Re: DVD Problem

2004-07-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.07.15.0009 +0200]: > apt-get install smartmontools > smartctl -a /dev/hdc > You will want to set it up to monitor /dev/hda too. Uh, your CD-ROM drives are SMART-capable? None of mine are... SMART support is: Unavailable - Packet Interface Dev

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-07-15 Thread James Foster
Are you just looking for a way to check that the disc is 100% correct, or are you actually having problems booting off the burned disc? If it is the latter, you most likely burned it as track-at-once rather than disc-at-once. Which CD burning program are you using? On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:26:40 -0

[Debian-User] NTP problem

2004-07-15 Thread Didar Hussain
Hi, I'm having a problem connecting to the public NTP servers. I have tried clock.redhat.com, time.windows.com (well...uhmm) and ntp.debian.org. I use `ntpdate' to synchronise my system when I connect to the ISP using dial-up. I have been using the "-u" option consistently to query the NTP server

Re: DVD Problem

2004-07-15 Thread John Summerfield
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.07.15.0009 +0200]: apt-get install smartmontools smartctl -a /dev/hdc You will want to set it up to monitor /dev/hda too. Uh, your CD-ROM drives are SMART-capable? None of mine are... SMART support is: Unavailable

Re: [Debian-User] NTP problem

2004-07-15 Thread John Summerfield
Didar Hussain wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem connecting to the public NTP servers. I have tried clock.redhat.com, time.windows.com (well...uhmm) and ntp.debian.org. I use `ntpdate' to synchronise my system when I connect to the ISP using dial-up. I have been using the "-u" option consistently to

Re: setup euro symbol problems

2004-07-15 Thread Juha Siltala
On 2004-07-14, Koos Vriezen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having some trouble getting the euro symbol, mainly finding documentation There is an Euro-HOWTO. > about this issue actually. I've installed euro-support and according to this There are several packages: euro-support, euro-support-co

Re: gswitchit of X server problem?

2004-07-15 Thread Alfonso Muñoz-Pomer Fuentes
Hi, I've just read your mail about gswitchit keyboard layouts regarding Spanish input. I've seen that you have also an address from Japan, so maybe you're trying to have both Japanese and Spanish keyboard layouts. My case is the same (Debian unstable, GNOME 2.6). Have you solved your problem yet?

Re: Mozilla Thunderbird wierd .....

2004-07-15 Thread Alexander Sack
If moving your whole profile directory (e.g. mv .mozilla-thunderbird .mozilla-thunderbird.sav) does not help, It does help; yes. After a restart the offending thingy is gone. So I moved it back, restarted again, and it is back. But I have all my mails in there and can't pos

Re: a policy question about stable

2004-07-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > >> I know testing(sarge) has delayed updates than stable/sid. My >> question is when sarge gets into stable and such problems occur, >> how do things get accomplished ? >> Does packages like gaim and others remain unusable or their

enable duplex

2004-07-15 Thread Jacob Friis Larsen
I have a HP ProLiant DL140 with Integrated Dual Broadcom 10/100/1000 NICs. Am I correct that duplex means that I can use the two jacks as one? If so, do I enable it like this: ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off What happens if one of the jacks suddenly is not connected? Thanks, Jacob

Re: enable duplex / Ethernet bonding

2004-07-15 Thread Dave Howorth
Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: I have a HP ProLiant DL140 with Integrated Dual Broadcom 10/100/1000 NICs. Am I correct that duplex means that I can use the two jacks as one? Duplex means that the interface can send and receive information at the same time. It can be used on switched networks. It cannot

Re: SOLVED Re: How to build alsa-modules from source?

2004-07-15 Thread Matthijs
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 06:00:08 +0200, "Arne Götje (???)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Found it myself. > > Cheers > Arne In case anyone else can use this: I've used http://www.d.kth.se/~d98-jas/debian/debian-install-alsa.txt a few times to compile alsa myself. -- Matthijs [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: enable duplex

2004-07-15 Thread Robert William Hutton
Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: I have a HP ProLiant DL140 with Integrated Dual Broadcom 10/100/1000 NICs. Am I correct that duplex means that I can use the two jacks as one? Nah, duplex means that the NIC can transmit and receive at the same time. You'll have a duplex connection if you're connected to

Re: enable duplex

2004-07-15 Thread Joost De Cock
On Thursday 15 July 2004 11:00, Jacob Friis Larsen hurled the following on the wire: > I have a HP ProLiant DL140 with Integrated Dual Broadcom 10/100/1000 NICs. > > Am I correct that duplex means that I can use the two jacks as one? No, I'm affraid not. The 'duplex full' means that the NIC is in

Re: Debian Hangs

2004-07-15 Thread Frederik Dannemare
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 July 2004 12:02, Vijaya S wrote: > Actually in between frequently, > The eth0 goes down and when i run /sbin/ifup i get the following > error: > > SIOCSIFADDR : No such device > SIOCSIFNETMASK:No such device > eth0: error while getting i

Re: How do Kernel updates work on Woody?

2004-07-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:50:29PM +0530, Didar Hussain wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a new Debian user. I want to know how do kernel updates > happen? > > Let me explain: > > I've installed "Woody" on my PC. The kernel is the default 2.4.18-bf2.4 > There have been certain recent kernel vulnerabilities.

Debian testing/unstable and LVM?

2004-07-15 Thread Arne Götje (高盛華)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, are there any success stories using LVM 1/2 (?) on Debian testing/unstable? I'm planning to use it on a production machine (fresh installed), which I can only manage from remote via ssh. The machine will have one 80 GB IDE HD and will func

Non-Delivery Notification

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Slow networking/performance

2004-07-15 Thread Robert S
I've just installed deb 3.0-r2 on our office network. I'm going to use it as a "headless" server for printing, email, secure shell and web access. The remainder of the office PCs run Windows. There's no GUI stuff installed. I did the installation at home and moved it to work. The IP address ran

Re: enable bonding

2004-07-15 Thread Jacob Friis Larsen
Joost De Cock wrote: On Thursday 15 July 2004 11:00, Jacob Friis Larsen hurled the following on the wire: I have a HP ProLiant DL140 with Integrated Dual Broadcom 10/100/1000 NICs. If you want to use both interfaces as one (so that the link stays up if one is disconnected) you need to use bondin

Re: Slow networking/performance

2004-07-15 Thread Joost De Cock
On Thursday 15 July 2004 12:05, Robert S hurled the following on the wire: ... > Since I moved the PC to work (a K6-2) it has been excruciatingly slow on > the network. The following actions are slow: > > ssh access using PuTTY on Windows client (long delay between username and > password prompt,

Re: file descriptor 0 (zero)

2004-07-15 Thread Wayne Topa
John Summerfield([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > leela wrote: > John Why are you doing this? From: John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 07:07:31 +0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <--? Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <--? Or do I have mutt scre

Need help, superblock on reiserfs corrupt

2004-07-15 Thread FAU
Hello, my Debian (stable version) crashed and has corrupted my reiserfs partion. Can´t boot/mount it anymore :(. I started Knoppix from CD and I tried reiserfsck /dev/hda2 and it tolds me: "If the partition table has not been changed, and the partition is valid and it really contains a reiser

Re: how to write a script that recursively check files in a directory with md5sum

2004-07-15 Thread Sturla Holm Hansen
John Summerfield wrote: Matthias Czapla wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 09:05:54AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: I don't use -exec on find any more because it's slow. When you pipe the names into xargs as I do, then spaces cause the problem I described. Well, until now I didnt even know a

Re: How do Kernel updates work on Woody?

2004-07-15 Thread Sturla Holm Hansen
Didar Hussain wrote: Hi, I'm a new Debian user. I want to know how do kernel updates happen? Let me explain: I've installed "Woody" on my PC. The kernel is the default 2.4.18-bf2.4 There have been certain recent kernel vulnerabilities. I'm sure these got patched. Then why is that when I do a `apt

Re: [Debian-User] NTP problem

2004-07-15 Thread John Hasler
John Summerfield writes: > If you think your ISP's blocking it, why not > a) Ask your ISP whether it provides an NTP or simple NTP server? > b) Ask your ISP whether if does block NTP traffic. It is generally very difficult to reach anyone at an ISP that knows what an NTP server is. Just try using

Re: Novell Linux Resource Kit Offer

2004-07-15 Thread adcarlson
I jumped right on the bandwagon the first email I heard of this thing (about a month ago). I emailed a friend at the same time, and with the lag of about a day or so, the site blocked up with people trying to sign up for it. Nevertheless mine came in late last week...3 nice DVDs...Now I can switc

Re: Need help, superblock on reiserfs corrupt

2004-07-15 Thread John Summerfield
FAU wrote: Hello, my Debian (stable version) crashed and has corrupted my reiserfs partion. Can´t boot/mount it anymore :(. I started Knoppix from CD and I tried reiserfsck /dev/hda2 and it tolds me: "If the partition table has not been changed, and the partition is valid and it really contain

Re: file descriptor 0 (zero)

2004-07-15 Thread John Summerfield
Wayne Topa wrote: John Summerfield([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: leela wrote: John Why are you doing this? From: John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 07:07:31 +0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <--? Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <--? Or d

Re: Slow networking/performance

2004-07-15 Thread Robert S
> > Since I moved the PC to work (a K6-2) it has been excruciatingly slow on > > the network. The following actions are slow: > It seems to be a name resolution issue to me. Are you sure that you've > configured the correct DNS server in resolv.conf (it says 192.168.0.1). > Make sure it does dns

Re: any last words before I install kernel 2.6?

2004-07-15 Thread John van Spaandonk
On Wednesday 14 July 2004 11:39, John Summerfield wrote: > John van Spaandonk wrote: > >On Tuesday 13 July 2004 01:29, Dan Jacobson wrote: > >>Any last words before I > >># apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-k7 > >>on my home (sid) PC? > >> > >>Will things break that used to work in 2.4? > > > >I sti

Re: any last words before I install kernel 2.6?

2004-07-15 Thread John van Spaandonk
On Wednesday 14 July 2004 11:25, LeVA wrote: > 2004. július 14. 11:07, > John van Spaandonk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > So for me it is difficult to try out 2.6 because of these changes. > > > > I guess if I have a good solution for the eth0 eth1 problem I > > will try and mov

Re: how to write a script that recursively check files in a directory with md5sum

2004-07-15 Thread John Summerfield
Sturla Holm Hansen wrote: BTW, what are all those files in your home directory? I have only about 14000 and thought that this is the biggest mess ever ;) Oh, stuff. source of debs, built and otherwise. CVS checkouts of stuff. Documents. Photos (see my sig for some). IBM operating systems. Lot

Re: file descriptor 0 (zero)

2004-07-15 Thread John Summerfield
John Summerfield wrote: It's not your dog. What I try to remember to do is "replay-all." Then, because I don't like personal replies, I remove off-list recipients. That often leaves the only recipient header being cc: It may be that tbird gets confused at that point. It doesn't complain, but it

Re: any last words before I install kernel 2.6?

2004-07-15 Thread John Summerfield
John van Spaandonk wrote: If your NICs use different drivers, use alias to load them: alias eth0 3c59x alias eth1 ee100 For more info: man modprobe.conf -- well, I have two realtek cards, which use the same driver. So I guess this will not work. :-) You could always replace a card. Let's ta

Re: Slow networking/performance

2004-07-15 Thread Joost De Cock
On Thursday 15 July 2004 14:33, Robert S hurled the following on the wire: > > > Since I moved the PC to work (a K6-2) it has been excruciatingly slow > > > on the network. The following actions are slow: > > > > It seems to be a name resolution issue to me. > Many thanks. Unfortunately I won't

NTP IP via DHCP (using dhcp3-client)

2004-07-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
I'm trying to get my laptop to use whichever NTP server is specified via DHCP and not having much luck. I have heard that dhcpcd will automatically rewrite your ntp.conf if it receives NTP info via DHCP, but I would prefer to stick with the ISC version of DHCP if at all possible. I've found the dhc

df shows negative blocks...

2004-07-15 Thread J. van der Horst
Hi ther, when I run 'df' I get a negative block size: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2-802259910193 1 0 34% / fsck: fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hda2: clean, 61441/389376 files, 253218/778176 blocks

ping server

2004-07-15 Thread debian user
i would like to set up a ping server for my office. I however have not found a simple way of recieving a responce of "dead" or "alive". I am not to concerned about time etc? I just want to ping a few servers and then send the results out in a email to a few key personal. Right now I am doin

Re: ping server

2004-07-15 Thread Martin Seebach
debian user wrote: i would like to set up a ping server for my office. I however have not found a simple way of recieving a responce of "dead" or "alive". I am not to concerned about time etc? I just want to ping a few servers and then send the results out in a email to a few key personal.

vi globally append question

2004-07-15 Thread Sean
hi all, i have a file like; # one 123 and i would like to APPEND a # at the beginning of each line which is not started with a # . how can i do it with vi or ed, so far, i 've tried; :%s/^[a-z]:[0-9]/#/g but this would CHANGE the first character of each line to a hash, pls help. thks in advan

Re: apt-get update:"Dynamic MMap ran out of room"

2004-07-15 Thread Jochen Demuth
Thomas Adam wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 06:33:07PM +0200, Jochen Demuth wrote: | E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room And to think I was only talking about FAQs recently. Sigh, sigh, sigh. -- Thomas Adam What is it that you are trying to say? Thank you Derrick, I will try with the corrected confi

Re: vi globally append question

2004-07-15 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 06:49:20AM -0700, Sean wrote: > hi all, > > i have a file like; > > # one 123 > > and i would like to APPEND a # at the beginning of each line 'append' means to add to the end. It is impossible to append to the beginning of something. > which is not started with a # . h

Re: vi globally append question

2004-07-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:24:32AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: | On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 06:49:20AM -0700, Sean wrote: | > hi all, | > | > i have a file like; | > | > # one 123 | > | > and i would like to APPEND a # at the beginning of each line | | 'append' means to add to the end. It is imposs

Mozilla Update Questions

2004-07-15 Thread Ed Sutherland
I have a couple questions about Mozilla-Firefox and Mozilla-Thunderbird for the ppc. 1. I updated Thunderbird and the my settings (including mail) were overwritten. To prevent this from happening in the future, what steps need I take? 2. I understand the Mozilla package folks recently reinstat

RE: vi globally append question

2004-07-15 Thread David Turetsky
> -Original Message- > From: Sean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 9:49 AM > To: debian-user > Subject: vi globally append question > > hi all, > > i have a file like; > > # > one > 123 > > and i would like to APPEND a # at the beginning of > each line which is

Re: df shows negative blocks...

2004-07-15 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:44:42 +0200, J. van der Horst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi ther, > > when I run 'df' I get a negative block size: > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda2-802259910193 1 0 34% / > > fsck: > > fsck 1

Re: vi globally append question

2004-07-15 Thread Steve Lamb
David Turetsky wrote: >>:%s/^[a-z]:[0-9]/#/g > Try something like: > %g!/^#/s/^/#/ Personally I'd do it this way: %s/\(.*\)/#\1/g I know there are more concise ways to do it but this at least shows why the approach the OP took was not working. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'

Re: Mozilla Update Questions

2004-07-15 Thread Zachary Rizer
Not sure what the status is of printing from Mozilla, but I know it's horribly broken. I thought I should point something out to you regarding thunderbird, though. In .7.1, they changed the profile directory. You'll find that, previously, you had a ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/default.xlf directory.

gnumeric Fatal error

2004-07-15 Thread Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar
Hi guys, I just installed (via apt-get install) gnumeric, but it crashes when I run it. It displays the following error: "Fatal error: Cannot allocate memory" Is this the correct list to report this? What other information can I supply? I am running sarge (I think). Perhaps, part of the p

RE: vi globally append question

2004-07-15 Thread David Turetsky
David Turetsky wrote: >>:%s/^[a-z]:[0-9]/#/g > Try something like: > %g!/^#/s/^/#/ > Steve Lamb replied: >Personally I'd do it this way: >%s/\(.*\)/#\1/g David responded: Steve's approach would put a # in the front of ALL lines whether or not they initially contain an existi

Re: file descriptor 0 (zero)

2004-07-15 Thread Wayne Topa
John Summerfield([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Wayne Topa wrote: > > >John Summerfield([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > > >>leela wrote: > >> > >> > >> > > > >John > > > >Why are you doing this? > > > >From: John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Date: Th

Re: file descriptor 0 (zero)

2004-07-15 Thread Wayne Topa
John Summerfield([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > John Summerfield wrote: > > >> > > > >It's not your dog. > > > >What I try to remember to do is "replay-all." > >Then, because I don't like personal replies, I remove off-list > >recipients. That often leaves the only recipient heade

Re: Mozilla Update Questions

2004-07-15 Thread Jacob S.
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:47:57 + Ed Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2. I understand the Mozilla package folks recently reinstated the > postscript printing option. (I need this so I can print from Firefox > to my USB printer -- using kprint.) I updated, but there is still no > postscr

Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread David A. Cobb
Hi! I purchased a CD set of "Debian 3.0 "Woody" Official" and started to install it. First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian archive has nVidia patches for 2.4.26. My plan is to go to .26, but in t

Re: vi globally append question

2004-07-15 Thread Steve Lamb
David Turetsky wrote: > Steve's approach would put a # in the front of ALL > lines whether or not they initially contain an existing > # to begin with Oh, uh, whoops. :) Well, at least he'd see the \(.*\) and \1 move the text over and hopefully know to take the set he constructed, plac

Re: BLIST_NOT_LOCKABLE flag

2004-07-15 Thread Alan Stern
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Matthew Wheeler wrote: > Alan, > Came across some old messages on mailing lists with people having > the exact same problems with their panasonic cameras (different models > than mine) under 2.6 linux. > > DMC-F1 > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.har

SENDER ! Virus found in message from you !

2004-07-15 Thread edv
You sent to user [EMAIL PROTECTED] message with VIRUS . == KAV Report: == information.zip archive: ZIP information.zip/information.txt.exe infected: I-Worm.NetSky.b == Bye ! -- To U

kernel panic

2004-07-15 Thread Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar
Hi guys, I am trying to install the kernel 2.6.6, so I downloaded it, compiled it and installed it, but, when I boot I get a whole bunch of errors. Unfortunately I haven't been able to grab all the messages it displays while booting, but the last ones I see on the screen show the following: modp

Re: courier-imap-ssl "server disconnect" error behind firewall

2004-07-15 Thread Vadik
Chris wrote: On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 16:33, Vadik wrote: I use courier-imap-ssl and I have mozilla connection to a few accounts at the same time, so my MAXPERIP=40. With this setup I have absolutely no problem from home, but from the work I often get "server disconnect" error. I think that fi

Re: courier-imap-ssl "server disconnect" error behind firewall

2004-07-15 Thread Vadik
Greg Folkert wrote: I use courier-imap-ssl and I have mozilla connection to a few accounts at the same time, so my MAXPERIP=40. With this setup I have absolutely no problem from home, but from the work I often get "server disconnect" error. I think that firewall at my work is a problem, but is

Re: NTP IP via DHCP (using dhcp3-client)

2004-07-15 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Alex Malinovich said on Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:41:48AM -0500: > I'm trying to get my laptop to use whichever NTP server is specified via > DHCP and not having much luck. I have heard that dhcpcd will > automatically rewrite your ntp.conf if it receives NTP info via DHCP, > but I would prefer to st

Can't play audio CDs with XMMS

2004-07-15 Thread Bill Wohler
I just installed a new Sarge system and went to play an audio CD like I always do by clicking on the open button and entering /dev/cdrom in the textfield and hitting enter. However, the dialog goes away but the UI doesn't do anything. XMMS plays MPEGS just fine, and gnome-cd plays CDs. Thoughts?

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Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Kent West
David A. Cobb wrote: First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian archive has nVidia patches for 2.4.26. My plan is to go to .26, but in the meanwhile I can't use X Windows and I can't access my NIC, so all t

Re: any last words before I install kernel 2.6?

2004-07-15 Thread CW Harris
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:02:05PM +0200, John van Spaandonk wrote: > On Wednesday 14 July 2004 11:39, John Summerfield wrote: > > John van Spaandonk wrote: > > >On Tuesday 13 July 2004 01:29, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > >>Any last words before I > > >># apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-k7 > > >>on my

Re: Can't play audio CDs with XMMS

2004-07-15 Thread Jacob S.
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:21:07 -0700 Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed a new Sarge system and went to play an audio CD like > I always do by clicking on the open button and entering /dev/cdrom in > the textfield and hitting enter. > > However, the dialog goes away but the UI

Re: Can't play audio CDs with XMMS

2004-07-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/07/04 09:21), Bill Wohler wrote: > I just installed a new Sarge system and went to play an audio CD like I > always do by clicking on the open button and entering /dev/cdrom in the > textfield and hitting enter. > > However, the dialog goes away but the UI doesn't do anything. > > XMMS pla

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-15, David A. Cobb penned: [snip] I don't have the brain power right now to answer your question about kernels ... so moving on ... > I need to pass things back-and-forth between Linux and Windoze. I > see references to VFAT FS on the web site, but for the life of me, > I

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Ryan Waye
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:19:03 -0400, David A. Cobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > I purchased a CD set of "Debian 3.0 "Woody" Official" and started to > install it. > First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD > is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 an

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Zachary Rizer
Aye, it does sound like you have quite a mess on your hands. My personal _recommendation_ (do not take this as law) would be to start from scratch, and use one of the beta Sarge installers. You'll find Sarge far more up-to-date, with support for 2.6 kernels and Nforce chipsets right out the gate.

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Zachary Rizer
You really shouldn't run apt-* without apt-update, first, by the way. --- Ryan Waye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:19:03 -0400, David A. Cobb > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > I purchased a CD set of "Debian 3.0 "Woody" > Official" and started to > > install it. > >

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Jacob S.
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:08:14 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David A. Cobb wrote: > > > First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD > > is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian > > archive has nVidia patches for 2.4.26. My plan is to go

Re: ALSA / C-Media 8738 - module installed twice?

2004-07-15 Thread Ryan Waye
apt-get remove all of your sound packages and reinstall them, then see what happens. On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:43:00 +0200, Martin Seebach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting my C-Media 8738 PCI to work under ALSA. > It is working with OSS, but there is a bug in the XMMS

Re: vi globally append question

2004-07-15 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 06:49:20 PDT, Sean writes: >and i would like to APPEND a # at the beginning of >each line which is not started with a # . how can i do >it with vi or ed, so far, i 've tried; > >:%s/^[a-z]:[0-9]/#/g > >but this would CHANGE the first character of each line >to a hash, pls help.

Re: how to write a script that recursively check files in a directory with md5sum

2004-07-15 Thread Matthias Czapla
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:54:59AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > >BTW, what are all those files in your home directory? I have only > >about 14000 and thought that this is the biggest mess ever ;) > > Oh, stuff. source of debs, built and otherwise. CVS checkouts of stuff. > Documents. Photos (s

LPRng, Debian, and OS X

2004-07-15 Thread Jim McCloskey
I have a Debian (testing) box which runs LPRng version 3.8.27-1 as its printer spooler. I have set up /etc/hosts.lpd and /etc/lprng/lpd.perms so that this box will handle print-requests from the laptops that are also part of the home network (the printer is connected to the parallel port of the D

Re: gnumeric Fatal error

2004-07-15 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:00:08 +0200, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > I just installed (via apt-get install) gnumeric, but it crashes when I > run it. > > It displays the following error: > >"Fatal error: Cannot allocate memory" It runs in sid, I've had to uprgrade for just this reason.

Re: how to write a script that recursively check files in a directory with md5sum

2004-07-15 Thread Matthias Czapla
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:18:55PM +0200, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote: > Since I'm kinda new at this I just have to ask what's wrong with a > for-loop.. > To slow? Depends on what you do in the loop's body. > I have no idea, but I use something like this to recurse down a tree and > do something wit

Re: How do Kernel updates work on Woody?

2004-07-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:50:29PM +0530, Didar Hussain wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a new Debian user. I want to know how do kernel updates > happen? > > Let me explain: > > I've installed "Woody" on my PC. The kernel is the default 2.4.18-bf2.4 > There have been certain recent kernel vulnerabilities.

Re: vi globally append question

2004-07-15 Thread Matthias Czapla
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:05:32AM -0400, David Turetsky wrote: > > i have a file like; > > > > # > > one > > 123 > > > > and i would like to APPEND a # at the beginning of > > each line which is not started with a # . how can i do > > it with vi or ed, so far, i 've tried; > > > > :%s/^[a-z]:[0

help on Keyboard language..

2004-07-15 Thread Lorenzo Rossi
Hi, when I installed debian I setup my keyboard with italian layout. After an apt-get upgrade I loose the keyboard settings..how can I restore the correct language? thanks Lorenzo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: courier-imap-ssl "server disconnect" error behind firewall

2004-07-15 Thread Chris
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 18:44, Vadik wrote: > Chris wrote: > > >On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 16:33, Vadik wrote: > > > > > >>I use courier-imap-ssl and I have mozilla connection to a few accounts > >>at the same time, so my MAXPERIP=40. With this setup I have absolutely > >>no problem from home, but f

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello David A. Cobb (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I purchased a CD set of "Debian 3.0 "Woody" Official" and started > to install it. > First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD > is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian > archive has nVidia p

help

2004-07-15 Thread Yvonnex1x
hi i cant get on to lookitsme and iv had lots of e-mails and i cant see them coz i cant got on web site and i realy like the web site its the best iv ever been on the only thing i dont like about it is that i cant get back on since i did my profile so can u plz help me  my user name is yvonne cri

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Kent West
Jacob S. wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:08:14 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; You might be able to get your network working, in which case you won't need to reboot into Windows. Actually, he mentions nVidia hardware a

Re: vi globally append question

2004-07-15 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:06:07PM -0400, David Turetsky wrote: > > David Turetsky wrote: > > >>:%s/^[a-z]:[0-9]/#/g > > > Try something like: > > > %g!/^#/s/^/#/ > > > Steve Lamb replied: > > >Personally I'd do it this way: > >%s/\(.*\)/#\1/g > > David responded: > > Steve's ap

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread anlace
> --- "David A. Cobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > I purchased a CD set of "Debian 3.0 "Woody" > > Official" and started to > > install it. > > First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the > > Official kernel on the CD > > is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 > > and the

Re: LPRng, Debian, and OS X

2004-07-15 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:20:19AM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: } I have a Debian (testing) box which runs LPRng version 3.8.27-1 as its } printer spooler. } } I have set up /etc/hosts.lpd and /etc/lprng/lpd.perms so that this box } will handle print-requests from the laptops that are also part of

Re: vi globally append question

2004-07-15 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:45:26PM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:05:32AM -0400, David Turetsky wrote: > > > i have a file like; > > > > > > # > > > one > > > 123 > > > > > > and i would like to APPEND a # at the beginning of > > > each line which is not started with a

/proc/bus/usb directory is empty

2004-07-15 Thread Tom Brown
Hi, I have two machines that are identical in hardware. One is running RH 8.0 (kernel 2.4.18) and the other is running Debian Woody (kernel 2.4.26). The machine running RH 8.0 shows all the USB ports in /proc/bus/usb. However, on the machine running Debian, the /proc/bus/usb directory is empty.

Re: /proc/bus/usb directory is empty

2004-07-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
Is the following in /etc/fstab? none/proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL

Re: setup euro symbol problems

2004-07-15 Thread Koos Vriezen
Juha Siltala wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 09:44:51PM +0200, Koos Vriezen wrote: > > > > I'm having some trouble getting the euro symbol, mainly finding documentation > > about this issue actually. I've installed euro-support and according to this > > docu, for Xfree 4.1 (I have debian/testing

Re: How do Kernel updates work on Woody?

2004-07-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:42:50AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:50:29PM +0530, Didar Hussain wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm a new Debian user. I want to know how do kernel updates > > happen? > > > > Let me explain: > > > > I've installed "Woody" on my PC. The kernel is

Re: vi globally append question

2004-07-15 Thread Matthias Czapla
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:25:52PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:45:26PM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:05:32AM -0400, David Turetsky wrote: > > > > i have a file like; > > > > > > > > # > > > > one > > > > 123 > > > > > > > > and i would li

LILO 010101 error

2004-07-15 Thread Daniel Figueira
I am trying to install the bare minimum of woody bf2.4. I have the following partitions on my hard drive: hda1 windows - 80GB - NTFS hdc1 /boot - 25MB - ext3 hdc2 /home - 05GB - ext3 hdc3 / - 25GB - ext3 hdc4 /swap - rest of hd I have chosen to place lilo on hdc. I configured my BIOS t

Re: help

2004-07-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 13:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi i cant get on to lookitsme and iv had lots of e-mails and i cant > see them coz i cant got on web site and i realy like the web site its > the best iv ever been on the only thing i dont like about it is that i > cant get back on since i did

Re: df shows negative blocks...

2004-07-15 Thread J. van der Horst
>Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > It is possible that the filesystem is not really clean, even though it > is not marked as such. Try running 'e2fsck -f -v -C0 /dev/hda2' > Hopefully, that should sort the matter out. > > Regards, > Raj Kiran e2fsck found nothing strange... :s Gr, j00s

Re: cdparanoia rips all zeros

2004-07-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 23:17, John Krasnay wrote: > Thanks, Greg. cdda2wav is working much better. > > I'd still be interested if anyone had insight into why cdparanoia would > suddenly and permanently stop working, right in the middle of a rip, > after months of flawless performance. Umm... It Br

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread listcomm
> I need to pass things back-and-forth between Linux and Windoze. I > see references to VFAT FS on the web site, but for the life of me, I > can't find a trace of the software. It's really bad to have to play > games with tar at both sides of the route in order not to munge up the > "magi

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