Re: sshfs?

2006-05-09 Thread Vladimir Zolotykh
On Tue, 9 May 2006 20:24:07 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try installing the "module-assistant" package; then run (as root) > > module-assistant a-i fuse > > (I don't use Sarge, therefore I am not 100% certain if it will work like > that, but "fuse-source" exists in Stable,

Re: Re: Problems creating RAID 5 using mdadm

2006-05-09 Thread Ruggiero, Stephan
Hi Lee, Thank you, I will try that - but the biggest problem for me now is not the failure of fsck but that I cannot use (read/write) the array... maybe I missed something during the creation? I tried several times but no luck... Best regards, Stephan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/9/06, Matthew R. Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:06:59PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > The OP didn't say he wanted/needed GNU Emacs, he said he was trying to > install emacs21. I would have thought the latter implied the former. > He can get essentially the sa

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:06:59PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > The OP didn't say he wanted/needed GNU Emacs, he said he was trying to > install emacs21. I would have thought the latter implied the former. > He can get essentially the same functionality with xemacs21 while > waiting for emacs2

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/9/06, Matthew R. Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 07:41:35PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > You can also install xemacs21, which can live happily alongside > emacs21, and has no dependencies on emacs21 (that I can see). ..., and is also not GNU Emacs. And vim is n

Re: debian menu not updating and a few games issues

2006-05-09 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
Roberto C. Sanchez escribió: Dimitar Vukman wrote: Hi all, I've posted this to lq, but will "post it" here on mailing list because I'm getting really desperate :) I've noticed that my debian menu is not updating, at least I'm sure Games submenu does not update, however if I log in as a d

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread kruton
> OK, I'll ask a stupid question. How do you setup > the sources.list file > so you can use unstable, but install emacs from > testing at the same > time? i don't think even testing is working... both testing and unstable have the same version number.. so wait till the bug is fixed. (or use xemac

Re: testing upgrade = dog's breakfast

2006-05-09 Thread Arafangion
>>"Jon Dowland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >>>With a stable install (sarge) lilo should not be installed in the first >>>place, let alone upgraded. >>> Why not? Lilo is more capable than grub with respect to partition formats and afaik, is the only way

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 07:41:35PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > You can also install xemacs21, which can live happily alongside > emacs21, and has no dependencies on emacs21 (that I can see). ..., and is also not GNU Emacs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: debian menu not updating and a few games issues

2006-05-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Dimitar Vukman wrote: > Hi all, > > I've posted this to lq, but will "post it" here on mailing list because I'm > getting really desperate :) > > I've noticed that my debian menu is not updating, at least I'm sure Games > submenu does not update, however if I log in as a different user everyth

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/9/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you need emacs you can install the version from testing and forbid further upgrades of these packages until this dependency issue is fixed. You can also install xemacs21, which can live happily alongside emacs21, and has no dependencies on

Re: kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686 fails to boot

2006-05-09 Thread Ewing Jeff
I had something similiar (on 2.6.8) when I deleted the /initrd directory. Put the directory back back and booted up successfully. On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:37:54PM +0200, Bob Vloon wrote: > Hi Aurelio, > > > pivot_root: No such file or directory > > I suppose this is the problem - but when l

Alsa breaks after kernel upgrade

2006-05-09 Thread Chris Abajian
There's a lot of postings about this problem, but when I read them they all seem slightly different from each other... I'm getting very frustrated (or I wouldn't be posting to this list). Sound used to work fine. Running Sarge distro kernel 2.6.8-2-386, Alsa was happy. Life was good. Sndstat sa

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread Carl D. Blake
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 02:17, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 15:32:38 -0700, kruton wrote: > > --- "Carl D. Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I've been trying to install emacs21 on unstable for > > > the last few days > > > and aptitude keeps reporting that emacs21-bin-co

Re: thinkpad suspend/resume woes

2006-05-09 Thread George Hein
No problems with suspend->ram with Debian: stable,test,sid for the last 12 months with T20, 240, 240X and T42. No adds to Grub. Suse 9.3 and 10.0 works well also, and in addition, suspend->disk works even by closing lid, this on the T42. I am very satisfied with Suse but I still prefer using

debian menu not updating and a few games issues

2006-05-09 Thread Dimitar Vukman
Hi all, I've posted this to lq, but will "post it" here on mailing list because I'm getting really desperate :) I've noticed that my debian menu is not updating, at least I'm sure Games submenu does not update, however if I log in as a different user everything works fine.Now there's issue w

Re: [ubuntu-za] network problem

2006-05-09 Thread Robert Schumann
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 23:20 +0200, Dimitri Mallis wrote: > hi list, > > i was having troble with my network, but i could conect to the > internet. then i changed something, then i was able to browez the > network. when i rebooted i could not connect to the internet :< > > pppoe -> sais it connec

Re: Debian for AMD64

2006-05-09 Thread Matthias Julius
"David A. Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have most packages been ported to the amd64 architecture, or is there > a limited selection? Check out http://buildd.debian.org/stats/ Yes, most packages have been ported. > I found the amd64 "testing" version here: > > http://amd64.debian.net/deb

Re: Debian for AMD64

2006-05-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On (09/05/06 16:39), David A. Parker wrote: > >Been running Sarge for a year on a genuine AMD Opteron. Have Debian > >unstable on several Opterons, a dual Xeon and Pentium D. The Pentium D > >"feels" faster but may have a faster clock speed / dynamically faster > >memory / peripherals. Not been

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

2006-05-09 Thread hendrik
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 04:38:16PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:50:27PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > >>Mike McCarty wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Well, I used to work as a watchmaker, and I can't think of any > >>>context where "KB" stands together as writte

Re: ipw3945 and general WLAN questions

2006-05-09 Thread Stefan Bellon
Christopher Nelson wrote: > On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 08:59:25PM +0100, Anton Piatek wrote: > > > Of course that is fine for one wireless lan, but I am not sure > > about the best way to get the wireless card to try several keys and > > find the one that works on the current hotspot (please let m

Re: testing upgrade = dog's breakfast

2006-05-09 Thread lee
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 02:38:23PM -0600, Art Edwards wrote: > My current plan is to rebuild a stable box and leave testing to the > hobbyists. Maybe the upgrade path from stable to testing has not been settled yet. You may get better results with installing testing rather than doing an upgrade.

Re: wake on lan with onboard amd 97c972 (pcnet32) card

2006-05-09 Thread Warren Wilder
Felipe Leon schreef: Hello all, I have this little server pentium III or smthing. I have debian 3.1 on it and have been struggling to get wol capability without success. The onboard card (email subject) works flawless with the pcnet32 driver but the wol characteristics dont show up when using eth

Re: Font for PC graphics characters

2006-05-09 Thread cga2000
Thus spake Jan Willem Stumpel on Tue, May 09, 2006 at 04:13:12PM +0200 or thereabouts: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-09 14:03]: [..] > > I think that the keyword you want is ansi art, not ascii art. > > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_art > very interesting - will save this for times when

Re: [OT] blink tag effect with animation

2006-05-09 Thread Daniel B.
H.S. wrote: Arafangion wrote: I HATE BLINKING TEXT. I am sure that this sentiment is shared by many other people. Agreed. However, in case, the user wants a pair of words flashing for a few days to attract attention to a special item. Hmm. Words flashing for a few days. That sounds REALL

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

2006-05-09 Thread Daniel B.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:50:27PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Well, I used to work as a watchmaker, and I can't think of any context where "KB" stands together as written with "K" meaning "karat". That's not surprising--in SI, the prefix is the scale

wake on lan with onboard amd 97c972 (pcnet32) card

2006-05-09 Thread Felipe Leon
Hello all, I have this little server pentium III or smthing. I have debian 3.1 on it and have been struggling to get wol capability without success. The onboard card (email subject) works flawless with the pcnet32 driver but the wol characteristics dont show up when using ethtool so wake on lan doe

Re: Debian for AMD64

2006-05-09 Thread David A. Parker
Been running Sarge for a year on a genuine AMD Opteron. Have Debian unstable on several Opterons, a dual Xeon and Pentium D. The Pentium D "feels" faster but may have a faster clock speed / dynamically faster memory / peripherals. Not been running these for very long at all - but no obvious pro

Re: testing upgrade = dog's breakfast

2006-05-09 Thread Art Edwards
I probably was not clear about what happened. Prior to switching to testing, I was running Grub. Also, the frozen messages happened prior to the switch. It seems that exim3 and mutt did not play well together (thunderbird worked well, however.) I was also running the 2.6.12 kernel as default und

Re: kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686 fails to boot

2006-05-09 Thread Bob Vloon
Hi Aurelio, > pivot_root: No such file or directory I suppose this is the problem - but when looking at your additional info I see that you've figured out that as well :) However, if you're sure that hda5 is your root.. Are you using SATA disks? That suggests using sdaX, as you did. I would try

Re: Debian for AMD64

2006-05-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 03:35:16PM -0400, David A. Parker wrote: > Hello, > > I was just wondering if anyone has used the AMD64 testing version of > Debian on a 64-bit Pentium D processor, and if there was any word on how > stable it is? I may be getting a new PC here at work with a Pentium D

Re: Problems creating RAID 5 using mdadm

2006-05-09 Thread lee
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 07:25:22PM +0200, Stephan Ruggiero wrote: > Then I created the file system: > mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 -R stride=16 /dev/md1 > __ > fsck.ext3: Invalid argument while trying to open /dev/md1 > /dev/md1: > The superblock could not be read or does not describe

Re: testing upgrade = dog's breakfast

2006-05-09 Thread lee
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:35:42AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > Well, if you had installed Sarge or Etch, they would have upgraded your > Exim v3 install to Exim v4. I've done the transition a couple of hundred > times, it has never failed me except on a hand crafted config. Neither Sarge, nor te

Re: Sound issue: slow sound?

2006-05-09 Thread Bob Vloon
Hi Dennis, > Recently, sound started misbehaving. First, sound would not only fail > to play, any application that called for use of sound would freeze, > only to die (in the case of Totem) on a kill -9. A reboot later, and it > now does play, but it sounds like a 33 rpm record knocked down to 16

PerlModule B::TerseSize causes Prototype mismatch: sub B::OP::size: none vs () error

2006-05-09 Thread Jacob L. Anawalt
Hello, While following the instructions for mod_perl Performance Tuning, section Measuring the Memory Usage of Subroutines [1], I ran into some trouble when attempting to implement the PerlModule B::TerseSize part. SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler Apache::Status order deny,al

Re: /etc/printcap problem

2006-05-09 Thread Bob Vloon
Hi Ramasubramanian, > I bought a new brother (HL5250DN) printer and wanted to hook it up using > its 10/100 network port. It needs a speical filter (if=xxx) to run. But > I can't get to use filter and remote print simultaneously. If put the > following in /etc/printcap What print spooler are you

Debian for AMD64

2006-05-09 Thread David A. Parker
Hello, I was just wondering if anyone has used the AMD64 testing version of Debian on a 64-bit Pentium D processor, and if there was any word on how stable it is? I may be getting a new PC here at work with a Pentium D in it, but if I don't run 64-bit Debian on it, I might as well stick with

weird partition info

2006-05-09 Thread lee
Hi, everything seems to work fine, but what do think of the confusing output below (Sorry for the length of it!)? I tried fdisk and sfdisk, and both yield different results. Cfdisk even refused to write partition tables to sde and sdf, giving only 'Illegal command' as an error message. The disks

Re: How to use Debian Kernel + md + lvm2

2006-05-09 Thread Bob Vloon
Hi Jeff, > What do I need to configure to use a stock debian kernel with md > and lvm? I have been searching the Net for several days for > answers to this problem. > > I have been compiling my own (Debian source based) kernel with md > (autostart) and lvm compiled in for many years. Currently at

RE: grub splash images, (was grub and lilo)

2006-05-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 19:24 +0200, Dimitri Mallis wrote: > ... > run "update-grub" to fix the booting list. > > Searching for splash image... none found, skipping... > > how can i put a splash image for grub so that it looks nice, just like > in suse (just for fun) As root: apt-get insta

Re: sshfs?

2006-05-09 Thread jpg
Hey Eduard, Yeah, thanks after I submitted the question I went to the FAQ ;) Found "Debian Bug report logs - #334513" That explained in detail what the problem is and how to correct, which I did. All is fine now. Thanks again, -jpg > On Tue, 9 May 2006, "Eduard" == Eduard Bloch wrote: E

Re: sshfs?

2006-05-09 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Trying to get sshfs to work on my 'sarge' box. > > Installed sshfs, added root to the fuse group, then attempted to connect to > remote machine that has sshd, with sftp extension, and get: > > # sshfs remote_host:/ / > Password: > FATAL: Module fuse not found. > fusermount: fuse device not fo

Re: sshfs?

2006-05-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * jpg [Tue, May 09 2006, 10:44:58AM]: > Hey List, > > Trying to get sshfs to work on my 'sarge' box. > > Installed sshfs, added root to the fuse group, then attempted to connect to > remote machine that has sshd, with sftp extension, and get: > > # sshfs remote_host:/ / > Password: >

Re: sshfs?

2006-05-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:44:58 -0700, jpg wrote: > Hey List, > > Trying to get sshfs to work on my 'sarge' box. > > Installed sshfs, added root to the fuse group, then attempted to connect to > remote machine that has sshd, with sftp extension, and get: > > # sshfs remote_host:/ / > Password:

sshfs?

2006-05-09 Thread jpg
Hey List, Trying to get sshfs to work on my 'sarge' box. Installed sshfs, added root to the fuse group, then attempted to connect to remote machine that has sshd, with sftp extension, and get: # sshfs remote_host:/ / Password: FATAL: Module fuse not found. fusermount: fuse device not found, tr

Re: How Do I Start the Debian GUI

2006-05-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Kent West [Sun, May 07 2006, 08:24:17AM]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi ... i am newbie too... > > > > I have recently installed the GUI (I think)... but there seems to be > > some problem with starting the GUI > > > > startx, startkde doesnt seem to work > > > > during installation

Help! Gnome crashing Xserver after "testing" upgrade.

2006-05-09 Thread Martin D. Weinberg
Folks, I recently upgraded my testing boxes against the repository. For three boxes, everything is fine. For one box, the Xserver (xorg) crashes for Gnome (and only gnome, other window manager settings on the gdm session menu work fine [well I don't know about kdm since it's not installed]). Th

Problems creating RAID 5 using mdadm

2006-05-09 Thread Stephan Ruggiero
Hello, I've been messing around with problem for over a week now and did not find any solution, so this is why I hope to find help in this way... I have a fresh debian sarge installation (kernel 2.6.8-2-386) on a RAID 1 array (this array was created during the installation process using t

Re: Posix and SysV message queues

2006-05-09 Thread John L Fjellstad
Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you read the relevant manpage (mq_overview)? > You can't get the information you're interested in from the virtual > filesystem, /dev/mqueue? Doing a man on mq_overview tells me there is no such man page. man on mqueue.h and mq_open doesn't ment

Re: patching a package?

2006-05-09 Thread The Fungi
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:03:32AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:32:38PM -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: [...] > > I want to take a Debian source package and make a few changes to do > > it and then recompres it and test it. If it works I want to generate > > a patch

Re: testing upgrade = dog's breakfast

2006-05-09 Thread Art Edwards
Thanks for at least looking at a fairly irate posting. Actually, I installed stable in February using the netinstall sarge disk. Art Edwards On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:43:26PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > > "Jon Dowland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >At 114716443

How to get GETPASS_ASTERISKS in /etc/login.def working (login-package)?

2006-05-09 Thread Julian Knauer
Hi, I have recognized, that changing and commenting in this option has no effect. Have someone an idea how to get it working ~Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: testing upgrade = dog's breakfast

2006-05-09 Thread Joe Smith
"Jon Dowland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 1147164438 past the epoch, Art Edwards wrote: On Friday night I updated a stable box to a testing box. Afterwards: What upgrade method did you use? 1. Lilo was promoted to the default boot loader With a stable i

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-09 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
> You assume what is not now, nor never was. > > And you do know what it means when you ass-u-me...? i assume people on d-u will never user double-negatives. :) -- Matt Zagrabelny - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (218) 726 8844 University of Minnesota Duluth Information Technology Systems & Services PGP k

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 07:41 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 08 May 2006 19:35, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > That's like claiming you're paying twice to cross a toll bridge, never > > > mind there are usually alternate (longer) routes and the toll goes away > > > on

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-09 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 09 May 2006 11:35, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > My assumptions assume a working government, not Florida. You assume what is not now, nor never was. And you do know what it means when you ass-u-me...? - -- Septemb

Re: testing upgrade = dog's breakfast

2006-05-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 08:47 -0600, Art Edwards wrote: > On Friday night I updated a stable box to a testing box. Afterwards: > > 1. Lilo was promoted to the default boot loader First off, are you using XFS as your root filesystem? If so, there is a problem with grub detecting things properly and

Re: grub and lilo

2006-05-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 21:24 -0600, Art Edwards wrote: > When I updated to testing on Friday night, lilo became the default boot > loader. I have removed lilo. Grub is still present, and I am trying to > install grub as the boot loader, following the instructions on its > website. When issue the

Re: [OT] blink tag effect with animation

2006-05-09 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 23:28 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Actually, I don't think I gave the whole picture. I have just realized > that the text needs to be replaced with an image to be consistent with > the context. So the blinking is going to be an animation between two > images. So the query was going to

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

2006-05-09 Thread hendrik
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:50:27PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > > >Well, I used to work as a watchmaker, and I can't think of any > >context where "KB" stands together as written with "K" meaning > >"karat". > > That's not surprising--in SI, the prefix is the scale factor, a

Re: testing upgrade = dog's breakfast

2006-05-09 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1147164438 past the epoch, Art Edwards wrote: > On Friday night I updated a stable box to a testing box. Afterwards: What upgrade method did you use? > 1. Lilo was promoted to the default boot loader With a stable install (sarge) lilo should not be installed in the first place, let alone upgr

testing upgrade = dog's breakfast

2006-05-09 Thread Art Edwards
On Friday night I updated a stable box to a testing box. Afterwards: 1. Lilo was promoted to the default boot loader 2. I was running a 2.4.18 kernel (instead of the 2.6.12 kernel under stable) 3. Gnome panels don't work, so I'm stuck in KDE I updated the lilo.conf file to include the 2.6.12 ker

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 08 May 2006 19:35, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > That's like claiming you're paying twice to cross a toll bridge, never > > mind there are usually alternate (longer) routes and the toll goes away > > once the bridge is paid for... > > Never been to Florida, eh? It i

Re: Font for PC graphics characters

2006-05-09 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
You wrote: > which font is capable of showing the PC graphics characters (ie > ascii art)? > Strange, I can't find such info in google, maybe I didn't use > the right keywords... I think that the keyword you want is ansi art, not ascii art. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_art This used

Got a ccl : lib/crc16.mod.c : Input/output error when compiling the 2.6.16.14 kernel

2006-05-09 Thread Yu,Glen [Ontario]
Hi everyone, I was running a custom 2.4 kernel on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 4000; P3 800Mhz) and recently decided to upgrade it to the most recent 2.6 kernel (2.6.16.14 from www.kernel.org). It compiled successfully, however after rebooting with the new kernel, I realized my laptop didn't have

Re: impossible to apply security updates

2006-05-09 Thread listrcv
Mike Dresser wrote: On Mon, 8 May 2006, Piotr A. Dybczyñski wrote: It seems something is going wrong with DNS. security.debian.org points to 0.0.0.0 !! Saw this yesterday, appears to be working properly today. Nah, I tried to update an installation of Woody today; two packages should hav

Re: "No screens found"

2006-05-09 Thread Felipe Leon
> From: Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: "No screens found" > > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 09:37:04PM -0600, Alex Gulla > wrote: > > Hi my name is Alex and I'm trying to setup Debian > 3.1. I have it all > > setup and i have kde and kdm installed a

Re: impossible to apply security updates

2006-05-09 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 8 May 2006, Piotr A. Dybczy?ski wrote: It seems something is going wrong with DNS. security.debian.org points to 0.0.0.0 !! Saw this yesterday, appears to be working properly today. Mike

Re: Makefile parametrisation

2006-05-09 Thread hendrik
On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 03:26:52PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-05-04 08:25:48, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > Thanks. That worked. Why do I need it? Because I have just one home > > directory, NFS-mounted and shared between two machines with different > > architectures. I find

Re: PDF manuals

2006-05-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 03:39, Stephen Chadfield wrote: > Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Where do I get all manuals in pdf? I need mutt, slrn, pine manuals. > > What makes you think all PDF manuals exist for all those programs? There should be some invocation of 'man -t ... | ps2pdf ...' t

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 09:28 -0400, Matthias Julius wrote: > "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Paul Johnson wrote: > >> > >> That's like claiming you're paying twice to cross a toll bridge, never > >> mind > >> there are usually alternate (longer) routes and the toll goes aw

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-09 Thread Matthias Julius
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> That's like claiming you're paying twice to cross a toll bridge, never mind >> there are usually alternate (longer) routes and the toll goes away once the >> bridge is paid for... >> > > Never been to Florida, eh? It

Re: Posix and SysV message queues

2006-05-09 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:13:19AM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: >I'm trying to write a program using posix and sysV message queues. For >sysV, there is a utility, ipcs and icprm that lets me inspect and >remove messages from the queue. Anyone know if there is a similar >utility for posix msg que

Re: Where's Fred???

2006-05-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
I have gotten several dozen of them... I have blacklisted the Server and informed the Debian-Listmaster to delete the subscription. Greetings Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant Am 2006-05-05 17:12:10, schrieb Magnus Therning: >

Re: Makefile parametrisation

2006-05-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-05-04 08:25:48, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Thanks. That worked. Why do I need it? Because I have just one home > directory, NFS-mounted and shared between two machines with different > architectures. I find it convenient for everything except compiling. I do this too... exactly,

Re: Wireless on Thinkpad X31 [SOLVED]

2006-05-09 Thread Antonio Rafael C. Paiva
Thanks Greg. Putting the firmware files in /lib/firmware solved my problem. I think is because it is proprietary content. Antonio Greg Madden wrote: > On Monday 08 May 2006 19:05, Antonio Rafael C. Paiva wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> I acquired recently a IBM Thinkpad X31 (802.11b only), but although >

Re: Sagem [EMAIL PROTECTED] 800 modem

2006-05-09 Thread Eleftherios Theofilopoulos
On 5/9/06, Gilles SICHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good morning, would anyone be able to tell me the best way to install a Sagem [EMAIL PROTECTED] 800 modem on a Debian Sarge 3.1? I have found contradictory information on the net and I have been told that the problems caused by this modem two o

Re: Debian router and MSN

2006-05-09 Thread George Borisov
Mitja Podreka wrote: > > I've setup a server to act as a router for my home network. It is > working well, the only problem I have is when I boot Windows to do some > video chat over MSN messenger. Maybe this could be a problem: (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/windowsmessenger/expert/bo

Re: UTF-8 to ISO 8859-1 tool

2006-05-09 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > What editor can change UTF-8 to ISO 8859-1? > Running Debian Sarge. Oo doesn't seem to. MC doesn't know what's > what. > Who? > Rationale: I change html pages to text to print with a2ps. But > then all accents show up as "garbage" utf-8 sequences. It seems > to "know" IS

Re: thinkpad suspend/resume woes

2006-05-09 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1147125694 past the epoch, rusi pathan wrote: > I am using etch (2.6.15) on a thinkpad (x22) and use acpi > instead of apm. Now everything works fine except that > 'sometimes' the system cannot resume. Cool: I'm using 2.6.16-rc3 with an x40 and ACPI without problems. > What's odd is that the

Sagem [EMAIL PROTECTED] 800 modem

2006-05-09 Thread Gilles SICHE
Good morning, would anyone be able to tell me the best way to install a Sagem [EMAIL PROTECTED] 800 modem on a Debian Sarge 3.1? I have found contradictory information on the net and I have been told that the problems caused by this modem two or three years ago have been solved : hence the out-o

Re: grub and lilo

2006-05-09 Thread Gilles SICHE
Good morning, would anyone be able to tell me the best way to install a Sagem [EMAIL PROTECTED] 800 modem on a Debian Sarge 3.1? I have found contradictory information on the net and I have been told that the problems caused by this modem two or three years ago have been solved : hence the out-o

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 15:32:38 -0700, kruton wrote: > --- "Carl D. Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been trying to install emacs21 on unstable for > > the last few days > > and aptitude keeps reporting that emacs21-bin-common > > package is broken. > > I keep waiting thinking that t

Re: grub and lilo

2006-05-09 Thread Joris Huizer
Art Edwards wrote: When I updated to testing on Friday night, lilo became the default boot loader. I have removed lilo. Grub is still present, and I am trying to install grub as the boot loader, following the instructions on its website. When issue the command grub> find /boot/grub/stage I r

Posix and SysV message queues

2006-05-09 Thread John L Fjellstad
I'm trying to write a program using posix and sysV message queues. For sysV, there is a utility, ipcs and icprm that lets me inspect and remove messages from the queue. Anyone know if there is a similar utility for posix msg queues? -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Qu

Re: PDF manuals

2006-05-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:55:15 +0530, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where do I get all manuals in pdf? I need mutt, slrn, pine manuals. What there is that comes with FC will be in /usr/share/doc. I took a look for the items you listed and didn't see any pdf files, though there are some

Re: qt + opengl + nvidia

2006-05-09 Thread Martin Juhlin
måndagen den 8 maj 2006 14.08 skrev Mitchell Laks: > On Monday 08 May 2006 04:52, Martin Juhlin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I having problems with QT + OpenGL, probably related to the nvidia driver > > that I'm running. I compiled the qt3-examples and was trying to run but > > for some reasons they don'

RE: Mails from Win to Linux, troubles with .wab, Palm use

2006-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 00:49 +, Blast o_O wrote: > Hi, thanks for the answers ;) they were all very usefull, but I'll need to > add other ones... > > Now, I have others problems related to migration: > 1- While moving and formating data, I saved my address book to .wab format, > and now I can't

Re: xorg + nvidia + tvout problem

2006-05-09 Thread Kercso Jozsef
I don't use any special key sequence, only the "ConnectedMonitor" and "MetaModes" options. Then I change the resolution with "Ctrl" + "Alt" + "+/-" Regards, Jozsef Curt Howland wrote: > > What is the key sequence you're using to swap between outputs? I've > got an nvidia GeForce FX Go5600 in