Re: list etiquette (Windows setup w/o fetchmail/procmail)
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 11:55:10PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 09:51:04PM +0100, Alex Hunsley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: ... Second: Last time this topic surfaced, indications were that procmail doesn't work with the legacy MS Windows MAPI mail interface. I don't know how this might change under a Cygwin environment. Any decent MUA (and many indecent ones) provide filtering tools of varying degrees of rudimentaryness. ... ---end quoted text--- I have had some success using a pair of Python programs, getmail and procbox. Getmail sucks the mail out of a POP server into an mbox file. Procbox sorts the mail based on simple pattern matching rules into a set of categorized mailboxes. These programs are fairly simple (simplistic), but do the job. For my own convenience I absorbed them into my own master script, and cleaned things up a bit. This setup is lightweight, mainly depends on Python, and doesn't require building a full-fledged Unix-style mail-handling environment under Windoze. I'd be glad to provide help (non-expert), scripts and configuration for setting it up. Just ask. Cheers, Steve -- \_O \_O \_O ~~~ Steve Cooper Redmond, WA
Re: [sid] TrueType in XFree86 4.1.0
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 01:14:57AM +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: I lost TrueType fonts support in X. I have 'Load freetype' in XF86Config-4, TTFs in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType and mkttfontdir in /usr/local/bin. I go to font dir, run mkttfondir fonts.dir and restart X. Still nothing - in /var/log/XFree86.0.log I have: Dumb question - Is mkttfontdir supposed to be redirected? I thought it generated fonts.dir for you. If so you may be overwriting fonts.dir with junk. Just a guess, Steve -- \_O \_O \_O ~~~ Steve Cooper Redmond, WA
Re: Ceating Web interface for Debian?
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 05:49:41PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First, learn CGI, JSP, or similar technologies I would also consider using Python with mod_python, assuming you have an Apache server. Python is a great languange for munging text config files. And also performs CGI-like services well. Regards, Steve -- \_O \_O \_O ~~~ Steve Cooper Redmond, WA
Re: triple install -- which bootmanager
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 09:43:24AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: I was asked by a friend to install Debian on her system. No problem usually, but she wants german windows, japanese windows and linux on it. Now, it is no problem to dual-boot, but it is not very easy to dual-boot two windows versions (You have to hide one partition in order to use the other one, I think). Has anybody done this before? Any hints how I can install and boot it? Just a caution... I was merrily doing the show/hide partition trick, in my case with Grub, to allow Win98, Win2K and Linux to coexist. Worked great for a while. I had to repair the Win2K installation using the command line console. It thoughtfully erased the hidden Win98 partition. The moral is that this setup works as long as you don't have to use a low-level Windows tool to deal with the disk. I'd recommend against using the show/hide trick. Good luck, Steve -- \_O \_O \_O ~~~ Steve Cooper Redmond, WA
Re: nVidia Riva TNT graphics card driver
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:29:41AM -0600, ray p wrote: Download the tarballs from the Nivdia website go into the kernel module tree and type make install (as root of course) do the same fro th GLX module. change your XF86Config-4 file like the readme says and you will be good. Basically go read the readme and you should be fine. On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:24:03PM -0400, Maury Merkin wrote: Could someone please take me step-by-step through the process of installing the nVidia driver? I am currently using the SVGA driver with with it but the nVidia driver has to be much better. Just in case it's not obvious... You may have to add the NVidia kernel module to /etc/modules. Cheers, Steve -- \_O \_O \_O ~~~ Steve Cooper Redmond, WA
Re: Shutdown -h now
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 04:04:49PM -0400, Andrew Overholt decreed: On 21 Jun 2001, W. Paul Mills wrote: What Steve Cooper mentioned works. Compile APM support into you're kernel. The apm=on in lilo.conf isn't needed... or at least not here. I compiled the proper ATM support into my kernel and now when I do a shutdown -h now, it works. I have APM compiled into my kernel (2.4.2 - did it last night) and have the append line in lilo.conf (which follows). Any other suggestions? If you look at your .config file in the kernel source root directory there are a few options related to APM. Edit that file and look for CONFIG_APM. You may need to enable one or more of those additional options, e.g. check out CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF. It may also be a peculiarity of your BIOS. See if there's an available BIOS upgrade for your motherboard. If you still have a problem I can check my settings tonight when I'm at my Debian machine. Cheers, Steve -- \_O \_O \_O ~~~ Steve Cooper Redmond, WA
Re: Monitor not remembering settings
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 11:38:38AM -0500, Bart Szyszka decreed: I have Debian unstable set up with KDM and KDE2 to dual-boot with a WindowsMe system. My problem is that each time I boot to Debian, I have to readjust my monitor's settings because the screen is all bent out of shape. Any idea why it keeps resetting? It never does that when I go back to Windows. Windows always sticks to the proper settings. I have a Proview PS-910 monitor. I'd appreciate some help with this. - Bart I had the same problem with my Iiyama monitor. I never understood the issue. Somehow X must have introduced subtle frequency variations that appeared as different settings to the monitor. I think it somehow occurs when you're on a setting that's borderline acceptable to the monitor. I had to make extreme adjustments to my unstable setting to make the display ok. I was able to fix it by finding a list of generic VESA modelines that tend to work well on all/most monitors. I can provide more details when I'm at my home Linux machine. For starters here's a list I stole from a email provided by Google search on vesa modelines. As the email's author said, USE THEM AT YOUR OWN RISK. HTH, Steve Cooper Modeline 1600x1200 202.5 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +HSync +VSync #1600x1200 @85 Hz VESA Modeline 1600x1200 229.5 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +HSync +VSync #1280x1024 @75 Hz VESA Modeline 1280x1024 135 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +HSync +VSync #1280x1024 @85 Hz VESA Modeline 1280x1024 157.5 1280 1344 1504 1728 1024 1025 1028 1072 +HSync +VSync #1152x864 @75 Hz VESA Modeline 1152x864 108 1152 1216 1344 1600 864 865 868 900 +HSync +VSync #1152x864 @85 Hz VESA Modeline 1152x864 121.5 1152 1216 1344 1568 864 865 868 911 +HSync +VSync #1024x768 @75 Hz VESA Modeline 1024x768 78.75 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +HSync +VSync #1024x768 @85 Hz VESA Modeline 1024x768 94.5 1024 1072 1168 1376 768 769 772 808 +HSync +VSync #800x600 @75 Hz VESA Modeline 800x600 49.5 800 816 896 1056 600 601 604 625 +HSync +VSync #800x600 @85 Hz VESA Modeline 800x600 56.25 800 832 896 1048 600 601 604 631 +HSync +VSync #640x480 @75 Hz VESA Modeline 640x480 31.5 640 656 720 840 480 481 484 500 -HSync -VSync #640x480 @85 Hz VESA Modeline 640x480 36 640 696 752 832 480 481 484 509 -HSync -VSync
Re: Shutdown -h now
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:58:10PM -0400, Andrew Overholt decreed: Does anyone else have a problem with proper soft power off? I realize it's a faq but I've never actually seen a clear-cut answer. Building a kernel with APM functionality enabled solves the problem. Cheers, Steve Cooper
Re: Nvidea Riva TnT and vesafbcon
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:40:40AM +0200, André Borman decreed: I read on the net that when a LFB graphics mode is used for the console, a nice pinguing logo should be shown at startup. I compiled VESA support etc. into my kernel and added the VGA=ask to ... Anybody an idea of what i'm doing wrong? André, I have an NVidia TNT2 and the following vga= values work for me: vga=794 (1600x1200) vga=791 (1280x1024) vga=788 (1024x768) vga=785 (800x600) Unfortunately I forgot the source of that info; probably either in kernel-source/Documentation or a header file somewhere. If these don't give you a penguin (and a sharper console font) I would guess either some necessary kernel compilation variable isn't set of you're not running the kernel image that you think you are (big help, right? :-)) Good luck, Steve Cooper
Re: apt question
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:15:14AM -0500, Andrew Dixon decreed: i've installed debian on my comp for the first time and when i was installing it (base-config) from an ftp site (ftp.pl.debian.org) apt downloads very old packages ie. xfree-3.3.6 gnome-1.0 and so on can someone tell me what i have to write to sources.list to make apt to download new packages ie. xfree86-4.1.0 gnome-1.4 kde-2.1.. I assume your running stable. If this is the case the simplest way to get all of the latest and greatest packages would be to upgrade to testing or unstable. To do this you change your sources.list from: ... #apt-get update #apt-get dist-upgrade or you could just install the new packages and then change your sources.list back to stable. There are other cooler ways to install packages from testing even if your running stable but I don't know how to do it. Anyone else have an idea? I'm not an expert. But I've had personal/painful experience with blithely upgrading or mixing and matching stable, testing and unstable. The following suggestions are merely my opinion. A couple of things to think about. 1) Assume you can't go back. There are tricks that may help, but they probably won't work. Once you move up to a more aggressive package set you are most likely stuck. 2) Testing and unstable have definite risks. Assume you will suffer broken package dependencies, etc. For the most part you can overcome these problems. It takes work, knowledge and a little luck. The best advice I've received is to live in stable, but configure sources.list to get source packages from unstable. Then any new packages not in the stable distribution can be downloaded as source and built into your .deb package. This is much safer than playing with unstable or testing binaries on a stable system. I hope more experienced debian gurus double-check my advice for factual errors. However there's no doubt that pausing and pondering before leaping up to testing or stable would be wise. Cheers, Steve Cooper
