Re: Black screen before login

2007-04-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 09:18:54PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:42:57 -0700 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 08:41:57AM -0300, Renato Gondim Filho wrote: > > > Yes, but the computer is not connected to the LAN. Here is the > >

Re: Versioned /etc ?

2007-04-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:04:49AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 23:10 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: > > On 2007-04-28 @ 15:36:10 (week 17) Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 19:22 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: > > > [snip description of vicf] > > > > > > That ro

Re: how to make a symlink

2007-04-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:11:40PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > not using Gnome or KDE, I seem to be mising some basic features (like > search). One of these is the ability to make links to files. I want to > make a link to seamoney, which has not registered as a browser, nor has > it registere

Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap

2007-04-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:11:37PM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Amy, I was helping you with this and then got distracted. > > Did you resolve this issue at all? > > Unfortunately, no (and I also got somewhat distracted and > just came across this message). Basical

I2C bus can not find sensors since kernel 2.6.18

2007-04-28 Thread Wang Xu
Hi List, Anyone met similar case? I have a ASUS M2Ne Laptop, which has Intel ICH4 (i2c-i801) SMBus. With 2.6.16 and earlier 2.6 kernel, it could find max6657 sensor and install lm90 module. the sensor result are: | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sensors | max6657-i2c-0-4c | Adapter: SMBus I801 adapter

Re: wireless - is it possible?

2007-04-28 Thread Default User
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 22:36 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Default User([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 23:24 +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > > Default User (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > > > > > Easy question: has anyone been able to get any currently avai

Re: wireless - is it possible?

2007-04-28 Thread Default User
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 00:14 +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Default User (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 23:24 +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > >> Default User (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > >> > >> I think one of them uses a ralink chipset, which means that there is > >> a d

Re: Versioned /etc ?

2007-04-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 23:10 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: > On 2007-04-28 @ 15:36:10 (week 17) Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 19:22 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: > > [snip description of vicf] > > > > That rocks. > > > > Anyway to get into Debian as a package? Since you are the upst

Re: GRUB launch a CD?

2007-04-28 Thread M-L
On Sunday 29 April 2007 09:38, Douglas Allan Tutty shared this with us all: >--} On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 07:56:22AM +1000, M-L wrote: >--} > On Saturday 28 April 2007 22:49, Douglas Allan Tutty shared this with > us all: --} > >--} On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 06:28:02AM +, David Dawson > wrote: --}

Re: GCC compiler

2007-04-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:20:08 -0300 "Iuri Sampaio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I tried to compile a C source code, using make command: > > > > The Makefile script is: > > > > BINDIR = ./ > > LIBDIR = /foo/im/lib/Linux24 > > INCLUDE = /foo/im/include > > > > CC = gcc

Re: wireless - is it possible?

2007-04-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Default User([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 23:24 +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > Default User (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > > > Easy question: has anyone been able to get any currently available > > > wifi USB or PCMCIA adapter to work with a 2004 Tosh

Re: more editing of the subject line of a thread [RE-][RE-][EDITED]?

2007-04-28 Thread Bob
P Kapat wrote: On Saturday 28 April 2007 12:46:48 am Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:52:26AM -0400, P Kapat wrote: On 4/28/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I googled around a little bit, and did some simple mailing-replying actions.. It seems like g

Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap

2007-04-28 Thread Amy Templeton
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Amy, I was helping you with this and then got distracted. > Did you resolve this issue at all? Unfortunately, no (and I also got somewhat distracted and just came across this message). Basically, at this point I think I could kludge together a quick fix for this if I

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Jude DaShiell([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > pen drives if I'm not mistaken need sg and sr-mod in your /etc/modules > file. Those need the scsi drivers installed. Right you are. VT1 root-3-TESTING:~# lsmod |grep sg sg 31836 0 scsi_mod 124872 5

Re: Can't mount pen drive (SOLVED -- Sort of)

2007-04-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Marc Shapiro([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Wayne Topa wrote: > >Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > <> > > > No, the drive gets detected but does NOT get configured at all. See my > other post (replying to Greg) for the dmesg output showing what d

GCC compiler

2007-04-28 Thread Iuri Sampaio
Hi, I tried to compile a C source code, using make command: The Makefile script is: BINDIR = ./ LIBDIR = /foo/im/lib/Linux24 INCLUDE = /foo/im/include CC = gcc CFLAGS = -g -I$(INCLUDE) LIBS = $(LIBDIR)/libim.a $(LIBDIR)/libim.so \ -lm -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 OBJS =

Голодные Разовые ра ботники-студенты. Вы полним все на, что у в ас нет времени и желания.

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Re: how to make a symlink

2007-04-28 Thread somethin2cool
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: What basic feature like search? Search what? Try apropos symlink. Or just man symlink. Good luck. Doug. The ability to search for files. I now have catfish. There were errors when running make install, but it seems fine. more than fine infact: brilliant.

Студенты. Мы вам пом огаем, когда нет ни к апли времени и желан ия на тяжелый и нудный труд.

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Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-28 Thread David Claughton
Joe Hart wrote: I warn you again though, this is not a good idea. You'd be better off downloading the tarball from the developers' web site and compiling it that you would by trying to use apt to pull in a package from sarge. The packages there are old, and have very different dependencies.

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/28/07 16:34, Alex Samad wrote: [snip] > didn't I read that the us army banned taurine after experimenting > with it back in the days If the Air Force hasn't banned bennies, why should the Army ban taurine? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA U

Re: aptitude + dpkg

2007-04-28 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:26:38AM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > Given that aptitude is awesome and that all the stuff I want is missing > from all the repositories, is there anyway for me to use .deb files and > dpkg in conjunction with aptitude. I'm sure they have the dependencies > listed ins

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: installing ralink chip lets disappear ' floppy' ??!!l]]

2007-04-28 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:40:47AM +0200, steef wrote: > second try... Rather than resending, why not ask the question better? > got a strange problem. when i install a wireless asuscard, i.e. the > driver; rt2500-source, ralink_chip (on debian; etch) 'floppy' disappears > without a trace out o

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-28 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 11:02:42PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 06:13:26PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > >>Well, can't it just know that Lynx is installed and run it in a > >>terminal? It can't run anywhere else, so one would think this would b

Re: GRUB launch a CD?

2007-04-28 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 07:56:22AM +1000, M-L wrote: > On Saturday 28 April 2007 22:49, Douglas Allan Tutty shared this with us all: > >--} On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 06:28:02AM +, David Dawson wrote: > >--} > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >--} > > >--} > sbm (smart boot manager) > >--} > It comes on

Re: how to make a symlink

2007-04-28 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:11:40PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > not using Gnome or KDE, I seem to be mising some basic features (like > search). One of these is the ability to make links to files. I want to > make a link to seamoney, which has not registered as a browser, nor has > it registere

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-28 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:06:25PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > If i use a tarball, i have to wait for an error message, go get a > dependancy, try again, get another, try again... and this is fine by all > developers minds. To mine it is not. There is a problem. Wherever you get the tarball

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-28 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:02:24PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > So the single line answer would be "use aptitude exclusively and it's > awesome". The thing is I've started with apt now :-( So stop using apt-get or anything but aptitude. Start aptitude interactivly and get everything set up (o

aptitude + dpkg

2007-04-28 Thread somethin2cool
Given that aptitude is awesome and that all the stuff I want is missing from all the repositories, is there anyway for me to use .deb files and dpkg in conjunction with aptitude. I'm sure they have the dependencies listed inside them somewhere, and it would be brilliant. I'd settle for apt of c

Re: Host's IP address can't be found

2007-04-28 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 03:48:39PM -0400, Gloria Brown wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 15:37 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > Not trimming on purpose, see below: > > > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 02:35:03PM -0400, Gloria Brown wrote: > > > I installed Etch on a stand-alone workstation which is t

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:02:24PM +0100, somethin2cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Joe Hart wrote: > So the single line answer would be "use aptitude exclusively and it's > awesome". The thing is I've started with apt now :-( You can switch to aptitude -- it just will assume that

Re: ntfs read-write

2007-04-28 Thread Freddy Freeloader
somethin2cool wrote: Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 somethin2cool wrote: Answer to this one: ntfs-3g. It works. But, never trust anything to work with an undocumented file system. Frequent backups are a good idea. Reformatting the ntfs drive is a better id

Re: wireless - is it possible?

2007-04-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:24:35 +0200 Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Default User (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > Easy question: has anyone been able to get any currently available > > wifi USB or PCMCIA adapter to work with a 2004 Toshiba Satellite > > M35X-S109 laptop (no built-in

Drscheme package install failure.

2007-04-28 Thread r. clayton
I'm trying to install drscheme and related on a debian testing system and it's failing: $ sudo apt-get install drscheme Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: mzscheme The following NEW packages will be installed

Re: Versioned /etc ?

2007-04-28 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-04-28 @ 15:36:10 (week 17) Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 19:22 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: > [snip description of vicf] > > That rocks. > > Anyway to get into Debian as a package? Since you are the upstream > author. Hi Greg, Sure, no problem. I'd be glad to do so if it p

[Fwd: [Fwd: installing ralink chip lets disappear ' floppy' ??!!l]]

2007-04-28 Thread steef
second try... Original Message Subject:ra0-tool lets disappear ' floppy' ??!!l Resent-Date:Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:06:14 -0500 (CDT) Resent-From:debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:10:37 +0200 From: steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EM

Re: how to make a symlink

2007-04-28 Thread Amy Templeton
somethin2coolwrote: > I seem to be mising some basic features (like search). Is slocate installed? If so, it's invoked with "locate somestring" (minus the quotes). Otherwise, you can probably use "find," invoked in the same way. > One of these is the ability to make links to files. ln -s /path/t

Re: wireless - is it possible?

2007-04-28 Thread Andreas Janssen
Default User (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 23:24 +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: >> Default User (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >> >> I think one of them uses a ralink chipset, which means that there is >> a driver available, however you need to compile and install it >> yoursel

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-04-28 Thread graham
Hi Florian, Thanks for the response! Answers inline below: basically everything seems to be right - but cups still thinks the printer is paused... Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 15:18:52 +0100, graham wrote: Hi, I have a server running cups, with a wireless usb connector conn

Re: wireless - is it possible?

2007-04-28 Thread Default User
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 23:24 +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Default User (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > Easy question: has anyone been able to get any currently available > > wifi USB or PCMCIA adapter to work with a 2004 Toshiba Satellite > > M35X-S109 laptop (no built-in wifi), using Debian

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-28 Thread somethin2cool
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 06:13:26PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: Well, can't it just know that Lynx is installed and run it in a terminal? It can't run anywhere else, so one would think this would be the default action. And it should be possible How do you propose tha

Re: GRUB launch a CD?

2007-04-28 Thread M-L
On Saturday 28 April 2007 22:49, Douglas Allan Tutty shared this with us all: >--} On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 06:28:02AM +, David Dawson wrote: >--} > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >--} > >--} > sbm (smart boot manager) >--} > It comes on the Debian install disk as a floppy image which you dd to > a --

make install error #1

2007-04-28 Thread somethin2cool
*paste cp -rf locale //usr/local/share cp: cannot stat `locale': No such file or directory make: *** [install] Error 1 debian:/home/dave/Desktop/catfish-0.2.3# google is littered with posts about how to fix install error 1. none of them are answered. Still, at least I got past the dependencies.

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 05:04:40PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 04/28/07 09:22, Roberto C. Sýnchez wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 08:54:04AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> On 04/28/07 02:38, Joe Hart wrote: > Well

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 09:38:40AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 01:40:09AM -0400, Max Hyre wrote: > >> Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > >>> Sadly it's not made with cane sugar anymore. :( > >>Now

Re: iceweasel and javascripts

2007-04-28 Thread BartlebyScrivener
And even better solution from a 4/27 thread is to change the reported browser for good. > Also, if you just want to do away with "Iceweasel" in the user agent all > together (a good idea, IMHO), just open about:config and change the > general.useragent.extra.firefox preference to "Firefox/2.0.0.3"

Re: How to change Iceweasel reported browser

2007-04-28 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Apr 27, 12:20 pm, "Andrew J. Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, if you just want to do away with "Iceweasel" in the user agent all > together (a good idea, IMHO), just open about:config and change the > general.useragent.extra.firefox preference to "Firefox/2.0.0.3". > Great tip! On anot

Re: wireless - is it possible?

2007-04-28 Thread Andreas Janssen
Default User (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Easy question: has anyone been able to get any currently available > wifi USB or PCMCIA adapter to work with a 2004 Toshiba Satellite > M35X-S109 laptop (no built-in wifi), using Debian Etch? > > Very hard question: if so, how were you able to do it? >

gnustep depends: libfoundation-dev

2007-04-28 Thread Bill Pursell
$ apt-cache depends gnustep-devel gnustep-devel Depends: gnustep-core Depends: gorm.app Depends: projectcenter.app Depends: projectmanager.app Suggests: steptalk Suggests: libpantomime1-dev Suggests: Suggests: gnustep-netclasses Recommends: librenaissance0-dev Recommends: gnustep Why

how to make a symlink

2007-04-28 Thread somethin2cool
not using Gnome or KDE, I seem to be mising some basic features (like search). One of these is the ability to make links to files. I want to make a link to seamoney, which has not registered as a browser, nor has it registered a command. Thus putting a symlink to seamonkey in bin ought to suffi

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-28 Thread somethin2cool
Joe Hart wrote: I warn you again though, this is not a good idea. You'd be better off downloading the tarball from the developers' web site and compiling it that you would by trying to use apt to pull in a package from sarge. The packages there are old, and have very different dependencies. J

wireless - is it possible?

2007-04-28 Thread Default User
Easy question: has anyone been able to get any currently available wifi USB or PCMCIA adapter to work with a 2004 Toshiba Satellite M35X-S109 laptop (no built-in wifi), using Debian Etch? Very hard question: if so, how were you able to do it? I have tried a Netgear MA111 (v1?) USB adapter. I ha

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-28 Thread somethin2cool
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 somethin2cool wrote: [snip] It seems there are no perfect methods, but that apt works perfectly IF you have all the repositories in there (although sucks at uninstalling). Many many things I want are not in repositories for some reas

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-28 Thread somethin2cool
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: No, it isn't too obvious to bother writing anywhere: it may be obvious to many that some users don't bother _READING_ anywhere. Google is your friend, as is browsing the archives of the mailing list. Hope this helps, Andy Andrew I'm sure you get a lot of threads

Re: Newbie help how to enlarge root partition

2007-04-28 Thread John K Masters
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:16:12 -0400 "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've looked at fdisk and parted, but I need help. Do I need to start > over copying my 40GB HDD to a properly-partitioned 160GB HDD, or can > someone give me detailed instructions to expand my 40GB root > partition to

Re: Unix-ify File Names

2007-04-28 Thread Masatran, R. Deepak
* Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-04-17 > Since I frequently receive files from Microsoft Windows users, is there any > utility to unix-ify file names, that is, use lower case exclusively, use > hyphen as separator, etc.? I wrote the script below just now. Kindly give comments. This s

Re: Black screen before login

2007-04-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:41:57 -0300 (ART) Renato Gondim Filho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, but the computer is not connected to the LAN. Here is the hosts > file: > > 127.0.0.1localhost > 127.0.1.1blaster > # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts > ::1 ip6-local

Re: Black screen before login

2007-04-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:42:57 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 08:41:57AM -0300, Renato Gondim Filho wrote: > > Yes, but the computer is not connected to the LAN. Here is the > > hosts file: > > > > 127.0.0.1localhost > > 127.0.1.1blaster >

Re: Host's IP address can't be found

2007-04-28 Thread Gloria Brown
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 15:37 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Not trimming on purpose, see below: > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 02:35:03PM -0400, Gloria Brown wrote: > > I installed Etch on a stand-alone workstation which is the sole host on > > a local network and has Internet access through a h

Re: Newbie help how to enlarge root partition

2007-04-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
There is no root partition. There is a root account but if memory serves is located in the "/" partition. So if that's correct, it's the slash partition you want to enlarge. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Host's IP address can't be found

2007-04-28 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
Not trimming on purpose, see below: On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 02:35:03PM -0400, Gloria Brown wrote: > I installed Etch on a stand-alone workstation which is the sole host on > a local network and has Internet access through a hardware firewall. > > I have a MB ethernet chip, but am using a NIC ca

Re: Versioned /etc ?

2007-04-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 19:22 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: [snip description of vicf] That rocks. Anyway to get into Debian as a package? Since you are the upstream author. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the s

Re: Upgrade Sarge > Etch: segfault upgrading libc6: system hosed

2007-04-28 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 09:03:37PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > That libc6 requires recent 2.6.* kernels. Fully up-to-date sarge 2.6 kernel. > > Even if your running kernel were such a kernel, there are other factors. I > doubt whether you had anything like this, but read my posting about > LD_

Re: [OT] Re: I can't find this network cable!

2007-04-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/28/07 13:21, Greg Folkert wrote: [snip] > > I was on a Cruise ship that got caught up in the fringe of a hurricane, > they used the thrusters to help the ship stay on course, as well as all > the main screws and rudders. They still made 29 knots

Re: Versioned /etc ?

2007-04-28 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-04-25 @ 20:51:26 (week 17) Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > Hi. > > So, I was trying to figure out a way to get automatic versioning > for all files in /etc, and I wonder if someone tried that already. > Does anyone have other ideas? Hi Jeronimo, There's another option you might consider

Re: XDMCP

2007-04-28 Thread Robert Brockway
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: Running unstable. Trying to get XDMCP working via KDM. On the local host, everything works. KDM gives me a graphical login prompt, and KDE loads when I log in. From a remote machine, however, I get what appears to be a pure X session with no Windows

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
pen drives if I'm not mistaken need sg and sr-mod in your /etc/modules file. Those need the scsi drivers installed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: edit the subject line of a thread?

2007-04-28 Thread Paul Johnson
P Kapat wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > I googled around a little bit, and did some simple mailing-replying > actions.. It seems like gmail uses "subject" for threading the > conversations. Kmail uses something else (i guess, In-Reply-To). Not > just that,

Re: Status [#80031]

2007-04-28 Thread CNBC Customer Care Team
Dear CNBC Viewer, Thank you for your submission to CNBC Customer Care. We are committed to reviewing your submission and we will email you as quickly as possible with a response. Our viewers typically receive responses within 24 hours. Sincerely, CNBC Customer Care Team - debian-user@l

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:51:02PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I added the lines: > > > >Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binary-1 > >20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main > >Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binary-

Host's IP address can't be found

2007-04-28 Thread Gloria Brown
I installed Etch on a stand-alone workstation which is the sole host on a local network and has Internet access through a hardware firewall. I have a MB ethernet chip, but am using a NIC card. Before the card was eth0, but with installation of Etch on a new disk, it apparently changed to eth1.

Re: edit the subject line of a thread [RE-][EDITED]?

2007-04-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 01:59:44AM -0400, P Kapat wrote: > On Saturday 28 April 2007 12:46:48 am Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:52:26AM -0400, P Kapat wrote: > > > On 4/28/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I googled around a little bit, and did some simple m

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:46:08AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 09:34:17AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Mainlining caffeine requires injecting yourself with a needle 8 or > > more times per day. I'll pass on that delivery method, thank you > > very much. > > >

Re: Black screen before login

2007-04-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 08:41:57AM -0300, Renato Gondim Filho wrote: > Yes, but the computer is not connected to the LAN. Here is the hosts file: > > 127.0.0.1localhost > 127.0.1.1blaster ^ its possible that could be the problem, should be 127.0.0.1 A signature.asc Description:

Re: btw: gnome desktop manager

2007-04-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 01:49:29PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > > > > >You can easily remove gdm: apt-get remove --purge gdm. > > > >The function of a Desktop Manager is to log in graphically and start the > >appropriate x session. If you don't like gdm, then perhaps xdm is more > >to your liki

Re: btw: gnome desktop manager

2007-04-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:08:05AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Although most recently He has told me to use Debian Sid in a multi-seat > configuration, necessitating them again, gdm specifically, very > successfully BTW: > uname -a: > Linux debian 2.6.21-sd046 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 28 04:

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 05:51:06PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > >>similarly, if i type a command like "lynx" into my panel aplet, nothing > >>happens. I have to type it into terminal. so what is the point of the > >>aplet (xfce, default aplet). > >> > > > > >Lynx

Re: webcam model for etch

2007-04-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 02:23:03PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello! > > I have installed etch in a sony vaio notebook with success. Now, I want > to install a webcam on it. I have looking the Webcam HOWTO > > http://www.linux.com/howtos/Webcam-HOWTO > > and I think that a SPCA50X or O

Re: [OT] Re: I can't find this network cable!

2007-04-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 20:28 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:16:54PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > > A cable does not always imply metal. In nautical usage it can refer to a > > large rope. > > I'll split that hair further. A cable is a rope lay. It could be any

RE: Upgrade Sarge > Etch: segfault upgrading libc6: system hosed

2007-04-28 Thread David Baron
That libc6 requires recent 2.6.* kernels. Even if your running kernel were such a kernel, there are other factors. I doubt whether you had anything like this, but read my posting about LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=#.#.# in the environment. If for whatever reason, i.e. certain software running on a 32meg me

Re: How to determine which filesystems are available

2007-04-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 11:22 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > Hi, > > I inserted a Mac HFS formatted USB stick, and to my surprise a window > popped up in Gnome, displaying its contents. > Debian handles the HFS filesystem by default?? > > Which makes me wonder, how I could determine which filesyst

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 06:13:26PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > > Well, can't it just know that Lynx is installed and run it in a > terminal? It can't run anywhere else, so one would think this would be > the default action. And it should be possible > How do you propose that it know, in advan

Re: ntfs read-write

2007-04-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 somethin2cool wrote: [snip] > Back when I still had windows, I created a fat32 partition and used that > to share, but since then I have reclaimed the space that Windows was > using and changed it so that Windows runs in a VM so I can still access > wi

Re: ntfs read-write

2007-04-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 14:43 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > somethin2cool wrote: > > it would be useful to be able to copy files onto ntfs external hds. (i > > like reiser 4, but lets not get into alternatives) > > > > I know about captive and have never got it to work. Fuse seems new, and > > somehow re

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 somethin2cool wrote: > I think the point might have got lost in there: > > So can anyone tell me how to add a Sarge repo, and also the Etch one. > Yes they ought to be set up already but they aren't and the information > is not on any link in Google's

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 somethin2cool wrote: [snip] It seems there are no perfect methods, but that apt works perfectly IF you have all the repositories in there (although sucks at uninstalling). Many many things I want are not in repositories for some reason,

webcam model for etch

2007-04-28 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello! I have installed etch in a sony vaio notebook with success. Now, I want to install a webcam on it. I have looking the Webcam HOWTO http://www.linux.com/howtos/Webcam-HOWTO and I think that a SPCA50X or OmniVision based model would be fine... However, I will appreciate very much any advic

Re: Can't mount pen drive (SOLVED -- Sort of)

2007-04-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
Wayne Topa wrote: Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Marc Shapiro([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 20:46:38 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: <> Does anyone have a clue why /dev/sda and

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-28 Thread somethin2cool
Amy Templeton wrote: somethin2cool wrote: Well, If I type "lynx" into I expect it to launch lynx. ie, launch a terminal with command lynx. xterm -e lynx Amy Well, can't it just know that Lynx is installed and run it in a terminal? It can't run anywhere else, so one would think this woul

Re: Can't mount pen drive (SOLVED -- Sort of)

2007-04-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 21:36 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Does anyone have a clue why /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 are created and the drive will mount if plugged directly to the cable, but /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 are not created if the drive is plugged into the detected and confi

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-28 Thread somethin2cool
Amy Templeton wrote: This is true, but a bad attitude does come out in the presentation of that thought. Comments like "Apparently this is too obvious to bother writing anywhere" when complaining about a lack of documentation aren't productive--if taken at face value, this particular example is

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-28 Thread Amy Templeton
somethin2cool wrote: > Well, If I type "lynx" into I expect > it to launch lynx. ie, launch a terminal with command > lynx. xterm -e lynx Amy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-28 Thread somethin2cool
I think the point might have got lost in there: So can anyone tell me how to add a Sarge repo, and also the Etch one. Yes they ought to be set up already but they aren't and the information is not on any link in Google's first 5 pages. I have looked of debian man, which tells me how to make on

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-28 Thread Amy Templeton
somethin2cool wrote: > When uninstalling an ap, dependencies which are no longer > required should also be uninstalled. Aptitude (a front-end to apt which, I believe, is installed by default, and which has both a true commandline interface (with switches more or less identical to APT's) and a term

Re: ntfs read-write

2007-04-28 Thread somethin2cool
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 somethin2cool wrote: Answer to this one: ntfs-3g. It works. But, never trust anything to work with an undocumented file system. Frequent backups are a good idea. Reformatting the ntfs drive is a better idea, but your Windows mig

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-28 Thread somethin2cool
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: similarly, if i type a command like "lynx" into my panel aplet, nothing happens. I have to type it into terminal. so what is the point of the aplet (xfce, default aplet). Lynx is a text interface. Why would you _not_ need a terminal for it? Doug. Well, If

XDMCP

2007-04-28 Thread Daniel D Jones
Running unstable. Trying to get XDMCP working via KDM. On the local host, everything works. KDM gives me a graphical login prompt, and KDE loads when I log in. From a remote machine, however, I get what appears to be a pure X session with no Windows manager running. I get the hollow X curso

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-28 Thread somethin2cool
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 somethin2cool wrote: [snip] Well things are going well now. I have ethernet internet (so i have to sit by the router) and can install from DVD. But lots of things are still a royal pain when it comes to installing. It seems there a

Re: Xfce eating memory?

2007-04-28 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Land. Since I’m subscribed to this list you don’t need to CC me; just send the mail directly to the list. Oh, and BTW: please teach your mail client to wrap lines at 80 characters and don’t top quote, thank you. Land Haj, 28.04.2007 15:27: > - Original Message From: Mathias Brodala

strange X behaviour

2007-04-28 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
Running Etch amd64 Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe AM2 MB, Athlon 3800+, 1 GB ram, Asus EN7300GT Silent that uses Nvidia EN7300GT GPU. Using either nv or nvidia driver (problem the same with both). Using either Xfce or KDE (problem the same with both) Start X with startx. If I have been viewing graphics (

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