Re: VLC in testing?

2005-12-14 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:19:59AM -0800, Cameron Dale wrote: > This frustrated me for a while too. I ended up adding the stable > repositories to my sources.list, and then installed the version from stable > (version 0.8.1.svn20050314-1 in stable, compared to 0.8.4.debian-1 in > unstable).This wor

VLC in testing?

2005-12-14 Thread Daniel Nilsson
Hi All, I was going to play with videolan today and tries installing wxvlc on my testing machine. This wasn't possible though... Looks like wxvlc is part of source package vlc, which in turn depends on gcc-snapshot which in turn is never supposed to enter testing according the BTS. So this means t

Re: sane access for non-root user

2005-12-13 Thread Daniel Nilsson
Quoting Darryl Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 12/13/05, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 14:01:06 -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote: > On 12/13/05, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Installed xsane > > and can only access it as root. Added mysel

udev and gphoto2

2005-12-11 Thread Daniel Nilsson
Hi All, Somewhere along the lines up upgrading my testing installation I've broken the gphoto2 support for my camera... When I plug in the camera on the USB port it is detected and i used to be and the normal dialog appears asking if I want to import the photos. But now that fails which seems to b

Re: Webmail that supports UTF-8

2005-12-04 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 02:45:50PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 08:29:52PM +0100, Daniel Nilsson wrote: > > > > Chris, > > > > Great suggestion, Horde/IMP works well with my UTF-8 formatted > > messages so this is exactly what

Re: Webmail that supports UTF-8

2005-12-03 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 12:09:19PM +, Chris Boot wrote: > Daniel Nilsson wrote: > >Hi All, > > > >Could anyone recommend a webmail client that works with Cyrus IMAP and > >that support both reading and replying to messages in UTF-8? I want > >UTF-8 support

Webmail that supports UTF-8

2005-12-03 Thread Daniel Nilsson
Hi All, Could anyone recommend a webmail client that works with Cyrus IMAP and that support both reading and replying to messages in UTF-8? I want UTF-8 support in both the subject and the body. I have tried Phpgroupware and Squirrelmail, none of which seems to be able to get this right. If there

Re: Filesharing on small LAN

2005-11-28 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:22:31PM +0100, Lars wrote: > Hey > > I'm running a small LAN and is a bit lost in the question regarding a > simple filesharing on a small LAN... > NFS: I don't get it. If anyone plugs into the lan and have a > root-account they are on the share. No, actually the roo

Re: 2.6.14 kernel woes

2005-11-27 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 08:55:21PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 27 November 2005 20:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > If 2.6 ever stabilizes, maybe then there will be time to take care of > > > details. > > > > > > I wonder if the "stock" kernels are having the same problems? > > > > I

Re: 2.6.14 kernel woes

2005-11-27 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 12:24:30PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > > If 2.6 ever stabilizes, maybe then there will be time to take care of > details. > > I wonder if the "stock" kernels are having the same problems? I'm running stock 2.6.14 on a couple of machines, works perfectly well on both Deb

Re: SATA Installing Problem

2005-11-25 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 05:21:05PM +0100, silvain van Weers wrote: > Thanx for your replies. I guess my laptop is too new... I tried using > the older 2.4 and 2.6 kernel (and tried expert modes), but the > installer just won't get past through partition step: "no partionable > media found". > There

Re: gnome upgrade - some icons disappeared

2005-11-25 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 10:03:40PM +0100, Erdi Balint wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently upgraded to gnome 2.8 (doing a regular apt-get upgrade) > and found that all icons in the Applications menu have disappeared, > replaced by the default 'folder' icon appears. In submenus all icons are > ok, but

Re: find hd cache

2005-11-24 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 01:29:14PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a command to find the cache size of a hd? I guess that depends on what kind of hd it is and what controller it is connected to. Since you are not specifying, I assume IDE drives connected to an IDE controller (no

Re: can i install debian on a sunblade 150 machine??

2005-11-23 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 11:54:27AM +0800, cwinl wrote: > hi,all: > i have a sunblade 150 workstation.i tried to install debian on it but failed > yesterday. > i download the netinst cd from here : > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/sparc/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-sparc- > netinst.iso >

Re: Is pl2303 driver there?

2005-11-22 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 05:24:44PM +0530, H S Rai wrote: > I read on Internet that new Kernel has pl2303 driver ( USB > to Serial Driver ). I am using Debian with Kernel 3.1 I guess you are using Debian version 3.1, which has a choice of kernel 2.4.27 or 2.6.8... > I want to check wether this dr

Re: Kernel Panic: "initrd" ?

2005-11-21 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 12:15:11AM -0800, Alex Goldman wrote: > On 11/20/05, Daniel Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem is that you are using the Debian kernel config without > > builing an initrd, for that you need to supply --initrd as well as an &g

Re: kernel 2.6.14 instalation

2005-11-20 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 04:23:00AM +0100, Wodzu Wodzowski wrote: > Hy. > I tried to compile and install a kernel, and I made kernel package > (2.6.14.191105_i386.deb)> Everything seemed to be ok, so I used > 'dpkg -i kernel-image... and got a message that everything is > ok. But when I rebooted

Re: Kernel Panic: "initrd" ?

2005-11-20 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 02:09:23PM -0800, Alex Goldman wrote: > My self-compiled kernel refuses to boot, saying it can't > mount/init/access /dev/hda7 (root partition) > > I compiled 2.6.14.2 following the instructions in > /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz, basically > > cp /boot/config-2.

Re: newer kernel for non-bootable sarge

2005-11-20 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 08:42:48PM -0700, David Emerson wrote: > Hi there, > > I ran into a nasty problem while trying to install sarge: The 2.6.8 > kernel has a bug that won't allow my computer to boot. > > (( I have a compaq armada 1750 laptop. It has issues... )) (( In the > past, I've never b

Re: Upgrading to linux-2.6.14.2

2005-11-18 Thread Daniel Nilsson
Jeff Lucas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've been trying to install an update from linux-2.4.27-2-k7 to > linux-2.6.14.2. But when I install the kernel package that I built and > reboot to linux-2.6.14.2 it brings up a kernel panic. When I created the > menu config file I made sure that all fil

Re: ipw2200 issues

2005-11-17 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:23:31PM -0500, James Strandboge wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 15:20 +0000, Daniel Nilsson wrote: > > Somehow I'm a little suspicious that my problems might be related to kernel > > version 2.6.12, mainly because the reports I've seen from peopl

Re: MySQL can't work :can't' connect to mysqld , /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'

2005-11-16 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 05:05:41PM +0800, 不坏阿峰 wrote: > thx all the same> Does that mean you are still getting the message that my.cnf can not be read? In that case, try apt-get remove --purge mysql-common mysql-server mysql-client apt-get install mysql-common mysql-server mysql-client If you ar

Re: MySQL can't work :can't' connect to mysqld , /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'

2005-11-15 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:27:00AM +0800, 不坏阿峰 wrote: > > so ,i want to clean MySQL all by apt-get remove mysql-server , rm -fR > /etc/mysql/, rm -fR /var/lib/mysql ,dpkg -P mysql-server,also remove > /usr/bin/mysql*(i think these soft may not be deled by ablove command), > after clean these,i rei

Re: Browser stopped displaying European characters

2005-11-14 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:20:37PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > I'm running Galeon and Firefox browsers under debian/sarge. I believe > they were displaying European accented characters (but I'm not sure) > until I realized that locale hadn't been properly configured and redid > the configuration.

Re: Compile problems - how do I know what source to install?

2005-11-14 Thread Daniel Nilsson
Daniel McBrearty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm in the process of setting up a server that runs sarge, but I get many > compile errors when trying to do cpan install of some perl modules: > > from Perl.xs:5: > /usr/lib/perl/5.8/CORE/perl.h:380:30: sys/types.h: No such file or di

Re: Installing sarge with etch installer?

2005-11-12 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 07:34:08AM +0100, Daniel Nilsson wrote: > So what I was thinking about doing was to use the etch installer which > has a 2.6.12 kernel in which I believe there is support for this SATA > controller but then select to install the sarge distribution. Any > ideas

Re: Locale not configuring

2005-11-10 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 02:51:32PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > When I do $ locale, all values for the variables are "POSIX", which I > take to mean that I've not suceeded in configuring locale. > > However, my /etc/locale.gen file shows the two locales I originally > intended to generate: > >

Re: Loading 3w-xxxx module from initrd.img at boot time?

2005-11-10 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 06:13:07PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello > > The standard kernel-image-2.6 does not automatically load the 3w- > driver needed for the 3ware (P)ATA RAID controller. > > While browsing the corresponding initrd image (mount with "-t cramfs") > I found the modu

Re: Sarge and Burning with TEAC DW-552G

2005-11-10 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 08:19:21AM -0500, Clint Harshaw wrote: > >Didn't you report the same issue here a year ago? What was the > >solution then ? > > > >https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-September/thread.html#00899 > > Yes, that was me back with Fedora Core 2 (it seems like ages a

Re: Sarge and Burning with TEAC DW-552G

2005-11-10 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 07:09:10AM -0500, Clint Harshaw wrote: > cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. > Device type: Removable CD-ROM > Version: 0 > Response Format: 2 > Capabilities : > Vendor_info: 'TEAC' > Identifikation : 'DW-552G

Re: Sarge and Burning with TEAC DW-552G

2005-11-09 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 07:52:34PM -0500, Clint Harshaw wrote: > I've now followed the instructions at > file:///usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup and done these things > to try to get my cd burner to actually burn: > > > 2. As root, I edited /etc/default/cdrecord and made the following c

Re: Why is 2.95 still around?

2005-11-09 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:24:07AM -0800, Dave Carrigan wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:08:22PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > I'm curious why gcc-2.95 or even gcc-3.3 is still in the archives? Is > > there a mistrust for newer stuff or something related to stability as > > is the ca

Re: kernel panic - trying to build 2.6.x for Dell PowerEdge 850

2005-11-07 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:29:58PM -0500, Mark Hansen wrote: > I'm getting this error and can't boot the 2.6.9 kernel that I built: > > VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknow-block(8,2). > > I'm NOT a linux admin by any stretch. This box boots using 2.4.31. I > think maybe it has something to

File server performance

2005-11-07 Thread Daniel Nilsson
Hi, I've just finished building a new file server that has an Adaptec 2400a RAID controller card, to which 4x250GB IDE drives are connected. The card is right now running in hardware RAID-5 mode and I'm using the Linux I2O driver with kernel 2.6.14 (vanilla sources). The server is running debian s

Re: How to restore IMAP mailboxes

2005-11-06 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:46:28PM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: > Greetings, > > Somehow during my Debian upgrade I managed to trash my Cyrus 2.1 IMAP > server, it no longer boots. I ended up rebuilding the system on the second > drive and, luckily, I can mount the old /var filesystem which contain

Re: ipw2200 issues

2005-11-02 Thread Daniel Nilsson
James Strandboge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Daniel Nilsson wrote: > > > > > > I've just about had enough of my problems with the ipw2200 driver and > > > the 2.6.12 kernel. I used to have a rock solid wireless connection > > > while I was u

ipw2200 issues

2005-10-31 Thread Daniel Nilsson
Hi, I've just about had enough of my problems with the ipw2200 driver and the 2.6.12 kernel. I used to have a rock solid wireless connection while I was using vanilla kernel 2.6.11.8 and ipw2200 driver version 1.0.3 but ever since upgrading the kernel to 2.6.12 (vanilla or debian version doesn't m

Re: After updating testing, must now 'ifup eth0' manually - why?

2005-10-31 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:56:46PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > This is on a laptop, so the card is a pcmcia card; it always used to get > connected after being recognised. Now it gets recognised quickly but doesn't > get connected until I manually 'ifup eth0'. Anyone know why this broke? Do I >

Re: Which Java to use?

2005-10-31 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 09:09:53PM -0600, Jim Hall wrote: > I need to install a Java Runtime Environment (now, for Firefox) on my > churchs computer lab systems (all Sarge). I installed Flash by using the > "flashplugin-nonfree" pkg. I've found something similar for installing a > JRE: "java-pac

Re: Diskless client problems

2005-10-31 Thread Daniel Nilsson
Ben Sagal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have a few diskless clients setup, using a read-only nfs root, and > with a tmpfs mounted for /var, /home and /tmp. The system regularly > prints the following messages: >nfs: server 192.168.1.1 not responding, still trying >nfs: server 192.168.1.

Installing sarge with etch installer?

2005-10-30 Thread Daniel Nilsson
example, would that help? Regards Daniel Nilsson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]