Re: fstab problem

2006-06-29 Thread John Miller
Ron Johnson wrote: > John Miller wrote: > >> Deephay wrote: > >>> Greetings all, > >>> > >>> I have a problem with my /etc/fstab and the system cannot boot. > >>> I copied a fstab file from another machine, but I fogot that the file > >>> system of the root volume on that machine is ext3 but the on

Re: Why Debian3.1 is slower so much than FreeBSD6.1 in our test?

2006-06-29 Thread Dave Ewart
On Friday, 30.06.2006 at 12:11 +0800, Leo Huang wrote: > >ext3 flushes to disk every 5 seconds by default (see 'commit' > >interval in 'man mount') which is a safe, conservative setting but > >might hit performance. > The data is critical to us, so we must ensure every transaction is not > lost.

aptitude update error with security on etch

2006-06-29 Thread nsng
I got an error when doing aptitude update. I tried #debian dpkg advice but with same error. I also noticed that the http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/etch/updates/Release.gpg is empty. debian:/home/alexandre# gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 2D230C5F gpg: directory `/r

Re: fstab problem

2006-06-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Miller wrote: > Deephay wrote: >> Greetings all, >> >> I have a problem with my /etc/fstab and the system cannot boot. >> I copied a fstab file from another machine, but I fogot that the file >> system of the root volume on that machine is ext3 bu

Re: fstab problem

2006-06-29 Thread John Miller
Deephay wrote: > Greetings all, > > I have a problem with my /etc/fstab and the system cannot boot. > I copied a fstab file from another machine, but I fogot that the file > system of the root volume on that machine is ext3 but the one I have > is XFS, so the system cannot boot anymore. > Luckily I

Re: fstab problem

2006-06-29 Thread 笨鲨鱼
I'm not sure whether the mount option is wrong, but you can try errors-remount-ro 0 instead. 2006/6/30, Deephay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Greetings all,I have a problem with my /etc/fstab and the system cannot boot.I copied a fstab file from another machine, but I fogot that the file system of the root

Re: fstab problem

2006-06-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deephay wrote: > Greetings all, > > I have a problem with my /etc/fstab and the system cannot boot. > I copied a fstab file from another machine, but I fogot that the file > system of the root volume on that machine is ext3 but the one I have > is XFS

fstab problem

2006-06-29 Thread Deephay
Greetings all, I have a problem with my /etc/fstab and the system cannot boot. I copied a fstab file from another machine, but I fogot that the file system of the root volume on that machine is ext3 but the one I have is XFS, so the system cannot boot anymore. Luckily I have a LiveCD and I boot t

Re: Why Debian3.1 is slower so much than FreeBSD6.1 in our test?

2006-06-29 Thread Leo Huang
hi, Joris, Our hard disk is SCSI, not IDE. :-( Regards, Leo Huang 2006/6/29, Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: You can tweak hard disk settings with hdparm, that might improve performance a lot (have a look at http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html if you are unfami

Re: Why Debian3.1 is slower so much than FreeBSD6.1 in our test?

2006-06-29 Thread Leo Huang
hi, Dave, Just wondering whether you'd tried changing the filesystem on the Debian system, or tweaking the parameters for it? This is one obvious difference between your two setups, given that FreeBSD is using ufs. the sginfo output is followed: mysql-test-1:/home/huangjy# sginfo -A /dev/sda

Re: Problem reconginzing package...

2006-06-29 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:28:18AM -0700, Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > I'm having some trouble installing a package. I think I might be > totally missing something here, but I can't figure it out. I thought > I'd ask for some help. > > I'm trying to get Subclipse to work in Eclipse with a local > r

Re: proprietary kernel modules w/ kernel-package?

2006-06-29 Thread Felipe Sateler
Kit Peters wrote: > This means that I wish to wrap the 3M driver in a .deb. What is the best > way to go about this? I'd proceed as normal (that is, build the RPMs like you did on the other machines, debian has the rpm utility), but instead of installing the driver through rpm, use alien to gene

[OT]laptop memory and slot

2006-06-29 Thread L . V . Gandhi
I have dell inspiron 600m. It stopped working. It was found that by removing memory from one slot, it starts working. The same slot was fixed with other working memory module. Even then it didn't work. This finaly indiactes it is the slot problem. Hence to increase memory, I had to throw old memory

Printing stopped working on Debian testing

2006-06-29 Thread Joshua McGee
Printing stopped working overnight on Debian testing, possibly due to cron-apt running. I tried to remove and reinstall, and I am facing the following messages: /// www:~# apt-get install cupsys Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Don

Re: Grub question?

2006-06-29 Thread Willie Wonka
Bob McGowan wrote: > >> On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 12:11 -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > >>I am thinking of installing debian on partition /dev/sda6 > >>(on a SATA hard disk). Grub menu entry for root partition: > >> > >>will/should it be (hd0,5) or (sd0,5)? > > It is (hd0,5). Grub uses hd for all hard d

Re: Sarge Kernel Image Package Question

2006-06-29 Thread Willie Wonka
[ message reformatted for easier reading ] [ Please don't top post -- thank you ;-) ] > > > Somehow the Debian Developers don't see this as a problem (having to > > > manually install the meta package). I reported this in March [1] when > > > it appeared to me to be a problem many users would hav

Re: config file for bittornado command-line options?

2006-06-29 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Thursday 29 June 2006 05:42 am, Anonyma wrote: > I've been using the bittornado command-line clients on linux and I > want to know how to set --max_upload_rate --max_download_rate > --minport and --maxport somewhere like a home-directory dotfile so I > don't have to remember to set them every ti

Re: IPTables Location

2006-06-29 Thread H.S.
Johnno wrote: Hello All, I have just install debian, but can't find the location where the IPTable routines are loaded on bootup.. Can any one tell me where I can find this file So I can edit it Many Thanks, Johnno As root, if you give the command: $> iptables -nvL you will notice that t

new Package of the Day features

2006-06-29 Thread Aaron Maxwell
For those interested, the Package of the Day has a couple of new features, mainly filtering of less interesting packages and a ranking of popularity (from popularity-contest data): http://potd.redsymbol.net Next in line is an RSS feed... -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- To

Re: IPTables Location

2006-06-29 Thread Mumia W.
Johnno wrote: Hello All, I have just install debian, but can't find the location where the IPTable routines are loaded on bootup.. Can any one tell me where I can find this file So I can edit it Many Thanks, Johnno Hi Johnno You have to install and configure firewall software such as fir

Re: Why date command don't use my time zone ?

2006-06-29 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 13:31:56 -0400, Bill Marcum wrote: >On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:45:32AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: >> >> (The following is based on my experience. I hope I'm not entirely wrong >> in my understanding of how this works. :-) >> >> If you log in on a regular terminal (i.e.

Debian Hardware Compatibility list for 3.1 r2

2006-06-29 Thread D G Teed
Hi, I've seen a reference to the Debian Hardware Compatibility list in a Meta manual, but could not locate it in places that made sense to me under: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ Does anyone know where I can see the same type of reference that FreeBSD provides for hardware support from the

Re: font or face problem in emacs

2006-06-29 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: I get the following in my emacs compiler message window (notice the strange characters around the variables and function names): g++ -Wall -ansi -o testprog testprog.cc testprog.cc: In function ‘int main()’: testpr

Re: font or face problem in emacs

2006-06-29 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Hello, When I compile a program in emacs, I notice that I get some strange escape sequences in the compiler output window of emacs. For example, if my program is: #include int main(){ int i,j; std::cout << "

Re: Slow Konsole GUI

2006-06-29 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 29 June 2006 8:31 am, David wrote: > Thanks for the advice Florian. Actually the solution was much simpler. > I had been displaying a jpeg on a transparent background and this was what > was slowing everything down. Eye candy removed and everything was back > as it was before. Shame, I

Re: How do I configure Audigy LS Soundcard? ALSA, Etch, 7.1 speaker

2006-06-29 Thread Søren Christensen
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 11:13:44PM +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 12:02:17PM +0200, steef wrote: > [...] > > what kernel are you using? what distro? did you compile the alsa-driver > > yourself or are you using the debian_version (built-in in the > > 2.6.x-kernels)? did

Re: Printer setup!

2006-06-29 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 29 June 2006 7:40 am, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I remember that without rebooting my printer wouldn't start: > we need trying again. Ah, as root '/etc/init.d/cupsys restart' should do the trick next time. -- "Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they l

Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

2006-06-29 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 02:57:07PM -0400, Chase James wrote: > Actually, I already tried dist-upgrading woody and it still gives me the > aptitude broken package error. > I seem top remember long ago that when I upgraded from woody to sarge I was to upgrade aptitude first (possibly with perl) an

Re: Flatbed Scanner

2006-06-29 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Cany anyone recommend a good flatbed scanner for under $200.00 that > they are currently using with a Debian box? Be sure you get a USB 2 scanner, as it will be much faster than USB 1. The USB 2 scanners are newer, so many of them aren't supported in Linux yet, but some are. Check http://www.s

Re: Sarge Kernel Image Package Question

2006-06-29 Thread Ralph Katz
Joey Hess wrote: > Ralph Katz wrote: >> I hope Etch will install the meta package by default. > > It does. Perfect! Thanks. Regards, Ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

IPTables Location

2006-06-29 Thread Johnno
Hello All, I have just install debian, but can't find the location where the IPTable routines are loaded on bootup.. Can any one tell me where I can find this file So I can edit it Many Thanks, Johnno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Flatbed Scanner

2006-06-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Robert Kopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Jun 29 15:24 -0500]: > > > --- Redefined Horizons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Cany anyone recommend a good flatbed scanner for > > under $200.00 that > > they are currently using with a Debian box? > > > I have used Canon's LiDE-30 with good result

Re: font or face problem in emacs

2006-06-29 Thread Mumia W.
H.S. wrote: [...] and I compile it with: g++ -Wall -ansi -o testprog testprog.cc I get the following in my emacs compiler message window (notice the strange characters around the variables and function names): --

Re: How do I configure Audigy LS Soundcard? ALSA, Etch, 7.1 speaker

2006-06-29 Thread Søren Christensen
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 12:02:17PM +0200, steef wrote: [...] > what kernel are you using? what distro? did you compile the alsa-driver > yourself or are you using the debian_version (built-in in the > 2.6.x-kernels)? did you install alsa-utils and/or alsa-base and the > alsa-libs? Ok, perhaps I

Website Design & Development Services

2006-06-29 Thread Dhiraj Aggarwal
Hi, I apologize for intruding into your busy schedule. Please allow me to introduce ourselves to you. We are a Website Design and Development organization based in New Delhi, India, having more than 10 years experience in the design, development and maintainence of websites (http://www.e-WebSer

RE: OT : need advice on bluebottle

2006-06-29 Thread Seth Goodman
On Wednesday, June 28, 2006 1:25 PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > So finally, I am considering discarding the gmail's service and > getting a free account on bluebottle. Any advice in this regard is > highly appreciated. FWIW, I occasionally use gmail and have, but don't use much, a bluebot

Re: TV application

2006-06-29 Thread Christoph Nenning
Am Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 07:31 schrieb Rocky Ou: > Hey List, > > Can any of you recommend some good TV applications for my Debian Sid > Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop please? I have a broad band internet access > with the averager rate of 250 KB/s . I can get a long list by doing > apt-cache search

trouble connecting to wifi access point

2006-06-29 Thread tom arnall
i am having trouble connecting to one of the wifi access points in my n'hood. when i do this: sudo modprobe ath_pci sudo modprobe wlan_scan_sta sudo iwpriv ath0 mode 2 sudo wlanconfig ath0 list scan sudo iwlist ath0 scan sudo iwconfig at

Re: Running KDE; how to change Gnome app single-click behaviour?

2006-06-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:07:26 -0700 RParr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running KDE as desktop on Debian sid (AMD64). > > In the KDE control / Peripherals / Mouse I have set 'single click to > open files and folders' > > How can I configure the Gnome apps (run from KDE desktop) to behave > t

Re: Flatbed Scanner

2006-06-29 Thread Robert Kopp
--- Redefined Horizons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cany anyone recommend a good flatbed scanner for > under $200.00 that > they are currently using with a Debian box? > I have used Canon's LiDE-30 with good results, though it may be too much below $200. If you spend that much it should perform

RE: Sarge Kernel Image Package Question

2006-06-29 Thread Seth Goodman
On Thursday, June 29, 2006 1:55 PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > So this isn't installed by default? No? Why not?! Because! On Thursday, June 29, 2006 1:09 PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Ralph Katz wrote: > > I hope Etch will install the meta package by default. > > It does. Great news. Tha

proprietary kernel modules w/ kernel-package?

2006-06-29 Thread Kit Peters
For my job, I have to install 3M's proprietary touchscreen drivers (distributed as an SRPM) for MicroTouch USB touchscreens.  I am well aware that these screens are supported natively in the kernel; however, my experience with the in-kernel support (as of 2.6.12.3) for these touchscreens has been

font or face problem in emacs

2006-06-29 Thread H.S.
Hello, When I compile a program in emacs, I notice that I get some strange escape sequences in the compiler output window of emacs. For example, if my program is: #include int main(){ int i,j; std::cout << "Hellow Wrold!

RE: Sarge Kernel Image Package Question

2006-06-29 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 13:02 -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: > On Thursday, June 29, 2006 9:58 AM -0500, Ralph Katz wrote: > > On 06/29/2006, Linas Žvirblis wrote: > > > Why should it? Many people prefer to manually choose their > > > kernels, as this is not something you can upgrade at any given > > > t

RE: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

2006-06-29 Thread Chase James
Actually, I already tried dist-upgrading woody and it still gives me the aptitude broken package error. -Original Message- From: Stephen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 2:30 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

RE: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

2006-06-29 Thread Chase James
According to the Release Notes (http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/release-notes/ap-old-stuff.en.htm l#s-old-upgrade) I can't "aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade" until I upgrade all of my packages to the latest version of woody. If doing "apt-get dist-upgrade" without installing apt

Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

2006-06-29 Thread Stephen
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 01:18:57PM -0400 or thereabouts, Chase James wrote: > Andrew, > > Yes, I changed every mention of stable to woody so I could upgrade all of my > current woody packages before upgrading to sarge. Then I did apt-get update. Shouldn't that be 'apt-get dist-upgrade' ? -- Re

Flatbed Scanner

2006-06-29 Thread Redefined Horizons
Cany anyone recommend a good flatbed scanner for under $200.00 that they are currently using with a Debian box? Thanks, Scott Huey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge Kernel Image Package Question

2006-06-29 Thread Joey Hess
Ralph Katz wrote: > I hope Etch will install the meta package by default. It does. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Running KDE; how to change Gnome app single-click behaviour?

2006-06-29 Thread RParr
I am running KDE as desktop on Debian sid (AMD64). In the KDE control / Peripherals / Mouse I have set 'single click to open files and folders' How can I configure the Gnome apps (run from KDE desktop) to behave the same? I tried gnome-control-center. I was able to change somethings (eg Mou

Re: Debian over SATA.

2006-06-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu June 29 2006 09:51, jbmorla wrote: > I have a Bonzaï Debian ISO CD that boots in serial ata, > > But I don’t know where to upload it so that you can try it. If you happen to be using KDE it has a nifty little public file server applet you can dock into the taskbar. Then your friend (or an

RE: Sarge Kernel Image Package Question

2006-06-29 Thread Seth Goodman
On Thursday, June 29, 2006 9:58 AM -0500, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 06/29/2006, Linas Žvirblis wrote: > > > Why should it? Many people prefer to manually choose their > > kernels, as this is not something you can upgrade at any given > > time. It is not a problem either way - installing or removing a

Re: Why date command don't use my time zone ?

2006-06-29 Thread Bill Marcum
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:45:32AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > > (The following is based on my experience. I hope I'm not entirely wrong > in my understanding of how this works. :-) > > If you log in on a regular terminal (i.e. not in X at all) then > /etc/environmentis used. Mine looks like

Re: Projects IsoBuster v.Fraps v..Fraps

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RE: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

2006-06-29 Thread Chase James
Andrew, Yes, I changed every mention of stable to woody so I could upgrade all of my current woody packages before upgrading to sarge. Then I did apt-get update. Thanks for your help. -Original Message- From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Re: Debian over SATA.

2006-06-29 Thread jbmorla
Hi,   I have a Bonzaï Debian ISO CD that boots in serial ata, But I don’t know where to upload it so that you can try it.   Regards  

Re: Debian server support

2006-06-29 Thread Greg Madden
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:10:45 + (GMT) ZeroUno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I work in a small company where we have an internal > file/web/some-other-small-things server running Debian Sarge. It's a > "standard" PC used for server purposes, not a real server. > Now we're investigating the

Re: Grub question?

2006-06-29 Thread Bob McGowan
You may also need to be careful with how much space there is between the beginning of the disk and where your sda6 partition begins. Grub uses the BIOS for some (all?) of its disk access functionality and so it has the same limits on disk size that the BIOS has. I had this problem, because it

Re: How do I configure Audigy LS Soundcard? ALSA, Etch, 7.1 speaker

2006-06-29 Thread steef
Søren Christensen wrote: On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 12:02:17PM +0200, steef wrote: Søren Christensen wrote: On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:25:50AM +0200, steef wrote: Søren Christensen wrote: Hi, On my new computer I'm trying to set up my Audigy LS SoundBlaster sound

Re: Sarge Kernel Image Package Question

2006-06-29 Thread James Westby
On (29/06/06 10:57), Ralph Katz wrote: > On 06/29/2006, Linas ?virblis wrote: > > > Why should it? Many people prefer to manually choose their kernels, as > > this is not something you can upgrade at any given time. It is not a > > problem either way - installing or removing a meta package is not

Re: Sarge Kernel Image Package Question

2006-06-29 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/29/2006, Linas Žvirblis wrote: > Why should it? Many people prefer to manually choose their kernels, as > this is not something you can upgrade at any given time. It is not a > problem either way - installing or removing a meta package is not that > hard, is it? Hi Linas, You are correct t

Re: Sarge Kernel Image Package Question

2006-06-29 Thread Kenneth Bond
Great, thank you for your help. I knew there was something I was missing. From: Linas Žvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Sarge Kernel Image Package Question Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:48:09 +0300 Ralph Katz wrote: > Somehow the Debian Developers don't

FS quotas with ReiserFS

2006-06-29 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I am running multiple servers, each with various reiserFS partitions. On the fileserver (home dirs amongst others) I wish to enable quotas. The last time I looked, quota support for the 2.4 kernel was not available for Reiser partitions - is this still the case? Cheers, Pete. -- To

Re: config file for bittornado command-line options?

2006-06-29 Thread Jochen Schulz
Anonyma: > > I've been using the bittornado command-line clients on linux and I > want to know how to set --max_upload_rate --max_download_rate > --minport and --maxport somewhere like a home-directory dotfile so I > don't have to remember to set them every time I run the command. The easiest way

Re: How do I configure Audigy LS Soundcard? ALSA, Etch, 7.1 speaker

2006-06-29 Thread Søren Christensen
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 12:02:17PM +0200, steef wrote: > Søren Christensen wrote: > > >On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:25:50AM +0200, steef wrote: > > > > > >>Søren Christensen wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>On my new computer I'm trying to set up my Audigy LS SoundBlaster > >>>soundcard

Re: Sarge Kernel Image Package Question

2006-06-29 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Ralph Katz wrote: > Somehow the Debian Developers don't see this as a problem (having to > manually install the meta package). I reported this in March [1] when > it appeared to me to be a problem many users would have since the meta > package, kernel-image-2.6-686, was /not/ installed in the de

Re: Sarge Kernel Image Package Question

2006-06-29 Thread Ralph Katz
> Kenneth Bond wrote: > >> I was under the impression that running apt-get update, apt-get upgrade >> would upgrade my installed kernel packages - for example from >> kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686===> kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686? Or do I need to >> perform a manual kernel-image package installation when n

Re: lexmark E230

2006-06-29 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello! following the tip from Arafangion, I tried other drivers. Finally I configured the Lexmark E230 using CUPS and the HP Laserjet driver. The E230 printer is working fine now. Regards Marcelo On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 11:23 +1000, Arafangion wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Marcelo Chiapparini

Re: K3b - CD-RW Question

2006-06-29 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
LeVA wrote: 2006. június 12. 20:42, John Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: I want to use the CD-RW drive in my Linux server for backup. I have installed K3b and am able to burn CDs and read them after the burn. But I have some remaining issues> KDE on a server? That'

MPlayer and Debian Sarge (was: Mplayer won't play dvd! (was: dvd movie playing))

2006-06-29 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hallo. I'm reporting the procedure I followed to install successfully (it seems) mplayer. Bye, Rodolfo -- Operating system: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 ("Sarge") r2. After the Debian base installation, I had chosen the manual packages selection and

Re: network: how to name interfaces ?

2006-06-29 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, how to name network interfaces ? My unique wireless card contines to receive changing interface names like eth1 or eth2 ..etc.. : how to fix it ? Cheers, Bruno Bruno you can do it in the /etc/network/interfaces and it is documented in the Debian documentatio

RE: Enable smtp mail server

2006-06-29 Thread Jean-Sebastien Pilon
# netstat -ln > -Original Message- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of T > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 12:07 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Enable smtp mail server > > Hi, > > Why my postfix smtp server is not receiving connections? > > $ telnet loca

config file for bittornado command-line options?

2006-06-29 Thread Anonyma
I've been using the bittornado command-line clients on linux and I want to know how to set --max_upload_rate --max_download_rate --minport and --maxport somewhere like a home-directory dotfile so I don't have to remember to set them every time I run the command. I have a ~/.BitTornado directory bu

Re: Printer setup!

2006-06-29 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Operating system: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 "Sarge". >> >> After the Debian base installation, I had chosen the manual >> packages selection and installed the following packages: >> >> make gcc

Re: Slow Konsole GUI

2006-06-29 Thread David
Thanks for the advice Florian. Actually the solution was much simpler. I had been displaying a jpeg on a transparent background and this was what was slowing everything down. Eye candy removed and everything was back as it was before. Shame, I quite like eye candy, it would be nice to have that

RE: Debian over SATA.

2006-06-29 Thread Bill English
Yesterday I installed Sarge on an SATA RAID array using a 3ware RAID controller. The installer found the drives with no problems and all drivers were there "out of the box". I was very surprised. -Bill -Original Message- From: andres dueñas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June

Re: X default fonts

2006-06-29 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:50:00AM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > This is a really un-optimal solution, but if you edit your > /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, you can change the order that fonts are > preferred (just search for the tags). Move the fonts that > are more readable nearer to the top. Unfor

Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

2006-06-29 Thread David Baron
>>> On (28/06/06 21:48), David Baron wrote: >> > Then installed the nvidia-glx. >> > >> > Did not work. The libglx.so, etc were not installed anywhere I (or the >> > xorg.conf) could find them. I will check again when the locate db is >> > updated. Reinstalled the nvidia run meanwhile. >> >> dpkg -

Re: Sarge Kernel Image Package Question

2006-06-29 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Kenneth Bond wrote: > I was under the impression that running apt-get update, apt-get upgrade > would upgrade my installed kernel packages - for example from > kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686===> kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686? Or do I need to > perform a manual kernel-image package installation when new kerne

Debian over SATA.

2006-06-29 Thread andres dueñas
Dear friends of Debian community, My landing to this distribution has been, how to call it...an emergency landing! I address to you looking for your support and experience as I am immerse in the final step of an applicants selection to a job which I consider vital to my career. I am

Re: setting camera parameters from Linux

2006-06-29 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 23:44 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > I have been digikam recently to grab photos from Canon A520 and it has > been working wonderfully. This is on Debian Etch. > > I was wondering, is there any application in Linux that will allow me to > set parameters in a digital camer

Sarge Kernel Image Package Question

2006-06-29 Thread Kenneth Bond
Hello, I am hoping that you can help me. I currently manage several Debian GNU/Linux servers which act as high volume intranet servers for a large global consulting firm. All of these servers are running Sarge. Before Tuesday, each of these servers were running the kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 (2.

Re: Printer setup!

2006-06-29 Thread Arafangion
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm new with Debian, I've only been using it for a few weeks now. MandrakeLinux would immediately recognize and set up my Epson Stylus C20UX printer, whereas Debian Sarge does not seem to see it. I could no

Re: Printer setup!

2006-06-29 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm new with Debian, I've only been using it for a few weeks now. > MandrakeLinux would immediately recognize and set up my > Epson Stylus C20UX printer, whereas Debian Sarge does not > seem to see it. > I could not get any help googling around. > Pleas

eth0: flipped to 10baseT appears on login prompt

2006-06-29 Thread Mikko Fallenius
I have just installed Debian 3.1 (sarge) on an IBM Thinkpad 760E with the Debian installation floppies. There's a 3com EtherLink III 3C589B PCMCIA adapter and when the system boots and the login prompt appears a message "eth0: flipped to 10baseT" appears twice and messes up the login prompt. You c

Re: hw_random module cannot be loaded

2006-06-29 Thread Kit Peters
The first thing I'd do is try upgrading to a 2.6 kernel.  It may be that the hardware RNG you have isn't supported by 2.4.27. On 6/28/06, Malcolm E. Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I cannot load the hw-random module. Can anyone give me advice on what to do. ThanksI am running a standalone desktop

[Solved] Re: Recent changes to python packages: how to import?

2006-06-29 Thread Magnus Therning
It was solved by new versions of packages a day later. You gotta love Debian :-) /M On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 00:16:58 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: >I used to be able to use > > from elementtree.ElementTree import parse > >After the recent flurry of updates to python packages this results in >the

Re: How do I configure Audigy LS Soundcard? ALSA, Etch, 7.1 speaker

2006-06-29 Thread steef
Søren Christensen wrote: On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:25:50AM +0200, steef wrote: Søren Christensen wrote: Hi, On my new computer I'm trying to set up my Audigy LS SoundBlaster soundcard. I have run alsaconf several times, chosing the snd-ca0106 drivermodule. Alsaconf has found these

Re: Why Debian3.1 is slower so much than FreeBSD6.1 in our test?

2006-06-29 Thread Joris Huizer
You can tweak hard disk settings with hdparm, that might improve performance a lot (have a look at http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html if you are unfamiliar with it) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: Fwd: Debian sarge 3.1\apache2 not surpport cgi

2006-06-29 Thread Srinidhi B S
Hi, On 6/26/06, Rocky Ou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Srinidhi, Thank you very much for your help:) I got my cgi script up and runing on my pc now. Glad to be of help here. :) Srinidhi. -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) B S Srinidhi - against HTML email X www

Re: Xorg cpu usage

2006-06-29 Thread gustavo halperin
Noup, I don't use screen savers, more over the Laptop was close, I mean the computer 'On' but with the screen close. Thank you, Gustavo Halperin Lars Boegild Thomsen wrote: gustavo halperin wrote: At the same time the "Xorg" process was using 95% of the CPU. After few minutes of use

Re: Why Debian3.1 is slower so much than FreeBSD6.1 in our test?

2006-06-29 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 29.06.2006 at 10:50 +0800, Leo Huang wrote: > Any comment is welcome! Just wondering whether you'd tried changing the filesystem on the Debian system, or tweaking the parameters for it? This is one obvious difference between your two setups, given that FreeBSD is using ufs. ext3 fl

Re: Xorg cpu usage

2006-06-29 Thread Lars Boegild Thomsen
gustavo halperin wrote: > At the same time the "Xorg" process was using 95% of the CPU. > After few minutes of use the computer, the system back to normal > temperature (between 49-51C), but What happens ? Why if I live the Linux > without use for some hours the "Xorg" came to use all the CPU ??

Re: How do I configure Audigy LS Soundcard? ALSA, Etch, 7.1 speaker

2006-06-29 Thread Søren Christensen
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:25:50AM +0200, steef wrote: > Søren Christensen wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >On my new computer I'm trying to set up my Audigy LS SoundBlaster > >soundcard. > > > >I have run alsaconf several times, chosing the snd-ca0106 drivermodule. > > > >Alsaconf has found these cards: >

Xorg cpu usage

2006-06-29 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello I live the past night the Laptop (Toshiba Portege R100, Pentium M) on during all the night and in the morning the temperature was 67C. I take this information from a file "/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature". At the same time the "Xorg" process was using 95% of the CPU. After few