how to config the parameters for displayer

2005-09-09 Thread weiyun lv
I installed Sarge on my laptop, but during the installation I forgot to choose LCD displayer, now the screen flickers, and it is very unconfortable, and maybe it is not good for the displayer too. How can I change the parameters for that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Newbie --Admin access problem on KDE... HELP!!

2005-09-09 Thread Faithful John
On 9/10/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Faithful John wrote: > > Hi all, > I'm a relative newbie who's been using the debian sarge. I recently > have been trying to install kubuntu on my friends laptop. She wants > to use linux as a primary system (she doesn't like m

Re: Newbie --Admin access problem on KDE... HELP!!

2005-09-09 Thread Faithful John
On 9/10/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Faithful John wrote: > > Hi all, > I'm a relative newbie who's been using the debian sarge. I recently > have been trying to install kubuntu on my friends laptop. She wants > to use linux as a primary system (she doesn't like m

docs + exp Re: Help!

2005-09-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Steve Lamb wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > > Any information needed to make a choice should be PART OF THE PROGRAM (minus > > very rare cases). Why make the new user go searching? most folks, form whom you buy a pc will take care of the "headache" for you, just like when

Announcing kernel-handbook project

2005-09-09 Thread Jurij Smakov
[This message is cross-posted to multiple mailing lists for announcement purposes only. Please edit the address list before replying! Suggested address for followups is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, In an attempt to improve the situation with Debian kernel documentation I have recently initiated t

Re: Help!

2005-09-09 Thread Kent West
Steve Lamb wrote: >I repeat, if you think that installing an OS is an operation that is >possible without sullying your prestine brain with naughty documentation >you...are...wrong. > > > You've never installed OS/X, have you? -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Help!

2005-09-09 Thread Angelo Bertolli
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help!

2005-09-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Carl Fink wrote: > Any information needed to make a choice should be PART OF THE PROGRAM (minus > very rare cases). Why make the new user go searching? Because, and read this slowly, ask mommy for help with the big words... INSTALLING AN OS ISN'T FOR NEW USERS! Not even Microsoft ha

md5sum and 3.1_r0a debian sarge

2005-09-09 Thread John Que
Hello,  I am a newbie to Debian. I had downloaded the dvd iso for debian: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-dvd This site is condisered the primary CD image server according to http://www.debian.org. (I downloaded it through http because there was some problem with my bittorent

FIXED! Re: Xorg synaptics touchpad problem?

2005-09-09 Thread Ben Pearre
D'oh! Thanks to your question (and knowing that it worked for a similar system), while simplifying my config file in order to post, I tracked down exactly what the problem was. Now I'm a little embarassed that I'd let this bother me for so long! In the InputDevice section for "synaptics", this l

Re: .xsession problem

2005-09-09 Thread Jim Seymour
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 04:14:49PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Jim Seymour wrote: > > >Hi All, > > > >Running Debian Etch on an AMD Athalon box with all the current updates. > >I have tried to no avail to get a .xsession file to launch pland (Plan > >Daemon) when I log into my box. The file i

Re: Help!

2005-09-09 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 09:49:53PM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > > On Fri, September 9, 2005 8:53 pm, Carl Fink wrote: [] > > Any information needed to make a choice should be PART OF THE PROGRAM (minus > > very rare cases). Why make the new user go searching? > If you are so lazy as to no

Re: sarge: the worst distro?

2005-09-09 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 09 September 2005 07:44 pm, a joe wrote: > i don't use gnome or kde, i use twm and plan to use fvwm. So your point of view is a distro should support the window managers you use, and no others? Are you that narrow-minded in everything? If twm and fvwm don't have new features in Sarge

Re: Newbie --Admin access problem on KDE... HELP!!

2005-09-09 Thread Kent West
Faithful John wrote: Hi all, I'm a relative newbie who's been using the debian sarge. I recently have been trying to install kubuntu on my friends laptop. She wants to use linux as a primary system (she doesn't like micro$oft). Anyway, when I was installing kubuntu off a di

FW: Cygwin, ssh, and top

2005-09-09 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I'm still having trouble with top via ssh from Cygwin to Debian 3.1, but not to Debian 3.0. I updated both Cygwin and Debian 3.1 today. Any suggestions? TIA, David -Original Message- From: David Christensen Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 9:13 PM To: Subject: Cygwin, ss

Re: Help!

2005-09-09 Thread Kent West
Michael Martinell wrote: >On Fri, September 9, 2005 8:53 pm, Carl Fink wrote: > > >>Any information needed to make a choice should be PART OF THE PROGRAM (minus >>very rare cases). Why make the new user go searching? >>-- >> >> > >If you are so lazy as to not want to read through the gettin

Re: sarge: the worst distro?

2005-09-09 Thread charlie
On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 23:44:32 + a used the keyboard to craft this: >|i don't use gnome or kde, i use twm and plan to use fvwm. i am happy with >|mozilla, i take no interest in firefox or others and they don't seem to >|support Java. i re-installed woody and use netscape which has java s

links and cookies

2005-09-09 Thread Rick Pasotto
Is it possible to send a cookie with a 'links -dump' command? Some sites require that you be logged in to view certain pages. Whether or not you are logged in is determined by a cookie. -- "The authority of government ... to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governe

Re: X.Org Hits Testing

2005-09-09 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 9/9/05, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> I don't know if it's actual or the power of suggestion, but I've> noticed that the fonts with X.org look awfully nice.  I don't have a> screenshot to compare with XF86, but...  :)  And, anyway, it's the> future, so since it's wo

Sawfish-ui: error message

2005-09-09 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, on my Etch box (daily updated) I get, when I launch sawfish-ui *** File error: No such file or directory, gui/gtk-2/gtk Any idea ? Thanks, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

celestia problem

2005-09-09 Thread Ashutosh Mahajan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i just installed celestia, celestia-gnome 1.3.2-2 and celestia-glut. both celestia-gnome and glut dont seem to work. the error celestia-gnome gave is: nStars: 112524 render path: 1 The program 'celestia-gnome' received an X Window System error. This p

Re: X.Org Hits Testing: Xorg MGA driver problem?

2005-09-09 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 12:12:17 +0200 Aurélien Campéas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Pearre a écrit : > > I'm very sorry for the possibly off-topic reply. > > > > I have had one problem since my Unstable system went to Xorg, and I > > don't know whether this is the place to air it. Please forgiv

Re: 2.6.11 upgradde #1: nvidia drivers don't work?

2005-09-09 Thread Ms Linuz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi there, > >am finally upgrading my system from a 2.4.25 kernel to 2.6.11-1-k7. The >trnasition is going ok so far, except for a few problems (see my next message >or >two) of which the first concerns the nvidia closed-source drivers. > >I have downloaded the nvidia-ke

Re: Help!

2005-09-09 Thread Michael Martinell
On Fri, September 9, 2005 8:53 pm, Carl Fink wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 05:30:29PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > >> If you install an OS, expect to read docs, period. > > No. > > Any information needed to make a choice should be PART OF THE PROGRAM (minus > very rare cases). Why make the n

ldconfig responds with Illegal Instruction, cannot

2005-09-09 Thread Chris Purves
A recent upgrade with aptitude on testing exited halfway through with the following error: Preconfiguring packages ... Setting up libpam0g (0.76-23) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/libpam0g.postinst: line 3: 31771 Illegal instruction ldconfig dpkg: error processing libpam0g (--configure):  subprocess p

kernel 2.6.11 problem #1: "No APM support in kernel"

2005-09-09 Thread matt . price
Hi there, so one more problem with the new 2.6.11 kernel, moving up from 2.4.25. Every time I execute a bash command as a normal user, I get the message "No APM support in kernel" . It's not fatal or anything, but it's annoying. I'm not sure where it comes from -- the mesage doesn't show up whe

2.6.11 upgradde #1: nvidia drivers don't work?

2005-09-09 Thread matt . price
Hi there, am finally upgrading my system from a 2.4.25 kernel to 2.6.11-1-k7. The trnasition is going ok so far, except for a few problems (see my next message or two) of which the first concerns the nvidia closed-source drivers. I have downloaded the nvidia-kernel-source modules (1.0.7174-4)

Re: sarge: the worst distro?

2005-09-09 Thread Jay Vollmer
On Friday 09 September 2005 17:43, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hwllo, > > a joe wrote: > > i have used Debian 1.2, 2.0, 2.1, potato and woody. with each new > > version come some new features that i found useful. > > > > a few days ago i installed sarge and found it the worst Debian distro > > because n

Re: Help!

2005-09-09 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 05:30:29PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > If you install an OS, expect to read docs, period. No. Any information needed to make a choice should be PART OF THE PROGRAM (minus very rare cases). Why make the new user go searching? -- Carl Fink

Re: Apache, php, xml

2005-09-09 Thread David Berg
On 9/8/05, Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:16:05AM -0500, David Berg wrote: > > I'm running PHP5 from http://people.debian.org/~dexter on sarge with > > apache 2. Running a script which calls xml_parser_create() produces: > > > > Fatal error: Call to undefined f

Re: kde 3.4.2 avialabe, any problems?

2005-09-09 Thread Roby
H. S. wrote: > > I see that KDE 3.4.2 is and now available; I can now install kde or > kdebase or kde-core without any problems to dselect. Before I dive into > it, I just wanted to if anyone has tried this and has had any problems? > > Only a few days ago, I couldn't install kdebase but kde-cor

Re: Help!

2005-09-09 Thread Steve Lamb
David Clymer wrote: > I took Stephen's comments as a reaction against the (all too common) > tendancy of programmers to create a utility with a host of unnecessarily > byzantine switches and arguments, But that's not what we're discussing here. We're discussing Installing an entire Operat

Re: X.Org Hits Testing

2005-09-09 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 07:47:59PM -0400, Colin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I don't know if it's actual or the power of suggestion, but I've > > noticed that the fonts with X.org look awfully nice. I don't have a > > screenshot to compare with XF86, but... :) And, anyway, it's the >

Re: X.Org Hits Testing

2005-09-09 Thread Colin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't know if it's actual or the power of suggestion, but I've > noticed that the fonts with X.org look awfully nice. I don't have a > screenshot to compare with XF86, but... :) And, anyway, it's the > future, so since it's working so well, why not go ahead and swit

Re: sarge: the worst distro?

2005-09-09 Thread Bill Thompson
On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 23:44:32 + "a joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i don't use gnome or kde, i use twm and plan to use fvwm. i am happy with > > mozilla, i take no interest in firefox or others and they don't seem to > support Java. i re-installed woody and use netscape which has java > sup

Re: Newbie --Admin access problem on KDE... HELP!!

2005-09-09 Thread Faithful John
> > >>Hi all, > >>I'm a relative newbie who's been using the debian sarge. I recently > >>have been trying to install kubuntu on my friends laptop. She wants > >>to use linux as a primary system (she doesn't like micro$oft). > >>Anyway, when I was installing kubuntu off a disc, the network > >>

Re: Current status of cdrecord under linux 2.6.8 [Solved]

2005-09-09 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 04:39:25PM -0500, garaged wrote: > error would be good, any hint on how are you trying, using dev=/dev/hdX ?? > > Max I set out to regenerate the error message from cdrecord -prcap that I was getting yesterday, but today it worked. I don't have screen shots from yesterday,

Re: sarge: the worst distro?

2005-09-09 Thread a joe
i don't use gnome or kde, i use twm and plan to use fvwm. i am happy with mozilla, i take no interest in firefox or others and they don't seem to support Java. i re-installed woody and use netscape which has java support one of best things about debian is well-defined packages, i mean it use l

Re: X.org transition breaks Ctrl-Alt-F* ??

2005-09-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-09-09 21:31:42 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Subject says it all: one machine works and I can still access virtual > terminals with Ctrl-Alt-F*, one doesn't and is effectively X only. It was broken even before X.org. I solved the problem by disabling XKb with: Section "ServerFlags"

Re: Software RAID problem - disks names change in case one fails

2005-09-09 Thread C Shore
> - have you evern wondered about other folks that try to build a sata-based > raid subsystem ?? > - how did their sata pass the "failed disk" test if it > reassigns its drive numbers upon reboot > > > With the second disk removed the disks names are changed, > > exactly that i

Re: X.org transition breaks Ctrl-Alt-F* ??

2005-09-09 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Subject says it all: one machine works and I can still access virtual terminals with Ctrl-Alt-F*, one doesn't and is effectively X only. Another colleague has reported the same problem in testing: he's anxious not to mess up his laptop. Anyone else noticed anything sim

Re: Multihead

2005-09-09 Thread Alvin Oga
On 9 Sep 2005, Jeffrey Alsip wrote: > I have succeeded in getting my Colorgraphic four-port video card (S3 > Savage4 chipset) to function under Debian! All four monitors now show a > clear crisp display. > > However, my efforts have failed to get me mouse and keyboard access to > the three displ

RE: Problem with apache 1.3 and php5

2005-09-09 Thread Antony Gelberg
>> > Well, >> > If I try to access a website which contains php scripts like >> > http://phpsysinfo.warezmaster.ath.cx/ the browser just asks >> me to download >> >> Perhaps you should get the "warezmaster" to fix his broken website. > Very funny^^ > What's the prob about my domain? I got it back

Re: sarge: the worst distro?

2005-09-09 Thread Steve Lamb
a joe wrote: > a few days ago i installed sarge and found it the worst Debian distro > because no new features is valuable to me. Please don't feed the trolls. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to t

Re: Software RAID problem - disks names change in case one fails

2005-09-09 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm testing a server before I put it in production, and I've got a problem > with > mdraid. > > The config: > - Dell PowerEdge 800 > - 4 x 250 Go SATA attached to the mobo > - /boot 4 x 1 GB (1 GB available)in RAID1, 3 active + 1 spare > - / 4 x 25

Re: announcing the beginning of security support for testing

2005-09-09 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 9/9/05, Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/9/05, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing > etch/security-updates main contrib non-free> > deb-src> http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing> etch/security-updat

Re: Laptop choice to run debian

2005-09-09 Thread Tim Jordan
Joan Tur wrote: Es Divendres, 9 de Setembre de 2005 13:55, en Florian Dorpmueller va escriure: | With http://tuxmobile.org and http://www.linux-laptop.net/ you can make | your mind up. It's http://tuxmobil.org (without the "e") ;) I use a Dell Latitude D600. Works awesome! Tim -- To UNS

Re: package errors when using apt

2005-09-09 Thread Tim Jordan
Tim Jordan wrote: Hello everyone, I have a Debian server (testing) running qmail that I installed from the qmailrocks.org site. unfortunately I have screwed up the Exim4 install in the process of setting up qmail. I really don't need Exim4 but I do need MySQL. I have found that without ma

Re: sarge: the worst distro?

2005-09-09 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
On 9/9/05, a joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > a few days ago i installed sarge and found it the worst Debian distro > because no new features is valuable to me. > That begs the question... ;-) -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do tha

Maria Cuevas (Cancelar subcrision)

2005-09-09 Thread Cuev7Mr
Fecha: Septiembre 9, 2005 Hora: 3:44 P.M.   Hola mi nombre es Maria Cuevas so clienta del clubmosaico quisiera cancelar mi subscrision. Porfavor ya no envien mas correspondencia mi numero de pedido es #0509  

Re: sarge: the worst distro?

2005-09-09 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hwllo, a joe wrote: i have used Debian 1.2, 2.0, 2.1, potato and woody. with each new version come some new features that i found useful. a few days ago i installed sarge and found it the worst Debian distro because no new features is valuable to me. what about the installation part ? Je

Re: sarge: the worst distro?

2005-09-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:37:14PM +, a joe wrote: > i have used Debian 1.2, 2.0, 2.1, potato and woody. with each new version > come > some new features that i found useful. > > a few days ago i installed sarge and found it the worst Debian distro because > no new features is valuable to m

sarge: the worst distro?

2005-09-09 Thread a joe
i have used Debian 1.2, 2.0, 2.1, potato and woody. with each new version come some new features that i found useful. a few days ago i installed sarge and found it the worst Debian distro because no new features is valuable to me. __

Re: Help!

2005-09-09 Thread David Clymer
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 10:52 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 08:25:29AM -0400, David Clymer wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 08:14 -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 06:43:16PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > > > > We've had a lot of these queries recentl

Re: .xsession problem

2005-09-09 Thread Cameron Matheson
Jim Seymour wrote: Hi All, Running Debian Etch on an AMD Athalon box with all the current updates. I have tried to no avail to get a .xsession file to launch pland (Plan Daemon) when I log into my box. The file is executable and allow-user-xsession is set in /etc/X11/Xsession.options. The conte

.xsession problem

2005-09-09 Thread Jim Seymour
Hi All, Running Debian Etch on an AMD Athalon box with all the current updates. I have tried to no avail to get a .xsession file to launch pland (Plan Daemon) when I log into my box. The file is executable and allow-user-xsession is set in /etc/X11/Xsession.options. The contents of the .xsession a

Re: Newsgroups for Debian

2005-09-09 Thread kooto (sent by Nabble.com)
Another Debian searchable archive/forum (bi-directional for posting)  is hosted by Nabble, it's clean and fast: http://www.nabble.com/Debian-f24.html Sent from the Debian User forum at Nabble.com.

Re: Current status of cdrecord under linux 2.6.8

2005-09-09 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:29:21PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm running Sarge/stable. Last week I installed the Linux 2.6 kernel. > Yesterday I tried to burn a CD and failed. I did some poking around, > read the man pages, etc., and became convinced that I would not resolve > this on my own. D

Re: Current status of cdrecord under linux 2.6.8

2005-09-09 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:29:21PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm running Sarge/stable. Last week I installed the Linux 2.6 kernel. > Yesterday I tried to burn a CD and failed. I did some poking around, > read the man pages, etc., and became convinced that I would not resolve > this on my own. D

Re: X.org transition breaks Ctrl-Alt-F* ??

2005-09-09 Thread Raul
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Subject says it all: one machine works and I can still access virtual terminals with Ctrl-Alt-F*, one doesn't and is effectively X only. Another colleague has reported the same problem in testing: he's anxious not to mess up his laptop. Anyone else noticed anything simi

Re: cyrus getting slower over time

2005-09-09 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 09:20:16PM +0200, oneman wrote: > > I've got a problem with cyrus getting slower over time when checking > mail, up to a point where clients start timing out... First cyrus > works flawlessly, then it starts responding slower to mailchecking > and eventually becomes u

Re: X.org transition breaks Ctrl-Alt-F* ??

2005-09-09 Thread Cameron Matheson
Stephen R Laniel wrote: I've been using it under Ubuntu for months; I've had this problem you mention for a while now. I'm not sure what the latest status on it is; I'll ask on the Ubuntu list and see what they say. I'm using ubuntu too, but i don't have this problem... iirc my friend runnin

Re: Current status of cdrecord under linux 2.6.8

2005-09-09 Thread garaged
error would be good, any hint on how are you trying, using dev=/dev/hdX ?? Max-- Linux garaged 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 #3 SMP Mon Aug 30 12:14:50 CDT 2004 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux-BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-Version: 3.12GS/S d- s: a-29 C++(+++) ULAHI+++ P+ L++>+++ E--

Re: X.org transition breaks Ctrl-Alt-F* ??

2005-09-09 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
On 9/9/05, Andrew M.A. Cater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone else noticed anything similar?? > Not sure if this helps, but I had to recompile the Nvidia drivers after the Xorg upgrade. -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'

Re: X.org transition breaks Ctrl-Alt-F* ??

2005-09-09 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 09:31:42PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Subject says it all: one machine works and I can still access virtual > terminals with Ctrl-Alt-F*, one doesn't and is effectively X only. > > Another colleague has reported the same problem in testing: he's anxious > not to mess

X.org transition breaks Ctrl-Alt-F* ??

2005-09-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Subject says it all: one machine works and I can still access virtual terminals with Ctrl-Alt-F*, one doesn't and is effectively X only. Another colleague has reported the same problem in testing: he's anxious not to mess up his laptop. Anyone else noticed anything similar?? Andy -- To UNSUBS

Current status of cdrecord under linux 2.6.8

2005-09-09 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm running Sarge/stable. Last week I installed the Linux 2.6 kernel. Yesterday I tried to burn a CD and failed. I did some poking around, read the man pages, etc., and became convinced that I would not resolve this on my own. Does cdrecord work with Linux 2.6 in Etch? Has the interface issue that

Re: kernel panic - not syncing. No init found. Try passing init = option to kernel

2005-09-09 Thread wackojacko
Wackojacko wrote: Hi all I am receiving the above error on my amd64 sid system. All was well until I tried to recompile my kernel to add some extra ide modules into the kernel. I forgot the append-to-version flag and created a new kernel-image with the same name as a previous one. I realis

Re: NOT INTERESTED!

2005-09-09 Thread Steve Block
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 12:51:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I DO NOT WANT YOUR WEB PAGE! STOP BLOCKING MY FREEMAIL.HU WEB SITE WITH YOUR HOMEPAGE! I AM NOT INTERESTED, TAKE YOU WEB PAGE AWAY! Awesome. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: announcing the beginning of security support for testing

2005-09-09 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 9/9/05, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing > etch/security-updates main contrib non-free > > deb-src > http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing > etch/security-updates main contrib non-free > > Could I replace 'etch

Re: #debian

2005-09-09 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Josh Battles_, on 09/09/05 15:51,typed: > > Granted these people are volunteers, but they're the ones who are > volunteering their time to help others. If they would rather spend that time > flaming and telling others to RTFM, then perhaps they need to re-evaluate > their stance on

Software RAID problem - disks names change in case one fails

2005-09-09 Thread initiators
Hello, I'm testing a server before I put it in production, and I've got a problem with mdraid. The config: - Dell PowerEdge 800 - 4 x 250 Go SATA attached to the mobo - /boot 4 x 1 GB (1 GB available)in RAID1, 3 active + 1 spare - / 4 x 250 GB (500 GB available) in RAID5, 3 active + 1 spare No pr

OT: geda, ngspice and exporting figures for Latex

2005-09-09 Thread H. S.
Hi, I posted first to sci.electronics.design, but it seems to be quite noisy. So trying my luck here. I am currently experimenting with geda and ngspice to simulate basic circuits (for a Circuits Analysis course) and I am only starting to learn how to draw and simulate circuits. I drew a basic c

Re: Laptop choice to run debian

2005-09-09 Thread Brian Kimball
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I am planning to buy a laptop for my self in the near future for > travels, stinks not having with you a debian system. Any good > recommendations by any chance? A good recommendation that I don't see very often is to check which machines linux laptop vendors choose to

kde 3.4.2 avialabe, any problems?

2005-09-09 Thread H. S.
I see that KDE 3.4.2 is and now available; I can now install kde or kdebase or kde-core without any problems to dselect. Before I dive into it, I just wanted to if anyone has tried this and has had any problems? Only a few days ago, I couldn't install kdebase but kde-core seemed to be okay. I gue

Re: #debian

2005-09-09 Thread Josh Battles
antgel said: > > It's a great way to learn more about Debian. Lots of expertise. Yeah, > people might get told to read the manual, but only if they clearly > haven't already done so. You might read it, but you would be amazed at > the number of people who don't. I work in tech support/developme

Re: announcing the beginning of security support for testing

2005-09-09 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 9/9/05, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Security support for testingThe Debian testing security team is pleased to announce the beginning of full security support for Debian's testing distribution. This is great news, and thank you! [...] We also invite you to add the following lines to

Re: Please help me read /proc/mdstat

2005-09-09 Thread Laurent CARON
Siju George a écrit : On 9/9/05, antgel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Siju George wrote: Hi, Could someone help me read the /proc/mdstat file on my Sarge. I am doing disk mirroring with 2 disks. at the end of md7 and md5 I have [_U] written all others have [UU] at their ends. What doe

Re: #debian

2005-09-09 Thread Josh Battles
kamaraju kusumanchi said: > The second problem is that on #debian there tend to be large number of > simultaneous discussions which are difficult to follow ( dont know who > is responding to what). This is very confusing. With an email client > which respects threads, this problem is non-existent

Re: serial ata hd and ide dvd?

2005-09-09 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2005/7/30, Eric Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I have installed debian testing on a dell inspiron 9300 laptop and most > of the hardware now works, however, the dvdburner does not work yet. It > isnt even recognized in the dmesg output. It seems that the dvdburner is > on the ide interface

Re: Laptop choice to run debian

2005-09-09 Thread Joan Tur
Es Divendres, 9 de Setembre de 2005 13:55, en Florian Dorpmueller va escriure: | With http://tuxmobile.org and http://www.linux-laptop.net/ you can make | your mind up. It's http://tuxmobil.org (without the "e") ;) -- Joan Tur (aka Quini), Eivissa-Spain Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo

announcing the beginning of security support for testing

2005-09-09 Thread Joey Hess
--- Debian Testing Security TeamSeptember 9th, 2005 secure-testing-team@lists.alioth.debian.org http://secure-testing-master.debian.net/ --

Re: Laptop choice to run debian

2005-09-09 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 09 September 2005 07:39 am, Josh Battles wrote: > antgel said: > > Josh Battles wrote: > >> I've got to agree with the others here that the IBM ThinkPad is a > >> wonderful laptop to run Debian on. I installed Ubuntu on my T42 > >> and it detected everything right out of the box and conf

Re: Laptop choice to run debian

2005-09-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On (09/09/05 17:44), Jonathan Kaye wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > I am planning to buy a laptop for my self in the near future for > > travels, stinks not having with you a debian system. Any good > > recommendations by any chance? > Hi

Re: Exchange replacement

2005-09-09 Thread Dave Hornford
On 9/9/05, Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I've given up on trying to get a decent free OSS replacement for Exchange - it's simply not worth the time and effort for the avarage SME. What are you looking for in an Exchange replacement? Email, Group Calendaring, common director

RE: Problem with apache 1.3 and php5

2005-09-09 Thread Oliver Fuhrer
> > Well, > > If I try to access a website which contains php scripts like > > http://phpsysinfo.warezmaster.ath.cx/ the browser just asks > me to download > > Perhaps you should get the "warezmaster" to fix his broken website. Very funny^^ What's the prob about my domain? I got it back up and r

Re: Please help me read /proc/mdstat

2005-09-09 Thread Siju George
On 9/9/05, antgel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Siju George wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Could someone help me read the /proc/mdstat file on my Sarge. > > > > I am doing disk mirroring with 2 disks. > > > > at the end of md7 and md5 I have [_U] written > > all others have [UU] at their ends. > > > > What

Re: How to setup a ftp/http server to enable network install in a lan?

2005-09-09 Thread Guido Heumann
Am Mittwoch, 31. August 2005 04:44 schrieb Liu Zhen: [...] > I want to use the ISOs in my LAN to continue the install, but I can not > figure out how to setup a correct http/ftp path to enable the install. > Does anybody know how to setup a http/ftp server to enable a install in > LAN? Thank you.

Re: DELL Inspiron 6000 Disk Detection Wierdness

2005-09-09 Thread Bill Thompson
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 22:08:40 +0100 jim biri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Wonder if anyone can help. I've got a new DELL Inspiron 6000 that I'd > like to install SARGE 3.1 on. SARGE installer can't detect the h/d. If I recall, the Inspiron 6000 uses a SATA drive which the 2.6.8 kernel on t

package errors when using apt

2005-09-09 Thread Tim Jordan
Hello everyone, I have a Debian server (testing) running qmail that I installed from the qmailrocks.org site. unfortunately I have screwed up the Exim4 install in the process of setting up qmail. I really don't need Exim4 but I do need MySQL. I have found that without mailx I cannot install

Re: Exchange replacement

2005-09-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 12:27 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Hi, > > I've given up on trying to get a decent free OSS replacement for > Exchange - it's simply not worth the time and effort for the avarage SME. > > What I am looking for is something that can do shared calendering and > contacts, th

diff in octave and octave-forge

2005-09-09 Thread roberto
Hi all, i know two different packages (among others) are downloadable for math computing: octave and octave-forge i have installed and currently using octave 2.1.69 but what are the differences with octave-forge?? can i install octave-forge without conflict with octave 2.1? (aptitude says yes...)

Multihead

2005-09-09 Thread Jeffrey Alsip
I have succeeded in getting my Colorgraphic four-port video card (S3 Savage4 chipset) to function under Debian! All four monitors now show a clear crisp display. However, my efforts have failed to get me mouse and keyboard access to the three displays beside the primary one. The HOWTO's that I hav

Re: #debian

2005-09-09 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Josh Battles wrote: antgel said: I've probably spent too much time in #debian, where (if feels like) every second user is complaining about the fact that they can't install or use ubuntu / knoppix / whatever. Actually, for those of you who don't already, stop by. It's good eatin' and an in

RE: Problem with apache 1.3 and php5

2005-09-09 Thread Oliver Fuhrer
Ok, my websites are mounted on /var/www on a raid system. Everything worked from beginning of June until yesterday before the update. This is what I've found in /var/log/dpkg.log: ... 2005-09-08 12:31:38 upgrade apache-common 1.3.33-7 1.3.33-8 2005-09-08 12:31:40 upgrade apache 1.3.33-7 1.3.33-8 20

Re: fglrx on an ATI 9200SE???

2005-09-09 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Florian Dorpmueller wrote: I thinking about establishing the propreitary ATI driver for my 9200SE graphics adapter. Hopefully the graphics performance can be increased with this. But on several pages on the net I read that the performance with the radeon driver is better. Is there anybody around

Re: Problem with apache 1.3 and php5

2005-09-09 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Oliver Fuhrer wrote: Well, If I try to access a website which contains php scripts like http://phpsysinfo.warezmaster.ath.cx/ the browser just asks me to download the php-file. I also disabled connections over internal proxy server and cleared the browser cache but nothing changed. The server-in

RE: Problem with apache 1.3 and php5

2005-09-09 Thread Oliver Fuhrer
> Check /etc/apache/mime.types and make sure there's a line for > php files. > > Relavent section from mine > > application/x-httpd-php phtml pht php php5 > application/x-httpd-php-source phps Checked, and they exist in about the same form. --

Re: Etch - Daily update - Netinstall - amd64

2005-09-09 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Piotr wrote: > Hello everyone; > Sorry for my english - it isn't perfect but I think you will understand > the problem. > I have downloaded 3 different netinstalls of ETCH (for amd64) and every > time i try to install I get error : Could not find kernel image: linux. > CD is burned properly, I hav

Re: Help!

2005-09-09 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Bruno Buys wrote: Errr, wasn't the real reason for the problem not having installed properly? I mean sure, if you don't install gnome, you can install it later, but I think allowing people to choose "Desktop" is easier than trying to apt-get all the packages later. If by choosing "Deskto

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