Cleaning out old backup (*~, *.bak) files

2005-12-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a lot of *~ and *.bak files in my home directories, including recent ones, and ones from several years ago. I'd like to set up a good system that gets rid of old ones--say, older than a month. I also would like them to go to the KDE trash bin. It turns out that making a good script to do

Re: How to record with onboard sound card?

2005-12-23 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > LMa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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 don't hav

compiling xserver x11r7 problems

2005-12-23 Thread John Anderson
Hi, I'm trying to install X11R7 on my debian testing amd64 computer but I get the following messages during the make phase: If anyone has any suggestions I'd be very happy :-) The computer is using the vesa driver and would be really nice to have a higher refresh rate. Mainboard is Biostar 6100

Re: kde 3.5 again

2005-12-23 Thread Mitja
On Friday 23 December 2005 14:17, Mitja wrote: > Hi! > > I installed KDE 3.5 from http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.5.0/ but I > have now problem with: > E: /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.5.0-1_all.deb: trying to > overwrite `/usr/share/mimelnk/image/x-djvu.desktop', which is also

Re: slide rule (OT) was: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
Richard Lyons wrote: On Thursday, 22 December 2005 at 12:50:15 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 20 December 2005 20:35, Daniel Webb wrote: (pulls out my slide ruler to figure out when it's dinner time). Thats properly called a slide rule. I still have one, a K&

kde 3.5 again

2005-12-23 Thread Mitja
Hi! I installed KDE 3.5 from http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.5.0/ but I have now problem with: E: /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.5.0-1_all.deb: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/mimelnk/image/x-djvu.desktop', which is also in package libdjvulibre15 KDE 3.5 works but I don't k

Window keeps getting unmaximized

2005-12-23 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hello, I am running Metacity/GNOME on a Debian testing machine. I usually keep my Firefox window maximized and the rest of the windows unmaximized (gnome-terminal, emacs, etc.) Recently, however, whenever I open a new tab, the Firefox window keeps getting unmaximized. Also, if I maximize it again

Re: apt-check-sigs on sarge security failed - worked up till a week ago

2005-12-23 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 01:57:37PM -0800, Elaine Tsiang YueLien wrote: > The sources.list line is > deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib > > No interest on irc. The following files appear to be broken : http://security.debian.org/dists/etch/updates/Release.gpg

Re: cant start game

2005-12-23 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hello, What do you mean "i load char". What is char? What exactly are you trying to accomplish? You mentioned that you want to start a game in the subject line. What game is this? How are you loading it? What are the specifications of the computer that you are using? Please provide more informati

cant start game

2005-12-23 Thread wendy orchard
hi need help i load char but nothing happens  

Re: KDE 3.5

2005-12-23 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 23 December 2005 01:23, Mitja wrote: > I have installed Debian Etch and for now I have a GNOME. I like to > install KDE 3.5. Is it possible and where should I find files, please? > > Mitja afaik kde3.5 is here: deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.5.0 ./ deb-src http://pkg-kde.alio

Xfce question

2005-12-23 Thread j Mak
Hi, The other day, I installed enlightenment as a desktop on xfce. But I didn't like the feel of it and removed enlightenment and all the files I created during the  installation. Now, xfce has no window-manager and I cannot move the windows on the screen.

Re: post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]

2005-12-23 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 12/23/05, Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /boot/grub/menu.lst > > > > look for a line like this: > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-686 root=/dev/hde1 ro > > > > and make it more like this: > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-686 root=/dev/hde1 ro quiet splash > > > Th

what is equivalent to man -a in konqeuror

2005-12-23 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hi I usually read man pages using konqueror. For example, if I want to read man page of ulimit, I would type in man:ulimit in the location bar of konqueror. But this gives only the first hit of ulimit (which is similar to the behavior of man ulimit). Is there any way to open all the man page

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2005 #3025

2005-12-23 Thread Daniel Webb
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 11:20:37AM +, michael wrote: > mm... not sure which Java SDK is required for this... the Debian/Java > FAQ just confuses me! Yeah, Java yuck. I agree. There are two programs that are so good it was worth it to me to install Java: jabref and jbidwatcher. They are bot

Re: post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]

2005-12-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 04:54:14PM -0500, Chinook wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater spoketh: > >Linux hearts card game on Google shows two good entries at the top. > > > >One appears to be a project started this year: the other is about 9 > >years old on freshmeat. Those might be a good start to look at.

Re: iso

2005-12-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:37:20 +0100 MT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bonjour, pourquoi sur les ftp, les images iso de cd bootables sont-elles > toujours nombreuses, du type : > debian-30r2-binary-1.iso > debian-30r2-binary-2.iso > debian-30r2-binary-3.iso > debian-30r2-binary-4.iso ? > je m'atten

Re: KDE 3.5

2005-12-23 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Mitja wrote: I have installed Debian Etch and for now I have a GNOME. I like to install KDE 3.5. Is it possible and where should I find files, please? Mitja I dont think there are official KDE 3.5 packages available in unstable, leave alone testing. But if you want to install KDE onto a te

iso

2005-12-23 Thread MT
Bonjour, pourquoi sur les ftp, les images iso de cd bootables sont-elles toujours nombreuses, du type : debian-30r2-binary-1.iso debian-30r2-binary-2.iso debian-30r2-binary-3.iso debian-30r2-binary-4.iso ? je m'attendais à en trouver une seule . -- Max ftp://mterrier.no-ip.com < -- To UN

Re: Mozilla 1.5 download directory

2005-12-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 19:40:00 + Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday, 22 December 2005 at 22:45:45 -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Richard wrote: > > > > >2005/12/22, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > >>Hi all > > >> > > >>I am using Sid and it seems i found a bug in

Re: (no subject)

2005-12-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 08:20:55 -0600 Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 07:49:12PM -0600, Tatsuya Kobayashi wrote: > ># help > > I don't think I can. > > -- > Steve Block > http://ev-15.com/ > http://steveblock.com/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Booting Proliant 800

2005-12-23 Thread Robert D. Crawford
Peter Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just bought a cheap Proliant 800 PII 450 and would like to > install Debian on it. Congrrats. I have a proliant 800 with a pii 400. It has been a very solid machine. > It simply ignores the floppy or CD and start booting from disk. Sounds lik

Re: post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]

2005-12-23 Thread Mike McCarty
Chinook wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater spoketh: Linux hearts card game on Google shows two good entries at the top. One appears to be a project started this year: the other is about 9 years old on freshmeat. Those might be a good start to look at. Mike McCarty spoketh: Google is your friend. Se

Re: Booting Proliant 800

2005-12-23 Thread Raquel Rice
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:22:49 +0100 Peter Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > > I've just bought a cheap Proliant 800 PII 450 and would like to > install Debian on it. But it will not boot anything. It only tries > to boot from a damaged Windoze NT install on it's disks but > f

Re: Booting Proliant 800

2005-12-23 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:22:49 +0100 Peter Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > > I've just bought a cheap Proliant 800 PII 450 and would like to > install Debian on it. But it will not boot anything. It only tries > to boot from a damaged Windoze NT install on it's disks but fails

Re: post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]

2005-12-23 Thread Chinook
Andrew M.A. Cater spoketh: Linux hearts card game on Google shows two good entries at the top. One appears to be a project started this year: the other is about 9 years old on freshmeat. Those might be a good start to look at. Mike McCarty spoketh: Google is your friend. Searching for +linux

apt-check-sigs on sarge security failed - worked up till a week ago

2005-12-23 Thread Elaine Tsiang YueLien
The sources.list line is deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib No interest on irc. Elaine -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Simple question

2005-12-23 Thread Daniel Webb
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 03:05:38PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2005-12-20 04:04:24, schrieb Teilhard Knight: > > What's the command to stop a service like gdm? > > It depends. > > 1) For killing it the current bootet Computer > > /etc/init.d/gdm stop > > 2) Only from the runl

Booting Proliant 800

2005-12-23 Thread Peter Teunissen
Hi All,I've just bought a cheap Proliant 800 PII 450 and would like to install Debian on it. But it will not boot anything. It only tries to boot from a damaged Windoze NT install on it's disks but fails after the initial bootloader sequence.I've tried booting without any result:- sarge installer C

nVidia and the Black Screen Problem... Continued

2005-12-23 Thread moonunit
Hello As it seems now one knows about the problem I'm having with my old nvidia TNT card (see mail below) I thought I'd keep you posted with updates of my attempts to correct this poblem so far. I'm compiling new kernel and installing 0.8174 modules to see if they solve the problem. Meanwhil

Re: USB flash drive problem

2005-12-23 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:19:24 -0600 Tatsuya Kobayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/23/05, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:46:28 -0600 > > Tatsuya Kobayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Is the USB Flash drive formatted? I'd assume it's formatted

Re: USB flash drive problem

2005-12-23 Thread Tatsuya Kobayashi
On 12/23/05, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:46:28 -0600 > Tatsuya Kobayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is the USB Flash drive formatted? I'd assume it's formatted FAT. Do > > > you have a windos machine to check it out? > > > > > > Unplug the CF drive, s

udev and CUPS

2005-12-23 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I have just installed my new USB printer: I added my new printer to CUPS list of printers, I added basic udev rules to manage it. Now I would like that udev `enable' (`disable') my USB printer when it is plugged (unplugged): is there a simple (Debian) to do so ? Thanks in advance, J

Re: USB flash drive problem

2005-12-23 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:46:28 -0600 Tatsuya Kobayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/23/05, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:29:21 -0600 > > Tatsuya Kobayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Yes CF is mounted on the /media/CANON_DC and it is accessed >

Re: USB flash drive problem

2005-12-23 Thread Tatsuya Kobayashi
On 12/23/05, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:29:21 -0600 > Tatsuya Kobayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes CF is mounted on the /media/CANON_DC and it is accessed > > from /dev/sdb. So I'm able to read or write something on /dev/sdb > > which is CF that mo

Re: MTA slow to start

2005-12-23 Thread mikepolniak
On 22:22 Thu 22 Dec , Tyler Smith wrote: > During boot up it takes about 30 seconds for MTA to start for my Etch > install. With Sarge on the same box this takes less than a second. Can I > fix this somehow? I'm running a single desktop computer, connected via > an NIC through a router to hi

Re: Re: OpenGL causes hard system lockups

2005-12-23 Thread Paulette & Gord Maclennan
Damon:   Were you able to correct your screensaver lock up problem?  I am experiencing the same problem with an ASUS K8V-MX mobo with integrated video.   Can you suggest anything that might help with the lockup problem?   Paul

Re: USB flash drive problem

2005-12-23 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:29:21 -0600 Tatsuya Kobayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes CF is mounted on the /media/CANON_DC and it is accessed > from /dev/sdb. So I'm able to read or write something on /dev/sdb > which is CF that mounted on the multi card reader. > But USB flash drive isn't RECOGNI

Re: USB flash drive problem

2005-12-23 Thread Tatsuya Kobayashi
On 12/23/05, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:13:33 -0600 > Tatsuya Kobayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 12/23/05, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:52:28 -0600 > > > Tatsuya Kobayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

Re: USB flash drive problem

2005-12-23 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:13:33 -0600 Tatsuya Kobayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/23/05, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:52:28 -0600 > > Tatsuya Kobayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have tried to access with /dev/sdd and /dev/sdd1 but I could

Re: USB flash drive problem

2005-12-23 Thread Tatsuya Kobayashi
On 12/23/05, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:52:28 -0600 > Tatsuya Kobayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have tried to access with /dev/sdd and /dev/sdd1 but I couldn't > > access. When I could access to this USB flash drive on the kernel > > 2.4, I saw o

Re: USB flash drive problem

2005-12-23 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:52:28 -0600 Tatsuya Kobayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/23/05, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tatsuya Kobayashi wrote: > > > Thank you for reply me! > > > > > > > > >>On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:50:07 -0600 > > >>Tatsuya Kobayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Re: USB flash drive problem

2005-12-23 Thread Tatsuya Kobayashi
On 12/23/05, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tatsuya Kobayashi wrote: > > Thank you for reply me! > > > > > >>On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:50:07 -0600 > >>Tatsuya Kobayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>>Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > >>> Vendor: e

Re: Mozilla 1.5 download directory

2005-12-23 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday, 22 December 2005 at 22:45:45 -0600, Kent West wrote: > Richard wrote: > > >2005/12/22, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >>Hi all > >> > >>I am using Sid and it seems i found a bug in de latest mozilla > >>package. I am not sure if this is a mozilla bug or a debian package > >>

Re: Re: USB flash drive problem

2005-12-23 Thread Tatsuya Kobayashi
On 12/23/05, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Tatsuya Kobayashi wrote: > > Thank you for reply me! > > > > > >>On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:50:07 -0600 > >>Tatsuya Kobayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>>Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 >

Re: Question about module loading from floppy

2005-12-23 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday, 23 December 2005 at 14:13:19 +0100, Marc Demlenne wrote: > Hello, > > I have to start a machine with rescue CD because lilo is broken. (I > probably just have to run /sbin/lilo as root to correct this) The > problem is that booting with rescue root=/dev/sda1 won't work because > my driv

Re: Re: USB flash drive problem

2005-12-23 Thread Robert Kopp
--- Juergen Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 06:55:06AM +, Tatsuya > Kobayashi wrote: > [...] > > > Did you try /dev/sdc ? > > > > I tried to mount /dev/sdc but I couldn't mount it. > It's still saying > > "No medium found" or "special device /dev/sdc1 > does not

Re: Simple question

2005-12-23 Thread Teilhard Knight
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 17:08 -0500, David R. Litwin wrote: >What's the command to stop a service like gdm? Killall. Or '/etc/init.d/gdm stop' Right, thank you. Teilhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: about remove directory

2005-12-23 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday, 22 December 2005 at 19:43:51 -0300, Gabriel wrote: > Nevruz Mesut Sahin wrote: > > > Hello my firend I want to delete every thing inside > >of a directory but there are more than 100.000 files. > >I don't need any files in that directory. if I write > >rmdir -R /disk4/vmx/sirlo/mes

Re: Simple question

2005-12-23 Thread Teilhard Knight
Am 2005-12-20 04:04:24, schrieb Teilhard Knight: What's the command to stop a service like gdm? It depends. 1) For killing it the current bootet Computer /etc/init.d/gdm stop 2) Only from the runlevel 2 rm /etc/rc2.d/??gdm 3) Permanently apt-get --purge remove gdm

Re: broken dependencies

2005-12-23 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday, 22 December 2005 at 17:36:30 -0500, Nikhil Prabhakar wrote: > Hi, > Recently I tried to upgrade KDE from unstable repositories and faced > with multiple broken dependencies.Is there any way out to handle this > situation (hoping there is :-)? I've had that particular problem on a numb

Re: Simple question

2005-12-23 Thread Teilhard Knight
Teilhard Knight wrote: What's the command to stop a service like gdm? Formally it's: invoke-rc.d gdm stop But everybody (including myself) uses: /etc/init.d/gdm stop To stop it permanently use: update-rc.d gdm remove Thanks a lot. Teilhard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Simple question

2005-12-23 Thread Teilhard Knight
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 05:08:33PM -0500, David R. Litwin wrote: What's the command to stop a service like gdm? Killall. Seems like a bad idea, unless the service is hung. Using the proper init script would make more sense. To simply stop the service, /etc/init.d/gdm stop as root would do the

Re: aspell error in sarge

2005-12-23 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Rodney D. Myers wrote: For the past month I have been trying to get a friends computer working with Sylpheed-claws & gaim, but libaspell has an ongoing error within it. I keep getting this error message; sylpheed-claws: relocation error: /usr/lib/libaspell.so.15: undefined symbol: _ZTVN10__cxxa

Re: slide rule (OT) was: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-23 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday, 22 December 2005 at 12:50:15 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > >On Tuesday 20 December 2005 20:35, Daniel Webb wrote: > >>(pulls out my slide ruler to figure out when it's dinner time). > > > > > >Thats properly called a slide rule. I still have one, a K&E > >log-log

Alternatives to polypaudio (bug #339589)

2005-12-23 Thread Andreas Ehn
Hi, When I switched from OSS to ALSA a few years ago, I started having problems with ESD. In particular, it often would not release the sound device, so that non-ESD-enabled programs could use it when ESD didn't need it. Then I discovered polypaudio, and since I sitched to that sound daemon, I ha

Re: post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]

2005-12-23 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 12/23/05, Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chinook wrote: > > post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?] > > > > There are three little items I have not been able to resolve yet though, > > and would appreciate any pointers: > > > > 1) When booting up, can the keyboard Nu

aspell error in sarge

2005-12-23 Thread Rodney D. Myers
For the past month I have been trying to get a friends computer working with Sylpheed-claws & gaim, but libaspell has an ongoing error within it. I keep getting this error message; sylpheed-claws: relocation error: /usr/lib/libaspell.so.15: undefined symbol: _ZTVN10__cxxabiv120__si_class_type_inf

Re: KDE 3.5

2005-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 23 December 2005 05:23, Mitja wrote: >I have installed Debian Etch and for now I have a GNOME. Oh? Whats its name? >I like to > install KDE 3.5. Is it possible and where should I find files, > please? > >Mitja Sorry, coouldn't resist. Have a happy holiday. -- Cheers, Gene People h

KDE 3.5

2005-12-23 Thread Mitja
I have installed Debian Etch and for now I have a GNOME. I like to install KDE 3.5. Is it possible and where should I find files, please? Mitja -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Evolution

2005-12-23 Thread Mitja
Hi! I have GNOME and I use a KMail (thanks for help) as a mailer. I tried to uninstall Evolution but in this case Synaptics want to remove gnome and gnome control center. It is possible to remove it, please? Mitja -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]

2005-12-23 Thread Mike McCarty
Chinook wrote: Chinook wrote: post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?] "She who must be obeyed" is happy with her Thunderbird, Firefox and card games, but not overjoyed with my Gaelic naming scheme. Whoops, spoke too soon. She is missing "hearts" that she plays with

apcupsd examples: nislib

2005-12-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I have just installed a Backup-UPS LS 500 and am using Sarge's apcupsd to control it. Seems to work. The example files have programs in them to communicate with apcupsd over the port that it uses. But they use nislib. That seems to be a FreeBSD tool. Anybody know how to get that, or

Non-Debian content: Seasons Greetings

2005-12-23 Thread Craig M. Houck
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Faithful Kwanza, Sweet Solstices & a Fine Festavus Remember the Reason for the Season RbtBotL Craig - ><> oBU SysAdmin /|\ 607 777 6827 ^ Tot Ziens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Automount of USB stick doesn't work

2005-12-23 Thread Rene Tschirley
Hi Andrew, >> linux/block_class_device.c:2145: /dev/sdb1 is mounted at >> /mnt/sdb1,major:minor=8:17, >> fstype=vfat,udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_4241-6035 >> >> but this damned desktop doesn't do anything like that. > > WHat exactly is the problem? this says it was mounted as /mnt/

Re: (no subject)

2005-12-23 Thread Steve Block
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 07:49:12PM -0600, Tatsuya Kobayashi wrote: # help I don't think I can. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about module loading from floppy

2005-12-23 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 12:08:30PM +0100, Marc Demlenne wrote: > Your Debian CD 1, for instance, is a rescue CD as well... Juste take a > look at the help, and try with rescue as boot image. That was the case with woody. But I hadn't found it to be true with the sarge netinstall -- perhaps I just

Re: Re: USB flash drive problem

2005-12-23 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 06:55:06AM +, Tatsuya Kobayashi wrote: [...] > > Did you try /dev/sdc ? > > I tried to mount /dev/sdc but I couldn't mount it. It's still saying > "No medium found" or "special device /dev/sdc1 does not exist." Have you tried using just /dev/sdc, not /dev/sdc1? sign

Re: kghostview refresh time

2005-12-23 Thread David Zelinsky
Joe Mc Cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kghostview is very useful, the way it can watch a file and refresh its > display if the file changes. > > If the file changes kghostview doesn't refresh for a few seconds. > (Which is a long time if frequent changes are being made.) Is there > any way th

Re: sharing a bibliography

2005-12-23 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/23/05, Joe Mc Cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 04:15:31AM -0700, Daniel Webb wrote: > > Especially if you typeset mathematics, Latex makes Word and Openoffice look > > like toys, and we're talking about a program the basis of which has been > > Yes, agreed. But are t

Question about module loading from floppy

2005-12-23 Thread Marc Demlenne
Hello, I have to start a machine with rescue CD because lilo is broken. (I probably just have to run /sbin/lilo as root to correct this) The problem is that booting with rescue root=/dev/sda1 won't work because my drive is a RAID-5 and I need to load an extra-module to make it work. I have this m

Re: sharing a bibliography

2005-12-23 Thread Joe Mc Cool
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 04:15:31AM -0700, Daniel Webb wrote: > Latex is a huge learning investment, but if you write a lot, or are planning Too right, I am struggling through that investment at the minute but loving every minute of it. > Especially if you typeset mathematics, Latex makes Word an

Re: post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]

2005-12-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
> Andrei Popescu: I can't find a "splashy" package - at least in Synaptic. It's in experimental ;) (i'm running unstable) > > 3) How do I put the monitor (only) to sleep after say 10 minutes of > > inactivity. On my Mac I do this with an Energy Saver setting and also > > did it on the PC when

Re: Can't switch to virtual console anymore

2005-12-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Dec 2005, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > [snip] > Problem solved. It turned out to be "one of those warnings I recognized." > > For years, X complained that there was no XkbVariant named "Microsoft" in > response to the line: > >Section "InputDevice" > ... > Option "Xk

Problem installing kde 3.5.0 on sid

2005-12-23 Thread Philippe Grenard
Hi all, I have some kind of problem : I've added alioth repositories to my sources.list but when I do an apt-get dist-upgrade, no package from kde are upgraded ... When I try with aptitude, it shows that every 3.5.0 package is from an "Untrusted source" Well, I could install this by hand, but

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2005 #3025

2005-12-23 Thread michael
> > > I was thinking about using the bibliography 'database' in OpenOffice to > > > store all my references (and to include short notes such as 'read/not > > > read', 'contains vital info on XY and Z'). But I need to share said info > > > across machines, generally Debian but not the same versions

Re: Sarge kernel update, using newer kernel, should I update older kernel?

2005-12-23 Thread Joris Huizer
Laszlo wrote: Is it ok to install this patch or perform this upgrade to 2.6.8 while running 2.6.11-k7 or do I need to boot into the 2.6.8 kernel before patching/ upgrading? Thanks, -- Laszlo -- Doing so using the 2.6.11-k7 should not be a problem; I don't think it'll make a difference

Re: unsubscribe

2005-12-23 Thread Björn Lindström
"David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> b) The filter could catch something it shouldn't, such as someone >> asking for aptitude help but using the subject "unsubscribe" to do it. > > If you don't filter simply on subject, you have to filter on body, and > then it gets hairy. Over on the man

Re: sharing a bibliography

2005-12-23 Thread Daniel Webb
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 10:02:44AM +, michael wrote: > Sorry for not being clear. I want a place to store my refs, that I can > access (ie both read the refs but also cut'n'paste into Linux/OpenOffice > and Windoze/Word) from several machines (if that means copying the > database about that is

how to use pcmcia memory cards???

2005-12-23 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! tryed to mount a SD card of a Casio photo-camera... without success so far... my laptop has an inbuild SD-card adapter which is in fact (as i found out) linked to the pcmcia system... inserting the card the first time, i got the negation beep... looking into the log i found : unknown

Re: sharing a bibliography

2005-12-23 Thread michael
> > > > > I was thinking about using the bibliography 'database' in OpenOffice to > > > store all my references (and to include short notes such as 'read/not > > > read', 'contains vital info on XY and Z'). But I need to share said info > > > across machines, generally Debian but not the same ver

Re: post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]

2005-12-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 03:25:56AM -0500, Chinook wrote: > Chinook wrote: > >post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?] > > > > Whoops, spoke too soon. She is missing "hearts" that she plays with her > uum friends*. I thought I found it as part of a package called > "floate

Re: Automount of USB stick doesn't work

2005-12-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Rene Tschirley wrote: and finally: linux/block_class_device.c:2145: /dev/sdb1 is mounted at /mnt/sdb1,major:minor=8:17, fstype=vfat,udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_4241-6035 but this damned desktop doesn't do anything like that. WHat exactly is the problem? this says it was mo

Re: USB flash drive problem

2005-12-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Tatsuya Kobayashi wrote: Thank you for reply me! On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:50:07 -0600 Tatsuya Kobayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: eMModel: Bay ReaderRev: 1.01 Type: Direct-Access

Re: unsubscribe

2005-12-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Björn Lindström wrote: bilbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: As it was said before. They still manage to read that you should type unsubscribe as a subject. So how to teach them to read 'til the end..? well, that's not a bad idea. A How about putting a link to the web interface for unsubscr

unsubscribe

2005-12-23 Thread Jürgen Heil
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Re: ALSA keeps going away

2005-12-23 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2005-12-21 @ 23:25:19 (week 51) John and Holly Klug wrote: > Every time I run alsaconf, ALSA comes back. When I reboot, it goes > away. Sounds from the gnome desktop always work fine. Some time ago I had a similar problem. It was caused by the order in which the sound devices in my system

resin.

2005-12-23 Thread Mauro Sanna
Hi. Someone here is using resin in a debian stable system? I've serious problems on installing resin, create mod_caucho for apache2 and run it. With tomcat I've had various performances problems and crashes. Resin seems more stable but there isn't any debian package. I need help. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]

2005-12-23 Thread Chinook
I also forgot to ask ... (I know you're thinking won't this old fart go to bed) When I installed some more packages with Synaptic it said two potential updates were not selected (can't remember the exact wording). Looking at the two in the list, they were kernel-image-2.4.27.2-386 and mdadm,

Re: post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]

2005-12-23 Thread Chinook
Chinook wrote: post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?] "She who must be obeyed" is happy with her Thunderbird, Firefox and card games, but not overjoyed with my Gaelic naming scheme. Whoops, spoke too soon. She is missing "hearts" that she plays with her uum friends