Re: Old Computer Parts

2007-02-17 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mirko Scurk wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > >> I think it's amazing that you could get $200 for a ISA network card. To >> me something like that is worth maybe $5, not that I am in the market >> for such an item. >> >> What is a CNC machine? Cash and Car

Re: executing ntpdate on boot - seems it doesn't work

2007-02-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 17, 2007, at 5:34 PM, Franck Joncourt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rolf Bode-Meyer wrote: Hi! Hi, I currently try to figure out if ntpdate is called on boottime in my system or not. It *should* be called when the network interfaces come up (ifup), therefore

Re: sizeof(long) (was: Re: looking for fix to AMD64 python dl problem....)

2007-02-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 07:10:41PM -0800, John Pye wrote: > Hi all > > I'm the said developer. Looks like my replies (via Google Groups) > haven't been getting through. And I also went across town for a load > of firewood. you've got debian running on a wood stove?! dude that's awesome! I though

Re: Inodes date in future - problem

2007-02-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12:47:57AM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > El dom, 18-02-2007 a las 02:48 +, David Dawson escribió: > > David Dawson wrote: > > > > > Running Debian Etch on an AMD Athlon 2100+ ECS motherboard with 3 hard > > > disks, the 40 G original hard disk was showing inodes date

Re: software part of installation process

2007-02-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 11:08:30PM -0600, Charles Blair wrote: >Thanks to several people, in particular Andrew Sackville- > West and Chris Lale, for their detailed advice with several > previous installation problems. > >I am installing Debian on an HP Pavillion machine that > does not hav

ALT key doesn't work as before

2007-02-17 Thread Manu Hack
Now I'm using KDE 3.5.5 on etch. Before my ALT key works as to I can go to the menu when I press alt. But now, I can only go to the menu in KDE application. For firefox, gvim, etc. it doesn't work. The main problem is that it blocks my alt key mapping in gvim. I have checked kcontrol and alter som

Re: software part of installation process

2007-02-17 Thread Charles Blair
Thanks to several people, in particular Andrew Sackville- West and Chris Lale, for their detailed advice with several previous installation problems. I am installing Debian on an HP Pavillion machine that does not have a network connection. I was planning to use an "official" 15-CD set that

Re: Inodes date in future - problem

2007-02-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12:47:57AM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > El dom, 18-02-2007 a las 02:48 +, David Dawson escribió: > > David Dawson wrote: > > > > > Running Debian Etch on an AMD Athlon 2100+ ECS motherboard with 3 hard > > > disks, the 40 G original hard disk was showing inodes date

Re: [Debian-User] Xen

2007-02-17 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 12:07:47AM -0700, Admin wrote: > The Debian distribution is installed in a large partition so it > can be added to in the future. Other distributions and/or > specific Debian applications (derived from the primary > distribution in the large partition) can be installed in

Re: Inodes date in future - problem

2007-02-17 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El dom, 18-02-2007 a las 02:48 +, David Dawson escribió: > David Dawson wrote: > > > Running Debian Etch on an AMD Athlon 2100+ ECS motherboard with 3 hard > > disks, the 40 G original hard disk was showing inodes date in future on a > > user forced fsck. > > The reason the user forced the fsc

Re: Unable to switch session from GDM

2007-02-17 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El sáb, 17-02-2007 a las 23:39 +0530, Damodharan R escribió: > Hi, > I am using Debain Unstable. I have a problem with GDM. It always > starts GNOME no matter what other session I choose. I tried to change > the session to KDE using the session menu provided in GDM during > login. But invariably I

Re: sizeof(long) (was: Re: looking for fix to AMD64 python dl problem....)

2007-02-17 Thread John Pye
Hi all I'm the said developer. Looks like my replies (via Google Groups) haven't been getting through. And I also went across town for a load of firewood. So you didn't scare me off :-) So, I'll try to summarise what I have tried to send in previous mails. Firstly, 'dl' is not an ugly hack, which

Re: Unable to switch session from GDM

2007-02-17 Thread David Dawson
Ken Heard wrote: > Damodharan R wrote: >> Hi, >> I am using Debain Unstable. I have a problem with GDM. It always starts >> GNOME no matter what other session I choose. I tried to change the >> session to KDE using the session menu provided in GDM during login. But >> invariably I end up in GNOME

Re: Inodes date in future - problem

2007-02-17 Thread David Dawson
David Dawson wrote: > Running Debian Etch on an AMD Athlon 2100+ ECS motherboard with 3 hard > disks, the 40 G original hard disk was showing inodes date in future on a > user forced fsck. > The reason the user forced the fsck was because of a system sluggishness > he suspected problems and reboot

Re: Unable to switch session from GDM

2007-02-17 Thread Damodharan R
On 18/02/07, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Damodharan R wrote: > Hi, > I am using Debain Unstable. I have a problem with GDM. It always starts > GNOME no matter what other session I choose. I tried to change the > session to KDE using the session menu provided in GDM during login. But >

Re: Which one package serve to build debian package from CVS source?

2007-02-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 02:58:16PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 08:13:28PM +0100, csanyipal wrote: > > Hello! > > > > There was for this pourpose the checkinstall on Sarge, but now, on > > Etch, which one package serve for this pourpose out there? > > > It is still

Re: Old Computer Parts

2007-02-17 Thread Mirko Scurk
Joe Hart wrote: > I think it's amazing that you could get $200 for a ISA network card. To > me something like that is worth maybe $5, not that I am in the market > for such an item. > > What is a CNC machine? Cash and Carry? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNC When you have to finish more then

Re: looking for fix to AMD64 python dl problem....

2007-02-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 08:14:23PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 04:59:56PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > um... yeah, well it is rather insulting to the developer (not a > > comment on my part as to whether its an ugly hack or not), so I'm not > > surpris

Re: VMware Workstation Module Compilation (etch)

2007-02-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 14:00 -0500, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > Has anyone successfully compiled the required modules for 'VMware > Workstation' under Debian/etch? Though I've been able to do this on > two Ubuntu systems, I keep getting errors during the installation > process on my 'etch' systems: se

Re: looking for fix to AMD64 python dl problem....

2007-02-17 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: looking for fix to AMD64 python dl problem Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:59:56 -0800 On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12:52:21AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Attribution missing, but I think Roberto said

sizeof(long) (was: Re: looking for fix to AMD64 python dl problem....)

2007-02-17 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Roberto. Roberto C. Sanchez, 18.02.2007 00:37: > If you run this program on an amd64 machine: > > $ cat sizes.c > #include > > int main(void) { > printf("int: %d; long: %d; char *: %d\n", sizeof(int), sizeof(long), > sizeof(char *)); > return 0; > } > > This is what you

Re: looking for fix to AMD64 python dl problem....

2007-02-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 04:59:56PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > um... yeah, well it is rather insulting to the developer (not a > comment on my part as to whether its an ugly hack or not), so I'm not > surprised he's not answering you > > maybe something more along the lines of "d

Re: looking for fix to AMD64 python dl problem....

2007-02-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12:52:21AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Attribution missing, but I think Roberto said: > > > >So, the answer is that the dl module will not work on amd64. The > >recommended fix would then be to not use dl, since it is an ugly hack > >(as is any foreign function interf

Re: [Debian-User] Xen Dom0 and DomU

2007-02-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 05:06:46PM -0700, Archive wrote: > I put your text below mine. Yes, it does sound neat. Did you do a > special compile for the RAID so it was built into the kernel or do you > have a hardware raid controller, or what? I use the in-kernel software RAID and mdadm, bog sta

Re: looking for fix to AMD64 python dl problem....

2007-02-17 Thread Michael Fothergill
> According to the Python docs [0], dl only works with a number of conditions: Note: This module will not work unless sizeof(int) == sizeof(long) == sizeof(char *) If this is not the case, SystemError will be raised on import. If you run this program on an amd64 machine: $ cat sizes.c

Re: VMware Workstation Module Compilation (etch)

2007-02-17 Thread Kenneth Jacker
liam> I understand that there is an issue with vmware on recent liam> kernels. See here for a discussion: liam> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread/f6ca3ef81023f93d/e7b10484cd229960 Thanks for the excellent reference ... I'll check into it tomorrow ...

Re: Epson V100 Scanner Problem

2007-02-17 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 05:24:03PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/17/07 17:03, Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 01:36:39PM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > >> On Sat February 17 2007 13:32, Thomas H. George wrote: > >>> I just pu

[Debian-User] Xen Dom0 and DomU

2007-02-17 Thread Archive
I put your text below mine. Yes, it does sound neat. Did you do a special compile for the RAID so it was built into the kernel or do you have a hardware raid controller, or what? Perhaps I am wrong but I think Dom0 should contain (but not with the purpose of executing) all applications that

Re: Installing Etch with GUI on T20

2007-02-17 Thread Max Hyre
Florian Kulzer wrote: > (You need the packages xserver-xorg-video-s3 and > xserver-xorg-video-s3virge to have them available. FWIW, the only X server package I've got installed on my T20 is xserver-xorg-video-savage, which seems to work fine. -- Best wishes, Max Hy

Re: looking for fix to AMD64 python dl problem....

2007-02-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 11:27:12PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I have been trying to compile a progam called ASCEND IV from > sourceforge.net using scons that usually runs on an i386 on my AMD64 > Sempron 3200 box. I am running Debian Etch RC1 AMD64. > > One of the

Re: looking for fix to AMD64 python dl problem....

2007-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/17/07 17:27, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I have been trying to compile a progam called ASCEND IV from > sourceforge.net using scons that usually runs on an i386 on my AMD64 > Sempron 3200 box. I am running Debian Etch RC1 A

looking for fix to AMD64 python dl problem....

2007-02-17 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I have been trying to compile a progam called ASCEND IV from sourceforge.net using scons that usually runs on an i386 on my AMD64 Sempron 3200 box. I am running Debian Etch RC1 AMD64. One of the developers has been helping me. We have managed to compile it but have found t

Re: Epson V100 Scanner Problem

2007-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/17/07 17:03, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 01:36:39PM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: >> On Sat February 17 2007 13:32, Thomas H. George wrote: >>> I just purchased an Epson V100 Photo Scanner but apparently the sane >>> epson backe

Re: help with debian

2007-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/17/07 16:43, s. keeling wrote: > boast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> thanks. It was "syslog2mysql.sh" See what you get for using MySQL? > WTF are you talking about?!? Steve, has the cold, Quebec (or is it Ontario, I keep forgetting) wind frozen you

Re: Epson V100 Scanner Problem

2007-02-17 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 01:36:39PM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Sat February 17 2007 13:32, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I just purchased an Epson V100 Photo Scanner but apparently the sane > > epson backend does not support this model. As root scanimage -L finds > > the scanner but the test scan

Re: What happened to xen images for k7?

2007-02-17 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 21:07 +1100, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > In Debian unstable, there previously was a Xen image package for AMD K7: > > linux-image-2.6.18-3-xen-k7 > > Now that 2.6.18-4 has come out, it has disappeared, and all that is left > is linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-686, which crashes on my

Re: help with debian

2007-02-17 Thread s. keeling
boast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > thanks. It was "syslog2mysql.sh" > > WTF are you talking about?!? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292 - -http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.htmlPlea

Re: executing ntpdate on boot - seems it doesn't work

2007-02-17 Thread Franck Joncourt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rolf Bode-Meyer wrote: > Hi! Hi, > I currently try to figure out if ntpdate is called on boottime in my > system or not. > > It *should* be called when the network interfaces come up (ifup), > therefore the /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate is present. A

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 06:34:21PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:37:02 +0100 > "Nick Demou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [...]Further down the > > > release cycle, testing gets naturally more and more stable and > > > easier and easier to administer and less likely to

Re: What happened to xen images for k7?

2007-02-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:07:26PM +1100, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > > In Debian unstable, there previously was a Xen image package for AMD K7: > > linux-image-2.6.18-3-xen-k7 > > Now that 2.6.18-4 has come out, it has disappeared, and all that is left > is linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-686, which cra

executing ntpdate on boot - seems it doesn't work

2007-02-17 Thread Rolf Bode-Meyer
Hi! I currently try to figure out if ntpdate is called on boottime in my system or not. It *should* be called when the network interfaces come up (ifup), therefore the /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate is present. And it's indeed called when I manually call ifup -a after booting--an entry in the sysl

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/17/07 14:36, Mirko Scurk wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: [snip] > Last year one of my partners changed PI 75MHz server running > oracle 5 on sco unix (with 5-7 terminals) to win-xeon-server with > pc clients and vb applications and now is regretting. No

Re: Epson V100 Scanner Problem

2007-02-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat February 17 2007 13:32, Thomas H. George wrote: > I just purchased an Epson V100 Photo Scanner but apparently the sane > epson backend does not support this model. As root scanimage -L finds > the scanner but the test scanimage >image.pnm suggested in the sane man > page results in scanimag

Epson V100 Scanner Problem

2007-02-17 Thread Thomas H. George
I just purchased an Epson V100 Photo Scanner but apparently the sane epson backend does not support this model. As root scanimage -L finds the scanner but the test scanimage >image.pnm suggested in the sane man page results in scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument. I have set SANE_DEBUG_DLL

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-17 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 14:55 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > > > In Hilbert's hotel, when all the rooms are full and a new guest > > arrives, the management just moves everyone down one room and places > > the newcomer into the first room, which is now vacant. > > When a countably

Re: no sound..

2007-02-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:00:45 +0100 Mikael Backman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use Debian Stable. Everything seems ok.. The sound card is > detected.. I've rune alsaconf.. Used alsamixer to adjust the > voloume.. It's just that there is no sound. Not a beep :( Make sure you have alsa-base in

Re: VMware Workstation Module Compilation (etch)

2007-02-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:00:47 -0500 Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone successfully compiled the required modules for 'VMware > Workstation' under Debian/etch? Though I've been able to do this on > two Ubuntu systems, I keep getting errors during the installation > process on m

Re: It's a simple question....

2007-02-17 Thread Steve Lamb
Justin Hartman wrote: > So down to the "simple" question. Is this really normal on a PC-based > Laptop to experience such pitfalls in installing Debian? Yes. Laptops are notorious for having horrible compatibility with anything other than the OS they are shipped with. This is because to cram

[Fixed] Re: Now working... gdm??? Re: Couldn't load XKB keymap... Can't switch to terminal mode

2007-02-17 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 11:37 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 02:49:23AM EST, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 01:09 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > [..] > > > > You're going to think I am persistent .. and probably talking through my > > > *ss as well .. but did you try t

Re: etch/sarge /dev/null not redable

2007-02-17 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 06:54:01PM +0100, Thomas Fazekas wrote: > I suspect that means udev is not installed. > Moreover > /etc/udev/permissions.rules (or /etc/udev) doesn't exist OK in that case I would suggest installing it - although just before doing so I'd check that you're not using hotp

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-17 Thread Mirko Scurk
Joe Hart wrote: > One thing that I dislike about computers over the years is that the hardware changes so rapidly. I have a computer with a dead motherboard that has 768MB of RAM on it that I'm pretty sure is good, but I have no other computer that uses those types of DIMMs. I can probably pick o

Re: no sound..

2007-02-17 Thread Mikael Backman
lör 2007-02-17 klockan 18:21 +0100 skrev Nigel Henry: > On Saturday 17 February 2007 18:00, Mikael Backman wrote: > > I use Debian Stable. Everything seems ok.. The sound card is detected.. > > I've rune alsaconf.. Used alsamixer to adjust the voloume.. It's just > > that there is no sound. Not

Re: when in doubt wipe it out

2007-02-17 Thread Paul Johnson
Jude DaShiell wrote: > If you buy a computer and you have any doubt at all in your mind as to the > legality of the copy of windows that is already on the machine's hard > drive, erase entire hard drive and install Debian on machine. Preaching to the choir. > Had a Russian Principal done this he

Re: Install locations when not using .deb

2007-02-17 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 17-feb-2007, at 20:13, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 07:52:34PM +0100, Peter Teunissen wrote: - should I use /usr/* etc. for this or is that reserved for .deb installs and should I use /usr/local/* instead? The risk you run in using /usr is that future .debs could tra

Re: VMware Workstation Module Compilation (etch)

2007-02-17 Thread Kenneth Jacker
du> It would be nice to see the full error log, if possible I can't seem to find one ... The install script just continues to prompt me for a valid header file: What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] The only way "

Re: Nvu equivalent in Etch?

2007-02-17 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 13:38 -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > I must have missed the thread on this subject, early in January. > > Unfortunately, to have Iceape Composer it is necessary to install the > Iceape-Browser package and change the preference to load only Composer. > Since I use Iceweasel, which

Re: Unable to switch session from GDM

2007-02-17 Thread Ken Heard
Damodharan R wrote: > Hi, > I am using Debain Unstable. I have a problem with GDM. It always starts > GNOME no matter what other session I choose. I tried to change the > session to KDE using the session menu provided in GDM during login. But > invariably I end up in GNOME. > > GDM Version > ii

Re: Installing Etch with GUI on T20

2007-02-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 15:30:51 +, john gennard wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > >There is one more quick thing that you can try: Go to > > > >http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ > > > >and copy/paste your "lspci -n" output into the form. You will get a list > >of known drivers for your hardw

Re: Newbie Question: Debian and iTunes

2007-02-17 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 08:52:31AM -0500, Jan Sneep wrote: >> Well two weeks ago I successfully installed Debian for the first time (first >> time for any Linux OS for that matter) > > congrats!! welcome to freedom... >

Re: Install locations when not using .deb

2007-02-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 07:52:34PM +0100, Peter Teunissen wrote: > > - should I use /usr/* etc. for this or is that reserved for .deb > installs and should I use /usr/local/* instead? > The risk you run in using /usr is that future .debs could trample your program. If you use /usr/local or /opt,

Install locations when not using .deb

2007-02-17 Thread Peter Teunissen
Hi All, I'm trying to install CloverETL [1], a java based ETL tool. It's not in the repository, and they don't provide a rpm or deb installer, only the java apps etc. in a zip file or the java source. That's fine with me, but I'd like to follow debian's guidelines on the FSH. I think I'm on the r

Re: Weird Screen-Saver/kscreensaver problem

2007-02-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 17:27:20 +0100, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > Hi > > > Distro: SID (Installed years ago, regularly updated) > Desktop: KDE > > When i leave my home and/or work computer i lock the screen with > CTRL+ALT+L. I use the "lines" screen-saver set up via kcontrol. > > The pr

VMware Workstation Module Compilation (etch)

2007-02-17 Thread Kenneth Jacker
Has anyone successfully compiled the required modules for 'VMware Workstation' under Debian/etch? Though I've been able to do this on two Ubuntu systems, I keep getting errors during the installation process on my 'etch' systems: The directory of kernel headers (version @@VMWARE@@ UTS_RELEASE

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 07:05:57PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > One thing that I dislike about computers over the years is that the > hardware changes so rapidly. I have a computer with a dead motherboard > that has 768MB of RAM on it that I'm pretty sure is good, but I have no > other computer tha

Re: Help! Corrupted filesystem

2007-02-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 03:10:51PM +, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > Greetings: > > I'm running an IBM R40 laptop with three systems: Debian Sarge (which I > use primarily), Knopix 3.4 hd install, and WinXP. This morning I booted > to Knoppix to look at some bookmarks on that system. I forgot to unpl

Re: Newbie Question: Debian and iTunes

2007-02-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 08:52:31AM -0500, Jan Sneep wrote: > Well two weeks ago I successfully installed Debian for the first time (first > time for any Linux OS for that matter) congrats!! welcome to freedom... > Inspired with my recent success installing Debian on one machine I was > thinking

Re: [Debian-User] Xen

2007-02-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 01:47:33PM +0100, Peter Teunissen wrote: > > On 17-feb-2007, at 8:07, Admin wrote: > > > > > > >BTW if anyone (I've seen a few Xen emails like the one where the > >AMD package disappeared only to be replaced by a 686 based Xen > >package that crashed) would like to se

Re: Latex(tetex) refuses to produce dvi

2007-02-17 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi Micha: Please try pdfetex &latex file.tex It seems to work for me, though -output-format latex does not work. Then perhaps try latex &latex file.tex Please also have a look at /etc/texmf/fmt.d and see whether you have the proper .cnf files. Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio

PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when installed/removed?

2007-02-17 Thread Ken Heard
PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when installed/removed like floppies, CF cards, etc.? Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Nvu equivalent in Etch?

2007-02-17 Thread Ken Heard
Sven Arvidsson wrote, with respect to a replacement in Etch for Nvu: > In the end, I believe Iceape Composer (from the iceape-browser package) > was named the best candidate (Nvu being based on Mozilla Composer, > similar to Iceape). I must have missed the thread on this subject,

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/17/07 01:59, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:47:05 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 02/16/07 21:31, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >>> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:52:29 -0600, Mike wrote in message >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Re: multicore gizmos

2007-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/17/07 08:43, ?ukasz Andrzejak wrote: >> >>> On 02/16/07 17:16, pinniped wrote: [snip] > You might have been happy with a simple console 10 years ago, Console? You mean "terminal"? [snip] > software anymore. Most people don't - they don't need

Unable to switch session from GDM

2007-02-17 Thread Damodharan R
Hi, I am using Debain Unstable. I have a problem with GDM. It always starts GNOME no matter what other session I choose. I tried to change the session to KDE using the session menu provided in GDM during login. But invariably I end up in GNOME. GDM Version ii gdm 2.16.4-1

Re: etch/sarge /dev/null not redable

2007-02-17 Thread Thomas Fazekas
Steve, ps -ef | grep udev returns nothing dpkg --list udev reurns Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version

Inodes date in future - problem

2007-02-17 Thread David Dawson
Running Debian Etch on an AMD Athlon 2100+ ECS motherboard with 3 hard disks, the 40 G original hard disk was showing inodes date in future on a user forced fsck. The reason the user forced the fsck was because of a system sluggishness he suspected problems and rebooted with a forced fsck. I have

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-17 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mirko Scurk wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: >> Still, I have a old Celeron 600mhz with 16MB acting as a server running >> Sarge. It works fine. The computer was heading to the dump and I >> thought I could rescue it and put it to some use. It does not have

Re: [Debian-User] Xen

2007-02-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 12:07:47AM -0700, Admin wrote: > One of the several reasons I left a large space on the hard drive was to > establish a Debian based Xen virtual machine. To do this Xen is > installed on top of the Debian kernel. If you are going to do this, may I recommend strongly that

Re: no sound..

2007-02-17 Thread Mikael Backman
lör 2007-02-17 klockan 12:14 -0500 skrev Matthew K Poer: > On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 18:00 +0100, Mikael Backman wrote: > > I use Debian Stable. Everything seems ok.. The sound card is detected.. > > I've rune alsaconf.. Used alsamixer to adjust the voloume.. It's just > > that there is no sound. No

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/17/07 07:54, Joe Hart wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:50:21PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > Interesting that you mention that. Here, it's already almost impossible > to buy a machine that doesn't come with Vist

squid socks ssh connection

2007-02-17 Thread Rodney Richison
Looking for some thoughts... I've got a satellite connection from home. I use a debian server for squid, files etc. I'd like to use ssh to connect to the T1 at work and have my home squid use this to connect to the internet. (Trying to bypass the Hughes proxy we're all on) So, my question is: H

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/17/07 08:30, Bill Smith wrote: > Mirko Scurk wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On 02/15/07 19:31, Mike McCarty wrote: Mirko Scurk wrote: >>> [snip] [snip] >>> Remember when OS/2 ran *g

Re: etch/sarge /dev/null not redable

2007-02-17 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 06:07:28PM +0100, Thomas Fazekas wrote: > I'm having the following weird /dev/null problem in both etch and > sarge installed > on XEN machines. Namely the /dev/ull permissions look like crw-rw. > AFAIK udev is not installed (I'm not sure how to check that...) > As a m

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 22:23:48 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:53:41AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > Kent West wrote: > > > > > (Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a Debian > > > question.) > > > > > > > Not an offtopic question.

etch/sarge /dev/null not redable

2007-02-17 Thread Thomas Fazekas
I'm having the following weird /dev/null problem in both etch and sarge installed on XEN machines. Namely the /dev/ull permissions look like crw-rw. I've tried changing the permissions with chmod 666 /dev/null Also tried recreating the device with the right permissions mknod /dev/null c 1 3 c

Re: no sound..

2007-02-17 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 17 February 2007 18:00, Mikael Backman wrote: > I use Debian Stable. Everything seems ok.. The sound card is detected.. > I've rune alsaconf.. Used alsamixer to adjust the voloume.. It's just > that there is no sound. Not a beep :( Can you send some more info please. Output of lspc

Re: no sound..

2007-02-17 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 18:00 +0100, Mikael Backman wrote: > I use Debian Stable. Everything seems ok.. The sound card is detected.. > I've rune alsaconf.. Used alsamixer to adjust the voloume.. It's just > that there is no sound. Not a beep :( It would help to know what kind of sound card you hav

Re: no sound..

2007-02-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat February 17 2007 09:00, Mikael Backman wrote: > I use Debian Stable. Everything seems ok.. The sound card is detected.. > I've rune alsaconf.. Used alsamixer to adjust the voloume.. It's just > that there is no sound. Not a beep :( Have you also unmuted the channels you want to use in al

no sound..

2007-02-17 Thread Mikael Backman
I use Debian Stable. Everything seems ok.. The sound card is detected.. I've rune alsaconf.. Used alsamixer to adjust the voloume.. It's just that there is no sound. Not a beep :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Installing TeX/LaTeX in Sarge

2007-02-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070217 10:42]: > Running Sarge. > What to install when you would like to give TeX/LaTeX a try? > > In Synaptic I see something named latex209-base, but it says: > LaTeX 2.09 is obsolete. Use LaTeX 2e. > But there's no package called latex2e or something, nor

Installing TeX/LaTeX in Sarge

2007-02-17 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Hi, Running Sarge. What to install when you would like to give TeX/LaTeX a try? In Synaptic I see something named latex209-base, but it says: LaTeX 2.09 is obsolete. Use LaTeX 2e. But there's no package called latex2e or something, nor do I see anything else that looks like it could be the main p

Re: Now working... gdm??? Re: Couldn't load XKB keymap... Can't switch to terminal mode

2007-02-17 Thread cga2000
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 02:49:23AM EST, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 01:09 -0500, cga2000 wrote: [..] > > You're going to think I am persistent .. and probably talking through my > > *ss as well .. but did you try the "vesa" driver? It's as simple as > > duplicating the stanza

Re: Nvu equivalent in Etch?

2007-02-17 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 11:18 -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > Is there in the Etch packages data base a "complete web authoring > system" more or less equivalent to Nvu, which is in the Sarge data base? This was discussed some time ago, search the mailing list archives for nvu if you want to read the disc

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-17 Thread Mirko Scurk
Joe Hart wrote: > Still, I have a old Celeron 600mhz with 16MB acting as a server running > Sarge. It works fine. The computer was heading to the dump and I > thought I could rescue it and put it to some use. It does not have a > GUI, and doesn't need one. > > If Sarge will run on that, I'm sur

Nvu equivalent in Etch?

2007-02-17 Thread Ken Heard
Is there in the Etch packages data base a "complete web authoring system" more or less equivalent to Nvu, which is in the Sarge data base? Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie Question: Debian and iTunes

2007-02-17 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 16:30 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 08:52 -0500, Jan Sneep wrote: > > How about iTunes for loading songs onto their iPods? At the moment they use > > my Windows Xp machine to fill up their iPods, because of course iTunes > > doesn't run on ME. I have to

Re: Newbie Question: Debian and iTunes

2007-02-17 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 08:52 -0500, Jan Sneep wrote: > How about iTunes for loading songs onto their iPods? At the moment they use > my Windows Xp machine to fill up their iPods, because of course iTunes > doesn't run on ME. I have to re-boot my machine after they're done because > some iTunes servi

Re: Newbie Question: Debian and iTunes

2007-02-17 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 17-feb-2007, at 14:52, Jan Sneep wrote: How about iTunes for loading songs onto their iPods? At the moment they use my Windows Xp machine to fill up their iPods, because of course iTunes doesn't run on ME. I have to re-boot my machine after they're done because some iTunes service ju

Re: dumb question about multi-core processors...

2007-02-17 Thread Michael M.
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 21:58 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Could it be that if Intel puts out a chip or array of chips or whatever its > called of this type that the existing OS companies like MIcrosoft and Apple > would take so long to figure out and implement an OS that run on it that > L

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-17 Thread Kent West
Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:53:41AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > >> Kent West wrote: >> >>> (Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a Debian >>> question.) >>> >> Not an offtopic question. You are using Debian, so this is releva

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