mixer no encontrada

2000-07-22 Thread MC_Vai
Cuando quiero modificar las propiedades de audio en Gnome (con Audio Mixer) me sale un mensaje de error que dice: No Mixers found. Make sure you have sound support compiled into the kernel Pero checando con el comando cat /dev/sndstat me sale algo como esto: === Load

Problemas con mc 4.5.46-helix2

2000-07-22 Thread Antonio Calvo
Hola Me he actuualizado a potato y aproveche para instalarme la version de Helix que regalaba linux actual. El problema es que mc no me funciona en consola mas que como root. En cambio en un xterm funciona perfectamente. ¿Le pasa a alguien mas? -- Antonio Calvo Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bug del proftpd

2000-07-22 Thread jrfern
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 12:01:29PM +0200, TooManySecrets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: En la potato (a día de hoy 20-7-2000), viene el proftpd 1.2.0pre10-2. Según Security Focus, las versiones pre del 1.2 están afectadas por un bug que permite ejecutar código arbitrario. He mirado en el árbol de

Re: donde estan las lineas para los colores de vim

2000-07-22 Thread Luis Cabrera Sauco
Quien:31 Cuando: viernes, 21 de julio del 2000, a las 12:39, Qué: donde estan las lineas para los colores de vim Un amigo me ha dicho que edite el fichero /etc/vimrc para que el vim utilice colores pero no existe tal fichero, donde o como puedo configurar el

Re: Como funciona Zope. Donde estan los archivos

2000-07-22 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
31 writes: He instalado estos días el servidor Zope y el software squishdot, pero no entiendo muy bien como funciona. Bueno, la pregunta es que yo no estoy conectado y pongo http://localhost:9673 y me carga la página con todas las imagenes y textos y entonces yo me supongo que tiene que

Re: Instalar un weblog

2000-07-22 Thread Miquel
El vie, jul 21, 2000 at 12:48:04 +0200 31 ha dit: Si, ya me he olvidado de todo el embrollo anterior y he hecho simplemente apt-get install squishdot y debian solita me ha puesto a funcionar todo (otra razón más para seguir enamorado). de debian, supongo :-) Ahora uso mi ordenador para

Re: Como funciona Zope. Donde estan los archivos

2000-07-22 Thread Miquel
El vie, jul 21, 2000 at 02:29:46 +0200 31 ha dit: He instalado estos días el servidor Zope y el software squishdot, pero no entiendo muy bien como funciona. Bueno, la pregunta es que yo no estoy conectado y pongo http://localhost:9673 y me carga la página con todas las imagenes y textos y

Paquetes KDE

2000-07-22 Thread Luis Arocha -data-
¿Alguien conoce un servidor ftp o http para incluir en el /etc/apt/sources.list que contenga los paquetes de KDE, además de kde.tdyc.com, que parece que no anda muy fino ultimamente? Saludos, -- Luis Arocha Hernandez data [EMAIL PROTECTED] Islas Canarias - Spain

Re: donde estan las lineas para los colores de vim

2000-07-22 Thread Luis Arocha -data-
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 12:39:16PM +0200, 31 wrote: Un amigo me ha dicho que edite el fichero /etc/vimrc para que el vim utilice colores pero no existe tal fichero, donde o como puedo configurar el vim par que acepte colores. -- Saludos borxa ;) Hola: Este el fichero de

Re: Instalar un weblog

2000-07-22 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
Miquel writes: El vie, jul 21, 2000 at 12:48:04 +0200 31 ha dit: Si, ya me he olvidado de todo el embrollo anterior y he hecho simplemente apt-get install squishdot y debian solita me ha puesto a funcionar todo (otra razón más para seguir enamorado). de debian, supongo :-)

pdf-läsare med stöd för kryptering?

2000-07-22 Thread Kent Nyberg
Jag har laddat hem ett par pdf filer som jag skulle vilja läsa. Det verkar dock inte bättre än att de på något sätt är krypterade: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/texter/$ xpdf Chomsky_Brazil.pdf xpdf version 0.90 Copyright © 1996-1999 Derek B. Noonburg Error: PDF file is encrypted and cannot be displayed

Re: pdf-läsare med stöd för kryptering ?

2000-07-22 Thread Bjorn Isaksson
Hej, Installera xpdf-i istället för xpdf. apt-get install xpdf-i xpdf-i har stöd för dekryptering. Mvh Björn

Re: pdf-läsare med stöd för kryptering?

2000-07-22 Thread jens persson
On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 03:59:31PM +0200, Kent Nyberg wrote: Jag har laddat hem ett par pdf filer som jag skulle vilja läsa. Det verkar dock inte bättre än att de på något sätt är krypterade: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/texter/$ xpdf Chomsky_Brazil.pdf xpdf version 0.90 Copyright © 1996-1999 Derek

Re: sendmailproblem

2000-07-22 Thread Karl Hammar
Med senare versioner av sendmail måste man vilka domäner som den accepterar att vidarebefordra. Definiera dina domäner med classen R eller i filen /etc/mail/relay-domains. $ zcat /usr/doc/sendmail/cf.README.gz | less ... +-+ | ANTI-SPAM CONFIGURATION CONTROL |

Re: pdf-läsare med stöd för kryptering?

2000-07-22 Thread Karl Hammar
Definiera följande funktion (om du har sgrep installerat): $ sdeb() { sgrep -i -o '%r\n' DEB_PKG\ containing\ \$@\ /var/state/apt/lists/* 2/dev/null; } och prova: $ sdeb pdf | less Alternativt får du en lista här: $ apt-cache show gs-pdfencrypt xpdf-i pstoedit gnome-gv gs gv pstotext

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2000-07-22 Thread André Luís Lopes
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Apresentação e Dúvidas

2000-07-22 Thread andrelop
Oi pessoal da lista Essa é a primeira mensagem que envio à lista . Espero poder aprender muito com todos e comprovar a tão aclamada superioridade do Debian. Estou migrando (em ambiente doméstico) do Red Hat 6.2 para o Debian. Gostaria da ajuda de vocês quanto a indicação de

Re: Apresentação e Dúvidas

2000-07-22 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Recomendo a freeze (potato). Ela ainda não foi oficialmente lançada mas seu sistema de instalação e pacotes estão em um ótimo nível de maturidade e segurança. Quanto a unstable (woody), ela não está sendo muito mexida, pois os esforços dos desenvolvedores estão concentrados no lançamento da

Re: Apresentação e Dúvidas

2000-07-22 Thread Marcelo Elias Del Valle
Olá André. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Essa é a primeira mensagem que envio à lista . Espero poder aprender muito com todos e comprovar a tão aclamada superioridade do Debian. Aprenda a mexer direito no dselect (se ainda não souber) e vai começar a enxergar uma imensidão de vantagens

(no subject)

2000-07-22 Thread osk46
How are you? I use pc midi card; MQX-32M. My install diskette is out of order, useless now. So big problem is I can not setup midi driver. WWW.OPCODE.COM does not answer me with MQX-32M. Where can I get downloaded freely with the driver MQX-32M? Thanks Seykyu Korea

libc.so.5

2000-07-22 Thread David S. Jackson
This is probably in a FAQ somewhere, but I don't know where. :-) I upgraded to Potato just recently (finally) and don't know the name of the file that provides a compatability library for libc.so.5. Can anyone tell me so I can apt-get it? TIA! -- David S. Jackson[EMAIL

Re: libc.so.5

2000-07-22 Thread Mike Werner
David S. Jackson wrote: This is probably in a FAQ somewhere, but I don't know where. :-) I upgraded to Potato just recently (finally) and don't know the name of the file that provides a compatability library for libc.so.5. Can anyone tell me so I can apt-get it? Appropriately, the package

esd mixer problem

2000-07-22 Thread MC_Vai
When I try to adjust the audio properties with the Audio Mixer in GNOME I get these error message: No Mixers Found. Make sure you have sound support compiled into the kernel But I checked and this is the output of '% cat /dev/sndstat': ... ... ... Mixers:

RE: A strange little kppp error

2000-07-22 Thread Andras Simonyi
Hi, on 21-Jul-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian Potato ( kernel 2.2.16 ) with Slink version KDE. When I start kppp it displays a message which says that I don't have ppp compiled into the kernel or loaded as a module which is wrong (I have ppp as a module). I ran into the same problem

Re: Blowfish

2000-07-22 Thread Morten Liebach
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 04:02:13PM -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, I have a OpenBSD machine that I have to pass all the accounts to a new box running Linux (Debian). I used the command newusers, but the passwords at OpenBSD are stored using

Exim says: retry timeout exceeded

2000-07-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For one single domain, and only for that domain, exim immediatly sends an error message saying retry timeout exceeded after I send a mail to that domain. This occurs for all kinds of receivers. Here the mainlog : 2000-07-21 22:54:23 13FjoN-3Y-00 = [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=jan P=loc al S=756

XFree4 Debs

2000-07-22 Thread Troy Telford
Anybody know where I can check on the progress of debianizing of XFree86 4? Are there any .debs of it yet? Thanks, Troy ___ Why pay for something you could get for free? NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email

LILO and Printer

2000-07-22 Thread Chris Marsh
Hi, I am a newbie to Debian having just installed a frozen version of Potato. I'm used to RedHat and am having problems with LILO and setting up my printer. LILO: No changes allow me to select which OS to enter on bootup. I can change it to Windows or Linux, but not to choose between

Re: /bin/kill : Where art thou?

2000-07-22 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Not sure which Debian version you're running, but in both potato and slink it should be at /bin/kill according to the output of 'dpkg -L'. In potato, /bin/kill is in the procps package, while in slink it's in bsdutils. In both potato and slink there is also a /usr/bin/skill, and it's in the

Re: cron editor

2000-07-22 Thread Manoj Victor Mathew
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 03:06:02PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: If I do a 'crontab -e' I get a strange editor, unlike vim which I get on met 2.1 box. Is there a way to change this behaviour? it reads the value of $EDITOR from the shell and defaults to ae otherwise. In your .bashrc

Re: fetchmail troubles

2000-07-22 Thread Manoj Victor Mathew
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 02:48:05PM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: As a normal user I type: fetchmail -v 21 | tee /tmp/fm.log [snip1] fetchmail: POP3 +OK [EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: POP3 USER ciccio fetchmail: POP3 +OK ciccio gets mail here fetchmail: POP3 PASS * [snip2]

Re: Debian 2.1 = Kernel problem

2000-07-22 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! I for myself have got a debian2.2/2.1 mix on my machine, but it took a bit of time until I solved all the dependency problems. So I suggest using a debian 2.1 disk set for base install, then Sven would have no problems switching dselect to multi_cd mode and installing further packages

mutt and asking user

2000-07-22 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello What option needs changing / setting when I don't want mutt to always ask me whether I want to Move read messages to /home/$USER/mbox ([n],y)? when I am exiting? I always quit by pressing enter thereby choosing the default, which is no. I wasnt able to find this under /usr/doc/mutt/*,

Re: mutt and asking user

2000-07-22 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 12:22:20PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: What option needs changing / setting when I don't want mutt to always ask me whether I want to Move read messages to /home/$USER/mbox ([n],y)? when I am exiting? set move=no or unset move Whichever you prefer. -- Tommi

Re: LILO and Printer

2000-07-22 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
I'm used to RedHat and am having problems with LILO... LILO: No changes allow me to select which OS to enter on bootup. I can change it to Windows or Linux, but not to choose between them. I do this by editing lilo.conf and then running lilo. Concerning your LILO-Problem: If you changed

Zope 2.2 on Woody broken?

2000-07-22 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I installed the Zope 2.2.0-1 Debian package from Woody with no problems. But when I try to access the web pages (localhost:9673) I get the following Zope error: Zope Error Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource. Error Type:

Re: fetchmail troubles

2000-07-22 Thread Christoph Simon
fetchmail: SMTP DATA fetchmail: SMTP 354 Enter mail, end with . on a line by itself Well, I think, it is the POP server that is to be blamed. A POP3 server is supposed to return the message followed by a CRLF and '.' when a TOP n or a RETR n is given. It that does not happen,

Re: Question about MASQ chain behavior in ipchains

2000-07-22 Thread Michel Verdier
Stan Kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : | Then in the rules for the External interface, only certain ports appear | to be let back in. I presume that the second and third rules with | destination ports 61000:65095 are for returning masqueraded packets, eh? right | This example doesn't make

Re: XFree4 Debs

2000-07-22 Thread Corey Popelier
Yes, http://www.debian.org/~branden No, no debs yet. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Troy Telford wrote: Anybody know where I can check on the progress of debianizing of XFree86 4? Are there any .debs of it yet? Thanks, Troy

Re: fetchmail troubles

2000-07-22 Thread Manoj Victor Mathew
On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 08:17:43AM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: Well, I think, it is the POP server that is to be blamed. A POP3 server is supposed to return the message followed by a CRLF and '.' when a TOP n or a RETR n is given. It that does not happen, then a situation

autoconf, default sysconfdir value

2000-07-22 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
Is there a simple way to do AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT, but with SYSCONFDIR instead? I want a configure script to check gnome-config --sysconfdir by default but let the user override this. Yes, my shell programming skills sucks. Tom Cato

kernel patches

2000-07-22 Thread Art Edwards
I'm sure this is an old question, but I have found browsing the list archives daunting. I'm attempting to build a new 2.2.15-ide kernel from 2.2.15 sources. I have found the ide patch. I downloaded it into /root and used dpkg to install it. Is it now applied to the 2.2.15 source tree? If not, what

Stranded in console (XFree to 4.0.1 upgrade!)

2000-07-22 Thread Ethan Pierce
Since no one responded to my messed up help request last night, Id thought Idhelp others that are trying to upgrade to x4.0.1 - Noah M got me off to a good start and I was up until 4AM getting it going today. Apparently in Debian the kernel headers in /usr/include/linux are kept totally

Using Partition Magic with Debian

2000-07-22 Thread tsuess
Has anyone used Partition Magic in order to resize partitions under Debian? The software claims to support resizing Linux EXT2 filesystems, etc, but will I trash my system if I do so? I used Norton Ghost to image my system from a 2.1 gig drive to an 8.4 gig drive and it's working great so far,

Re: Using Partition Magic with Debian

2000-07-22 Thread adam b.
I have successfully used Partition Magic to alter the size of partitions which already have assigned mount points (I installed from an MS-DOS partition and then deleted the partition and made it part of root). It made the system scan the whole thing next time I booted up, but nothing bad

hi

2000-07-22 Thread David
I'm real interested in downloading and running Debian, but I have win 95 on my machine now, can I leave win 95 on there and use debian too or?

Re: kernel patches

2000-07-22 Thread Jos Lemmerling
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Art Edwards wrote: I'm sure this is an old question, but I have found browsing the list archives daunting. I'm attempting to build a new 2.2.15-ide kernel from 2.2.15 sources. I have found the ide patch. I downloaded it into /root and used dpkg to install it. Is it now

Re: hi

2000-07-22 Thread Ethan Pierce
David, you certainly can. You will need to establish some linux partions...many on this list prefer fips utility, but I like partition magic for dos...its graphical and you can get a good feel for the disk layout. -Ethan - Original Message - From: David [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: hi

2000-07-22 Thread adam b.
Addendum: The easiest (best?) way to get some hardware working under Linux is to disable the Plug-n-Play features it may have. This makes it a royal pain to keep those hardware components working under the Win9x side of your computer. Making Linux do PnP or making Windows _not_ need PnP is one

RE: A strange little kppp error

2000-07-22 Thread bsamuels
** Reply to note from Andras Simonyi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 22 Jul 2000 08:36:40 +0200 (CEST) Hi, on 21-Jul-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian Potato ( kernel 2.2.16 ) with Slink version KDE. When I start kppp it displays a message which says that I don't have ppp compiled into

Re: Exim/fetchmail/procmail - bad mail files

2000-07-22 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, James Green wrote: OK so I give up trying to figure this one out :-( I've got exim up and running. I used eximconf and selected option 2. I also have fetchmail and procmail up and running. Mail comes in from mail.linux.com using imap. The connection is tunnelled

Re: A strange little kppp error

2000-07-22 Thread John Hasler
Barry Samuels writes: That doesn't explain why the same error message is *not* displayed when running kppp as root. The message originates with pppd. When it is unable to access the resources it needs it jumps to the erroneous conclusion that there is no ppp support in the kernel. When run by

Re: How to install Acroread

2000-07-22 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Nianwei Xing wrote: Hi, debians: I am a new comer for Debian. I just want to install acroread on my machine. I am not the super user and also I have download the linux-ar-405.tar.gz. Any infomation is appreciated! Nianwei acroread is packaged (there is a .deb in

Re: /bin/kill : Where art thou?

2000-07-22 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: I seemed to have lost /bin/kill. Now, I have /usr/bin/kill, but poff (and possibily others) are looking for /bin/kill. I fixed poff, but I don't know what else might get broken due to the disappearance of /bin/kill. Anyway, I was wondering if

Another ethernet configuration problem

2000-07-22 Thread James Polson
Hi, After having solved one problem with configuring an ethernet card on one computer (thanks to the response to an earlier email like this one!), I now have a problem with a different ethernet card on another computer! The info I have on the card is as follows: 3Com905C Etherlink 10/100 PCI

Re: staroffice

2000-07-22 Thread kmself
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:05:11AM +, Richard Taylor wrote: Nick Croft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: staroffice: On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, David Teague wrote: On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: StarOffice is a bloated stuck pig. It handles MS file formats fairly

Re: /bin/kill : Where art thou?

2000-07-22 Thread Eric G . Miller
I should of said woody. -- According to MegaHAL: The emu is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace.

PNP hardware and dual boot machine.

2000-07-22 Thread Shaul Karl
1) Another tool for disk partition management is parted - The GNU Parted disk partition resizing program. I am not sure how GUI it is. 2) I believe that for a MS-Win and Linux dual boot machine you might want to look at the isapnptools deb. Suppose to let you use your PNP hardware

Re: Re Rescue Disks, Tom's btrt

2000-07-22 Thread kmself
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 03:31:20PM -0400, David Teague wrote: All This is tangential to Richard's inquiry, but Has anyone considered distributing Tomsbtrt with Debian? That is one of the most useful tools I have found. LinuxCare does, with their Bootable Business Card: ISO image:

Re: PNP hardware and dual boot machine.

2000-07-22 Thread adam b.
isapnptools works okay, probably. I have gotten cards to recognize and load drivers, but I have never gotten them actually working before giving up. Be prepared to edit long config files from pnpdump and also you must know free IRQs, IO hexes, and Memory ranges for all your devices. They will

Re: lock-up with thrashing

2000-07-22 Thread kmself
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 01:37:12AM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote: So, I get home from finally seeing the X-Men movie (I truly expected them to hack it up horribly, but I was impressed...) to find my Debian box thrashing away like crazy. The mouse would barely respond, and a

Re: Another ethernet configuration problem

2000-07-22 Thread Jos Lemmerling
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, James Polson wrote: Problem (trivial, I'm sure): how do I download the driver when I don't yet have a connection to the internet? I could download it when I'm using Windows 98, but then how do I then get it from one disk partition to the other? Anyway, I think you can

Re: Re Rescue Disks, Tom's btrt

2000-07-22 Thread Phillip Deackes
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: LinuxCare does, with their Bootable Business Card: ISO image: http://static.linuxcare.com/iso/lnx-gold.iso Info: http://www.linuxcare.com/bootable_cd/download.epl Looks very interesting. I don't have a writeable CDROM drive, but I do have an internal

Re: Re Rescue Disks, Tom's btrt

2000-07-22 Thread kmself
On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 09:38:22PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: LinuxCare does, with their Bootable Business Card: ISO image: http://static.linuxcare.com/iso/lnx-gold.iso Info: http://www.linuxcare.com/bootable_cd/download.epl Looks very

Re: PLEASE FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO THE VP-CUSTOMER SERVICE

2000-07-22 Thread kmself
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 10:21:29PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... [...] This is off http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe (down towards the bottom): Mailing list advertising policy This policy is intended to fight

Re: /bin/kill : Where art thou?

2000-07-22 Thread John Hasler
Pavel M. Penev writes: ...all new packages should be aware of the in-building of the command... All POSIX shells do not provide 'kill' (ash, for example). ...and not use explicit paths (like /bin/kill). Scripts should rely neither on $PATH nor on bashisms. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How stable is WINE?

2000-07-22 Thread kmself
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:48:32PM +1000, Frank Copeland wrote: wine has a long way to go before it provides a general replacement for windows, but frankly that doesn't bother me one bit since I won't be using it for that. Even so wine does two things that make it extremely useful right now.

Re: Another ethernet configuration problem

2000-07-22 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Hi, After having solved one problem with configuring an ethernet card on one computer (thanks to the response to an earlier email like this one!), I now have a problem with a different ethernet card on another computer! The

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-22 Thread kmself
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 12:59:47PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Dear Debians, I'm looking for any kind of info on vulnerability to viruses on Debian and/or Linux. Pointers to anti-virus programs are also very welcome. If I can't convince some people here at work, I'm about to be told to

Re: PNP hardware and dual boot machine.

2000-07-22 Thread Shaul Karl
isapnptools works okay, probably. I have gotten cards to recognize and load drivers, but I have never gotten them actually working before giving up. I only have one PNP card (my NIC). Works OK for me with the isapnptools. Be prepared to edit long config files from pnpdump and also you

Re: Re Rescue Disks, Tom's btrt

2000-07-22 Thread Seth Cohn
LinuxCare does, with their Bootable Business Card: ISO image: http://static.linuxcare.com/iso/lnx-gold.iso Info: http://www.linuxcare.com/bootable_cd/download.epl You might also want to check out http://lubbock.sourceforge.net Lubbock is based on the BBC, but we are currently

Re: LILO and Printer

2000-07-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 06:55:57PM +1000, Chris Marsh wrote: Hi, I am a newbie to Debian having just installed a frozen version of Potato. I'm used to RedHat and am having problems with LILO and setting up my printer. LILO: No changes allow me to select which OS to enter on bootup. I

Re: staroffice

2000-07-22 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Ed Cogburn, The registration is a PITA, and they provide no help when an internet connection goes bad, you have to start the download all over again. They don't allow ftp access which would have allowed me to resume the download. The only other option was special plugins

ip-up problem under X

2000-07-22 Thread Kai Weber
Hi, I have a mysterious problem here. If I start my ppp-conection with pon on a terminal it does all it should do... But when starting from a X-Terminal the ip-up script is not executed! I can not find a hint in the logfiles, maybe you have one? Kai. -- + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +

voodoo3 board not found

2000-07-22 Thread Aaron Maxwell
Hi. Can anyone help me here? I've tried to run quake3 and the demo version of descent3 on my spanking new system, with its Voodo3 3K 16MB accelerator card. Neither can detect it -- the error message they give is: gd error (glide): Can't find or access Banshee/V3 board I haven't been able to

Re: ip-up problem under X

2000-07-22 Thread Kai Weber
+ Kai Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a mysterious problem here. If I start my ppp-conection with pon on a terminal it does all it should do... But when starting from a X-Terminal the ip-up script is not executed! Update: the problem isn't a starting ip-up script but a stopping tail -f

Re: LILO and Printer

2000-07-22 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 06:55:57PM +1000, Chris Marsh wrote: Hi, I am a newbie to Debian having just installed a frozen version of Potato. I'm used to RedHat and am having problems with LILO and setting up my printer. LILO: No changes allow me to select which OS to enter on bootup. I

apt-move and alternate config file

2000-07-22 Thread Pat Mahoney
Is there a way to get apt-move to use an alternate config file (~/.apt-moverc)? Man page and docs reveal nothing. Tests of various .apt-move's fail. Should I report this as a wishlist bug? -- Pat Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] I cannot overemphasize the importance of good grammar. . What a

Re: Using Partition Magic with Debian

2000-07-22 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 04:07:14PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone used Partition Magic in order to resize partitions under Debian? The software claims to support resizing Linux EXT2 filesystems, etc, but will I trash my system if I do so? I used Norton Ghost to image my system

Re: mutt and asking user

2000-07-22 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 12:22:20PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: Hello What option needs changing / setting when I don't want mutt to always ask me whether I want to Move read messages to /home/$USER/mbox ([n],y)? when I am exiting? You could set your mbox to the file you want the mail to

Re: PNP hardware and dual boot machine.

2000-07-22 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 04:06:34PM -0400, adam b. wrote isapnptools works okay, probably. I have gotten cards to recognize and load drivers, but I have never gotten them actually working before giving up. Be prepared to edit long config files from pnpdump and also you must know free IRQs,

Re: ip-up problem under X

2000-07-22 Thread John Hasler
Kai Weber writes: If a watch the log on /dev/tty10 the output continues but not in a xterminal with tail. Any ideas? Post the script. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

RE: LILO and Printer

2000-07-22 Thread Jason Holland
Try putting the option 'prompt' at the top of your lilo.conf and running /sbin/lilo to write the changes. You also might want to increase the 'timeout' option as well. Jason On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 06:55:57PM +1000, Chris Marsh wrote: Hi, I am a newbie to Debian having just installed a

erratic ps/2 mouse behavior

2000-07-22 Thread Ethan Benson
I have installed debian potato on a 600Mhz Athlon system and have been having problems with the mouse: the problem is most noticable in X but also occurs in the console with gpm, when i move the mouse it will at times go out of control, the pointer starts jumping around the screen extremely

grep crashes machine

2000-07-22 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hallo! I just stumbled upon the following. If I do # cd / # grep -r * stuff it outputs files for maybe half a second then hangs the whole machine. The last matches were under /dev. I can't remember grep ever scanning device files, but maybe it's just me... If I do the same as user the process

Re: erratic ps/2 mouse behavior

2000-07-22 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 06:06:51PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote I have installed debian potato on a 600Mhz Athlon system and have been having problems with the mouse: the problem is most noticable in X but also occurs in the console with gpm, when i move the mouse it will at times go out

Modem/PPP trouble ...

2000-07-22 Thread Karthik Ramaseshan
Hello everyone, I am having trouble setting up PPP for a friend's computer. Here are the details: 486 running Debian 2.1; base system installed by floppies. Modem: USR Sportster 33600 Internal ISA modem. UART: 16450 (According to setserial) Modem on /dev/ttyS1. No interrupt conflicts as