mlterm problem

2002-09-01 Thread Cristi Banciu
Hi, I installed the latest mlterm.deb from unstable and when I tried to execute it it says: mlterm: relocation error: mlterm: undefined symbol: fribidi_get_type... I tried to downgrade from unstable to testing or stable, but I still get the same error. Any idea where is the error ? Sorry if I am

swap confusion

2002-09-01 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi list I have just watched my system booting and noticed that my two swap-partitions have different priorities: Sep 1 18:30:12 blaubaer kernel: Adding Swap: 530104k swap-space (priority -1) Sep 1 18:30:12 blaubaer kernel: Adding Swap: 530136k swap-space (priority -2) As they reside on two di

Re: Help me!! Kernel Panic!!

2002-09-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 09:41:04AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Jerome Acks Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 11:52:55PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > >> This should not be necessary. In fact, it's probably a bug if your > >> box doesn't work without it. > > > > Is you

RE: Xfree86 problems with woody (MORE INFO)

2002-09-01 Thread Travis Troyer
>From the message I received back from the list, I guess my attachment was stripped from the message, so I'm including my log file in this message. Sorry for any inconvenience. XFree86.0.log: This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to

Xfree86 problems with woody

2002-09-01 Thread Travis Troyer
I have recently installed Debian 3.0r0, along with xfree86.  I have run startx, specifying all the correct information, yet still cannot get it to run.  I have tried going back and using various different settings, like lower resolutions and such, but with no luck. Though I have enough

USB HDD - HD 530

2002-09-01 Thread Jsahambi
I have a ARGOSY HD 530 (USB hard disk). Can anybody tell me how to interface and mount it in debain? Thanking in advance J S Sahambi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

USB HDD HD 530

2002-09-01 Thread Jsahambi
I have a ARGOSY HD 530 (USB hard disk). Can anybody tell me how to interface and mount it in debain? Thanking in advance J S Sahambi -- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

make menuconfig

2002-09-01 Thread Russell
Hi, When i do: debpc:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18# make menuconfig then i get a screen without any submenus. I just get: --- Load an alternate configuration file Save configuration to an alternate file No amount of key-pressing brings any more options. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

script to search ebay?

2002-09-01 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Anyone have any idea how I can create a script that will search ebay and put the results in a text file? I thought of starting with links links http://search.ebay.de/search/search.dll?MfcISAPI Command=GetResult&query=Fernandez but for some reason this puts links in the background and does not s

Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

2002-09-01 Thread John Hasler
Isaac quotes: > 7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent > infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), > conditions are imposed on you... ^^ And writes: > Well, perhaps Thomson didn't have made the "allegation" yet,

Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

2002-09-01 Thread Isaac To
> "David" == David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> But Debian does encourgage people to sell CD-ROMs of whatever is David> not in non-free. If someone were to include an MP3 player on a David> Debian CD-ROM and sell it, that person would be violating the MP3 David> l

Re: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext

2002-09-01 Thread Dr. Sachin Kale
- Original Message - From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Dr. Sachin Kale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 9:57 PM Subject: Re: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext > On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 09:55:02PM +0530, Dr. Sachin Kale wrote: > > I am t

dpkg

2002-09-01 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, dpkg --root=/mnt -i .deb will install the package in a system which is rooted in /mnt. But "dpkg --root=/mnt -l" doesn't list the installed packages in /mnt. Is this a bug, or was this meant to be so? TIA, Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Any suggestion on DE-530 NIC card?

2002-09-01 Thread Colonelkorn
Another D-Link 530 NIC: DFE-530TXS ---> sundance alta On Sunday, September 1, 2002, at 10:47 , Donald R. Spoon wrote: > D-Link has a bad habit of putting out cards with similar model numbers, > but using widely differing chipsets. Here is a list of the various > models in this area with thei

Re: D-Link, Wireless and Debian

2002-09-01 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sun, 1 Sep 2002 17:59:05 -0700 Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, and it works well. I have one. The problem is that you have to be > able to FIND the unit in order to configure it, and it comes up using > DHCP to get its IP address. I usually arp for it... I know its MAC > prefi

Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

2002-09-01 Thread David Wright
The XMMS people are probably right that they don't need to change anything, because they are not selling XMMS. Red Hat was right to remove MP3 players, because Red Hat is selling its distribution. Technically, Debian doesn't sell its distribution, so in theory Debian shouldn't have to change

Re: Any suggestion on DE-530 NIC card?

2002-09-01 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Ying Yin wrote: > Hello, all > > I installed "Woody" on my computer from CD_ROM that labeled > "debian-30r0-i386-binary-1" and it can not recognize my DE-530 > NIC card. > > Would you give me any suggestion on how to find the NIC driver? > Thanks :) > > > Best regards. >

Re: SOLVED: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

2002-09-01 Thread Isaac To
> "Paul" == Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> OK, I *know* it's been mentioned in the thread already, but in Paul> case people somehow missed it, the patent holders clarified thier Paul> position on August 29th, and I'm really getting tired of this Paul> thread.

SOLVED: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

2002-09-01 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 06:24:27PM +0200, Balazs Javor wrote: > I'm not sure whether the administrative overhead makes this worth it, > but did it occure to someone, that somebody could sell the mp3 plugin > for XMMS or other players for a nominal fee

Any suggestion on DE-530 NIC card?

2002-09-01 Thread Ying Yin
Hello, all I installed "Woody" on my computer from CD_ROM that labeled "debian-30r0-i386-binary-1" and it can not recognize my DE-530 NIC card. Would you give me any suggestion on how to find the NIC driver? Thanks :) Best regards. Ying Yin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 200

USBDNET driver (for Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 sync)

2002-09-01 Thread Carl Fink
I've purchased a Zaurus. It's neat and all, but I can't sync it at work (because their proxy software conflicts with Qtopia) and I can't sync it at home, because apparently the stock Debian kernel (kernel-image-2.4.18-k7) doesn't support the usbdnet extension. Is anyone syncing with a Zaurus on

Re: Bash commands

2002-09-01 Thread Russell
Bob Proulx wrote: > > Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-01 15:40:58 +1000]: > > I might have gotten somewhere initially if i hadn't have > > used those square [] brackets. > > A couple of gratuitous comments concerning the scripting plus the > helpful comments which were posted. I can't help

executing command after dial-in

2002-09-01 Thread Jochen Kächelin
I put the following in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/homeip: lynx -dump http://homeip.php It will execute a small php-Script which stores my dynamic IP from my provider in a MySQL-Database so that I know my homeip. But the script does not execute. When I execute it from the shell with ./homeip

Re: D-Link, Wireless and Debian

2002-09-01 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 04:17:41PM -0700, Rupa Schomaker wrote: > I have a 1000AP... Were you also aware that it has a possible SNMP compromise? Search for "D-Link DWL-1000AP can be compromised because of SNMP configuration" in the BugTraq archives. Basically, the admin password of the unit is

Re: D-Link, Wireless and Debian

2002-09-01 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 04:17:41PM -0700, Rupa Schomaker wrote: > I have a 1000AP and newer versions of it's firmware sport a web > interface to configure the device. Yes, and it works well. I have one. The problem is that you have to be able to FIND the unit in order to configure it, and it co

Re: I'm worried about a Warning from lilo

2002-09-01 Thread Russell
Nicos Gollan wrote: > > On Sunday 01 September 2002 20:36, Paul E Condon wrote: > > The message is: > > > > Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different > > head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x81 > > This discussion was on the list before. Search the archives for "A Note

re: starting gnome and libpangoxft

2002-09-01 Thread mobtek
hi all, When I start gnome as a normal user I get the following error gnome-session: relocation error: /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: FT_Get_First_Char but gnome will start as root. Does anyone know how to fix this, I have been searching everywhere and still haven't f

Re: Bash commands

2002-09-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-01 15:40:58 +1000]: > I might have gotten somewhere initially if i hadn't have > used those square [] brackets. A couple of gratuitous comments concerning the scripting plus the helpful comments which were posted. I can't help but to say something. I know, I

Re: PPP asks my ISP for password

2002-09-01 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 10:25:36PM +0100, Anna Lawless wrote: > Having finally got what I thought was a working box, I can't dial > out. Whichever method I use, I either can't connect to my ISP or > the connection is refused by my box. > I type 'pon', having set up ppp in the normal Debian way. No

Re: /etc/cron.monthly/scrollkeeper noise

2002-09-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 04:47:39PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > It is the first of the month again and as every month I get a burp of > noise from scrollkeeper. But I don't even know what it is. Add -q to the scrollkeeper-rebuilddb line. > > It stores metadata specified by the http://www.ibiblio

Love it when a good plan works out!

2002-09-01 Thread Johnny Quazar
Just completed my first crack at the new Woody 3.0r0 release, and wanted to write and kudos to the team! Wow, smooth as silk, the >only< glitch I experienced was an overloaded security.debian.org server -- and you guys even anticipated that event! I used retry a couple times and blamo -- pain

/etc/cron.monthly/scrollkeeper noise

2002-09-01 Thread Bob Proulx
It is the first of the month again and as every month I get a burp of noise from scrollkeeper. But I don't even know what it is. I read the package description. It was so informative. Not! It is so abstract as to say nothing at all about scrollkeeper. I will reproduce it here. > It stores

Re: PPP asks my ISP for password

2002-09-01 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Anna Lawless wrote: > Having finally got what I thought was a working box, I can't dial > out. Whichever method I use, I either can't connect to my ISP or > the connection is refused by my box. > I type 'pon', having set up ppp in the normal Debian way. Nothing > happens. I'll go back into it to t

Re: raidhotadd and RAID1

2002-09-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya patrick yeah... raidhotadd i just am too lazy to go look up the latest commands... keeps changing :-) and new ones added each year ... ( nope, i dont use them commands too often so far ) if you can do your raidhotadd and it works ?? cat /proc/mdstat --> what does it say w

user specific screen res in x

2002-09-01 Thread Ben Thompson
Hello, Is it possible to have a different default screen resolution in x for each user ? I use kdm, and some of the other users on this computer prefer different resolutions. It would be great if it automatically changed to the users preffered setting when they log in. Ben Thompson. -- To

Re: PPP asks my ISP for password

2002-09-01 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 Sep 2002 10:25 pm, Anna Lawless wrote: > Having finally got what I thought was a working box, I can't dial > out. Whichever method I use, I either can't connect to my ISP or > the connection is refused by my box. > I type 'pon', having se

Re: mailman and courier-mta

2002-09-01 Thread Andraz Sraka
re On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 03:06:08PM -0500, Eugene von Niederhausern wrote: > Has anyone been able to get mailman to work with courier-mta? yup .. > My alias file looks like: > > test: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper-test" > test-admin: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test" > test-

PPP asks my ISP for password

2002-09-01 Thread Anna Lawless
Having finally got what I thought was a working box, I can't dial out. Whichever method I use, I either can't connect to my ISP or the connection is refused by my box. I type 'pon', having set up ppp in the normal Debian way. Nothing happens. I'll go back into it to try to find the log message. I

Re: I need information please!

2002-09-01 Thread Carlos A P Gomes
* Marco Espinoza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-09-2002 13:45]: > I'm interested in knowing more about debian. > I would like you to send information about it, I mean, > its benefits and a complete information to my e-mail. > > It would be better if you send it in Spanish because > Im from Peru and I sp

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2002-09-01 Thread ThomasRatliffDDS
Your suggestion > /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/psaux -t autops2 -Rps2 -M -m /dev/input/mice -t > imps2 -Rps2 was close but it got me on the correct track. The /dev/gpmdata has to be written to in a format compatable to both mice so that it can be read by both mice, however an XF86Config-X protocol h

Re: I'm worried about a Warning from lilo

2002-09-01 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 01 September 2002 20:36, Paul E Condon wrote: > The message is: > > Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different > head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x81 This discussion was on the list before. Search the archives for "A Note from the LILO Developer on Warnings"

mailman and courier-mta

2002-09-01 Thread Eugene von Niederhausern
Has anyone been able to get mailman to work with courier-mta? I have been trying for the past couple of days to get them to work, but I am having trouble getting courier to see the aliases. The error I am getting is: Reporting-MTA: dns; jediknight.dsl.csolutions.net Arrival-Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2

Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

2002-09-01 Thread David Wright
> PS: I don't want to start a troll, I just feel that free software gets > threatened by US > patents and the only way to get rid of this problem is by ignoring it... Please read previous mail in the thread. This is not a US patent. This is a European patent. For MP3, the US/EU distinction is

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2002-09-01 Thread Joris
> I'd like to have both mice working with gpm and X. My gpm and X > relevant sections follow and ideas on tweaking these to make this work > would be appreciated. > > Using a laptop (Gateway9550) with its builtin mouse, and a USB mouse > (logitech optical cordless) > > The following gives me th

Re: WindowMaker

2002-09-01 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 10:29:40AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > I'm trying to add my own command to the Window Maker WM. > > What I'm tyring to do is add the ability to run a single command > line from the F2 key. This is simeilar to the functionality in > KDE of the F2 button. > > Someone has

Re: I'm worried about a Warning from lilo

2002-09-01 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 10:36, Paul E Condon wrote: > Hi. > After a change to lilo.conf, I ran lilo, and noticed a warning message. > I have not noticed this message before. Is it serious? What does it mean? > > The message is: > > Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different

Re: Most stable MSN and ICQ support?

2002-09-01 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
I operate an exclusive server for me and some friends. It's not too complicated, but I do recommend that you contact the people on the jdev or jabber channels on conference.jabber.org (that's jabber conferencing, not IRC), for more details, or seek out the Jabber Server HOWTO. (a google search for

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2002-09-01 Thread ThomasRatliffDDS
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Sep 1 12:01:19 2002 Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 09:49:28 -0700 (PDT) From: ThomasRatliffDDS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 2mice wanted in console and X I'd like to have both mice working with gpm and X. My gpm and X relevant sections follow and ideas

Sound card driver for CM87389(rev 10)

2002-09-01 Thread Paul E Condon
I am working on getting sound set up on this Woody computer. I got a sound card from Frys and plugged it in. lspci says it is C-Media Electronics CM8738(rev 10). I suspect that I need the cmpci.o modules, that appeared when I was installing the vanilla Woody. But I couldn't get vanilla to handl

Re: I'm worried about a Warning from lilo

2002-09-01 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi. > After a change to lilo.conf, I ran lilo, and noticed a warning message. > I have not noticed this message before. Is it serious? What does it mean? > > The message is: > > Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different >

I'm worried about a Warning from lilo

2002-09-01 Thread Paul E Condon
Hi. After a change to lilo.conf, I ran lilo, and noticed a warning message. I have not noticed this message before. Is it serious? What does it mean? The message is: Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x81 Also which drive in

Re: how to unsubscribe??

2002-09-01 Thread David
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 08:42:31PM -0400, Jeff Maxson wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 11:32:45AM -0700, Craig Dickson happened to mention: > > Larry Smith wrote: > > > > > How do I unsubscribe from this group? > > > > This text appears at the bottom of every message on this list: > > > > >

Re: Debian with Windows XP

2002-09-01 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 07:51:03PM +0200, Bas du Pre wrote: > Hello, > > I use Windows XP, but I want Debian on my computer too. > Is that possible? I heard from other people that RedHat doesn't work with Windows XP. > > Kind Regards, > > Bas du Pre > the Netherlands I understand from the linu

Re: Most stable MSN and ICQ support?

2002-09-01 Thread Sami Dalouche
which jabber server do you use ? I currently use charente.de and it's hard to say that it's 100% reliable. Sam - Original Message - From: "Jeremy Nickurak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chun Kit Edwin Lau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 6:47 P

Re: Need help package ownership problem

2002-09-01 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Sun, 1 Sep 2002 09:49:38 -0700 Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am unable to apt-get dist-upgrade because logtail and logcheck are > fighting over the same file. Same thing happened to me. I just uninstalled and re-installed logcheck, like this: apt-get remove --purge logcheck logt

Need help package ownership problem

2002-09-01 Thread Ross Boylan
I am unable to apt-get dist-upgrade because logtail and logcheck are fighting over the same file. The package owner suggested using dpkg-divert --package logtail --add --rename /usr/share/man/man8/logtail.8.gz but as you can see below, it gets removed before it can help. Can anyone suggest ho

Re: raidhotadd and RAID1

2002-09-01 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi Gents, On Sun, 01 Sep 2002 the mental interface of patrick told: [...] > --- Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Alvin, > > I've never heard of "hotswapadd", did you mean "raidhotadd" ? > > I also have raid-1 problems. raid-0 gets started fine, but raid-1 > starts in degraded mode, us

Re: Most stable MSN and ICQ support?

2002-09-01 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
I use jabber exclusively, which in my experience is currently producing 100% reliable MSN/ICQ messaging (AIM too, and yahoo shortly, once the transport is brought up to date with recent changes on yahoo's side.) On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 06:36:43PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, >

Re: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext

2002-09-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 09:55:02PM +0530, Dr. Sachin Kale wrote: > I am trying to compile examples given in qt2-doc package, even though > the directory containg libs is specified as -L/usr/X11R6/lib while > linking I get the above error. Have you installed xlibs-dev? -- Colin Watson

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext

2002-09-01 Thread Dr. Sachin Kale
Hello I am trying to compile examples given in qt2-doc package, even though the directory containg libs is specified as -L/usr/X11R6/lib while linking I get the above error. ldconfig -p |grep *Xext* gives follwoing- lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 14 Apr 10 19:49 libXext.so.6 -> libXext

Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

2002-09-01 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, I've missed a couple of messages in this discussion, so sorry if this was already mentioned before... I'm not sure whether the administrative overhead makes this worth it, but did it occure to someone, that somebody could sell the mp3 plugin for XMMS or other players for a nominal fee of say

Re: real transparency (under X11)

2002-09-01 Thread Robin
if I recall correctly, the window manager in OSX uses double-buffering, and 10.2 uses GL to speed the transparancies. however, it's not as fast... Nicos Gollan wrote: >On Sunday 01 September 2002 16:35, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > >>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> >>Christian Schoen

I need information please!

2002-09-01 Thread Marco Espinoza
My name is Marco Espinoza and I'm from Peru. I've visited your page and is very interesting. I'm interested in knowing more about debian. I would like you to send information about it, I mean, its benefits and a complete information to my e-mail. It would be better if you send it in Spanish beca

I need information please!

2002-09-01 Thread Marco Espinoza
My name is Marco Espinoza and I'm from Peru. I've visited your page and is very interesting. I'm interested in knowing more about debian. I would like you to send information about it, I mean, its benefits and a complete information to my e-mail. It would be better if you send it in Spanish beca

Re: real transparency (under X11)

2002-09-01 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 01 September 2002 16:35, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Christian Schoenebeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm still waiting for the ability to use real transparency. What's > > the deal with this anyway? I mean, what is the problem that there's > >

Re: wget asp pages recursively?

2002-09-01 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 08:36:11AM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > Is there some way I can limit the URL's wget will follow? Suppose all of my > pages have a URL like: > > http://someplace.com/some.asp&ThisIsFixed=1&page=1 > > I would like to only download URLs that have "ThisIsFixed=1" in

Re: real transparency (under X11)

2002-09-01 Thread Rob Hensley
On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 01/09/02 Miquel van Smoorenburg did speaketh: > > > Someone has to design how this fits in with the existing X11 > > protocol, probably develop an extension, then write the code, > > and invent and document an API for this. > > > > Then all appli

Re: real transparency (under X11)

2002-09-01 Thread Tinus Kotzé
My guess to the real transparency is example, take a sound player and play music so that there is as counter counting down. Move to so that it is just above your 'K' or gnome foot, and then open the menu. You will probably notice the time stopped ticking... Real transparency is when they dont ta

Re: raidhotadd and RAID1

2002-09-01 Thread patrick
--- Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi ya michael > > -- looks like we have a mis-communication.. lets try it again > > my understanding so far.. > > - you had sda and sdb running as raid1 ( mirroring ) before > - if this not the case... all bets are off > > - than sdb dies ..

can't detect device (savage S3 Savage4)

2002-09-01 Thread boud
Hi again, OK, thanks to those who said i needed to install xserver-xfree86. :) i took the plunge into dselect, discovered the "/" key to search for packages, and now i think it's installed OK. And i know more than i did before about apt-get & dselect & Debian package installation management. Bu

Re: real transparency (under X11)

2002-09-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 01/09/02 Miquel van Smoorenburg did speaketh: > Someone has to design how this fits in with the existing X11 > protocol, probably develop an extension, then write the code, > and invent and document an API for this. > > Then all applications that want real transparency probably need to > be r

Re: real transparency (under X11)

2002-09-01 Thread Kent West
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Christian Schoenebeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I'm still waiting for the ability to use real transparency. What's the deal >>with this anyway? I mean, what is the problem that there's still only pseudo >>transparency? >>

Re: Mouse problem in X

2002-09-01 Thread Vikki Roemer
Anna Lawless wrote: >I've used Mandrake for the last two years, but always wanted to >move to Debian. I installed release 2r2 on my old box a year ago, >but couldn't get my mouse to work in an x window, so moved back to >another distro. > >I've just installed Woody on my main box. Everything went

Re: WindowMaker

2002-09-01 Thread jeff
> I'm trying to add my own command to the Window Maker WM. > > What I'm tyring to do is add the ability to run a single command > line from the F2 key. This is simeilar to the functionality in > KDE of the F2 button. > > Someone has recommended > >"Run..." SHORTCUT F2 SHEXEC %a(Run,Type comma

Re: Woody on Asus A7V333 with Promise FastTrak133 Controller

2002-09-01 Thread Mark Lamers
Op zo 01-09-2002, om 00:50 schreef Paul Galbraith: > When I boot off the bf2.4 install floppies, however, my striped drive > is not recognized (nor are the 2 physical drives, for that matter--no > drive is recognized). I haven't got any idea what to do from here...I > flipped through the howto t

Re: real transparency (under X11)

2002-09-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Schoenebeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm still waiting for the ability to use real transparency. What's the deal >with this anyway? I mean, what is the problem that there's still only pseudo >transparency? Someone has to design how this fits in with

Re: Mouse problem in X

2002-09-01 Thread Kent West
Anna Lawless wrote: > > >I've just installed Woody on my main box. Everything went fine >until I started an X session. Then... mouse pointer as >windowmanager was loading, then pointer disappeared. The desktop >menus open at random, it seems, I have a mouse pointer, but it's >not working properly

WindowMaker

2002-09-01 Thread Tom Allison
I'm trying to add my own command to the Window Maker WM. What I'm tyring to do is add the ability to run a single command line from the F2 key. This is simeilar to the functionality in KDE of the F2 button. Someone has recommended "Run..." SHORTCUT F2 SHEXEC %a(Run,Type command to run: )

real transparency (under X11)

2002-09-01 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Hi! I'm still waiting for the ability to use real transparency. What's the deal with this anyway? I mean, what is the problem that there's still only pseudo transparency? Regards, Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: How can I use RPM in debian - 3.0

2002-09-01 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 01 Sep 2002 the mental interface of damar thapa told: > Hi, > > I am trying to install hpbuilder-4.0-1.i386.rpm (trial > version) in debian 3.0. [...] > And, is there any kit/kits that can convert .rpm file > to .deb. I saw one in RPM howto from .deb to .rpm. apt-cache show alien HTH

How can I use RPM in debian - 3.0

2002-09-01 Thread damar thapa
Hi, I am trying to install hpbuilder-4.0-1.i386.rpm (trial version) in debian 3.0. When I did 'rpm -ivh hpbuilder-4.0-1.i386.rpm', I get the following message: error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory(2) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm Seems,

Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

2002-09-01 Thread Isaac To
> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 01:25:39PM +0800, Isaac To wrote: >> Hm... then we can make everybody "happy" (sort-of) by moving xmms >> mpg123 module, mpg123 package and mpg321 package into non-free? Colin> Not necessaril

Re: BCC: still exists in copy of TO:

2002-09-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Waldemar Gorus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I sent a mail to a second account of myself and a blindcarboncopy to >another. >I was surprised that the BCC: field exists in both. >I thought the BCC field shoudlnt appear in the copy of TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I am usi

Re: BCC: still exists in copy of TO:

2002-09-01 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 01 Sep 2002 the mental interface of Waldemar Gorus told: > Hello, > > I sent a mail to a second account of myself and a blindcarboncopy to > another. > I was surprised that the BCC: field exists in both. > I thought the BCC field shoudlnt appear in the copy of TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You

Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

2002-09-01 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) writes: > [1 ] > Isaac To wrote: >> If you look at the license of non-free software in the Debian archive and >> read the copyright file of each of them, you can find that they allow the >> binary code to be distributed in a Debian CD-ROM to be sold. They become >>

BCC: still exists in copy of TO:

2002-09-01 Thread Waldemar Gorus
Hello, I sent a mail to a second account of myself and a blindcarboncopy to another. I was surprised that the BCC: field exists in both. I thought the BCC field shoudlnt appear in the copy of TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am using mutt and exim. exim is just a satelite and forward all mails to my int

Re: Mouse problem in X

2002-09-01 Thread Glyn Millington
"Anna Lawless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've used Mandrake for the last two years, but always wanted to > move to Debian. Quite right too!! > I'm using XF86-4 with the Vesa driver for a nVideo Riva2 card. My > mouse is a standard ps2 wheelmouse. Are you using gpm? (Have you use of the

Re: Help with patching kernel??

2002-09-01 Thread David Z Maze
Matthew Claridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. There's no /usr/src/linux directory. But I think thats normal > because I've got a /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 directory with the > kernel source tree underneath it Yup, this is fine. If you want to put your source somewhere besides /usr/sr

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Exim as a Mail HUB

2002-09-01 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, anyone knows how to configure Exim to act as Mail HUB of multiple domains in Debian Potato/Debian? Is it option 3 of eximconfig (==smarthost)? TIA,Paulo Henrique -- Paulo Henrique B de Oliveira Gerente de Operações - Linux Solutions - http://

List unsubscribe - see information in your mail header

2002-09-01 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi to all who want to UN-subscribe, there are a lot of mails with subject: UN-subscribe sent to this list. But as you see in your mail header the correct address to send an UN-subscribe request is: List-Unsubscribe: Oliver -- ... don't touch the b

Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

2002-09-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 01:25:39PM +0800, Isaac To wrote: > Hm... then we can make everybody "happy" (sort-of) by moving xmms mpg123 > module, mpg123 package and mpg321 package into non-free? Not necessarily. If it is not legal to distribute the package at all without paying a fee (and I'm not ma

SSL chat site?

2002-09-01 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Friends, I would like to explain to someone who is unable to browse certain web sites how he can do so by using some software which is currently under beta test by a certain group of people who have a fondness for deceased bovines. I'm not sure my friend has access to any software that will en

Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

2002-09-01 Thread Sami Dalouche
Why not just do as linus said : "let's not care about patents until they bring problems." You host everything in europe (still no patents..), and let's think about that again when europe enforces patents. Sam PS: I don't want to start a troll, I just feel that free software gets threatened by US

Re: slow gl graphics

2002-09-01 Thread Burkhard Ritter
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Geoff Crompton wrote: [...] > I'm running xfree4. So do I need to get the deivce3dfx-source package, > and compile a module? I am running 2.4.18, does this include that > module already? > Are the libglide2 libraries what I want for xfree4? > > Thanks > Geoff you

Re: export won't work

2002-09-01 Thread Russell
Russell wrote: > > "Eric G. Miller" wrote: > > > > On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 07:04:07PM +1000, Russell wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Why won't export work? When i run this > > > bash script on debian 3: > > > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > ABC=def > > > export ABC > > > exit 0 > > > > > > when i type 'export

Re: export won't work

2002-09-01 Thread Russell
"Eric G. Miller" wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 07:04:07PM +1000, Russell wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Why won't export work? When i run this > > bash script on debian 3: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > ABC=def > > export ABC > > exit 0 > > > > when i type 'export', then ABC doesn't > > appear in the list of

Re: X server configuration

2002-09-01 Thread Burkhard Ritter
On 31 Aug 2002, Bhupendra Kumar Patidar wrote: > HI, > I recently installed debian 2.2 releae 5. I am not able to > configure my x server so that i can run x windows. my > configuration is logitech mouse at ps/4, mercury mother board with > on board video card S3 savag4 LG studiowork 563A mon

Re: Mouse problem in X

2002-09-01 Thread Burkhard Ritter
On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Anna Lawless wrote: > I've used Mandrake for the last two years, but always wanted to > move to Debian. I installed release 2r2 on my old box a year ago, > but couldn't get my mouse to work in an x window, so moved back to > another distro. > > I've just installed Woody on my

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