Re: Sound card (Intel AC'97) not detected by udev

2005-09-27 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 9/27/05, John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you by any chance using sl-modem-daemon?  If so, remove that package andthings should be then identified correctly.  From lspci, I have::00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)

Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 3049)

2005-09-27 Thread deb
Good time for all. I run chkrootkit and it returns : ... Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 3049) ... What I need to do ? Links are welcome. -- With best regards , Yura . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GRUB bootloader issue

2005-09-27 Thread H.S.
Mike S wrote: > Did you mount /boot first? umm, no, I don't recall so. I jotted down the steps I took and mounting /boot doesn't appear in those. My method worked properly on a laptop which had Ubuntu and WinXP and my friend has lost Grub after installing Windows. Got grub after following the step

Re: What is the different between kernel-image and linux-image

2005-09-27 Thread Robert Wolfe
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Joseph Haig wrote: So there is truth in the rumours that Windows Vista is going to be Linux based? But I suppose Debian with a Windows kernel wouldn't strictly be Linux based. I dread to think what it would be, though - No. Just th

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-27 Thread Marty
michael wrote: I've had a look about but can't find a basic guide to setting up a home network. There seems much discussion of 'deeper' stuff but I'm stymied for setting up my first home Debian/Linux network. I've a computer that did have Internet connection via ethernet to a modem router. It's

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

2005-09-27 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, michael wrote: > > user interface, and did not explain what I wanted to know (WTF are those > > "hi" and "si" CPU statistics). > > May I redeem myself by pointing out they are h/w and s/w interrupts, resp Thanks. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One d

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Mike McCarty wrote: [...] So, here is a brief tutorial on disc partitioning and how boot proceeds. [...] Thanks for the explanation, it was very useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How can I install Opera?

2005-09-27 Thread [KS]
Robert Wolfe wrote: > Try using 'apt-get install opera' and see if that works for you. > -- huh, which repository? It is not there in the official repositories! /KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

vncserver geometry

2005-09-27 Thread Steven Jones
Anybody have the syntax to set gnome and 1024x768 for vncserver? In ~/.vnc/xstartup I have gnome-session & but I want a higher resolution 1024 x 768 regards thing

Re: Spumux does not work

2005-09-27 Thread Eric P
Theo wrote: > Eric, > > Thanks for the hint. Yes this seems to have solved my difficulties too. I did > not see a bug report for the dvdauthor package that addresses this issue. Is > this something that we would submit a bug report for? > > TedF > Yes, that would be appropriate. I've cc'ed [E

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Jeremy Merritt wrote: Wow, what a great explanation. I have read through it, but am going to do another to make sure it's all taken in. Thanks. Thank you. I realize that it is very condensed and long. But even so, it glosses over quite a bit of detail (e.g. LBA and the fact that one can actuall

Re: How can I install Opera?

2005-09-27 Thread Robert Wolfe
Try using 'apt-get install opera' and see if that works for you. -- Robert Wolfe, MCP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #277167 Registered Linux Machine #301928 - Original Message From: rosetta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: How can I install

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya mike :-) i'm even more sleepy now :-) HEY! I SAID it was long! :-) but, some comments On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: I think you need a little more information about how boot is accomplished on IBM PC style computers. if a user can't get the machine

Re: Debian Kernel 2.6.12 and parallel port problems.

2005-09-27 Thread Malcolm Lalkaka
I just thought of another thing that could be causing this problem: udev. When I upgraded to kernel version 2.6.12, it would not let me upgrade my kernel unless I upgraded udev as well. Since you seem to be having similar problems with a different sort of device, I'm led to believe that the problem

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mike :-) i'm even more sleepy now :-) but, some comments On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: > I think you need a little more information about how > boot is accomplished on IBM PC style computers. if a user can't get the machine to boot .. this much detail is probably more than th

Re: apache2 memory consumption?

2005-09-27 Thread Robert Wolfe
- Original Message From: Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: apache2 memory consumption? Date: 27/09/05 23:54 > Has anyone had issues with apache2 eating all the system memory? > > A while ago my server had this in the syslog: > > Se

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-27 Thread Robert Wolfe
- Original Message From: Mariusz Kruk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ReiseFS vs XFS Date: 27/09/05 23:55 > Not necesarily. > leafnode - yes. one file per message (or even worse than that). > inn - can be IIRC configured to work this way but can

Re: Someone is breaking etch (testing)?

2005-09-27 Thread Robert Wolfe
- Original Message From: Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Someone is breaking etch (testing)? Date: 27/09/05 23:55 > Hm, well, I understand that you're having a problem, but I don't really > see it as a problem with testing, or that

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Jeremy Merritt
Wow, what a great explanation. I have read through it, but am going to do another to make sure it's all taken in. Thanks. --- Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy Merritt wrote: > > I have been having a problem getting my GRUB > > bootloader to return on boot. No matter what I do, > i

Application icons in workspace applet

2005-09-27 Thread [KS]
Hi, I noticed today that the mozilla window indicator(Gnome-Unstable) in the workspace switcher applet was showing me the mozilla icon. I also noticed that it showed the icon for Firefox too. But now they are gone and I don't know how to get them back. Though this is not something I will die witho

Re: [Solved] C++ Compilation

2005-09-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:32:44AM +1000, Byron Hillis wrote: > > > You're using the C compiler front-end to compile and link C++ code. > > Don't do that. > > > > You should use the C++ compiler front-end to compile and link > > C++ code (especially link!) > > > > You should be using g++ for b

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: [some stuff about formatting discs and boot] I forgot one more layer of format: OS install. A volume may have a file system without an OS on it. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have fo

Re: how to add java support to mozilla in woody

2005-09-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:57:07AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks in advance! > Get java-package from Sarge, download a suitable JRE or JVM (from Sun, IBM, Blackdown, etc) and create a .deb. Install it and it will install the correct mozilla plugin. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez ht

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Jeremy Merritt wrote: I have been having a problem getting my GRUB bootloader to return on boot. No matter what I do, it keeps going to XP. I consulted with other people on this list and got some good input. But have run into a dead end again. Can someone analyze these steps and tell me what I'm

Re: Cannot access the computer

2005-09-27 Thread Carl Fink
Please post in plain text, not HTML. On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 01:04:48PM +0200, Mitja Podreka wrote: > I tried today to boot from a live CD, but found out that BIOS is set to > boot from hard disc and access to BIOS is password protected. > What can I do? Well, if none of the ideas already posted

Re: UPS for servers?

2005-09-27 Thread Fred OGrady
On 9/24/05, Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi,>> I'm looking for a UPS to hook up to a rack containing three servers. I'm> not precisely sure of the power consumption, but could find some hard> numbers if it became necessary. I want something that will keep all three > servers up for

Re: awstats configuration

2005-09-27 Thread [KS]
Radhika wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed awststs debian package from debian site.Can some one help > me how to configure the awstats for my clients websites.Please any one is > having good steps please send it to me > > I have checked the files located in below locations > > /etc/awststs

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-27 Thread Art Edwards
If you can boot from cdrom, use cfdisk to toggle the boot properties of the partitions (as root, of course). Art Edwards Jeremy Merritt wrote: If having multiple partitions is the problem or part of the problem, how do I make /dev/hda2 bootable and make the others not bootable? Is that the

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Jeremy Merritt wrote: > If having multiple partitions is the problem or part > of the problem, NOT the problem > how do I make /dev/hda2 bootable and > make the others not bootable? take it out with the bios so that it doesn't check it or # delete the M

RE: [Solved] C++ Compilation

2005-09-27 Thread Byron Hillis
> You're using the C compiler front-end to compile and link C++ code. > Don't do that. > > You should use the C++ compiler front-end to compile and link > C++ code (especially link!) > > You should be using g++ for both of these commands. Thanks, feel a bit stupid now. I think I was confused

C++ Compilation

2005-09-27 Thread Byron Hillis

Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP SOLVED

2005-09-27 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Andy wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 September 2005 12:42, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > > Since your WinXP on /dev/hda1 is a FAT32 partition, one thing that might > > work is to use the backup boot sector that is kept on FAT32 file systems > > to restore the WinXP boot sector on /dev/hda1. > > > > dd if=/dev/hda

Re: C++ Compilation

2005-09-27 Thread Paul Smith
%% Byron Hillis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bh> I'm just trying to get a basic C++ program to compile, but I have bh> no idea what is going wrong. It's very simple. You're using the C compiler front-end to compile and link C++ code. Don't do that. You should use the C++ compiler front-end t

how to add java support to mozilla in woody

2005-09-27 Thread sqrt3
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C++ Compilation

2005-09-27 Thread Byron Hillis

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-27 Thread Jeremy Merritt
If having multiple partitions is the problem or part of the problem, how do I make /dev/hda2 bootable and make the others not bootable? Is that the only thing that needs to be done in addition to the other steps? --- Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy Merritt wrote: > > >I have been

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-27 Thread Seeker5528
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:03:52 +1200 Joel Peter William Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am confused however, since I'm reasonably sure I haven't tinkered with my > Xauthority files - ie they are the debian default - and yet synaptic has no > problem running from su. Running startx from a text l

Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

2005-09-27 Thread David R. Litwin
> My routes? What are these and how can I go about checking them?You can check routing using netstat, this must give something like this (when ethernet (eth0) card is used): # netstat -atrKernel IP routing tableDestination Gateway Genmask Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface192.168.0.

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-27 Thread Art Edwards
Jeremy Merritt wrote: I have been having a problem getting my GRUB bootloader to return on boot. No matter what I do, it keeps going to XP. I consulted with other people on this list and got some good input. But have run into a dead end again. Can someone analyze these steps and tell me what I'm

GRUB problem

2005-09-27 Thread Jeremy Merritt
I have been having a problem getting my GRUB bootloader to return on boot. No matter what I do, it keeps going to XP. I consulted with other people on this list and got some good input. But have run into a dead end again. Can someone analyze these steps and tell me what I'm doing wrong, or what I n

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-27 Thread Ralph Katz
Debian has the Linux HowTo's: > ~$ apt-cache show doc-linux-text > Package: doc-linux-text > Priority: standard > Section: doc > Installed-Size: 9136 > Maintainer: Debian LDP Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Architecture: all > Source: doc-linux > Version: 2005.04-1 > Replaces: doc-linux, doc-lin

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:02:41AM +, Joe wrote: > michael wrote: > >But, can we now take it as given I want to set up my PC as a router, and > >thus I am looking for a 'simple how to' in order to do this. I would have > >thought it was about 3 commands on each PC! > > Ah, you've realised how

Re: More than 2, but less than 3 GiB per process memory?

2005-09-27 Thread Malte Cornils
Am Dienstag, 27. September 2005 23:32 schrieb Mike McCarty: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Please see the Debian mailing list policy: > > > > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ > > > > "When replying to messages on the mailing list, do not send a carbon > > copy (CC) to the original poster unless t

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-27 Thread Joe
michael wrote: But, can we now take it as given I want to set up my PC as a router, and thus I am looking for a 'simple how to' in order to do this. I would have thought it was about 3 commands on each PC! Ah, you've realised how Usenet works... OK, look at it from an experienced Debian user

Re: very slow usb 2.0

2005-09-27 Thread Colin
L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On 9/27/05, *Colin* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Roberto Winter wrote: > > someone once told me that not having the modules would make my kernel > > faster... is that not true? > > That is NOT true. My rule of thumb is compile th

Re: For GNU benefit?

2005-09-27 Thread Ali Al-Awami
Alvin Oga wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Ali Al-Awami wrote: I was employees with a startup company that got out of IT business really fast, Beside 20 new IBM PCs one of the left over is Online dedicated server, Fedora Core2, 3GH CPU, 120 GB Hard disk, 500GB monthly traffic, very

Re: Question about samba setup in Sarge

2005-09-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 07:14:38AM +, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: > >I cannot find a file, ENCRYPTION.txt, on my computer or as part of any > >of the packages that I installed. Where can I obtain a copy of this file? > > Have you tried to ask google? > Yes, and I found only advice emails that

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

2005-09-27 Thread michael
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: >> On (27/09/05 08:10), Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Bob Proulx wrote: >> > > Dick Davies wrote: >> > > > Yup, use SMP. I get 2 cpus in cpuinfo that way (although top >> doesn't >> > > > see them for some reason). >> > > >>

Re: Question about samba setup in Sarge

2005-09-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:54:27AM -0500, Josh Battles wrote: > Paul E Condon said: > > I am attempting to create a samba server on a Sarge box > > using pure Debian. I am looking at the /etc/samba/smb.conf > > that was set up by the samba package and have a question > > about a comment in it, name

ViewCVS w/ NFS-Mounted Repository

2005-09-27 Thread Kenneth Jacker
[sarge] I can't get the 'viewcvs' package to work. I *think* I properly edited the configuration file (only changed the "cvs_roots" option). The repository is in an NFS-mounted directory on another machine. Though I can see the documentation page (localhost/viewcvs) and can use file:// to view

Re: For GNU benefit?

2005-09-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Ali Al-Awami wrote: > I was employees with a startup company that got out of IT business > really fast, > Beside 20 new IBM PCs one of the left over is Online dedicated server, > > Fedora Core2, 3GH CPU, 120 GB Hard disk, 500GB monthly traffic, very > secure network avai

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

2005-09-27 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (27/09/05 08:10), Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Dick Davies wrote: > > > > Yup, use SMP. I get 2 cpus in cpuinfo that way (although top doesn't > > > > see them for some reason). > > > > > > Have y

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

2005-09-27 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, michael wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 13:19 +0100, Dick Davies wrote: > > On 27/09/05, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 08:10 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > > Dick Davies wrote: > >

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

2005-09-27 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, michael wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 08:10 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Dick Davies wrote: > > > > Yup, use SMP. I get 2 cpus in cpuinfo that way (although top doesn't > > > > see them for some reason). > > cpuinf

For GNU benefit?

2005-09-27 Thread Ali Al-Awami
Hi. I was employees with a startup company that got out of IT business really fast, Beside 20 new IBM PCs one of the left over is Online dedicated server, Fedora Core2, 3GH CPU, 120 GB Hard disk, 500GB monthly traffic, very secure network availability 99.99% guaranteed ftpPro , apache, php, p

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 11:48 -0400, Bradley Alexander wrote: > You mentioned a "home" computer. I have more than one system in my home that > are multiuser, which kicks in security rules. Personally, I have four rules > for partitioning securely. Rules 1 and 2 grew out of the days when filling /

Re: More than 2, but less than 3 GiB per process memory?

2005-09-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Bob Proulx wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Malte Cornils wrote: PS: Please Cc: me if possible If you send question to the list, you should expect the answer to only go to the list. Unless specifically requested by the poster. Please see the Debian mailing list policy: http://www.debian.org/

Re: More than 2, but less than 3 GiB per process memory?

2005-09-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Bob Proulx wrote: Malte Cornils wrote: we've been trying to make a program (ITK/VTK image processing for a university project) work. Unfortunately, the process needs slightly above 2 GiB of virtual memory. When people are that close to the 32-bit limit one of the standard things I advise fol

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-27 Thread michael
> On 09/27/2005 08:06 pm, Mike McCarty wrote: >> michael wrote: >> > On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 18:12 -0500, Kent West wrote: >> >>michael wrote: >> >> >> >>Er, then I'm confused about what you're trying to accomplish. Perhaps >> >>you're trying to turn the computer that's plugged into the USB modem >>

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-27 Thread Pollywog
On 09/27/2005 08:53 pm, michael wrote: > > On 09/27/2005 08:43 pm, michael wrote: > >> I should also add that it'd be better to link the machines so that I > >> only > >> have to download all updates once from the Internet (and then use copy > >> locally) > > > > Using a router would not prevent yo

Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

2005-09-27 Thread David R. Litwin
What you describe sounds like a dns related problem. And the "long time" you talk about is probably the the 30 sec time-out peiod of the dns system.Don't those set your IP to a certain nuber; or do they give you a name? Either or, i do not believe that I have this. How can I check to be sure? chec

Re: ReiserFS vs hard disk

2005-09-27 Thread enediel gonzalez
thanks for the answer: I mean I put the hard drive as the slave hard disk on the second pc after that I tried mount -t reiserfs /dev/sdb6 /mnt/hd but this process failed then in this conditions, an only in this conditions I tried to use reiserfsck regards Enediel From: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PRO

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-27 Thread michael
> On 09/27/2005 08:43 pm, michael wrote: > >> I should also add that it'd be better to link the machines so that I >> only >> have to download all updates once from the Internet (and then use copy >> locally) > > Using a router would not prevent you from doing that. > > > 8) > Okay. Fair enough po

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-27 Thread Pollywog
On 09/27/2005 08:43 pm, michael wrote: > I should also add that it'd be better to link the machines so that I only > have to download all updates once from the Internet (and then use copy > locally) Using a router would not prevent you from doing that. 8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-27 Thread John Hasler
Pollywog writes: > The router probably uses less electrical power than an additional > computer would use. I have a DSL modem that includes a router/firewall. When I got DSL I put it in bridge mode and used an old Aptiva as a router/firewall. All went well until the Aptiva had a hardware problem

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-27 Thread michael
> On 09/27/2005 08:06 pm, Mike McCarty wrote: >> michael wrote: >> > On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 18:12 -0500, Kent West wrote: >> >>michael wrote: >> >> >> >>Er, then I'm confused about what you're trying to accomplish. Perhaps you're trying to turn the computer that's plugged into the USB modem into a

Re: cyrillic xkb

2005-09-27 Thread Predrag Gavrilovic
You have to set three things right: 1)keyboard layout 2)correct font 3) Locale settings, and I think that one is missing in your case Try setting [EMAIL PROTECTED] locale or sr_YU.UTF-8 locale. I beleive it will not stop you typing hungarian texts in X. You should also try to use unicode fonts, and

Re: ReiserFS vs hard disk

2005-09-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, enediel gonzalez wrote: > /dev/sda6 / reiserfs defaults0 1 > /dev/sda1 /boot reiserfs notail 0 2 .. > /dev/hdc/media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 > /dev/sd6 contains the problem that prod

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-27 Thread michael
> michael wrote: >> On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 18:12 -0500, Kent West wrote: >> >>>michael wrote: > >>>Er, then I'm confused about what you're trying to accomplish. Perhaps >>>you're trying to turn the computer that's plugged into the USB modem >>>into a router, sharing it's internet connection with the

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-27 Thread Pollywog
On 09/27/2005 08:06 pm, Mike McCarty wrote: > michael wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 18:12 -0500, Kent West wrote: > >>michael wrote: > >> > >>Er, then I'm confused about what you're trying to accomplish. Perhaps > >>you're trying to turn the computer that's plugged into the USB modem > >>into a

Re: newbie boot question

2005-09-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Jim Woodward wrote: michael wrote: michael wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:20 -0400, Jim Woodward wrote: How do I retrieve the messages that I see when booting? dmesg does not have all the information. I'm using kernel 2.6.13.2 Thanks Obviously, there are some messages which may be unret

Re: Mozilla Thunderbird Help

2005-09-27 Thread [KS]
Ms Linuz wrote: > [KS] wrote: > > >>Ms Linuz wrote: >> >> >> >>>I don't know if it's just me or else. >>>Open up mozilla-thunderbird, click Help --> Thunderbird Help >>>Nothing happen. >>>Click on Release Notesnothing. >>>Click on About Thunderbird...nice animation screen. >>> >>>The Thunder

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-27 Thread Mike McCarty
michael wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 18:12 -0500, Kent West wrote: michael wrote: Er, then I'm confused about what you're trying to accomplish. Perhaps you're trying to turn the computer that's plugged into the USB modem into a router, sharing it's internet connection with the second machine

libapache-mod-perl

2005-09-27 Thread Dr. Scott S. Jones
As a follow up to Martin Quinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'s response about the error "dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `takeyourpick' missing, > assuming package has no files currently installed." I have run into the same trouble. I can't seem to knock libapache-mod-perl out of my

Re: broken kdm/kde

2005-09-27 Thread Roger Creasy
On 9/27/05, Pooly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2005/9/27, Roger Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:> Hello. I am running Sarge, kernel 2.6.7. I installed Rosegarden, which has a> lot of dependencies and makes lots of changes to my system. After the > install, I have a different log in screen for kde. This lo

ReiserFS vs hard disk

2005-09-27 Thread enediel gonzalez
I had a problem with one PC with debian 3.1, I used shutdown -h now and I couldn't restart again /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/sda6 / reiserfs defaults

cyrillic xkb

2005-09-27 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi! Debian Sarge kernel-2.6.8 Window Maker 0.91.0 I set the X Window in the XF86Config-4 to allow these layouts: hu, yu and sr: Option "XkbLayout" "hu,yu,sr" I can use these commands: setxkbmap hu setxkbmap yu to write text with latin Central European characters (iso 8859-2), but

Re: aptitute "Unable to correct dependencies" -- how to fix?

2005-09-27 Thread Bill Marcum
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 02:19:26PM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > For a while now I've been getting the problem below. > > My /etc/apt/apt.conf contains only two lines. > > APT::Default-Release "testing"; > APT::Clean-Installed "off"; > > My /etc/apt/preferences has one hand-coded pin and a bunch pro

ldconfig: Illegal instruction

2005-09-27 Thread Chris Bozic
During an upgrade, I got the following output: "/var/lib/dpkg/info/libreadline5.postinst: line 6: 1322 Illegal instruction ldconfig" I don't think the problem is in the package since I get the same Illegal instruction message when I try running ldconfig separately from the command line. Can

ps ax output and screen

2005-09-27 Thread Jan Steding
Hello NG, i use two different linux server with debian on it. one with kernel 2.4.20 and the other with 2.6.12. with the 2.6.12 kernel i get the right output from ps with screen: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$ ps ax|grep -i screen 7203 ?Ss 0:00 SCREEN -A -m -d -S g99be ./ 31242 pts/2R+

Re: xserver-xfree86 and xserver-xorg problem

2005-09-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
James Vahn wrote: > cc wrote: >> 'apt-get install xserver-xfree86 ' will install 'xserver-xorg' >> instead of xserver-xfree86, whats the matter ? >> >> i want to install xfree86, not xorg > > me too.. so i put this line in sources.list : > > deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive po

Re: HELP

2005-09-27 Thread Steve!
Just a guess here, Is it a USB keyboard? If so, try enabling 'USB support in DOS' from the BIOS... I had this problem before with a windows install and this got Me around it :) Steve! - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 4:33 PM Subject:

Re: hung upgrade

2005-09-27 Thread Art Edwards
Florian Ernst wrote: Hello *, On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 06:41:00AM -0600, Art Edwards wrote: I'm running a testing box. When I try to dist-upgrade, I get numerous errors shown below. [...] dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libdjvulibre15_3.5.15-1_i386.deb (--unpack):

Re: More than 2, but less than 3 GiB per process memory?

2005-09-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Malte Cornils wrote: > we've been trying to make a program (ITK/VTK image processing for a > university project) work. Unfortunately, the process needs slightly > above 2 GiB of virtual memory. When people are that close to the 32-bit limit one of the standard things I advise folks at work is to p

Re: Someone is breaking etch (testing)?

2005-09-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:34:34AM -0600, Art Edwards wrote: > I have to say that during the time between Woody and Sarge (a long time) > people > were encouraged to use testing as a nearly stable platform. Without it, > Debian > may have been abandoned by a significant part of its user base. I

Re: Someone is breaking etch (testing)?

2005-09-27 Thread Art Edwards
Chris Metzler wrote: On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:38:14 -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 performin

Re: More than 2, but less than 3 GiB per process memory?

2005-09-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Malte Cornils wrote: > I've done some further research and found out a few things. I apologize that I have not read your results in detail. But I did not want to hold off adding this information until I had and so this may be overlapping or incomplete with regard to your complete post. > So, mal

Re: broken kdm/kde

2005-09-27 Thread Krimgelas
Roger Creasy wrote: > Hello. I am running Sarge, kernel 2.6.7. I installed Rosegarden, which has > a lot of dependencies and makes lots of changes to my system. After the > install, I have a different log in screen for kde. This log in has a > drop-down which allows me to log in to other window ma

Re: xserver-xfree86 and xserver-xorg problem

2005-09-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Art Edwards wrote: cc wrote: 'apt-get install xserver-xfree86 ' will install 'xserver-xorg' instead of xserver-xfree86, whats the matter ? i want to install xfree86, not xorg I have to say that I was mystified by the fuss over the change in XFree86. I tried to read over the opinions

Re: tar backup ok but restore errors w/ scsi dat dds2

2005-09-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya eagle On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Ralph Eagle wrote: > > and/or when writing .. > > find /home/kbmosas | buffer | tar cvf /dev/st0 > > Hmmm, can not seem to get the above command to work. Produces the following > error: > tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive > Try `tar --help' or

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-27 Thread Mariusz Kruk
John Hasler napisał(a): [NNTP servers work with ] gazillions of small files. Mariusz Kruk writes: leafnode - yes. and cnews. inn - can be IIRC configured to work this way but can also work with big cycbuf files. Thus making the contents of the spool inaccessible to anything but inn. Yep.

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

2005-09-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Dick Davies wrote: > > > Yup, use SMP. I get 2 cpus in cpuinfo that way (although top doesn't > > > see them for some reason). > > > > Have you ever run a top that lists individual processors on a 64 > > processor machine? I have and top

HELP

2005-09-27 Thread Erdelyi . Adam
I've downloaded a Debian CD-ISO file (http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ unofficial/sarge-amd64/iso-cd/)for my notebook. /HP pavilion 6000 with AMD Athlon 64 processor/ But I can't install it because the keyboard doesn't work from the beginning (language selection). Please help me, what can I do

Re: Question about samba setup in Sarge

2005-09-27 Thread Josh Battles
Paul E Condon said: > I am attempting to create a samba server on a Sarge box > using pure Debian. I am looking at the /etc/samba/smb.conf > that was set up by the samba package and have a question > about a comment in it, namely > > # You may wish to use password encryption. Please read ENCRYPTIO

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-27 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > [NNTP servers work with ] gazillions of small files. Mariusz Kruk writes: > leafnode - yes. and cnews. > inn - can be IIRC configured to work this way but can also work with big > cycbuf files. Thus making the contents of the spool inaccessible to anything but inn. -- John Hasler

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-27 Thread Brendan
On Monday 26 September 2005 11:59 pm, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Who said you shouldn't? I think you are not understanding > > "That's JUST you", to my not-native-english-speaker skills is a sarcastic > way to say "nobody else but you". So, I replied with a reason why many > admini

Re: bittorrent query?

2005-09-27 Thread Brendan
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 10:25 am, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 10:12 -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > I just installed bittorrent-3.4.2-5 from testing. > > > > What is the command to invoke it? > > man btdownloadcurses --> if you want the ncurses-based UI > man btdownload

Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP SOLVED

2005-09-27 Thread Andy
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 12:42, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > Since your WinXP on /dev/hda1 is a FAT32 partition, one thing that might > work is to use the backup boot sector that is kept on FAT32 file systems > to restore the WinXP boot sector on /dev/hda1. > > dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count

Re: retaining file permissions and ownership across sub-directories in Linux

2005-09-27 Thread Mariusz Kruk
Rishi napisał(a): Is there a global setting to set the umask for all applications to use 002? Probably not. If the application insists on giving a file permissions, let's say, 0600 you can't forbid it with umask. With umask you can only prohibit them from giving some permissions. Not the other

Re: Debian Kernel 2.6.12 and parallel port problems.

2005-09-27 Thread Jason Martens
Malcolm Lalkaka wrote: Hi, I'm running Debian Etch (testing) and after upgrading to the debian kernel version 2.6.12-1-686, my parallel port printer no longer seems to work. What I mean is that Debian doesn't seem to be able to communicate with it. Everything is physically plugged in: power and

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