CDrecord "DEVICE"

2001-03-01 Thread SamBozo Debian User
I have the following instructions from http://www.astaro.com/doc/burn-howto_en.html The most efficient and easiest way is to type the following command: cdrecord -v dev=DEVICE fs=4096k -eject -pad -useinfo -dao -data Astaro_Security_Linux_ISO_IMAGE (or easier: cdrecord -v dev=DEVICE -data Astaro_S

Re: It's MY computer, not Bill's!

2001-03-04 Thread SamBozo Debian User
> - WinNT 4.0 (did not test) Works like a charm. > - Linux 2.x (Installed caldera openlinux 2.4 and RedHat with x on my debian > woody, no complaints) Add Suse, Turbo, Trustix, and Mandrake to that list. Sam Morgan

Linuxconf

2001-02-12 Thread SamBozo Debian User
I have my Deb box on a 192.168.1.xxx network which deb setup during install. I recently needed to change over to direct access (bypassing the intranet) to the internet. I went into linuxconf and made the changes. No Joy ... internet was inaccessable. I have done this on a mandrake box and it worked

how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?

2004-11-11 Thread cwinl-debian-user
Hi all I want to remove exim4. When I type 'apt-get --purge remove exim4-base' debian report: mail2:/var/log# apt-get remove exim4-base Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: exim4-base exim4-daemon-light mailx mysql-server 0 upgra

Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?

2004-11-12 Thread cwinl-debian-user
> -邮件原件- > 发件人: Marc Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 发送时间: 2004年11月12日 15:09 > 收件人: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 主题: Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server? > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:46:31PM +0800, cwinl-debian-user wrote: > > But my mysql

Kernel options?

2004-01-07 Thread adam-debian-user
Hi, I'm installing Debian on a Sun Fire V65x, which is basically an intel whitebox server. It uses the SE7501WV2 board (http://www.intel.com/design/servers/se7501wv2/index.htm?iid=ipp_srvr+mthrbds_se7501wv2_srvr&;). The server has all sorts of fancy bells and whistles like e1000 cards and aic7

Re: SSH/Putty password problem

2004-09-24 Thread vizi0n (debian-user)
first of all, i would try using the 0.55 version of putty, that might solve your problem a list of mirrors is available at this address: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html viz - Original Message - From: "Michael Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker

2004-09-24 Thread vizi0n (debian-user)
check if your cables are touching something else, i have that problem too when my hard drive accesses the data, my speaker does a weird sound. if the speakers are turned off, it wont do it, i have to see if i can put my wires somewhere else viz - Original Message - From: "H. S." <[EMAI

Re: Rebuilding Debian Live gnome image fails

2021-02-13 Thread debian-user-001
On 13-Feb-21 06:06, John Crawley wrote: On 12/02/2021 17:16, Matthijs wrote: On 12-02-2021 03:12, John Crawley wrote: On 09/02/2021 21:40, Matthijs wrote: Following the Debian Live manual on using a predefined configuration(https://live-team.pages.debian.net/live-manual/html/live-manual/managi

Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-04 Thread A Debian User
nome metapackage (as well the rhythm-plugins package, so you end up with a nerfed Rhythmbox). Is this thing safe? How does uninstalling it break functionality? P.S. This package is also recommended by software-center. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

How to remove Google from the "Start screen"?

2014-05-04 Thread A Debian User
ia or Google search using your search terms. How do you remove Google and replace it with a search engine of your choice? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-05 Thread A Debian User
right away if you installed Debian using a Live installer. If so, you'll have to mess around with some permissions first (because your user account may not have the permission to invoke X from the command line). But this should work quite well if you installed using a standard i

Re: Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-05 Thread A Debian User
ght the version shipped by Debian doesn't delete the Zeitgeist database. So, have you removed it completely from your system, or did you just disable it? How does it break functionality on your end? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-05 Thread A Debian User
? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53683e6c.4080...@openmailbox.org

Re: Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-06 Thread A Debian User
On Tuesday, 06 May, 2014 09:11 AM, John Hasler wrote: Theodore Alcapotaxis writes: It seems that some folks at Debian have introduced NSA-friendly software to spy on users. Produce specifics. On Monday, 05 May, 2014 08:13 AM, A Debian User wrote: From the package description of zeitgeist

Re: Can aptitude be used to install non-free and contrib things?

2014-05-08 Thread A Debian User
Yes, it can. So can apt and synaptic. These tools rely on the /etc/apt/sources.list file to point them to servers where they can download the software you want. Here's an example of an entry in sources.list: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy main deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/deb

Is it safe not to install intel-microcode (or amd-microcode)?

2014-05-08 Thread A Debian User
;s CPU. Is this safe, given that these microcode updates reportedly patch up vulnerabilities in the these processors? Even the Debian wiki (https://wiki.debian.org/Microcode) says that these microcode updates are "not safe to ignore". Cheers! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Help About Bootable USB

2014-05-09 Thread A Debian User
On Friday, 09 May, 2014 02:16 PM, morteza allahpour wrote: /Hello,I have 3 debian DVD images.I want to run debian from a bootable usb flash.now what should i do ?/ /wich DVD image I must use ?/ The first one :)

Hibernate doesn't work (Wheezy, GNOME Shell)

2014-05-09 Thread A Debian User
rl+Alt+Del, etc. Doesn't respond to pressing the power button. You either have to long-press the power button to power down the computer and turn it back on. Anyone having similar problems? Solutions? Environment: - Asus F3E laptop (old) - Debian 7.5 Wheezy 64-bit - GNOME Shell -- To UNSUBSCR

How to use Debian ISOs as package sources in apt?

2014-05-09 Thread A Debian User
tting the big packages from the DVDs might help). Thanks :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/536d4a62.7080...@openmailbox.org

Re: Re: Is it safe not to install intel-microcode (or amd-microcode)?

2014-05-09 Thread A Debian User
On Friday, 09 May, 2014 02:54 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 05/08/2014 02:16 PM, A Debian User wrote: Hello, all! I want to have a completely Free install of Debian, which means I will only be using software packages from the main repo, and will be excluding contrib and non-free from my sources

Re: Re: loss of I/O on some websites

2014-05-12 Thread A Debian User
f Flash content? So, shouldn't you just use NoScript, since it has more features and additionally does what FlashBlock does, anyway? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5371461f.9050...@openmailbox.org

Scrolling issues with Icedove

2014-05-15 Thread A Debian User
CRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/537516b2.2030...@openmailbox.org

Re: PCMCIA question

1998-06-15 Thread Debian User List Account
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Ian Stuart wrote: > To get a PCMCIA card to work, you need to remake the kernel, and the > PCMCIA modules, and then reinstall the kernel. > > For this, you'll need the kernel source and the pcmcia source. installing the kernel source is ok (2.0.32-5 from hamm), but how sho

Kde-KNotify Problem

2005-06-21 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Background-After an apt-get dist-upgrade from woody to sarge-stable encountered many dependency issues. Xserver-xfree86, kdm and many others were not installed. Ater manually installing xserver-xfree86, kdm and the kde package files and getting X started, I've these unresolved issues: I can lo

Re: Kde-KNotify Problem

2005-06-21 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Lee Braiden wrote: On Tuesday 21 Jun 2005 18:20, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: I can login to kde with 18-20 KNotify messages popping up and if I select and click OK on the notification popup or try to close out ktips, the system freezes up or at best operates in super slow motion

Re: Kde-KNotify Problem

2005-06-22 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
David Martínez Moreno wrote: El Martes, 21 de Junio de 2005 19:43, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier escribió: Background-After an apt-get dist-upgrade from woody to sarge-stable encountered many dependency issues. Xserver-xfree86, kdm and many others were not installed. Ater manually

Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)

2005-06-23 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: I just upgraded from the 2.4.18bf2.4 kernel, now LinuxOLD on my LILO menu, to the 2.6.8 686 kernel available from sarge. Unfortunately the 2.6 kernel gives me the

Re: Re: Kernel Panic After Sarge Dist-upgrade To Kernel Image 2.4.27-2-386

2005-06-24 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > VFS: Cannot open rootdevice "301" or 30:01 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 30:01 > Ok, not worried at this time as I have my woody CD's and can do a > rescbf24 to

Re: Re: Kernel Panic After Sarge Dist-upgrade To Kernel Image 2.4.27-2-386

2005-06-24 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Kent, Sorry about my mixup. Found the original reply in drafts; never sent. This is new reply that is more current. My reply is bolow: Leonard Chatagnier wrote: VFS: Cannot open rootdevice "301" or 30:01 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on

Re: Kernel Panic After Sarge Dist-upgrade To Kernel Image 2.4.27-2-386

2005-06-24 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Kent West wrote: Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Kent, Sorry about my mixup. Found the original reply in drafts; never sent. This is new reply that is more current. My reply is bolow: Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Kent West wrote: Sarge's boot is hosed, but y

Re: Kernel Panic After Sarge Dist-upgrade To Kernel Image 2.4.27-2-386

2005-06-24 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Kent West wrote: Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Kent, Sorry about my mixup. Found the original reply in drafts; never sent. This is new reply that is more current. My reply is bolow: Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Kent West wrote: Sarge's boot is hosed, but y

Re: Kernel Panic After Sarge Dist-upgrade To Kernel Image 2.4.27-2-386

2005-06-24 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Kent West wrote: Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Kent West wrote: The line should be: initrd=/initrd.img I put the / in front of initrd.img and rebooted with kernel panic again giving these same boot messages: VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or 03

Re: Kernel Panic After Sarge Dist-upgrade To Kernel Image 2.4.27-2-386

2005-06-24 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Marty wrote: Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: The output of cat /etc/fstab, cfdisk and lilo.conf are shown at the end of this message. Hi Leonard, I looked over your files. First did you verify the links /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz.old? Second, what happens when you boot using LinuxOLD

Re: [Fwd: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)]

2005-06-24 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Edward Dunagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Debian User Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Edward Dunagin wrote: let me see if i can help. i am assuming you downloaded kernel-image-2.6.8-686. if that is right, the download would have included initrd.image-2.6.

Re: Kernel Panic After Sarge Dist-upgrade To Kernel Image 2.4.27-2-386

2005-06-25 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Kent West wrote: Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Sorry again. After I emailed my response, I realized I for got to run lilo. So ran it and got this error: ChatagnierL-Home:/home/lchata# lilo Fatal: Image name, label, or alias is too long: 'Linux-2.4.27-2-386' ChatagnierL-

Re: Kernel Panic After Sarge Dist-upgrade To Kernel Image 2.4.27-2-386

2005-06-25 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Marty wrote: Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: See below for links. Not sure what you mean by what happens when you boot using LinuxOLD. It boots normally as it did since first installed. I do see that Output module failed to load as was the case on my old sarge. If your refering to

Re: Kernel Panic After Sarge Dist-upgrade To Kernel Image 2.4.27-2-386

2005-06-25 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Marty wrote: Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: You can, if you will, tell me just how you remove a kernel(outline the process). Like any other package: "apt-get remove " or use aptitude, dselect, etc. I don't use the packaged kernels so I don't know but if it

Re: Kernel Panic After Sarge Dist-upgrade To Kernel Image 2.4.27-2-386

2005-06-25 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Kent West wrote: Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: The 2.4.27-2-386 kernel was forced on me by the dist-upgrade. I planned on going to the 2.6.6-2-686 kernel and will eventually, probably soon. Kent finally fixed lilo for me so that sarge boots now if you haven't already read it

Wvdial, Pon Broke On Sarge-Stable, Only Pon works On Woody-Done Everthing I Know-Need Help

2005-06-25 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Discovered wvdial and pon not working after finally getting the 2.4.27-2-386 KI to boot. Ran wvdialconf and pppconfig which didn't change anything. Chmod a+rwx on all wvdial and wvdial.conf files. Some Debians may say that's not the way, but I don't want to use su and don't have to on pon, so

[Fwd: Re: Wvdial, Pon Broke On Sarge-Stable, Only Pon works On Woody-Done Everthing I Know-Need Help]

2005-06-26 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
--- Begin Message --- Marty wrote: Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Discovered wvdial and pon not working after finally getting the 2.4.27-2-386 KI to boot. Ran wvdialconf and pppconfig which didn't change anything. Chmod a+rwx on all wvdial and wvdial.conf files. Some Debian

Re: Wvdial, Pon Broke On Sarge-Stable, Only Pon works On Woody-Done Everthing I Know-Need Help

2005-06-26 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Marty wrote: Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Hi Marty, Took out init3=ATDT, logged out KDE and back in and still getting same wvdial error message, ie., no dialer defaults. This doesn't seem to appear in Bug #276020, so it looks like a different problem. So, shut dow

Dialer Problems-Only Pon Works

2005-06-27 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Fixed KPPP myself, little proud, looked at kppp-options and noticed #noauth, uncommenting it fixed KPPP. But wvdial still broke. Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: (FROM ORIGINAL POST) Discovered wvdial and pon not working after finally getting the 2.4.27-2-386 KI to boot. Ran wvdialconf and pppco

Re: Re: Dialer Problems-Only Pon Works

2005-06-28 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
n Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:47:39PM -0500, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Many changes were made in the configuration files to no avail. The current configuration files and errer messages are below: (Note: I have pon working on sarge now but can't remember how I got it now.) Thank

Re: Dialer Problems-Only Pon Works

2005-06-28 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Kent West wrote: Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: n Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:47:39PM -0500, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Many changes were made in the configuration files to no avail. The current configuration files and errer messages are below: (Note: I have pon

Re: Dialer Problems-Only Pon Works

2005-06-29 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: I believe I'd purge and then reinstall wvdial, and maybe. Don't you just love sentence fragments? They're so very. Seriously, ignore the partial. I was going to say I might would also purge/reinstall the ppp-related stuff, but then I remembered th

Re: Dialer Problems-Only Pon Works

2005-06-29 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: I'm having some of the same issues that Leonard has. The wvdial doesn't appear to work on 2.6 kernels. I've scripted the tests as high as kernel 2.6.12. It seems that the connection is immediately lost with only 0.0 or 0.1 minutes connection time reported. I am

Re: Dialer Problems-Only Pon Works

2005-06-29 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Kent West wrote: Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: I still get the warning about can't write PAP-secrets and Chap-secrets-Permission denied, when calling wvdial as user. What is the Debian preferred way to do this? Is your user a member of the dip and dialout g

Re: Dialer Problems-Only Pon Works

2005-06-29 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Kent West wrote: Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Kent West wrote: Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: I still get the warning about can't write PAP-secrets and Chap-secrets-Permission denied, when calling wvdial as user. What is the Debian preferre

Printing problem

2000-11-13 Thread Debian User Don Cavaiani
I have just upgraded to potato. My hpdj500c woreked OK B/4 on slink. but now I get the message " Waiting for lp to become ready". I don't see anything in dmesg about the printer daemon being started. Did I not configure this properly?

Re: Printing problem

2000-11-13 Thread Debian User Don Cavaiani
Yes, Matt, I found that out and made the change. Actually, I deleted /etc/printcap and rebuilt it via magicfilter and it looks ok now but still doesn't work. Matthew Dalton wrote: > Debian User Don Cavaiani wrote: > > > > I have just upgraded to potato. > > > &g

Re: Dump root window to a JPG?

2000-12-23 Thread Laurent Boulard Debian User
Le Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 07:25:49PM +0100, John Travis écrivait : > Thanks, that's a lot faster than my previous methods. Except the video > (from xine) still shows up as a bright ass blue box :-). Any other > suggestions? you can't grab the display of xine because it use Xv extension. The disp

Re: Removing mesa safely

2001-01-10 Thread Laurent Boulard Debian User
Le Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:37:37PM -0500, Jonathan Markevich écrivait : > I upgraded to XFree 4.0.2 last week, and it went well. However, in trying > to install the nVidia driver, I had a conflict with Mesa... it wants to > remove mesa as well as all of kde2! I believe it provides gl1 or somethin

Hi

2004-01-18 Thread debian-user-digest-request
Test =) iopwhdqrch -- Test, yep. -- Virus Warning Message (on the network) fiji.exe is removed from here because it contains a virus. --- Virus Warning Message (on the network) (B (BFound virus WORM_BAGL

Re: Re: fsck Fails On Reboot After Partially Completed Testing Upgrade

2006-01-08 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: That may not fix it. Try setting your clock to UTC (and set UTC=yes in /etc/default/rcS). If you can live with that, your Debian system will be that much happier and stable, hardware clocks were meant to be always in UTC, it's just old DO

hcfpcimodem_1.08full_i386.deb Fails With SegFault Using 2.6.15-1-686 And gcc-3.3.5

2006-01-14 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
The modem drivers install on 2.6.8-2-686 using gcc-3.3.5 but not on 2.6.15-1-686 recently installed. I installed gcc-4 as indicated by the dpkg output but the error stays the same. It also appears I have no devfs and can't start it(see output below) even though it's in lilo.conf to mount it on

Re: Re: Fwd: DEVFS Or UDEV On 2.6.15-1-686 Kernel

2006-01-20 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
gcc-4.0 in the compile although gcc-4.0 is installed. The post with all the details, * *hcfpcimodem_1.08full_i386.deb Fails With SegFault Using 2.6.15-1-686And gcc-3.3.5 <http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/01/msg01581.html>* /Debian User Leonard Chatagnier/ * * &l

Apt Gone Mad?-Or Is It Me?-Expert Help Needed

2006-01-30 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
I'm running 2.6.15-1-686 with testing/some experimental and getting KDE opening errors with Openoffice(SIG 11 and sometimes 4). Using OO v1.1 but v2.0 is available. So tried to upgrade OO to 2.0 but Apt refused to do so. Aptitude doesn't show anything but Wajig shows unmet dependency for kdelibs-

Re: Apt Gone Mad?-Or Is It Me?-Expert Help Needed

2006-02-01 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
--- Star King of the Grape Trees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Leonard Chatagnier wrote: >--- Star King of the Grape Trees ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: >> >> >> >>>I'm running 2

Re: Apt Gone Mad?-Or Is It Me?-Expert Help Needed

2006-02-02 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
--- Star King of the Grape Trees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Leonard Chatagnier wrote: >--- Star King of the Grape Trees ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: >> >> >> >>>I'm running 2

Re: Re: Apt Gone Mad?-Or Is It Me?-Expert Help Needed

2006-02-03 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
On Thursday 02 February 2006 10:05, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: [...] Ok, I think I understand; the gcc-4.0 compiler is responsible for the difference. Must have missed the warning documentation on this. I recently had to revise the Linuxant Makefile for their tar.gz driver package

aptitude: Dynamic MMap ran out of room

2006-02-15 Thread Arjen Bax [debian-user]
Hello Debian-users, When I run aptitude, I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/arjen# aptitude update Reading package lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occurred while processing gq (NewFileVer1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status E: The package list

Re: aptitude: Dynamic MMap ran out of room

2006-02-19 Thread Arjen Bax [debian-user]
Hello, I wrote earlier this week: >>When I run aptitude, I get the following error: >>E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room and Maurits van Rees maurits-at-vanrees.org |Debian:news| answered: > Have you tried Googling? This is a frequently asked question. (Blush) No, I didn't and am deeply sorry! Mo

SBC DSL Service

2005-07-11 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
I was contacted by SBC(telephone service) about DSL service which I want. While talking to the rep, found out that their DSL service wont work on Linux OS(they say just MSWindows and MacIntosh OS). I find this hard to believe and am wondering if someone in SBC's service region is using it and

Re: Re: SBC DSL Service

2005-07-11 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Thanks to everyone for your quick response to my question. I'll have to get back with SBC and see if I can talk with a tier 2 or 3 tech person and get going with DSL I didn't reply to any specific posting as I'm not subscribed and forgot to request copying my email address. I've never used a N

Re: SBC DSL Service

2005-07-12 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Jacob S wrote: On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:04:45 -0500 Debian User Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks to everyone for your quick response to my question. I'll have to get back with SBC and see if I can talk with a tier 2 or 3 tech person and get going with DS

Missing /dev/devfs Stops Hcfpcimodem Driver From Installing Correctly

2005-07-18 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Missing devfs file in /dev prevents hcfpci~1.deb from installing without error. Using dpkg -i hcfpci~1.deb to install driver. Reinstalling devfsd didn't help-/dev/devfs is still missing and dpkg -i hcf*~1.deb still gives the same error. Appreciate any help resolving this problem. Please copy

Missing /dev/devfs Stops Hcfpcimodem Driver From Installing Correctly

2005-07-21 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
No response after being posted for three days. Hoping it was just overlooked. Would appreciate any guidance whatsoever. This was posted to Linuxant.com support with reply only that devfs and/or modprobe configuration was causing the problem, not the modem driver. Have read all related manua

Guarddog Wont Allow Access To Browzer And Email

2005-08-05 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Just finished configuring Guarddog firewall using the "Using Guarddog" Basic Configuation Tutorial in the KDE help files. The tutorial seemed fairly easy to use and understand so, I'm a little surprised that I was blocked from accessing the internet. However, I'm new to Linux and have only used

Problem Playing Movie Trailers & Clips

2005-08-28 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Using Sarge stable with RealPlayer 10 Gold. Can play audio/video files with realplayer on all sites but can't play movie trailers or clips(wmv format) on any site. Have tried my.yahoo.com, cnn.com and movie.com and all I get is the usual player screen with a black background and "no picture" i

Re: Problem Playing Movie Trailers & Clips

2005-08-28 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Kent West wrote: Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Using Sarge stable with RealPlayer 10 Gold. Can play audio/video files with realplayer on all sites but can't play movie trailers or clips(wmv format) on any site. Have tried my.yahoo.com, cnn.com and movie.com and all I get i

Re: Problem Playing Movie Trailers & Clips

2005-08-29 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Nick wrote: Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Using Sarge stable with RealPlayer 10 Gold. Can play audio/video files with realplayer on all sites but can't play movie trailers or clips(wmv format) on any site. mplayer and xine will play wmv files. mplayer has a plug-i

Re: Problem Playing Movie Trailers & Clips

2005-08-29 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Nick Coleman wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:48, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Had these installed but just noticed that the mplayerplug-in*.so files are now missing. Still have the mplayerplug-in*.xpt files. Reinstalled mozilla-mplayer and got mplayerplug-in.so back in /usr/lib

Re: Problem Playing Movie Trailers & Clips

2005-08-30 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Nick Coleman wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:16, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Well, seems I have a little problem I don't know how to handle. I had installed Sid versions of kmplayer, mozilla-mplayer, mplayer-386 and the dependencies. Didn't like the way it worked,

Re: Sarge Sound Issues

2005-09-02 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Ben Alls wrote: kde uses oss by default, try to set arts to use ALSA in the KControl panel. go to sound options, and advanced (i think) to change the driver to alsa rather than oss. if that doesnt work, try un-installin alsa and adding snd-mixer-oss and snd-pcm-oss to you /etc/modules file. i

SBC DIALUP

2005-09-15 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
I've just signed up for SBC Dialup and was able to get on line without any more problems than modifying the user ID and password entries in Pap- and Chap-secrets. However, I'm unable to activate my email account, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried the URI, tinyurl.com/3k9ds, that SBC said to use to act

Re: SBC DIALUP

2005-09-15 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 07:32:33AM -0500, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: I've just signed up for SBC Dialup and was able to get on line without any more problems than modifying the user ID and password entries in Pap- and Chap-secrets. However, I

Compiling sound support for sblive

2000-08-30 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Hello all ye Debian users, Im new to Debian and this list, hope the question hasn't been answered yet. When trying to compile the sblive module, with my new own kernel headers i get a 8390.ver file not found in the kernel headers. Does anyone has a hint as to what mudules I have to select to get

Re: LI after install

2000-08-31 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Here's what a get from "Linux Kernel Insternals" : Startup Messages : LI : the first step of the loaderhas been able ro load the second step whose processing then failed. This can be caused by an incorrect geometry or by repositionning the file boot.b without reinstalling the loader. Also, is you

Kernel configurations

2000-08-31 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Hi all Does anyone know where I could get the config files of the pre-compiled kernels found in Potato ? thx.

IRC proxying

2000-08-31 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Hello everybody, I have found the bounce IRC proxy in 2.3 debian. Does anyone of you knows of security issues with this proxy ? May I recommend it safely to my school (that has cut our irc access lately for security reasons) ? Thx in advance

SOCKS 2 HTTP

2000-09-12 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Here's a quote from a (famous?)win program homepage: Socks2HTTP is an agent converting SOCKS v.5 requests into HTTP requests and tunnelling them through HTTP proxy. SOCKS allows programs to traverse firewalls on any port number and is used by many popular programs, like Napster, MSN Messanger, CRT

Re: balsa mozilla ...

2000-10-06 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
> .P.S. Mon pointeur de souris est correct sous win et dans > XF86Setup mais il n'apparait pas sous X11 et je ne comprend > pas d'où cela vient et comment résoudre le probème. > ( Il est représenté par trois ou quatre barres verticales et >  c'est pareil avec la slack 7.0.) Essaie de jouer avec

OFF-Topic : UDMA & BP6 -- it works.

2000-10-20 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Hi all. I have been using a Abit BP6 for quite a long time now, and needed the UDMA interfaces. I have 2 IBM 5400tr/min, 15 Gb hdd connected to ide2. Yet, as many people did, I had an awful lot of problems setting up UDMA on this card (autotune would freeze the box at bootup, on Linux as well as

Re: gcc 3.0, namespace, and such

2001-04-24 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
I'm far from being an expert, but : 1- yes you can safely install gcc v3 (and g++ v3 and so on) alongside the 2.9X you call it only by appending -3.0 to its name. 2- I have some syntactic problems with g++ v3 as far as dereferencing functionsis concerned. Hell, i'm really not an expert, but someth

Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

2001-04-24 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
And if we come to talk about network cards, avoid like hell the chipset realtek 8139, especially if you have a K7/VIA based motherboard. avoid like hell DFE-530TX, only if you have a K7/VIA confguration. I can tell you from experience on 3 <> computers that they either, do not run in a useable wa

Re: Killing session remotely?

2001-04-25 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Alternatively you can slay the user as root. log in, su, and slay jeff. (simply type slay jeff) should do the trick if no suid apps were launched. -- I'm an occurence of the I love GNU virus. Please help me spread.

Re: Problem with disk space

2001-04-25 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Most probably your bios/partition program uses LBA adressing, and linux does not, so same number of blocks (read from the partition table, the same for every program) but of smaller size (normal vs LBA) may accout for your situation. Try passing the argument hdX=lba to the kernel maybe ? -- I'

Re: Bootable Linux-on-a-CD

2001-04-25 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Just noticed this new package in SID : bootcd It should allow you to get a system similar to your desktop on a CD. This package actually sounds really cool. -- I'm an occurence of the I love GNU virus. Please help me spread.

Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

2001-04-25 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Hell, I mean, all ne2k-pci that I had worked really well. They were based on realtek chipsets. BUT is your ethernet card a 100Mbps, RTL8139 one ? That one gave me real pain. >From what I could see on the various mailing lists regarding the subject, I'm far from being alone in that case, and I maile

Re: unexpected net-pf-10

2001-04-26 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
It seems almost all network packages in woody are ipv6-enabled. I think those try to use ipv6, all the more so as you have ipv6 host declarations in your /etc/hosts (have a look at it, commenting them out should solve most of the log messages problems) -- I'm an occurence of the I love GNU virus.

Re: install network card problem.

2001-04-26 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
I have no problem at all with 4 of these cards on an old, P100, 440BX based chipset that serves at home as DSL router. (the box has been up for 70 days without any problem) Yet : I had a hell of a lot of problem getting them to work on 2 friend's computers. They had Athlon processors on VIA-base

OpenLDAP server woes : not enough locks

2001-10-21 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Dear list, I write to you as a last hope, as www.openldap.org seems to be down from my home in France :( Here's my problem : When doing a massive update to a ldap server (ldap package, sid), ie putting my /etc/group into the database, I get a ldbm: ==> Lock table is out of available locks error

Re: Frequent lock-ups

2001-10-22 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Try to disable gpm, that could help your case. -- I'm an occurence of the I love GNU virus. Please help me spread.

Re: pppoatm

2001-10-23 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
For pppoatm to work, you dont need a package actually. pppoatm support is in the kernel. (the pppoe package give you pppoe support in userland, but their is not such way of doing for pppoatm) you need : 1) a pppoatm kernel patch. It works well on all recent kernel versions (search google) 2) a spec

Re: intel fortran compiler

2001-10-23 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
The answer seems strighforward : some of the object files and librairies were compiled for IA64. Of course you wont be able to get them to work on your IA32 box. I guess, you dont have the source of this compiler, only librairies and object files ? -- I'm an occurence of the I love GNU virus. Ple

Re: using bootcd with usb cdrw drive

2001-10-23 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Just to know, have you devfs compiled in the kernel and mounted at boot ? are you sure the entry /dev/scd0 exists at boot-time ? what is the error message ? (i guess it's can't mount root fs on device XX:XX -> those numbers have a meaning you should try to interpret) -- I'm an occurence of the I

Re: using bootcd with usb cdrw drive

2001-10-24 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Well, i'm sorry i'm really not an expert, but maybe you should try a kernel with a initrd option. With a initrd, you'll get somewhat of a prompt and the ability to modprobe any module you like, it could help you to debug your problem. So, what i would do : 1) try to recompile the kernel with modul

Re: Kernel 2.4.13 has no /dev files or info with lspci

2001-10-24 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:18:43PM -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > lspci only gives the board numbers. no descriptions show up > OK, i think this is because you don't have PCI device name database compiled into the kernel. Try to add it. This is in General Setup section. > /dev does not have my hd

Re: 100hz in Xfree86-4.1?

2001-10-24 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
for all your monitor-related configurations, apt-get install get-edid (or is it read-edid ??) then read-edid | parse-edid (or is it get-edid | parse-edid ??) So you'll get what you have to put in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 so that X will use your monitor (and video card ! it has to be capable of ma

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