Re: DRI, working somewhat? But ...

2004-07-05 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 04 July 2004 19:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the output of 'glxinfo'? Look at the top four lines. OK. Here follows the glxinfo output, apparently fairly typical for a mach64 card. Actually, Tuxracer (full screen) runs perfectly! However, gl117 (full screen) comes up with a l

Re: L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-05 Thread David Baron
Such things will sometimes require removable of the old (invalid or corrupted) boot record and placement of a fresh one. Lilo can do all this, check the man or ---help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's the diff between 'aptitude upgrade' and 'aptitude dist-upgrade'?

2004-07-05 Thread dircha
cwinl wrote: hi all, i'm confused about several aptitude param. thank you all. I see that while dist-upgrade is documented in the aptitude documentation, it is not mentioned in the manual page. The aptitude manual page references the apt-get manual page ('man apt-get'). I suggest you take a look

Re: DRI, working somewhat? But ...

2004-07-05 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 09:52:18AM +0300, David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 04 July 2004 19:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > What is the output of 'glxinfo'? Look at the top four lines. > > OK. Here follows the glxinfo output, apparently fairly typical for a mach64 > card. > > Actually, Tuxracer

Re: apt-get dselect-upgrade

2004-07-05 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 09:31:07PM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > > Sam Halliday wrote: > > > hi there, > > > > > > when i first installed debian i tried to bring over my list of packages > > > using`dpkg --set-selections`, but i ended up just using aptitude and > > > starting

Re: kppp problem

2004-07-05 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Tadek (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am having a problem with KPPP (2.1.4 KDE 3.2.2 sarge distribution). > The same connection using command line utility (pppconfig and pon) > works just fine. With KPPP program attempts to connect (login > script's debug window displays series of AT comm

Re : L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-05 Thread Owen Jones
Hi, tried using the rescue disk but it through up this error :Kernel Panic : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 3a:05 The lilo error cant of been caused by me using bitmaps this was a new install I like david barons idea, there may well be corrupt boot records, this thing is messed up from tr

what do I do when depmod fails and I KNOW the drivers are valid?

2004-07-05 Thread dking
depmod is failing for my sparc based install of debian stable. I know the modules in question (asterisk drivers for a FXO card) are compiled correctly and should work, but modprobe says they can't be found after install and depmod says they contain unresolved symbols; I don't get it, I’m running s

Re: backing up to ftp server

2004-07-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, [iso-8859-1] Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Vadik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to start backing up to ftp server and I was not able to find > > package which does that. > > > > My only requirement that it should do daily backups and keep last 7 > > backups (or do

Re : L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-05 Thread Owen Jones
If david barron's idea is right that i have a messed up MBR, how would i wipe it clean? you said lilo can do this, in this instalation process? Found this on google http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/view/1959 about cleaning the MBR, do you think that solution could work 4 me?? thanks people!!

modprobe -v snd-seq-oss freezes (sb live! kernel 2.6.5)

2004-07-05 Thread Erik Steffl
alsa used to work on my system, I didn't change anything I think might be related and suddenly the modprobe -v snd-seq-oss freezes. system: debian unstable kernel 2.6.5 (with alsa) I did not change kernel or modules (I checked and there are no new/changed files under /lib/modules/2.6.5

unsubscribe

2004-07-05 Thread Sudhakar V
-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: suspend to disk and sound

2004-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Scetbon Cyril wrote: > I use kernel 2.6.7, and there's no matter when i suspend to disk. > But when I resume, I'm no longer able to hear something. > I've found a solution by compiling support for sound in modules and > reloading all of the modules needed after resume. > > Any other idea to have

Re: what's the diff between 'aptitude upgrade' and 'aptitude dist-upgrade'?

2004-07-05 Thread Enrico Zini
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:22:40AM -0500, dircha wrote: > An equally adequate reference is available as: > /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README ...which is not too hard to paste: aptitude dist-upgrade This command will also attempt to upgrade packages, but it is more aggressive about solving depe

Re: udev question

2004-07-05 Thread John L Fjellstad
Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i would very much like to have a symlink set up by udev (/dev/input/mousemain or > similar) which points to the /dev/input/mouseX unless it has been removed, in > which case it should be pointed to /dev/input/mouse1. > > unfortunately the /dev/input/mouse

Re: what's the diff between 'aptitude upgrade' and 'aptitude dist-upgrade'?

2004-07-05 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 21:02, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:22:40AM -0500, dircha wrote: > > > An equally adequate reference is available as: > > /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README > > ...which is not too hard to paste: > > aptitude dist-upgrade > > This command will also attempt

Re: backing up to ftp server

2004-07-05 Thread Stephen Le
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 01:12:06 -0700 (PDT), Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why ftp? Why not use rsync? > > because rsync doesn't keep a copy of the last set of changes > before it overwrite it ?? Actually, rsync can be used to make incremental backups. Please see: http://www.mikerubel.org

Re: Re : L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-05 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 09:18:32AM +0100, Owen Jones wrote: > Hi, tried using the rescue disk but it through up this error : > Kernel Panic : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 3a:05 > The lilo error cant of been caused by me using bitmaps this was a new install > I like david barons idea, there may

Re: moving an installed Debian system onto RAID-1

2004-07-05 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 13:05:00 MDT, Nate Duehr writes: >>> However, when I boot with "Linux root=/dev/md3 ext3" it can't find a >>> valid ext3/ext2/reiserfs superblock on md(9,3). There's a couple lines >>> right before that that tell me that md is autodetecting RAID arrays >>> (can't copy/pas

add install-script to a boot-cd

2004-07-05 Thread Oliver Braun
Hi, I want to add my own install-script for my own special programm to an original debian boot-cd, so that this script automatically will be started after normal debian installation has been finished. What do i have to do for this? Thanx in advance Regards Oli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: downloaded txt.iso file: how to make a bootable cdimage out of it??

2004-07-05 Thread Jérémie Knuesel
> when I burn this file of about 599 MB with cdrecord and i mount this > file the only thing i see is < debian xxx.iso > I don't know what's going on but instead of wasting CD-Rs you can mount the iso file directly with the loop device. For example, instead of burning the iso you can do: mount fi

Re: Re : L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-05 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Owen Jones on Monday, 2004-07-05 at 09:18:32 +0100: > Hi, tried using the rescue disk but it through up this error : > Kernel Panic : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 3a:05 > The lilo error cant of been caused by me using bitmaps this was a new install > I like david barons idea, there may we

how to use Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 in Woody

2004-07-05 Thread askar
Hello! I use Woody, 2.4.18-bf2.4. It is known that xfree4.1 which is stable in Woody doesn't support GeForce4 MX 440. In mailing list archive I found http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/05/msg01883.html, Trying to install nvidia-kernel-common and nvidia-kernel-source, the system gives error

how to use Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 in Woody

2004-07-05 Thread askar
Hello! I use Woody, 2.4.18-bf2.4. It is known that xfree4.1 which is stable in Woody doesn't support GeForce4 MX 440. In mailing list archive I found http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/05/msg01883.html, Trying to install nvidia-kernel-common and nvidia-kernel-source, the system gives error

Re: Original packages & dependencies

2004-07-05 Thread Vittorio
Thanks for the detailed suggestions. Vittorio On Friday 02 July 2004 17:42, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 17:14:07 +0200 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Under debian testing I have installed the texlive version of tetex (I > > mean the tetex version coming with www.tug.org DVD) beca

Compaq Armada 1592DT Sound

2004-07-05 Thread John Muller
Hello, NG, i've installed over the inet/apt-get debian sarge (kernels 2.4.x and 2.2.x). The system is up and running - the only problem i have is that the sound card has not been detected ... It is a laptop, P1 133 mhz, 32 MB RAM. The sound card is Soundblaster compatible ... well, google retur

Re: how to use Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 in Woody

2004-07-05 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello askar (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I use Woody, 2.4.18-bf2.4. > It is known that xfree4.1 which is stable in Woody doesn't support > GeForce4 MX 440. > In mailing list archive I found > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/05/msg01883.html, > Trying to install nvidia-kernel-common an

Re: Compaq Armada 1592DT Sound

2004-07-05 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, John Muller wrote: > Hello, NG, > > i've installed over the inet/apt-get debian sarge (kernels 2.4.x and > 2.2.x). The system is up and running - the only problem i have is that > the sound card has not been detected ... Hi, The output of "lspci" might help a bit. Its intth

RE: how to use Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 in Woody

2004-07-05 Thread askar
Thank you. > > Are the nvidia-kernel-common and nvidia-kernel-source included as a > > stable package? > > They most likely are too old. Get the drivers from Nvidia, or get an > XFree backport. What does it mean to get XFree backport? askar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: xfree86 4.4.0 vs. XOrg?

2004-07-05 Thread John Muller
Thomas Dickey wrote: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --=-=-= Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: --- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So is XOrg driver-compatible with xfree86? What do you mean by "driver compatible"? The changes made are to the modular tree (as you've read

Re: L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-05 Thread Christoph Simon
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 09:04:05 +0100 "Owen Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what the hell is spews.org? the only black list i have is people who im > gonna kill :> Might be your provider. - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (reason: 554 5.7.1

Re: downloaded txt.iso file: how to make a bootable cdimage out of it??

2004-07-05 Thread Chris
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 08:13, steef van duin wrote: > hello out there, > > i should appreciate some illuminating help with the following problem: > > for some reasons i temporarily fell back for work on woody, standard > vanilla kernel. > > yesterday i downloaded an official .iso file from woody

Re: Compaq Armada 1592DT Sound

2004-07-05 Thread John Muller
Rus Foster wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, John Muller wrote: Hello, NG, i've installed over the inet/apt-get debian sarge (kernels 2.4.x and 2.2.x). The system is up and running - the only problem i have is that the sound card has not been detected ... Hi, The output of "lspci" might help a bit. It

Re: backing up to ftp server

2004-07-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya stephen On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Stephen Le wrote: > > > Why ftp? Why not use rsync? > > > > because rsync doesn't keep a copy of the last set of changes > > before it overwrite it ?? > > Actually, rsync can be used to make incremental backups. Please see: > http://www.mikerubel.org/computers

debian kernel: what to do with everything

2004-07-05 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Having compiled my own kernel from a kernel downloaded from ftp.kernel.org or a mirror thereof for years, last night I finally got brave and installed a kernel from DEBIAN sources. this was due in large part to the simple and straightforward howto at www.desktop-linux.net/debkernel.htm. But now

Re: home videos to DVD

2004-07-05 Thread Bill Kalebaugh
H. S. wrote: I am planning to save all the MiniDV tapes (recorded with Sony TRV25 camcorder) on DVDs. I guess to capture the tape data to disk I can use dvgrab or Cinelerra. And for editing and captioning I could use Kino. But how do I record the video on to a DVD? Or if I just want to dump a t

Re: audio on DELL latitude d400 screwed up

2004-07-05 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 10:58:36 +0200, Philipp Weis wrote: > Are you using ALSA or OSS? I have the same notebook and had problems > with the ALSA driver. The OSS driver works fine for me and therefore I > haven't bothered to take a closer look at the ALSA driver. And how do you do that ?? (Using OS

RE: how to use Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 in Woody

2004-07-05 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello askar (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >>> Are the nvidia-kernel-common and nvidia-kernel-source included as a >>> stable package? >> >> They most likely are too old. Get the drivers from Nvidia, or get an >> XFree backport. > What does it mean to get XFree backport? To install XFree 4.2 or 4

Re: kppp problem

2004-07-05 Thread Majid Ziaee
-- Forwarded message -- From: Majid Ziaee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 18:31:46 +0430 Subject: Re: kppp problem To: Tadek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 4 Jul 2004 21:05:41 -0700, Tadek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having a problem with KPPP (2.1.4

RE: how to use Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 in Woody

2004-07-05 Thread Chris
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 13:43, askar wrote: > Thank you. > > > > Are the nvidia-kernel-common and nvidia-kernel-source included as a > > > stable package? > > > > They most likely are too old. Get the drivers from Nvidia, or get an > > XFree backport. > What does it mean to get XFree backport? It

Re: kppp problem

2004-07-05 Thread Majid Ziaee
On 4 Jul 2004 21:05:41 -0700, Tadek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having a problem with KPPP (2.1.4 KDE 3.2.2 sarge distribution). > The same connection using command line utility (pppconfig and pon) > works just fine. With KPPP program attempts to connect (login > script's debug window displa

Re: postfix + amavisd-new + clamscan

2004-07-05 Thread German Gutierrez
> I suspect that the best thing for me to do at this point is to discard > the Debian postfix readme for amavisd-new and RTFM for postfix and work > it out on that list. Once understood, post a bugreport on clarification > of the documentation. As it is, this is a non-functional installation. >

How do i configure XF86Config-4 for a iD865glc desktop system

2004-07-05 Thread Eric van Rheenen
Hello, I have a PC with an Intel D865GLC motherboard and i'm running Debian Linux 2.4.26. I have had some trouble in getting this motherboard to work fine, but now the ide, and ethernet are working as they should. The problem i stil have is how to configure the video chip. Which driver should i

Scrolling beeps while playing music.

2004-07-05 Thread Adam Funk
Whenever I'm playing sound files (using xmms, grip and other applications), the computer adds very short, high-pitched beeps when lines scroll on any visible application. In other words, if I have something spewing a lot of output to an xterm, it beeps a lot if the whole xterm is visible; not at a

Re: backing up to ftp server

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tar zcvf today.tgz `find /etc /home -mtime -7 ( -type f -o -type l ) > -print I think you'll find you'd need to escape the brackets, above. > > Why ftp? Why not use rsync? > > because rsync doesn't keep a copy of the last set of changes > before it o

Re: what do I do when depmod fails and I KNOW the drivers are valid?

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > depmod: ELF file /lib/modules.2.4.18/misc/[filename] not for this > architecture Have up updated the 'module-init=tools' package? If not, do so. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://li

Re: disable boot logo from LILO (kernel boot command line)?

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How come graphics mode? Isn't that called FrameBuffer Mode ? Yes, or "video mode" -- FrameBuffer forces your display to do graphics drawing. It's the only way it can be forced to provide displays at higher resolutions. -- Thomas Adam P.S. This

Re: xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-05 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 00:39:37 - Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > essentially it demands equal treatment - the notion of which is repugant > to some people While (as posts of mine in this list will demonstrate) I'm no big fan of Slashdot, it's easy to see why you don't like it. From

X crashes on video replay

2004-07-05 Thread akintayo holder
Hi, I am having a problem with video replay on Linux, I am running testing with 2.4.19. The problem is that when I attempt to run a video X crashes and restarts, this occurs with GTV and xine. I attempted to delete the .xine directory, and the xine bug report does not seem helpful. There ar

www.apt-get.org

2004-07-05 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, When I go to http://www.apt-get.org/main/, I am getting a weird character set on the screen. I haven't changed my mozilla (1.6) browser since the last time I was there. Is anyone else experiencing this, or do I have to start hunting foe a problem at thi

Re: www.apt-get.org

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Keith O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone else experiencing this, or do I have to start > hunting foe a problem at this end? Yes, it's broken. Try backports.org -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://

Re: www.apt-get.org

2004-07-05 Thread Nico
same thing here (konqueror/kde3.2.3). seems to be a PostgreSQL problem... Le lundi 05 Juillet 2004 17:14, Keith O'Connell a écrit : > Hi, > > When I go to http://www.apt-get.org/main/, I am getting a > weird character set on the screen. I haven't changed my mozilla > (1.6)

Re: X crashes on video replay

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- akintayo holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > are a few error messages, but none that would explain why xine is > killing X, in fact it seems the other way around. Try using another codec. From what I can tell from that, Xine hates it. Are you using Xv, or Xshm ? = "The Linux Weekend Me

apache2 and amavisd-new

2004-07-05 Thread Stefan Vunckx
I wanted to upgrade from apache1.3 to an apache2 environment, but found myself puzzled with the following dependency problem: # apt-get install apache2-common -s Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libmagic1 The followin

Re: xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-05 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 20:13:17 +0200 David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I (think I) have read the previous thread about the license change, but > probably not good enough. Would someone care to explain to me what > exactly is the fuss about the license change? I understand that XFree86 > has

Re: udev question

2004-07-05 Thread Sam Halliday
John L Fjellstad wrote: > Sam Halliday writes: > > i would very much like to have a symlink set up by udev > > (/dev/input/mousemain or similar) which points to the /dev/input/mouseX > > unless it has been removed, in which case it should be pointed to > > /dev/input/mouse1. > > > > unfortunately

Re: www.apt-get.org

2004-07-05 Thread Frédéric Dreier
Keith O'Connell wrote: Hi, When I go to http://www.apt-get.org/main/, I am getting a weird character set on the screen. I haven't changed my mozilla (1.6) browser since the last time I was there. Is anyone else experiencing this, or do I have to start hunting foe

Re: Re: sendmail and procmail , spamassaign

2004-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Amrita Priyadarsini wrote: > I have installed spamassassin & procmail in my system. > However when I try to start the spamd daemon,it gives the following error.. > "Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at > /opt/perl5/lib/5.6.1/Cwd.pm line 92." The problem is that the PATH

Re: backing up to ftp server

2004-07-05 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 14:39:12 -0700, Vadik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to start backing up to ftp server and I was not able to find > package which does that. > > My only requirement that it should do daily backups and keep last 7 > backups (or do incremental backups). Take a look at http:

Re: debian kernel: what to do with everything

2004-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Having compiled my own kernel from a kernel downloaded from ftp.kernel.org > or a mirror thereof for years, last night I finally got brave and > installed a kernel from DEBIAN sources. Many people would say the reverse. That running the distro kernel is the safe thing and

Re: How do i configure XF86Config-4 for a iD865glc desktop system

2004-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Eric van Rheenen wrote: > I have a PC with an Intel D865GLC motherboard and i'm running > Debian Linux 2.4.26. Sounds reasonable. > The problem i stil have is how to configure the video chip. Which > driver should i choose within XF86Config so that the X-Windows system > wil start. I run xf86co

Re : L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-05 Thread Owen Jones
Hi, got the disk working in rescue mode, once i ran that to remount my harddrive it actually ran linux for a bit (however it was command line based so i was lost) but when i rebooted the same error ocured but i think its L 40 now. Can someone give me more detail on how i clean out my MBR? is

Re: Copyright/License of Debian Constitution

2004-07-05 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 22:22:40 -0600, Dwayne C. Litzenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure if this is the right list to ask on, but what's the > copyright/license status of the Debian Constitution? > > http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution > > I'm heading up changes to the con

Re: Re : L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Owen Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, got the disk working in rescue mode, once i ran that to remount my > harddrive it actually ran linux for a bit (however it was command line > based so i was lost) but when i rebooted the same error ocured but i > think its L 40 now. Can someone give

Re: suspend to disk and sound

2004-07-05 Thread Scetbon Cyril
Bob Proulx wrote: There have been changes to the driver architecture with the 2.6 kernel. Not all of the drivers have been fixed up for things like suspending. Until they all do get fixed unloading and reloading the drivers is about the best you can do. OK. let's hope it'll be fixed soon :-) -- T

Re: kppp problem

2004-07-05 Thread Tadek
Andreas. Thank you it worked for me. I guess the question remains why did I have to do it since 'customize pppd arguments...' setting (gui KPPP configuration tool) was noauth? I understand /etc/ppp/options is global for all connection definition. Do you know where particular connection definition

Re: backing up to ftp server

2004-07-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya thomas On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, [iso-8859-1] Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > tar zcvf today.tgz `find /etc /home -mtime -7 ( -type f -o -type l ) > > -print > > I think you'll find you'd need to escape the brackets, above. yes, \( > > > Why ftp? Why no

supermount/Iomega ZIP disc change not recognized

2004-07-05 Thread Francesc Oller
Hi all, I'm running supermount patch v 1.2.11 for kernel 2.4.24. It drives an ATAPI 100MB ZIP unit but disc changes don't get recognized. Floppies work flawlessly, however. I've to do as root: echo "/dev/hdb4 release" >/proc/fs/supermount/subfs in order for "ls /z" to physically read the direct

Re: supermount/Iomega ZIP disc change not recognized

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Francesc Oller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > echo "/dev/hdb4 release" >/proc/fs/supermount/subfs The use of "supermount" is deprecated. It's evil, it continually probes devices for change of disk, and supermount has been buggy in its original concept. Don't use it, look at "autofs", and even t

Re: Re : L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-05 Thread Kent West
Owen Jones wrote: Hi, got the disk working in rescue mode, once i ran that to remount my harddrive it actually ran linux for a bit (however it was command line based so i was lost) but when i rebooted the same error ocured but i think its L 40 now. Can someone give me more detail on how i clean

Re: audio on DELL latitude d400 screwed up

2004-07-05 Thread Philipp Weis
On 05 Jul 2004, Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you using ALSA or OSS? I have the same notebook and had problems > > with the ALSA driver. The OSS driver works fine for me and therefore I > > haven't bothered to take a closer look at the ALSA driver. > > And how do you do that ?? (Us

Re: downloaded txt.iso file: how to make a bootable cdimage out of it??

2004-07-05 Thread steef van duin
Jérémie Knuesel wrote: when I burn this file of about 599 MB with cdrecord and i mount this file the only thing i see is < debian xxx.iso > I don't know what's going on but instead of wasting CD-Rs you can mount the iso file directly with the loop device. For example, instead of burning the i

APM and DPMS not working together

2004-07-05 Thread smjn
Whenever APM puts my computer in supend or standby mode, the monitor will come out of any power saving mode that is in and it will not suspend, standby or go off after that. What could be the cause of this? Before I compiled APM-support into the kernel, the APM BIOS would still work automatically a

Re: home videos to DVD

2004-07-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 08:36:39AM -0500, Bill Kalebaugh wrote: > H. S. wrote: Bill, in the name of all debian users home-movie makers, you deserve recognition in the hall of fame for your good howto. This is a very complete introduction to the trade. Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: APM and DPMS not working together

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Whenever APM puts my computer in supend or standby mode, the monitor > will come out of any power saving mode that is in and it will not > suspend, standby or go off after that. What could be the cause of this? Is this in X11 or at the console, or both? A read of '

Re: kppp problem

2004-07-05 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Tadek (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > >> Tadek (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >> >> > I am having a problem with KPPP (2.1.4 KDE 3.2.2 sarge >> > distribution). The same connection using command line utility >> > (pppconfig and pon) >> > works just

Re : L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-05 Thread Owen Jones
I think i did re run lilo, how would i get to lilo.conf?i am a complete newbie i dont know any linux commands, i still can only get into the cdrom because of this problem im not getting into linux itself   - Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: How do i configure XF86Config-4 for a iD865glc desktop system

2004-07-05 Thread Ricky Clarkson
On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 16:33:59 +0200, Eric van Rheenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a PC with an Intel D865GLC motherboard and i'm running > Debian Linux 2.4.26. > The problem i stil have is how to configure the video chip. Which > driver should i choose within XF86Config so that the X-Wind

Re: Re : L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Owen Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think i did re run lilo, how would i get to lilo.conf?i am a complete > newbie i dont know any linux commands, i still can only get into the > cdrom because of this problem im not getting into linux itself [..skip message.. grr, sodding top-posting.]

jewel for lcd users

2004-07-05 Thread Randall Smith
Found a jewel for lcd users I'd like to share xset dpms force off It turns off your lcd backlight. Moving the mouse turns it back on (on my machine). Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: jewel for lcd users

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Randall Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Found a jewel for lcd users I'd like to share > > xset dpms force off This action is usually the default for some kind of screen-blanking anyway. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor"

Re: Copyright/License of Debian Constitution

2004-07-05 Thread John Hasler
Dwayne C. Litzenberger writes: > I'm not sure if this is the right list to ask on, but what's the > copyright/license status of the Debian Constitution? > > http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution > > I'm heading up changes to the constitution of a local non-profit member > organization,

Re: Re : L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-05 Thread Kent West
Owen Jones wrote: I think i did re run lilo, how would i get to lilo.conf?i am a complete newbie i dont know any linux commands, i still can only get into the cdrom because of this problem im not getting into linux itself Strictly speaking, if you've booted off the Linux kernel, you're "into l

Re: New installation has no GUI [was: Unidentified subject!]

2004-07-05 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 09:11:04PM +0100, JOHN WALL wrote: > could some one help please. Have installed debian GNU v3.0r2(non us) > Everything seemed to go in fine, except for some seek errors which I > assume is normal. Got to user name and password OK. then nothing, > I was expecting some format

Re: disable boot logo from LILO (kernel boot command line)?

2004-07-05 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 03:57:30PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How come graphics mode? Isn't that called FrameBuffer Mode ? > > Yes, or "video mode" -- FrameBuffer forces your display to do graphics > drawing. It's the only way it can be for

Re: New installation has no GUI [was: Unidentified subject!]

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You haven't installed the GUI. Run tasksel (as root) and select "X > Window System" and probably you'll want "Desktop Environment" as well. ... which is bad advice since it will instal; *both* KDE and GNOME. So, somthing a little better is to do the follow

Re: disable boot logo from LILO (kernel boot command line)?

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 03:57:30PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > > --- Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > How come graphics mode? Isn't that called FrameBuffer Mode ? > > > > Yes, or "video mode" -- FrameBuffer forces your display to do

Re: Copyright/License of Debian Constitution

2004-07-05 Thread Travis Crump
John Hasler wrote: Dwayne C. Litzenberger writes: I'm not sure if this is the right list to ask on, but what's the copyright/license status of the Debian Constitution? http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution I'm heading up changes to the constitution of a local non-profit member organizatio

Lilo warning about /dev/mapper/control

2004-07-05 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm seeing this upon running lilo: laptop:/home/moseley# lilo /dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel? /dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel? Incompatible libdevmapper 1.00.17-ioctl (2004-04

Re: home videos to DVD

2004-07-05 Thread H. S.
Bill Kalebaugh wrote: +-+ | DV-to-DVD-HOWTO | +-+ Bill K Thank you so much! This is one of those rare posting of a reply that is so helpful and insightful. This is really a huge glimmer of hope in this home movie making project I have undertaken in Debian

Re: Printing problems with mozilla

2004-07-05 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 02 July 2004 10:07 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: >  In the meantime, Moz 1.6 works just fine when > 'links -g' won't, and still prints when I want it to. Hrm did you compile your own links? Because the version I apt-got didn't seem to have the -g option compiled in. just wondering if there is

Re: APM and DPMS not working together

2004-07-05 Thread smjn
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Whenever APM puts my computer in supend or standby mode, the monitor > will come out of any power saving mode that is in and it will not > suspend, standby or go off after that. What could be the cause of this? Is this in X11 or at the console, or both? A read of 'm

Re: Printing problems with mozilla

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Brad Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hrm did you compile your own links? Because the version I apt-got didn't > seem to have the -g option compiled in. just wondering if there is a > package > I missed . There used to be an unofficial package for it, but the repository seems to have vanis

office suite capable of importing/converting applixware aw & ag files?

2004-07-05 Thread stephen parkinson
got caught by proprietary file formatting :-) my applix was purchased approx 4-5 yrs ago i tgz'd the applix dir and now uncompressed on a libranet 2.8.1 box, applix complains loudly of missing libstdc++ 2.8 libs so do i build & install libstdc++2.8 sources or hope for a open source program that w

Re: xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-05 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 11:33:55AM -0400, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 20:13:17 +0200 > David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I (think I) have read the previous thread about the license change, but > > probably not good enough. Would someone care to explain to me what > > ex

Re: New installation has no GUI [was: Unidentified subject!]

2004-07-05 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 07:52:16PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You haven't installed the GUI. Run tasksel (as root) and select "X > > Window System" and probably you'll want "Desktop Environment" as well. > > ... which is bad advice since it will insta

Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-07-05 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 09:11:04PM +0100, JOHN WALL wrote: > could some one help please. Have installed debian GNU v3.0r2(non us) > Everything seemed to go in fine, except for some seek errors which I > assume is normal. Got to user name and password OK. then nothing, > I was expecting some format

Re: How do i configure XF86Config-4 for a iD865glc desktop system

2004-07-05 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 04:33:59PM +0200, Eric van Rheenen wrote: > Hello, > > I have a PC with an Intel D865GLC motherboard and i'm running > Debian Linux 2.4.26. > > I have had some trouble in getting this motherboard to work fine, but > now the ide, and ethernet are working as they should. >

Re: Copyright/License of Debian Constitution

2004-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:55:28PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > a) Go try and 'reword' a book and try to pass it off as your own. Perfectly legal. Note that WEST SIDE STORY is not ROMEO AND JULIET for copyright purposes. Yes, ROMEO is in public domain ... but WSS is not, which it would be if it

kwiki

2004-07-05 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
I am trying to build a wiki using the kwiki (0.18-2) package. I have some problems with permissions, httpd.conf settings, and speed (where libapache-mod-perl might help, although so far it didn't in my case). Would anybody familiar with the kwiki package be willing to help me sort this out (off

  1   2   >