Set video memory allocation (Was: Set shared video memory in xorg.conf)

2006-05-27 Thread David R. Litwin
On 27/05/06, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:    So, what do I have to put in to the file to get 256 mB of ram for my shared video card?Thanks much.Well, it seems that this only controls how much xorg thinks the video card has; it doesn't change the value on the card itself. So, new quest

Re: arts/ALSA problem after unstable upgrade

2006-05-27 Thread David R. Litwin
On 27/05/06, Adam Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, so I'm trying to use aptitude to downgrade, but it only shows oneversion (1.0.11-5) available for the libasound2 package.Logical: You (most probably) have only one repository for Sid (don't see why you'd need more) and this one has but one ve

Re: ALSA problems after Sid upgrade

2006-05-27 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
A Dissabte 27 Maig 2006 14:40, Linas Žvirblis va escriure: > [1] http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/alsa-lib/ > > P.S. There are other ways to do the trick, but these are my favorite. Thanks! In order to locate alsa-lib directory for libasound2, this is a good method? $ apt-cache sho

fixdep makefile problem building rtl8180 module for 2.6.1[56] kernel

2006-05-27 Thread Paul Scott
sid - 2.6.15 or 2.6.16 486 kernels: I am trying to build a module for the Realtek rtl8180 chip (Linksys WPC11 ver. 4 wireless card). I get an error which was supposed to have been fixed in December (according to Debian bugs): make -C /lib/modules/2.6.16-1-486/build SUBDIRS= MODVERDIR= module

Re: USB joystick?

2006-05-27 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have you tried it? I've also seen the USB-Game adapters, but as with so much other hardware it only comes with Windows drivers. Also, the USB sticks I've seen are very feature-rich, which makes me thing they require custom drivers. Curt- On Saturd

Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

2006-05-27 Thread Glenn Meehan
On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 20:55 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > The version of libgphoto2-2 that appeared in unstable today is supposed to > have a fix to support the A530, I have just submitted a bug to add in the > USB ID of the A540. The A540 is also a PTP camera as far as I can tell. > At least

Re: window placement in kde

2006-05-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Currently whenever a new window is opened, kde decides where to place the new > window. Instead of that, is it possible to give the control of placement of > new window to the mouse, then move the mouse to the required position, place > the window by left clicking on

window placement in kde

2006-05-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Currently whenever a new window is opened, kde decides where to place the new window. Instead of that, is it possible to give the control of placement of new window to the mouse, then move the mouse to the required position, place the window by left clicking on it? If KDE's window manager canno

Re: Was:Icons missing in Etch Now cannot log in

2006-05-27 Thread Jim Seymour
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 03:49:08PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Jim Seymour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:19:12PM -0400, Jim Seymour wrote: > >>Gnome 2.14.1 and after a recent update, the system seems to be unable to > >>locate most of its icons. This also affe

Re: How to test a hard drive

2006-05-27 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Saturday 27 May 2006 19:36, thierry wrote: > Is there any way to test an HD before installing an new system on it? > I haave a strong suspiion about the reability of this HD, but money is > still a problem in disregarding it right away > Thank you for help. > Thierry Go To the manufacturer's we

Re: How to test a hard drive

2006-05-27 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-28, 00:36:45 (+0200) skrifaði thierry: > Is there any way to test an HD before installing an new system on it? > I haave a strong suspiion about the reability of this HD, but money is > still a problem in disregarding it right away I guess you could just format it with a ext2 partiti

How to test a hard drive

2006-05-27 Thread thierry
Is there any way to test an HD before installing an new system on it? I haave a strong suspiion about the reability of this HD, but money is still a problem in disregarding it right away Thank you for help. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: ALSA problems after Sid upgrade

2006-05-27 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 27 May 2006 04:43 am, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > Since last Sid upgrade the Xine related programs doesn't works and aRts > sound server crashes at KDE start. I.e. when play one CD with xine: > > xine: relocation error: > /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.1/xineplug_ao_out_alsa.so: symbol > sn

Re: arts/ALSA problem after unstable upgrade

2006-05-27 Thread Adam Collins
On Saturday 27 May 2006 13:04, David R. Litwin wrote: > The problem is with libasound2. To quote Linas Žvirblis: > > "If you do not use aptitude (I highly recommend it), you can do it > manually: > > 1. Download libasound2_1.0.11-4_ARCH_NAME-HERE.deb from [1]; > 2. Remove the package by running...

Re: Apache2: mod_xml

2006-05-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Øyvind Lode wrote: > Hi > > I'm running a webserver for some friends etc. > > One of the users of my webserver is going to setup a website that > requires mod_xml. > > Homepage of module: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mod-xml/ > > I cannot find this module in the "Sarge" archive. > I only s

Re: Regular reboots on two different boxes

2006-05-27 Thread LeVA
2006. május 27. 11:18, tyko brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > I have two different boxes, in two different places that are rebooting for > seemingly no reason, and regularly too. > > Last night the DNS server rebooted ten times. Nothing useful shows in the > logs. Did yo

Re: HPT366 controller problem

2006-05-27 Thread LeVA
2006. május 27. 21:33, "Tomy Alarie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > Hi, i'm trying to install Debian 3.1r2 on my computer for days. After > couple of days, i wondered that the problem was the HPT366 Controller on my > ASUS BE6 motherboard. I don't know which kernel am I bet

Apache2: mod_xml

2006-05-27 Thread Øyvind Lode
Hi I'm running a webserver for some friends etc. One of the users of my webserver is going to setup a website that requires mod_xml. Homepage of module: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mod-xml/ I cannot find this module in the "Sarge" archive. I only see "libapache2-mod-xmlrpc2" which looks

Re: I'm looking for a specific firewall...

2006-05-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 27 May 2006 06:16, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Dirk wrote: > > 1) It must be written in C > > 2) It must be able to block connections from a specific IP > > Why must it be written in C? Either way, look at shorewall. Shorewall > itself is a bunch of bash scripts, but it does everythin

Re: I'm looking for a specific firewall...

2006-05-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 27 May 2006 05:46, Dirk wrote: > 1) It must be written in C They all use iptables, so it all boils down to what iptables is written in. > 2) It must be able to block connections from a specific IP Duh? -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: Bec

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

2006-05-27 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-05-24 @ 22:15:00 (week 21) Donald Teed wrote: > If you have the time, I'd also appreciate any comments > you can share on pros and cons of Debian. I think > I'm aware of the basic features from my experience > running Debian, but I'm thinking of things that > might not come up until in a

Re: arts/ALSA problem after unstable upgrade (solved)

2006-05-27 Thread kruton
thanks that works. --- "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 27/05/06, kruton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > After the regualar apt-get update and upgrade > > yesterday, the aRts sound server crashes on KDE > > startup. > > > > > The problem is with libasound2. To quote Linas >

Re: downgrading sid's mysql-server

2006-05-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I use WordPress, which needs mysql and php4. Normally I use it on Sarge. But I upgraded to Sid on one partition. Sid uses mysql-server-5.0 while Sarge uses 4.0.24-10sarge1. That means I can dump the db on Sarge and read it back in on Sid. But I cannot do that from

HPT366 controller problem

2006-05-27 Thread Tomy Alarie
Hi, i'm trying to install Debian 3.1r2 on my computer for days. After couple of days, i wondered that the problem was the HPT366 Controller on my ASUS BE6 motherboard. I don't know which kernel am I better use during the install ? linux26 or linux ? I don't know too if this is the real problem, I

Re: arts/ALSA problem after unstable upgrade

2006-05-27 Thread David R. Litwin
On 27/05/06, kruton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After the regualar apt-get update and upgradeyesterday, the aRts sound server crashes on KDEstartup. The problem is with libasound2. To quote Linas Žvirblis:"If you do not use aptitude (I highly recommend it), you can do it manually: 1. Download libas

Re: sudo versus su environment?

2006-05-27 Thread David Baron
On Friday 26 May 2006 11:23, Chris wrote: > 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

Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

2006-05-27 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 27 May 2006 05:33, Glenn Meehan wrote: > 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

HPT366 controller problem

2006-05-27 Thread Tomy Alarie
Hi, i'm trying to install Debian 3.1r2 on my computer for days. After couple of days, i wondered that the problem was the HPT366 Controller on my ASUS BE6 motherboard. I don't know which kernel am I better use during the install ? linux26 or linux ? I don't know too if this is the real problem, I t

grub problems..

2006-05-27 Thread kruton
problem: on booting grub complains.. > > Error 15: File not found but ofcourse, the kernel image file exists.. solution(?): at the grub blue screen, 1. 'e'dit, 2. 'd'elete the "savedefault" line 3. 'b'oot So I removed the line 'savedefault' from /boot/grub/menu.lst file. But the next upgrade,

Re: Icons missing in Etch

2006-05-27 Thread vgatica
Quoting Jim Seymour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 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

arts/ALSA problem after unstable upgrade

2006-05-27 Thread kruton
After the regualar apt-get update and upgrade yesterday, the aRts sound server crashes on KDE startup. On my machine I am using ALSA as the main sound interface. If I "Enable the Sound System" from Control Center > Sound &Multimedia > Sound System with audio device (in Hardware tab) to Autodetect o

Re: rdate, ntp configuration

2006-05-27 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 22:49 +, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > the NOTES section) then they mention /var/spool/cron/crontabs for > files that cron access, perhaps something is there? Well what do you know :-) 0 3,9,15,21 * * * /usr/sbin/rdate 128.2.136.71 | logger -t NTP I was looking around

USB joystick?

2006-05-27 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was so glad to see the Privateer port to Linux that I'd like to get a joystick to play it. http://priv.solsector.net/ Unfortunately, my machine doesn't have a joystick port. There are USB joysticks, but I didn't see "joystick" listed in kernel mod

Smb4k can't see shares on Win box

2006-05-27 Thread Piero Piutti
Hi all, I am having problems browsing shares on my Win2000 box from my Debian laptop with Smb4k (version 0.6.9). I can find my Win box, but when I try to see its shares I receive this error: Could not connect to server WINBOX The account was disabled. I have searched with Google but did not fi

Re: Can I stay in testing without going etch?

2006-05-27 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 08:26 -0400, Stephen wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:39:11AM -0500 or thereabouts, Owen Heisler wrote: > > Stephen wrote: > > > > > > Sorry I haven't been following this thread, but thought I'd comment on > > > the line above : > > > > > > I run aptitude from the comma

Re: Can I stay in testing without going etch?

2006-05-27 Thread Owen Heisler
Florian Kulzer wrote: > 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 the

Re: keyboard not working anymore in Xorg

2006-05-27 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-27, 08:23:09 (+0200) skrifaði Bart Schelstraete: > debian:/etc/X11# dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xorg > xserver-xorg config warning: failed to infer keyboard layout from layout/lang >'10 debian-installer/keymap doesn't exist--' > xserver-xorg postinst warning: not updating /etc/X

Re: Debian Etch with 2 Internet Connections Load Balanced

2006-05-27 Thread Prepaid
On 5/27/06, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 09:13:43AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:> Prepaid wrote:> > Hi> >> > So 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 def

Re: OpenVPN hardware requirements

2006-05-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dexter: > > 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? It depends. :) I don't have that much experience with OpenVPN on different machines, but I once tr

Re: Debian Etch with 2 Internet Connections Load Balanced

2006-05-27 Thread Mark
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 09:13:43AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Prepaid wrote: > > Hi > > > > So 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 an

Re: I'm looking for a specific firewall...

2006-05-27 Thread John Hasler
Dirk writes: > 1) It must be written in C Since the Linux firewall (Iptables) is part of the kernel and the kernel is written in C, you've got it. > 2) It must be able to block connections from a specific IP That too. What you really want is a firewall configurator such as Ipmasq. I know of n

Re: I'm looking for a specific firewall...

2006-05-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Dirk wrote: > 1) It must be written in C > 2) It must be able to block connections from a specific IP > Why must it be written in C? Either way, look at shorewall. Shorewall itself is a bunch of bash scripts, but it does everything with iptables (which is itself written in C). It is extremely

Re: _short_ debian package creation HOWTO?

2006-05-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Dirk wrote: > I need to know HOWTO create debian packages. But all HOWTO's I've found > are too long to read. > > Is there one available with less than 1000 words? > In that case, the best thing to do is look at a package that is similar to whatever you want to package and then look at the stuf u

Re: Debian Etch with 2 Internet Connections Load Balanced

2006-05-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Prepaid wrote: > Hi > > So 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. > You may also want to consider shorewall, which can speci

Re: I'm looking for a specific firewall...

2006-05-27 Thread jacek
you wanna try pf from openbsdOn 5/27/06, Linas Žvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dirk wrote:> 1) It must be written in C> 2) It must be able to block connections from a specific IPiptables?--To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: I'm looking for a specific firewall...

2006-05-27 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Dirk wrote: > 1) It must be written in C > 2) It must be able to block connections from a specific IP iptables? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can I stay in testing without going etch?

2006-05-27 Thread Stephen
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:39:11AM -0500 or thereabouts, Owen Heisler wrote: > Stephen wrote: > > Sorry I haven't been following this thread, but thought I'd comment on > > the line above : > > > > I run aptitude from the command line ; 'aptitude dist-upgrade' works fine > > for me. It seems ma

I'm looking for a specific firewall...

2006-05-27 Thread Dirk
1) It must be written in C 2) It must be able to block connections from a specific IP Thanks, Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ALSA problems after Sid upgrade

2006-05-27 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > How I can downgrade? I'm new in Debian and is my first downgrade :P I don't > locate the 1.0.11-4 version of libsound2. If you have a not very up-to-date mirror (hey, that turns out to be a feature) listed in "/etc/apt/sources.list", 1.0.11-4 should still show up in

Re: ALSA problems after Sid upgrade

2006-05-27 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
A Dissabte 27 Maig 2006 14:00, Linas Žvirblis va escriure: > Downgrade "libasound2" package to 1.0.11-4. Something went terribly > wrong in 1.0.11-5. How I can downgrade? I'm new in Debian and is my first downgrade :P I don't locate the 1.0.11-4 version of libsound2. Thanks! -- Benjamí http

Re: ALSA problems after Sid upgrade

2006-05-27 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > Any workaround? Thanks :) Downgrade "libasound2" package to 1.0.11-4. Something went terribly wrong in 1.0.11-5. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ALSA problems after Sid upgrade

2006-05-27 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
A Dissabte 27 Maig 2006 13:43, Benjamí Villoslada va escriure: > Seems that new ALSA is the cause, is the sound packet (alsa-base > alsa-utils)   that I've changed with the dist-upgrade. I'm sorry, is not ALSA, is libasound2 that I've changed too. Here te bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr

Re: mount a cd with /dev/scd0

2006-05-27 Thread Mark Walter
Hi Oli, > > mount: /dev/scd0 is not a valid block device > > What does dmesg tell you? Is the drive really detected on /dev/scd0? yes, it's working now. I forgot to compile the scsi cd support into the kernel. Many thank's for you help ! -- Best Regards, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

ALSA problems after Sid upgrade

2006-05-27 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
Since last Sid upgrade the Xine related programs doesn't works and aRts sound server crashes at KDE start. I.e. when play one CD with xine: xine: relocation error: /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.1/xineplug_ao_out_alsa.so: symbol snd_pcm_hw_params_set_rate_near, version ALSA_0.9.0rc4 not defined in

downgrading sid's mysql-server

2006-05-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I use WordPress, which needs mysql and php4. Normally I use it on Sarge. But I upgraded to Sid on one partition. Sid uses mysql-server-5.0 while Sarge uses 4.0.24-10sarge1. That means I can dump the db on Sarge and read it back in on Sid. But I cannot do that from Sid to Sarge because you

_short_ debian package creation HOWTO?

2006-05-27 Thread Dirk
I need to know HOWTO create debian packages. But all HOWTO's I've found are too long to read. Is there one available with less than 1000 words? Thanks, Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

HOWTO send keystrokes to X app

2006-05-27 Thread Jeffrey Chimene
Hi, I have a data entry application that can accept bar code data. I have the barcodes and ASCII equivalents, but no barcode reader. I think I can use xmodmap to assign a series of keycodes to a specific key. For example, I'd like to assign KP_1/1 to the string "SQ5029" and KP_1/2 to the stri

Regular reboots on two different boxes

2006-05-27 Thread tyko brown
I have two different boxes, in two different places that are rebooting for seemingly no reason, and regularly too. Last night the DNS server rebooted ten times. Nothing useful shows in the logs. Both boxes are running kernel 2.6.8-3-386 using the Debian image, but I've tried the 686 kernel too.

Re: Screen recorder on debian

2006-05-27 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:24:35PM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: >Is there a program to record screen on debian? I thought vnc2swf[1] was in Debian, but apparently it isn't anymore :( There's an article[2] describing how to do it "manually". Maybe one of the programs in the matrix in this pag