linux-wlan-ng-modules-2.6.6-2-686 0.2.1pre21

2004-06-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
Hi, I've updated the linux-wlan-ng 0.2.1pre21 modules package I built for 2.6.6-2-686. Last time I announced the package for 2.6.6-1-686 I had mentioned that it took some manual tweaks to build. This time, I updated debian/rules to include this workaround, and went ahead and uploaded the package

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Francisco Borges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've used (through notespam) for my own private email, the following > lists: > Visi (relays.visi.com); > ORDB (relays.ordb.org); > SpamCop (bl.spamcop.net); > dorkslayers (orbs.dorkslayers.com). Spamcop

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
"Jason Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Spamcop is okay... it has some "controversial" blocks such as > Internetseer. I never asked for their email, but they got it somehow... > well, anyway, some say they are hardcore spammers, some not. But Spamcop > in general gets most of the US spam. Chec

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 04:29:58PM +0200, Francisco Borges wrote: >> >> SpamCop works fine for my own email, where most people are whitelisted, >> but is said [1] not to be suitable for a production environment and what >> we have here is precisely that.

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-19 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 05:32:22PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > I even connect the 240/110v switch up to the PSU fan (making sure to > leave the PSU in 240v mode :), and turn it off when I want to sleep. I > just hope that I rememeber to turn it back on before I start up a CPU > intensive job, other

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-19 Thread Tim Connors
William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:58:38 -0700: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:31:33PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > A transistor dissipates heat when it is in the process of switching on > > or off - when it is fully on or fully off, there is very little > > current flow

Re: /lib/modules//build -- why a link?

2004-06-19 Thread Lukas Ruf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-18 20:22]: > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 03:12:19PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > | Dear all, > | > | why is /lib/modules//build a symbolic link? > | > | Wouldn't it ease deployment of kernels if it includ

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-19 Thread Adam Funk
On Saturday 19 June 2004 08:40, Paul Johnson wrote: > Spamcop is what I use. I recommend it. I also respectfully demand > that for whatever list you use, you reject it WITHOUT mentioning the > blackhole list. It's not the list's fault that you decided to use > their listings as grounds for reje

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-19 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 18 June 2004 15:40, Francisco Borges wrote: > THE QUESTION: > > We need to use some form of Block List at the connection level, Whatever you do, don't be one of those ignorant, asinine admins who block mail from all dynamic IPs. A lot of home broadband users operate legitimate, secure

Re: Debian testing vs unstable for home workstation?

2004-06-19 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 11 June 2004 22:30, Micha Feigin wrote: >> It has a few characteristics >> relateing to this: if some part of kde in 'testing' has may bugs, and >> this cases kde to not function, the whole of kde is removed from >> 'testing'. So, groups of packages can be moved in and out as things >> g

HD about to die?

2004-06-19 Thread Michael Bellears
A co-located server unceremoniously had it's power cable pulled out, and after finally getting to onsite techs to plug it back in, I am seeing the following in syslog: Jun 19 18:35:05 syd-nf-01 kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Jun 19 18:35:05 syd-nf-01 kernel: h

problem with mixer and kernel 2.6.6

2004-06-19 Thread Manu
Hi I have a problem with the mixer and gnome volume control applet. I have kernel 2.6.6 and and Creative labs SB live Audigy The sounds works great with XMMS and ESD of gnome but for some reason I cannot open the mixer and the volume control applet keeps on going back to 0 but and actually does

Re: DIARY: Squirrelmail problem

2004-06-19 Thread cristina
Hi. > Are you running any Apache virtual hosts? If so, do they work as > expected with Squirrelmail? Nope, dont have any virtual hosts on my apache webserver. Could you provide the error messages your getting and what your trying to do when you get that message? Is it from apache or php or someth

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 19 June 2004 08:40, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> Spamcop is what I use. I recommend it. I also respectfully demand >> that for whatever list you use, you reject it WITHOUT mentioning the >> blackhole l

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 18 June 2004 15:40, Francisco Borges wrote: > >> THE QUESTION: >> >> We need to use some form of Block List at the connection level, > > Whatever you do, don't be one of those ignorant, asinine admins who > block mail from all dynamic IPs. No kid

no icons in nautilus 2.6

2004-06-19 Thread jakob bratkovic
Yesterday (18.06.2004) I did an "apt-get dist-upgrade" on my debian testing distribution. Some gnome packages got upgraded to 2.6 and now nautilus shows no icons. Menus are OK, but on the desktop I can only see the "start here" icon. All the others are default icons (blank piece of paper). Chan

Re: Mysql and php in sarge and sid different than in woody.

2004-06-19 Thread Siraj 'Sid' Rakhada
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:43:01 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Accidentally I upgraded mysql to the sarge version form woody and now the > server cannot access the databases. I think php also changes. I mean the > directories change and are different from woody.

Re: cups print system butchering my PS files

2004-06-19 Thread Henry Hollenberg
richard lyons wrote: On Friday 18 June 2004 13:34, Henry Hollenberg wrote: Hey Gang, [...] Mozilla prints fine ever since I removed the xprint stuff. How did you remove the xprint stuff? I tried, to be greeted with xfree86 depends on xprint - or something similar. -- richard It's been awhile

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:04, Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 19 June 2004 07:50, Russell Coker wrote: > > By far the most false-positive entries I have had are from > > postmaster.rfc-ignorant.org and abuse.rfc-ignorant.org. The > > That's because rfc-ignorant.org's lists aren't a

Re: 802.11g Wireless NIC for Desktop

2004-06-19 Thread Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler
cool, thanks for the tip! Chris On Sunday 13 June 2004 15:08, Andy Firman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:21:52PM -0500, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > Team: > > > > I'm converting to 802.11g at my new place. What NIC do you recommend for > > my Debian Unstable (sid) desktop? I'm looking for so

Linux working with/on Alphasmart Dana?

2004-06-19 Thread cecil
I have a device called an Alphasmart Dana. This is a wide screen Palm OS device that is marketed as a wireless writing appliance/ internet tool. It's grayscale(16 shades), has a USB port, 2 SD slots, and a IR port. Has anyone ver heard of making this device work with linux? Or even better, has

apt-get update lists

2004-06-19 Thread Brian Astill
I have just started to use Debian - some would say I still haven't started because I'm using Knoppix 3.4 installed on my HD. The distro works very well, but there are one or two things I want to do and/or install that Knoppix doesn't cover, though Debian packages certainly can. First things

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-19 Thread Tim Connors
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 19 Jun 2004 19:54:55 +1000: > On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:04, Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 19 June 2004 07:50, Russell Coker wrote: > > > By far the most false-positive entries I have had are from > > > postmaster.rfc-ignorant.org an

Re: sarge, gnome icons gone

2004-06-19 Thread Juraj Kubelka
On Fr Jun 18 10:30, Richard Weil wrote: > I updated my sarge system yesterday and gnome upgraded to 2.6 -- great! > However, all of the icons are now gone and I can't see how to get them > back. The different themes are all there, but no icons. Any > suggestions? http://oskuro.net/~jordi/blog ht

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:31:33PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > If the only process running is the idle process, doing hlt() > instructions in a loop, then there are bugger all transistors doing > anything, so less power gets consumed. > > AFAIK, all modern i386 (AMD, Intel, etc) CPUs at least h

Why is the Debian perl environment set up as threaded?

2004-06-19 Thread John Foster
1. Why is the Debian perl environment set up as threaded? 2. Can I run Debian with a non-threaded perl installation without having to alter every perl dependency on the current pure SID system that I have? 3. Is there a way to convert my current threaded (by default I guess) installation , to

Re: apt-get update lists

2004-06-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 09:03:47PM -0400, Brian Astill wrote: > I have just started to use Debian - some would say I still haven't > started because I'm using Knoppix 3.4 installed on my HD. [snip] > Is there a list of packages sorted by Section, rather than by Package, > without logging ont

Re: Jabberd on Woody

2004-06-19 Thread Jacob S.
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:52:40 -0600 "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 08:47:14PM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > > Do the Jabber packages in Woody come with the modules for acting as > > a gateway to aim/icq/etc.? > > No. > > > /etc/jabber/jabber.xml said to be sure

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-19 Thread Tim Connors
Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:10:59 -0400: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:31:33PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > > > If the only process running is the idle process, doing hlt() > > instructions in a loop, then there are bugger all transistors doing > > anything, so les

Most Polite Apps for Window Managers?

2004-06-19 Thread Ed Sutherland
I'm considering moving from one of the giant desktop environments (Gnome) to a svelter window manager (blackbox or windowmaker.) I understand some apps require only the gnome or kde toolkits, while others require the whole kit-and-kaboodle to operate. I'm wondering if these app categories can p

Re: Debian testing vs unstable for home workstation?

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
Adam Funk wrote: So are there any practical disadvantages to running unstable instead of testing? A couple of years ago a bug found its way into PAM in unstable, and caused a lot of unstable users to be unable to log into their machines. testing users, IIRC, did not get that problem, as it wa

Re: Debian testing vs unstable for home workstation?

2004-06-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 08:17:20AM +, Adam Funk wrote: > On Friday 11 June 2004 22:30, Micha Feigin wrote: > > >> It has a few characteristics > >> relateing to this: if some part of kde in 'testing' has may bugs, and > >> this cases kde to not function, the whole of kde is removed from > >> '

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-19 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 11:41:27PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:10:59 -0400: > > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:31:33PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > > > > > If the only process running is the idle process, doing hlt() > > > instructions in a

Re: Why is the Debian perl environment set up as threaded?

2004-06-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 08:05:54AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > 1. Why is the Debian perl environment set up as threaded? > > 2. Can I run Debian with a non-threaded perl installation without having to > alter every perl dependency on the current pure SID system that I have? > There is the equ

Re: Most Polite Apps for Window Managers?

2004-06-19 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 10:20:27 + Ed Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm wondering if these app categories can politely run in a window > manager (that is, using just the gnome toolkit.) > > E-mail (Thunderbird) > Web (Firefox) > Office (OpenOffice) > Contacts (Rubrica) Thunderbird, Fi

Re: Most Polite Apps for Window Managers?

2004-06-19 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 10:20:27AM +, Ed Sutherland wrote: > I'm considering moving from one of the giant desktop environments > (Gnome) to a svelter window manager (blackbox or windowmaker.) I > understand some apps require only the gnome or kde toolkits, while > others require the whole ki

Re: apt-get update lists

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
Brian Astill wrote: I have just started to use Debian - some would say I still haven't started because I'm using Knoppix 3.4 installed on my HD. "" all you want, but Knoppix is not Debian; it is based on Debian. Having said that, I'd agree that you're now located in the Debian cosmos, and

Re: Most Polite Apps for Window Managers?

2004-06-19 Thread Tim Teulings
Hallo! I'm considering moving from one of the giant desktop environments (Gnome) to a svelter window manager (blackbox or windowmaker.) I understand some apps require only the gnome or kde toolkits, while others require the whole kit-and-kaboodle to operate. I'm wondering if these app categorie

Re: Most Polite Apps for Window Managers?

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
William Ballard wrote: On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 10:20:27AM +, Ed Sutherland wrote: I'm considering moving from one of the giant desktop environments (Gnome) to a svelter window manager (blackbox or windowmaker.) I understand some apps require only the gnome or kde toolkits, while others re

want ftp access through my gateway

2004-06-19 Thread Marty Landman
Hi, My gateway machine runs windows xp. Using zoneedit's nameservers am pointing a domain at my ip address and would like FTP requests from the internet to get proxied through to my Debian box's FTP server. Anyone know how something like this can be done, or even if it's more a Windows than Debi

Re: Why is the Debian perl environment set up as threaded?

2004-06-19 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Micha Feigin (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 08:05:54AM -0500, John Foster wrote: >> 2. Can I run Debian with a non-threaded perl installation without >> having to alter every perl dependency on the current pure SID system >> that I have? >> > > There is the equivs

Re: Mysql and php in sarge and sid different than in woody.

2004-06-19 Thread richard lyons
On Saturday 19 June 2004 05:38, Siraj 'Sid' Rakhada wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:43:01 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Accidentally I upgraded mysql to the sarge version form woody and [...] > The best solution would be to remove the new mysql (but don't > purge

Sound system

2004-06-19 Thread MillTek
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 NForce2 chipset. I tried the Music player in the KDE menu (rhythmbox) and when I do I get the following message; osscommon

Re: HD about to die?

2004-06-19 Thread Silvan
On Saturday 19 June 2004 04:44 am, Michael Bellears wrote: > Googling on the above errors has given me very little hope of fixing the > issue - But I am welcome to any suggestions as the server is about > 1000km away! Buy a plane ticket? Hard drives sure don't seem to be as robust as they used t

Re: sources url wanted

2004-06-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 12:43, Preston Boyington wrote: > recently there was a post in which someone posted a url to their apt > sources.list. the one i saw began as such: > > # > # My source.list that covers all versions of Debian > # usually uptodate, some backups are present if some fail > # whi

Newb user

2004-06-19 Thread Brad Nelson
Greetings,   I am a totally new user of Linux.  I do not have any experience with it and installed it(debian) on an extra machine purely out of curiousity. Now what? I am looking for some good online texts with lists of commands, simple descriptions of the the directory trees, and basically

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Brenden T.
Kent West wrote: markspace wrote: Hi all, I have a new debian install on a machine with a Geforce 2 video card. After the install was complete, the Xserver refused to start, so I have no gui. I'm not sure where to start debugging this. Look at the messages displayed on console. Look in the log

Re: Sound system

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
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 NForce2 chipset. I tried the Music player in the KDE menu (rhythmbox) and when I do I get the following mess

Re: Newb user

2004-06-19 Thread jakob bratkovic
You can do pretty much everything you do in Windows and more. Here is a link to The Linux Documentation Project: http://www.tldp.org/ Perhaps it will be in some help to you. Have fun with it... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: Newb user

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
Brad Nelson wrote: Greetings, I am a totally new user of Linux. I do not have any experience with it and installed it(debian) on an extra machine purely out of curiousity. Now what? I am looking for some good online texts with lists of commands, simple descriptions of the the directory trees,

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
Brenden T. wrote: Kent West wrote: markspace wrote: Hi all, I have a new debian install on a machine with a Geforce 2 video card. After the install was complete, the Xserver refused to start, so I have no gui. I'm not sure where to start debugging this. Look at the messages displayed on console

grub errors, can't get linux (but WindowsXP CD solves it!)

2004-06-19 Thread H. S.
I have been having a very peculiar problem since a couple of days ago. Two days ago, my hda crashed. Since Debian was installed on hdb, I tried to reinstall grub after removing hda and replacing it with hdb. Since then I have been getting "Grub hard disk error". Now yesterday, I bought a new di

Re: Newb user

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
Brad Nelson wrote: Greetings, I am a totally new user of Linux. I do not have any experience with it and installed it(debian) on an extra machine purely out of curiousity. Now what? I am looking for some good online texts with lists of commands, simple descriptions of the the directory trees,

Re: want ftp access through my gateway

2004-06-19 Thread Luke Reeves
Hi Marty. In the properties page of your shared Internet connection, go to the firewall/sharing page and choose the option to forward services to another machine. This will allow you to forward FTP (port 21) to the the IP address of the Debian system. Clients though will have a rough time acc

Anyone else suddenly got debian-user-digest messages?

2004-06-19 Thread HdV
Hi all, Starting yesterday I suddenly started to receive debian-user-digest messages from murphy. I most surely didn't subscribe myself to the digests, so something else must have happened. Anyone else experienced the same? Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: programming editor

2004-06-19 Thread Rob Benton
Micha Feigin wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 11:05:24PM -0500, Rob Benton wrote: William Ballard wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 12:07:18AM +0100, Anders Karlsson wrote: XEmacs is another editor that could be worth looking into. Bit nicer interface than plain Emacs, and should not tak

Install won't recognise second CD

2004-06-19 Thread Rich
Hi,   I'm trying to install Sarge and everything is fine until I'm asked for the second CD. The CD isn't recognised, and the prompt to insert second disk simply reappears. The CD was Jigdo-d and burned on my Windoes box as a bootable image and appears to be OK and indeed disk one worked just

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Brenden T.
Kent West wrote: Brenden T. wrote: Kent West wrote: markspace wrote: Hi all, I have a new debian install on a machine with a Geforce 2 video card. After the install was complete, the Xserver refused to start, so I have no gui. I'm not sure where to start debugging this. Look at the messages dis

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Paul Scott
Brenden T. wrote: Now it gets new and improved errors and refuses to start. (II) Keyboard "Generic Keyboard" handled by legacy driver (**) Option "Protocol" "PS/2" (**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "PS/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"

Possible to set initial groupids?

2004-06-19 Thread Michael Satterwhite
I'm going to be loading Debian on some desktops that are going to be networked with some machines running a different distribution. I'm noting that the initial userid / groupid on the distributions differ. I need to have them match the other machines for sharing purposes; I haven't been able to tal

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: Keep doing: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 (and restarting X) until the mouse works. I should have said that if you are letting debconf manage your configuration then it will remember all your previous configuration answers and you will just have to press Enter or occasionally

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
Paul Scott wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Keep doing: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 (and restarting X) until the mouse works. I should have said that if you are letting debconf manage your configuration then it will remember all your previous configuration answers and you will just have to press En

Re: mozilla doesn't load

2004-06-19 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Friday 18 June 2004 06:40 am, Nicolau Leal Werneck wrote: > Hello. I'm installing mozilla on a diskless network. The machines > can boot normally, I can load lots of programs, like GIMP, mplayer, > glade, mutt... Everything looks fine, but some programs, > most notably mozilla-fre

Re: Possible to set initial groupids?

2004-06-19 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 12:48:35 -0500 Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going to be loading Debian on some desktops that are going to be > networked with some machines running a different distribution. I'm > noting that the initial userid / groupid on the distributions differ. > I

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Paul Scott
Kent West wrote: Except that he manually commented out the BusID line in XF86Config-4, so now debconf will no longer modify that file until he does the stuff at the top of the file. Thanks. I had already deleted that part of the thread. Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Possible to set initial groupids?

2004-06-19 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 19 June 2004 13:05, Jacob S. wrote: > Why not simply copy/paste the relevant portion of /etc/group between > machines so that you know the gids are the same across all the machines? > This would also save you the time of having to create al

X upgrade changed modifier key definitions

2004-06-19 Thread Micha Feigin
The latest X upgrade in sid seems to have changed the key definitions for some of the modifiers. Did anyone else notice that? My window key is now recognized under emacs as H-s whatever that means and it seems that the alt is also making problems (I don't think it is recognized as meta under fvwm,

Re: Sound system

2004-06-19 Thread MillTek
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 NForce2 chipset. I tried the Music player in the KDE menu (rhythmbox) and when I do I get t

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: alt key is sticky after upgrading sid today.

2004-06-19 Thread Doug Holland
On Friday 18 June 2004 01:34 pm, Paul Scott wrote: > > ok, I had this: > > $ xmodmap | grep mod1 > mod1Alt_L (0x7d), Meta_L (0x7e) > > I don't remember having Meta_L there any time, i.e. before dfsg.1-5. > So after doing: > > $ xmodmap -e 'clear mod1 -e 'add mod1 = Alt_L'

Re: gDesklets -- Which Work?

2004-06-19 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 the mental interface of Ed Sutherland told: > I'm using Gnome 2.6 and trying to get gDesklets to work. The several > desklets I've tried have all complained about 'possible broken sensors.' > Does anyone know for certain which desklets actually work with debian > and Gnome 2

Re: Possible to set initial groupids?

2004-06-19 Thread richard lyons
On Saturday 19 June 2004 14:18, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 19 June 2004 13:05, Jacob S. wrote: > > Why not simply copy/paste the relevant portion of /etc/group > > between machines so that you know the gids are the same across all >

ftp server being slow

2004-06-19 Thread James Hosken
Hello all I'm having performance issues with ftp servers on my LAN. I installed vsftp and the performace was really bad, 5kb/s or so. It was taking about 20 mins to move a 5Mb file! I looked at the config file and googled but couldn't find any solutions, eventually I gave up. Now I have installed

exim and mozilla

2004-06-19 Thread Art Edwards
My firewall box died and, for now, I'm using one of my inner boxes as the mail center. Exim is set up as a node on the internet and, using mutt, I can send and receive nicely. By setting up pop3d I can also pop from the /var/mail area to the mozilla mail box. However, when I try to send mail from m

exim and mozilla

2004-06-19 Thread Art Edwards
My fire wall box died and, for now, I'm using one of my inner boxes as the mail center. Exim is set up as a node on the internet and, using mutt, I can send and receive nicely. By setting up pop3d I can also pop from the /var/mail area to the mozilla mail box. However, when I try to send mail from

Re: Sound system

2004-06-19 Thread MillTek
Jeff Elkins wrote: 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 NForce2

Re: starting error with thunderbird 0.7 on woody-system

2004-06-19 Thread Palfalvi Richard
Bluejack wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:55:26 +0200, Palfalvi Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I installed this library without problems but after trying to start again thunderbird I got another error message: "./firefox-installer-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: c

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 07:29:13AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 11:41:27PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:10:59 -0400: > > > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:31:33PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > > > > > > > If the on

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Brenden
On Saturday 19 June 2004 11:10 am, Paul Scott wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Except that he manually commented out the BusID line in XF86Config-4, > > so now debconf will no longer modify that file until he does the stuff > > at the top of the file. Yeah, I saw that. If I need to configure again I

Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-19 Thread Steve Kleiser
Greetings,     Although able to boot from a (purchased) Debian 3.0 i386 Install #1 NON-US CD, the CD I burned using Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 Basic and debian-30r2-i386-binary-1_NONUS.iso won't boot in the same Pentium desktop clone. The directory structures of the two CDs appear to be identic

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-19 Thread Thomas McLean
Hi Steve, You should burn the cd as a .iso, not sure about data though...i think if you just double click on the iso and tell it to open with your cd burning software it should make it bootable by default. I've not used windows for a while so my info may be a little inaccurate. It works over here

Adding Debian

2004-06-19 Thread Thomas S. Atkins
Hi, I have Suse 9.1 pro installed with GRUB as the loader. I have the Debian CD's I purchased (Woody 3.0r1) and would like to add it as a separate system to see how it works. If I install it to a separate disk will I have any problems or are there specificate things I should look out for. The syst

Re: Sound system

2004-06-19 Thread Thomas McLean
Hi Jim, Try downloading the also sources and compiling from them. I had problems with the binarys that were provided. Wehn you download it, it's very easy to setup (well for me it was). Get the sources from here: www.alsa-project.org/ (the site appears to be down at the moment for some reason). Al

Re: Sound system

2004-06-19 Thread MillTek
MillTek wrote: Jeff Elkins wrote: 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

Re: Adding Debian

2004-06-19 Thread Bob Hentges
Thomas S. Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > I have Suse 9.1 pro installed with GRUB as the loader. I have the Debian > CD's I purchased (Woody 3.0r1) and would like to add it as a separate > system to see how it works. If I install it to a separate disk will I have > any problems or are there specificate th

Downloading uw-imapd folders

2004-06-19 Thread John Fleming
I have uw-imapd installed and working in that Squirrelmail works nicely. However, using a Windose box, I'm having trouble getting the correct folders downloaded. The Windose client will let me specify the path to my mail folders. If I leave it blank, it appears to be downloading hundreds of thous

[solved] Re: grub errors, can't get linux (but WindowsXP CD solves it!)

2004-06-19 Thread H. S.
See alt.os.linux (same subject) for solution. ->HS Apparently, _H. S._, on 06/19/04 12:22,typed: I have been having a very peculiar problem since a couple of days ago. Two days ago, my hda crashed. Since Debian was installed on hdb, I tried to reinstall grub after removing hda and replacing it wi

Re: Newb user

2004-06-19 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Brad Nelson_, on 06/19/04 11:39,typed: Greetings, I am a totally new user of Linux. I do not have any experience with it and installed it(debian) on an extra machine purely out of curiousity. Now what? I am looking for some good online texts with lists of commands, simple descrip

Re: Debian testing vs unstable for home workstation?

2004-06-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 09:25:12AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Adam Funk wrote: > > >So are there any practical disadvantages to running unstable instead of > >testing? > > > A couple of years ago a bug found its way into PAM in unstable, and > caused a lot of unstable users to be unable to log in

Re: Possible to set initial groupids?

2004-06-19 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Michael Satterwhite_, on 06/19/04 13:48,typed: I'm going to be loading Debian on some desktops that are going to be networked with some machines running a different distribution. I'm noting that the initial userid / groupid on the distributions differ. I need to have them match the oth

Re: no icons in nautilus 2.6

2004-06-19 Thread Manu
Jakob Did you get a response from someone? I have the same problem too and on top of it I have gnome settings crashing. I tried to apply the patch from this discussion http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/05/msg00693.html but it looks like it is already done. anyone has an idea? Thanks Manu

Re: apt-get update lists

2004-06-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 09:03:47PM -0400, Brian Astill wrote: > I have just started to use Debian - some would say I still haven't > started because I'm using Knoppix 3.4 installed on my HD. ... > Is there a list of packages sorted by Section, rather than by Package, > without logging ont

menu problems after upgrading sawfish

2004-06-19 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
Hello, I've upgraded sawfish to 1.3+cvs20040617-3, and now the programs menu contains only a few items like xterm, emacs, gv, xcalc, netscape. update-menus doesn't seem to have any effect (it worked with the previous version). I've tried a couple of suggestions from README.Debian and debian-user a

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-19 Thread Adam Aube
Paul Johnson wrote: >> SBL is better than Spews, although less aggressive. > > SBL? The SpamHaus block list (www.spamhaus.org) - one of two RBLs I use (the other is SpamCop). SpamHaus also offers the XBL (for exploited hosts) and the SBL-XBL list, which combines the two. Adam -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: apt-get update lists

2004-06-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 09:49:52AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Brian Astill wrote: > > >I have just started to use Debian - some would say I still haven't > >started because I'm using Knoppix 3.4 installed on my HD. > > > "" all you want, but Knoppix is not Debian; it is based on Debian. > Havi

RE: ftp server being slow

2004-06-19 Thread Michael Bellears
James Hosken wrote: > Hello all > > I'm having performance issues with ftp servers on my LAN. I > installed vsftp and the performace was really bad, 5kb/s or > so. It was taking about 20 mins to move a 5Mb file! > > I looked at the config file and googled but couldn't find any > solutions, eventu

debian sarge and vmware with kernel 2.6

2004-06-19 Thread Joakim Nordberg
Hi ppl, I hva got som e trouble running Vmware GSX 3.0 on Debian sarge. After it has been running perfectely for a couple of weeks I reached at point where I hit the limit of (I/O) and it starts to crasch! Does anyone have any ideas why? It is an Amd 2500+ cpu on Asus A7N8X motherboard with 3w

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Mike Chandler
On Saturday 19 June 2004 10:55 am, Kent West wrote: > Except that he manually commented out the BusID line in XF86Config-4, so > now debconf will no longer modify that file until he does the stuff at > the top of the file. > > At this point, it might just be easier to manually modify the > /etc/X1

user x login fails

2004-06-19 Thread Tadek
(sorry for double posting but my initial post in lists.debian.org was rejected since I had to subscribe first and after I did 2nd email address was given to me for posting) Dear friends, I encountered following problem (using debian sarge): - after installing k3b (apt-get), opera (dpkg from opera

user X login fails

2004-06-19 Thread Tadek
Dear friends, I encountered following problem (using debian sarge): - after installing k3b (apt-get), opera (dpkg from opera for sarge) and adobe reader in this order, I can not x login as ordinary user; I can still X login as a root; kde and gnome behave the same. When I enter user name and pa

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