adding fonts to system

2006-09-18 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
hi. i have a slew of fonts from my office machines (macs) & would like to know if it's possible to add these to my debian system (etch). i checked the howtos, but they seem more interested in display fonts for x - what i want is to make more fonts accessible from gimp & openoffice, et c

Re: Watching google videos?

2006-09-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:35:18PM +, W. Borgert wrote: > Hi, > > somebody sent me a link to a video on google*, but Firefox > only says "Click here to download plugin" and on clicking > "No suitable plugins were found". Yes, I know, it's flash and > flash is neither free nor does it work on m

Re: Using wine w/ Lotus Notes

2006-09-18 Thread Dmitri Minaev
On 9/18/06, Romulo Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I use Notes on my job and I could emulate it using wine. Unfortunatelly, an expected termination is happening when I open emails w/ some attached files. Can somebody tell me please how I can fix it? Sorry for not being able to address your pro

Re: Watching google videos?

2006-09-18 Thread Peter Thomassen
W. Borgert schrieb am Montag, 18. September 2006 23:35: > But maybe there is a way to download the video and watch it > with mplayer or another free program? Thanks in advance! On the right hand side of the video page, there's a Download button (at least in the German version) which leads to an av

Re: Disk/filesystem scan utility

2006-09-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 18 September 2006 16:46, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sunday 17 September 2006 17:15, J Merritt wrote: > >> What disk/filesystem utilities are available for scanning physical hard > >> drives and filesystems for physical errors, filesystem errors, etc. in > >> Debia

Re: current mobo recommendation

2006-09-18 Thread Derek
nforce4 *On 9/18/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1On 09/18/06 18:10, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:> Hi,>> Anybody have a *current* (i.e. gettable from newegg) mobo recommendation?>> Beats having to wade through miles of reviews that never mention Linux

Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem

2006-09-18 Thread Colin
Peter Thomassen wrote: > I already knew that, but according to the manufacturer's specification, it's > not an S-ATA drive, but an UDMA-100 drive. That's why I firstly didn't take > that into account. > > Is this possible at all? Or does it mean that either the model number or the > specification

Re: Disk/filesystem scan utility

2006-09-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday 17 September 2006 17:15, J Merritt wrote: What disk/filesystem utilities are available for scanning physical hard drives and filesystems for physical errors, filesystem errors, etc. in Debian? fsck for filesystem integrity, and badblocks for bad blocks. and sma

Re: following an ssh chain

2006-09-18 Thread Wulfy
Marty Landman wrote: I've got 3 'nix boxes on my office lan. Sometimes I'll open an ssh session to one of them from my windoz workstation, then ssh from that session to another, then the the third. Anyone know of a simple way for me to know where I'm at? IOW hostname will always tell me which

Re: current mobo recommendation

2006-09-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/18/06 18:10, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Anybody have a *current* (i.e. gettable from newegg) mobo recommendation? > > Beats having to wade through miles of reviews that never mention Linux. 32-bit, 64-bit, Intel fanboy, AMD fan boy, game

current mobo recommendation

2006-09-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Anybody have a *current* (i.e. gettable from newegg) mobo recommendation? Beats having to wade through miles of reviews that never mention Linux. H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stopped jobs

2006-09-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 17 September 2006 22:43, George Adamides wrote: > sometimes when i try to logout from my linux system i get the following > message: #There are stopped jobs. > > what does this mean and how do i handle this issue? Type fg to bring to the foreground any program you have running in the ba

Re: How to measure stability?

2006-09-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
James Westby wrote: On (16/09/06 18:51), Bruno Buys wrote: Is there any way to objectively measure stability among debian flavours? I mean, does anybody know of a webpage or project or something to build statistics on bug reports? I'm asking this because every now and then we have threads as

Re: Disabling some services indivually and easily (nut)

2006-09-18 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Summary: I wanted an administratively easy way to disable a service from running, something that could be specified at the LILO or GRUB boot prompt. I proposed to disable this service in run level 3, while still leaving it running at level 2. This would mean disabling the service

Re: Watching google videos?

2006-09-18 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/18/2006 09:00 PM, W. Borgert wrote: > Hi, > > somebody sent me a link to a video on google*, but Firefox > only says "Click here to download plugin" and on clicking > "No suitable plugins were found". Yes, I know, it's flash and > flash is neither free nor does it work on my machine (amd64).

Problems with gnome-terminal after upgrade

2006-09-18 Thread edwardsa
I just upgraded a laptop running stable to testing and the gnome terminal seems partially broken. There is now task bar with "File Edit ..." Also, the font is rather large and stuck. Is there a config file through which I can change this? Thanks, Art Edwards -- Arthur H. Edwards Senior Rese

Problems with upgrade to etch

2006-09-18 Thread edwardsa
I have just finished upgrading a laptop to etch and there are two remaining problems. 1. The gnome-terminal has no top panel with "File Edit ... " and only one font. 2. I cannot install xemacs21. I receive the following errors: rlvssledwardsa1:/home/edwardsa# apt-get install xemacs21 Reading p

following an ssh chain

2006-09-18 Thread Marty Landman
I've got 3 'nix boxes on my office lan. Sometimes I'll open an ssh session to one of them from my windoz workstation, then ssh from that session to another, then the the third. Anyone know of a simple way for me to know where I'm at? IOW hostname will always tell me which box my session is cur

Re: Watching google videos?

2006-09-18 Thread Owen Heisler
On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 21:35 +, W. Borgert wrote: > Hi, > > somebody sent me a link to a video on google*, but Firefox > only says "Click here to download plugin" and on clicking > "No suitable plugins were found". Yes, I know, it's flash and > flash is neither free nor does it work on my machi

Serial mouse config

2006-09-18 Thread Andre Perrotta
Sorry, I forgot to write down the subjectSorryHi, I'm trying to get a serial mouse to work but haven't had any sucess.It is conected to /dev/ttyS0but when I do:cat /dev/ttyS0  it doesn't responds to my mouse actionsI'm sure it is /dev/ttyS0 cause it used to work with earlier dists i had instal

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2006-09-18 Thread Andre Perrotta
Hi, I'm trying to get a serial mouse to work but haven't had any sucess.It is conected to /dev/ttyS0but when I do:cat /dev/ttyS0  it doesn't responds to my mouse actionsI'm sure it is /dev/ttyS0 cause it used to work with earlier dists i had installed in my computer I'm running Demudi 1.2.1 with th

Re: Watching google videos?

2006-09-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/18/06 16:35, W. Borgert wrote: > Hi, > > somebody sent me a link to a video on google*, but Firefox > only says "Click here to download plugin" and on clicking > "No suitable plugins were found". Yes, I know, it's flash and > flash is neither fr

Re: Disk/filesystem scan utility

2006-09-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/18/06 20:10, J Merritt wrote: > >> Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> fsck (FileSystemChecK) is the canonical tool. - - - - > >> Best done on an unmounted filesystem, so if you need to run it >> against / you should boot into a Live CD and run

Re: Disk/filesystem scan utility

2006-09-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/18/06 18:05, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 17 September 2006 17:15, J Merritt wrote: >> What disk/filesystem utilities are available for scanning >> physical hard drives and filesystems for physical errors, >> filesystem errors, etc. in Debian?

Re: Disk/filesystem scan utility

2006-09-18 Thread J Merritt
Ron Johnson wrote:fsck (FileSystemChecK) is the canonical tool. - - - -Best done on an unmounted filesystem, so if you need to run itagainst / you should boot into a Live CD and run it from there.Is this a general question, or do you have a possibly bad disk?Oftentimes, when I boot the

Watching google videos?

2006-09-18 Thread W. Borgert
Hi, somebody sent me a link to a video on google*, but Firefox only says "Click here to download plugin" and on clicking "No suitable plugins were found". Yes, I know, it's flash and flash is neither free nor does it work on my machine (amd64). But maybe there is a way to download the video and wa

Debain with Sata & SCSI = boot problem

2006-09-18 Thread George A. Michalopoulos [AKA Lewis]
hello all, i had a debian (etch) box, which was booting from a scsi disk. everything was ok, until i mounted some sata disks on a pci controller. Unpredictable, debian "sees" sata disks, before scsi, sometimes.. This causes Debian not to find /dev/sda3 which should be mounted to / after several

Re: text/Fonts missing in certain apps ???

2006-09-18 Thread anthony
hi Liam,yeah, loads - here's the entries from /var/log/Xorg.0.log   :(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc".    Entry deleted from font path.    (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"). (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not e

Re: eth0 (Realtek 8139) suddenly not working

2006-09-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 10:49:11PM +0200, Peter Thomassen wrote: > George Borisov schrieb am Montag, 18. September 2006 15:36: > > Did it by any chance stop working after you rebooted into Debian > > from Windows? > > > > I ask because I have a sound card that disappears if I do this. > > It will

Re: Disk/filesystem scan utility

2006-09-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 17 September 2006 17:15, J Merritt wrote: > What disk/filesystem utilities are available for scanning physical hard > drives and filesystems for physical errors, filesystem errors, etc. in > Debian? fsck for filesystem integrity, and badblocks for bad blocks. -- Paul Johnson Email and

Re: eth0 (Realtek 8139) suddenly not working

2006-09-18 Thread Peter Thomassen
George Borisov schrieb am Montag, 18. September 2006 15:36: > Did it by any chance stop working after you rebooted into Debian > from Windows? > > I ask because I have a sound card that disappears if I do this. > It will only work if I shut down and then boot into Linux. Hey, thanks, that did the

Re: Writing to vfat /media/sda without sudo

2006-09-18 Thread marc
Mathias Brodala said... > Hello Marc. > > > I have a mount defined in fstab as follows > > > > /dev/sda8 /media/sda8 vfatdefaults0 0 > > > > All fine and dandy, but I would like to make this partition universally > > available for writing; currently it's only ava

Re: Process starts even though I stop it

2006-09-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:39:25AM +0200, Erik Persson wrote: > Hello! > > I'm running sarge. > I've installed tinyproxy in a vserver. I don't want it to run all the > time though, so I stop it when I'm done using it. > There are S-links to /etc/init.d/tinyproxy in all the relevant > /etc/rc*.d d

Re: 3.1 r2 i386 install hangs on IBM ThinkPad A30p

2006-09-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
Henry Sobotka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying to install off a CD set onto a partition on a new 80G HD hangs > with a blank screen right after the first line after starting syslogd > and another demon (appears and vanishes too fast to read). Tried booting > with the debug flags and floppy=t

Re: who decides on naming Epiphany 'GNOME We Browser'?

2006-09-18 Thread José Alburquerque
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, Under the Help menu, on the about opetion, I see that it's stated 'GNOME Web Browser' instead of 'Epiphany'. Is this an upstream decision or Debian. The problem is that this behaviour is inconsistant since it's not the same with gedit, nautilus, gcalctool, ... The

Re: 3.1 r2 i386 install hangs on IBM ThinkPad A30p

2006-09-18 Thread Glen Yu
Henry Sobotka wrote: Trying to install off a CD set onto a partition on a new 80G HD hangs with a blank screen right after the first line after starting syslogd and another demon (appears and vanishes too fast to read). Tried booting with the debug flags and floppy=thinkpad but makes no diff.

Re: mouse not working after kernel rebuild

2006-09-18 Thread Fred J.
"Fred J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HiI built 2 kernels, the second one in the line below makes the mousenot active and I am trying to find out what feature needs settingin-order to activate the mouse, by comparing with known good kernel,using diff.the first is the good one, the second has the mou

Re: Compiling CPU-optimized packages

2006-09-18 Thread José Alburquerque
Arthur Marsh wrote: Adam Porter wrote, On 2006-09-18 19:12: So, is there any way to set compiler flags in the Debian package building process other than using apt-build or editing debian/rules? look at the package: pentium-builder "Replaces gcc, cc, and g++ with scripts that build pentiu

Re: eth0 (Realtek 8139) suddenly not working

2006-09-18 Thread Bill Smith
Peter Thomassen wrote: Bill Smith schrieb am Montag, 18. September 2006 18:09: worth replacing the card, preferably with a 3com or intel based one. That's not that easy as it's a notebook ... Can you turn it off in the bios and try a slot in one? -- Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: system is up 1 year

2006-09-18 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 9/16/06, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am 2006-09-15 09:47:12, schrieb Jason Dunsmore: > Can you give some references? Thanks. What references do you want? I was wondering if there were references that support what you said about security and Linux uptime (see below). Or w

How works bind9 package in Debian?

2006-09-18 Thread Eduardo
Hi, I'm running Bind9 a few months and everything is right...but I have changed the rndc config file. And I did: - Removed the rndc.key in /etc/bind - Created rndc.conf with the output of rndc-confgen - Copied the commented lines to named.conf - Tried to run 'rndc status' But its showing me this

Re: eth0 (Realtek 8139) suddenly not working

2006-09-18 Thread Peter Thomassen
Bill Smith schrieb am Montag, 18. September 2006 18:09: > worth replacing the card, preferably with a 3com or intel based one. That's not that easy as it's a notebook ... Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

DNS queries with UDP and TCP

2006-09-18 Thread Alejandro
Hi people, I have some low rate problems in my network and I think it could be the DNS servers from my ISP I use in my proxy (squid) installed in a Debian Sarge machine, they are open DNS's and they could have a big traffic load. But also I have read on the web that some common resolution queries

Removing package from apt-build repository

2006-09-18 Thread José Alburquerque
Hi all. Anyone out there using apt-build? When I began using it, I tried to "rebuild" glibc without knowing that debian already provided a customized glibc for an i686 processor (like mine), so I installed the one provided by debian. However, whenever I issue an "apt-build update-source" I

Re: SATA Drives and 2.6.x (WAS: Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem)

2006-09-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
Bill Smith wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: So, SATA drives will 'just work' with a 2.6.x kernel? I am running testing here on a 200G sata drive on an Asus P5P800 no problems at all, though strangely grub would not install, but lilo did, so it is fine. It is an Intel ICH5 controller. Thanks to al

who decides on naming Epiphany 'GNOME We Browser'?

2006-09-18 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, Under the Help menu, on the about opetion, I see that it's stated 'GNOME Web Browser' instead of 'Epiphany'. Is this an upstream decision or Debian. The problem is that this behaviour is inconsistant since it's not the same with gedit, nautilus, gcalctool, ... There's some other inconsistency

Re: removing just-installed kernel

2006-09-18 Thread H.S.
Fred J. wrote: Hi I am compiling a 2.6.16 and have /boot full of files from kernels I am trying-and-erroring. how do I reomve kernels I just installed. This will list the kernels currently installed: $> dpkg -l linux-image* | grep ^ii The second column will list the package names of the corr

Re: arts / CPU overload, Debian Etch, KDE 3.5.4

2006-09-18 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Bernd Kloss wrote: > Hello, > > what is the reason for the warning 'CPU overload' by artsd-Server? No sound > running, no multimedia. > > What can be done? > > Thank You > > > ___ > Viren-Scan für Ihren PC! Jetzt für jeden.

Instalation Hangs to Loading module sd_mod for scsi disk support

2006-09-18 Thread Bietu
Hi Iam trying to install Debian 3.1r3 to my computer. And it freeze at very beging in the first slider goes to 92% and then it stops to this: Loading module sd_mod for scsi disk support I think that this is very bad cos it seems that it doesent like my sata raid. For me it would be okey cos i

Re: system is up 1 year

2006-09-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-09-15 09:47:12, schrieb Jason Dunsmore: > Can you give some references? Thanks. What references do you want? You can check once per day and download the new Kernel sources or diffs if availlable. This is much faster thewn waiting on a Debian Kernel, and, - you can build it with make

Re: rss2email for mediawiki changes feed that requieres authentication

2006-09-18 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
On September 18, 2006 at 6:10PM +0200, a_d (at gmx.at) wrote: > at work we have a private mediawiki installation that requieres > authentication and i'm searching for a solution to automatically fetch > the changes rss feed and distribute it via email to my colleagues. > in the progress i stumbled

mouse not working after kernel rebuild

2006-09-18 Thread Fred J.
HiI built 2 kernels, the second one in the line below makes the mousenot active and I am trying to find out what feature needs settingin-order to activate the mouse, by comparing with known good kernel,using diff.the first is the good one, the second has the mouse not working.but I really don't kno

Re: Compiling CPU-optimized packages

2006-09-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
Adam Porter wrote, On 2006-09-18 19:12: I'm sure this has been covered before, but I've dug through Google and /usr/share/doc and I can't find a solution. Forgive me if I missed the answer. I'm trying to compile Firefox with "-march=athlon-xp". (Please spare me any lecture about whether it's w

Re: removing just-installed kernel

2006-09-18 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:12:44AM -0700, Fred J. wrote: ... > debian:/boot# dpkg -P vmlinuz-2.6.16.060917 > dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove vmlinuz-2.6.16.060917 which isn't > installed. >

Re: SATA Drives and 2.6.x (WAS: Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem)

2006-09-18 Thread Bill Smith
Marc Shapiro wrote: Wackojacko wrote: AFAIK, this is just due to the difference between how 2.4 and 2.6 kernels deal with SATA drives. 2.4 used ide/scsi emulation so the appeared as IDE drives, i.e. 'h'da etc. 2.6 has native SATA support and thus the drives are 's'da etc. So, SATA drives

removing just-installed kernel

2006-09-18 Thread Fred J.
HiI am compiling a 2.6.16 and have /boot full of files from kernels I am trying-and-erroring. how do I reomve kernels I just installed.**[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /boot/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot$ ls -ltotal 13753-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   65416

rss2email for mediawiki changes feed that requieres authentication

2006-09-18 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi at work we have a private mediawiki installation that requieres authentication and i'm searching for a solution to automatically fetch the changes rss feed and distribute it via email to my colleagues. in the progress i stumbled across rss2email bu

Re: eth0 (Realtek 8139) suddenly not working

2006-09-18 Thread Bill Smith
steef wrote: Peter Thomassen wrote: Hi, I'm still introducing a friend of mine to Linux by phone. Yesterday and the days before, his Realtek 8139 NCI worked out of the box using DHCP. Today, no IP is received over DHCP; instead, the boot script does several tries after different intervals and

arts / CPU overload, Debian Etch, KDE 3.5.4

2006-09-18 Thread Bernd Kloss
Hello, what is the reason for the warning 'CPU overload' by artsd-Server? No sound running, no multimedia. What can be done? Thank You ___ Viren-Scan für Ihren PC! Jetzt für jeden. Sofort, online und kostenlos. Gleich testen

Sid fontconfig broken? (SOLVED)

2006-09-18 Thread David Baron
>fc-cache can no longer write its caches. This means that KDE and such takes a >ridiculous amount of time coming up at all and each app stalls as well trying >to get at the fonts. >I tried downgrading to the "testing" version. Did not help. >Anyone else had the problem? Fixed it? One of these

getting beagle to use mailcap

2006-09-18 Thread Micha Feigin
How do I get beagle to use mailcap or something similar to find out what programs to open files with? I tried to open a pdf file, it is recognized properly as such but strace shows that beagle looks /usr/share/mime and then tries to use evince (failing since it was not installed), without checking

Re: Webcam users with debian

2006-09-18 Thread George Borisov
Dimitri Chausson wrote: > Hi, > > I want to use a Webcam with debian. Have been looking for documentation > yesterday. I found the howto and some user reports very useful. However, > going to the store, I noticed that there is a plenty of different models who > are not reported to work and the

Re: Disk/filesystem scan utility

2006-09-18 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/17/2006 08:20 PM, J Merritt wrote: > What disk/filesystem utilities are available for scanning physical hard > drives and filesystems for physical errors, filesystem errors, etc. in > Debian? Adding to others' suggestions, look at smartmontools: > $ apt-cache show smartmontools > Descripti

Re: eth0 (Realtek 8139) suddenly not working

2006-09-18 Thread George Borisov
Peter Thomassen wrote: > > I don't think so because on the same system, Windows XP is installed where > the card can be used without a problem (with DCHP, too). Did it by any chance stop working after you rebooted into Debian from Windows? I ask because I have a sound card that disappears if I d

Re: Using wine w/ Lotus Notes

2006-09-18 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi!}}Why are you using wine to run Lotus notes? Lotus notes 7 is available for Linux...Well, Lotus Notes 7 for linuxwaw, if you have 'bout  300 MB Ram free (Websphere core!!) ...Lotus Notes  7 for  Linux is not  so light, and it has not Admin and Developing tool. Only Client. I'm a Domino/Notes

Re: text/Fonts missing in certain apps ???

2006-09-18 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:03:13 +0100 anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Debian-users, > > I have been using Debian etch for some six months and mostly it has > been going well. > > However, after a few recent changes (I'm not sure which one caused the > problem so I'm going to list them) I

Re: Using wine w/ Lotus Notes

2006-09-18 Thread Mirto Silvio Busico
Bart Schelstraete wrote: > > On 9/18/06, *Romulo Sousa* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I use Notes on my job and I could emulate it using wine. > Unfortunatelly, an expected termination is happening when I open > emails w/ some attached files

Re: Boot messages

2006-09-18 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
El Diumenge 17 Setembre 2006 09:06, Ron Johnson va escriure: > Edit /etc/default/bootlogd so that "BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes". Next time > you reboot, such messages should be in /var/log/boot. Thanks! Finally I can see boot errors :) - Mon Sep 18 16:52:28 2006: Configuring network interfaces.

Re: Dell Ispiron with Etch netinst 17092006

2006-09-18 Thread Kent West
Zhengguo Xu wrote: > > I'm a completely Linux newbie. I've been reading some Linux guide for > some time now and I thought I should give a try. So I downloaded > Debian Etch daily builds (17-09-2006) netinstall cd and tried a > dual-boot installation on my Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop. I was able to >

xine colormap problem

2006-09-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
I've just installed debian sarge on a new computer, and it mostly went OK. However, I'm having a strange problem playing video files, which I generally do on xine. This problem occurs with other flavors, though, e.g., kmplayer, gxine, oxine, etc. The *first* time I run xine in a given X sessio

Re: Using wine w/ Lotus Notes

2006-09-18 Thread Romulo Sousa
Because it's part of the standardization of my companyunfortunatelly! :-P On 9/18/06, Bart Schelstraete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/18/06, Romulo Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I use Notes on my job and I could emulate it using wine. > Unfortunatelly, an expected termin

text/Fonts missing in certain apps ???

2006-09-18 Thread anthony
Dear Debian-users,I have been using Debian etch for some six months and mostly it has been going well. However, after a few recent changes (I'm not sure which one caused the problem so I'm going to list them) I lost the text in the menus of several applications : ArdourAudacityXmmsThe apps work, b

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Re: Problem with soundcard

2006-09-18 Thread Margiolas Christos
yes I have a amd turion x2Christos

Re: Using wine w/ Lotus Notes

2006-09-18 Thread Bart Schelstraete
On 9/18/06, Romulo Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all,I use Notes on my job and I could emulate it using wine.Unfortunatelly, an expected termination is happening when I openemails w/ some attached files. Can somebody tell me please how I canfix it?  Why are you using wine to run Lotus notes?

Using wine w/ Lotus Notes

2006-09-18 Thread Romulo Sousa
Hi all, I use Notes on my job and I could emulate it using wine. Unfortunatelly, an expected termination is happening when I open emails w/ some attached files. Can somebody tell me please how I can fix it? Thanks, Romulo Sousa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

kernel panic when trying to netboot ixp425

2006-09-18 Thread Vinod L R
Hi,I am facing an kernel panic issue with ixp board,when trying to netboot it with a custom ramdisk image.The board works fine when booting from the Compact flash. when netbooting with custom ramdisk image(with the same contents present in CF) it gives me a kernel panic.my ramdisk size is o

Re: netgear ethernet support in 2.6.16

2006-09-18 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 05:08:31PM -0700, Fred J. wrote: > > > Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 02:09:13PM -0700, Fred J. wrote: > > > > > > Albert Dengg wrote: --

fglrx+AMD64+nforce3mobo

2006-09-18 Thread Klaus Imgrund
Hello, this was supposed to go to the maintainer but did not get accepted by the server. Just dropping it here in case somebody stumbles over the same problem and is looking for a hint - I know I did. This is probably of limited interest and furthermore not really a problem with the driver its

Re: eth0 (Realtek 8139) suddenly not working

2006-09-18 Thread Peter Thomassen
steef schrieb am Montag, 18. September 2006 11:35: > maybe a stupid remark, but could this be a hardware-fault of the realtek > ethernetcard? i remember that in my machines two gave up for unclear > reasons. I don't think so because on the same system, Windows XP is installed where the card can be

Compiling CPU-optimized packages

2006-09-18 Thread Adam Porter
I'm sure this has been covered before, but I've dug through Google and /usr/share/doc and I can't find a solution. Forgive me if I missed the answer. I'm trying to compile Firefox with "-march=athlon-xp". (Please spare me any lecture about whether it's worth it, I am experimenting.) Although it

Re: Re: Finding all user files

2006-09-18 Thread JaMiElEiGh2oo2
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VPN, Dial-up

2006-09-18 Thread Yura
Hi, I had one problem with connecting to the internet through VPN. I am connected to the local network, a network is configured for DHCP. Use Etch. A return on iternet is through VPN. For creation of connecting utillize pptp-linux. Create connecting of #pon tunnel. Creating connecting is

Re: eth0 (Realtek 8139) suddenly not working

2006-09-18 Thread steef
Peter Thomassen wrote: Hi, I'm still introducing a friend of mine to Linux by phone. Yesterday and the days before, his Realtek 8139 NCI worked out of the box using DHCP. Today, no IP is received over DHCP; instead, the boot script does several tries after different intervals and finally gives

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RE: Disk/filesystem scan utility

2006-09-18 Thread Roman Laubinger
--- J Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > What disk/filesystem utilities are available for > scanning physical hard drives and filesystems for > physical errors, filesystem errors, etc. in Debian? Hi, you are looking for fsck --> man fsck for details, supported filesystems etc. Cheers, Roman

Re: stopped jobs

2006-09-18 Thread Mumia W.
On 09/18/2006 12:43 AM, George Adamides wrote: sometimes when i try to logout from my linux system i get the following message: #There are stopped jobs. what does this mean and how do i handle this issue? Type "jobs" to find out what they are. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stopped jobs

2006-09-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
George Adamides: > > sometimes when i try to logout from my linux system i get the following > message: > #There are stopped jobs. > > what does this mean and how do i handle this issue? Background: You can suspend jobs in a shell by pressing Ctrl+z or let them run in the background by starting

Re: FATAL: Module ide_cd not found.

2006-09-18 Thread Fred J.
"Mumia W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 09/17/2006 09:36 PM, Fred J. wrote:> I just booted with a newly custom compiled/installed 2.6.16 on my> debian/testing. the first suspicious lines in my /var/log/boot show> towards the end of the quoted section below;> [...]> Mon Sep 18 12:03:45 2006: Loadin

Re: stopped jobs

2006-09-18 Thread Michael Ott
Hello George! > sometimes when i try to logout from my linux system i get the following > message: > #There are stopped jobs. This means that you run applications (editor, applications start with "&" on the end) and you do not finish it. > what does this mean and how do i handle this issue? Try

Re: Disk/filesystem scan utility

2006-09-18 Thread Mumia W.
On 09/17/2006 07:15 PM, J Merritt wrote: What disk/filesystem utilities are available for scanning physical hard drives and filesystems for physical errors, filesystem errors, etc. in Debian? - Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check

Re: FATAL: Module ide_cd not found.

2006-09-18 Thread Mumia W.
On 09/17/2006 09:36 PM, Fred J. wrote: I just booted with a newly custom compiled/installed 2.6.16 on my debian/testing. the first suspicious lines in my /var/log/boot show towards the end of the quoted section below; [...] Mon Sep 18 12:03:45 2006: Loading modules... Mon Sep 18 12:03:45 2006:

eth1 is not up after kernel recompile

2006-09-18 Thread Fred J.
HiI just compiled 2.6.16 on testing but the /var/log/boot shows eth1 is not up and indead it is not up.Mon Sep 18 16:56:55 2006: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3Mon Sep 18 16:56:55 2006: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1

Re: Network connection doesn't work [SOLVED]

2006-09-18 Thread Martin Möller
* Martin Möller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [17-09-2006 08:56:29 +0200]: > The (xircom) card is found and bound to eth0. The LED on the card and > the DSL modem turns on and flashes correctly if I try to ping the modem > for example, but: DHCP assignment fails. If I give the card a static IP > address, I c