anyone successful in using highpoint rocketraid 1520 with debian 2.6.8 kernel? kernel oops

2005-12-25 Thread Mitchell Laks
I am trying to set up a server with sarge and stock kernel 2.6.8-2, asus a8v motherboard and two PCI card highpoint rocketraid 1520 sata cards. each card provides 2 sata channels for 2 sata hard drives. I did a standard sarge install without the highpoint rocketraid and now when I add it on

Re: fstab problem

2005-12-25 Thread Masa Takeuti
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 17:08:09 -0600 Rodney Richison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rodney Richison wrote: > > > Can any tell me why this works manually > > > > mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive > > > > But this in fstab does not work > > > > /dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive ext2defau

Desktop [was Re: New post install tidbits?]

2005-12-25 Thread Chinook
And while we're at it :-) "She who must be obeyed" decided she wanted her desktop to look just like mine. Trouble is I spent a couple hours on colors etc. to have something that was easy on my eyes. Is there a way in KDE to "easily" set her gesktop the same - a checkbox/selection I've misse

Re: dcop [was New post install tidbits?]

2005-12-25 Thread Chinook
Spoke too soon :-) I was setting up another user (first time under KDE) and wondering about some of the settings. When I tried help, a message said dcopserver was not running %-/ I've read what I could find in the man pages and couldn't find anything on the debian site. Seems to me that th

Monitoring my LAN

2005-12-25 Thread Pepo
Hi friends... I have a small LAN that connects to Internet using my Gateway (testing-debian); How do I know which bandwidth is using each user (IP address) in a lapse with images?. I was trying FlowScan but I cant get images about use of bandwidth and services/protocols of each user. Ntop has

Re: New post install tidbits?

2005-12-25 Thread Kent West
Chinook wrote: > With the Gnome login screen I could login as root though and I can't > seem to find a way to allow such with the kdm login screen. Not sure > I need to though, because I can use the root terminal or sudo in > terminal, and there seems to be a "File Manager - Super User Mode" to >

Re: set-up for watching video

2005-12-25 Thread k l u r t
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, kangja wrote: hi, i am trying to set-up my system to in order to be able to view video clips online or download them for offline viewing. my current set-up: debian 'testing' with kernel 2.6.8, kaffeine, mozilla-firefox. install

Re: New post install tidbits?

2005-12-25 Thread Chinook
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Re: New post install tidbits?

2005-12-25 Thread Chinook
Andrei spoketh: #aptitude purge gdm should do the trick. If you have nothing else than kdm installed, than "he" will have no other choice but using it :) and Kent spoketh: sounds like it thinks kdm is already the default. I would run the program again, choosing gdm, then run it a final time

Re: cron doesn't run /etc/cron.d jobs why is that ?

2005-12-25 Thread Maxim Vexler
On 12/25/05, Maxim Vexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, > > For some reason, jobs defined in /etc/cron.d doesn't get picked up by > cron, while jobs from /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} do ! > > I have verified this by putting the following commands in /etc/cron: > > $ apt-show-v

Re: New post install tidbits?

2005-12-25 Thread Kent West
Chinook wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >> or you can just install kdm instead of gdm: >> "aptitude install kdm" (or dpkg-reconfigure -plow kdm"). > > I did install and it said it removed a bunch of Gnome packages which > were unneeded. I said OK. Then I did the reconfigure kdm which just > asked me

linux-image and yaird seems ok

2005-12-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
Hello list (and especially unstable users) Remember the yaird issue that made an unbootable kernel? It seems to be ok now. I was making an upgrade and i noticed that the linux-image would get upgraded too. So i said "what the heck, i have a backup kernel" (one who learned from mistakes). So i u

Re: New post install tidbits?

2005-12-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 22:10:48 -0500 Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did install and it said it removed a bunch of Gnome packages which > were unneeded. I said OK. Then I did the reconfigure kdm which just > asked me to select kdm as the default. I just hit return for ok since > that w

Re: emacs behave differently in xterm

2005-12-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-12-26 03:34:07 +0100, Juraj Fedel wrote: > I used emacs with great satisfaction under X, now I am trying > to use it in xterm but the keyboard behave differently in xterm. > For example I was not able to use Meta (Alt) key (eg. M-x). This > one I resolved by changing xterm setup > (control

Re: New post install tidbits?

2005-12-25 Thread Chinook
Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: Chinook wrote: Yep, I have the session KDE GUI the way I want it, but I get there >from a Gnome login screen and I can't shutdown from such without entering the root password. Speaking of post-install tidbits . . . here's a freebie that's off-topic :-

Re: Xfce question

2005-12-25 Thread j Mak
Hi Simon,You were right, the xfwm4 wasn't running. As soon as, I started xfwm4 from the xterm the buttons reappeared on  my windows like magic.I've learnt something again.Thanks a lot.Regards,J. Mak Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

emacs behave differently in xterm

2005-12-25 Thread Juraj Fedel
I used emacs with great satisfaction under X, now I am trying to use it in xterm but the keyboard behave differently in xterm. For example I was not able to use Meta (Alt) key (eg. M-x). This one I resolved by changing xterm setup (control - left mouse button -> select Meta Send Escape). But C-home

Re: Question

2005-12-25 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > He could ethically and legally charge whatever the market will bear for his > product. How hw allocates his costs is no one else's business. Katipo writes: > Fine! > Now, define *his* product. He builds computers and installs Debian on them. They are his product. He can sell them f

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Reading d-u is always worth it. I just tried out mrxvt and it indeed is a very good alternative for konsole. It solves one problem, which I could not solve with konsole, namely, "How to change the title of a tab to the current directory automatically?" That is an FA

Re: wildcard and variable expansion

2005-12-25 Thread David Jardine
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 11:50:28PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 11:31:07PM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > > export MASTER_HOST=`hostname` > > export FILE_PATH=some_file_path > > pbsdsh -- /bin/sh -c 'scp $FILE_PATH/file* $MASTER_HOST:' > > Have you tried double quotes ? > pb

Re: Question

2005-12-25 Thread Katipo
John Hasler wrote: Katipo writes: He could ethically charge for his labour time for installation. He could ethically and legally charge whatever the market will bear for his product. How hw allocates his costs is no one else's business. Fine! Now, define *his* product. -- To U

Re: dual monitor support

2005-12-25 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, if you are looking for fglrx stuff, this seems to be supported (I have not yet installed it for my Mobile Radeon). hth, Jerome rasputin666 wrote: I have several distributions of Linux and have as yet to find one that will support dual monitors with my Gigabyte Radeon 9600XT graphics ca

Re: dual monitor support

2005-12-25 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005, rasputin666 wrote: > > I have several distributions of Linux and have as yet to find one that will > support dual monitors with my Gigabyte Radeon 9600XT graphics card. My > question: Will debian or any other distro do this? all distros will work ... - how much fiddli

dual monitor support

2005-12-25 Thread rasputin666
I have several distributions of Linux and have as yet to find one that will support dual monitors with my Gigabyte Radeon 9600XT graphics card. My question: Will debian or any other distro do this? Thanks for any info. ___ No banners. No pop-ups.

Re: Xfce question

2005-12-25 Thread Simon Huggins
Salut j! On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 02:02:24PM -0500, j Mak wrote: > --- Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 08:00:34PM -0500, j Mak > > wrote: > > > The other day, I installed enlightenment as a desktop on xfce. > > > But I didn't like the feel of it and remo

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-25 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Brad Sims wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 2:41 pm, Marc Shapiro wrote: I really like the tabs on konsole MUCH better than opening a new xterm window. Is there anything else out there that can do tabs that is not tied to a huge DE? mrxvt - lightweight multi-tabbed X terminal emul

Re: wildcard and variable expansion

2005-12-25 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 11:31:07PM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > export MASTER_HOST=`hostname` > export FILE_PATH=some_file_path > pbsdsh -- /bin/sh -c 'scp $FILE_PATH/file* $MASTER_HOST:' Have you tried double quotes ? pbsdsh -- /bin/sh -c "scp $FILE_PATH/file* $MASTER_HOST:" Frank -- "Debuggin

Re: Question

2005-12-25 Thread John Hasler
Katipo writes: > He could ethically charge for his labour time for installation. He could ethically and legally charge whatever the market will bear for his product. How hw allocates his costs is no one else's business. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: SATA HDD cabling question

2005-12-25 Thread Glenn English
On Sun, 2005-12-25 at 14:52 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > The HD has on it a regular 4 pin power plug male end, 4 jumper > locations, and a 4cm. wide tongue with 1.5 cm. where the serial ATA > cable fits and the rest which I don't know does what. > > When I plug a 4 pin female power plug from

Re: Question

2005-12-25 Thread chouck
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Re: Firefox 1.5 plugins

2005-12-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 00:25:08 -0500 "[KS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ken Wahl wrote: > > What worked for me was re-creating the symlinks that were in > > /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins in the new plugin folder for > > firefox 1.5 which is /usr/lib/firefox/plugins > > > > For example with the

wildcard and variable expansion

2005-12-25 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, i'm trying to solve the following problem and cannot find any working solution. it might seem to be very specialized on the first sight, but i think it's pretty general (and probably pretty easy) i'm using pbs pro queueing system and there is a tool called pbsdsh that runs given com

Re: Question

2005-12-25 Thread Katipo
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Chinook wrote: Denis wrote: я продаю компьютеры. Хочу начать устанавливать клиентам Linux Debian, скажите пожалуйста какие дистрибутивы я могу ставить за деньги? Денис I specialize in selling PCs. I would like to start installing Linux Debian to customers' PC

module-assistant with ipw2200

2005-12-25 Thread Erdi Balint
Hi, I am trying to build the ipw2200 package with module-assistant (as suggested on several forums), but when I do 'module-assistant -t build ipw2200-source' I get the following error message: " Bad luck, the kernel headers for the target kernel version could not be found and you did not spe

Re: New post install tidbits?

2005-12-25 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Chinook wrote: Old thread was getting a little cluttered :-) I'm back to a KDE GUI at the desired resolutions. Thanks for all your help. "But the picky ol fart must not be happy yet" your thinking :-) Yep, I have the session KDE GUI the way I want it, but I get there from a Gnome login scr

Re: New post install tidbits?

2005-12-25 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: >Chinook wrote: > > > >>Yep, I have the session KDE GUI the way I want it, but I get there >>from a Gnome login screen and I can't shutdown from such without >>entering the root password. >> Speaking of post-install tidbits . . . here's a freebie that's off-topic :-) Chinook,

Re: New post install tidbits?

2005-12-25 Thread Kent West
Chinook wrote: > Yep, I have the session KDE GUI the way I want it, but I get there > from a Gnome login screen and I can't shutdown from such without > entering the root password. So you're running gdm. > When I stepped in it before, part of the problem was probably that I > was switching aroun

Re: New post install tidbits?

2005-12-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 15:37:22 -0500 Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Old thread was getting a little cluttered :-) > > I'm back to a KDE GUI at the desired resolutions. Thanks for all your help. > > "But the picky ol fart must not be happy yet" your thinking :-) > > Yep, I have the session K

SATA HDD cabling question

2005-12-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, A question for those of you who have SATA HD's installed. I ordered a WD Caviar 80GB HD and paid no attention, thinking it was ATA. It arrived and it is a SATA HD. But being OEM it arrived w/o cable. So I locally obtained a SATA 150 HDD cable. One end of that fits perfectly into the mobo

Re: kde 3.5 again

2005-12-25 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:55:23 -0600 Mitja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, I am n Etch. > BTW, what is interesting. I am a Linux user very long time but i am rookie a followup - because of a configuration issue with evince - which depends on libdjvulibre15 being there - which is also provided

Re: kde 3.5 again

2005-12-25 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:55:23 -0600 Mitja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I am n Etch. > BTW, what is interesting. I am a Linux user very long time but i am rookie > still :). I start with Linux long time ago and than I did SuSE from 6.4 if I > remember correct but I like Debian :) and I am he

Re: Question

2005-12-25 Thread John Hasler
Cameron writes: > You can charge them any fee they'll pay for doing them the service of > copying and installing the software. Let's be clear about this. You can charge whatever the market will bear for supplying them with copies of the software. You have no obligation install it or support it,

New post install tidbits?

2005-12-25 Thread Chinook
Old thread was getting a little cluttered :-) I'm back to a KDE GUI at the desired resolutions. Thanks for all your help. "But the picky ol fart must not be happy yet" your thinking :-) Yep, I have the session KDE GUI the way I want it, but I get there from a Gnome login screen and I can't shu

Re: ping claims lost packets

2005-12-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 23:54 -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I'm experiencing something very strange: running ping several times in a > row results in lost packets from ping's point of view, even though the > kernel is getting the echo replies back. > > I can experience this on demand by running pin

Re: fstab problem

2005-12-25 Thread Gabriel Farrell
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:08:09PM -0600, Rodney Richison wrote: > Rodney Richison wrote: > I chmod 777 /mnt/idedrive AGAIN and it finally mounted with mount -a > I then rebooted to make sure would mount. > It did not. And would not with mount -a Are you getting any relevant error messages with mou

Re: Using Free JVM implementations

2005-12-25 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, michael. On Dec 25 2005, michael wrote: > > > > On the other hand, and this is my main point here, have you tried using > > > one of the Free JVM implementations that are already packaged in Debian? > > > > > > Some good starting points would be to try kaffe, sablevm or gij. > > Unfort with

Re: Using Free JVM implementations

2005-12-25 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 25 2005, Daniel Webb wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 04:55:15PM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > > If you have problems running your applications with some of the Free > > JVMs, then please let the maintainers (or upstream) know about that. > > They will surely appreciate to know which program

Re: Question

2005-12-25 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Denis wrote: > [three lines of some (c > 0x7f) alphabet, deleted] > > I specialize in selling PCs. I would like to start installing Linux > Debian to customers' PCs. Would you please let me know what packages i > can charge customers for. Denis. I think the GNU

Re: mouse sensitivity in x.org

2005-12-25 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 08:29:44PM +0100, LeVA wrote: > I want to set up the mouse pointer's sensitivity under X.org from console, > how > is this possible? Not from the console, but when logged in you can try running: xset m 2 2 (This is 'xset m speed accel'; where the values are

mouse sensitivity in x.org

2005-12-25 Thread LeVA
Hi! I want to set up the mouse pointer's sensitivity under X.org from console, how is this possible? Thanks! Daniel -- LeVA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian way to add modules with 2.6 ?

2005-12-25 Thread Colin
Philip Christian wrote: I made a file as your said. Rebooted the laptop did lsmod usbserial is not listed so this is not making the module load how do i actually make the module load during bootup, or when the card is inserted? To make the module load on startup, you put the module name in the

CBQ Shaper Troubles "RTNETLINK: Invalid Argument"

2005-12-25 Thread Vincas Ciziunas
I'm not entirely certain that I'm doing things right. All searches that showed this error tell me that I don't have CONFIG_RTNETLINK enabled, but as far as I can tell it's enabled by default since Alan Cox so declared somewhere in 2.4.x. Here's what's going on... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /etc

Connection with ppp and Nokia 6630

2005-12-25 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi, all. I managed to connect fine using a Motorola c350 cellular phone, connected to the PC with a mini usb cable, and I'm reporting below the procedure I followed. Now I want to do the same with another cellular phone, the Nokia 6630, to get faster. I followed the same procedure but couldn't est

cron doesn't run /etc/cron.d jobs why is that ?

2005-12-25 Thread Maxim Vexler
Hello list, For some reason, jobs defined in /etc/cron.d doesn't get picked up by cron, while jobs from /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} do ! I have verified this by putting the following commands in /etc/cron: $ apt-show-versions cron cron/testing uptodate 3.0pl1-92 $ ps aux | grep cron

Re: X Window hangs completely, except for the mouse

2005-12-25 Thread James Vahn
qvvx wrote: > I seem to have a trouble with the X Window System. > My video card is nVidia GeForce 2 GTS (64 MiB of memory) I run an Nvidia card too (FX5200), and it was as unstable as yours when using the Debian defaults with the nvidia driver. In the Nvidia docs, open the README.txt file, scan f

Re: Using Free JVM implementations

2005-12-25 Thread michael
> > On the other hand, and this is my main point here, have you tried using > > one of the Free JVM implementations that are already packaged in Debian? > > > > Some good starting points would be to try kaffe, sablevm or gij. Unfort with kaffe I get the following error: 15:27:32 ~/src$ kaffe -

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-25 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 24 December 2005 2:41 pm, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I really like the tabs on konsole MUCH better than opening a new xterm > window.  Is there anything else out there that can do tabs that is not > tied to a huge DE? mrxvt - lightweight multi-tabbed X terminal emulator Mrxvt is

Re: kde 3.5 again

2005-12-25 Thread Mitja
On Sunday 25 December 2005 01:22, David E. Fox wrote: > On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 21:43:44 -0600 > > Mitja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I uninstalled KDE 3.5 packages, uninstall libdjvulibre15 and reinstall > > KDE 3.5 and it works :) > > Cool. Mitja, are you on 'etch'? Or would that matter that much w

Initrdless 2.6.14 kernel

2005-12-25 Thread David Baron
How does one find out just what one needs to compile into the 2.6.14 kernel to boot without the initrd. I tried the ide controller and the file system ext3, jbd. Still get 22,1, just what I get using yaird initrds. Using mkinitrd, it will boot but modules are "not enabled" (they are) and all ki

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Re: dhcp client wifi setup

2005-12-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
Hi again, Richard Lyons wrote: On Sunday, 25 December 2005 at 1:12:53 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: Maybe you can first try to find out if you have a problem with the interface itself or with the dhcp-client. To configure the interface directly you can use the iwconfig command (as root) I d

Re: Question

2005-12-25 Thread Mark Lijftogt
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 05:14:15AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>I specialize in selling PCs. I would like to start installing Linux > >>Debian to customers' PCs. Would you please let me know what packages i > >>can charge customers for. Denis. > >> >Have you looked at: > >http://www.debian.

Re: Question

2005-12-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Chinook wrote: Denis wrote: я продаю компьютеры. Хочу начать устанавливать клиентам Linux Debian, скажите пожалуйста какие дистрибутивы я могу ставить за деньги? Денис I specialize in selling PCs. I would like to start installing Linux Debian to customers' PCs. Would you please let me k

cups

2005-12-25 Thread Paras pradhan
hi: When i connect Canon Bjc 2555Sp printer to my paralle port of my computer and assigned the recommended driver, giving the test page doesnot print. But from ipp printers i can printer successfully. what might be the issue. At the time of configuring it autdetects as: Parall Port:[Cannon BJC 255

Re: dhcp client wifi setup

2005-12-25 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday, 24 December 2005 at 23:37:45 -0500, jlquinn wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > > >Exiting. > > > >Failed to bring up eth0. > > > >Which tells me I left something out. But what? > > Chances are with a thinkpad that you have onboard ethernet. eth0 will > correspond to th

Re: dhcp client wifi setup

2005-12-25 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday, 25 December 2005 at 1:12:53 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Richard Lyons wrote: > >But ifup eth0 gives > > > >etho: New link status: Connected (0001) > >Listening on LPF/eth0/00:02:2d:a6:07:bb > >Sending on LPF/eth0/00:02:2d:a6:07:bb > >DHCPDISCOVER on

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

2005-12-25 Thread Chinook
thierry wrote: Well, the checksum staff is only for futur update. It wont update if you don,t givze it the sum in some ways I have forgoten, but you can get that thru man I believe. But did you try, and retry... dpkg-reconfigure with the GUI not running, to set different video driver until you

Re: dhcp client wifi setup

2005-12-25 Thread thierry
Richard Lyons wrote: I am obviously missing the obvious here. An IBM Thinkpad, sid, orinoco wifi card talks to the Netgear DG834G router when security is disabled, but when I turn WEP on it doesn't connect. /etc/network/interfaces has iface eth0 inet dhcp wireless-essid Coig

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

2005-12-25 Thread thierry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:12:10AM -0500, Chinook wrote: I went through the dpkg-reconfigure and it would not let me select anything except 800x600 and 640x480. So next step I edited the file as Kelly mentioned to set 1280x1024. Then I rebooted and found I was in

Re: Using Free JVM implementations (was: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2005 #3025)

2005-12-25 Thread Daniel Webb
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 04:55:15PM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > It would be better to avoid non-free software (speaking as one of the > maintainers of vrms), of course. > > If you have problems running your applications with some of the Free > JVMs, then please let the maintainers (or upstream)