Re: thumderbird web links in firefox

2006-01-15 Thread Greg
Florian Dorpmueller wrote: Any other ideas are very welcome... Open your ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/...default/prefs.js and add user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/bin/firefox"); user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox"); user_pref("network.protocol-handle

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: system requirements for debian]

2006-01-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 15 January 2006 18:10, Bob Hynes wrote: >Kent West wrote: >>(Bob; let me encourage you to keep conversations on the list rather >> than private replies; this way, others who might be helpful can >> help; and others who are looking for the same answers can find the >> answers both on the l

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: system requirements for debian]

2006-01-15 Thread Bob Hynes
Kent West wrote: (Bob; let me encourage you to keep conversations on the list rather than private replies; this way, others who might be helpful can help; and others who are looking for the same answers can find the answers both on the list and later in the archives.) Bob Hynes wrote: Kent

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: system requirements for debian]

2006-01-15 Thread Bob Hynes
Kent West wrote: (Bob; let me encourage you to keep conversations on the list rather than private replies; this way, others who might be helpful can help; and others who are looking for the same answers can find the answers both on the list and later in the archives.) Bob Hynes wrote: Kent

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: system requirements for debian]

2006-01-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:29:03 -0800 Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sending this back to the list to keep it online. Middle stuff > chopped out... > > - Forwarded message from Bob Hynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > Delivery-date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:30:10 -0800 > From: Bob

Re: Where is postrotate script? (was: logrotate + mysql = "Help!")

2006-01-15 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 1/14/06, Eric d'Alibut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot by any stretch of the imagination be held responsible for my > behavior this week. [Long near-psychotic rant elided -- mucho apologies!] > I found the postroate script for mysql; it's in /etc/logrotate.d/mysql-server: > I'm gonna tr

Re: Novice user having problem with extremely slow touchpad on laptop after Debian Etch installation

2006-01-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 22:45:16 -0500 resonant evil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there all. I'm a novice Linux user having just a bit of a problem after > installing Etch through a net install.. My touchpad on my laptop basically > seems like the sensitivity is down 90%.. Large, swift movements

Re: Printer woes

2006-01-15 Thread Mauro Condarelli
OK, I'm answering to myself... > Hi, > I just installed a printer on one of my debian machines (Epson > Stylus Color 1520/cups/foomatic). > It works locally. > > I need to use it from windows, so I followed the "Debian and > Windows Shared Printing mini-HOWTO". > Problem is my XP client found

Debian install fixes

2006-01-15 Thread Rodney Richison
I like to post things, hoping they'll come up for someone in a google search. Here's the current "fixes" while trying to install debian. #Good lord, no-one has public key's. Here's the fix wget http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2006.asc /usr/bin/apt-key add /path/to/file/ziyi_key_2006.asc Ins

GLIB woes with Debian Etch :-(

2006-01-15 Thread resonant evil
Hi there all Just installed Debian ETCH and am having problems compiling ANYTHING that requires GLib support. First, I tried compiling GLib and make+checkinstall it on my own without any problems.  The newest version; 2.8.5.  However, after I do that, I get this problem: (from the ./configure of

Re: LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

2006-01-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya drbob On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, drbob wrote: > I've replaced a failed disk in my raid 1 setup. I replaced the disk (hda > on-board ide), what exaactly did you type BEFORE you removed the bad disk ?? raidhotadd, raidhotremove, etc, etc.. is required ( aka good idea ) > So I went into the b

Re: Is it possible to balance download speed and upload speed in ADSL connection

2006-01-15 Thread Paul Johnson
Serena Cantor wrote: > I want to set up a server using a ADSL connection, > download speed is as important as upload, is it > possible change upload/download ratio of ADSL? Thanks! Asynchronous DSL cannot do that. You want some other DSL technology or cable instead. -- Paul Johnson Email and I

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: system requirements for debian]

2006-01-15 Thread Kent West
(Bob; let me encourage you to keep conversations on the list rather than private replies; this way, others who might be helpful can help; and others who are looking for the same answers can find the answers both on the list and later in the archives.) Bob Hynes wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >> Bob

Re: PostgreSQL on Etch...

2006-01-15 Thread Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez
Eric Scott wrote: > Yo; Got a new server (testing) setup. While I was reinstalling my > server I made the move from sarge to etch... not sure if that's what > cause this or not. > > My PostgreSQL-7.4 is acting up. I'm pretty much a novice at all > this, and don't know where to start to t

Re: Replacing KDE shutdown dragon

2006-01-15 Thread Elmer E. Dow
On Sunday 15 January 2006 09:13 pm, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > Greetings: > > I've been trying to replace that dragon on the KDE logoff gui. I'm running > Sarge on both the family desktop machine and on my laptop and found the > critter at /usr/share/apps/ksmserver/pics/shudownkong.png. If I change the

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

2006-01-15 Thread Greg
Joris Huizer wrote: Greg wrote: Seeker5528 wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:17:50 -0400 > Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>Don't you think it would be more confusing to tell people that SCSI >>>emulation was built in to ide-cd. If you tell them that then they will >>>be expecting

Replacing KDE shutdown dragon

2006-01-15 Thread Elmer E. Dow
Greetings: I've been trying to replace that dragon on the KDE logoff gui. I'm running Sarge on both the family desktop machine and on my laptop and found the critter at /usr/share/apps/ksmserver/pics/shudownkong.png. If I change the dragon's filename, the dragon disappears from the logoff. I tr

Novice user having problem with extremely slow touchpad on laptop after Debian Etch installation

2006-01-15 Thread resonant evil
Hi there all.  I'm a novice Linux user having just a bit of a problem after installing Etch through a net install..  My touchpad on my laptop basically seems like the sensitivity is down 90%..  Large, swift movements that should easily zip across the screen only moves a couple of cm. across the scr

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-15 Thread Tim Connors
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:26:16 -0500: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:10:21PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote: > > I don't think there is a fixed limit glob buffer. Are you sure you > > are not confusing this with the amount of space bash is allowed to > > allocate for arguments for spa

Re: how do i downgrade to xfree86 on sid?

2006-01-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
Joris Huizer wrote: Matt wrote: Joris, so, is there a way to stop a certian package from being upgraded? At least with aptitude you can indicate a package must be kept in it's current version; unfortunately, I do not know how to do this with dpkg/apt-get (I think it's probably done by

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-15 Thread theo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Connors wrote: > Nope. > > #mkdir tmp > #cd tmp > #for i in `seq 1 1` ; do touch "blah $i" ; done > #for f in `ls *`; do ls -lA "$f"; done > ls: blah: No such file or directory > ls: 1: No such file or directory > ls: blah: No such file or dir

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2006-01-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:25:14 -0800 "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 02:11:31 -0800 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually, I just tried xine. So far, it has handled all file formats that I have thrown at it, including Real Media

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-15 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:10:21PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote: > Star King of the Grape Trees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 > 10:47:03 +1100: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > >On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 08:40 +1100, Tim Connors wrote: > > > > > > > > >> > > >> > > >>Why on earth would you

Re: Can't open port 3306 on eth0 but can for lo

2006-01-15 Thread Tim
You sir, are awesome! That was the problem. I never would have thought to look there. Thanks for the help! Later, Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-15 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Tim Connors wrote: Nope -- heaps of people have done this before you. Did you pick this technique up from someone else? It'd be nice if the technique would kindly stop propogating :) Well, I believe I got this from some "advanced" bash guide, or a man page or two. I don't think there

Printer woes

2006-01-15 Thread Mauro Condarelli
Hi, I just installed a printer on one of my debian machines (Epson Stylus Color 1520/cups/foomatic). It works locally. I need to use it from windows, so I followed the "Debian and Windows Shared Printing mini-HOWTO". Problem is my XP client found the printer ok, but the "Printers and Faxes" pan

Re: Problem with dvorak layout

2006-01-15 Thread Gabriel S Farrell
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:31:09AM -0800, Alejandro Salas wrote: > Everything works great but for some > reason when I type a shortcut like ctrl + shift + x > (in eclipse for example), the app receives ctrl + > shift + b (which is where "B" in QWERTY, would be). What desktop environment are you u

after madwifi install/upgrades, can't make config kernel

2006-01-15 Thread Ed Young
Title: Message I've been trying to get my DWL-G510 Wifi card running. I've tried ndiswrapper with no success, and am now trying to get madwifi working.   I am running Debian 3.1r1 and I added deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free to my /etc/apt/sources.list s

Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

2006-01-15 Thread seeker5528
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:31:51 -0500 "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The file available.old has an uncorrupted copy. Shall I simply copy the good > lines in to the file available and save it? The reason I've not yet done so > is that it says it is a binary file and saving (or is it al

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-15 Thread Tim Connors
Star King of the Grape Trees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:47:03 +1100: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 08:40 +1100, Tim Connors wrote: > > > > > >> > >> > >>Why on earth would you want to put ls in backticks? I wonder who > >>originated this rather redundant

Re: Trouble with nvidia glx.

2006-01-15 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 09:58:25PM +0100, sebastien marbrier wrote: > > My dmesg echoes > nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 9 > ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> > IRQ 9 >

Re: Mouse configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 15 January 2006 19:10, Don wrote: >I've looked and I've looked and I can't find an answer to this one. > >I had a Woody upgraded to Sarge Debian system running for some time. > Had my Logitech mouse as a PS/2 and did not have the wheel mouse > functionality. > >Due to a bad decision on m

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: system requirements for debian]

2006-01-15 Thread Kent West
Bob Hynes reports a slow Debian setup. My first suspicion would be that DMA is not turned on. What's the results of running "hdparm /dev/hda" (assuming your setup is installed on /dev/hda)? -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: system requirements for debian

2006-01-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Bob Hynes wrote: > I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty > slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I > could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm > also considering tying another version of Linux, but maybe this bo

Re: Mouse configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Kent West
Don wrote: I've looked and I've looked and I can't find an answer to this one. I had a Woody upgraded to Sarge Debian system running for some time. Had my Logitech mouse as a PS/2 and did not have the wheel mouse functionality. Due to a bad decision on my part I got my system into a posi

Re: Mouse configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 07:23:08PM -0500, Don wrote: >I've goggled till my fingers hurt. Is there a way to change the mouse >configuration? In your X11 setup, which will either be in the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf or the file /etc/X11/XFree86.conf Look for lines similar to these (your

Mouse configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Don
I've looked and I've looked and I can't find an answer to this one.   I had a Woody upgraded to Sarge Debian system running for some time.  Had my Logitech mouse as a PS/2 and did not have the wheel mouse functionality.   Due to a bad decision on my part I got my system into a position wher

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: system requirements for debian]

2006-01-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'm sending this back to the list to keep it online. Middle stuff chopped out... - Forwarded message from Bob Hynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Delivery-date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:30:10 -0800 From: Bob Hynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: system require

Mouse configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Don
  I've looked and I've looked and I can't find an answer to this one.   I had a Woody upgraded to Sarge Debian system running for some time.  Had my Logitech mouse as a PS/2 and did not have the wheel mouse functionality.   Due to a bad decision on my part I got my system into a position w

Re: system requirements for debian

2006-01-15 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 14:39 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > If you run an environment like KDE or Gnome, you will suffer from the > overhead they demand. Although using GNOME, My computer is _generally_ faster under Linux (than when I boot Windows). On the other hand, I dont do the same thing un

Re: Problem upgrading bsdgames

2006-01-15 Thread Austin Seraphin
Oh by the way, I run kernel 2.6.8, with the speakup patch. I started the upgrade with the latest stable version of Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-15 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 08:40 +1100, Tim Connors wrote: Why on earth would you want to put ls in backticks? I wonder who originated this rather redundant and fragile (what happens when a filename has any form of whitespace?) construct? That would be me. If you'r

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 08:40 +1100, Tim Connors wrote: > Star King of the Grape Trees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 > 16:05:42 +1100: > > Serena Cantor wrote: > > > > >I 100 bmp files. I installed gimp and imagemagik, but > > >can't find the way to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg in >

Re: system requirements for debian

2006-01-15 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Bob Hynes wrote: > I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty > slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I > could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm > also considering tying another version of Linux, but maybe this b

Re: system requirements for debian

2006-01-15 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Bob Hynes, > I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty > slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I > could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm > also considering tying another version of Linux, but may

Re: system requirements for debian

2006-01-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 13:57 +, Bob Hynes wrote: > I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty > slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I > could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm > also considering tying anoth

Re: system requirements for debian

2006-01-15 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:57:55PM +, Bob Hynes wrote: > I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty > slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I > could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm > also considering tyin

Re: LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

2006-01-15 Thread drbob
Mike Bird wrote: They look good. I'm beginning to think that either your partition table is corrupt or it's a non-DOS type that's too large to leave room for LILO. I can't find an fdisk option to ask for the partition table type. You could try "parted /dev/hde print" (etc) to verify that both

Re: how do i downgrade to xfree86 on sid?

2006-01-15 Thread Joris Huizer
Matt wrote: Joris, Thanks for the tip, I'm working on it right now, but was just wondering if you know of a "clean" way of doing this. currently, i'm planing on removing x-org related packages, editing my sources.list to point to sarge, then apt-get installing the xfree packages. however,

Re: system requirements for debian

2006-01-15 Thread Marty
Bob Hynes wrote: I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm also considering tying another version of Linux, but maybe this box is

Re: system requirements for debian

2006-01-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:57:55PM +, Bob Hynes wrote: > I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty > slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I > could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm > also considering tyin

Re: CD-ROM Installion Problems

2006-01-15 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Sunday 15 January 2006 18:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i cannot install my cd program in the control panel please help ' call 911 or 999 if you're in UK and don't forget *NOT* to provide any address or other information. They'll track you down. -- Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE Casilla de Correo 15

Re: system requirements for debian

2006-01-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:57:55 + Bob Hynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty > slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I > could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm > also co

Re: PCMCIA configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Tom Allison
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 15 Jan 2006, Richard Lyons wrote: On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 10:22:59 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: Grr... I've having problems with my Orinoco gold pcmcia card that used to work. I'll assume some kind of upgrade problem maybe but whatever it is, I'm no longer able t

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2006-01-15 Thread Christoph Nenning
Hi, to install a precompiled version of mplayer you can add this line to your sources.list : deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ testing main to play all videos you should also install the package w32codecs regards Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

2006-01-15 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 10:40, drbob wrote: > I'm pretty sure it did. Attached are the outputs from fdisk and > mdstat. They look good. I'm beginning to think that either your partition table is corrupt or it's a non-DOS type that's too large to leave room for LILO. I can't find an fdisk option to

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2006-01-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:25:14 -0800 "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 02:11:31 -0800 > Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Actually, I just tried xine. So far, it has handled all file formats > > that I have thrown at it, including Real Media live strea

system requirements for debian

2006-01-15 Thread Bob Hynes
I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm also considering tying another version of Linux, but maybe this box is just too slow at

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-15 Thread Tim Connors
Star King of the Grape Trees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:05:42 +1100: > Serena Cantor wrote: > > >I 100 bmp files. I installed gimp and imagemagik, but > >can't find the way to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg in > >batch fashion. Do you know the command? Thanks! > > > > > I ca

Re: how do i downgrade to xfree86 on sid?

2006-01-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:25:43 -0500 Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joris Huizer wrote: > > > matt wrote: > > > >> hi all, > >> > >> i can't really believe that i need to do this (i like xorg a lot) but i > >> need to downgrade to xfree in order to use a midified trident driver. > >> since ther

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2006-01-15 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 15:28:01 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew M.A. Cater) wrote: > Download the all* package for Linux of Windows and other codecs. That seems to have worked. (etch) - at least gxine now is able to play one .rm file I've tried, and no longer complains about a missing 'cook' librar

Re: Strange Printer Problem

2006-01-15 Thread CoolFox
Leonid Grinberg a magnifiquement tapoté sur son clavier avec ses gros doigts boudinés: Hello, This happened two weeks ago, and I ccan't seem to figure out why: I was trying to print a document from my printer, and it printed fine. Everything worked perfectly, and the paper came out great. Next,

Re: CD-ROM Installion Problems

2006-01-15 Thread Pureenergy815
i cannot install my cd program in the control panel please help '

Re: CD-ROM Installion Problems

2006-01-15 Thread Pureenergy815
control panel cannot install my cd program under add and remove programs please help  

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2006-01-15 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 02:11:31 -0800 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, I just tried xine. So far, it has handled all file formats > that I have thrown at it, including Real Media live streaming audio and I miss xine. :( I'm running testing/etch. There are variants, such as

Re: how do i downgrade to xfree86 on sid?

2006-01-15 Thread Matt
Joris Huizer wrote: matt wrote: hi all, i can't really believe that i need to do this (i like xorg a lot) but i need to downgrade to xfree in order to use a midified trident driver. since there are no xfree86 packages in the official repository, i can only hope that they exist elsewhere...

Re: Trouble with nvidia glx.

2006-01-15 Thread sebastien marbrier
Le Dimanche 15 Janvier 2006 02:43, Sridhar M.A. a écrit : > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 10:53:13PM +0100, sebastien marbrier wrote: >> I tried to put the nvidia module into /etc/modules but nothing >> changed, I also tried to install it through the module-update method >> as it is described

Re: KDE 3.5

2006-01-15 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:43:49 +0200 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have it working off a konstruct build. About 2 weeks (?) ago (I run etch) was only able to get kde3.5 via konstruct - only a few files refused to build - krita, kaffeine and some others. But kde3.5 was mostly compiled.

Re: thumderbird web links in firefox

2006-01-15 Thread Florian Dorpmueller
Any other ideas are very welcome... Open your ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/...default/prefs.js and add user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/bin/firefox"); user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox"); user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/fire

Re: Can't open port 3306 on eth0 but can for lo

2006-01-15 Thread Darryl Clarke
On 15 Jan 2006 10:07:26 -0800, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to open port 3306 on my Debian server to the LAN. I already > have a firewall separating me from the outside world, so my server can > be completely open if necessary. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get > iptables to do what

Reset of limits during login

2006-01-15 Thread Reuti
Hi all, using Debian 3.1 on an Opteron system I noticed the following: $ ulimit -t 55 $ ulimit -aH ... cpu time (seconds, -t) 55 ... $ dchroot Executing shell in 'ia32' chroot. $ ulimit -aH ... cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited Is this intended - or where can I change it

Problem upgrading bsdgames

2006-01-15 Thread Austin Seraphin
Hi. I began to upgrade to testing from stable. Things went fine until it got to the bsdgames package. Installing it locks the system hard, and the installation does not finish. The developer said that bsdgames could not have caused a lockup, and that it probably came from a kernel or hardware bug.

Re: PCMCIA configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Jan 2006, John M Flinchbaugh wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 05:08:41PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > This may not be relevant, but I've had problems with my Cisco Aironet > > 340 which sound similar. I eventually tracked them to hotplug. If you > > have upgraded this recently you coul

Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

2006-01-15 Thread Joris Huizer
David R. Litwin wrote: Are you able to run apt-get update? Yes. The problem is with dpkg or debconf. When using synaptic, it said that debconf was broken. An update: # dpkg-reconfigure debconf dpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 359695 pack

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

2006-01-15 Thread Joris Huizer
Greg wrote: Seeker5528 wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:17:50 -0400 > Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>Don't you think it would be more confusing to tell people that SCSI >>>emulation was built in to ide-cd. If you tell them that then they will >>>be expecting to have srX devices for

Re: PCMCIA configuration

2006-01-15 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 05:08:41PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > This may not be relevant, but I've had problems with my Cisco Aironet > 340 which sound similar. I eventually tracked them to hotplug. If you > have upgraded this recently you could try going back to the version in > Stable. Ah,

Re: Restoring cyrus21-imapd

2006-01-15 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 1/15/06, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wrong. The cyrus-imapd 1.5 packages in oldstable are fine, and ask > the user before removing everything. The cyrus-imapd 1.5 packages in > *stable* are dangerous and remove everything when you purge them. Isn't this som

Fwd: DEVFS Or UDEV On 2.6.15-1-686 Kernel

2006-01-15 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Forwarded from smpt account as web mail sending was never posted. --- Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 07:46:22 -0800 (PST) > From: Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: DEVFS Or UDEV On 2.6.15-1-686 Kernel > To: debian-user > > Just installed L

Re: PostgreSQL on Etch... - *SOLVED*

2006-01-15 Thread Eric Scott
Mmkay.  Posting solution.  I feel really stupid now (But that's okay, that's what problems are for: to humble you).I finally managed to type the right thing into google to tip me off onto what my poblem was.  Apparently 7.4 defaults to not accept TCP socket connection. :-P.  Just changed that litt

Re: (solved)Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-15 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Serena Cantor wrote: > Thank Brad Sawatzky, > Star King of the Grape Trees, > and [EMAIL PROTECTED] No problem. I'm glad I could help. > Does Linux have to be so hard to use?(The user has to > be able to program in shell script or C or other) > Without Brad, I'd rather

Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

2006-01-15 Thread David R. Litwin
># dpkg-reconfigure debconf>dpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 359695 >package `dcgui':> field name `>/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: debconf is not installed>>But, when I apt-get install debconf>>debconf is already the newest version. fsck? I ran fsck. It is still co

Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

2006-01-15 Thread Michael Spang
David R. Litwin wrote: An update: # dpkg-reconfigure debconf dpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 359695 package `dcgui': field name ` /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: debconf is not installed But, when I apt-get install debconf debconf is already the newest versio

Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

2006-01-15 Thread David R. Litwin
Are you able to run apt-get update? Yes. The problem is with dpkg or debconf.  When using synaptic, it said that debconf was broken.An update: # dpkg-reconfigure debconfdpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 359695 package `dcgui':  field name `/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfig

Re: Gnupg - upgrade a trustdb?

2006-01-15 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:27:12 -0600 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob writes: > > So, I figure there must be some way to 'upgrade' the trustdb so > > that I can fetch new keys without corrupting the trustdb, but I > > don't know what it is

Problem compiling affix modules: *** No rule to make target `affix.ko', needed by `all'

2006-01-15 Thread Tim Hardy
I'm using 3.1 stable. I've uninstalled the bluez modules and components. Here's what happens when I try and compile the affix modules: #apt-get install affix-headers affix-source affix-common #cd /usr/src #tar xvfz affix.tar.gz #cd linux #fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version=-mppe --added-modu

Re: LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

2006-01-15 Thread drbob
Mike Bird wrote: On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 09:59, drbob wrote: I've replaced a failed disk in my raid 1 setup. I replaced the disk (hda on-board ide), however the system then hung on reboot, this was because hda, being blank, had no MBR. The second disk (hde) is plugged into a promi

Re: Problem mounting 2GB SD card in USB card reader

2006-01-15 Thread Steven Flintham
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:41:21AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 23:22 +, Steven Flintham wrote: > > SCSI device sdc: 2031616 1024-byte hdwr sectors (2080 MB) > > sdc: Write Protect is off > > /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun2:<6>usb.c: USB disconnect on device > > 00:07.2

Re: LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

2006-01-15 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 09:59, drbob wrote: > I've replaced a failed disk in my raid 1 setup. I replaced the disk (hda > on-board ide), however the system then hung on reboot, this was because > hda, being blank, had no MBR. The second disk (hde) is plugged into a > promise ide card. So I went int

Strange Printer Problem

2006-01-15 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hello, This happened two weeks ago, and I ccan't seem to figure out why: I was trying to print a document from my printer, and it printed fine. Everything worked perfectly, and the paper came out great. Next, I opened another document that needed printing, but this time it wouldn't print! When I

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

2006-01-15 Thread Greg
Seeker5528 wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:17:50 -0400 > Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>Don't you think it would be more confusing to tell people that SCSI >>>emulation was built in to ide-cd. If you tell them that then they will >>>be expecting to have srX devices for their drives >> >>1)

Can't open port 3306 on eth0 but can for lo

2006-01-15 Thread Tim
I'm trying to open port 3306 on my Debian server to the LAN. I already have a firewall separating me from the outside world, so my server can be completely open if necessary. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get iptables to do what I want. The port 3306 is accessible from the loopback adapter (lo) bu

LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

2006-01-15 Thread drbob
Hello, I've replaced a failed disk in my raid 1 setup. I replaced the disk (hda on-board ide), however the system then hung on reboot, this was because hda, being blank, had no MBR. The second disk (hde) is plugged into a promise ide card. So I went into the bios and set it to boot off the pr

Re: thumderbird web links in firefox

2006-01-15 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: Ivan Glushkov wrote: Dear all, when I click on a web link in a mail in Thunderbird, I would like firefox to open it. The onlything that actually happens is that a new window in Firefox is opened and the default homepage is opened. Do you have any idea how to change t

Re: [SOLVED] Problem removing packages when their uninstall procedures fail

2006-01-15 Thread Giannis Stoilis
To Gabriel Parrondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I saw your suggestion in the man page. It says: "Note that this will not actually install or remove anything, but just set the selection state on the requested packages.". My problem isn't the state of the packages, so it didn't solve the problem. To thie

Re: [fsug-kochi-discuss] audio failure

2006-01-15 Thread Mahesh Pai
On 1/15/06, Jeffrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello all, > > Iam using debian GNU/Linux sid with audio support.sound was working fine > in user mode when i added the user into audio mode.when i made an APT > upgrade and after thet the sound is not working in user mode. Does this mean ``sound wo

audio failure

2006-01-15 Thread Jeffrin
hello all, Iam using debian GNU/Linux sid with audio support.sound was working fine in user mode when i added the user into audio mode.when i made an APT upgrade and after thet the sound is not working in user mode. Please help me out with this...thanking in advance -- Jeffrin Jose. Send instan

Re: PCMCIA configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Jan 2006, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 10:22:59 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > > > > Grr... > > I've having problems with my Orinoco gold pcmcia card that used to work. > > I'll assume some kind of upgrade problem maybe but whatever it is, > > I'm no longer able to sort

Problem with (I think) udev_0.080-1_i386

2006-01-15 Thread John
On Saturday, 14 January, I upgraded sid on my A31 Thinkpad (homemade 2.6.15 from vanilla source), including udev_0.080-1_i386. Following the upgrade, I was plagued with something that gave error messages like this excerpt from /var/log/syslog: Jan 14 15:56:38 localhost kernel: hde: hde1 Jan 14 15

Re: PCMCIA configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Tom Allison
On 1/15/2006, "Richard Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 10:22:59 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: >> >> Grr... >> I've having problems with my Orinoco gold pcmcia card that used to work. >> I'll assume some kind of upgrade problem maybe but whatever it is, >> I'm no long

Re: Crashes and lock-ups in Sarge

2006-01-15 Thread Adam Fabian
I would do a clean install, if you don't have known-good backups to restore to the new hard-drive. Tracking down errors because of randomly corrupted files could be your worst nightmare. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

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