Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread Matthew Emmett
"Eric G . Miller" writes: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 08:36:44PM -0400, John Anderson wrote: > > You have to compile a custom kernel with APM support enabled, and > > monitor power saving enabled under the apm section. The monitor > > will use power saving only in the character mode, so if you use

Ghostview PS *.ps and *.ps.gz

2000-10-15 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, The advice on loading the gsfonts worked and I loaded up ghostview docs. Question, unlike gv, it doesn't seem to read *.ps.gz files. I had to turn them into *.ps files. That normal? Thanks. Jonathan

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

2000-10-15 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 10:00:15AM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: > If you want vim to be really useful you need the vim-rt package as well. > I suspect that tips the balance. okay, so i # apt-get install vim vim-rt and vi still points to elvis, so i # update-alternatives --install `wh

I'm having trouble with my NIC

2000-10-15 Thread Jeremy
I have an old 486SX25 with 16MB of RAM and a SMC 8013WC NIC, which worked under the 2.0.36 kernel, but when I upgraded to potato, WD.O tells me that there is no card installed. When I boot back into DOS and run the config utility, it says that the EEPROM was trashed and rewrites it. I downloaded

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread Damien
> In X session `xset dpms force off' will turn off the monitor right away. > Xset manual page (section related to dpms option) tells how to set > the timing parameters to do this after a period of inactivity. doing this under x/4 just blanks my screens (the second head of the g400 usually turning

x font server

2000-10-15 Thread Joseph Holland King
i just installed debian yesterday. today i downloaded and compiled the x server and tried to get x running. in oreder to do so i rebooted my system to make it recognize the mouse. when it tried to reboot it stopped with the error message that the x font server did not recognize the argument passed

RE: update-inetd problem

2000-10-15 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
See below Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my > -Original Message- > From: Dwight Johnson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 12:27 AM > To: Michael P

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread Denis Kosygin
Gerald Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But when I was running redhat 6.0 the X screen also blanked in a way > that made the monitor switch off... > why isn't that possible with my potato? In X session `xset dpms force off' will turn off the monitor right away. Xset manual page (section rela

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
If you want it to go into the low-power "green" mode (light turns amber) you can run: /usr/bin/setterm -powersave on This works in a VC. For X you need to put the following in your XF86Config: Option "power_saver" # enable VESA DPMS On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 09:08:18PM -0400, John Anderso

Re: gnupg, openssh post RSA patent/US encryption export laws

2000-10-15 Thread Paul D. Smith
I don't know much about this, and I think it's worthwhile to investigate it more fully before moving anything, but I will give one data point: Recently an email was sent out to the OpenSSL developers list stating that they have thoroughly vetted the new changes in U.S. law/regulations/whatever, an

Re: machine hangs, etc. (fwd)

2000-10-15 Thread Krzys Majewski
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 19:16:19 -0700 From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: machine hangs, etc. Yeah, I took out the CPU last night, removed the custom cooler I put o

Re: exim help needed (fwd)

2000-10-15 Thread Krzys Majewski
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 19:10:05 -0700 From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: exim help needed > Did you look at /etc/aliases? Yeah, what should it say? > > - remote machines can't send mail to my mac

PPP Mail help-Thanks all

2000-10-15 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Thanks for the help and suggestions. I can take it from here. It's appreciated. My initial impresions of Debian and the Debian Users group, after 8 months of Mandrake, is what the hell took me so long to get here? As for Debian's proverbial difficulty, Mandrake and Red Hat are both harder if

Re: Help: Ghostview font error?

2000-10-15 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, > > Ghostview, gv or gs, will not read any ps document. When opening one it > > comes up with a font error msg. I looked at my XF86Config and found miscc, > > 75dpi, Type1 in my path. Any ideas? > > Are you sure it's the X fonts that are missing? What's the error message? > gs fonts should

Re: PPP session not established correctly

2000-10-15 Thread Dwight Johnson
On 15 Oct 2000, John Hasler wrote: > Shaji N V writes: > > ...spd_vhi... > > That FAQ must be pretty old. spd_vhi has been useless for a long time. Yes, the option '115200' takes care of this setserial in my ppp connection. Dwight -- Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: killing old netscapes

2000-10-15 Thread Dwight Johnson
On 15 Oct 2000, Matthew Emmett wrote: > ... I haven't figured > out a recreatable way to get netscape to crash (any pointers on how to > do so would be appreciated),... Netscape goes into a tight, infinite and load crushing loop when it is trying to access data from a remote Web site and the d

Re: update-inetd problem

2000-10-15 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: > I am not sure but I believe that if telnet is not enabled by default then you > should > update-inetd --enable telnet > because the entry is there and all one has to do is to enable it. That's what I thought too, but it turns out that the Debian pa

Loading Modules (was: Soundblaster AWE 64 installation and stuff)

2000-10-15 Thread mcclosk
|> but when I try to insmod sb I get: |> |> Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o |> /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy |> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, |> including invalid IO or IRQ parameters I'm not sure if m

Re: changelog.Debian and APT

2000-10-15 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Eric G Miller writes: >> But it doesn't seem to work always... I triedd with xmms twice, and in >> the 3rd time, it worked. Didn't work with libc6 (and I tried quite a >> few times). The server tells me "No such changelog file". Didn't work >> with gprolog, either... >> >> Any ideas of why thi

MouseManWheel thumb button

2000-10-15 Thread Stéphane BOREL
Hi, I have a problem trying to setup my Logitech mouseman wheel (4 buttons and a roller) under gtk. Actually, X11 setup seems OK since xev detects all the buttons but I can't make gtk uses them all. It seems to be limited to 5 buttons. Has anyone got it to work ? -- Stef

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 08:36:44PM -0400, John Anderson wrote: > You have to compile a custom kernel with APM support enabled, and monitor > power saving enabled under the apm section. The monitor will use power > saving only in the character mode, so if you use X exclusively, you might > be out o

Re: Soundblaster AWE 64 installation and stuff

2000-10-15 Thread Jerry VB
Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > > First of all, please excuse if I seem frustrated, I'm at the pulling my > hair out stage! ;) I installed Potato and then upgraded everything (I > think) to Woody. I have been using RH for the last year before this > adventure started. I'm having a lot of trouble getting

Re: changelog.Debian and APT

2000-10-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:42:40PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: Eric G Miller writes: > > > Here's one way... Add to your .bashrc, then give it a package name. > > > changelog() { > > [ $# = 1 ] && lynx > > http://master.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog\?package=$1 > > } > > Hey, than

Re: killing old netscapes

2000-10-15 Thread David Z Maze
Matthew Emmett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ME> Dwight Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ME> $ ps -o pid,ppid,cmd | grep "dns helper" ME> ME> tells me the pid and ppid of any "dns helper" netscape processes (and ME> grep, but I'll filter that out). Next, I take all but the largest pid ME> and ki

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread John Anderson
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Gerald Richter wrote: > John Anderson wrote: > > > > You have to compile a custom kernel with APM support enabled, and monitor > > power saving enabled under the apm section. The monitor will use power > > saving only in the character mode, so if you use X exclusively, you

Re: PPP session not established correctly

2000-10-15 Thread John Hasler
Shaji N V writes: > ...spd_vhi... That FAQ must be pretty old. spd_vhi has been useless for a long time. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread Gerald Richter
John Anderson wrote: > > You have to compile a custom kernel with APM support enabled, and monitor > power saving enabled under the apm section. The monitor will use power > saving only in the character mode, so if you use X exclusively, you might > be out of luck. > Well, seems I've forgotten

Re: changelog.Debian and APT

2000-10-15 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Eric G Miller writes: > Here's one way... Add to your .bashrc, then give it a package name. > changelog() { > [ $# = 1 ] && lynx http://master.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog\?package=$1 > } Hey, thanks, that's nice. I didn't know about that. But it doesn't seem to work always... I triedd w

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread John Anderson
You have to compile a custom kernel with APM support enabled, and monitor power saving enabled under the apm section. The monitor will use power saving only in the character mode, so if you use X exclusively, you might be out of luck. ==

Re: changelog.Debian and APT

2000-10-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 07:52:36PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > Hello, > > as far as I can see, there's no way to read the changelog.Debian file > before I install the packages if I'm using dselect, right? > > The best way to do that would be to use apt-get -d install package, > the

Re: What windows ssh client you use?

2000-10-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... have a look at the list http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Security/ssh.windows.txt have fun linuxing/sshing alvin On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Joel Dinel wrote: > I use SecureCRT under Win32. It does a lot more than just SSH, but it's not > freeware... > > > -- > > Joel Dinel > [EMAI

Re: update-inetd problem

2000-10-15 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > # update-inetd --add telnet > > > The entry definition does not contain any whitespace characters! > > > > > > What does this message mean? What am I doing wrong? > > > > > I do not understand you well, can you write the context of what you are >

Re: Soundblaster AWE 64 installation and stuff

2000-10-15 Thread Cliff Rice
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 11:18:28AM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: Hi Jeff, I have the same card you do. IIRC, I read somewhere that one needs the softoss modules with the 2.2.17 kernel. > # # Sound # CONFIG_SOUND=m # CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370 is not set # CONFIG_SO

Re: Common Lisp

2000-10-15 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Parrish M Myers, > I am interested in learning lisp... but what compiler do I pick? There > seems to be a plethora of free compilers available: While not an answer to your question, if you are planning on teaching yourself lisp, have a look at this site: http://apsymac33.uni-trier.de:8080

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:43:04AM +0200, Gerald Richter wrote: > anyone remember how to get the monitor not just go black, but tell it to > use the -what was it called? > "vesa-compliant green-mode stuff-thing"... You want your monitor to be switched off, don't you? Did you enable "Enable conso

Re: PPP session not established correctly

2000-10-15 Thread Shaji N V
Hi, The problem is resolved, thanks to the FAQ page of the modem manufacturer (Actiontec - well they should have specified that in the printed manual). I had to set some serial parameters to the device using setserial, namely spd_vhi skip_test auto_irq autoconfig. Now the problem is that it

Re: machine hangs, etc.

2000-10-15 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 04:24:14PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Ran memtest-86 for 5h, 18m, 43sec at which point the machine > froze. memtest to that point reported 0 errors. CPU problem? -chris Did you double-check the CPU-cooler? If it does not fit perfectly on the CPU then the CPU

Re: killing old netscapes

2000-10-15 Thread Matthew Emmett
Dwight Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 15 Oct 2000, Matthew Emmett wrote: > > > When netscape screws up and dies, it sometimes leaves it's "dns > > helper" process, which takes up memory/swap. Does anyone know of > > a way to clean up these old netscape processes, without killing > > t

Re: exim help needed

2000-10-15 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 04:22:50PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > OK I've given up on sendmail. On to exim now. Here are the features I > want. Right now, it looks like sending mail fails silently. > - cron jobs can send mail to root, who forwards them to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Di

Re: exim help needed

2000-10-15 Thread Moritz Schulte
Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK I've given up on sendmail. On to exim now. Here are the features I > want. Right now, it looks like sending mail fails silently. [...] > - outgoing mail (e.g. from Mutt) send via localhost:6025 which is port > forwarded to smtp.cs.ubc.ca:25. [..

Re: dev/mouse

2000-10-15 Thread Gary L. Dolan
staf wagemakers wrote: > > /dev/mouse is (normally) a link to the real mouse device, you can create it > with the "ln" command. > > ln -s /dev/mouse /dev/ttySxx ( or /dev/psaux if you've a ps2 mouse ) Isn't it the other way, i.e., ln -s /dev/ttySxx /dev/mouse? -- Gary Dolan Debian GNU/Linux, K

Re: Still cannot acess Debian.org

2000-10-15 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Russ Pitman wrote: > I recall seeing messages attributing these to the AARNET mirror,but my > belief was that the http sites were on a round robin so that a busy site > would redirect the load. Is this not so?. This is a glibc bug aggrevated by your name server.. Jason

make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread Gerald Richter
Hi! anyone remember how to get the monitor not just go black, but tell it to use the -what was it called? "vesa-compliant green-mode stuff-thing"... Thanx! Gerald -- >< .oO > nothing like < |P| Gerald Manfred Richter > Zen < |A

Still cannot acess Debian.org

2000-10-15 Thread Russ Pitman
I am still getting these errors when trying to update/upgrade. arjay:/home/russ# apt-get update Err http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/main Packages Something wicked happend resolving 'non-us.debian.org/http' Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages Something wicked happend r

Re: machine hangs, etc.

2000-10-15 Thread Krzys Majewski
Ran memtest-86 for 5h, 18m, 43sec at which point the machine froze. memtest to that point reported 0 errors. CPU problem? -chris

exim help needed

2000-10-15 Thread Krzys Majewski
OK I've given up on sendmail. On to exim now. Here are the features I want. Right now, it looks like sending mail fails silently. - cron jobs can send mail to root, who forwards them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - remote machines can't send mail to my machine (ie don't run a daemon on port

dhcpcd & potato

2000-10-15 Thread john cuson
hi- i'm working on switching from static ip addresses to dynamic using dhcp on my massive private network (all 3 machines are currently arranged around my chair ). i've gotten what should be a working server daemon running on the relevant machine, but when i try to load the dhcpcd client daem

Re: q´s ad adding driver to ghostscript

2000-10-15 Thread Christoph Simon
> >Hi! Servus! > > > >Please forgive any (more or less) ignorance, I´m not so new to > > debian/gnu/linux, but it´s the first time I hit the printing and > > apt-get source themes. Well, probably, I'm not the right one to answer this, but I'll give it a try. > > > >1: If I checked the docs[0]

Re: does fsck (stable) ever hang?

2000-10-15 Thread Krzys Majewski
So badblocks works on an IDE drive? The manpage says: BUGS I had no chance to make reals tests of this program since I use IDE drives which remap bad blocks. I only made some tests on floppies. -chris "S.Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - disable DMA mode on tha

Re: What windows ssh client you use?

2000-10-15 Thread Snowfox
From: Andy Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> There are those who would have you believe that kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 03:21:37PM +0400, Rino Mardo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm using PuTTY from windows to ssh to my debian box but I find that it > > disco

does fsck (stable) ever hang?

2000-10-15 Thread Krzys Majewski
Just trying to isolate my machine-hanging problem.. (didn't find anything relevant in /usr/doc/e2fsprogs) -chris

Re: How to compile module to avoid "unresolved symbols" ??

2000-10-15 Thread Steve Haslam
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 02:24:07PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 06:05:30PM +0100, Steve Haslam wrote: > > bash$ nm 3dfx.o | grep printk > > U printk_R1b7d4074 > > bash$ grep printk /proc/ksyms > > c0115f4c printk_R1b7d4074 > Thnaks for the very quick reply. Ch

Re: via82cxxx

2000-10-15 Thread Patrick Barr
I had the same problem about 2 months ago the solution : install kernel 2.4.0 test 5 or better. I have test 5 on my machine right now(I'll get the latest kernel later on, when it's stablised maybe). just modprobe soundcore, ac97something and then via82cxxx. works like a charm Pat On Sat

changelog.Debian and APT

2000-10-15 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello, as far as I can see, there's no way to read the changelog.Debian file before I install the packages if I'm using dselect, right? The best way to do that would be to use apt-get -d install package, then open the .deb and read the file... Am I wrong? I'd like to be able to know what t

Re: What windows ssh client you use?

2000-10-15 Thread Joel Dinel
I use SecureCRT under Win32. It does a lot more than just SSH, but it's not freeware... -- Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Apt-getable CD-ROMs

2000-10-15 Thread Jesse Goerz
I just upgraded to Debian 2.2 and... 1. I'm trying to create backup CD's that I can scan into my sources.list file just like the distribution set does. Does anyone know or have a source of information for this? 2. What exactly does the path structure have to be in order to make "any" cd apt-g

Re: Common Lisp

2000-10-15 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I guess you could start with clisp, cause thats Common Lisp interpreter and compiler. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator.

Re: How to compile module to avoid "unresolved symbols" ??

2000-10-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 06:05:30PM +0100, Steve Haslam wrote: ... > The main point to check is that you are actually compiling the module > against the headers used to build your kernel. Particularly, that > you're using the right file, and hence getting the > right setting of CONFIG_MODVERSIONS..

Re: Windows 2000 boot loader

2000-10-15 Thread Jay Ford
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Matthew Sherborne wrote: > Has anyone succesfully replaced the Windows 2000 boot loader with LILO ? > > I have a Win2000/DOS boot machine, but I'm afraid to attempt installing LILO > on hda in case Win2000 needs to be there. It's my work computer and if I > stuff it up I'll be

Re: ACPI

2000-10-15 Thread Brent Buchholz
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 09:46:27AM +1300, Matthew Sherborne wrote: > I have an Intel machine, with everything on the mother board that uses ACPI. > > Just out of Interest, has anyone successfully used ACPI with Debian ? I've not gotten it to work, but 2.4test kernels have support ACPI. You'll wan

RE: Windows 2000 boot loader

2000-10-15 Thread Jason Holland
i wouldn't replace it, but simply add linux to the menu so each os can safely coexist. here is a little utility that will do that for you, provided you install LILO at the beginning of your root partition, and NOT the mbr. http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm Jason > -Original Message-

Windows 2000 boot loader

2000-10-15 Thread Matthew Sherborne
Has anyone succesfully replaced the Windows 2000 boot loader with LILO ? I have a Win2000/DOS boot machine, but I'm afraid to attempt installing LILO on hda in case Win2000 needs to be there. It's my work computer and if I stuff it up I'll be in big trouble. Matthew Sherborne <>

ACPI

2000-10-15 Thread Matthew Sherborne
I have an Intel machine, with everything on the mother board that uses ACPI. Just out of Interest, has anyone successfully used ACPI with Debian ? The Intel site said it's supported by the Linux kernel, I haven't found such an option yet, but I'm gonna go back and read the Intel site a bit better

Re: Downgrading using apt-get?

2000-10-15 Thread John Travis
On Sunday 15 October 2000 16:21, Steve Simons wrote: > I've made a bit of a booboo recently. I apt-get installed a recent, > unstable version of mysql and it pulled in a few other packages (I can't > for the life of me remember what they were). > > The problem is, licq seems to be broken. I'm run

Re: PPP session not established correctly

2000-10-15 Thread Dwight Johnson
I suggest deleting the '1006' line from /etc/chatscripts/provider and commenting out 'mtu 1006' from /etc/ppp/peers/provider and then try connecting again. Send the log results to the list. Dwight -- Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Shaji N V wrote: > The scripts are here:

Re: q´s ad adding driver to ghostscript

2000-10-15 Thread Robert Waldner
Umm, don´t get me wrong, I don´t want to be obnoxious or something. A little feedback (maybe I asked the wrong questions, gave too much/not enough information, heck, maybe I even got the wrong tone) would be nice though ;) tia, &rw On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 21:08:45 +0200, Robert Waldner writes:

Downgrading using apt-get?

2000-10-15 Thread Steve Simons
I've made a bit of a booboo recently. I apt-get installed a recent, unstable version of mysql and it pulled in a few other packages (I can't for the life of me remember what they were). The problem is, licq seems to be broken. I'm running potato, and whatever version of licq is stable at pres

Re: Soundblaster AWE 64 installation and stuff

2000-10-15 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Okay. But if the 2.2.x tree used to support the card (mine was fine under RH 6.1 with kernel 2.2.12) then that functionality shouldn't have been removed for 2.2.17, should it? Could explain what you did to sb_card.c? I hope there's a better solution than kernel hacking, though! Thanks. -Jeff "Kasa

Re: dev/mouse

2000-10-15 Thread staf wagemakers
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 08:23:58PM -0400, Eileen Orbell wrote: > How do i create a dev/mouse entry? I have no directory for mouse which is > causing my xwindows worries. If i configure XF86Setup it returns > > no dev/mouse found? /dev/mouse is (normally) a link to the real mouse device, you ca

Keyboard under XF4.0.1

2000-10-15 Thread Francois Fayard
Hi, I have a problem with my keyboard under XFree4.0.1. My "Windows" key which used to be my META key under XF4.0.1 with the same XF86Config file (I have a fresh installation of Potato + XFree4.0.1 compiled by myself, and I used to have the same one exept that I've changed the PATH of XFree4.0.1 d

Re: Q: Best PPP dial-up console mail app?

2000-10-15 Thread Glyn Millington
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 09:46:11AM -0700, thus spake Tyrin Price: > I use a combination of mutt, fetchmail and procmail. Mutt for reading > and composing, fetchmail for pop retrieval and procmail for filtering. > > When you compose and send mail in mutt while offline it still goes > into your smt

Re: PPP session not established correctly

2000-10-15 Thread John Hasler
> I am using Potato, and using the default scripts in > /etc/chatscripts/provider and /etc/ppp/peers/provider with appropriate > changes. Run pppconfig as root, answer the questions, and try using 'pon' to connect and 'poff' to disconnect. If you still have trouble post the output of the plog com

Re: Problems with libX11.so.6.

2000-10-15 Thread Simon Hales
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: >Hello > >I am trying tu run a binary only application on a Potato finding the next >problem: > >libX11.so.6.1 is correctly installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1 and >libX11.so.6 is a symlink to it. >Besides /usr/X11R6/lib is included in /etc/ld.s

Re: PPP session not established correctly

2000-10-15 Thread Shaji N V
From: Dwight Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Dwight Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Shaji N V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: PPP session not established correctly Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 11:16:13 -0700 (PDT) On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Shaji N V wrote: > I ha

lists.debian.org stopped sending to my domain (?)

2000-10-15 Thread Brian
For some reason, I've stopped receiving Debian list traffic at snowfox.net (64.193.169.237) - lists were working through last night. I'm still receiving from all other sites, and exim's logs don't show any messages being refused. I'm not on the RBL MAPS list, and mail-abuse.org doesn't test me as

Thanks

2000-10-15 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, Thanks to everyone who helped me to get Xwindows config. I really appreciate your time and assistance. Thanks Smile Eileen Orbell Software & Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Fear the Penguin.

Re: killing old netscapes

2000-10-15 Thread iehrenwald
On 15 Oct 2000, Matthew Emmett wrote: > Hi all, > > When netscape screws up and dies, it sometimes leaves it's "dns [snip] I made a script caled 'killzilla' that I run when netscape pukes. I have it assigned to a hotkey in sawmill. The script: #!/bin/sh kill -9 `pidof communicator-smotif.re

Re: killing old netscapes

2000-10-15 Thread Dwight Johnson
On 15 Oct 2000, Matthew Emmett wrote: > When netscape screws up and dies, it sometimes leaves it's "dns > helper" process, which takes up memory/swap. Does anyone know of a > way to clean up these old netscape processes, without killing the > netscape that is currently running? Launch top. The

killing old netscapes

2000-10-15 Thread Matthew Emmett
Hi all, When netscape screws up and dies, it sometimes leaves it's "dns helper" process, which takes up memory/swap. Does anyone know of a way to clean up these old netscape processes, without killing the netscape that is currently running? Thanks, Matt

Re: wmaker

2000-10-15 Thread kmself
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 04:57:02PM +0200, Lars M. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I´m new in the linuxworld and like to use wmaker. Is it possible to change > the color of the applications into the windows? I don´t like this grey. Or > should i use an other windowmanager for this? Do you want to chan

Re: apt-get upgrade behaviour versus apt-get install package with respect to netscape,

2000-10-15 Thread Walter Tautz
On 15 Oct 2000, David Z Maze wrote: > Michael P Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > MPS> On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 11:08:34AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > WT> > WT> New versions of currently installed packages that cannot be > WT> upgraded without changing the install status of another packa

Re: XFsetup

2000-10-15 Thread Eileen Orbell
As i said in my message I downloaded the XF86_SVGA, actually when I run startx it loads into xwindows but freezes up due the mouse error. I no the diff between a serial PS2 mouse but this seems weird to me. I even used: ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse to send any program looking for /dev/mouse to

Re: Problems with libX11.so.6.

2000-10-15 Thread Brent Buchholz
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 06:18:50PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > > Hello > > tramontana:~$ ldd /usr/ustation/ustation32 > libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4000f000) > libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40018000) > libX11.so.6 => not found > libc.so.5 => /lib/libc

Re: apt-get upgrade behaviour versus apt-get install package with respect to netscape,

2000-10-15 Thread David Z Maze
Michael P Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MPS> On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 11:08:34AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: WT> WT> New versions of currently installed packages that cannot be WT> upgraded without changing the install status of another package WT> will be left at their current version. An

Soundblaster AWE 64 installation and stuff

2000-10-15 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
First of all, please excuse if I seem frustrated, I'm at the pulling my hair out stage! ;) I installed Potato and then upgraded everything (I think) to Woody. I have been using RH for the last year before this adventure started. I'm having a lot of trouble getting my sound card to work. It is an IS

Re: PPP session not established correctly

2000-10-15 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Shaji N V wrote: > I have a problem in establishing a PPP session with my ISP. The excerpts > from the syslog is here: > > Oct 15 12:36:43 localhost pppd[364]: pppd 2.3.11 started by user, uid 0 > Oct 15 12:36:44 localhost chat[365]: abort on (BUSY) > Oct 15 12:36:44 localh

Common Lisp

2000-10-15 Thread Parrish M Myers
Hi all, I am interested in learning lisp... but what compiler do I pick? There seems to be a plethora of free compilers available: Allegro CL CLiCC CLISP CMUCL ECoLisp GCL Poplog jlisp AKCL LILY RefLisp WCL + a whole bunch of derived libraries and stuff. Are any of these better than the other?

Re: which software for professional Mailling?

2000-10-15 Thread Michael Steiner
> Matthias Mann wrote: > > HiYou! > > I like to work with big archives of mailadresses and need a program > that is able to send SPAM and organize to let it be, that people they > don´t like my SPAMS will get never a Mail of me again. And i could > need a tool that can scan the web for mailadress

Re: Q: Best PPP dial-up console mail app?

2000-10-15 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, > I have a 56k dial up using pon and poff and was wondering which of the > console choices would allow me to fetch and dl mail? Also write off-line, > then log on and send. Mutt and Pine I have heard about. The ability to > filter into assorted folders

Re: How to compile module to avoid "unresolved symbols" ??

2000-10-15 Thread Steve Haslam
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 09:33:38AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > I assume that the problem involves its compilation from the package. I've > always dl'd the .deb, unzipped it where it lay in /usr/src, and run the > script to make the package. This is followed by its installation. That's right.

PPP session not established correctly

2000-10-15 Thread Shaji N V
Hi, I have a problem in establishing a PPP session with my ISP. The excerpts from the syslog is here: Oct 15 12:36:43 localhost pppd[364]: pppd 2.3.11 started by user, uid 0 Oct 15 12:36:44 localhost chat[365]: abort on (BUSY) Oct 15 12:36:44 localhost chat[365]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Oct 15

Re: Q: Best PPP dial-up console mail app?

2000-10-15 Thread Tyrin Price
I use a combination of mutt, fetchmail and procmail. Mutt for reading and composing, fetchmail for pop retrieval and procmail for filtering. When you compose and send mail in mutt while offline it still goes into your smtp send queue. Just issue the command to send queued mail when you re-connec

Re: Help: Ghostview font error?

2000-10-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 06:20:22PM +0200, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > Ghostview, gv or gs, will not read any ps document. When opening one it > comes up with a font error msg. I looked at my XF86Config and found miscc, > 75dpi, Type1 in my path. Any ideas? Are you sure it's the X fonts tha

How to compile module to avoid "unresolved symbols" ??

2000-10-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Sorry for what may be a silly question, but I've struggled on and off with getting my 3dfx module to insert correctly. I keep getting unresolved symbols on boot-up. Yes, the device is defined in /dev with ownership/permissions set as suggested in the docs. I assume that the problem involves its

Re: Help: Ghostview font error?

2000-10-15 Thread Andre Berger
"Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ghostview, gv or gs, will not read any ps document. When opening one it > comes up with a font error msg. I looked at my XF86Config and found miscc, > 75dpi, Type1 in my path. Any ideas? Maybe the gsfonts package isn't installed? -- Andre

Problems with libX11.so.6.

2000-10-15 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Problems with libX11.so.6. Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 09:53:05 +0200 From: Daniel de los Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hello I am trying tu run a binary only application on a Potato finding the next problem: libX11.so

Help: Ghostview font error?

2000-10-15 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Ghostview, gv or gs, will not read any ps document. When opening one it comes up with a font error msg. I looked at my XF86Config and found miscc, 75dpi, Type1 in my path. Any ideas? Thanks, Jonathan

Q: Best PPP dial-up console mail app?

2000-10-15 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I have a 56k dial up using pon and poff and was wondering which of the console choices would allow me to fetch and dl mail? Also write off-line, then log on and send. Mutt and Pine I have heard about. The ability to filter into assorted folders (like for mailing lists) would be a necessity. Thi

Re: alsa-base

2000-10-15 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 09:48:28AM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 03:55:40PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:03:22PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > > I attempted an apt-get install alsa-base, however this failed. > > > Received the message st

Re: libc6 -- down to potato? [solved]

2000-10-15 Thread Andre Berger
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 15-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote: > > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> On 14-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote: > >> > I made a mistake when I upgraded my xemacs21-nomule from the woody > >> > packages -- libc6 was replaced on my potato box. Am I dam

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