Re: video playback: horrible!

2005-06-29 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 06:41 am, Kent West wrote: > Jeff Elkins wrote: > >I recently reformatted/reinstalled sid via the new sarge installer. > > > >Now video playback via xine/mplayer sucks, where previously it was great. > > What settings do I need to tweak? >

video playback: horrible!

2005-06-28 Thread Jeff Elkins
I recently reformatted/reinstalled sid via the new sarge installer. Now video playback via xine/mplayer sucks, where previously it was great. What settings do I need to tweak? Thanks, Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: X Font size

2005-06-23 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Thursday 23 June 2005 09:23 am, Nikolai Hlubek wrote: > Jeff Elkins wrote: > > I recently started using 1280x1024 resolution for a new monitor. It's > > great for almost everything, except wxpython apps and other gtk apps. KDE > > apps and firefox work great, but the

Re: X Font size

2005-06-23 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 02:52 pm, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Jeff Elkins (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > I recently started using 1280x1024 resolution for a new monitor. It's > > great for almost everything, except wxpython apps and other gtk apps. >

X Font size

2005-06-22 Thread Jeff Elkins
I recently started using 1280x1024 resolution for a new monitor. It's great for almost everything, except wxpython apps and other gtk apps. KDE apps and firefox work great, but the problem apps fonts are so tiny as to be near-unreadable. In /etc/X11/fs/config I changed: #default-resolutions =

Re: annoying iptables messages

2005-06-16 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Thursday 16 June 2005 06:16 am, Shaun Lipscombe wrote: > * Jeff Elkins wrote: > > New not syn:IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=00:30:1b:3d:ed:0e:00:02:3b:01:dd:e1:08:00 > > SRC=64.14.56.90 DST=64.45.235.41 LEN=41 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=240 > > ID=21627 PROTO=TCP SPT=80 DPT=36366 WINDOW=6

Re: annoying iptables messages

2005-06-15 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 04:13 pm, Jan C. Nordholz wrote: > Hi! > > > I'm trying to rid myself of annoying iptables messages that are clogging > > up the console and dmesg. To my firewall script I've added: > > Well, dmesg just reads the kernel's debugging ringbuffer, where _every_ > printk() the

annoying iptables messages

2005-06-15 Thread Jeff Elkins
I'm trying to rid myself of annoying iptables messages that are clogging up the console and dmesg. To my firewall script I've added: echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_log_invalid And to sysklogd: KLOGD="-c 4" The console messages seem to be gone, but dmesg is still clogged wit

Re: USB cardreader

2004-12-29 Thread jeff elkins
On Thursday 30 December 2004 12:09 am, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 23:55 -0500, jeff elkins wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 December 2004 7:34 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 19:11 -0500, jeff elkins wrote: > > > > On Saturday 25 Dece

Re: USB cardreader

2004-12-29 Thread jeff elkins
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 7:34 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 19:11 -0500, jeff elkins wrote: > > On Saturday 25 December 2004 4:04 pm, jeff elkins wrote: > > > On Saturday 25 December 2004 3:19 pm, H. S. wrote: > > > > Apparently, _jeff el

Re: USB cardreader

2004-12-29 Thread jeff elkins
On Saturday 25 December 2004 4:04 pm, jeff elkins wrote: > On Saturday 25 December 2004 3:19 pm, H. S. wrote: > > Apparently, _jeff elkins_, on 25/12/04 09:06,typed: > > > Merry Christmas, List! > > > > > > I've built a new sid-based system (kernel 2.6.9) a

Re: PVR recomendations?

2004-12-28 Thread jeff elkins
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 3:42 pm, Curt Howland wrote: > Ok, the time has come for me to build a digital PVR. Based on Debian > and using Libre software, of course. > > I prefer AMD and "open" drivers (sorry, nVidia), can someone suggest a > good quality main board and video card combination? I'v

Re: USB cardreader

2004-12-25 Thread jeff elkins
ion: 02 > > > > But unless I boot with cards inserted, the devices I need (sda1,sdc1) > > are not created. Additionally, once mounted they refuse to unmount with a > > 'device busy.' > > > > I probably missed something in my setup, thanks for any help. > &

Re: USB cardreader

2004-12-25 Thread jeff elkins
On Saturday 25 December 2004 11:35 am, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: > On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 10:08 -0500, jeff elkins wrote: > > On Saturday 25 December 2004 9:18 am, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: > > > On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 09:06 -0500, jeff elkins wrote: > > > > Merry Christmas, Li

Re: USB cardreader

2004-12-25 Thread jeff elkins
On Saturday 25 December 2004 9:18 am, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: > On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 09:06 -0500, jeff elkins wrote: > > Merry Christmas, List! > > > > I've built a new sid-based system (kernel 2.6.9) and I'm having a bit of > > trouble with the attached usb c

USB cardreader

2004-12-25 Thread jeff elkins
etup, thanks for any help. Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Synchronize two servers (warm backup)

2004-12-24 Thread jeff elkins
just wondering if anyone might have already > done so. I can't be the only person having to keep a warm backup > current. I'm using mirrordir to sync two mp3 servers. Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Print problem

2004-10-25 Thread Jeff Elkins
owed: lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). lp0: ECP mode lp0: ECP mode lp0: ECP mode lp0: ECP mode lp0: ECP mode lp0: ECP mode What steps can I take next to fix this? Thanks. Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

USB Network adaptor: iMac

2004-09-20 Thread Jeff Elkins
I've got a iMac running Sid that I want to connect to a home network via wireless. Can someone recommend a USB network adaptor? Thanks, Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Gmail invitations

2004-08-27 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 27 August 2004 10:06 am, Kirk Strauser wrote: > Gmail invitations are kind of coveted right now, and >I think Jeff was trying to do a nice thing my passing them out to his >friends and those who have helped him. Thanks. That was my intention and sorry if I offended list purists. Jeff

OT: Gmail invitations

2004-08-26 Thread Jeff Elkins
Here are six more gmail invites: Jeff Elkins http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-d23898c6f5-a44f0a166f-0fff6b0591 http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-d23898c6f5-0ae86e6db2-e8781237b7 http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-d23898c6f5-3241a2396a-56af3f46b6 http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a

OT: Gmail invites

2004-08-26 Thread Jeff Elkins
Thanks to this list for all the help over the years. Here are ten gmail invites. Jeff Elkins http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-393ce3cb67-c434e4a09c-379c78ef27 http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-393ce3cb67-9ede1d9490-12a92af7ec http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-393ce3cb67-534ab78e38-0c6cd8bf4a

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-08-13 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 10:03 am, Jesse Rosenthal wrote: >Jeff Elkins wrote: >> Huh? >> >> --- >> The following packages will be REMOVED: >> blt-common epiphany-browser gimp-nonfree >> kdelibs4-dev libcupsys2-dev mozilla mozilla-browser >

apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-08-09 Thread Jeff Elkins
Huh? --- The following packages will be REMOVED: blt-common epiphany-browser gimp-nonfree kdelibs4-dev libcupsys2-dev mozilla mozilla-browser mozilla-mailnews mozilla-psm mozilla-xft -- I've been disconnected lately, but what's up with this? I'd like to get current, but I

Re: Exim filters

2004-06-28 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 21:51:03 -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:21:51PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > | # Exim Filter > | if > | $h_X-Spam-Status: contains "Yes" > > Hmm. It looks like I haven't updated that document yet.

Exim filters

2004-06-27 Thread Jeff Elkins
# Exim Filter if $h_X-Spam-Status: contains "Yes" or "${if def:h_X-Spam-Flag {def}{undef}}" is "def" then save $home/mail/spam/ finish endif 2004-06-27 19:03:54 1Beigk-bM-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=bay1-f5.bay1.hotmail.com (hotmail.com) [65.54.24

Re: Sound system

2004-06-19 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 13:31:38 -0500, MillTek wrote > Kent West wrote: > > > MillTek wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> As a Linux noob, I have tried many many googling sessions to get > >> sound working on the Sarge 2.6.6 installation I have. My machine has > >> an Abit NF7-M motherboard with and NFor

Re: office package

2004-06-18 Thread Jeff Elkins
Openoffice.org? On 18 Jun 2004 22:18:47 -0300, Hector Scaramelli wrote > Hi People, > > I need suggestion as to which is the office package ( basically capable > of importing word and excel docs) that best works on Debian. I don't > want to install KDE. I use Blackbox window manager. > > Thanks

Re: glibc + libstdc++?

2004-06-07 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 07 June 2004 12:06 pm, Bob Proulx wrote: >Jeff Elkins wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >> > Jeff Elkins wrote: >> > > pvconv: relocation error: pvconv: undefined symbol: __dynamic_cast_2 >> > >> > I was curious enough to download the applicatio

Re: glibc + libstdc++?

2004-06-06 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 06 June 2004 11:06 pm, Bob Proulx wrote: >Jeff Elkins wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >> >This following is probably the magic package you need to meet binary >> >compatibility with Red Hat packages. >> > >> > apt-get install libstdc++2

Re: glibc + libstdc++?

2004-06-06 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 06 June 2004 10:11 pm, Bob Proulx wrote: >Pardon me for missing the start of this thread. > >Adam Aube wrote: >> Jeff Elkins wrote: >> > To use PureVoice Converter, you must have the following: >> > >> > - Linux for x86 (any distribution or

glibc + libstdc++?

2004-06-05 Thread Jeff Elkins
edHat RPM "glibc2.2.4-19.3") - LIBSTDC++ 2.96 (e.g. RedHat RPM "libstdc++-2.96-54") I'm running sid. What should I apt-get? I've tried: apt-get install libstdc++2.10-dev apt-get install libg++2.8.1.3-glibc2.2 TIA Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: OT: sox help needed

2004-05-20 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Thursday 20 May 2004 11:09 am, s. keeling wrote: >Incoming from Jeff Elkins: >> I'm trying to automate this: >> >> #!/bin/sh >> >> for i in *; do >> if test -f $i; then >> mpg123 -s $i | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c 1 - -t wav -r 8000

Re: OT: sox help needed

2004-05-20 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Thursday 20 May 2004 08:34 am, Matthias Czapla wrote: >On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 04:43:48AM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> I need to convert a mess of mp3 files into PCM 8000 kHz, 16 Bit, Mono wav >> format. I tried using mpg123 and sox : >> >> mpg123 -b 1 -s test.mp3

OT: sox help needed

2004-05-20 Thread Jeff Elkins
I need to convert a mess of mp3 files into PCM 8000 kHz, 16 Bit, Mono wav format. I tried using mpg123 and sox : mpg123 -b 1 -s test.mp3 | sox -t raw -r 8000 -s -w -c 2 - test.wav w/o success. The resulting wav file is molasses slow. Any help appreciated. thanks! Jeff Elkins -- To

Re: Newbie to SID: How to install the previous version of a package ?

2004-04-22 Thread Jeff Elkins
as they came up. I have never >figured dselect out and just switched to aptitude after seeing several >comments on this list. > > >Paul My experience mirrors that of Mr. Scott. Mr. Johnson is off-base here. Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 03:18 pm, mike wrote: >I think the names are just fine. >The code names are great and the debian Names (Stable, Testing, Unstable) > are as they should be. If they are changed, I think we would have more > questions asking about the naming scheme. > >Mike I agree with so

Re: Root Password No Longer Works in KDE

2004-04-11 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 11 April 2004 09:18 pm, Scarletdown wrote: >Earlier today, I had a complete system freezeup for some reason. All I >could do to recover was power down and boot back up. However, when kdm >tried to run, I was dropped to a text login prompt. > >I went ahead and logged in as root and did a

Re: Time screwup

2004-04-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Thursday 08 April 2004 04:44 pm, Adam Aube wrote: >Jeff Elkins wrote: >> Thanks, unfortunately, that didn't do it. I did install timezoneconf and >> thought I might try to reconfigure with that. However, I haven't a clue as >> to how to run it. It's a

Re: Time screwup

2004-04-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Thursday 08 April 2004 04:04 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: >On Thursday 08 April 2004 01:00 pm, Adam Aube wrote: >>Jeff Elkins wrote: >>> I installed Fedora on a spare partition to play with and when I rebooted >>> to Debian my time was four hours off. Lo, when I reset the c

Re: Time screwup

2004-04-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Thursday 08 April 2004 01:00 pm, Adam Aube wrote: >Jeff Elkins wrote: >> I installed Fedora on a spare partition to play with and when I rebooted >> to Debian my time was four hours off. Lo, when I reset the clock to true >> local time then ran ntpdate my time was

Re: ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!

2004-04-07 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Thursday 08 April 2004 03:04 am, Christian Schnobrich wrote: >I can merely point you to the (quite exhaustive) documentation you get >when installing ntp-doc. As quick fix, you may manually set the time to >something that's reasonably close and re-run ntpdate. Sorry, this just doesn't work. A

Re: ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!

2004-04-07 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Thursday 08 April 2004 02:20 am, Chris Horn wrote: >Okay, I'm completely lost on this one. I have one box that can't tell time >and I don't know what's the matter with it. > >when UTC is around Thu Apr 8 02:16:20 UTC 2004, this machine reports: > ># date -u && date >Wed Apr 7 22:16:37 UTC 200

Time screwup

2004-04-07 Thread Jeff Elkins
hanks for any help...I'm scratching my head here! Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pppoe speed problem

2004-03-21 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 21 March 2004 08:34 am, Hector Scaramelli wrote: >Hi, >I am doing nat with a i486/16MB behind a 256/64Kb adsl dynamic ip. I >cannot seem to be able to download at more than 10Kb/s. However the same >box was giving me 26KB/s when I had a router between the adsl modem and >the i486's eth0.

Re: Loading modules at startup

2004-03-20 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 20 March 2004 10:13 pm, Didier Caamano wrote: >Hello, I was wondering how to make the kernel to load modules at >start up, I know i does it automatically, but I'm having a >little bit of troubles, I was running with the kernel that comes >with woody and decided to update to 2.6.4, after

Re: LCD Terminal

2004-03-20 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 20 March 2004 06:53 pm, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: >On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 02:54:16PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> >This is one of the things a Knoppix or Mepis live CD is great for. Pop it >> > in, then copy the resulting XFConfig-4 file somewhere safe. >> &

Re: LCD Terminal

2004-03-20 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 20 March 2004 01:44 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: >On Saturday 20 March 2004 09:53 am, Tom Atkins wrote: >> I have a new system, NO M$. Iinstalled Woody 3.0r1 from the disks I >> ordered. Included X. When I was asked if I had a LCD I answered yes and >> configured the

Re: LCD Terminal

2004-03-20 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 20 March 2004 09:53 am, Tom Atkins wrote: > I have a new system, NO M$. Iinstalled Woody 3.0r1 from the disks I > ordered. Included X. When I was asked if I had a LCD I answered yes and > configured the H & V rates. As root when I do a start x it can not find a > correct configuration

Re: burning CDs, or, Ah, now ESR's rant makes sense . . .

2004-03-18 Thread Jeff Elkins
may be fatal problems. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. scsibus0:0,0,0 0) 'PLEXTOR ' 'DVDR PX-708A ' '1.03' Removable CD-ROM Result: I never get a return to a command prompt, and the system freezes after several minutes. Using the k3b front end produces a system freeze as well, when its splash screen locks on scanning system devices. Please note that the -scanbus with /dev/hdc produces different results for scsibus than -scanbus with ATAPI. Using a 2.4 kernel with ide-scsi works perfectly. Jeff Elkins

Re: ide-cd, made the change

2004-03-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 08:20 am, David Baron wrote: >Now (under 2.6.4-1), the CDs are back to their original /dev/hdc and hdd >locations. I can mount and read fine. > >Trying to burn: I was able to erase a CDRW successfully using K3B but was >unable to write to this CDRW. Mkiofs returned an unk

Re: Java/Mozilla

2004-03-10 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 02:38 am, Hans Gubitz wrote: >On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:57:13PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> #deb ftp://ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de/pub/Java/Linux/debian unstable main >> non-free > >That didn't work with me. > >My steps: > >1. Get

Re: Java/Mozilla

2004-03-09 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Tuesday 09 March 2004 05:48 pm, Kent West wrote: >> Jeff Elkins wrote: >>> I'm working with a new sid install and am having some trouble getting >>> java to work with Mozilla 1.6. Blackdown Java 1.4 is installed and >>> functional and following the debi

Re: Java/Mozilla

2004-03-09 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Tuesday 09 March 2004 02:00 pm, G45p3r wrote: >ln -s >/usr/adicionales/j2re1.4.2_01/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so >/usr/local/mozilla-v1.6/plugins > >Jeff Elkins escribió: >>I'm working with a new sid install and am having some trouble getting java &

Re: Java/Mozilla

2004-03-09 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Tuesday 09 March 2004 05:39 pm, Roberto Sanchez wrote: >Jeff Elkins wrote: >> I'm working with a new sid install and am having some trouble getting java >> to work with Mozilla 1.6. Blackdown Java 1.4 is installed and functional >> and following the debian java faq

Java/Mozilla

2004-03-09 Thread Jeff Elkins
I'm working with a new sid install and am having some trouble getting java to work with Mozilla 1.6. Blackdown Java 1.4 is installed and functional and following the debian java faq, I symlinked /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. No di

Re: DVD-R(W)

2004-03-01 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 01 March 2004 12:21 am, Gary Sandine wrote: >On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 21:26, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> Is there OSS software out there that works with DVD-R(W)? > >growisofs works for this, too (works together with k3b if you want a >drag and drop GUI): > >http://fy.chal

DVD-R(W)

2004-02-29 Thread Jeff Elkins
I'm using DVD+RW discs (and growisofs) for the most part, but I still have some DVD-RWs. I pulled them out from the stack to do some backups and lo & behold, I had to update my cdrecord-prodvd "key" in order to use them. This disturbs me. What if Schilling gets hit by a bus? I wrote Mr. Schill

DSL problem (possibly OT)

2004-02-26 Thread Jeff Elkins
I'm steamed... I've been running Sprint's DSL for over three years, for the most part w/o trouble. I use a debian server with NAT and iptable firewall to connect. Typical downstream speeds averaged 130 - 150 KB/s. About three weeks ago I noticed when performing apt-get updates and installs, th

Re: DSL problem (possibly OT)

2004-02-26 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Thursday 26 February 2004 4:21 pm, Ken Irving wrote: >On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 04:09:36PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> ... >> About three weeks ago I noticed when performing apt-get updates and >> installs, that my download speeds dropped to 30 KB/s and below. I blew it

Multiprocessor Linux boxes

2004-02-24 Thread Jeff Elkins
>I've been in discussions with a client about doing some numerical >modeling once I get back from deployment. This may very well turn out to be >a major portion of my science work. > >To that end, I'm curious about what you know about multi-processor Linux >boxes. I'm interested in trying up yo f

Re: /mnt created at boot?

2004-02-24 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 3:46 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: >On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 01:16:45PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> On Monday 23 February 2004 11:20 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: >> >On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:03:53PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> >> I'm work

Re: /mnt created at boot?

2004-02-24 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 23 February 2004 11:20 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: >On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:03:53PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> I'm working on a system where upon boot the /mnt directory is created and >> quite a few subdirs underneath as well (floppy,cdrom,cdrom1,etc). Is this >

/mnt created at boot?

2004-02-23 Thread Jeff Elkins
I'm working on a system where upon boot the /mnt directory is created and quite a few subdirs underneath as well (floppy,cdrom,cdrom1,etc). Is this type of behavior part of autofs? I'm trying to turn it off, along with having /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom1 erased with each reboot... This is a mepi

Re: Unable to mount cdroms in linux 2.6.3

2004-02-23 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 23 February 2004 12:08 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: >Using sid: > >I just recompiled 2.6.3 and removed ide-scsi, adjusted lilo.conf and > rebooted for some tests. Any attempt to use k3b made the system unstable, > then eventually freeze. > >Burning a cdr worked fine

Re: Unable to mount cdroms in linux 2.6.3

2004-02-23 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 23 February 2004 6:06 am, John L Fjellstad wrote: >Florentin Ionescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Appending "hdx=cdrom" for 2.6.x does recognize the cdrom - but >> CD burning fails, also when I tried to play a CD in xmms failed, >> both with an IO error. > >How do you burn the CD? If y

Re: Mounting CD-Roms under 2.6.2

2004-02-23 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 23 February 2004 7:23 am, David Baron wrote: > I am still using ide-scsi but would be willing to try the other way if > someone could tell me how to set it up. I need to do this too. I've hesitated to experiment, since I hate to break what's working, but I think I'll give it a shot...

Re: Unable to cdroms in linux 2.6.3

2004-02-23 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 23 February 2004 5:50 am, stephen parkinson wrote: >did you have any luck with 2.6.2 ? I never tried it... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unable to cdroms in linux 2.6.3

2004-02-23 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 23 February 2004 3:49 am, stephen parkinson wrote: >John L Fjellstad wrote: >>David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>like. Under 2.6.*, you need /dev/scd0. Both can coexist until one is >>>ready to leave 2.4.2* forever. K3B (KDE burner) wants all CD burners >>>to mount to a / cdwriter

Re: DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-21 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 21 February 2004 11:29 pm, Bijan Soleymani wrote: >On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 11:10:35PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> On Saturday 21 February 2004 10:34 pm, Bijan Soleymani wrote: >> >Consumer grade media doesn't allow you to record the CSS key on the >> >

Re: DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-21 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 21 February 2004 10:34 pm, Bijan Soleymani wrote: >On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 08:38:44PM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: >> With the recent injunction granted against 321 Studios for their DVD X >> Copy software for copying DVDs, I've been wondering something. Why is it >> necessary to br

xmms/kde

2004-02-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
This might be obvious, but I thought I'd pass it along to the list: I've noticed that xmms (under sid/kde) was giving me horrible playback with skips, distortion, etc. Really bad, mostly unusable. Anyway, I installed: xmms-arts - aRts Output plugin for xmms and all is well. That is all, sorry

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 08 February 2004 11:13 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: > Well, let's see. I was born in 1964. I've been doing computers since 1980 > or so. The first machine I owned was an 8080A-based machine called an > Interact-1 that used an integrated tape drive and an absolutely horrid > chicklet keyboar

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 08 February 2004 7:18 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:16:33PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > Well a lot of new users like Knoppix and would like to have it on > > the hard disk. Is it ok for them to use it, or will the secret police > > come and shoot them for not u

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-26 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 26 January 2004 7:00 pm, Paul M Foster wrote: > Yeah, the U.S. really sucks. And we love hearing it over and over again > from people who are cut off from the fruits of observation, and are > really incapable of doing anything but whining. Or who really just have > a socialist or communis

Re: OT: remote cups printing

2004-01-23 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 23 January 2004 2:02 am, Stephen Cormier wrote: > On January 21, 2004 09:57 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > When printing to a remote cups server (under kde3.1) I'm asked for a > > user/password combo...everything is rejected, including the root > > password for the

OT: remote cups printing

2004-01-21 Thread Jeff Elkins
When printing to a remote cups server (under kde3.1) I'm asked for a user/password combo...everything is rejected, including the root password for the cups server. Both machines are on the same subnet, (192.168.0). In the cupsd.conf: AuthType None Order Deny,Allow Deny From None Allow From A

Re: Mplayer?

2004-01-11 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 11 January 2004 6:42 pm, Rob Weir wrote: >On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 06:17:54PM -0500, Jeff Elkins said > >> http://marillat.free.fr seems to be gone. Anyone have any info? > >Visit that webpage, it explains where it's moved to. > >9/01/2004: >

Mplayer?

2004-01-11 Thread Jeff Elkins
http://marillat.free.fr seems to be gone. Anyone have any info? Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.6 and /dev/dsp

2004-01-11 Thread Jeff Elkins
.6.1 ||_// > Socio UYLUG Nro 125 | \ > Linux registered user #118109||\/||\__\ I had the same problem. Apt-get install alsa-utils fixed it. Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gnome:Sid

2003-12-31 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Wednesday 31 December 2003 7:07 am, Uwe Dippel wrote: >On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:40:08 -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> After an apt-get install of Gnome (90+Mb downloaded), when choosing >> gnome-session from the kdm menu I'm left with an xterm and an otherwise >> pristine s

Gnome:Sid

2003-12-30 Thread Jeff Elkins
After an apt-get install of Gnome (90+Mb downloaded), when choosing gnome-session from the kdm menu I'm left with an xterm and an otherwise pristine screen. I'm lost! How do I configure this puppy? Thanks, Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-28 Thread Jeff Elkins
. I don't have any specific advice to offer, but I'd consider testing with one of the live distros (Knoppix,Mepis, etc) that boot up in 2.4. Currently, either offer a superior debian installation experience over the standard 3.0 CDs, imo, Mepis especially. Good luck, Jeff Elkins --

OT: C++

2003-12-03 Thread Jeff Elkins
specific. Can someone direct me to a C++ mailing list that is newbie-friendly? Thanks, Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: python problem in unstable

2003-11-29 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 29 November 2003 8:33 am, Alf Werder wrote: >It was told on this list, that this problem is already fixed in version >2.3.2-7. Unfortunately this version is still in incoming. No big deal (for me). That's part of life in unstableville :) Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: python problem in unstable

2003-11-29 Thread Jeff Elkins
A lot of packages is a bit of an understatement. In my case, over 250Mb packages are queued for removal, including what looks like all of KDE. I'd be just as well off wiping my drive and re-installing :) Won't waiting a few days solve the problem? Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: (no subject)

2003-11-19 Thread Jeff Elkins
I guess it's a losing battle... All my incoming HTML email is captured by spamassassin and routed to the spam folder. It's sadly amusing to find someone lambasting AOL users posting here in that format. Please don't email using HTML... Thanks, Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBS

Missing apostrophe

2003-11-16 Thread Jeff Elkins
Since doing a sid apt-get dist-upgrade yesterday, many websites are showing up with square blocks for certain characters, mainly the apostrophe. Is this a fontconfig issue? How can I fix it? Thanks, Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Exim question: open relay?

2003-11-09 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 09 November 2003 1:45 pm, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 05:20:09PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 23:44:48 -0500, >> Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > I hav

Exim question: open relay?

2003-11-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
I have just started hosting a domain on my server for my granddaughter and the web portion is working perfectly. However, I'd like to offer her email as well. She's 200 miles away...how can I set this up to avoid the ugly open relay problem? TIA Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: apache 1.3.28-4 on unstable

2003-10-25 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 25 October 2003 10:05 pm, W. Paul Mills wrote: >>>Well, it is a known bug in the apache package, you should have checked. >>>The basic problem is that the modules are inserted into modules.conf in >>>reverse order. >>> Ouch, this just bit me too. Editing modules.conf didn't seem to

Re: apache 1.3.28-4 on unstable

2003-10-24 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 24 October 2003 9:55 pm, W. Paul Mills wrote: >On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 20:45:46 +, chbaker wrote: >> Ever since upgrading to apache 1.3.28-4 on unstable some strange things >> have happened. Index pages, whether html, shtml, or cgi are no longer >> working unless the page is explicitly li

Re: apache 1.3.28-4 on unstable

2003-10-24 Thread Jeff Elkins
e modules are inserted into modules.conf in >reverse order. Ouch, this just bit me too. Editing modules.conf didn't seem to work What's a fix? Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread Jeff Elkins
policies are instituted that attempt to stop it's spread. Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
direct their question to the mailing list. Bravo! Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
my server that I have not yet taken (I am researching, believe me.) Even so, I don't see the downside in removing my email addresses from the world wide web...which as you say is "only a very small part of the Internet" Regards, Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
n percentage of users might visit the debian web archives and look for individual support via private email. However, to slip into SF geekism, I remember Spock saying to Kirk, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." I think the needs of the many have spelled an end to email add

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 17 October 2003 12:21 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 06:07:48PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: >> True, but the question is, can they be bothered? > >Yes. Or they wouldn't know how to unmunge anything in the first >place.

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
t scraping web pages for addresses is more prevalent than spammers trolling usenet or listservs for victims. Personally, I don't see web obfuscation as a huge loss or as a violation of debian principles. It would close a gaping hole, and probably harm no one (except spammers). Jeff Elkins

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
rnet how? Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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