Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 02:54 pm, Carl Fink wrote: ---> Closes FireFox 1.0.6, displays fine in Dillo and Konqueror (under Etch). Konqueror reports: ---> ---> konqueror: ERROR: Error in BrowserExtension::actionSlotMap(), unknown action : searchProvider ---> konqueror: ERROR: Error in BrowserExtension

Re: mailserver absolute noob question

2005-11-02 Thread s. keeling
Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [snip] > /etc/aliases. It's unsafe to let root receive mail, so generally Uh, what? Why's it unsafe to let root receive email? I agree it's _better_ for root's mail to be aliased to a real user, but safer too? Why? -- Any technology distinguisha

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2005-11-02 Thread John L Fjellstad
audio player [ amaroK ] cd-ripper [ abcde ] disc burner [ k3b ] e-mail client[ mutt ] file manager [ xterm ] image editor [ gimp ] image viewer [ kview ] package manager [ aptitude ] tag editor [ id3v2 ] terminal emulator [ Konsole ] text editor [ emacs ]

Apt-get circular dependencies

2005-11-02 Thread Marcus Deluigi (intern)
Hi! I have debian sarge installed, but want to use some of the newer mono packages. I made source pinning and tried to install some libraries. Unfortunately, there is a circular dependency: --- apt-get -f install libpango1.0-0/testing Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Don

Sound, xmms and Xfce

2005-11-02 Thread Keith Bates
I've just started trying out Xfce and immediately discovered that I can't run xmms. I get the error message "Couldn't open audio- Please check that your sound card is configured correctly" Xine works fine, and xmms works fine in kde and gnome. Can someone suggest how to get xmms working? Thanks

Re: [ANNOUNCE] using secure apt with the testing security archive

2005-11-02 Thread s. keeling
Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Joey, > > Because this is of interest to a very large portion of Debian's user base, > this posting might have been better posted on debian-user-announce. I know > that mail to that list should be minimal, but a proper announcement of this On http://lists.d

Re: Trouble installing on to Dell Laptop

2005-11-02 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Matthew Joyce wrote: > Dear debian-users > > I have an old Dell Laptop (Lattitude Cpi, 366) which I have been > trying to install Debian on to this week. > > I downloaded the Sarge NetInst iso and booted, everything when fine > until the point where it scans/verifies the CD contents. > > The insta

openoffice 2.0 fail on start (debian unstable)

2005-11-02 Thread yzhh
Hi,all Today I get openoffice 2.0 in debian unstable and found most of the components can not start. oowriter, oocalc, oobase and ooimpress all popup with a dialog asking me whether to recover an document "untitled1" (this should have been created during the startup). No matter I choose to recover

openoffice 2.0 fail on start (debian unstable)

2005-11-02 Thread yzhh
Hi,all Today I get openoffice 2.0 in debian unstable and found most of the components can not start. oowriter, oocalc, oobase and ooimpress all popup with a dialog asking me whether to recover an document "untitled1" (this should have been created during the startup). No matter I choose to recover

Trouble installing on to Dell Laptop

2005-11-02 Thread Matthew Joyce
Title: Trouble installing on to Dell Laptop Dear debian-users I have an old Dell Laptop (Lattitude Cpi, 366) which I have been trying to install Debian on to this week. I downloaded the Sarge NetInst iso and booted, everything when fine until the point where it scans/verifies the CD conte

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Carl Fink
Closes FireFox 1.0.6, displays fine in Dillo and Konqueror (under Etch). Konqueror reports: konqueror: ERROR: Error in BrowserExtension::actionSlotMap(), unknown action : searchProvider konqueror: ERROR: Error in BrowserExtension::actionSlotMap(), unknown action : searchProvider Also a flood

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Re: apt-get vs. dselect

2005-11-02 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 02 2005, John M. Gabriele wrote: > I've tried learning to use dselect in the past and have failed, even > after carefully reading what docs I could find. Exactly the same situation in which I found myself! Way too confusing for day to day use. And, then, some heretic people say that the com

Re: emacs settings in sid gnome 2-10

2005-11-02 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 02 2005, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Can someone with working emacs check and see if they have this file in > their systems (sid)? Any other ideas? In my testing (etch) system, I have: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep rgb /etc

Using free-java-sdk (was: Re: getting java to compile and run)

2005-11-02 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Neil. On Nov 03 2005, Neil Dugan wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed 'free-java-sdk' but it doesn't appear to have been > setup correctly. When I ask it to comple a "hello world" type class > (from a book) I get the following error message. Unfortunately, I can't help you that much, since I

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 08:44, Mitch Wiedemann wrote: >James Foster wrote: >>On 11/3/05, Mitch Wiedemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>James Foster wrote: Hello, I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, and whenever I attempt to visit a particular

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 03 2005, James Foster wrote: > Interesting that you mention that, because I had actually tried > turning javascript off, but the results were the same. I just double > checked this, and even when I have both javascript and java turned > off, it crashes. I just double-, triple- etc- checked

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 02 2005, James Foster wrote: > Can someone please confirm this behaviour? > The page is: http://www.movieweb.com/forums/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D6036&e=9797 Yes, I see the exact same issue that you mentioned. I am using Firefox from testing (version 1.0.6-5) and I use no plugins/add-ons. Nice t

Re: mailserver absolute noob question

2005-11-02 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:37:10PM +0100, Thomas wrote: > Here my /etc/postfix/main.cf: > > smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU) > biff = no > > # appending .domain is the MUA's job. > append_dot_mydomain = no > > # Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warn

Smartlist vacation, lists gateways

2005-11-02 Thread Chema
Hi there. Just came back from vacation to find 500 (and counting) debian-user messages on my mailbox. No big deal, I'll just wipe out everything with debian-user as destination. :-P But in shake of netecology and lazyness, I would like to find out how to put my subscription on vacation, whi

Re: Local Package Repository and Upgrading.

2005-11-02 Thread Heimdall Midgard
2005/11/3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I created a Debian Repository in /usr/src/rpm/DebPack/ > with: > > dpkg-scanpackages /usr/src/rpm/DebPack/ override | gzip > > /usr/src/rpm/DebPack/Packages.gz > and added >deb file:/usr/src/rpm DebPack/ to /etc/apt/sources.list >

qemu & vt's

2005-11-02 Thread Matt Price
On 11/2/05, Mitch Wiedemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Kopp wrote: > > >>When I create an iso image of my custom Knoppix > >>CD, I test the image > >>>with the "qemu" program. That way I don't have to > >>burn a cd until I'm > >>>sure the iso is going to work. > >>> > >>>Here's the comma

Local Package Repository and Upgrading.

2005-11-02 Thread alrenaud
I created a Debian Repository in /usr/src/rpm/DebPack/ with: dpkg-scanpackages /usr/src/rpm/DebPack/ override | gzip > /usr/src/rpm/DebPack/Packages.gz and added deb file:/usr/src/rpm DebPack/ to /etc/apt/sources.list I downloaded libc6,libc6-dev,locales ...ds1-22 release to upgra

Re: mailserver absolute noob question

2005-11-02 Thread mikepolniak
On 23:49 Wed 02 Nov , Thomas wrote: >snip<< > >Is there a logfile or something that can tell me who is actually > >denying what? > > > >Thanks, > >Thomas > > > > > Aha, i found out: > > mail.log > Nov 2 23:26:50 localhost postfix/smtpd[14343]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT > from nova[10.

Re: identifying bottlenecks

2005-11-02 Thread Thomas
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Marc Brünink wrote: Hi, I've an application which should be as fast as possible. Therefore I'm trying to identify the bottleneck of the system for this special program. The application just uses 50 % of the CPU according to top. So the bottleneck have to be somew

Re: identifying bottlenecks

2005-11-02 Thread Jason Dewayne Clinton
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 08:47 am, Marc Brünink wrote: > I've an application which should be as fast as possible. Therefore > I'm trying to identify the bottleneck of the system for this special > program. The application just uses 50 % of the CPU according to top. > So the bottleneck have to

Re: identifying bottlenecks

2005-11-02 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Marc Brünink wrote: Hi, I've an application which should be as fast as possible. Therefore I'm trying to identify the bottleneck of the system for this special program. The application just uses 50 % of the CPU according to top. So the bottleneck have to be somewhere else. Is there a program

Re: Where is my Economist?

2005-11-02 Thread Fritz Volbach
The Economist has arrived again. Why are you publishing my inquiry to the publisher on the Internet since it does not concern you?

Re: mailserver absolute noob question (SOLVED)

2005-11-02 Thread Thomas
Thomas wrote: Marco van Putten wrote: Thomas schreef: Thomas wrote: Marco van Putten wrote: Thomas schreef: Mitch Wiedemann wrote: Thomas wrote: Hi there. I would like to setup a mailserver on my debian machine that can receive email from any host and that can be accessed b

Re: mailserver absolute noob question (SOLVED)

2005-11-02 Thread Thomas
Marco van Putten wrote: Thomas schreef: Thomas wrote: Marco van Putten wrote: Thomas schreef: Mitch Wiedemann wrote: Thomas wrote: Hi there. I would like to setup a mailserver on my debian machine that can receive email from any host and that can be accessed by imap or pop3

Re: mailserver absolute noob question

2005-11-02 Thread Marco van Putten
Thomas schreef: Thomas wrote: Marco van Putten wrote: Thomas schreef: Mitch Wiedemann wrote: Thomas wrote: Hi there. I would like to setup a mailserver on my debian machine that can receive email from any host and that can be accessed by imap or pop3 (imap would be nice). I have

Re: apt-get vs. dselect

2005-11-02 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi and thanks for everyone's feedback and the suggestions/encouragement to use aptitude. I first learned dselect when starting with Debian several years ago. Due to discussions like this, people tipped me off to apt-get and I started making good use of that over the past couple years. I've been a

Re: mailserver absolute noob question

2005-11-02 Thread Thomas
Thomas wrote: Marco van Putten wrote: Thomas schreef: Mitch Wiedemann wrote: Thomas wrote: Hi there. I would like to setup a mailserver on my debian machine that can receive email from any host and that can be accessed by imap or pop3 (imap would be nice). I have seen some howtos o

Re: mailserver absolute noob question

2005-11-02 Thread Thomas
Marco van Putten wrote: Thomas schreef: Mitch Wiedemann wrote: Thomas wrote: Hi there. I would like to setup a mailserver on my debian machine that can receive email from any host and that can be accessed by imap or pop3 (imap would be nice). I have seen some howtos on the net but th

unable to rewrite DVD (The LUN appears to be stuck)

2005-11-02 Thread Erdi Balint
Hi all, I have a Toshiba DVD writer in my laptop which can burn CDs and DVDs perfectly. The only thing that I can't make work is the rewriting of DVDs. When I try to do that with: growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -r . I get the following error: :-[ RESERVE track failed with SK=5h/ASC=2Ch/ACQ=00h]: Inp

realplayer 10 in firefox and mozilla

2005-11-02 Thread Adam Hardy
I'm using realplayer 10, and it doesn't play sound anymore - used to, but stopped. It loads up, buffers the stream, and then makes a sort of high-pitched 'beep' and then just plays, but with no sound. I'm using gnome, if that has anything to do with it - and xmms works fine, and totem, using t

Re: apt-get vs. dselect

2005-11-02 Thread Fred
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 11:44 -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote: > Hi all. I should maybe spend more time in the archives but just > looking for quick responses. > > I assume others running Etch noticed the large amount of updates > today. > > When I run > > apt-get update;apt-get -u dist-upgrade >

Re: mailserver absolute noob question

2005-11-02 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Thomas wrote: > Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > >> Thomas wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hi there. >>> >>> I would like to setup a mailserver on my debian machine that can >>> receive email from any host and that can be accessed by imap or pop3 >>> (imap would be nice). I have seen some howtos on the net but they

Re: mailserver absolute noob question

2005-11-02 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Thomas wrote: > Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > >> Thomas wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hi there. >>> >>> I would like to setup a mailserver on my debian machine that can >>> receive email from any host and that can be accessed by imap or pop3 >>> (imap would be nice). I have seen some howtos on the net but they

Re: apt-get vs. dselect

2005-11-02 Thread Mike Dobbs
Forget dselect. Debian has moved to aptitude. I think it's very nice. Take a look at the man page. Takes about 5 min to learn. Very handy if you run unstable. - Original Message - From: "Mark Lijftogt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 2:07 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [ANNOUNCE] using secure apt with the testing security archive

2005-11-02 Thread Jerome BENOIT
It works great ! Thanks! Joey Hess wrote: Jerome BENOIT wrote: wget http://secure-testing.debian.net/ziyi-2005-7.asc -O - | sudo apt-key add - I have just tried it, and I got a `404 Not found' : Have I missed something ? I forgot that secure-testing.debian.net is a round robin and som

Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card startup problems under Debian Sid

2005-11-02 Thread Ed Lawson
On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 20:18:08 + James Caldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As for your issues, I don't want to risk asking the obvious but have you > made sure that ACPI and/or APM packages are installed on your system? Yes, they are installed and I finally got some time to look at things.

Re: emacs settings in sid gnome 2-10

2005-11-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Yeap, I'm screwed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ qiv -m -f fotos/cayos/*jpg qiv: can't parse color 'black' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mailserver absolute noob question

2005-11-02 Thread Thomas
Mitch Wiedemann wrote: Thomas wrote: Hi there. I would like to setup a mailserver on my debian machine that can receive email from any host and that can be accessed by imap or pop3 (imap would be nice). I have seen some howtos on the net but they seemed way too complicated. The howtos i sa

Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card startup problems under Debian Sid

2005-11-02 Thread James Caldow
Dear Ed Many thanks for your reply. I only signed up for the lists today and have missed the thread that you refer to. Your reply has fixed the problem for me perfectly! After adding the entries you mention the laptop now starts the wireless card perfectly. I am ecstatic :-) As for your issues,

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB -> 1 GB lead to better performance?

2005-11-02 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On onsdag 02 november 2005, 02:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I know if I'm regularly filling up my RAM? If you're using KDE, ksysguard is nice. You can add a ksysguard applet to the panel, and you can fire up the ksysguard application. From there, you can drag an drop a sensor showing sw

Re: emacs settings in sid gnome 2-10

2005-11-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 02:35:36PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:05:40PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > I recently moved from sarge to sid, and emacs is giving me some trouble. > > > I had two lines in .emacs > > > > > > ;;(set-backgr

Re: apt-get vs. dselect

2005-11-02 Thread John M. Gabriele
I've tried learning to use dselect in the past and have failed, even after carefully reading what docs I could find. My advice is to avoid dselect like the plague. --- Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. I should maybe spend more time in the archives but just > looking for quick

Re: apt-get vs. dselect

2005-11-02 Thread Mark Lijftogt
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:44:07AM -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote: > Hi all. I should maybe spend more time in the archives but just > looking for quick responses. > > I assume others running Etch noticed the large amount of updates > today. > > When I run > > apt-get update;apt-get -u dist-up

Re: Installing sarge with etch installer

2005-11-02 Thread Roy Franz
In-Reply-To=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Daniel, I found a Sarge image with 2.6.12 at: http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/amd64/ that worked for me. I had to modprobe the ata_piix module, but after that it worked fine. Roy

Re: ntpd won't set clock

2005-11-02 Thread Mark Lijftogt
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:57:50AM +0100, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > Hi list, > > I try to use ntpd from openntpd 3.6.1p1-2 to set the system clock, but > it refuses to do so: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] # ntpd -d -s > ntp engine ready > reply from 213.239.204.4: offset 3436.453723 delay 0.081319, n

Re: [ANNOUNCE] using secure apt with the testing security archive

2005-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
Joe Smith wrote: > Because this is of interest to a very large portion of Debian's user base, > this posting might have been better posted on debian-user-announce. I know > that mail to that list should be minimal, but a proper announcement of > this to that group (to which ALL debian users real

Re: [ANNOUNCE] using secure apt with the testing security archive

2005-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >wget http://secure-testing.debian.net/ziyi-2005-7.asc -O - | sudo apt-key > >add - > > > > I have just tried it, and I got a `404 Not found' : > > Have I missed something ? I forgot that secure-testing.debian.net is a round robin and some of the mirrors do not have that

apt-get vs. dselect

2005-11-02 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi all. I should maybe spend more time in the archives but just looking for quick responses. I assume others running Etch noticed the large amount of updates today. When I run apt-get update;apt-get -u dist-upgrade I get a similar but different set of changes than if I use 'dselect'.

Re: emacs settings in sid gnome 2-10

2005-11-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:05:40PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > I recently moved from sarge to sid, and emacs is giving me some trouble. > > I had two lines in .emacs > > > > ;;(set-background-color "black") > > ;;(set-foreground-color "white") > > > > which I comme

Re: install fails on new hardware

2005-11-02 Thread Sanjay Debian
On 11/2/05, David Koski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have had much difficulty installing Debian on new hardware. I am using thelatest unstable installer available a few days ago. I am trying to installthe default 2.6 kernel and unstable to get the latest code. If I try to install testing the base i

Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card startup problems under Debian Sid

2005-11-02 Thread Ed Lawson
On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 13:20:13 + James Caldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem started after a reboot. When the laptop rebooted the > Wireless card powered on but wouldn't connect. Once logged in I had to > manually do "ifup eth1" as root to get connected. Not a huge deal, but > anno

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Jim Lynch
Debian sarge 1.0.4-2sarge5 Works fine with that web site for me. Jim. Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 23:37 +1100, James Foster wrote: Hello, I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it

Re: Test iso without burning was: Re: virtual installation?

2005-11-02 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Robert Kopp wrote: >>When I create an iso image of my custom Knoppix >>CD, I test the image >> >> >>>with the "qemu" program. That way I don't have to >>> >>> >>burn a cd until I'm >> >> >>>sure the iso is going to work. >>> >>>Here's the command that I use: >>>qemu -m 128 -cdrom my

Re: Test iso without burning was: Re: virtual installation?

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Kopp
> When I create an iso image of my custom Knoppix > CD, I test the image > > with the "qemu" program. That way I don't have to > burn a cd until I'm > > sure the iso is going to work. > > > > Here's the command that I use: > > qemu -m 128 -cdrom my_custom_cd.iso -boot d > -user-net > > Is not the

Re: renamed interfaces or ifrename confuse other programs

2005-11-02 Thread Jörg Schütter
Hello Marc, On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:01:43 - marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jörg Schütter said... > > Hello Marc, > > > > On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 13:30:08 - > > marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Jörg Schütter said... > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > I'm using ifrename to give my network i

install fails on new hardware

2005-11-02 Thread David Koski
I have had much difficulty installing Debian on new hardware. I am using the latest unstable installer available a few days ago. I am trying to install the default 2.6 kernel and unstable to get the latest code. If I try to install testing the base install fails at about 75 percent. With unstabl

Re: How to allow password-less login for guest in GDM?

2005-11-02 Thread Masatran (Rajasekaran Deepak)
* Masatran (Rajasekaran Deepak) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-11-02 > Guest user has empty password. But when guest tries to login from GDM, it > asks for a password and does not allow login with an empty password. > > How can I allow password-less login for guest in GDM? I could not find any > option

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 23:37 +1100, James Foster wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, > and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it > closes immediately. Can someone please confirm this behaviour? > > The page is: http

Re: ipw2200 issues

2005-11-02 Thread James Strandboge
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 15:20 +, Daniel Nilsson wrote: > This is interesting... Could you tell me some more about your setup, are you > using WEP? What kind of access point are you using? Do you have a very good > signal from you access point? > I am not using WEP (no encryption, but with openv

RE: 2.6.14 image will not install (SOLVED), more, corrected

2005-11-02 Thread David Baron
Just upgraded to the -2 version. Made my own initrd. A good question is why lock the installation into the yaird stuff which may have some nice future capabiities but to my mind is not working adequately now. Let me choose. Still no alsa-audio. The realtime-lsm does not load and the error ask i

Re: what are different about the modules

2005-11-02 Thread ericradt
2005/10/31, Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:36:44AM +0800, biosedit wrote: > > hi > > what are different about the modulesalias char-major-13-32 mousedev > > alias char-major-13-33 mousedev > > alias char-major-13-34 mousedev > > alias char-major-13-35 mousedev > > ali

RE: 2.6.14 image will not install (SOLVED), more

2005-11-02 Thread David Baron
Just upgraded to the -2 version. Made my own initrd. A good question is why lock the installation into the yaird stuff which may have some nice future capabiities but to my mind is not working adequately now. Let me choose. Still no alsa-audio. The realtime-lsm does not load and the error ask i

Re: pesky network connectivity on Dell PowerEdge 1850

2005-11-02 Thread Orville Canter
I solved this, sort of. There was another host on the switch that was answering arp requests (and pings) for my host's ip address. I tracked it down through the switch, but surprisingly, when I ran ifconfig -a on the offending host, no interface was configured to use that ip address. Yet it kep

Re: Re: Printing flash web pages.

2005-11-02 Thread Mark J. Small
> Mark J. Small wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Today I was trying to print a colouring page for my daughter on the nickjr site. They use a flash application, and the only way to print the page is by pressing a little "print" button that is part of the flash content. > > > > When I push this

Unexpected conversion to reiserfs

2005-11-02 Thread KayAubrey-Chimene
Hi, After a recent Sarge UPGRADE, my root has been converted to reiserfs. I don't recall selecting a conversion to this file system. It also rewrote etc/mtab. I had to reboot recently and the boot process triggered a manual fsck session. Any pointers as to why reiserfs was foisted on my comp

Re: emacs settings in sid gnome 2-10

2005-11-02 Thread ericradt
2005/11/2, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > I recently moved from sarge to sid, and emacs is giving me some trouble. > > I had two lines in .emacs > > > > ;;(set-background-color "black") > > ;;(set-foreground-color "white") > > > > which I commented after getting

Re: Test iso without burning was: Re: virtual installation?

2005-11-02 Thread Matt Price
thank mitch, this looks great! It's slow enough that I haven't had a chance to explore it fully, but will report back in any case! thanks, matt On 11/1/05, Mitch Wiedemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > >On 11/1/05, Randall Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I'd l

Re: diagnosing wireless failure

2005-11-02 Thread Matt Price
gaah sorry! not used to the tab commands on gmail. reposted in a sep thread. matt On 11/2/05, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > very excited about my new wireless capabilities (using a d-link > dwl-650+, acx100 drivers, works perfectly at home), and trying to get > them to

setting up wifi / interpreting errors

2005-11-02 Thread Matt Price
Hifolks, very excited about my new wireless connection (d-lnnk dwl-650+, on a thinkpad 600e, running a suspend2-enabled 2.6.13.4 kernel w/ the acx100 module added in using module-assistant). THe card works perfectly at home. yay! But at work I cannot associate with the network. Following the W

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Kent West
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Aside from that, how does one code to non-standards? You are taught non-standards? You copy from non-standards? You use tools that use non-standards? This is coding to standards: text goes here This is not coding to standards: text goes here Either use a tool

Re: getting java to compile and run

2005-11-02 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2005-11-03 01:38:28, Neil Dugan wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed 'free-java-sdk' but it doesn't appear to have been > setup correctly. When I ask it to comple a "hello world" type class > (from a book) I get the following error message. > > ---cut--- > $ jikes app.java > Found 1 system erro

Re: gdm theme

2005-11-02 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2005-11-02 21:37:58, salahuddin pasha wrote: > i want that my gdm would use theme clearlooks (always) > how i can do that. In /etc/gdm/gdm.conf, find the [gui] section and add (or modify) GtkTheme= Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistingu

Re: Useful GUI apps on low-mem computers?

2005-11-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/11/05 10:56), Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > Greetings all, > > Our local Free Software User Group has a large number of donated > computers, each having 64MB of RAM and a PII or PIII processor. We are > intending to configure these computers with a useful set of software and > make them availab

Useful GUI apps on low-mem computers?

2005-11-02 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Greetings all, Our local Free Software User Group has a large number of donated computers, each having 64MB of RAM and a PII or PIII processor. We are intending to configure these computers with a useful set of software and make them available for use by low-income people in our community. We ha

Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card startup problems under Debian Sid

2005-11-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hi James! A few words in advance: I am very sorry that you read my previous mail as a collection of insults. That was not my intention. Actually I tried to make fun of myself with the tags. Please bear with me, probably I just don't manage to communicate subtle humour in any other language than m

gdm theme

2005-11-02 Thread salahuddin pasha
hello i want that my gdm would use theme clearlooks (always) how i can do that. thanks-- -salahuddin_66

Re: problem with ctrl+alt+f7

2005-11-02 Thread loos
Same Problem with a Radeon Mobility 9100IGP, the problem began after the XFree86 -> X.org transition. I am using the standard etch driver. Michel Em Qua, 2005-11-02 às 06:47 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom escreveu: > mikes kikou wrote: > > i have a serious problem when trying to switch form a console to

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kent West wrote: James Foster wrote: I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it closes immediately. Can someone please confirm this behaviour? The page is: http://www.movieweb.com/forums/viewtopi

Re: ipw2200 issues

2005-11-02 Thread Daniel Nilsson
James Strandboge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Daniel Nilsson wrote: > > > > > > I've just about had enough of my problems with the ipw2200 driver and > > > the 2.6.12 kernel. I used to have a rock solid wireless connection > > > while I was using vanilla kernel 2.6.11.8 and ipw2200 driver version

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getting java to compile and run

2005-11-02 Thread Neil Dugan
Hi, I have installed 'free-java-sdk' but it doesn't appear to have been setup correctly. When I ask it to comple a "hello world" type class (from a book) I get the following error message. ---cut--- $ jikes app.java Found 1 system error: *** Semantic Error: You need to modify your classpath,

Re: nautilus cd-burner

2005-11-02 Thread James Strandboge
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 10:10 -0500, James Strandboge wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 22:03 -0800, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > > gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Still, what about gnome cd-burner? Is there a way to make it work? > > As root do: > > dpkg-reconfigure --plow cdrecord Oop

Re: nautilus cd-burner

2005-11-02 Thread James Strandboge
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 22:03 -0800, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Still, what about gnome cd-burner? Is there a way to make it work? As root do: dpkg-reconfigure --plow cdrecord Read the warning, then when it asks: Do you want the cdrecord binaries to be in

diagnosing wireless failure

2005-11-02 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, very excited about my new wireless capabilities (using a d-link dwl-650+, acx100 drivers, works perfectly at home), and trying to get them to function on my university's wireless network. I have been following instructions for the network as laid out in the various "generic instructions

Re: sa-exim configuration

2005-11-02 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 11/2/05, Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,   My SA-exim seem to run but does let spam through. From the headers it seem sa-exim simply does not scan mail:   X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.108.137.150X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on localhost.localdomain);

Re: emacs settings in sid gnome 2-10

2005-11-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I recently moved from sarge to sid, and emacs is giving me some trouble. > I had two lines in .emacs > > ;;(set-background-color "black") > ;;(set-foreground-color "white") > > which I commented after getting > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ emacs > Undefined color: "black" > [EM

Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card startup problems under Debian Sid

2005-11-02 Thread James Caldow
Jochen Schulz wrote: James Caldow: I was happy like this for a while and was loving everything about Debian. Then I began to get adventurous. I wanted to see what I was missing with Debian Sid. I liked the idea of more up to date software and a more current development environment to play wit

Re: ipw2200 issues

2005-11-02 Thread James Strandboge
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 07:13 +, Michael Perry wrote: > Daniel Nilsson wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've just about had enough of my problems with the ipw2200 driver and > > the 2.6.12 kernel. I used to have a rock solid wireless connection > > while I was using vanilla kernel 2.6.11.8 and ipw2200

getting java to compile and run

2005-11-02 Thread Neil Dugan
Hi, I have installed 'free-java-sdk' but it doesn't appear to have been setup correctly. When I ask it to comple a "hello world" type class (from a book) I get the following error message. ---cut--- $ jikes app.java Found 1 system error: *** Semantic Error: You need to modify your classpat

Re: renamed interfaces or ifrename confuse other programs

2005-11-02 Thread Jörg Schütter
Hello Marc, On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 13:30:08 - marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jörg Schütter said... > > Hi > > > > I'm using ifrename to give my network interfaces other names > > (lan, wlan and testlan). Unfortunately this confuses a few > > network-tools, eg iptraff and netmon-applet. > > Wh

identifying bottlenecks

2005-11-02 Thread Marc Brünink
Hi, I've an application which should be as fast as possible. Therefore I'm trying to identify the bottleneck of the system for this special program. The application just uses 50 % of the CPU according to top. So the bottleneck have to be somewhere else. Is there a program to monitor the usage

Why all the hype on 2.6.14?

2005-11-02 Thread Bruno Buys
Is it only my view, or there's a big hype on 2.6.14? If there is, why? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: about properties

2005-11-02 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Nevruz Mesut Sahin wrote: > I bougth new computer which Linux is installed on it. how can I see > the hardware properties of the computer by terminal comands > Here are a few commands that come to mind: cat /proc/cpuinfo -- displays info about your processor df -h -- displays disk usage inf

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it closes immediately. Can someone please confirm this behaviour? The page is: http://www.movieweb.com/forums/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D6036&e=9797

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