Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

2006-05-26 Thread Glenn Meehan
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 22:49 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > On Friday 26 May 2006 19:35, Ron Johnson wrote: > > David Goodenough wrote: > > > On Friday 26 May 2006 09:46, Glenn Meehan wrote: > > >> Does anyone if there is support the the Cannon Powershot A530 yet? > > > > > > or the A540? > > > >

Re: how to update from r1 to r2 using cds

2006-05-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 07:58:38 +0800, Jed R. Mallen wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've got a box with no internet connection. It has sarge r1. I've > downloaded disc 1-4 of r2. Can I update the box via synaptic or do I > have to edit sources.list directly? thanks. You have to use the "apt-cdrom" comman

Set shared video memory in xorg.conf

2006-05-26 Thread David R. Litwin
Hello, list.I recently acquired a 512 MB of ram to bring my laptop to a grand total of 1024. With this amount, I would like to increase the memory of my shared video card form 128 to 256, the max, in order to speed up graphics et cetera. Since I have edited the xorg.conf file, I ran the suggested d

Re: keyboard not working anymore in Xorg

2006-05-26 Thread Bart Schelstraete
I already tried that yesterday, with no luck: (according to the same readme file) -- Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbL

Re: keyboard not working anymore in Xorg

2006-05-26 Thread Bart Schelstraete
I would try: -- Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "be" EndSection I already tried that yesterday, with no luck

Re: keyboard not working anymore in Xorg

2006-05-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 07:47:53 +0200, Bart Schelstraete wrote: > On 5/26/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 12:25:36 -0300, Henrique G. Abreu wrote: > >> you check this files > >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf > >> the InputDevice keyboard thing, and > >> /etc/X11/xkb/k

Re: totem playlist: character encoding problem.

2006-05-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 09:25:07PM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: > I use totem to play the song. In playlist show strang song name like a > attach file. > Surachai Locharoen Hi Surachai, the interface seems to show readable text but not the window title or the song name. The interface text co

Re: keyboard not working anymore in Xorg

2006-05-26 Thread Bart Schelstraete
On 5/26/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 12:25:36 -0300, Henrique G. Abreu wrote: > you check this files > /etc/X11/xorg.conf > the InputDevice keyboard thing, and > /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86 > > post it here if you find nothing, > it seems that you have a

Debian Etch with 2 Internet Connections Load Balanced

2006-05-26 Thread Prepaid
HiSo I'm trying to configure a Debian Etch box that is connected to 2 internet connections (WAN) both have static IP configurations and work fine if a default route points to only 1 of them and 1 LAN connection. I've followed the directions at: http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html

Re: ALSA, AWE32, kernel 2.6 issues?

2006-05-26 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Fri, 26 May 2006 the mental interface of Mark Tilford told: > I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.2 to 2.6; various other problems > eventually required a complete OS reinstall. I can't get my sound > card (Creative SB AWE 32) to work with ALSA; it worked fine under OSS. > Is there anything s

Re: X-Windows Problems - Wacom

2006-05-26 Thread Thomas H. George
Tangled thread; one of yesterday's postings just showed up. A later posting reported editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf as per linuxwacom.sf.net manual. I now have the following situation: The stylus moves the cursor, the mouse does not. The mouse buttons and scroll wheel work. Tom George -- To UNS

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Limin Wang
Who can fix the issue, many question is repled by many guy for we don't know other guys have reply it for the deley. Thanks, Limin * Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-26 00:13:53 -0700]: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >Digby Tarvin wrote: > > > > > >>Just curious, > >> > >>Can anyo

Re: debian kernel package for ubuntu

2006-05-26 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Gregory Soyez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-26 18:32]: > I'm trying to help someone rebuilding its kernel from sources. Since > I do not have physical access to the machine, I planned to build a > custom debian package linux-image using make-kpkg on my own debian > box and let her install the pack

Re: sudo versus su environment?

2006-05-26 Thread Limin Wang
chris, Yes, haven't notice *t is missing when I'm post. Thanks, Limin * Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-26 10:23:56 +0200]: > On Friday 26 May 2006 02:41, Limin Wang wrote: > > Chris, > > > > The latest sudo will reset the env default, so you need add below line to > > /etc/sudoers: > > > >

how to update from r1 to r2 using cds

2006-05-26 Thread Jed R. Mallen
Hi guys, I've got a box with no internet connection. It has sarge r1. I've downloaded disc 1-4 of r2. Can I update the box via synaptic or do I have to edit sources.list directly? thanks. Best, -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 http://je

RE: Can't set bash prompt

2006-05-26 Thread Jorge Peixoto
I have solved the problem by recreating the user's account, but I still don't understand it, since the .bashrc of the user was identical to mine... but well, consider it solved. --- David Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Jorge Peixoto wrote: > > One of the users of this machine has a wr

Re: ppp/wvdial help!

2006-05-26 Thread roach
On Fri, 26 May 2006 17:08:26 + vasundhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am trying wvdial as normal user and its giving errors saying no > permissions to /dev/modem > > and only getting connected when I am trying with root previlages. > how ever if I am using as normal user, I am forced

Re: X-Windows Problems - Puzzled

2006-05-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:20:08 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:34:45PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: [...] > > I now have all the lines in sources.list commented out except those for > > testing. I ran "apt-get install -f" followed by "apt-get update" then > > "apt

Re: is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-05-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 26 May 2006 10:08, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > So it comes down to: > * Is it a bad idea to use unstable on a production server when it > comes to security? Possibly to probably yes (the answer for stable would be "no"). > * If so, would you recommend using testing, or stable?

Re: is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using unstable on my desktop for several years now, and I'm > very happy with it. I don't mind the occasional breakage, and > actually think fixing bugs can be fun ;-). What I am planning to do > now, is

Re: Kill tcp connection

2006-05-26 Thread Ken Wahl
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 11:14:37AM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all :-) > > sometimes i see (with netstat -putan) a courier tcp connect active for > several > time > > i need kill this tcp-connect > The tcpkill utility that is part of the dsniff package perhaps? I've not used it but it sound

glibc problem after upgrade

2006-05-26 Thread Z F
Hello everybody, Some of my programs stopped working after a recent glibc upgrade of unstable. The error is this: version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference The problem is similar to the one described in: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-443051.html ANy sugge

Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

2006-05-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 26 May 2006 19:35, Ron Johnson wrote: > David Goodenough wrote: > > On Friday 26 May 2006 09:46, Glenn Meehan wrote: > >> Does anyone if there is support the the Cannon Powershot A530 yet? > > > > or the A540? > > Have you looked thru http://www.gphoto.org ? Yes, it is not mentioned in th

Re: keyboard not working anymore in Xorg

2006-05-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 12:25:36 -0300, Henrique G. Abreu wrote: > you check this files > /etc/X11/xorg.conf > the InputDevice keyboard thing, and > /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86 > > post it here if you find nothing, > it seems that you have an error, just in the beginning of the second one Good

Re: Which is the most stable desktop?

2006-05-26 Thread Derek
On 5/26/06, Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:> Joseph Smidt wrote:> > Which desktop is the most stable: gnome, kde, xfce, blackbox> > etc... ?>>> Yes.>> -RobertoYes indeed.  Very stable. SjoerdI agree

linux hard disk upgrade with grub

2006-05-26 Thread Craig Jackson
Title: linux hard disk upgrade with grub Hi, I couldnot find a Linux hard disk upgrade using grub instead of lilo. I tried and got hard disk error when booting to the new disk.This is what I did: grub-install /dev/hdb to install the boot record onto the new drive Can anyone give me the

Re: installing sarge from hard drive on libretto110ct

2006-05-26 Thread Liudmila Yafremava
Hello, Digby and Kevin! So far the agreement between you guys and my other linux-friends seems to be that I should pull the hard drive and install on another system. I will do that as a last resort, because I will probably have a nightmare of a time configuring it on the libretto with all the

Re: keyboard not working anymore in Xorg

2006-05-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 12:09:20 +0200, Bart Schelstraete wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using the current Debian 'unstable', and since yesterday my X > doesn't accept the key inputs anymore. When I press a key, nothing > happens. So my X is unusable. > > I noticed the log below, somebody who knows what I

Re: Which is the most stable desktop?

2006-05-26 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Joseph Smidt wrote: > > Which desktop is the most stable: gnome, kde, xfce, blackbox > > etc... ? > > > Yes. > > -Roberto Yes indeed. Very stable. Sjoerd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Can I stay in testing without going etch?

2006-05-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 10:17:16 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > George Borisov wrote: [...] > > I think it already is like the dist-upgrade option? After all, it does > > install new and remove unwanted dependencies. > > According to 'man aptitude': > upgrade - Upgrades installed packages to their

Driver problems (kernel 2.6.11ac7)

2006-05-26 Thread Russell Webster
Hi, I'm running a Knoppix-hdinstall which until last week has been working fine for a good few months. Last week, out of the blue, I started it up, and my onboard network adapter is no longer being seen at all. My USB devices are working sketchily, if at all. I have a USB mouse that won't be se

Re: X-Windows Problems, xorgcfg error

2006-05-26 Thread Thomas H. George
The thread is tangled because some of my previous posting have not shown up as yet. Continuing to try to get the Wacom mouse to work, ran xorgcfg. The program runs but with output to stderror "Failed to initialize module list". strace xorgcfg shows it is looking in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers

fish & scp

2006-05-26 Thread mess-mate
Hi for a not known reason when i csp or fish (konqueror) a file to a remote machine, the transfert stalled after a few seconds and no more route to the network. I don't know wehre to search exactly. Any help would be very appreciated. mess-mate -- Let him choose ou

Installing Xvfb

2006-05-26 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hello there, Not so long ago I used to have Xvfb installed on my debian testing box. But recently I start having problem using command line tool based on ncurses, the display was broken (even vi stop working). So I did an update of the X stuff, but now I lost xvfb which I really need. Suggesti

Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

2006-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Goodenough wrote: > On Friday 26 May 2006 09:46, Glenn Meehan wrote: >> Does anyone if there is support the the Cannon Powershot A530 yet? > or the A540? Have you looked thru http://www.gphoto.org ? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v

Re: Building case for Debian in server room at a University

2006-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donald Teed wrote: > Hi, > > I agree that Debian rocks. I've spent a few years with different > distros to figure that out. However this is a decision made > by committee of people, and so business logic must govern > the decision making process. >

Re: Icons missing in Etch

2006-05-26 Thread Jim Seymour
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:19:12PM -0400, Jim Seymour wrote: > I know I had seen a posting from someone else that had this same > problem, however I cannot locate the thread. I am running Etch with > Gnome 2.14.1 and after a recent update, the system seems to be unable to > locate most of its ic

Re: keyboard not working anymore in Xorg

2006-05-26 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-26, 12:09:20 (+0200) skrifaði Bart Schelstraete: > Hi, > > I'm using the current Debian 'unstable', and since yesterday my X > doesn't accept the key inputs anymore. When I press a key, nothing > happens. So my X is unusable. > > I noticed the log below, somebody who knows what I can

Re: rdate, ntp configuration

2006-05-26 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-26, 15:33:29 (+0200) skrifaði Hans du Plooy: > On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 14:41 +, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > > Have you tried to grep through the /etc directory to search for the IP > > for instance? Or just grep for rdate and see what you get. > > That's the first thing I did -

Re: installing sarge from hard drive on libretto110ct

2006-05-26 Thread Digby Tarvin
Hello Luda, > So far the agreement between you guys and my other linux-friends seems to > be that I should pull the hard drive and install on another system. I will > do that as a last resort, because I will probably have a nightmare of a > time configuring it on the libretto with all the devic

Re: Icons missing in Etch

2006-05-26 Thread Jim Seymour
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:19:12PM -0400, Jim Seymour wrote: > I know I had seen a posting from someone else that had this same > problem, however I cannot locate the thread. I am running Etch with > Gnome 2.14.1 and after a recent update, the system seems to be unable to > locate most of its ic

Re: is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-05-26 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-26, 19:08:47 (+0200) skrifaði Felix C. Stegerman: > Hi, > > I've been using unstable on my desktop for several years now, and I'm > very happy with it. I don't mind the occasional breakage, and > actually think fixing bugs can be fun ;-). What I am planning to do > now, is to set up

Re: mount a cd with /dev/scd0

2006-05-26 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-26, 13:35:01 (+0200) skrifaði Mark Walter: > Hi, > > I'am using a vanilla kernel and I'am trying to mount a cd with: > > mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt > > but I receive the error message: > > mount: /dev/scd0 is not a valid block device What does dmesg tell you? Is the drive rea

is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-05-26 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Hi, I've been using unstable on my desktop for several years now, and I'm very happy with it. I don't mind the occasional breakage, and actually think fixing bugs can be fun ;-). What I am planning to do now, is to set up my Mac Mini as a "collaboration" server. I want to use: * apache2 + twi

Re: Installation

2006-05-26 Thread Scott Lair
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: Þann 2006-05-26, 04:39:55 (-0400) skrifaði N A: Is it possible to install Debian as a dual-boot on an Intel Celeron system using only the existing windows partition and a removable hard drive ~250MiB? If so, how would one do so? Yes, you can do that by u

Re: Re: ppp/wvdial help!

2006-05-26 Thread vasundhar
Hi, I am trying wvdial as normal user and its giving errors saying no permissions to /dev/modem and only getting connected when I am trying with root previlages. how ever if I am using as normal user, I am forced to run wvdial.conf once again to make the modem work efficiently. I would like to kn

Re: rar archiver

2006-05-26 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Henrique G. Abreu wrote: > if you mean, the command line > yes, there is no X interface. That is not true. "file-roller" and "xarchiver" should do just that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation

2006-05-26 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 03:14:14PM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > read the documentation, its written in several languages ;-) Smiley or no, that isn't helpful. The OP is clearly new to Linux, and the Debian documentation is not newbie-friendly. The suggestion of a LiveCD is a good one. Knoppix or

Re: Paste with translation table into gnome-terminal?

2006-05-26 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 09:46:20AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > The actual problem is with Language Handling and the simplification of > it for End users. Which means, file a bug report *SOMEWHERE* where you > feel it will at least be looked at. Will do. I'll file against gnome-terminal and let

debian kernel package for ubuntu

2006-05-26 Thread Gregory Soyez
Hi all ... I'm trying to help someone rebuilding its kernel from sources. Since I do not have physical access to the machine, I planned to build a custom debian package linux-image using make-kpkg on my own debian box and let her install the package with dpkg on her ubuntu box. So my question i

Re: limit the download bandwidth for adsl customers

2006-05-26 Thread LeVA
2006. május 26. 16:28, david robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > Hi Guys, > > We are an ISP providers.We are providing ADSL,SDSL and other services.In > most of the ISP's now a days they are providing only 2 GB or 4 gb etc.. > bandwidth usage for their users this includes

ALSA, AWE32, kernel 2.6 issues?

2006-05-26 Thread Mark Tilford
I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.2 to 2.6; various other problems eventually required a complete OS reinstall. I can't get my sound card (Creative SB AWE 32) to work with ALSA; it worked fine under OSS. Is there anything special about Debian that may require me to configure things differently

Re: Can I stay in testing without going etch?

2006-05-26 Thread Owen Heisler
Stephen wrote: > Owen Heisler wrote: > > So 'aptitude upgrade' is like 'apt-get upgrade'. But there is no > > 'dist-upgrade' option for aptitude. I don't get it... How can I see, > > in aptitude (interactive), a full dist-upgrade? > > Sorry I haven't been following this thread, but thought I'd

Re: keyboard not working anymore in Xorg

2006-05-26 Thread Henrique G. Abreu
you check this files /etc/X11/xorg.conf the InputDevice keyboard thing, and /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86 post it here if you find nothing, it seems that you have an error, just in the beginning of the second one -- Henrique G. Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Auto detect smarthost for exim4

2006-05-26 Thread Surachai Locharoen
Hi debian-user   I use laptop on dhcp network for home, and office. Each place is used ISP different. I have to config exim4 smarthost for each time I switch the place. Could you any suggestion how to exim4 to auto detect smarthost? -- Surachai Locharoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: X-Windows Problems - Puzzled

2006-05-26 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:34:45PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:09:39PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 14:04:57 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:30:37AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 22, 2006

limit the download bandwidth for adsl customers

2006-05-26 Thread david robert
Hi Guys, We are an ISP providers.We are providing ADSL,SDSL and other services.In most of the ISP's now a days they are providing only 2 GB or 4 gb etc.. bandwidth usage for their users this includes download limit. How to configure this bandwidth usage limit for each user? this can be done in Rout

totem playlist: character encoding problem.

2006-05-26 Thread Surachai Locharoen
I use totem to play the song. In playlist show strang song name like a attach file. -- Surachai Locharoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> totem.png Description: PNG image

[OT-ish] diagnosing serial port functionality?

2006-05-26 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, I'm having lots of trouble syncing my Palm V to my new, fast computer (ASUS A8N-SLI MoBo, amd 380+ dual-core cpu). Usually I use a serial-to-usb adaptor to connect my serial-out cradle to my computer, but I'm beginning to think there's some hardware problem with the adaptor (the data it

Re: fish & scp

2006-05-26 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:47 +0200, mess-mate wrote: > Hi > for a not known reason when i csp or fish (konqueror) a file to a > remote machine, the transfert stalled after a few seconds and no > more route to the network. > I don't know wehre to search exactly. > Any help would be very appreciated.

x11-common: I fiddled with the X11 symbolic links

2006-05-26 Thread Samuel Krempp
Trying to fullfill x11-common's postinst requests, I'm pretty certain I messed up my X11 lib / bin / include directories and symlinks. Where can I find a description of what the standard X11 directory setup is (for sid), with details about the /usr/lib/X11 /usr/bin/X11 and /usr/include/X11 symbo

Re: How does inetd work?

2006-05-26 Thread Dirk
John L Fjellstad wrote: > Dirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>I know inetd forwards a programms (servers) stdout to the client... but >>where does it forward the requests from a client to? It's not stdin.. >> >> >>It there any simple example server available that was written to work >>with ine

Re: Paste with translation table into gnome-terminal?

2006-05-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 11:03 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestions as to my actual question, or should I take > it up with the GNOME developers? Or even violate what I just wrote and file > a Debian bug and let the Debian developers take it up with the GNOME > developers? The

Re: rdate, ntp configuration

2006-05-26 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 14:41 +, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > Have you tried to grep through the /etc directory to search for the IP > for instance? Or just grep for rdate and see what you get. That's the first thing I did - hence my question... rimwards:/etc# grep -r 128.2.136.71 * rimwards

Re: Directory overwriting

2006-05-26 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >>> When I copy a file into the present directory, with: >>> >>> $ cp /path/to/file . >>> >>> , if the file already exists it is overwritten, i.e. the `old one' >>> is removed and the `new one' takes its place. >>> Instead, with directories it is not the same: >>> when I

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 16:56 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Even my posts are delayed. I do not know the reason. I am sending this > message > on 4:56pm May 25, 2006 EDT. Let's see when it arrives on the list :-) Nice delay there: Received: from murphy.debian.org ([70.103.162.31])

OpenVPN hardware requirements

2006-05-26 Thread Dexter
Hi, we have 1Mbps/1Mbps internet connection. We have firewall with hardware: Pentium 400MHz, Ram 192 MB. We use it as firewall, proxy (squid) and OpenVPN server. Is this hardware enough? To me it seemed, that it's enough, untill I have run also OpenVPN client on this firewall that connected to oth

Re: Installation

2006-05-26 Thread Pol Hallen
> Is it possible to install Debian as a dual-boot on an Intel Celeron > system using only the existing windows partition and a removable hard > drive ~250MiB? If so, how would one do so? i dont understand: do you would like install debian on the fat/ntfs?! O do u want install debian on 250Mb drive

Re: repetitive apt-get upgrade

2006-05-26 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Friday 26 May 2006 08:21, Daniel D Jones wrote: > What causes a package to be listed everytime you run apt-get upgrade? > Specifically, mailman is constantly listed for upgrade. It appears to go > through the upgrade process but if I immediately rerun apt-get upgrade it's > listed again. Is th

Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-05-26 Thread lee
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:55:27PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > And second, it does not only work with Floppy... burn the BIOS onto a > CD and it works too. > > All of my AsusTek mainboards (K7 and K8) have the same EZ-BIOS no need > for stupid DOS-FLASH-TOOLS... They are outdated! Hm, how

Re: Which is the most stable of Debian releases?

2006-05-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, It's well-known that Debian releases are rock-solid. But I've been wondering if there's been a comparison between various releases as regards stability. It would be nice if there's some commentary from long-time Debian users (say those who experienced it pre-Woody)

Re: gpilot & pilot-link messed up after hardware/software upgrade?

2006-05-26 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 16:11 -0400, Matt Price wrote: > [some of this is in the earlier message] > > hi ubuntu, d-u is not ubuntu. [stuff deleted] > I of course know nothing about what this might mean. In any case I'd > love some advice on howto diagnose these issues further! the > evolution/p

Re: Building case for Debian in server room at a University

2006-05-26 Thread Donald Teed
Hi, I agree that Debian rocks.  I've spent a few years with different distros to figure that out.  However this is a decision made by committee of people, and so business logic must govern the decision making process. The big difference between commercial and non-commercial is obviously support a

Re: How does inetd work?

2006-05-26 Thread Dirk
John L Fjellstad wrote: > Dirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>I know inetd forwards a programms (servers) stdout to the client... but >>where does it forward the requests from a client to? It's not stdin.. >> >> >>It there any simple example server available that was written to work >>with ine

Re: installing sarge from hard drive on libretto110ct

2006-05-26 Thread Digby Tarvin
Hi Liudmila, I have Debian (amoungst other things) running on a Libretto 110CT. It is a nice little machine once you get it installed, but as you have discovered, one of the more challenging install targets... The PCMCIA floppy is of limitted use for installation, because it is PCMCIA and only t

Re: install Kernel source???

2006-05-26 Thread nicolasardissono
El Miércoles, 24 de Mayo de 2006 14:01, Liam O'Toole escribió: > Hi! > Please pardon the stupid question...but...I am trying to install a > piece of software on my Debian test machine and the setup is failing > with a Kernel source error while attempting to build some sort of > module. The vendor

Re: 2.6.16 update, lost wireless - seems not a udev issue

2006-05-26 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 5/25/06, Richard Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded Debian unstable and installed the 2.6.16-12 linux-image. All seems well except I am unable to bring up my wireless connection. ifup freezes when it tries to run dhcpd on the wireless card: (...) Hi Richard, Since you

Re: rar archiver

2006-05-26 Thread Henrique G. Abreu
the one Derek sent to me unrar e rarFile.rar I included non-free on my apt sources.list then 'apt-get install unrar' if you mean, the command line yes, there is no X interface. -- Henrique G. Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED]

repetitive apt-get upgrade

2006-05-26 Thread Daniel D Jones
What causes a package to be listed everytime you run apt-get upgrade? Specifically, mailman is constantly listed for upgrade. It appears to go through the upgrade process but if I immediately rerun apt-get upgrade it's listed again. Is this a problem with the package or something on my machin

Re: mouse problem

2006-05-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
kangja wrote: Sorry, forgot about the attachment in the previous mail. Mine is a 7-button optical mouse. It had worked properly before when I was running kernel-2.6.12. Failed to work after I upgraded to kernel-2.6.15. It does not work whether I use udev or not. I can make it work by doing a a

Re: X-Windows Problems - Progress

2006-05-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Thomas H. George wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 02:04:57PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:30:37AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 16:41:09 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I am stumbling through the move from Sarge to testing. I have managed to ge

Re: Installation

2006-05-26 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-26, 04:39:55 (-0400) skrifaði N A: > Is it possible to install Debian as a dual-boot on an Intel Celeron > system using only the existing windows partition and a removable hard > drive ~250MiB? If so, how would one do so? Yes, you can do that by using a virtual machine (see http://

(Some) received packets are not reaching a listening application (UDP?)

2006-05-26 Thread Gonzalo HIGUERA DÍAZ
Hello everybody, I have an issue with an application not receiving all traffic that it should be getting. The current system is a non-Debian GNU/Linux, but since I had a similar issue using Debian and I am not following any other Linux-related list, I hope not to be off topic. I have taken the li

Re: Grep

2006-05-26 Thread Juha Tuuna
On Friday, 26. May 2006 02:04, Richard wrote: > Is there a way to read mp3 ID3 tags using greg?, > to find a certain information. > ie. joint stereo, and being able to select those, and delete them, > from the folder. > > Regards > Rich install and try mp3info It's capable of finding all sorts of i

Re: Grep

2006-05-26 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-25, 19:04:36 (-0400) skrifaði Richard: > Is there a way to read mp3 ID3 tags using greg?, > to find a certain information. > ie. joint stereo, and being able to select those, and delete them, > from the folder. You have to use an external tool (something like eyed3 on the mp3 files) a

Re: utf problem with mutt

2006-05-26 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:40:11AM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello! > > since i passed onto a amd64 machine i noticed that the basic charset > used is utf8 > > but mutt displays that in hex codes, with a \ prepended... > > reading french and german mails in the great majority, this isn't v

Re: Comparison of aptitude hold and pinning?

2006-05-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Adam Funk wrote: I recently used the `aptitude hold` command. It seems to be doing what I expected but I'm curious -- what are the differences between this and pinning a package in /etc/apt/preferences, and where does aptitude hold store the information? (`grep -r PACKAGENAME /etc/apt/` turns u

Re: Installation

2006-05-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
N A wrote: Is it possible to install Debian as a dual-boot on an Intel Celeron system using only the existing windows partition and a removable hard drive ~250MiB? If so, how would one do so? Unfortunately: NO. from the installation manual: http://www.de.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apcs0

keyboard not working anymore in Xorg

2006-05-26 Thread Bart Schelstraete
Hi, I'm using the current Debian 'unstable', and since yesterday my X doesn't accept the key inputs anymore. When I press a key, nothing happens. So my X is unusable. I noticed the log below, somebody who knows what I can do about this? As you can see in the log, I'm using X.org. -- X Window S

Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

2006-05-26 Thread Glenn Meehan
Does anyone if there is support the the Cannon Powershot A530 yet? -- Glenn Meehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Environment and Sudo

2006-05-26 Thread viraj
On 5/25/06, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Commands invoked using sudo do not receive/honor environment items or aliases.Example would be the alias vi="vim". Invoking normally will run vim, invokingusing sudo vi will get the "other" vi. Is there something else I need in /etc/profile or som

QUARANTINED: Returned mail: Data format error

2006-05-26 Thread WorkgroupMail Content Filter
The message "Returned mail: Data format error" from MAILER-DAEMON, sent on 5/26/2006 07:19 was quarantined because it contained either an executable file, a batch file or a screen saver file. All of these types of attachments are considered security risks. Please consult your mail administrator

Xprt_64

2006-05-26 Thread Glenn Meehan
Hi, I am getting the following error in my messages file: Xprt_64: cat: /var/run/Xprt_0.pid: No such file or directory Why I am getting this error? How can I go about rectifying this error? Thanks -- Glenn Meehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: [UNVERIFIED SENDER] Re: Building case for Debian in server room at a University

2006-05-26 Thread Kent West
Donald Teed wrote: > Has anyone ever written a book like "The complete Debian handbook"? You might give Martin Kraft's book a try: http://debiansystem.info/ -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: eterm / gnome window position [SOLVED]

2006-05-26 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Dale Hair wrote: The string I have for my Eterm icon is: /usr/bin/Eterm -L 1 --colorBD yellow --select-line -g 101x25 --shade 100 --buttonbar 0 --scrollbar-type next So, I am using the geometry option, but I can only set the dimensions of the terminal, since they are the same. If I set a

Re: sudo versus su environment?

2006-05-26 Thread Chris
On Friday 26 May 2006 02:41, Limin Wang wrote: > Chris, > > The latest sudo will reset the env default, so you need add below line to > /etc/sudoers: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo more /etc/sudoers > # /etc/sudoers > # > # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. > # > # See the

Re: installing sarge from hard drive on libretto110ct

2006-05-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:40:39PM -0500, Liudmila Yafremava wrote: > > Hello! > > I have been trying to install Sarge on Toshiba Libretto 110ct > for weeks with no success. I gravely need someone to take me > through it, as I feel that I've tried everything and can't > think of anything else to

Re: Comparison of aptitude hold and pinning?

2006-05-26 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 5/25/06, Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recently used the `aptitude hold` command. It seems to be doing what I expected but I'm curious -- what are the differences between this and pinning a package in /etc/apt/preferences, and where does aptitude hold store the information? (`grep -

Re: eterm / gnome window position

2006-05-26 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Thilo Six wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Ivan Glushkov wrote the following on 24.05.2006 09:04: On my 1280x1024 screen the following looks quite ok: Eterm -g 102x35+0+0 & Eterm -g 102x35+0+512 & Eterm -g 102x35+640+0 & Eterm -g 102x35+640+512 & That w

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Digby Tarvin wrote: Just curious, Can anyone tell me why there seems to be a delay of about 12 hours between posting a message and seeing it appear on the list? It makes it really hard to contribute to a thread if the discussion is long over by the time my respons

  1   2   >