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by Vasko Tomanov 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

I have a problem with FireWire Disk, I can't mount it ? or I don't know how to do this ? The FireWire card and RH 9.0 recognize it well, but I can't mount the hard disk attached to the firewire card some suggestions ? HowTo ? Cheers Vasko

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Norwich sunday meetings - another suggestion
by Syd Hancock 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

A couple of people have said that they can book a room at UEA, which has always been a popular choice of venue. Since the upcoming 'anniversary' get-together at the start of May has already been discussed and arranged, and since it seems best to keep that as more of a social than a technical event, I suggest that we have another sunday meet in Norwich, at UEA, to bring kit along etc, farly soon. I propose the last w/e in June, i.e sunday 28th June. Does this clash with any other planned events, local or national? As always, comments welcome especially anyone who can say that they intend to be there. Syd

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Gentoo 2004.0 LiveCD install
by Glen Tyler 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

I was so impressed with Gentoo 1.4 that I decided to upgrade and bought the 2CD set of 2004.0, but despite what it says in the install guide such as "if you don't have a working network connection, you have to install a portage snapshot provided by one of or liveCDs" -I did :-) As I want to start at Stage1 I need to run the bootstrap script, but I get to that point the install fails as emerge tries to download another version of portage from the Gentoo Mirrors. I've tried the Gentoo forums, but there does not seem to be much about this, other than 'use a network connection' or 'use Stage3'. As the documentation says that it can be done (although its not the default method) then I assume that they know what they're saying. Is there a way I can stop emerge doing this, or at least show it where I've put the sources? Thanks again Glen

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Re: [ALUG] Just installed Debian
by Steve Engledow 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

> when I issue # dpkg-reconfigure noflushd I get this > ;Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified > > dpkg-reconfigure: cannot connect to X server :0.0 Just means your X session isn't allowing requests from any user other than the one that started the session. Very sensible really. If you do an 'xhost +' before su-ing you'll be ok. Cheers, Steve P.S. MJR, thanks for being patient. Think I've tamed the beast that is yahoo mail now. Got to better than Outlook though ;)

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Re: [ALUG] Just installed Debian
by Steve Engledow 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

> Then you can try running the reconfigure again. > But now when I issue # dpkg-reconfigure noflushd I get this > ;Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified > > dpkg-reconfigure: cannot connect to X server :0.0 > I've also seen this kind of thing when trying to run X programs from a console in which I've su'ed to root. Any ideas what might be going on here? Just means your X session isn't allowing requests from any user other than the one that started the session. Very sensible really. If you do an 'xhost +' before su-ing you'll be ok. Cheers, Steve P.S. Third time of sending due to Yahoo's irritating love of HTML mail. Maybe it'll even work this time ;)

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Just installed Debian
by Richard Lewis 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

Dear ALUG, I've recently installed Debian "testing" on my laptop over the Internet. Its all very shinny and nice (with kernel 2.6, KDE 3.1.5 etc.) and I've almost got everything I want working. There are one or two things that I hope someone might be able to help with though: 1) When the system boots it attempts to connect to the network through eth0. This is fine when I'm on campus and plugged into the network, but when I'm at home it adds about a minute onto the bootup time and achieves nothing (I've not network at home). Is there a way of making this optional at bootup? 2) One of the packages didn't configure properly at installation time: noflushd. I tried # dpkg-reconfigure noflushd and got this: debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde debconf: (Can't locate Qt.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.3 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Kde/Wizard.pm line 7.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: noflushd is broken or not fully installed Any ideas what might be wrong? Or if it matters? (I'm not even sure what its for; $ apt-cache search noflushd gives: "allow idle hard disks to spin down"). 3) The last distro I was using was MDK9.2. My new Debian system seems to be quite short of fonts in comparison; particularly ones that work well as KDE fonts (for menus, buttons etc.). Where do linux fonts come from and how do they work? Are there any sources of free fonts? Thanks in advance, Richard

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ISDN Woes on Mandrake
by Stuart Hammond 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

Hi, Ive been trying to get mandrake to work with the ISDN adapter (which drivers come in the kernal, and it works so that dont seem the problme). The problme appears to be the mandrake 10 front end for ISDN is missing (well incomplete) ive treid googling for an alternate, but i cant seem to find one that works. so what im asking is, does any one know if there is any alternate front ends for ISDN or any easy (as im a bit new at this) work rounds? yours S Hammond PS, IIRC the windows fonts are free to be redistributed so there is no problme copying them to linux (no matter how much microsoft hates you for doing it) actually iirc there was a source forge project dedicated to it, who MS had a go at but couldnt legal do any thing about it. _________________________________________________________________ Tired of 56k? Get a FREE BT Broadband connection http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband

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Strange Firefox problem
by BenEBoy 19 Apr '04

19 Apr '04

As the subject says, this is a strange one... From what I can tell, it appears that firefox might be throttling my download speed. I've tried downloading from a number of different places and the speed never gets above 4kbs, which since I'm on ADSL (finally) is a bit slow. Judging from the amount downloaded (ie. 700 k in a couple of minutes), it's reporting the speed accurately (or thereabouts) and everything else I do happens at the speed I would expect it (apt-getting 90mb's of data in half an hour or so etc.). Is it my imagination? Have all the servers I've tried to download from recently just been slow? Or is there some sort of option I need to set somewhere ;) Anyone? Please? I'm using sarge (albeit with a freshly downloaded gimp 2.0, but I doubt that will make a difference). Cheers, BenE

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FireWire
by Vasko Tomanov 19 Apr '04

19 Apr '04

Someone to have experience with FireWire cards ? 400 ? 800 ? some suggestion ? some problems ? with model to choose ? Cheers vasko

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Re: [ALUG] Just installed Debian
by Jonathan McDowell 19 Apr '04

19 Apr '04

(I think you probably meant to send this to the list?) On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 03:12:58PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote: > On Monday 19 April 2004 13:13, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > > It sounds like you chose the KDE frontend to debconf, so it /is/ trying > > to connect to your Xserver as root. > > > > export XAUTHORITY=~youruser/.Xauthority > > > > in the root session usually does the trick. > > > OK, it doesn't complain about the X server anymore, but I get this now: > > /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: noflushd is broken or not fully installed > DESTROY created new reference to dead object ' Qt::VBoxLayout' during global > destruction. > > I tried issuing # apt-get install noflushd again but it just came up > with a dpkg exit status 1 (presumably the same error). > > I've looked it up in the bugs section and its looks as though it has > had a bug filled against it, but I'm not very skilled at reading bug > reports! (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=noflushd). It's had a bug filed, which has been fixed (hence the fact it's listed as resolved), but checking the Testing Status bit on: http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/noflushd.html noflushd is fixed in unstable (sid) but the fixed package hasn't made it to testing (sarge) yet, but should do so tomorrow. J. -- /------------------------------------\ | It does it for me our kid! | | http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk/ | \------------------------------------/

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