Re: XOrg doesn't switch VTs

2005-09-10 Thread Adriano Bonat
Thanks for the interest in my problem. I think that the problem isn't caused by NVidia driver, because it occur with XOrg's nv driver too. The problem with glx is a linkage problem with the change of some libs from XFree to XOrg. Best regards, -Adriano Bonat 2005/9/11, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAI

slow dns lookup

2005-09-10 Thread Matt Price
gaash, latest in a barrage or problems related to movingm y computer from work to home. at work, this computer was exposed directly to the internet; for DNS it used the university dns servers Now it sits at home, and uses the cheap wireless router as the primary DNS. DNS is MADDENINGLY slow, muc

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

2005-09-10 Thread Matt Price
Ms Linuz wrote: > > Look at your /etc/modules and make sure there is 'nvidia' ( without > quote ) line exists. > If not, add nvidia in your /etc/modules > > thanks, tried that, didn't work for me. I think the problem is somehow more fundamental (had tried manually loading the drivers b4 starti

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Kent West wrote: Angelo Bertolli wrote: Which is of course they the GNU people prefer info pages :-P "Oh if only I didn't have to read the man info to understand how to read info gcc..." Amen to that. I've never been able to understand anything in an info page. I just don't g

Re: applying kernel patch to more recent kernel version?

2005-09-10 Thread Matt Price
Matt Price wrote: > Hi there, > I am trying to patch the current 2.6.11-1-k7 kernel (2.6.11-7) with the > kerenel-patch-suspend2 package. When I run > > make-kpkg --added-patches suspend2 --config menuconfig > --append-to-version -suspend2 configure kernel_image modules_image > > I get the follo

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Kent West
Angelo Bertolli wrote: > >> Which is of course they the GNU people prefer info pages :-P >> >> > "Oh if only I didn't have to read the man info to understand how to > read info gcc..." > > Amen to that. I've never been able to understand anything in an info page. I just don't get how info works.

Re: edit as new

2005-09-10 Thread Paul Scott
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 11:23:50AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 10:20:27PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > > > By `bouncing' the message (generally `b'). > > > > It doesn't allow me to change the From: address which T-Bird's "Edit as new" > > does. > > Yes, it doesn't, as i

Re: getting XEN running in a computer installed with Debian Sarge

2005-09-10 Thread Jules Dubois
On Saturday 10 September 2005 15:13, Mark Farnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have a computer already installed with Debian Sarge. I wish to > > - install XEN kernel into the computer Have you read the "Xen User Manual"? http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/

Re: Edit as new; was Re: Thunderbird not visible

2005-09-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 10:20:27PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > > By `bouncing' the message (generally `b'). > > It doesn't allow me to change the From: address which T-Bird's "Edit as new" > does. Yes, it doesn't, as it sends the mail "as-is". However, you can do a dirty work around; copy the m

acpi & other power-control questions for desktop

2005-09-10 Thread matt . price
Hi folks, I've moved my desktop home from work and among many other changes, I now occasionally want the thing to power down. Ideally, though, I'd like to avoid having to reboot when I start back up again. THe mainboard supports acpi, so I at first figured sleep would be easy. On my laptop,

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Steve Lamb
David E. Fox wrote: > Man pages (generally) don't progress from simple usages to more complex > ones - they present in toto everything all at once. I saw that early on > by reading "man bash". That is because man pages are wonderful at what they are designed to be. Reference material, not tut

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Michael Martinell wrote: > I do wish that debian had such a utility though, it would be the ultimate in > simplicity. You could just download a generic answer file from Debian for > your x86 platform and an hour later the system would be done. There is that now. dpkg --get-selections, dpkg -

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Carl Fink wrote: > So make that harder. A well-written piece of software doesn't leave systems > unbootable. When you're messing with partition tables that is a high possibility when one doesn't know what one is doing. That isn't the software's fault! You can't code away ignorance or stupid

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Which is of course they the GNU people prefer info pages :-P "Oh if only I didn't have to read the man info to understand how to read info gcc..." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Edit as new; was Re: Thunderbird not visible

2005-09-10 Thread Paul Scott
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 09:18:57PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 06:32:52AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:40:14PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:28:36PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > > > I apologize for the extra reply. I

Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres. [Solved]

2005-09-10 Thread David R. Litwin
Aha! I got it to work (well, the boot up, any way. I haven't booted down yet. I assume it will work, though).I thank you all kindly for your help.(For purposes of completion:) Bby putting the line deb-src http://splashy.Alioth.debian.org/debian/ unstable maininto the sources.list file, then,

Re: diff in octave and octave-forge

2005-09-10 Thread Colin Ingram
roberto wrote: 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? (apti

Re: Thunderbird not visible

2005-09-10 Thread Paul Scott
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 06:32:52AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:40:14PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:28:36PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > > I apologize for the extra reply. I thought the original was > > > delayed because of the From: address

Linux over Network to Windows

2005-09-10 Thread David R. Litwin
I will soon be getting a laptop (Toshiba A70) on to which I will install Debian. However, my main computer will, almost always, be running Windows. Now, I would like to setup a network of some sort so that I can access files and print (the usual stuff, I suppose). The question is: How do I do this?

XOrg doesn't switch VTs

2005-09-10 Thread Adriano Bonat
Hello, I migrate my Debian unstable system from XFree 4.3 to XOrg 6.8.2 and everything works except the functionality of switch to VTs (CTRL ALT Fn). Investigating with `xev` show me that CTRL ALT Fn are generating the XF86_Switch_VT_n perfectly, and google'ing about I saw some cases of this prob

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

2005-09-10 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 kubunt

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Kent West
Michael Martinell wrote: >Of course the only thing we will probably agree on is that we disagree with >everything. > > I'm sorry, but I disagree with that. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sample wwwoffle config?

2005-09-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Lamb wrote: > Anyone have a pointer to a sample wwwoffle config that will pull a set of > pages once a night? Work allows me to bring in my laptop, just no net > connectivity. I want to cache my "daily read" pages with wwwoffle so I can > poke at 'em during lulls at work. To answer

Re: Problem with Thunderbird Inbox...

2005-09-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Opus wrote: > Any ideas about how to get the missing messages to show up > in Thunderbird? Have you checked your display settings to ensure that it isn't filtered out in some manner? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5

Re: My pulldown windows have the options text whited out when the mouse is over 'em.

2005-09-10 Thread John Ceh
> Is there some way to fix this, or is it just a standard feature of > Debian perhaps? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > My first guess would be to change your desktop theme to see if that fixes it. Not

gspicegui for debian

2005-09-10 Thread H.S.
Hi, Does anybody know if there is a gspicegui deb for Debtian testing? ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thunderbird not visible

2005-09-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:40:14PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:28:36PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > I apologize for the extra reply. I thought the original was > > delayed because of the From: address. > > > > I also didn't see how to resend the original in mutt (easy t

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Paul E Condon
I need an editor ( person who reads my stuff and makes corrections). On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 06:23:25PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 05:56:32PM -0400, C Shore wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 10:28:52AM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:52:50 -0600 >

-lrmi and -lvbe don't work anymore!?

2005-09-10 Thread Dirk
I try to compile MPlayer-from-cvs's vo_vesa.c but it doesn't work because is missing... Is this because I switched from XFree86 to xorg? Or because I'm using unstable? Or what? I have vesafb enabled and it worked before... So where can I get that frickin package that includes vbe.h? Please don't

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 05:56:32PM -0400, C Shore wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 10:28:52AM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:52:50 -0600 > > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The stuff below is not what I wrote. What I wrote has been snipped in its entirety > > A C co

Re: Problem with the new xlibs deb

2005-09-10 Thread Joey Hess
Andrej Prsa wrote: > when updating xlibs to 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6_all.deb on debian testing box, > aptitude fails with the following message: > > dpkg: error > processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_6.8.2.dfsg.1-6_all.deb > (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit > status 1 /

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread C Shore
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 10:28:52AM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:52:50 -0600 > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A C compiler is perhaps more relevant to this discussion, and it > permits me to interject a point. When the average user wants to compile > "Hello World",

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

2005-09-10 Thread Erçin EKER
Cum, 2005-09-09 tarihinde 17:35 -0400 saatinde, Stephen R Laniel yazdı: > 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. > > > > Anot

Problem with the new xlibs deb

2005-09-10 Thread Andrej Prsa
Hi, when updating xlibs to 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6_all.deb on debian testing box, aptitude fails with the following message: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_6.8.2.dfsg.1-6_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm:

getting XEN running in a computer installed with Debian Sarge

2005-09-10 Thread Mark Farnell
I have a computer already installed with Debian Sarge.  I wish to - install XEN kernel into the computer - get a XEN-patched Debian kernel so that it can be run in XEN - boot into the XEN kernel - then run XEN-enabled Debian Sarge or other Linux systems What should I do to meet the above objectiv

Re: Hardware RAID advices needed

2005-09-10 Thread Hans du Plooy
Kind regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On lørdag 10 september 2005, 12:52, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: off your back? Eh, right! You did not get any recommendations. Your reason for purchase is appealing. But the price differe

Re: Hardware RAID advices needed

2005-09-10 Thread Hans du Plooy
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: The first is a dirt cheap Sunsway Sil 3112-based card, i.e. fakeraid. How "old" is your PC? On my 2ghz AthlonXP I have onboard VIA (fakeraid) plus a PCI Sil 3112a card. Raid-5 over four SATA discs give me in excess of 50MB/s sustained write, depending on what I'm copyin

Re: PCI modem suggestions

2005-09-10 Thread Hans du Plooy
Nuke wrote: Hans du Plooy said :- If* you manage to track them [internal modems] down, the ones that still exsist cost aboutas much as an external serial modem, so why not just get one of those? This reaction is fairly typical when internal modems are mentioned in the Linux world, a

Nautilus - no icon

2005-09-10 Thread rubikz
Hi, I have used OO to create a few documents, and when I browse the folder containing them in Nautilus the files are not shown with a OpenOffice icon. I've noticed that nautilus doesn't display icons of any application (acrobat, openoffice, xmms ... ). The files and folders are displayed with a de

can not use fonts under gnome

2005-09-10 Thread LeVA
Hi! I have installed sid with gnome and also installed all of the xfonts-* packages. I have the correspondig FontPathes in my xorg.conf, and when running `fc-cache -vsf' as root, I can see that it updates the /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi and 75dpi pathes. But after that running fc-list outputs too

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

2005-09-10 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 netw

Re: Hardware RAID advices needed

2005-09-10 Thread Allan Wind
I read on one of the the postgres mailing list a while back that battery backup makes a huge difference on the LSI SCSI RAID cards, and I know that at least some of the Areca cards takes a battery. The other thing that I picked up there was that non-SCSI disks routinely lie about when data being c

Re: Thunderbird not visible

2005-09-10 Thread Paul Scott
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:28:36PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > I apologize for the extra reply. I thought the original was > delayed because of the From: address. > > I also didn't see how to resend the original in mutt (easy to do > w/ T-Bird) > -- Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: X header files

2005-09-10 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Sep 10 at 19:07, Hanspeter Roth spoke: > Hello, > > which is the package that contains the files below > /usr/X11R6/include? It's probably xlib-dev. -Hanspeter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Información

2005-09-10 Thread Meni Shapiro
nesesitas usar la lista de debian en espa~ol. entra esta lista aca -> http://lists.debian.org/debian-news-spanish/ esta lista es en ingles para leer mas sobre debian en espa~ol entra aca -> http://www.esdebian.org/ Meni On 9/9/05, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Me gustaria que me documenta

Re: Hardware RAID advices needed

2005-09-10 Thread David Koski
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 23:39:57 +0200 Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm finally back after getting a nasty project on my back, and I have a > question... I'm thinking about buying a hardware RAID controller for my > desktop. The main reason I don't want to go with softwar

Re: Thunderbird not visible

2005-09-10 Thread Paul Scott
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 10:23:07PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I seem to have gotten most important things to work. One thing I > > miss that I need is a quick way to set the From: field since I > > have three different email addresses that I send messages from. > > W

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Michael Martinell
On Sat, September 10, 2005 10:22 am, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 09:49:53PM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: >> >> 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 re

Re: Thunderbird not visible

2005-09-10 Thread Paul Scott
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 11:55:13AM -0700, paul wrote: > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 10:23:07PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I seem to have gotten most important things to work. One thing I > > > miss that I need is a quick way to set the From: field since I > > > have

Re: PCI modem suggestions

2005-09-10 Thread Nuke
I use a Multitech MT5634ZPX-PCI.  It is not a WinModem - it is quality kit with an on board controller, which is what an internal modem needs for Linux. Hans du Plooy said :- >If* you manage to track them [internal modems] down, the ones that still >exsist cost aboutas much as an external seri

Where is everyone?

2005-09-10 Thread David Baron
No postings received in a while. And I did post. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I cannot configure my thunderbird signature.

2005-09-10 Thread Michael Marsh
On 9/10/05, Xeno Campanoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Account Settings / Composition and Addressing area has the signature > field set to read only. I cannot find anything else. Try selecting the account name (as opposed to Composition & Addressing). There should be a check box reading "At

My pulldown windows have the options text whited out when the mouse is over 'em.

2005-09-10 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Is there some way to fix this, or is it just a standard feature of Debian perhaps? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I cannot configure my thunderbird signature.

2005-09-10 Thread Xeno Campanoli
The Account Settings / Composition and Addressing area has the signature field set to read only. I cannot find anything else. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Migrating the partitions on the same machine

2005-09-10 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, I'm having a laptop with 30GB HDD. Below is the partition structure on my HDD. /dev/hda8 / ext3errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda6 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/hda1

apt-get error 'can't allocate memory' (bash?)

2005-09-10 Thread Russ Cook
I encountered this problem yesterday while trying to run "apt-get upgrade" on my i386 based system running "unstable". I update frequently, and have not had this error before. I've attached a script which shows my sources and the error messages. Can anyone shed some light on this for me? Has an

Re: Hardware RAID advices needed

2005-09-10 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On lørdag 10 september 2005, 12:52, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > off your back? Eh, right! > > You did not get any recommendations. Your reason for purchase is > appealing. But the price differences are huge. Yep, I didn't get any very specific recommendations, but a lot of good information, many t

Re: X header files

2005-09-10 Thread Michael Marsh
On 9/10/05, Hanspeter Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > which is the package that contains the files below > /usr/X11R6/include? This probably depends on which X server you have installed. I'm using sid, and have X.org installed, so for me the package seems to be libx11-dev and its dependencies.

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:52:50 -0600 Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some products, Stephen's position is simply silly. Consider, > for example, a Boeing 747. Another example is a C compiler. Certainly, those are two complicated products (in comparison to some other not so complicate

X header files

2005-09-10 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, which is the package that contains the files below /usr/X11R6/include? -Hanspeter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

From emacs TEXINPUTS doesn't work

2005-09-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I'm having a strange thing happening to me: In .bashrc and .bash_profile I have the line export TEXINPUTS=".:~/my_tex_macros:" It has been working fine, until yesterday I noticed that it wasn't, the macro from that directory wasn't loaded. From the console, and from the xterm they work, but not f

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

2005-09-10 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Aurélien Campéas a écrit : Aurélien Campéas a écrit : David E. Fox a écrit : On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 12:12:17 +0200 Aurélien Campéas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] Same here : for an old MGA (Matrox Video Card), I have a corrupted display (completely unusable). I tested xorg yesterday and

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

2005-09-10 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Aurélien Campéas a écrit : David E. Fox a écrit : On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 12:12:17 +0200 Aurélien Campéas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] Same here : for an old MGA (Matrox Video Card), I have a corrupted display (completely unusable). I tested xorg yesterday and had to By any chance is y

Re: Concerning make-kpkg --append-to-version

2005-09-10 Thread Spacepup
Adam Hardy wrote: > David A. Cobb on 09/09/05 02:41, wrote: > >> I have been trying various configurations building >> LINUX-SOURCE-2.6.12 using make-kpkg. >> To minimize avoidable errors, I run the whole make from a bash script. >> >> If I use --append-to-version "x6+p0c40" for example, the first

Re: sarge upgrade hosed mysql databases

2005-09-10 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:37:00PM -0700, Jeff Nelson wrote: > Hi all, > > When I did the dist-upgrade to sarge, I could no longer see any of my mysql > databases. All the mysql packages are installed, but the upgrade process > apparently hosed the databases. Does anybody have an idea as to how

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

2005-09-10 Thread Aurélien Campéas
David E. Fox a écrit : 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. Pl

Re: dist-upgrade failure

2005-09-10 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Steven Van Cleave wrote: > > On my Sarge (stable), 2.6.8-2-686, $ 'apt-get dist-upgrade' produces the > following error text: > > >ldconfig: Writing of cache data failed > >dpkg: error processing zlib1g (--configure): > >subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > >Errors

Re: announcing the beginning of security support for testing

2005-09-10 Thread Joey Hess
s. keeling wrote: > Really? > > -- > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://secure-testing.debian.net \ > testing/security-updates/main Packages \ > (/var/lib/apt/lists/secure-testing.debian.net_ \ > de

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 08:39:16AM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > > By the way how did you know I consider calligraphy to be art? Quill pens and > parchment are cool - I just can't figure out the delete feature. Didn't read the manual, evidently. I believe the delete feature was an abrasive

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 09:49:53PM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > > 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 m

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 09:49:53PM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > > If you are so lazy as to not want to read through the getting started guide > then you don't have much of a future period. Most things in life that are > worth doing require study - driving a car, being a doctor, being a compu

debian installation (stable version)

2005-09-10 Thread enediel gonzalez
I downloaded the netinst CD, but after the installation process, when comes the time to download packages from internet, I'm facing problems with the communication, scenario -real ip associated to one router -internal C class network mask (255.255.255.0) -Xp's PC and Linux Centos PC in my i

Re: kde 3.4.2 avialabe, any problems?

2005-09-10 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Rogério Brito_, on 10/09/05 03:21,typed: > On Sep 09 2005, H. S. wrote: > >>Only a few days ago, I couldn't install kdebase but kde-core seemed to >>be okay. I guess that was since not all applications had been upgraded >>to 3.4.2. Seems like good progress. > > > Well, I don't use K

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Kent West
Michael Martinell wrote: >On Sat, September 10, 2005 9:28 am, Kent West wrote: > > >>Continuing your analogy, I want auto manufacturers and software >>manufacturers to design for the consumer's benefit, rather than the >>manufacturer's benefit. Although this is what I want, I don't expect it >>f

Re: .xsession problem

2005-09-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Jim Seymour wrote: > 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

Re: announcing the beginning of security support for testing

2005-09-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
> The Debian testing security team is pleased to announce the beginning of > full security support for Debian's testing distribution. Has anyone else been able to verify the signature on that message? Try as I might, I cannot. It may be because I'm reading this group on gmane, but I've also trie

Re: dist-upgrade failure

2005-09-10 Thread Kent West
Steven Van Cleave wrote: >On my Sarge (stable), 2.6.8-2-686, $ 'apt-get dist-upgrade' produces the >following error text: > > > >>ldconfig: Writing of cache data failed >>dpkg: error processing zlib1g (--configure): >>subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 >>Errors wer

Re: Hardware RAID advices needed

2005-09-10 Thread Hans du Plooy
Kind regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: question... I'm thinking about buying a hardware RAID controller for my desktop. The main reason I don't want to go with software RAID is that my mobo IDE controllers are allready full with other stu

Re: ldconfig responds with Illegal Instruction, cannot

2005-09-10 Thread Kent West
Chris Purves wrote: > 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 I'd take a look at line 3

dist-upgrade failure

2005-09-10 Thread Steven Van Cleave
On my Sarge (stable), 2.6.8-2-686, $ 'apt-get dist-upgrade' produces the following error text: >ldconfig: Writing of cache data failed >dpkg: error processing zlib1g (--configure): >subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 >Errors were encountered while processing: zlib1g

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Michael Martinell
On Sat, September 10, 2005 9:28 am, Kent West wrote: >> > Continuing your analogy, I want auto manufacturers and software > manufacturers to design for the consumer's benefit, rather than the > manufacturer's benefit. Although this is what I want, I don't expect it > from auto manufacturers, nor d

Pilot-link problem with Etch?

2005-09-10 Thread Carl Fink
I'm running the current Etch with kernel 2.6.11-1-k7, and recently lost the ability to USB sync to my Palm Tungsten T3. When I press the Sync button on the cradle, the /dev/pilot device appears, but all attempts to sync using pilot-link or its various front ends (jpilot, gnome-pilot) fail with Er

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Kent West
Michael Martinell wrote: >By the way how did you know I consider calligraphy to be art? Quill pens and >parchment are cool - I just can't figure out the delete feature. > > I believe it's called a "book burning". Especially handy for those ideas that are before their time. -- Kent -- To

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Kent West
Steve Lamb wrote: >No, it isn't. It is the simple fact that any operation where one could >end up with a completely non-fuctional computer at the end isn't for new >users. It simply is not because new users are too apt to make mistakes to end >up non-functional and not have a clue on how to

applying kernel patch to more recent kernel version?

2005-09-10 Thread Matt Price
Hi there, I am trying to patch the current 2.6.11-1-k7 kernel (2.6.11-7) with the kerenel-patch-suspend2 package. When I run make-kpkg --added-patches suspend2 --config menuconfig --append-to-version -suspend2 configure kernel_image modules_image I get the following error message: E: no applic

Re: FW: Cygwin, ssh, and top

2005-09-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
> When I ssh into one of my Debian 3.0 boxes from WinXP Pro/ Cygwin, top > works as expected. > > > When I ssh into my Debian 3.1 box from WinXP Pro/Cygwin, top seems to be > inserting multiple line feeds at the end of each line: > > >4 root 5 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Michael Martinell
On Sat, September 10, 2005 9:20 am, David Clymer wrote: > On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 08:39 -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: >> >> I do wish that debian had such a utility though, it would be the ultimate in >> simplicity. You could just download a generic answer file from Debian for >> your x86 platfo

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread David Clymer
On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 08:39 -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > > I see heavy sarcasm is lost on you - maybe you do let the tv think for you > after all? Please have your TV read my reply below. > Most software is easy and can be figured out by the casual end > user. The point here is the OS.

Re: how to config the parameters for displayer

2005-09-10 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
weiyun lv wrote: 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? Are you looking for dpkg-reconfigur

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

2005-09-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Faithful John, This is what I have really enjoyed about Linux in general and debian in particular -- learning how to do this stuff. And trust me Google is your friend. I have learned how to do so much stuff using google its ridiculous... on to your problem. Faithful John wrote: So I did

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread David Clymer
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 17:30 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > 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 d

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Michael Martinell
On Fri, September 9, 2005 11:22 pm, Carl Fink wrote: > 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).

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 05:57:45AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > > Thanks for the sarcasm. > > It's not sarcasm. > > > > But it's circular reasoning: "If we make it hard, then it's not for new > > users." > > No, it isn't. It is the simple fact that any operation where

Re: #debian

2005-09-10 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 01:13:53PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: [...] } In any case, I tend use as little IRC as possible because the IRC } conversations are not archived as opposed to d-u. So someone seeking an } answer to an already known problem can not google it and get the } solution.

Re: Problem with Thunderbird Inbox...

2005-09-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 08:14:34AM -0400, Opus wrote: > Yesterday when I retrieved email from my provider via POP3 using > Thunderbird, I noticed that there were some emails missing from > my Inbox. I know this because I looked for one that I knew I > had not moved or deleted and could not find it

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Carl Fink wrote: > Thanks for the sarcasm. It's not sarcasm. > But it's circular reasoning: "If we make it hard, then it's not for new > users." No, it isn't. It is the simple fact that any operation where one could end up with a completely non-fuctional computer at the end isn't for

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:13:11PM -0700, 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? > > Because, and read this slowly, ask mommy for help with the big words...

Re: PROBLEM: PCI Radio card MediaForte SF64: modprobe fails with error -5 (Primary AC'97 codec not found.)

2005-09-10 Thread Joachim Fahnenmüller
Hi, On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 05:00:14PM +0300, EXIT3219 wrote: > I have a Mediaforte SF64 PCI radio card and I can't get it working. I > also have a VIA8233A sound chip on my motherboard, which uses an AC'97 > codec. > >code: > > modprobe snd-fm801 tea575x_tuner=3 > dmesg |tail > ... > ...

Re: .xsession problem

2005-09-10 Thread Joachim Fahnenmüller
Hi Jim, On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 05:54:08PM -0400, 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-

Problem with Thunderbird Inbox...

2005-09-10 Thread Opus
Yesterday when I retrieved email from my provider via POP3 using Thunderbird, I noticed that there were some emails missing from my Inbox. I know this because I looked for one that I knew I had not moved or deleted and could not find it. So I closed Thunderbird and looked through the Inbox file

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