Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 04 March 2006 22:29, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: > steef wrote: > > Michael M. wrote: > >> Paul Johnson wrote: > >>> On Thursday 02 March 2006 01:20, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: > I am very certain that Dell does sell servers that optionally have > Linux, and e

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-04 Thread Katipo
Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: steef wrote: Michael M. wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 02 March 2006 01:20, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: I am very certain that Dell does sell servers that optionally have Linux, and even says this on their website. NOTE: Servers

Re: Installing fonts

2006-03-04 Thread cga
L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 3/4/06, cga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I copied over the win98 fonts to /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/win98 .. did the usual $ mkfontscale; mkfontdir.. added the directory in /etc/X11/XF86config-4.. added it likewise to /etc/fonts/local.conf.. and did and $ fc-list to

Re: which package contain libc man pages

2006-03-04 Thread theo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Juraj Fedel wrote: >>I have glibc-doc installed that contain info and html documents but >>I also want man pages eg. >>man malloc >>Which package do I need? > $ dpkg -S /usr/share/man/man3/malloc.3.gz > manpages-dev: /usr/sh

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-04 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
steef wrote: Michael M. wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 02 March 2006 01:20, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: I am very certain that Dell does sell servers that optionally have Linux, and even says this on their website. NOTE: Servers != Desktop. I have not seen _any_ refe

Re: Installing fonts

2006-03-04 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 3/4/06, cga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I copied over the win98 fonts to /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/win98 > .. did the usual $ mkfontscale; mkfontdir.. added the directory in > /etc/X11/XF86config-4.. added it likewise to /etc/fonts/local.conf.. and > did and $ fc-list to verify all this

Re: test

2006-03-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 01:11:05AM +, peter lener wrote: > test Hi Peter, nice to see you again in cyberspace and on NYLUG x-) Cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating Syste

sudo doesn't set HOME

2006-03-04 Thread Tadeusz Bak
Hi, I was just trying to use pbuilder on a sarge system and during creation of the baze.tgz (sudo pbuilder create) it complained about missing .pbuilderrc file, despite the fact that I have one in my home directory. After some investigation I found that sudo doesn't set the HOME variable. Is this

Re: Re: lpadmin: add-printer (set model) failed: client-error-not-found

2006-03-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 02:06:13AM +, khoa nguyen wrote: > could you lead us to where the ppd file for hp dj400 might be? I've > installed hpijs. > apt-get install hplip-ppds > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: Security info about apache mod (ssl)

2006-03-04 Thread charles norwood
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 13:15 +0100, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all :-) > > i installed apache-ssl on my linux sarge > > i see: > > libapache-mod-ssl (Strong cryptography (HTTPS support) for Apache) > libapache-mod-auth-pam - Apache module to authenticate web access using PAM > libapache-mod-auth-kerb

Fw: NVIDIA Freeze

2006-03-04 Thread Keats
- Original Message - From: "Alexei Chetroi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Keats" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 12:47 PM Subject: Re: NVIDIA Freeze On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 08:58:52AM +0100, Keats wrote: Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 08:58:52 +0100 From: Keats <[EMAIL PROTE

DEC 3000/300 Serial settings

2006-03-04 Thread Jon Akers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anyone happen to off the top of their heads what the serial connection settings for a null modem connection to the serial port on a DEC 3000/300 would be? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: NVidia Freeze

2006-03-04 Thread Keats
- Original Message - From: "Tim Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I too have the GeForce4 420 Go in a Toshiba T2100. in the Readme file (you may need to get it from NVidia) there is a section giving options. Try adding the line below - just below the: Driver "nvidia" Option "IgnoreEDID" "tru

Re: Graphics Drivers (I'm new to Linux)

2006-03-04 Thread travis . newton
I took a look through, I used the first link in the email I was given (http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/index.html) and under the heading, "Stock or Custom Kernel?" I ran the following in a terminal: apt-cache policy kernel-image-$(uname -r) and I was given the following: kernel-ima

Re: gstreamer, esd, arts, and other black magic

2006-03-04 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 09:55:58AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 3/3/06, Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've never used esd or arts since I switched my desktop to Debian about a > > year ago. I've always used just plain ALSA, and it's always worked great. > > For GNOME, you can use

Re: Re: lpadmin: add-printer (set model) failed: client-error-not-found

2006-03-04 Thread khoa nguyen
could you lead us to where the ppd file for hp dj400 might be? I've installed hpijs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

test

2006-03-04 Thread peter lener
test -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with installation

2006-03-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 01:38:47 +0100 Alex Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Toshiba Satellite M70-165 that I bought some days ago. This machine > came with WinXP and some Toshiba software. Then, I decided to download the > lastest ISO stable Debian for i386, and burned it.

Problems with installation

2006-03-04 Thread Alex Sánchez
Hello, I have a Toshiba Satellite M70-165 that I bought some days ago. This machine came with WinXP and some Toshiba software. Then, I decided to download the lastest ISO stable Debian for i386, and burned it. My pretension was to divide my hard drive of 80Gb taking 15Gb for Win and the other

Re: Update killed X11 and damaged Locales

2006-03-04 Thread Russ Cook
Adam C. Emerson wrote: On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:41:37PM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: I updated my pure 64 bit system (AMD64) yesterday, running combination of Sid and Sarge. Afterwards, X11 will no longer start up. The startx file is missing, as is /etc/X11/Xsession file. Perl is also compla

Re: Web Cam A4Tech

2006-03-04 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 21:04:20 -0200 "Gilberto Martins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All. > > I have just finished my Debian Sarge instalation, and pointed > sources.listto Testing distribution. > But Sound just does not work, neither my USB A4Tech cam. > Is there any tool to help me with this or

Re: Update killed X11 and damaged Locales

2006-03-04 Thread Adam C. Emerson
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:41:37PM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > I updated my pure 64 bit system (AMD64) yesterday, running combination > of Sid and Sarge. > Afterwards, X11 will no longer start up. The startx file is missing, > as is /etc/X11/Xsession file. > Perl is also complaining about certain

Re; Nvidia Freeze

2006-03-04 Thread Tim Wood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2006 : Issue 527 Today's Topics: Re: Debian 3.1 on a Dell PowerEdge 2 [ Ivan Teliatnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: ready to use

Installing fonts

2006-03-04 Thread cga
I copied over the win98 fonts to /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/win98 .. did the usual $ mkfontscale; mkfontdir.. added the directory in /etc/X11/XF86config-4.. added it likewise to /etc/fonts/local.conf.. and did and $ fc-list to verify all this magic had worked.. and now I'm getting somewha

USB drive automount problem

2006-03-04 Thread Marty
On a sarge system I can automount a USB thumb drive with gnome-volume-manager, leaving this mtab entry: /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdisk vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8 0 0 Another sarge system fails to automount the same drive, leaving this entry message in

Update killed X11 and damaged Locales

2006-03-04 Thread Russ Cook
I updated my pure 64 bit system (AMD64) yesterday, running combination of Sid and Sarge. Afterwards, X11 will no longer start up. The startx file is missing, as is /etc/X11/Xsession file. Perl is also complaining about certain Locale variable not being settable, due to missing files (or someth

Re: I'm looking for a better XShell

2006-03-04 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 23:23:22 + Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 01:14:57PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > >Gnome: My problem with gnome is that when I install the packages and > >choose it in the display mana

Re: I'm looking for a better XShell

2006-03-04 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 01:14:57PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: >On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 07:59:35PM +, Magnus Therning wrote: >>On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 01:32:58AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: >>>Gnome-terminal has a feature that I really like. It underlines text >>>that has the syntax of a URL. I

Re: sessionsaver opens an extra tab

2006-03-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I am using Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Debian sid. The session saver extension was installed from https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=436&application=firefox The restoring process works perfectly except that, it opens an extra tab in the front. How can

Web Cam A4Tech

2006-03-04 Thread Gilberto Martins
Hi All. I have just finished my Debian Sarge instalation, and pointed sources.list to Testing distribution. But Sound just does not work, neither my USB A4Tech cam. Is there any tool to help me with this or any file to be changed ? # lsusb Bus 002 Device 001: ID :  Bus 003 Device 001: ID

Re: mount previously formatted linux drive

2006-03-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 17:19:38 -0500 Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:13 PM 3/4/2006, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > >Þann 2006-03-04, 15:35:43 (-0500) skrifaði Marty Landman: > > > I have installed woody on hda and also mounted hdd. hdc is my cdrom and > > hdb > > > is a 250gb lin

Polling of via-rhine failed

2006-03-04 Thread Jean-Marc Ranger
Hi, I recently reinstalled a P2-350 which has been running a pre-release version of sarge, with a 2.6.6. kernel. Installation went OK with a 2.4 kernel, but when switching to the standard 2.6.8, polling of the network card fails with the following error: via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.20-2.6 May-2

Re: mount previously formatted linux drive

2006-03-04 Thread Marty Landman
At 04:13 PM 3/4/2006, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: Þann 2006-03-04, 15:35:43 (-0500) skrifaði Marty Landman: > I have installed woody on hda and also mounted hdd. hdc is my cdrom and hdb > is a 250gb linux drive from an old redhat installation on this box which > has data on it I would like to

phpBB personal messages

2006-03-04 Thread hakwes
phpbb2.0.13 debian-version I have problem with personal messages, When clicking on pm-button: take some times and then Error i browser "document contains no data". 408 timed out the same with clicking on read personal messages. mail is ok. http://fyrskeppsvagen.com:81/forum/ nothing i apache

Re: samba Q

2006-03-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 04 March 2006 14:49, Dave Ewart wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings all; >> >> Can someone explain to me why I can 'mount -t smbfs' a share on a >> debian based box, also 2 other shares on a RH7.3 box, and I can >> 'umount /mnt/sharename' on two shares located on the RH7.3 box, but

Re: Graphics Drivers (I'm new to Linux)

2006-03-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Dave Ewart wrote: kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: It is very sad that nvidia is not making their drivers open source. I wonder if they are really gaining anything in the end (with all the discomfort caused to their end users using Linux). As I understand it: nVidia claim that they would *l

Re: mount previously formatted linux drive

2006-03-04 Thread Philipp Pagel
Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hdb is a 250gb linux drive from an old redhat installation on this box > which has data on it I would like to keep. For temporary access a simple mount command using an exisitng mountpint will do. If you goal is to have the disk mounted in the boot proces

Re: OK to install across 2 HDs?

2006-03-04 Thread Edward Tisdale
Sir if you could be pf ehlp to me, I found this thread through a Web_Crawler and Lycos search(es), and I was wondering if it is possible to do this tih Windows 2000, and if you don't have the time to explain how, could you point me to another resource? I already have multiple partitions on my comp

Re: mount previously formatted linux drive

2006-03-04 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-04, 15:35:43 (-0500) skrifaði Marty Landman: > I have installed woody on hda and also mounted hdd. hdc is my cdrom and hdb > is a 250gb linux drive from an old redhat installation on this box which > has data on it I would like to keep. During the Woody install I attempted > to moun

mount previously formatted linux drive

2006-03-04 Thread Marty Landman
I have installed woody on hda and also mounted hdd. hdc is my cdrom and hdb is a 250gb linux drive from an old redhat installation on this box which has data on it I would like to keep. During the Woody install I attempted to mount hdb but was told that the mount point was invalid. I tried a va

Re: samba Q

2006-03-04 Thread Dave Ewart
Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Can someone explain to me why I can 'mount -t smbfs' a share on a debian > based box, also 2 other shares on a RH7.3 box, and I can > 'umount /mnt/sharename' on two shares located on the RH7.3 box, but to > umount the debian based box I have to use the

Re: Graphics Drivers (I'm new to Linux)

2006-03-04 Thread Dave Ewart
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > It is very sad that nvidia is not making their drivers open source. I > wonder if they are really gaining anything in the end (with all the > discomfort caused to their end users using Linux). As I understand it: nVidia claim that they would *like* to open-source th

Re: I'm looking for a better XShell

2006-03-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 07:59:35PM +, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 01:32:58AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > >Gnome-terminal has a feature that I really like. It underlines text > >that has the syntax of a URL. If you point to the text with your cursor > >and cntrl-click, it

Re: I'm looking for a better XShell

2006-03-04 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 01:32:58AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: >Gnome-terminal has a feature that I really like. It underlines text >that has the syntax of a URL. If you point to the text with your cursor >and cntrl-click, it starts your browser in another window and sends it >to look at the URL. B

samba Q

2006-03-04 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Can someone explain to me why I can 'mount -t smbfs' a share on a debian based box, also 2 other shares on a RH7.3 box, and I can 'umount /mnt/sharename' on two shares located on the RH7.3 box, but to umount the debian based box I have to use the 'smbumount /mnt/sharename' again

Re: NVidia Freeze

2006-03-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tim Wood wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: debian-user-digest DigestVolume 2006 : Issue 525 Today's Topics: NVIDIA Freeze [ Keats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] -

Re: only root can access the camera

2006-03-04 Thread ochnap2
OK, I solved my problem: I added myself to the usb group... Thanks to everyone for the help. Och On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10:17, ochnap2 wrote: > Hi, I have a Kodak C330 that I want to use with digikam, but it seems that > only root can access it. I'm using a fully updated sid. > > I googled a

Re: Graphics Drivers (I'm new to Linux)

2006-03-04 Thread H.S.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello fellow Debian Users! > > I'm new to Linux and I heard good things about Debian so I decided to give > it a try. I've actually been meaning to try it for over a year now, but I > went ahead and downloaded the net install and got it installed. > > However, my previo

Re: I'm looking for a better XShell

2006-03-04 Thread jlmb
Paul E Condon wrote: > Gnome-terminal has a feature that I really like. It underlines > text that has the syntax of a URL. If you point to the text > with your cursor and cntrl-click, it starts your browser in > another window and sends it to look at the URL. But there > is a problem: I can't get t

Re: Graphics Drivers (I'm new to Linux)

2006-03-04 Thread david robert
try here good place for nvidia drivers in debian   http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/nvidia.htm[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello fellow Debian Users!I'm new to Linux and I heard good things about Debian so I decided to giveit a try. I've actually been meaning to try it for over a year now, but Iwent ahea

Re: Graphics Drivers (I'm new to Linux)

2006-03-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my problem: I need to get the kernel source to get the NVIDIA drivers in. I'm using Debian 3.1, the latest. You can try http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers?highlight=%28nvidia%29 It is very sad that nvidia is not making their drivers open source. I

Re: pppd doesn't connect

2006-03-04 Thread Bill Marcum
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 05:48:08PM -0500, Fabián Barco wrote: > Hi, > I have Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0. > The modem was working ok! > but now the modem doesn't connect. > I have the following message in the /var/log/syslog file > tcflush failed: Bad file descriptor > tcsetattr: Invalid argument (line

Re: sata/scsi confusion at boot

2006-03-04 Thread Glenn English
On Friday 03 March 2006 22:20, Andrew Cady wrote: > How grub names and finds drives is completely unrelated to how linux > does it. If your problem is with grub's behavior, then /dev/sd? and > udev are definitely not involved. Good to know I was looking at the wrong thing. In menu.lst, root is

Re: gstreamer, esd, arts, and other black magic

2006-03-04 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 3/3/06, Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never used esd or arts since I switched my desktop to Debian about a > year ago. I've always used just plain ALSA, and it's always worked great. > For GNOME, you can use GConf to set the outputsink to use the alsasink, and > in KDE you can s

Re: Graphics Drivers (I'm new to Linux)

2006-03-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello fellow Debian Users! > > I'm new to Linux and I heard good things about Debian so I decided to give > it a try. I've actually been meaning to try it for over a year now, but I > went ahead and downloaded the net install and got it installed. > > However, my previo

Graphics Drivers (I'm new to Linux)

2006-03-04 Thread travis . newton
Hello fellow Debian Users! I'm new to Linux and I heard good things about Debian so I decided to give it a try. I've actually been meaning to try it for over a year now, but I went ahead and downloaded the net install and got it installed. However, my previous Linux encounters were just tests and

Re: taking image of disk and clonning it

2006-03-04 Thread Doug Miller
If you want OSS I'm not the one to ask. We've deployed a nice setup with Norton Ghost though. Works well even for Linux/BSD servers. Get's used on a daily basis. HTH, Doug Miller On 3/3/06, Bart van den Heuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I had mixed results with Mondo. http://www.mon

Re: Re: Messages from my firewall

2006-03-04 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks Adam, that's good advice.  I'll check on my firewall options.

Re: Messages from my firewall

2006-03-04 Thread Adam Hardy
Florian Kulzer on 03/03/06 09:15, wrote: Clyde Wilson wrote: I have Debian Sarge 3.1 r1 with Firestarter as my firewall and I am on DSL. The firewall works great but I am receiving messages every minute or two with the following format: Inbound IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0f:b5:46:4f:5a:00:0b:23:ca:6

xfrm_user: Unknown SA event 0

2006-03-04 Thread Richard
i just got a Xserver crash and found this lonely message in my /var/log/messages happening about 5 minutes before the crash. Can somebody explain what it means? thanks

Re: Debian 3.1 on a Dell PowerEdge 2800 Server

2006-03-04 Thread Ivan Teliatnikov
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 14:56 -0500, Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: > Hi everyone, > Have a look at Confluence - Debian on Dell Servers http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/LNX/Debian+on+Dell+Servers It has Debian Sarge installation disk with various drivers included. Good luck! > I'm plan on installing Debi

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations? - slightly OT

2006-03-04 Thread B.Hoffmann
On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 13:04 +, B.Hoffmann wrote: > with free calls from the UK to the US > where their support centre was Sorry, I believe Quantex were a Canadian company actually. -- B.Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: NVidia Freeze

2006-03-04 Thread Tim Wood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2006 : Issue 525 Today's Topics: NVIDIA Freeze [ Keats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] ---

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations? - slightly OT

2006-03-04 Thread B.Hoffmann
On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 03:10:08 +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 02 March 2006 01:20, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: >> Andrew Cady wrote: >> > >> >> I am very certain that Dell does sell servers that optionally have >> Linux, and even says this on their website. > > Nothing but lip se

Re: dvd-writer external usb 2.0

2006-03-04 Thread loos
Em Qua, 2006-03-01 às 18:40 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: > hello > > I'm going to buy dvd-writer LG GSA-2164D > Has somebody already used it? Is this dvd compatible with debian? > Yes, works perfectly here Michel. > regard > >

snort question

2006-03-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
It appears oinkmaster may not be useable. Running it to download new rules fails with an error 404 in the wget-log file. That or perhaps it's necessary to give it a specific rules file to download may be necessary. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: GDM screen too big for display

2006-03-04 Thread Willie Wonka
nikias wrote: > >>>Maybe you have a wrong resolution in a Modes line of the file > >>>/etc/X11/XF86Config-4. > >>> > >>>For example, with the Mode line below, I think I would get the effect > >>>you describe. Leaving out the resolution "1280x960", which is wrong for > >>>my monitor, would fix it.

Re: NVIDIA Freeze

2006-03-04 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 08:58:52AM +0100, Keats wrote: > Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 08:58:52 +0100 > From: Keats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: NVIDIA Freeze > > hello, > i ve tried all i can do > but whatever i do, if i use the driver "nvidia" it freeze my computer

Re: Built-in Network Port not detected in Debian

2006-03-04 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Check if the package zeroconf is installed. If so, disable or deinstall it and check again. -- Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenstraat 14 6524NB Nijmegen tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277 fax: 024-3608416 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.askesis.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: GDM screen too big for display

2006-03-04 Thread B.Hoffmann
On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 12:19 +0100, nikias wrote: > >>>Maybe you have a wrong resolution in a Modes line of the file > >>>/etc/X11/XF86Config-4. > >>> > >>>For example, with the Mode line below, I think I would get the effect > >>>you describe. Leaving out the resolution "1280x960", which is wrong

Re: GDM screen too big for display

2006-03-04 Thread nikias
Maybe you have a wrong resolution in a Modes line of the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. For example, with the Mode line below, I think I would get the effect you describe. Leaving out the resolution "1280x960", which is wrong for my monitor, would fix it. SubSection "Display"

Re: PPPOE CHAP authentication failed

2006-03-04 Thread iHOTSPOT ZONE, a.s. - Michal Sedlak
Mar 2 12:30:54 localhost pppd[3346]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500 Mar 2 12:30:54 localhost pppd[3346]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500 Try to use MRU and MTU 1492 or 1452 as PPPoE requires MIchal Sedlak -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: GDM screen too big for display

2006-03-04 Thread B.Hoffmann
> > Maybe you have a wrong resolution in a Modes line of the file > > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. > > > > For example, with the Mode line below, I think I would get the effect > > you describe. Leaving out the resolution "1280x960", which is wrong for > > my monitor, would fix it. > > > > SubSec

Re: Mplayer and alsa bug?

2006-03-04 Thread Wackojacko
Adam Porter wrote: Wackojacko wrote: However, I have since tried the version from the stable repo above and it works with the current alsa so it looks like a bug in the current mplayer. Does reportbug work for unofficial packages? I don't think so, sorry. No worries, another thread yeste

Built-in Network Port not detected in Debian

2006-03-04 Thread Salman
I am trying to install debian on my wife's computer. It already has Windows XP installed and running on the first partition and used to have Mandrake 10 on another partition. Both Windows XP and Mandrake 10 recognized all hardware components including the built in network chipset. I tried differ

Re: GDM screen too big for display

2006-03-04 Thread nikias
Winston Smith wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 08:37:44PM +0100, nikias wrote: hello, gdm starts default as my login manager. The problem is that it doesn't use the correct proportions of my screen. Although everything looks sharp, I have to scroll to see the whole screen. After I l

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-03-04 Thread B.Hoffmann
How about 'Firestarter' if using something Gui based is not a problem for you. It's simple and efficient for a single machine and sort of reminds me of early ZoneAlarm back in the Win98 days (but without the yellow!). Good enough for a home computer if you are not running a server or have more comp

PPPOE CHAP authentication failed

2006-03-04 Thread Sed Nivo
Hi All, I have problems with PPPOE. After "pon dsl-provider" my plog say: Mar 2 12:30:54 localhost pppd[3346]: PPP session is 1044 Mar 2 12:30:54 localhost pppd[3346]: Using interface ppp0 Mar 2 12:30:54 localhost pppd[3346]: Connect: ppp0 <--> eth0 Mar 2 12:30:54 localhost pppd[3346]: Couldn

I'm looking for a better XShell

2006-03-04 Thread Paul E Condon
Gnome-terminal has a feature that I really like. It underlines text that has the syntax of a URL. If you point to the text with your cursor and cntrl-click, it starts your browser in another window and sends it to look at the URL. But there is a problem: I can't get the rest of gnome desktop to wor

NVIDIA Freeze

2006-03-04 Thread Keats
hello, i ve tried all i can do but whatever i do, if i use the driver "nvidia" it freeze my computer. i m tired of doing hard reboots after tests thanx if there is any suggestion it's a fresh install of debian, i was using gentoo before... i've tried installing the driver in different ways :