Re: IBM xSeries 335 and XFree86

2004-06-22 Thread John Summerfield
Simon Buchanan wrote: Hi There, can someone please help me... Im going MAD. Im trying to install Oracle on an IBM xSeries 335. Todo so the Oracle installer needs X to run. I have run apt-get xserver etc etc etc and run thru the config It just wont run. Here is the XFree86-4 file: This is a pre-

printing to windows printer

2004-06-22 Thread Tadek
I must admit samba and CUPS are quite complex for me and setting my linux laptop to print on the windows printer is not easy task. My debian distribution is Sarge. I am using KDE printing manager with nice GUI interface. I selected CUPS (Common UNIX Print System) as a Print System Currently Used.

Re: ~/.Xdefaults

2004-06-22 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> Why doesn't X read ~/.Xdefaults? It reads ~/.Xdefaults-miallen where > miallen is my username but why is the username necessary when it's already > specific to me through my home directory? It's just odd. > > Mike It does read it on my system. Did you restart X to force it to read the file? If t

Re: Xfce4 dies instead of prompting when I click the logout button on the panel.

2004-06-22 Thread Adam Funk
On Monday 21 June 2004 22:50, Simon Huggins wrote: >> That report refers only to the icons. I'm not having that problem! > > You want: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252715 > and the many merged bugs. I'm not sure what's truely causing it > though sadly. Yes, that's my bug.

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread Adam Funk
On Monday 21 June 2004 22:00, Chris Metcalf wrote: > If I remember correctly, "unstable" is called "unstable" because the > packages go through a large amount of turnover and you'll usually have > to upgrade a few times per week to keep your system in sync. Now that's interesting. The name "unst

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread Jules Dubois
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 23:17:49 -0400, John Cichy wrote: > Jules Dubois wrote: > >> I think perhaps "stable", "testing", and "unstable" were not the >> absolutely, positively best choices for the flavors but I can't say I >> could have done any better. These comments are however immaterial. Oops.

Re: Hard Drive Limitations

2004-06-22 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Gayle Lee Fairless (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm using a Western Digital 160GB drive as a slave. The master is > an IBM 14 GB that holds Windnows 98SE. I put Debian GNU/Linux woody > 2.4.18 on the WD drive. And that works? As far as I know 2.4.18 does not support LBA48, which m

XML::Diff in Debian?

2004-06-22 Thread William Ballard
Am I correct in thinking XML::Diff from Perl: http://search.cpan.org/~sdether/XML-Diff-0.04/Diff.pm has not been packaged for Debian? apt-file search Diff.pm only turns up Text::Diff and some other things. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Hard Drive Limitations

2004-06-22 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Marco Paganini schrieb: This is almost certainly a kernel problem. However, it is quite likely that different distros have their kernels configured differently. I've seen strange problems with big hard drives and 2.4.18. Actually, I lost an entire hard-drive because I partitioned and created th

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

2004-06-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:13, Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > reject other dyn/dialups - they should use their own ISP or mail server. I second this. A user has no business making direct connections to mail servers. One thing on my todo list is to use the ODF module of NetFilter to preve

Re: Fwd: Re: Going wireless

2004-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 03:20:17PM -0600, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > Hi guys, I've been trying to install my wireless card to no avail. > > I have followed the suggestion by David, but still cannot make it work. > >iwlist wlan0 scan > > returns > > wlan0 No scan results >

wd - Re: Hard Drive Limitations

2004-06-22 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > a. Drive is master, no slave that requires a jumper change on the disk -- or -- the disk is on the master connector of the ide cable "cable select" might be an issue as you noted > > b. Drive is master, slave present keeps wd disks happpy,

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread John Summerfield
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: Indeed. I actually meant my statement to be in support of the stable distribution. I guess I should have made that clearer. Still, no one benefits from having blinders over their eyes. Stable is the most stable, and it's also the least current. I don't see how it could

Re: Intel NIC

2004-06-22 Thread John Smith
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 17:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just installed debian 3.0... I'm using an Intel Pro/100 VM NIC. It did not > install for some reason during install. The following came from a Windows Sorry, had the _exact_ problem a few weeks ago. Turned out the latest intel pro100 models (

Re: Hard Drive Limitations

2004-06-22 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Marco Paganini (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >> This is almost certainly a kernel problem. However, it is quite >> likely that different distros have their kernels configured >> differently. > > I've seen strange problems with big hard drives and 2.4.18. Actually, > I lost an entire hard-

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 04:01:20PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > >Indeed. I actually meant my statement to be in support of the stable > >distribution. I guess I should have made that clearer. > > > >Still, no one benefits from having blinders over their eyes. St

Sound troubles

2004-06-22 Thread David Wright
Sound was working fine with my system until recently, and now appears to be quite screwed up in a way I cannot diagnose. Any help is appreciated. I am running sid with the 2.6.6-2-k7 kernel. I have a soundblaster card that is recognized: aloysha:~# cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [CMI8738]: CMI8

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-06-22 Thread Erik Steffl
Erik Steffl wrote: Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: ... smeagol:/mnt 21:28:04 $ mount ipod2 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2, or too many mounted file systems what about sda3? This is what works for me (that's without relying on /etc/fstab): mount -t hfsplus /dev/s

debian on a sony vaio xmp laptop : no sound and no modem

2004-06-22 Thread Latévi Max LAWSON DAKU
Hello, I need help for configuring sound and modem on a sony laptop running debian (testing/unstable) with a 2.6.7 kernel built with the required alsa drivers, I hope. Here is the way I've proceeded. o Using lspci, the sound+modem card is identified as follows + Multimedia audio controll

11g PCI Wireless recommendations

2004-06-22 Thread John Summerfield
I'm seeking recommendations for currently-available 802.11g-compliant Wireless PCI cards for Linux. Please post replies to the list so others can critique them and benefit from them. I wish native drivers, not Windows wrapped in something such as ndiswrapper. If you have a PCI card that works w

Re: Sound troubles

2004-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:23:25AM -0700, David Wright wrote: > Sound was working fine with my system until recently, and now appears to > be quite screwed up in a way I cannot diagnose. Any help is appreciated. > > I am running sid with the 2.6.6-2-k7 kernel. I have a soundblaster card > that is

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Re: Fwd: Re: Going wireless

2004-06-22 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, David Fokkema wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 03:20:17PM -0600, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > > Hi guys, I've been trying to install my wireless card to no avail. > > > > I have followed the suggestion by David, but still cannot make it work. > > > >iwlist wl

Re: Intel esktop Board D865GLC

2004-06-22 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo Eric, > I have a couple of new PC's received with a Intel Desktop Board D865GLC. > I tried to load the e1000 driver from debian, but it wouldn't load. > Also the video controller is giving me problems. > > Please can someone tell me which drivers i need for the on-board > ethernet control

Re: 11g PCI Wireless recommendations

2004-06-22 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, John Summerfield wrote: > I'm seeking recommendations for currently-available 802.11g-compliant > Wireless PCI cards for Linux. > > Please post replies to the list so others can critique them and benefit > from them. > > I wish native drivers, not Windows wrapped in some

Re: rick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-22 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 06:53:12PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > Its not enough to copy all the files to the cd (which is probably what > > you did if you burned it in data mode). You need to make the cd > > bootable by burning a basic system and marking

Re: printing to windows printer

2004-06-22 Thread welly hartanto
the easy way to solve your problem is by using an account (username adn password applied) on those windblows box that have printing previllegenot anonymous one. cheers, welly --- Tadek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I must admit samba and CUPS are quite complex for me > and setting my > linux

Re: Firestarter, ports access

2004-06-22 Thread Katipo
John Summerfield wrote: s. keeling wrote: The best thing you can do is make sure that you're only running what you need to run, and that whatever's running answers only those you want it to answer. What you can do, to assist greatly with this, is install Bastille, and then run BastilleInteractive

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-22 Thread Johann Spies
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 09:04:54AM -0400, stan wrote: > If I want to build a new Debian machine to start expolring the 2.6 kernel > what's the best way to go about this? > Others have answered with valuable information. My experience with all the pc's on which I have installed the 2.6. kernels is

Re: Apt/sources.list changes.

2004-06-22 Thread Katipo
Adam Aube wrote: Katipo wrote: Have just changed entries in a sources list from testing to unstable. During updating, error messages occur on the 'security', 'contrib.,' and 'non-free', entries, the rest updating satisfactorily. Sid doesn't have security updates, but it does have contrib an

Unidentified subject!

2004-06-22 Thread audie macapal
It is true that Devian/Linux OS and softwares cannot be infected by computer virus? __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

OT: Network question

2004-06-22 Thread Magnus Therning
First of all sorry for posting this on this mailing list. I don't know of any good list to post it on, and since this list seems to draw a very knowledgable crowd I thought it might be worth a shot ;-) I have a problem with the network connection at home, but only to certain (I have found two) sit

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-22 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Johann Spies (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > My experience with all the pc's on which I have installed the > 2.6. kernels is that I have a problem getting gpm to start in the > normal bootup process. The result is that when you use > kdm/wdm/xdm/gdm you can not use X11 because the mouse wou

fonts are ugly in some gtk apps

2004-06-22 Thread LeVA
Hi! I noticed that after an upgrade from woody to sarge, all of the gtk-1 apps turned to very ugly (their fonts). Ie.: xmms, easytag... I've attached two screenshots, so you can see what I mean. I tried to recompile xmms, because I'm not using the debian package from sarge, but that didn't hel

Reserving space for mail on /var

2004-06-22 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi All, I have a quick question - one of the servers that I manage have a problem in that /var/log/syslog and /var/log/daemon.log get filled up with a message from bind and subsequently bounces all mail since there is no space left. What is the best solution for this? Do I have to create another

Re: fonts are ugly in some gtk apps

2004-06-22 Thread Thomas Adam
--- LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I noticed that after an upgrade from woody to sarge, all of the gtk-1 > apps turned to very ugly (their fonts). Ie.: xmms, easytag... > > I've attached two screenshots, so you can see what I mean. Have a look here: http://linuxgazette.net/issue96/

Re: Gnome font trouble

2004-06-22 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | |> I upgraded my unstable distro recently (I'm not sure exactly when this started |> as I've been running the same session for a week or two) and now all the |> applications using Gnome fonts are using

Re: Reserving space for mail on /var

2004-06-22 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > What is the best solution for this? Do I have to create another mount > point for /var/spool/mail ? Quotas perhaps? Alternatively, how can I get You could do. > syslog to ignore the lines that fill the log up. Those files are handled by

/dev/hda2 on / type unknown ???

2004-06-22 Thread Norman Walsh
My root partition is /dev/hda2. My machine boots up and runs fine. $ cat /etc/fstab | grep hda2 /dev/hda2 / ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 $ mount | grep hda2 /dev/hda2 on / type unknown (rw,errors=remount-ro) That looks a little frightening to me. I touched

Re: Reserving space for mail on /var

2004-06-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/06/04 11:42), Shri Shrikumar wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a quick question - one of the servers that I manage have a > problem in that /var/log/syslog and /var/log/daemon.log get filled up > with a message from bind and subsequently bounces all mail since there > is no space left. > > What

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

2004-06-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 18:41, Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 22 June 2004 09:11, Russell Coker wrote: > > A user has no business making direct connections to mail servers. > > Maybe in your area you can get a residential ISP whose mailrouters are > always reliable.  Where I live the

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-22 Thread Vittorio
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 10:25, Johann Spies wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 09:04:54AM -0400, stan wrote: ... > My experience with all the pc's on which I have installed the > 2.6. kernels is that I have a problem getting gpm to start in the > normal bootup process. The re

broken updates in aptitude & connection failed

2004-06-22 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, Often i get a "Connection failed" message when trying to update my packages. This happens with apt-get and aptitude. Last time i did this, aptitude tried to download several packages and because of failed connections (and thus failing to ddwnload certain packages) it only installed a few packa

Re: ~/.Xdefaults

2004-06-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:30:23 -0400 (EDT), Michael B Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why doesn't X read ~/.Xdefaults? It reads ~/.Xdefaults-miallen where > miallen is my username but why is the username necessary when it's already > specific to me through my home directory? It's just odd. > >

Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-06-22 Thread Katipo
audie macapal wrote: It is true that Devian/Linux OS and softwares cannot be infected by computer virus? Not 100% correct, no. In two years of using Debian/Debian-based programmes I have not seen a virus that affects Linux. I have heard of, I believe, two that were rather benign and caused

Re: broken updates in aptitude & connection failed

2004-06-22 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> Hi, > > Often i get a "Connection failed" message when trying to update my > packages. This happens with apt-get and aptitude. This part of the problem is probably solved (testing rigth now) The problem is related to the number of seconds specified in the Timeout var in the /etc/apt/apt.conf fil

Re: ~/.Xdefaults

2004-06-22 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:30:23 -0400 (EDT), Michael B Allen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mike > > How are you starting X? Via X, startx, a display manager.. etc. > > -- > Jon Dowland I'm starting X via the startx command. Benedict -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

strange colors

2004-06-22 Thread frank coldewe
Hi, since i have installed woody and kde i have problems with the colors on the screen. In some applycations like freeamp, gimp and sane ... the colors are not right. grey is green or blue ans so go on... any idea ?? greetings frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: ~/.Xdefaults

2004-06-22 Thread Marco Paganini
xrdb -merge .Xdefaults ? Regards, Paga On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:16:23AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > Why doesn't X read ~/.Xdefaults? It reads ~/.Xdefaults-miallen where > > miallen is my username but why is the username necessary when it's already > > specific to me through my home dire

Apache and CGI

2004-06-22 Thread Greg Sidelinger
Ok I feel pretty stupid for even asking this but how do I make cgi scripts work with apache2 and unstable. I did just the default install of apache2 and tried to run the test-cgi script and all I got for output was the script itself. I know I have had this same problem before on unstable but f

Re: how do I remove "ramdisk: compressed image found at block 0"

2004-06-22 Thread Bingjun Ye
Hi, I just reformated my harddisk, and found there is a compressed ramdrive D:\. I cannot remove D:\ using command rd d:\, and cannot setup Windows XP with the CD. How do I remove this compressed ramdrive in the DOS mode? Thank you! Ben Ye -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: /dev/hda2 on / type unknown ???

2004-06-22 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Norman Walsh wrote: My root partition is /dev/hda2. My machine boots up and runs fine. $ cat /etc/fstab | grep hda2 /dev/hda2 / ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 $ mount | grep hda2 /dev/hda2 on / type unknown (rw,errors=remount-ro) That looks a little frightening

Re: how do I remove "ramdisk: compressed image found at block 0"

2004-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:14:06AM -0400, Bingjun Ye wrote: > Hi, > I just reformated my harddisk, and found there is a compressed ramdrive > D:\. I cannot remove D:\ using command rd d:\, and cannot setup > Windows XP with the CD. How do I remove this compressed ramdrive in the > DOS mode? W

Re: /dev/hda2 on / type unknown ???

2004-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:12:23PM +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > Norman Walsh wrote: > >My root partition is /dev/hda2. My machine boots up and runs fine. > > > >$ cat /etc/fstab | grep hda2 > >/dev/hda2 / ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 > >1 > >$ mount | grep h

Re: Hard Drive Limitations

2004-06-22 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Gayle Lee Fairless (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I'm using a Western Digital 160GB drive as a slave. The master is > > an IBM 14 GB that holds Windnows 98SE. I put Debian GNU/Linux woody > > 2.4.18 on the WD drive. > > And th

Re: wd - Re: Hard Drive Limitations

2004-06-22 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > > > a. Drive is master, no slave > > that requires a jumper change on the disk -- or -- > the disk is on the master connector of the ide cable > > "cable select" might be an issue as you noted > > >

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

2004-06-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Craig, Am 2004-06-22 16:13:18, schrieb Craig Sanders: >yeah, good decision. blocking mail from dynamic/dialup IP addresses is the >right thing to do, but it's much better to be an informed, intelligent and >suave admin who does that than an ignorant, asinine one (but that's true of >every

System clock too fast after kernel upgrade

2004-06-22 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
I realise this is probably not Debian-specific, but I'm hoping someone on this list can help me out anyway. I upgraded to kernel 2.6.7-mm1 today. (source from kernel.org, built with make-kpkg) Now, my system clock is running too fast: about 3-4x normal speed. This is obviously not very convenient.

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, David Fokkema wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 04:01:20PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > > > >Indeed. I actually meant my statement to be in support of the stable > > >distribution. I guess I should have made that clearer. > > > > > >Still,

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:35:09AM -0500, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > How hard will it be to switch or upgrade to sarge from woody when sarge > becomes stable? I'm hoping that CUPS and other stuff in sarge will let me > use my parallel port HP 697C printer and my HP psc1210 > printer/scanner/co

Sony DSC P72 Digital Camera on USB port

2004-06-22 Thread Ajitabh Pandey
Hello, I am using plan woody 3.0r2 with the default 2.2 kernel. I wanted to attach my Sony DSC P72 digital camera to the usb port. Hardware is old IBM 300GL(Pentium MMX/166, 64MB RAM, 2GB HDD, 2xUSB ports etc). I tried gphoto but it did not have my camera listed in the camera list under Configure

Re: System clock too fast after kernel upgrade

2004-06-22 Thread Stefano Rivoir
Felix C. Stegerman wrote: I realise this is probably not Debian-specific, but I'm hoping someone on this list can help me out anyway. [...] It's a known problem, both in early -bk and in -mm1. Either wait for -mm2 or look for the right fix, it's been around in the lkml (an abs macro that failed o

Re: need simple imap server to serve up some maildirs

2004-06-22 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Jun 22 at 12:26AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21 at 03:31PM -0400, Bojan Baros wrote: > > I have found courier-imap to be easy to set up and use. I > > am using squirrelmail as an imap client, with imapproxy > > added into the mix to speed up things. > > any chance you have

Re: startled by what SCREEN can do [was Re: 3 gigs enough?]

2004-06-22 Thread Ernie McCracken
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 00:24:24 -0500, Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > oh MY GGODD! > > screen is truly magic. wonder why i never tried it before? Yeah, screen is great. I always put this in all my .screenrc files: hardstatus alwayslastline "%{mk}%H %{gk}%c %{yk}%M%d %{wk}%?%-Lw%?%{

Re: fonts are ugly in some gtk apps

2004-06-22 Thread LeVA
2004. június 22. 13:03, Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > --- LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I noticed that after an upgrade from woody to sarge, all of the gtk-1 > > apps turned to very ugly (their fonts). Ie.: xmm

Re: System clock too fast after kernel upgrade

2004-06-22 Thread Kai Weber
* Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I upgraded to kernel 2.6.7-mm1 today. > (source from kernel.org, built with make-kpkg) > > Now, my system clock is running too fast: about 3-4x normal speed. > This is obviously not very convenient. Strange, my clock problems passed away with kernel 2.

Re: printing to windows printer

2004-06-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 11:47:34PM -0700, Tadek wrote: [...] | Error returning browse list: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED The windows server is telling your client that you are not authorized to do what you tried to do. | Could anybody offer me a hint what needs to be done to get rid of | access deni

Re: Sony DSC P72 Digital Camera on USB port

2004-06-22 Thread Bruno de Paula
Please, install package usbutils and after that run lsusb with your camera connected to the usb interface and also turned on. lsusb should be able to list your camera and then you can mount the memory card with something like this: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /camera_mount_point The device is not alw

Re: /dev/hda2 on / type unknown ???

2004-06-22 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 07:13, David Fokkema wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:12:23PM +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > > Norman Walsh wrote: > > >My root partition is /dev/hda2. My machine boots up and runs fine. > > > > > >$ cat /etc/fstab | grep hda2 > > >/dev/hda2 / ext2

Re: System clock too fast after kernel upgrade

2004-06-22 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Stefano Rivoir wrote: Felix C. Stegerman wrote: I realise this is probably not Debian-specific, but I'm hoping someone on this list can help me out anyway. [...] It's a known problem, both in early -bk and in -mm1. Either wait for -mm2 or look for the right fix, it's been around in the lkml (an a

Re: printing to windows printer

2004-06-22 Thread Tadek
It worked beautifully. Thank you so much. Tad welly hartanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > the easy way to solve your problem is by using an > account (username adn password applied) on those > windblows box that have printing previllegenot > anonymous one

Re: Sony DSC P72 Digital Camera on USB port

2004-06-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 06:09 am, Ajitabh Pandey wrote: > Hello, > > I am using plan woody 3.0r2 with the default 2.2 > kernel. I wanted to attach my Sony DSC P72 digital > camera to the usb port. Hardware is old IBM > 300GL(Pentium MMX/166, 64MB RAM, 2GB HDD, 2xUSB ports > etc). I tried gphoto but

Re: strange colors

2004-06-22 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 06:06, frank coldewe wrote: > Hi, > > since i have installed woody and kde i have problems with the colors on > the screen. > In some applycations like freeamp, gimp and sane ... the colors are not > right. grey is green or blue ans so go on... any idea ?? > > greetings fran

Re: Apache and CGI

2004-06-22 Thread richard lyons
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 08:19, Greg Sidelinger wrote: > Ok I feel pretty stupid for even asking this but how do I make cgi > scripts work with apache2 and unstable. I did just the default > install of apache2 and tried to run the test-cgi script and all I got > for output was the script itself. I

Re: Fwd: Re: Going wireless

2004-06-22 Thread Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar
Guys, first of all, let me clarify a couple of things. I hail from the Windows world where you just plug the card, install the drivers and voila, you're all set. I am just trying to learn about access points and all that. Secondly, one my co-workers is right next to me and he is working just fine

Re: System clock too fast after kernel upgrade

2004-06-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Jun 2004, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > I realise this is probably not Debian-specific, > but I'm hoping someone on this list can help me out anyway. > > I upgraded to kernel 2.6.7-mm1 today. > (source from kernel.org, built with make-kpkg) > > Now, my system clock is running too fast: about

no deliver from Subsystem

2004-06-22 Thread Frank Kaldewey
Hallo, I install postfix on linux-debian. I receive and send mails from everyuser on system without error. Now I have to deliver mails via webserver(apache) in php On other system with sendmail it is no problem to deliver mails. I add php.ini sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/postfix phpmailscript delive

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:13:37AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: | I've been watching the various discussions on this, and note that most | experienced types think that the unstable distribution is better than the | testing distribution. This leads me to one more question / observation Unst

X fonts size

2004-06-22 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Hi all Is there any debian tool to configure the font size of X applications? I can't configure X resolution more than 800x600 and I would like to decrease the application fonts size (ie mozilla menu fonts) because they are very big. I'm using fvwm as window manager. any help would be appreciate

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-22, Adam Funk penned: > On Monday 21 June 2004 22:00, Chris Metcalf wrote: > >> If I remember correctly, "unstable" is called "unstable" because the >> packages go through a large amount of turnover and you'll usually >> have to upgrade a few times per week to keep your system in sync. >

bootcd questions ...

2004-06-22 Thread zorgh
Hi Sorry for my bad english (frenchy guy)! I somehow made my own bootcd from Debian. System: CPU Athlon XP 1 Ghz, RAM 1024Mb, Debian (sid), kernel 2.6.5, bootcd 2.41 Creating a bootcd, I get these warnings : --- Testing CD-Image --- --- Blanking DVD --- * DVD±RW format utility by <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Intel NIC

2004-06-22 Thread disciple
Thanks Jan..., but I'm running 2.2.20 and my NIC is working fine now. I made the edits using vi to the interfaces file so that it would auto load. Before I did that, I added it to the list by using modconf. When I did lsmod the driver did not show. After I followed the advice given by Greg and

Re: /.journal, /root-n

2004-06-22 Thread Sudarshana Koushik
Now that you mention it, I too checked and there are two files in / -rw---1 root root 33554432 May 12 15:19 .journal -rw---1 root root 1274 May 29 08:45 .viminfo .journal just as you said, and file called .viminfo. I have no idea where it came from as i have nev

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.06.22.1529 +0200]: > Don't blame the new 2.6.x kernel for that! I'm experiencing the > same drawback using kernel 2.4.25. In a nutshell, with debian > testing & a logitech optical mouse in my portable PC on > a docking-station I have to go to a consol

Re: KSVG -- How do I use it?

2004-06-22 Thread LeVA
2004. június 22. 17:58, Matias Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > I have a current version of ksvg konqueror and run Debian unstable. Any > > helpers in the audience? > > And where can I get that ksvg ? :)) I've compiled kde 3.2.3 from sources, and I've installed all packages,

Re: startled by what SCREEN can do [was Re: 3 gigs enough?]

2004-06-22 Thread Greg Norris
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 12:24:24AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > screen is truly magic. wonder why i never tried it before? > > start with > > $ screen > > see the license, start hammering away at whatever you hammer > away at. create, edit, delete, munge, craft, invent, devise... > get in

connecting-problems with 3Com509-EtherlinkIII-card

2004-06-22 Thread Palfalvi Richard
Hi folks, I am trying to install SARGE with the Sarge-netinstall-disc on a very old machine (Pent.166MHZ, 4.3GB-Disc, 96MB RAM). In this machine I put an ISA-3Com509-EtherlinkIII-networkcard and want to connect it via my LAN-Server to the internet to get all the necessary packages. Connection f

Re: System clock too fast after kernel upgrade

2004-06-22 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Felix C. Stegerman wrote: Stefano Rivoir wrote: Felix C. Stegerman wrote: I realise this is probably not Debian-specific, but I'm hoping someone on this list can help me out anyway. [...] It's a known problem, both in early -bk and in -mm1. Either wait for -mm2 or look for the right fix, it's be

Re: How to replicate debian system on Local Network?

2004-06-22 Thread Frederik Dannemare
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 04:19:38PM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote: > >>I have a Debian system set up on one PC and would like to replicate > >> it onto another (to eventually replace my Redhat 9.0 system.). > >> > >>What would be the easist way to acc

Re: querying install times on packages

2004-06-22 Thread Rob Benton
Will Trillich wrote: On Mon, Jun 21 at 12:09PM -0500, Rob Benton wrote: Recently I ran into a problem on my machine at home. I had made an update of several packages and something went wrong. What I need is a way to query all installed packages by their install date. I couldn't find any existi

sound problem: "init_module: No such device"

2004-06-22 Thread Nori Heikkinen
hey all, after a reboot, my sound has disappeared. music123 tells me Error: Cannot open device oss. so i look to see if I've got the apporpriate modules in my kernel (which I should have; this never _used_to be a problem!), and, as far as I can tell, I don't. I only have: Module

Re: querying install times on packages

2004-06-22 Thread Nicolas
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 13:44, Rob Benton wrote: > Will Trillich wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 21 at 12:09PM -0500, Rob Benton wrote: > >>Recently I ran into a problem on my machine at home. I had > >>made an update of several packages and something went wrong. > >>What I need is a way to query all instal

MAC address not shown?

2004-06-22 Thread David Piniella
My sarge machine has a weird problem: it's set to DHCP and the DHCP server has the machine's MAC address bound to a particular 10.x.x.x IP; lately another computer has been getting IP conflicts with the same IP, even though it has a different MAC address. Doing an nbtstat -a on the Debian sarge

Re: sound problem: "init_module: No such device"

2004-06-22 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:56:46 -0400 Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hey all, > > after a reboot, my sound has disappeared. music123 tells me > > Error: Cannot open device oss. > > so i look to see if I've got the apporpriate modules in my kernel > (which I should have; this never

Re: Fwd: Re: Going wireless

2004-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:42:09AM -0600, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > Guys, first of all, let me clarify a couple of things. I hail from the > Windows world where you just plug the card, install the drivers and > voila, you're all set. I am just trying to learn about access points and >

Re: System clock too fast after kernel upgrade

2004-06-22 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 22 Jun 2004, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: I realise this is probably not Debian-specific, but I'm hoping someone on this list can help me out anyway. [...] I found the clock was fast (though not as fast as that) with kernel 2.6.6. It also was very difficult to regulate with

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Re: Reserving space for mail on /var

2004-06-22 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:09, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (22/06/04 11:42), Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > I have a quick question - one of the servers that I manage have a > > problem in that /var/log/syslog and /var/log/daemon.log get filled up > > with a message from bind and subsequently bounces all ma

Re: Reserving space for mail on /var

2004-06-22 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:04, Thomas Adam wrote: > Those files are handled by logrotate -- you can get that to delete them on > each rotation. If the file gets bigger than 1gb during the day, will it still rotate it out of existence or does logrotate just run daily? Also, I am not that keen on dele

sources.list and local dir question

2004-06-22 Thread Frank A. Uepping
Hello, I have added a local directory to sources.list: echo "deb file:/usr/local/software/debian stable non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list Further I have created a directory tree: mkdir -p /usr/local/software/debian/stable/non-free and put my .deb files in there. Then I did apt-ge

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