Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Monique" == Monique Y Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Monique> I do love how rapidly debian releases security updates to Monique> their packages -- this is one area where I suspect that Monique> Apple isn't as industrious as debian? Don't know about Monique> the fink maint

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 05:46:15PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad Colin> wrote: >> I'd suggest you try OS X if you buy a Mac before you give up >> and go to Debian or some other Linux dis

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Monique" == Monique Y Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Monique> So, question for people who have used this architecture Monique> before: If I buy a system from Apple, how hard would it Monique> be to reconfigure it for dual-boot? Single-boot debian? Monique> What is the Mac

Re: via-rhine.o

2003-10-11 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Nicolas" == Nicolas Godzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nicolas> it is saying /lib/modules/2.2.20/net/via-rhine.o: Nicolas> init_module: Device or ressource busy ... Most likely via-rhine is built into the 2.2.20 kernel. Check the output of dmesg to see if your card is already up (or

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-11 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> Chris Spencer wrote: >> That's correct. You must purchase a MySQL license to use it in >> this fashion. Apache, PHP, and Debian are all fine. No >> purchase is required. >> >> > What are the repercussions to my c

Re: Redhat user wishing to try Debian - confused.

2003-09-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Tarun" == Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tarun> I wish to install Debian and take advantage of its package Tarun> management system. However I read that one mustn't try the Tarun> stable release of Debian as its very old, and must go for Tarun> the unst

Re: Wireless letworking

2003-09-22 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"christophe" == christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: christophe> At least in debian/unstable ifupdown, iwconfig support christophe> is integrated. That means that you don't need to use christophe> the up clause but can write things like: This is also true in debian/stable

Re: missing initrd image

2003-09-21 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Matthew" == Matthew Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> Shyamal Prasad wrote: >> What are the contents of /etc/modules on your system. I suspect >> most of the errors you are seeing have to do with the contents >> of /etc/mod

Re: missing initrd image

2003-09-21 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Matthew" == Matthew Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> I'm using 3.0r1 with a custom 2.4.22 Matthew> kernel. /boot/grub/menu.lst contains: title Debian root (hd0,6) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 initrd /initrd Matthew> However, /initrd is an empty

Re: Equation system resolver

2003-09-17 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"ripley" == ripley writes: ripley> Is there a equation system resolver in debian or linux in ripley> general? Basicly, I need to resolv equation systems or ripley> simplify very long and complicated equations. It's been a very long time since I've looked for stuff like this, bu

Re: Which FS to use ?

2003-09-17 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Willem" == Willem Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Willem> Hey guys (are there any girls on this list - hmm) Which Willem> filesystem would you recommend for a biggish (10 gig) Willem> partition ? At the moment I'm using Ext2fs and I really Willem> have to use something else,

Re: Disk I/O stalling whole system ..

2003-09-08 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Mariano" == Mariano Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mariano> Hi, when copying from one ide disk to another ide disk on Mariano> the the same controller the whole systems stalls. I am Mariano> running 2.4.19 on unstable. Do you have DMA enabled on your HD? hdparm /dev/hd? Cheer

Re: CUPS alternative?

2003-09-04 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Matt" == Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matt> Are there any workable alternatives to CUPS? Any Matt> alternatives that folks actually RECOMMEND using? It would Matt> be great to run a somewhat leaner print system... lpd? Between somewhere in 1994 until about a year ago

Re: ppp0 as default?

2003-09-04 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"John" == John Kerr Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Hi, I have a machine that has been on an ethernet network, John> but is being switched to a standalone dialup computer. I John> cannot tell the computer to use ppp0 as the default route. John> I issue the command

Re: Mysql --with-innodb

2003-09-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Evgeny" == Evgeny Boksha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Evgeny> hi2all does Mysql in .deb pacet in stable debian woody Evgeny> 3.0.r1 compiled --with-innodb options? I believe it does. From the Debian readme file: * INNOBASE: === To enable innobase support take a look at the

Re: lm-sensors

2003-09-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"no-spam" == no-spam writes: no-spam> Should I compile it from the lm-sensors-source package? no-spam> What is the easiest way to do this? It's been two years, but I downloaded the lm-sensors-source package and built it following the instructions that came with the package (for the

Re: xmms, esound in mixed stable/unstable

2003-09-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Johann" == Johann Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johann> Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> for how to check this out. To enable DMA on boot up try >> >> apt-get install hwtools >> editor

Re: xmms, esound in mixed stable/unstable

2003-09-01 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"John" == John Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> I just switched my laptop to Debian. I'm using a mix of John> stable and unstable. Sound works with ogle, but with xmms or John> xine it is very choppy. A common mistake people make with Debian starting out is not enabling D

Re: telnet localhost slow, telnet 127.0.0.1 ok

2003-08-16 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Rupert" == RUPERT LEVENE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rupert> Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Rupert" == RUPERT LEVENE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rupert> Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>

Re: telnet localhost slow, telnet 127.0.0.1 ok

2003-08-16 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Rupert" == RUPERT LEVENE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rupert> Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 12:25:16AM +0100, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Running strace telnet localhost 22 shows that it's trying to >>> resolve the hostname localho

Re: Mail Setup

2003-08-14 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"mustafa" == mustafa taha al-shawaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mustafa>mustafa> [EMAIL PROTECTED] SMTP error from remote mustafa> mailer after MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=1475: host mustafa> students.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.39]: 553 5.1.8 mustafa> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>..

Re: building an initrd

2003-08-14 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Benedict" == Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Benedict> Can you specify what goes in initrd? For instance if i Benedict> want to add a module and have that loaded before the Benedict> file system is mounted? For instance LVM support. Yes, you can. Look in /etc/mkinit

Re: how do I get the "you have new mail"

2003-08-14 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Jake" == Jake Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jake> How do I get the message to say you have new mail at the Jake> shell prompt? Is someting looking for a specific directory Jake> or file? $ echo $MAILCHECK 60 $ man bash . and look for MAIL, MAILCHECK and MAILPATH vari

Re: hdparm startup

2003-08-11 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Nyc0n" == nyc0njunkmail writes: Nyc0n> :o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" Nyc0n> xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" Nyc0n> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40";> Nyc0n> Once you get hdparm working the way you want it to with Nyc0n> your drives

Re: jdk1.4? compatible tomcat?

2003-08-07 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"nori" == nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: nori> hey all, i certainly don't understand all the technicalities nori> of debian + java, but i do know that i can apt-get install nori> jdk1.1, but not jdk1.4. why is this? this is particularly nori> frustrating for me ri

Re: Permissions denied when enabling DMA

2003-08-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Marc" == Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marc> Using hdparm to force DMA is a bad, bad, BAD idea. The Marc> kernel usually has very good reasons for not enabling it. This might be true for many kernel distributions, but does not apply to Debian. The prebuilt Debian kernels

Re: reiser kernel support?

2003-07-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"hashi" == hashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: hashi> I was informed that hashi> mount: fs type reiser not supported by kernel hashi> Now I presume that this means that I have failed to install hashi> reiser support for the kernel -- but mkreiserfs did not hashi> seem

Re: Can't enable DMA

2003-07-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Andrew" == Andrew McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> If you look at the pci_ids.h for 2.4.18, you can see that Andrew> there is an id for the VT8233, which it seems you have Andrew> with the KT266, but not for the VT8235, which Aaron has Andrew> with is KT266A and

Re: Can't enable DMA

2003-07-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Andrew" == Andrew McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> Aaron wrote: >> >> I've been having this same problem, but apparently my VIA >> version doesn't match 82CXXX, so I'm completely dead in the >> water for DMA (I know, VIA is bad). I want to buy a PCI IDE

Re: bash: finding if mozilla is running

2003-07-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"David" == David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> PS what is this Galleon thing ? That's any easy question to answer ;-) $ dpkg -p galeon Package: galeon Priority: optional [...deleted.] Description: Mozilla based web browser with GNOME look and feel Galeon is a fast Web Br

Re: Why pppoe bothers to bring the interface up?

2003-07-24 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Shaul" == Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shaul> /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot.dsl has the following lines: # Bring the interface up /sbin/ifconfig $INTERFACE up Shaul> Why bother? Isn't /etc/rc0.d/S35networking guaranteed to Shaul> run before the pppoe has a chan

Re: configuring DHCLIENT-2.2.x

2003-07-22 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Lars" == Lars Unin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> A network install is how I installed Debian in the first Lars> place, THAT WORKED. Its inside woody that it doesn't. The network install and Woody are the same thing, are they not? What do you mean by "inside woody"? Lars> I

Re: can't configure authentication in exim

2003-07-22 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Francesc" == Francesc Oller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Francesc> Hi all! I'm trying to configure exim 3.35 as relying to Francesc> a outgoing smarthost which Francesc> client_send = ": francesc oller : my_passwd" I'm *guessing* that exim is being tripped up by the space in you

Re: configuring DHCLIENT-2.2.x

2003-07-21 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Lars" == Lars Unin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> I installed using a hard disk net install with kernel Lars> 2.4.18-bf. i'll have a go at downloading packages, Lars> otherwise i've just about given up. What is a "hard disk net install"? Probably you need the initrd tools etc

Re: Choice of MTA

2003-07-21 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Haines" == Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Haines> I don't want to start a flame war, but need some input in Haines> order to choose a mail transport agent. A flame war you will start ;-) There was a recently (in the last week or so) a long, noisy thread on debian-devel abo

Re: How to change the user name and password in CUPS?

2003-07-20 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"James" == James Ng Yuen Sum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: James> Hi, I am a newbie in CUPS. When I first install CUPS with James> .tar.bz2 file, I choose the user name and password same as James> the root. User name and password for what purpose? James> I have a problem with

Re: How to kill gdm??

2003-07-20 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Zhao" == Zhao You Bing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Zhao> Every time when killed gdm will restart itself, so if I Zhao> start with gdm and later I don't want to see gdm after Zhao> logout how should I do?? As root, run "/etc/init.d/gdm stop" from a text (virtual) console. If you

Re: configuring DHCLIENT-2.2.x

2003-07-20 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Lars" == Lars Unin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Hso what is the name of you ethernet device? It does >> sound like it is not eth0. If you type 'ifconfig' as root how >> many devices are listed and what are their names? Lars> one device only lo the loopback device,

Re: fetchmail: lock creation failed

2003-07-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"spock" == spock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: spock> generated an error (forgotten now). Sorry to be vague, but spock> this happened a few weeks ago. Since then, every time I try spock> and fetchmail, I get the message: spock> fetchmail: lock creation failed. spock> So

Re: Exim, can send mail but not receive

2003-07-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Gordon" == Gordon Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gordon> Just installed Exim 3.35, I can send mail from the server Gordon> and from a machine on the LAN. The machine has the domain Gordon> MX record pointing to it. The /var/mail/$user user files Gordon> receive the mail

Re: configuring DHCLIENT-2.2.x

2003-07-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Lars" == Lars Unin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If all this fails, just kill any running dhclient process >> (after doing an ifdown eth0) and try running 'dhclient eth0' >> and see what it says. >> Lars> Something about a device not found Hso what is the name

Re: configuring DHCLIENT-2.2.x

2003-07-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Lars" == Lars Unin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What kernel version are you using. Exactly. (uname -r). >> Lars> 2.2.20 Okay, this was confusing me because I could not tell if you were running 2.2.x or 2.4.18-bf24. BTW, I have not used a 2.2.x kernel in a while so I'll try to

Re: configuring DHCLIENT-2.2.x

2003-07-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Lars" == Lars Unin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> I have a vanilla Debian Woody, no X, I'd like to configure Lars> DHCLIENT to query the broadband DHCP server to get itself up Lars> and running, I can do this really easy with 2.4 based Lars> systems with DHCPCD, but I've ne

Re: Can't enable DMA

2003-07-18 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Anthony" == Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Anthony> On 18 Jul 2003, John Little wrote: >> >I'm using 3.0r0 (2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel) with ASRock K7VT2 >> m/board and Maxtor >30GB ATA133 hard disk. >I tried switching >> on DMA using hdparm -d1 /dev/hda but got the fo

Re: CD-RW stops working with 2.4.20?

2003-07-18 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Carl" == Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Carl> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 10:09:50PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad Carl> wrote: >> I have a file /etc/modutils/cdrw with the following contents: Carl> Thanks. I had just found those exact lines in

Re: CD-RW stops working with 2.4.20?

2003-07-17 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Carl" == Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Carl> I recently upgraded from kernel 2.2.x to 2.4.20 (to get Carl> support for the Promise ATA/133 controller). Now I can't Carl> burn CD's. Most likely ide-cd is starting before ide-scsi and grabbing your CDROM device. At least th

Re: fetchmail and port forwarding

2003-07-08 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Emma" == Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Emma> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:06:38PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Emma> Hudson wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 11:08:40PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin >> | Right now I run from the command line: >> | ssh my.mail.host -L 8

Re: kernel 2.2.x or 2.4.x ?

2003-07-07 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Shango" == Shango Oluwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shango> Why, if 2.4.x is more recent & secure, is my Debian 3 Shango> (woody) CD distribution built with kernel 2.2.20 ? and in response to several good explanations "Shango" asks: Shango> Is kernel 2.4.21 considered safe f

Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM

2003-07-04 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sebastian" == Sebastian Kapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sebastian> I'm looking for a bootable rescue CD-ROM with some Sebastian> Linux-based OS on it (preferrably Debian). It should Sebastian> include utilities like fdisk and mkfs, parted, grub, Sebastian> bash (please, no

Re: suggestions for a good MTA?

2003-07-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Tom" == Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> I need some suggestions on a good MTA for a workstation. Tom> Here's what I'd like for it to be able to handle. Tom> 1. Immediate delivery of local mail (messages from daemons, Tom> etc)... in other words I'd like to avoid

Re: apache

2003-07-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Michael" == Michael Wordehoff writes: Michael> 1) apache started from inetd ? Michael> I thought it's not neccessary to have it listen all the Michael> time. So i removed the rc symlink, and configured: I believe this is a truly bad idea. You really do want apache to run all

Re: Network issue with WOODY

2003-07-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Robert" == Robert Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> Hi all, I tried searching the archives with no luck. I Robert> have a standard load of Debian running and am constantly Robert> having problems with the network not responding when Robert> trying to connect to the box.

Re: Turn on DMA on boot

2003-07-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Dan" == Dan Collis Puro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dan> Anyway: What would be the most "Debian" way to turn on DMA Dan> (essentially run "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda") on boot? I could Dan> (probably) add something in /etc/rc2.d, but that just seems Dan> dirty. The commonly accepted

Re: ext3 and Kernel 2.4.18

2003-07-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"paladin" == paladin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: paladin> Hi, On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 17:29:10 +0100 paladin> "Adam Gent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I want to run my main file system as ext3 and have already >> converted it to ext3 and update the fstab file, but whenever I

Re: via-rhine & dhclient

2003-07-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"ludovico" == ludovico ariosto writes: ludovico> Each time I turn onmy computer, I have to give commands: ludovico> modprobe via-rhine ludovico> dhclient ludovico> How can I have them authomatically executed at every ludovico> boot? I guess it's simple, but I cannot find

Re: Apache is killed everyday at 6:28

2003-07-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Maria" == Maria Garcia Suarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Maria> Hi there! Problem: Apache is killed everyday at around Maria> 06:28 System: Debian Woody, kernel 2.4.18, apache 1.3.26 Perhaps thisis normal. Do you have logrotate doing this every morning by any chance. Look for /etc/

Re: ext3 and Kernel 2.4.18

2003-06-30 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Adam" == Adam Gent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> Hi All, I am running debian (woody) with the standard kernel Adam> 2.4.18-bf2.4-xfs [...snip...] Adam> I want to run my main file system as ext3 and have already Adam> converted it to ext3 and update the fstab file, but whe

Re: ssh

2003-06-29 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Oki" == Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Oki> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh bdg2 Try 'ssh -X bdg2' /Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"matt" == matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: matt> note: i dont think the leak is in the normal applications as matt> mentioned in previous email, something seems to be gobling matt> up memory even before i log in to an x environment. What do you have matching /etc/rc2.d

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"matt" == matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: matt> hi, after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. What precisely happens when you "run out of memory"? Also, what version of Debian are you running. Cheers! Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Extremely annoying ext3

2003-06-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"aaron" == aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: aaron> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dmesg | grep ^hd | grep sector aaron> hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, aaron> CHS=2434/255/63, UDMA(33) aaron> I haven't had a chance to go verify the DMA settings on my aaron> Deb

Re: telnet: could not resolve

2003-06-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Nathan" == Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nathan> Use localhost when you mean localhost? I wasn't aware Nathan> that '0' was valid shorthand for localhost. Actually it is. From RFC 1700 ("Assigned Numbers") (a) {0, 0} This host on this network. Can on

Re: Extremely annoying ext3

2003-06-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Mark" == Mark C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> This is wrong, being an ex redhat user (well to long) before Mark> I slipped into the Debian camp, redhat do NOT use dma on Mark> either hard drive or cdrom, this has to be turned on Mark> manually as well (Just on redhat very

Re: Extremely annoying ext3

2003-06-22 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"aaron" == aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: aaron> I have two things to bring to you today (as if I don't post aaron> enough of my silly problems already). The first is why my aaron> ext3 drive is so slow, and the second is what other aaron> alternatives I have, if any.

Re: XFree86 turns off the screen when using usb mouse

2003-06-22 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Bijan" == Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bijan> Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If not, try removing the 'Option "DPMS"' line (or use xset) to Bijan> Turning off DPMS gets rid of blanking completely.

Re: XFree86 turns off the screen when using usb mouse

2003-06-22 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Bijan" == Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bijan> Hi, I have a small problem that I'd like to solve. X Bijan> automatically blanks the screen after a while. It unblanks Bijan> it if you use the keyboard or the mouse. However it only Bijan> works with serial or ps2 m

Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

2003-06-21 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Ric" == Ric Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ric> Hi, I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and Ric> I called them up to ask if it would work with Linux. The Ric> woman at tech support confidently assured me, over and over, Ric> that it would not work with Linu

Re: Network not enabled with upgraded kernel, 2.2.20->2.4.18, Dell Insp 4100 NB

2003-06-20 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"e.broyles" == e broyles writes: e.broyles> Installing a new kernel over a newly installed Woody e.broyles> system, upgrading to 2.4.18. This all goes pretty e.broyles> [.] e.broyles> It did things magically when I installed Woody, found e.broyles> my network, got an

Re: debian

2003-06-20 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Bijan" == Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bijan> Everyone deservers Free Software even people who aren't Bijan> particularly itchy :) No one *deserves* free software. It's free, you get what you pay for :-) /Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: debian

2003-06-20 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Bijan" == Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Debian runs on many architectures (have you even looked >> athttp://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual >> recently?) Bijan> (This sounds like an insult, this is mean, and I don't Bijan> think I deserve this

Re: debian

2003-06-20 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Bijan" == Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bijan> Try Knoppix it is based on Debian and does all that Bijan> detection. Bijan> There's no good reason why Debian doesn't. Debian runs on many architectures (have you even looked athttp://www.debian.org/releases/stable/in

Re: Low latency patch worth the fuss?

2003-06-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"debian" == debian writes: debian> Hi there, I'm just ripping a few CDs' with Grip and even debian> with nice level -20 for both ripping & encoding the system debian> "drags" noticeably. The kernel low latency patch should in debian> theory offer a solution by improving on th

Re: can't login with other user then root

2003-06-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"george" == george roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: george>hello i have one problem with debian can't login with george> other user then root. i can create users and they exist george> in /home and in /etc/passwd (but their directory in /home george> contains no files it

Re: How to stop booting into KDE environment

2003-06-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"dhobner" == dhobner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dhobner> I am very new to Linux. Is there a way to reboot without dhobner> going directly into the KDE windows environment? My dhobner> mouse is not working so when I get into KDE environment I dhobner> cannot bring up a wind

Re: play mp3 files on xmms

2003-06-10 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Eduardo" == Eduardo Gargiulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eduardo> Hi all I'm running woody 3.0_r1 and I'm looking for same Eduardo> way to play mp3 files on xmms. Is it possible? Is there Eduardo> any plugin? In case the answer is not, which player do Eduardo> you recommend me

Re: cupsys works, lpr does not

2003-06-06 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Emma" == Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Emma> I've been trying to get my printer working again and it does Emma> not want to print pages. I can print a "test page" from cups Emma> (through a web browser) but I couldn't print any actual Emma> pages because "lpr" d

Re: CVS

2003-04-06 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Joydeep" == Joydeep Bakshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joydeep> Hi all, during the debian installation, I have faced some Joydeep> question about CVS. what is this *CVS* & why we need Joydeep> this ? Concurrent Version System. Do 'dpkg -p cvs' for more information. If you don't

Re: Which device is ide-scsi?

2003-04-05 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Alan" == Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alan> On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 4:57 pm, Shyamal Prasad wrote: ... >> It is not uncommon for the ide-cd driver to grab the CD ROM >> driver, which you must prevent by giving ide-cd the >> &

Re: Which device is ide-scsi?

2003-04-05 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Alan" == Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alan> I have added append hdd=ide-scsi in my lilo config and this Alan> module is definately loaded. If I look in /proc/scsi there Alan> is a subdirectory called ide-scsi and a single file in it Alan> named "1" with the follo

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-04 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"John" == John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Hmmm, just wrote a 1,600 article in emacs via ssh. John> I'm not using all the navigation aids very well yet but i John> can see where I'm going from here. Heh, hehI can just see you discovering emacsclient, and then

Re: Vaio PCG-R505TSK Installation Trouble

2003-04-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Johannes" == Johannes Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johannes> Hello, I'm trying to install woody (bf 2.4) on my Vaio Johannes> PCG-R505TSK ... with no success. After booting into the Johannes> bootfloppy cd with 'linux ide2=0x180,0x386" (to makte Johannes> the pcmcia c

Re: Use a Firewall, Go to Jail?

2003-04-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Paul" == Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> I think that's a far more liberal interpretation of the law Paul> than will be applied, since as far as the ISP is concerned, While I agree, I have to state my opinion that a law that depends on "how it will be applied" is a ba

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:54:21PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad Colin> wrote: >> >> The quoting above, [...] were all done by emacs. Colin> Yes, I can tell. :( I even have a speci

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"John" == John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Travis Crump wrote: >> Is this a troll? I prefer vim, a good number of people prefer >> emacs. Both will suit your needs. >> >> John> No, not a troll, I want to know if any of the editors are John> aim

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"John" == John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> G'day all. Due to a somewhat complicated set of John> circumstances I'm looking for a decent non graphical shell John> based text editor to write prose with. John> basically i want to be able to ssh onto my server and

Re: /etc/network/interfaces problem

2003-04-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Thomas" == Thomas H George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thomas> Both computers have Netgear MA311 Wireless PCI Thomas> cards. Perhaps there is a difference in the bootup Thomas> sequences, I'll print out the runlevel.conf files and Thomas> compare them. I've never used a non-P

Re: /etc/network/interfaces problem

2003-04-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Thomas" == Thomas H George writes: Thomas> auto wlan0 Is this PCMCIA? If so, take that out. The networking scripts run before the PCMCIA, so you can't 'ifup -a' the PCMCIA card during boot. Let the PCMCIA subsystem bring the card up. Cheers! Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: debian question

2003-04-01 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Hans" == Hans Ad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hans> I am a beginning Debian user, I',m installing it now. A Hans> friend of mine wants to help me. He lives in a different Hans> city. He asked me to make a SSH server on my linux machine Hans> and forward a port of my switch, so

Re: Error in Shell Script!!

2003-03-31 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Alex" == Alex Togstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alex> A snippet of the code which should be enough can be found Alex> here: Alex> http://kernelphr34k.home.attbi.com/error Alex> This is only part of the script, and yes everything is Alex> defined. This is in BASH! When

Re: ntp.conf question

2003-03-31 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Thomas" == Thomas H George writes: Thomas> The file /etc/ntp.conf does not contain any server entries Thomas> but does include a note saying these are entered auto Thomas> generated, use dpkg-reconfigure to modify these lines. Thomas> dpkg-reconfigure ntp simply returns the c

Re: Adjust time by ntp

2003-03-30 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Willem-Jan" == Willem-Jan Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Willem-Jan> Hello all, I read something about NTP and I like that, Willem-Jan> so I installed the ntp packages, and I want to adjust Willem-Jan> the time with the command ntptimeset -s, but I get the Willem-Jan> mess

Re: X over ssh

2003-03-30 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Michael" == Michael Naumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> So I do not see any difference and yet, X over ssh only Michael> works in one direction. Michael> Any pointer gladly apriciated, Run 'ssh -v -X' and see what the last few lines tell you about the X forwarding. It i

Re: How to burn JPEG files to CD?

2003-03-30 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Thomas" == Thomas H George writes: Thomas> I successfuly downloaded 93 JPEG files from a digital Thomas> camera to the hard drive. Not wishing to tie up this Thomas> space permanently, I tried to burn them to a cd with the Thomas> command cdrecord -v dev=1,0,0 speed=8 -data

Re: Installing default printer

2003-03-30 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Lindsay" == Lindsay Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lindsay> G'day All, I would like to install my printer using the Lindsay> default debian utilities (lpr, lpd) without using tasksel Lindsay> as this installs 100Mbs+ of "stuff". Would some kind Lindsay> soul point me in

Re: What's the std print config tool

2003-03-30 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Lindsay" == Lindsay Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lindsay> G'day Bob, Patrick, others, Thank you for your reply but Lindsay> cups seems rather bloated and fickle,I wanted the one Lindsay> installed by the default debian tasksel option is that Lindsay> lpr, lprng or gnulp

Re: What's the std print config tool

2003-03-29 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Lindsay" == Lindsay Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lindsay> G'day all, What is the standard printer configuration Lindsay> tool used by debian 3 r0. I'm trying to install a printer Lindsay> but the documentation is not helping me at all. If I Lindsay> could find the confi

Re: Toy Story List

2003-03-29 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Lindsay" == Lindsay Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lindsay> Now come on you guys get serious! Stop talking Woody and Lindsay> Potatoe this is *not* a "Toy Story" list, this is serious Lindsay> puter stuff! Potatoe? No! Its Potato. Potato! potato!! ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: How long is linux going to be free ?

2003-03-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"adit" == adit y writes: adit> 1. How long is it going to be free ? As long as people respect the license, and the legal system is sufficient to encourage this. Consider donating to support the cause, for example http://members.fsf.org/ as one way enforcing the Gnu Public Licenses that a

Re: ide-scsi

2003-03-25 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Christof" == Christof Hurschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christof> newbie quesiton, I'm running 2.4.-18-k6 from the deb in Christof> woody: how can I keep ide-scsi from grabbing all my Christof> cdroms and zip i.e. Many answers are possible. One way is to ensure that ide-cd is

Re: Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-25 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Lukas" == Lukas Latz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lukas> Hi List, I use KDM over GDM because I found it lets me log Lukas> in with X as root, which I found especially useful in the Lukas> beginning when I was setting up lots of stuff. GDM will let you log in as root. Edit /etc/gdm

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