Re: Configuring Debian

2007-03-16 Thread gustavo halperin
Keith Thompson wrote: Hello; I just downloaded and try the OS today. I got it installed correctly. I used the netinst.iso file. I get to the configuration screens until I get an apt source and CD-ROM, HTTP, FTP, and File System and manual. When I choose HTTP or FTP, I get no connection.

Re: After apt-get -f install

2007-03-16 Thread gustavo halperin
Kurt Petersen wrote: Hi After deborphan I deleted a library. The error message recommended "apt-get -f install". After that I got a lot of ... dpkg: error processing mon (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configu

Re: microphone

2007-03-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H.S. wrote: > Mark Grieveson wrote: >> More teeth grittin' sound issues, which are a plenty with good ol' Linux! >> >> I bought a cheap microphone, to record my voice on a wav file. I >> opened gnome-sound-recorder (of the gnome-media package), and, u

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cassiano Leal wrote: >> What is the point of having all info stored in plain text files if one >> is supposed to only use tools to edit them? They might as well be >> binary. Or is it perhaps so other tools can easily read them? > > You can easily e

Configuring Debian

2007-03-16 Thread Keith Thompson
Hello; I just downloaded and try the OS today. I got it installed correctly. I used the netinst.iso file. I get to the configuration screens until I get an apt source and CD-ROM, HTTP, FTP, and File System and manual. When I choose HTTP or FTP, I get no connection. How do I fix this. Than

After apt-get -f install

2007-03-16 Thread Kurt Petersen
Hi After deborphan I deleted a library. The error message recommended "apt-get -f install". After that I got a lot of ... dpkg: error processing mon (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of postfix-mysql:

OT: Hardware Q's

2007-03-16 Thread Kent West
My mobo died (running something like an AMD XP1700 - I forget the exact specs), and I'm looking for a cheap replacement. Newegg.com has a: Biostar GF61M7-combo 32 AMD Athlon64 3000+ Socket 754 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard for $126 that looks promising (http://www.newegg.com

convert the DVD region

2007-03-16 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello There are any way to rip a DVD region 4 and make a new DVD but with another region ?? Thank you, Gustavo Halperin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vmware guest OS installs

2007-03-16 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Mihira Fernando wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi All, I have run across something in vmware-server that has me buffaloed. It installs fine, but when I attempt to install Win2K server as a guest OS things go wrong in a fairly strange way. It's as if the guest OS loses track of it's own ab

Re: ssh problems

2007-03-16 Thread Mihira Fernando
Francesco Pietra wrote: [snip] with data for the two machines (IP address corresponds to "inet addr" as from "ifconfig", MAC Addess has the hexadecimals correctly, while Hostame is empty. I tried to put in the "hostame" of the two machines, though it was as write forbidden. I operated from Gnome/

Re: microphone

2007-03-16 Thread H.S.
Mark Grieveson wrote: More teeth grittin' sound issues, which are a plenty with good ol' Linux! I bought a cheap microphone, to record my voice on a wav file. I opened gnome-sound-recorder (of the gnome-media package), and, under "Record from input:", I selected "microphone". However, it kept

Re: vmware guest OS installs

2007-03-16 Thread Mihira Fernando
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi All, I have run across something in vmware-server that has me buffaloed. It installs fine, but when I attempt to install Win2K server as a guest OS things go wrong in a fairly strange way. It's as if the guest OS loses track of it's own ability to keep track of t

microphone

2007-03-16 Thread Mark Grieveson
More teeth grittin' sound issues, which are a plenty with good ol' Linux! I bought a cheap microphone, to record my voice on a wav file. I opened gnome-sound-recorder (of the gnome-media package), and, under "Record from input:", I selected "microphone". However, it kept switching to "AC97",

vmware guest OS installs

2007-03-16 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Hi All, I have run across something in vmware-server that has me buffaloed. It installs fine, but when I attempt to install Win2K server as a guest OS things go wrong in a fairly strange way. It's as if the guest OS loses track of it's own ability to keep track of time. The install will han

Re: Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

2007-03-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:27:46PM +0100, Marcin Giedz wrote: > Hello, > > Perhaps what I'm planing to do is not very "legal" but it seems I have > no chance :( > I've got EMC disk array which recently I was able to connect using > QLogic FC card to my server. However I can only use one PATH fro

make-kpkg makes HUGE kernel packages??

2007-03-16 Thread dranger003
I have exactly the same problem. Also running Feisty. I used the following to compile the kernel: sudo make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-1-Custom kernel_image kernel_headers My /lib/modules/$(uname -r) folder is huge as well. All the modules have bigger than normal sizes - every modules

Re: ssh problems

2007-03-16 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Francesco Pietra wrote: > DHCP shows a table with 3 columns and two rows > > Host Name / IP Address / MAC Address > > with data for the two machines (IP address corresponds > to "inet addr" as from "ifconfig", MAC Addess has the > hexadecimals correctly, while Hostame

Re: cheap LCD display

2007-03-16 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:34:48PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > Hans du Plooy wrote: > > On Fri, March 16, 2007 16:37, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >> Hello List, > >> > >> I am looking for a cheap (DVI ?) LCD display > >> for my Etch boxes (macbook or macmini): > >> any advice is more than wellcome ! > >

Re: Cedega and chroot

2007-03-16 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Friday 16 March 2007 23:17, José Sánchez wrote: > E:F1 2007-03-16 05:32:27,575 CRITICAL Unable to load GTK2 Python > bindings: could not open display that sounds like an X11 permission problem. Run % xhost local:localhost outside the chroot (non-root...) and try again. Thomas pgphKid7GFUpL

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei writes: > > The tools are useful for common stuff that should be preserved > > across upgrades. It would be a PITA to do them again (by hand) > > every time. > > Manual changes to conffiles are preserved. Actually apt will ask to preserve changes o

Re: ssh problems

2007-03-16 Thread Francesco Pietra
Kapil: I feel you are suggesting me the right way. Because it is fast, I have reconstructed the keys and reestablished the ssh connection between the two machines. Then I entered the config of the the Zyxel Prestige 660H (cable connection ADSL) via http, giving the password that I used at the fir

Cedega and chroot

2007-03-16 Thread José Sánchez
i just succesfully installed the chroot and tested it and its working, also installed all packages required, but when im about to run Cedega, i get this error: E:F1 2007-03-16 05:32:27,575 CRITICAL Unable to load GTK2 Python bindings: could not open display I've been searching, but in all place

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-16 Thread John Hasler
Andrei writes: > The tools are useful for common stuff that should be preserved across > upgrades. It would be a PITA to do them again (by hand) every time. Manual changes to conffiles are preserved. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Gnome Power Manager + Debian Sid: does not recognize battery state and notification symbol not shown

2007-03-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But battery state is not recognized. It says always "running on AC > > Power" and no battery symbol is displayed. > > > > Can someone please help or verify this behaviour? > > A recent upgade to acpi caused it to stop loading all the acpi modules > (search

Re: internal lan configuration and web address issues

2007-03-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 02:18:45PM -0600, John Schmidt wrote: > > Is there a way to configure things so that machines on my LAN can access the > web server using the registered name. Would this require that I do DNS on my > machines? > It is not required that you do DNS for your setup. Howeve

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-16 Thread Cassiano Leal
What is the point of having all info stored in plain text files if one is supposed to only use tools to edit them? They might as well be binary. Or is it perhaps so other tools can easily read them? You can easily edit them with whatever you want. If you do have a frontend, like a configurato

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Hart wrote: > Celejar wrote: > [snip] >>> Since the activities of update-alternatives are quite involved, some >>>specific terms will help to explain its operation. > > That may be true for some things, but IMO, not for everything. >

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar, let me ask you this, is it better to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf > by hand to implement necessary changes or should one use > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg exclusively to build that file? AFAICT, changes through dpkg-reconfigure will be preserved. But yo

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:50:41 +0100 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > >> You want vi? change /etc/prefereces/editor to symlink vi and then visudo > > '/etc/alternatives' Oops. I don't use it so I don't know it's na

Re: internal lan configuration and web address issues

2007-03-16 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 16 March 2007 14:18, John Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a home DSL connection with a static IP assigned. The DSL modem is > fed into one a ipcop firewall with port forwarding for port 25 and 80 > directed to my webserver/mailserver in my DMZ zone. Machines in the green > zone of my LA

internal lan configuration and web address issues

2007-03-16 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I have a home DSL connection with a static IP assigned. The DSL modem is fed into one a ipcop firewall with port forwarding for port 25 and 80 directed to my webserver/mailserver in my DMZ zone. Machines in the green zone of my LAN cannot access my registered domain name, i.e. www.domain.

Re: Script stopper

2007-03-16 Thread ccostin
On 3/16/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 05:44:43PM +0200, ccostin wrote: > What plugin/addon can stop a JavaScript scripts or animated GIFs from > running (not blocking from the beginning) and then rerun whenever I > want, with only two main functions ST

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-16 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:50:41 +0100 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > You want vi? change /etc/prefereces/editor to symlink vi and then visudo '/etc/alternatives' > will run vi. > > I suppose one should use update-preferences to do that, but that's one 'update-alternatives' > of th

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 01:11:04PM -0500, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > >> It's one thing for myself to do it (I can use vi and emacs) but sometimes I >> help other people who are less skilled to installs - sometimes over the

Re: cheap LCD display

2007-03-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Fri, March 16, 2007 16:37, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Hello List, >> >> I am looking for a cheap (DVI ?) LCD display >> for my Etch boxes (macbook or macmini): >> any advice is more than wellcome ! > > I got this for my Mac Mini

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-16 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 01:11:04PM -0500, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > > It's one thing for myself to do it (I can use vi and emacs) but sometimes I > help other people who are less skilled to installs - sometimes over the phone > - and it's makes me crazy to have to explain to them "ok, now type

Re: how to print unicode encoded file to ps

2007-03-16 Thread H.S.
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Have you tried LaTex? Sure a .tex file starts with a preamble but you could have two files head.tex (preamble) and tail.tex (\end{document}). Then cat head.tex file.txt tail.tex > file.tex, then latex file.tex then dvips file.dvi. Then yo

Re: how to print unicode encoded file to ps

2007-03-16 Thread H.S.
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:34:47PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > I use kde. Konqueror(kwite)->file->print->print to file(ps) ,this is my way. Gnome should also print it to file. Have a try? Interesting, kwrite worked. Gedit, however, did not. The result in that case was the

Re: apt.conf with proxy

2007-03-16 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:31:05 -0300 Alejandro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > People, I've a Debian Etch behind a proxy so I need to edit the > /etc/apt/apt.conf file in order to get the repositories. I can't make it > works and in Google I se diferent ways to edit the apt.conf file. > > Please, can

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-16 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:52:46 +0100 "Raffaele Morelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > LAP:/# kill artsd > > -su: kill: artsd: arguments must be process or job IDs > > > Ken, you need further manual reading about processes "management". > man ps > man kill > man killall Which makes me wonder: wha

Re: Gnome Power Manager + Debian Sid: does not recognize battery state and notification symbol not shown

2007-03-16 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:27:58 +0100 Marcel Scheffler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear List. > > I am running Debian Sid with latest Gnome 2.14.3 on my IBM Thinkpad T22. > > Since Dist upgrade to Gnome Power Manager 2.14.3 it is noch working > properly anymore. > > - the symbol in the notific

Gnome Power Manager + Debian Sid: does not recognize battery state and notification symbol not shown

2007-03-16 Thread Marcel Scheffler
Dear List. I am running Debian Sid with latest Gnome 2.14.3 on my IBM Thinkpad T22. Since Dist upgrade to Gnome Power Manager 2.14.3 it is noch working properly anymore. - the symbol in the notification area is not shown anymore If I start gpm from menu and change notification from "always" to

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 01:11:04PM -0500, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > > >> > Etherconf disappeared in Etch - I don't know why. > >> > Does any utility exist in Etch for [re]configuring the basic network > >> > settings? > > > >> None that I am aware of. You have to do it by hand. > > > > > >Interes

Re: ssh problems

2007-03-16 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, I read your mail more carefully this time! On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Francesco Pietra wrote: > It worked beautifully for a week. At a new boot today > the 32bit machine had taken the former IP address of > the 64bit machine, and viceversa. On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Surpris

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-16 Thread Dave Ewart
On Friday, 16.03.2007 at 13:11 -0500, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > In fact, what's been frustrating me about it is, I use static IPs on > my network, but during the initial install the installer is latching > onto our DHCP server, without even /asking/ me if I want to use DHCP - > it's just assuming I

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-16 Thread Jonathan Wilson
>> > Etherconf disappeared in Etch - I don't know why. >> > Does any utility exist in Etch for [re]configuring the basic network >> > settings? > >> None that I am aware of. You have to do it by hand. > > >Interesting trend. I suppose eventually we'll see the elimination of alsaconf, printconf

Re: cheap LCD display

2007-03-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi ! Thomas Jollans wrote: On Friday 16 March 2007 17:37, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, I am looking for a cheap (DVI ?) LCD display for my Etch boxes (macbook or macmini): any advice is more than wellcome ! what size are you thinking of ? as I am a kind of globe-trotter, I am looking

Re: ssh problems

2007-03-16 Thread Francesco Pietra
The "Static" assignment was on the hypothesis that the two IP addresses that the two machines were used to take were internal to the modem. Actually, changing from DHCP to Static has broken any connection to internet, i.e., if I understand, that "Static" is to the eth# connection, while my provider

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 01:25:24PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 10:05:19AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:57:43PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 06:08:24AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > > Clive Menzie

Re: ssh problems

2007-03-16 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Francesco Pietra wrote: > It worked beautifully for a week. At a new boot today > the 32bit machine had taken the former IP address of > the 64bit machine, and viceversa. > A system maintainer suggested to change the eth# > connections of the two machines (Desktopp, >

apt.conf with proxy

2007-03-16 Thread Alejandro
People, I've a Debian Etch behind a proxy so I need to edit the /etc/apt/apt.conf file in order to get the repositories. I can't make it works and in Google I se diferent ways to edit the apt.conf file. Please, can you tell me how the apt.conf file is if my http proxy is 192.168.1.1 with user aaa

apt.copnf with proxy

2007-03-16 Thread Alejandro
People, I've a Debian Etch behind a proxy so I need to edit the /etc/apt/apt.conf file in order to get the repositories. I can't make it works and in Google I se diferent ways to edit the apt.conf file. Please, can you tell me how the apt.conf file is if my http proxy is 192.168.1.1 with user aaa

Re: console based cd burning (wodim and burn)

2007-03-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Joerg Schilling [Thu, Mar 15 2007, 09:03:15PM]: > Some Debian people did create this fork because they do not like to cooperate > with the author in a fruitful way. "fruitful" from our point of view implies fulfilling user requirements. If you do not listen to them or are not ready to

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 10:05:19AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:57:43PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 06:08:24AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > Clive Menzies wrote: > > > > > > > Bringing democracy and freedom to the Iraqi people .

Re: ssh problems

2007-03-16 Thread Francesco Pietra
It worked beautifully for a week. At a new boot today the 32bit machine had taken the former IP address of the 64bit machine, and viceversa. $ slogin "IP address of the other machine" reported port 22: time out, while internet navigation with Firefox browser was OK. I recognize while writing that

Re: how to print unicode encoded file to ps

2007-03-16 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Have you tried LaTex? Sure a .tex file starts with a preamble > but you could have two files head.tex (preamble) and tail.tex > (\end{document}). Then cat head.tex file.txt tail.tex > > file.tex, then latex file.tex then dvips file.dvi. Then you > have your file.ps

Re: cheap LCD display

2007-03-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Fri, March 16, 2007 16:37, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > I am looking for a cheap (DVI ?) LCD display > for my Etch boxes (macbook or macmini): > any advice is more than wellcome ! I got this for my Mac Mini: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-AL1916WAS-Widescreen-LCD-Monitor/dp/B000H5UKBM/

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:57:43PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 06:08:24AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Clive Menzies wrote: > > > > > Bringing democracy and freedom to the Iraqi people er no! > > > > Uh, yes. Try looking past Wolf Blitzer and his over-hype

Re: SMTP and ports 25 and 1025.

2007-03-16 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:13:12AM -0700, Easthope wrote: > Normally SMTP uses port 25 but in some cases it uses > 1025. According to > http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers > 1025 is assigned to blackjack! (blackjack?) So what > is SMTP doing with it? I've never seen SMTP use 1025.

Re: console based cd burning (wodim and burn)

2007-03-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Joerg Schilling [Thu, Mar 15 2007, 05:57:30PM]: > >trying to see what should I use to burn CD's from a terminal. This is on > >an Etch bases system with only icewm installed on it. I don't want to > >use nautilus cd burner and neither k3b, if I can help it. > > >How do wodim and bur

Re: Script stopper

2007-03-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 05:44:43PM +0200, ccostin wrote: > What plugin/addon can stop a JavaScript scripts or animated GIFs from > running (not blocking from the beginning) and then rerun whenever I > want, with only two main functions STOP/START scripts and animated > GIFs ? > > Is there any oth

Re: cheap LCD display

2007-03-16 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Friday 16 March 2007 17:37, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > I am looking for a cheap (DVI ?) LCD display > for my Etch boxes (macbook or macmini): > any advice is more than wellcome ! what size are you thinking of ? Thomas pgpFQIJg3UhCL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 06:08:24AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Clive Menzies wrote: > > > Bringing democracy and freedom to the Iraqi people er no! > > Uh, yes. Try looking past Wolf Blitzer and his over-hyped candy show and > try to find the good in the nation. You do realize that 80-9

Re: Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

2007-03-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 02:14:01PM +0100, Marcin wrote: > Friday 16 of March 2007 11:28:28 Daniel Wyeth napisa??(a): > > On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 22:27 +0100, Marcin Giedz wrote: > > Thanks everyone for these hints > > After I read your posts and did some googling this pop in my mind: > 1) inst

Re: I need to see the lowest level signal coming from my keyboard

2007-03-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:49:06AM -0400, Richard Bronosky wrote: > I have a keyboard that does not seem to deliver Ctrl+Alt+RightArrow. > It does deliver Ctrl+Alt+LeftArrow. I have inspected with "xev" and > found that each of the key up and key downs are detected for the first > key combination,

cheap LCD display

2007-03-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I am looking for a cheap (DVI ?) LCD display for my Etch boxes (macbook or macmini): any advice is more than wellcome ! Jerome -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 03:52:46PM +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > no isa-pnp module to load... > ... I think you need some isa related tool to deal with this card or an > isa > capable kernel, i.e. recompile with isa support flag turned on. > I don't want to mislead you but I would go this wa

Απ: SMTP and ports 25 and 1025.

2007-03-16 Thread Nick Demou
2007/3/16, Easthope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Debian Users, I am trying to understand how SMTP uses ports. Ultimately I want it to work through a SSH tunnel. Normally SMTP uses port 25 but in some cases it uses 1025. 25 is the default (ie. the one that all computers in the Internet will attempt to

Re: How to reject spam with embedded graphics

2007-03-16 Thread Chris Lale
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/07 07:32, Chris Lale wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/07 05:19, Chris Lale wrote: There was some discussion on the list a while ago about how to deal wit

Re: scripting

2007-03-16 Thread Bob McGowan
john gennard wrote: I'm trying to understand Debian's startup procedure and follow the relevant scripts. Where can I find a tutorial on scripting? For example, /etc/init.d/rc - I can roughly understand what is happening (the comments often indicate the way), but the finer points are obscure. I'v

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-16 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 16 March 2007 15:26, Ken Heard wrote: > Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > LAP:~# artsd stop > > Link points to "/tmp/ksocket-root" > > can't create mcop directory > > > > I usually kill artsd > > I tried: > > LAP:/# kill artsd > -su: kill: artsd: arguments must be process or job IDs

make/g++ within emacs causes wierd unicode control characters

2007-03-16 Thread Micha Feigin
I am trying to compile from within emacs (using M-x compile which calls make -k) In the output I get wierd characters (I think unicode characters): main.cc: In function ג€˜int main(int, char**)ג€™: main.cc:16: error: no matching function for call to ג€˜LaplaceMat::LaplaceMat(int&)ג€™ LaplaceMat.

I need to see the lowest level signal coming from my keyboard

2007-03-16 Thread Richard Bronosky
I have a keyboard that does not seem to deliver Ctrl+Alt+RightArrow. It does deliver Ctrl+Alt+LeftArrow. I have inspected with "xev" and found that each of the key up and key downs are detected for the first key combination, but the RightArrow up and down actions show no event when both the Ctrl

Script stopper

2007-03-16 Thread ccostin
What plugin/addon can stop a JavaScript scripts or animated GIFs from running (not blocking from the beginning) and then rerun whenever I want, with only two main functions STOP/START scripts and animated GIFs ? Is there any other solution than a debugger ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: scripting

2007-03-16 Thread Bob McGowan
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 05:14:48PM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: Nigel, I cannot find a package 'abs-guide' for etch. I've tried several different permutations (-guide, guide[too much!], abs-), nothing is found. Is there is typo here or is there some other repository t

Re: Wine

2007-03-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] >>> That is just plain ignorance on the part of the person who made that >>> statement. The package format has not changed. It would be stupid for >>> Ubuntu to do something like that, since all package management tools >>>

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-16 Thread Raffaele Morelli
LAP:/# kill artsd -su: kill: artsd: arguments must be process or job IDs Ken, you need further manual reading about processes "management". man ps man kill man killall LAP:~# /etc/alsa reload > -su: /etc/alsa: is a directory > > sorry, it was /etc/init.d/alsa reload LAP:/# /etc/init.

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-16 Thread Ken Heard
Also found the following: LAP:/# find -iname isapnp ./sys/module/snd_opl3sa2/parameters/isapnp ./usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-4/drivers/pnp/isapnp LAP:/# Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: ram/amd64

2007-03-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 04:13 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Is any experience for 2GB ram modules (ecc, > registered) on the motherboard Tyan S2895 Thunder K8WE > (where installed two dual opterons) ? > > The motherboard' manual (both revision 1.00, my own, > and subsequent revision 1.01) is said

Re: Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

2007-03-16 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:27:46PM +0100, Marcin Giedz wrote: > Hello, > > Perhaps what I'm planing to do is not very "legal" but it seems I have > no chance :( > I've got EMC disk array which recently I was able to connect using > QLogic FC card to my server. However I can only use one PATH fro

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-16 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 01:16:46AM +0200, Atis wrote: > [snip] > >> >00 06 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the/script > >> > > >> >for 6:00 AM on the last day of each month > > [snip] > >when you have multiple commands on a line with && between them, it > >executes them sequentially

Re: how to print unicode encoded file to ps

2007-03-16 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:34:47PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > >I use kde. Konqueror(kwite)->file->print->print to file(ps) ,this is > >my way. Gnome should also print it to file. Have a try? > > > > Interesting, kwrite worked. Gedit, however, did not. The result in that > case was the same as in u2p

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-16 Thread Ken Heard
Raffaele Morelli wrote: LAP:~# artsd stop Link points to "/tmp/ksocket-root" can't create mcop directory > I usually kill artsd I tried: LAP:/# kill artsd -su: kill: artsd: arguments must be process or job IDs LAP:~# /etc/alsa reload -su: /etc/alsa: is a directory

Re: scripting

2007-03-16 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 10:07:28AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > It's in non-free; you have to add non-free in your sources.list. I just checked out the license (included below), in /usr/share/doc/abs-guide/copyright . It definitely suggests that the author is not riding the cluetrain. Steve This pack

Re: scripting

2007-03-16 Thread Cédric Lucantis
Le vendredi 16 mars 2007 15:07, Celejar a écrit : > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:14:48 -0700 > Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > Nigel, > > > > I cannot find a package 'abs-guide' for etch. I've tried several > > different permutations (-guide, guide[too much!], abs-), nothing is >

Re: scripting

2007-03-16 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:14:48 -0700 Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Nigel, > > I cannot find a package 'abs-guide' for etch. I've tried several > different permutations (-guide, guide[too much!], abs-), nothing is found. > > Is there is typo here or is there some other reposito

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-16 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:27:06 + Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > and encouraged the US in its disasterous exploits. They didn't finish > what they started in Afghanistan before opening yet a second front; > Churchill or Eisenhower would never countenance such a catastrophe.

Re: Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

2007-03-16 Thread Marcin
Friday 16 of March 2007 11:28:28 Daniel Wyeth napisał(a): > On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 22:27 +0100, Marcin Giedz wrote: Thanks everyone for these hints After I read your posts and did some googling this pop in my mind: 1) install RHEL - as small as possible 2) install ALL needed modules - e.g. fo

Re: scripting

2007-03-16 Thread Cédric Lucantis
Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 17:36, john gennard a écrit : > I'm trying to understand Debian's startup procedure and > follow the relevant scripts. Where can I find a tutorial > on scripting? > > For example, /etc/init.d/rc - I can roughly understand > what is happening (the comments often indicate the wa

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Clive Menzies wrote: > Sorry I just can't let this pass > Justifications for the Iraq war: > Weapons of Mass Destruction er no! Er, yes. As I posted the justification was not that they were present but that Hussein was seeking to obtain them. Given that in the past he has had them an

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-16 Thread Raffaele Morelli
LAP:~# artsd stop Link points to "/tmp/ksocket-root" can't create mcop directory I usually kill artsd LAP:~# /etc/alsa reload -su: /etc/alsa: is a directory sorry, it was /etc/init.d/alsa reload LAP:~# lsmod|grep snd snd_opl3_synth 13924 0 snd_seq_instr 7392 1 snd_o

Re: Checkpoint firewall/VPN with debian

2007-03-16 Thread Philippe Marzouk
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:22:18AM +0100, Arnau wrote: > Hi Philippe > >> In my company they have a checkpoint firewall, there is a software > >>for windows, securemote, to connect to it and stablish a VPN. I'd like > >>to do the same from my debian box. I have checked on checkpoint's site > >>

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-16 Thread Ken Heard
Raffaele Morelli wrote: 1. Try kill artsd deamon if running... 2. from a root shell /etc/alsa reload 2. lsmod | grep snd, so you are sure that snd modules are loaded 4. cat /dev/urandom > /dev/audio do you hear something? (white noise) 5. if you got xine installed (dvd video player) try a DVD,

Re: libc6 (?) related conflicts involving emacs21 and other packages

2007-03-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 18:56:25 -0600, Charles Blair wrote: >Thanks for your continuing help. In response to "aptitude keep-all" > and to > "aptitude install -fsD" I got a long list of packages that "have been > kept back". > No single item in the list seemed enlightening. > > The second

ram/amd64

2007-03-16 Thread Francesco Pietra
Is any experience for 2GB ram modules (ecc, registered) on the motherboard Tyan S2895 Thunder K8WE (where installed two dual opterons) ? The motherboard' manual (both revision 1.00, my own, and subsequent revision 1.01) is said to support up to 16 GB, though I notice now that there is a small arte

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/03/07 22:10), Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:49:28PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 03/15/07 19:18, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > > > ..thru Cheney, Halliburton, KBR, etc. > > > > Do you *really* believe that? > > > Of course he does. The wars in Afghanistan and I

Re: Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

2007-03-16 Thread George Hein
I have done this for a couple of years on two separate laptops, mixing RedHat and Mandriva. Even recently I sucessfully tried a kernel from RIP (mini-distribution) on a Debian. However, lately there has not been much of a need. More likely than not it will not work due to the mix of libraries

Re: Compiling Debs on AMD vs. Intel and 32bit vs. 64bit

2007-03-16 Thread martin f krafft
First off, please don't cross-post. An amd64 host can be used to build i386 packages with ease (using e.g. schroot), whereas amd64 packages cannot easily be built on an i386 host. Thus, I suggest an amd64 machine with an i386 chroot. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the li

Re: Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

2007-03-16 Thread Daniel Wyeth
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 22:27 +0100, Marcin Giedz wrote: > I've got EMC disk array which recently I was able to connect using > QLogic FC card to my server. However I can only use one PATH from my > server to EMC so natural failover which comes with EMC can't be > achieved. EMC AX 150 has 2 FC co

Re: Checkpoint firewall/VPN with debian

2007-03-16 Thread Arnau
Hi Philippe In my company they have a checkpoint firewall, there is a software for windows, securemote, to connect to it and stablish a VPN. I'd like to do the same from my debian box. I have checked on checkpoint's site and the only thing related to linux is a quite old version for Red Hat

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