Re: Slow response of X

2005-10-19 Thread Basajaun
Olle Eriksson wrote: > On Wednesday 19 October 2005 18.12, Basajaun wrote: > > Somewhere else a guy with similar problems got a response asking if DMA > > was enabled, but my "dmesg | grep -i dma" shows: > > > > DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 > > ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bm

Skype Bad, Gizmo Good

2005-10-19 Thread Brent Clark
Hi all Has anyone seen this yet, an opensource alternative to skype. http://www.michaelrobertson.com/archive.php?minute_id=177 http://www.gizmoproject.com/ Kind Regards Brent Clark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: Re: program name

2005-10-19 Thread kangja
I said I wanted to mod it so that I can use it without a keyboard. First and foremost, the system must be able to go to X window. Right now, if I take out the keyboard, XFree86 will complain that there is no Core Keyboard (gathered from the xfree86.0.log). This is the feature I want to mod. kangja

Re: changing default resolution

2005-10-19 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:44:56 + Bob Hynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, so I'm a newby and I admit it. I have Debian installed with both > KDE and GNOME running. The default resolution is 832X624 with 24 > depth. Is there any way to change this?? I would like to get 1024X768. > I know my mon

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread furufuru
Steve Lamb wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Of course! But, I'm talking about COMMON functions such as > > selecting regions of text, copying it to the clipboard, pasting it, > > Which is what I alluded to so I have no idea why all this bluster > before getting to where I agree with you.

Re: help please

2005-10-19 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed October 19 2005 08:55 pm, Ryan Thompson wrote: > i want to get debian but i need to know, > does it have a media player There are many media players for linux, debian ships with most of them. I like amaroK. > and will my wireless internet cable connection work > off of it? It works with

Debian Businesscard install

2005-10-19 Thread webguytx
Hello, I'm trying to install debian, I'm using a serial external modem, works great in Knoppix 3.9. This install looks for a network connection. How can I with my dialup connection use this installation app? Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

OT: Disc failures

2005-10-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Alvin Oga wrote: From a bogus e-mail address... On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: You can buy a new bare Seagate (I've only had good experiences with them) 40GB drive for $50 USD or so here in the Dallas, Texas area. $$ gets my interest when its 25% ( 160GB for $40 or so ) I have

Re: help: udev rule for usb stick

2005-10-19 Thread Tony Godshall
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys$ cd /sys/bus/usb/devices/2-2/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/bus/usb/devices/2-2$ cat idProduct > 1100 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/bus/usb/devices/2-2$ cat idVendor > 10d6 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/bus/usb/devices/2-2$ cat serial > USB 2.0(FS) FLASH DISK > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys

costs Re: OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller

2005-10-19 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: > You can buy a new bare Seagate (I've only had good experiences with > them) 40GB drive for $50 USD or so here in the Dallas, Texas area. $$ gets my interest when its 25% ( 160GB for $40 or so ) - since these "rebates" are at fries .. - anybody

help please

2005-10-19 Thread Ryan Thompson
i want to get debian but i need to know, does it have a media player and will my wireless internet cable connection work off of it? plz respond asap plz remember Jesus loves you much thx, Ryan __ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million s

Re: help: udev rule for usb stick

2005-10-19 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 17:56, Matteo Semplice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Hi everybody, > is anyone willing to suggest an udev rule to SYMLINK my usb stick to > something like "/dev/usbpen"? I know that the web is full of suggestions > on how to do it, but I can't get

Re: changing default resolution

2005-10-19 Thread [KS]
[KS] wrote: > Bob Hynes wrote: > > In Gnome go to Desktop > Preferences > Screen Resolution and see if you > have options for choosing different resolutions. If not, you will have > to configure Xorg with the exact specs of your monitor. > Oh, I forgot to mention xrandr :(, check details at http

Re: changing default resolution

2005-10-19 Thread [KS]
Bob Hynes wrote: > Is there any way to change the resolution on the fly, or am I just > dreaming? Any help would be cool! > In Gnome go to Desktop > Preferences > Screen Resolution and see if you have options for choosing different resolutions. If not, you will have to configure Xorg with the exa

Re: OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller

2005-10-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: [snip] What I see is that if the primary master disk isn't detected, the primary slave isn't either. However, if I pull the IDE cable from the primary master, the primary slave is detected. This too, could be This sounds like an electronics problem on the "master" dis

Re: flexible restore/install system

2005-10-19 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, T wrote: > ,- > | > | * No gold server. You work from the command line of any representative > | target machine. bad thing to have if it fails and there is no silver or bronze server with identical contents > | * No central repository. Packages and change order

changing default resolution

2005-10-19 Thread Bob Hynes
OK, so I'm a newby and I admit it. I have Debian installed with both KDE and GNOME running. The default resolution is 832X624 with 24 depth. Is there any way to change this?? I would like to get 1024X768. I know my monitor is capable of this because it used to run Windows at this resolution...maybe

Re: mplayer issue

2005-10-19 Thread Robert Glueck
Curt Howland wrote: Due to this and other interesting problems, yesterday I spent reinstalling Sid cleanly. Mplayer still is crashing, so I don't think it's "just me". Olle Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When mplayer crashes for me, it's usually that a recent upgrade has reset the video

Re: flexible restore/install system

2005-10-19 Thread T
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:34:34 -0500, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > As said, this is not the fastest restore method but with regards to > reinstalling a server it might be pretty quick and versatile. > > 1. Is this doable? Any things i'm overlooking/comments/... > 2. What would be an easy way to making

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 08:41:13PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Max writes: > > I have an old clunker that wouldn't take a big HDD so, being utterly > > penniless I with great trepitation flashed the bios. > > If it has a flashable BIOS it isn't a truly old clunker. Depends on how old you are. :-)

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-19 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:08:35AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > is great if you are trying to get to programs or machines to talk. It > is terrible for something that must be composed by humans. If you don't Single-letter element-centric XML is fairly readable: 1432 1892 could repr

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread Steve Lamb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Of course! But, I'm talking about COMMON functions such as > selecting regions of text, copying it to the clipboard, pasting it, Which is what I alluded to so I have no idea why all this bluster before getting to where I agree with you. *shrug* > jumping to anothe

Re: OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller - ps

2005-10-19 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:44:06AM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > Linus' backup strategy, > > Is that the one wher you posting it all on usenet and find it later > in the archives? just about everything "important" to linus is backed up and mirrored

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread furufuru
Steve Lamb wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > and paste part of a webpage into your test file---all without > > touching the mouse and all with the same standard emacs > > shortcut-key combinations. > > None of that described is unique to someone who has taken > the time to learn the keystro

help: udev rule for usb stick

2005-10-19 Thread Matteo Semplice
Hi everybody, is anyone willing to suggest an udev rule to SYMLINK my usb stick to something like "/dev/usbpen"? I know that the web is full of suggestions on how to do it, but I can't get it to work for me! When I plug it in, it gets recognized by the scsi emulation and assigned to /dev/sda,

Re: Bash commands

2005-10-19 Thread Rob Sims
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 02:47:46PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > $a is unset. What does: echo "$a" print? What does: set | grep -e ^PROMPT -e ^PS print? -- Rob > >>b=${a/23/BB} > >>echo "b = $b" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller - ps

2005-10-19 Thread Marty
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: And I have done nasty things to the system, just to see. For example doing aide --update, updatedb, an intensive write process and a CPU-intensive computation process simultaneously. It should put maximum stress on the system, both power-wise, disk use and CPU... Never s

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Smith wrote: > But... why should anyone bother rewriting it when it works great the way > it is? Does it work great? As I pointed out you have to install what again to use it? > I don't think anyone who has the skill or time to rewrite it would be > very swayed by "I'd like to use it bu

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread Paul Smith
%% Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: sl> If gnus were truly "all that and a bag o' chips" as they say then sl> the concepts and way of doing things could be thrown into a sl> seperate package for all to enjoy. 10 years and counting by my sl> experience. Something tells me if it were

Linus' backup strategy...

2005-10-19 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On torsdag 20 oktober 2005, 00:59, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:44:06AM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > Linus' backup strategy, > > Is that the one wher you posting it all on usenet and find it later > in the archives? Almost: "Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their dat

Re: OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller - ps

2005-10-19 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On torsdag 20 oktober 2005, 00:53, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Normally good advice, but his hard disk seems to be working fine when > it does power up. Yup! And I have done nasty things to the system, just to see. For example doing aide --update, updatedb, an intensive write process and a CPU-intens

Re: .bash_profile and xdm/KDE on Debian etch

2005-10-19 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 13:44 -0700, Scott Denlinger wrote: > is there > something about the way xdm or KDE starts which keeps it from sourcing a > .bash_profile file? How can I configure xdm or KDE to read in these files if > they don't? .bash_profile is only sourced for login shells; when you open

Re: OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller - ps

2005-10-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:44:06AM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Linus' backup strategy, Is that the one wher you posting it all on usenet and find it later in the archives? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re[3]: В подарок на СД интервью с выдающимися людьм и США kakovye

2005-10-19 Thread Oreshko Miroslava
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Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread Steve Lamb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > and paste part of a webpage into your test file---all without > touching the mouse and all with the same standard emacs > shortcut-key combinations. None of that described is unique to someone who has taken the time to learn the keystrokes or are using other CLI appl

Re: OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller - ps

2005-10-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:34:32PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > as henrique(?) said ... make backups .. > > but i would counter that as, it's too late, to backup AFTER you detect > whacky disks problems ... > the backup process will aggrevate the flaky disks that is > misbehaving,

Re: OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller - ps

2005-10-19 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > - do not mix ata-66 with ata-100 > > - do not mix ata-100 with ata-133 > > Hmmm, OK. Is it that fragile...? yup ... hook up a scope to the cables and signals and you can see all the retry's that would otherwise go un-noticed > > i'd try

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Smith wrote: > Anyway, screen is not the same thing _at all_. Never said it was. I was asking for confirmation that Emacs predated the ability to have multiple virtual CLIs. I quoted a single line, not the entire message. Be that as it may I'll run with your misconception of my point.

Re: OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller - ps

2005-10-19 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On torsdag 20 oktober 2005, 00:34, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya kjetil > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > Hehe, no, it was the latter, a it was a well-recognized store, but > > they were caught shipping disks that had been returned as new. > > sounds like dell .. they paid millions for

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread furufuru
Steve Lamb wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > programming. (One important aspect of that kind of integration > > is that you don't have to remember different shortcut keys, such as > > C-a for jumping to the top of the line, C-g for interrupting, > > and C-s for searching.) > > Which is why

Re: OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller - ps

2005-10-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya kjetil On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Hehe, no, it was the latter, a it was a well-recognized store, but they > were caught shipping disks that had been returned as new. sounds like dell .. they paid millions for that boo-boo they've since changed to bringing used parts

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread Paul Smith
%% John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jh> Steve Lamb wrote: >> Personally I can only go back as far as my first unix experience >> which is 10 years ago. I know that screen existed then as I used it all >> the time on Netcom. However since that's as far back as I can personally >

Re: fail to load Gnome

2005-10-19 Thread Bill Marcum
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 08:53:13AM -0700, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > > Logged in through 'Failsafe Gnome' and everything worked fine. I am > not out of disk space - I have more than 3Gb free. The only visible > difference in 'Failsafe Gnome session' as compared to normal Gnome > session is that

Re: OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller

2005-10-19 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On onsdag 19 oktober 2005, 23:35, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya kjetil Hey, and thanks for the quick response! :-) > i'd replace the ide cables ... with new 80 conductor cable Yup, that was the first thing I did... :-) It is the cheapest thing to do, so I did that some time ago. No effect... > > W

Re: Best practices for installing Debian in a new disk?

2005-10-19 Thread mikepolniak
On 15:13 Wed 19 Oct , Bruno Buys wrote: > Alvin Oga wrote: > > >On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, mikepolniak wrote: > > > >>Why not just copy over the whole Debian partition from the ide disk to > >>the new disk. I have done this many times without a problem. I make a new > >>partition on the new disk as

Re: apt-get update problems

2005-10-19 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 05:20:03PM -0400, Marty wrote: > Jan C. Nordholz wrote: > >Hi! > > > >>1) several errors of followig form > >>Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the > >>public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY > >>i used suggestions from > >>http:

Re: OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller

2005-10-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:25:21PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Hi all, > > My question is, I suppose OT, since things go wrong long before bootup, > but with the many fine folks here, I hope you will permit me, and > perhaps even provide me with an answer! :-) Please, please make a backup.

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread John Hasler
Steve Lamb wrote: > Personally I can only go back as far as my first unix experience > which is 10 years ago. I know that screen existed then as I used it all > the time on Netcom. However since that's as far back as I can personally > verify that is why I am asking for verification of your s

Re: how to be told imm. when dma is turned off?

2005-10-19 Thread Justin Guerin
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 09:07, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > The other day under 2.6.13-ck8 and Sarge, the kernel, bless 'm (her?), > reset ide0 and turned off dma on /dev/hdb where I was running on > partition #3. (See the end of this post) > > I saw the effects of it while playing KUSC,

Re: Compile error of GTK

2005-10-19 Thread Oliver Lupton
Vegard|drageV wrote: but this package has dependencies to other packages wich is not available to me, namly: libpango1.0-dev, libx11-dev, xlibs-dev Why are they not available to you? I don't think you've got much hope of compiling gtk apps without them. Is there anybody who have any idea

Re: OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller

2005-10-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya kjetil On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > For a long time, I have had problems before boot: My primary master disk > is sometimes not detected, and thus, the machine doesn't boot. It > happens about once a month, and it is completely magic to me: I usually > pull the power ca

Re: Apt Needs Counseling

2005-10-19 Thread Marty
Freddie Witherden wrote: Here is the result of using that command: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dpkg --force-all -P webmin-core (Reading database ... 75153 files and directories currently installed.) Removing webmin-core ... /etc/webmin/webmin.acl: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing we

OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller

2005-10-19 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Hi all, My question is, I suppose OT, since things go wrong long before bootup, but with the many fine folks here, I hope you will permit me, and perhaps even provide me with an answer! :-) For a long time, I have had problems before boot: My primary master disk is sometimes not detected, and

Re: apt-get update problems

2005-10-19 Thread Marty
Jan C. Nordholz wrote: Hi! 1) several errors of followig form Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY i used suggestions from http://lists.debian.org/deity/2005/08/msg00178.html to remedy the problem. what coul

Compile error of GTK

2005-10-19 Thread Vegard|drageV
I'm trying for the first time to make my own gui-program, with menus and all to launch a series of commands and scripts I've written. Google led me to http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/ , where I am to compile the program base.c, given as an example in the text under the link "3. Getting started". Comp

iptraf does not start when executed as cronjob

2005-10-19 Thread Sebastian Gerecke
Hello, when I try to start iptraf in background mode via cronjob, nothing happens. When I start iptraf via command-line, everything is fine: dirac# /usr/sbin/iptraf -s eth0 -t 5 -B -L /var/log/iptraf/file.log dirac# ps aux | grep iptraf root 3757 0.1 0.4 2000 912 ?Ss 22:00 0:

Re: apt-get update problems

2005-10-19 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Hi! > 1) several errors of followig form > Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the > public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY > i used suggestions from > http://lists.debian.org/deity/2005/08/msg00178.html > to remedy the problem. what could cause this?

.bash_profile and xdm/KDE on Debian etch

2005-10-19 Thread Scott Denlinger
I recently made the switch to XOrg from XFree86 when I updated my Debian testing box, and since I prefer to log into a shell then use 'startx' to get into X, I used 'update-rc.d' to get rid of xdm in init.d. Before I did this, though, I noticed some interesting behavior. If I logged into my machine

Re: apt-0.6 off line usage

2005-10-19 Thread Marty
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 09:38:58PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > golfer wrote: > >> The only way I seem to be able to get packages installed is to go back >> on line and do the 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. For one or two packages, >> this ma

Re: NFS shares over the internet

2005-10-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 05:45:20PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 18 October 2005 12:05 pm, David Dawson wrote: I am experimenting with NSF mounts over the internet. So far, the share works on the local network between my two local machines, but only "sort of"

ppp SIGHUP problem

2005-10-19 Thread Marc Brünink
Hi, I've two computers. One of them connects to the internet via ppp without problems. The other just refuses to collaborate :-) I tryed to reconfigure the ppp with help of pppconfig. Didn't help a bit. Then I tryed to copy the working files from one computer to the other cp -r /etc/ppp cp -r

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 07:07:13PM +0200, DebianTux23 wrote: > https://www.scientificlinux.org/ What on earth does this link have to do with the discussion you quoted below? -- hendrik ( Not to mantion how confused the layout of this message has become because top and bottom posting have been mi

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:09:18AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I *definitely* remember using emacs like this. I do not remember what > > operating system it was on. It may well have been 15 years ago. > > Not denying that. But you said there was "No mechanism even for

Re: Slow response of X

2005-10-19 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 18.12, Basajaun wrote: > Somewhere else a guy with similar problems got a response asking if DMA > was enabled, but my "dmesg | grep -i dma" shows: > > DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 > ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xFFA0 irq 14 > ata1: dev 0 A

apt-get update problems

2005-10-19 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, today, i encountered several problems when doing apt-get update: 1) several errors of followig form Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY i used suggestions from http://lists.debian.org/deity/2005/08/

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-19 Thread m
Yes, there's Lyx and there's a commercial wysiwyg latex editor that my photonics friends at university used to rave about - can't remember the name of it though and it wasn't cheap - about 300 GBP=450 USD by memory. But these are rather like HTML editors - they don't give me the control I cr

Re: new users

2005-10-19 Thread Steve Block
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 01:33:58PM -0400, Robert Wolfe wrote: Darren, you cannot do file transfers via SSH. You will need to use FTP to transfer the files. Or you can use SAMBA or CIFS to do file sharing on the Debian box, which is what I do. That's about as wrong as you can be, I think. The

Re: how to be told imm. when dma is turned off?

2005-10-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bruno Buys wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, The other day under 2.6.13-ck8 and Sarge, the kernel, bless 'm (her?), reset ide0 and turned off dma on /dev/hdb where I was running on partition #3. (See the end of this post) I saw the effects of it while playing KUSC, but did not realize it

Re: new users

2005-10-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 01:33:58PM -0400, Robert Wolfe wrote: > Darren, you cannot do file transfers via SSH. You will need to use FTP > to transfer the files. Or you can use SAMBA or CIFS to do file sharing > on the Debian box, which is what I do. > Sorry, the statement "you cannot do file tr

Re: IBM xSeries 235

2005-10-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 02:33:46PM -0300, Claudio Plateroti wrote: > Do you know about the machine IBM xSeries 235 is 32 or 64 bit architecture ? All that Google can find me is that it uses an Intel Xeon processor or two. My guess is 32 bit - but you'd need to find an IBM salesman or download the

Re: cloning a system to another partition - what to change?

2005-10-19 Thread mikepolniak
On 10:37 Wed 19 Oct , SpamHog wrote: > Thank you too Mike, but I have already tried several times with either > GNU/Linuxspeak "/dev/hda6" or Grubspeak "(hd0,5)" so it must be > someting else. > > Moreover, > > 1) Being the "boot" root and the "running" root one and the same, the > second roo

Re: NFS shares over the internet

2005-10-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 05:45:20PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 18 October 2005 12:05 pm, David Dawson wrote: > > I am experimenting with NSF mounts over the internet. > > So far, the share works on the local network between my two local > > machines, but only "sort of" on the remote ma

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-19 Thread Donald Perkovich
You might have a look at LyX. It uses LaTeX as its underlying format. I've used it for writing short CompSci test and not for anything as large as a book, but I felt it did the job nicely. http://www.lyx.org Don Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 01:16:21AM +0200, Juraj Fedel

Re: Pinnacle PCTV Pro - snow at the top of the screen

2005-10-19 Thread wvl
tried that.. same result. i'm also still getting the same error about not being able to lock pll's On 10/19/05, mikepolniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17:06 Wed 19 Oct , wvl wrote: > > I don't quite understand. Are you saying my tuner is being incorrectly > > set by bttv despite it saying

Sony ICD P210 USB

2005-10-19 Thread Leonardo Marques
Hello, Im trying to use the voice recorder sony idc-p210 with my debian sarge, but i searched in google website and doesn't found nothing about this recorder and some specific software or driver. Fdisk doesn't return any mountable usb device. Please, someone know about how to put this recorder t

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Romain Francoise wrote: > Gnus is not "a mail client", it's an Emacs package designed for reading > (and posting) news and mail. Emacs and Gnus are indissociable. Semantics. I call "an Emacs package designed for reading (and posting) news and mail" a mail client. Just because it is written

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread Romain Francoise
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hate to say it but if gnus were so wonderful in today's day and age it > would be split out so everyone could use it, not just emacs people. I > understand that gnus takes a lot from emacs internals but that is > certainly not insurmountable else we'd have

Re: cloning a system to another partition - what to change?

2005-10-19 Thread SpamHog
Thank you Hugo, but I am not really going to use Mondo instead of understanding what the issue is. :-) Are you sure it rebuilds initrd.img to fit a new root partition?? (I use and like Mondo though, and might try it in a Serious Cloning Emergency - ...) Thank you too Mike, but I have already tr

Re: Socket 754 Sempron Kernel

2005-10-19 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 17:55, Curt Howland wrote: > What you could do is put in a second K7 compiled kernel and see if it > works, then just default back to i386 if it doesn't work. I haven't tried this on debian, but the gentoo docs warn agains using K7 optimisations for K8 CPUs As it tur

Re: Wacom Graphire 3 (usb) under Debian Sarge

2005-10-19 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Wolfgang Qual wrote: > recently, I got a nice Wacom Graphire 3 (usb) graphic table. As far as I > know, the driver for this device is already integrated in the Debian > Kernel.I adapted my XF86-Config-4 after having read quite a few pages on > the internet. However, it is still not possible to *wo

Re: new users

2005-10-19 Thread Robert Wolfe
Darren, you cannot do file transfers via SSH. You will need to use FTP to transfer the files. Or you can use SAMBA or CIFS to do file sharing on the Debian box, which is what I do. Darren wrote: Hello. I'm a new user of Debian and I'm looking to setup a file server on my network. I want th

Re: how to be told imm. when dma is turned off?

2005-10-19 Thread Bruno Buys
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, The other day under 2.6.13-ck8 and Sarge, the kernel, bless 'm (her?), reset ide0 and turned off dma on /dev/hdb where I was running on partition #3. (See the end of this post) I saw the effects of it while playing KUSC, but did not realize it was dma that was t

IBM xSeries 235

2005-10-19 Thread Claudio Plateroti
Do you know about the machine IBM xSeries 235 is 32 or 64 bit architecture ?

Canonizing Local KDE installation

2005-10-19 Thread David Baron
I have a local KDE 3.4.3 installation (via Konstruct). Seems that all the KDE programs not installed there work with the new libraries (which are ldconfig'd). I am, for now, giving up on doing KDE from Sid since this removes more than it installs. Is it possible to have the apt recognize my in

Re: Pinnacle PCTV Pro - snow at the top of the screen

2005-10-19 Thread mikepolniak
On 17:06 Wed 19 Oct , wvl wrote: > I don't quite understand. Are you saying my tuner is being incorrectly > set by bttv despite it saying "bttv0: using tuner=33"? > > In the Netherlands we use PAL, if you meant to say that I needed NTSC. > Sorry for my ass_umption. If you read the kernel docu

Re: Apt Needs Counseling

2005-10-19 Thread Freddie Witherden
Here is the result of using that command: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dpkg --force-all -P webmin-core (Reading database ... 75153 files and directories currently installed.) Removing webmin-core ... /etc/webmin/webmin.acl: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing webmin-core (--purge): subpr

Re: Socket 754 Sempron Kernel

2005-10-19 Thread Bruno Buys
Hans du Plooy wrote: I'm just wondering, I'm getting an AMD64 based Sempron this afternoon for a server. Debian Sarge is to be loaded. This CPU is the cheap-o version of the Athlon64, but the 64bit bits are disabled. So what is the correct kernel for it? Does the K8 kernel require 64bit ex

Re: P4 HT doesn't work

2005-10-19 Thread David Goodenough
I asked a question like this a while ago, and was told that this flag does mean that the chip has functioning HT, what it means is that the means by which you can ask the question as to whether it has HT exists. You will then get the answer no. Quite why they bother I do not know, but I am told

Re: Best practices for installing Debian in a new disk?

2005-10-19 Thread Bruno Buys
Alvin Oga wrote: On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, mikepolniak wrote: On 17:46 Tue 18 Oct , Bruno Buys wrote: I'm reinstalling my system onto a new sata disk I just purchased. I'd fun toys like to know what best practices people do, in order to get through this with the least pos

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Hendrik Boom wrote: > I *definitely* remember using emacs like this. I do not remember what > operating system it was on. It may well have been 15 years ago. Not denying that. But you said there was "No mechanism even for multiple virtual CLI consoles." That means, putting it bluntly, that

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread DebianTux23
https://www.scientificlinux.org/ 2005/10/19, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:08:29AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > programming. (One important aspect of that kind of integration > > > is that you don't have to remember different shortcut

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread DebianTux23
https://www.scientificlinux.org/ 2005/10/19, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:59:34AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > No mechanism even for multiple virtual CLI consoles. > > > > I'd like verification of that. I remember my first run in wit

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:59:34AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > No mechanism even for multiple virtual CLI consoles. > > I'd like verification of that. I remember my first run in with unix back > in my Netcom days. Even then screen was around. That was 10 years ago. >

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Hendrik Boom wrote: > No mechanism even for multiple virtual CLI consoles. I'd like verification of that. I remember my first run in with unix back in my Netcom days. Even then screen was around. That was 10 years ago. If, and that's a big if, emacs were able to do the semi-virtual CLI

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-19 Thread John Hasler
hendrik writes: > And it will support decades of gleeful XML-bashing discussions. Could > that be one of the intended applications? You may have found XML's highest and best use. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Slow response of X

2005-10-19 Thread Basajaun
Hi all, I have a weird problem with the response time inside X. I am running Debian Etch, kernel 2.6.12-1-686-smp on a P4 3.4GHz HT with a SATA drive and 1GB RAM. Whenever I start X (XFCE 4.2.2), I experience the following problems: a) When autocompleting a command with TAB in a terminal (mrxvt),

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-19 Thread John Hasler
Jan writes: > I know that the file format used by OpenOffice.org is something like a > zipped bunch of XML files, but surely, you're not suggesting we'll all > end up writing that format in place of LaTeX...? Yes. We do have the consolation that it is a substantial improvement over Microsoft's ga

Netboot problem: couldn't find kernel image: linux

2005-10-19 Thread zze-ZHENG Xiaoli RD-CORE-CAE
Title: Netboot problem: couldn't find kernel image: linux Hi everyone, I have problem when I try to use network installation from one PC of Fedora Core 4 to a laptop. The two machines are connected. I installed the DHCP Server, TFTP Server in the Fedora, created /tftpboot/, put pxelinux.0 a

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:35:54AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Roberto writes: > > XML is great if you are trying to get to programs or machines to talk. > > There probably is a problem for which XML is the best solution, but I > haven't seen it yet. XML is desinged to be at least a marginal solu

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:08:29AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > programming. (One important aspect of that kind of integration > > is that you don't have to remember different shortcut keys, such as > > C-a for jumping to the top of the line, C-g for interrupting, > > and

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