Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Kent West wrote: > Unless you need to know two days after the fact, when you've forgotten > when you did what when. Why would I need to know what I did and when I did it? If something is broken the path is clear... fix it! -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Kent West wrote: > And when you need to run an X app? Ah, gotta muck around with Xauthority > files now. I've yet to see an X app that needs me to have root. Chances are if such a beast exists I don't need it. > And when you've got several xterms open, and only one of which is logged > in as

Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine install SMP kernel?

2005-09-25 Thread James He
Hi, Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine use SMP kernel, or stick to a regular kernel? I know it's a dumb question. Please do help me. Thanks a lot! :-) $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 13 model name : Intel(R) P

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Kent West wrote: > 1. Training oneself not to run things as root is one benefit of sudo, so > that you don't mess up when you go to another machine. One presumes when you go to another machine you won't have root. Training oneself to not run things as root is not a benefit of sudo, it is a be

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-25 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Rob Benton wrote: > I've lost data and a whole partition using xfs. I wouldn't call it > stable. I use reiser now. that'd depend on: - which glibc, which kernel, which version of xfs vs reiserfs i've lost partitions and/or files with all of the fs including ext3

Re: vncserver

2005-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Please don't CC. I didn't requesting and CCing is against list policy. Thanks. Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > I didn't see the inetd.conf line, but logins are probably being handled > through your preferred X Display Manager. Not what I asked. I asked how users can disconnect/reconnect n

Re: Video card : ATI Radeon X300

2005-09-25 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 9/25/05, David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: add this to your /etc/apt/sources.listdeb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/xorg-x11/ sarge mainI want to know if this xorg works without problem in sarge. -- L.V.Gandhihttp://lvgandhi.tripod.com/linux user No.205042

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
csj wrote: On 21. September 2005 at 8:32AM -0400, Mitchell Laks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] I try not to use maxtor - i have switched to western digital after too many crashes. I buy only Maxtor drives. I bought one bad Maxtor drive that started spouting read errors the first time I t

Re: gnuplot and PDF

2005-09-25 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 10:29:35PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: does anyone know why the testing gnuplot package does not support PDF output ? Stable's doesn't, unstable's doesn't, seems logical enough that testing's wouldn't either, although I no longer have a test

Re: gnuplot and PDF

2005-09-25 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Sunday 25 September 2005 10:20 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 10:29:35PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > does anyone know why the testing gnuplot package does not support > > PDF output ? > When has gnuplot ever supported output to PDF? Actually, version 4 of gnuplot does supp

Re: cups problem

2005-09-25 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 9/24/05, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 24/09/05, L.V.Gandhi < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have debian sarge with all updates. I have cups installed. Using http://localhost:631 I can configure and print in ff. But when I try to access printers in control center, I get message Unab

RE: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-25 Thread Seth Goodman
> From: Steve Lamb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 2:41 PM > > > Seth Goodman wrote: > > Getting back to the reply function, the standards are silent as > > to how to > > treat Reply-To: for a redistributed message and the field is optional to > > start with. The pre

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:54:18 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:29:09 +1200 > >Joel Peter William Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>On 9/26/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Steve Lamb wrote: > >>>

Gnome's Window Selector via keyboard

2005-09-25 Thread Eric P
Anyone know a way access Gnome's Window Selector via the keyboard? Thanks, Eric P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnuplot and PDF

2005-09-25 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 10:29:35PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > does anyone know why the testing gnuplot package does not support PDF > output ? Stable's doesn't, unstable's doesn't, seems logical enough that testing's wouldn't either, although I no longer have a testing box to check directly.

Re: Someone is breaking etch (testing)?

2005-09-25 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 04:38:14PM -0500, Jason Clinton wrote: > In the past two days, etch (testing) has been updated with a kde meta package > which apparently depends on packages from unstable which, in turn, has caused > aptitude to suggest removing KDE when performing a system-wide upgrade.

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-25 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
On 9/26/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joel Peter William Pitt wrote:>> 2. Not logging into X as root is another benefit. Running a single X> client/app as root is different than running all of X as root.>>> You can run su within a terminal in X, no one mentioned anything about >

lmsensors alarm....

2005-09-25 Thread Simon
Hi There, We have a one of our servers producing a "sensord: Sensor alarm" in the syslog. Its a dual athlon box and here is the output of #sensors: (Any idea of whats happening here? Im sure that there is no case sensor web1:/proc# sensors w83627hf-isa-0c00 Adapter: ISA adapter VCore1:

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-25 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Steve Lamb wrote: Stephen R Laniel wrote: But he *does* want to mess with sudo. Sudo is a much safer tool than logging in as root, for reasons that have been done to death on any number of Linux lists. On a single user machine or for when the person who is pretty much the de facto

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-25 Thread Kent West
Joel Peter William Pitt wrote: > > 2. Not logging into X as root is another benefit. Running a single X > client/app as root is different than running all of X as root. > > > You can run su within a terminal in X, no one mentioned anything about > running X as root. That's an aside from w

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-25 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: >On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:29:09 +1200 >Joel Peter William Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>On 9/26/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>Steve Lamb wrote: >>> >>> >[snip] > > >>2. Not logging into X as root is another benefit. Running a >>single X

Re: annoying screensaver

2005-09-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 05:35:16PM -0700, Jianbo Wang wrote: > Hi, > > There is a priority controller in redhat screensaver. In Sarge, my > screensaver always uses over 90% of CPU. Is there any way to set low > prioity of sreensaver in debian? Thanks! This requires that you laboriously edit th

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:29:09 +1200 Joel Peter William Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/26/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Steve Lamb wrote: [snip] > 2. Not logging into X as root is another benefit. Running a > single X > > client/app as root is different than running all o

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:39:40 -0700 Seeker5528 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:40:50 -0700 > Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > To add to the insanity (at least with sylpheed-claws-gtk2) > it seems if the Reply To: field contains the posters email > address the

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-25 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
On 9/26/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steve Lamb wrote:> On a single user machine or for when the person who is pretty much the>>de facto administrator and they know to just su root, run the command and get>the hell out of dodge there is *NO* benefit of sudo. >1. Training oneself not to

Re: GRUB bootloader issue

2005-09-25 Thread Jeremy Merritt
I tried that and it seemed to work. When I ran 'grub-install /dev/hda5' it reported 'no errors' and seemed to execute successfully. However, upon reboot, I am back to XP bootup. Is there another step that I need to include? Steps so far: 1. Boot up with live CD (Knoppix) 2. Activate shell and go

Re: Gnumeric doesn't work in Testing (for me)...

2005-09-25 Thread James Vahn
Eric P wrote: > James Vahn wrote: >> Try "wajig install/unstable gnumeric" and see if that works. >> > Thanks for the tip. And thank you for the heads up- gnumeric is working for me again. :-) > However, can you clue me into wajig? > It just reinstalled 1.5.1-1 when I the wajig line up there.

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-25 Thread Kent West
Steve Lamb wrote: > On a single user machine or for when the person who is pretty much the > >de facto administrator and they know to just su root, run the command and get >the hell out of dodge there is *NO* benefit of sudo. > 1. Training oneself not to run things as root is one benefit of sudo,

Re: apt-get errors out religiously while processing 'at' command

2005-09-25 Thread Eric P
Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 07:39:23PM -0500, Eric P wrote: > >>Hmm... maybe I just fixed it. I uninstalled the 'at' package, and >>apt-get no longer complains. > > > You may want to try reinstalling it now and see if things continue to > work normally. On my sarge system

Re: Gnumeric doesn't work in Testing (for me)...

2005-09-25 Thread Eric P
Eric P wrote: > James Vahn wrote: > >>Eric P wrote: >> >> >>>I'm running testing, recently upgraded all packages to be upgraded >>>(Gnome 2.10 and Xorg were the biggies), and Gnumeric no longer starts >>>anymore. >>> >>>Here's what I get: >>>$ gnumeric >>>gnumeric: symbol lookup error: gnumeric: u

Re: Spumux does not work

2005-09-25 Thread Eric P
Eric P wrote: > Ted Flamouropoulos wrote: > >>All, >> >>I have a recent problem with spumux in trying to multiplex subtiltes into a >>movie file. Apparently spumux does not recognize the subtitle images in the >>directory. I can open and look at the subtitles using a viewer, so the images >>are

Re: 4ol 4rt files:

2005-09-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 25 September 2005 11:08 pm, Malcolm Lalkaka wrote: > What is this conversation about anway? Or more specifically, what does > it have to to with debian linux? Whatever the case, can you please > stop sending it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you would like to > carry this conversation out, simpl

Re: 4ol 4rt files:

2005-09-25 Thread Malcolm Lalkaka
What is this conversation about anway? Or more specifically, what does it have to to with debian linux? Whatever the case, can you please stop sending it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you would like to carry this conversation out, simply email each other directly. I, as well as many others subscribed to

Re: Gnumeric doesn't work in Testing (for me)...

2005-09-25 Thread Eric P
James Vahn wrote: > Eric P wrote: > >>I'm running testing, recently upgraded all packages to be upgraded >>(Gnome 2.10 and Xorg were the biggies), and Gnumeric no longer starts >>anymore. >> >>Here's what I get: >>$ gnumeric >>gnumeric: symbol lookup error: gnumeric: undefined symbol: cell_formats

Re: IBM ServeRAID 7e and Sarge

2005-09-25 Thread valentin_nils
Hi Simon, I dont fully remember how we did that (was 3 months ago). We used Red Hat 9 for the customer, but I am sure it works very similar for Debian Sarge. As always your mileage may vary. http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-55285 We extracted the driver (with

Re: GRUB bootloader issue

2005-09-25 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun September 25 2005 04:32 pm, Jeremy Merritt wrote: > I need help figuring out what is going on with my > Debian / GRUB bootloader. Because of some Windoze > issues, I had to re-install XP on my machine. It > discarded the grub loader and now you can only boot to > XP from hda1. I consulted wi

annoying screensaver

2005-09-25 Thread Jianbo Wang
Hi, There is a priority controller in redhat screensaver. In Sarge, my screensaver always uses over 90% of CPU. Is there any way to set low prioity of sreensaver in debian? Thanks! Regards! Jianbo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: 4ol 4rt files:

2005-09-25 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 18:10 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 18:41:09 -0400 > David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Doofus, stupid, etc are pejoratives. I don't consider it appropriate > > to describe someone in such terms merely because they happen to have > > been delt

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-25 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:40:50 -0700 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wrong, wrong, wrong. How you can cite 2822 as a reference for reply-to > munging while denouncing 822 is beyond me. It was 822 that had an explicit > reference to mailing lists as an acceptable use of 822. 2822 *remo

Re: GRUB bootloader issue

2005-09-25 Thread Roby
Jeremy Merritt wrote: > I need help figuring out what is going on with my > Debian / GRUB bootloader. Because of some Windoze > issues, I had to re-install XP on my machine. It > discarded the grub loader and now you can only boot to > XP from hda1. I consulted with another Debian user who > said

Re: Gnumeric doesn't work in Testing (for me)...

2005-09-25 Thread James Vahn
Eric P wrote: > I'm running testing, recently upgraded all packages to be upgraded > (Gnome 2.10 and Xorg were the biggies), and Gnumeric no longer starts > anymore. > > Here's what I get: > $ gnumeric > gnumeric: symbol lookup error: gnumeric: undefined symbol: cell_formats > > Anyone else have

Re: Printer

2005-09-25 Thread Malcolm Lalkaka
Try installing the debian package cupsys-bsd. Tell me if it helps. -- Malcolm < mlalkaka [at] gmail.com > - On 9/25/05, L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/25/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A lot depends on whether or not the PSC 750

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-25 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
On 9/25/05, Daniel Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know wich is the best filesystem to > use: the ReiseFS or XFS. Is it possible to do a whole > installation of the Debian system (testing) with XFS. > I will use the netinst ISO. > http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.h

Re: Printer

2005-09-25 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 9/25/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A lot depends on whether or not the PSC 750 is well-supported underLinux; a lot also depends on whether Windows is sharing the printer viasmb or via standard lpr/lpd. If smb, you'll also have toinstall/configure a minimal Samba setup on your Linux bo

Re: GRUB bootloader issue

2005-09-25 Thread Malcolm Lalkaka
/dev/hda1 seems to be an NTFS filesystem (at least that's what fdisk says). I'm not sure about this, but may it have to be a Linux filesystem (e.g. ext3) in order for grub to work with it. I may be wrong about this, so take it with a grain of salt. Also, it seems that all of your hard drives, (hda

Re: bluez-utils 2.19-1 not in Sarge security updates?

2005-09-25 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 11:22:11PM +0100, Edd Dumbill wrote: > On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 18:06 -0400, William Ballard wrote: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323365 > > > > Why is this grave security bugfix not in Sarge security updates, more > > than a month later? I know there'

Re: Bittorent question

2005-09-25 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:10:22 -0500 (CDT) "Josh Battles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did not have to open any ports in my firewall to use BT on either Linux or > Windows. What are the advantages of opening ports in my firewall for BT? Depending on the client being used the download may be fas

GRUB bootloader issue

2005-09-25 Thread Jeremy Merritt
I need help figuring out what is going on with my Debian / GRUB bootloader. Because of some Windoze issues, I had to re-install XP on my machine. It discarded the grub loader and now you can only boot to XP from hda1. I consulted with another Debian user who said to simply run 'grub-install /dev/hd

Re: 4ol 4rt files:

2005-09-25 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 18:41:09 -0400 David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doofus, stupid, etc are pejoratives. I don't consider it appropriate > to describe someone in such terms merely because they happen to have > been delt a smaller portion of intelligence. However, when someone > actively r

Re: cdrdao as normal user

2005-09-25 Thread C Shore
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 12:47:09PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: > Is there a way to use cdrdao as a normal user? I am using a custom > compiled kernel, version 2.6.13, and running Debian unstable. As root, I > use the following to burn CDs: Make a group called, say cdwrite. Add users who should be a

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-25 Thread Katipo
Daniel Garcia wrote: Hello, I would like to know wich is the best filesystem to use: the ReiseFS or XFS. Is it possible to do a whole installation of the Debian system (testing) with XFS. If you only deal with small file sizes, Reiserfs/Reiser4fs is the best option. If you go for a lot of

installing digikam from unstable on a testing GNOME system

2005-09-25 Thread Levi Waldron
I am running a testing system with GNOME, and digikam is missing right now from testing, I am not an apt-get expert, but I am tempted to install the digikam from unstable by putting unstable in my sources.list then doing: parkdale:~# apt-get install digikam digikamimageplugins kipi-plugins Readi

Re: Odd install from floppy problem

2005-09-25 Thread Carlos Correia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alvin Oga wrote: | | On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Carlos Correia wrote: | | |>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |>Hash: SHA1 |> |>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |>| Rewrite the root.img disk and be sure to format the disk properly before |>| writing it. |>| |> |>I

Re: 4ol 4rt files:

2005-09-25 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 14:54 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 09:36:05 -0500 > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Cybe R. Wizard writes: > > > It has been my experience that 'average' (and, of course, below) > > > contains a large supply of doofuses, too, so there /must/

Re: bluez-utils 2.19-1 not in Sarge security updates?

2005-09-25 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 18:06 -0400, William Ballard wrote: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323365 > > Why is this grave security bugfix not in Sarge security updates, more > than a month later? I know there's a "good reason," but in my few years > of using Debian I have always

Re: very slow usb 2.0

2005-09-25 Thread Roberto Winter
ok, just for the record: removed the "ub" module from the kernel and now I copied the same 698MB file in one and a half minutes! great. thanks a lot, another problem solved. linux rocks. roberto On 9/25/05, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't know of that the kernel is faster if you don'

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-25 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 16:30 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, David Clymer wrote: > > If you are planning on doing LVM, use XFS. XFS will allow you to resize > > a filesytem on the fly - no need to umount, resize, remount, etc. I've > > No. It will alow you to *grow*

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-25 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 20:57 +0100, Dick Davies wrote: > On 25/09/05, David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you are planning on doing LVM, use XFS. XFS will allow you to resize > > a filesytem on the fly - no need to umount, resize, remount, etc. I've > > found this to be a very handy fe

open with menu empty

2005-09-25 Thread Mike Dobbs
I'm running sid amd64. In gnome (2.10) natalus right clicking on open with other brings open a nice window with no applications, only a custom command option. Does anyone else have any default applications to open a file with? If so how do I go about getting some options other than custom. tha

bluez-utils 2.19-1 not in Sarge security updates?

2005-09-25 Thread William Ballard
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323365 Why is this grave security bugfix not in Sarge security updates, more than a month later? I know there's a "good reason," but in my few years of using Debian I have always run unstable. What's the policy/urgency for getting grave security

Gnumeric doesn't work in Testing (for me)...

2005-09-25 Thread Eric P
I'm running testing, recently upgraded all packages to be upgraded (Gnome 2.10 and Xorg were the biggies), and Gnumeric no longer starts anymore. Here's what I get: $ gnumeric gnumeric: symbol lookup error: gnumeric: undefined symbol: cell_formats Anyone else have this problem? Thanks for readin

Re: How to enable Direct rendering on a machine with VIA KM400 graphics card ?

2005-09-25 Thread Juan Fco. Casanova Rodriguez
Hi, Sadly I needed to get Xorg to get my Via KM400 working. The DRI driver for our card dosn't work properly with Xfree. Try having a look at the Xorg site. If you need more detailed info, please, ask again. Cheers, Juan > > I have an AMD athlon machine at home and its motherboard uses a VI

gnuplot and PDF

2005-09-25 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, does anyone know why the testing gnuplot package does not support PDF output ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Someone is breaking etch (testing)?

2005-09-25 Thread Jason Clinton
Hi everyone; In the past two days, etch (testing) has been updated with a kde meta package which apparently depends on packages from unstable which, in turn, has caused aptitude to suggest removing KDE when performing a system-wide upgrade. I have been able to hold it back by following the depe

Re: mysql-server-4.1 and exim4 interdependency

2005-09-25 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:43:33 +0100 marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see that this happens because mysql-server depends on mailx, and mailx > depends on exim4. > > I just wondered why these interdependencies exist. As already indicated, people want to be informed about activities/problems rel

Re: very slow usb 2.0

2005-09-25 Thread Roberto Winter
yeah, I found this: (here: http://www.lugod.org/mailinglists/archives/vox-tech/2005-08/msg00024.html) To blacklist a module I believe you just add it to /etc/hotplug/blacklist.  But in the case of ub vs. usb-storage, simply blacklisting or hiding the ub module won't do.  You actually have to rebuil

Re: very slow usb 2.0

2005-09-25 Thread John covici
I don't know of that the kernel is faster if you don't use modules, I seriously doubt its true and for your case it would work much better -- the module is only loaded once and then its in memory. on Sunday 09/25/2005 Roberto Winter([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > yeah, I found this: (here: > http://

Re: very slow usb 2.0

2005-09-25 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Sonntag, 25. September 2005 22:26 schrieb Roberto Winter: > First of all I do have hci-hcd, ehci-hcd, and usb-storage compiled in the > kernel. Not as modules though, but that doesn't make a difference. > The thing is that I also hav UB compiled and it is not a module, so I can't > simply unload

Re: very slow usb 2.0

2005-09-25 Thread Roberto Winter
Hi! Thanks a lot for the prompt reply. First of all I do have hci-hcd, ehci-hcd, and usb-storage compiled in the kernel. Not as modules though, but that doesn't make a difference. The thing is that I also hav UB compiled and it is not a module, so I can't simply unload it. Is there a way to tell th

ip changed when the system is running

2005-09-25 Thread Xiaoyang Gu
hi I have a little pain problem. It is about the ip address. My debian box got an ip from the DHCP server when booting the system. But some time later, maybe ten hours, the ip address changed automaticlly. I didn't shutdown or reboot my computer, or plug out the cable ... I don't know why. Bu

RE: exim4-light vs exim4-heavy

2005-09-25 Thread Seth Goodman
> From: Dave Ewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 10:18 AM <...> > Well, yes: but that applies regardless of whether you've launching it > from procmail or not :-) Well, not exactly. I don't know enough about Exim to know if it can operate this way, but if you do y

Re: X11R6

2005-09-25 Thread TONYSWEETMAN05
was you related to Margariute Patricia Forster

RE: Installing without CD

2005-09-25 Thread Seth Goodman
I think what James was trying to say is that both your time and the time of those offering advice is probably worth a good deal more than the cost of a new CD burner.  I don't think he meant any insult, so please don't take it as one.  You'll probably want one for backups, anyway, so it's no

Re: alsactl: set_control:930: warning: name mismatch

2005-09-25 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Rob Benton (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Anyone else seen something similar to this (sblive 5.1)? I noticed > this at startup so I kicked the command off from a shell: > > == > optimus:/etc/init.d# alsactl restore > alsa

Re: 4ol 4rt files:

2005-09-25 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 09:36:05 -0500 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cybe R. Wizard writes: > > It has been my experience that 'average' (and, of course, below) > > contains a large supply of doofuses, too, so there /must/ be a > > substantial percentage of doofuses if the number is (as it

Re: WiFi on Toshiba Sattelite A70 Atheros 5004X

2005-09-25 Thread David R. Litwin
no.. you compile the madwifi drivers for your kernelor find ones that a precompiled for your kernel: linux-2.6.13-123.4-89.abcget the latest madwifi drivers from cvs at madwifi.sourceforge.net no ... compile madwifi .. NOT the kernelcd /usr/local/srcdownload madwifi drivers

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-25 Thread Malcolm Lalkaka
On 9/25/05, Daniel Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know wich is the best filesystem to > use: the ReiseFS or XFS. Is it possible to do a whole > installation of the Debian system (testing) with XFS. > I will use the netinst ISO. > > Thank you > Daniel It really depen

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-25 Thread Dick Davies
On 25/09/05, David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are planning on doing LVM, use XFS. XFS will allow you to resize > a filesytem on the fly - no need to umount, resize, remount, etc. I've > found this to be a very handy feature: > > $ lvresize --size +1G /dev/vg0/foo > $ xfs_growfs /fo

Re: Apt-move and pgp signing

2005-09-25 Thread James Vahn
Simo Kauppi wrote: > I understand. I think the idea in those instructions is that afterwards > you have two secret keyrings. One with your passphrase in it (in .gnupg > directory) and one without the passphrase (the secring.auto file), which > seems to me very unsecure! So you should somehow tell g

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-25 Thread Rob Benton
Daniel Garcia wrote: Hello, I would like to know wich is the best filesystem to use: the ReiseFS or XFS. Is it possible to do a whole installation of the Debian system (testing) with XFS. I will use the netinst ISO. Thank you Daniel __ Yahoo!

alsactl: set_control:930: warning: name mismatch

2005-09-25 Thread Rob Benton
Anyone else seen something similar to this (sblive 5.1)? I noticed this at startup so I kicked the command off from a shell: == optimus:/etc/init.d# alsactl restore alsactl: set_control:930: warning: name mismatch (Music Playba

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Ron Johnson wrote: > For / , why not use ext3? Agreed. ext3 is stable, quite fast enough (IF you're using kernel 2.6 and enable all optionals) and it is extremely *safe*. AND it has the best set of recovery tools I know of, should you actually need them. If you are doing a p

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, David Clymer wrote: > If you are planning on doing LVM, use XFS. XFS will allow you to resize > a filesytem on the fly - no need to umount, resize, remount, etc. I've No. It will alow you to *grow* the filesystem. It doesn't allow reducing, AFAIK. -- "One disk to rule them

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-25 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 09:45 -0700, Daniel Garcia wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know wich is the best filesystem to > use: the ReiseFS or XFS. Is it possible to do a whole > installation of the Debian system (testing) with XFS. > I will use the netinst ISO. If you are planning on doing LVM,

Re: cdrdao non-root user

2005-09-25 Thread Titus Barik
Alan Ianson wrote: On my setup cdrdao is owed by root and group is cdrom. Regular users who need to be able to access it belong to the cdrom group. Hi Alan, I am part of the cdrom group. I think that the issue is due to my use of the --device 0,3,0 parameter. Instead I have done: ln -s /dev

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-25 Thread Dick Davies
On 25/09/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For / , why not use ext3? Reiser is faster, isn't it? -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns

Re: ipw2200 compile problems + 2.6.12.6

2005-09-25 Thread Marco Calviani
Philip Schwartz wrote: I think you have the ipw and ieee versions wrong. The versons that you stated are the current sf versions, the debian versions are older. When you make the ipw2200, make sure to point IEEE80211_INC to the correct location. One other option that I suggest is to run the

Re: ipw2200 compile problems + 2.6.12.6 [seems solved]

2005-09-25 Thread Marco Calviani
Mike Hommey wrote: On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 01:39:25PM +0200, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi list, i'm trying to compile the ipw2200 module (from Debian ipw2200-source version 1.0.6-6) using a vanilla 2.6.12.6 kernel version. I've compiled and installed ieee80211 (from Debian

Re: cdrdao non-root user

2005-09-25 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun September 25 2005 10:59 am, Titus Barik wrote: > I'd like to run cdrdao as a non-root user, but I don't know how to > accomplish this. As root, I typically do the following to burn a CD: > > cdrdao write --device 0,3,0 image.cue > > I'm running Debian unstable. On my setup cdrdao is owed b

Restore menu defaults in KDE 3.3.2

2005-09-25 Thread Don Munson
I did an oops when trying to organize my KDE application menus and deleted most of the application references. Is there a way to reset this back to default. To be sure I didn't do anything really dump I created a new user and logged on and all the original linking is present. How do I return tha

konwert iso2-iso5

2005-09-25 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hello! Debian Sarge I try to konwert File.txt which is written in iso2 characterset to be in iso5 (cyrillic) characterset with command: konwert iso2-iso5 File.txt but I get the text on stdout in iso2 characterset. Why can't I get the text in iso5 characterset? -- Regards, Debian Junior Proj

Re: Spumux does not work

2005-09-25 Thread Eric P
Ted Flamouropoulos wrote: > All, > > I have a recent problem with spumux in trying to multiplex subtiltes into a > movie file. Apparently spumux does not recognize the subtitle images in the > directory. I can open and look at the subtitles using a viewer, so the images > are not the problem.

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 09:45:44 -0700 (PDT) Daniel Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know wich is the best filesystem to > use: the ReiseFS or XFS. Is it possible to do a whole > installation of the Debian system (testing) with XFS. > I will use the netinst ISO. For / ,

Re: cvspserver and frequent "inetd address already in use"

2005-09-25 Thread Bob Vloon
Hi David, > "Sep 15 16:07:08 Cobb028933918A-Tux inetd[8465]: cvspserver/tcp: bind: > Address already in use" Can't think of so much else: is cvs-pserver running independent from inetd? Otherwise, try something like "netstat -t -l -p --numeric-ports", and check if the relevant port is somehow in

cdrdao non-root user

2005-09-25 Thread Titus Barik
Hi all, I'd like to run cdrdao as a non-root user, but I don't know how to accomplish this. As root, I typically do the following to burn a CD: cdrdao write --device 0,3,0 image.cue I'm running Debian unstable. Any help is appreciated. Regards, -- Titus Barik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www

posting from gmane

2005-09-25 Thread Titus Barik
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Re: Newbie Network Problems

2005-09-25 Thread Josh Battles
Roger Creasy said: > Hello: > > I am trying to connect a Debian machine to my home network. I have one > windows xp box and 2 Debian machines. What do I have to do to be able to > share files and browse from any of the three machines to any other of the > three? WinXP shares some folders by defaul

Re: Video card : ATI Radeon X300

2005-09-25 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Sunday 25 September 2005 15:05, David Clymer wrote: > On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 14:06 +, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > On Sunday 25 September 2005 13:03, David Clymer wrote: > > > On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 12:52 +, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > > > lpci returns: > > > > ... > > > > :01:00.0 VGA

Re: ipw2200 compile problems + 2.6.12.6

2005-09-25 Thread Philip Schwartz
I think you have the ipw and ieee versions wrong. The versons that you stated are the current sf versions, the debian versions are older. When you make the ipw2200, make sure to point IEEE80211_INC to the correct location. One other option that I suggest is to run the Andrew Morton patch on the c

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and cron

2005-09-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 09:31:26AM -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > ... > I would NEVER do a dist-upgrade by itself. Use this instead: > If your run a dist-upgrade automatically, you might wake up to a broken > system ;) > I know :) Lots of other people posted this as well :) The poster

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