Re: LVM and Windows

2005-07-23 Thread mess-mate
Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 08:43:25PM +0200, mess-mate wrote: | > Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | Now that I've discovered what LVM does, I've resolved to start | > | migrating my Linux systems to it. Linux partitions look easy. | > | But I'd re

Re: screen resolution for desktop

2005-07-23 Thread Ganeshram Iyer
On 7/23/05, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 09:57 -0400, Rajiv Vyas wrote: > > Newbie question: > > > > How do I change the screen resolution in Debian. I have 800*600 now > > and want to take it higher to 1068*720 or something like that. I went > > to the Gnome pannel an

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2005-07-23 Thread Du Doan KQSX
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Re: A little something quirky....

2005-07-23 Thread Dennis Carr
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 11:10:16 +0100 Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1.Totally irrelavent to your question but why so many sources? Redundancy to a fault. =^_^= As for Purdue... eh, perhaps I can drop a line to their postmaster. -Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: LVM and Windows

2005-07-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Hendrik Boom([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 08:43:25PM +0200, mess-mate wrote: > > Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | Now that I've discovered what LVM does, I've resolved to start > > | migrating my Linux systems to it. Linux partitions look easy

weird chroot problem with apache

2005-07-23 Thread Jack
Hi, I'm having weird problems with chrooting apache, this is the output of strace newbs:/chroot/httpd# strace chroot /chroot/httpd /usr/sbin/httpd -f /etc/apache/httpd.conf execve("/usr/sbin/chroot", ["chroot", "/chroot/httpd", "/usr/sbin/httpd", "-f", "/etc/apache/httpd.conf"], [/* 13 vars */])

Re: No Screens Found

2005-07-23 Thread Marty
Cecil wrote: I am working on an IBM Aptiva and getting the error message that no screen is found when I start XFree86. Sorry if I missed it but I've skimmed this thread and saw no mention of checking /var/log/XFree86.0.log. "No screens found" seems to be a pretty common catch-all error message

Re: No Screens Found

2005-07-23 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: >I'm coming into the middle of this > Hmm; apparently that's not true; I've posted to this thread before: >Cecil wrote: > >>> XFree86 is configured for the nv GeForce driver w/32768KB video RAM >> >>I suggest you try using the vesa driver instead of the nv driver. > So, my questi

Re: No Screens Found

2005-07-23 Thread Kent West
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > Cecil wrote: > >> Nothing was saved, as I had nothing personal on the machine and I had no >> expectation that the system files would not function properly, or that a >> configuration would not be identical if given the same parameters, >> and I was >> really doi

virtual keyboard, on-screen keyboard

2005-07-23 Thread ken keanon
Hi, I have been trying out xvkbd and gok. In terms of customising, gok is better but still requires manipulation of a text file. I came across highly customisable virtual keyboard called MountFocus, but it is for Windows only. Is there something along this line available for Linux, at least with

Re: Samsung 1710 printer

2005-07-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Rajiv Vyas: > > Is there an "apt-get" driver for ML 1710? If not, what's the easiest way to > get this working with Sarge. If you want to run CUPS you need foomatic-filters-pppd. That includes a PPD file for your printer. PPD files are something like "drivers" for CUPS (I am not sure about correc

Samsung 1710 printer

2005-07-23 Thread Rajiv Vyas
Is there an "apt-get" driver for ML 1710? If not, what's the easiest way to get this working with Sarge. rajiv  

Re: howto get popup for connection speed

2005-07-23 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 7/23/05, Mr Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 18:44:16 -0400, hacker (of golf) wrote: > > > I'm trying to create a popup to show the connection speed. > > > > I'm trying this: > > > > root :~# kdialog --display localhost:0 --msgbox "Connection Speed > > `tail -n1 /var/log/pp

Re: No Screens Found

2005-07-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Cecil wrote: The screen section is just as you reproduced it, I am just too lazy to type all the same info time after time. I'm running back and forth between two computers, trying to type onto the one what I saw on the other. sorry, should have guessed. Are your machine's networked? can t

cancel my email address

2005-07-23 Thread kelsey hannett
please cancel this email address. i no longer want it Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: install Macromedia Flash

2005-07-23 Thread j Mak
--- Rajiv Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded the player and extracted the file. Now > what? > > rajiv Open the terminal and navigate to the flash folder. As root run the flash installer like: ./flashplayer-installer Follow the instructions. j. Mak __

No Screens Found

2005-07-23 Thread Cecil
- Original Message - From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Debian-User Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 12:30 AM Subject: Re: No Screens Found > I've never seen "Display" like this. I think those depths should be > split up. I've only installed X a

Re: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 on Debian

2005-07-23 Thread Fabio Serpa
You can download directly from mozilla site. Will work fine! http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-1.0.6&os=linux&lang=en-US Philip Radford wrote: Hi all, The Mozilla Firefox version on apt is 1.0.4 which is fine. However is there a dpkg/rpm for the latest 1.0.6 anywhere or is thi

apt-get install drupal problem

2005-07-23 Thread kadil
I think I have compromised the integrity of apt on my system. I installed drupal using apt-get, and removed it several times trying to get it to work with postgresql. Now when I try : apt-get install drupal apt hangs up on: The following NEW packages will be installed:

Re: install Macromedia Flash

2005-07-23 Thread [KS]
Rajiv Vyas wrote: > I downloaded the player and extracted the file. Now what? > > rajiv > I have a contrib section in my sources.lst http://http.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages And I used apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree, it automatically downloads the plugin from macromedia and ins

Re: 2 monitors on Nvidia GeForce 5700LE using x.org

2005-07-23 Thread [KS]
Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 10:21:57PM -0400, [KS] wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>I was trying out x.org to use 2 monitors with my Nvidia GeForce 5700LE. >>After tinkering with the xorg.conf, I finally got the two monitors >>running using the AGP and the DVI ports(with DVI-AGP converter).

Re: sid: many Package x has broken dep on y

2005-07-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 07:50:45AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > These days in sid, I get lots of > "Package x has broken dep on y" > from apt-get, where x = > odbcinst1debian1 libjack0.80.0-0 openoffice.org-bin > gnome-control-center libgc1c2 libaspell15c2 xserver-xorg libenchant1c2 > libaiksaurus-

Re: 2 monitors on Nvidia GeForce 5700LE using x.org

2005-07-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 10:21:57PM -0400, [KS] wrote: > Hello, > > I was trying out x.org to use 2 monitors with my Nvidia GeForce 5700LE. > After tinkering with the xorg.conf, I finally got the two monitors > running using the AGP and the DVI ports(with DVI-AGP converter). > However, the desktop

Re: Debian kernel source and compiler

2005-07-23 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Jules Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm running Sid -- up-to-date except for a small number of held and broken packages -- and have two questions about kernel source and compiling. 1) I have previously gotten, built, and used Debian's kernel source packages, such as kernel-source-2.6.10 a

used dd_rescue to image a partition of failing harddrive-unable to mount badpartition.img using -o loop

2005-07-23 Thread tripolar
Hello I have a failing harddrive so I did #dd_rhelp /dev/hdc7 /mnt/hdb1/120part7_rescue.img I saved that image ( 72G ) on a new hardrive /mnt/hdb1/120part7_rescue.img I then pulled out the failing harddrive and replaced it with a new harddrive /mnt/hdc . I have tried to follow these directions " Th

Re: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 on Debian

2005-07-23 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 the mental interface of Philip Radford told: > Hi all, > > The Mozilla Firefox version on apt is 1.0.4 which is fine. > > However is there a dpkg/rpm for the latest 1.0.6 anywhere or is > this a case of installing from source.ap $ apt-cache policy mozilla-firefox mozilla-fir

Re: LVM and Windows

2005-07-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 08:43:25PM +0200, mess-mate wrote: > Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Now that I've discovered what LVM does, I've resolved to start > | migrating my Linux systems to it. Linux partitions look easy. > | But I'd really like to start using it for *all* my partition

install Macromedia Flash

2005-07-23 Thread Rajiv Vyas
I downloaded the player and extracted the file. Now what? rajiv

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 on Debian

2005-07-23 Thread Philip Radford
Hi all, The Mozilla Firefox version on apt is 1.0.4 which is fine. However is there a dpkg/rpm for the latest 1.0.6 anywhere or is this a case of installing from source. Many thanks. Regards Phil.

Re: Comments Wanted: Mozilla localstart page

2005-07-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/07/05 10:33), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > [KS] wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I had tried my CSS skills to redo the mozilla localstart page, and sent > >the new one to the debian mozilla package maintainer for comments. Don't > >know why, but I never got a reply from the maintainer! > > > >The page i

Re: Numlock at startup?

2005-07-23 Thread Josh
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:11:29 -0700 (PDT) Edward Dunagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > my bios has a setting for the numlock key. mine does as well and even if I set it to on, at the text login it ends up being off. -- - Josh www.omg-stfu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: XFree86 to X.Org: Console colors change

2005-07-23 Thread Jules Dubois
On Saturday 23 July 2005 10:54, Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Adam Aube wrote: > >> After switching from XFree86 to X.Org on Sid recently, I discovered that >> everytime I used Ctrl+Alt+F[n] to switch between the console and X, the >> background and text color on th

Re: /dev/mouse disappears !!

2005-07-23 Thread [KS]
Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: > Hi, > > After upgrading to X.Org and kernel 2.6.12 today, when I create a soft > symlink in /dev called mouse pointing to psaux, the next time I boot, > it will no longer be there. Tried it quite a few times. I can't explain > it. Can you? > I am a little uncomfortable put

Debian kernel source and compiler

2005-07-23 Thread Jules Dubois
I'm running Sid -- up-to-date except for a small number of held and broken packages -- and have two questions about kernel source and compiling. 1) I have previously gotten, built, and used Debian's kernel source packages, such as kernel-source-2.6.10 and kernel-source-2.6.11. In the last fe

/dev/mouse disappears !!

2005-07-23 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
Hi, After upgrading to X.Org and kernel 2.6.12 today, when I create a soft symlink in /dev called mouse pointing to psaux, the next time I boot, it will no longer be there. Tried it quite a few times. I can't explain it. Can you? I am a little uncomfortable putting /dev/psaux instead of /dev/mouse

Re: Debian and wireless network cards

2005-07-23 Thread Brian Kimball
I just solved this dilemma two days ago. I found the hawking hwp54g works well and is pretty inexpensive. Hawking has used a few different chipsets but IIRC they all have linux drivers in varying degrees of development. The one that I bought has a Ralink rt2500 chipset, and the driver for it

Re: howto get popup for connection speed

2005-07-23 Thread Mr Mike
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 18:44:16 -0400, hacker (of golf) wrote: > I'm trying to create a popup to show the connection speed. > > I'm trying this: > > root :~# kdialog --display localhost:0 --msgbox "Connection Speed > `tail -n1 /var/log/ppp-connect-errors | awk '{ print $6 }'` bps" > kdialog: cannot

Re: novell hula open source project?

2005-07-23 Thread Steve Block
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 04:43:23PM -0600, Cam wrote: Hi, I'm setting up a web server. Everything is finished except for the webmail portion. The setup i have going on currently is Postfix/Courier(IMAP and POP)/MySQL(for the virtual users)/Amavis(w/ ClamAV and Spamassassin). That stuff is all

Re: LVM and Windows

2005-07-23 Thread mess-mate
Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Now that I've discovered what LVM does, I've resolved to start | migrating my Linux systems to it. Linux partitions look easy. | But I'd really like to start using it for *all* my partitions. | My machine also has a bunch lf FAT partitions used | when I

Re: debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso

2005-07-23 Thread Björn Lindström
"Matthew Lenz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > wasn't the original installer called debian-31r0-i386-netinst.iso? > .. was the 'a' added recently? if so what changed? It's explained here: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: howto get popup for connection speed

2005-07-23 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 7/23/05, hacker (of golf) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/20/05, Matias Rollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I hope it helps, > > Yes, I added: > > kdialog --display :0 --msgbox "`tail -n1 /var/log/ppp-connect-errors | > cut -b 8-` bps" > > to the end of /etc/ppp/ip-up and now I get a popu

Re: debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso

2005-07-23 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 7/23/05, Matthew Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wasn't the original installer called debian-31r0-i386-netinst.iso? .. was > the 'a' added recently? if so what changed? The installer without the `a' doesn't add security.debian.org to /etc/apt/sources.list

debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso

2005-07-23 Thread Matthew Lenz
wasn't the original installer called debian-31r0-i386-netinst.iso? .. was the 'a' added recently? if so what changed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tomboy and Beagle

2005-07-23 Thread Rajiv Vyas
i did that. still does not work.On 7/23/05, Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 23 July 2005 12:09 pm, Rajiv Vyas wrote:> Newbie here. Is there a simple way to install Tomboy and Beagle?>> Rajivapt-cache search tomboyproduces this output:tomboy - desktop note taking program using Wik

LVM and Windows

2005-07-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
Now that I've discovered what LVM does, I've resolved to start migrating my Linux systems to it. Linux partitions look easy. But I'd really like to start using it for *all* my partitions. My machine also has a bunch lf FAT partitions used when I boot Windows, and accessible when I boot Linux. Ca

Re: gdb not able to display the contents of source code

2005-07-23 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 7/22/05, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David E. Fox wrote: > > >On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:00:18 -0400 > >kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>(gdb) list > >>1 ../sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S: No such file or directory. > >>in ../sysdeps/i386/elf/star

Re: Hyperthreading

2005-07-23 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:13:05 -0500 "Andrew J. Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am in the process of building a new computer, and was wondering if > Debian 3.1r0a is capable of running on a P4 3.2E Ghz processor with HT > Technology. Also, if the OS doesn't support HT, could it still work > a

Re: 2 monitors on Nvidia GeForce 5700LE using x.org

2005-07-23 Thread [KS]
Greg Madden wrote: > On Friday 22 July 2005 06:21 pm, [KS] wrote: > > > What you are seeing is the Xinerama feature, turn it 'off' to have two > separate screens. > > Option"Xinerama" "on" Commenting it out didn't make a difference. I think the TwinView option on the top might

Re: Hyperthreading

2005-07-23 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 7/23/05, Andrew J. Fields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am in the process of building a new computer, and was wondering if Debian > 3.1r0a is capable of running on a P4 3.2E Ghz processor with HT Technology. > Also, if the OS doesn't support HT, could it still work anyway. Lastly, if > this won

Re: Tomboy and Beagle

2005-07-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 23 July 2005 12:22 pm, Rajiv Vyas wrote: > This is what I got: > > debian:/home/rajiv# apt-cache search tomboy > debian:/home/rajiv# apt-get install tomboy > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package tomboy > Try apt-get update first, t

Re: Tomboy and Beagle

2005-07-23 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Rajiv Vyas wrote: This is what I got: debian:/home/rajiv# apt-cache search tomboy debian:/home/rajiv# apt-get install tomboy Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package tomboy Oh. I am running unstable. Sorry, I should have checked if it is there in

Re: XFree86 to X.Org: Console colors change

2005-07-23 Thread Adam Aube
Adam Aube wrote: > After switching from XFree86 to X.Org on Sid recently, I discovered that > everytime I used Ctrl+Alt+F[n] to switch between the console and X, the > background and text color on the console change to some random color. The latest version of the X.Org packages (6.8.2.dfsg.1-4) c

Hyperthreading

2005-07-23 Thread Andrew J. Fields
I am in the process of building a new computer, and was wondering if Debian 3.1r0a is capable of running on a P4 3.2E Ghz processor with HT Technology. Also, if the OS doesn't support HT, could it still work anyway. Lastly, if this wont work, could you recommend any distributions of Linux that supp

Re: Numlock at startup?

2005-07-23 Thread Edward Dunagin
my bios has a setting for the numlock key. --- Csanyi Pal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 08:19:46AM -0400, Thomas H. > George wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 03:33:49PM +1000, Brendon > Lloyd Higgins wrote: > > > Ron Johnson wrote (Thursday 21 July 2005 9:57 > pm): > > >

Re: 2 monitors on Nvidia GeForce 5700LE using x.org

2005-07-23 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 22 July 2005 06:21 pm, [KS] wrote: > Hello, > > I was trying out x.org to use 2 monitors with my Nvidia GeForce > 5700LE. After tinkering with the xorg.conf, I finally got the two > monitors running using the AGP and the DVI ports(with DVI-AGP > converter). However, the desktop is like a

Re: upgrade woody=>sarge, aptitude-update

2005-07-23 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 04:16:26PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > hi, > > I'm trying to upgrade from woody to sarge by following the release notes, > which state that I should first upgrade to sarge's aptitude. > > However, when I do this, aptitude tries to update glibc and a lot of > other package

Re: Emacs21 install problem [upgrading from woody to sarge]

2005-07-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 09:40:37AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello: > > TIA, while upgrading from woody to sarge emacs would not properly install. > Error info > > Setting up emacs21 (21.4a-1) ... > emacs-install emacs21 > install/auctex: Setting up for emacs21... emacs-install: > /usr/li

Re: Unrequested automatic priting jobs problem

2005-07-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 02:24:58PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > I get the occational printing job sent out from my computer when I didn't > request it. Just now (cups did go through an upgrade so it may be a problem > with the packages post install scripts or something) I suddenly had about 15 > pr

Re: Debian on a handheld device.

2005-07-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 06:16:40AM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > I would like to port Debian to a handheld computer that doesn't > currently support Linux, but that does support WindowsCE. > > Any idea where I might be able to find information on how to do this? > Hi Scott, What is supported

Re: Can kdm 'source' ~/.xinitrc ?

2005-07-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Bill Marcum wrote: > > phyrster wrote: > > > My question is there anyway to make kdm use '.xinitrc' like startx does? > > > > > I haven't used kdm, only xdm and gdm, but you could try '.xsession'. > > kdm doesn't source ~/.xsession as near as I can tell either as xdm does

Re: Tomboy and Beagle

2005-07-23 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 12:22:21PM -0400, Rajiv Vyas wrote: > This is what I got: > > debian:/home/rajiv# apt-cache search tomboy > debian:/home/rajiv# apt-get install tomboy > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package tomboy > > > On 7/23/05, ka

Re: Tomboy and Beagle

2005-07-23 Thread Rajiv Vyas
This is what I got: debian:/home/rajiv# apt-cache search tomboy debian:/home/rajiv# apt-get install tomboy Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package tomboy On 7/23/05, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rajiv Vyas wrote:> Newbie here. Is th

Re: Tomboy and Beagle

2005-07-23 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Rajiv Vyas wrote: Newbie here. Is there a simple way to install Tomboy and Beagle? Rajiv $apt-cache search tomboy tomboy - desktop note taking program using Wiki style links $apt-get install tomboy Dont know about beagle. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi Graduate Student, MAE Cornell Unive

Tomboy and Beagle

2005-07-23 Thread Rajiv Vyas
Newbie here. Is there a simple way to install Tomboy and Beagle? Rajiv

google cg1

2005-07-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I had to look for another CG1 (old google) site because what I was using for linux.debian.user went beta. It's here: http://www.google.com/groups?as_q=&num=100&as_scoring=r&hl=ia&btnG=Recerca+Google&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_ugroup=linux.debian.user&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=&as_umsgid=&lr=&

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

2005-07-23 Thread MJD
You are probably using 2.2, which I have no experience with.  Try upgrading to 2.4 if possible, with the following command: apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-1-386 (You will need to reboot.) That will bring you up to 2.4, and then you may want to upgrade to sarge, the latest stable, and get 2.6. 

Re: Comments Wanted: Mozilla localstart page

2005-07-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
[KS] wrote: Hi all, I had tried my CSS skills to redo the mozilla localstart page, and sent the new one to the debian mozilla package maintainer for comments. Don't know why, but I never got a reply from the maintainer! The page is available at http://nvu.atspace.org/localstart.html It does not

how to define 'recent' for use in 'ls'?

2005-07-23 Thread michael
from the ls man page I see: --time-style=STYLE show times using style STYLE: full-iso, long-iso, iso, locale, +FORMAT FORMAT is interpreted like `date'; if FORMAT is FORMAT1FORMAT2, FORMAT1 applies to non-recent files and FORMAT2 to recent file

upgrade woody=>sarge, aptitude-update

2005-07-23 Thread Felix Natter
hi, I'm trying to upgrade from woody to sarge by following the release notes, which state that I should first upgrade to sarge's aptitude. However, when I do this, aptitude tries to update glibc and a lot of other packages, and the point of first upgrading aptitude was to get better resolution of

Re: Debian and wireless network cards

2005-07-23 Thread Damon Chesser
On Thursday 21 July 2005 19:06, 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). > > Thank

Re: Good GUI for essid selection?

2005-07-23 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 08:33:01PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: [...] } With all due respect, Debian and its derivatives will never } compete with OS X or Windows unless they make this seamless } for the end-user. I shouldn't have to script it; along with } a web browser and an office suite, seam

Re: Debian and wireless network cards

2005-07-23 Thread Damon Chesser
On Thursday 21 July 2005 19:06, 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). > > Thank

Re: screen resolution for desktop

2005-07-23 Thread michael
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 09:57 -0400, Rajiv Vyas wrote: > Newbie question: > > How do I change the screen resolution in Debian. I have 800*600 now > and want to take it higher to 1068*720 or something like that. I went > to the Gnome pannel and tried changing it but it does not give me an > option hi

screen resolution for desktop

2005-07-23 Thread Rajiv Vyas
Newbie question: How do I change the screen resolution in Debian. I have 800*600 now and want to take it higher to 1068*720 or something like that. I went to the Gnome pannel and tried changing it but it does not give me an option higher than 800*600. Rajiv

Re: Sharing the internet connection with XP - not working! :-(

2005-07-23 Thread Björn Johansson
At 13:24 2005-07-11, you wrote: On 7/11/05, Björn Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:32 2005-07-11, you wrote: > >On 7/10/05, Björn Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I will now give you some more information about my network: > > > > > > 1. Connection to local network 2, connec

Re: Debian and wireless network cards

2005-07-23 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:06:17PM -0400, 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)

Re: pam userdb auth issue (pam_userdb can't open database) Sarge

2005-07-23 Thread Tom
Hello! Im with the same problem (but in woody). I saw no one answered you here. Did you solve the problme by some another way? Thanx Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Numlock at startup?

2005-07-23 Thread Csanyi Pal
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 08:19:46AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 03:33:49PM +1000, Brendon Lloyd Higgins wrote: > > 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

Re: Numlock at startup?

2005-07-23 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 03:33:49PM +1000, Brendon Lloyd Higgins wrote: > 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 se

Re: Can kdm 'source' ~/.xinitrc ?

2005-07-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Jul 23 04:20 -0500]: > On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 10:13:37AM +0800, phyrster wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > I am using fluxbox and normally use 'startx' to run it. 'startx' can of > > course run '.xinitrc' in $HOME. > > > > However this takes a few extra steps

Re: howto get popup for connection speed

2005-07-23 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 7/20/05, Matias Rollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hola ! > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 06:44:16PM -0400, hacker (of golf) wrote: > > I'm trying to create a popup to show the connection speed. > > > > I'm trying this: > > > > root :~# kdialog --display localhost:0 --msgbox "Connection Speed > >

SCSI Status=02h (CHECK CONDITION)

2005-07-23 Thread devrimliste
Hi all, Three days ago i installed Debian 3.1rc1 to our new backup machine. Because we have some strange problems with older machine and also its SCSI cards.. We bought new Tekram DC390U4W SCSI card and put it to in new machine. We uses this machine for backup out data to Overland Powerloader T

Re: CD/DVD drive not in /dev/

2005-07-23 Thread Mad Marty
> > What does ls /proc/ide say? Look for a drive there that's not hdb. The > kernel sees your drive iff it's listed in /proc/ide. $ ls /proc/ide drivers hdb ide0 sis Doesn't look hopeful... $ cat /proc/ide/sis SiS 5513 Ultra 133 chipset --- Primary Channel Sec

Re: A little something quirky....

2005-07-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/07/05 22:58), Dennis Carr wrote: > To: Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Dennis Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:58:32 -0700 > Subject: Re: A little something quirky > > On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:13:48 +0100 > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My u

Re: Can kdm 'source' ~/.xinitrc ?

2005-07-23 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 10:13:37AM +0800, phyrster wrote: > Hi, > > > I am using fluxbox and normally use 'startx' to run it. 'startx' can of > course run '.xinitrc' in $HOME. > > However this takes a few extra steps to enter graphic interface. I am > thinking of using kdm's auto login feature

Re: Ask software tools in linux serve for windows

2005-07-23 Thread Magnus Therning
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 04:23:59PM +0800, Trace Green wrote: >2. Does anybody have any idea about how Linux can do service for Windows? Such >as when my windows crash, I may try to use Ubuntu liveCD to recover my windows >system. You might find these links interesting: http://www.sysresccd.org