Re: soundcard via ac97

2006-04-01 Thread Mark Walter
Hi, > You are probably missing "/etc/asound.conf" file. There is "alsaconf" > tool that (I think) generates it automatically, but you can simply > create it by hand. Try putting this in it: > > pcm.via82xx { > type hw > card 0 > device 0 > } > > ctl.via82xx { > type hw >

Re: Debian Sarge on SATA

2006-04-01 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Simon Meelich wrote: Dave, YOU'RE THE MAN! Thanks a lot for the advise with Etch. It worked without any problems, you stopped a three day pain... :-) Very glad to see it worked! When I had to install to an old drive, then transfer to the newer ones, it was really a PITA. Be careful

Re: Debian Sarge on SATA

2006-04-01 Thread Simon Meelich
Dave, YOU'RE THE MAN! Thanks a lot for the advise with Etch. It worked without any problems, you stopped a three day pain... :-) Simon Dave Witbrodt wrote: Simon Meelich wrote: I guess I will give the Etch CD a shot, haven't tried this so far. Thanks for the advise. If I don't find a

Re: LVM - dead disk

2006-04-01 Thread Klaus Pieper
Hi Chris, So - I thought I'd try to chroot in from a CD live disk - knoppix was what I had lying around (4.0) - but that doesn't have lvm or has an lvm version difference. The dm_mod kernel module is there, but not the lvm utilities. So, you simply install it. modprobe dm_mod apt-get

Re: Debian Sarge on SATA

2006-04-01 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Simon Meelich wrote: I guess I will give the Etch CD a shot, haven't tried this so far. Thanks for the advise. If I don't find a solution, I will go ahead and buy an IDE drive to install Debian to; I just can't believe, that I can't get it to work with SATA and this really bugs me... :-) A

Re: Debian Sarge on SATA

2006-04-01 Thread Simon Meelich
Thanks for the information so far. I know it sounds strange, that I cannot change any settings in my BIOS, unfortunately that is true - if anybody is interested I can prove it with screenshots :-) I already read the very same information in various articles. I tried to unselect all unnecessary

Re: Debian Sarge on SATA

2006-04-01 Thread Dave Witbrodt
I'm new to the list and fairly new to Debian. I recently bought myself a new PC (HP Pavilion a1320n) with a SATA drive. I know, that there is an issue with the 2.4 kernel and I know that it is supposed to work with the 2.6 kernel. For some reason I can't get it to work, though. As soon as the

Re: LVM - dead disk

2006-04-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 20:04 -0800, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 22:25 +0200, Chris Searle wrote: > --snip-- > > Vol group vg0 consisted of hda3, hdb1 and hdc1 (the plusses and > > minuses of this idea I'm well aware of - at the time it seemed > > appropriate for what I was try

Re: LVM - dead disk

2006-04-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 22:25 +0200, Chris Searle wrote: --snip-- > Vol group vg0 consisted of hda3, hdb1 and hdc1 (the plusses and > minuses of this idea I'm well aware of - at the time it seemed > appropriate for what I was trying to get working). > > Now - hdc burnt out (real smoke, smell of

Re: Debian Sarge on SATA

2006-04-01 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 08:31:29PM -0500, Simon Meelich wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to the list and fairly new to Debian. I recently bought myself a > new PC (HP Pavilion a1320n) with a SATA drive. I know, that there is an > issue with the 2.4 kernel and I know that it is supposed to work with

Re: Debian Sarge on SATA

2006-04-01 Thread Simon Meelich
Yes, I did, sorry I forgot to mention this. Luis R Finotti wrote: Simon Meelich wrote: Hello, I'm new to the list and fairly new to Debian. I recently bought myself a new PC (HP Pavilion a1320n) with a SATA drive. I know, that there is an issue with the 2.4 kernel and I know that it is suppo

Re: Debian Sarge on SATA

2006-04-01 Thread Luis R Finotti
Simon Meelich wrote: Hello, I'm new to the list and fairly new to Debian. I recently bought myself a new PC (HP Pavilion a1320n) with a SATA drive. I know, that there is an issue with the 2.4 kernel and I know that it is supposed to work with the 2.6 kernel. For some reason I can't get it to

Re: iptables at boot

2006-04-01 Thread Luis R Finotti
BTP wrote: Hi, I was wondering if someone would be able to give me the correct way of disabling all network activity (iptables commands/script) during the boot process so that my network is inoperable during bootup until I activate it manually. I'm unsure in which startup script I would place t

Debian Sarge on SATA

2006-04-01 Thread Simon Meelich
Hello, I'm new to the list and fairly new to Debian. I recently bought myself a new PC (HP Pavilion a1320n) with a SATA drive. I know, that there is an issue with the 2.4 kernel and I know that it is supposed to work with the 2.6 kernel. For some reason I can't get it to work, though. As soon

iptables at boot

2006-04-01 Thread BTP
Hi, I was wondering if someone would be able to give me the correct way of disabling all network activity (iptables commands/script) during the boot process so that my network is inoperable during bootup until I activate it manually. I'm unsure in which startup script I would place this on debian

kudos to authors of kompose

2006-04-01 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I just discovered this great little program called kompose which is a task manager for KDE. It just made my day! If you are a KDE user and usually open a lot of windows while working, kompose is just for you. Good bye Alt+Tab, Welcome Win+Tab :-) hth raju -- http://kamaraju.googlepages.com/co

instalando modem externo en sarge.

2006-04-01 Thread enediel gonzalez
saludos colegas estoy implementando una conexion por dial up de un sarge a otro, por el momento lo estoy probando en una sola maquina. tengo un modem externo US robotics 28.800 fax modem., conectado al COM1 y me asegure en el BIOS que la configuracion de la interrupcion del puerto este acorde

Re: utf-8 and gnuplot

2006-04-01 Thread Jakson A. Aquino
Hi Matthias, On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 08:55:23PM +, Matthias Pfeifer wrote: > [...] i stumbled over a file in the web that was > explaining a little. this might help you to: > > http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/debian-utf8/howto.html Thanks for the link. I think that this page is the

nfs + fixed ports + firehol

2006-04-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Firehol talks about the setup for nfs and offers 2 methods for doing so. The second of those refers to using fixed port numbers and refers to a document: http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/security.html#FIREWALLS That document gives an example of using fixed port numbers but does not t

Re: [Fwd: Re: amd64 sid CD image]

2006-04-01 Thread B.Hoffmann
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 15:58 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 10:48:29PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > > > > > > > I found Etch here: > > > > > ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/etch/ > > > > You need a password for this. And user name. > > > >

NFSv4 kernel Implimented yet?

2006-04-01 Thread Adam Done
I have been working on implitmenting nfsv4 this weekend on one of my servers and came accross these helps/howtos with some good info on configuring but as to mounting it is still out of reach. Has anyone been able to use nfsv4 yet? Resources: http://www.brennan.id.au/19-Network_File_System.html h

how to use v4l / em2820 | em2840

2006-04-01 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Hi, I just bougth a Pinnacle Dazzle DV90 USB device: http://www.mwave.com/mwave/skusearch.hmx?SCriteria=3491061&CartID=done&nextloc= It is known to work on Linux: http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/15/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.em28xx The problem... I did not find any documentation about h

Re: utf-8 and gnuplot

2006-04-01 Thread Matthias Pfeifer
Hi Jakson, "Jakson A. Aquino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi, > > I would like to use gnuplot with my locale environment set > to UTF-8. However, when the gnuplot terminal is set to x11, > the utf-8 strings are interpreted as iso-8859-1. If the > gnuplot terminal is s

Re: [Fwd: Re: amd64 sid CD image]

2006-04-01 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 10:48:29PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > > > > > I found Etch here: > > > > ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/etch/ > > > You need a password for this. And user name. > > I dont need. > Try the famous anonymous login/password. TO be presice, fo

Re: how to pick fresh fruit.

2006-04-01 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 12:16:52PM -0800, Hex Star wrote: > Hmm, so in other words, people here on this list find flamewars amusing? Not top-posted ones. Others are occasionally amusing, depending on the wit of the combatants. Seriously, the so-called "flames" in this thread contained some rat

Re: Still not getting postings!!

2006-04-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 01 April 2006 12:02, David Baron wrote: > Maybe the digests are "down" again? > > The list is too active to receive all those individual postings. The > digests are necessary. Filter it off to it's own folder? That makes it reasonable for most people. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (X

Re: Problem with acpi

2006-04-01 Thread Matthias Pfeifer
Hi there, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Matthias Pfeifer wrote: >> Hi, >> i have acpid-1.0.4 (the standard testing version) and acpitool 0.4.0. >> when i do a "acpitool -s" the system suspends (to ram). The only way >> to wake it up seems to be to press th

Re: Will wine|win4lin|VMWare save my XP bacon?

2006-04-01 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 10:14:41PM -0500, John wrote: > > I am the one who owes an apology to debian-user for soliciting > help on the matter. But who else but us would be pushing Windows into dark > unused > corners on our hard-drives? No apologies needed, either for asking how to make Windows

Re: [Fwd: Re: amd64 sid CD image]

2006-04-01 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
> > > I found Etch here: > > > ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/etch/ > > You need a password for this. And user name. I dont need. Try the famous anonymous login/password. -- A powerfull GroupWare, CMS, CRM, ECM: CPS (Open Source & GPL). Opengroupware, SPIP, Plone, PhpBB, Je

Re: Definitely inappropriate emails (was Re: How to pick up on anything)

2006-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 12:20 -0800, Hex Star wrote: > Ok fine...but FYI there's conflicting posts on this list...some people > are saying off topic posts are welcome and fine on this list...yet > others say it's not OK and to stop...so confusing...:-( The controlling factor here is "100KB". > On 4

Re: Definitely inappropriate emails (was Re: How to pick up on anything)

2006-04-01 Thread Hex Star
Ok fine...but FYI there's conflicting posts on this list...some people are saying off topic posts are welcome and fine on this list...yet others say it's not OK and to stop...so confusing...:-( On 4/1/06, Matthew R. Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 11:51:43AM -0800, Hex St

Still not getting postings!!

2006-04-01 Thread David Baron
Maybe the digests are "down" again? The list is too active to receive all those individual postings. The digests are necessary. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to pick fresh fruit.

2006-04-01 Thread Hex Star
Hmm, so in other words, people here on this list find flamewars amusing?On 4/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 10:10:16PM -0800, Hex Star wrote: > If every question is OK, then how come in the other threads that came up> after this thread was posted to this

Re: LVM - dead disk

2006-04-01 Thread Chris Searle
On Apr 1, 2006, at 21:14, Klaus Pieper wrote: Which file systems are (or maybe were) on lvm? Do you need lvm to boot up the system? What about backups? Klaus I do have some backups (amanda to dds3 dat) - so - it's not going to be a crisis if I can't get it fixed (although - getting the la

Re: how to pick fresh fruit.

2006-04-01 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 10:10:16PM -0800, Hex Star wrote: > If every question is OK, then how come in the other threads that came up > after this thread was posted to this list, many members of this list are > flaming the thread starters? :-/ :-( Presumably because those flames are also of interes

Re: WebDAV apache2

2006-04-01 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 02:35:52PM -0500, Stephen wrote: } I'm attempting to install webDAV on a Sarge box with Apache2. I've } enabled DAV via my sites-enabled with the following syntax: } } Alias /~steve123 /home/steve123/public_html } }

Re: Definitely inappropriate emails (was Re: How to pick up on anything)

2006-04-01 Thread Hex Star
It wasn't off topic...the first replier of this thread stated that fried spam and pineapples were considered good in hawaii and I simply followed up with a humurous reply and 2 small attatchments...even on dialup 100kbs really shouldn't take that long to downloadsorry though if it was a inappro

The Gimp built-in help browser

2006-04-01 Thread Doofus
Is there any point in installing this? Since accessing the online help advises that it isn't installed and asks if you want to use a web browser instead (which seems to work perfectly well), I'm wondering why they even bothered to write a bespoke help facility. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Definitely inappropriate emails (was Re: How to pick up on anything)

2006-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 11:29 -0800, Hex Star wrote: > mm yummy XD Enough people read d-u using of slow POTS links that sending 100KB of OT jpegs to everyone on the list is pretty darned thoughtless. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, L

Re: Fwd: LVM - dead disk

2006-04-01 Thread Klaus Pieper
Which file systems are (or maybe were) on lvm? Do you need lvm to boot up the system? What about backups? Klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

WebDAV apache2

2006-04-01 Thread Stephen
Greetings: I'm attempting to install webDAV on a Sarge box with Apache2. I've enabled DAV via my sites-enabled with the following syntax: Alias /~steve123 /home/steve123/public_html DAV On AuthType

Re: ...the public key is not available

2006-04-01 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 12:25:48PM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > Rich Johnson wrote: > I'm getting the same error for ftp.nerim.net . I installed > debian-archive-keyring, but the error persists. Can anyone tell me what > the problem is, and how to solve it? ftp.nerim.net isn't an official debi

Re: Unable to write reliably CD-RW's!

2006-04-01 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 12:41:31PM -0600, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: > G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote: > >[...] > >By the way, I use grub as boot-loader. In the file /boot/grub/menu.lst I > >added hdc=scsi at the end of the following line: > > > >kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/hd

Recompiling some deb packets with -march & -mtune

2006-04-01 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
I would like to recompile some packages with -march & -mtune... Is there any reason for doing this? And which binaries it is better to recompile with such optimisations? signature.asc Description: Эта часть сообщения подписана цифровой подписью

Re: How to pick up on anything

2006-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 11:36 +0100, B.Hoffmann wrote: > Can we please leave it now? Broccoli and pineapples have become the > major source of what I regard as spam on this list. Fried Spam and pineapple is considered delicious in Hawaii. And you need to learn the difference between "spam" and "off

Re: Unable to write reliably CD-RW's!

2006-04-01 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote: [...] By the way, I use grub as boot-loader. In the file /boot/grub/menu.lst I added hdc=scsi at the end of the following line: kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/hda3 ro Should that perhaps be hdc=ide-scsi? [...] Yes. $ zless +5/ide-scsi /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en

Re: ndiswrapper, wireless driver and 64 bit kernel

2006-04-01 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi All I'm running a combination of etch and sid on an HP Pavilion dv8000z that runs the AMD Turion. I'm running 32 bit Debian with the 64 bit kernel that is released with sarge, etch, and sid. I've been trying to get my wireless going and having problems getting

Re: kernels: i386 vs optimized

2006-04-01 Thread Chance Platt
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 18:23 +0100, B.Hoffmann wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 10:44 -0600, Chance Platt wrote: > > > The feeling of responsiveness on the desktop... but more how > > quickly the menus snap down and their dialogs to appear. For these > > kinds of things, the optimized binary makes a

Re: ...the public key is not available

2006-04-01 Thread Russ Cook
Rich Johnson wrote: On Mar 31, 2006, at 7:03 PM, Michael Lightfoot wrote: On Saturday 01 April 2006 10:06, Rich Johnson wrote: Hi folks-- When I run apt-get update, I get W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the

Re: SATA disk smart or not?

2006-04-01 Thread Albert Dengg
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:00:49 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > So what is it? Hdparm says yes and smartctl says no. > > Any thoughts? That drive is brand new. I would be suprised if it did > not support smart, but what do I know. ... just a guess... i would say the problem is

Re: How to toggle privoxy on and off?

2006-04-01 Thread Philippe Marzouk
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 11:56:41AM -0500, Edward C. Jones wrote: > When Privoxy is running, there is an pseudo url > "http://config.privoxy.org/";. This url displays a "Privoxy Menu" which > includes the option "Toggle Privoxy on or off". If I try to turn Privoxy > off, I get an error page with

ndiswrapper, wireless driver and 64 bit kernel

2006-04-01 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Hi All I'm running a combination of etch and sid on an HP Pavilion dv8000z that runs the AMD Turion. I'm running 32 bit Debian with the 64 bit kernel that is released with sarge, etch, and sid. I've been trying to get my wireless going and having problems getting it up and running. The lapt

Re: kernels: i386 vs optimized

2006-04-01 Thread B.Hoffmann
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 10:44 -0600, Chance Platt wrote: > The feeling of responsiveness on the desktop... but more how > quickly the menus snap down and their dialogs to appear. For these > kinds of things, the optimized binary makes a marked improvement. > > chance > > > True, this feels a l

How to toggle privoxy on and off?

2006-04-01 Thread Edward C. Jones
When Privoxy is running, there is an pseudo url "http://config.privoxy.org/";. This url displays a "Privoxy Menu" which includes the option "Toggle Privoxy on or off". If I try to turn Privoxy off, I get an error page with the message: Privoxy Configuration access denied The feature you are t

Re: GNU screen's alternative for X environment

2006-04-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Jaime Herazo B. wrote: > The article is redhat-centric, but in principle i > don't think it'd be too difficult to debianize it, > haven't taken the time to even read it in detail > though so i'm not sure. It isn't at all: (apt-get|aptitude) install tightvncserver xtightvncviewer Though t

Re: kernels: i386 vs optimized

2006-04-01 Thread Chance Platt
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 10:12 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > B.Hoffmann wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 12:09 +0100, B.Hoffmann wrote: > > > >>Hello, > >>I imagine the performance gain will probably be negligible on a desktop > >>at home, or are there other benefits like better media support?

Re: 2.4 to 2.6 'upgrade'

2006-04-01 Thread Colin
John Keimel wrote: > Ahhh okay, I see... so one kernel image package, like 2.4.xx or > 2.4.yy is different than the other and you can have multiple ones > installed and wanting to be upgraded at the same time. Now I can > understand that... that makes some sense and I hadn't thought of it

Re: kernel upgrading problem

2006-04-01 Thread Justin Guerin
Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 07:22:54PM -0700, Justin Guerin wrote: >> On Wednesday 29 March 2006 06:42, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: > [..] >> > >> > Btw, after dooing some hashal i installed the kernel 2.6.15-1-686 still >> > cann't upgrade to 2.6.16-1-686 >> > >> What is has

bluetooth

2006-04-01 Thread Christoph Simon
Hi, I was asked to set up a service which would allow anybody having a bluetooth enabled device (celphone, pda, etc) to retrieve some file using a debian box. Unfortunately, I'm really green with bluetooth, I don't even own such a device myself. Thus I would like to ask if somebody could give me t

Re: kernels: i386 vs optimized

2006-04-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
B.Hoffmann wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 12:09 +0100, B.Hoffmann wrote: > >>Hello, >>I imagine the performance gain will probably be negligible on a desktop >>at home, or are there other benefits like better media support? >> >>Thanks again. >> > > > > Not to worry, I'll just try out if it act

Re: soundcard via ac97

2006-04-01 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Mark Walter wrote: > I can't start alsamixer > > *** > $ alsamixer > > alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device > *** You are probably missing "/etc/asound.conf" file. There is "alsaconf" tool that (I think) generates it automatically, but you can simply create it by

Re: soundcard via ac97

2006-04-01 Thread Mark Walter
Hi, > > Is this the wrong driver as I can't hear sound with xmms or xine ? > > Did you check sound levels with "alsamixer"? They are all mute by default. Thank you for this information as I'am not well-known using a soundcard ... I can't start alsamixer *** $ alsamixer alsamixer: function snd

Re: GNU screen's alternative for X environment

2006-04-01 Thread Jaime Herazo B.
I think that what you're looking for is something like this: Part 1: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5499 Part 2: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5560 Just this week i found it, lucky :) The article is redhat-centric, but in principle i don't think it'd be too difficult to debianize it, hav

How-to: Internet connection with cellular phone

2006-04-01 Thread Rodolfo Medina
In the present mini how-to I'm reporting how I connected my laptop to internet using first a Motorola c350 mobile phone (gprs) and a then a Nokia 6630 (gprs, edge and umts). In both cases, the phone is connected to the PC with a usb cable, that comes with the Nokia, whereas for the Motorola you

How-to: Internet connection with cellular phone

2006-04-01 Thread Rodolfo Medina
In the present mini how-to I'm reporting how I connected my laptop to internet using first a Motorola c350 mobile phone (gprs) and a then a Nokia 6630 (gprs, edge and umts). In both cases, the phone is connected to the PC with a usb cable, that comes with the Nokia, whereas for the Motorola you

Re: Will wine|win4lin|VMWare save my XP bacon?

2006-04-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John wrote: I'd appreciate advice on whether wine, win4lin, VMWare or some other route might get me out of a bind. I'm embarrassed, but here's what I did: At the start, my ThinkPad (A31) was dual booted via grub, Windows XP on /dev/hda1, sid on the rest, 2.6.15-homemade kernel. So I added a sec

Re: GNU screen's alternative for X environment

2006-04-01 Thread Komodo
Look at the Ratpoison WM - you can write your own scripts for it, and many patches/scripts are available online too. It's essentially Screen for X, but you'll need to combine it with a Session Manager in order to remember what applications you had open during the last session. -- View this message

Re: 2.4 to 2.6 'upgrade'

2006-04-01 Thread John Keimel
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 12:36:26AM -0500, jlmb wrote: > John Keimel wrote: > > I have a new Dell Poweredge 750 that would not let me install 'linux26' > > on at install boot. So I installed 'linux' from the boot CD. > > > > I subsequently installed kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686 on it. > > > > Now wh

utf-8 and gnuplot

2006-04-01 Thread Jakson A. Aquino
Hi, I would like to use gnuplot with my locale environment set to UTF-8. However, when the gnuplot terminal is set to x11, the utf-8 strings are interpreted as iso-8859-1. If the gnuplot terminal is set to png, the strings are drawn as if they were iso-8859-2. I filled a bug report to gnuplot, but

Re: kernels: i386 vs optimized

2006-04-01 Thread B.Hoffmann
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 12:09 +0100, B.Hoffmann wrote: > Hello, > I imagine the performance gain will probably be negligible on a desktop > at home, or are there other benefits like better media support? > > Thanks again. > Not to worry, I'll just try out if it actually makes a difference on a 99

Re: soundcard via ac97

2006-04-01 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Mark Walter wrote: > Is this the wrong driver as I can't hear sound with xmms or xine ? Did you check sound levels with "alsamixer"? They are all mute by default. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unable to write reliably CD-RW's!

2006-04-01 Thread G.C.H.M. Verhaag
Dear debian-user, As a Linux user I experience serious trouble writing CD-RW's. Let me give some insight info regarding my system (Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 "Sarge" rev0a (kernel 2.4.27)): The command 'cdrecord -v -scanbus' yields the following output: Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a01 (i686-pc-linux-gn

Fwd: LVM - dead disk

2006-04-01 Thread Chris Searle
Just not my day today :( We'll try this again. Begin forwarded message: From: Chris Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: April 1, 2006 10:27:16GMT+02:00 To: Debian Administration <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fwd: LVM - dead disk Oops - that should have gone to the list Begin forwarded message:

kernels: i386 vs optimized

2006-04-01 Thread B.Hoffmann
Hello, forgive my uneducated question, but what exactly is the benefit of using a K6 kernel instead of i386? I imagine the performance gain will probably be negligible on a desktop at home, or are there other benefits like better media support? Thanks again. Kind Regards, B.Hoffmann Linux Use

[Fwd: Re: amd64 sid CD image]

2006-04-01 Thread B.Hoffmann
Forwarded Message > From: B.Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Rakotomandimby Mihamina > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: amd64 sid CD image > Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 11:27:33 +0100 > > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 01:52 +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrot

Re: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 update

2006-04-01 Thread C.T.F. Jansen
Greetings, On the matter of updating the 2.4.27 kernel on the intel 386 architecture, to apply the fixes for DSA10181-1 (CVE-2005-0449). Which of the current files in security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.27-i386 should one download to apply the fix ? Is this th

How to pick up on anything

2006-04-01 Thread B.Hoffmann
Can we please leave it now? Broccoli and pineapples have become the major source of what I regard as spam on this list. Never mind the original question, it woulda been manageable if not for all the replies and new threads that followed. Kind Regards, B.Hoffmann Linux User #398054 -Foresight

soundcard via ac97

2006-04-01 Thread Mark Walter
Hi, I'am trying to bring my soundcard to work under sarge with the kernel 2.6.16 compiled without module support so I can't use alsa. This is the pci output of my card: *** lspci|grep Multi :00:04.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 20) *