RE: ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf

2005-12-17 Thread Nuno Vasconcellos
There's a way to solve this via mplayer menu. Do the following: Start mplayer. Click OK for the error message about the subfont. Right-click on any part of mplayer to access its menu. Go to preferences (there would appear a warning message, just click OK). Click on font tab. Browse the font you li

upgrading to a kernel-image - unresolved symbols

2005-12-17 Thread Jaime Casanova
Hi all, I'm new in both, this list and debian, i have installed debian 3.0r4 i think it is called woody i choose to install with the kernel 2.4.18-bfxx that comes with normal installation... some time later, i try to upgrade to a newer kernel so i install kernel-image-2.4.27-386 with aptitude i m

Re: [OT] good laptops

2005-12-17 Thread Rob Benton
Paul Johnson wrote: > I just got a 1.6 GHz IBM ThinkPad A31 for $500 at budcom.com (Budget Computers, SW 114th Ave and OR-10 and OR-217, Beaverton, Oregon). That's a much nicer machine, everything on it works, and I've even heard good things about Linux on them (though I haven't tried dual boot

Re: KPPP won't go on the internet

2005-12-17 Thread Andrew Kovacs
Hi Ludovic, After doing a couple of Debian and several Kubuntu installs, I've found it neccessary to do only two things (as well as I can recall) to get them to connect to a dial-up isp: 1. Create an empty 'resolv.conf' file in /etc/ppp, and 2. To edit the '/etc/ppp/options' file and change th

Re: apt-get upgrade - kernel-image

2005-12-17 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 04:40:08PM +0100, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > Hi, > not sure this is a problem but I'll like to check anyway. > > When doing apt-get upgrade the only package listed for upgrade is the > kernel image. this is working fine and I'm not sure what the upgrade will > do. > > The

Re: Fwd: orinoco wireless on sid

2005-12-17 Thread elawson
Michael Marsh wrote: At this point I might just give the kernel maintainers a full 2 weeks before trying anything drastic. Just a note to say I use a Prism2 WiFi card and have had the same problem since upgrading. Modules for the Orinoco driver are broken in most recent version of 2.4 ker

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-17 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:11:19PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > I'll find you the reference and quote it. It's in the readme. However, you're right, it doesn't say "after running any of these utilities." It says: NtfsFix - Attempt to fix an NTFS partition that has been damaged by the old L

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-17 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 09:11:04PM +0200, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > This was NEVER in the ntfsfix manual page, your claim is absolutely untrue. You're right; it's not in the man page. If I had read only that man page I wouldn't have made that statement. I never installed ntfsprogs before a

SOLVED - Re: Re: Re: KDE font size problem after nvidia driver upgrade

2005-12-17 Thread David Bruce
I found some info regarding this on www.nvnews.net and in the README for the nvidia driver - apparently the "UseEdidDpi" option has some problems in the 8174 version of the driver. I added the following lines to the "Device" section of my xorg.conf and the problem seems to be solved. O

Re: Package installation errors

2005-12-17 Thread Gabriel
Ram wrote: Thanks for the response Pete. I did notice some errors during the  upgrade and dist upgrade options. But most unfortunately, there was a power outage before I could capture the errors. So,  if I have to revert everything back to the stable version - Sarge, what are steps that I need

Re: Package installation errors

2005-12-17 Thread Ram
Thanks for the response Pete. I did notice some errors during the  upgrade and dist upgrade options. But most unfortunately, there was a power outage before I could capture the errors. So,  if I have to revert everything back to the stable version - Sarge, what are steps that I need to follow ? Few

problem installing mysql-doc

2005-12-17 Thread David Christensen
debian user: I have installed mysql-server, which recommended mysql-doc. So after mysql-server was done, I tried to install mysql-doc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install mysql-doc Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package mysql-doc is not available,

Re: Fwd: orinoco wireless on sid

2005-12-17 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/17/05, Peter Nuttall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://snapshot.debian.net/ is the place to look for old debs after they > get replaced. You could also see if the deb is still in > /var/cache/apt/archive/ (that path might be a bit wrong). I must have cleared out the cache after doing the u

Re: ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf

2005-12-17 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Charlie wrote: > I installed mplayer and when I click on the icon i get > ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf. cd ~/.mplayer ln -s /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerif.ttf subfont.ttf use whatever *.ttf file you want ... c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Package installation errors

2005-12-17 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 06:05:00PM -0700, Ram wrote: > Hi all, > i am a new user of linux in general and debian in specific. I recently > updated my system with the following commands : > #apt-get update > #apt-get upgrade > #apt-get dist upgrade > I'm guessing that you upgraded to unstable, wh

Re: Re: KDE font size problem after nvidia driver upgrade

2005-12-17 Thread David Bruce
I found a couple of lines from the respective Xorg.0.log files for the two drivers which perhaps are pertinant: For the nv driver: (--) NV(0): Display dimensions: (340, 270) mm (--) NV(0): DPI set to (76, 72) For the nvidia driver: (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (95, 96); computed from "UseEdidDpi"

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-17 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 17 December 2005 5:55 pm, Scott wrote: > I had gotten Diggler to work on some of the Firefox betas either by > editing the file or using Nightly Tester Tools.  Frankly though, it's > apparent that the developer has long ago abandoned this extension, so I > decided I just had to find

Package installation errors

2005-12-17 Thread Ram
Hi all,  i am a new user of linux in general  and debian in specific. I recently updated my system with the following commands : #apt-get update #apt-get upgrade #apt-get dist upgrade I now notice that somehow, I can't run my 'vi' or 'vim' commands anymore. So I tried to track the vi command firs

Re: Fwd: orinoco wireless on sid

2005-12-17 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 06:20:01PM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 12/17/05, Peter Nuttall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From your debugging output, I see that modprobe is trying to load the > > module from the 2.4.27-2 directories. I haven't seen a problem like it > > before, but you might want

Re: Shutdown w/o root password.

2005-12-17 Thread Gabriel
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: 2005/12/17, Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Why I don't need to supply the root password to shutdown the computer from gnome?... I've been searching for any option related but didn't find any. Any idea? -- Cheers -- Gabriel Parrondo Linux User #404138 "In

Re: virtual machines

2005-12-17 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Rakotomandimby Mihamina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051218 01:25]: > I have a test machine, on wich I use to package and test packages. > I package both for Fedora and for Debian. > For the moment, I use multiboot. > > But I am tired to reboot each time I want to switch distribution. > I intend t

Re: How to send mail from Mutt?

2005-12-17 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
Peter Nuttall wrote on Dec, 18: > > I used to be able to send mail from Mutt but I got a new email address and > > it no longer works. > > > > In Mozilla mail preferences I have set use "outgoing.verizon.net" for > > outgoing SMTP but I found nothing regarding such a setting in muttrc. > > Or

apt-get source picks the wrong repository

2005-12-17 Thread Daniel Webb
I've been using Debian for 5 years, so I thought I understood how package priorities work, but apparently I don't. Why is it pulling the packages from unstable instead of stable? $ apt-get source -b fakeroot Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 981kB of sourc

Re: How to send mail from Mutt?

2005-12-17 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 09:14:45AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I used to be able to send mail from Mutt but I got a new email address > and it no longer works. > > In Mozilla mail preferences I have set use "outgoing.verizon.net" for > outgoing SMTP but I found nothing regarding such a sett

Re: Shutdown w/o root password.

2005-12-17 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 09:38:35AM -0300, Gabriel wrote: > Why I don't need to supply the root password to shutdown the computer > from gnome?... > I've been searching for any option related but didn't find any. > > > Any idea? > Do you have gdm installed? When I used KDE, if you had kdm instal

Re: Synching deeply nested directories Debian Server - Win XP

2005-12-17 Thread Stefan
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Justin Guerin wrote: On Wednesday 07 December 2005 18:00, Debian Users wrote: I have read about tunneling the SMB traffic through an ssh tunnel, but that would also mean turning off the usual network browsing of the remote Windows box, which is cumbersome at least. No, it

~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf

2005-12-17 Thread Charlie
I installed mplayer and when I click on the icon i get ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf. I installed mplayer numerous ways. From a .bz2, .deb and compiling it from instructions which seems to work bur I get the same error. Lest something think I did not do homework, I goggled forever and found a few examp

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-17 Thread [KS]
Scott wrote: > I found it. It's one of the features of the official Google Toolbar. > I've dragged and dropped the "up one level" button from the Google > Toolbar to where Diggler used to be. It's not as good, but it will have > to do. > Google Toolbar seems to be a bloat to meatleast the w

virtual machines

2005-12-17 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Hi, I have a test machine, on wich I use to package and test packages. I package both for Fedora and for Debian. For the moment, I use multiboot. But I am tired to reboot each time I want to switch distribution. I intend to buy some amount of RAM and then try to use virtual machine. I really begi

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-17 Thread [KS]
Micha Feigin wrote: > > On the other hand, its still a crazy memory hog (almost 100MB with a single > window, that can not be good coding, its about as bad as explorer). I stick > with opera for the moment. > I heard that 1.5 was using more memory than 1.0.x because of the new feature of fast bac

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-17 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/17/05, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had gotten Diggler to work on some of the Firefox betas either by > editing the file or using Nightly Tester Tools. Frankly though, it's > apparent that the developer has long ago abandoned this extension, so I > decided I just had to find an alter

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-17 Thread [KS]
Scott wrote: > > This is what I don't understand.: Isn't Firefox a trademark too? Why > is using that name acceptable but using "Mozilla" unacceptable? > > > I'm sure renaming mozilla-firefox to firefox is not the end of the trademark problems with mozilla.org. I haven't heard anything latel

Re: Grub Error 17: won't load after I add a new partition with cfdisk

2005-12-17 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2005/12/17, All Nicks Are Taken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I decided to add a new partition for /var , as it was beginning to fill up > my root partition. so I added a new one with cfdisk, and then my whole > partition numbering changed - every partition got incremented by 1. so I > changed everything

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-17 Thread Scott
[KS] wrote: Darryl Clarke wrote: the 'mozilla-firefox' package is changed to 'firefox'. Due to trademark issues of course. the only 'firefox' package should be the 1.4.99+ one, the 'mozilla-firefox' should be 1.0.7 -- they conflict, because 'firefox' is a replacement for 'mozilla-firefox'

Re: KDE font size problem after nvidia driver upgrade

2005-12-17 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2005/12/17, David Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm running Sid with 2.6.14. Nvidia-glx was upgrade to 8174 in Sid recently. > I built and installed the corresponding driver using module-assistant, and > now all of the fonts and (I think) KDE/Qt GUI elements are about 20% larger > than they used to

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-17 Thread Scott
Michael Marsh wrote: On 12/17/05, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Marsh wrote: > At the moment, I'm very glad that it doesn't. Aside from a few > extensions which didn't have 1.5-compatible versions yet, I couldn't > get java working in 1.5. I'd give it a another try. 1.5 is much fast

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-17 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/17/05, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Marsh wrote: > > At the moment, I'm very glad that it doesn't. Aside from a few > > extensions which didn't have 1.5-compatible versions yet, I couldn't > > get java working in 1.5. > I'd give it a another try. 1.5 is much faster than 1.0.x.

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-17 Thread Scott
Michael Marsh wrote: On 12/17/05, [KS] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well the trademark issues reason is understandable as there has been lots (yes lots) of discussion on that topic. So if firefox is available as 1.4.99+1.5rc3, why is it that an apt-get dist-upgrade does not replace my mozilla-

Re: apt-watch error

2005-12-17 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 05:29:02PM -0200, Nuno Vasconcellos wrote: > Hello, > > Sometimes when apt-watch runs, it pops up a window with the following error > message: > > Archive directory /home/user/.apt-watch/archives/partial is missing > > After that, apt-watch taskbar icon turns into a red

Re: Fwd: orinoco wireless on sid

2005-12-17 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/17/05, Peter Nuttall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From your debugging output, I see that modprobe is trying to load the > module from the 2.4.27-2 directories. I haven't seen a problem like it > before, but you might want to see if you have a > /lib/modules/2.4.27-12-686 dir. Another thing to

Re: Re: Changing over to udev

2005-12-17 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> > Plain old static device files can still work, udev is just a nice |> > convenience that makes life easier. |> |> ... or would be if it actually worked. What have you had trouble with? I have 2.6.14.4 and udev 076 from testing and everything just worked (on 2 desktops and a laptop) with no

announcing dsafilter: filter debian security advisories

2005-12-17 Thread Jon Dowland
Seasons-greetings list, A quick mail to announce my pet mail filter `dsafilter': a program to manage filtering debian security advisory (DSA) email. Anyone using a debian system would be wise to subscribe to the `debian-security-announce' mailing list. However, when you get a DSA you need to hand-

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-17 Thread Wayne Topa
Nate Bargmann([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > * Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Dec 17 13:09 -0600]: > > > do > > apt-cache policy firefox > > and > > apt-cache policy mozilla-firefox > > > > The light will shine > > What exactly does this prove other than mozilla-firefox is

Re: Fwd: orinoco wireless on sid

2005-12-17 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 07:11:53PM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > Hi all. > > I sent this to debian-laptop a few days ago, and haven't gotten any > responses, so I thought I'd try the wider-readership list. > > It's now a full week since I lost my wireless, and still no indication > that the kerne

Re: apt-get upgrade - kernel-image

2005-12-17 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/17/2005 10:50 AM, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > Hi, > not sure this is a problem but I'll like to check anyway. > > When doing apt-get upgrade the only package listed for upgrade is the > kernel image. this is working fine and I'm not sure what the upgrade will > do. > > The sources list say

Re: apt-get upgrade - kernel-image

2005-12-17 Thread Josh King
Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: Hi, not sure this is a problem but I'll like to check anyway. When doing apt-get upgrade the only package listed for upgrade is the kernel image. this is working fine and I'm not sure what the upgrade will do. The sources list say "stable". I got a few packages from un

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 13:25:58 -0500 "[KS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Darryl Clarke wrote: > > > > the 'mozilla-firefox' package is changed to 'firefox'. Due to > > trademark issues of course. > > > > the only 'firefox' package should be the 1.4.99+ one, the > > 'mozilla-firefox' should be 1.0

Re: RE: Built 2.6.14!

2005-12-17 Thread Jim McCloskey
David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> > I note that any attempt to place CONFIG_DEVFS=y (or CONFIG_DEVFS_FS |> > as implied |> > in the Makefile by the devfs sources!!) produces an undefined symbol error. I |> > did, however, notice some errors dealing with devfs elsewhere. In any event,

Re: KPPP won't go on the internet

2005-12-17 Thread ML
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 08:27 am, John Hasler wrote: > No.  Running pppconfig as root and answering the questions will suffice. Thanks John, never having had to do it, I didn't know it was that simple. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 +++ We falsely attribute to

Re: KPPP won't go on the internet

2005-12-17 Thread John Hasler
ML writes: > I'm not certain that if, as root you might not be able to type <# > dpkg-reconfigure ppp> that you might not be able to grab it that way, and > connect using No. Running pppconfig as root and answering the questions will suffice. If you must have a GUI install gpppon. It lets you

вопрос

2005-12-17 Thread Denis
я продаю компьютеры. Хочу начать устанавливать клиентам Linux Debian, скажите пожалуйста какие дистрибутивы я могу ставить за деньги? Денис -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KPPP won't go on the internet

2005-12-17 Thread ML
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 07:20 am, LMa wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm wishing to report a problem with KPPP 2.2.0 (with KDE 3.3.2 under > Debian GNU Linux 3.1 "Sarge", kernel 2.4.27) which I cannot use properly > as a normal user. > > I managed to solve all other problems

Re: SATA RAID 0 on nforce2 400 ultra chipset

2005-12-17 Thread Chris Boot
Andras Lorincz wrote: Hi, I have an asus a7n8x-xe mobo and I thought to buy two SATA hard drives to set them up to work in RAID 0. Is RAID supported for this chipset because I don't want to buy the hard drives in vain? If yes, could someone point me a howto because I never had any experience

Re: KPPP won't go on the internet

2005-12-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
I found that I had to manually uncomment the noauth line in /etc/ppp/peers/kppp-options HTH, - Nate >> -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | Successfully Microsoft Amateur radio exams; ham radio; Linux info @ | free since January 1998. http://www.qsl.net/n0nb/

KPPP won't go on the internet

2005-12-17 Thread LMa
Hello everyone, I'm wishing to report a problem with KPPP 2.2.0 (with KDE 3.3.2 under Debian GNU Linux 3.1 "Sarge", kernel 2.4.27) which I cannot use properly as a normal user. I managed to solve all other problems (I "come from" Knoppix 3.4 and I couldn't believe there was so much to config

Install failure report (Compaq Presario SR1030Z)

2005-12-17 Thread David B van Balen
I'm not subscribed to the list, so if you reply and don't CC me, it'll take a while before I can reply and will probably break thread continuity. Downloaded debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso from Dec 17 and ran expert install with the following results: Attempt #1: Installer appears to correctly

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-17 Thread [KS]
Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Dec 17 13:09 -0600]: > > >>do >>apt-cache policy firefox >>and >>apt-cache policy mozilla-firefox >> >>The light will shine > > > What exactly does this prove other than mozilla-firefox is installed > and firefox is not here and that

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Dec 17 13:09 -0600]: > do > apt-cache policy firefox > and > apt-cache policy mozilla-firefox > > The light will shine What exactly does this prove other than mozilla-firefox is installed and firefox is not here and that firefox has a long version string wi

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-17 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Ballard) writes: > You can't mount a [ntfsclone] image that has been saved with > --save-image. If you want a compressed and mountable image then use ntfsclone without the --save-image option and with a compressed filesystem. > I tried ntfsclone and it works about as

Re: How do I get my Kernel Back?

2005-12-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 23:34:35 -0500 "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do to the recent problems with yaird and the new Kernel Image (suffice it to > say), I have... removed my one and only kernel image. > > How do I get it back? > > I tried to do this from Knoppix but it doesn't seem

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-17 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/17/05, [KS] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well the trademark issues reason is understandable as there has been > lots (yes lots) of discussion on that topic. So if firefox is > available as 1.4.99+1.5rc3, why is it that an apt-get dist-upgrade does > not replace my mozilla-firefox with fir

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-17 Thread [KS]
Darryl Clarke wrote: > > the 'mozilla-firefox' package is changed to 'firefox'. Due to > trademark issues of course. > > the only 'firefox' package should be the 1.4.99+ one, the > 'mozilla-firefox' should be 1.0.7 -- they conflict, because 'firefox' > is a replacement for 'mozilla-firefox' >

Re: starting wireless connection on boot

2005-12-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
martin jakubik wrote: Your /etc/network/interfaces should look something like: iface wlan0 inet dhcp wireless-key XX wireless-essid my-network Thanks a lot. I just got a chance to test this. Unfortunately, it doesn't "work". In other words: 1) I put the above in my /etc/network/inter

Re: starting wireless connection on boot

2005-12-17 Thread Srinidhi B S
Hi, I don't have much knowledge about wireless connection, but I would like to give my two cents. On 12/17/05, martin jakubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Your /etc/network/interfaces should look something like: > > > > iface wlan0 inet dhcp > > wireless-key XX > > wireless-essid my-net

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-17 Thread Wayne Topa
[KS]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I have noticed that since about a week or so ago that there is another > package for firefox browser namely "firefox" (version 1.4.99+1.5rc3)! > The rc version had been in experimental earlier and now this package can > be found in unstable. > >

Re: dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile

2005-12-17 Thread Brian C
Hi, I describe a partial solution and the next problem below. David Kirchner wrote: On 12/16/05, Brian C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile but I still get the same error. Can anyone explain how to allow dselect to create the lockfile it wants to?

Re: Grub Error 17: won't load after I add a new partition with cfdisk

2005-12-17 Thread Srinidhi B S
Hi, On 12/17/05, All Nicks Are Taken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gave me error 17 - I needed to boot up with my Debian CD, delete the new > partition and then reboot again. According to Grub docs, error 17 refers to: 17 : Cannot mount selected partition This error is returned if the partition

Re: ssh_exchange_identification

2005-12-17 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
On 12/17/05, Z F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It might be that you need to use ssh2 while you are using ssh1 to connect No. I'm using SSH2 like HOST -- Openclose.it - Idee per il software libero http://www.openclose.it

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-17 Thread Darryl Clarke
On 12/17/05, [KS] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have noticed that since about a week or so ago that there is another > package for firefox browser namely "firefox" (version 1.4.99+1.5rc3)! > The rc version had been in experimental earlier and now this package can > be found in unstable. > > I don'

mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-17 Thread [KS]
I have noticed that since about a week or so ago that there is another package for firefox browser namely "firefox" (version 1.4.99+1.5rc3)! The rc version had been in experimental earlier and now this package can be found in unstable. I don't know if I have missed an annoucement (gladium ??) abou

No X with home brewed Xen kernel

2005-12-17 Thread Klaus Pieper
I can't get X up on a etch system configured for Xen 3.0. It works with debian's standard 2.6.12-1-k7, with 2.6.12.6 compiled from the xen sources X hangs on startup, I get a black screen and nothing happens, can't switch back to the console, can do a soft reboot with ctrl-alt-del, however. M

apt-get upgrade - kernel-image

2005-12-17 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
Hi, not sure this is a problem but I'll like to check anyway. When doing apt-get upgrade the only package listed for upgrade is the kernel image. this is working fine and I'm not sure what the upgrade will do. The sources list say "stable". I got a few packages from unstable, but apt is configure

Re: RE: cdplay

2005-12-17 Thread Jose Rapalo
i came across the name gilbert ramirez jr. this morning on my computer screen.  just out of curiosity, are you the same gilbert ramirez jr. that attended jane long middle school with me in houston, tx?  if so, you may remember a friend by the name of jose rapalo.very smart kid...that would

ssh_exchange_identification

2005-12-17 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
This morning onto new SSH account receiving: ~# ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host I'm a longer user of ssh but this error is newer for me. I have try to connect ssh account from 2 machine and 2 ip address. -- Openclose.it - Idee per il software l

Re: How to send mail from Mutt?

2005-12-17 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
Thomas H. George wrote on Dec, 17: > In Mozilla mail preferences I have set use "outgoing.verizon.net" for > outgoing SMTP but I found nothing regarding such a setting in muttrc. Or > perhaps, if it is there, I don't understand the entry. Could this be the > problem or should I look elsewhere

Re: Re: Dedicated Hosting, recommendations - Debian

2005-12-17 Thread Joel Johnson
I second this one! Dreamhost.com has a coupon code, "40less", that gets you $40.00 of your signup charge. They have good reliable servers, but their customer support is average, at best.

Re: Install kernel-source-2.6.8 update

2005-12-17 Thread Marty
Marcel Stoop wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 23:37 -0500, Marty wrote: So in other words, if you like to inform other (beginning) users, or just answer their questions about kernels on the list. Please make sure they use it the way they should, in debian that is. The method I proposed works just f

Re: Customize xfterm4 for a terminal-bound program in Xfce

2005-12-17 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
Almut Behrens wrote on Dec, 17: [...] > > I'm migrating from KDE to Xfce and I'm not being able to do this: to add a > > launcher in the Panel for a program running on a terminal, with customized > > terminal properties. For example, I'd like to launch mutt and mc within a > > taller terminal

How to send mail from Mutt?

2005-12-17 Thread Thomas H. George
I used to be able to send mail from Mutt but I got a new email address and it no longer works. In Mozilla mail preferences I have set use "outgoing.verizon.net" for outgoing SMTP but I found nothing regarding such a setting in muttrc. Or perhaps, if it is there, I don't understand the entry.

Re: starting wireless connection on boot

2005-12-17 Thread martin jakubik
> Your /etc/network/interfaces should look something like: > > iface wlan0 inet dhcp > wireless-key XX > wireless-essid my-network Thanks a lot. I just got a chance to test this. Unfortunately, it doesn't "work". In other words: 1) I put the above in my /etc/network/interfaces 2) I comment

KDE font size problem after nvidia driver upgrade

2005-12-17 Thread David Bruce
I'm running Sid with 2.6.14. Nvidia-glx was upgrade to 8174 in Sid recently. I built and installed the corresponding driver using module-assistant, and now all of the fonts and (I think) KDE/Qt GUI elements are about 20% larger than they used to be, even though the point size is still the same

Grub Error 17: won't load after I add a new partition with cfdisk

2005-12-17 Thread All Nicks Are Taken
I decided to add a new partition for /var , as it was beginning to fill up my root partition. so I added a new one with cfdisk, and then my whole partition numbering changed - every partition got incremented by 1. so I changed everything needed in fstab, then rebooted, and then grub gave me error 1

Shutdown w/o root password.

2005-12-17 Thread Gabriel
Why I don't need to supply the root password to shutdown the computer from gnome?... I've been searching for any option related but didn't find any. Any idea? -- Cheers -- Gabriel Parrondo Linux User #404138 "In theory there's no difference between the theory and the practice. In the prac

Re: Customize xfterm4 for a terminal-bound program in Xfce

2005-12-17 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 08:54:53AM -0200, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote: > Hi, > > I'm migrating from KDE to Xfce and I'm not being able to do this: to add a > launcher in the Panel for a program running on a terminal, with customized > terminal properties. For example, I'd like to launch mut

Customize xfterm4 for a terminal-bound program in Xfce

2005-12-17 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
Hi, I'm migrating from KDE to Xfce and I'm not being able to do this: to add a launcher in the Panel for a program running on a terminal, with customized terminal properties. For example, I'd like to launch mutt and mc within a taller terminal window, without menu and scroll bars. If the progra

Re: Apache2 error

2005-12-17 Thread Almut Behrens
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:28:47PM +0100, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > > [emerg] (38)Function not implemented: Couldn't create accept lock > > Kernel is 2.6.13.4 > Dual xeon proc, 1gb ram > > New installation, everything installed with apt-get > > I have no idea what it means Typicall

Re: Getting the Euro symbol on to my keyboard

2005-12-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 17 December 2005 10:00, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 08:22:19AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > >> I want to get the ability to generate the Euro symbol from my keyboard. > >> The symbol itself is etched in to the "4" key (on the bottom rig

Re: WordPerfect 8.0 (installation)

2005-12-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:53:58AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: > >Herewith is the latest update on my attempts to install WordPerfect > >8.0 on my Debian 'sarge' GNU/linux distribution. > > > Debian _is_ about choice. Corel isn't - they tied their product to one specifi

Re: netatalk experiences

2005-12-17 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 11.12.2005, 21:59 -0500 schrieb mw: > I'm considering using Debian and netatalk for our macintosh hard drive > backup of files. This would be instead of windows2000 with services for > macintosh.We have had some problem with resource forks getting messed up > copying files f

Re: Getting the Euro symbol on to my keyboard

2005-12-17 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 08:22:19AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: >> I want to get the ability to generate the Euro symbol from my keyboard. >> The symbol itself is etched in to the "4" key (on the bottom right). Where? In X or in a VT? >> I found this >> >> http://www.

Re: Getting the Euro symbol on to my keyboard

2005-12-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 08:22:19AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > I want to get the ability to generate the Euro symbol from my keyboard. The > symbol itself is etched in to the "4" key (on the bottom right). > > I found this > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-euro-support/ch-configur

Guia Telefonica 2005

2005-12-17 Thread Guia Telefonica 2005
Guías telefónicas de toda España, por provincias, actualizada al 2005, en formato de texto ASCII, y por lo tanto sin ningún tipo de limitación. Pudiéndose realizar búsquedas (como la búsqueda inversa, es decir, por número de teléfono), filtrados, extracciones de datos, etc... lo que uno quiera

Re: Changing over to udev

2005-12-17 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:45:03 -0800 Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And I'm using udev on this box. Not that I like it, not that I give a > tinker's damn about demonstrating how big my d*ck is by how empty I can > make /dev (and that emptiness has meant I've had to write rules for every >

Re: Install kernel-source-2.6.8 update

2005-12-17 Thread Marcel Stoop
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 23:37 -0500, Marty wrote: > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Marty wrote: > >> New kernel in 5 easy steps! > >> > >> 1) untar /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2 > > Check. > >> 2) Add your .config (e.g. from /proc/config.gz) > > Check. > >> 3) make oldconfig;make bzImage > > Why

Getting the Euro symbol on to my keyboard

2005-12-17 Thread Alan Chandler
I want to get the ability to generate the Euro symbol from my keyboard. The symbol itself is etched in to the "4" key (on the bottom right). I found this http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-euro-support/ch-configure.en.html which is (a probably somewhat old) howto on adding the symbol.

Re: Antispam + antivirus + blocking attachments

2005-12-17 Thread Michael Dominok
Am Freitag, den 16.12.2005, 13:56 +0100 schrieb Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro): > > Hello, > > Is there an smtp gateway that can block spam, has antivirus and the > ability to block attachments ? > I was thinking about DSPAM with addons but maybe there is a better > solution that has everything onboard