problem mount hard disk using loopback device

2006-12-27 Thread Trace Green
Hello, I have one question to ask: When I try to use Knoppix 5.0 liveCD, I can mount any of my partitoin using loopback device, that's say: mount -t vfat -o offset=`expr 234567821 "*" 512` /dev/hda /mnt/hda5 as an example. But in my own Debian system . I can't do that, error message is: /mo

Re: pppoe configuration - unable to ping outside

2006-12-27 Thread Anuj Singh
Telephone Line (ISP) ---> ---> [eth0, eth1 < [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 06:32:40PM +0100, Thilo Six wrote: > > > > > >>Anuj Singh wrote the following on 25.12.2006 06:28: > >> > >> > >> > >>>I have eth0 connected to my adsl router and eth1 to my local network. > >>>I c

Tv tuner

2006-12-27 Thread Pepo
Hi friends... I am interested in a tv tuner Dlink DUB-T210 but still have problems and doesn't work in my Etch and follow the HowTo of http://linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Em2880, I dont have the devices /dev/videoX. Can someone help me please? Use Someone tv tuner Dlink DUB-T210 in Debian? T

Re: update messages

2006-12-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 04:40:19AM +, Digby Tarvin wrote: > One other thing that I am unsure about is that aptitude reports a number > of packages being 'held back'. I havn't intentionally asked for this, > could it have occured automatically or have I unintentionally done > something when ini

Unidentified subject!

2006-12-27 Thread 4792645623
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Re: smooth upgrades

2006-12-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 04:05:31PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 22:48 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:04:46PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > You should take a look at my sources.list > > > > > > http://www.gregfolkert.net/files/sources.list > >

update messages

2006-12-27 Thread Digby Tarvin
I am trying to get up the courage to update my debian etch system after a few months of neglecting to do so, but am dreading the thought of some mishap leaving the system unusable. The system was installed back in April, and is on a Fujitsu P7120, and aptitude produces quite a long list of things

re: getting scanner to work

2006-12-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
http://www.sane-project.org/ is where to search for current status on what sane does and does not support. Also, unless I'm mistaken (entirely possible) a sane back end with a patch to support usb scanners needs downloading and installing and isn't in the debian repositories. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: postfix w/ SASL

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 07:12:06PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote.. > Today I'm trying to set up SASL with postfix for AUTH. > > I'm going through the postfix docs on how to set this up. > > Most of it doesn't seem to apply since the commands like > 'saslpasswd' are not available based on the te

Re: iTunes & Linux (Debian)

2006-12-27 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 19:38 -0600, Gnu_Raiz wrote: > For those looking for good flash players try some of the Iriver line, > they > support ogg, and some have FM radio available. I have about a 3 year > old > Iriver player which I adore, it even has direct encoding for other > devices. Bet

Re: iTunes & Linux (Debian)

2006-12-27 Thread Gnu_Raiz
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: MP3.com and pretty much anybody offering music in Vorbis. That is why I have been following the news about allofmp3.com, it seems that anyone who does not drink the **aa kool aide gets sued, and pressured. It's not like the artists are getting much more

Re: Multicast routing

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin Ross
Do you have to use dynamic routing? Will static routing work? If so, use smcroute. $ aptitude show smcroute Package: smcroute State: not installed Version: 0.93d-1 Priority: optional Section: net Maintainer: Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Uncompressed Size: 69.6k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6)

Re: postfix w/ SASL

2006-12-27 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 19:12 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about doing this via .deb? > Doesn't look like it will work or I'm missing a lot of something... Hi Tom, I've only managed to do this once before (on SUSE) and I wish I had written a howto based

Net Install with ndiswrapper

2006-12-27 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Does anyone have a way to do a net install using ndiswrapper to enable your network connection for the install? Whenever the installer asks for the network setup, it isn't even close to being in a state where I can download and compile ndiswrapper. Angelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

postfix w/ SASL

2006-12-27 Thread Tom Allison
Today I'm trying to set up SASL with postfix for AUTH. I'm going through the postfix docs on how to set this up. Most of it doesn't seem to apply since the commands like 'saslpasswd' are not available based on the testing installation. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about doing

sasl2 authentication on postfix

2006-12-27 Thread Tom Allison
Dec 27 19:34:00 alpha postfix/smtpd[3845]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No such file or directory Dec 27 19:34:00 alpha postfix/smtpd[3845]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No such file or directory D

Re: gdkwindow-x11.h: where is it?

2006-12-27 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Matt. Matt Zagrabelny, 27.12.2006 21:51: > On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 20:16 +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: >> I wanted to play around with the Mac-like menu bar patch for GTK today but >> stumbled upon a problem. Here’s a line of that patch: >> >> #include "gdk/x11/gdkwindow-x11.h" >> >> Now my qu

Re: Upgrading postgresql-8.0 to 8.1 (correction)

2006-12-27 Thread David Gaudine
Sorry, that's "pg_upgradecluster 8.0 main", not 8.1 David Gaudine wrote: I use postgresql 8.0, but since this is "local/obsolete" in Etch I want to upgrade to 8.1. I've already done this on a backup system, but I got a few warnings so I want to make sure I'm doing it right before I do it on my

Upgrading postgresql-8.0 to 8.1

2006-12-27 Thread David Gaudine
I use postgresql 8.0, but since this is "local/obsolete" in Etch I want to upgrade to 8.1. I've already done this on a backup system, but I got a few warnings so I want to make sure I'm doing it right before I do it on my main system. Here's what I did that seemed to work but gave some of warning

Multicast routing

2006-12-27 Thread Martin H. Ludwig
Hello! I have a problem with multicast routing with the following scenario: MP3-IP-Player (Netgear MP101): - 10.1.11.3/255.255.255.0 | |Ethernet | Linux-Router 1(Etch): - 10.1.11.1/255.255.255.0 - 10.1.10.10/255.255.255.255 | |OpenVPN | Linux-Router 2(Sarge): - 10.1.10.9/255.255.255.255 -

Re: can't change links in /dev

2006-12-27 Thread Bill
On Wed, 2006-27-12 at 19:21 +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Bill (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I currently have a link in /dev between hda, a dvd drive, and > > /dev/dvd: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-12-26 17:24 /dev/dvd -> hda > > > > I want to change the link so that it po

Re: Etch/raid/lvm2

2006-12-27 Thread Hal
Chris Searle wrote: 2) I read in the wiki/bts that grub doesn't like booting from a raid partition - but that lilo is OK. How does this work - say hda dies - how does the boot loader get found? I had this problem many days ago: one disk in my raid 1 array failed. I had to install grub by hand u

Re: Apt-get install to alternate directory

2006-12-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 02:48:55PM -0500, George Hein wrote: > you could also chroot into > >/target and run apt from inside the chroot. > > > I tried the chroot apt-get and it does work partially. > Some updates appear to run, but others, especially the kernel and > initrd.img fail to start/com

Re: debian wiki manual how-to

2006-12-27 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
On 12/27/06, Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 02:40:15PM -0600, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: > In case you guys don't know. > I have included some how-to's on debian wiki > Let me know if anything on it is incorrect Whilst I'm pleased that you've added the information

Re: debian wiki manual how-to

2006-12-27 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 03:30:21PM -0600, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: > Everything is easy to find. Easy index files, very easy to search. The wiki itself is searchable. > There isn't enough info on it to do any restructuring. Not yet at > least. Maybe in a year or two. yes there is. Every one

Re: Sound

2006-12-27 Thread Fritz Wettstein
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 09:50 +0100, Fritz Wettstein wrote: I just want to try Flightgear and unfortunately it depends on sound capabilities and I'm stuck once more. Flightgear reports: ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave open /dev/[sound/]ds

SOLVED: Re: Problems of loading Tomcat at OS-startup

2006-12-27 Thread Gregor Schneider
sorry, the reason for this was a wrongly configured JAVA_HOME, however, my script didn't bother to log the appropriate message. cheers greg -- what's puzzlin' you, is the nature of my game gpgp-fp: 79A84FA526807026795E4209D3B3FE028B3170B2 gpgp-key available @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de:11371 --

Re: debian wiki manual how-to

2006-12-27 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 02:40:15PM -0600, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: > In case you guys don't know. > I have included some how-to's on debian wiki > Let me know if anything on it is incorrect Whilst I'm pleased that you've added the information it would be more appropriate if you added the separ

debian wiki manual how-to

2006-12-27 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
In case you guys don't know. I have included some how-to's on debian wiki http://wiki.debian.org/Manual-Howto http://wiki.debian.org/Manual-Howto Thanks, Let me know if anything on it is incorrect 1. Manual-Howto 1. Change from dhcp to static ip 2. Installing and Configuring

Re: gdkwindow-x11.h: where is it?

2006-12-27 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 20:16 +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I wanted to play around with the Mac-like menu bar patch for GTK today but > stumbled upon a problem. Here’s a line of that patch: > > #include "gdk/x11/gdkwindow-x11.h" > > Now my question: where do I find this head

Re: raid software troubles (long)

2006-12-27 Thread Hal
martin f krafft wrote: [..] It would help to see the contents of /proc/mdstat at this point, and also the output of mdadm -Es and mdadm -Asa yes I cannot do that now because I'm not in front of the server, now only ssh connection is available... I remember that I tried to 'cat /proc/mdst

RE: iTunes & Linux (Debian)

2006-12-27 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 11:13 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > I second that. You're better off with a Palm Tungsten running Aeroplayer > for about the same price as an iPod. Just put Vorbis on a SDIO card, put > SDIO card in Palm, run Aeroplayer and you're gold. Aeroplayer will also > play MP3s, but

Re: specifying gcc arguments

2006-12-27 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello. Ritesh Raj Sarraf, 27.12.2006 20:00: > When manually building applications in Debian (kernel, other packages) using > utilities (make-kpkg, others) is there any configuration file I can specify my > optimizations for, […] You can modify debian/rules in the source’s directory for this. Re

Re: specifying gcc arguments

2006-12-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 14:00, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Hi, > > When manually building applications in Debian (kernel, other packages) > using utilities (make-kpkg, others) is there any configuration file I can > specify my optimizations for, so that every time I do a build, I don't have >

Re: iTunes & Linux (Debian)

2006-12-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Angelo Bertolli wrote: > David Pastern wrote: >> >> With the risk of sounding rude, that?s what you get for using a >> proprietary system. Do NOT support Apple, and their usage of DRM >> protected, user screwed systems that are iTunes etc. >> >> Dave >> >> Our lives begin to end the day we become

Re: Apt-get install to alternate directory

2006-12-27 Thread George Hein
you could also chroot into /target and run apt from inside the chroot. I tried the chroot apt-get and it does work partially. Some updates appear to run, but others, especially the kernel and initrd.img fail to start/complete. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Upgrading to Etch

2006-12-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
michael bailey wrote: I currently am running Debian Sarge (2.4.27 kernel) on an old Abit BE6-II motherboard with a Pentium III processor. The board appears to be failing now with frequent freezes, so a new motherboard (ECS RS482-M) and cpu (AMD Athlon 64) have been acquired. However, the new

Re: How to change a gateway?

2006-12-27 Thread Paul Scott
Bill wrote: On Thu, 2006-21-12 at 18:46 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:42:38AM -0800, Bill wrote: Hi folks, What is the best way to change the IP address of a gateway? Other than using the route command - that won't survive a reboot. I have a new router with a

specifying gcc arguments

2006-12-27 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hi, When manually building applications in Debian (kernel, other packages) using utilities (make-kpkg, others) is there any configuration file I can specify my optimizations for, so that every time I do a build, I don't have to do things like: $ MAKEFLAGS="mtune=pentium-m" make-kpkg . Maybe

RE: iTunes & Linux (Debian)

2006-12-27 Thread Paul Johnson
http://wiki.ursine.ca/Top_posting David Pastern wrote: > With the risk of sounding rude, that's what you get for using a > proprietary system. Do NOT support Apple, and their usage of DRM > protected, user screwed systems that are iTunes etc. I second that. You're better off with a Palm Tungst

gdkwindow-x11.h: where is it?

2006-12-27 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello everyone. I wanted to play around with the Mac-like menu bar patch for GTK today but stumbled upon a problem. Here’s a line of that patch: #include "gdk/x11/gdkwindow-x11.h" Now my question: where do I find this header file? I searched pretty much anywhere but couldn’t find it. Is this the

Re: iTunes & Linux (Debian)

2006-12-27 Thread Angelo Bertolli
David Pastern wrote: With the risk of sounding rude, that’s what you get for using a proprietary system. Do NOT support Apple, and their usage of DRM protected, user screwed systems that are iTunes etc. Dave Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. --Martin

Re: upgrading from Sarge to Etch on an old PC...

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 08:20:06PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I could just wipe Sarge and install Etch from scratch to get around this > problem, but I would like to try and make the upgrade work. > > Your suggestions are appreciated. > > Regards, > Hi Michael, On

Re: John the Ripper in Etch?

2006-12-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 01:16:49PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 02:22 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > PLEASE OH PLEASE DROP THE HTML COLORING. > > I agree, but to be fair, it's a multi-part message, so your mail reader > should be able to to only display the text/plain part.

Re: can't change links in /dev

2006-12-27 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Bill (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I currently have a link in /dev between hda, a dvd drive, and > /dev/dvd: > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-12-26 17:24 /dev/dvd -> hda > > I want to change the link so that it points to hdc, another dvd drive: > ie /dev/dvd -> hdc > > I am unable to mak

Re: iTunes & Linux (Debian)

2006-12-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 07:28:14PM -0800, Baz wrote: > So, it appears the only way to play music purchased from Apple (mp4 audio > files) on Linux is to burn a CD, then rip them - or, use CrossOver Office. > Yes? the others are right, but another method is to use Audacity. Play the file in iTunes

Re: can't change links in /dev

2006-12-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 12:58:08AM -0800, Bill wrote: > Hi folks, > > I currently have a link in /dev between hda, a dvd drive, and /dev/dvd: > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-12-26 17:24 /dev/dvd -> hda > > I want to change the link so that it points to hdc, another dvd drive: > ie /dev/dvd -> hd

Re: Upgrading to Etch

2006-12-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 06:24:31AM -0800, michael bailey wrote: > I currently am running Debian Sarge (2.4.27 kernel) > on an old Abit BE6-II motherboard with a Pentium III > processor. The board appears to be failing now with > frequent freezes, so a new motherboard (ECS RS482-M) > and cpu (AMD

Re: Apt-get install to alternate directory

2006-12-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 06:56:08AM -0800, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Suppose I have a have a second hard drive mounted as /target. > Is there any way to get apt or aptitude to install the resulting > binaries to /target rather than /usr/bin? > you can use dpkg -x (I think, might be -X) to unpack the

Problems of loading Tomcat at OS-startup

2006-12-27 Thread Gregor Schneider
Hi list, I'm quite a Debian-newbie, therefore please forgive me if I'm asking some beginner's questions. Anyway, here's my problem: - I've written a startup-script to launch Tomcat 55 which I placed in /etc/init.d - The rights are set to ugo+rx go-w, owner is root - Then I've created a symbolic

Re: Apt-get install to alternate directory

2006-12-27 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 06:56:08AM -0800, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Suppose I have a have a second hard drive mounted as /target. > Is there any way to get apt or aptitude to install the resulting > binaries to /target rather than /usr/bin? Apt doesn't have that kind of ability. However you could

muli-user wiki

2006-12-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I added a multi-user entry to the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Apt-get install to alternate directory

2006-12-27 Thread Ottavio Caruso
Suppose I have a have a second hard drive mounted as /target. Is there any way to get apt or aptitude to install the resulting binaries to /target rather than /usr/bin? Thank you Ottavio -- Ottavio Caruso I will not purchase any computing equipment from manufacturers that recommend Windows Vi

Re: Upgrading to Etch

2006-12-27 Thread Marko Randjelovic
michael bailey wrote: I currently am running Debian Sarge (2.4.27 kernel) on an old Abit BE6-II motherboard with a Pentium III processor. The board appears to be failing now with frequent freezes, so a new motherboard (ECS RS482-M) and cpu (AMD Athlon 64) have been acquired. However, the new

Re: Sound

2006-12-27 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 09:50 +0100, Fritz Wettstein wrote: > I just want to try Flightgear and unfortunately it depends on sound > capabilities and I'm stuck once more. Flightgear reports: > > ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave > open /dev/[sound/]dsp: Device or resou

Re: Sound

2006-12-27 Thread Raffaele Morelli
> eg. posting lspci and discover output would be of help > > regards It's something from Intel: Here is the output from lspci referring audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) Fritz it seems an on board SC, but what about '

Upgrading to Etch

2006-12-27 Thread michael bailey
I currently am running Debian Sarge (2.4.27 kernel) on an old Abit BE6-II motherboard with a Pentium III processor. The board appears to be failing now with frequent freezes, so a new motherboard (ECS RS482-M) and cpu (AMD Athlon 64) have been acquired. However, the new motherboard has an inter

Re: Alsa needs reconfiguration after every reboot (SOLVED)

2006-12-27 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:07:00 +0100 Fritz Wettstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Fritz, > I'm sorry but I can't interpret your answer to Bill Simply ignore the hi-ASCII chars to end up with alsactl store. Bill used quote chars that don't appear in whatever char encoding you use. Unfortunatel

Re: Getting scanner to work

2006-12-27 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 09:15 +0100, BALLABIO GERARDO wrote: > I've been given an old scanner by a friend (not sure exactly how old, > but the drivers cd says "windows 95, 98 and NT") and have been trying to > run it from Debian Sarge. It's the first time I plug a scanner into a > Linux box. [snip]

Re: Sound

2006-12-27 Thread Fritz Wettstein
Raffaele Morelli wrote: ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave open /dev/[sound/]dsp: Device or resource busy Fritz Hi, which audio card do you have? do you hear any sound at all? ...maybe you do not have the module which fits your SC, but more infos

Re: John the Ripper in Etch?

2006-12-27 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 02:22 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > PLEASE OH PLEASE DROP THE HTML COLORING. I agree, but to be fair, it's a multi-part message, so your mail reader should be able to to only display the text/plain part. I only wish Evolution would support this :( -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson h

Etch/raid/lvm2

2006-12-27 Thread Chris Searle
I have a box that is soon due to be upgraded to etch. I suspect that one of the disks is getting a little old (some odd logs, a couple of kernel panics) - so I wondered if now was a good time to test out raid (since I will be replacing disks anyway). I've used lvm2 quite a bit - but not on

Re: John the Ripper in Etch?

2006-12-27 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 04:34:36AM -0800, Frank Bauer wrote: Hi, > I just noticed that John the Ripper dropped off Etch and there is no visible > activity from its mailntainer to bring it back. > > As Etch is nearing, does it mean john will not be part of it? Looks like that. It has been remove

Re: What is faster to achive to encode 1 chunk of 1mb or 1000 chanks of 1000kb?

2006-12-27 Thread Jabka Atu
I meant that the encoding is software based i added Electrical diagram to explain it. Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: Jabka Atu writes: Im working on encoding system : You sent your message to the wrong mailing list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: raid software troubles (long)

2006-12-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Hal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.12.26.2205 +0100]: > fsck.ext3 invalid argument while trying to open /dev/mdX The > superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 > filesystem > If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 fs (and not swap or > ufs or something

Re: can't change links in /dev

2006-12-27 Thread Fritz Wettstein
Bill wrote: Hi folks, I currently have a link in /dev between hda, a dvd drive, and /dev/dvd: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-12-26 17:24 /dev/dvd -> hda I want to change the link so that it points to hdc, another dvd drive: ie /dev/dvd -> hdc I am unable to make this change, except in the curr

Re: Alsa needs reconfiguration after every reboot (SOLVED)

2006-12-27 Thread Fritz Wettstein
Hello Mathias, I'm sorry but I can't interpret your answer to Bill Bill wrote: snipp... Try „alsactl store“. snipp... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

can't change links in /dev

2006-12-27 Thread Bill
Hi folks, I currently have a link in /dev between hda, a dvd drive, and /dev/dvd: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-12-26 17:24 /dev/dvd -> hda I want to change the link so that it points to hdc, another dvd drive: ie /dev/dvd -> hdc I am unable to make this change, except in the current session an

Re: Alsa needs reconfiguration after every reboot (SOLVED)

2006-12-27 Thread Bill
On Mon, 2006-18-12 at 23:32 +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello Bill. > > Bill, 18.12.2006 23:21: > > I have alsa installed and working properly. > > > > I configure it with alsaconf. > > > > Everytime I reboot, I have to reconfigure it again with alsaconf. > > Try „alsactl store“. > This w

Sound

2006-12-27 Thread Fritz Wettstein
I just want to try Flightgear and unfortunately it depends on sound capabilities and I'm stuck once more. Flightgear reports: ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave open /dev/[sound/]dsp: Device or resource busy Fritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: What is faster to achive to encode 1 chunk of 1mb or 1000 chanks of 1000kb?

2006-12-27 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
Jabka Atu writes: > Im working on encoding system : You sent your message to the wrong mailing list. -- -- Jhair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Getting scanner to work

2006-12-27 Thread BALLABIO GERARDO
Hi all, may I please ask for your help. I've been given an old scanner by a friend (not sure exactly how old, but the drivers cd says "windows 95, 98 and NT") and have been trying to run it from Debian Sarge. It's the first time I plug a scanner into a Linux box. After an "apt-get search scanner"

Re: I can't boot anymore!

2006-12-27 Thread Fritz Wettstein
Axel Gallus wrote: Yesterday, i have resized my debian partition with partition magic from windows. After that, i was not able to boot from that debian partition - what happens is that it displays "GRUB" and the system halts. So i made a netinstall cd (ca.180MB http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/)