Re: compile kernel for remote machine

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 08:34 +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > Hi all > > Would anyone know how I can compile a kernel for my remote machine on > my machine. ... > Baring in mind they are both debian machine and both running 2.6 > kernel and both running testing. Since they are both Debian machines, you

Re: Printer & localhost:631 -- Don't Give Up Yet

Charlie wrote: My /etc/hostname file is:- ariestao This is incorrect. It should just be your hostname, with no IP address. (Could this be the cause of your problem?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

compile kernel for remote machine

Hi all Would anyone know how I can compile a kernel for my remote machine on my machine. I have the .config file. Normally on I just type make && make bzlilo && make modules && make modules_install But by typing bzlilo, I will be installing that kernel on my machine. Can I just type make b

Re: Gigabit ethernet as second network interface troubles

Tom Deconinck wrote: > I'm trying to add a second gigabit ethernet nic to my system. > It's an Intel PRO/1OOOGT. (82541PI chip) A good chipset. > It shows up when i do lspci > So I load the e1000 kernel module... but nothing happens, lsmod shows > it is loaded but that is it. > > I guess i need

Re: rsync won't stop password prompt

Rob Brenart wrote: > I'm trying to script an rsync process and I keep getting the password > prompt... here's my "script" > > rsync -avz -e /usr/bin/ssh --password-file=/home/username/pwd.rsync The --password-file option is not useful with ssh as the transport. See the man page: --passw

Re: Deb packages dependent tree

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there is a simple way to get all deb packages that on dependent tree > of some deb package. > > For example i have deb package A that depends of package B and C. And B > depends of D. > I want to run some command on A and get B, C, D. You may be wanting a tool like a

Re: Upgraded kernels, now eth0 and framebuffer are gone

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 de

Re: mailing list header exlanation

Jörg Sommer wrote: > can someone explain me the meaning of the list header > X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/405738 > > What is the last number? Can I construct the url of this article in the > archive? And can I use this number to report spam anyhow? Unfortunately that seems to be an internal i

Re: Printer & localhost:631 -- Don't Give Up Yet

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:59:05 -0700 using the keyboard as a tool Jeff crafted these words: |- Charlie, |- |- That looks like our winner. As you can see, you have three interfaces. |- The "lo" interface is your loopback interface. This should be |- configured with the IP addre

Re: sendmail: 'Unrecognized host name'

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying to make my sendmail work and it should work when I fix this problem: sendmail -bv [EMAIL PROTECTED] returns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unrecognized host name lyderis.com. Apparently you are offline when this happens - sounds like somethi

Re: how to disable vfat permissions checking?

have a try be changing your umask to 777 2005/8/19, phyrster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi debianers, > > When I use rox to copy a file to a vfat partitoin, I got warning saying that: > > --- > cp: preserving times for `/mnt/hda1/bennis.pdf': Operation not permitted > Failed to copy '/home/phyrster/

Re: Can't create .Xauthority for users

On Thursday 18 August 2005 16:26, Haines Brown wrote: > I'm setting up a new machine with 2.6.8-2-686 kernel on sarge. Things > seem to be working except for one thing: Users can't start the x > server (root has no problem). > > When user does startx, the nVidia splash screen appears momentarily, >

Can't create .Xauthority for users

I'm setting up a new machine with 2.6.8-2-686 kernel on sarge. Things seem to be working except for one thing: Users can't start the x server (root has no problem). When user does startx, the nVidia splash screen appears momentarily, but I'm thrown back to the console. The startx messages only sa

how to disable vfat permissions checking?

Hi debianers, When I use rox to copy a file to a vfat partitoin, I got warning saying that: --- cp: preserving times for `/mnt/hda1/bennis.pdf': Operation not permitted Failed to copy '/home/phyrster/bennis.pdf' --- Of course vfat does not have permission setting like ext3 does. How to disable

CUPS "No pages found!" error

Hi, I have an Epson C40UX (usb). I've configured CUPS and it detects the printer but when i try to print a teste page from the CUPS Admin Page it doesnt print and the job status is "aborted". Can someone help? Thank you. Ricardo This are the last lines from /var/log/cups/error_log D [

Re: Ownership of cdrom devices

[KS] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>On Thursday 18 August 2005 03:23 am, [KS] wrote: >> >> >>>$ ls -l /dev/hdc >>>brw-rw 1 root floppy 22, 0 2005-08-15 15:28 /dev/hdc >>> >>>$ ls -l /dev/hdd >>>brw-rw 1 root floppy 22, 64 2005-08-15 15:28 /dev/hdd >>> >> >>It is default for media

Re: Hardware issues

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I am wondering if it is possible to use Debian as my OS and be > able to get my ... TV-Tuner card [ATI TV Wonder-Pro] to work. > I can't speak about your particular card, but I have an older ATI All-In-Wonder TV card that mostly works. I had to get the gatos ati.2 d

Re: Gigabit ethernet as second network interface troubles

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Tom Deconinck wrote: > It shows up when i do lspci > So I load the e1000 kernel module... but nothing happens, lsmod shows > it is loaded but that is it. dmesg should tell you that the module found the card. If it did not, lspci with a bit more care and make sure the bios/linu

Re: Printer & localhost:631 -- Don't Give Up Yet

Charlie, That looks like our winner. As you can see, you have three interfaces. The "lo" interface is your loopback interface. This should be configured with the IP address 127.0.0.1. Apparently it isn't. The quick fix is to run "ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1" as root and you'll be able to ping localh

Re: Ownership of cdrom devices

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thursday 18 August 2005 03:23 am, [KS] wrote: > >> >>$ ls -l /dev/hdc >>brw-rw 1 root floppy 22, 0 2005-08-15 15:28 /dev/hdc >> >>$ ls -l /dev/hdd >>brw-rw 1 root floppy 22, 64 2005-08-15 15:28 /dev/hdd >> > > It is default for media to be mounted as root.

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Re: why upgrade kernel?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 particula

Re: Printer & localhost:631

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:01:34 -0700 using the keyboard as a tool Jeff crafted these words: |- My thoughts are (1) verify cupsd.conf, (2) verify daemon is listening, |- (3) verify my firewall is in fact off... Thanks for your help Jeff. I have decided that the only way is to go for a comple

Re: why upgrade kernel?

On 10:13 Thu 18 Aug 2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > And when a newer version of a package, can't think of one, NEEDS the 2.6 > kernel, it will tell you. > > My own reason for 2.6.9 is that the soundest patch for multi-user Linux > (2.6.9-ruby.vz11) wants that kernel release. Is this patch for a

Re: Pulling out the new EPOX EP-8VTAI motherboard

On Thursday 18 August 2005 09:49, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > This is for info in case anybody googles for this motherboard, by chance. It's not very good information, except that you have what appear to be hardware problems. What you said was insufficient

Re: Printer & localhost:631

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:39:02 +0200 using the keyboard as a tool Mirko crafted these words: |- > > |- > # telnet localhost 631 |- > Trying 127.0.0.1... |- > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out |-

Re: Printer & localhost:631

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 01:21:16 +0100 using the keyboard as a tool Clive crafted these words: |- On (19/08/05 09:28), Marie-Louise wrote: |- > But one more question. how do I find out the Net address that is Mine, |- > for this machine I know nothing of networking. |-

Re: why upgrade kernel?

I 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, and I > do

Re: Info on debian boot/xwindow process

Paul E Condon wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 06:44:34PM -0500, Albert wrote: If you run all programs as root then you are risking your system to the quality of all the code that you play with. Seriously, _don't_ _do_ _it_. As an alternative that is somewhat more safe and still pretty convenie

Re: Printer & localhost:631

On (19/08/05 09:28), Marie-Louise wrote: > But one more question. how do I find out the Net address that is Mine, > for this machine I know nothing of networking. As root $ ifconfig Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Caution about preferences and security

I had testing set with a preference of 600 in /etc/apt/preferences. Even though I had security in my sources.list, none of the updates were getting installed. Preference priority matters more than package version number, so the security updates weren't going in despite their higher number. I lowe

Re: rsync won't stop password prompt

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Brenart wrote: > Niklas Schönberg wrote: > > Rob Brenart wrote: > > I'm trying to script an rsync process and I keep getting the password prompt... here's my "script" rsync -avz -e /usr/bin/ssh --password-file=/home/username

Re: Printer & localhost:631

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:39:02 +0200 using the keyboard as a tool Mirko crafted these words: |- On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:53:01AM +1000, Marie-Louise wrote: |- > This is the message that is in /var/log/cups/error_log |- > |- > I [18/Aug/2005:08:37:47 +1000] Listening to 0:631 |

Re: Apache2::Util not getting installed?

Colin Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > >However, that file doesn't exist: > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -F /usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/ Apache/ APR/ > > APR.pm auto/ ModPerl/ mod_perl.pm > > > > > It is located at /usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Apache/Util.pm

Re: apt-get source + pentium-builder = i386?

Ok. Thanks! New doubt: how to see i686 in the package? The "dpkg -I" command don't show this information. Regards, Eriberto Roberto C. Sanchez escreveu: Are you saying this because filename ends in _i386.deb? If so, that is normal. Even the i686 kernel image packages end in that suffix:

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Help! When editing Ruby code, emacs syntax highlighting is only colorizing strings and comments! Somehow I managed to hit some keys (in emacs) that made the colorizing work correctly earlier today, but when I quit and restarted emacs the nice colors went away. I've tried removing my .emacs file.

Re: how-to for using xfwm4 and ROX?

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:18:11 -0500 Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 instal

Re: PDF Plugin in Firefox Deer Park

> > [...]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 to help. > > I used Adobe's programme thingy to do this. Suf

Re: File Permissions: Allow write, but not modify

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Purves wrote: > 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

Re: rsync won't stop password prompt

Quoting Rob Brenart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm trying to script an rsync process and I keep getting the password prompt... here's my "script" rsync -avz -e /usr/bin/ssh --password-file=/home/username/pwd.rsync /home/user/test/ host:/home/username/test And it works fine, but it prompts me for

Re: rsync won't stop password prompt

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Brenart wrote: > I'm trying to script an rsync process and I keep getting the password > prompt... here's my "script" > > rsync -avz -e /usr/bin/ssh --password-file=/home/username/pwd.rsync > /home/user/test/ host:/home/username/test > > And it w

Hardware issues

Hi, I am wondering if it is possible to use Debian as my OS and be able to get my soundcard [Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer-24bit] and TV-Tuner card [ATI TV Wonder-Pro] to work. Have tried simplyMepis and now Mandrake 10 and can't get them to work. There is an ALSA driver that suppossedly wo

Re: rsync won't stop password prompt

Niklas Schönberg wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Brenart wrote: I'm trying to script an rsync process and I keep getting the password prompt... here's my "script" rsync -avz -e /usr/bin/ssh --password-file=/home/username/pwd.rsync /home/user/test/ host:/home/userna

Re: xfce4 had overwritten kde (SOLVED)

Oh dear again, I am such a twit ! All I had to do was stipulate the session type on the KDM login menu ! You see, I use KDE so little :-( My apologies. Joe. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

boot with incorrect FSTAB info?

Hello all, I just finished config'ing my new 2.6.8 kernel (debian, not vanilla) form 2.4 (both Sarge) and am ready to boot to it but due to my SATA hard drive I will need to change my boot and /etc/fstab (from here on referred to as FSTAB) entries from hd* to sd*. I have no problem doing it i

Re: Info on debian boot/xwindow process

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 06:44:34PM -0500, Albert wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Thanks, Kent. That was a very useful mini-tutorial. > > >Concerning logging into Gnome (or any X setup) as root: that's not > >recommended practice. Generally, you can override this safety setting by > >tinkering in t

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Hi, I got a D-Link DCS-2100+ network camera some time ago, but my efforts to view it's output somehow under Debian / Linux have been fruitless. In the specs, it is very clearly specified that you need active-x controls and Internet Explorer to view streaming video and the image captured by the ca

Gigabit ethernet as second network interface troubles

Hi, I'm trying to add a second gigabit ethernet nic to my system. It's an Intel PRO/1OOOGT. (82541PI chip) It shows up when i do lspci So I load the e1000 kernel module... but nothing happens, lsmod shows it is loaded but that is it. I guess i need some way to link the newly added card to eth1?

Re: rsync won't stop password prompt

On (18/08/05 15:56), Rob Brenart wrote: > I'm trying to script an rsync process and I keep getting the password > prompt... here's my "script" > > rsync -avz -e /usr/bin/ssh --password-file=/home/username/pwd.rsync > /home/user/test/ host:/home/username/test > > And it works fine, but it prompt

rsync won't stop password prompt

I'm trying to script an rsync process and I keep getting the password prompt... here's my "script" rsync -avz -e /usr/bin/ssh --password-file=/home/username/pwd.rsync /home/user/test/ host:/home/username/test And it works fine, but it prompts me for a password even though I'm using --passwor

Re: Can't create .Xauthority for users

Hi! well, i had some problems with this .Xauthority, but not the same way : when logged in, root couldn't open X-based applications... after a lot of googling, i found something in the FAQ of xfree86-common http://darbujan.fzu.cz/cgi-bin/dwww?type=text/plain&location=/usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/

cdrecord needs dev specified

When I burn a cd with cdrecord, I have to use the commandline option dev=0,1,0 to burn. I edited /etc/default/cdrecord and set the following options: ---Part of /etc/default/cdrecord CDR_DEVICE=cdrw # drive namedevice speed fifosize driveropts cdrw=

Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

On 2005-08-18 13:15:23 +0800, csj wrote: > If that's the case the patent on mp3 should have expired by > now. There are several patents. See . -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <

Re: weird characters

On 2005-08-18 12:17:04 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:07:21PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > For one thing, the Mutt arrow problem happens to me too, > > starting when I made UTF-8 English the default characterset. > That is, the messed up arrow occur when I'm running on th

Re: how to install ubuntu from hd ?

Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 07:10:56PM +0100, belahcene wrote: | > Hi, | > I want to install directly ( ubuntu : debian base) from the iso in hd, I know | > how to do it in fedora and debian, | > but i coudn't find the appropriate installer, normally

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

On 2005-08-17 23:17:01 -0500, [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 file there, [...] You should never touch /usr/bin or you

Re: how to install ubuntu from hd ?

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 07:10:56PM +0100, belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I want to install directly ( ubuntu : debian base) from the iso in hd, I > know > how to do it in fedora and debian, > but i coudn't find the appropriate installer, normally in FC for example we > have the installer for network

meaning of this? gethostby*.getanswer: ... got type "39"

I sometimes find such messages in my syslog: mutella gethostby*.getanswer: asked for "gwc1c.olden.ch.3557.nyud.net IN A", got type "39" Maybe two or three in a day, then nothing like it for weeks. What does it signify? Should I concern about it? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Can't create .Xauthority for users

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:26:12PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > xauth: creating new authority file /home/user/.Xauthority > /usr/bin/X11/startx: line 132: cannot create temporary file for here > document: Permission denied This sort of error can be caused by bad permissions on "/tmp" (or

Can't create .Xauthority for users

I'm setting up a new machine with 2.6.8-2-686 kernel on sarge. Things seem to be working except for one thing: Users can't start the x server (root has no problem). When user does startx, the nVidia splash screen appears momentarily, but I'm thrown back to the console. The startx messages only s

Re: GNOME Wants Internet V6

On 8/18/05, Bryan Batten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running Debian Sarge 2.8.1-6. Every time it starts, I get the > following messages in .xsession-error: > > _IceTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 > _IceTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/Pentium90: > _IceTran

Re: System backup/snapshot

I've been using pdumpfs, for years, and works great. It emulates plan9's dump fs. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

font size in xine's file browser dialog

Hi, Anybody know how to change the fonts in Xine's file browser's dialogbox? Currently, on my Testing machine running xine-ui 0.99.3-1, the fonts are too small (screen resolution of 1792x1344). Perhaps I just need the right option to set in .Xdefaults(?) thanks, ->HS -- Please remove the unde

GNOME Wants Internet V6

I'm running Debian Sarge 2.8.1-6. Every time it starts, I get the following messages in .xsession-error: _IceTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 _IceTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/Pentium90: _IceTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6

Re: Info on debian boot/xwindow process

Albert wrote: > I know logging on as root is not recommended but it's just too big a > pain in the butt to *not* be root. I've encountered no downside yet. And I always look down the barrel of my pistol to see if it's loaded; I've encountered no downside yet. YMMV ;-) Glad you found the mini-t

Re: Info on debian boot/xwindow process

Kent West wrote: Thanks, Kent. That was a very useful mini-tutorial. Concerning logging into Gnome (or any X setup) as root: that's not recommended practice. Generally, you can override this safety setting by tinkering in the Gnome configuration file (but I'm not sure of the specifics, as I do

Re: Info on debian boot/xwindow process

Paul E Condon wrote: This is just a hint that I hope is helpful: To keep the Xwindow system from starting during boot up, remove all the various versions of 'display managar', these are xdm, kdm, gdm and a few more whose names I do not remember. These are the programs that start X and give you a

Re: boot logging

Adam writes: OK. I'm with you so far. Now that I seem to have boot logging working, where is the actual output? Checking in /var/log didn't reveal anything. According to man, the default output is /var/log/boot but I don't have one. From the bootlogd script, it seems that bootlogd is being

Re: changing xdm settings

Thank you all for your help :) Jeff Stevens wrote: 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.

Re: Menu Highlighting Probs in Firefox 1.0.4 (WAS: firefox package screwed)

Jeff Stevens wrote: Albert, Hopefully someone on this list will help you find a work-around. The workaround I found is to simply change the theme. -- Blessed are the cracked: For it is they who let in the light. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

how to install ubuntu from hd ?

Hi, I want to install directly ( ubuntu : debian base) from the iso in hd, I know how to do it in fedora and debian, but i coudn't find the appropriate installer, normally in FC for example we have the installer for network or from Hd in isolinux directory, so you 've juste declare in the men

Re: Menu Highlighting Probs in Firefox 1.0.4 (WAS: firefox package screwed)

Albert, If you are running Firefox 1.0.4, you are likely running sarge/stable. See "Debian Releases" [1] for more information on the three main distributions. The Debian release cycle is such that every so often a new stable release is created. Packages in stable are exactly that, they are stable

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Re: apt-get source + pentium-builder = i386?

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:37:08AM -0300, Eriberto wrote: > Hello, > > I installed the pentium-builder package and I made the export > DEBIAN_BUILDARCH=i686. However, after a apt-get build-dep and apt-get source > -b, the result was a i386 package. Why the result wasn't a i686 package? I > test

Re: Network fails in 2.6.12

On Thursday 18 August 2005 08:37, Jose E. Suarez wrote: > Hi! > > I'm compiling a 2.6.12 kernel in a hp tc2110 server > ( http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/tc2110/ ) with 2 ethernet > cards, one is a 3com 3c905 Tornado (3c59x) Intel and another > 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM (e100). > > When i start

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Hi, I seem to be missing a device node but I am unsure as to how I should get it back. I have a machine that has just two ide devices the hard drive and an old DVD drive. There is a device node /dev/hda that corresponds to the HD but not /dev/hdc for the DVD drive. This latter node has only di

Re: Changing Bitstream Vera

On 18. August 2005 at 11:42AM -0400, Sam Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have looked at Bitstream Vera and have found it to be a very > pleasing font. I have just one question: Is it possible for a > user to "tune" the font -- actually it is only one letter I > want to change, the lower-

Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

On 17. August 2005 at 10:37PM -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 w

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The deb package for Firefox 1.0.4 is screwed up: All menus are affected. The cursor, instead of highlighting a choice, displays it as white block. It's probably in the default theme, because changing the theme fixes it. Also, 1.0.4 is not the current version of firefox. I don't know which

Re: Starting USB in Debian with kernel 26

Le Jeudi 18 Août 2005 12:25, Jesús Fernández a écrit : > > If you guys (or any of you) is using sarge, and the 2.6 kernel is the > > one shipped with sarge, in many cases you will have usb problems. That > > kernel had problems, there were things it can not handle. After some > > back and forth, th

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

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 22:19 -0400, Bill Marcum wrote: > Maybe there is a hardware problem with the disk drive. If smartmontools > are installed, try "smartctl -a /dev/hda". Also try "fsck -c". Thank you for the reply, Bill. Sorry, there is no -c option on fsck for reiserfs, (see man fsck.reis

Re: weird characters

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:07:21PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:28:26PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > Hi, > > My problem is, after I had to reboot (computer overheated again), some of > > the characters in programs don't display right. > > This doesn't sound like an ov

Re: Automatically load module at boottime

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:00:14 +0200, Gabe Granger wrote: > > I've just completed setup of a OnStream SCSI backup device in my > Debian box, which is working really really well. I had a power cut > earlier today and when power was restored I checked the backup device > and noticed that the os

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Hi Debian! This is for info in case anybody googles for this motherboard, by chance. I bought an EPOX EP-8VTAI 2 months ago with an Athlon XP 2700+ Thoroughbred CPU. (combo less that $100) I am pulling them out and returning to the old Abit KT7A. Reason: unexplained kernel panics in the weir

Re: weird characters

On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:28:26PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Hi, > My problem is, after I had to reboot (computer overheated again), some of > the characters in programs don't display right. This doesn't sound like an overheating problem to me. For one thing, the Mutt arrow problem happens to

Re: Problems with software RAID on SATA

Quoting Stephen Tait <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm just in the process of setting up a Sarge server to be used as a sort of backup server. The main PATA discs are used to boot the OS offof software RAID1, with the rest of the disc space used in JBOD for not-so-important backups. However, I'm having

Changing Bitstream Vera

I have looked at Bitstream Vera and have found it to be a very pleasing font. I have just one question: Is it possible for a user to "tune" the font -- actually it is only one letter I want to change, the lower-case "l". Thanks. sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Network fails in 2.6.12

Hi! I'm compiling a 2.6.12 kernel in a hp tc2110 server ( http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/tc2110/ ) with 2 ethernet cards, one is a 3com 3c905 Tornado (3c59x) Intel and another 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM (e100). When i start with the original sarge kernel, it runs well, but when i run with my

Re: debian system users delete or change access

Quoting Brent Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi list I have the following in my /etc/passwd file. daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/bin/sh bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/bin/sh sync:x:4:65534:sync:/bin:/bin/sync games:x:5:60:games:/usr/games:/bin/sh man:x:6:12:man:/var/cache/man:/bin/sh lp:x:7:7:lp:/var/spool/l

Re: why upgrade kernel?

[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,

CVS and PAM

Hello group, today I tried to run a cvs pserver from xinetd / tcpwrapper as non root. Like this: service cvspserver { flags = NAMEINARGS socket_type = stream protocol= tcp wait= no user= cvs server = /usr/sbin/tcpd

Re: File Permissions: Allow write, but not modify

Quoting Chris Purves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 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

Problems with software RAID on SATA

I'm just in the process of setting up a Sarge server to be used as a sort of backup server. The main PATA discs are used to boot the OS offof software RAID1, with the rest of the disc space used in JBOD for not-so-important backups. However, I'm having problems getting the new disc array up and

Automatically load module at boottime

I've just completed setup of a OnStream SCSI backup device in my Debian box, which is working really really well. I had a power cut earlier today and when power was restored I checked the backup device and noticed that the osst module was not loaded. how can i make the system automatica

Re: Keep the NVIDIA driver for different kernel releases

On 8/18/05, Mauricio Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: boot logging

> OK. I'm with you so far. Now that I seem to have boot logging working, > where is the actual output? I don't know. Mine is right there in /var/log/boot. I'm using a 2.6.4 kernel built from Debian source. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: initrd, reboot makes kernel panic

Ignore my last mail. Ironic, 2 days troubleshooting and 2h after mailing this list and the problem solves. ;) FYI, according to Documentation/initrd.txt you should(?) have a pivot_root and a chroot in your /linuxrc (initrd-image). This is not so, works better without them. The kernel alre

Re: Info on debian boot/xwindow process

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. * The PowerOnSelfTest (POST) * The bootloader (grub/lilo/etc) * The kernel loads * The kernel probes and sel

[SOLVED] Broken install (files list file for package `x11-common' missing)

Andrey Andreev wrote: > Some time ago I installed X.org from debian.linux-systeme.com on my > Debian Sid. > Yesterday I decided to switch to the X.org, now provided unstable so I > lowered the priority of debian.linux-systeme.com in /etc/apt/preferences > I ran dist-upgrade with aptitude, but this

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