Re: No Screens Found

2005-07-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:46:49PM -0400, Cecil wrote: > I am working on an IBM Aptiva and getting the error message that no > screen is found when I start XFree86. This machine has a Pentium > III/800MHz/128MBRAM; Creative Labs CT6970 AGP video card with an nVidia > GeForce 256 DDR chipset; ES

Re: xfs-xtt

2005-07-21 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi John, On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 12:52:42AM -0400, John Parejko wrote: > > > >I would examine /var/lib/dpkg/info/xfs?.prerm (check spelling for > >correct script) and either find the error and find a way to fix what the > >script is bombing on OR (since I suggest removing xfs-xtt) putting >

Re: No Screens Found

2005-07-21 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Cecil wrote: I am working on an IBM Aptiva and getting the error message that no screen is found when I start XFree86. HP 845c USB on Usb0; Gayle wrote: I successfully used suggestions to me on the Debian KDE list to get my USB HP printer working. ii hpijs 2.1.2+0.9.2-2 H

Re: Numlock at startup?

2005-07-21 Thread Brendon Lloyd Higgins
Ron Johnson wrote (Thursday 21 July 2005 9:57 pm): > For next time OP has a question like this: > $ apt-cache search numlock > gkrellm-leds - Keyboard LED monitor for GKrellM > numlockx - enable NumLock in X11 sessions > shermans-aquarium - Sherman's aquarium applet for GNOME 2 For the rec

Re: Re: SATA problems

2005-07-21 Thread Grant Thomas
Hello, My name is Grant, and I am having the exact same problem with my ST20G5, a Shuttle computer. I have one SATA Western Digital drive, and 1 PATA Western Digital drive. I was able to get 2.6.8 installed off the Sarge netinstall to the PATA drive. Hopefully this will be of some help, an

ColdFusion MX (6.1) and MySQL

2005-07-21 Thread Eric P
Hi all, I installed ColdFusion MX (6.1) on Debian stable (note: Debian is not supported by Macromedia). The installer initially moaned about not having compat-libstdc++ "RPM" installed. I grabbed a RedHat RPM of compat-libstdc++, aliened it, and installed it. Of course, the installer is only lo

Re: Debian and wireless network cards

2005-07-21 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Hello, > > I was asked by a friend to install Debian on his system. He asked me > about which wireless network cards Debian supports. Can anybody tell > me which ones (I personally don't use a wireless network so I wouldn't > know). all wireless ca

Re: sarge + 2.6.12 kernel panic

2005-07-21 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
original post: Just installed sarge, got fresh kernel sources for 2.6.12, used an oldconfig from a previously successful 2.6.11 kernel, and compiled. Unfortunately when I tried to boot that kernel I got this: attempt to access beyond end of device hda2: rw=16, want=8, limit=2

fluxbox's slow startup and neglect of 'startup' file

2005-07-21 Thread phyrster
Hi Debianers' My configuration is kdm+fluxbox in utf-8 environment on Sarge. I have already known that fluxbox's slow start is due to its incompatibility with utf8 environment. And the easiest solution I can see is to export a temporary locale to fluxbox when it starts and the restore a the defa

Re: xfs-xtt

2005-07-21 Thread John Parejko
Thanks for the help! Sorry for the delay, I've only had time to look into this recently. Kevin Mark wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 12:50:05PM -0400, John Parejko wrote: Hello. I've just recently settled on stable, from sarge-testing, and Hi John, If I understand what you said: you were ru

Re: Bizarre ls Behavior

2005-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 20:48 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Martin McCormick wrote: > > Other directories seem normal. What could possibly be going > > on here? Here is a listing of what is in bin. There is a file named > > [ but that is the only strange thing in the listing and it is not > > cau

Re: debian sarge install on new dell PE 1850 and 2850

2005-07-21 Thread Mathias Chauvin
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 05:57:16PM -0500, Matthew Lenz wrote: > Actually it sounds like 2.6 is the problem Unless you have a very recent > version of the 2.6 kernel running like 2.6.12 (tried ubuntu which is using > 2.6.10 and they didn't have the driver) or so it doesn't work. I think > I'll

Re: No Screens Found

2005-07-21 Thread Kent West
Cecil wrote: > I am working on an IBM Aptiva and getting the error message that no > screen is found when I start XFree86. This machine has a Pentium > III/800MHz/128MBRAM; Creative Labs CT6970 AGP video card with an > nVidia GeForce 256 DDR chipset > This is the second installation of Debian Wo

Re: Disappearing text in FireFox

2005-07-21 Thread Kent West
Jose Cedeno wrote: > Hi, > > I've had this very same problem described by the author of this thread > for a long time. I have tried in kde, gnome and different window > managers, and it doesn't fix the problem. It is also not just a > firefox problem for me. I have had this problem with abiword to

Re: Bizarre ls Behavior

2005-07-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Martin McCormick wrote: > Other directories seem normal. What could possibly be going > on here? Here is a listing of what is in bin. There is a file named > [ but that is the only strange thing in the listing and it is not > causing the behavior: Well, I can't say why it is happening

wild aptitude

2005-07-21 Thread Edward Dunagin
i ran aptitude, apitude reinstall ymessenger.. and what i got was a long list of files ( 78 in all) that it said i did not need. many were libs and a lot of gnome files and i know that at least one of them, totem, i did need and still use. i have been having systems problems but this is too much!

Bizarre ls Behavior

2005-07-21 Thread Martin McCormick
I mounted the iso image of a FreeBSD UNIX file system on a Debian platform in order to look at it. That's when I discovered the oddity. There is a bin directory referenced to the root of the CDROM. If I am in that directory as myself (normal user account), I get absolutely nothing if I do

Re: comments about hardware

2005-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 22:57 +0200, strawks wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 21:38 +0100, michael wrote: > > Well, I've Xeons in my box which support hyperthreading (HT). I presume > > this is the same as "dual core". However, with a 2.4 debian SMP kernel I > > found that for my applications

Re: anacron can't run hourly?

2005-07-21 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 12:38:57PM +0800, phyrster wrote: > Hi Debianers, Hi, > > Can anacron run hourly jobs? Nope. The smallest timespan that anacron can schedule jobs for is a day. > My /etc/anacrontab reads like this: > > = > 1 5 cron.daily nice run-par

Re: php4 vs php4-gd (dotproject: no gantt charts)

2005-07-21 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:16:12 -0500 (CDT) "w trillich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, July 21, 2005 5:31 pm, Darryl Clarke said: > > On 7/21/05, w trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> apache: PHP Warning: gd: Unable to register functions, unable to > >load > in Unknown on line 0 > >

Re: No Screens Found

2005-07-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Cecil wrote: I am working on an IBM Aptiva and getting the error message that no screen is found when I start XFree86. << chomp chomp >> I also need help with setting up printers and sound, somaybe after X starts, we can go into those. Thanks. Cecil how about including your XF86Co

Re: Disappearing text in FireFox

2005-07-21 Thread Mitja Podreka
Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: I know this effect from an extension. But - sorry, I forgot *which* one. I always had a missing-text-problem on this site: http://missi.blogweb.de/ ...and the text re-appeared, when selecting it with the mouse or CTRL-A. But I can't reproduce it anymore. IIRC it was s

No Screens Found

2005-07-21 Thread Cecil
I am working on an IBM Aptiva and getting the error message that no screen is found when I start XFree86. This machine has a Pentium III/800MHz/128MBRAM; Creative Labs CT6970 AGP video card with an nVidia GeForce 256 DDR chipset; ESS Allegro PCI (ES1988 Allegro-1) sound chip on-board; VIA 82Cx

Re: php4 vs php4-gd (dotproject: no gantt charts)

2005-07-21 Thread w trillich
On Thu, July 21, 2005 5:31 pm, Darryl Clarke said: > On 7/21/05, w trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> apache: PHP Warning: gd: Unable to register functions, unable to load >> in Unknown on line 0 > >> # grep -r gd.so /etc/php4 >> /etc/php4/apache/php.ini:extension=gd.so >> /etc/php4/apache/p

Re: Issues with CD burning (invalid CDs)

2005-07-21 Thread Russell Shaw
S. Massy wrote: Hi all, I have a Toshiba Satellite 1110 (which comes with a cd-r/w burner) with which I have burnt countless CDs in the past without so much as the shadow of a problem. Now, however, things have changed for the very worse... Are you burning at a speed that matches the disc? -

Re: Problem compiling Firefox 1.06

2005-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:35 +0200, Ronald Castillo wrote: > Hello. > > I've been trying to compile the new Firefox 1.0.6 on my Sarge system, [snip] > Anyone knows how can I get past through this, or where could I find a > precompiled package for Sarge? It's possible/probable that the 1.0.6 securi

Re: eject cdrom

2005-07-21 Thread j Mak
--- Enrique Morfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you tried using "eject /dev/hdc" ? Is the cd > > mounted while you try to > > do this ? Have you tried ejecting the cd without > it > > being mounted? > > > The cd is umounted. > i have tried /dev/hdc, /cdrom, cdrom, /cdrom/, > /dev/cdrom,

Debian and wireless network cards

2005-07-21 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hello, I was asked by a friend to install Debian on his system. He asked me about which wireless network cards Debian supports. Can anybody tell me which ones (I personally don't use a wireless network so I wouldn't know). Thanks, Leonid Grinberg

Re: last -t lists all entries in wtmp

2005-07-21 Thread michael
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 23:03 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: > Hi, > > For a monitor script I thought I'd use the -t switch of the last command > hoping to get only the latest entries from wtmp. Seems there's something > wrong there, since it will return all entries in wtmp regardless. Before > I submi

Re: icc with gcc 4.0.1 fails

2005-07-21 Thread michael
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 09:34 +0100, michael wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 09:10 +0200, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > > Am Freitag, 15. Juli 2005 00:46 schrieb michael: > > > On my 'unstable' box, gcc recently got upgraded to > > > 23:35:48 ~/C$ gcc --version > > > gcc (GCC) 4.0.1 (Debian 4.0.1-1) > > >

Re: debian sarge install on new dell PE 1850 and 2850

2005-07-21 Thread Matthew Lenz
Actually it sounds like 2.6 is the problem Unless you have a very recent version of the 2.6 kernel running like 2.6.12 (tried ubuntu which is using 2.6.10 and they didn't have the driver) or so it doesn't work. I think I'll be ok, atleast according to the people on the dell linux users list.

Re: Completing removing program and configs

2005-07-21 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2005/7/21, Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > I am having problems with my root user in postgres and want to completely > remove postgres and all config files so I can start completely from scratch. > > What do I need to do to completely remove all config and setup files for > post

Re: guidelines to post on debian-user --- draft 1

2005-07-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
s. keeling wrote: kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I would like to hear input from fellow Debianites on the following document titled "guidelines to post on debian-user" hosted at http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html Not bad but it needs proofreading: B

Re: php4 vs php4-gd (dotproject: no gantt charts)

2005-07-21 Thread Darryl Clarke
On 7/21/05, w trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hiya. haven't posted in a while, trying to keep the noise down. :) > of course, i'm about to make up for lost time-- > > > short version: > > apache: PHP Warning: gd: Unable to register functions, unable to load in > Unknown on line 0 > # g

Re: eject cdrom

2005-07-21 Thread p
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 02:30:10PM -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: > > Have you tried using "eject /dev/hdc" ? Is the cd > > mounted while you try to > > do this ? Have you tried ejecting the cd without it > > being mounted? > > > The cd is umounted. > i have tried /dev/hdc, /cdrom, cdrom, /cdrom/,

After ldconfig runs, libc.so.6 is no longer available

2005-07-21 Thread Andreas Oesterhelt
Hi, I'm running Debian Woody on a SPARC machine (Ultra Enterprise 3000) using a self-compiled 2.4.27 kernel. While I did an "apt-get dist-upgrade" recently, it stopped while unpacking the packages, with the error message error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared obj

Re: debian sarge install on new dell PE 1850 and 2850

2005-07-21 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 15:43 -0500, Matthew Lenz wrote: > Ya know something.. I think I'm high. I think sarge will actually install > just fine on this hardware. Its just a matter of recompiling the kernel to > get everything working perfectly once its on there. > you can also boot with the 2.6

evolution refusing to send email with attachment

2005-07-21 Thread michael
I've not had too much trouble with evolution (email client) until just now when it was complaining: Error while performing operation. DATA command failed: Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable. (but there's on missing mailbox!)... finally tracked this down to having the following as an

Re: eject cdrom

2005-07-21 Thread Enrique Morfin
> Have you tried using "eject /dev/hdc" ? Is the cd > mounted while you try to > do this ? Have you tried ejecting the cd without it > being mounted? > The cd is umounted. i have tried /dev/hdc, /cdrom, cdrom, /cdrom/, /dev/cdrom, and all with the same result: eject: unable to eject, last error:

Re: eject cdrom

2005-07-21 Thread Bill Day
Alos, make sure nothing is using the dev via mount i.e. a console having and open folder on the device etc.. On Thursday July 21 2005 3:43 pm, p wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:37:24AM -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I have a problem ejecting cdrom > > > > as normal user: > > >

Re: Debian package containing header files?

2005-07-21 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:04 -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > Which package (from ftp.debian.org) might contain > the /usr/C11R6/include/X11/*.h header files? http://packages.debian.org -matt zagrabelny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Recommended Debian book?

2005-07-21 Thread Hans-Peter Sulzer
19 July 2005 Glenn English wrote: > > http://www.nostarch.com/frameset.php?startat=debian > Everything I've seen from No Starch is paperback. My European Debian Yes you're right, nearly all books from US seems to be paperback, even such excellent books like Stroustrups Programming in C++ (at lea

Re: output of 'locale'

2005-07-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-07-21 09:25:49 -0400, Steve Å wrote: > The output of my locale; > > LANG=POSIX > LC_CTYPE=en_CA > LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" > LC_TIME="POSIX" > LC_COLLATE="POSIX" > LC_MONETARY="POSIX" > LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" > LC_PAPER="POSIX" > LC_NAME="POSIX" > LC_ADDRESS=

Re: X-windows Problems with firefox install connections???

2005-07-21 Thread MJD
That's alright, try the other modules, and then ty starting x. Are using the stock kernel, or are you using  custom kernel?  And what kernel.On 7/21/05, Will Ness <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Hello!Thank you again for the help! Please know that I truly appreciate it! Anyways,I tried what you suggeste

Re: Completing removing program and configs

2005-07-21 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am having problems with my root user in postgres > and want to completely > remove postgres and all config files so I can start > completely from scratch. > > What do I need to do to completely remove all config > and setup files fo

Re: Cups: canon backend hanging

2005-07-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 06:22:02PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:22:19AM -0500, John Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Sunday 17 July 2005 04:41 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I've got a problem with the canon backend (which I don't u

Re: Disappearing text in FireFox

2005-07-21 Thread Jose Cedeno
Hi, I've had this very same problem described by the author of this thread for a long time. I have tried in kde, gnome and different window managers, and it doesn't fix the problem. It is also not just a firefox problem for me. I have had this problem with abiword too :( . The text disappears (it'

Re: comments about hardware

2005-07-21 Thread strawks
Hi, On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 21:38 +0100, michael wrote: > Well, I've Xeons in my box which support hyperthreading (HT). I presume > this is the same as "dual core". However, with a 2.4 debian SMP kernel I > found that for my applications it was better to turn HT off. I've yet to > try with 2.6 kerne

Re: eject cdrom

2005-07-21 Thread Jose Cedeno
Have you tried using "eject /dev/hdc" ? Is the cd mounted while you try to do this ? Have you tried ejecting the cd without it being mounted? Jose On 7/21/05, Enrique Morfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi!I have a problem ejecting cdromas normal user:$eject cdromeject: unable to eject, last error:

Re: comments about hardware

2005-07-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 04:13:27PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > Thanks for the information. If you have experience of using dual core > processors with Debian, I'd be glad to hear of the details. I would be happy to try it out if someone bought me a machine with dual core cpu in it. :) All I hav

Re: debian sarge install on new dell PE 1850 and 2850

2005-07-21 Thread Matthew Lenz
Ya know something.. I think I'm high. I think sarge will actually install just fine on this hardware. Its just a matter of recompiling the kernel to get everything working perfectly once its on there. - Original Message - From: "Matthew Lenz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday,

Re: comments about hardware

2005-07-21 Thread michael
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 16:13 -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > One dual core opteron compared to two single core opterons: > > > Each opteron has a memory controller built in that does dual channel > > memory support. A dual core opteron still onl

Re: comments about hardware

2005-07-21 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote: One dual core opteron compared to two single core opterons: Each opteron has a memory controller built in that does dual channel memory support. A dual core opteron still only has one memory controller and hypertransport to the chipset. The tw

Completing removing program and configs

2005-07-21 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Hello, I am having problems with my root user in postgres and want to completely remove postgres and all config files so I can start completely from scratch. What do I need to do to completely remove all config and setup files for postgres so that I can reinstall postgres and give a new root use

debian sarge install on new dell PE 1850 and 2850

2005-07-21 Thread Matthew Lenz
We recently purchased 3 x 1850 and 2 x 2850 servers to convert our Sparc / Solaris server's to Dell / Linux. The plan all along had been to use Debian since Sarge was being released. We've hit a pretty big stumbling block with Sarge's install cd. It doesn't support the LSI MegaRAID boards tha

A little something quirky....

2005-07-21 Thread ke6isf
I just realized that every time I do an apt-get update - and I mean EVERY time - the repository over on purdue.edu always gets the Packages and Release data files. Most recent test was today, and I did two updates in less than five minutes. (I had added contrib and non-free to a handful of mirror

Re: sarge + 2.6.12 kernel panic

2005-07-21 Thread ke6isf
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > I have a box upgraded from woody to sarge. > > Are you using grub or lilo? (Although I didn't do a fresh install, I > suspect grub. Forgive me for this, but which one of these lines are from the original post? The message is confusing. At any ra

Re: replacing window manager in gnome and getting usable screen shape

2005-07-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:43:39AM -0600, Cam wrote: > Hi, > > On 7/21/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hendrik, re your problem, could it be that you have the wrong video > > settings in your XFree86 config? > > I would say it probably is a bad XF86Config-4... maybe he could po

Re: eject cdrom

2005-07-21 Thread p
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:37:24AM -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: > Hi! > > I have a problem ejecting cdrom > > as normal user: > > $eject cdrom > eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument > > as root: > > #eject cdrom > (ejects the cdrom without trouble) > > the owner and permisions

Re: locale and it's affect on ls and sort

2005-07-21 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 02:42:48PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 7/21/05, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ron Johnson writes: > > > What should I google for in order to learn *why* everything else sorts > > > things differently than C? > > Try 'frickin idiots' and 'international stand

Re: locale and it's affect on ls and sort

2005-07-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 01:15:13PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: > > What should I google for in order to learn *why* everything else sorts > > things differently than C? > > Try 'frickin idiots' and 'international standards organization'. Since if varies from locale to locale,

Re: eject cdrom

2005-07-21 Thread Kent West
Enrique Morfin wrote: >as normal user: > >$eject cdrom >eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument > >as root: > >#eject cdrom >(ejects the cdrom without trouble) > >the owner and permisions: > >$ls -alh /dev/hdc >brw-rw 1 root burning 22, 0 2002-03-14 15:51 >/dev/hdc > >$id >uid=10

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:38:42PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > > > Furthermore when is too much information obsfucating? The often cited > > example is IE's "Friendly" error messages which explain nothing. Give me > > a short, relatively straight forward and meaningfu

Re: guidelines to post on debian-user --- draft 1

2005-07-21 Thread Kent West
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I removed "never". I have no idea what you mean by "post-reply > interspersing". "Inline-posting" probably would have been a better term; it's what you did with my post here: Statement A Response A Statement B Response B as opposed to bottom-posting: Statement

Re: Kernel and compiler version?

2005-07-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:10:21AM -0500, Andrew Nelson wrote: > Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > > > > Is there way to find out what version of gcc it was compiled > > with? 'uname -a' does not tell the gcc info. > > There is probably a better way but this works. > > dmesg | head -1 > That hardly wo

Re: Problem compiling Firefox 1.06

2005-07-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 02:35:47PM +0200, Ronald Castillo wrote: > Hello. > > I've been trying to compile the new Firefox 1.0.6 on my Sarge system, > but I end up having the following error messages: Any particular reasoen you feel the need to compile it yourself? It is already in Sid for i386 a

Re: Disappearing text in FireFox

2005-07-21 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 20.07.2005, 12:00 +0800 schrieb Mitja Podreka: > I have problems viewing some pages with Firefox. For example this one: > http://www.sajeta.org/index.php?neki=x&x=delavnice > > Parts of text just disappear if I scroll down the page with mouse wheel > or use scroll-bar too qui

sysklogd no longer logs

2005-07-21 Thread Willie Gnarlson
Hello debian-user, Since I've upgraded my stable box during the last release, I notice syslog is no longer logging some messages (e.g. iptables among other things). /var/log/kern.log, for example, is empty as of the 16th of July. `dmesg` shows the blocked packets, however, so at least I know iptab

eject cdrom

2005-07-21 Thread Enrique Morfin
Hi! I have a problem ejecting cdrom as normal user: $eject cdrom eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument as root: #eject cdrom (ejects the cdrom without trouble) the owner and permisions: $ls -alh /dev/hdc brw-rw 1 root burning 22, 0 2002-03-14 15:51 /dev/hdc $id uid=1000(

dhcpdiscover - is this needed?

2005-07-21 Thread Erdi Balint
Hi, I want to have my ppp connection to my ISP started on startup. I have tried several /etc/network/interfaces settings but seems that it only works if I have the auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp lines in the interfaces config file. However, what these lines do is this: Listening on LPF/eth1

sarge + 2.6.12 kernel panic

2005-07-21 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
I have a box upgraded from woody to sarge. Are you using grub or lilo? (Although I didn't do a fresh install, I suspect grub. Posting the differences in your config file might help. Also lspci results. I'm probably as clueless as you, but the extra information might help. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: locale and it's affect on ls and sort

2005-07-21 Thread Michael Marsh
On 7/21/05, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: > > What should I google for in order to learn *why* everything else sorts > > things differently than C? > Try 'frickin idiots' and 'international standards organization'. No such luck: Your search - "frickin idiots" "inter

Re: locale and it's affect on ls and sort

2005-07-21 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > What should I google for in order to learn *why* everything else sorts > things differently than C? Try 'frickin idiots' and 'international standards organization'. 'export LC_COLLATE="C"' should fix your problem. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: ALSA: no sound, no error!

2005-07-21 Thread Christian Pernegger
> In gentoo > linux, everything seems to be working fine as far as I can tell, > except no sound comes out. cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp makes no > sound. > [...] > alsamixer: > PCM and Front, Front Mi, Surround, Center, LFE are all up and unmuted. > There is no Master volume. Line, Mic, Headphon

Missing /dev/devfs Stops Hcfpcimodem Driver From Installing Correctly

2005-07-21 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
No response after being posted for three days. Hoping it was just overlooked. Would appreciate any guidance whatsoever. This was posted to Linuxant.com support with reply only that devfs and/or modprobe configuration was causing the problem, not the modem driver. Have read all related manua

Re: why do PPP connections die with heavy disk usage?

2005-07-21 Thread Daniel B.
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know why Linux can't seem to maintain a diald-dialed serial PPP connection while performing lots of disk I/O, especially on a PIO-mode IDE disk? Because the IDE driver turns off in

Re: Can Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy Econel 50 run Debian

2005-07-21 Thread John Plate
Pietro Viganò wrote: > I have the same problem; have you found any solution yet? > > I'll try with a friend of mine who develops Debian. I'll let you > know if I have some news. No, not yet. I just came back from holydays. I'll try again within a week. Regards, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Unable to add scroll-wheel mouse to xfree86

2005-07-21 Thread Vegard|drageV
On 7/20/05, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En/La Vegard|drageV ha escrit, a 20/07/05 20:47: > > Hi list, > > from a previous thread I got hints on how to add a Logitech Mouse with > > a scrollerwheel to the xfree86 system by running 'dpkg-reconfigure > > xserver-xfree86' or by manually

Re: Debian package containing header files?

2005-07-21 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 02:04:35PM -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > Which package (from ftp.debian.org) might contain > the /usr/C11R6/include/X11/*.h header files? > > It is needed to compile some code that needs those > header files.. Presumably you meant 'X11R6' rather than 'C11R6' ... Try apt-

Re: Debian package containing header files?

2005-07-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Ishwar Rattan wrote: Which package (from ftp.debian.org) might contain the /usr/C11R6/include/X11/*.h header files? It is needed to compile some code that needs those header files.. -ishwar To find out which package provides a file called stdio.h you can use wajig whichpkg stdio.h So, yo

Re: X-windows Problems with firefox install connections???

2005-07-21 Thread Will Ness
Hello! Thank you again for the help! Please know that I truly appreciate it! Anyways,I tried what you suggested and all I got for each input was : "Can't locate module (input)" What happens now? -Will

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: ALSA: no sound, no error!]

2005-07-21 Thread Lorenzo Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wow. Now I broke the thread. Damn I'm good! ;-( Lorenzo - -- - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s:+ a- C+++ UL P+ L+++ E- W++ N o K- w--- O M V- PS+++ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5+ X+ R tv-- b++ DI-- D+ G e* h r+++ y+++ - --END

Debian package containing header files?

2005-07-21 Thread Ishwar Rattan
Which package (from ftp.debian.org) might contain the /usr/C11R6/include/X11/*.h header files? It is needed to compile some code that needs those header files.. -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: ALSA: no sound, no error!]

2005-07-21 Thread Lorenzo Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oh no! I meant to send this to the list. I need to check my fields better. It seems when I hit reply on debian-user, it sends to the person who sent the message instead of sending it back to the list like most lists do. I usually catch it, but this

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-21 Thread Derek Broughton
Steve Lamb wrote: > Furthermore when is too much information obsfucating? The often cited > example is IE's "Friendly" error messages which explain nothing. Give me > a short, relatively straight forward and meaningful string (Which "Dynamic > MMap ran out of room" is) over overly verbose "h

locale & Sid (Re: For the love of GOD!!!)

2005-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 00:10 +0800, Robert Vangel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Robert Vangel wrote: > > Dirk wrote: [snip] > > > > Perhaps because it's listing in alphabetical order? > > More answers.. > > googling for `ls -a mixing dot files' first result shows i

locale and it's affect on ls and sort (was Re: For the love of GOD!!!)

2005-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 18:40 +0200, Björn Lindström wrote: > Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How about adding " | sort"? That should put all the . files together. > > Or, of course, you could change the source code to suit your own > > preferences and recompile. > > No, it won't, s

Re: For the love of GOD!!!

2005-07-21 Thread Andrew Nelson
Andrew Nelson wrote > > I have no idea what the cause might be but I guess you could do something like > > ls -la | awk '$9 ~ /^\./ {print}' > > Although you would then loose colors. > You could also do something along these lines. ls -lda `ls -a1 | awk '/^\./ {print}'` //andy -- To UNS

php4 vs php4-gd (dotproject: no gantt charts)

2005-07-21 Thread w trillich
hiya. haven't posted in a while, trying to keep the noise down. :) of course, i'm about to make up for lost time-- short version: apache: PHP Warning: gd: Unable to register functions, unable to load in Unknown on line 0 long version: we're trying to get "dotproject" (see dotproject.org)

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-21 Thread Lorenzo Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Let me try a couple of possible replacements for the "dynamic MMap" error message. Maybe one of these will more clearly state the error without being too verbose: Allowed cache too small. Allowed cache too small; please (reconfigure|resize). Insuff

Re: Sound Configuration

2005-07-21 Thread Martin Kenneth Lopez
Hello, I re-install the alsa and the alsa-base and then all the steps again and works the sound is working fine thanks to all for the help Martin Kenneth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > can you send /etc/modules file entries...after doing alsaconf. > > what does alsaconf say, did it wor

ALSA: no sound, no error!

2005-07-21 Thread Charles Mims
I'm experiencing a similar problem with similar hardware. I have a sager np3880-v laptop, the sound works great in windows. In gentoo linux, everything seems to be working fine as far as I can tell, except no sound comes out. cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp makes no sound. Maybe someone knows what

what gdm and xdm are (was: Re: replacing window manager ...)

2005-07-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:47:23AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > > Allow me to display my ignorance: what is gdm? Is it another component > of the x-windows-system? When I re-installed x-windows, it asked me to > select gdm or xdm. It's not an acronym for gnome, is it? Let me man it. gdm and xdm a

Re: For the love of GOD!!!

2005-07-21 Thread Björn Lindström
Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How about adding " | sort"? That should put all the . files together. > Or, of course, you could change the source code to suit your own > preferences and recompile. No, it won't, since sort also adheres to the locale settings. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: For the love of GOD!!!

2005-07-21 Thread Andrew Nelson
Dirk wrote: > Who is responsible for "ls -la" _mixing_ hidden "dot"-files with normal > files in the output? > > I wan't to salute that decision. > > I use unstable. > > I grepped a lot but was unable to find the cause. > I have no idea what the cause might be but I guess you could do somethin

Re: guidelines to post on debian-user --- draft 1

2005-07-21 Thread Lorenzo Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just read the guidelines at http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html and have one question. I understand the general concept of inline posting, which is what you are advocating in this document, (not to be confused with bottom-postin

gdb not able to display the contents of source code

2005-07-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
$cat helloworld.f90 PROGRAM helloworld IMPLICIT NONE PRINT *, "Just for testing purposes" END PROGRAM helloworld $gfortran -g -Wall helloworld.f90 $./a.out Just for testing purposes $gdb ./a.out GNU gdb 6.3-debian Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, cover

Re: Double postings?

2005-07-21 Thread Andrzej Doyle
Lorenzo Taylor wrote: I sometimes receive double-posts, but it is only when my address is placed in the To: or CC: fields. That'll be because you're receiving the post once as an email to you personally; then you'll receive it again as a member of the list. There's not much that can be don

Re: Recommended Debian book?

2005-07-21 Thread Glenn English
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 18:45 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > If possible, could you take a picture and post it somewhere about > > this, or just send it to me? I'm interested to see this. > > Please allow me to present my non-folding study: > > http://madduck.net/~madduck/scratch/a.jpg > ht

Re: Double postings?

2005-07-21 Thread Barry Hawkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 21, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Rodney D. Myers wrote: [...] I'm on the list, so no need to cc, bcc me. Since this is the only list spiting out dupes, I'd say odds are something is wrong here, and not on my setup. I have 15 mail lists, etc. so. --

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