Degraded fonts

2003-03-06 Thread daniel huhardeaux
Hi list, yesterday I updated my unstable and since fonts in some programs like mozilla (menu, folder list, mail list but mail viewer is ok!) or gaim are degraded which means not regular. KDE or console, mplayer... fonts are ok. Any idea? Also, I'm not able to change language in Mozilla. I can

Re: To get GNOME2, should I Upgrade or Dist-Upgrade or... ?

2003-03-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:26:21PM +0700, arief_mulya wrote: > Dear all, > > > > I kept getting wonder and never be sure about this whenever > I'm reaching this step. > > The thing is, I finally want to upgrade my GNOME1.4 to > GNOME2. I know that there's woody backport of GNOME2, but I > wa

Re: getting the initrd to load

2003-03-06 Thread Wilfried Essig
Am Don, 2003-03-06 um 01.33 schrieb Ian Melnick: > > You can use romfs or even ext2/ext3. Check out the MKIMAGE setting > > in mkinitrd.conf. > > Okay, I used genromfs (i think) according to the example in your man page. > Lilo doesn't load it, and on startup, I still get a message: > "RAMDISK:

MySQL over NFS

2003-03-06 Thread Angel L. Mateo
Hi, I've got to install a MySQL server with a hihg availabity configuration: one MySQL server running and the other in standby. I was thinking about using a NAS serving NFS partitions. But I have read documents about database servers (like oracle and others) not running well over NFS files

Re: Debian, Putty and home and end keys

2003-03-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 03:22:30AM +0100, Agust?n Fern?ndez wrote: > Hi, I've been a long while trying to figure this out and I thought that > this might be of use to others. > > If you want to connect to a debian box from Putty you may notice that > the home and end keys don't work, and just wr

Unidentified subject!

2003-03-06 Thread bounce-debian-user=archive=jab . org
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rox filer package

2003-03-06 Thread Francois Chenais
Hello, I can't find rox deb package. Is there any "non official" server ? François -- Debian SID Linux tanna 2.4.20-freeswan-ipvs-xfs #7 SMP Tue Feb 11 11:01:05 CET 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux Linux Counter #59413 PGP fingerprint : 9AFA 15EC 96C9 F607 EB

How to gather information about a open port?

2003-03-06 Thread Qian Gong
Hi, I use nmap to detect the security of my friend's win2k machine and find a open tcp port 1039. We tried several days but can not find any information about this port. Is it possible to use some Linux tools to probe this port and gather information during communication with this port? Thanks a l

Re: make-kpkg, stock kernel, and alsa

2003-03-06 Thread Jon Åslund
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I downloaded the alsa-source, it put a tar.bz2 file in > /usr/src. I bunzip2'ed it and untarred it, which put the "alsa-driver" > directory in /usr/src/modules. I also downloaded the > kernel-headers. Then run I run cd into /usr/src/linux and "make-kpkg

Nvidia driver

2003-03-06 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Hello again, Now i've built the nvidia package and I installed it, dselect says it's installed correctly, But now I don't know how get the driver installed so I can use the driver with X Sorry for the dumb questions, HTH, Willem-Jan Meijer <-- Alle inkomende en uitgaande e-mail worden gescand o

Need help using Belkin f5d5020 with network install

2003-03-06 Thread Sean Melton
    Please help-       I am trying to install Debian on my laptop (HP Omnibook 4100) using my network.  I have a Belkin f5d5020 nic that the setup utility is not recognizing.  I enabled pcmcia support for the kernel (and the led's on the dongle lit up) but I am getting no love when it comes

Re: Nvidia driver

2003-03-06 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > Hello again, > > Now i've built the nvidia package and I installed it, dselect says it's > installed correctly, But now I don't know how get the driver installed so I > can use the driver with X > > Sorry for the dumb questions, > > HTH, > Willem-Jan

Re: Upgrade to KDE 3.1

2003-03-06 Thread Oguz Altun
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 15:34, Sharninder wrote: > > If you just have the debs, and only want to update one machine, > > the right way is to download the debs and install the using > > dpkg. > > Then to keep up to date you might want to add the repository from > > where you got the packets fro

Re: Sound

2003-03-06 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Seneca wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:25:41PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Ok, so I just compiled kernel 2.2.20 with sound support and emu10k1 (or whatever it's called) supported by default. So what do I need to install to actually get some sound playing? Some sort of sound infrastructure

RE: Nvidia driver

2003-03-06 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Hello, Modprobe nvidia worked for me, when I do lsmod I see nvidia in the list. But when I set in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to use the driver "nvidia" There's said: no drivers available. What goes wrong? HTH, Willem-Jan <-- Alle inkomende en uitgaande e-mail worden gescand op virussen --> <-- All

Re: Nvidia driver

2003-03-06 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: Hello again, Now i've built the nvidia package and I installed it, dselect says it's installed correctly, But now I don't know how get the driver installed so I can use the driver with X The module should now appear in 'modconf' under video. Then all you have to do is

Re: Sound

2003-03-06 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:52:09AM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Seneca wrote: > >"cat foo > /dev/dsp", however I can't promise that it'll sound good ;-) > > > >You should add yourself to the audio group, download some proper audio > >players, and try playing something. If by "supported by de

Re: Nvidia driver

2003-03-06 Thread Qian Gong
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:24:44AM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > Hello again, > > Now i've built the nvidia package and I installed it, dselect says it's > installed correctly, But now I don't know how get the driver installed so I > can use the driver with X > Just modify the file /etc/X11/

RE: Nvidia driver

2003-03-06 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > Hello, > > Modprobe nvidia worked for me, when I do lsmod I see nvidia in the list. > But when I set in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to use the driver "nvidia" > There's said: no drivers available. > > What goes wrong? > > HTH, > > Willem-Jan > Could you em

Re: Upgrade to KDE 3.1

2003-03-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:17:15PM +0200, Oguz Altun wrote: > On Wednesday 05 March 2003 15:34, Sharninder wrote: > > as i said .. i have already mirrored the > > ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.1/Debian/* hierarchy using wget -c -r > > ...Now i want to use this to install kde3.1 to my desktop. There

Re: Nvidia driver

2003-03-06 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:24:44 +0100 "Willem-Jan Meijer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello again, > > Now i've built the nvidia package and I installed it, dselect says > it's installed correctly, But now I don't know how get the driver > installed so I can use the driver with X You're speaking ab

Re: How to gather information about a open port?

2003-03-06 Thread Wilfried Essig
Am Don, 2003-03-06 um 10.45 schrieb Qian Gong: > Hi, > > I use nmap to detect the security of my friend's win2k machine and find > a open tcp port 1039. We tried several days but can not find any > information about this port. Is it possible to use some Linux tools to > probe this port and gather

Re: rox filer package

2003-03-06 Thread Troy Arnold
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:15:33AM +0100, Francois Chenais wrote: > Hello, > > I can't find rox deb package. Is there any "non official" server ? > Fran?ois A great place for non-official packages is: http://www.apt-get.org/ hth -troy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: How to gather information about a open port?

2003-03-06 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 10:45:05 +0100 Qian Gong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I use nmap to detect the security of my friend's win2k machine and > find a open tcp port 1039. We tried several days but can not find any > information about this port. Is it possible to use some Linux tools to > pro

"resetting" a network card

2003-03-06 Thread mtsouk
Hello list! I would like to know if it is possible to "reset" a network card without rebooting the computer. What I really like to do is to "clean" the statistics of the network card (those that are shown with ifconfig -a or with ifconfig -s). Many thanks in advance, Mihalis. - :wq -- T

Re: Sound

2003-03-06 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
> "adduser foo audio", where foo is your username. You might want to > take > a look at the adduser manpage. > > > -- > > # cat di604_firmware_218.zip > /dev/dsp > > bash: /dev/dsp: No such device > > Were you doing that as root or as an ordinary user? If you are doing > something as an

Re: "resetting" a network card

2003-03-06 Thread Gabriel Granger
Hi, I'm not sure about resetting the stats for ifconfig, but if you use IPtables on your box, you can setup a accounting chain for the IP (i think you can also use the "eth" address, tho never have needed to do it by "eth") which then logs the packets and data, you can then reset the IPtables

Re: Sound

2003-03-06 Thread cirrus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 2:25 am, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Ok, so I just compiled kernel 2.2.20 with sound support and emu10k1 (or > whatever it's called) supported by default. So what do I need to install > to actually get some sound playing? Some s

Re: kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4?

2003-03-06 Thread Donald Spoon
Kent West wrote: Donald Spoon wrote: That said, you can install a perfectly workable version of ALSA using apt-get on the pre-compiled debs in the Debian package repository. All you have to do is match the pre-compiled ALSA version with your kernel. Not all available kernels have matching pre

Re: rox filer package

2003-03-06 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:15:33AM +0100, Francois Chenais wrote: > >I can't find rox deb package. Is there any "non official" server ? > Add this tour apt/sources.list: deb http://users.stone.pl/szczepan/ apt/ Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. When God saw how faulty was man He

Re: Semi OT: Strange source display in Konqueror

2003-03-06 Thread cirrus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 6:06 am, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > Sorry this is pretty OT but can anyone running KDE 3.1 check this out? > > Go to http://www.daniel-kuefner.de/j1/installation.html > and then view source in Konqueror. For some reason it looks r

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-03-06 Thread Jerry Van Brimmer
nate wrote: Jerry Van Brimmer said: tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/the-file-system-you-mounting Does it have to be done this way? Isn't there a config file somewhere with a number in it I can change? Say, from 20 to 30, for once a month? -c # = number of mounts before forced check -i #d

Re: How to gather information about a open port?

2003-03-06 Thread Qian Gong
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:25:48PM +0100, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > > Is it a Dell system? No, it is not. > > As this is not known to me as a standard service, it could be either > Dell's monitoring software or a trojan. There's a VB trojan that uses > this port. > > Fiddling with 'telnet

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-06 Thread bob parker
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 06:03, Craig Dickson wrote: > bob parker wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:22, Ray wrote: > > > how do i verify that the burned cd is correctly burned? > > > > > > i burned a set of Debian 3.0r1 cds and have md5sums of the isos, but > > > they don't match the output of > > > md5su

Re: make-kpkg, stock kernel, and alsa

2003-03-06 Thread Donald Spoon
Kent West wrote: I've compiled a kernel or few, but mostly just stumbled through the process. Question 1: -SNIP- < Near as I can tell, there are no binary alsa drivers; I have to download the source and compile. However, apparently I can't compile the alsa modules without having the f

Re: rox filer package

2003-03-06 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Francois Chenais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 06 March 2003, 10:15 AM +0100): > I can't find rox deb package. Is there any "non official" server ? This is one of the few times I *won't* recommend a deb package. The source and binary installs of ROX are very well packaged

Linux enigma

2003-03-06 Thread Phil
Linux enigma: I recently tried to install SuSE linux on a workstation that does not boot from CDROM. There is a suse utility that writes installation files to a windows HD but alas suse could not install and put on Debian. HOWEVER! the suse installation utility created several directories that

Re: Linux enigma

2003-03-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 08:36, Phil wrote: > Linux enigma: > I recently tried to install SuSE linux on a workstation that does not boot > from CDROM. There is a suse utility that writes installation files to a > windows HD but alas suse could not install and put on Debian. HOWEVER! the > suse in

Re: Linux enigma

2003-03-06 Thread Hugo Portela
Hello, Phil, try rmdir "/linux" (use the quotes.) If it doesn't work try the following in the same folder where that strange /linux exists $mkdir temp $mv * temp $cd temp $rm -rf * $cd .. $rmdir temp If there's others folders you don't want to remove

External MySQL NAT Problems

2003-03-06 Thread GBV
Hi all,   I using Debian 3.0r1 2.4.19   When I try to access an external mysql host on internet by a windows MASQUERADE client using either MySQL-Front or Access ODBC, the connection is lost many times making windows crash.   I´m using Iptables with NAT to all internal hosts.   IC = internal

Re: "resetting" a network card

2003-03-06 Thread mtsouk
Thanks for answering. I am afraid that this is not what I want: The problem is that the network card, after lots of data (about 4GB) - either in receive or in transmit, stops responding correctly. So I want to somehow "reset" in order to see if this will solve my problem. Any other ideas please?

RE: kernel compile for ide modules

2003-03-06 Thread Narins, Josh
> I have tried compiling my kernel twice now, but the ide modules that > would appear in modconf don't show up. What do I need to check? /lib/modules/2.4.you/kernel/drivers/ide At least, I think it is /ide > And by the way, if I just download a kernel and install it, it will > have all the mo

Re: "resetting" a network card

2003-03-06 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi, On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:31:59PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello list! > > I would like to know if it is possible to "reset" > a network card without rebooting the computer. > > What I really like to do is to "clean" the statistics > of the network card > (those that are

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-06 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 00:47, bob parker wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 06:03, Craig Dickson wrote: > > bob parker wrote: > > > On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:22, Ray wrote: > > > > how do i verify that the burned cd is correctly burned? > > > > > > > > i burned a set of Debian 3.0r1 cds and have md5sums of the is

Re: MySQL over NFS

2003-03-06 Thread nate
Angel L. Mateo said: > Hi, > > I've got to install a MySQL server with a hihg availabity > configuration: one MySQL server running and the other in standby. I was > thinking about using a NAS serving NFS partitions. But I have read > documents about database servers (like oracle and others) n

Re: kernel compile for ide modules

2003-03-06 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi, On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:16:15AM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I have tried compiling my kernel twice now, but the ide modules that > would appear in modconf don't show up. What do I need to check? > And did you 'make modules' and 'make modules_install' ? The modules should be located in

Re: "resetting" a network card

2003-03-06 Thread Bill Webster
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 08:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for answering. > > I am afraid that this is not what I want: > The problem is that the network card, after lots of data (about 4GB) - > either in receive or in transmit, stops responding correctly. > So I want to somehow "reset" in ord

Re: Sound

2003-03-06 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
> For sound blaster audigy you have to visit > http://opensource.creative.com/ or > http://sourceforge.net/projects/emu10k1 > and download the source to the driver that supports sb audigy plus the > tools. > You then do a make, make, make install, make tools, and make > install-tools and > you sho

must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)

2003-03-06 Thread Victor Stan
Ok, so 2 days of RTFM and nothing. First let me make sure we have it set straight - LILO and GRUB are NOT an OPTION! Why, doesn't matter (cuz I'm fancy like that), what I want is a simple kernel on a floppy that I stick in and boots my Linux machine simple, no frills. Found some good tutorials,

Re: OT:Cross-compiling

2003-03-06 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Jeff writes: > >/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.2.2/../../../../i386-linux/bin/ld:/home > >/ jeff/bglibc/libc.so.lds:114: syntax error What does line 114 look like in this file? Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

SIS900 DCHP Problem (was: Newbie bull ...)

2003-03-06 Thread Michael Bona
Klaus Imgrund wrote: > On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 18:19:09 +0100 > Michael Bona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Klaus, >> >> so did you find a pattern under what circumstances it works and when >> it does not? I would be very interested especially concerning Debian >> ... >> >> Michael > > When you

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-03-06 Thread Wilfried Essig
Am Don, 2003-03-06 um 14.41 schrieb Jerry Van Brimmer: > tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/the-file-system-you-mounting > > > When I run #tune2fs -i 30d /dev/hda > > I get: > > tune2fs 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) > tune2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda > Couldn't find valid filesyste

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-06 Thread Brad
See this post for more detail on this subject: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200211/msg03076.html -Brad bob parker wrote: On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 00:47, bob parker wrote: On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 06:03, Craig Dickson wrote: bob parker wrote: On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:22, Ray wrote: h

Re: MySQL over NFS

2003-03-06 Thread Elizabeth Barham
"Angel" writes: > I've got to install a MySQL server with a hihg availabity > configuration: one MySQL server running and the other in standby. I > was thinking about using a NAS serving NFS partitions. But I have > read documents about database servers (like oracle and others) not > running

RE: Problems with new Debian install.

2003-03-06 Thread Narins, Josh
> I'm trying to get Sarge up and running on my Vaio > laptop (GR390) and am having some problems. I'm using > the official netinst CD image (from 2/26/03). Also, > I'm behind a firewall and must go through an HTTP > proxy. > [snip] > > My second (major) problem is with installing the > kernel (s

Re: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppyqveshtion)

2003-03-06 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Victor Stan wrote: > Ok, so 2 days of RTFM and nothing. > > First let me make sure we have it set straight - LILO and GRUB are NOT an > OPTION! > > Why, doesn't matter (cuz I'm fancy like that), what I want is a simple > kernel on a floppy that I stick in and boots my Linux mac

Re: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)

2003-03-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:00:21AM -0500, Victor Stan wrote: > Why, doesn't matter (cuz I'm fancy like that), what I want is a simple > kernel on a floppy that I stick in and boots my Linux machine simple, no > frills. mkboot? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Kmail and my existing folder setup

2003-03-06 Thread Hall Stevenson
After my recent, successful upgrade to KDE 3.1, I took a quick look at it's mail app, "KMail". I *thought* it would take me through a wizard to set things up, but no it just used my existing mail and folder structure that I've created with procmail and used with mutt for a while. Later,

Re: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)

2003-03-06 Thread nate
Victor Stan said: > Why is Debian so retarded on simple boot floppies??? Red Hat is like: > makebootdisk And done! WHY WHY WHY? I think debian 2.2 had the mkbootdisk program. I don't see it in 3.0. I really didn't like it. Main reason was that it seemed to use SYSLINUX and created a boot disk

Re: OT:Cross-compiling

2003-03-06 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Thursday 06 March 2003 11:05 am, Elizabeth Barham wrote: >Jeff writes: >> >/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.2.2/../../../../i386-linux/bin/ld:/ho >> >me / jeff/bglibc/libc.so.lds:114: syntax error > >What does line 114 look like in this file? > >Elizabeth { (114) KEEP (*crtbegin.o(.dtors))

RE: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)

2003-03-06 Thread Victor Stan
Here is what I get if I do mkboot, a lost and found folder and a vmlinuz file. I tried this before, it doesn't work, but in the man it says something about if lilo is in use it des something with lilo??? I don't want anything but a simple straightforward way to make a simple straightforward boot di

Re: Sobre postfix!

2003-03-06 Thread Angel L. Mateo
No se, solo como idea... ¿lo ejecutas en un entorno chroot? Si es así, comprueba que el grupo postdrop también lo tienes en el chroot. El jue, 06 de 03 de 2003 a las 17:48, Xavier Farrarons Clusella escribió: > Hola listaaa!!! > > Bueno pues, os cuento; mi postfix sempre ha andado bien, p

FW: Go Navy!

2003-03-06 Thread Malcolm Jordan
The navy knows how to  travel in style.  Good food and drink with clean sheets to sleep on. - Original Message - From: Bill Cannon To: PROMISE;CIRCLE Sent: 3/5/03 7:26:05 PM Subject: Go Navy! Thanks to Dawn O. & Jim P.    Subject: Ironsides   Some little known American military his

Re: Debian SCSI HD Install Failing

2003-03-06 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 10:15 am, DOUGLAS RIST wrote: > I am trying to install Debian 3.0rc1. > > My system is: > AMD K6-350 > ASUS Motherboard > Adaptec AHA-294x/AIC-78xx > Seagate SCSI HD (9Gb) > Intel Pro/100+ > ATI Tech 3d Rage Pro PCI > Hitachi CDR-7930 > > I boot up and get the message tha

Re: OT:Cross-compiling

2003-03-06 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Jeff writes: > >What does line 114 look like in this file? > { > (114) KEEP (*crtbegin.o(.dtors)) >KEEP (*(EXCLUDE_FILE (*crtend.o ) .dtors)) > /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.2.2/libgcc.a(unwind-dw2-fde-glibc.o): > In function `size_of_encoded_value':/home/jeff/gcc-3.2.2/gcc/unwind-pe.

RE: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppyqveshtion)

2003-03-06 Thread Don Hayward
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Victor Stan wrote: > Here is what I get if I do mkboot, a lost and found folder and a vmlinuz > file. I tried this before, it doesn't work, but in the man it says something > about if lilo is in use it des something with lilo??? I don't want anything > but a simple straightforw

RE: Nvidia driver

2003-03-06 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > Hello, > > Modprobe nvidia worked for me, when I do lsmod I see nvidia in the > list. But when I set in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to use the driver > "nvidia" There's said: no drivers available. > > What goes wrong? > > HTH, > > Willem-Jan > Could you

gimp graphics tablet recomendation ?

2003-03-06 Thread Dave Selby
I am increasingly using gimp and am thinking of getting a graphics tablet. Does anyone have any recomendations that are compatible with woody ? If not is there a hardware compatibility site for debian ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

RE: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)

2003-03-06 Thread Victor Stan
I will try this, but can I give it a specific kernel? Like: cp /vmlinuz-2.4.2.00.etc.etc. /dev/fd0 -Original Message- From: Don Hayward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:57 PM To: Victor Stan Cc: Rus Foster; debian Subject: RE: must.. surpress ... murderous ra

where does "root" mail go ?

2003-03-06 Thread Dave Selby
When an application sends mail to ''root" where does it go ? because I cant find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via the web with kmail. Is it supposed to be posted to ... /var/mail/ ? Any help appreciated Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

RE: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)

2003-03-06 Thread Victor Stan
Actually I WANT something that only does one thing with no options whatsoever, as long as it boots my new kernel that is all I care. -Original Message- From: nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: must.. surpress ... murder

Re: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)

2003-03-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:57:08PM -0500, Don Hayward wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Victor Stan wrote: > > > Here is what I get if I do mkboot, a lost and found folder and a vmlinuz > > file. I tried this before, it doesn't work, but in the man it says something > > about if lilo is in use it

Re: Problems downloading Knoppix SUCCESS

2003-03-06 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 07:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:39:34 -0500, > > Levi Waldron wrote: > > On February 4, 2003 08:13 am, bob parker wrote: > > > Well I just completed downloading Knoppix using my steam > > > powered dial up connection. > > > > > > I started on 27 January. >

Re: where does "root" mail go ?

2003-03-06 Thread nate
Dave Selby said: > When an application sends mail to ''root" where does it go ? because I > cant find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via the web with kmail. > > Is it supposed to be posted to ... > /var/mail/ ? depends... by default debian uses exim for MTA, and on install I believe it pro

Problems building a GCC cross compiler using the toolchain-sourcepackage

2003-03-06 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I'm trying to build a cross compiler using the toolchain-source and dpkg-cross packages, along the lines of what is described at http://people.debian.org/~debacle/cross.html But I'm running into problems: 1. When building binutils the scripts complain about dh_split not found. I thought t

Re: where does "root" mail go ?

2003-03-06 Thread Craig Dickson
Dave Selby wrote: > When an application sends mail to ''root" where does it go ? because I cant > find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via the web with kmail. > > Is it supposed to be posted to ... > /var/mail/ ? By default, mail ends up in /var/spool/mail/(username), but typically mail t

no X after installing msttcorefonts

2003-03-06 Thread praveen kallakuri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hello i tried this on debian laptops but dint get any useful responses. hopefully someone here can help me. here's my setup; woody -- 2.4.17 customized for acpi - gnome2 - gdm2 i recently upgraded to gnome2 and things were fine except that my fonts we

Re: OT:Cross-compiling

2003-03-06 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Thursday 06 March 2003 12:54 pm, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > It looks like an error when it was making the file (or else it has >error messages embedded in it); specifically, unwind-dw2-fde-glibc.o >references the abort function but it was not resolved. Thanks for the tips! Jeff -- To UNSUBS

Re: Need help using Belkin f5d5020 with network install

2003-03-06 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Don, 2003-03-06 um 11.24 schrieb Sean Melton: > Please help- > > I am trying to install Debian on my laptop (HP Omnibook 4100) > using my network. I have a Belkin f5d5020 nic that the setup utility > is not recognizing. I enabled pcmcia support for the kernel (and the > led's on the

Re: apt-src question

2003-03-06 Thread Joey Hess
Simon Eilting wrote: > hope this is the correct place to ask. Why is it, that when I install a > package with apt-src, and do an apt-get -u upgrade after that, that the > package is to be 'upgraded' to another package of the exact same > version from the debian server? Isn't it only supposed to

Re: Sound

2003-03-06 Thread cirrus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 4:00 pm, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > > For sound blaster audigy you have to visit > > http://opensource.creative.com/ or > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/emu10k1 > > and download the source to the driver that supports sb audi

kernel: lp0 on fire ????

2003-03-06 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi All, I got this very interesting logcheck email with this line Mar 6 14:24:35 server kernel: lp0 on fire What does this mean - I can confirm that there is no actual fire as of yet but it does have me worried - any thoughts ? Shri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: kernel: lp0 on fire ????

2003-03-06 Thread Carla Schroder
On Thursday 06 March 2003 11:06 am, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > Hi All, > > I got this very interesting logcheck email with this line > > Mar 6 14:24:35 server kernel: lp0 on fire > > What does this mean - I can confirm that there is no actual fire as of > yet but it does have me worried - any thought

Re: where does "root" mail go ?

2003-03-06 Thread Wilfried Essig
Am Don, 2003-03-06 um 19.20 schrieb Dave Selby: > When an application sends mail to ''root" where does it go ? because I cant > find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via the web with kmail. > > Is it supposed to be posted to ... > /var/mail/ ? Yes. That's the directory for local delivery. I

Unable to mount cd burner as read device

2003-03-06 Thread K. Matthew Victor
Greetings, I need advise as to what might've become bollixed after a kernel upgrade. Problem: Unable to mount the scsi (real, native, scsi cd burner for reading). Symptoms: mount /dev/sr0 will immediately spool up the cd-r/w after 3-5 minutes of running a message is printed: media not found. Or

Re: kernel: lp0 on fire ????

2003-03-06 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi All, > > I got this very interesting logcheck email with this line > > Mar 6 14:24:35 server kernel: lp0 on fire > > What does this mean - I can confirm that there is no actual fire as of > yet but it does have me worried - any thoughts ? > Ahh

Conflicts in upgrade.

2003-03-06 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
I am trying to upgrade from stable to testing. I am running into problems with files shared between packages. Examples are /etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg, shared by dpkg and dselect, and /bin/readlink shared by debianutils and coreutils. The error message is" trying to overwrite '/bin/readlink', which

RE: Nvidia driver

2003-03-06 Thread Jack Pistachio
Just comment out the corresponding line for GLcore and dri. ie: # Load"GLcore" # Load"dri" Then change the driver line in Section "Device" to: Driver "nvidia" Also, make sure you have the NVIDIA-GLX package installed to. That should work for you. -jackp >

Outgoing mail

2003-03-06 Thread Jack Pistachio
I just set up exim for my outgoing mail server using eximconfig. I gave the following responses: Select a number...2 Visible mail name...Enter Other system names...Enter Domains for relay...Enter Local machines for relay...Enter RBL...Enter Smart host...smtp.myisp.com User...myuser Then I tried (

Re: SIS900 DCHP Problem (was: Newbie bull ...)

2003-03-06 Thread crash
On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 17:06:06 +0100 Michael Bona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Klaus Imgrund wrote: > > > On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 18:19:09 +0100 > > Michael Bona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Klaus, > >> > >> so did you find a pattern under what circumstances it works and > >when> it does not?

Re: Debian, Putty and home and end keys

2003-03-06 Thread Michael Epting
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 03:22:30AM +0100, Agust?n Fern?ndez wrote: > If you want to connect to a debian box from Putty you may notice that > the home and end keys don't work, and just write "~" to the terminal. In > order to get them working you must set the terminal-type string (under > connect

Re: To get GNOME2, should I Upgrade or Dist-Upgrade or... ?

2003-03-06 Thread Jorge Santos
arief_mulya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear all, > > > > I kept getting wonder and never be sure about this whenever I'm > reaching this step. > > > The thing is, I finally want to upgrade my GNOME1.4 to GNOME2. I know > that there's woody backport of GNOME2, but I wanted to have the lates

Re: Gnome locking up.

2003-03-06 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi, On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:16:59PM -0600, Harley D. Eades III wrote: > Hello, > I recompiled the kernel to kernel-2.4.20 it compiled fine > but every other boot the screen shrenks buy 3inchs or so > on every side any ideas on what this might be. My laptop > is a Dell 2650 Inspiron

Re: Degraded fonts

2003-03-06 Thread Jorge Santos
daniel huhardeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi list, > > yesterday I updated my unstable and since fonts in some programs like > mozilla (menu, folder list, mail list but mail viewer is ok!) or gaim > are degraded which means not regular. KDE or console, mplayer... fonts > are ok. Any idea? >

Re: Outgoing mail

2003-03-06 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi, On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:45:12PM -0800, Jack Pistachio wrote: > > > Never got the message, or a warning mailed to root, or a > log in /var/log/mail.log. > In fact, /var/log/mail.log is completely empty although I > do receive messages in my user account sent occasionally to > root.

Epson 1200U and Sane - not quite

2003-03-06 Thread Ian Melnick
Hello, all I have an Epson Perfection 1200U scanner. I used mknod to make the scanner0 device node in /dev/usb as noted in the documentation, and I turn it on. xsane can't find any scanner devices, so I run sane-find-scanner and it finds it just fine. So I run scanimage -L but it can't find anythi

Blender menu problems

2003-03-06 Thread John Stevenson
I am running the testing distribution of Debian and have problems with the application 'blender'. On launching the program it automatically spans the whole screen, seems to work outside of the window manager (i.e. no window decoration) and most importantly the menus are drawn (when selected) ab

Re: APT Mirror WAS: Unidentified subject!

2003-03-06 Thread Jason Chambers
On Mar 6 9:31, wrote: > The catch comes when an apt repository just provides a sources.list line > and nothing else. No readable directories, no rsync, only Packages will > give you an idea what is there. > > Has anyone know of a method for mirroring through apt? I'm aware of > apt-mirror, bu

RE: Problems with new Debian install.

2003-03-06 Thread Brian Dockter
--- "Narins, Josh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I were you I'd try instaling with woody sources, then, once > everything is > set there, change sources to sarge then apt-get update && apt-get > dist-upgrade I had thought about that, but I was hoping to save myself some trouble (boy was I wro

Re: Semi OT: Strange source display in Konqueror

2003-03-06 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:33:55PM +, cirrus wrote: > > On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 6:06 am, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > Go to http://www.daniel-kuefner.de/j1/installation.html > > and then view source in Konqueror. For some reason it looks really > > wonky on my system. Every other page works jus

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