RE: Debian on AMD64?

2005-09-21 Thread micobros
Hello,   Yeah, i just installed a couple month ago debian-2.6.8-amd64. It looks pretty stable (at least, didn’t have anything to complain about).   The install with boot cd was pretty easy (didn’t have to do that much). I have amd64 3000+ with sata drive, everything was detected and i

RE: reusing deb files

2005-09-21 Thread micobros
Hello,   Wouldn’t it be easier to install an apt server for his network? Each client machine has the server in the apt sources-list file and request the wanted package from it. If it doesn’t have it, the server will just download it once for everyone.   Maybe he doesn’t have a network

Deskop performance

2005-09-21 Thread Paras pradhan
hi: I am building a custom debian kernel for use in Desktop Systems. I have patched my kernel 2.6.13 using ck patch available at http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ and it is working fine i guess. does any one has url or docs which help me to create the approprite/optimized .config fil

Re: starting irexec in a startup script

2005-09-21 Thread Andras Lorincz
Yes, something like that.On 9/20/05, Simo Kauppi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 01:42:53PM +0300, Andras Lorincz wrote:> Hi,>> The lirc daemon starts at startup and I want to launch the command "irexec> --daemon" too. To achieve this I made a script in /etc/init.d which contains

Re: Debian on AMD64?

2005-09-21 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/09/05 20:31), Jacob wrote: > Has anyone gotten Debian running on an AMD64... I would like to know if my > hardware has support, and I would like to use > the familiar Debian O/S... I have installed it already however I need > gigabit lan support and PCI express support... > Yes. Lots of

qmail-rspawn and qmail-clean not active

2005-09-21 Thread Jared Hall
when I: # ps waux | grep qmail I get: root 1350 0.0 0.020 16 ?S18:07 0:00 supervise qmail-smtpd root 1352 0.0 0.020 16 ?S18:07 0:00 supervise qmail-send root 1354 0.0 0.020 16 ?S18:07 0:00 supervise qmail-pop3d qmaill

Help with Defoma (Installing Hindi fonts in Debian)

2005-09-21 Thread Saurabh Nanda
Hi, I've downloaded Akshar.ttf (unicode hindi font) and want to install it 'system-wide', i.e. all applications installed on the system should be able to use it. I tried using 'defoma' (DEbian FOnt MAnager) to install the font, but have not been successful. Here's what I did: # mkdir /usr/share/

Installing individually downloaded debian packages

2005-09-21 Thread Saurabh Nanda
# Short Question: How do I install a debian package which I've (manually) downloaded. I don't have a net connection so I can't use apt-get or something similar to fetch an entire package list and then install the package. # Long story: I trashed my Reliance Internet connection and subscribed to Ai

Re: Installing individually downloaded debian packages

2005-09-21 Thread Oliver Lupton
Saurabh Nanda wrote: # Short Question: How do I install a debian package which I've (manually) downloaded. I don't have a net connection so I can't use apt-get or something similar to fetch an entire package list and then install the package. # Long story: I trashed my Reliance Internet connect

Re: Deskop performance - Desktop optimized linux kernel

2005-09-21 Thread Mantas Kriaučiūnas
Hi On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 01:38:37PM +0545, Paras pradhan wrote: > I am building a custom debian kernel for use in Desktop Systems. I > have patched my kernel 2.6.13 using ck patch available at > http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ and it is working fine > i guess. does any one has url

recover data from a hd

2005-09-21 Thread Borislav Petkov
Hi there, my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the information that can be read? One thing might be kind of a problem, however, since the hd is damaged at its very beginning and attempting to mount it g

RE: Network (pcmcia card) not enabled after boot [newbie alert]

2005-09-21 Thread Peter Coppens
Marty. Thanks for your feelings of sympathy. It is not that I am completely illiterate when it comes to *nix sysadmin (I used to be the sysadmin of a few hp-ux boxes), but what is rather frustrating is that there does not seem to be a consistent set of documents/guidelines that help a user with

Re: [Webmin-maintainers] Re: Problem with webmin-exports

2005-09-21 Thread Nils Erik Svangård
Hi! It's strange, there should be more people having the same problem as I. I have tried to apt-get install webmin-exports --reinstall but that didnt fix it. /nisseOn 9/20/05, Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Nils Erik Svangård wrote:> Ok I solved this problem partly.

Re: Is there a screencapture utility?

2005-09-21 Thread belahcene abdelkader
Hi, If you have installed Sarge desktop by default you have also kde installed and ksnapshot is a screen, window capture. You have it in : applications --> debian -->apps -->graphics --> ksnaphot I think there is a gnome interface also, but I used to use this one, ( while running gnome) best r

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?

2005-09-21 Thread valentin_nils
Hello Mitja, >From your description below I understand exactly where you come from (I have been there too ;-) If I am correct than you have been using mainly Windows until now and find Linux pretty cool and was thinking now about setting up this "community project". First of all, thats a nice id

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 11:10 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > Hi there, > > my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a > backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the > information that can be read? One thing might be kind of a problem, however, > sinc

Re: apache-ssl ssl.log

2005-09-21 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 12:44:36PM -0400, Brian Smith wrote: > I am trying to log the ciphers being used for apache-ssl. I've > uncommented the line in the httpd.conf file: > > CustomLog /var/log/apache-ssl/ssl.log "%t %{version}c %{cipher}c > %{clientcert}c" > > and I only see in the ssl.log: >

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-21 Thread Philipp Pagel
Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a > backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the > information that can be read? One thing might be kind of a problem, however, > since the hd is damaged at its very

Re: Network (pcmcia card) not enabled after boot [newbie alert]

2005-09-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
> I want to get a Xircom CBEM56G network/modem card > (http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/resources/doc_library/tech_sp > ecs/spec_xircbem56g100btx.htm) enabled during the boot of Debian 3.1 > (2.4 kernel) running on an old Dell D300XT latitute laptop. What should > I install (and/or remove)

ntpd glitch - anyone seen anything similar?

2005-09-21 Thread Chris Cowen
We have a server running ntpd, using pool.ntp.org as time server. On Sunday, an unusually large time correction caused ntpd to stop. Could this be a glitch with pool.ntp.org? The other strange thing is that there seems to be no ntpd activity between 6:47 and 13:38. Anybody seen anything lik

Re: ntpd glitch - anyone seen anything similar?

2005-09-21 Thread Clive Menzies
On (21/09/05 11:41), Chris Cowen wrote: > We have a server running ntpd, using pool.ntp.org as time server. > > > On Sunday, an unusually large time correction caused ntpd to stop. > > > Could this be a glitch with pool.ntp.org? The other strange thing is > that there seems to be no ntpd activ

vim problem

2005-09-21 Thread John Oxley
Hi, I am new to Debian, just coming from FreeBSD. I pulled my vim configs over from FreeBSD, and had to play a bit to get BackSpace working in an xterm. Now I have a problem. In a lot of files, I am using: # vim: set syntax=exim: Or something like it at the top or bottom of config files. This

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-21 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 11:44:31AM +0200, Philipp Pagel wrote: > Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a > > backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the > > information that can be read? One thing might

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-21 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:46:33AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 11:10 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a > > backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the > > information

RE: Network (pcmcia card) not enabled after boot [newbie alert]

2005-09-21 Thread Peter Coppens
> A search in google with 'linux kernel Xircom CBEM56G' gives thousands > of pages indicating trouble. Most of all 2.4 kernels. Why don you try > installing 2.6.x (x > 10)? > I guess I could try that. But to be honest I am faced with the same problem: "lost in the forest" There should be a 2.6.8

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-21 Thread Mitchell Laks
i use both dd_rescue and dd_rescue_help (find them via google). dd_rescue help helps skip all over the disk which is amazing. I try not to use maxtor - i have switched to western digital after too many crashes. Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: Mouse Driver, Evdev, Xorg SDK Problems

2005-09-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David R. Litwin wrote: I bought a mouse to-day with (in X terms) ten buttons. To use all of them, I need the evdev driver (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=1745 (be ware: that is a direct link to the download)). I have found this out from http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wfsec

Re: vim problem

2005-09-21 Thread Bob Vloon
Hi John, JO> Now I have a problem. In a lot of files, I am using: JO> # vim: set syntax=exim: JO> Or something like it at the top or bottom of config files. This used to JO> work on FreeBSD fine. Can anyone tell me where I am being silly with JO> this? Hmm, that depends on the definition of "s

manufacturer Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-21 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a > > > backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the > > > information that can be read? that'd depnd on the problem of what *-you-* mean by "died" vs what's

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?

2005-09-21 Thread Mitja Podreka
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >If I am correct than you have been using mainly Windows until now and find >Linux pretty cool and was thinking now about setting up this "community >project". First of all, thats a nice idea. Now lets walk through this in >slow motion, shall we ? > > The situation is li

fstab mount at boot

2005-09-21 Thread Rodney Richison
I've got an odd problems with a second ide drive. It will not mount at boot. Though I can mount -a and it mounts just fine. My current fstab is /dev/hdg1 /mnt/data ext3 suid,dev,exec 0 0 Though I've tried /dev/hdg1 /mnt/data ext3 defaults 1 2 and all I get for my trouble is fsck gets s

Re: fstab mount at boot

2005-09-21 Thread Bob Vloon
Hi Rodney, RR> I've got an odd problems with a second ide drive. It will not mount at RR> boot. Though I can mount -a and it mounts just fine. My current fstab is <..> RR> Running sarge. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Apparently, the RR> system is not ready to see the drive at the time fst

Re: reusing deb files

2005-09-21 Thread John Hasler
Robert Storey writes: > I'm wondering if there is a way that I can "reuse" deb files on another > machine. Package: apt-cacher Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 272 Maintainer: Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 1.0.12 Depends: perl, bzip2, libwww-perl Sugge

Re: Network (pcmcia card) not enabled after boot [newbie alert]

2005-09-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 08:01:33AM -0400, Peter Coppens wrote: > > A search in google with 'linux kernel Xircom CBEM56G' gives thousands > > of pages indicating trouble. Most of all 2.4 kernels. Why don you try > > installing 2.6.x (x > 10)? > > > I guess I could try that. But to be honest I am fa

Re: fstab mount at boot

2005-09-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Rodney Richison wrote: I've got an odd problems with a second ide drive. It will not mount at boot. Though I can mount -a and it mounts just fine. My current fstab is /dev/hdg1 /mnt/data ext3 suid,dev,exec 0 0 Though I've tried /dev/hdg1 /mnt/data ext3 defaults 1 2 and all I get for m

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Borislav Petkov wrote: [snip] P.S. I'm off to buy a new hd. Any particular brands I should keep away from? Rather than say something negative, I'll say something positive: Seagate and Western Digital are chammpion drives in my estimation. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";ma

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-21 Thread Walter Hoolwerf
On 2005-09-21 14:00:25 +0200, Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:46:33AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 11:10 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: Hi there, my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a backup but is there a w

Request: Anyone able to test printing with CUPS on *woody*?

2005-09-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, I've come across a strange behavior printing a certain postscript file with the CUPS server in Sarge. (See bug # 329207 for further details.) I would like to request someone who is still running oldstable - Woody - - to see whether or not t

Replies to echo difficult

2005-09-21 Thread Mike McCarty
I have a suggestion for this list. What do people think of the list adding a "Reply-To:" in the header so that replies automatically go to the list? I use a couple of other echoes, and find this useful, as most of the time when I reply I want the list to see it. This list causes me to have to past

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-21 Thread B. Bogart
seagate drives now all have 5 year warranties. b. Walter Hoolwerf wrote: On 2005-09-21 14:00:25 +0200, Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:46:33AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 11:10 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: Hi there, my hd died thi

Re: Replies to echo difficult

2005-09-21 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a suggestion for this list. > What do people think of the list adding a "Reply-To:" in the > header so that replies automatically go to the list? > I use a couple of other echoes, and find this useful, as most > of the time when I reply I want

Java installing

2005-09-21 Thread Roberto Mura
Hi, I'm a linux debian newbie, and i havo no idea about get working j2se 5.0 I have downloaded binaies, converted in deb, installed with dpkg, but still get error: java NoClassDefFound java/lang/Object when trying to execute ./java -version Could somene help me? Thanks a lot. Roberto Mura

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?

2005-09-21 Thread Mitja Podreka
Paul E Condon wrote: Where are you located? (What part of the World?) Europe, Slovenia What is the culture and level of education of your intended audience? It depends. Most of them are just common users of windows. But this is not a problem as we are planning to make courses to teach peo

Re: Java installing

2005-09-21 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Roberto Mura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm a linux debian newbie, and i havo no idea about get working j2se > 5.0 > > I have downloaded binaies, converted in deb, installed with dpkg, > but still get error: > > java NoClassDefFound java/lang/Object You probably need to set the "CL

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Re: Java installing

2005-09-21 Thread Mark Crean
Roberto Mura wrote: Hi, I'm a linux debian newbie, and i havo no idea about get working j2se 5.0 I have downloaded binaies, converted in deb, installed with dpkg, but still get error: java NoClassDefFound java/lang/Object when trying to execute ./java -version Could somene help me? All I'v

readcd -c2scan fails with lots of C2 errors

2005-09-21 Thread Daniel Kabs
Hi there, just installed Debian Sarge (replacing SuSE) and wrote my first data cd-r using cdrecord. The warnings that cdrecord emits at the start (something about "Linux-2.6.8 introduced incompatible interface" and "there are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.") made me worry but eve

Re: configuring muttrc

2005-09-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:34:15AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 09:50:28PM +, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > > Precisely what information do I need to get a working mutt for Debian > > 3.1? Once I get it working I think I can tailor it for my needs. > > It should work out-of-t

Re: Deskop performance

2005-09-21 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 01:38:37PM +0545, Paras pradhan wrote: > hi: > > I am building a custom debian kernel for use in Desktop Systems. I > have patched my kernel 2.6.13 using ck patch available at > http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ and it is working fine > i guess. does any one h

upgrade and keyboard problems

2005-09-21 Thread gothicdoom
Hi. I agree it's way to lame to ask this, but since I couldn't find out by myself here is the question: I have an abnt2 keyboard and it was just perfect until my last apt-get upgrade. All keys work fine BUT the 'question mark' and '/'. This happens just on X. Here is the info: XF86Config-4

Re: fstab mount at boot

2005-09-21 Thread Basajaun
Rodney Richison wrote: > I've got an odd problems with a second ide drive. It will not mount at > boot. Though I can mount -a and it mounts just fine. My current fstab is > /dev/hdg1 /mnt/data ext3 suid,dev,exec 0 0 > Though I've tried /dev/hdg1 /mnt/data ext3 defaults 1 2 > and all I get

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-21 Thread A . Melon
> my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a > backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the > information that can be read? One thing might be kind of a problem, however, > since the hd is damaged at its very beginning and attempting to mount it > gi

Re: problems with 'yenta_socket' installing debian

2005-09-21 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
miche wrote: I'm a new linux user, or that's what I'm trying to... I'm installing debian 3.1 (sarge) on a Toshiba Satellite300CDS from the CDs, but when the installer start the research for cd-rom drivers it stops at 2% while loading the 'yenta_socket' module for 'Toshiba America Info Systems

Re: configuring muttrc

2005-09-21 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 21.09.2005 at 10:23 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > The only things it has ever failed to do out-of-the-box for me are * > identify which mailing lists I've subscribed to (so I can use L for > rep,y-to-list) I agree that by parsing the List-ID headers, Mutt should be able to do that ..

Re: upgrade and keyboard problems

2005-09-21 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Em Quarta 21 Setembro 2005 10:58, gothicdoom escreveu: > XF86Config-4 > I've this line in addition to the listed bellow: Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > Option "XkbModel" "abnt2" > Option "XkbLayout" "br" > -- Mario O.de Menezes, Ph.D. "Many are the pl

Re: Installing individually downloaded debian packages

2005-09-21 Thread Wackojacko
Oliver Lupton wrote: Saurabh Nanda wrote: # Short Question: How do I install a debian package which I've (manually) downloaded. I don't have a net connection so I can't use apt-get or something similar to fetch an entire package list and then install the package. # Long story: I trashed my R

Re: starting irexec in a startup script

2005-09-21 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 10:58:47AM +0300, Andras Lorincz wrote: > Yes, something like that. > > On 9/20/05, Simo Kauppi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 01:42:53PM +0300, Andras Lorincz wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > The lirc daemon starts at startup and I want to launch t

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-21 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Mike McCarty wrote: Borislav Petkov wrote: [snip] P.S. I'm off to buy a new hd. Any particular brands I should keep away from? Rather than say something negative, I'll say something positive: Seagate and Western Digital are chammpion drives in my estimation. I would agree minus Weste

RAID recognition?

2005-09-21 Thread John Fleming
I run mondoarchive/restore on a Dell 600SC with IDE drives on sarge. It works great, and I've even used mondorestore nuke to restore to a different machine with IDE drives. However, now I need to restore to a new Dell 1810 with 2 SCSI drives and Perc4 RAID 1 controller. Mondo apparently doesn'

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:02:42AM +0500, Fritz Brown wrote: > OK, everybody, THANKS! I finally got it installed without it asking me for > all the extra packages (which is where the overwhelming part came in). Now, > the only thing is I don't know how to start the GUI. I took most of the > d

gsm 07.10 standard

2005-09-21 Thread Marc Brünink
Hi, I found http://developer.berlios.de/projects/gsmmux/ and I'm just wondering if there's any other approch to implement the GSM 07.10 standard. Thanks Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrecord + 'HL-DT-ST' 'RW/DVD GCC-4243N' '1.07' Removable CD-ROM

2005-09-21 Thread gothicdoom
Hi and sorry for the delay I'm not using a frontend. I'v tryed xcdroast once, but I'm not using it. Thanks for all the replies. I'll try this. Erdi Balint wrote: Hi, Yes, I went throught the same thing just some days ago and with the dev=/dev/hdc (or wherever your CD writer is) setting it wo

x-window startup and other problems

2005-09-21 Thread Andrej Repisky
Hello, I have encountered the following problem after installation of Debian i386 on a computer. For istallation I used CD that I had prepares using an image from the debian website. Most of the commands do not work. For example links, lynx, gcc and so on. But if I run

Re: reusing deb files

2005-09-21 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Robert Storey wrote: I'm wondering if there is a way that I can "reuse" deb files on another machine. Let me explain more clearly: If, for example, I do "apt-get install mmv", the package mmv_1.01b-12.2_i386.deb will be downloaded into directory /var/cache/apt/archives/ and then installed.

Re: x-window startup and other problems

2005-09-21 Thread Mariusz Kruk
Andrej Repisky napisał(a): Hello, I have encountered the following problem after installation of Debian i386 on a computer. For istallation I used CD that I had prepares using an image from the debian website. Most of the commands do not work. For example links, lynx, gcc and so on. B

subversion 1.2.3a for sarge?

2005-09-21 Thread Anders Lennartsson
Does it break anything essential to build and use the sources for subversion 1.2.3a, found in sid, for sarge? The build dependencies in debian/control can be met on a properly maintained sarge box, but perhaps this may not be the full truth or? Anders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Java installing

2005-09-21 Thread Daniel Baumann
Mark Crean wrote: > All I've done is "sudo apt-get install java-package" which enables you > to build a deb for a java jre using a file downloaded from the issuer. > Then I downloaded the latest jre .bin file from Sun and ran "make-jpg" > against it which produced "sun-j2re1.5_1.5.0+update05_i386.d

converting CHM files

2005-09-21 Thread Robert D. Crawford
I have been working on this for longer than I think I should have. I have some CHM files that I need to convert for 'reading'. I would use [x|g|k]chm but I am blind and need to get them into a text buffer or w3m under emacs. I have installed archmage from the rpm file (it is not in the deb repos

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-21 Thread Patrick Rittich
Borislav Petkov wrote: Hi there, my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the information that can be read? One thing might be kind of a problem, however, since the hd is damaged at its very beginning and

Re: x-window startup and other problems

2005-09-21 Thread Kent West
Mariusz Kruk wrote: > Andrej Repisky napisał(a): > >> Hello, >> >> I have encountered the following problem after installation of >> Debian i386 on a computer. For istallation I used CD that I had >> prepares using an image from the debian website. Most of the >> commands do not work.

Re: reusing deb files

2005-09-21 Thread Bruno Buys
Sounds to me like you need to set apt-proxy, or http replicator. Acts like a proxy for deb files. Look at http://gertjan.freezope.org/replicator/ Robert Storey wrote: I'm wondering if there is a way that I can "reuse" deb files on another machine. Let me explain more clearly: If, for exampl

Re: Mouse Driver, Evdev, Xorg SDK Problems

2005-09-21 Thread David R. Litwin
What mouse? It's a Logitech 518 mouse. The standard two buttons plus wheel, then two near the thumb and three around the wheel. Before you go and move creation around, what does evtest say: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/linuxconsole/ruby/utils/evtest.c Sorry, I'm not quite sure what you wo

Re: Help with Defoma (Installing Hindi fonts in Debian)

2005-09-21 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Saurabh Nanda (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I've downloaded Akshar.ttf (unicode hindi font) and want to install it > 'system-wide', i.e. all applications installed on the system should be > able to use it. > [...] > I read through the manpage of defoma-font and figured out that a 'font > h

Re: x-window startup and other problems

2005-09-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Antony Gelberg wrote: I think that whenever somebody installs an OS, he should read the manual. You need to read the Debian Reference. http://www.debian.org/doc And I always think it's tacky when the official support website has link rot.

unable to install from CD: failure to mount once kernel installed

2005-09-21 Thread Seth Goodman
I burned an ISO of the Sarge netinstall CD using a Windows box and booted a new box with this CD. The bootloader was able to read the CD, go through all the hardware detection stages, format and partition the hard disk (one large partition). When it got to the stage of rebooting with the new kern

Re: Printing via LAN fails - SOLVED

2005-09-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Sep 2005, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:01:15PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 20 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > After some more googling I found someone else with the same problem. It > > was due to the -s switch on lpd, which is added by default by

Re: Printing via LAN fails - SOLVED

2005-09-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 20 Sep 2005, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:01:15PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > On 20 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > > After some more googling I found someone else with the same problem. It > > > was due t

Re: digital camera software

2005-09-21 Thread gothicdoom
Hi. This may depend on your camera type. Mine is a kodak, and I made it work with ptpcam ( http://libptp.sourceforge.net/ ) Hope this helps Bayrouni wrote: Hello all, I need nice software for my digcameraital . But I have'nt any idea which software is fine for accessng, reading, ... all ena

RE: Network (pcmcia card) not enabled after boot [newbie alert]

2005-09-21 Thread Peter Coppens
Upgraded to 2.6.12. The network now comes up beautifully. Thanks for the help! Peter > -Original Message- > From: Peter Coppens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:02 PM > To: TR; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: Network (pcmcia card) not enable

Re: converting CHM files

2005-09-21 Thread Otto Wyss
Robert D. Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been working on this for longer than I think I should have. I > have some CHM files that I need to convert for 'reading'. I would use Have you tried chmviewer (http://www.herdsoft.com/linux/themen/chmviewer.html)? O. Wyss -- Development

RE: unable to install from CD: failure to mount once kernel installed

2005-09-21 Thread Piszcz, Justin
Did you run an md5sum on the CD itself and see if it matches up with what it should be in the MD5SUMS file? Have you ever successfully installed Debian before or is this the first time? -Original Message- From: Seth Goodman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 1:

Re: converting CHM files

2005-09-21 Thread Bob Vloon
Hi Robert, RDC> I have been working on this for longer than I think I should have. I RDC> have some CHM files that I need to convert for 'reading'. I would use RDC> [x|g|k]chm but I am blind and need to get them into a text buffer or w3m RDC> under emacs. The chmlib-bin package contains the pro

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?

2005-09-21 Thread valentin_nils
Hi Mitja, > The situation is like this. I migrated to Linux half a year ago becouse > I was fed up with all the windows crap and now I'm a happy private user > of Debian. I have been there . I know exactly what we are talking about. >But I have roots in DOS era so it is not the first time I'm >

Re: Debian on AMD64?

2005-09-21 Thread Bruno Buys
Not sure about pci express, but gigabit support is working here, under my VIA onboard ethernet. Module is via-velocity. Which one is yours? Did you see Graham's page? http://www.crazysquirrel.com/computing/debian/amd64.jspx Jacob wrote: Has anyone gotten Debian running on an AMD64... I would l

Re: SELinux

2005-09-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Arvind Autar wrote: Helllo, I have been using debian for quite some time now, how ever I have watched several distrobutions implentating so many great ideas, and I have been wondering why such a robust distorbution as debian GNU/Linux(*) hasn't done this. One of them is: SELinux If SELinux is

Re: x-window startup and other problems

2005-09-21 Thread Antony Gelberg
Sorry for the top post, blame this fricking Blackberry. I think there is awareness that the documentation and access to it, could be better. I have raised a bug against www.debian.org to this end. May I suggest that you raise a bug for the breakage, or better still, submit a patch? -Origi

SELinux

2005-09-21 Thread Arvind Autar
Helllo, I have been using debian for quite some time now, how ever I have watched several distrobutions implentating so many great ideas, and I have been wondering why such a robust distorbution as debian GNU/Linux(*) hasn't done this. One of them is: SELinux If SELinux is also suitable for desk

Game like Road Rash on Linux

2005-09-21 Thread Rishi
Hi I completely trashed Windows from my system and my kid has been pestering me for the Road Rash game. :-) It's a Bike Came for Windows. Anyone knows of an equivalent type of game on Debian? Regards -- Rishi

Re: unable to install from CD: failure to mount once kernel installed

2005-09-21 Thread Wackojacko
Seth Goodman wrote: I burned an ISO of the Sarge netinstall CD using a Windows box and booted a new box with this CD. The bootloader was able to read the CD, go through all the hardware detection stages, format and partition the hard disk (one large partition). When it got to the stage of reboo

Re: SELinux

2005-09-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Arvind Autar wrote: > is no loss of functionality, why hasn't debian implented SELinux as > default? It is not that simple. We are doing it slowly. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the L

RE: unable to install from CD: failure to mount once kernel installed

2005-09-21 Thread Seth Goodman
> From: Piszcz, Justin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 1:07 PM > > > Did you run an md5sum on the CD itself and see if it matches up with > what it should be in the MD5SUMS file? No I did not. Now that the CD's are burned, I don't believe I can do this, as the MD5S

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-21 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 L.V.Gandhi on Monday 19 Sep 2005 12:46 wrote: > On 9/17/05, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I don't know whether this is a stupid doubt, but are you using >> `pristine' kernel sources or Debian patched kernel sources (apt-got >> ones)?

Re: Game like Road Rash on Linux

2005-09-21 Thread Cameron Matheson
Rishi wrote: Hi I completely trashed Windows from my system and my kid has been pestering me for the Road Rash game. :-) It's a Bike Came for Windows. Anyone knows of an equivalent type of game on Debian? Regards -- Rishi Wow that game sure was rad... i don't know of any open-source equi

installing epiphany-extensions does nothing

2005-09-21 Thread Levi Waldron
I use epiphany under Gnome 2.6.12 in Debian Testing, and just installed epiphany-extensions, wanting to use some of its neat features like middle-click to scroll down web pages.  Installing epiphany-extensions (apt-get epiphany-extensions) has no effect on the epiphany-browser, and there are no clu

Re: SELinux

2005-09-21 Thread Derek \"The Monkey\" Wueppelmann
On Wed, 2005-21-09 at 20:40 +0200, Arvind Autar wrote: > If SELinux is also suitable for desktop users for example if we look > at the targeted policy (for fedora and RHEL) it > shows that it doesn't restrict users sessions. Short conclusion, there > is no loss of functionality, why hasn't debian

RE: unable to install from CD: failure to mount once kernel installed

2005-09-21 Thread Seth Goodman
> From: Wackojacko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:00 PM <...> > If the CD works with Knoppix it should work with debian. That's what's been running through my mind. It appears that something did not get installed or configured correctly for this particular har

Re: installing epiphany-extensions does nothing

2005-09-21 Thread Hubert Chan
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:14:19 -0400, Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I use epiphany under Gnome 2.6.12 in Debian Testing, and just > installed epiphany-extensions, wanting to use some of its neat > features like middle-click to scroll down web pages. Installing > epiphany-extensions (apt-g

Re: converting CHM files

2005-09-21 Thread Adam Hardy
Bob Vloon on 21/09/05 19:10, wrote: Hi Robert, RDC> I have been working on this for longer than I think I should have. I RDC> have some CHM files that I need to convert for 'reading'. I would use RDC> [x|g|k]chm but I am blind and need to get them into a text buffer or w3m RDC> under emacs. T

RE: unable to install from CD: failure to mount once kernel installed

2005-09-21 Thread Seth Goodman
> From: Seth Goodman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:53 PM <...> > I have attached the output of the two lsmod queries. For two systems that are supposedly closely related, there is not a lot in common between the loaded modules. The hardware detection must be

problem with adaptec 6360L scsi card

2005-09-21 Thread sqrt3
i have a ISA scsi card with adaptec 6360L chip (CardModel=AC520A). i am using woody and kernel 2.4. i believe aha152x module is for me, but the following command does not works: modprobe aha152x io=0x340 irq=9 scsiid=4 /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/scsi/aha152x.o: init_module: No such devi

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