Re: SATA RAID 0 on nforce2 400 ultra chipset

2005-12-18 Thread Andras Lorincz
But I think I will need the RAID from the mobo because I also need windows for gameing. Am I right?On 12/17/05, Chris Boot < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: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 suppo

Re: apt-get source picks the wrong repository

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel Webb
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:20:19PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I can't believe that it would be a problem, as I imagine your > /etc/apt/preferences would cause an error, but do you have a "stable" > line in your /etc/apt/sources.list? > > all i can say is that's weird Yes, I regularl

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-18 Thread D. Michael McFarland
Robert Kopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- "D. Michael McFarland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've installed the package linux-source-2.6.14 with the intention >> of building a kernel with the stock Debian configuration. However, >> I've been unable to locate the .config file corresponding

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Chinook wrote: I have an X86 based PC (with a ATI AIW 8500 card) on my LAN that I'm expunging XP from and am trying to decide which Linux to install. I AM NOT :-) looking for a heated debate of which is best (whatever that means), but rather which might better facilitate a couple personal g

Re: apt-get source picks the wrong repository

2005-12-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
I can't believe that it would be a problem, as I imagine your /etc/apt/preferences would cause an error, but do you have a "stable" line in your /etc/apt/sources.list? all i can say is that's weird A Daniel Webb wrote: I've been using Debian for 5 years, so I thought I understood how packa

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-18 Thread Robert Kopp
--- "D. Michael McFarland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've installed the package linux-source-2.6.14 with > the intention of > building a kernel with the stock Debian > configuration. However, I've > been unable to locate the .config file corresponding > to > linux-image-2.6.14-2-amd64-k8. A

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-18 Thread Kent West
Chinook wrote: Kent West wrote: Chinook wrote: am trying to decide which Linux to install. Pretty much any distro will do the things you've specified; I don't think these criteria will suffice for choosing a distro. You may have to move to other criteria (such as the Freedom argument, me

Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-18 Thread D. Michael McFarland
I've installed the package linux-source-2.6.14 with the intention of building a kernel with the stock Debian configuration. However, I've been unable to locate the .config file corresponding to linux-image-2.6.14-2-amd64-k8. According to /usr/share/doc/linux-source-2.6.14/README.Debian, Conf

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Brad Sims wrote: I have a 300GB external HD that contains a current / with the exeption of /proc/ /tmp/ /mnt/ /dev/ and /sys/... Is it possible do a bare-metal restore using this? Also can you think of anything useful to add to this script? Have you considered switching to systemimager, d

Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-18 Thread Brad Sims
I have a 300GB external HD that contains a current / with the exeption of /proc/ /tmp/ /mnt/ /dev/ and /sys/... Is it possible do a bare-metal restore using this? Also can you think of anything useful to add to this script? #!/bin/sh # Primary Author: Brice Burgess - [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Second

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-18 Thread Kent West
Chinook wrote: > am trying to decide which Linux to install. > 1) My wife will be using it for documents and communication. I'm sure > OpenOffice will satisfy the documents use, and she prefers Thunderbird > and Firefox for communications. Oh yes, she says she has to have her > card games :<))

Re: How to compile custom 2.4 series kernel in Sarge with root on LVM?

2005-12-18 Thread Amal Phadke
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 11:17:03PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Amal Phadke wrote: > >Hi all, > > > > I am trying to compile a custom 2.4 series kernel for my > >server box which has /boot as a separate ext3 partition and / (root) > >partition on LVM (/dev/mapper/vg00-lv03), because I prefer

Re: How to compile custom 2.4 series kernel in Sarge with root on LVM?

2005-12-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Amal Phadke wrote: Hi all, I am trying to compile a custom 2.4 series kernel for my server box which has /boot as a separate ext3 partition and / (root) partition on LVM (/dev/mapper/vg00-lv03), because I prefer to have all the drivers corresponding to my server hardware compiled into th

How to compile custom 2.4 series kernel in Sarge with root on LVM?

2005-12-18 Thread Amal Phadke
Hi all, I am trying to compile a custom 2.4 series kernel for my server box which has /boot as a separate ext3 partition and / (root) partition on LVM (/dev/mapper/vg00-lv03), because I prefer to have all the drivers corresponding to my server hardware compiled into the kernel and none as

Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-18 Thread Chinook
I have an X86 based PC (with a ATI AIW 8500 card) on my LAN that I'm expunging XP from and am trying to decide which Linux to install. I AM NOT :-) looking for a heated debate of which is best (whatever that means), but rather which might better facilitate a couple personal general criteria.

EasyH10 for Debian: can't be used without external knowledge

2005-12-18 Thread Carl Fink
I just got an iRiver H10 personal audio player. I bought it based on the idea that it was supported under Debian, since the EasyH10 package is present. Um, how do you use it? I looked at the README.Debian, which says, quote, "You need to provide a model template for your model of the H10. The ea

Re: installed udev - lost mouse and NIC

2005-12-18 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday, 18 December 2005 at 21:11:14 +, Richard Lyons wrote: > Just set up a sid system on an IBM thinkpad 600E. All went well. Then > I installed a load of applications and tools. Including udev. When I > rebooted, I had no mouse (usb) and no NIC (PCMCIA). Pilot error. Of course. I

Re: kernel linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7: waiting endlessly for /dev/hda to show up

2005-12-18 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 12/18/05, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 15:37:10 +0100 > Gert Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > after upgrading kernel 2.6.14-2-k7 from (I guess) 2.6.14-4 to 2.6.14-5 > > it does not boot any more. It is waiting for the hard disk /dev/hda

Re: kernel linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7: waiting endlessly for /dev/hda to show up

2005-12-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 15:37:10 +0100 Gert Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > after upgrading kernel 2.6.14-2-k7 from (I guess) 2.6.14-4 to 2.6.14-5 > it does not boot any more. It is waiting for the hard disk /dev/hda to > show up 1, 2, 8 and 16 seconds in a loop and nothing more hap

Re: HOWTO: Install 2.6.14 (or newer) on Sarge

2005-12-18 Thread Marc Marais
Nevermind, after further checking it appears I'm not even using devfs - bear in mind this is a dist-upgraded system and not a fresh Sarge install so it appears I never went down the devfs path. On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 08:54:33 +0800, Marc wrote > I'm confused here, I'm currently running 2.6.14.3 whic

SIGPROF is masked by select() .

2005-12-18 Thread xiangbin
Hi,all I am not sure it is suitable to issue such a question here. I wrote a small program that both POSIX timer and select() call is used for timing.Either timer or select() works well when they are used separately. But as both of them are used together, only the select() call works,the POSIX t

Re: HOWTO: Install 2.6.14 (or newer) on Sarge

2005-12-18 Thread Marc
Nevermind, after further checking it appears I'm not even using devfs - bear in mind this is a dist-upgraded system and not a fresh Sarge install so it appears I never went down the devfs path. On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 08:54:33 +0800, Marc wrote > I'm confused here, I'm currently running 2.6.14.3 whic

Re: NIC PnP

2005-12-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 09:04:39PM -0400, Dave Whelan wrote: > I can't get my 3c509 working for aliant dsl, does anyone know how I can check > whether PnP is enabled on this NIC? > Regards, > Dave Whelan. > If it really is a 3COM 3C509 - go and get the floppies which contain the drivers under DOS.

Re: HOWTO: Install 2.6.14 (or newer) on Sarge

2005-12-18 Thread Marc
I'm confused here, I'm currently running 2.6.14.3 which I built from kernel sources with initrd without any problems related to devfs. Did they, in fact, remove devfs from 2.6.14? On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:46:52 +0100, Dominik Epple wrote > Hi, > > since there are a lot of people how need (or want

NIC PnP

2005-12-18 Thread Dave Whelan
I can't get my 3c509 working for aliant dsl, does anyone know how I can check whether PnP is enabled on this NIC? Regards, Dave Whelan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sound card problems

2005-12-18 Thread Cian Phillips
I'm a complete newbie at this so bear with me. I have recently upgraded my machine to testing/unstable and have lost sound. I have played with alsaconf but it reports "No supported PnP or PCI card found.". As you can see from lspci below I have an onboard ali card and it did work before the

Re: README files

2005-12-18 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
Ed Paris wrote on Dec, 18: [...] > I want to read the README.Debian.gz file. I have tried to use vi and nano > and all I get is gibberish. How should I access this file in English? [...] Why don't you try vim ? It comes out-of-the-box with a plugin that decompresses gzipped files on the fly.

Re: README files

2005-12-18 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 12/18/05, Ed Paris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi There, > > I want to read the README.Debian.gz file. > I have tried to use vi and nano and all I get is gibberish. > How should I access this file in English? Thanks. Kent West told you to use zless or zcat. It works for me when I use vim. Yo

Re: README files

2005-12-18 Thread Kent West
Ed Paris wrote: Hi There, I want to read the README.Debian.gz file. I have tried to use vi and nano and all I get is gibberish. How should I access this file in English? Thanks. Take care, Ed "zless README.Debian.gz" should do it. Or "zcat README.Debian.gz | more". -- To UNSUBSCRI

PSC 2350 and hpoj with SID ...

2005-12-18 Thread Hervé Piedvache
Hello, I have a serious trouble to make running hpoj with my PSC 2350 ... I'm using a Debian in SID ... with a hand made kernel 2.6.13.1 I have connected the printer in USB ... less /proc/bus/usb/devices : T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#=  4 Spd=12  MxCh= 0 D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>i

README files

2005-12-18 Thread Ed Paris
 Hi There, I want to read the README.Debian.gz file.  I have tried to use vi and nano and all I get is gibberish.  How should I access this file in English?  Thanks. Take care, Ed

Re: Fwd: orinoco wireless on sid

2005-12-18 Thread Michael Marsh
Success! -- of a sort. It turns out pcmcia-modules-2.4.27-2-686 *does* have orinoco.o (for some reason it looked like it didn't). I replaced kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.27-2-686 with pcmcia-modules-2.4.27-2-686 . Since orinoco.o is in kernel-image, not kernel-pcmcia-modules, I ended up with two co

Re: Kino problem - doesn't read files

2005-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 18 December 2005 18:16, Ed Tomlinson wrote: >Hi, > >I too have problems with kino. It is not able to write files here > when I capture. Suspect that its broken... > >Ed It works just fine Ed if you have all its helpers installed. Check the docs & make sure you have all of it. I shot

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-18 Thread John Fry
Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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-upgrad

Recording with onboard sound card

2005-12-18 Thread LMa
Hello everyone, I am a relatively new Linux user. I have the following major problem: trying to record with Audacity (among others) doesn't work with my on-board VIA ac97 sound card. I know Audacity prety well (I wrote a User's manual for specific tasks with Audacity). I tried all the setting

Re: Kino problem - doesn't read files

2005-12-18 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, I too have problems with kino. It is not able to write files here when I capture. Suspect that its broken... Ed On Sunday 18 December 2005 15:28, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Russ Cook wrote: > > I am running an AMD64 dual-core machine, on an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe > > motherboard.I'm runnin

Re: Kino problem - doesn't read files

2005-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 18 December 2005 14:47, Russ Cook wrote: >I am running an AMD64 dual-core machine, on an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe >motherboard.I'm running Debian-64, Sarge (I think). My > sources.list file is attached. > >I'm trying to use Kino to edit some video files for burning to DVD. >When I try to

Re: KPPP won't go on the internet

2005-12-18 Thread LMa
Hi Nate, very fine, that worked very well! Thanks Ludovic Nate Bargmann wrote: I found that I had to manually uncomment the noauth line in /etc/ppp/peers/kppp-options HTH, - Nate >> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

RE: problem installing mysql-doc

2005-12-18 Thread David Christensen
Peter Nuttall wrote: > From a brief peek at the qa site for the package[1], It appears that > mysql-doc has been removed from debian. The bug report[2] explains > why. Yup, that explains it. So, I guess the Apt database (or whatever) needs to be updated to remove mysql-doc and any forward or rev

Re: Re: Re: open /dev/sequencer: No such device

2005-12-18 Thread Joel Oliver
I'm a linux newbie but if you havn't fixed this issue yet, install libsdl1.2debian-all Fixed some issues I had with the game frozen-bubble in Ubuntu Breezy. No sound and the sound box can't be ticked. Starting it in a terminal shows it cannot find a sound device, but restarting it in the termina

Automatic Debian Installation - Problems on creating the image

2005-12-18 Thread Kenni
Hi, I'm doing a custom Debian CD, not remastered, just a edited image with information on how to install. However, I'm not able to create a *.iso file that the Debian Installer will accept. The bootloader works fine, so does the installation untill it searches for the cd, which it doesn't find. T

Re: Firefox's "Live Bookmarks" feature failing often

2005-12-18 Thread [KS]
Bruno Buys wrote: >I have been receiving the message "Live bookmarks feed failed to > load." very often. Its weird, cause not all fail, but most of my live > bookmarks. I used to have all of them working quite ok for a long time. > Does anybody have a clue what's going on? Something happened

Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

2005-12-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Katipo wrote: I think that Seagate would have just about anything catered for. Might be an idea to check out the latest, though. They may be a little expensive, but with the space they save, that's money in the bank, dependent on your application. http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q4/seagate-

Re: Slowing down exim4

2005-12-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Clinton V. Weiss wrote: It is Comcast (enough said?). I haven't been able to find any official policy, but my guess is this is done to prevent malware infected computers from sending out hundreds of spams. So, despite my good intentions, I am being limited. I'm sorry to hear that (that Co

Re: Slowing down exim4

2005-12-18 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
Roberto Sanchez wrote: I searched [0], but could not find anything that appeared to be easy to implement. You may just be out of luck. Yea, I've done my fair share of searching as well, and have been luckless thus far. Incidentally, what braindead policy do they have in place? Are you able

installed udev - lost mouse and NIC

2005-12-18 Thread Richard Lyons
Just set up a sid system on an IBM thinkpad 600E. All went well. Then I installed a load of applications and tools. Including udev. When I rebooted, I had no mouse (usb) and no NIC (PCMCIA). I recollect seeing others had suffered similar problems but a day of googling has not helped. I cannot

Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

2005-12-18 Thread Katipo
Roberto Sanchez wrote: I am getting ready to purchase a system that has the Silicon Image 3114 SATA controller. I understand that it is well supported, even by the default kernel in Sarge. However, I was also planning on getting some Seagate Barracuda drives. Based on some things I found vi

Re: [audio problem] Audio skips

2005-12-18 Thread belbo
Peter Nuttall wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 04:26:22PM +0100, belbo wrote: > [...] > The only thing that springs to mind is that you might have X niced to > some value like 10 and its stealing too much cpu time. renice can fix > this. Yes, my Xorg has -10 priority. And Gnome is quite slow eve

Re: update etc/aliases.db

2005-12-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 06:42:54PM +0100, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > > Got problems(?) with aliases. I have added an alias in /etc/aliases and > now I get this error in syslog. > > Dec 18 17:59:40 ns01 postfix/smtpd[3363]: warning: database > /etc/aliases.db is older than source file /etc/aliase

DVD-RAM, UDF => very slow

2005-12-18 Thread Gert Brinkmann
Hello, I am using an up to date debian/sid with kernel 2.6.14-2-k7 (if it is running) or (currently) 2.6.12-k7. When writing to an DVD-RAM using a internal IDE NEC-4550 Device data is written with only 600-880 KByte/s where it should be 2 MByte/s (with an 3x DVD-Ram from Panasonic). I have tried

Re: Kino problem - doesn't read files

2005-12-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Russ Cook wrote: I am running an AMD64 dual-core machine, on an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard.I'm running Debian-64, Sarge (I think). My sources.list file is attached. I'm trying to use Kino to edit some video files for burning to DVD. When I try to load an AVI file, I get the error "Fai

Re: Slowing down exim4

2005-12-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Clinton V. Weiss wrote: (Posted on alt.comp.mail.exim over a month ago with no answers - hope someone here can help me on this...) On my desktop machine (Debian unstable) I have a couple of different programs (fetchyahoo, etc.) that go and get mail and send them to other emails for me. These

Re: Installer (i386) problem

2005-12-18 Thread Joey Hess
Bradley Alexander wrote: > I'm trying to [re]install Debian on my wife's machine, a PIII/800 with 512MB > ram. It has an nVidia GeForce 2 card and a pair of 30GB drives. It was > formerly running Libranet (which is Debian based), with kernel 2.6.11. She > was having some hard to pin down hardwar

Re: kde apt problem

2005-12-18 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:16:48PM +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Adam Hardy on 18/12/05 20:13, wrote: > >Peter Nuttall on 18/12/05 18:15, wrote: > > > >>On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 05:45:28PM +, Adam Hardy wrote: > >> > >>>I can't get kde. There seems to be a problem with the package > >>>dependencie

Slowing down exim4

2005-12-18 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
(Posted on alt.comp.mail.exim over a month ago with no answers - hope someone here can help me on this...) On my desktop machine (Debian unstable) I have a couple of different programs (fetchyahoo, etc.) that go and get mail and send them to other emails for me. These programs are nice n quick

Re: kde apt problem

2005-12-18 Thread Adam Hardy
Adam Hardy on 18/12/05 20:13, wrote: Peter Nuttall on 18/12/05 18:15, wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 05:45:28PM +, Adam Hardy wrote: I can't get kde. There seems to be a problem with the package dependencies. I had a bit of fun trying to track down the problem but couldn't figure it ou

Re: kde apt problem

2005-12-18 Thread Adam Hardy
Peter Nuttall on 18/12/05 18:15, wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 05:45:28PM +, Adam Hardy wrote: I can't get kde. There seems to be a problem with the package dependencies. I had a bit of fun trying to track down the problem but couldn't figure it out. Below is the output. Q: is there a

Installer (i386) problem

2005-12-18 Thread Bradley Alexander
I'm trying to [re]install Debian on my wife's machine, a PIII/800 with 512MB ram. It has an nVidia GeForce 2 card and a pair of 30GB drives. It was formerly running Libranet (which is Debian based), with kernel 2.6.11. She was having some hard to pin down hardware problems (which I think was me

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-18 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/18/05, [KS] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Same here. Keeping Firefox running for long hours eats up more and more > memory. The experiment I report earlier was done on a new instance of > each browser, so it does not show the effects of long term use. Also the > test did not involve opening pa

Kino problem - doesn't read files

2005-12-18 Thread Russ Cook
I am running an AMD64 dual-core machine, on an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard.I'm running Debian-64, Sarge (I think). My sources.list file is attached. I'm trying to use Kino to edit some video files for burning to DVD. When I try to load an AVI file, I get the error "Failed to load media"

Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

2005-12-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Don Hayward wrote: Two are etch, one is sarge. The sarge and one etch started out as sid before the sarge release. The sarge was downgraded to sarge after release. The reinstall has always been etch. OK. That's what I needed to know. Sorry, I have no experience with broadcom -- My LAN i

Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

2005-12-18 Thread Don Hayward
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Don Hayward wrote: Hi Roberto, On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Roberto Sanchez wrote: I am getting ready to purchase a system that has the Silicon Image 3114 SATA controller. I understand that it is well supported, even by the default kernel in Sarge. Howe

Re: [SOLVED]update etc/aliases.db

2005-12-18 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Sun, December 18, 2005 19:43, Roberto Sanchez said: > Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: >> >> Hmm...found it, I just run newaliases and /etc/init.d/postfix reload. >> >> >> > > I use a little shell script (located in /usr/local/sbin): > > #!/bin/sh > > echo "Updating Postfix configuration" > postmap /e

Firefox's "Live Bookmarks" feature failing often

2005-12-18 Thread Bruno Buys
I have been receiving the message "Live bookmarks feed failed to load." very often. Its weird, cause not all fail, but most of my live bookmarks. I used to have all of them working quite ok for a long time. Does anybody have a clue what's going on? This is Firefox 1.0.4 on sarge. Thanks!

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-18 Thread [KS]
Marc Shapiro wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > >> My experience is that initially firefox uses less memory then opera >> (around 25 >> MB). The memory seems to grow comparable to the amount of time its >> been open >> and the number of pages opened (even in the same window, not in >> parallel). I >>

Re: Eth0

2005-12-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 07:30:18PM +0100, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > On Sun, December 18, 2005 18:33, Ed Paris said: > > > > > > Hi There, > > > > When I installed Debian on one computer in our network I got a note at the > > end of the installation that if I needed to revisit any settings that I

Re: [SOLVED]update etc/aliases.db

2005-12-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: Hmm...found it, I just run newaliases and /etc/init.d/postfix reload. I use a little shell script (located in /usr/local/sbin): #!/bin/sh echo "Updating Postfix configuration" postmap /etc/postfix/relocated postmap /etc/postfix/transport postmap hash:/etc/postfi

Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

2005-12-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Don Hayward wrote: Hi Roberto, On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Roberto Sanchez wrote: I am getting ready to purchase a system that has the Silicon Image 3114 SATA controller. I understand that it is well supported, even by the default kernel in Sarge. However, I was also planning on getting some Seag

Re: HOWTO: Install 2.6.14 (or newer) on Sarge

2005-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dominik Epple wrote: Hi, since there are a lot of people how need (or want to play with) recent linux kernels on debian sarge, I summarized my experiences with it here: http://www.dominik-epple.de/Sarge-Linux_2.6.14-yaird/ The basic idea goes back to some article by Jean-Chrstian de Rivaz on d

Wordpress

2005-12-18 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I'm trying to install Wordpress on a Debian 3.1 system. I have apache configured with a default virtual host, and even when I get Wordpress to install, the Debian docs that come with it seem insufficient for getting it up and running in my environment. Does anyone know of a step-by-step that would

Re: Eth0

2005-12-18 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Sun, December 18, 2005 18:33, Ed Paris said: > > > Hi There, > > When I installed Debian on one computer in our network I got a note at the > end of the installation that if I needed to revisit any settings that I > should run the base-config program. Well, I need to change the Eth0 net > addre

Re: resize partition with qtparted and "head 255 greater than maximum 16"

2005-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H.S. wrote: Hi, I haa a fully populated disk hda in which the first two primary partitions were fat32. The first one had Windows XP in it and the second one had non-OS data. I wanted to shrink the second one to enlarge the first one. I used Knoppix 4.02 CD and qtparted to shrink the second on

Re: kde apt problem

2005-12-18 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 05:45:28PM +, Adam Hardy wrote: > I can't get kde. There seems to be a problem with the package dependencies. > > I had a bit of fun trying to track down the problem but couldn't figure > it out. Below is the output. > > Q: is there a KDE lite that I can install rathe

Re: Eth0

2005-12-18 Thread thierry
Ed Paris wrote: Hi There, When I installed Debian on one computer in our network I got a note at the end of the installation that if I needed to revisit any settings that I should run the base-config program. Well, I need to change the Eth0 net address on this system. I had directly assigned

Re: [SOLVED]update etc/aliases.db

2005-12-18 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Sun, December 18, 2005 18:42, Ernst-Magne Vindal said: > > Got problems(?) with aliases. I have added an alias in /etc/aliases and > now I get this error in syslog. > > Dec 18 17:59:40 ns01 postfix/smtpd[3363]: warning: database > /etc/aliases.db is older than source file /etc/aliases > > Have l

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
Micha Feigin wrote: My experience is that initially firefox uses less memory then opera (around 25 MB). The memory seems to grow comparable to the amount of time its been open and the number of pages opened (even in the same window, not in parallel). I just opened several pages of the same news

Eth0

2005-12-18 Thread Ed Paris
Hi There, When I installed Debian on one computer in our network I got a note at the end of the installation that if I needed to revisit any settings that I should run the base-config program.  Well, I need to change the Eth0 net address on this system.  I had directly assigned the number

Re: [audio problem] Audio skips

2005-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
belbo wrote: Hi guys, I'm trying to find the reason for audio-skipping on my debian etch: when I play a song or a movie, and I switch desktop, or I surf, it skips. It seems that I can't give any input to X causing important refresh without a skip. It happens with any multimedia reader. It alw

update etc/aliases.db

2005-12-18 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
Got problems(?) with aliases. I have added an alias in /etc/aliases and now I get this error in syslog. Dec 18 17:59:40 ns01 postfix/smtpd[3363]: warning: database /etc/aliases.db is older than source file /etc/aliases Have looked around and googled but is not able to find the solution for it. C

kde apt problem

2005-12-18 Thread Adam Hardy
I can't get kde. There seems to be a problem with the package dependencies. I had a bit of fun trying to track down the problem but couldn't figure it out. Below is the output. Q: is there a KDE lite that I can install rather than the huge KDE metapackage? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get

Re: ssh_exchange_identification

2005-12-18 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
Ok thanks. I have not found those links. :-) On 12/18/05, Srinidhi B S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 12/17/05, Andrea Ganduglia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This morning onto new SSH account receiving: > > > > ~# ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed

C++ ABI transition in Etch and KDE and k3b

2005-12-18 Thread H.S.
Just wondering, how do I know what is the status of the transition? It has been quite a while since this all started (I guess ~ 6.5 weeks?). Does anybody here know how this is coming along and where we are in the whole procedure? I have been using "apt-get upgrade" since November beginning and ha

Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

2005-12-18 Thread Don Hayward
Hi Roberto, On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Roberto Sanchez wrote: I am getting ready to purchase a system that has the Silicon Image 3114 SATA controller. I understand that it is well supported, even by the default kernel in Sarge. However, I was also planning on getting some Seagate Barracuda drives

Re: problem installing KDE on Etch

2005-12-18 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:30:23AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Peter Nuttall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Dec 18 09:39 -0600]: > > > Is it a bug? > > > > Yes and no. > > Definitely yes. See: The "Yes" was "this is a bug", the "no" was "don't report it, its ethier been reported or known about b

Re: problem installing KDE on Etch

2005-12-18 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Peter Nuttall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Dec 18 09:39 -0600]: > > Is it a bug? > > Yes and no. Definitely yes. See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=342978 which was opened last week. It appears there is a build-depends issue that has caused kdeaddons to be removed from Etch

Re: Realplayer and ALSA

2005-12-18 Thread Adam Hardy
Jacob S on 15/12/05 03:48, wrote: I was only able to get Realplayer 10 to work by running it with th following command: aoss realplayer Whoops... That should be "aoss realplay". This is going to be very sticky. First, to use it as a browser helper application with that parameter, it is n

Re: Antispam + antivirus + blocking attachments

2005-12-18 Thread Georgi Alexandrov
Srinidhi B S wrote: I would suggest the following combination: Qmail (with AntiSpam patch from fehcom.de or qmail-ldap patch) + Qmail-Scanner (with ST patch) + SpamAssassin + ClamAV qmail-scanner is kind of obsolete these days ... there's simscan (inter7.com) now. regards, Georgi Alexandr

Re: problem installing KDE on Etch

2005-12-18 Thread Dexter
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 15:34 +, Peter Nuttall wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 04:23:12PM +0100, Dexter wrote: > > Hi, > > i have problem to installl KDE on Debian Etch. I get folloving error: > > > > # apt-get update > > Hit ftp://ftp.sk.debian.org testing Release.gpg > > G

Re: [audio problem] Audio skips

2005-12-18 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 04:26:22PM +0100, belbo wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm trying to find the reason for audio-skipping on my debian etch: when I > play > a song or a movie, and I switch desktop, or I surf, it skips. It seems that I > can't give any input to X causing important refresh without a s

Re: problem installing KDE on Etch

2005-12-18 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 04:23:12PM +0100, Dexter wrote: > Hi, > i have problem to installl KDE on Debian Etch. I get folloving error: > > # apt-get update > Hit ftp://ftp.sk.debian.org testing Release.gpg > Get:1 http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release.gpg [189B] > H

Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

2005-12-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I am getting ready to purchase a system that has the Silicon Image 3114 SATA controller. I understand that it is well supported, even by the default kernel in Sarge. However, I was also planning on getting some Seagate Barracuda drives. Based on some things I found via a Google search [0], I

Re: The problem with Yaird

2005-12-18 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 04:42:05PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > When that first installed and run with the new 2.6.14 kernel image, it did > not > work. Problem is that it simply installs without informing us that maybe some > configuration is required before running. Then it simply runs (and in

problem installing KDE on Etch

2005-12-18 Thread Dexter
Hi, i have problem to installl KDE on Debian Etch. I get folloving error: # apt-get update Hit ftp://ftp.sk.debian.org testing Release.gpg Get:1 http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release.gpg [189B] Hit ftp://ftp.sk.debian.org testing Release Hit ftp://ftp.sk.debian.org

Re: kernel linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7: waiting endlessly for /dev/hda to show up

2005-12-18 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 03:37:10PM +0100, Gert Brinkmann wrote: > Hello, > > after upgrading kernel 2.6.14-2-k7 from (I guess) 2.6.14-4 to 2.6.14-5 > it does not boot any more. It is waiting for the hard disk /dev/hda to > show up 1, 2, 8 and 16 seconds in a loop and nothing more happens. > > I t

Re: Antispam + antivirus + blocking attachments

2005-12-18 Thread TreeBoy
On Friday 16 Dec 2005 12:56, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > 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. > > Grtz, > Phil

Re: apt-get upgrade - kernel-image

2005-12-18 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Sat, December 17, 2005 23:37, Josh King said: > 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 >> wil

The problem with Yaird

2005-12-18 Thread David Baron
When that first installed and run with the new 2.6.14 kernel image, it did not work. Problem is that it simply installs without informing us that maybe some configuration is required before running. Then it simply runs (and in my case, failed). I got it to run by setting MOUNTDEV /dev/hdc1 /mnt.

kernel linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7: waiting endlessly for /dev/hda to show up

2005-12-18 Thread Gert Brinkmann
Hello, after upgrading kernel 2.6.14-2-k7 from (I guess) 2.6.14-4 to 2.6.14-5 it does not boot any more. It is waiting for the hard disk /dev/hda to show up 1, 2, 8 and 16 seconds in a loop and nothing more happens. I thought it might be a problem of yaird. So I have tried the initramfs-tools ins

Re: Fwd: orinoco wireless on sid

2005-12-18 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/17/05, elawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 kernel in SID according to my experience as > well. Went back to prior version h

Re: Antispam + antivirus + blocking attachments

2005-12-18 Thread Srinidhi B S
Hi, On 12/16/05, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > I would sugg

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