Messaggio non Recapitato

2005-10-20 Thread antispam
Il sistema Antivirus della posta elettronica Rai non permette la consegna del messaggio con soggetto : Important Il messaggio inviato da : debian-user@lists.debian.org é stato cancellato perchè l' estensione del file allegato non é accettata.

Debian can't connect to internet gateway

2005-10-20 Thread Dan
Hi, I have a debian box (192.168.2.12) that acts as a dhcp server. The debian box is on the same network as a few computers running Xp. All computers on the network are connected to the same router. The router (192.168.2.1) acts as an internet gateway. The Xp computers get connected to the inte

Re: Add which package to get mplayer to play an ogg stream?

2005-10-20 Thread j j
I *think* mplayer plays oggs without the need of extra codec. but try vlc to see if your ogg file is in good shape.On 10/20/05, Adam Funk < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On my Debian testing system at work, this works (using Marillat's mplayer-i586 package):$ mplayer http://engine.collegemedia.vt.edu:80

Re: Firefox - No Scrollbars

2005-10-20 Thread j j
Some tips on backing-up a profile: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup http://kb.mozillazine.org/Migrating_settings_to_a_new_profileOn 10/21/05, [KS] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Iain Stephen wrote: > Hi all,>> After an update a few weeks ago (which if I remember, updated Firefox)> all the scrol

Re: sound card config?

2005-10-20 Thread j j
As it is late and no store are open, you might as well try again.  You don't have to reboot after you do alsaconf.  Try alsaconf. Check alsamixer or kmix.  you should also try lsmod.  look for modules starting with snd and/or emu.  more info can be found at http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/inde

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-20 Thread j j
Ok :)On 10/21/05, [KS] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: j j wrote:> Where are the .debs? Oo developers encouraged one to use alien to convert> rpms to deb.>Patience my young apprentice :)--To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help please

2005-10-20 Thread j j
vlc is my media player of choice.  as far as wireless connection, it depends on your setup and your router.  google the name+model# of your router and linux, to see what comes up.  And report more detailed info here, as wellOn 10/19/05, Ryan Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i want to get debian

Re: Installing D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit NIC on an Woody 3.0r5 after Install.

2005-10-20 Thread Siju George
On 6/8/05, Colin Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Siju George wrote: > > >Hi al, > > > >I have been working on a debian woody 3.0r5 for which I have to > >install a D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit NIC o it now. > > > >Running > > > >#modconf > > > >and looking under > > > >kernel/drivers/net

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-20 Thread [KS]
j j wrote: > Where are the .debs? Oo developers encouraged one to use alien to convert > rpms to deb. > Patience my young apprentice :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-20 Thread j j
I am not sure if that is 2.0.  i think you're pointing to 1.9.xxxOn 10/21/05, Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:On Friday 21 October 2005 01:03 am, you wrote:> Where are the .debs? Oo developers encouraged one to use alien to convert > rpms to deb.$apt-cache search openoffice.org...openoffice.org2

Re: sound card config?

2005-10-20 Thread Andy Streich
On Thursday 20 October 2005 02:15 pm, Bob Hynes wrote: > Hello, is there a way to "reconfigure" a sound card? Mine works in > Windows, but it isn't working in Debian...it's old, but I'd rather try > to use it than buy another one if I can. Need more info. Have you installed alsa or tried alsoconf

Re: Firefox - No Scrollbars

2005-10-20 Thread [KS]
Iain Stephen wrote: > Hi all, > > After an update a few weeks ago (which if I remember, updated Firefox) > all the scrollbars in Firefox have dissapeared. Nothing I have tried has > restored them and no aother programs are affected. > Probably a profile problem! I usually backup the old profile

OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-20 Thread j j
Where are the .debs?  Oo developers encouraged one to use alien to convert rpms to deb. 

Firefox - No Scrollbars

2005-10-20 Thread Iain Stephen
Hi all, After an update a few weeks ago (which if I remember, updated Firefox) all the scrollbars in Firefox have dissapeared. Nothing I have tried has restored them and no aother programs are affected. Any ideas how I can get them back? -- Iain. Registered Linux user #394675 Registered machine

how can to install ati driver with gcc-4.0.2

2005-10-20 Thread biosedit
how can to install ati driver with gcc-4.0.2 i am uses ati9600(RV350) and install driver 8.14.13 with gcc3.4.3 kernel 2.6.8 the driver is work well but now i am update gcc to 4.0.2 kernel to 2.6.13 the driver is not work and can't install the driver assuming new VMA API since we do have kernel 2.

sound card config?

2005-10-20 Thread Bob Hynes
Hello, is there a way to "reconfigure" a sound card? Mine works in Windows, but it isn't working in Debian...it's old, but I'd rather try to use it than buy another one if I can. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Running > 4GB of Memory

2005-10-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 10:57 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > On 10/21/05, Mark Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running debian on a dell poweredge 1750 and just intalled 6GB of > > memory. Its a dual-processor machine and I use it with VMWare to run > > multiple virtual machines. > >

creating and serving temporary files with apache

2005-10-20 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I'm fairly new to apache administraction, so I apologise in advance if this an obvious question. I am running Apache, which is running some CGI scripts, which allow a web client (browser) to upload data, process it, and then return the process results to the client in the form

Re: Installing to SATA drives (was Re: SATA DVD not recognized)

2005-10-20 Thread Michael Gregg
> >>1) Debian can not be installed on a SATA HD from scratch with a 2.6 > >>kernel. Rather, one has to install with kernel 2.4, _then_ upgrade the > >>kernel. This is so because, under 2.6, SATA is seen as SCSI, and > >>somehow this makes the install program not see the IDE CD drive it is > >>bein

Re: help please

2005-10-20 Thread Michael Gregg
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 20:55 -0700, Ryan Thompson wrote: > i want to get debian but i need to know, > does it have a media player There are many media players. I prefer mplayer. Mplayer is not in the main tree for political reasons but if you google for mplayer on debian you can get instructions o

Re: Running > 4GB of Memory

2005-10-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 22:46 -0400, Mark Hansen wrote: > I'm running debian on a dell poweredge 1750 and just intalled 6GB of > memory. Its a dual-processor machine and I use it with VMWare to run > multiple virtual machines. > > Problem - I can only "see" 4GB of memory. Here is the output from

Re: Running > 4GB of Memory

2005-10-20 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On 10/21/05, Mark Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running debian on a dell poweredge 1750 and just intalled 6GB of > memory. Its a dual-processor machine and I use it with VMWare to run > multiple virtual machines. > > Problem - I can only "see" 4GB of memory. Here is the output from > "f

Running > 4GB of Memory

2005-10-20 Thread Mark Hansen
I'm running debian on a dell poweredge 1750 and just intalled 6GB of memory. Its a dual-processor machine and I use it with VMWare to run multiple virtual machines. Problem - I can only "see" 4GB of memory. Here is the output from "free -m": [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free -m total

Something overriding udev for hotplug events?

2005-10-20 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, When I plug in a USB pen (or firewire HDD, for that matter), some process seems to be jumping in, mounting the drive and popping it up on my desktop before udev gets a chance to do anything. Could it be pmount? linux-image-2.6.12-1-386 2.6.12-10 udev0.070-5 pmount

Re: About php-mysql error

2005-10-20 Thread Sanjay Debian
On 10/20/05, Nevruz Mesut Sahin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:   Hello   Our company is an e-commerce company. The customers enter the web side and and chose products and buy them by credit card.   Tecnical definition:   order.php sends the customer_name amount and credit_cardno ccno  to xbank_xml.ph

Re: what is the stack size in Debian kernels?

2005-10-20 Thread H.S.
Kevin Buhr wrote: > As others have pointed out, for the i386 architecture, there are only > two stack sizes available in the "normal" kernel. 8K is the default, > but there is a CONFIG_4KSTACKS configuration variable that changes it > to 4K (but uses a separate stack for interrupt handling to par

Re: help: udev rule for usb stick

2005-10-20 Thread Colin
Matteo Semplice wrote: > Currently, none of the rules > BUS="usb",SYSFS{modalias}="usb:v10D6p1100d0100dc00dsc00dp00ic08isc05ip50",SYMLINK="usbstick" > BUS="scsi",SYSFS{modalias}="usb:v10D6p1100d0100dc00dsc00dp00ic08isc05ip50",SYMLINK="usbstick" > BUS="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}="10d6", SYMLINK="usbstic

Re: ppp SIGHUP problem

2005-10-20 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 10/19/05, Marc Brünink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,I've two computers. One of them connects to the internet via pppwithout problems. The other just refuses to collaborate :-)I tryed to reconfigure the ppp with help of pppconfig. Didn't help abit. Then I tryed to copy the working files from on

Re: IBM xSeries 235

2005-10-20 Thread Petar Forai
check /proc/cpuinfo for `pni' flag. EM64T capable xeons are based on prescott cores and pni identifies prescott based CPUs. btw.: PNI = prescott new instructions aka SSE3 regards, Petar On Thursday 20 October 2005 11:44, Mariusz Kruk wrote: > Claudio Plateroti napisał(a): > > Do you know abou

Re: apt-0.6 off line usage

2005-10-20 Thread Marty
Brian Nelson wrote: Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: But again the main point is that the dist-upgrade option is not a supposed to be a routine procedure. Whatever gave you that idea? Switching to stable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Smith wrote: >From your various responses you seem to be advocating using a shallow > set of functionality that is easily translatable across most > applications, so you can switch to a new one without much effort > rewiring muscle-memory, etc. That's the way you like to work, and > that's fi

uugh .. informix client sdk on sarge?

2005-10-20 Thread Matthew Lenz
has anyone had the misfortune of being tasked with installing the Informix Client SDK on debian sarge? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make-kpkg and small changes

2005-10-20 Thread mikepolniak
On 12:10 Thu 20 Oct , Ross Boylan wrote: > I am attempting to recompile a driver (8139too) with one additional > entry in the pci_device_id table. I may modify it in other ways if > that doesn't work. > > When I try to make-kpkg kernel_image the file is not rebuilt. I tried > deleting the .o

Re: what is the stack size in Debian kernels?

2005-10-20 Thread Kevin Buhr
"H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This may be a dumb questions, but how do I find what stack size that my > Debian kernel (2.6.12) has? More generally, how do I determine the stack > size of any running Linux kernel? Is there an option in the .config file > that determins the stack size? As o

Add which package to get mplayer to play an ogg stream?

2005-10-20 Thread Adam Funk
On my Debian testing system at work, this works (using Marillat's mplayer-i586 package): $ mplayer http://engine.collegemedia.vt.edu:8000/wuvt.ogg On my Debian testing system at home (using Marillat's mplayer-k7 package), however, it caches then fails thus: $ mplayer http://engine.collegemedia.

Re: spurious mailman messages

2005-10-20 Thread Joe Mc Cool
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 08:55:50PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Then I have a really brutal way of deleting everything...: > cd /var/spool/exim4/msglog/ > exim4 -Mrm `ls` done. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: spurious mailman messages

2005-10-20 Thread Joe Mc Cool
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 07:05:05PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What fun! It is or rather was your own mailing list, right? yes, b, bh blck, shep, :-) Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

[skype] X server and skype, that's a problem

2005-10-20 Thread belbo
Hi, I installed on my etch the last release of SKYPE. It works, but when I use the vocal chat (of corse the most important feature of the program), I can notice a REALLY strange thing: when I speak without touching mouse or keyboard, and X server doesn't have any activity (for example on a empty g

Re: Thunderbird Signature

2005-10-20 Thread Kent West
Peter H. Ha wrote: I got your contact info from a forum, but I can’t still configure Thunderbird Signature. Can you help? Thank you. This would really probably be addressed on a Mozilla Thunderbird list, but ... In T-Bird, start off like you're creating a new outgoing message. Create your

Thunderbird Signature

2005-10-20 Thread Peter H. Ha
I got your contact info from a forum, but I can’t still configure Thunderbird Signature.  Can you help?  Thank you.       Peter H. Ha Operations Manager transCosmos America Inc. 879 West 190th Street, Ste. 1050 Gardena, CA 90248 (310) 630-0072 Main (310) 630-0074 Fax  

make-kpkg and small changes

2005-10-20 Thread Ross Boylan
I am attempting to recompile a driver (8139too) with one additional entry in the pci_device_id table. I may modify it in other ways if that doesn't work. When I try to make-kpkg kernel_image the file is not rebuilt. I tried deleting the .o; this just produces an error of a missing file during th

Re: Slow response of X

2005-10-20 Thread Basajaun
Joseph H. Fry wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 09:12 -0700, Basajaun wrote: > > 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 experie

Re: SATA DVD not recognized

2005-10-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Basajaun wrote: > Somehow I fail to see how changing the source file of a module one has > to subsequently recompile can qualify as "works pretty well". Damn, we > are not in the dark ages were Linux users were suposed (required) to be > computer geeks. The SATA ATAPI support

Re: spurious mailman messages

2005-10-20 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On torsdag 20 oktober 2005, 19:14, Joe Mc Cool wrote: > # > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. > A message that you sent has not yet been delivered to one or more of > its recipients after more than 1152 hou

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-20 Thread m
Latex (long may it live) does anyone know whether v3 has come out yet and if so what's new? Has e.g. hyperlink support gone from being an extra to being in the core? Regards, Max -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: update kernel

2005-10-20 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, SuperrrLeha wrote: > How i can update kernel? > Please post your request on the Debian User mailing list and give us the version that you're using, the type of computer, your kernel version, and what you have already learned from googling for the answer. Then there may b

Re: Skype Bad, Gizmo Good

2005-10-20 Thread C. Chad Wallace
Brent Clark wrote: 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/ I see no indication that Gizmo is open source at all. In fact, they only provide binaries for download (albeit in

Re: Installing to SATA drives (was Re: SATA DVD not recognized)

2005-10-20 Thread Bruno Buys
Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 08:12 -0700, Basajaun wrote: marc wrote: Hi, [snip] [snip] [snip] [snip] [snip] 1) Debian can not be installed on a SATA HD from scratch with a 2.6 kernel. Rather, one has to install with kernel 2.4, _then_ u

Re: spurious mailman messages

2005-10-20 Thread m
Write a rule to banish furry white things from your inbox. I should imagine that it should stop after about 1152 hours aka 48 days, or whatever is the longest holding time of any of the mail servers involved. Maybe you can get at the mail queue directly and delete them from there if you ow

Re: apt gui

2005-10-20 Thread Thomas Jollans
Oliver Lupton wrote: Max wrote: Dear All, When installing Sarge this morning I chose the option for manually choosing which packages to install. There was a simple GUI where I could see which packages were available and select which I wanted. Was that synaptic? Regards, Max I'd g

Re: what is the stack size in Debian kernels?

2005-10-20 Thread Oliver Lupton
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Is this filename correct? I dont have any config.gz file in /proc directory. I dont have any config* or *.gz files under /proc. Where is the typo? It's a kernel configuration option (sorry, don't remember the name) if the config.gz file should exist. I don't know i

Re: what is the stack size in Debian kernels?

2005-10-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 02:26:03PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Stephan Seitz wrote: > > >On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:39:49PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > > >>This may be a dumb questions, but how do I find what stack size that my > >>Debian kernel (2.6.12) has? More generally, how do I determine

Re: SATA DVD not recognized

2005-10-20 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Basajaun wrote: > Somehow I fail to see how changing the source file of a module one has > to subsequently recompile can qualify as "works pretty well". Damn, we > are not in the dark ages were Linux users were suposed (required) to be > computer geeks. Compiling something (and compiling a kernel

Re: what is the stack size in Debian kernels?

2005-10-20 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Stephan Seitz wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:39:49PM -0400, H.S. wrote: This may be a dumb questions, but how do I find what stack size that my Debian kernel (2.6.12) has? More generally, how do I determine the stack Normally you could try a 'zcat /proc/config.gz'. I am not the OP. I

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

2005-10-20 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On torsdag 20 oktober 2005, 18:38, Marty wrote: > That looks familiar.   OK! > In my case it also warned of imminent drive failure, It said nothing about that... > smartctl -H indicated that the disk was failing, OK, I get: SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED (PASSED on

Re: help: udev rule for usb stick

2005-10-20 Thread Matteo Semplice
Alle 05:47, giovedì 20 ottobre 2005, Jules Dubois ha scritto: > 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

Installing to SATA drives (was Re: SATA DVD not recognized)

2005-10-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 08:12 -0700, Basajaun wrote: > marc wrote: > > > Hi, > > > [snip] > > [snip] > [snip] > > [snip] > [snip] > > 1) Debian can not be installed on a SATA HD from scratch with a 2.6 > kernel. Rather, one has to install with kernel 2.4, _then_ upgrade the > kernel. This is so

Re: OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller

2005-10-20 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On torsdag 20 oktober 2005, 05:40, Mike McCarty wrote: > My recommendation: > > Get all the data you possibly can off that disc ASAP, and buy a > replacement disc for $50. Then, and only then, start thinking about > whether that drive can possibly be used for data storage. Maybe > you could put /tm

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

2005-10-20 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Thanks for the words of wisdom, Seeker! On torsdag 20 oktober 2005, 11:32, Seeker5528 wrote: > Using the Maxtor without it being paired to another drive is an easy > test to do before getting into the things others have suggested that > require additional parts or test equiptment. H, well, it

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-20 Thread Michael Marsh
On 10/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Be prepared to ask lots of questions when using latex, rather than get > frustrated. It's like unix - there's a simple way of doing most things > but sometimes it's non-obvious. If there is a latex mailing list out > there join it, and l

Re: what is the stack size in Debian kernels?

2005-10-20 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:39:49PM -0400, H.S. wrote: This may be a dumb questions, but how do I find what stack size that my Debian kernel (2.6.12) has? More generally, how do I determine the stack Normally you could try a 'zcat /proc/config.gz'. It seems, that the default is 8k. If CONFIG_4K

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-20 Thread Peter Simpson
On Wednesday 19 Oct 2005 20:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 ra

Re: set from: address in standard command-line mailer (/usr/bin/mail)

2005-10-20 Thread Ralph Katz
On 10/18/2005 04:20 PM, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:04:17AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: >> When I send mail using /usr/bin/mail, the From: address is wrong; it's >> apparently just prepending my user-id to my domainname. >> >> How can I tell mail to use a different

Re: install ati driver

2005-10-20 Thread Joseph H. Fry
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 11:48 +0800, 张勇顺 wrote: > hi > first i am install ati driver8.14.13 in 2.6.8 with starge > and uses work well > but now i ues 2.6.13 kernel and gcc gcc version 4.0.2 (Debian 4.0.2-2) > the driver is not work > i am install driver > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mo

Re: Slow response of X

2005-10-20 Thread Joseph H. Fry
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 09:12 -0700, Basajaun wrote: > 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: >

Re: definition of GUI (was Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?)

2005-10-20 Thread Paul Smith
%% Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jd> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 10:39:40PM +0100, marc wrote: >> GUI !=> mouse use a lot of folk imply that, but I don't understand >> why. Funnily enough, I tend to use the mouse more in KDE than Windows >> - but that's probably because I have migrat

what is the stack size in Debian kernels?

2005-10-20 Thread H.S.
Hi, This may be a dumb questions, but how do I find what stack size that my Debian kernel (2.6.12) has? More generally, how do I determine the stack size of any running Linux kernel? Is there an option in the .config file that determins the stack size? I am playing around using wireless NIC dri

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

2005-10-20 Thread Marty
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On torsdag 20 oktober 2005, 01:27, Marty wrote: It could be a spin-up problem due to a worn out motor. Right. It is actually something like that that's my primary suspect. This would probably be reported by smartctl from the package smartmontools. Ah, thanks for the

Re: How to install X for 915 chipsets?

2005-10-20 Thread Thomas Jollans
Li Weichen wrote: Hi everyone, I am installing X for my desktop whose main accessories are CPU: 2.66g em64t; RAM: 512M*2 DDR; Mainboard: intel D915GAV with integrated graphic card; Monitor: 17" LG LCD. I want to install Debian on my PC but when I get to the xfree86 setup, I don't know which

spurious mailman messages

2005-10-20 Thread Joe Mc Cool
Oh dear, during the experiment phases of my mailman installation I subscribed myself (and my poor long-suffering wife) to the sheep mailing list. This is described in the user docs. Now I am getting quite regular mails like the following: #

how to make subtitles draw on 'black band' under gmplayer

2005-10-20 Thread phyrster
Hi debianers, I am using gmplayer to play avi format movies that come with subtitles. However, when I play the movie, the subtitles are drawn directly the picture and hinder the view of the picture. My question is how to configure mplayer to make it draw subtitles (both .sub and .srt) on the 'b

Re: partitioning and formatting external usb hd

2005-10-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Robert Epprecht wrote: Excuse this probably very stupid question, but before I shoot myself in my feets I'd rather ask... I've got my first external usb hd which one? and can mount it without problems as /dev/sda1 on my Debian/Sarge machine (kernel 2.4.27-2-386). It's formatted as vfat and

Re: Where does Kopete keeps accounts info?

2005-10-20 Thread Carlos Correia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron Matheson wrote: | Hi, | | On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:49:00PM +0100, Carlos Correia wrote: | |>Though, I still have a problem: the passwords. Where are they kept? I |>noticed that in kopeterc they are saved as '**'... |> |>I'm about to upgr

Re: partitioning and formatting external usb hd

2005-10-20 Thread Basajaun
Robert Epprecht wrote: > Excuse this probably very stupid question, > but before I shoot myself in my feets I'd rather ask... There are no stupid questions. Only stupid answers :^) > I've got my first external usb hd and can mount it without problems as > /dev/sda1 on my Debian/Sarge machine (ker

Problems with cdrecord

2005-10-20 Thread Michael Ott
Hello! I have the following problem: zolnott05:/usr/src/linux-2.6.12# cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc blank=fast Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a03 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2005 Joerg Schilling NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord and thus may have bugs

definition of GUI (was Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?)

2005-10-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 10:39:40PM +0100, marc wrote: > GUI !=> mouse use a lot of folk imply that, but I don't understand > why. Funnily enough, I tend to use the mouse more in KDE than Windows > - but that's probably because I have migrated toward apps that don't > require much, if any, mouse inp

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 06:19:28PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > Depends on where you look... Emacs and Gnus have pretty good docs :-). Albeit not DFSG-free... -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Apt Needs Counseling

2005-10-20 Thread wieseltux23
Marty wrote: > 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 dire

Re: Compile error of GTK

2005-10-20 Thread wieseltux23
Antony Gelberg wrote: >Vegard|drageV wrote: > > >>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 exam

Re: Compile error of GTK

2005-10-20 Thread wieseltux23
Oliver Lupton wrote: > 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 withou

Re: SATA DVD not recognized

2005-10-20 Thread Basajaun
marc wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I´m trying to get a Plextor 712-SA DVD drive working on an Asus A8N-SLI > > with kernel 2.6.13. I can load the libata and sata_nv modules, and there > > are messages about adding and removing SATA devices. Also, it says the > > SATA device on the first SATA port, which i

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

2005-10-20 Thread wieseltux23
mikepolniak 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 "bttv0: using tuner=33"? >> >>In the Netherlands we use PAL, if you meant to say that I needed NTSC. >> >> >> >Sorry for my as

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 07:45:48PM +0100, marc wrote: > In addition - and this is key - you can mark articles (and threads) as > permanent. This means that they are never purged. In this way, you can > build up a repository of useful stuff from any thread. `Xnews' for windows (delphi!) achieves

How to install X for 915 chipsets?

2005-10-20 Thread Li Weichen
Hi everyone, I am installing X for my desktop whose main accessories are CPU: 2.66g em64t; RAM: 512M*2 DDR; Mainboard: intel D915GAV with integrated graphic card; Monitor: 17" LG LCD. I want to install Debian on my PC but when I get to the xfree86 setup, I don't know which graphic card should I

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 06:54:14PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > It does not upload images or binaries. Knode worked fine for that. Indeed, but if binaries are your thing, Knode doesn't support multipart/mime postings :( -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: flexible restore/install system

2005-10-20 Thread wieseltux23
Alvin Oga wrote: >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 c

Re: xfree86

2005-10-20 Thread Scott Denlinger
Do you have a specific *technical* reason for needing XFree86? Starting with Etch, Debian's default X system will be XOrg, not XFree86, due to the decision by XFree86's developers to use a license which was not suitably DFSG-free, according to Debian developers. See current Debian Project Leader B

Re: Re: program name

2005-10-20 Thread Joseph H. Fry
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 13:57 +0800, kangja wrote: > 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 x

partitioning and formatting external usb hd

2005-10-20 Thread Robert Epprecht
Excuse this probably very stupid question, but before I shoot myself in my feets I'd rather ask... I've got my first external usb hd and can mount it without problems as /dev/sda1 on my Debian/Sarge machine (kernel 2.4.27-2-386). It's formatted as vfat and I want to keep a small vfat partition but

Re: how to use -lreadline option in gcc

2005-10-20 Thread Tom
[20/10/2005 -- 16:34u] Michael Marsh: > > I download some source code which use -lreadline -ltermcap and which > > has the line #include <...> > > what package should i install to solve this? > > libreadline5-dev should do it. There's also a libreadline4-dev , and > I have no idea what the di

RE: xfree86

2005-10-20 Thread Florian Dorpmueller
i am in etch.. i need xfree86 and Gnome-2.10.x. in sarge there is only gnome 2.8.x. i think i can use sarge for xfree86 and then come back to etch to install gnome.. need suggestions. Paras. Have a look at http://snapshot.debian.net/. There xfree86 for Etch should be available. Don´t forget

Re: how to use -lreadline option in gcc

2005-10-20 Thread Michael Marsh
On 10/20/05, weiyun lv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I download some source code which use -lreadline -ltermcap and which has the > line > #include > > my compile tells me that it can not find this file, accordingly it doesn't > know function readline(). > > what package should i install to solve t

Re: Document management system

2005-10-20 Thread Joseph H. Fry
> I al searching for a document management system or whatever it is > where i can > > - add files (off course) > - add files by more then just one > - indexing and searching on content of the files > - make statistics that i can export to excel (statistics when i do a > search) > > Anyone kn

how to use -lreadline option in gcc

2005-10-20 Thread weiyun lv
I download some source code which use -lreadline -ltermcap and which has the line #include my compile tells me that it can not find this file, accordingly it doesn't know function readline(). what package should i install to solve this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: puTTY and debian

2005-10-20 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:18:08AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] } Thanks for the tips, I totally overlooked the log level in the sshd file. } When I looked at the putty log, it just says the authentication fails, } each time you enter a passwd. The debian sshd logs didn't help a lot, just

Re: Kernel 2.6 Problems

2005-10-20 Thread Dave Whiteley
I gave up trying to upgrade it I did a full expert26 reinstall, and it seems to be ok now. Dave On Tuesday 18 Oct 2005 10:22, Dave Whiteley wrote: > Hello, > > I am having problems installing kernel 2.6 on my Dell Optiplex GX280. I > have seen a lot of traffic on the web and the forums about t

RE: xfree86

2005-10-20 Thread Florian Dorpmueller
how do i install xfree86. when i do: apt-get install xserver-xfree86 it says: - Note, selecting xserver-xorg instead of xserver-xfree86 -- and xorg is installed i need xfree86 not xorg.. Depends on the flavour you´d like to install. If you are inEtch or Sid than xorg is state of the art

Re: new users

2005-10-20 Thread Joseph H. Fry
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 23:21 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:44:57PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >I'm slowly developing myself a web-toolbox that I can access from > > >anywhere. Anyone know where I can get a web-based antivirus client > > >(applet) for win

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-20 Thread Paul Smith
>From your various responses you seem to be advocating using a shallow set of functionality that is easily translatable across most applications, so you can switch to a new one without much effort rewiring muscle-memory, etc. That's the way you like to work, and that's fine. Myself, and other peo

xfree86

2005-10-20 Thread Paras pradhan
hi: how do i install xfree86. when i do: apt-get install xserver-xfree86 it says: - Note, selecting xserver-xorg instead of xserver-xfree86 -- and xorg is installed i need xfree86 not xorg.. Thanks Paras,

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