Debian Woody.

2004-07-01 Thread GEOFF BAGLEY
I now have my Debian GNU/Linux Woody working on the internet using a Netgear ADSL Router/Firewall, and very fine it seems to be. Sometimes howeever, I have to retrieve some of my mail by WebMail from BT Yahoo because it wrongly got classified as spam. My only current problem is my desire for a P

Re: Debian Woody.

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- GEOFF BAGLEY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My only current problem is my desire for a Pascal Compiler. The only > ones > I might wish for > are gpc and fpc, both of which are not found in the "stable" Woody > version. They are, I suspect though you have not got a proper /etc/apt/sources.li

Network Filesystem: NFS or Distributed?

2004-07-01 Thread Mike Mestnik
I was looking into AFS for it's ability to dissconnect. What I found was a database system and other configuration nightmares. I have several home computers and a fue laptops. I have some drive space here and there on the desktops and servers that I could spare for 'a shared network resource'. I

multimedia keys

2004-07-01 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I've a Gericom Blockbuster m2040 XL notebook. On the front side of the case there are some multimedia buttons like the play or forward button for the controll of audio/ video programs. Unfortunately, these buttons don't work with Linux (Debian Sarge) by default and I have no idea how to get th

Re: multimedia keys

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Christian Christmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've a Gericom Blockbuster m2040 XL notebook. On the > front side of the case there are some multimedia buttons > like the play or forward button for the controll of audio/ > video programs. > Unfortunately, these buttons don't work wi

Re: install: kdelibs3 - error in unpacking

2004-07-01 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On torsdag 1. juli 2004, 12:45, Alexandr Rosen wrote: > I am new to linux and debian and kde, and I have a problem > with installing the system - the message > > kdelibs3 - error in unpacking > > occured during install, and "dpkg --configure kdm" says that > errors were encountered while processing

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Brad Sims wrote: > Feel free to take a gander at my .screenrc at: > http://home.insightbb.com/~bmsims1/Scripts/Screenrc.html > > Let me know if anything isn't entirely clear to ya. I wrote this > for plain people like me Hi Brad, in the keybindings section, there's a statement like this: bindke

/dev/dvd problem and question

2004-07-01 Thread Curt Howland
Upgrading to 2.6.6 seems to have disconnected my DVD. xine says it cannot decode DVD, and mplayer gives the following error: - Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars) libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access libdvdread: Could not open /d

Re: /dev/dvd problem and question

2004-07-01 Thread Curt Howland
More information. I tried to mount /cdrom with a DVD in the drive, and these showed up in dmesg: hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: packet command error: error=0x54 cdrom: open failed. And a silly thing seems to be happening: The American DVD's are wo

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 01 July 2004 6:18 pm, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > n the keybindings section, there's a statement like this: > bindkey -k k7 detatch > > Shouldn't it be: bindkey -k k7 detach > > (spelling of detatch?) Indeed it should, sorry. Fixed now... -- "If women knew, if they even had the sli

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 07:03, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alternatively (or in addition), is it easy to start xterms on the > > different virtual desktops - I can specify x,y,w,h but can I specify > > virtual desktop? > > This depends on the window manag

Disabling autoloading of oss sound modules using kernel-2.6.6 and discover2

2004-07-01 Thread Mark C
Hi, I've just upgraded my kernel in unstable to 2.6.6, and it's working great, apart from it loads both the oss kernel drivers and the alsa drivers, using discover for hardware detection. I've done some googling, and can seem to disable a whole bus, but I cannot get discover to stop autoprobing

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 03:02, Thomas Adam wrote: > > try the same tests with gvim in its own window. > > try the same tests with mc in gnome-terminal. > > It's an issue with the way gnome-terminal handles a redraw, that's all. This is true. I have tried many test, and xterm is fine. I just can't

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Re: automounting

2004-07-01 Thread stderr
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 08:56, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I want to be able to have my floppy and cdrom automount. I have enabled > automount support in the kernel and have installed autofs. I have looked > at and tried to follow the information in the autofs man page, the > automount minihowto, http:

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 03:02, Thomas Adam wrote: > > > try the same tests with gvim in its own window. > > > try the same tests with mc in gnome-terminal. > > > > It's an issue with the way gnome-terminal handles a redraw, that's > all. > > This

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 10:20, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 03:02, Thomas Adam wrote: > > > > try the same tests with gvim in its own window. > > > > try the same tests with mc in gnome-terminal. > > > > > > It's an issue with th

Re: Network Filesystem: NFS or Distributed?

2004-07-01 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 01:00:15 +0200, Mike Mestnik wrote: > I see the need for a distributed database and all, what I'm not finding is > a step by step howto. Something on the lines of type this in. I had > installed openafs-fileserver(deb-pkg) on paladen but that didn't seam to > help any. Any on

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 19:00:18 +0200, Will Trillich wrote: > we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases or > settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... we're not > picky. I use a lightly mofified version of Sven Guckes' configuration, the only interesting bits I've got ar

Re: automounting

2004-07-01 Thread Andreas Eichner
Am Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:25:43 -0500 (CDT) schrieb Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > So what do I do to get the module to load and autofs to be running without > having to do it manually?thanks. put "autofs4" on a new line in your /etc/modules. This loads it at boot time and is probably all y

print size from Konqueror & Mozilla

2004-07-01 Thread James Vahn
When I hit the print button on Konqueror, what should be on one sheet of paper gets spread over two or three. Font size too large. Mozilla has the opposite problem- too small. I get a half sheet there. Where is this set up at? thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 11:15, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm thinking of changing though. I do like the GNOME virt. desktop > > pager, panels, and the fact that my Epiphany (gnome's mozilla) windows > > are remembered across reboots. > > That's a fun

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So FVWM is good, by the sound of it? Very: http://www.fvwm.org has lots of information, screenshots, etc. > That's exactly what I would like to do. Are you implying that, if I run > fvwm, I can run multiple virtual desktops (which the gnome pag

Re: /dev/dvd problem and question

2004-07-01 Thread Curt Howland
I have an American DVD of "A Bridge Too Far" which won't decode, not because it cannot be read, but because it goes into a cataleptic loop when trying to (to quote mplayer) "Attempting to get all the keys, this could take a long time". A friend of mine sent me a data DVD+R which just won't be r

Re: print size from Konqueror & Mozilla

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- James Vahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I hit the print button on Konqueror, what should be on one sheet > of paper gets spread over two or three. Font size too large. Mozilla I am pretty certain you can tell KE apps which print routine to use via the Krappy Kcontrol program. > has the

Re: /dev/dvd problem and question

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an American DVD of "A Bridge Too Far" which won't decode, not > because it cannot be read, but because it goes into a cataleptic loop > when trying to (to quote mplayer) "Attempting to get all the keys, > this could take a long time". This

nfs-kernel-server and firewalls

2004-07-01 Thread Tom Allison
I have a box on the DMZ which is running with iptables firewall in place. I would like to mount a directory to one of my workstation computers on the LAN subnet. But I can't seem to specific a single port for the nfs server to lock into and have the nfs client pick it up. What are my options? D

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm thinking of changing though. I do like the GNOME virt. desktop > pager, panels, and the fact that my Epiphany (gnome's mozilla) windows > are remembered across reboots. That's a function of gnome-session. Fvwm allows for you to do exactly what

translation: Re: Necesito ayuda

2004-07-01 Thread Silvan
On Thursday 01 July 2004 03:47 pm, Instituto de Investigaciones Porcinas wrote: > Estimados señores vivo en Cuba y necesito bajar los driver del modem > MT5600ZDXV, los que he encontrado no son gratis. Me podrían indicar algun > sitio de donde bajarlos. Quizás Ud. busca debian-user-spanish... t

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Can I make screen 'copy' its output into xterms scrollback buffer? I find the following lines in my .screenrc: --- # To get screen to add lines to xterm's scrollback buffer, uncomment the # following termcapinfo line which tells xterm to use the normal screen buffer # (which has scrollback), not

Inactive Account

2004-07-01 Thread Joyce_Diedrich
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Re: nfs-kernel-server and firewalls

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are my options? > > Do I have to hard code the port number into the > /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server and the client fstab files and the > iptables script? What about changing the port that portmapper listens on? -- Thomas Adam = "The Lin

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Anyone know how to get the icons of here?: http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops/Klaus_Umbach-1280x1024/screenshot.png http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops/ This desktop looks awesome, but I can't find the icons at kde-look, and I've spent over half an hour looking. tia zen -- To UNSUB

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know how to get the icons of here?: > > http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops/Klaus_Umbach-1280x1024/screenshot.png > http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops/ I believe they're icons distributed with ROX-filer. A persual of the screens

Recommendations on SCSI controller for Debian desktop

2004-07-01 Thread Nick Lidakis
I was looking into replacing the hard disk on my debian box with a 36GB 15k Fujitsu SCSI disk. I was hoping that by doing this I would be able to reduce boot times and increase system responsiveness. I would like to hear about people's experience with SCSI disk on the desktop, and hope they co

Re: nfs-kernel-server and firewalls

2004-07-01 Thread Tom Allison
Thomas Adam wrote: --- Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What are my options? Do I have to hard code the port number into the /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server and the client fstab files and the iptables script? What about changing the port that portmapper listens on? Portmapper sits on one

Re: Squid ACL for Windows Updates failed

2004-07-01 Thread deb_milist
Lucas Albers wrote: [stuff about squid not working for windows update deleted.] I dont' acl limit what users can connect to. Only users on the local domain can use the proxy cache. I use a debian squid proxy for upwards of 3000 clients. Works perfectly, saves tons of bandwidth, and speeds everythin

Ctrl + Shift + A doesn't work correctly

2004-07-01 Thread Tom Allison
I noticed that the Ctrl + Shift + A option under Thunderbird is supposed to select an entire thread. This doesn't seem to work correctly. It does nothing. Alt + A does select everything. Under my WindowMaker WM I can run Ctrl+Shift+M to maximize a window, so I know that the key combination isn

Re: NFS mount very very slow

2004-07-01 Thread James Sinnamon
Dear list subscribers, For the record, the problem is now fixed and nfs works very well. On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:25 pm, James Sinnamon wrote: > At first I thought my command: > >   mount -t nfs 192.168.0.6:/etc /mnt/nfs > > ... had failed.  It seemed to have hanged.  I tried to kill it with > C

program starts with 3 threads

2004-07-01 Thread jono
testing/unstable 2.4.25 i686 When I run a daemon (written for a telephony card) or the expect application which uses the daemon, they both start with 3 processes. I've noticed the same behavior with S20xprint and nautilus. The same daemon and application on redhat9 (2.4.20-8 i686) starts with o

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 12:33, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyone know how to get the icons of here?: > > > > > http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops/Klaus_Umbach-1280x1024/screenshot.png > > http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops/ > > I believe

Re: program starts with 3 threads

2004-07-01 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 16:09, jono wrote: > testing/unstable 2.4.25 i686 > > When I run a daemon (written for a telephony card) or the expect > application which uses the daemon, they both start with 3 processes. > I've noticed the same behavior with S20xprint and nautilus. > > The same daemon a

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - reading about 10% of the nearly 8000 lines of 'man fvwm' That's your own lookout. I never said it was going to be easy. :) Indeed, many of the screenshots listed at the main site have accompanying .fvwm2rc files for you to see. [..snip..] > So

unmount / ?

2004-07-01 Thread William Ballard
Due to various instabilities on my machine which I cannot identity: but possibly due to being overclocked; or instabilities in the fglrx ATI driver; or instabilities in ReiserFS, periodically I get some ReiserFS corruption. I keep a lot of backups. For everything besides /, I can unmount then

Re: Re: program starts with 3 threads

2004-07-01 Thread jono
Thanks Simon, that makes a lot of sense. I've just read the ps man page but cant find out if I can show only processes not threads. Any idea if this is possible or any another tool that could do it? Other than that I suppose a kernel patch or upgrade would do it. Regards, Jono -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: unmount / ?

2004-07-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, William Ballard wrote: > Due to various instabilities on my machine which I cannot identity: but > possibly due to being overclocked; or instabilities in the fglrx ATI > driver; or instabilities in ReiserFS, periodically I get some ReiserFS > corruption. I keep a lot of b

Re: Re: program starts with 3 threads

2004-07-01 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 16:50, jono wrote: > Thanks Simon, that makes a lot of sense. I've just read the ps man page > but cant find out if I can show only processes not threads. Any idea if > this is possible or any another tool that could do it? I'm not personally aware of any easy way to tell

Re: /dev/dvd problem and question

2004-07-01 Thread Alex Derkach
I remember hearing about some kind of region-lock on DVD-ROMs, maybe this could be an example of that (although that wouldnt explain why _some_ japanese DVDs are working...) * Curt Howland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > More information. I tried to mount /cdrom with a DVD in the drive, and > these s

Re: nfs-kernel-server and firewalls

2004-07-01 Thread Tadeusz Bak
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Tom Allison wrote: > Portmapper sits on one port, but it's redirecting the nfs connection all > over the place. I can't seem to nail it down to one set of ports. The rpc services called by portmaper can be binded to specific ports, see man pages for details. To find out wha

Forget the doctor, get meds online 07/01/04

2004-07-01 Thread Tanisha Ferreira
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