Re: How to compare the output of two commands?

2006-04-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Sonixxfx wrote: > To be more specific I want to compare a list like this, but much longer, to > another list of text that has the same structure: > > /usr > /usr/share > /usr/share/doc > /usr/share/doc/unzip > /usr/share/doc/unzip/copyright > /usr/share/doc/unzip/BUG

How to compare the output of two commands?

2006-04-16 Thread Sonixxfx
Hi,I am using two large commands that both output a pretty large amount of text. I want to compare these two lists of text, but I do not want to redirect it to textfiles to be able to do that. I have tried to compare the output with diff, by using some bash functions, but I keep getting errors. So

Re: Acroread, where are you my Acroread?

2006-04-16 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 10:19:39PM -0700, Rob Blomquist wrote: > I am trying to install this lovely non-OS reader for my PDFs, and I hear > their > is one apt-gettable, but I know not where it lay. I have as my sources, > stable main, updates main, contrib, non-free, and sarge-backports. There

Acroread, where are you my Acroread?

2006-04-16 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am trying to install this lovely non-OS reader for my PDFs, and I hear their is one apt-gettable, but I know not where it lay. I have as my sources, stable main, updates main, contrib, non-free, and sarge-backports. Yes, I runneth Sarge! Thanks to you, I shall not have to downloadth the flami

No network on Tyan K8E S2865ANRF with Broadcom BCM5721 GbE controller and Debian 2.6.15

2006-04-16 Thread Nick Lidakis
A recently purchased, and transition to, Tyan K8E S2865ANRF (single on boardNIC) socket 939 motherbaord has gone well except for getting the Broadcom BSM5721 NIC to work. The kernel module that should support this NIC is the tg3 module. The kernel compiles fine, and I can modprobe the module,

Re: cdrom problem

2006-04-16 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 16 April 2006 7:44 pm, Joseph Smidt so eloquently stated: > When I try to mount something on my cdrom I get this error: mount: special > device /dev/scd0 does not exist > > When I type dmesg | grep CD I get no results. > > When I type lsscsi I get: [0:0:0:0]diskATA TOSHIBA M

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-16 Thread tom arnall
On Sunday 16 April 2006 04:43 pm, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Chris Lale wrote: > > tom arnall wrote: > >> i am a linux newbie having trouble getting my wireless stuff to work. > >> i am running debian on a toshiba satellite laptop. the wireless card > >> is a d-link dwl-g650. i am looking for info on t

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-16 Thread tom arnall
yes! thanks all of your for your help and psychological support. for what it's worth, the way points of the my experience: the error: include/asm/processor.h:87: error: array type has incomplete element type disappeared after i upgraded to the current stable kernel: '2.6.16.4'.

Re: gdm does not start

2006-04-16 Thread j j
i am getting the same error.  i think my problem is fonts related.  is there a list of fonts that i should install or avoid.On 4/15/06, Antonio Paiva < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Seems the power failure disrupted your file system. Try to re-install the X server and font packages.AntonioDmitri Minaev

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 00:05 +0100, Doofus wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 14:43 +0100, Doofus wrote: > > > >>steef wrote: > >> > >>>what on earth is velveeta? > >>> > >>The product of a chemistry set. > >> > >>Why anyone would want to contaminate beautiful fresh crowns of o

Re: apt-get source questions

2006-04-16 Thread Chris Jones
Magnus Therning wrote: On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 09:13:48AM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: 1. How do I do the equivalent of the usual gnu ./configure when I install from source..? This is all done from inside the debian/rules file. I'd suggest reading the New Maintainer's Guide for a gentle introdu

Re: Firewall software for Debian

2006-04-16 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Sunday 16 April 2006 14:47, lmyho wrote: > I would like to ask for advice on the good firewall software to use for > Debian. I'd recommend firehol as a powerful but easy to use text-mode firewall generator. I like it a lot better than shorewall personally. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Xorg

2006-04-16 Thread Ian MacDonald
Well, I've been running my 7.0 desktop all weekend; Granted I reviewed my dist-upgrade REMOVE, and added-back a few bits after the upgrades A quick look at /var/log/dpkg.log will tell you any bits that have been removed (and may be preventing you from running your X). You should have all your ol

cdrom problem

2006-04-16 Thread Joseph Smidt
When I try to mount something on my cdrom I get this error:  mount: special device /dev/scd0 does not existWhen I type dmesg | grep CD I get no results.When I type lsscsi I get: [0:0:0:0]    disk    ATA  TOSHIBA MK1032GS AS02  - Does anybody know what I can do about these problems so I can moun

Re: Firewall software for Debian

2006-04-16 Thread Ian MacDonald
In keeping with Easter, and not putting all your eggs in one basket, you might check out fwbuilder too. I can't get away from the fwbuilder GUI and the knobs there. Nice plugins for PIX, Linksys, etc. too. http://freshmeat.net/projects/fwbuilder/ http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/fwbuilder

Re: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready [diagnosed]

2006-04-16 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 10:08:29PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > The kernel log shows the message in the subject line among its startup > messages. It also shows it if I do ifdown eth1 followed by ifup. With some help from the people on the e1000 list, I figured out the problem: different physical

Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread Ladislav Bodnar
On Monday 17 April 2006 07:00, formless void wrote: > Do they tell you how they did stats?  Do you know > their method of stats? > > People know how NASDAQ indicator works.  Do you know > how distrowatch indicator works? Yes, the details can be found here: http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 16:41 -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 03:19:05 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Of course, the cheese-eating surrender monkeys *conquered* you > > , and you don't know the difference between > > hmm. might i suggest the Mandrake (Mandr

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Michael Marsh
On 4/16/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe Matthew's point was that if you link .xinitrc to the > > system-wide version, you'll still get your .xsession file sourced, as > > well as a bunch of other setup scripts. I'm used to se

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:37:50PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > One can achieve that by putting ". /etc/X11/Xsession" as the first line > in .xinitrc Yep, TMTOWTDI. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread Ladislav Bodnar
On Monday 17 April 2006 07:00, formless void wrote: > I would ask: > Do they tell you how they did stats? Do you know > their method of stats? > > People know how NASDAQ indicator works. Do you know > how distrowatch indicator works? Yes, the details can be found here: http://distrowatch.com/st

Re: GRUB error 18

2006-04-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I just got Debian installed on my extra computer, but whenever I > >> start it, it goes to stage 1.5, then gives me error 18, and stops. I have > >> found out that error 18 has something to do with the boot loader and 8 > >> gigs, but I'm n

Re: Odd mouse behaviour under Sarge / KDE

2006-04-16 Thread Mark Fletcher
Adam Hardy wrote: Mark Fletcher on 15/04/06 05:46, wrote: Under sarge I'm running KDE. While using KDE I occasionally notice the mouse pointer suddenly jumping around the screen in a manner bearing no relation to the actual movements of the mouse I'm making, and responding to mouse clicks I

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-16 Thread Mark Fletcher
Chris Lale wrote: tom arnall wrote: i am a linux newbie having trouble getting my wireless stuff to work. i am running debian on a toshiba satellite laptop. the wireless card is a d-link dwl-g650. i am looking for info on the latest debian methods for dealing with this technology. Look at

Re: How do I change default pdf viewer for firefox 1.5 ?

2006-04-16 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 16 April 2006 2:19 pm, Maxim Vexler so eloquently stated: > Hello everyone. > > I'm trying to configure the default application to be used when > opening pdf files from FireFox. The current (default) application is > /usr/bin/gpdf, I wish it to be /usr/bin/evince. > I'm using Debian stabl

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-16 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 03:19:05 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course, the cheese-eating surrender monkeys *conquered* you > , and you don't know the difference between hmm. might i suggest the Mandrake (Mandriva?) OT list? Perfect for this type of diatribe/discussion. http://m

Re: Xorg upgrade report (incl. nvidia)

2006-04-16 Thread Ian Kester-Haney
On 4/16/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded my desktop to Xorg 7.0 today, including the proprietary nvidia > drivers. I decided to write it up in this report so that others can get a > better overview of the issues which are involved. (I will of course provide > links

Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread Linas Žvirblis
formless void wrote: > Do they tell you how they did stats? Yes. > Do you know their method of stats? Yes. > Do you know how distrowatch indicator works? Yes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
[quote http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/] Code of conduct When using the Debian mailing lists, please follow these rules: [snip] # Try not to flame; it is not polite. [/quote] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
[quote http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/] Code of conduct When using the Debian mailing lists, please follow these rules: [snip] # Try not to flame; it is not polite. [/quote] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fwd: Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 15:46, formless void wrote: > > Well, if this is the case, then Debian should put its > > disclaimer some where to state that their package is > > not responsible for its clone and only for the > > origrinal. Where is the disclaimer as

Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread Linas Žvirblis
formless void wrote: > LinuxWorld has got a business registration number > (ISSN) to show that they are in business Well good for them. > Where is the equivalent from DistroWatch? If that is such a great issue for you, try asking this guy: Name: Ladislav Bodnar Physical Address: 8F, No 54, A

Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread formless void
You say: Distrowatch has been around for long enough to have been thoroughly looked at, and is more or less universally accepted as a good *indicator* of where things are going. I would ask: Do they tell you how they did stats? Do you know their method of stats? People know how NASDAQ indicator

Re: Fwd: Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 15:46, formless void wrote: > Well, if this is the case, then Debian should put its > disclaimer some where to state that their package is > not responsible for its clone and only for the > origrinal. Where is the disclaimer as such? Debian is not responsible for use of thei

udev and CPU sensors

2006-04-16 Thread Adam Hardy
I upgraded my debian testing 2.6.16 udev so that I could use the latest hotsynch software for my new phone, but the operation has brought down my hardware monitoring. In gkrellm, the CPU temps & voltages are no longer available. I have been researching the issues. It looks like the appropriate d

Re: Firewall software for Debian

2006-04-16 Thread Adam Hardy
Andrei Popescu on 16/04/06 23:13, wrote: lmyho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All, I would like to ask for advice on the good firewall software to use for Debian. Thank you for sll help information!! Leo shorewall for text-mode firestarter if you want (need) a graphical one got to

Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread formless void
LinuxWorld has got a business registration number (ISSN) to show that they are in business Where is the equivalent from DistroWatch? --- Ladislav Bodnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 16 April 2006 21:19, formless void wrote: > > > I can pretty know who is LinuxWorld, but I can't > tell

Re: Fwd: Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread formless void
Well, if this is the case, then Debian should put its disclaimer some where to state that their package is not responsible for its clone and only for the origrinal. Where is the disclaimer as such? --- Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > formless void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ag

Re: Help with Hardware {Not Debian Specific}

2006-04-16 Thread Michael M.
Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 09:22:47AM +, Lynn Kilroy wrote: The drives are brand new. 160GB SATA RAID Drives, Western Digital Caviar Drives. When they get hot, they seem to shut down, and the OS, in it's efforts to work with the data on the now apparently disable

Re: udev, lm-sensors and esd

2006-04-16 Thread Adam Hardy
John O'Hagan on 16/04/06 14:55, wrote: On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:24 pm, Adam Hardy wrote: Hmm. I have installed all the appropriate alsa packages I could find in synaptic, but I don't have the command alsaconfig on my system. Where does it come from? The command you're after is alsaconf. Gre

Re: Big fonts (audacity and xmms)

2006-04-16 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 4/16/06, Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:48:49 -0700 > L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 4/16/06, Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Audacity and XMMS are both GTK1 applications (directly or > > > indirectly), whereas the GIMP uses GTK2. T

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/16/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it's annoying to edit your own (linked, but still) .xinitrc as > > root ... > > > > If it's a multi-user system, user settings belong to the > > user's .xinitrc and not the global one. > > I bel

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-16 Thread Paul Scott
Doofus wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 14:43 +0100, Doofus wrote: steef wrote: what on earth is velveeta? The product of a chemistry set. Why anyone would want to contaminate beautiful fresh crowns of organic broccoli with this I can't begin to imagine. Real A

Re: How do I change default pdf viewer for firefox 1.5 ?

2006-04-16 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Maxim Vexler wrote: > I'm trying to configure the default application to be used when > opening pdf files from FireFox. The current (default) application is > /usr/bin/gpdf, I wish it to be /usr/bin/evince. When you click on a link to pdf file and the dialog pops up, you can click on the "Open wi

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Michael Marsh
On 4/16/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it's annoying to edit your own (linked, but still) .xinitrc as > root ... > > If it's a multi-user system, user settings belong to the > user's .xinitrc and not the global one. I believe Matthew's point was that if you link .xinitrc to the sy

Re: Firewall software for Debian

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
lmyho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I would like to ask for advice on the good firewall software to use for > Debian. > > Thank you for sll help information!! > > Leo shorewall for text-mode firestarter if you want (need) a graphical one Andrei -- If you can't explain it s

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
> uhm no, .xinitrc will link to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, not the other way > around > > If you link, all changes are done for all users on the system ... unless the user writes his own .xinitrc If it's a single-user system, do as you like, it doesn't matter. > > and you can do changes only as

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-16 Thread Doofus
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 14:43 +0100, Doofus wrote: steef wrote: what on earth is velveeta? The product of a chemistry set. Why anyone would want to contaminate beautiful fresh crowns of organic broccoli with this I can't begin to imagine. Real Americans

Re: Firewall software for Debian

2006-04-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
lmyho wrote: > Hello All, > > I would like to ask for advice on the good firewall software to use for > Debian. > > Thank you for sll help information!! > > Leo Use shorewall. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Xorg

2006-04-16 Thread David Baron
>On Sunday 16 April 2006 21:49, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 16 Apr 2006, David Baron wrote: > > >On Sunday 16 April 2006 19:07, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > > On 16 Apr 2006, David Baron wrote: > > > > Xorg update on Sid will remove a load of stuff without reinstalling > > > > equivalents. Th

Re: packages: apache, gd, mysql...

2006-04-16 Thread BTP
Yeah, see if I go ahead and try to install "php4-mysql", I have to install the unstable version which I wouldn't want because it will also upgrade a lot of other packages to the unstable version. How come I can't have mysql support with php4 and be stable??? So just for me to have php4 and mysql s

Re: GForce video card

2006-04-16 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 16 April 2006 11:26 am, David Baron so eloquently stated: > Is this card supported (fb_nvidia is in the kernel config so is available)? > Is direct rendering supported? > > Kernel build shows built-in support for nvidia--Gforce is not an on the MB > interface. That's a pretty big questio

Re: GForce video card

2006-04-16 Thread Doofus
David Baron wrote: Is this card supported (fb_nvidia is in the kernel config so is available)? Is direct rendering supported? Kernel build shows built-in support for nvidia--Gforce is not an on the MB interface. Please CC off-list as I am still not getting digests. Thanks It's supported v

How do I change default pdf viewer for firefox 1.5 ?

2006-04-16 Thread Maxim Vexler
Hello everyone. I'm trying to configure the default application to be used when opening pdf files from FireFox. The current (default) application is /usr/bin/gpdf, I wish it to be /usr/bin/evince. I'm using Debian stable w/ backports.org. FireFox version 1.5.0.1 @ Gnome 2.8.3 as my desktop environ

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Joris Huizer
Andrei Popescu wrote: "Matthew R. Dempsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 02:54:36PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: If you were using .xsession before, try: $ ln -s .xsession .xinitrc in your home directory. A better solution is ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc .xinitrc

Firewall software for Debian

2006-04-16 Thread lmyho
Hello All, I would like to ask for advice on the good firewall software to use for Debian. Thank you for sll help information!! Leo __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Matthew R. Dempsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 02:54:36PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > > If you were using .xsession before, try: > > > > $ ln -s .xsession .xinitrc > > > > in your home directory. > > A better solution is > > ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc .xinitr

Re: Could not start kdeinit ... again !

2006-04-16 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 19:41, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:01:19PM +0100, Bruno wrote: > > > Bruno wrote: > > > > Hello to All, > > > > > > > > still receive 'could not start kdeinit. please check your > > > > installation' when calling startx. > > > > Hi All, > > I

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 02:54:36PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > If you were using .xsession before, try: > > $ ln -s .xsession .xinitrc > > in your home directory. A better solution is ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc .xinitrc so that the Xsession scripts (e.g. ssh-agent), are still executed

Re: fluent like software

2006-04-16 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:02:24 -0700 David Koski wrote: >On Sunday 16 April 2006 10:24, belahcene abdelkader wrote: >> hi, >> The fluent software is to expensive for our small >> institute, I am looking software which is around it, >> not necessary having all that properies. >> thanks for help >> be

Re: Getting Thunderbird to use Firebird as default browser

2006-04-16 Thread David Parker
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> frans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > > Also thanks: I discovered by your information that the command:> > > > ln -s /usr/bin/mozilla /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser> > > > worked fine!!!> > The true Debian Way (tm) would be:> > #update-alternatives --config gnome-www-browser

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-16 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-04-15, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 2006-03-31 16:14:05, schrieb Adam Funk: >> On 2006-03-31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > How do you grow brocolli? >> >> If you really want to upset a few people, post gardening questions in >> non-English lang

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 14:43 +0100, Doofus wrote: > steef wrote: > > >On Sunday 16 April 2006 09:37, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > >> > >>Velveeta. There's nothing like broccoli smothered in Velveeta. > >> > >> > > > >what on earth is velveeta? > > > * > The product of a chemistry set. > >

slimp3 server behaving oddly

2006-04-16 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
I run the slimp3 package. Lately I've been using it a lot more than usual, because I finally put a client box next to my stereo so that I can listen to my music on decent speakers. Anyway. It just stopped working. Music was playing, and then it stopped. I killed xmms and restarted it, which ga

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 15:14 +0100, Doofus wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > >Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>>Then why do I hear Aussies (and some others) pronounce 'idea' as > >>>'ide'er', or 'Daytona' as 'Daytoner'? > >>> > >>>If 'schedule' wasn't meant to be pronounced 'skedule', the

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 23:02 +1000, CaT wrote: > On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 02:52:25PM +0100, Doofus wrote: > > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > >* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Apr 16 04:13 -0500]: > > >>On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 09:13 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: > > >>>Ron Johnson wrote: > > And "c" wil

make-kpkg clean or modules_image Error. Any way around this?

2006-04-16 Thread bbranley
make-kpkg modules_image Error Hello, Got a Wacom tablet (For Christmas) and the latest driver from the Wacom Project. This then required pulling in packages from unstable to satisfy dependencies. Now, make-kpkg is broke. Even make-kpkg clean gives the error shown below. Still need to compile and

Re: fluent like software

2006-04-16 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 16 April 2006 13:24, belahcene abdelkader wrote: > hi, > The fluent software is to expensive for our small > institute, I am looking software which is around it, > not necessary having all that properies. Assuming you are talking about fluent - the CFD flow modeling software, have you tr

GForce video card

2006-04-16 Thread David Baron
Is this card supported (fb_nvidia is in the kernel config so is available)? Is direct rendering supported? Kernel build shows built-in support for nvidia--Gforce is not an on the MB interface. Please CC off-list as I am still not getting digests. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Xorg upgrade report (incl. nvidia)

2006-04-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
Hi, I upgraded my desktop to Xorg 7.0 today, including the proprietary nvidia drivers. I decided to write it up in this report so that others can get a better overview of the issues which are involved. (I will of course provide links to the already existing threads and bug reports when appropriate

Re: Best Video Card

2006-04-16 Thread Manaen Schlabach
On 4/16/06, Manaen Schlabach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/16/06, John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Manaen Schlabach wrote: > > > > >Well I am finally thinking about upgrading my tired old radeon 7500. > > >I know that ATI and Nvidia both have decent cards but their drivers >

Re: Best Video Card

2006-04-16 Thread Manaen Schlabach
On 4/16/06, John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Manaen Schlabach wrote: > > >Well I am finally thinking about upgrading my tired old radeon 7500. > >I know that ATI and Nvidia both have decent cards but their drivers > >are completely closed. I know and understand that companies must > >

Re: fluent like software

2006-04-16 Thread David Koski
On Sunday 16 April 2006 10:24, belahcene abdelkader wrote: > hi, > The fluent software is to expensive for our small > institute, I am looking software which is around it, > not necessary having all that properies. > thanks for help > best regards > bela Was this translated with software? Probabl

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Michael Marsh
On 4/16/06, Edward C. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use a PC with an AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip and Debian unstable, i386 port. > > At about 6 PM (EDT) on April 15, 2006, I used synaptic to upgrade my > system. When I enter "startx" I now get some simple window manager > instead of KDE. An arti

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Willie Wonka
Perhaps (if you used kdm previously); # dpkg-reconfigure kdm could replace 'kdm' with 'xdm' if you used that previously also look into (google) 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg'. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protect

Re: Xorg upgrade with closed drivers

2006-04-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Apr 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 16 Apr 2006, Bradley Alexander wrote: > > I just did (tried to do) a dist-upgrade on two sid boxes, one my desktop > > running the nVidia drivers and the other my laptop, with the ATI fglrx > > drivers. > > > > Both upgrades failed miserably. > > > > O

Re: Xorg

2006-04-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Apr 2006, David Baron wrote: > >On Sunday 16 April 2006 19:07, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 16 Apr 2006, David Baron wrote: > > > Xorg update on Sid will remove a load of stuff without reinstalling > > > equivalents. There is also a list of new hardware oriented modules to > > > come in. Wh

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Re: RAID Sizes (was Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?)

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
Willie Wonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually - Block sizes are what they are (in binary), because computers > use Binary language to communicate/operate...Many HDD manufacturers > just like to *lie* and use a diff integer base (base10)...to make the > HDD look larger. Remember (if you use th

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Glenn English
On Sunday April 16 2006 11:48, Christopher Nelson wrote: > > How do I exit twm? On my system, the upper left corner xterm is labeled "login". If I go into that one and ctl-d, twm goes away. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG ID: D0D7FF20 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Apr 2006, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Having just reinstalled xorg and reconfigured, I now have a working X > > but only with twm. How can I get icewm to work again is the really > > interesting question. > > > > Anthony > > If you use startx

Re: Getting Thunderbird to use Firebird as default browser

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
frans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also thanks: I discovered by your information that the command: > > ln -s /usr/bin/mozilla /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser > > worked fine!!! The true Debian Way (tm) would be: #update-alternatives --config gnome-www-browser This will give you a list of

Re: Xorg

2006-04-16 Thread David Baron
>On Sunday 16 April 2006 19:07, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 16 Apr 2006, David Baron wrote: > > Xorg update on Sid will remove a load of stuff without reinstalling > > equivalents. There is also a list of new hardware oriented modules to > > come in. What is safe to upgrade at this point or should

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 16 April 2006 04:28, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Apr 16 04:13 -0500]: > > On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 09:13 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >And "c" will still be needed for "ch" (as in "church", not the k > > > >in school/skool). > > >

Re: RAID Sizes (was Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?)

2006-04-16 Thread Willie Wonka
Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 15:54 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:27:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > >> On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 06:30 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> > > >>> On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 10:25:28

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16 Apr 2006, John Fry wrote: > > Jan Schledermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > 16/04/06, 12:30 CET: > > > I just did an uptdate / distupgrade AND everything is back to normal > > > again. > > > In order to get the resolution right though,

Re: Re: Getting Thunderbird to use Firebird as default browser

2006-04-16 Thread frans
Also thanks: I discovered by your information that the command: ln -s /usr/bin/mozilla /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser worked fine!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Apr 2006, John Fry wrote: > Jan Schledermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 16/04/06, 12:30 CET: > > I just did an uptdate / distupgrade AND everything is back to normal again. > > In order to get the resolution right though, I had to > > (re)move /etc/X11/xorg.conf and do a dpkg-reconfig

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:46:57AM -0400, Edward C. Jones wrote: > I use a PC with an AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip and Debian unstable, i386 port. > > At about 6 PM (EDT) on April 15, 2006, I used synaptic to upgrade my > system. When I enter "startx" I now get some simple window manager > instead of

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Edward C. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use a PC with an AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip and Debian unstable, i386 port. > > At about 6 PM (EDT) on April 15, 2006, I used synaptic to upgrade my > system. When I enter "startx" I now get some simple window manager > instead of KDE. An article in

Re: GRUB error 18

2006-04-16 Thread bthepixwiz
- Original Message - From: "Linas Žvirblis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 11:27 AM Subject: Re: GRUB error 18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got Debian installed on my extra computer, but whenever I start it, it goes to stage 1.5, then gives me error 18

How to detect SATA cdrom

2006-04-16 Thread Joseph Smidt
When I first tried to install Debian the install cd wouldn't detect my cdrom.  Frans pop emailed me and showed me how to fix the problem: >Is this a SATA cdrom drive? In that case see: >http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataAtapiHowto Now that everything is installed Debian doesn't detect th

Re: How to Configure X

2006-04-16 Thread Joseph Smidt
Thanks allot, everything in this area now works great.  -- -   Joseph Smidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: packages: apache, gd, mysql...

2006-04-16 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 01:20:00AM -0300, BTP wrote: > I tried doing an "apt-get install php4-mysql" but got the following > error message... > > --- > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Some packages could not be

Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Edward C. Jones
I use a PC with an AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip and Debian unstable, i386 port. At about 6 PM (EDT) on April 15, 2006, I used synaptic to upgrade my system. When I enter "startx" I now get some simple window manager instead of KDE. An article in debian-user suggested that X was using /usr/lib/x11/x

Re: How to install .deb package as non-root user?

2006-04-16 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:43:57PM -0500, Matt England wrote: > How can one install .deb package as non-root user? I see a 'dpkg --root' > parameter, but it doesn't seem to help (as per below). > > Redhat's rpm can install with an non-root account; why not > dpkg/apt/wajig...or maybe one of the

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 07:39:55AM -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > Anyone with working x can post the fonts they have installed. A 'dpkg -l *fonts* |grep ii' gave me: xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-encodings xfonts-scalable xfonts-utils and the fonts section of my xorg.conf: Section

Re: GRUB error 18

2006-04-16 Thread Linas Žvirblis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just got Debian installed on my extra computer, but whenever I start > it, it goes to stage 1.5, then gives me error 18, and stops. I have found out > that error 18 has something to do with the boot loader and 8 gigs, but I'm > not sure. I have a 30 gigabyte Sea

Re: ATTN: Barbara Oncay

2006-04-16 Thread Ken Irving
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:39:25AM -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: > > >On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 09:17:33AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > >>>On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:28:25AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And, how much screwing around would it be to make the listserver actualy > wrap it with

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Apr 2006, Toshiro wrote: > > >Well, I've been using sid for years and I've never been in this state > > >of chaos before; I had to uninstall all xorg related packages and > > >install them again (I'm happy to have one local machine with > > >apt-proxy, so I haven't wasted time

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