Re: RE:GeForce4 MX

2003-01-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 23:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Hey everyone, > > >I just upgraded from a GeForceDDR to a GeForce4 MX and of course my XWindows > >system stopped working. I checked out the log, and it seems that the nv > >driver i'm using only wants to work on nvidia cards up to the GeFo

Re: Frozen cursor-no /dev/psaux

2003-01-23 Thread Ognyan Kulev
alex wrote: Nowhere during the installation did there seem to be an opportunity to install a mouse. Is there something that could have been done other than what I did? During the installation of package xserver-xfree86 such questions are asked. Did you set debconf message to appear only when

upgraded kernel to 2.4.20 and modules don't load

2003-01-23 Thread karrottop
I have just upgraded my kernel to version 2.4.20 and now it does not load my modules in /etc/modules at startup. any ideas? Thanks, Jason Self -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mounting Debian Partition in Windows 2000 Pro

2003-01-23 Thread Kevin Smith
Hi All, Can someone tell me if it is possible to mount a filesystem from Debian 3.0r1 (powerpc) into Windows 2000 Pro? If so, can you give me step-by-step instructions, or point me in the right direction, on how to do this? Thanks, Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Sound Problem

2003-01-23 Thread Hurschler
Hi, I'm running Woody and have found that when I enable system notifications sounds in KDE that XMMS runns very, very sluggishly. Songs start to play only after more than a minute of waiting. Systems sounds seem to be "held up" only playing after I kill or quit XMMS. Can these two programs share

Re: Mounting Debian Partition in Windows 2000 Pro

2003-01-23 Thread Ognyan Kulev
Kevin Smith wrote: Can someone tell me if it is possible to mount a filesystem from Debian 3.0r1 (powerpc) into Windows 2000 Pro? Start from http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm Regards -- Ognyan Kulev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "\"Programmer\"" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Mounting Debian Partition in Windows 2000 Pro

2003-01-23 Thread Geert Stappers
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:51:21AM -, Kevin Smith wrote: > Hi All, Yes, this is crosspost. > > Can someone tell me if it is possible to mount a filesystem from Debian > 3.0r1 (powerpc) into Windows 2000 Pro? > > If so, can you give me step-by-step instructions, > or point me in the right di

Re: Mounting Debian Partition in Windows 2000 Pro

2003-01-23 Thread Ognyan Kulev
Kevin Smith wrote: Can someone tell me if it is possible to mount a filesystem from Debian 3.0r1 (powerpc) into Windows 2000 Pro? Windows 2000 Pro on powerpc? What's that? Do you mean something like Samba share? Regards -- Ognyan Kulev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "\"Programmer\"" -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Linux with BSD libc..

2003-01-23 Thread Atifa Kheel
Hello, i have a small doubt, i want to know whether the Debian GNU Linux has BSD libc or glibc? On the debain site is there any project which uses BSD libc for a Linux platform? thanx in advance Atifa __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. A

Re: Linux with BSD libc..

2003-01-23 Thread nate
Atifa Kheel said: > SPAM: Start SpamAssassin results > SPAM: Content analysis details: (6.30 hits, 5 required) > Hello, > i have a small doubt, > i want to know whether the Debian GNU > Linux has BSD libc or glibc? > On the debain site is there any project > which uses BSD l

Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

2003-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 07:38:00PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok - I'll give it a try. > > Thanks for the info. > > Incidentally how are the mere mortals supposed to know this ? > > I spent a lot of time at the dri site and didn't see this mentioned > anywhere. No idea. I don't remember

DOSEMU PROBS

2003-01-23 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello everybody, I've got some probs with dosemu; First I installed a dosemu from elsewhere but I couldn't get it to work so I removed it; I didn't install the debian version the first time because apt-get kept saying it couldn't find it (How can I make it find more packages such as dosemu ??) An

Re: Linux with BSD libc..

2003-01-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:22:01 -0800, nate wrote: > not sure if libc5 on linux was at all related to libc on *BSD.. AFAIK Linux libc5 and libc4 had their roots in GNU libc 1. Ray -- These days we're all supposed to believe that everyone's opinion is equally valid, but sometimes you just have t

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:41:37PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 23:30:34 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Just guessing, but maybe it's segfaulting because some data or other > > has changed format and is barfing apt. Thus, "old data" may not > > cause the problems? > > > > Also, ma

Re: Error while running apt-get update

2003-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:56:14AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:22:07PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > > Or maybe, the software is buggy. At the very least, the error > > message should be changed. Why _should_ people need to tweak this > > value? (Personally, I find i

HP 840 Share Problem

2003-01-23 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Hello again, I've got a problem with my HP840 printer. I shared the printer and he's accesible from Windoze XP buit when I want to print there happens nothing. When I look by print jobs there's said there's an error. What's going wrong? My cupsd file: # ServerName: the hostname of your serve

Re: Linux with BSD libc..

2003-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 01:54:26AM -0800, Atifa Kheel wrote: > Hello, > i have a small doubt, The usual English word is "question", by the way. "Doubt" has a slightly different meaning but seems to be used a lot in its place by non-native speakers for some reason ... > i want to know whether the

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-23 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Grab the MIB and roll your own tool using, for example, perl + > Net:SNMP > > I have the MIB somewhere (or know someone who does :-) if you need it. Now that's even harder than putting up with their crappy software! I used snmpwalk once to grab the i

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-23 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, nate wrote: > I had a couple APC units with the SNMP cards, used APC Network shutdown > on the systems, worked pretty well. only downside was tryin to get > java workin on some of the more obscure platforms(AIX 4.3, Solaris 2.5-2.6, > Tru64). On debian and redhat it was a snap

How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

2003-01-23 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Is there a way to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences? I tried various comment characters, but none worked. I couldn't find anything about this in the documentation. Thanks in advance. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't downgrade to stable

2003-01-23 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:08:09PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > ... >> >> [ ... ] >> >> apt-get update && apt-get -t testing dist-upgrade > ^^ > Why -t is set here > -t set priority of that

Re: HP 840 Share Problem

2003-01-23 Thread Gabriele Persia
Alle 11:56, giovedì 23 gennaio 2003, Willem-Jan Meijer ha scritto: > Hello again, > > I've got a problem with my HP840 printer. I shared the printer and he's > accesible from Windoze XP buit when I want to print there happens nothing. > When I look by print jobs there's said there's an error. > > W

Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

2003-01-23 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 23:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got a voodoo3 using X DRI which _was_ working just fine > until I "upgraded" to testing. > > Now it's broke. > > Things I _know _ are OK (after all - it _was_ working): > > * kernel 2.4.19 has got tdfx compiled in This might actua

Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

2003-01-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 05:39, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > Is there a way to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences? I tried > various comment characters, but none worked. I couldn't find anything > about this in the documentation. The hash (#) always works for me... -- +---

Re: NVidia source compiling problems

2003-01-23 Thread Michael Bartl
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:48:14PM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > > > > Do you have kernel-headers-2.4.18-k7 installed? I've > > never built the > > nVidia stuff for use with a precompiled kernel. I've > > only done it as > > part of compiling my own kernel. At a minimum, I'm > > guessing, you need

Re: RE:GeForce4 MX

2003-01-23 Thread Calber Chainy
El jue, 23-01-2003 a las 06:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > >Hey everyone, > > >I just upgraded from a GeForceDDR to a GeForce4 MX and of course my XWindows > >system stopped working. I checked out the log, and it seems that the nv > >driver i'm using only wants to work on nvidia cards up to th

Re: Installing on a Headless PC?

2003-01-23 Thread Kent West
Jay wrote: Headless??? What part of the machine constitute the 'head'? - Jay The monitor and/or video card (and/or keyboard/mouse in some contexts). Usually used as a server of some sort; stick it in a closet and ssh into it to maintain it. Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Verification of apt-get config for mixed system.

2003-01-23 Thread Lloyd Zusman
I'd like to maintain a "testing" system, with only one program (and its dependencies) coming from "unstable". I think I understand what to do, but I'm hoping that someone here could confirm that my guessed-at setup is correct ... before I start making lots of "apt-get install" runs with this confi

Re: Brute force reinstall

2003-01-23 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 20:16, Greg Madden wrote: > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 08:27 am, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > Is there an easy way to reinstall all packages? Perhaps a tool that > > flags all packages as "reinst-required" or something? > > I think 'dpkg --get-selections;' & 'dpkg --set-s

Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

2003-01-23 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 05:39, Lloyd Zusman wrote: >> Is there a way to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences? I tried >> various comment characters, but none worked. I couldn't find anything >> about this in the documentation. > > The hash (#) always

mail relay ???

2003-01-23 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi i have a unix account with a mail address. i want all mail to that account forwarded to another mail address. how is this done? martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IDE for java

2003-01-23 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2003.01.22 15:56 Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: Is there any IDE for java (debianized if possible). Which? Where should I point my sources to install it? At work and at home I use Xemacs/JDE/speedbar/ANT and have a great development environment. -- Darryl L. Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit the In

Re: IDE for java

2003-01-23 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2003.01.22 15:56 Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: Is there any IDE for java (debianized if possible). Which? Where should I point my sources to install it? There's always Xemacs/JDE/speedbar/ANT. That's what I use both at home and at work and it works fine. -- Darryl L. Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vi

AudioCD

2003-01-23 Thread Sergey A. Ovchar
Hello. How can I play the Audio-CD's ? -- ,''`. Sincerely yours : :' : Sergey A. Ovchar `. `' e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xfwm4 'Application lost its connection'

2003-01-23 Thread Eamon Roque
Hi! Has anyone gotten xfwm4 to work? I keep getting "Application 'xfwm4' lost its connection ..." or "Could not connect to session manager" messages. Calling xfwm4 from .xsession doesn't seem to have any effect, the same errors are logged. Could someone point me in the right direction?! Thanks!

Lame,cdparanoia,AidioCD

2003-01-23 Thread Sergey A. Ovchar
Hi. How can I convert several *.wav to *.mp3, by the _one_ command, using lame. I'm interesting about batch mode. Reading This F.. Manual didn't take desired effect :(. And how can I redirect output trom "cdparanoia -B" to the lame ? -- ,''`. Sincerely yours : :' : Sergey A. Ovchar `. `'

Re: Brute force reinstall

2003-01-23 Thread Dale Hair
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 07:04, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 20:16, Greg Madden wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 08:27 am, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > > Is there an easy way to reinstall all packages? Perhaps a tool that > > > flags all packages as "reinst-required" or somethi

Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

2003-01-23 Thread Dale Hair
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 07:06, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 05:39, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > >> Is there a way to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences? I tried > >> various comment characters, but none worked. I couldn't find anything >

Re: mail relay ???

2003-01-23 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
On Thu Jan 23, 2003 at 02:21:41PM +0100, the boisterous Martin A. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote to me: > i have a unix account with a mail address. i want all mail to that account > forwarded to another mail address. how is this done? create file named .forward in your homedir and put the email

Re: Verification of apt-get config for mixed system.

2003-01-23 Thread Dale Hair
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 06:32, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > I'd like to maintain a "testing" system, with only one program (and its > dependencies) coming from "unstable". I think I understand what to do, > but I'm hoping that someone here could confirm that my guessed-at setup > is correct ... before I st

Re: mail relay ???

2003-01-23 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > hi > > > i have a unix account with a mail address. i want all mail to that account > forwarded to another mail address. how is this done? > > > > martin > Create a file in your home directory call .forward with your second email address in it and al

Re: mail relay ???

2003-01-23 Thread Rodrigo Agerri
you can create a .forward (in your home directory) file with the email address you want to forward the mail to. rodrigo That remarkable Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 14:21, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > hi > > > i have a unix account with a mail address. i want all mail to that account > forwarded to ano

CUPS problem

2003-01-23 Thread Robert Estes
Hi, I'm having a printing related problem and am new to Debian so I'm not sure how to handle the bug reporting. I've spent quite a bit of time debugging this, but there are about 10 packages used by and related to cups ... Do I have to figure out exactly where the problem is before submitting

Re: mail relay ???

2003-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:21:41PM +0100, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > i have a unix account with a mail address. i want all mail to that account > forwarded to another mail address. how is this done? Create a .forward file in your home directory containing the other e-mail address (and nothing else)

Re: DOSEMU PROBS

2003-01-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:53:16AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've got some probs with dosemu; ... > > Sorry, there is no operating system. > Have a nice day! I don't have a direct reference for you, but if you Google/linux for this using dosemu, debian, and part of the er

Trusted md5sum for files in debian packages?

2003-01-23 Thread Qian Gong
Hi, Is it possible to download only md5sum's of the files in debian packages from a trusted server, e.g., security.debian.org? If it is, the integrity of installed packages can be safely verified with the trusted source. And the downloaded file would be small. Thanks a lot. Qian -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Installing on a Headless PC?

2003-01-23 Thread Ray
thank you for the suggestions, but it seems the list agrees that i need to dig up a head somewhere and at least start the install that way. though it will only need base + ssh (which i think ssh is in base anyways) and then i can remove the head again. On Wednesday 22 January 2003 18:45, nate wr

unsubscribe richards@cs.umass.edu

2003-01-23 Thread Tim Richards
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Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

2003-01-23 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 07:06, Lloyd Zusman wrote: >> >> [ ... ] >> >> # apt-get update >> ... normal `apt-get update' output, followed by: >> E: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header >> >> If I remove the hashes before lines in th

Re: RE:GeForce4 MX

2003-01-23 Thread Chris Burns
I chose to get the cheapest most recent card i could find, because I plan to upgrade to a kickass card this summer, but i'm buying a new system now and didnt' want to have something as old as a GeForceDDR in a new system. I got the GF4MX for $45, it's a 440 with 64MB - Original Message -

debmirror timeout

2003-01-23 Thread Shree Raman
Hi !! while maintaing debian mirror using debmirror. I am experiencing few problems as the process stops in between with some error message. Processing standard using ftp.iitm.ac.in releasing 1 pending lock... at /usr/lib/perl5/LockFile/Simple.pm line 182. or sometimes dists/stable/main/binary-

Re: Brute force reinstall (SOLVED)

2003-01-23 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 23 January 2003 14:50, Dale Hair wrote: > If you wish to reinstall all installed packages use aptitude. Go to the > line --- Installed Packages and press L. This will mark every installed > package to be reinstalled. Yep, thanks a lot. Hope I'll never need it (again) :-P -- Got Bac

Re: mail relay ???

2003-01-23 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 23 January 2003 14:21, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > i have a unix account with a mail address. i want all mail to that account > forwarded to another mail address. how is this done? Normally, you just put a .forward file in your home directory with the address in the first line. -- Got

Re: GeForce4 MX

2003-01-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:09:01PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:33:46PM -0600, Chris Burns wrote: > > I just upgraded from a GeForceDDR to a GeForce4 MX and of course my XWindows > > system stopped working. I checked out the log, and it seems that the nv > > driver i

Memory usage on debian

2003-01-23 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
Hi My system use about 95% of my 512 mb ram, but ps aux and top doesent show which process that eats all the memory. Can anyone figure out what to do this could be a kernel issue or something? I use kernel 2.4.21-pre1 Here is the output of ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT S

Re: AudioCD

2003-01-23 Thread David Z Maze
"Sergey A. Ovchar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I play the Audio-CD's ? Use an audio CD player. gtcd is buried somewhere in the GNOME stuff and has always worked adequately for me; you might also install the 'cdtool' package, which gives you command-line programs like 'cdplay' and 'cdsto

Re: Lame,cdparanoia,AidioCD

2003-01-23 Thread David Z Maze
"Sergey A. Ovchar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I convert several *.wav to *.mp3, by the _one_ command, using lame. I'm >interesting about batch mode. > Reading This F.. Manual didn't take desired effect :(. > > And how can I redirect output trom "cdparanoia -B" to the lame ? It sounds l

Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

2003-01-23 Thread andrej hocevar
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:59:10AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > That still doesn't work for me ... > > # cat /etc/apt/preferences > Package: mplayer* > Pin: release a=unstable > Pin-Priority: 700 > > # Package: ruby* > # Pin: release a=unstable > # Pin-Priority: 700 > > Package:

Re: mail relay ???

2003-01-23 Thread Travis Crump
Martin A. Hansen wrote: hi i have a unix account with a mail address. i want all mail to that account forwarded to another mail address. how is this done? martin echo > ~/.forward If that doesn't work you are going to have to give more info or ask whoever administers your system. --

Changing deb installation root directory

2003-01-23 Thread Colin Ellis
I am trying to set up a 'virtual filesystem' where I can add/remove debian packages without harming the real system. This will be for testing purposes for building new debs and checking that the files are installed in the correct place. I would like to be able to install the packages under a diff

Asus ME-99 mobo manual

2003-01-23 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
Hi, I just got an Asus ME-99 mobo and need to find a manual for it in text, pdf, html, whatever. I have the CD that came with the mobo but the manual is a Windows executable. No MSBSOS on my machine. Motherboards.org lists a pdf file for it but it is zero bytes long. I have searched for i

Flash player for Konqueror

2003-01-23 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Good afternoon, Is there a flash-player for konqueror? If it is, where can I find it? HTH, Willem-Jan Meijer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT: march 2002 article on debian

2003-01-23 Thread will trillich
y'all see this? http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/printer.pl?issue=2002-03&article=debian more press like this wouldn't hurt. :) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #77 from USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Lame,cdparanoia,AidioCD

2003-01-23 Thread Narins, Josh
I can't speak to it's very nature, but the command line tool abcde says in it's man page it does exactly as you wish. apt-get install abcde man abcde > -Original Message- > From: Sergey A. Ovchar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 9:06 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: AudioCD

2003-01-23 Thread Ernst-Magne
check out grip if you want gui player. it can rip and play. /ernst -Original Message- From: Sergey A. Ovchar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23. januar 2003 14:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AudioCD Hello. How can I play the Audio-CD's ? -- ,''`. Sincerely yours : :' : Sergey

Re: Verification of apt-get config for mixed system.

2003-01-23 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 06:32, Lloyd Zusman wrote: >> >> [ ... ] >> >> Do I have it right? >> >> [ ... ] > > This should work but I don't pin individual packages on mine just the > distributions. Once a package is installed from unstable apt-get > upgrade

Re: Installing on a FACELESS pc?

2003-01-23 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 04:52:09PM -0800, Jay wrote: > Headless??? > > What part of the machine constitute the 'head'? they mean "faceless" of course. no video/monitor driven from the machine. instead, you can use the serial port if you know the voodoo required. headless would be a monitor, keyb

Re: Mozilla won't start

2003-01-23 Thread James Hughes
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 05:19:41PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > James Hughes wrote: > > >This is on a relatively fresh woody install. Running mozilla from the > >command line generates no output. I can see several instances of > >mozilla-bin in top, one of which tops out at around 80% cpu before > >j

Re: Problems with own 2.4.18

2003-01-23 Thread W. Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Schlottke wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I compiled and installed my own kernel from source (2.4.18). > > Now there's following problem: > > The system can't find my second realtek 8139 ethernet card... >

Filesystem error?

2003-01-23 Thread Paladin
Hi to all! >From some time now I've been experiencing some problems with my sarge debian box, ranging from gcc crashes (any of the three versions I have installed), to corrupted files (in particular the /var/dpkg/status), and I don't know how to discover where the problem is! I've even used the me

Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

2003-01-23 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 05:07:04PM -0200, andrej hocevar wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:59:10AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > > That still doesn't work for me ... > > > > # cat /etc/apt/preferences > > Package: mplayer* > > Pin: release a=unstable > > Pin-Priority: 700 > > > > # Pac

Re: GeForce4 MX

2003-01-23 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Emma Jane Hogbin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:33:46PM -0600, Chris Burns wrote: > > I just upgraded from a GeForceDDR to a GeForce4 MX and of course my XWindows > > system stopped working. I checked out the log, and it seems that the nv > > driver i'm using only wa

Re: Installing on a Headless PC?

2003-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:30:25AM -0600, Ray wrote: > thank you for the suggestions, but it seems the list agrees that i need to > dig up a head somewhere and at least start the install that way. > though it will only need base + ssh (which i think ssh is in base anyways) > and then i can remove

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:41:37PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:32:29PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:25:24AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:15:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Could you try updating to Potato first? That wa

cyrus21-imapd: imapd killed by signal 7 (SIGBUS)

2003-01-23 Thread Erik Steffl
when I rebooted yesterday (first time after recent dist-upgrade) I got number of messages about cyrus db being currupted (and there was a huge number of cyr_* processes running), the messages recommended to recover the db, so I stopped cyrus21 and ran db3_recover (output below). then I started

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-23 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:30:56PM +0100, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: > My system use about 95% of my 512 mb ram, but ps aux and top doesent > show which process that eats all the memory. > > Can anyone figure out what to do this could be a kernel issue or > something? so here you've got 512mb of r

phoenix and java?

2003-01-23 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
Hey everyone: Is there a way to add java support to Phoenix by using debian packages? I did a quick google and came up with these: Installing from source: http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:Wk-BJCSYLc8C:www.fiddlesticks.com/show383.html+debian+phoenix+java&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 (note: the page has move

Re: DOSEMU PROBS

2003-01-23 Thread Torrin
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:53:16AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: [SNIP] > Sorry, there is no operating system. > Have a nice day! It means that you don't have a version of DOS installed and configured correctly. You can get DOS from http://www.freedos.org As for configuring it, I'm not at the compu

pam_limits problem

2003-01-23 Thread Andrew Och
Hi My issue was that after doing a apt-get dist-upgrade on one of my Debian servers, logcheck started sending me constant messages as seen below: pam_limits[19331]: setrlimit limit #6 to soft=-1, hard=-1 failed: Operation not permitted; uid=1045 euid=1045 And in fact this error would pop up const

firebird database on debian

2003-01-23 Thread J. de Boer
Is there anyone out there that has experience with running (and installing) a firebird database-engine on debian? If so, i would appreciate any information on the how's, what's, do's and dont's. Jan de Boer The Netherlands -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: BF24 and Promise Fasttrack problem

2003-01-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, Is there someone who had succes, using RAID1 with a Fasttrack controler. OK, the installation succeeded (thanks to these messages ) and I'm only seeing 1 harddisk while using the server in a normal operation (/dev/ataraid/). When I unplug disk 2 (/dev/hdg) and reboot everything still works

RE: Lame,cdparanoia,AidioCD

2003-01-23 Thread Ernst-Magne
you could search in google, there was someone that had some nice scripts 2-3 weeks back, I think the subject was something like 'howto conwert wav'. good luck /ernst -Original Message- From: Sergey A. Ovchar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23. januar 2003 14:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

2003-01-23 Thread briand
> "Cameron" == Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Cameron> Hi, try removing libglide2 (i think that it actually was Cameron> detrimental to me in the past--i'm not using a voodoo right Cameron> now tho, so i can't check my settings). also, have you Cameron> checked your XF86

nvidia driver

2003-01-23 Thread Alexis Roda
Hi, recently I've purchased a MSI Geforce MX440. X is configured with the latest nvidia drivers, dualhead (twinview), one monitor 1600x1200 and the other 1240x1024 with a virtual desktop of 1240x1200, 16bits. It works great but when I run top I see that X is eating 271Mb or RAM!!! Is this normal or

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-23 Thread Glenn English
Take a look at http://www.tripplite.com/ I'm using a couple of theirs, and they work 'real good.' I had the same problem with APC: plug in the serial cable, and the power goes off. The tripplites don't do that, but their monitoring software is a bit of a resource hog. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PRO

Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

2003-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:50:09AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Colin> X 4.2 changed the direct rendering architecture somewhat, and > Colin> requires an upgrade to kernel 2.4.20. [Please just reply to the list, not to me as well

Re: xfwm4 'Application lost its connection'

2003-01-23 Thread James Tappin
On 23 Jan 2003 14:56:02 +0100 Eamon Roque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Has anyone gotten xfwm4 to work? I keep getting "Application 'xfwm4' > lost its connection ..." or "Could not connect to session manager" > messages. > > Calling xfwm4 from .xsession doesn't seem to have any effect, t

Re: AudioCD

2003-01-23 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Install an audio CD player. Personally, I would run xmms, or gnome-cd player. The gnome-cd player can be found in gnome-media typically. Make sure your cd-rom can play audio disks however. This is more of a hardware issue, if you have problems let me know. -- Arthur H. Johnson II Senior Sys

Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

2003-01-23 Thread briand
> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> X 4.2 changed the direct rendering architecture somewhat, and Colin> requires an upgrade to kernel 2.4.20. Well I found one minor glitch. The upgrade to testing left xserver-xfree86 at 4.1.0 instead of upgrading it to 4.2.1 al

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-23 Thread Charlie Imbusch
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:30:18 +0100, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: > My system use about 95% of my 512 mb ram, but ps aux and top doesent > show which process that eats all the memory. Can anyone figure out what > to do this could be a kernel issue or something? I use kernel > 2.4.21-pre1 As far as I

Re: CUPS problem

2003-01-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:26:24AM -0800, Robert Estes wrote: > I'm having a printing related problem and am new to Debian so I'm not sure > how to handle the bug reporting. I've spent quite a bit of time debugging > this, but there are about 10 packages used by and related to cups ... > > Do I

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-23 Thread Michael Naumann
On Thursday 23 January 2003 16:30, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: > Hi > My system use about 95% of my 512 mb ram, but ps aux and top doesent > show which process that eats all the memory. > Can anyone figure out what to do this could be a kernel issue or > something? > I use kernel 2.4.21-pre1 What ma

Re: Cannot open SCSI driver

2003-01-23 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! In spite of a couple of suggestions, I am still trying to put my cdwriter to work :( First of all, make sure that the scsi support is loaded. The output for the dmesg command is: nostromo:/home/chiappa# dmesg |grep scsi Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=306 hdc=ide-scsi h

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-23 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Nils-Erik Svangård" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My system use about 95% of my 512 mb ram, but ps aux and top doesent > show which process that eats all the memory. > Can anyone figure out what to do this could be a kernel issue or > something? Linux uses unused memory for a disk cache. This is

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:30:56PM +0100, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: > My system use about 95% of my 512 mb ram, but ps aux and top doesent > show which process that eats all the memory. > Can anyone figure out what to do this could be a kernel issue or > something? It's normal. You didn't say whe

Re: CUPS problem

2003-01-23 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Robert Estes said: > > Hi, > > I'm having a printing related problem and am new to Debian so I'm not sure > how to handle the bug reporting. I've spent quite a bit of time debugging > this, but there are about 10 packages used by and related to cups ... > > Do I ha

Re: upgraded kernel to 2.4.20 and modules don't load

2003-01-23 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:22:39AM +0100, Jaume Guasch wrote: > karrottop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have just upgraded my kernel to version 2.4.20 and now it does not > > load my modules in /etc/modules at startup. any ideas? > > Update modutils to 2.4.19 (in testing). > > In general,

Re: Mozilla won't start

2003-01-23 Thread A. Ensle
James Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) schrieb: > This is on a relatively fresh woody install. Running mozilla from the > command line generates no output. I can see several instances of > mozilla-bin in top, one of which tops out at around 80% cpu before > just dying. > > I've tried running mozilla-bi

Oh no, what a really heavy bummer

2003-01-23 Thread Pigeon
Hi, Having installed woody I'm now wanting to compile stuff that is used a lot and/or is CPU-intensive (C libraries, shell, gcc, gzip...) optimised for my CPU. I've done the kernel and X already; gcc has gone from egcs-2.91.66 to gcc-2.95.4; definitely looks slower than with slink. With all my wo

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-23 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:17:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 14:41, Pigeon wrote: > > Oh yes, and > > svgatextmode didn't work properly - the cursor didn't wrap to a new > > line when typing in a long command - so I reinstalled the old one. > > Congrats! > > Maybe the desi

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