Re: cups

2005-12-28 Thread Paras pradhan
yeah i have it.. I found the problem . inside /etc/cups/printers.conf insted of /dev/lp0 it was /dev/unknown-parallelport. strange.how did it happen? i set up using gnome-cups-manager and as well as from web http://localhost:631/ Paras. On 12/29/05, Ryan Nowakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

remove old trash from imap, server side

2005-12-28 Thread Chris Purves
Hello, I am running courier IMAP using maildirs. I would like to know what is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older than six months. Is there any functionality built into courier or should I make a cron job? What are others doing? Thanks for your ideas. -- Take c

Re: 3d acceleartion (Mach 64 ATI rage pro)

2005-12-28 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 00:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mark Grieveson wrote: > > Hello. Is it possible for me to enable 3d acceleration with the hardware > > I have? Right now, there is absolutely no 3d acceleration. I feel that > > if it was present, e

Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge) (WAS:Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?)

2005-12-28 Thread Chinook
Marc Shapiro wrote: Robert Glueck wrote: I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov format on a standalone DVD player that's hooked up to a standard TV set. I'd like to play them on Sarge. Just today I clicked on a .mov file and was asked if I wanted to use the default program (gm

How to play these files on Debian (Sarge) (WAS:Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?)

2005-12-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
Robert Glueck wrote: I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov format on a standalone DVD player that's hooked up to a standard TV set. I'd like to play them on Sarge. Just today I clicked on a .mov file and was asked if I wanted to use the default program (gmplayer). I said yes

Re: kernel configuration question

2005-12-28 Thread Chinook
Chinook wrote: Chinook wrote: AHA, I found kernel-source-2.4.27/arch/i386/defconfig in the bz2 and am looking through for the appropriate lines. Does this file reflect my "stable" instalation? Is there another way of checking these settings? Thank you, Lee C Never mind, Kelly answer

Re: kernel configuration question

2005-12-28 Thread Chinook
Kelly Clowers wrote: On 12/28/05, Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to install mkcdrec (http://mkcdrec.ota.be/project/introduction.html) and in the instructions it says: Check current kernel if the following items were compiled into the kernel. Check file /usr/src/linux/.config : CO

Re: kernel configuration question

2005-12-28 Thread Chinook
Chinook wrote: I'm trying to install mkcdrec (http://mkcdrec.ota.be/project/introduction.html) and in the instructions it says: Check current kernel if the following items were compiled into the kernel. Check file /usr/src/linux/.config : CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y (or m) CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y (o

Re: kernel configuration question

2005-12-28 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 12/28/05, Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to install mkcdrec > (http://mkcdrec.ota.be/project/introduction.html) > and in the instructions it says: > > Check current kernel if the following items were compiled into the > kernel. Check file /usr/src/linux/.config : > CONFIG_BLK_DE

kernel configuration question

2005-12-28 Thread Chinook
I'm trying to install mkcdrec (http://mkcdrec.ota.be/project/introduction.html) and in the instructions it says: Check current kernel if the following items were compiled into the kernel. Check file /usr/src/linux/.config : CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y (or m) CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y (or m) CONFIG_ISO9

Re: Why does Debian default to Gnome?

2005-12-28 Thread John Hasler
David Kirchner writes: > Or, better yet, modified so that removing an application doesn't cause > the user to be presented with the scary demand that they also remove > "gnome". I know of no way to do that with the present dependancy mechanism. > I'm not too familiar with the packages, but I unde

Re: [debian-vrms] Keeping your system clean (was: Re: Suggestions for vrms package?)

2005-12-28 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 06:56 -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > filtering just the binary/executable files would > be a job of grep'ping with a simple regular expression. Using file(1) to determine the file type is probably more reliable than assuming the FHS is being followed. Bdale

How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?

2005-12-28 Thread Robert Glueck
I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov format on a standalone DVD player that's hooked up to a standard TV set. The particular unit is a Magnavox MDV456/17. It's able to play commercial movie DVD's, audio CD's, finalized DVD+R's and DVD+RW's, and VCD's but it doesn't support DivX/Xvi

Re: Why does Debian default to Gnome?

2005-12-28 Thread David Kirchner
On 12/28/05, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Gnome package is a dummy. It pulls in its components by depending on > them. Thus when you remove any of its components it gets removed as well. > However, since it has no contents, removing it does no harm. This > obviously needs to be b

Re: How to build RHEL software to run on Debian?

2005-12-28 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 05:31:16PM -0600, Matt England wrote: > I'm a software developer, and I would like one set of software binaries > (applications, libraries) to be able to run across many Linux platforms, > including FedoraCore, Redhat Enterprise Linux, and Debian > Is this a worthwhile e

Re: How to build RHEL software to run on Debian?

2005-12-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Matt England wrote: I'm a software developer, and I would like one set of software binaries (applications, libraries) to be able to run across many Linux platforms, including FedoraCore, Redhat Enterprise Linux, and Debian (much the same way XAMPP -- http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html -

Re: udev package and sysvinit

2005-12-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
Roseland, Winton wrote: I appreciate your help. It did seem to work: I had to install sysv-rc and I did purge hotplug. After reboot I could not find the usb camera although the syslog showed several entries for a new Fuji drive and one was "... sdb: sdb1", so I thought I could mount /dev/sdb1 b

Re: 3d acceleration (Mach 64 ATI rage pro)

2005-12-28 Thread Mark Grieveson
There are debian packages which are more up-to-date than those sited above. Add to your sources.list: #new DRI locations? deb http://www.nixnuts.net/files/ ./ deb-src http://www.nixnuts.net/files/ ./ There are three packages: One is has the dri drivers similar to those cited above. There is a

Re: Re: Debian WiFi card recommendations please

2005-12-28 Thread MJD
Two cards you could use are the Dlink DWL-650 and DWL-630, the difference is the 650 has "Super G" which is a dlink thing.  These use atheros chipsets, and I used a DWL-630 on a friends computer fine with a CVS version of Madwifi, and a Ubuntu live CD found it OK and was usable.  I am pretty sure t

kde : which repositories ?

2005-12-28 Thread Bruno
Hello to All, 'apt-get kde' returns unresolvable dependencies or broken packages about kde-amusements and kdeaddons. Some problems about my repositories ? More details about my etch config and related error messages hereafter : ... debian:/home/bruno# apt-get update Get:1 http://security.debian.

Re: Connecting a Windows laptop to a Linux internal network

2005-12-28 Thread Ed
Ed, you need to go to "network places" in XP, and set up the network there for XP. Make sure you use the same workgroup name as the Linux network. You need "setup a network for home or a small office", choose home. Now go to your Samba config file and under the workgroup name add the followin

How to build RHEL software to run on Debian?

2005-12-28 Thread Matt England
I'm a software developer, and I would like one set of software binaries (applications, libraries) to be able to run across many Linux platforms, including FedoraCore, Redhat Enterprise Linux, and Debian (much the same way XAMPP -- http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html -- claims that its on

Solved: ethX, wifiX, wlanX in sid with latest pcmciautils, ifplugd

2005-12-28 Thread Paul Scott
Using wlan0 solved this: Paul Scott wrote: After updating relevant packages (pcmciautils?) on my sid system with latest 2.6.14-2 kernel my 16-bit DLink Air DWL- 650 no longer gets configured. My existing /etc/network/interfaces is still trying to configure eth0 which worked until this last

Re: Why does Debian default to Gnome?

2005-12-28 Thread John Hasler
ajtim writes: > I like both desktops but last time when I wanted to uninstall Evolution > with Synaptci it wanted to uninstall Gnome too. The Gnome package is a dummy. It pulls in its components by depending on them. Thus when you remove any of its components it gets removed as well. However, si

Re: Why does Debian default to Gnome?

2005-12-28 Thread Steve Block
On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 04:23:45PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree what you wtote about GNOME but will be good that users have a choice what they want to install. I like both desktops but last time when I wanted to uninstall Evolution with Synaptci it wanted to uninstall Gnome too. Is

packages .udeb and packages .deb

2005-12-28 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, I am using Debian but I would like to know if it is possible to install the packages .udeb in my box, and if I install ubuntu in an other box, can I install the packages .deb in that box ? Thanks in advance for your reply. (please, Ccing me the reply that I am not subscriber on the list)

Re: Why does Debian default to Gnome?

2005-12-28 Thread ajtim
I agree what you wtote about GNOME but will be good that users have a choice what they want to install. I like both desktops but last time when I wanted to uninstall Evolution with Synaptci it wanted to uninstall Gnome too. Is it look like Windows? - Original Message - From: Adam Fabi

Re: java for jabref

2005-12-28 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:21:51PM +, 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 a

Re: cups

2005-12-28 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 05:04:46PM +0545, Paras pradhan wrote: > 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 issu

apt-get update gives failed to fetch error

2005-12-28 Thread Oz
 I just installed Debian from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/etch_d-i/beta1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso  and now want to update the list of packages because the image has only the basic set of packages. I edited the /etc/apt/sources.list file  and here is what i

Re: How to disable hor. scrolling?

2005-12-28 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 09:48:23AM -0800, sidlinux wrote: > the bottom part of my touchpad behaves like back and forward buttons in > browser window. I use gsynaptics to disable it, but there isn't any > option like "save" , so everytime I start my laptop , I have to start > and reconfigure it. Doe

Re: install package from CVS repository

2005-12-28 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 11:15:18PM +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hello! > > My system is Debian Sarge. > > I installed steam on my system, but know for the late version on the CVS > repository. > > Is there a Debian way how can I install package from there? > > If I do update on my system later,

Java plugin fails after installing java3d

2005-12-28 Thread Steven Wheelwright
Friendly Debian users, -- SHORT: -- I installed Sun's Java SDK and then the java3d SDK. The Firefox plugin worked for a time, then stopped working. All of my debugging tells me that it should work now, but it doesn't. I'm running Sarge. -- LONG: -- Background: I installed the

Re: Why does Debian default to Gnome?

2005-12-28 Thread Adam Fabian
"Edward C. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why does Debian default to gnome? When I install a recent "testing", I believe GNOME sprang up partially in response to KDE using Qt, which had a non-free license at the time. Debian is heavily influenced by notions of software freedom, and even th

Re: failing to connect with PPP in austria

2005-12-28 Thread martin f krafft
martin f krafft said: > mh, not really, since I cannot connect -- I am in an Internet cafe now. It > receives an LCP packet mentioning CHAP and MD5, then sends one mentioning > CHAP and MD5, then reports the error and tries again several times. Ah, the wonders of USB sticks... pppd[11426]: pppd 2

Re: problemas instalando raid

2005-12-28 Thread Keith Dunnett
enediel gonzalez wrote: saludos a todos As to the problem I don't know, but there is a spanish-speaking user group in which you will find more people who might be able to help you. In this group, it's not really polite to use other languages, as many people won't be able to understand you. Fu

Re: famd using up lots of CPU time

2005-12-28 Thread Yasir Assam
Thanks Michael - I normally just restart it using # /etc/init.d/fam restart but I was wondering why it was happening. Good to hear that someone else has the same experience - I guess it must be a bug in famd? Thanks, Yasir Hello Yasir! I've got a current version of Etch and I've notice

Re: failing to connect with PPP in austria

2005-12-28 Thread martin f krafft
Alexei Chetroi said: > Could you post pppd output with debug switched on? mh, not really, since I cannot connect -- I am in an Internet cafe now. It receives an LCP packet mentioning CHAP and MD5, then sends one mentioning CHAP and MD5, then reports the error and tries again several times. -m

grub fallback mechanism

2005-12-28 Thread Colin Ingram
I'm trying to test a new kernel remotely so I would like to use grubs fallback mechanism. I was wondering what is the difference between doing using a config like this one taking from grub manual default saved timeout 10 fallback 1 title A root (hd0,0) kernel /kerne

Re: Udev and storage devices

2005-12-28 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 12/28/05, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy list, > > I just installed udev on a Debian Sarge box. Everything's working > great, but now I'm trying to write some rules for a digital camera and > a usb memory stick. I created a file named 010_local.rules > in /etc/udev/rules.d that conta

Re: Installing Debian

2005-12-28 Thread Sam Bruhin
Hi With the Sarge netinstall i have the same problems. Kind regards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Synchronize file on HD and USB stick

2005-12-28 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 12/28/05, Geraldo Xexeo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am sorry to tell you guys, but unison in Windows has a poor user > interface. > Can you talk about it in a debian running Gnome or similar? > I also tryed Vice-Versa, a professional Windows software, it also has a > bad interface. > > I am s

Re: Udev and storage devices

2005-12-28 Thread Brendan
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 11:45, Jacob S wrote: > Howdy list, > > I just installed udev on a Debian Sarge box. Everything's working > great, but now I'm trying to write some rules for a digital camera and > a usb memory stick. I created a file named 010_local.rules > in /etc/udev/rules.d that c

having problems installing raid

2005-12-28 Thread enediel gonzalez
Hello I've 2 HD SATA Seagate of 80 GB each, and I need to make a fresh sarge's installation with RAID1. If on the installation process I choose expert26 to select the module mdcfg necessary to create the RAID, I got problems and finally I couldn't install the basic sarge on them. Moreover, (

routing tables, vpn, etc.

2005-12-28 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi guys, I've just got set up w/ a vpn for work at home, but I don't really like how it's knocking out my normal network functionality... normally my routing tables are like this (my home box's normal ip is 192.168.0.6) 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 default 192

Re: Can Grub bypass menu.lst when it contains an error?

2005-12-28 Thread Bill Moseley
On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 03:38:23PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (28/12/05 07:27), Bill Moseley wrote: > > I added a splashscreen to grub, but had a typo in the device: (hd1,0) > > instead of (hd0,0). > > > > This caused grub to continue to cycle upon boot (I guess trying to > > read the non-ex

problemas instalando raid

2005-12-28 Thread enediel gonzalez
saludos a todos tengo dos discos SATA seagate de 80GB con los cuales quiero montar un raid1. si entro por modo expert26 al inicio de la instalacion para seleccionar el mdcfg que necesito para crear el raid, me da problemas la instalacion, ya probe quitando los modulos que me sugirieron en mensaje

Re: Can Grub bypass menu.lst when it contains an error?

2005-12-28 Thread Gabriel
Clive Menzies wrote: On (28/12/05 07:27), Bill Moseley wrote: I added a splashscreen to grub, but had a typo in the device: (hd1,0) instead of (hd0,0). This caused grub to continue to cycle upon boot (I guess trying to read the non-existent drive) before the boot menu is shown. I

Re: Linux or K3B issue???

2005-12-28 Thread Chinook
Kent West wrote: Chinook wrote: In my trials today I've had no problem creating and restoring a data CD, but I can't get K3B to do anything with DVDs. == The "Writing" window basically says: i Starting writing... x :-( /dev/hdd: unable to pro

Re: a poetic new year

2005-12-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Richard Lyons wrote: Linux trivia department: I switched on my laptop in the bedroom this morning, intending to look up a flight arrival time. After a few moments, my wife looked across to see whether she could log on and do that. Disappointed, she reported back to me "There is only poetry on

Udev and storage devices

2005-12-28 Thread Jacob S
Howdy list, I just installed udev on a Debian Sarge box. Everything's working great, but now I'm trying to write some rules for a digital camera and a usb memory stick. I created a file named 010_local.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d that contains the following: # Olympus D390 digital camera BUS="scsi

remove unneeded modules at boot?

2005-12-28 Thread Dan Jacobson
dmesg(8) mentions some modules etc. (?) that I probably don't use but are perhaps included in the stock 2.6 kernel: ata1: no device found (phy stat ) shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x1001 codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe] ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output

Why does Debian default to Gnome?

2005-12-28 Thread Edward C. Jones
Why does Debian default to gnome? When I install a recent "testing", if I choose a desktop system, both kde and gnome are installed and gnome is used. Is there a Debian document somewhere explaining why gnome ws chosen? The default gnome theme is first rate but kde seems to be more configurabl

Re: Synchronize file on HD and USB stick

2005-12-28 Thread Geraldo Xexeo
I am sorry to tell you guys, but unison in Windows has a poor user interface. Can you talk about it in a debian running Gnome or similar? I also tryed Vice-Versa, a professional Windows software, it also has a bad interface. I am still waiting for a good syncronizer: - Easy to use with GUI i

Re: famd using up lots of CPU time

2005-12-28 Thread Michael Ott
Hello Yasir! > I've got a current version of Etch and I've noticed that every day (around > evening time) famd > starts using up lots of CPU time (e.g. 95%, according to top) and it does > this for a long time. > > Is this normal? What's it doing? I do not think so. Restart the daemon and ever

Re: Re: Debian WiFi card recommendations please

2005-12-28 Thread James Nickson
Hi, On the thread about recommended wifi support for Debian you refer to http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php which is a broken link. On WiFi, more support would make Debian come closer to a user oriented product.as the library I am working with wants to know a card or usb connector that w

Re: Can Grub bypass menu.lst when it contains an error?

2005-12-28 Thread Clive Menzies
On (28/12/05 07:27), Bill Moseley wrote: > I added a splashscreen to grub, but had a typo in the device: (hd1,0) > instead of (hd0,0). > > This caused grub to continue to cycle upon boot (I guess trying to > read the non-existent drive) before the boot menu is shown. I > couldn't see how to get g

Re: X 7.0 .debs????

2005-12-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Kevin Mark wrote: Hi Ron and Rob, if you follow planet.debian.org, David (aka gravity) bloged/blogs about it. IIRC he said he was preparing it for experimental. And if you must know yesterday, he is sometimes on #debian. Cheers, Kev Hi Kevin, I understand that the X Strike Force is moving swi

Can Grub bypass menu.lst when it contains an error?

2005-12-28 Thread Bill Moseley
I added a splashscreen to grub, but had a typo in the device: (hd1,0) instead of (hd0,0). This caused grub to continue to cycle upon boot (I guess trying to read the non-existent drive) before the boot menu is shown. I couldn't see how to get grub to just ignore menu.lst on boot and give me a gru

Re: Re: udev package and sysvinit

2005-12-28 Thread Roseland, Winton
I appreciate your help.  It did seem to work: I had to install sysv-rc and I did purge hotplug.  After reboot I could not find the usb camera although the syslog showed several entries for a new Fuji drive and one was “... sdb: sdb1”, so I thought I could mount /dev/sdb1 but I get an invali

a poetic new year

2005-12-28 Thread Richard Lyons
Linux trivia department: I switched on my laptop in the bedroom this morning, intending to look up a flight arrival time. After a few moments, my wife looked across to see whether she could log on and do that. Disappointed, she reported back to me "There is only poetry on the screen." Probably

Re: failing to connect with PPP in austria

2005-12-28 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 12:34:38PM +0100, dawizz wrote: > Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:34:38 +0100 > From: dawizz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: failing to connect with PPP in austria > > I'm having a similar issue with kppp and pppd under sarge... > maybe both issu

lexmark 1100

2005-12-28 Thread Rafi Gabzu
Hi , I've been trying to install this printer for long time , nothing help : 1. Through cups - ( http://localhost:631/printers) I see the printer module in the list but nothing comes out . 2. Through LPRNG - I follow the apsfilterconfig instruction , I get the printer module from a list but when

Re: Xft, X Resources, TrueType Fonts

2005-12-28 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 05:22:23PM -0600, Adam Fabian wrote: > But, xlsfonts and xfontsel don't show anything like this, and trying > something like: > > XTerm*font: Bitstream Vera Mono > > in my .Xresources gets me messages like: > > xterm: unable to open font "Bitstream Vera Mono", trying "fi

Re: question about webmin

2005-12-28 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Wed, December 28, 2005 15:01, Nevruz Mesut Sahin said: > dear friend I connect the server by writing this comand to terminal "ssh > -p 15666 ip" . I installed webmin to server. 1 th port is defult port > of webmin so I want to change the defult port of webmin is 15666. becouse > I want to

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2005-12-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 08:43, Danielyan, Ashot wrote: >Hi > > > >I've run > >rm /*/* > >as root > >Can I recover all deleted files? > Probably not. There is not that I've heard of, an undelete for ext2/3. > > >Thank you in advance > > > >Ashot -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz

wpasupplicant airo driver

2005-12-28 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Hi all, I'm trying to use WPA on my home WLAN. I have installed wpasupplicant (debian/sarge), but the module airo used by the miniPCI Cisco Aironet card isn't listed on wpasupplicant supported wireless cards/drivers. Is it possible to use wpa_supplicant with this card using wext driver? Is there

question about webmin

2005-12-28 Thread Nevruz Mesut Sahin
dear friend I connect the server by writing this comand to terminal  "ssh -p 15666  ip" . I installed webmin to server. 1 th port is defult port of webmin so I want to change the defult port of webmin is 15666. becouse I want to login by webmin. if you know how can I change webmin default port

Re: Re: recover ext3 deletion

2005-12-28 Thread Danielyan, Ashot
Hi   I’ve run rm /*/* as root Can I recover all deleted files?   Thank you in advance   Ashot      

Re: 3d acceleartion (Mach 64 ATI rage pro)

2005-12-28 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 00:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mark Grieveson wrote: > > Hello. Is it possible for me to enable 3d acceleration with the hardware > > I have? Right now, there is absolutely no 3d acceleration. I feel that > > if it was present, even though my hardware is old, I at

Re: Re: package broken?

2005-12-28 Thread hja
Hi Klurt Vader,   You have indeed brought me to the darkside, I am now in complete darkness as far as  Debian is concerned. I installed libjack by itself with the command apt-get install libjack0.100.0-0 and in the process many files were deleted, including kaffeine and even kdm. As a result, af

Re: OT - power off probs

2005-12-28 Thread Piers Kittel
Yeah it's a standard ATX connector. It's basically an standard ATX power supply in an non-standard size. Hence me being able to fit an Mini-ITX board in, and an old ATX Slot 1 motherboard. Just looked at their website - seems not quite that proprietary after all. Seems to be an TFX power su

Re: failing to connect with PPP in austria

2005-12-28 Thread dawizz
Hi, I'm having a similar issue with kppp and pppd under sarge... maybe both issues have the same origin?? I hope an other debian/kde user can provide us the correct answers. At first I found out that the actual owner of kppp, e.g. the user of the dail up connection, must be set using the folo

Re: mcedit in X

2005-12-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ioannou Ioannis wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 02:56:12PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, mcedit in a text console uses Ins+Ctrl and Ins+Shift to copy and paste. That does not work in X. Anybody know a way around that? A keyboard-lover I presume ? :-) Where did you remembered these key-c

Re: Connecting a Windows laptop to a Linux internal network

2005-12-28 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/12/05 21:16), Ed Paris wrote: > Hi There, > > I have an internal Linux network. I want to add a Windows XP Professional > laptop to this network so that I can share files. I am using SAMBA on the > Unix side and think I have the global and share sections of smb.conf set up > correctly, th

Re: 3d acceleartion

2005-12-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:09:01 +0100 Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:42:26 +0200, Micha wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:27:04 -0500 > > jlquinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Mark Grieveson wrote: > > > > Hello. Is it pos

famd using up lots of CPU time

2005-12-28 Thread Yasir Assam
I've got a current version of Etch and I've noticed that every day (around evening time) famd starts using up lots of CPU time (e.g. 95%, according to top) and it does this for a long time. Is this normal? What's it doing? Thanks, Yasir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Post-OOPS Network connectivity probs

2005-12-28 Thread alan bonard
The story so far .. I received a 'kernel panic' message while compiling dependencies for 'Scribes' and was not able to reboot sucessfully. When trying to do so I received error messages to do with ./etc/rc*.d scripts .. --

ethX, wifiX, wlanX in sid with latest pcmciautils, ifplugd

2005-12-28 Thread Paul Scott
After updating relevant packages (pcmciautils?) on my sid system with latest 2.6.14-2 kernel my 16-bit DLink Air DWL- 650 no longer gets configured. My existing /etc/network/interfaces is still trying to configure eth0 which worked until this last upgrade. I have had ifplugd installed for a

Re: mcedit in X

2005-12-28 Thread Ioannou Ioannis
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 02:56:12PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > mcedit in a text console uses Ins+Ctrl and Ins+Shift to copy and paste. > > That does not work in X. > > Anybody know a way around that? A keyboard-lover I presume ? :-) Where did you remembered these key-combinations ?

mdadm and raid confused

2005-12-28 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, I've been trying to play around with mdadm and software raid, but got some problems, I have two sata disks(80gb) which Im trying to mirror, i did it during the installation of debian testing. And it seems like it worked well, but then I started testing to unplug one disk at the time(with

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

2005-12-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:04:32AM -0500, Chinook wrote: > post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?] > > Well, you-all steered me right :-) for my needs - thank you. I feel so > much cleaner now that there is no Windoze system in the house. > > If one does their homework and

Re: failing to connect with PPP in austria

2005-12-28 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 07:57:12PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:57:12 +0100 (CET) > From: martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: failing to connect with PPP in austria > > sorry to ask for your time, maybe someone can help. I

Re: X 7.0 .debs????

2005-12-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 09:09:46PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >So, X.org 7.0 is out? When will it be in Etch? Tomorrow, right? > > > > Ron, > > I know that you know better than that :-) > > You've been around long enough to know that it takes a while for things > to