xfce4 had overwritten kde

2005-08-17 Thread Joe Mc Cool
Oh dear, on my Debian sarge box I ran: apt-get install xfce4 since that, when ANY user logs in to a kdm prompt, they are presented with xfce4 instead of kde. I had really only intended xfce4 for my own personal use. How can I rectify this elegantly please ? Joe _

Re: weird characters

2005-08-17 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:35:01PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > > Ok, the problem is, I have a processor that runs hot, and I have as many > > fans as possible in the system (including putting an 80mm case fan on the > > CPU with an adapter), and it sti

Re: weird characters

2005-08-17 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Ok, the problem is, I have a processor that runs hot, and I have as many > fans as possible in the system (including putting an 80mm case fan on the > CPU with an adapter), and it still tends to overheat. It will not shut form the rest of the stuff bel

Keep the NVIDIA driver for different kernel releases

2005-08-17 Thread Mauricio Lin
Hi all, I use Debian Sarge and recently I installed the nvidia driver on kernel 2.6.12. It works perfectly. But when I compiled and installed the kernel 2.6.12.5, I had to install the nvidia driver again, since the newest kernel was not able to detect the old nvidia driver compiled for kernel 2.6

Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

2005-08-17 Thread Paul Johnson
http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting On Wednesday 17 August 2005 08:57 am, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > On 8/13/05, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 13 August 2005 10:05 pm, Rishi wrote: > > > Just curious. Any reasons why the 'lame' package is not included in > > > the debia

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

2005-08-17 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrit, a 18/08/05 06:17: > On 8/17/05, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's it? What about setting it up so that simply running "firefox" > from anywhere executes the version installed in /opt/firefox? Do you > make a link in /usr/bin, overwriting the

Packaging of lame upstream (was: Re: lame not in the debian package repository?)

2005-08-17 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, this is just an aside on this discussion. I am a member of the lame team and I am gradually upgrading things related to the Debian packaging of lame, since a new release (that is, lame 3.97) is expected to happen soon. If you use MP3 for your computers/devices and you use Debian, please let m

Re: weird characters

2005-08-17 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 07:26:14PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > > Hi, > > My problem is, after I had to reboot (computer overheated again), > > what overheated ?? Ok, the problem is, I have a processor that runs hot, and I have as many fans as poss

Re: PDF Plugin in Firefox Deer Park

2005-08-17 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La David R. Litwin ha escrit, a 18/08/05 06:46: > > [...]you need to find nppdf.so file in the browser > plugin folder/directory under your Acrobat directory. copy this file > to your plugins folder under firefox and restart firefox. if you need > more then reply and i will try

Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

2005-08-17 Thread csj
On 17. August 2005 at 6:04PM +0200, Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Ogg (Vorbis audio) is a much more recent technology than mp3, twenty or > so years if I'm not mistaken. mp3 has been around a lot longer than it > has been popular, mostly because PCs only became strong enoug

Re: WINE

2005-08-17 Thread David R. Litwin
Looks to me like CRYPTNET.dll is missing from your WINE'sfake_windows.  Did you run the MSN Messenger installer, or did you simply run the EXE from an old Windows installation?I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. I have partitioned by hard-drive and presently have access to windows 2000 pro (N

Re: why upgrade kernel?

2005-08-17 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a couple of machines which I'm in the process of upgrading to Sarge. I'm wondering about whether to upgrade the kernels. They're all running some version of 2.4, which I've built for the particular machines. If I don't get new hardware which need newer drivers,

Re: changing xdm settings

2005-08-17 Thread Jeff Stevens
Ricardo, Once you have changed your background color, you may find configuring the actual XDM login window useful. The XDM man page [1] covers a number of X resources that will configure how the various widgets in the login window are drawn. I believe XDM in Debian reads /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources.

Re: WINE

2005-08-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 8/17/05, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My appologies. It does indeed give a Log file. Here are the Contents: > > err:module:import_dll Library CRYPTNET.dll (which is needed by > L"D:\\Program Files\\MSN Messenger\\msnmsgr.exe") not found > err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe

Re: PDF Plugin in Firefox Deer Park

2005-08-17 Thread David R. Litwin
[...]you need to find nppdf.so file in the browserplugin folder/directory under your Acrobat directory. copy this file to your plugins folder under firefox and restart firefox. if you needmore then reply and i will try to help.I used Adobe's programme thingy to do this. Suffice it to say that nppdf

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

2005-08-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, sorry for posting so many times to this thread; I've learned some stuff and thought about a lot. I ended up running "apt-get -t unstable install mozilla-firefox". That upgraded a lot of stuff, including a bunch of Gnome libs, and also packages like gnome-panel-data to their 2.10 versions, w

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

2005-08-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just found something very strange (to me, anyway). I ran Firefox from the Mozilla installer. Then I clicked on a link in Thunderbird, which caused the Debian version to run. But instead of launching a separate window, the link opened in the existing window. But after doing that, when I went t

Re: WINE

2005-08-17 Thread David R. Litwin
First, "It did not work" is not very helpful.  Please be more specific.My appologies. It does indeed give a Log file. Here are the Contents: err:module:import_dll Library CRYPTNET.dll (which is needed by L"D:\\Program Files\\MSN Messenger\\msnmsgr.exe") not found err:module:LdrInitializeThunk

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

2005-08-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 8/17/05, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another way to go is to not wait for debian packages. I go directly to > the firefox, thunderbird, openoffice, etc. and download the latest > releases. I'm running Firefox 1.0.6 on testing (2.6.8-2) with zero > problems. Same for TB 1.0.6 and O

Re: WINE

2005-08-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 8/17/05, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alas, this did not work. I tried to open MSN Messenger (I use Gaim, but, MSN > is simply better) but it did not work. I also tried to open Dariush, a Go > game. This worked nicely. Finally, I tried Shareaza, a P2P programme. It > clearly f

Re: Apt-Get udev and the Newest Kernel (SOLVED)

2005-08-17 Thread David R. Litwin
It seems that there is no lack of Documentation and Good Support for those wishing to fiddle with their Kernels: Specifically, create a Kernel-Image.However, I no longer have this problem: I discovered that Debian has simply changed the name of the Kernel-Images to Linux-Images. Mystery Solved and

Re: Printer & localhost:631

2005-08-17 Thread Jeff Stevens
My thoughts are (1) verify cupsd.conf, (2) verify daemon is listening, (3) verify my firewall is in fact off... Some "important looking" sections from my cupsd.conf: Network Options # # Ports/addresses that we listen to. The default port 631 is reserved # for the In

File Permissions: Allow write, but not modify

2005-08-17 Thread Chris Purves
Is it possible to set up a directory so that a user can add a new file, but once the file is there the same user cannot modify, rename, or delete the file? The shared directory is a samba share, and will only be accessed through windows, so solving this problem through samba is just as good. --

Re: WINE

2005-08-17 Thread David R. Litwin
Open Konqueror and browse to your Windows executable.Right-click on the executable; select "Open With". Enter the path to WINE (perhaps "/usr/bin/wine"; to find WINE, type"which wine" in a console window).Before hitting "OKAY", click the "Remember application association for this type of file" chec

Re: DVD+R writing problems

2005-08-17 Thread csj
On 17. August 2005 at 11:55AM +1000, Brendon Lloyd Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > csj wrote (Sunday 14 August 2005 10:38 pm): > > Brendon Lloyd Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Recently I upgraded my disc burner to a LiteOn SOHW-1693S Dual > > > Format Double Layer DVD burner. I've b

Re: why upgrade kernel?

2005-08-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thursday 18 August 2005 11:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a couple of machines which I'm in the process of upgrading to > Sarge. I'm wondering about whether to upgrade the kernels. They're > all running some version of 2.4, which I've built for the particular > machines. If I don't

Re: CD file copying problem with kernel 2.6

2005-08-17 Thread csj
On 17. August 2005 at 12:22AM -0400, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 06:55:01PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I dual boot this computer to Debian 3.1 Sarge with kernel 2.6 > > and Windows 2000. Some time ago I created some VCDs on the > > Windows 2000, using N

Re: Apt-Get udev and the Newest Kernel

2005-08-17 Thread Damon Chesser
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 21:15, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:05:47 -0400, David R Litwin > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I read entirely through the Creating Custom Kernels with Debian's > > Kernel-Package System and I don't think I really feel like doing > > that. It seem

Re: problem with setting openoffice to A4...

2005-08-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thursday 18 August 2005 08:37 am, Charlie wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:42:01 +0200 using the keyboard as a tool Bruno crafted > these words: > > |- Hello! > |- > |- trying to get rid of this annoying US-Letter problem... if i could > purge > |- the whole system of any occur

Re: Apt-Get udev and the Newest Kernel

2005-08-17 Thread David R. Litwin
 If this is ridiculously complex, umm. are you sure you want to be running Sid? A good question: Allow me to answer: (In no particular order)I want all the latest, most up-to-date soft-ware.If ever I can help report bugs (which I have been known to do) then that is a nice thing to do. One of the re

why upgrade kernel?

2005-08-17 Thread dzpost
I have a couple of machines which I'm in the process of upgrading to Sarge. I'm wondering about whether to upgrade the kernels. They're all running some version of 2.4, which I've built for the particular machines. If I don't get new hardware which need newer drivers, and I don't care about any

Re: Upgraded kernels, now eth0 and framebuffer are gone

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Fletcher
Mark Fletcher wrote: M Carlock wrote: I recently upgraded from woody to sarge per the instructions (aptitude etc), which was successful. However, after then upgrading the kernel from 2.2.20-idepci to 2.6.8-2-386, I found I could boot OK, but I'd lost eth0 and the ATI framebuffer. lspci can s

Re: Upgraded kernels, now eth0 and framebuffer are gone

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Fletcher
M Carlock wrote: I recently upgraded from woody to sarge per the instructions (aptitude etc), which was successful. However, after then upgrading the kernel from 2.2.20-idepci to 2.6.8-2-386, I found I could boot OK, but I'd lost eth0 and the ATI framebuffer. lspci can see both devices, but I'

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

2005-08-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 8/17/05, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You should look at the package developer page: > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mozilla-firefox.html > > There you have: "The package has not yet entered testing even though > the 0-day delay is over. Check why." and by clicking on

Re: changing xdm settings

2005-08-17 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 02:37:10AM +0100, ctrlER wrote: > Hi, how are you? > > I would like to change xdm default background (the one that apears when > the login information is prompted) to solid black. > Does anybody what file I have to edit to change that? > > I was thinking of something alon

Re: root partition (reiserfs) mounting read-only on boot

2005-08-17 Thread Bill Marcum
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:30:22PM -0300, Pablo Santiago Blum de Aguiar wrote: > > After reboot, / was still being mounted read-only (and so it is), with > the same boot error messages. The system is still as decribed above. > Googling around helped me a lot, but no luck. I cant manage to solve it

Re: slow X and kdm startup

2005-08-17 Thread Paul Stolp
* Joe Mc Cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-17 02:15]: > Joe Mc Cool wrote: > > >Sarge, and with either 2.2 or 2.6 kernels: > > > >at boot up I get a login prompt at the F1 console ok. > > > >After about 10 secs, the screen goes blank. > > > >After another very long delay I get an hour glass in the

Re: weird characters

2005-08-17 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Hi, > My problem is, after I had to reboot (computer overheated again), what overheated ?? the power supply ?? - your fans should be working on the ps - if its blowing too much hot air... throw your ps away the cpu ??? over heated and

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

2005-08-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 8/17/05, Peter J Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If a package in testing is the same version as in stable, the security > updates ought to work for it. Try adding security.debian.org to your > sources.list and see what happens. Thanks; I meant to do that last night, but I forgot after I wr

Re: Apt-Get udev and the Newest Kernel

2005-08-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:05:47 -0400, David R Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I read entirely through the Creating Custom Kernels with Debian's > Kernel-Package System and I don't think I really feel like doing > that. It seems ridiculously elaborate. Phase ONE: Getting and configuring the ke

Re: OpenOffice: How can I use fonts installed in X

2005-08-17 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:08:19 GMT using the keyboard as a tool Hans-Peter crafted these words: |- Hi, |- |- I've just installed some Type 1 fonts with type1inst |- and mkfontdir. It seems they are recognized by X11. |- |- But when I start OpenOffice (version 1.1.3 I think,

weird characters

2005-08-17 Thread Vikki Roemer
Hi, My problem is, after I had to reboot (computer overheated again), some of the characters in programs don't display right. The worst ones are the arrows in threads in Mutt aren't arrows anymore, they're accented a's and boxes; and in all windowmanagers the program names in the titlebars and th

Re: Re: Sunbird?

2005-08-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:28:25PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 08/17/2005 08:20 PM, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > If there is a deb package someday, I don't have a mess to clean up. > > But there is one from the Thunderbird maintainer, Alexander Sack: > > [Preview Release] Sunbird 0.2+ snaps

changing xdm settings

2005-08-17 Thread ctrlER
Hi, how are you? I would like to change xdm default background (the one that apears when the login information is prompted) to solid black. Does anybody what file I have to edit to change that? I was thinking of something along the line of xsetroot -solid black but I dont know where

Re: Re: Sunbird?

2005-08-17 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/17/2005 08:20 PM, Rick Macdonald wrote: > If there is a deb package someday, I don't have a mess to clean up. But there is one from the Thunderbird maintainer, Alexander Sack: [Preview Release] Sunbird 0.2+ snapshot for Debian update http://asoftsite.org/s9y/archives/83-Preview-Release

Re: Fwd: Re: Printer & localhost:631

2005-08-17 Thread Marie-Louise
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 01:21:44 +0100 using the keyboard as a tool Clive crafted these words: |- - Forwarded message from Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - |- |- > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org |- > From: Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |- > Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005

Re: Printer & localhost:631

2005-08-17 Thread Marie-Louise
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 01:17:15 +0100 using the keyboard as a tool Clive crafted these words: |- On (18/08/05 09:53), Marie-Louise wrote: |- > I am wondering if someone might be able to assist me, someone completely new |- > to Debian and relatively new to Linux? To set up my Epso

Re: Info on debian boot/xwindow process

2005-08-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:12:31AM -0500, Albert wrote: > Could someone point me to info on the debian boot and X Window > startup process? I hate it that I don't get to startx for X and > that I cannot login to Gnome as root. > > I want to use a different window manager than the default, which

root partition (reiserfs) mounting read-only on boot

2005-08-17 Thread Pablo Santiago Blum de Aguiar
Hi, Today the root file partition of another machine started booting up read-only. I haven't made any kernel changes for more than two weeks, and it have booted it up numerous times with the 2.6.11 kernel without a single problem before today. I get a message " mount: / not mounted already, or ba

Fwd: Re: Printer & localhost:631

2005-08-17 Thread Clive Menzies
- Forwarded message from Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 01:17:15 +0100 > Subject: Re: Printer & localhost:631 > > On (18/08/05 09:53), Marie-Louise wrote: > > I am wondering if someo

Re: Printer & localhost:631

2005-08-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (18/08/05 09:53), Marie-Louise wrote: > I am wondering if someone might be able to assist me, someone completely new > to Debian and relatively new to Linux? To set up my Epson Stylus C43UX > USB Printer, which works a treat with the C42UX driver in Linux.. On > my Acer 1355LC la

Re: Sunbird?

2005-08-17 Thread Rick Macdonald
Gregory Seidman wrote: I've started using Sunbird 0.2 at work (under Windows, sadly) and I really like it. I'd love to be using it at home, too, but there doesn't seem to be a sunbird package in table, testing, or unstable. Does anyone know where I can find a .deb, or even a deb-src repository?

Printer & localhost:631

2005-08-17 Thread Charlie
I am wondering if someone might be able to assist me, someone completely new to Debian and relatively new to Linux? To set up my Epson Stylus C43UX USB Printer, which works a treat with the C42UX driver in Linux.. On my Acer 1355LC laptop. I have ***not*** been able to connect thro

Info on debian boot/xwindow process

2005-08-17 Thread Albert
Could someone point me to info on the debian boot and X Window startup process? I hate it that I don't get to startx for X and that I cannot login to Gnome as root. I want to use a different window manager than the default, which I assume is Metacity, and I want to use the ROX-session manager

Re: problem with setting openoffice to A4...

2005-08-17 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:42:01 +0200 using the keyboard as a tool Bruno crafted these words: |- Hello! |- |- trying to get rid of this annoying US-Letter problem... if i could purge |- the whole system of any occurence of that paper type i would |- |- this is getting ve

Printer & localhost:631

2005-08-17 Thread Marie-Louise
Apologies in advance if the list gets this twice... I am wondering if someone might be able to assist me, someone completely new to Debian and relatively new to Linux? To set up my Epson Stylus C43UX USB Printer, which works a treat with the C42UX driver in Linux.. On my Acer 1

Sunbird?

2005-08-17 Thread Gregory Seidman
I've started using Sunbird 0.2 at work (under Windows, sadly) and I really like it. I'd love to be using it at home, too, but there doesn't seem to be a sunbird package in table, testing, or unstable. Does anyone know where I can find a .deb, or even a deb-src repository? I'd prefer release 2.0 to

Re: how-to for using xfwm4 and ROX?

2005-08-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/08/05 20:48), Albert wrote: > Clive Menzies wrote: > >On (17/08/05 10:18), Albert wrote: > > > >>I can find no documentation for using a window manager other than > >>xdm, e.g. xfwm4 with ROX. I don't want either Gnome or KDE. Can > >>anyone here point me in the right direction. X Windows

Re: What happened to kernel-image 2.6.12

2005-08-17 Thread Tom Allison
Colin wrote: Tom Allison wrote: I guess I haven't been paying attention much lately. But where did the kernel-image 2.6.12 go? There is a linux-image 2.6.12 out there, but nothing to indicate that this is a replacement to the kernel-image... Ok, I will. linux-image-2.6.12 is the replacemen

Re: Ownership of cdrom devices

2005-08-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thursday 18 August 2005 03:23 am, [KS] wrote: > Hello all, Hi > I reinstalled Debian Unstable on my machine just a few weeks ago. Today > I wanted to play an audio CD and the CD player program popped up (Gnome > desktop, uses gnome-cd program) to play it. But there was no sound. > Testing alsa

Re [First Solved]: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-17 Thread Alejandro Salas
Hi everyone, For some extrange reason, the manual were I got the monitor specs were not entirely correct. I had specific values (not ranges). After looking up in the internet I found the right values and voila!!. Thanx everyone for their input. I still have to deal with the login screen, but I'm

Re: Postgresql on Debian

2005-08-17 Thread Eriberto
Ok. I made this: # apt-get install pentium-builder # export DEBIAN_BUILDARCH=i686 # apt-get source -b postgresql-8.0 The result was a i386.deb package. It would not have to be i686.deb? I tried with IPtraf too and result was i386.deb too. Thanks! Eriberto Dave Ewart escreveu: If you want t

Re: Postgresql on Debian

2005-08-17 Thread JEMF
Ok. I made this: # apt-get install pentium-builder # export DEBIAN_BUILDARCH=i686 # apt-get source -b postgresql-8.0 The result was a i386.deb package. It would not have to be i686.deb? I tried with IPtraf too and result was i386.deb too. Thanks! Eriberto Dave Ewart escreveu: If you want t

Re: desktop / window manager

2005-08-17 Thread cliff pankonien
i usually just right-click on the bottom panel>add to panel>window list... Jeff Stevens wrote: Adam, Having rarely used gnome I'm no expert. I have found problems with components crashing and not dying properly when exiting. bonobo and gnome-session both come to mind as processes I've had

Re: desktop / window manager

2005-08-17 Thread Jeff Stevens
Adam, Having rarely used gnome I'm no expert. I have found problems with components crashing and not dying properly when exiting. bonobo and gnome-session both come to mind as processes I've had to kill manually. If, after exiting gnome and shutting off gdm, you still have *any* gnome related p

[Solved] Re: pbuilder create fails on debootstrap

2005-08-17 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:15:00PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > Meanwhile I notice a bug report called "pbuilder: cannot build sarge > basetgz": http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316135. > That's for version 0.127, but might help me too. My /var partition is > mounted nodev. I'

Re: pbuilder create fails on debootstrap

2005-08-17 Thread Maurits van Rees
Hi Roberto, On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:36:16PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I am inclined to think that the comment someone else made further up in > the thread about the APTCONFDIR setting was right. Make sure that there > is not a base.tgz alread there, remove or comment out the APTCONFDI

Latest Udev and Hotplug error loading firmware

2005-08-17 Thread Glyn Tebbutt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Guys/Girls I've got a Netgear WG511 which is based on the prism54 chipset, before it worked fine but today I upgraded hotplug and udev (for alsa-base and alsa-utils) and now whenever i run ifup eth1 im greeted with messages within dmesg about unable

Re: how-to for using xfwm4 and ROX?

2005-08-17 Thread Albert
Clive Menzies wrote: On (17/08/05 10:18), Albert wrote: I can find no documentation for using a window manager other than xdm, e.g. xfwm4 with ROX. I don't want either Gnome or KDE. Can anyone here point me in the right direction. X Windows was up and running before I installed these two pack

Re: pbuilder create fails on debootstrap

2005-08-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:44:37PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am playing around with Roberto Sanchez's Debian Package > Customization HOWTO on > http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto/?page=debcustomize. This is > failing for me at the first step already: pbuilder create.

Re: pbuilder create fails on debootstrap

2005-08-17 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:13:57PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > Not really, I would say. Well, worth a try to remove that line from > /etc/pbuilderrc. Nope, no change. :-/ I'll comment out some other > settings and try again. I tried with the following uncommented and non empty lines in both

Re: OpenOffice: No Help available

2005-08-17 Thread Sønke Lorenzen
On 8/17/05, Hans-Peter Sulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed Debian Sarge (current stable) and > thereby OpenOffice was also installed (I didn't > install it explicitly). > > Problem: If I select Contents in the "Help" menu, > the help browser starts, but in the right windo

make-kpkg: What gets included in the initrd image?

2005-08-17 Thread Jan T. Kim
Dear List, I've created a set of kernel packages (-image, -source, -doc, -headers) by running make-kpkg --append-to-version=-bleh --revision=01 --initrd --rootcmd=fakeroot in a linux-source-2.6.12 directory using a copy of /boot/config-2.6.12-1-686 (as .config). However, the contents of the

Re: apt-get upgrade - excessive list?

2005-08-17 Thread ke6isf
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Yoav Felberbaum wrote: > Output is (notice the "apache2-common" which I don't want to do) (dump cut for brevity) Why are you running sid on a production server? -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: apt-get upgrade - excessive list?

2005-08-17 Thread Yoav Felberbaum
On 17 Aug 2005, at 21:03, Frank Gevaerts wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 08:41:34PM +0100, Yoav Felberbaum wrote: Hi, I'm currently trying to upgrade PHP4 on a production server that hasn't been exactly maintained very well. However, if I do "apt-get - u upgrade php4" , I get an humbungous

Re: apt-get upgrade - excessive list?

2005-08-17 Thread Yoav Felberbaum
On 17 Aug 2005, at 20:57, [KS] wrote: Yoav Felberbaum wrote: Hi, I'm currently trying to upgrade PHP4 on a production server that hasn't been exactly maintained very well. However, if I do "apt-get - u upgrade php4" , I get an humbungous list of stuff to update. Doing an "apt-get -u d

Re: Kernel modules loaded twice

2005-08-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 03:32:15PM +0200, Piero Piutti wrote: > Hello. > > I run Etch with a custom build 2.6.12 kernel ("vanilla" with the CK patches > applied and built using kpkg). The kernel has been configured according to my > hardware (my pc is a HP NX9010 notebook) and it works nicely. >

OpenOffice: No Help available

2005-08-17 Thread Hans-Peter Sulzer
Hi, I have installed Debian Sarge (current stable) and thereby OpenOffice was also installed (I didn't install it explicitly). Problem: If I select Contents in the "Help" menu, the help browser starts, but in the right window the following message appears: The requested document does not exist i

OpenOffice: How can I use fonts installed in X

2005-08-17 Thread Hans-Peter Sulzer
Hi, I've just installed some Type 1 fonts with type1inst and mkfontdir. It seems they are recognized by X11. But when I start OpenOffice (version 1.1.3 I think, the one installed with current Sarge stable), I can't see these fonts. Doesn't OpenOffice/StarOffice use the fonts, installed on X11, i.

Debian Sarge ugly screen display at 1280x800 on notebook

2005-08-17 Thread Hans-Peter Sulzer
Hi, some times ago I wrote about the "ugly fonts" on my notebook in native resolution. First of all: It were not just the fonts, but everything (icons, borders, ...). It seems the nv-driver delivered with Sarge has a bug at this resolution and a depth of 24. When I set DefaultDepth to 16 all was

Re: pbuilder create fails on debootstrap

2005-08-17 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 03:45:10PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > In looking closer at your first email, I noticed you set: > > APTCONFDIR="/etc/apt/" in your .pbuilderrc file > > ... which means the apt sources will be copied from your setup. The > default is to leave this blank. Do you have a

Re: apt-get upgrade - excessive list?

2005-08-17 Thread Dave Ewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yoav Felberbaum wrote: > I'm currently trying to upgrade PHP4 on a production server that hasn't > been exactly maintained very well. However, if I do "apt-get - u upgrade > php4" , I get an humbungous list of stuff to update. > > Doing an "apt-get

Re: apt-get upgrade - excessive list?

2005-08-17 Thread [KS]
Yoav Felberbaum wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently trying to upgrade PHP4 on a production server that hasn't > been exactly maintained very well. However, if I do "apt-get - u upgrade > php4" , I get an humbungous list of stuff to update. > > Doing an "apt-get -u dist-upgrade" is EVEN worse, with ap

Lavalife cancellation request sent from incorrect email address

2005-08-17 Thread help
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Re: pbuilder create fails on debootstrap

2005-08-17 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 07:54:20PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote.. > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:06:11PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > Have a look at this: > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/07/msg00649.html > > > > ... which is a workaround. Essentially create a stable chr

apt-get upgrade - excessive list?

2005-08-17 Thread Yoav Felberbaum
Hi, I'm currently trying to upgrade PHP4 on a production server that hasn't been exactly maintained very well. However, if I do "apt-get - u upgrade php4" , I get an humbungous list of stuff to update. Doing an "apt-get -u dist-upgrade" is EVEN worse, with apt-get claiming I need to "REMOV

loopback interface does not come up

2005-08-17 Thread Haines Brown
I'm running sarge with 2.6.8-2-686 kernel on a new machine connected to a hardware firewall (as eth1), shared with another machine (eth0). # ifconfig eth0 ... UP BROADCAST RUNNING ... ... [no lo entry] # /sbin/ifup lo /sbin/ifup: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/i

mysql server

2005-08-17 Thread carl Williams
Hello,   I’m working with the Asterisk PBX on debian 2.6.10- system and I’m getting errors trying to install myqsl database the errors are as follow. Please help!     Errors:   IPPBX:~# dselect Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Correcting dependencies.

Re: how-to for using xfwm4 and ROX?

2005-08-17 Thread Joe Mc Cool
Joe Mc Cool wrote: just last night I ran: apt-get xfce4 aaargh, that should have been: apt-get install xfce4 (go see www.xfce.org) super system, beats kde anyday. Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Evolution and OO integration

2005-08-17 Thread Freddy Freeloader
As an addendum to my previous post I finding that when I quit OO after trying to print an envelope from the Evolution address book OO goes to 98% cpu usage and just stays there. It never shuts down unless I shut it down with a kill command. Freddy Freeloader wrote: I have always used Thunde

Re: hotplugging mouse hassles

2005-08-17 Thread Ryan King
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:13:38PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > and for a while now the psmouse driver loses synch and goes nuts when I > switch the KVM, even though Hotplug should keep it in there, as per this > /var/log/messages: My experience with PS/2, under Linux and Windows, is that it doesn

Ownership of cdrom devices

2005-08-17 Thread [KS]
Hello all, I reinstalled Debian Unstable on my machine just a few weeks ago. Today I wanted to play an audio CD and the CD player program popped up (Gnome desktop, uses gnome-cd program) to play it. But there was no sound. Testing alsa player by playing an mp3 (from hard disk) showed no problems a

cant connect to port 80

2005-08-17 Thread Brent Clark
Hi list I have my routing rules as so /sbin/ip route add 196.36.10.113 dev eth0 src 196.36.10.114 table IS /sbin/ip route add default via 196.36.10.113 table IS /sbin/ip route add 192.168.10.200 dev eth2 src 192.168.10.100 table TELKOM /sbin/ip route add default via 192.168.10.200 table TELKOM

Re: slow X and kdm startup

2005-08-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Joe Mc Cool on 17/08/05 18:17, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: don't you see which part of the load process is being carried out when you startx? Yes, I described this in an earlier post where I tailed /var/log/XFree86.1.log. Oh. I didn't see the earlier post. I suffer from slow gnome startup

Evolution and OO integration

2005-08-17 Thread Freddy Freeloader
I have always used Thunderbird for my email and have never given the other email clients much of a look, but I got to playing with Evolution this weekend and it's integration with OO looks pretty cool. However, I'm having real problems getting OO to print fields. I have set up OO to print th

Re: slow X and kdm startup

2005-08-17 Thread Joe Mc Cool
Adam Hardy wrote: don't you see which part of the load process is being carried out when you startx? Yes, I described this in an earlier post where I tailed /var/log/XFree86.1.log. thanks Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: pbuilder create fails on debootstrap

2005-08-17 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:06:11PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > Have a look at this: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/07/msg00649.html > > ... which is a workaround. Essentially create a stable chroot > first, then upgrade it to unstable. And how do I create a stable chroot? *That

Re: Network card recommendation

2005-08-17 Thread tigergutt
ons, 17,.08.2005 kl. 01.53 -0600, skrev Nate Duehr: > Daniel L. Miller wrote: > > > Great! So now some people say Realtek sucks, others say it's better. > > What's a poor admin to do? > > Buy both and test, like any good engineer. ;-) Realtek -> max 12MB/s 3com -> Max ~50MB/s (Disk don't del

desktop / window manager

2005-08-17 Thread Adam Hardy
An applet crashed while I was surfing and after it died, my bottom panel in gnome doesn't show what programs are running on my desktop. I exited my desktop and startx'd again, but still have no cure. I find the desktop and the window manager a bit of a minefield so I don't want to start tryi

Re: diary with encryption

2005-08-17 Thread Chris Palmer
Jeronimo Pellegrini writes: > > You can use cfs to make a small encrypted filesystem out of a normal > > directory; then you can store your diary in the encrypted > > filesystem. > > That's what I would suggest, except that I'd use encfs instead of cfs. > I had several problems with cfs, and encf

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