Xmms: 'Double size' and flac problem

2007-05-13 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Running debian etch 4.0 stable. xmms 1.2.10+200611. When I click on Options -> Double Size, the display gets messed up and xmms hangs. Also, though the flac plugins are installed, it does not play flac files, saying that they are invalid (the same files are played perfectly by Rhythmbox). Are th

kernel or ppp problem?

2007-05-13 Thread Eugene Stemple
I am seeing an abnormal delay in packets passed over a PPP link (a null modem cable between two Linux systems) and would post a formal bug report if I were more confident which package maintainer to report to. It might be in the pppd process or it might be in the compiled kernel ppp support

Re: installing JRE

2007-05-13 Thread william pursell
Greg Folkert wrote: then i type "fakeroot make-jpkg jre-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.bin" which i assume changes it into a .deb file? and the terminal then tells me: "-su: fakeroot: command not found" whats going wrong? D: Try /usr/bin/fakeroot, and make sure fakeroot is installed. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Runlevel for textmode

2007-05-13 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/13/2007 10:51 AM, Tim Johnson wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007 22:13, Nelson Castillo wrote: On 5/13/07, Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In Debian you use runlevel 2 for everything. (I'd better say there's no need to use another runlevel). You'll run on 2 by default whether you use

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 04:55:24PM +, Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Etch was installed yesterday via netinst. Network appeared > to configure properly - software installation from mirror > went without a problem > > The problem (sort of) goes like this: > I can boot the

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-13 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/13/07, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 03:02:20AM +, Tyler Smith Older versions of aptitude occasionally got confused about what was and wasn't automatically installed if you used other tools. It shouldn't happen with an up-to-date aptitude as far

[OT] Working news server

2007-05-13 Thread Deboo ^
I was lookign for a free working news server access but unable to find one which allows to post, tho there are several that exist but nowadays it seems none allow to post. I used to use slrn to read news and hadn't used it in quite a whilte. Does anyone know any news server which has a decent num

Re: external hdd problem

2007-05-13 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 5/14/07, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to get an external hdd working. (The maker is Magnetic Data Technologies.) When I try to mount it I get the 'tell me about the format' message. Last time I dealt with one of these I just hooked it up and it worked. Any ideas? Are you

Re: installing etch on a ibm 8364 netvista

2007-05-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
mess-mate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | mess-mate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > | > Hi list, > | > i'd like to install etch on a the above machine... > | > but, that machine have only a hd; no floppy-drive or cdrom. > | > Xubuntu is installed on the

Re: sane question

2007-05-13 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 13 May 2007 20:41:02 -0400 (EDT) Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does the sane package in the debian archives locate usb scanners or > is it only capable of parallel port and serial port scanner location? Sane has multiple backends

Re: sane question

2007-05-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 20:41 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Does the sane package in the debian archives locate usb scanners or is it > only capable of parallel port and serial port scanner location? I have an Epson RX600. It is USB only. It is a printer, scanner and copy machine. SANE works just

Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

2007-05-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 06:44:26PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > > I'd suggest considering rdiff-backup instead. It results in a plain > unencrypted and uncompressed tree, exactly like rsync, but in addition, > does real incremental backups. The increments themselves are binary diffs > and

Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

2007-05-13 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Sunday 13 May 2007 18:35:38 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > To recap, you have something like this: > > - backup to external hard drive > - ~75 GB in /home > - can be stored unencrypted and uncompressed (I would recommend >compression only when your storage medium will no longer fit it >u

Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-13 Thread Tim Johnson
Etch was installed yesterday via netinst. Network appeared to configure properly - software installation from mirror went without a problem The problem (sort of) goes like this: I can boot the machine, and ping any nodes on my network. I can ftp to another machine. Before long, I loose my network

sane question

2007-05-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
Does the sane package in the debian archives locate usb scanners or is it only capable of parallel port and serial port scanner location? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

2007-05-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
José, To recap, you have something like this: - backup to external hard drive - ~75 GB in /home - can be stored unencrypted and uncompressed (I would recommend compression only when your storage medium will no longer fit it uncompressed) - needs to be accessible right away In that case

Re: help!

2007-05-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 10:21 -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > On Thursday 10 May 2007 04:10:25 David wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > > > I just downloaded and installed debian 4.0 stable on my laptop a > > couple of days ago, i've been playing around with it and its great!. > > although i have been h

Re: Runlevel for textmode

2007-05-13 Thread Tim Johnson
On Sunday 13 May 2007 22:13, Nelson Castillo wrote: > On 5/13/07, Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In Debian you use runlevel 2 for everything. > (I'd better say there's no need to use another runlevel). > You'll run on 2 by default whether you use X or not. understood. > I'd rm /etc/rc

Re: help!

2007-05-13 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Thursday 10 May 2007 04:10:25 David wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I just downloaded and installed debian 4.0 stable on my laptop a > couple of days ago, i've been playing around with it and its great!. > although i have been having a bit of difficulty finding a good guide > that explains just the b

dpkg-reconfigure of xserver-xorg creates problem for users!

2007-05-13 Thread Bruce M. Ward
Hi all. A recent install of the Etch release. Root uses 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' to change the video resolutions. Root can start X no problems. Existing user cannot login with gdm - returns to login box. User can login at text console but cannot start X (with startx). Gets 'caught signal 1

BTS subscription fixed

2007-05-13 Thread Frans Pop
The mechanism that allows to subscribe to bug reports in the Debian BTS has been broken for some time (how long exactly is unknown). The problem only affected bug reports for which no "mailing list" existed yet. Basically this means that if you subscribed to a bug report but never received a ma

Re: external hdd problem APOLOGIES

2007-05-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 14:21 -0700, tom arnall wrote: > I sent the following mail this a.m. after looking via google for help on the > issue. but i forgot to look on this user list and just now stumbled onto a > lot of posts on the topic. i need of course to read these before posting new > quest

Re: Runlevel for textmode

2007-05-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 13 May 2007 14:12:36 + Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi ; > I want to start in textmode. > In /etc/inittab > I commented out the following line > id:2:initdefault: > as follows: > # id:2:initdefault: > and added the following: > id:3:initdefault: > but etch continues to boot

Re: Problems getting pics from Minolta

2007-05-13 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank McCormick wrote: > >> You can open a terminal window and start monitoring your syslog with: > >> tail -fn0 /var/log/syslog | sed 's/^.*localhost //' > >> Then you can access a few pictures on the camera and check if you see >> error messages in

Re: Runlevel for textmode

2007-05-13 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 5/13/07, Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi ; Hi. I want to start in textmode. In /etc/inittab I commented out the following line id:2:initdefault: as follows: # id:2:initdefault: and added the following: id:3:initdefault: but etch continues to boot up to an X login. What runlevel n

Re: Problems getting pics from Minolta

2007-05-13 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 16:18:59 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >> Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [...] > >>> I think the first step should be to figure why the files get corrupted >>> so often. If we manage to fix that then you can

Runlevel for textmode

2007-05-13 Thread Tim Johnson
Hi ; I want to start in textmode. In /etc/inittab I commented out the following line id:2:initdefault: as follows: # id:2:initdefault: and added the following: id:3:initdefault: but etch continues to boot up to an X login. What runlevel number is needed? Is there other code to change as well? In sl

Re: HAL crashes with dbus

2007-05-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 13:44:10 +0200, Kristian Lampen wrote: > Hi, > > I use the recent sid installation, kernel 2.6.18 (update almost everyday). > As I tried to use my USB-Stick yesterday, I recognised that kde does not > mount it automatically (the same with cdrom). The last time before two

Re: [workaround] Recent upgrade killed matlab [and everything java related]

2007-05-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 7 May 2007 00:01:13 +0300 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 6 May 2007 10:24:09 -0600 > "Wesley J. Landaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 01 May 2007 01:58:49 Micha Feigin wrote: > > > Recent upgrades of sid killed matlab 7 (sp2) for me. When I try to start

Re: Problems getting pics from Minolta

2007-05-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 16:18:59 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > I think the first step should be to figure why the files get corrupted > > so often. If we manage to fix that then you can check if gthumb causes > > any additional problems. > > I am beginning to

Re: Menu question

2007-05-13 Thread Thilo Six
Joe Hart wrote the following on 13.05.2007 20:58: > I don't see how that could be easier, but I guess there's more than one > way to skin a cat. There are some people that probably think the best > way to go about it would be to run kmenuedit from a terminal (or by > pressing alt-f2) and be don

external hdd problem APOLOGIES

2007-05-13 Thread tom arnall
I sent the following mail this a.m. after looking via google for help on the issue. but i forgot to look on this user list and just now stumbled onto a lot of posts on the topic. i need of course to read these before posting new questions. = I'm trying to

Re: how to specify optical USB mouse in XF86Config-4

2007-05-13 Thread Serena Cantor
I believe human interface, used by USB mouse, is quite standard. Even Windows 98 has built-in support. I think 2.4 can do it. (I have signed off the list. Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you reply.) --- Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > --

Re: 32 & 54 bit shared libraries -- how to?

2007-05-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 05:00:33PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > not an expert on this but, on the mad64 machine I have >^ > mad? :))) yeah well allowed to be mad some times 8) > > Regards, > Andrei > -- > If yo

Re: Problems getting pics from Minolta

2007-05-13 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 08:52:53 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >> Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: >>> On Sat, 12 May 2007 20:52:25 -0400 >>> Frank McCormick wrote: >>> >>> Can someone help diagnose this problem on Debian Sid ? >>>

Re: 2.6.18-4-686 broke 8139too

2007-05-13 Thread Adrian Levi
On 5/14/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With 2.6.8 you have: > ACPI disabled because your bios is from 95 and too old > You can enable it with acpi=force > IRQ9: eth0 With 2.6.18, on the other hand: > ACPI: Core revision 20060707 > ACPI: setting ELCR to 0800 (from 0200) > ACP

Re: 2.6.18-4-686 broke 8139too

2007-05-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 16:17:55 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > After an upgrade from Sarge networking no linger works. I can see no > reason for it. > > I have attached lspci -vvv, dmesg, and ifconfig eth0 and > /proc/interrupts for both kernels 2.6.8-2-686 works perfectly. > > Error message is: > Ma

Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

2007-05-13 Thread José Santos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 07:23:06PM +0100, José Santos wrote: >> What application do you think its best for backing up /home files in >> Debian Etch? >> > José, > > What is your backup medium? Its an external hard drive. H

Re: Location of http files?

2007-05-13 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 13 May 2007 18:12:51 +0100 Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Eric A. Bonney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have my server setup as a web server. I know it is working correctly > > since when I type in the ip address of the machine I get a page tha

Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

2007-05-13 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 13 May 2007 21:04:05 +0200 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > � wrote: > > What application do you think its best for backing up /home files in > > Debian Etch? > > > > Thank you. > > There are a lot of different ways to go about th

Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

2007-05-13 Thread José Santos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Hart wrote: > ý wrote: >> What application do you think its best for backing up /home files in >> Debian Etch? > >> Thank you. > > There are a lot of different ways to go about this. One of the most > common programs do do this is tar. > > rsyn

Re: Problems getting pics from Minolta

2007-05-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 08:52:53 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > > On Sat, 12 May 2007 20:52:25 -0400 > > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > Can someone help diagnose this problem on Debian Sid ? > > > >> Did you upgrade to it, or was it a fresh install? > >> In case of you

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

2007-05-13 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 13 May 2007 17:07:07 +0300 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Bannister) wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 02:35:03PM -0400, Gloria Brown wrote: [snip] > > Have a look at /etc/email-addresses[1], where you can map local > > addresses to your isp addr

Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

2007-05-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 07:23:06PM +0100, José Santos wrote: > What application do you think its best for backing up /home files in > Debian Etch? > José, What is your backup medium? How big is your /home? Do you want it stored compressed or uncompressed? How about encrypted or unencrypted? Ho

Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

2007-05-13 Thread Guillermo Garron
On 5/13/07, José Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What application do you think its best for backing up /home files in Debian Etch? Thank you. Try this ones, http://www.go2linux.org/node/32 http://www.go2linux.org/node/37 http://www.go2linux.org/

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-13 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 12 May 2007 10:15:38 +0200 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 11 May 2007 18:42:26 +0200 > > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> Celejar

Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

2007-05-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 � wrote: > What application do you think its best for backing up /home files in > Debian Etch? > > Thank you. There are a lot of different ways to go about this. One of the most common programs do do this is tar. rsync is good if you have another p

Re: Menu question

2007-05-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thilo Six wrote: > Joe Hart wrote the following on 13.05.2007 18:26: > > > >> Right click on the menu item in question and choose edit item. That >> will launch KDE's menu editor. There you can change the name. While >> you are there, you can cha

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-13 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 12 May 2007 09:58:24 +0200 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 11 May 2007 11:40:20 +0200 > > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> Celejar

Re: XFCE will not manage desktop

2007-05-13 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 12 May 2007 12:58:56 +0530 "Masatran, R. Deepak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I started using XFCE. But after I configured it, it will not manage the > desktop. I turn on "Allow XFCE to manage the desktop" in Desktop Settings, > but it turns off automatically. Kindly suggest a solution. >

external hdd problem

2007-05-13 Thread tom arnall
I'm trying to get an external hdd working. (The maker is Magnetic Data Technologies.) When I try to mount it I get the 'tell me about the format' message. Last time I dealt with one of these I just hooked it up and it worked. Any ideas? tom arnall arcata, ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Advise on backing up files in Etch.

2007-05-13 Thread José Santos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What application do you think its best for backing up /home files in Debian Etch? Thank you. - -- José Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ http://www.ftml.net/mail/?STKI=1516747 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (G

Re: installing etch on a ibm 8364 netvista

2007-05-13 Thread mess-mate
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | mess-mate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > Hi list, | > i'd like to install etch on a the above machine... | > but, that machine have only a hd; no floppy-drive or cdrom. | > Xubuntu is installed on the hd and boot without any problem. | > Is there a way

Re: KDE login manager?

2007-05-13 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 13 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does KDE have a login manager similar to Gnome?  When my laptop boots up > it first enters a login manager if you will that is Gnome.  Then when I > login it brings up the KDE desktop.  Does KDE have anything similar? kdm. (What else?) I guess bot

Re: Menu question

2007-05-13 Thread Tim
Thilo Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is also an easier way. > > kcontrol > Desktop > Panels > Menus > > click "menu item format - Name only" > > tataa That's it! I don't know how I missed that, I looked through the Control Center what seemed like a hundred times looking for a solution

Re: KDE login manager?

2007-05-13 Thread Martin Marques
Eric A. Bonney escribió: Does KDE have a login manager similar to Gnome? When my laptop boots up it first enters a login manager if you will that is Gnome. Then when I login it brings up the KDE desktop. Does KDE have anything similar? $ apt-cache search kdm | grep kdm kde-kdm-themes - Th

Re: Location of http files?

2007-05-13 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sun, 13 May 2007 17:36:33 +0100 John K Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12:28 Sun 13 May , Eric A. Bonney wrote: > > I have my server setup as a web server. I know it is working > > correctly since when I type in the ip address of the machine I get > > a page that displays "It Works"

Re: Location of http files?

2007-05-13 Thread Bob Cox
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric A. Bonney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have my server setup as a web server. I know it is working correctly > since when I type in the ip address of the machine I get a page that > displays "It Works". So where do all the http file go that I want to be >

Re: installing JRE

2007-05-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 05:27 -0700, David wrote: > Hey, > > I am trying to install this .bin file from my desktop "jre-1_5_0_09- > linux-i586.bin" > > I want to change it into a .deb package file so its easier to install. > what im doing now is opening up the terminal > the file is on my desktop,

Re: 2.6.18-4-686 broke 8139too

2007-05-13 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 13 May 2007 08:17, Adrian Levi wrote: > After an upgrade from Sarge networking no linger works. I can see no > reason for it. > > I have attached lspci -vvv, dmesg, and ifconfig eth0 and > /proc/interrupts for both kernels 2.6.8-2-686 works perfectly. > > Error message is: > May 13 13:12:

Re: installing etch on a ibm 8364 netvista

2007-05-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
mess-mate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > i'd like to install etch on a the above machine... > but, that machine have only a hd; no floppy-drive or cdrom. > Xubuntu is installed on the hd and boot without any problem. > Is there a way to replace xubuntu by etch ?? and how can i do that ? >

Re: SSH daemon doesn't accept incoming connections

2007-05-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 13:59 +0400, Kirill Kuvaldin wrote: > Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > > Well, it's very weird. If you restart ssh daemon does works? ( > > /etc/init.d/ssh restart ) But if this has happened twice then there must > > be any reason for this happening. > > I tried: > - restar

Re: Looking for Suggestions for a Headless Music-Client Setup (SOLVED)

2007-05-13 Thread Chris
I found a simple solution for my application: 1. I use kdm with autologin. That starts KDE with a user set up to autorun amarok and x11vnc -many, without any intervention on boot. It does this with a script in ~/.kde/Autorun. I'm not worried about security in my LAN which is behind a firewa

Re: KDE login manager?

2007-05-13 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Eric A. Bonney wrote: > > Does KDE have a login manager similar to Gnome? When my laptop boots up > it first enters a login manager if you will that is Gnome. Then when I > login it brings up the KDE desktop. Does KDE have anything similar? > > Thanks, > -Eric Hi Eric, Is kdm what you're look

Re: Menu question

2007-05-13 Thread Thilo Six
Joe Hart wrote the following on 13.05.2007 18:26: > Right click on the menu item in question and choose edit item. That > will launch KDE's menu editor. There you can change the name. While > you are there, you can change any other menu item, you don't have to > endlessly right click on each

Re: Location of http files?

2007-05-13 Thread John K Masters
On 12:28 Sun 13 May , Eric A. Bonney wrote: > I have my server setup as a web server. I know it is working correctly > since when I type in the ip address of the machine I get a page that > displays "It Works". So where do all the http file go that I want to be > in the public area? I know

Location of http files?

2007-05-13 Thread Eric A. Bonney
I have my server setup as a web server. I know it is working correctly since when I type in the ip address of the machine I get a page that displays "It Works". So where do all the http file go that I want to be in the public area? I know on the server that is currently hosting my web sights

KDE login manager?

2007-05-13 Thread Eric A. Bonney
Does KDE have a login manager similar to Gnome? When my laptop boots up it first enters a login manager if you will that is Gnome. Then when I login it brings up the KDE desktop. Does KDE have anything similar? Thanks, -Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Menu question

2007-05-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim wrote: > Roberto C. S�nchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 10:11:49PM -0300, Tim wrote: >>> I've scoured google, but I can't seem to find a solution to how to change >>> my menu format. >>> >>> Currently my menu items are

Re: Problems getting pics from Minolta

2007-05-13 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank McCormick wrote: > Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: >> On Sat, 12 May 2007 20:52:25 -0400 >> Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Can someone help diagnose this problem on Debian Sid ? > >>> Did you upgrade to it, or was it a fresh install?

installing etch on a ibm 8364 netvista

2007-05-13 Thread mess-mate
Hi list, i'd like to install etch on a the above machine... but, that machine have only a hd; no floppy-drive or cdrom. Xubuntu is installed on the hd and boot without any problem. Is there a way to replace xubuntu by etch ?? and how can i do that ? Thanks in advance for any suggestion. mess-mate

Re: Etch Xorg memory leak?

2007-05-13 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/13/2007 06:51 AM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: I'm having trouble with Xorg under Etch i386 and similar annoyance under amd64. Over time, xorg takes up more and more memory. [...] I also installed Etch on a computer that has only 64MB of RAM, and I haven't noticed this problem. As Hervé P

Re: Etch hangs when installed on vmware

2007-05-13 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
Bhasker C V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded Etch (4.0r0) and started the installation. > > The first place where the hang started is when the kernel loaded. [..] Just wondering on which platform/vmware version you tried: I have installed etch from the netiso-image in workstation 6 bet

Re: google earth, pango

2007-05-13 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Monday 07 May 2007 11:20:49 Gregor wrote: > Him, I did that... but nothing changed. > I get no errors, nothing seems to fails.. the I just see that > google-earth screen (the picture), the dock says "google earth > initializing" and thats it. Nothing more happens.. it doesnt crash, if I > kill i

Re: escape characters in sed

2007-05-13 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Hans du Plooy wrote: Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans du Plooy escribió: Hi guys, I'm trying to do a search/replace on some text. Looks like this: 1.2.3.4(1.2.3.4) To my mind, this should replace the '(' with a space sed 's/\\)/ / But

Re: escape characters in sed

2007-05-13 Thread Hans du Plooy
william pursell wrote: Your version is missing the final ', so I'm guessing you meant: sed 's/\\)/ /' Yes, sorry, several mistakes on my part... which will replace occurences of "\)" with a single space Not what I had intended, I just wanted to replace ) with a space. Actually I wanted to r

Re: escape characters in sed

2007-05-13 Thread Hans du Plooy
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi Hans. Hans du Plooy, 13.05.2007 16:51: I'm trying to do a search/replace on some text. Looks like this: 1.2.3.4(1.2.3.4) To my mind, this should replace the '(' with a space sed 's/\\)/ / No, just type the parenthesis, no escaping necessary. Thanks Math

Re: escape characters in sed

2007-05-13 Thread william pursell
Hans du Plooy wrote: Typo, sorry. Should be: sed 's/\\(/ /' Still doesn't work though :-) I guess the question should be, how to excape a ( character? With a backslash! The thing is, if you include the single quotes, you don't need to escape it through the shell, but if you drop the sin

Re: escape characters in sed

2007-05-13 Thread william pursell
Hans du Plooy wrote: I'm trying to do a search/replace on some text. Looks like this: 1.2.3.4(1.2.3.4) To my mind, this should replace the '(' with a space sed 's/\\)/ / But it does nothing. Why? How do I do this? $ echo "1.2.3.4(1.2.3.4)" | sed 's/(/ /' 1.2.3.4 1.2.3.4) $ echo "1.2.

Re: escape characters in sed

2007-05-13 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Hans. Hans du Plooy, 13.05.2007 16:51: > I'm trying to do a search/replace on some text. Looks like this: > > 1.2.3.4(1.2.3.4) > > To my mind, this should replace the '(' with a space > > sed 's/\\)/ / No, just type the parenthesis, no escaping necessary. Regards, Mathias -- debian/rul

Re: escape characters in sed

2007-05-13 Thread Hans du Plooy
Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans du Plooy escribió: Hi guys, I'm trying to do a search/replace on some text. Looks like this: 1.2.3.4(1.2.3.4) To my mind, this should replace the '(' with a space sed 's/\\)/ / But it does nothing. Why

Re: [OT] Screen (was Affecting Inst. Change)

2007-05-13 Thread s. keeling
s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 05/11/07 19:36, s. keeling wrote: > > > > > > machines though. OSF/1 wasn't originally available for non-Ultra s/Ultra/Alpha/ -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://www.

Re: More Iceweasel strangeness

2007-05-13 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2007 05:08:15 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: un1xer wrote: Try to backup your .mozilla folder and delete the original, start Iceweasel and test it out, if the problem is gone than you know its something related to your profile settings and n

Re: escape characters in sed

2007-05-13 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans du Plooy escribió: > Hi guys, > > I'm trying to do a search/replace on some text. Looks like this: > > 1.2.3.4(1.2.3.4) > > To my mind, this should replace the '(' with a space > > sed 's/\\)/ / > > But it does nothing. Why? How do I do th

escape characters in sed

2007-05-13 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I'm trying to do a search/replace on some text. Looks like this: 1.2.3.4(1.2.3.4) To my mind, this should replace the '(' with a space sed 's/\\)/ / But it does nothing. Why? How do I do this? Thanks Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: 2.6.18-4-686 broke 8139too

2007-05-13 Thread Ralph Katz
On 05/13/2007 02:17 AM, Adrian Levi wrote: > After an upgrade from Sarge networking no linger works. I can see no > reason for it. > > I have attached lspci -vvv, dmesg, and ifconfig eth0 and > /proc/interrupts for both kernels 2.6.8-2-686 works perfectly. > > Error message is: > May 13 13:12:39

Re: Menu question

2007-05-13 Thread Tim
Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 10:11:49PM -0300, Tim wrote: >> I've scoured google, but I can't seem to find a solution to how to change >> my menu format. >> >> Currently my menu items are listed like this: >> Web Browser (Iceweasel Web Browser) >> Web Br

Etch hangs when installed on vmware

2007-05-13 Thread Bhasker C V
All, I am not a newbie to installation. I have installed debian before in vmware machines. I downloaded Etch (4.0r0) and started the installation. The first place where the hang started is when the kernel loaded. It became very slow when it was showing the message "Checking if this process

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

2007-05-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Bannister) wrote: > 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, b

Re: how to specify optical USB mouse in XF86Config-4

2007-05-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What kernel are you using? > I use sarge's default kernel : 2.4 Try upgrading to 2.6. AFAIR 2.4 doesn't have a very good USB support. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don'

Re: SSH daemon doesn't accept incoming connections

2007-05-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
Kirill Kuvaldin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > None of these has helped. > Only rebooting the machine seems to help, but of course it's not a > solution. That means something is changing on your machine and you need to find out what. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't un

Re: 32 & 54 bit shared libraries -- how to?

2007-05-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > not an expert on this but, on the mad64 machine I have ^ mad? :))) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Trying to start debian netinstall from .iso on booted CD/DVD

2007-05-13 Thread arcarlini
I'm trying to build a DVD with multiple distributions and live CDs on it. I want to add Debian to that but I'm having some problems. I don't have that much room left so I'm starting from the netinstall and I'll then rely on being able to pickup whatever else I want over the net. My first attempt

Re: how to specify optical USB mouse in XF86Config-4

2007-05-13 Thread Kent West
On 5/13/07, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I use sarge's default kernel : 2.4 > Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In sarge, I enter "cat /dev/input/mice", it says "no such device" > > > > I know it's hid, I tried to load modules, it just does not work. I have, on my

Re: installing JRE

2007-05-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 13 May 2007 14:21:46 +0100 Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you realise that sun-java5-jre is already available in the non-free > suite? s/suite/section -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: More Iceweasel strangeness

2007-05-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 13 May 2007 05:08:15 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > un1xer wrote: > > Try to backup your .mozilla folder and delete the original, start > > Iceweasel and test it out, if the problem is gone than you know its > > something related to your profile settings and not a syste

Re: installing JRE

2007-05-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 13 May 2007 05:27:20 -0700 David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > I am trying to install this .bin file from my desktop "jre-1_5_0_09- > linux-i586.bin" > > I want to change it into a .deb package file so its easier to install. > what im doing now is opening up the terminal > the file is

Re: installing JRE

2007-05-13 Thread hackarre
David wrote: Hey, I am trying to install this .bin file from my desktop "jre-1_5_0_09- linux-i586.bin" I want to change it into a .deb package file so its easier to install. what im doing now is opening up the terminal the file is on my desktop, so i type "cd /home/usr/Desktop" then i type "fak

Re: installing JRE

2007-05-13 Thread Jostein Elvaker Haande
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 05:27:20AM -0700, David wrote: > and the terminal then tells me: "-su: fakeroot: command not found" apt-get install fakeroot ;-) -- Yours sincerely Jostein Elvaker Haande "A free society is a place where it is safe to be unpopular" - Adlai Stevenson Web: http://tolecnal.

Re: how to specify optical USB mouse in XF86Config-4

2007-05-13 Thread Serena Cantor
--- Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I use sarge's default kernel : 2.4 > Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In sarge, I enter "cat /dev/input/mice", it says "no such device" > > > > I know it's hid, I tried to load modules, it just does not work. > > What kernel are you

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