 July 2005 00:25, belahcene wrote: > Is there possibility to convert the wmv window video format to one > which is recognized by a linux reader `mencoder infile.wmv -ovc lavc -ovc lavc -o outfile.avi' should work. Provided, that you got mplayer to play the file. If it doesn't work,

Re: Networked sound

2005-07-07 Thread Andrew Nelson
Anders Breindahl wrote: > Hi, > > I am very eager to establish some sort of networked sound. By that I refer to > having my sound applications output on a different host on the LAN. > Before I start hacking away at it, I would like to know if some of you have > made it work. Any easy entry-point

convert wmv video format ?

2005-07-07 Thread belahcene
Hi, Is there possibility to convert the wmv window video format to one which is recognized by a linux reader like xine, totem or evem real player, I couldn't read it on mozilla, there is no plugin for wmv for linux!! thanks for help bela -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Speedtouch+pppd+br2684ctl

2005-07-07 Thread Paladin
Hello everyone. I've recently installed an ADSL modem as my primary connection to the internet. The modem that my provider gave me is a Speedtouch. I have this installed on a Debian sarge machine, which uses a 2.4 kernel. This was one of the first problems I had: this kernel does not support h

Re: Cannot burn audio tracks with cdrecord

2005-07-07 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 22:33:07 +0100 Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > >On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:10:41 +0100 > >Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>I have this problem in both Stable (Sarge) and Unstable with kernel > >>2.6.8-2-386. I have two .wa

Re: KDE display seems WAY too big

2005-07-07 Thread roach
On Thursday 07 July 2005 04:45, Jon Roed wrote: > Everything was just way to big, the colors were okay.  I figured out how to > return most of it to normal, but the panel icons are still huge.  I had to > go into the Control Center and change all the text sizes to the right ones, > and change all t

Scrolling windows contents leads to temporary freeze and blank areas on the screen

2005-07-07 Thread Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe
I have just got sarge installed in a IBM Netfinity 3500, with kde and gnome. Everything is running smoothly, except for a kde glitch: When I scroll a window contents (by getting a new line in a console window or by using the scroll bar in an text editor o web browse), I frequently experience a

Re: Cannot burn audio tracks with cdrecord

2005-07-07 Thread Chris Lale
Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:10:41 +0100 Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have this problem in both Stable (Sarge) and Unstable with kernel 2.6.8-2-386. I have two .wav files (recorded with sound-recorder). I can burn a CD with cdrecord using either one of the files

Networked sound

2005-07-07 Thread Anders Breindahl
Hi, I am very eager to establish some sort of networked sound. By that I refer to having my sound applications output on a different host on the LAN. Before I start hacking away at it, I would like to know if some of you have made it work. Any easy entry-points? I am already using arts on the r

Re: Creating a task launcher.....

2005-07-07 Thread Brice Méalier
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 03:36:29PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote : > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:15:33PM +0200, Brice Méalier wrote: > > > I'd say that we should just keep new users away from the > > > command line. I do all my work there, but it ceased to be > > > the best way for new users to inte

Re: setting up clamav-freshclam on debian-user mailing list

2005-07-07 Thread David A. Cobb
Chris Isomaki wrote: Did you ever resolve this? I'm running into the same problem, and there is no solution posted to the list. Sorry to bother you. Thanks in advance. I can't really say I resolved it. But it seems to have gone away with the most recent ClamAV version(s). I'm showing ClamA

Alsa default card (card0) with multiple cards

2005-07-07 Thread lance
How do I make a sound card my default card at boot using alsa? I have 2 cards, ICE1712 and Intel8x0. ICE1712 is loaded as card0 at boot. Using alsaconf I can change cards so that Intel8x0 is card0 and ICE1712 card1. alsaconf asks if I want to modify /etc/modprobe.d/sound or /etc/modprobe.c

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Stephen R Laniel wrote: > I wonder if I may be so bold as to suggest the final word > about top- or bottom-posting. Here it is: Nope. Here's the final word. > Your email program should be smart enough to customize to > your preference. Pipe dream. > Email messages should look like so:

Re: Sid: latest upgrade broke kmail

2005-07-07 Thread Jules Dubois
On Thursday 07 July 2005 12:14, Martin Henne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I upgraded my sid today and kmail crashes when started. > The debugger says, there's a segfault in QString in > libqt-mt.so.3 > [...] > Does anyone else have this problem? Yes: http://bugs.debian.org/c

Re: ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe Soundproblem: modules (snd_intel8x0) loaded but sound is playing only one second

2005-07-07 Thread Daniel Schwark
Hi, ich bin auch total verzweifelt und hoffe, dass Du die Zeit hast mir zu antworten. Auf der Suche nach den richtigen Einstellungen für genau das gleiche Maiboard, A7N8X-Deluxe, finde ich nicht wirklich die wahre Lösung für meine Linuxprobleme. Zwar bekomme ich Sound hin aber nicht über ALSA, s

Re: external USB acomdata drive

2005-07-07 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:52:59AM -0700, Pete Hicks wrote: > However, when I try and mount the drive, I can an error saying wrong > fstype: > > % sudo mount -t vfat /dev/uba /mnt/extdrive > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/uba, >missing codepage or other error >

Re: GNUstep still kicking?

2005-07-07 Thread Jules Dubois
On Thursday 07 July 2005 10:57, Meistro Master <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Is GNUstep still a useful platform; Yes. > is it popular? Not really. > I really do enjoy the NeXT/OPEN/AFTER/step environment, but don't want > to get reacquainted with something that's dying a

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Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-07 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:52:41PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > At the risk of starting yet another war about top-posting, I just came > across this (year-old) blog by what appears to be the guy who wrote > (with a couple of others) the IMAP support in Microsoft's Entourage > ("Outlook for the Mac") p

OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-07 Thread Kent West
At the risk of starting yet another war about top-posting, I just came across this (year-old) blog by what appears to be the guy who wrote (with a couple of others) the IMAP support in Microsoft's Entourage ("Outlook for the Mac") product. Two things he said that caught my attention: 1) He says h

Re: LIBSTDC++-LIBC6.1-1.SO.2

2005-07-07 Thread Bogdan Sicleru
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 14:47 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:50:49PM +0300, Bogdan Sicleru wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 11:19 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > > > The JAR file that contains com/zerog/lax/LAX is not in your classpath. > > > You need > > >

Re: Creating a task launcher.....

2005-07-07 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:15:33PM +0200, Brice Méalier wrote: > > I'd say that we should just keep new users away from the > > command line. I do all my work there, but it ceased to be > > the best way for new users to interact with a computer about > > 15 years ago. The problem with the command l

Re: Creating a task launcher.....

2005-07-07 Thread Brice Méalier
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:17:18PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote : > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 05:02:13PM +0200, Brice Méalier wrote: > > There something that you can try to do instead of double-clicking on > > item (this way you'll also experience the user-friendliness of linux): > > open a terminal

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Re: GNUstep still kicking?

2005-07-07 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:49:25 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was a recent major release of WindowMaker to 0.91. I don't > think it is dying at all. To the best I can figure, there are still > many actively developed GNUstep apps out there, with new ones > occasionall

Re: GNUstep still kicking?

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:57:06AM -0700, Meistro Master wrote: > I've recently come back to Debian after several years of disappointing > work on other platforms (mainly Mac). In the past, I had used > Windowmaker as my window manager and a few GNUstep apps (GNUmail, > mainly). > > Is GNUstep sti

Re: LIBSTDC++-LIBC6.1-1.SO.2

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:50:49PM +0300, Bogdan Sicleru wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 11:19 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > The JAR file that contains com/zerog/lax/LAX is not in your classpath. > > You need > > to set your CLASSPATH to include it, or pass the -cp option on the > > c

Sid: latest upgrade broke kmail

2005-07-07 Thread Martin Henne
Hi all, I upgraded my sid today and kmail crashes when started. The debugger says, there's a segfault in QString in libqt-mt.so.3, but while knode and e.g. kdevelop3 is not affected, I could not believe it's QString, because this class is used almost everywhere at KDE (at least I think it is).

Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Martinell
On Thu, July 7, 2005 11:11 am, Andy Smith said: >> If the first hard drive crashes how do you recover? > > You restore from backups or do a new install. > There has got to be a better solution than that. I never want to consider my backups to be a first line of defense against hardware failure.

Re: totem not running

2005-07-07 Thread Adam Hardy
Brice Méalier on 07/07/05 16:06, wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:22:14AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote : I have run totem for six months without a hitch. Yesterday I had a problem with gnome-panel and had to delete my complete gnome configuration by removing the directories .gnome, .gconf, .naut

Re: GNUstep still kicking?

2005-07-07 Thread Cam
I too have loved windowmaker... i'm not using it right now (i've been wondering about the development status myself). Anyway, the thing i've been using lately is openbox. It's rad because it can still run the windowmaker dock-apps you're used to, and it's pretty customizeable. The only thing tha

Re: Creating a task launcher.....

2005-07-07 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 05:02:13PM +0200, Brice Méalier wrote: > There something that you can try to do instead of double-clicking on > item (this way you'll also experience the user-friendliness of linux): > open a terminal (gnome-terminal or Konsole under KDE (yeah this ugly > command line)) and

GNUstep still kicking?

2005-07-07 Thread Meistro Master
I've recently come back to Debian after several years of disappointing work on other platforms (mainly Mac). In the past, I had used Windowmaker as my window manager and a few GNUstep apps (GNUmail, mainly). Is GNUstep still a useful platform; is it popular? I see that there have been some recent

Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Martinell
> You never mentioned a RAID controller so I assumed software RAID. > If you have a hardware RAID controller then the steps are usually > unique to that hardware and you need to consult its documentation. > That would be a typo - I have no raid controllor - just IDE. What I should have said was

Re: Cannot burn audio tracks with cdrecord

2005-07-07 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:10:41 +0100 Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have this problem in both Stable (Sarge) and Unstable with kernel > 2.6.8-2-386. I have two .wav files (recorded with sound-recorder). I > can burn a CD with cdrecord using either one of the files, and the > result is a

Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:57:01AM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > On Thu, July 7, 2005 11:11 am, Andy Smith said: > > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:53:34AM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > >> I have been experiementing with the RAID stuff in Debian 3.1r0a > >> > >> In this experiment I configured

Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Martinell
On Thu, July 7, 2005 11:11 am, Andy Smith said: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:53:34AM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: >> I have been experiementing with the RAID stuff in Debian 3.1r0a >> >> In this experiment I configured as follows: >> 1st Hard Drive >> /boot 400mb >> swap 2GB >> partition for Ra

Re: LIBSTDC++-LIBC6.1-1.SO.2

2005-07-07 Thread Bogdan Sicleru
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 11:19 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Quoting Bogdan Sicleru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 08:37 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >> Tha package you want is called libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 and is in the > >> oldlibs section of _Woody_. > >> > >> http:/

Re: Newbie selecting package manager

2005-07-07 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Elmer E. Dow wrote: After having used Red Hat 9 and Knoppix (hard disk install), I installed Sarge a while ago and plan to stick with it. Now I need to select a package manager to use that fits my needs. My laptop is used for office applications (creating documents, some graphics, presentatio

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Re: [OT] linking table of contents in a dvi file

2005-07-07 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 04:09:19AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > you may or may not know that as we speak some great soul is hacking away > on making TeXLive for Debian! There are many details that needed to be > taken care of in respect to Debian and TexLive. But hopefully it will be

Cannot burn audio tracks with cdrecord

2005-07-07 Thread Chris Lale
I have this problem in both Stable (Sarge) and Unstable with kernel 2.6.8-2-386. I have two .wav files (recorded with sound-recorder). I can burn a CD with cdrecord using either one of the files, and the result is a playable audio CD. If I burn a disc using both files, the CD will not play on

Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:53:34AM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > I have been experiementing with the RAID stuff in Debian 3.1r0a > > In this experiment I configured as follows: > 1st Hard Drive > /boot 400mb > swap 2GB > partition for Raid volume 37 GB > > 2nd - 4th HD > partition for Raid vo

Re: Raid on Sarge

2005-07-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:16:22AM -0700, h2t-nl wrote: > The main interested part of my question is whether somebody on the list > already using or tested with somekind of sata controller! Almost none of the SATA controllers that advertise RAID are real hardware RAID; the RAID features of them ar

RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Martinell
I have been experiementing with the RAID stuff in Debian 3.1r0a In this experiment I configured as follows: 1st Hard Drive /boot 400mb swap 2GB partition for Raid volume 37 GB 2nd - 4th HD partition for Raid volume 37 GB. A few questions have came up: When I replace a hard drive (simulated crash

external USB acomdata drive

2005-07-07 Thread Pete Hicks
I am trying to mount an external 80GB acomdata usb drive on a Sarge laptop with a 2.6.12 kernel. I get the following output from hotplug in syslog: Jul 7 08:16:00 moonglum kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: over-current change on port 1 Jul 7 08:16:00 moonglum kernel: hub 4-0:1.0: over-current change on port

Re: Newbie selecting package manager

2005-07-07 Thread Jeffrin Jose
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 21:42 -0600, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > After having used Red Hat 9 and Knoppix (hard disk install), I installed > Sarge > a while ago and plan to stick with it. All support to you. > Now I need to select a package manager > to use that fits my needs. My laptop is used for off

Re: Raid on Sarge

2005-07-07 Thread h2t-nl
Hi Roman, It´s oke to me regarding the subject.. Are you talking about SATA raid here or ATA raid? Because I want to use SATA raid. In my case it doesn´t really matter which raid is to be active. If SW raid as good as the HW raid then I can life with that. The main interested part of my question

Fwd: iptables related query

2005-07-07 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
Hi, I have aked kind of the same question regarding iptable last week. Look through replies and you'get an idea on how to start with your own iptables scripts from scratch :-) Regards, Yuriy -- Forwarded message -- From: J.A. de Vries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jul 4, 2005 9:40 AM

Re: mc confusion

2005-07-07 Thread michael
> ok it works correctly, even if to do what mc-help says i have to press the > "Esc" key because the > M-Tab or C-Tab combination do dimply what they have ever done: > - switch between windows > - switch between panels > > while the meta keys do not do anything (they are useless like the windows

Re: installing sarge to lvm

2005-07-07 Thread Josh Battles
Rick Pasotto said: > > That certainly makes sense but HOW DO I DO IT? The installer gives me no > option either to format (select fstype) the logical volumes nor to > specify a mount point. The installer creates the volume groups and > logical volumes but then does nothing with them. When I set up

Re: Call for Mentor

2005-07-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
"Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been sitting on the list for a while now and am interested in > creating a series of deb packages for perl modules. But I think I need > a mentor to introduce me to how things work and what my first reading > list or RTFM should be. > > This is an o

Re: LIBSTDC++-LIBC6.1-1.SO.2

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Bogdan Sicleru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 08:37 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Tha package you want is called libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 and is in the oldlibs section of _Woody_. http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=LIBSTDC%2B%2B-LIBC6.1-1.SO.2&sear

Re: mc confusion

2005-07-07 Thread roberto
--- Lorenzo Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > roberto's comments on mc confusion were as follows: > # what is "M-Tab" "M-Enter" "C-Enter" and so-on... > "M-Tab", or Alt-Tab is the mc equivalent to the Tab key in the shell. It does > command-line completion. > > "M-Enter", or Alt-Enter pu

Re: totem not running

2005-07-07 Thread Brice Méalier
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:22:14AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote : > I have run totem for six months without a hitch. > > Yesterday I had a problem with gnome-panel and had to delete my complete > gnome configuration by removing the directories .gnome, .gconf, > .nautilus, .metacity. This cured my win

Re: Creating a task launcher.....

2005-07-07 Thread Brice Méalier
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 05:58:18PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote : > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 02:48:36PM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > > I'd like to make a task launcher that opens an application I have > > installed on my Debian system with Synaptic. > > I don't think you mean Synaptic. Or ma

Re: Raid on Sarge

2005-07-07 Thread Roman Muñoz
Hi, (I changed the subject so to find it will be more easy for people googleing or the like. I hope) I have no idea about raid 10, but these are the important things I found about raid on sarge 1) Cheap fake raid cards as Promise (I don't know if this is the case), etc, don't work on 2.6. You co

Re: mc confusion

2005-07-07 Thread Lorenzo Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 roberto's comments on mc confusion were as follows: # what is "M-Tab" "M-Enter" "C-Enter" and so-on... "M-Tab", or Alt-Tab is the mc equivalent to the Tab key in the shell. It does command-line completion. "M-Enter", or Alt-Enter puts the currently s

firewall and Xresolution ?

2005-07-07 Thread joao . miguel . ferreira . 19740720
Hello Debian people, I'm new on Debian. I have worked before with RH, Mandrake and fedora mainlly. I've just intalled a new Debian and have 2 questions 1) is there a simple way interfaces to setting up a simple firewall (blocking all except http and ssh), some scritp or some GUI... ? 2) the sam

Re: mc confusion

2005-07-07 Thread Robert Vangel
roberto wrote: Hi, i'm trying to use mc for file managing and i'm currently stuck at the help description of mc where they tell you the shortcuts for "shell command line"; just try to do: F1 > Contents > Shell Command Line then you see a list of shortcuts for using command line but i do not un

mc confusion

2005-07-07 Thread roberto
Hi, i'm trying to use mc for file managing and i'm currently stuck at the help description of mc where they tell you the shortcuts for "shell command line"; just try to do: F1 > Contents > Shell Command Line then you see a list of shortcuts for using command line but i do not understand what th

Re: exim3, mbox, maildir, exim4

2005-07-07 Thread Dick Davies
* Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0708 15:08]: > I would like to upgrade from exim3 to exim 4 (now that I have > upgraded from woody to sarge), and also from mbox to maildir > format. Should I upgrade the mailbox format before, during, or > after upgrading exim? Or are the two upgrades complete

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