Re: X.Org Hits Testing: Xorg synaptics touchpad problem?

2005-10-25 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Adam Porter wrote: Was the kernel upgraded? Check dmesg. Is the kernel module getting loaded? Is it saying anything on boot? All we know right now is that X can't find it. synaptics touchpad works fine on my acer travelmate with 2.6.12 kernel and xorg @ testing (i'm using the synaptics modul

Re: udevd: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found

2005-10-25 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 26 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > I see it on mounts caused by automount. I don't see it on mounts > caused by mount. So, we have one possible culprit. I see it with manual mounting of removable media (e.g., CDs). No automount or autofs here. Hope this helps as a data point

Re: udevd: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found

2005-10-25 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 26 2005, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 26, Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oct 25 16:34:21 olgas udevd[1109]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in > > payload found, skip event 'mount' > > Kernel brokeness? Is some other user space application sending > bogus events to the netlink s

Re: NVidia with Xorg (testing)

2005-10-25 Thread Adam Porter
The answer can also be found on wiki.debian.org. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Canonizing Local KDE Installation

2005-10-25 Thread Adam Porter
Wow. :) I'm no expert, but it seems to me you might as well just package up your build of 3.4.3--not that that's an easy task. Sorry I can't be of more help. Good luck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Easy Debian Wireless 101

2005-10-25 Thread Adam Porter
There are several web sites dedicated to WiFi on Linux, with extensive lists of cards and how they are supported. Google is your friend. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X.Org Hits Testing: Xorg synaptics touchpad problem?

2005-10-25 Thread Adam Porter
Was the kernel upgraded? Check dmesg. Is the kernel module getting loaded? Is it saying anything on boot? All we know right now is that X can't find it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

sorg: understanding InputDevice, dev assignments, and mice

2005-10-25 Thread Matt Price
I am very closeto having a fully working Debian/sid system (well, lots of littlethings like sound are still out of order, but...). Now I want to make sure that the mouse works under all conditions: 1 - the laptop is fully detached, only the internal pointer (the trademark ibm pointer) is necessar

Re: Creating a DVD from .avi movies?

2005-10-25 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 23:47:46 +0200 Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anybody recommend me a working solution to easily make DVDs from normal > avi movies (DivX5, XviD with AC3 or mp3, the usual stuff...)? http://tovid.sourceforge.net tovid works happily for avi to dvd, better t

Re: Three Doubts

2005-10-25 Thread Hubert Chan
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:56:28 -0400, Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tuesday 25 October 2005 08:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Is there a program in Debian,which permits to erase files >> securely(using sophisticated patterns)?In PGP7 for Windows/Mac I >> think is there an utility t

Re: gtk+extra package

2005-10-25 Thread Titus Barik
Kevin Mark wrote: I saw on Oct 17 an upload of gpsim 0.20.14-7.2 to unstable. Would this suite your needs? Stephen M Moraco([EMAIL PROTECTED]) did a NMU[0]. He might be Hi Kevin, It might. Thanks for the in-depth information. It should give me an idea of where to go from here. Regards, --

Re: udevd: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found

2005-10-25 Thread Bill Wohler
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Oct 26, Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyone know what this message is all about? This began to appear after a > > > recent upgrade whenever I mount a USB drive. > > > > > > O

FW: Sarge Installation

2005-10-25 Thread Marcus Deluigi (intern)
> > 1.: ntlmaps runs with python, so I had to install ntlmaps, > > python and all dependencies 'by hand' with 'dpkg -i ...' > > Is it possible to let apt-get know that I installed the > > packages and to correct all internal dependencies? > > (I already tried 'apt-get update' 'apt-get upgrade -

Re: Emacs - Undefined color

2005-10-25 Thread Jules Dubois
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 13:49, Iain Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 21:11 -0600, Jules Dubois wrote: > >> emacs --debug-init > > Still the same output, Undefined color: "black" and nothing else. How about: $ which emacs /usr/bin/emacs $ file

Re: internet in debian

2005-10-25 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
shailendra raj wrote: sir, i am a user of debian.there's a problem regarding connecting internet in debian via mobile.the connection remains for only two minutes and then disconnects.can u please suggest the solutions for the same? I did not understand the question properly. Are you runnin

Re: pci-express

2005-10-25 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue October 25 2005 12:37 pm, Matan Nassau wrote: > Anyone can approximate the minimum age of a computer one can expect to > find pci-express in? This is very new stuff, I wouldn't look back for it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-25 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Mark Grieveson wrote: Also, an hour ago I entered the command "du --max-depth=1 -m/ | sort -g", and it's still pondering this. Did you check your .xsession-errors file? For me whenever something like this happens, the culprit usually is .xsession-errors. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi ht

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: portrserve, gidreserve, was Re: Debian Weekly News - October 25th]

2005-10-25 Thread D. Joe Anderson
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 08:57:11PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, D. Joe Anderson wrote: > > As per the recommendation below, I'm forwarding this. > > > > - Forwarded message from Andrew Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > > > Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:23:08 +0100 > > From:

Re: Sarge Installation

2005-10-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:19:40AM +0800, Marcus Deluigi (intern) wrote: > 1.: ntlmaps runs with python, so I had to install ntlmaps, python and all > dependencies 'by hand' with 'dpkg -i ...' > Is it possible to let apt-get know that I installed the packages and to > correct all internal depen

Sarge Installation

2005-10-25 Thread Marcus Deluigi (intern)
Hi! I am trying to setup a PC with Debian Sarge Network install. Unfortunately, I'm behind a Windows ISA Proxy/Firewall, so I had to interrupt the setup after reboot in order to setup ntlmaps. So, here are my questions: 1.: ntlmaps runs with python, so I had to install ntlmaps, python and all

INotify Enabled in 2.6.13?

2005-10-25 Thread Rick Friedman
Now that I have installed the experimental deb package for linux-image-2.6.13-k7 I have just one question... Has Debian enabled Inotify in this kernel image by default? Thanks, Rick -- "If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith." - Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: udevd: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found

2005-10-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 26, Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone know what this message is all about? This began to appear after a > > recent upgrade whenever I mount a USB drive. > > > > Oct 25 16:34:21 olgas udevd[1109]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payl

No contacts in Evolution

2005-10-25 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello, I just reinstalled Debian Sarge without erasing my home partition. Once every thing was installed, I logged in and started Evolution. Every thing in Evolution is ok except the contacts region is greyed out and I cannot see any of my contacts. I tried to create a new contact thinking that

RE: help: Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

2005-10-25 Thread Li Weichen
The problem is solved but I am not quite sure why and how I have done. Seems that cramfs supporting should be configured within the kernel. And append a --initrd option to make-kpkg. > > Is your HD SATA? The problem might be that in /boot/grub/menu.lst (or > lilo file) you have a line like: > >

Re: Can't net to router or beyond

2005-10-25 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: >>>I just upgraded my kernel to 2.6.8-2-k7; now my network is mostly broken >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo ifconfig loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 M

: HELP: Debian hostap USB prism2

2005-10-25 Thread Ou Phrontis
Hi, I am trying to get a USB Linksys, Inc. WUSB12v1.1 802.11b which uses the Prism2 chipset to work on a debian system 2.4.27-2-386 using the hostap driver. Running lsusb I get Bus 001 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 002: ID 066b:2213 Linksys, Inc. WUSB12v1.1 802.11b Adapter So I figur

Re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 05:33:31PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Mark Grieveson wrote: > >> > >> 300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install, > >> I had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward, > >> I

Re: Can't net to router or beyond

2005-10-25 Thread Kent West
Matt Zagrabelny wrote: >On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 07:52 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > >>I just upgraded my kernel to 2.6.8-2-k7; now my network is mostly broken. >> >> > >what version were you running before? > > 2.6.3-1-k7 > > >>I can access another box on the local home LAN (ping, ssh, sftp

Re: udevd: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found

2005-10-25 Thread Bill Wohler
Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If this is bug, in which package would you recommend that I report it? > linux-2.6 would be a good start, unless the HAL maintainer has better > ideas about this. Oh yeah, would you say the same about the following warnings? Oct 25 15:42:10 olgas ude

Re: Three Doubts

2005-10-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 08:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Should a 56K modem be (with pppconfig) > configured with 115200 speed?It > seems the default option.The modem device > (with pppconfig) is ttyS0 or ttyS1? I don't use pppcofig specifically, but on most programs, you aren't configurin

Re: udevd: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found

2005-10-25 Thread Bill Wohler
Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If this is bug, in which package would you recommend that I report it? > linux-2.6 would be a good start, unless the HAL maintainer has better > ideas about this. Thanks, will do. -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG

Re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-25 Thread Bill Wohler
kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mark Grieveson wrote: >> >> 300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install, >> I had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward, >> I was down to 1 (one) GB left; so, something went wrong somewhere. >> Is ther

Re: udevd: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found

2005-10-25 Thread Bill Wohler
Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 26, Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyone know what this message is all about? This began to appear after a > > recent upgrade whenever I mount a USB drive. > > > > Oct 25 16:34:21 olgas udevd[1109]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in p

Three Doubts

2005-10-25 Thread alrenaud
Should a 56K modem be (with pppconfig) configured with 115200 speed?It seems the default option.The modem device (with pppconfig) is ttyS0 or ttyS1? How many time of Internet connection takes the upgrading of libc6-2.3.2ds1-21 to libc6-2.3.2.ds1-22 with a modem of 56k speed? Does the complete lib

Re: udevd: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found

2005-10-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 26, Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If this is bug, in which package would you recommend that I report it? linux-2.6 would be a good start, unless the HAL maintainer has better ideas about this. > Let me know if there is anything more I can do to help with debugging. You should re

udevd: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found

2005-10-25 Thread Bill Wohler
Anyone know what this message is all about? This began to appear after a recent upgrade whenever I mount a USB drive. Oct 25 16:34:21 olgas udevd[1109]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'mount' -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:61

Re: /dev/cdrom mounting

2005-10-25 Thread James Vahn
J Merritt wrote: > Recently I ran 'apt-cdrom add /dev/cdrom' to add > repository index to Synaptic. The disc would not eject > even after apt-cdrom had unmounted it. I did a 'umount > /dev/cdrom' and it said the device was not mounted, of > course. It would not eject, period. As a workaround, try

Re: udevd: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found

2005-10-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 26, Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know what this message is all about? This began to appear after a > recent upgrade whenever I mount a USB drive. > > Oct 25 16:34:21 olgas udevd[1109]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload > found, skip event 'mount' Kernel brokeness

Debian hostap USB prism2 : HELP

2005-10-25 Thread Ou Phrontis
Hi, I am trying to get a USB Linksys, Inc. WUSB12v1.1 802.11b which uses the Prism2 chipset to work on a debian system 2.4.27-2-386 using the hostap driver. Running lsusb I get Bus 001 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 002: ID 066b:2213 Linksys, Inc. WUSB12v1.1 802.11b Adapter So I figur

Re: best cheap sound card

2005-10-25 Thread Colin
Bob Hynes wrote: > Hello, I'm researching sound cards. I'd like to get something cheap > (under $50) that Debian will probably support with no problem. My first > inclination is always sound blaster, but any ideas? I'd concur. Anything from the Sound Blaster 128 to the _original_ Audigy should wo

portrserve, gidreserve, was Re: Debian Weekly News - October 25th

2005-10-25 Thread D. Joe Anderson
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:08:03PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Port Assignments during System Boot. Gernot Salzer [15]noticed that > some network ports get assigned dynamically during the boot process > and sometimes clash with daemons that use fixed ports. Javier > Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a [16]

Re: correct way to customize debian package

2005-10-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:29:23PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using the debian packages of Amanda (backup software), which has been > working great. Unfortunately, I need to compile amanda w/ some custom ports > set, but I would like to continue doing it the "debian way." Shoul

Re: RE: Unknown Exception ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

2005-10-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:14:41PM -0400, John G. Hock wrote: > I have several problems: > [SNIP] > > John G. Hock Was this mistakenly cc'd to the list? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto pgp2XQeXocYDl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Postgres question

2005-10-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
I have the following directory structure under /var/lib/postgres on my server: $ sudo find /var/lib/postgres/ -type d /var/lib/postgres/ /var/lib/postgres/data /var/lib/postgres/data/base /var/lib/postgres/data/base/1 /var/lib/postgres/data/base/17141 /var/lib/postgres/data/base/17142 /var/lib/pos

best cheap sound card

2005-10-25 Thread Bob Hynes
Hello, I'm researching sound cards. I'd like to get something cheap (under $50) that Debian will probably support with no problem. My first inclination is always sound blaster, but any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:35:54AM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: ... > down to 1 (one) GB left; so, something went wrong somewhere. Is there a > way to list files by filesize? A program, or command similar to "ls" > that lists files, but sorts them in order of filesize? Try running the follow

Re: Deb Packages for Kernel 2.6.13?

2005-10-25 Thread Michael Biebl
Rick Friedman wrote: > I am running Sid and was wondering if there is any repository which has > a linux-image package for 2.6.13 (preferably for AMD K7)? Currently, the > latest Sid package is 2.6.12-1. > > Rick You could try linux-image-2.6.13-1-k7 from experimental. Add this line to your /etc

Printer read errors

2005-10-25 Thread Bill Wohler
Out of the blue, my printer (HP OfficeJet G85) stopped working. It was working fine last week, but today when I powered it up and sent some print jobs, the printer LCD showed Printing..., the printer printed a line or two, and then hung. The following was spewing from the log file: Oct 25 13:27:

update-modules - obsolete... what are we supposed to use?

2005-10-25 Thread Ou Phrontis
Hi, So /etc/modules.conf tells me to use update-modules, yet when I do a man on update modules, it tells me it is an obsolete command... What is the correct procedure to add a module to modules.conf. Using debian system 2.4.27-2-386 Sarge. Thanks.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

RE: Canonizing Local KDE Installation

2005-10-25 Thread David Baron
Also, any way to safely remove the current/previous Sid KDE and not kill the whole business? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Canonizing Local KDE Installation

2005-10-25 Thread David Baron
(repeat request) I have a locally installed (using Konstruct) KDE 3.4.3. Works 100% and all the things that Sid would remove now in a dist-upgrade to 3.4.2 work just fine with my 3.4.3 (Library path ldconfig'd). Sid's dependancy nightmare with all those "c2" libaries is not getting better so qu

Re: diagnostics for unreliable network

2005-10-25 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi Listers, > >after a dist-upgrade to sid two weeks ago, my ADSL connection / pppoe >intermittently doesnt start. There is no hardware problem as I can get into >the network without problems from another OS. >/etc/init.d/network restart executes without messages, but

unwanted page eject at end of print jobs in netatalk

2005-10-25 Thread Paul E Condon
I am using lprng under sarge to drive a laserjet 5mp on my print server. Also netatalk to provide print service to two old iMacs. Recently something happened so that now every print job for an iMac has a extra blank page at the end. I don't like the waste of paper. I want to fix it. I think that th

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

2005-10-25 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:28:14AM +0200, wvl wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having trouble getting my Pinnacle PCTV Pro to work, which I > bought in the Netherlands (europe) a few (2?) years ago. > > After loading bttv I only get snow on the top of the screen.. > everything below that seems to be froze

Re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-25 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:05:08AM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > >300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install, I > >had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward, I > >was down to 1 (one) GB left; so, something went wrong somewhere. Is > >there a way

Which daemons run at startup

2005-10-25 Thread Stephen R Laniel
I'm writing a script that will need to run across FreeBSD, Debian, Gentoo and probably other machines, and will need to tell me, among other things, which daemons would launch at startup if the machine were rebooted. So I wonder 1) what the best Debian command is to figure this out in a scripta

Re: How to make a rescue disk ?

2005-10-25 Thread Bill Thompson
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:14:01 + Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm looking for procedure / howto about creating rescue CD disk. > Thanks Alvin for all these details. > I decided to 'keep it simple' and will try a Knoppix. > Bye, > Bruno If I may be so bold you may want to t

Re: Emacs - Undefined color

2005-10-25 Thread Iain Stephen
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 21:11 -0600, Jules Dubois wrote: > emacs --debug-init Still the same output, Undefined color: "black" and nothing else. > 21:07:55 ~ $ grep black /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt > 0 0 0 black > Yes, that's in the rgb.txt file. > Try comp.emacs if you don't get y

Re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:58:11AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Mark Grieveson wrote: > > > > > > >300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install, I > >had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward, I > >was down to 1 (one) GB left; so, something we

pci-express

2005-10-25 Thread Matan Nassau
Anyone can approximate the minimum age of a computer one can expect to find pci-express in? -- MN

correct way to customize debian package

2005-10-25 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, I'm using the debian packages of Amanda (backup software), which has been working great. Unfortunately, I need to compile amanda w/ some custom ports set, but I would like to continue doing it the "debian way." Should I be apt-get'ing the source and then is there a convenient way to build t

Re: Emacs - Undefined color

2005-10-25 Thread Iain Stephen
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 11:20 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > Please start a new thread for a new topic: otherwise your message might > be passed over by anyone who isn't interested in the original thread. > > -- > Jon Dowland > http://jon.dowland.name/ > > Oops, sorry. -- Iain. Registered Linux u

diagnostics for unreliable network

2005-10-25 Thread Peter . Robinson
Hi Listers, after a dist-upgrade to sid two weeks ago, my ADSL connection / pppoe intermittently doesnt start. There is no hardware problem as I can get into the network without problems from another OS. /etc/init.d/network restart executes without messages, but plog then shows: anna:/home/pet

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 25 October 2005 09:50, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: [...] Before you do that, what kernel version? There was a bug in one of the earlier 2.6 kernels that did that to me, and it included the /var directory so it was not recorded. Just one more

Deb Packages for Kernel 2.6.13?

2005-10-25 Thread Rick Friedman
I am running Sid and was wondering if there is any repository which has a linux-image package for 2.6.13 (preferably for AMD K7)? Currently, the latest Sid package is 2.6.12-1. Rick -- "Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died." - Steven

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-25 Thread Michael Gregg
Also you have to consider that many of the first and some of the second generation SATA drives are simply pata drives with bridge chips. The bridge chips reduce max bandwidth. You are also not going to be able to use things like commang queueing that SATA makes avalible with these dirves. most of

Re: Do I need to reinstall the whole system?

2005-10-25 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Lundi 24 Octobre 2005 23:39, anoop aryal a écrit : > On Monday 24 October 2005 03:28 pm, Philippe Grenard wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > well, last time I did a dist-upgrade , the system hanged, and even the > > "magic keys" didn't answered, so I had to reboot the system. > > > > After that, there w

Re: Do I need to reinstall the whole system?

2005-10-25 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Mardi 25 Octobre 2005 02:43, Bill Marcum a écrit : > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:28:12PM +0200, Philippe Grenard wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > well, last time I did a dist-upgrade , the system hanged, and even the > > "magic keys" didn't answered, so I had to reboot the system. > > > > After that, t

Re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-25 Thread Andy Streich
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 08:05 am, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > 300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install, I > > had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward, I > > was down to 1 (one) GB left; so, something went wrong somewhere. Is > > there a way to l

обмен ссылками с 6-ю сайтами

2005-10-25 Thread Вячеслав
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Re: RE: Unknown Exception ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

2005-10-25 Thread John G. Hock
I have several problems:   1.  When I try to get updates, I click on Options, then Update Software, but I get a message that says I am not connected to the internet, even though I am.  When I click on OK, absolutely nothing happens.  How do I get updates?   2.  I am unable to print a jewel ca

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

2005-10-25 Thread Michelle Konzack
Status: RO X-Mutt-PGP: S<0xC492F812> Am 2005-10-13 21:15:03, schrieb William Ballard: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:05:06PM -0400, Chris Humphries wrote: > > My mistake then :) > > OpenBSD makes a smokin firewall. One floppy, an old P90 laptop w/ 90MB of > ram, a few > questions, a few lines of

Re: space concern

2005-10-25 Thread Mirco Sippel
:/home/mark# ls /var/archives debian-20051024.md5 debian-etc.20051024.tar.gz debian-home.20051024.tar.gz debian-20051025.md5 debian-etc.20051025.tar.gz debian-home.20051025.tar.gz I had installed a program "backup-manager", which I tried to run, but since I saw nothing, I thought

Ask the Cluster Expert

2005-10-25 Thread Nick I
Hi. Thanks to the response from many in the community I have added sections about diskless clusters and information on 32-bit and 64-bit processors at the site I help run, www.ClusterBuilder.org. I also added a section called Ask the Cluster Expert (http://www.clusterbuilder.org/pages/ask-the-exp

Re: Easy Debian Wireless 101

2005-10-25 Thread Michael Perry
Steve Lamb wrote: > Ok, in the near future chances are I am going to dive into the > wacky world of wireless. Thing is my first poke at it was less than > successful. I bought a wireless PCMCIA card for my laptop and was > unable to get the card to run with Debian. Chances are I just bought

space concern

2005-10-25 Thread Mark Grieveson
ommand debian:/home/mark# du --max-depth=1 -m /var | sort -g, which indicated that most of the space was in /var/archives. The contents are: debian:/home/mark# ls /var/archives debian-20051024.md5 debian-etc.20051024.tar.gz debian-home.20051024.tar.gz debian-20051025.md5 debian-etc.20051025

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 09:50, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: [...] >> Before you do that, what kernel version? There was a bug in one of >> the earlier 2.6 kernels that did that to me, and it included the /var >> directory so it was not recorded. >> >> Just one more reason to ha

re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-25 Thread Mark Grieveson
300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install, I had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward, I was down to 1 (one) GB left; so, something went wrong somewhere. Is there a way to list files by filesize? A program, or command similar to "ls" that list

Re: /dev/cdrom mounting and umount -l

2005-10-25 Thread Justin Guerin
On Sunday 23 October 2005 12:04, J Merritt wrote: > OK, the lazy unmount via 'umount -l' worked. I was > able to unmount and re-mount two different discs. No > problems reported. I take it this is something that > should not be done under normal circumstances? Is > there any issue with using lazy u

Re: /dev/cdrom mounting

2005-10-25 Thread Justin Guerin
On Sunday 23 October 2005 09:08, J Merritt wrote: > > On Monday 17 October 2005 17:19, J Merritt wrote: [snip] > --- Justin Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You should check out the fuser command. The -m > > switch may help. Once you > > figure out which process is accessing the mounted > >

internet in debian

2005-10-25 Thread shailendra raj
sir, i am a user of debian.there's a problem regarding connecting internet in debian via mobile.the connection remains for only two minutes and then disconnects.can u please suggest the solutions for the same? __ Yahoo

Re: TeTeX 3 in experimental

2005-10-25 Thread Frank Küster
Søren Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Frank Küster (one of the main tetex developers for Debian) has put >> backported versions of the tetex 3 packages for sarge. See: >> >> http://people.debian.org/~frank/teTeX-3.0/ > > How does this integrate with the rest of the debian-sarge system?

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 25 October 2005 06:57, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Bruno Buys wrote: [...] And a few days ago when running Sarge on one of its partitions I got all sorts of trouble: ... kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdb3, logical block 163858 kernel: lost page write due to I/

Re: A simple MTA?

2005-10-25 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:41:25PM +0300, Teemu Ikonen wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a mail transfer agent for a typical workstation, > laptop or simple server configuration, but so far I haven't found a > suitable one either in Debian or elsewhere. The ones I've checked are > either too si

RE: just show which packages have updates available?

2005-10-25 Thread Piszcz, Justin
Or use apti-cron, VERY COOL, sends you an e-mail every day with new updates and their changelogs. -Original Message- From: Felix C. Stegerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:32 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: just show which packages have updat

RE: backupPC on sarge

2005-10-25 Thread Piszcz, Justin
Looks as if you need to copy your public key into the authorized_keys2 file on the remote machine for user root. Justin. -Original Message- From: Siju George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:11 AM To: Debian User Subject: backupPC on sarge Hi all, I am trying

RE: Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-25 Thread Piszcz, Justin
Run each test 10 times and take the average. Secondly, is it attached to your motherboard (SATA) or a PCI card? Justin. -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hugo Vanwoerkom Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 6:57 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 06:57, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >Bruno Buys wrote: [...] >And a few days ago when running Sarge on one of its partitions I got all >sorts of trouble: >... >kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdb3, logical block 163858 >kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on hdb3 >... >

Re: just show which packages have updates available?

2005-10-25 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2005-10-24 10:34:19, Matthew Lenz wrote: > is there a set of command parameters to aptitude or the apt-* utils to > just output which packages have updates available? i'd like something > like "aptitude -V -n dist-upgrade" .. where -n is default 'no' to all > questions. But -n doesn't exist fro

Re: Downloading .m3u or .mp3 with Firefox

2005-10-25 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:49:59PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > On Oct 24 at 13:48, Hanspeter Roth spoke: > > > Hello, > > > > when I click a .m3u or .mp3 link in Firefox in the Debian > > installation the mouse-pointer shows the busy-pointer for two > > seconds but else nothing happens. I ha

Re: TeTeX 3 in experimental

2005-10-25 Thread Søren Christensen
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 04:49:24PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > Hi, Jim. > > On Oct 21 2005, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > Is anyone using the TeTeX 3 packages in experimental? How functional > > are they? > > The packages are quite good, but teTeX 3 has just been uploaded to > unstable, after being

backupPC on sarge

2005-10-25 Thread Siju George
Hi all, I am trying to backup the etc folder on a remote machine using backuppc and I get the following error. Could someone please tell me what could be wrong? Thankyou so much. Kind Regards Siju -- Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root linsrv /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --num

Re: NO latest scanner support under FC?

2005-10-25 Thread mikepolniak
On 15:21 Tue 25 Oct , Deboo ^ wrote: > Can someone tell me any latest HP or any other scanner fully supported under > linux? I have been using the HP SCanjet 4300C with sane for over a year. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: An alternative to ~/.xinitrc when using GDM ?

2005-10-25 Thread Stephen Patterson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:00:13 +0200, All Nicks Are Taken wrote: > Hey... I've just swapped from the regular 'startx' method to GDM, and I'm > looking for some way to launch all my apps (panel, wallpaper setting, xrdb > -load ~/.Xdefaults etc...). I'm us

Re: An alternative to ~/.xinitrc when using GDM ?

2005-10-25 Thread All Nicks Are Taken
Oh... It's really simpler than I thought! well, thank you, it works fine :) On 10/25/05, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All Nicks Are Taken:>> Hey... I've just swapped from the regular 'startx' method to GDM, and I'm> looking for some way to launch all my apps (panel, wallpaper setting, x

Re: An alternative to ~/.xinitrc when using GDM ?

2005-10-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
All Nicks Are Taken: > > Hey... I've just swapped from the regular 'startx' method to GDM, and I'm > looking for some way to launch all my apps (panel, wallpaper setting, xrdb > -load ~/.Xdefaults etc...). GDM can launch various different sessions. You can choose one of them in the "Session" menu.

Re: Downloading .m3u or .mp3 with Firefox

2005-10-25 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Oct 24 at 13:48, Hanspeter Roth spoke: > Hello, > > when I click a .m3u or .mp3 link in Firefox in the Debian > installation the mouse-pointer shows the busy-pointer for two > seconds but else nothing happens. I have no chance to specify a > download directory or to choose an application to

An alternative to ~/.xinitrc when using GDM ?

2005-10-25 Thread All Nicks Are Taken
Hey... I've just swapped from the regular 'startx' method to GDM, and I'm looking for some way to launch all my apps (panel, wallpaper setting, xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults etc...). I'm using Openbox3 so there is no way doing it from the WM. I've tried googling and LQ.org and got no answers. any suggest

Re: Downloading .m3u or .mp3 with Firefox

2005-10-25 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Oct 24 at 16:22, Carl Fink spoke: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:48:12PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > Hello, > > > > when I click a .m3u or .mp3 link in Firefox in the Debian > > installation the mouse-pointer shows the busy-pointer for two > > seconds but else nothing happens. I have no c

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bruno Buys wrote: How good is hdparm benchmark for sata? What am I missing here? frank:/home/bruno# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 2368 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1183.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.01 seconds = 56.56 MB/sec frank:/home/bruno# hdparm -T

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