Re: diff in octave and octave-forge

2005-09-12 Thread Ramiro Aceves
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 octa

help me

2005-09-12 Thread hong canh
i am from vietnam  please send me this drivers soundpro HT8338A/PCI sound  thank you

Re: kernel performance

2005-09-12 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Paras pradhan wrote: hi: i want to build a custom 2.6.x kernel for desktop systems. i have build kernel 2.6.12-3 successfully , but the performace of the kernel 2.4.27-1-386 ( from debian sid mirror ) is much better than kernel 2.6.12-3 that i built from source. for ex: in kernel 2.4.27-1 if it

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
David R. Litwin wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > The only reason I was dragged in was that I fell for your > > troll. > > Did you mean MY troll? I hope that what I have written does not appear to be > a troll! I'm just asking questions: I'm very curious. I'm terribly sorry if > I sound mean. I'm r

Re: Custom Kernel Won't Boot

2005-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Jon Roed wrote: > I have just compiled a new kernel (2.6.13) and i cannot get it too boot. > When > i select my new kernel from the boot loader i get the following error: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or unknown block (3,1) > Please append a correct "root= " boot option > kernel panic:

Re: kde 3.4.2 avialabe, any problems?

2005-09-12 Thread Alan Ezust
I upgraded to KDE 3.4.2 just 3 days ago and so far, I'm quite happy with the results! It's especially nice to be back in 3.4-land after having to temporarily downgrade to testing ! On 9/12/05, David E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 15:49:39 -0400"H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today

2005-09-12 Thread Glenn English
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 19:08 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: > or is it because of the Debian Perfect way > of thinking? Exactly :-) -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG ID: D0D7FF20 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: ext3 and rsync problem

2005-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Ric Otte wrote: > One thing I notice is that while copying the files (using either cp or > rsync (and also tar, although I didn't pay as much attention), is that > according to top, Xfree86 is often using up to 78-99% of the cpu, and > things are very sluggish for a few seconds after the copying is

Re: suspend-to-ram/suspend-to-disk on a desktop computer

2005-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Matt Price wrote: > I'm wondering what my best options are for getting my desktop to enter a > suspend state. The suspend2 kernel patches. > Also I'd ideally like to have it wake up by itself in the middle of the > night, do a bunch of chores (preferably including foldingm y laundry) > and then g

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

2005-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Matt Price wrote: > Ms Linuz wrote: > > Matt Price wrote: > >>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 You should not need to have "nvidia" in /etc/modules. If you do then someth

Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today

2005-09-12 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:46:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 9/12/05, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Neither can I. gnomeo-desktop-environment depends upon sound-juicer > > > 2.10.1. And such a sound-juicer doesn't exist in Debian Testing at present. > > And this begs the questio

Re: kde 3.4.2 avialabe, any problems?

2005-09-12 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 15:49:39 -0400 "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 After just checking pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org, there doesn't seem to be anything

Re: Precompiled kernels - batteries included.

2005-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Alex Polite wrote: > And with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y My understanding of CONFIG_PREEMPT=y is that it does not do what people think it does. Last time I read the google hits it was considered good for simulating MP on single cpu systems and finding bugs but not so good for reducing latency. Unless you

Re: reinstall lilo after windows

2005-09-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya hendrik On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > boot = /dev/fd0 > > > root = /dev/hda1 > > Poor choice of language. Yes. It boots the MBR on the floppy, > then tries to read the kernel, the initrd, and such from /dev/hda1. yup.. > But if the drive has been physically moved t

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-12 Thread David R. Litwin
The link I provide let me set up Splashy with relative ease. I should think, off hand, that you need to edit the config.xml file located in the splashy directory. Read the readme that comes along with your theme. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=41709 I installed it. It shows tux image. No

Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today

2005-09-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 9/12/05, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neither can I. gnomeo-desktop-environment depends upon sound-juicer > > 2.10.1. And such a sound-juicer doesn't exist in Debian Testing at present. And this begs the question, why does gnome-desktop-environment *depend* on something like sound-juicer

Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today

2005-09-12 Thread H. S.
On 9/12/05, Jason Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 12 September 2005 8:15 pm, Joseph H. Fry wrote:> I can't install it... Everything is there except sound-juicer (>=> 2.10.1) which gnome-desktop-environment depends upon.  Is this a bug?> Has anyone managed a way around this?  Or is it m

Re: reinstall lilo after windows

2005-09-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 02:26:22PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > vi lilo.conf > > > boot = /dev/fd0 > > > > > > root = /dev/hda1 > > > > Won't that make it boot from /dev/hda1? > > no... it boots from floppy ( the MBR ) Poor choice of languag

Re: Custom Kernel Won't Boot

2005-09-12 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:16 -0500, Jon Roed wrote: > I have just compiled a new kernel (2.6.13) and i cannot get it too boot. > When > i select my new kernel from the boot loader i get the following error: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or unknown block (3,1) > Please append a correct "

hotplug lacks /etc/hotplug/usermap file

2005-09-12 Thread Haines Brown
I'm running debian sarge 2.6.8-2-686, and have hotplug installed. However, I'm having trouble accessing a digital camera, and find that there's no usermap file. $ apt-show-versions hotplug hotplug/stable uptodate 0.0.20040329-22 In /pro/bus/usb/devices I have: : Bus=02 Lev=02 Prnt=03 Port=00 C

Custom Kernel Won't Boot

2005-09-12 Thread Jon Roed
I have just compiled a new kernel (2.6.13) and i cannot get it too boot. When i select my new kernel from the boot loader i get the following error: VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or unknown block (3,1) Please append a correct "root= " boot option kernel panic: not syncing : VFS cannot open

Re: 4ol 4rt files:

2005-09-12 Thread John Hasler
Paul Johnson writes: > Easier said than done, eh? Note the subject line (and yes, I did screw up the WeaponsUSA one). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today

2005-09-12 Thread Jason Clinton
On Monday 12 September 2005 8:15 pm, Joseph H. Fry wrote: > I can't install it... Everything is there except sound-juicer (>= > 2.10.1) which gnome-desktop-environment depends upon. Is this a bug? > Has anyone managed a way around this? Or is it me? I have the same problem. It looks like tomorro

Re: ext3 and rsync problem

2005-09-12 Thread Richard Otte
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 04:13:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > What if you pipe stdout to a text file? > Ron, I reformatted the drive, and began rsync with the errors piped to a file (rsync -av --exclude-from=.rsync.all /home/ric /bkup/ 2>xxx.rsync) Things went fine for a long time, but eventually

Webcam error

2005-09-12 Thread Jon Roed
I have been trying to get my webcam to work on my Debian system. When i try to execute the webcam command i get this error: Hubert:/home/jon# webcam reading config file: /root/.webcamrc ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=4): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;h

Re: lm-sensors bug?

2005-09-12 Thread Wang Xu
2005/9/13, wim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm also trying to insert the module for the GL518SM Chipset, but tha's > failing. Could this be a bug in the driver? > > slayer:~# insmod /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/kernel/drivers/i2c/chips/gl518sm.ko > insmod: error inserting > '/lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/ke

Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today

2005-09-12 Thread Joseph H. Fry
Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 16:38 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 04:48:44PM -0400, Colin wrote: Jason Clinton wrote: Around 10:30 UTC, all the mirrors should have Gnome 2.10 on them. Great. When will they have Gnome 2.12?

Need help with a problem in Woody

2005-09-12 Thread Paul E Condon
I have a small server on which I originally install Potato. It is now running Sarge and I would like to keep it, but ... A couple of months ago there was a lightening strike nearby and I had to replace the harddisk. I had a backup of my stuff, but I needed to install Debian to get started, and th

Re: 4ol 4rt files:

2005-09-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 12 September 2005 03:24 pm, John Hasler wrote: > Please do not follow up to the parent. Easier said than done, eh? pgpxJNqTOsnPK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today

2005-09-12 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 16:38 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 04:48:44PM -0400, Colin wrote: > > Jason Clinton wrote: > > > Around 10:30 UTC, all the mirrors should have Gnome 2.10 on them. > > > > Great. When will they have Gnome 2.12? > > Gee, sometime after unstable has it,

Re: How to get security updates, but not other packages?

2005-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
J. Grant wrote: > [Please include my email address in any replies] > > >You want "apt-get upgrade". (Or "aptitude upgrade".) > > Great! I need 500MB of packages, going to leave it running over night :) Hmm... 500MB sounds like a lot for just security upgrades. However I have been keeping curr

Re: Debian "install server" setup

2005-09-12 Thread Jason Edson
On 9/12/05, Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/12/05, Mark Lijftogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > Because you told us that it is for home use only I don't see any use in> FAI, or getting the whole shabang that Debian has to offer. Over 15.000> packages downloaded, and at the most 10

Re: mozilla composer asks "would you like to subscribe to "

2005-09-12 Thread H.S.
Apparently, _kooto (sent by Nabble.com)_, on 11/09/05 16:58,typed: > There is another way to browse the debian lists in a newsgroup-like > threaded format, check out Nabble's mirror of Debian lists: > http://www.nabble.com/Debian-User-f32.html Yes, thanks for the link, it indeed looks nice. Howeve

Re: Debian "install server" setup

2005-09-12 Thread Preston Boyington
On 9/12/05, Mark Lijftogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Because you told us that it is for home use only I don't see any use in > FAI, or getting the whole shabang that Debian has to offer. Over 15.000 > packages downloaded, and at the most 1000 used if you are totally lost > and out of luck. >

Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today

2005-09-12 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 04:48:44PM -0400, Colin wrote: > Jason Clinton wrote: > > Around 10:30 UTC, all the mirrors should have Gnome 2.10 on them. > > Great. When will they have Gnome 2.12? Gee, sometime after unstable has it, wouldn't you think? Yet another "I'm just gonna DIE! if I can't ve

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

2005-09-12 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 12:42:13PM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > Yeah, I still don't have a solution to my thunderbird pulldown active > option whiteout. Anybody else seeing this? Sure. Anyone who uses Firefox/Thunderbird in Gnome with the default theme for sure, probably other themes as well.

Re: [Secure-testing-team] Re: announcing the beginning of security support for testing

2005-09-12 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Marty, On Monday, 12 Sep 2005, you wrote: > Could a list of md5sums be provided for this archive, like the file > /debian/indices/md5sums.gz in the main (debian) archive? With the help > of a simple script, this file allows me to check the package integrity in my > mirror of the main debian ar

Re: announcing the beginning of security support for testing

2005-09-12 Thread Marty
Could a list of md5sums be provided for this archive, like the file /debian/indices/md5sums.gz in the main (debian) archive? With the help of a simple script, this file allows me to check the package integrity in my mirror of the main debian archive. I am hoping that this method can be used for

Re: Re: WWW.GUNSAMERICA.COM

2005-09-12 Thread Jason Edson
On 9/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: WHERE CAN I GO TO FIND INFO ON SPANISH MADE DOUBLE BBL SHOTGUN?   THANK YOU, WTH Goto INFOONSPANISHMADEDOUBLEBBLSHOTG UN.com = \

Re: How to get security updates, but not other packages?

2005-09-12 Thread J. Grant
[Please include my email address in any replies] Hi Bob, You want "apt-get upgrade". (Or "aptitude upgrade".) Great! I need 500MB of packages, going to leave it running over night :) Thanks for all the help. Kind regards JG -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: 4ol 4rt files:

2005-09-12 Thread John Hasler
Please do not follow up to the parent. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WWW.GUNSAMERICA.COM

2005-09-12 Thread John Hasler
> WHERE CAN I GO TO FIND INFO ON SPANISH MADE DOUBLE BBL SHOTGUN? Not here. What gave you the idea that Debian had anything to do with your problem? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netserver lpr debian nightmare

2005-09-12 Thread Rodney Richison
Another slot probably won't help... unless it is some kind of IRQ conflict or a bad slot. Have you tried manually configuring from the command line rather than using some GUI tool? ie. using ifconfig? Ok, for now, I've said the heck with that card. Though, I'll have to get back to it late

Re: announcing the beginning of security support for testing

2005-09-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Oliver Lupton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joey Hess wrote: > >>deb 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 >> >>Alternativ

Re: aol art files:

2005-09-12 Thread Carl Johnson
--- remove useless garbage --- That's enough. My spam filter now traps anything coming from aol. -- Carl Johnson[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Strange things with SMP setup (slightly OT)

2005-09-12 Thread Nicos Gollan
Hi, There's a really "funny" thing happening with my new machine (Athlon 64 X2). Everytime the machine sees some load (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] or a -j4 make job), something seems to go bam in the scheduler, IRQ routing or something else. The visible results are: - Multiplied input events from

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

2005-09-12 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:06:06PM +0200, Marco wrote: > Simo Kauppi ha scritto: > > >It seems to me that the conditions for the first domain say that > >any hostname which is not www.doamin1.com should go to www.domain1.com. > >I.e. Apache is doing exacly as asked (domain2.com != www.domain1.com)

Re: reinstall lilo after windows

2005-09-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > vi lilo.conf > > boot = /dev/fd0 > > > > root = /dev/hda1 > > Won't that make it boot from /dev/hda1? no... it boots from floppy ( the MBR ) it's told that /, /dev, /etc, /bin etc ( rootfs ) is on /dev/hda1 > How will it know to look on

Re: Re: WWW.GUNSAMERICA.COM

2005-09-12 Thread Wth1942
WHERE CAN I GO TO FIND INFO ON SPANISH MADE DOUBLE BBL SHOTGUN?   THANK YOU, WTH

Re: Re: aol art files:

2005-09-12 Thread Oper321
what are these art files, and why do we have to wait for aol to remove them before we can continue after getting off of aol? Every time we leave we must wait for that action. Jim

Re: reinstall lilo after windows

2005-09-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 06:31:00AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > mkboot only works if you have lilo installed. > > those commands and gazillion other equivalent/similarly > named commands all have assumptions in order to work And boy, is it confusing if you don't know what the assumptions are!

Re: ext3 and rsync problem

2005-09-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 08:49 -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 03:07:41AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Does tar succeed as well? > > > Yes, I believe so. I just copied several directories using tar, and > fsck says everything is fine. > > One thing I notice is that while copying t

Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today

2005-09-12 Thread Colin
Jason Clinton wrote: > Around 10:30 UTC, all the mirrors should have Gnome 2.10 on them. Great. When will they have Gnome 2.12? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Laptop choice to run debian

2005-09-12 Thread Dr. Steven A. Sola
I'm thinking of getting an asus z71v notebook. has anyone had any experience with this or similar models? TIA lao -- ___ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

Re: apache (-perl, -ssl) upgrade

2005-09-12 Thread Matthew Lenz
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 15:06 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Matthew Lenz writes: > > yeah thats what I did (all the run levels have a K for apache, > > apache-perl and apache-ssl). It still trys to start apache-perl though > > (not apache or apache-ssl) which is strange. It think it might be a bug >

lm-sensors bug?

2005-09-12 Thread wim
Hi, I'm trying to get lm-sensors working on my PII 400Mhz The motherboard is an Asus AX6BC This is the output of sensors-detect: slayer:~# sensors-detect This program will help you determine which I2C/SMBus modules you need to load to use lm_sensors most effectively. You need to have i2c and lm

Re: changing window managers

2005-09-12 Thread Joachim Fahnenmüller
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 02:48:42PM +0200, Thomas Jollans wrote: > Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote: > > >Sorry if the question is stupid, but: What is a session manager, and how > >does it > >get involved? > > > >THX > > > > > AFAIK the session manager is a program that > a) starts the programs of a d

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

2005-09-12 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Marco wrote: Angelo Bertolli ha scritto: I think you need to add ServerAlias domain2.com to your second vhost. When Apache first decides which vhost block to use, it doesn't find one for domain2.com so it defaults to the first block. I would want that when a user write a URL as http://d

Re: .xsession problem

2005-09-12 Thread Joachim Fahnenmüller
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 06:49:35PM -0400, Jim Seymour wrote: > (...) > I am using gdm to start Gnome. I tried the .xinitrc file instead of > .xsession. I get the same resultthe plan daemon still does not > start. I can execute either one from the command line and they will load > pland. Ot

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

2005-09-12 Thread Marco
David Clymer ha scritto: Perhaps I don't understand exactly what you want to do..but wouldnt it be much easier to add a ServerAlias to the vitualhost config? ServerName domain1.com ServerAlias www.domain1.com ... -davidc Hi David, I would want rewrite the URL of client ex. http:

Re: apache (-perl, -ssl) upgrade

2005-09-12 Thread John Hasler
Matthew Lenz writes: > yeah thats what I did (all the run levels have a K for apache, > apache-perl and apache-ssl). It still trys to start apache-perl though > (not apache or apache-ssl) which is strange. It think it might be a bug > in the apache-perl package. Such a bug would have to involve

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

2005-09-12 Thread Marco
Angelo Bertolli ha scritto: I think you need to add ServerAlias domain2.com to your second vhost. When Apache first decides which vhost block to use, it doesn't find one for domain2.com so it defaults to the first block. I would want that when a user write a URL as http://domain1.com the

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

2005-09-12 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Marco wrote: Simo Kauppi ha scritto: It seems to me that the conditions for the first domain say that any hostname which is not www.doamin1.com should go to www.domain1.com. I.e. Apache is doing exacly as asked (domain2.com != www.domain1.com) :) I guess you want requests to http://domain2.co

Re: Debian-laptop.org

2005-09-12 Thread Dr. Steven A. Sola
I'm thinking of getting an asus z71v notebook. has anyone had any experience with this or similar models? TIA lao -- ___ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

2005-09-12 Thread Marco
Simo Kauppi ha scritto: It seems to me that the conditions for the first domain say that any hostname which is not www.doamin1.com should go to www.domain1.com. I.e. Apache is doing exacly as asked (domain2.com != www.domain1.com) :) I guess you want requests to http://domain2.com to go to the

Problems with apt-build and packages authentication

2005-09-12 Thread Michelasso
I have this problem with apt-build: building sources works for almost all packages, but when going to install them it fails with this error: --- Building dependency tree... Done The following NEW packages will be insta

gpg delete uid

2005-09-12 Thread hakim
Hi, I do the following: # gpg --edit-key myuid uid 1 deluid You can't delete the last user ID! Why I can't delete this uid. It is not the last one there are two other. Thanks... Achim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: howto change gnome mouse+keyb shortcuts

2005-09-12 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:05 +0300, icmp wrote: > I recently changed from kde to gnome. So I try to configure everything > by my habits. Though I cannot figure out how to configure mouse > +keyboard shortcuts for gnome. Let me suggest you subscribing to the gnome list: http://mail.gnome.org/mailma

Re: apache (-perl, -ssl) upgrade

2005-09-12 Thread Matthew Lenz
yeah thats what I did (all the run levels have a K for apache, apache-perl and apache-ssl). It still trys to start apache-perl though (not apache or apache-ssl) which is strange. It think it might be a bug in the apache-perl package. -Matt On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 13:13 -0500, John Hasler wrote: >

Re: Debian "install server" setup

2005-09-12 Thread Mark Lijftogt
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 01:27:30PM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: > antgel to debian-user wrote: > > > Perhaps I missed the point, but don't you want to use apt-proxy for > > offering this service? > > I was under the impression that apt-proxy was used for serving packages that > one had downl

Re: announcing the beginning of security support for testing

2005-09-12 Thread Oliver Lupton
Joey Hess wrote: deb 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 Alternatively, replace "secure-testing.debian.net" in the above li

Re: ServerAlias considered harmful

2005-09-12 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On mandag 12 september 2005, 17:47, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > Ok, but what's the Apache configuration answer to this?  I write out > my virtual hosts without using mod_rewrite, and I really don't want > to write TWO virtual host blocks just for the sake of redirecting > domain.com to www.domain.com.

Re: Motherboard with SiS 620 video chipset and HT8338A/PCI sound

2005-09-12 Thread Cameron Matheson
hong canh wrote: i need driver Motherboard with SiS 620 video chipset and HT8338A/PCI sound thank you Um, i'm assuming you're looking for the right settings for your xorg.conf? change the Driver in the video section to "sis" Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian "install server" setup

2005-09-12 Thread Preston Boyington
antgel to debian-user wrote: > Perhaps I missed the point, but don't you want to use apt-proxy for > offering this service? I was under the impression that apt-proxy was used for serving packages that one had downloaded for a particular machine. So if I had downloaded "pingus" for my child it

Re: announcing the beginning of security support for testing

2005-09-12 Thread Bill Wohler
You may get the following error message and not know what it means: W: Couldn't stat source package list http://secure-testing.debian.net etch/security-updates/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/secure-testing.debian.net_debian-secure-testing_dists_etch_security-updates_main_binary-i38

Re: apache (-perl, -ssl) upgrade

2005-09-12 Thread John Hasler
Matthew Lenz writes: > Is there a way to make the upgrade process not reinstall the /etc/rc.* > entries (which I've removed with update-rc.d)... Don't remove them: just change them all to K entries. You can do this easily with sysvconfig (apt-get install sysvconfig). -- John Hasler -- To UNSU

udev complaints during /etc/init.d/hotplug start

2005-09-12 Thread Bill Wohler
After yesterdays etch/2.6.12 upgrade, I am now seeing this when running /etc/init.d/hotplug start: udev[1172]: main: action, subsystem or devpath missing udev[1173]: main: action, subsystem or devpath missing Any thoughts? -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/

howto change gnome mouse+keyb shortcuts

2005-09-12 Thread icmp
Hi. I recently changed from kde to gnome. So I try to configure everything by my habits. Though I cannot figure out how to configure mouse+keyboard shortcuts for gnome. Alt+leftmouse moves window, I also want Alt+rightmouse to resize window, but cant find out how to do it. thanks in advance..--

Re: kernel performance

2005-09-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paras pradhan wrote: hi: i want to build a custom 2.6.x kernel for desktop systems. i have build kernel 2.6.12-3 successfully , but the performace of the kernel 2.4.27-1-386 ( from debian sid mirror ) is much better than kernel 2.6.12-3 that i built from source. for ex: in kernel 2.4.27-1 if it

Re: X.Org Hits Testing

2005-09-12 Thread Bill Wohler
Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did the upgrade, had to select xserver-xorg manually, ran > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, answered the questions based on what was > in my XF86Config file, ran startx and it all worked! The fonts looked > horrid so I copied the debconf lines into xor

Re: Xdefaults versus Xresources (Re: Help!)

2005-09-12 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:37:35AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Sorry this posting was not the most accurate of references. I just > flung it out from faded memory. > > Bob For me it has been great. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: How to get security updates, but not other packages?

2005-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
J. Grant wrote: > [Please include my email address in any replies] > > Presently using debian sarge, I would like to update my system with only > security fixes which have been made available since Sarge was released. > Now sure how to do this. You want "apt-get upgrade". (Or "aptitude upgrade".

Xdefaults versus Xresources (Re: Help!)

2005-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Speaking of which, whats the difference between .Xdefaults and > .Xresources? I have had to copy settings from .Xdefaults to > .Xresources because it was not working, even after loging out and > back. The .Xdefaults file is the old way of doing resources. They are read

Re: .xsession problem

2005-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Jim Seymour wrote: > I am using gdm to start Gnome. I tried the .xinitrc file instead of > .xsession. I get the same resultthe plan daemon still does not > start. I can execute either one from the command line and they will load > pland. Other ideas Try the suggestion I posted in my o

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

2005-09-12 Thread Wackojacko
Bill Marcum wrote: On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:13:06PM +0100, wackojacko wrote: UPDATE I downloaded the Ubuntu Live CD and tried to chroot into the partition as follows mount -t ext3 /dev/sda2 /mnt chroot /mnt and get the error chroot: cannot execute '/bin/bash':

Re: apache (-perl, -ssl) upgrade

2005-09-12 Thread Matthew Lenz
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 17:06 +0100, antgel wrote: > Matthew Lenz wrote: > > Is there a way to make the upgrade process not reinstall the /etc/rc.* > > entries (which I've removed with update-rc.d) and not attempt to kill > > existing servers in /var/run/apache* or start /etc/init.d/apache* when > >

Re: mplayer

2005-09-12 Thread Franz Gustav Niederheitmann
did u try to get it from another source(mirror) like this from apt-get.org? http://www1.apt-get.org/search.php?query=mplayer&submit=&arch%5B%5D=i386&arch%5B%5D=all 2005/9/12, Christian Christmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I'm using the current testing version of Debian. > What happened to t

Re: Editing Gnome menus in gnome 2.10

2005-09-12 Thread Guido Heumann
Am Montag, 12. September 2005 03:54 schrieb Bill Wohler: > Rats, it's happened again. An upgrade clobbered my custom Gnome menus > and there's no visible way to add them back in. Nautilus no longer has a > location bar where you can enter applications:///. > > Searching the list shows that editing

Re: bootsplash

2005-09-12 Thread Nicolas Cadou
Le 11 Septembre 2005 04:50, mess-mate a écrit : > Hi, > i've installed bootsplash on a machine without any problem. > But can't do the same on a second machine : > -233 k6 with a S3Virge graphic car. > Seems 'mode' (vga) isn't right when booting and have to select an > other mode like for example 8

mplayer

2005-09-12 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I'm using the current testing version of Debian. What happened to the package mplayer? When typing "aptitute install" and than hitting TAB twice I get this list: mplayer mplayer-amd64mplayer-k6 mplayerplug-in mplayer-386 mplayer-custom mplayer-k7 mplayer-586

Re: debian installation (stable version)

2005-09-12 Thread David Clymer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 02:44 +, enediel gonzalez wrote: > Thanks David for your answer. > > The stable version includes a 2.4 kernel, after review several all possible > variants I had in my hands and guessing that the problem is related to the > driver for the network card, I took the follo

apache (-perl, -ssl) upgrade

2005-09-12 Thread Matthew Lenz
Is there a way to make the upgrade process not reinstall the /etc/rc.* entries (which I've removed with update-rc.d) and not attempt to kill existing servers in /var/run/apache* or start /etc/init.d/apache* when it completes? I thought that the upgrade process would be smart enough not to attempt

Re: Debian "install server" setup

2005-09-12 Thread Preston Boyington
On 9/12/05, Mark Lijftogt wrote: > I would start with FAI if I would be doing 1 installs a week. Anything > below that would need some carefull thought, simply because it is a lot > of work to set it up and to maintain your profiles that you create. I am > not sure if that is what you want. > > N

Re: ext3 and rsync problem

2005-09-12 Thread Ric Otte
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 03:07:41AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Does tar succeed as well? > Yes, I believe so. I just copied several directories using tar, and fsck says everything is fine. One thing I notice is that while copying the files (using either cp or rsync (and also tar, although I didn

Re: ServerAlias considered harmful

2005-09-12 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On mandag 12 september 2005, 02:07, David Clymer wrote: but wouldnt it be much easier to add a ServerAlias to the vitualhost config? Without trying to respond to the original question, I would like to point out that ServerAliases are vil and architecturally

ldap client will not shutdown

2005-09-12 Thread John Smith
Hi All, I'm busy with my first attempts to implement ldap, and stumble over some side effects: my laptop (the ldap client) won't reboot, it hangs somewhere in the shutdown process and waiting for over an hour does not help. I logon with a local (non-ldap) username. I ruled out everything

Re: Debian "install server" setup

2005-09-12 Thread Mark Lijftogt
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:40:24AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: > I have successfully used Debmirror (thanks to all responders) to create a > local mirror and now I want to use it for my home network. > > I have been reading up on a FAI server and have also had suggested to me to > use Apache

Debian "install server" setup

2005-09-12 Thread Preston Boyington
I have successfully used Debmirror (thanks to all responders) to create a local mirror and now I want to use it for my home network. I have been reading up on a FAI server and have also had suggested to me to use Apache to serve Debian (and a couple of other) distros. The server is on a private

Re: Laptop choice to run debian

2005-09-12 Thread anoop aryal
On Saturday 10 September 2005 05:41 am, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Brian Kimball wrote: > > 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

Re: kernel performance

2005-09-12 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Paras pradhan wrote: hi: i want to build a custom 2.6.x kernel for desktop systems. i have build kernel 2.6.12-3 successfully , but the performace of the kernel 2.4.27-1-386 ( from debian sid mirror ) is much better than kernel 2.6.12-3 that i built from source. for ex: in kernel 2.4.27-1 if i

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