Re: network configuration for Eth0

On Sat May 2 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > need to run: > > iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW --dport 80 -i eth0 -j > > ACCEPT iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW --dport 22 -i eth0 > > -j ACCEPT /sbin/iptables -N ssh-connection > > /sbin/iptables -A ssh-connection -i eth0 -

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

On Sat, 2 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: FYI - While many of the fBSD folks will tout there ports/package system, I found it to be a pain (especially the upgrade), as did many ot

Re: network configuration for Eth0

On Sat,02.May.09, 16:32:44, Paul Cartwright wrote: > Firestarter might work, but i really wanted to be able to add my own > entry to some file somewhere:) command-line junky :) Sounds like shorewall to me ;) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough

Re: Added more memory. Not useable???

On Sat,02.May.09, 15:27:26, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Same thing, the kernel doesn't recognize your memory. What kernel > > flavour are you running (uname -a)? > Linux mail 2.6.18-6-486 #1 Fri Dec 12 16:18:30 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux Ok, I would try the -686 flavour and the -686-bigmem flavours. T

Re: network configuration for Eth0

On Sat May 2 2009, Thorny wrote: > If I understand correctly what you asking: > > You will need to option your router to port forward port 80 requests > from the WAN interface to the static IP Address of the computer on your > LAN you want them to go to. I have done that and it works. > > If thos

Re: execution of exim by user

On Sat,02.May.09, 23:07:16, Chris Davies wrote: > It's been /usr/lib/sendmail for as far back as I can remember. (Mid > '80s?) On my exim based system it's a symlink. I would expect that other > non-sendmail MTAs did the same. (Postfix, anyone?) $ ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root

Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

On Sat,02.May.09, 20:07:30, Nate Bargmann wrote: > And for anyone that wants a root prompt without disabling sudo, the > folowing command has worked for me on the various 'buntus: > > `sudo su' Why not 'sudo -i' (I'm trying to keep it simple and no involve two programs if avoidable)? Regards, A

Re: etch make of 2.6.29 kernel is Broken.

Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: > So what's 'y' in /home/martin/linux-2.6.29/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh? This is an excellent question. That particular application /home/martin/linux-2.6.29/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh is a 294-line bash script which appears to take a bunch of file names as input and

vmware 1.0.8 (or .9) with 2.6.29

Hi Has any one been able to compile the kernel module for this kernel ? Alex -- "Keep good relations with the Greecians." - George W. Bush 04/09/1999 as quoted in The Economist signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > > Thank you for that. > > Before I try it, please advise whether, in removing the sudo facility for > users, the package management (both adding/removing packages, and, > downloading and installing updates, and using synaptic) will work by > ent

Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

On Sat, 2 May 2009, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Bret Busby wrote: On this computer, a desktop, I usually run Debian 4.0. I find it more convenient, for most things, and I do not like the sudo that Ubuntu uses; I prefer su - root. Before people start criticising

HAL and PolicyKit

Hi list, I noticed that in a recent upgrade, HAL started requiring PolicyKit. I'd really like to avoid having PolicyKit installed on my system (it's like a parallel system of security that I know neither how it works nor how my incomplete knowledge of it may be exploited); is there any way I can a

Re: debian and ubuntu - sudo vs. su

On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 08:02:42PM EDT, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > I'm not looking to criticize your choice, but the setting on Ubuntu to > lock root and use sudo is configurable (and you can, in fact, > duplicate it on Debian if yo

Re: virtualbox-2.2 uninstallable on lenny/amd64?

Adrian Levi a écrit : > When trying to install the latest virtualbox-2.2 from the virtualbox > repo I get the following error: > > Cloud9:~# aptitude install virtualbox-2.2 > Reading package lists... Done [...] > 302 Moved Temporarily > E: Failed to fetch > http://download.virtualbox.org/virtual

Re: virtualbox-2.2 uninstallable on lenny/amd64?

worked for me with the following entry in /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lenny non-free Maybe the site is temporarily down (I can't seem to update from it at the moment) or they are updating the package and didn't update whole the links yet. On Sat, 2 M

Re: Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

On Sat, 2 May 2009 15:45:17 +0200 Kaixi Luo wrote: > Hello, > I'm a new Linux user (currently using Debian 5 testing) and I've noticed > that the battery of my laptop used to last much longer with Windows Vista (4 > hours) than with Debian (2.5 hours). How's that possible?I mean, Debian > uses

Re: virtualbox-2.2 uninstallable on lenny/amd64?

2009/5/3 Peter Beck : > On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 09:07 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: >> On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 03:58:19PM +0200, Peter Beck wrote: >> > I'm also having this issues with my testing (x86) installation as well. >> > On a german debianforum they said that a few days a go they gave >> > this st

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Mike Castle wrote: > > If I use a BSD kernel with mostly GNU software, do I have to call it > GNU/BSD? (Something I'd find very amusing, by the way.) Oddly enough, in a completely different context, I did just come across a reference to GNU/kFreeBSD. So I guess f

HDD spinup when in sleep mode, strange behaviour

Hi I have noticed some strange behavioir on my system. After some upgrade, i don't know exactly when, maybe one or two weeks ago, my drive which is in sleep state wakes up everytime when some process access it. To be clear, here is my config. I have two HDDs, one is main disk where is the syste

Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

And for anyone that wants a root prompt without disabling sudo, the folowing command has worked for me on the various 'buntus: `sudo su' - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more:

Re: xorg (fglrx, radeon, radeonhd, vesa) not working after upgrade

On 02 May 2009, Stefan Bellon wrote: > Kelly Clowers wrote: > > Just for fun, you might try purging and reinstalling > > the drivers, then see what kind of results you get > > with this setup. > > Yes, you are right. Because of the fact that not even the vesa driver > worked, I went that way and

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Paul Scott wrote: > GNU is an OS, Linux is a kernel. > > Unfortunately popular usage has led to Linux incorrectly meaning GNU/Linux > and even more. How much GNU software is required before it has to have the GNU moniker? If my machine uses the Linux kernel is mo

Re: virtualbox-2.2 uninstallable on lenny/amd64?

On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 09:07 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 03:58:19PM +0200, Peter Beck wrote: > > I'm also having this issues with my testing (x86) installation as well. > > On a german debianforum they said that a few days a go they gave > > this statement on the virtualbox we

Re: Added more memory. Not useable???

On Saturday 02 May 2009 01:41 pm, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,02.May.09, 13:07:10, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Yes, I mean that the memory is reported by the bios. > > Ok > > > #2: > > $dmesg | grep Memory > > Memory: 901968k/917504k available (1501k kernel code, 14908k > > reserved,601k data, 256k

Re: Using UNRAR (create 1 iso from 19 archives)

On 2009/05/02 09:15 (GMT-0700) David Fox composed: > Felix Miata wrote: >> On http://www.dvdboard.de/forum/showthread.php?t=121319 are links to 19 RAR >> archives, plus md5, plus a .sfv file that contains a list of the 19 files >> with what looks like checksums, that I downloaded. I am instructed

Re: Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Kaixi Luo wrote: > Hello, > I'm a new Linux user (currently using Debian 5 testing) and I've noticed > that the battery of my laptop used to last much longer with Windows Vista (4 > hours) than with Debian (2.5 hours). How's that possible?I mean, Debian > uses mu

Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > > On this computer, a desktop, I usually run Debian 4.0. I find it more > convenient, for most things, and I do not like the sudo that Ubuntu uses; I > prefer su - root. Before people start criticising that preference, it it my > preference, and

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

On May 2, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Harry Rickards wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler wrote: Harry Rickards writes: Plus, even though emacs does other stuff apart from editing, what can emacs do that a separate tool can't do? Surely if emacs is more than an editor,

Re: execution of exim by user

> "If by that you're referring to a UNIX/Linux system, ..." Peter Crawford wrote: > Any system providing a command line is sufficient. > It could be a DEC VT100 or an Atari or a Mac Plus. I qualified my statement that /usr/lib/sendmail exists. If you're running on a.n.other system then I woul

tar up a symbolic linked directory

Hi, I want to tar up a symbolic linked directory as if it is a real directory. Is there any easy way to do it? Let me explain with an example (that you can try): mkdir d1 touch d1/{a,b,c} ln -s c d1/d ln -s d1 d2 I want that the result tar file looks like this: tar -tvzf d2.tgz drwxrwx-

Re: Nvidia driver and second screen

Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Hi list, > > I found out that second displays are no longer detected with the closed > source nvidia driver. Neither nvidia's nvidia-settings tool, nor xrandr > shows the second display. Also entering some monitor info directly into > xorg.conf hasn't solved my issues. Usi

tar up a symbolic linked directory

Hi, I want to tar up a symbolic linked directory as if it is a real directory. Is there any easy way to do it? Let me explain with an example (that you can try): mkdir d1 touch d1/{a,b,c} ln -s c d1/d ln -s d1 d2 I want that the result tar file looks like this: tar -tvzf d2.tgz drwxrwx

Re: Using UNRAR (create 1 iso from 19 archives)

On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 09:18:16AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 08:58, Felix Miata wrote: > > On http://www.dvdboard.de/forum/showthread.php?t=121319 are links to 19 RAR > > archives, plus md5, plus a .sfv file that contains a list of the 19 files > > with what looks like c

Re: virtualbox-2.2 uninstallable on lenny/amd64?

On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 03:58:19PM +0200, Peter Beck wrote: > I'm also having this issues with my testing (x86) installation as well. > On a german debianforum they said that a few days a go they gave > this statement on the virtualbox website: > > "To comply with U.S. export regulations, VirtualB

Re: etch make of 2.6.29 kernel is Broken.

Martin McCormick wrote: If I start to build a custom kernel, the process runs for about a minute and blows up as follows: /home/martin/linux-2.6.29/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh: Cannot open 'y' make[1]: *** [usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz] Error 1 make: *** [usr] Error 2 So what's 'y' in /h

Re: Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

On Sat, 02 May 2009 15:45:17 +0200, Kaixi Luo wrote: > the battery of my laptop used to last much longer with Windows Vista (4 > hours) than with Debian (2.5 hours). How's that possible? I bet that your Debian's power saving is not enabled by default. You've got to do some preliminary readings

Re: This TLD has no whois server.

same is the case with .cv domains I think some of the domains just do not have a whois server but as-long-as the entries for NS is in the root servers the network communication still works. On Sat, 2 May 2009, Thomas Hochstein wrote: jida...@jidanni.org schrieb: I wanted to see the whois ent

Re: This TLD has no whois server.

jida...@jidanni.org schrieb: > I wanted to see the whois entry for qeqertarsuaq.gl > $ whois qeqertarsuaq.gl > This TLD has no whois server. Perhaps this TLD has no whois server? See : | Whois Server | None listed. > But http://whois.domainto

Re: Added more memory. Not useable???

On Sat, 2 May 2009 10:26:45 -0400 (EDT) m...@neidorff.com wrote: > Hi all, > > My machine has been mostly updated to lenny from etch. When etch was > installed, I had 2 Gig of ram. > > I use virtualbox to run a guest OS. I felt that the memory that I could > allocate to the guest was insuffici

Re: sound stuck in loop/reverberation

Stopping and restarting iceweasel seems to help. I've had to do it more than once, so I don't think the issue was some libraries getting updates while it was running, I made no updates between the first and second restart. Ross On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 08:10 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > My sound oft

debian "apt" somehow created python hell - help!

I was doing one of those auto apt-get gui things with update manager in Debian and not watching the error log so I don't know where it started. It involves only Python stuff. I don't know Python but apps use it. I posted to comp.lang.python but they sent me here... The current apt state is tha

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler wrote: > Harry Rickards writes: >> Plus, even though emacs does other stuff apart from editing, what can >> emacs do that a separate tool can't do? Surely if emacs is more than an >> editor, it doesn't follow Doug McIlroy's UNIX philosophy

etch Something is missing when Building Kernel with make-kpkg

The command is make-kpkg buildpackage. So far, it has never worked under etch. The build starts out but fails after about a minute: CHK include/linux/compile.h /home/martin/linux-2.6.29/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh: Cannot open 'y' make[3]: *** [usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz] Error 1 make[2]

Re: shutdown in Xfce

On Sat,02.May.09, 10:57:22, Peter Crawford wrote: > > Andrei P. wrote, > > Do you have hal, consolekit and policykit installed? > > All of them. > > > How do you start X? > > startxfce4 for a few years now. Ok, the new way is to put exec startxfce4 in .xinitrc and run startx. Regards, Andr

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Jones wrote: > On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 07:30:25AM EDT, Harry Rickards wrote: ... >> Plus, even though emacs does other stuff apart from editing, what can >> emacs do that a separate tool can't do? Surely if emacs is more than >> an editor, it doe

RE: shutdown in Xfce

Andrei P. wrote, > Do you have hal, consolekit and policykit installed? All of them. > How do you start X? startxfce4 for a few years now. > ... at least 10 days ... to migrate to testingIf there is no simple answer I > can shelve it for a week or two. Thanks, ... p. c.

Re: 2.6.18 Modular Kernel has No Sound.

Erik Sundin writes: > The cs4xx driver has indeed been removed from the debian kernel (some file > missing copyright information i belive) you may download and compile the > alsa > modules by hand or (I think) you may use module-assistant to help you do > this > the ?debian? way. Thanks

Re: Added more memory. Not useable???

On Sat,02.May.09, 13:07:10, Mark Neidorff wrote: > Yes, I mean that the memory is reported by the bios. Ok > #2: > $dmesg | grep Memory > Memory: 901968k/917504k available (1501k kernel code, 14908k reserved,601k > data, 256k init, 0k highmem) Same thing, the kernel doesn't recognize your mem

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

Chris Jones wrote: > On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 09:57:55AM EDT, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >> Chris Jones wrote: >> >>> [...] >>> > > >>> I can find some config file or other that provides ergonomically >>> sound keyboard mappings, I should give it another shot. >>> >>>

Re: Added more memory. Not useable???

On Saturday 02 May 2009 12:54 pm, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,02.May.09, 10:26:45, m...@neidorff.com wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > My machine has been mostly updated to lenny from etch. When etch was > > installed, I had 2 Gig of ram. > > > > I use virtualbox to run a guest OS. I felt that the me

Re: shutdown in Xfce

On Sat,02.May.09, 08:53:24, Peter Crawford wrote: > > At Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:05:41 -0500 Dave Witbrodt wrote, > 'I decided that > adding myself to the "powerdev" group > made more sense ... than > needing ... root permissions > just to power off.' That's not needed anymore (AFAIK). > Worked

Re: Added more memory. Not useable???

On Sat,02.May.09, 10:26:45, m...@neidorff.com wrote: > Hi all, > > My machine has been mostly updated to lenny from etch. When etch was > installed, I had 2 Gig of ram. > > I use virtualbox to run a guest OS. I felt that the memory that I could > allocate to the guest was insufficient (too much

Re: Obtain info about cd-r/rw

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:23:37 +0200, Mirco Piccin wrote: > How can i obtain info about a cd-r/rw support? I usually use > dvd+rw-mediainfo for dvd+/-* , but i don't know if ther's something > similar for cd-*. $ cdrdao scanbus Cdrdao version 1.1.9 - (C) Andreas Mueller Using libscg version 'sc

Re: Using UNRAR (create 1 iso from 19 archives)

unrar e *part1.rar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Using UNRAR (create 1 iso from 19 archives)

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 08:58, Felix Miata wrote: > On http://www.dvdboard.de/forum/showthread.php?t=121319 are links to 19 RAR > archives, plus md5, plus a .sfv file that contains a list of the 19 files > with what looks like checksums, that I downloaded. I am instructed there > only in German, wh

Re: Using UNRAR (create 1 iso from 19 archives)

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > On http://www.dvdboard.de/forum/showthread.php?t=121319 are links to 19 RAR > archives, plus md5, plus a .sfv file that contains a list of the 19 files > with what looks like checksums, that I downloaded. I am instructed there Running unrar on

Re: date man page

On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 15:12:24 +, T o n g (mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com) wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm wondering where I can find the full man page for the date command. > I've tried the followings, > > date --help > man date > info coreutils 'date invocation' > > But neither give me the help

Using UNRAR (create 1 iso from 19 archives)

On http://www.dvdboard.de/forum/showthread.php?t=121319 are links to 19 RAR archives, plus md5, plus a .sfv file that contains a list of the 19 files with what looks like checksums, that I downloaded. I am instructed there only in German, which I do not read nor speak, to use Windoz to reconstruct

shutdown in Xfce

At Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:05:41 -0500 Dave Witbrodt wrote, 'I decided that adding myself to the "powerdev" group made more sense ... than needing ... root permissions just to power off.' Worked until the big update of Xfce this past week. Now there is a complaint mentioning "org.freedesktop.h

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > >> FYI - While many of the fBSD folks will tout there ports/package >> system, I found it to be a pain (especially the upgrade), as did many >> others. There has recently been so

date man page

Hi, I'm wondering where I can find the full man page for the date command. I've tried the followings, date --help man date info coreutils 'date invocation' But neither give me the help for method that I'm using, ie., date -I and date -Isecond I now wonder where did I read that methods f

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

Well, the thing about FBSD is that it's users are pretty much all hobbyists, so the length of a manual is a good thing. If Debian had documentation of equal or greater length I can only see that as a strength, not a weakness. If you count folks like Yahoo as hobbyists. Last time I looked, the

Re: failed fsck on boot

On Friday 01 May 2009 01:02 am, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > I'm using Debian Lenny i386 on my desktop. After every few months, my > computer would failed to boot properly (stuck on fsck). Then I need to > enter recovery mode then manually run fsck. A friend suggested that this is > caused by bad powe

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > FYI - While many of the fBSD folks will tout there ports/package > system, I found it to be a pain (especially the upgrade), as did many > others. There has recently been some chatter on their general mailing > list to overhaul how the

Added more memory. Not useable???

Hi all, My machine has been mostly updated to lenny from etch. When etch was installed, I had 2 Gig of ram. I use virtualbox to run a guest OS. I felt that the memory that I could allocate to the guest was insufficient (too much swapping) so I added 2 Gig more of ram (same brand and model of ra

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 09:57:55AM EDT, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > [...] > > I can find some config file or other that provides ergonomically > > sound keyboard mappings, I should give it another shot. > > > > You mean the cua mode?[0] > > [0]http://www.emacswiki.o

Re: virtualbox-2.2 uninstallable on lenny/amd64?

I'm also having this issues with my testing (x86) installation as well. On a german debianforum they said that a few days a go they gave this statement on the virtualbox website: "To comply with U.S. export regulations, VirtualBox downloads have temporarily been moved to the Sun Download Center."

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

Chris Jones wrote: > [...] > I can find some config file or other that > provides ergonomically sound keyboard mappings, I should give it another > shot. > You mean the cua mode?[0] [0]http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CuaMode -- The Fifth Rule: You have taken yourself too seriously.

Re: Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

That's really weird... I suggest you post your laptop's maker/model and whether you installed any specific packages or just chose "desktop" when installing. Maybe some program's doing a lot of I/O or something. Maybe thi'll help you tweak your system: http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn HT

Re: 2.6.18 Modular Kernel has No Sound.

* Erik Sundin [090502 14:36 +0200] > On Saturday 02 May 2009 05:15:06 Martin McCormick wrote: [...] > > I now know the recommended way to build a custom kernel > > so I could fall back to doing that again, but surely there is a > > way to get the CS4236 sound chips matched up with the right > >

Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

Hello, I'm a new Linux user (currently using Debian 5 testing) and I've noticed that the battery of my laptop used to last much longer with Windows Vista (4 hours) than with Debian (2.5 hours). How's that possible?I mean, Debian uses much less RAM (250 MB) than Vista (1 GB). Also, is there anyth

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 07:30:25AM EDT, Harry Rickards wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sorry, sent it to Chris Jones, not the list by mistake. No harm done. I was going to reply off-list and then I noticed that you had re-posted. > >>> Why must emacs depend on sound

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

Harry Rickards writes: > Plus, even though emacs does other stuff apart from editing, what can > emacs do that a separate tool can't do? Surely if emacs is more than an > editor, it doesn't follow Doug McIlroy's UNIX philosophy GNU's Not Unix. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: 2.6.18 Modular Kernel has No Sound.

On Saturday 02 May 2009 05:15:06 Martin McCormick wrote: > I have an etch system that has been running a 2.6.5 > kernel and it is time to upgrade it to something more modern. > The 2.6.5 kernel worked well but our organization is using VPN > so I need to update things so that vpnc will work.

Re: kernel-package??

On Friday 01 May 2009 17:52:54 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, May 01 2009, Randy Patterson wrote: > > My intention at this point is to make a detailed list of the > > components on a particular system so I can remove everything that is > > not needed. These would be older systems that will never

Cannot play 'live tv' with Iceweasel

I already installed mplayer-mozilla but still cannot stream live tv broadcast from http://www.livetvcenter.com/rtm_tv2_607.asp -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net

Re: sudo

> (and making sure that it does not allow sudo - a server should not be allowd > to be stuffed up by a user, inadvertently or deliberately) I just want to clarify something (not criticizing the preference for su - root over sudo necessarily) but if sudo is set up so that any user can use it, then

Re: network configuration for Eth0

On Sat, 02 May 2009 06:15:04 -0400, Paul Cartwright posted: [...] > what I want is a rule tht allows http for my web page to port forward from > my router to my desktop, and also allow me to ssh into my desktop from my > laptops. If I understand correctly what you asking: You will need to option

virtualbox-2.2 uninstallable on lenny/amd64?

When trying to install the latest virtualbox-2.2 from the virtualbox repo I get the following error: Cloud9:~# aptitude install virtualbox-2.2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states...

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry, sent it to Chris Jones, not the list by mistake. - Original Message Subject: Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages? Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 12:27:06 +0100 From: Harry Rickards To: Chris Jones References: <87hc04vds8

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Michael Pobega wrote: > >> >> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:12:35PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Check out the FreeBSD handbook at:  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ It is also availabl

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 08:02:09PM EDT, John Hasler wrote: > jidanni wrote: > > Why must emacs depend on sound packages? > > I had never noticed that. Pretty objectionable, I think. I have no use > for sound in Emacs. It should be at most a "Suggests". > > Chris Jones writes: > > I don't want

Re: xorg (fglrx, radeon, radeonhd, vesa) not working after upgrade

Kelly Clowers wrote: > Just for fun, you might try purging and reinstalling > the drivers, then see what kind of results you get > with this setup. Yes, you are right. Because of the fact that not even the vesa driver worked, I went that way and uninstalled all the fglrx related packages and inst

Re: display with 3d eccelation not working after software upgrade

On Sat,02.May.09, 18:37:03, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > Use: Debian Lenny i386 > g. card: nvidia 7600 GS > > After upgrading to the latest kernel, I coudn't play computer game with 3d > acceleration so I ran > # nvidia-xconfig > > then I rebooted, but I could not get the display working along with

Re: [Reportbug-maint] repotbug not loading ui

On Sat,02.May.09, 06:37:46, Dave Witbrodt wrote: > I just upgraded from 'reportbug' 4.1 to 4.2. The gtk2 interface seems > to work nicely -- at least it comes up now, and I can actually see it > for the first time -- so I'll be able to give it a try the next time I > have a bug to report.

Re: [Reportbug-maint] repotbug not loading ui

Sandro Tosi wrote: On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:07, Dave Witbrodt wrote: Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I have used reportbug successfully a few times with the urwid interface without any problems. However, recently I can't get reportbug to load urwid or even gtk2 ui settings. Tried to look at the bu

display with 3d eccelation not working after software upgrade

Use: Debian Lenny i386 g. card: nvidia 7600 GS After upgrading to the latest kernel, I coudn't play computer game with 3d acceleration so I ran # nvidia-xconfig then I rebooted, but I could not get the display working along with nvidia driver so I had to resort to # dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserve

Re: network configuration for Eth0

On Sat,02.May.09, 06:15:04, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sat May 2 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > part of the problem was 2 files I had worked on that did give me > > > errors, and I removed them. 1 was ipv6, > > > > Do yo mean the module? If you don't want it loaded (though I have it and > > the

Re: can not start apache in lenny

Bhasker, Issue resolved. Apache starts up. Thank you very much for your response, which got me thinking in another direction: To answer your questions, the virtual hosts are enabled. The ip address did not change; I am using the same /etc/hosts file. I modified my /etc/hosts file. In partic

Re: network configuration for Eth0

On Sat May 2 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > part of the problem was 2 files I had worked on that did give me > > errors, and I removed them. 1 was ipv6, > > Do yo mean the module? If you don't want it loaded (though I have it and > there are no problems) just blacklist it in a file (ex. 00local.co

Re: network configuration for Eth0

On Sat,02.May.09, 05:38:38, Paul Cartwright wrote: > well, that seems to work. ... > part of the problem was 2 files I had worked on that did give me > errors, and I removed them. 1 was ipv6, Do yo mean the module? If you don't want it loaded (though I have it and there are no problems) just

Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, prad wrote: we use (and support) both, but i'd like to establish a rationale for using one or the other. are there situations where debian is preferable (eg older hardware)? are there situations where ubuntu is preferable (eg picking up newer hardware)? what's better for

ps merge problem

hi when i use of gswin32.exe gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=ali3.ps -f ali1.ps ali2.ps don't working .can do u help me ? regards Adel

Re: network configuration for Eth0

On Sat May 2 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > #static setup > > #auto eth0 > > #iface eth0 inet static > > #address 192.168.10.103 > > #netmask 255.255.255.0 > > #broadcast 192.168.10.255 > > here is what I have now: > > Please re-enable this part (and comment out the dhcp parts) and post the > outp

Re: xorg (fglrx, radeon, radeonhd, vesa) not working after upgrade

Anthony Campbell wrote: > I have the same card and it is working well on Sid, with 3d > acceleration, using radeonhd. Make sure have firmware-linux (see bug > 523724). Would you mind posting or sending me by private email your xorg.conf configuration file? Greetings, Stefan -- Stefan Bellon

BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Michael Pobega wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:12:35PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Check out the FreeBSD handbook at:  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ It is also available as a pdf which is >1000 pages!  It doesn't cover everything, but it does c

Re: failed fsck on boot

On Sat, 2 May 2009, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: 2009/5/1 明覺 On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > I'm using Debian Lenny i386 on my desktop. After every few months, my > computer would failed to boot properly (stuck on fsck). Then I need to enter

Re: can not start apache in lenny

Do you have virtual hosts enabled ? did you bind the machine to a particular ip (which may have changed now) ? the reason i am asking is looks like getaddrinfo is failing and i am assuming this may be because it is not able to bind to an interface On Fri, 1 May 2009, Vazrik Israelian wrote: I

Re: 2.6.18 Modular Kernel has No Sound.

On Fri,01.May.09, 22:15:06, Martin McCormick wrote: > I have an etch system that has been running a 2.6.5 > kernel and it is time to upgrade it to something more modern. > The 2.6.5 kernel worked well but our organization is using VPN > so I need to update things so that vpnc will work. > >

Re: IO APIC resources couldn't be allocated

On Sat,02.May.09, 03:02:19, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > At boot I see > IO APIC resources couldn't be allocated > I checked Google and lots of people mention they see it, and then > something bad happens. So they only discuss how to fix the bad thing, > but don't mention what one should do about

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