generate RAM disk

2007-02-06 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I want to modify the default Etch kernel-2.6.18-3-SMP by adding the option highmem > 4 GB. In the default kernel, this option is disabled. So, my idea was to download the original kernel sources from kernel.org for the same version. Then, get the config file from /boot of the Etch kernel and

New hardware in Etch

2006-12-18 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I've a system with 6 GB RAM, two AMD Opteron CPUs and an S-ATA HD. Will these components run under a default Debian Sarge. If so, where can I check that both CPUs are running? Will /proc/cpuinfo provide appropriate information? Regards, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New hardware under Etch ?

2006-12-16 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I've a system with 6 GB RAM, two AMD Opteron CPUs and an S-ATA HD. Will these components run under a default Debian Sarge. If so, where can I check that both CPUs are running? Will /proc/cpuinfo provide appropriate information? Regards, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian and VMWare

2006-12-13 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I plan to set up a Windows terminal server. In order to easily backup the entire Windows system, I plan to install Debian Sarge as base system, then VMWare and in VMWare the Windows OS. Will I get a decreased speed performance in the VMWare Windows or will the Microsoft OS run approximately

Re: Problems with rdesktop

2006-12-12 Thread Christian Christmann
>> > The man page says: >> Note that the colour depth may also be limited by the server configuration. >> > > I suspect the problem may be on the server end of things, but I'm unsure > how you'd configure that. What I forgot to mention. On another machine running Solaris, I can run rdesktop

Problems with rdesktop

2006-12-12 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I'm running rdesktop v1.3.0 on my Debian Sarge box. When I try to connect to a Windows XP system, this works fine with "rdesktop WINPC". However, when I specify the color depth with "rdesktop -a 16 WINPC", the connection is not established but I get the rdesktop usage message. What is wrong?

Fn buttons don't work - kernel upgrade

2006-11-14 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I run Sarge on my laptop. The "Fn" buttons don't work. I think that there are some kernel options that I have to enable. (Or is this a problem of the X server?) Can I add the additional kernel options as modules without rebuilding my current kernel? If so, how does it work? Thank you. Chris

mkraid missing

2006-10-21 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, in the Woody I used mkraid to initialize an RAID1 array. In Etch, mkraid is missing. Has it been moved to another package or do I have to use another tool to create RAID arrays? Regards, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: CUPS and OpenOffice

2006-10-19 Thread Christian Christmann
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:00:14 +0200, Jeff Zhang wrote: > Christian Christmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> in my fresh Sarge installation, OpenOffice 1.1 does not offers >> my CUPS printers. The only option in the OpenOffice printer setup >> is "Generic Printer"

CUPS and OpenOffice

2006-10-19 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, in my fresh Sarge installation, OpenOffice 1.1 does not offers my CUPS printers. The only option in the OpenOffice printer setup is "Generic Printer". CUPS is configured and works fine with KDE applications. I've added the CUPS server hostname in /etc/kde3/kdeprintrc. Where do I set up the p

Sound via ssh

2006-10-17 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I've a Debian machine with a sound card. I can play mp3 with libOSS.so. When I connect to this machine with ssh from another machine (it's a Sun terminal) with X forwarding, I can start xmms and it also starts playing the mp3. However, the sound is not forwarded to my headphones connected to

Install Linux without CD-ROM

2006-10-13 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I've an older laptop that does not allow to boot from CD-ROM but from FDD, HDD and LAN. What is the easiest way to install Debian on that device? Thank you. Regards, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fglrx-driver installation failed

2006-10-08 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I'm trying to install the fglrx driver for my ATI card on my Etch system with Xorg 7. After installing the packages module-assistant, fglrx-driver and fglrx-kernel-src and running 'aticonfig --initial' the fglrx driver seem not to work: notebook:/usr/lib# fglrxinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 O

Re: ttf-opensymbol installation fails

2006-10-08 Thread Christian Christmann
On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:00:15 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > I think these messages indicate that there is something wrong with the > setup of your X (the basic graphical environment infrastructure which is > needed by all GUI applications). Updating from Sarge to Etch means going > from XFree8

Re: ttf-opensymbol installation fails

2006-10-08 Thread Christian Christmann
On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:00:15 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > One of your problems seems to be that you have debconf configured to use > the KDE frontend, which means that it will not be able to ask you any > configuration questions if KDE is not running. If you cannot get KDE to > work then you sho

ttf-opensymbol installation fails

2006-10-08 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, after installing a fresh Sarge system, I wanted to upgrade to Etch. However, the installation of package ttf-opensymbol fails with the error message: debconf: unable to initialize frontend: KDE debconf: (Can't locate Debconf/FrontEnd/KDE.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/p

Gmake

2006-10-04 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I want to use gmake on my Etch system since it's required by a script. On another machine running Suse, the application is installed under /usr/bin/gmake. Are there any official Debian packaged with "gmake". If not, what could I do to make 'gmake' available? Regards, Chris -- To UNSUBSC

OpenSSH authentification

2006-10-02 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I'm trying to configure sshd (OpenSSH_3.8.1p1) in a way that passwords are not required for ssh logins. This is my /etc/sshd_config file: Port 22 Protocol 2 HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key ServerKeyBits 768 LoginGraceTime 60

Automount replaces auto.master

2006-09-28 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, on my Sarge system I want to use automounter (autofs). After adding the mount points and the config files to /etc/auto.master, creating the config files ( I tool the existing auto.home and replaced the corresponding mount point names) for each mount point and restarting autofs everything works

Disk usage

2006-09-08 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, on my Debian system the RAID discs are partitioned like that: /dev/md1 9.2G 8.2G 593M 94% / tmpfs 252M 16K 252M 1% /dev/shm /dev/md3 37G 33G 2.5G 94% /usr /dev/md0 92M 31M 57M 36% /boot ... How can I determine where th

Re: Can't ping

2006-07-20 Thread Christian Christmann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:51:32PM +0200, Christian Christmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> after an update of my Etch system yesterday, I can't connect to the >> internet >> properly via my D

Re: Can't ping

2006-07-20 Thread Christian Christmann
"Pol Hallen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Any ideas what's wrong and how to solve this problem? > try to ping a numeric ip (google.com has address 64.233.167.99) No, pinging IP's does not work either. > > check the route tables too route -n: 84.60.0.1

Can't ping

2006-07-19 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, after an update of my Etch system yesterday, I can't connect to the internet properly via my DSL connection. After running pppoeconf and entering my user data and password and then connect to my provider with "pon dsl-provider", with ifconfig I can see that my ppp0 has a dynamic IP address. W

smartd message

2006-05-13 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, smartd generates permanently the following e-mail (sent to root) on my Debian Etch system: --- Subject: SMART error (OfflineUncorrectableSector) detected on host: server Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 12:33:22 +0200 (CEST) This email was genera

Re: USB harddisk not recognized after upgrade

2005-11-15 Thread Christian Christmann
> What did happen and how do I sove it ? I had a similar problem couple of days ago after updating my Etch system. In my case, some modules were not more loaded automatically. I had to do it by hand with modprobe. So check if all your modules are loaded after boot-up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: jpilot

2005-11-14 Thread Christian Christmann
> Note that it isn't recognizing it as a PalmOS PDA. Try "modprobe visor". > I've noticed that on Etch, recognizing devices is often unreliable, and I > have to manually load required modules (e.g. usblp). I'm running Etch and have exactly the same problem. After loading the manual manually I cou

jpilot

2005-11-14 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, after updating my Debian system, I cannot sync my Sony Clie organizer. I'm connecting the PDA via USB with my PC. As device I always used /dev/pilot which is a link to /dev/ttyUSB0. However, it does not work anymore. How can I figure out if I'm still using the right device? When I connect

Tools to manipulate PDFs

2005-11-09 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, are there any tools that allow one to split, merge and append PDFs? Thank you. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Default background color of xterm

2005-10-23 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I'm using KDE as window manager. Where can I define the default colors for a xterm session which is started by clicking on the xterm icon in the KDE bar? Thank you. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

problems with fbsebg

2005-09-22 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, after running dist-upgrade couple of days ago I get the error message when trying to set a new background picture with "fbsetbg": fbsetbg: Something went wrong while setting the wallpaper. Run 'display -geometry 1280x1024+0+0 -window root /home/chris/.fluxbox/backgrounds//picture.jpg' from an

problems after upgrade

2005-09-18 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, after running dist-upgrade couple of days ago I get the error message when trying to set a new background picture with "fbsetbg": fbsetbg: Something went wrong while setting the wallpaper. Run 'display -geometry 1280x1024+0+0 -window root /home/chris/.fluxbox/backgrounds//picture.jpg' from an

mplayer

2005-09-12 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I'm using the current testing version of Debian. What happened to the package mplayer? When typing "aptitute install" and than hitting TAB twice I get this list: mplayer mplayer-amd64mplayer-k6 mplayerplug-in mplayer-386 mplayer-custom mplayer-k7 mplayer-586

problems with realplayer

2005-08-22 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I'm trying to play some Realplayer listening samples from the amazon.com website (using Firefox). >From realplayer.com I've successfully downloaded and installed the recent version of realplayer. However, when I click on the audio sample and choose realplay (the application I've installed), r

ipac-ng chains or rules corrupted

2005-07-10 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, after running my Debian box for couple of hours I get every 5 minute a mail by cron with the content: ipac-ng chains or rules corrupted, fix this with fetchipac -S Running fetchipac -S I get the error message: calloc failed : Cannot allocate memory Any ideas what's wrong with ipac-ng and

Disassembler

2005-06-26 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, till now, I've been working with the Windows "Swiss Army knife" DUMPBIN. Are there any similar disassembler for Debian? Thanks Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: download swf video

2005-06-14 Thread Christian Christmann
> http://whoppix.hackingdefined.com/WHoppix-HDinstall.swf > > That file doesn't have any navigation, so you might want to get the viewer > along with its configuration and build your own short HTML page. Thank you. I could download the movie but as you mentioned I can't play it without the confi

download swf video

2005-06-14 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I'd like to download the swf video which you can get on http://whoppix.hackingdefined.com/Whoppix-HD-install.html Is there any way to do that? Thanks Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

sources.list

2005-06-10 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, that's my current sources.list. Do you think it's OK? Or are any entries missing to run the testing dev tree? deb http://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/debian/debian/ testing main deb-src http://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/debian/debian/ testing main deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/

ati radeon mobility 9700

2004-12-11 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I'm trying to run my notebook with the ATI Radeon Mobilty 9700 video card. After downloading and installing the ATI driver (from ati.com) and creating the config file XF86Config-4 with the tool "fglrxconfig" I get the error message when running startx: [...] (EE) Failed to load module "fglrx"

Re: memory usage

2004-11-30 Thread Christian Christmann
>> > I'm looking for a GUI tool which shows the current memory usage for >> > each running process of my debian box. > > asmem > bubblemon (Gnome applet) > dmachinemon (network) > gdesklets (Gnome) > loadmeter > procmeter3 > xmem > xosview > xsysinfo I tried all most of the tools. But they just

memory usage

2004-11-29 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I'm looking for a GUI tool which shows the current memory usage for each running process of my debian box. I know there's top but I need these information as graphics. Any ideas? Thanks Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: fullscreen with mplayer

2004-11-20 Thread Christian Christmann
> > I've just installed mplayer from the Sarge packages. I can play my video > files but the option fullscreen is not available. The screen remains > always in the small size. > > My graphics card is a Viper 770. lsmod prints: "nVidia Corporation NV5 > [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 P ro] (rev 11)" > > I've tr

fullscreen with mplayer

2004-11-20 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I've just installed mplayer from the Sarge packages. I can play my video files but the option fullscreen is not available. The screen remains always in the small size. My graphics card is a Viper 770. lsmod prints: "nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 P ro] (rev 11)" I've tried all avail

Re: /var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp

2004-11-20 Thread Christian Christmann
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 04:30:11 +0100, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Christian Christmann wrote: >> I've just installed Cyrus-imap and sasl2-bin from the Sarge packages. >> Everthing works fine, but in the /var/log/mail.log I get permanently

/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp

2004-11-19 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I've just installed Cyrus-imap and sasl2-bin from the Sarge packages. Everthing works fine, but in the /var/log/mail.log I get permanently the error message: server cyrus/deliver[14580]: connect(/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp) failed: Permission denied But an "ls -la /var/run/cyrus/socket/ " says

Re: synchronize PDA with Linux and Windows

2004-11-18 Thread Christian Christmann
>> I've a Palm IIIxe PDA. Now I'm looking for a tool which is running with >> Linux and Windows to manage the data of the PDA. My idea was to put the >> data directory on my debian server and to access it with my notebook >> which is running both Debian and Windows XP. Thus, I could manage the >> d

synchronize PDA with Linux and Windows

2004-11-18 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I've a Palm IIIxe PDA. Now I'm looking for a tool which is running with Linux and Windows to manage the data of the PDA. My idea was to put the data directory on my debian server and to access it with my notebook which is running both Debian and Windows XP. Thus, I could manage the data with b

SCP GUI

2004-11-16 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, are there any SCP GUI clients for Sarge? Thanks Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Seems like xMule crashed

2004-11-14 Thread Christian Christmann
> Christian Christmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> my xmule was running fine for weeks. Today I run an aptitude update && >> aptitute upgrade on my sarge box and xmule has been upgraded to version >> 1.9.4b-1. Now, xmule is perm

Seems like xMule crashed

2004-11-14 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, my xmule was running fine for weeks. Today I run an aptitude update && aptitute upgrade on my sarge box and xmule has been upgraded to version 1.9.4b-1. Now, xmule is permanently crashing after some minutes with the error message: " OOPS! - Seems like xMule crashed --== BACKTRACE FOLLOWS: ==--

Re: fullscreen with mplayer

2004-11-13 Thread Christian Christmann
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 14:00:09 +0100, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 06:26:09AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 12:38 +0100, Christian Christmann wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I've installed mplayer from the sarge package

Re: fullscreen with mplayer

2004-11-13 Thread Christian Christmann
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 13:30:13 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: >> I've installed mplayer from the sarge packages. The player works fine >> but I can't use it in fullscreen mode. I've tried all available drivers >> for the video options but the screen size still remains small. My >> graphic card is a Vippe

fullscreen with mplayer

2004-11-13 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I've installed mplayer from the sarge packages. The player works fine but I can't use it in fullscreen mode. I've tried all available drivers for the video options but the screen size still remains small. My graphic card is a Vipper 770, lspci indicates: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2

printing with cups

2004-10-30 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I'm trying to install my HP printer with cups on my sarge box. As mentioned in the documentation I use the command '/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p LaserJet6L -E -v parallel:/dev/lp0 -m /usr/share/cups/model/HP-LaserJet_6L-hpijs.ppd' and get the message: "lpadmin: add-printer (set device) failed: client

copy audio-cds

2004-09-11 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I'm using Sarge. How can i create a copy of an audio cd in the command line (X server is not running)? Thanks. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kismet and WG511

2004-07-21 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I have a Netgear WG511 WLAN card with Prism chipset. The card is runnig fine. Now I'm trying to run Kismet 2004.04.R. But the execution of the program fails with this error message: Will drop privs to XXX (XXX) gid XXX No specific sources given to be enabled, all will be enabled. Enabling ch

CPU speed

2004-07-16 Thread Christian Christmann
HI, I'm looking for a tool to adjust the speed of my CPU depending on if my notebook is running with a battery or without. Are there any debian packages I could use? Thank you Regards, Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: escape chracter

2004-07-14 Thread Christian Christmann
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 12:40:13 +0200, John Summerfield wrote: > Christian Christmann wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>when I run a telnet session I get the message >> >>"Escape character is '^]'." >> >>I couldn't figure out which butto

escape chracter

2004-07-14 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, when I run a telnet session I get the message "Escape character is '^]'." I couldn't figure out which buttons I have to hit to get this ^] . Any hints? Probably you all know it ;) Thanks, Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

no access to cyrus imap server

2004-07-08 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I've just installed the Debian cyrus imap server packages on my mail server. Unfortunately, I can't connect to the imap server with my email clients which are running on my client boxes. When I install sylheed-claws on the server I can access the IMAP directories without any problems. Of cours

detect wlan networks

2004-07-07 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I am looking for a Debian tool which indicates the availibility of other wlan networks in the range of my wlan card. And suggestions? Regards, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

viewing chm files

2004-07-02 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I'm looking for a Debian package (Sarge) to view M$ chm files? Thank you. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

multimedia keys

2004-07-01 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I've a Gericom Blockbuster m2040 XL notebook. On the front side of the case there are some multimedia buttons like the play or forward button for the controll of audio/ video programs. Unfortunately, these buttons don't work with Linux (Debian Sarge) by default and I have no idea how to get th

fsck very slow

2004-06-11 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I am using Kernel 2.6.5 and Debia Sarge. During the boot process fsck 1.35 is checking my filesystems when they have been mounted couple times. When my linux installation was "fresh" this process took just some seconds. But since I have made some upgrades it now takes very long approx. 5 mi

slow cd burning

2004-06-06 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, on my Debian box I'm running the kernel 2.6.6. I've read somewhere that the kernel 2.6 doesn't need the SCSI-emulation for IDE-burner anymore and thus I disabled this option while compiling the kernel. Now burning CDs is running very slowly. Even if I tell Xcdroast to burn with 16x, the speed

Harddisk not recognized

2004-05-16 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, the BIOS if my motherboard doesn't recognize my new 160GB harddisk correctly. I'd like to boot from this device. Is there a way to overcome this problem with lilo etc. ? Thanx. Regards, Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Setting locale failed

2004-05-08 Thread Christian Christmann
"Jan Willem Stumpel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thomas Adam wrote: > > --- Christian Christmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> my resent apt-get upgrade of my German sarge system failed while > >> ins

Setting locale failed

2004-05-07 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, my resent apt-get upgrade of my German sarge system failed while installing some locales packages. When I now execute an upgrade the process always fails with the message: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "de", LC_ALL =