Unstable stable ?

2001-03-12 Thread Thibaut Cousin
Ivan, you said several times that the unstable debs are more stable that the potato ones, and that unstable was better than testing... I'm confused. Are you sure ? What is better in unstable ? -- Thibaut Cousin email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] web : http://clrwww.in2p3.fr

Re: Unstable stable ?

2001-03-12 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
Ivan, you said several times that the unstable debs are more stable that the potato ones, and that unstable was better than testing... I'm confused. Are you sure ? What is better in unstable ? heh...what I said is that if your running woody/testing then you should run the KDE/QT debs that

Re: Unstable stable ?

2001-03-12 Thread Thibaut Cousin
Le Lundi 12 Mars 2001 09:37, Ivan E. Moore II a écrit : Ivan, you said several times that the unstable debs are more stable that the potato ones, and that unstable was better than testing... I'm confused. Are you sure ? What is better in unstable ? heh...what I said is that if your

Problems with KDE Floppy Formatter (fdformat??)

2001-03-12 Thread Oliver Schmidt
Hi, if I try to format a DD floppy with the KDE Floppy Formatter, I get the following error message: Cannot create a filesystem on: /dev/fd0u720 mkdosfs:unable to allocate space for FAT image in memory I'm using KDE 2.1 and Potato. Formatting HD Disks works. Perhaps the problem has

Re: Problems with KDE Floppy Formatter (fdformat??)

2001-03-12 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
if I try to format a DD floppy with the KDE Floppy Formatter, I get the following error message: Cannot create a filesystem on: /dev/fd0u720 mkdosfs:unable to allocate space for FAT image in memory I'm using KDE 2.1 and Potato. Formatting HD Disks works. Perhaps the problem has

Re: Problems with KDE Floppy Formatter (fdformat??)

2001-03-12 Thread Thibaut Cousin
Le Lundi 12 Mars 2001 12:41, Ivan E. Moore II a écrit : if I try to format a DD floppy with the KDE Floppy Formatter, I get the following error message: Cannot create a filesystem on: /dev/fd0u720 mkdosfs:unable to allocate space for FAT image in memory I'm using KDE 2.1 and

When will XFree86 4.0.2 make it to stable ??

2001-03-12 Thread James Bass
Any ideas ??? -thx James

Re: When will XFree86 4.0.2 make it to stable ??

2001-03-12 Thread Thibaut Cousin
Le Lundi 12 Mars 2001 17:47, James Bass a écrit : Any ideas ??? Well, it depends on what you call stable : - if you mean Potato, never. Potato has been released, so it will not evolve. - if you mean Woody, well, it is supposed to enter into freeze soon... honnestly I wouldn't expect a

authenticating proxy

2001-03-12 Thread David Bishop
I saw a message last week for all of us authenticating proxy users to upgrade. Well, I did, and I have the same problem. Was the fix repealed? Or is something else wrong? To repeat, the exact error is: Unsuported action Unknown authorization method! Thanks, D.A.Bishop

Re: When will XFree86 4.0.2 make it to stable ??

2001-03-12 Thread Soenke von Stamm
here you are =8) deb http://people.debian.org/%7Ecpbotha/ xf402_potato/i386/ deb http://people.debian.org/%7Ecpbotha/ xf402_potato/all/ Sönke Zitiere Thibaut Cousin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Le Lundi 12 Mars 2001 17:47, James Bass a écrit : Any ideas ??? Well, it depends on what you

Re: unstable Debian KDE issues

2001-03-12 Thread James Stembridge
On Monday 12 March 2001 1:57 am, Michael K. Neylon wrote: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/libs/libfreetype6_2.0.1-1.deb Ok thanks, didn't think to look there. -- James Stembridge [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kmail question

2001-03-12 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sunday 11 March 2001 02:51, Neil Youngman wrote something to this effect: I have accounts with 2 different ISPs. I have tried to set up 2 kmail identities, one for each account, but it appears to only allow one network setup. Obviously I'd like to

Re: kmail question

2001-03-12 Thread Neil Youngman
OK. I wasn't clear enough. I can see how to read POP3 mail, but they have different SMTP servers for outgoing mail. I want to be able to send mail to the appropriate SMTP server for the account I'm dialled into and I can't see a sensible way of doing it, unless you count hacking ip-up scripts as

Specifying tcp ports for kdm/kdeinit

2001-03-12 Thread Michael K. Neylon
I generally try to firewall any ports that aren't necessary on a box which is typically easy to do with most services, but two parts of KDE that start up seem to take whatever ports they feel like, kdm and kdeinit (or as reprted by netstat, 'kdeinit: kxml'). The ports are always higher than 1023,

Desktop Lock

2001-03-12 Thread JC Portlock
Since the new upgrade this past weekend, when I lock the desktop, it will not accept my user password to unlock. Anyone else checked this out? The only way I've been able to get around it is to ps ax in konsole, kill kde and log in again. -- 73, JC Portlock KE6UME [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#

Re: Desktop Lock

2001-03-12 Thread Michael K. Neylon
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 04:40:40PM -0800, JC Portlock wrote: Since the new upgrade this past weekend, when I lock the desktop, it will not accept my user password to unlock. Anyone else checked this out? The only way I've been able to get around it is to ps ax in konsole, kill kde and log

KwinTV?

2001-03-12 Thread John Gay
I've seen it mentioned a few times, but where is KwinTV? I've got XawTV, but I've got a tuner issue. I'd sure like to try KwinTV . Cheers, John Gay

Kmail can't open attachments

2001-03-12 Thread Hendrik Naumann
Hi I installed all the kde_1.2-final packages for potato. The problem I have is that I can't open attachments. Instead part://2 is showd in the left bottom. When I start kmail from the shell kmail prompts kdecore (KProtocolManager): ERROR: Protocol part not found I think this is due to a

Re: Kmail can't open attachments

2001-03-12 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Monday 12 March 2001 10:30, Hendrik Naumann wrote something to this effect: Hi I installed all the kde_1.2-final packages for potato. The problem I have is that I can't open attachments. Instead part://2 is showd in the left bottom. When I start kmail