Re: Mouse not working on IBM ThinkCentre

2006-01-04 Thread Clark Bang
Hello, What type of mouse are you using and how did you setup the mouse in X? Have you tried the mouse configuration setup command "mouseconfig"? Regards, Clark -- Systems Support Indicium Technologies http://www.indicium.com.sg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Not Authenticated ???

2006-01-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:16:13PM -0500, Chinook wrote: > Chinook wrote: > >Now that I've got Etch installed, I'm seeing a "Not Authenticated" > >warning for many packages. > > > >Is this normal or is it something I don't have that is causing such? > > > >Thanks, > >Lee C > > > > > Current apt i

Mouse not working on IBM ThinkCentre

2006-01-04 Thread H S Rai
There remain always some problem with Kernel 2.6.8-2-386. With this it used to be very slow. So, I was using this PC to my satisfaction with Kernel 2.4.27-2-386. Unforunately, I updated and upgraded every thing (including unstable, Contrib etc). With this mouse stop working in X under Kernel 2

Re: MTA slow to start

2006-01-04 Thread Tyler Smith
Thanks everyone for your responses. At present I've switched it off using init scripts, following advice received off-list. I'm still not clear on the purpose of exim4. I understand that the system will on occassion send me a message, but in several months on Sarge this has never happened. I g

Re: Debian-installer and loop-aes

2006-01-04 Thread Adam Porter
Andreas Ehn wrote: > [2] Is there another disk encryption tool that's better, or is loop-aes > the way to go? LUKS is supposed to be the future, but it's not in Debian proper yet. You can use it if you install it manually, but I read that there may be another on-disk format change coming. I'm n

Re: Sound Device Not Shared

2006-01-04 Thread ankur . kumar
if I stop the application which is using the sound device and then other application can use the sound device... its more like exclusive access to the sound device by ALSA even if there is a warning sound from Anti-virus program, sound device get locked and I can not play music anymore until

Re: Sound Device Not Shared

2006-01-04 Thread Adam Porter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using ALSA and the only issue is if an application is using Sound > device (/dev/dsp) and another > application is trying to use it, it says "/dev/dsp" is already in use. > > What can I do it share the sound device?? If I understand ALSA correctly, you should not b

Re: Re: Exim using incorrect hostname

2006-01-04 Thread Chris Howie
> Exim works fine. I don't think you're braindead. Take a look at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/10/msg00460.html. This is what > helped me get my mail setup working well. I fail to see how that post helps. It's not even related to the problem I'm having, and doesn't document any d

Re: Trouble LVM: pvcreate to usb disk managed by udev

2006-01-04 Thread John A. Martin
> "jam" == John A Martin > "Re: Trouble LVM: pvcreate to usb disk managed by udev" > Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:57:31 -0500 > "Andy" == Andy Hawkins > "Re: Trouble LVM: pvcreate to usb disk managed by udev" > Wed, 4 Jan 2006 22:06:56 + (UTC) Andy> Hi, In article <[EMAIL

Loadable kernel modules not unloadable

2006-01-04 Thread hillbilly
Can ANYONE help? I am trying to prevent parport (and parport_pc, lp) from loading at bootup on Deb Sarge with no success short of brute force (hiding the actual module from the OS) which results in ugly messages about undefined symbols and is at best potentially dangerous (for other modules with mo

RE: Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?

2006-01-04 Thread David Christensen
Rodney Richison wrote: > I like norton ghost, then fix grub in the mbr because ghost will > likely break it. > After ghosting.. > Boot with mepis (Any live-cd would probably do) > Open a terminal window > Mounted the drive (don't use the mepis icon as it mounts read only) > mount -rw /dev/hda1 /mnt

Re: how to use initrd command

2006-01-04 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 09:12 pm, Jon Miller wrote: > I'm attempting to upgrade Debian 3.1 kernel version 2.4 to the latest 2.6 > version. I understand I need to add a initrd command somewhere in this. if you do it the debian way, then it is run automatically as part of script. However if

Debian-installer and loop-aes

2006-01-04 Thread Andreas Ehn
Hi, I'm about to install Debian unstable on a new laptop[1]. I would like to encrypt the drive in case the machine gets lost or stolen. Since this is a new install, it seems preferable to do it right from the start, in order to avoid all the hassles involved in moving from plaintext to encrypted f

Re: Sound Device Not Shared

2006-01-04 Thread David Berg
On 1/4/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:08:02 +1100 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'm using ALSA and the only issue is if an application is using Sound > > device (/dev/dsp) and another > > application is trying to use it, it says "/dev/dsp" is already

Re: Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?

2006-01-04 Thread Rodney Richison
I like norton ghost, then fix grub in the mbr because ghost will likely break it. After ghosting.. Boot with mepis (Any live-cd would probably do) Open a terminal window Mounted the drive (don't use the mepis icon as it mounts read only) mount -rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 chroot /mnt/hda1 grub-install /

Re: Sound Device Not Shared

2006-01-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:08:02 +1100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using ALSA and the only issue is if an application is using Sound > device (/dev/dsp) and another > application is trying to use it, it says "/dev/dsp" is already in use. > > What can I do it share the sound device?? this is a pro

Re: How to get new Debian gpg keys?

2006-01-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:25:15AM -0500, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Edward C. Jones wrote: > > I am getting the following message from synaptic: > > > > W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable Release: The following > > signatures couldn't be verified because the public key i

Re: / suddenly Read-only

2006-01-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 04:46:04PM -0700, jonathan ferguson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi. > > For mysterious reasons a Dual-boot (Windows/Linux) Toshiba 5105-s901 > running Debian/GNU 3.1 Sarge 2.6.8 (with updates) suddenly fails to > mount read-write the root partition during boot. This

Re: Re: "superblock last write time is in the future" on boot

2006-01-04 Thread Lei Kong
> > > On Tue, 03 Jan 2006, Brandon Simmons wrote: > > > > boot. According to the Debian changelog for the e2fsprogs package, the > > > > newest > > > > version checks for this, so I don't know whether e2fsprogs is mistaken > > > > or > > > > whether there really is a problem. How would I go abou

RE: Unthreaded Perl and Apache mod_perl

2006-01-04 Thread David Christensen
Debian user: I am running Debian GNU/Linux i386 31r0a "Stable" (Sarge) and am using it for Linux/ Apache/ MySQL/ Perl development. The following Apt packages are installed: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686 apache-perl (Apache 1.3.33/mod_perl 1.29) mysql-server (MySQL 4.0)

dpkg -i problem

2006-01-04 Thread salahuddin pasha
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hello; i can't install any deb from yesterday it says every deb package (it is created by me with my key) debian:/home/pasha/compile# dpkg -i polyester_0.6.5-1_i386.deb Authenticating polyeste

Re: "superblock last write time is in the future" on boot

2006-01-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 22:28:15 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 04 Jan 2006, Lei Kong wrote: > > > On Tue, 03 Jan 2006, Brandon Simmons wrote: > > > > boot. According to the Debian changelog for the e2fsprogs package, the > > > > newest > > > > version checks fo

how to use initrd command

2006-01-04 Thread Jon Miller
I'm attempting to upgrade Debian 3.1 kernel version 2.4 to the latest 2.6 version. I understand I need to add a initrd command somewhere in this. How do I pass this command and when (a link to a document would be a big help). Thanks Jon

Re: apt-get update public key problem

2006-01-04 Thread Rick Friedman
On Wed January 4 2006 12:28 pm, Tom wrote: > [04/01/2006 -- 18:10u] Rick Friedman: > > I (as well as others) was having this problem as well untill I saw a > > message from a Mr. Joey Hess. As per Mr. Hess' instructions, run the > > following command line: > > > > wget http://ftp-master.debian.org/

Re: Re: udev package and sysvinit

2006-01-04 Thread Winton Roseland
I installed KDE 3.4. I ended up loading quite a bit from testing. I have more system difficulties that I need to work through. UDEV 0.076-6: I have the following in my interfaces files and it used to work. auto lo allow-hotplug eth? mapping eth? script /usr/local/sbin/get-mac-address.sh # n

Re: Not Authenticated ???

2006-01-04 Thread Chinook
Chinook wrote: Now that I've got Etch installed, I'm seeing a "Not Authenticated" warning for many packages. Is this normal or is it something I don't have that is causing such? Thanks, Lee C I followed what has been said in various threads to remedy the situation, but I doesn't work for

Re: Hardware SATA Raid Controller

2006-01-04 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006, Laurikainen, Tuukka wrote: > For example the Adaptec hardware SATA RAID controllers (like 2410SA or > 2420SA) work fine with the aacraid driver. Recent posts on debian-isp and other lists discredited the Adaptecs way to much for me to ever touch them. Get 3ware instead, it i

Re: "superblock last write time is in the future" on boot

2006-01-04 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006, Lei Kong wrote: > > On Tue, 03 Jan 2006, Brandon Simmons wrote: > > > boot. According to the Debian changelog for the e2fsprogs package, the > > > newest > > > version checks for this, so I don't know whether e2fsprogs is mistaken or > > > whether there really is a problem. Ho

Re: Exim using incorrect hostname

2006-01-04 Thread Steven Wheelwright
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 03:12:27AM -0500, Chris Howie wrote: > When I configured exim (with `dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config`), I told it that > my system mail name was "foobar.com" (actually I didn't, but we'll pretend > that's what I called it). /etc/mailname contains "foobar.com" as well, but > w

/ suddenly Read-only

2006-01-04 Thread jonathan ferguson
hi. For mysterious reasons a Dual-boot (Windows/Linux) Toshiba 5105-s901 running Debian/GNU 3.1 Sarge 2.6.8 (with updates) suddenly fails to mount read-write the root partition during boot. For about 3 months *after* i had installed a new Toshiba 100GiB drive, the system has worked beautiful

SATA PCI controllers for Debian. Highpoint RocketRaid 1520 bad experience. Promise SATAII 150 TX4 works.

2006-01-04 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I have set up 2 servers in the last week. I am setting up the storage via linux software Raid, using mdadm and md kernel module. I am using Asus A8v motherboards. The motherboard comes with 2 SATA channels, supported by the VIA VT8237 chip on my motherboard hat are supported by Debian Sar

Re: Re: "superblock last write time is in the future" on boot

2006-01-04 Thread Lei Kong
> On Tue, 03 Jan 2006, Brandon Simmons wrote: > > boot. According to the Debian changelog for the e2fsprogs package, the > > newest > > version checks for this, so I don't know whether e2fsprogs is mistaken or > > whether there really is a problem. How would I go about checking this? > > Short a

Re: Sound device not shared

2006-01-04 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Presumably your sound card has only one channel. To play sounds from more than one program together, you must use another program to mix them together. Two such programs are esd and arts. To use those, the programs playing the sounds will have to support output to esd or arts respectively. But A

Re: Sound device not shared

2006-01-04 Thread Björn Lindström
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm using ALSA and the only issue is if an application is using Sound > device (/dev/dsp) and another application is trying to use it, it says > "/dev/dsp" is already in use. > > What can I do it share the sound device?? Presumably your sound card has only one channel.

Sound Device Not Shared

2006-01-04 Thread ankur . kumar
I'm using ALSA and the only issue is if an application is using Sound device (/dev/dsp) and another application is trying to use it, it says "/dev/dsp" is already in use. What can I do it share the sound device?? Alliance Bernstein: Winner of Money Management "FUND MANAGER OF THE YEAR 2005"  Memb

Re: Trouble LVM: pvcreate to usb disk managed by udev

2006-01-04 Thread John A. Martin
> "Andy" == Andy Hawkins > "Re: Trouble LVM: pvcreate to usb disk managed by udev" > Wed, 4 Jan 2006 22:06:56 + (UTC) Andy> Hi, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy>John A. Martin<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As root: >> >> ,[ pvcreate /dev/sdc

2.6.15 with dynticks: special power savings feature

2006-01-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, For those of you with laptops: Latest version of the dynticks patch. This is proving stable and effective on virtually all uniprocessor machines and will benefit systems that desire power savings. SMP kernels (even on UP machines) still misbehave so this config option is not available by

Re: How to get new Debian gpg keys?

2006-01-04 Thread Björn Lindström
"Edward C. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. Use "su" to become root. > > 2. Run "apt-key list". If you can use sudo later on, why not for this step too? > 3. If key 4F368D5D is not present, run (as a single line) "wget > http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2005.asc -O - | sudo apt-key a

Re: [solved] Re: can't mount my root partition (rescue mode)

2006-01-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
Pascal Kiehl wrote: I used e2fsck -b 32769 /dev/hda4 and all worked well. Many inodes corrupted, but after the fix I could mount my filesystem :-) might be time for a new disk? I don't really now... The reason is because I used my laptop and sudently my hardrive was disconnected... I don't k

Re: How to get new Debian gpg keys?

2006-01-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Jan 03 23:29 -0600]: > Edward C. Jones wrote: > > I am getting the following message from synaptic: > > > > W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable Release: The following > > signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: >

Re: Why does Debian install Exim4?

2006-01-04 Thread Paul Johnson
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2005-12-26 20:06:05, schrieb Paul Johnson: > >> Gah, debian-user!=ubuntu-user... > > debian-user => Hardcore > > ubuntuu-user=> see comments from Mark Shuttleworth: > Easy access to Operating System for >

Re: Trouble LVM: pvcreate to usb disk managed by udev

2006-01-04 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John A. Martin<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As root: > > ,[ pvcreate /dev/sdc ] > Device /dev/sdc not found. > ` Doesn't this need to be done on a partition, rather than the disk itself? Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Initrd or not ? (was: SOLVED: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD)

2006-01-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 02:45:26PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > J.F. Gratton wrote: > > - I know my hardware, it's unlikely to change in a near-future; a new > > kernel is more likely to come out thant my hardware to change; why using > > an initrd then if I know exactly what needs to be put in module

Re: [solved] Re: can't mount my root partition (rescue mode)

2006-01-04 Thread Pascal Kiehl
I used e2fsck -b 32769 /dev/hda4 and all worked well. Many inodes corrupted, but after the fix I could mount my filesystem :-) might be time for a new disk? I don't really now... The reason is because I used my laptop and sudently my hardrive was disconnected... I don't know if this it's de

Re: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD

2006-01-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 05:49:46PM -0500, J.F. Gratton wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 06:32 +1100, Andrew Vaughan wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, January 2, 2006 9:39 am, J.F. Gratton wrote: > > > > Well I tried your (Michael and Paul's) ways (which, btw used to be the > > [...] > > > > > > A bit of i

Re: Unable to install custom kernel

2006-01-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 07:41:50PM +1100, Yasir Assam wrote: > Hi again, > > I managed to fix it by installing initramfs-tools, though I don't > pretend to understand why it happened. > > Any explanations would be much appreciated. > > Thanks, > Yasir I suspect the problem is that not all init

Re: Not Authenticated ???

2006-01-04 Thread Nate Duehr
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: This is one thing that will need documenting extremely well when we release Etch - everyone running Sarge will panic :) Why can't it be handled like every other upgrade issue I've ever seen...? debconf critical message that you have to read and accept before continu

Trouble LVM: pvcreate to usb disk managed by udev

2006-01-04 Thread John A. Martin
On sid with kernel 2.6.15-1-k7 /dev/sdc is a USB disk handled by udev As root: ,[ pvcreate /dev/sdc ] Device /dev/sdc not found. ` ,[ ls -l /dev/sdc ] brw-r- 1 root hal 8, 32 2006-01-04 13:12 /dev/sdc ` Following 'man pvcreate' and the advice in the LVM-HOWTO I had previou

Re: Re: How to get new Debian gpg keys?

2006-01-04 Thread Tom
[04/01/2006 -- 21:34u] Edward C. Jones: > 6. Should I run "apt-key del 4F368D5D"? I'd say no. That was what caused the problem to not go away. :) Cheers, Tom -- "Es bückt sich der Mann, um durch das Tor in das Innere zu sehen." ---(Franz Kafka, Vor dem Gesetz)

Re: nvidia vs. nv drivers

2006-01-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 04:50:33PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > I just moved from nvidia driver to nv. The first reason is that there's > is a bug that doesn't let me install nvidia-glx without uninstalling > x-system-core, xserver-xorg and xserver-xfree86. > Anyway, I feel better using nv as

Re: evms from install.

2006-01-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 09:12:14AM +0100, Mauro Sanna wrote: > Why I can install a debian system with lvm and not with evms? > Why debian doesn't have support for evms in the install process? > The ability to install with evms is wishlist bug #344065. See that, and the bugs referenced there, for

Re: MythTV mirrors or updated howto.

2006-01-04 Thread Cameron Dale
The mdz repository is no longer being used. The current development has recently moved to the marillat repository:deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main I don't know of a good howto specifically for Debian. I use the documentation on the mythtv site, as there's not much specifically debi

Nvidia vs nv.

2006-01-04 Thread Katipo
Hello, No further replies to the thread of this subject name this morning to reply to (I think I got it right), but I thought this might be of some interest to those people who did participate... http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-January/011922.html ...the cavalry are coming.

Re: Re: How to get new Debian gpg keys?

2006-01-04 Thread Edward C. Jones
I was getting the following message: W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 010908312D230C5F Here is worked for me: 1. Use "su" to become root. 2. Run "apt-key list". 3. If ke

Re: Sound Advice

2006-01-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:25:53 + Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to get my sound card working correctly (using all 4.1 speakers) > but I can't seem to figure out how. I have a GigaByte GA-K8NXP-SLI > motherboard with a built in RealTec ALC850 sound chip. At the m

Re: 3 1/2 new questions

2006-01-04 Thread Chinook
Maurits van Rees wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 05:31:02PM -0500, Chinook wrote: I can't find any "gst-resister" on the system or in packages??? I don't know gst-register, but apt-cache knows it: $ apt-cache search gst-register libgstreamer0.8-0 - Core GStreamer libraries, plugins, and utilit

Re: [OT] IRS tax forms can finally be saved

2006-01-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 13:51 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Chris Howie wrote: > >> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> > >>> With the free Adobe Reader 7.0.1 and IRS' pdf forms with documentation > >>> rights one can finally fill out the forms on Linux and save them. > >>> >

Re: OT : Re: H8_film convertor

2006-01-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 19:34 +0100, steef wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 16:10 +0100, nullman wrote: > > > > > >>So you need some way to connect the camera (or player) to your > >>computer. > >>You have a player or the camera, right ? otherwise things will get > >>difficul

Thinkpad middle mouse button scroll and paste

2006-01-04 Thread Chris Dos
I was running the xorg-server from experimental that wsa version 6.9.99.900 that had the patch for middle button scroll and paste functionality for the Thinkpad. However, my recent apt-get upgrade for Sid installed version 6.9.0. Which doesn't seem to have the scroll/paste patch (or at least i

Re: 3 1/2 new questions

2006-01-04 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 05:31:02PM -0500, Chinook wrote: > I can't find any "gst-resister" on the system or in packages??? I don't know gst-register, but apt-cache knows it: $ apt-cache search gst-register libgstreamer0.8-0 - Core GStreamer libraries, plugins, and utilities So install the packag

Re: X server issue

2006-01-04 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 15:56 +, David Pead wrote: > Hello, > > I managed to install Sarge on OldWorld Mac - beige G3. Everything > 'was' > fine. Then after an attempt to add screen resolutions higher than > 800x600, > I've knackerd the X window server. > > After looking through the archives I,

Re: [OT] IRS tax forms can finally be saved

2006-01-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Chris Howie wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: With the free Adobe Reader 7.0.1 and IRS' pdf forms with documentation rights one can finally fill out the forms on Linux and save them. Goodbye pstoedit, you were good when needed. Adobe Reader is not free software, pstoe

Re: Sound Advice

2006-01-04 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 11:25 +, Graham Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to get my sound card working correctly (using all 4.1 speakers) > but I can't seem to figure out how. I have a GigaByte GA-K8NXP-SLI > motherboard with a built in RealTec ALC850 sound chip. At the moment I get > sound

Re: How to get new Debian gpg keys?

2006-01-04 Thread Tom
[04/01/2006 -- 19:43u] Joey Hess: > > That works fine here, and the new key is listed in apt-key list output, > > but still, I get the GPG error when updating. <...> > > NO_PUBKEY F1D53D8C4F368D5D > > Key 4F368D5D is: > > pub 1024D/4F368D5D 2005-01-31 [expires: 2006-01-31] > uid

Re: apt-get Ign followed by Hit/Get

2006-01-04 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Chris Stiles wrote: Okay - in that case wouldn't "Hit" more logically come before "Ign" - and how to explain "Ign" followed by a "Get" ? Though the latter only occurs on a local archive i've built with apt-move. Well, that was a very rough explanation. "Ign" can also occur in slightly differe

Re: apt-get Ign followed by Hit/Get

2006-01-04 Thread Chris Stiles
> > I have noticed that on several sources in my sources.list file I'm > > getting a Ignore followed by Hit/Get like so, when running apt-get: > > > > Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages > > Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages > > > > I assume that

Re: X server problem

2006-01-04 Thread Rick Thomas
I forget the details, but there is a "Hexadecimal" vs " decimal" conflict between XF86Config* and the output of lspci. One gives the card location in decimal and the other gives it in hex. So 12(hex)=18(decimal). HTH, Rick On Jan 4, 2006, at 9:06 AM, David Pead wrote: Hello, I manage

debianmirror with rsync

2006-01-04 Thread Lars Staun Knudsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I'm trying to create a locale debmirror for powerpc and i386. I'm using the script published at debian.org. First i executed the script with only ARCH_EXCLUDE defined: ARCH_EXCLUDE="alpha amd64 arm hppa hurd-i386 ia64 m68k mipsel mips s390 sparc"

Re: X server issue

2006-01-04 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/01/06 15:56), David Pead wrote: > I managed to install Sarge on OldWorld Mac - beige G3. Everything 'was' > fine. Then after an attempt to add screen resolutions higher than 800x600, > I've knackerd the X window server. > > After looking through the archives I, rightly or wrongly, used: > d

Re: how to show bad sector of a file system

2006-01-04 Thread Mike McCarty
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2005-12-25 11:14:09, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i have fxck-ed a file system, now i want to know whether there are bad sector, which command can show bad sector? Thanks in advance! man badblocks Greetings Michelle You need to learn how to use the tools

RE: cdrecord as user

2006-01-04 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Wed, January 4, 2006 13:35, ®áèek Kry¹tof said: > This is a working setup. Note that cdrecord.mmap must be suid root too. > > -rws--x--- 1 root cdrecording 566344 2004-06-24 /usr/bin/cdrdao > -rwxr-xr-- 1 root cdrom 133 2005-09-17 /usr/bin/cdrecord > -rws--x--- 1 root cdrecording 32

Re: Rsync options

2006-01-04 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/01/06 08:55), Ed Curtis wrote: > I'm rsyncing some directories to an offsite machine for backup purposes > and am running into some problems with permissions. I'd like to keep the > same owner,group and permissions on each file rsync'd. I've tried > > rsync -a {src} [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/{des

Re: Why does Debian install Exim4?

2006-01-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-12-26 20:06:05, schrieb Paul Johnson: > Gah, debian-user!=ubuntu-user... debian-user => Hardcore ubuntuu-user=> see comments from Mark Shuttleworth: Easy access to Operating System for Afrikan Peoples (was on DebConf 2005)

Re: Package Signatures

2006-01-04 Thread Joey Hess
Lukas Ruf wrote: > - how do the power users of Debian react in such situations? Do you > continue with the apt-get upgrade or do you skip it? That really depends on the machine to some extent. The message you quoted could occur if someone has compromised the mirror and is trying to provide troj

Re: Why does Debian install Exim4?

2006-01-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-12-27 00:36:24, schrieb humble tech: > I've just installed another Debian Stable and I want to know why on earth > the Debian maintainers believe it acceptable to just go ahead and install > Exim4 without asking, forcing me to go and uninstall it afterwards Fuck... some of those e

Re: how to show bad sector of a file system

2006-01-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-12-25 11:14:09, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > i have fxck-ed a file system, now i want to know whether there are bad > sector, which command can show bad sector? Thanks in advance! man badblocks Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.or

Re: MTA slow to start

2006-01-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-12-22 22:22:19, schrieb Tyler Smith: > 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: Hardware SATA Raid Controller

2006-01-04 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/01/06 12:14), Marco Neves wrote: > I'm assembling an internal server for my company, and we need both a > lot of > diskspace (for shared files, software backups, devel repository, etc) and > some security on disk failures. > > I thought that a Raid5 with several smaller disk

Re: How to get new Debian gpg keys?

2006-01-04 Thread Joey Hess
Tom wrote: > That works fine here, and the new key is listed in apt-key list output, > but still, I get the GPG error when updating. > > I use ftp.de.debian.org as a mirror. I'd expect one key "to rule them > all", but I could be very wrong, as usual. Is one key supposed to be > valid for all arch

Re: OT: Subscribed addresses with auto-reply anti-spam systems

2006-01-04 Thread Mike McCarty
Daniel Webb wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 04:00:48PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: I can't answer this for either of you, but I certainly have been getting them, both here and on Fedora. Can you put the full headers up? I'm curious if they're trying to send to me. I have greylisting (the Deb

Re: OT : Re: H8_film convertor

2006-01-04 Thread steef
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 16:10 +0100, nullman wrote: So you need some way to connect the camera (or player) to your computer. You have a player or the camera, right ? otherwise things will get difficult. A Digitizer-Card will provide the connection (with S-Video cable for ex

Re: apt-get Ign followed by Hit/Get

2006-01-04 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Chris Stiles wrote: I have noticed that on several sources in my sources.list file I'm getting a Ignore followed by Hit/Get like so, when running apt-get: Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages I assume that it

Unthreaded Perl and Apache mod_perl

2006-01-04 Thread Steve Lilley
I am switching one of my servers over to unthreaded perl in order to use the IMA::DBI module which warns against using threaded perl. I may be asking an obvious question, but would it be necessary to recompile the mod_perl debian package as well as the perl package? This would insure the remo

on Sarge ipmasq & PPTP support

2006-01-04 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hello! I want to ask about ipmasq Version: 4.0.2 on Debian GNU/Linux Sarge operating system, with kernel-2.6.8 . I have two computers: Pentium I & Pentium IV connected together. I want to set up P1 to be a firewall & IP translator for P4, and therefore I want to use ipmasq package. But, if I ins

Re: Kernel source tree for installed kernel, and config file: how to get?

2006-01-04 Thread Wackojacko
Fred Proctor wrote: I still don't know how to build a kernel from source identitical to the kernel binary provided with the Debian netinstall. If anyone knows how to do that, please let me know. --Fred I'm still fairly new to linux but here's what I do. I dont use initrd's now and prefer

Re: apt-get update public key problem

2006-01-04 Thread Tom
[04/01/2006 -- 18:10u] Rick Friedman: > I (as well as others) was having this problem as well untill I saw a message > from a Mr. Joey Hess. As per Mr. Hess' instructions, run the following > command line: > > wget http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2006.asc -O - | sudo apt-key add - > > On

difficulty connecting to SAN storage with qlogic 2200

2006-01-04 Thread Jim Jarocki
hello all, i'm having some difficulties getting a debian system to connect to our san storage. some quick system info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux ptah 2.4.27 #1 SMP Tue Jan 3 12:54:05 CST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsmod Module Size Used byNot tai

Re: Kernel source tree for installed kernel, and config file: how to get?

2006-01-04 Thread Fred Proctor
I gave up on compiling the whole 2.6.14 kernel to get working Intel HDA sound drivers, and instead compiled the sound drivers against the headers in the installed 2.6.12 kernel. This meant fixing some references to new 2.6.14 kernel functions (kzmalloc, kstrdup), which I found and pasted into t

Re: apt-get update public key problem

2006-01-04 Thread Rick Friedman
On Wed January 4 2006 11:41 am, John Biederstedt wrote: > Today I ran apt-get update and got this: > Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 > Binary-1 (20051107)] etch Release.gpg > Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 > Binary-1 (2005

X server issue

2006-01-04 Thread David Pead
Title: X server issue Hello, I managed to install Sarge on OldWorld Mac - beige G3. Everything 'was' fine. Then after an attempt to add screen resolutions higher than 800x600, I've knackerd the X window server. After looking through the archives I, rightly or wrongly, used: dpkg-reconfigure

Re: apt-get update public key problem

2006-01-04 Thread Chris
I`ve had this on all my testing/unstable machines today On Wednesday 04 January 2006 17:41, John Biederstedt wrote: > Today I ran apt-get update and got this: > Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 > Binary-1 (20051107)] etch Release.gpg > Ign cdrom://[Debian G

Re: [OT] IRS tax forms can finally be saved

2006-01-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Chris Howie wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: With the free Adobe Reader 7.0.1 and IRS' pdf forms with documentation rights one can finally fill out the forms on Linux and save them. Goodbye pstoedit, you were good when needed. Adobe Reader is not free software, pstoedit is. Chances are a lot

apt-get update public key problem

2006-01-04 Thread John Biederstedt
Today I ran apt-get update and got this: Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20051107)] etch Release.gpg Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20051107)] etch Release Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release

Re: OT: Subscribed addresses with auto-reply anti-spam systems

2006-01-04 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 08:05, Mike McCarty wrote: > Scott Muir wrote: > > It sounds like someone sent out a test emailing to all the subscribers > > to see who the "offender" is, and I don't know what the result of that > > test was. I also know nothing of what kind of access the maintainers > > have

Re: OT : Re: H8_film convertor

2006-01-04 Thread Martijn Marsman
Play the movie with the original player in a dark bathroom, and record it with a newer camera :D :D Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards, Martijn Marsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> System Engineer AFAB Geldservice B.V. nullman wrote: So you need some way to connect the camera (or player)

apt-get Ign followed by Hit/Get

2006-01-04 Thread Chris Stiles
Hi -- I have noticed that on several sources in my sources.list file I'm getting a Ignore followed by Hit/Get like so, when running apt-get: Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages I assume that it is looking for s

Re: Hardware SATA Raid Controller

2006-01-04 Thread Colin
Marco Neves wrote: > Hi ppl, > > I'm assembling an internal server for my company, and we need both a > lot of > diskspace (for shared files, software backups, devel repository, etc) and > some security on disk failures. > > I thought that a Raid5 with several smaller disks would

Re: OT : Re: H8_film convertor

2006-01-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 16:10 +0100, nullman wrote: > So you need some way to connect the camera (or player) to your > computer. > You have a player or the camera, right ? otherwise things will get > difficult. > > A Digitizer-Card will provide the connection (with S-Video cable for > example) an di

Re: 2 eth and boot

2006-01-04 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
> > How i make to alwais be the same? > > i have read that udev can do this for you, but have never done it > myself. > i found in the martin f krafft debian system book: (i havent tried it though, so i cant comment if it works or not) # grep eth /etc/udev/rules.d/local-netifaces KERNEL="eth*

Re: H8_film convertor

2006-01-04 Thread Ron Johnson
If these actually are Hi-8 movies, the best thing would be to bring them to a full-service camera store and have them do the conversion. On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 15:57 +0100, nullman wrote: > > do you mean hi-8 ? > this is on tape and analogue .. so you need a digitizer-card (and > software) .. afte

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