Re: Perl installation problem

2000-11-03 Thread Arcady Genkin
Walt Mankowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > - > > Tk object version 800.015 does not match bootstrap parameter 800.014 \ > >at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line > > 188. > > BEGIN f

Re: Disappearing ldconfig

2000-11-03 Thread John Kiff
- Original Message - From: Eric G . Miller To: Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 10:41 PM Subject: Re: Disappearing ldconfig > On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 03:22:36AM -0500, John Kiff wrote: > > I've been trying to install and upgrade a few packages, and whether I > > use dpkg or apt-get, I u

Re: I messed up Xfree86 (fwd)

2000-11-03 Thread Corey Popelier
Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:08:46 +0800 (WST) From: Corey Popelier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Casey Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: I messed up Xfree86 Well

Re: I messed up Xfree86

2000-11-03 Thread Corey Popelier
My next trick for those who are interested was to copy the DefaultColorDepth line from the Screen section of the X3.3.6 config file to the X4.0.1 config file. This now gives me the appropriate colour depths, but its still in 640x480 at this stage. For those who don't really want a running commenta

Re: I messed up Xfree86

2000-11-03 Thread Corey Popelier
Oh, and after doing that, copying the XF86Config.new file to /etc/X11 directory meant I could now run startx again, and resume to having X running with WindowMaker. Allbeit in a god awful resolution, so thats the next step. BTW, I *think* the ZAxisMapping for intelli-mice is now: Option "ZAxisMa

Re: I messed up Xfree86

2000-11-03 Thread Corey Popelier
Ok, next step I can suggest is this: In the XF86Config.new file thats been created, under the InputDevice section change the Option "protocol" "auto" line to Option "protocol" "IMPS/2". This has got my PS/2 mouse working. More news as the hacking of config files happens :) Cheers, Corey J. Pop

Re: I messed up Xfree86

2000-11-03 Thread Joel Dinel
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 10:39:46PM -0500, Joel Dinel wrote: > A simple apt-get upgrade today left me with Xfree86 4.0.1 and this little > problem : > OK, I found out that you don't use XF86Setup anymore. XFree86 -configure seems to detect my stuff OK. When I run XFree86 -xf86config /root/whate

Re: I messed up Xfree86

2000-11-03 Thread Casey Henderson
Hi, I'm in the same boat. A routine apt-get dist-upgrade on my woody box upgraded X and now GDM doesn't work. Before I reinstall the old version of X, does anyone know how to fix it? I'm using the most recent version of GDM. Thanks. Casey

Re: Why doesn't alt-x in Emacs doesn't work?

2000-11-03 Thread Scott V. McGuire
Thanks Damon, I don't have a windows keyboard, but this may help me in my hunt for the offending config file. There's something about windows keys in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xmodmap.std. Maybe fiddling with that will help. On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 02:45:06PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > Hi Scott, >

Re: Why doesn't alt-x in Emacs doesn't work?

2000-11-03 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Scott, Quoth Scott V. McGuire, > In a recently installed and apg-get dist-upgraded potato, I can't use > alt-x in emacs. Does anyone know why? > > (I know I can use escape-x, but I'm used to alt-x) For some reason, I think meta (alt) was changed from the alt key to the windows key (presumin

Re: Disappearing ldconfig

2000-11-03 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 03:22:36AM -0500, John Kiff wrote: > I've been trying to install and upgrade a few packages, and whether I > use dpkg or apt-get, I ultimately get the following message before the > whole process grinds to a halt: "'ldconfig' not found in PATH". I > presume that I have inadv

I messed up Xfree86

2000-11-03 Thread Joel Dinel
A simple apt-get upgrade today left me with Xfree86 4.0.1 and this little problem : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo XF86Setup Warning SERVER specification missing in Card database entry Trident TGUI9420 (generic) (line 2178). Warning SERVER specification missing in Card database entry Trident TGUI9440

Re: woody upgrade still breaks apt-get

2000-11-03 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 02:25:46PM +1100, Russ Pitman wrote: > Over the last few days I have installed/reinstalled potato systems and > have used the apt-get update/apt-get upgrade to bring up a woody > installation. Don't know if it helps, but for doing an upgrade of releases (and for tracking un

Why doesn't alt-x in Emacs doesn't work?

2000-11-03 Thread Scott V. McGuire
In a recently installed and apg-get dist-upgraded potato, I can't use alt-x in emacs. Does anyone know why? (I know I can use escape-x, but I'm used to alt-x) Thanks, -- Scott V. McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I lost my GnuPG Key. Nobody ever sent me the secret plans anyway. GnuPG is at http://w

Disappearing ldconfig

2000-11-03 Thread John Kiff
I've been trying to install and upgrade a few packages, and whether I use dpkg or apt-get, I ultimately get the following message before the whole process grinds to a halt: "'ldconfig' not found in PATH". I presume that I have inadvertently removed ldconfig in the course of doing something e

woody upgrade still breaks apt-get

2000-11-03 Thread Russ Pitman
Over the last few days I have installed/reinstalled potato systems and have used the apt-get update/apt-get upgrade to bring up a woody installation. Always after the upgrade finishes apt-get fails with the 'something wicked' error. I have tried using just 'nameserver localhost' in resolv.conf bu

Re: Perl installation problem

2000-11-03 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 04:09:35AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > I suspect that there is a problem with the perl installation as > packaged with Potato. I'm trying to install pilotmanager program > (http://www.moshpit.org/pilotmgr/), and am getting the following > error: > > Configuring PilotMana

Re: XFree 4.0.1

2000-11-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 09:38:52AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > ethan, it's been my experience that some tarballs don't respect where you > want to locate them in the sense that they spew binaries, links and > libraries wherever they please. i've seen many games install themselves in > /usr/l

Re: installing Star Office 5.2

2000-11-03 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Bob Edwards wrote: ->Can anyone tell me how to install Star Office 5.2 ? ->I have downloaded the file which is a .bin file, and ->put it in a seperate directory. what is next ? I know ->how to install .tar files and .gz files, but not ->.bin files. -> ->I downloaded the file di

Re: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-03 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Michael P. Soulier, > I tried Emacs for about 6 months, pouring through O'Reilly's book and > learning it well. I hated the arthritic keybindings, but I managed because I > liked a lot of the features. I tolerated the pigginess of it because I thought > such poor performance was necessar

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-03 Thread pluto
I bought a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP last week and I didn't have any problems installing it under debian 2.2, and it runs well. On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:48:05PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I'm upgrading my video card and have read several online breakdowns of the > assorted cards and linux.

Re: Setting up Voodoo3 under Debian/potato

2000-11-03 Thread pluto
Hi, Did you install libglide2-v3?? I just installed mine yesterday, this is what I had to do to get it to work after I installed the packages: Start x with 16 bpp colors #startx -- -bpp 16 I had to also start x in 800x600 mode configure this with XF86Setup For quake 3 I had to specify the driver

installing Star Office 5.2

2000-11-03 Thread Bob Edwards
Can anyone tell me how to install Star Office 5.2 ? I have downloaded the file which is a .bin file, and put it in a seperate directory. what is next ? I know how to install .tar files and .gz files, but not .bin files. I downloaded the file directly from Sun's site, and thhere were no installatio

Java 2 Runtime Environment

2000-11-03 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Guys, Im running apache and need to add Java 2 Runtime Environment v 1.2.2. Is there a debian package I can use via apt-get install ? any tips you can give me on installing it would be appreciated. Thank you

Re: Does a debian-user webring or links list exist?

2000-11-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Hi, have you been pointed to www.debianplanet.org yet? Ciao, Martin

debian FAQ

2000-11-03 Thread will trillich
nosing around, i found this debian faq, which i may have run into earlier, but now that i know as much as i do, i wish i'd seen it sooner! http://ftp.opensource.captech.com/debian/doc/FAQ/debian-faq.txt.gz it's also on most debian systems, i'd bet, under /usr/share/doc/debian/FAQ which you can br

Re: -- MARK -- in log files

2000-11-03 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 02:33:42PM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: > I was curious how to not have all of the '-- MARK --'s in my log > files. What are their intended purpose? short version: rtfm long version: tFm you need to r is 'man syslogd' and the 'see also' items at the end: SEE ALSO

Re: New user rant..urr, questions.

2000-11-03 Thread sysy
--+ Ack, my email client died just after downloading my new email.. so everything got wiped from the server and wasn't saved locally. Yay. --+ I can check the mailing list archives for those emails, but any personal emails got fried. --+ If you sent your email to me personally, would you please re

Does a debian-user webring or links list exist?

2000-11-03 Thread sysy
* I apologize if this is a duplicate email -- my email software had a hiccup and crashed during a send.. yes, I'm getting a new client, hopefully with a new OS ;) * >> --+ This is extremely unfortunate. I had also noticed this. >> The one thing the internet lacks is proper authoritative >> orga

using "-nolisten tcp" with X

2000-11-03 Thread Jim Breton
I have been aliasing startx to "startx -nolisten tcp" in my local users' .bash_profiles in order to prevent X from listening on port 6000 on startup. However, display managers (at least gdm anyway) don't care about these aliases, and furthermore I would like to make this option the system-wide def

Does a debian-user webring or links list exist?

2000-11-03 Thread sysy
>> --+ This is extremely unfortunate. I had also noticed this. >> The one thing the internet lacks is proper authoritative >> organization. Not that I advocate dictatorship, but >> it would be nice to have recognized authorities >> (like www.debian.org) handling a webring or similar. > >proper au

Re: ISDN Dial In (solved)

2000-11-03 Thread Daniel Borgmann
thanks for your help, i got it working :) i had a really long username, containing to # chars, maybe that was the problem. i found out that i simply can leave out this chars. than it works. in the ipppd.ippp0 file i had a string like this: user = "foo#more#bar" it's working in the pap-secrets file

XFree86 4.0.1 and gdm

2000-11-03 Thread Hubert Chan
I just upgraded to XFree86 4.0.1, and I can't log in using gdm any more (I'm using the Helix version). From what I can tell, the X packages have a new /etc/X11/Xsession file which gdm doesn't like very much. Has anyone noticed this problem too? Any solutions? Also bold versions of the fixed fon

Re: installation file

2000-11-03 Thread Kent West
Miten Mehta wrote: > Hello, > > I am wanting to install debian on 486. I am not sure > which file to download and start from scratch. The > docs guide on installation media but donot know what > file exactly i need to download and start working. I > went to an http site in USA (north east) but

Re: Can't install Helix Gnome

2000-11-03 Thread David Z. Maze
Joel Dinel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JD> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:03:37PM +, Greg Gilbert wrote: GG> Sounds like someone disobeyed the XFree86 maintainer when he said GG> not to build packages against the beta packages of XFree86 4. They GG> are on www.debian.org/~branden if you are will

Re: -- MARK -- in log files

2000-11-03 Thread Frodo Baggins
Rob Hudson scripsit: >I was curious how to not have all of the '-- MARK --'s in my log >files. What are their intended purpose? > Why, just to say that syslogd is still there: -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+>-: a C+++

-- MARK -- in log files

2000-11-03 Thread Rob Hudson
I was curious how to not have all of the '-- MARK --'s in my log files. What are their intended purpose? thanks, Rob.

Re: hard drive error?

2000-11-03 Thread kmself
on Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 05:08:42PM -0500, Joey Tsai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, right in the middle of my dist-upgrade-ing to xfree 4.0.1 (hurray!), I'm > getting a physical hard drive error. > > My terminal says: > > Setting up xfonts-100dpi (4.0.1-1) ... > md5sum: read error on stdin > dpk

Re: Presentation software

2000-11-03 Thread Thomas R. Shannon
My thanks to all who have replied. Actually, Star Office is indeed very nice but I've had a hard time importing my eps files (generated with gnuplot or wmftoeps) with it. I know the eps files are good because these show up very well in my tex documents and GhostView has no trouble with them. Per

web irc

2000-11-03 Thread Miten Mehta
Hello, I am behind firewall and want to get to irc.debian.org for chat. could one tell me if there is web site I can use with browser and do chat. __ Do You Yahoo!? >From homework help to love advice, Yahoo! Experts has your answer. http://experts.

Re: hard drive error?

2000-11-03 Thread Damian Menscher
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Joey Tsai wrote: > Hi, right in the middle of my dist-upgrade-ing to xfree 4.0.1 (hurray!), I'm > getting a physical hard drive error. > > My terminal says: > > Setting up xfonts-100dpi (4.0.1-1) ... > md5sum: read error on stdin > dpkg: error processing xfonts-100dpi (--conf

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-03 Thread Jim McCloskey
I installed skipstone on my potato system a couple of days ago and have so far been quite happy with it. Admittedly, I have tried to do only very simple things with it as yet (viewing pages and downloading) but it seems to live up to its reputation for being fast, light and good-looking. I got it

hard drive error?

2000-11-03 Thread Joey Tsai
Hi, right in the middle of my dist-upgrade-ing to xfree 4.0.1 (hurray!), I'm getting a physical hard drive error. My terminal says: Setting up xfonts-100dpi (4.0.1-1) ... md5sum: read error on stdin dpkg: error processing xfonts-100dpi (--configure): subprocess md5sum returned error exit status 2

installation file

2000-11-03 Thread Miten Mehta
Hello, I am wanting to install debian on 486. I am not sure which file to download and start from scratch. The docs guide on installation media but donot know what file exactly i need to download and start working. I went to an http site in USA (north east) but was confused. Here is site: ht

Re: Can't install Helix Gnome

2000-11-03 Thread Greg Gilbert
The biggest issue is whether your videocard is support. Not everything supported in 3.3.6 is working in 4.0.1. Check at www.xfree86.org. If you have an nvidia, matrox, 3dfx, or ati videocard you should be fine. I'm not near my machine right now, but you can get the sources line from www.debian.org/

Re: ISDN Dial In

2000-11-03 Thread Shaul Karl
> > > ok, i enabled debugging. > > > in /var/log/messages i have the following entry when i start isdnutils: > > > > > > Nov 3 15:14:33 ranger ipppd: info: no PAP secret entry for this user! > > > > I am nut sure it is important, but might be wrong. I have: > > > > [19:56:11 /tmp]$ grep CHAP /var/

dwww rebuilding the menus daily!

2000-11-03 Thread Francois Gouget
I'm using tripwire and every day it would tell me that all the menus of my window managers have been modified. I suspected a cron script and finally found some time to track it down. It turns out that /etc/cron.daily/dwww is the guilty party. More precisely it, invokes /usr/sbin/dwww-bu

upgraded to Xfree86 4, now things are weird

2000-11-03 Thread Joel Dinel
I get this after having upgraded to Xfree86 4.something .. *** None of the configured devices were detected.*** Fatal server error: no screens found When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages X connection to :0.0 bro

Re: Sendmail account setup

2000-11-03 Thread Ernest Johanson
The script is at http://devil.research.at/. Its main purpose is to enable/disable and edit vacation messages. If you speak Perl it would not be difficult to get it to do other things. It uses ftp to contact the mail server host though, using the user's username and password. With a shell of /bin/fa

Re: Can't install Helix Gnome

2000-11-03 Thread Joel Dinel
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:03:37PM +, Greg Gilbert wrote: > Sounds like someone disobeyed the XFree86 maintainer when he said > not to build packages against the beta packages of XFree86 4. They > are on www.debian.org/~branden if you are willing to upgrade. If you > don't want to upgrade, you

Re: libc6 header problems

2000-11-03 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 09:42:01AM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:43:46AM -0600, Pat Mahoney wrote: > > In reply to myself (thanks to those who replied): > > > /usr/include/string.h:37: parse error before `?' > > > /usr/include/string.h:55: parse error before `?' > > > > A p

Re: PS/2 mouse (Hewlett packard name on mouse) works with gpm ...not with X11

2000-11-03 Thread Walter Tautz
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, sena wrote: > I heard that Walter Tautz wrote this on 03/11/00: > > > XF86Config has > > Protocol "ps/2" > > Device "/dev/mouse" > > > > > > where /dev/mouse is a softlink to /dev/gpmdata > > > I have a Microsoft (yeah, I know) Intellimouse (the ones with the wheel) > co

spamfilter package -- help requested

2000-11-03 Thread kmself
I've installed and tweaked the spamfilter package (Lars Wirzenius's procmail recipies). While I'm largely happy with the filters (I see *no* spam, though logs show over 80 spam messages blocked since early September -- despite lifting my ISP's spam filter (largely ineffective), and posting liberal

Re: New user rant..urr, questions.

2000-11-03 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 02:35:13PM -0500, sysy wrote: > In reply to: will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > >> --+ Anyhow. I would like some user help. I need a set of > >> links pointing towards user stories on Debian, as well as > >> various other user pages. There are no links on > >> http://

Re: Vim editor

2000-11-03 Thread Glyn Millington
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 08:17:03AM -0500, thus spake Jesse Goerz: > I just installed the Vim editor but seem to be having some problems. When I > type help it says: > > "Sorry, help file "/usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt" not found" > > I tried typing help version5 and it says: > > No tags file >

Re: rotating Logfiles

2000-11-03 Thread YoonSuk Cho<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 08:07:57PM +0100, Manuel Hendel wrote: > I would like to know who to rotate the logfiles by size. For example > if a logfile gets bigger than 4MB it should be rotate and ziped to > logfile.x.gz/bz2. How can I define this. I have seen this with oter > distributions. > > >

Re: New user rant..urr, questions.

2000-11-03 Thread sysy
Original message from: kmself@ix.netcom.com >Oh shit, I've been summoned > >My current FAQs cover backups, browsers, books, partitioning, and xdm. >No general installation FAQ. I tend to subscribe strongly to the advice >given by Rick Moen (Google: "Rick Moen LinuxMafia Debian" should >produ

Re: New user rant..urr, questions.

2000-11-03 Thread sysy
in reply to kmself@ix.netcom.com >> ** WARNING ** I TYPE A LOT! DEAL WITH IT!! > >Not an issue if you can format text in such a way as to make it >readable. Paragraphs and standard delmiters (the '+--+ crap is annoying >as hell) strongly preferred. See below as example. Gotcha. Had a brainfa

Re: New user rant..urr, questions.

2000-11-03 Thread sysy
In reply to: will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> --+ Anyhow. I would like some user help. I need a set of >> links pointing towards user stories on Debian, as well as >> various other user pages. There are no links on >> http://www.debian.org and I couldn't find a webring with a >> couple of q

rotating Logfiles

2000-11-03 Thread Manuel Hendel
I would like to know who to rotate the logfiles by size. For example if a logfile gets bigger than 4MB it should be rotate and ziped to logfile.x.gz/bz2. How can I define this. I have seen this with oter distributions. Thanks Manuel

RE: LAN traffic

2000-11-03 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
try iptraf > -Original Message- > From: Eduardo Gargiulo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 9:45 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: LAN traffic > > > Hi all. > > I have a masquerading linux boxx running between Internet and my > Internal LAN. > I

Re: PS/2 mouse (Hewlett packard name on mouse) works with gpm ...not with X11

2000-11-03 Thread Greg Gilbert
Is it a wheel mouse? Your symptoms sound like it is one of the HP rebranded Logitech Wheel Mice. They use the IMPS/2 protocal. Greg * Walter Tautz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ok I have a PS/2 mouse with HP name on it. I have checked the plug > and it definitely has 6 pins in it. Now when

Re: XFree 4.0.1

2000-11-03 Thread Krzys Majewski
"Ray Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Of course since the .debs are apt-getable now would someone please explain to > me the advantage of doing it by hand? I didn't see any debs when I did it. Also I did the manual hero install which let me see exactly what was files were being wri

PS/2 mouse (Hewlett packard name on mouse) works with gpm ...not with X11

2000-11-03 Thread Walter Tautz
Ok I have a PS/2 mouse with HP name on it. I have checked the plug and it definitely has 6 pins in it. Now when I type startx he mouse pointer appers on the center of screen but as soon as I move the mouse the mouse pointer seems to disappear and gets stuck on the edge of the screenit does move

software raid

2000-11-03 Thread Manuel Hendel
Reply-To: Has anyone installed a software raid with raidtools or raidtools2 on the debian potato and can give me any hints? We only want to do a raid 1, just a mirror of a harddrive. the problem might be that we also want to mirror the boot partition. Tanks, Manuel

RE: Alternate method (was Re: Presentation software)

2000-11-03 Thread Ingles, Raymond
> From: USM Bish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] > To keep such presentations completely system inde- > pendent, of late I have started using plain HTML. Me too. My needs aren't all that sophisticated, but they still look okay to me. For some (outdated) examples, see: http://www.tir.com/~sorce

RE: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-03 Thread Ingles, Raymond
> From: Kristian Rink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To be fair, it's not really Nvidia's fault, they licensed > > technology for their cards from other people and don't have the right > > to release the source code for driving that stuff. > > Hmm, okay, but *seems* (as far as I know) their

Alternate method (was Re: Presentation software)

2000-11-03 Thread USM Bish
The nearest resembling Power Point would surely be Star Office. If you are using your own system for presentation this is quite good enough. The problem which I have faced is not in actually preparing the presentation, but during the time of delivery of the presentation at external facilities

Re: ISDN Dial in

2000-11-03 Thread Anand Angad Gaur
You don't have to edit any file manually. Just try conf-isdn-account. It's an easy menubased configuration tool for ISP, call in and call out configurations. It's all GPL, so your completely free to use and modify it. You'll find it and the online documentation at http://www.manna.nl/tipstekst

Re: XFree 4.0.1

2000-11-03 Thread Ray Percival
Of course since the .debs are apt-getable now would someone please explain to me the advantage of doing it by hand? -- Original Message -- From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 03 Nov 2000 10:16:59 -0800 >Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >

kde2 MimeType not found

2000-11-03 Thread Bill Barnes
Running under Libranet 1.8 installation. Installed KDE2 and the base runs with no apparent problems. Installed kword, kpresenter, kspread, kchart using the apt-get tool. Kword appears in the koffice landscape and seems to be okay (have only surveyed it, no serious use). The other 3 packages when ru

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-03 Thread Robin Collins
Don't know about the Linux version, Beta2 just came out and I plan to look at it sometime soon. I've been a user of the Windows version since early 3.something and find it very good. Of course, it depends on the sort of web sites you visit since Opera pride themselves on standards conformance and

Re: ISDN Dial In

2000-11-03 Thread Daniel Borgmann
> > ok, i enabled debugging. > > in /var/log/messages i have the following entry when i start isdnutils: > > > > Nov 3 15:14:33 ranger ipppd: info: no PAP secret entry for this user! > > I am nut sure it is important, but might be wrong. I have: > > [19:56:11 /tmp]$ grep CHAP /var/log/syslog > Nov

Re: ISDN

2000-11-03 Thread Shaul Karl
> hi, > > how do i configure isdn on debian? i live in Munich, Germany and > i have a T-online account with Deutsche Telekom. > You should start by installing the isdnutils package and read its docs. As far as I gather it is not an easy package to set up, although it works smoothly afterwards

Re: XFree 4.0.1

2000-11-03 Thread Krzys Majewski
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > if you installed into /usr/local like your supposed to your fine, if > you just overwrote random stuff in /usr your hosed. X wants to go in /usr/X11R6, /etc/X11, and so on. What you want to do is make a backup of all the relevant dirs before proceeding

Re: New user rant..urr, questions.

2000-11-03 Thread kmself
on Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:21:12PM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: <...> > > --+ Anyhow. I would like some user help. I need a set of > > links pointing towards user stories on Debian, as well as > > various other user pages. There are no links on > > http://www.debian.org and

Re: New user rant..urr, questions.

2000-11-03 Thread kmself
on Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:28:30PM -0500, sysy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ** WARNING ** I TYPE A LOT! DEAL WITH IT!! Not an issue if you can format text in such a way as to make it readable. Paragraphs and standard delmiters (the '+--+ crap is annoying as hell) strongly preferred. See below

Re: Connecting to Netware servers.

2000-11-03 Thread Chris Baker
"Rogelio E. Castillo Haro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Someone here knows if Debian has a deb package to install a client to > login to a netware server? Install ncpfs. HTH, cbb

Re: New user rant..urr, questions.

2000-11-03 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:28:30PM -0500, sysy wrote: > I'm an experienced computer user, and have been looking at > Linux closer and closer over the last few years. On a couple > of occaisions I have attempted to install various flavours of > Linux with.. umm.. "classic" results. You see, I'm cu

Re: unstable ==? woody

2000-11-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Gregory! On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > Can I change my /etc/apt/sources.list from: > deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > > to > deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free > > and it will be the same for now,

Re: ISDN Dial In

2000-11-03 Thread Shaul Karl
> > > i just got my first debian cd's ever and everything worked fine yet. > > > but like every time i have problems setting up the ISDN connection (maybe > > > it's the most complicated task cause i can't get online help during the > > > configuration ;) > > > i installed the isdnutils package, th

Re: Presentation software

2000-11-03 Thread kmself
Also: MagicPoint. It's fairly powerful, but the syntax is a bit obscure. And it's free software. Both the Applix and Corel suites should have a presentation tool. Not sure what the KDE / Gnome suites have to offer in this department. HTML with a kiosked browser window is another option. As i

attention: voodoo3 owners

2000-11-03 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear fellow voodoo3 owners, the debian driver for your card will NOT work with 2.4 kernels. not even if you compile it from the source code. the file operations table is an array of pointers to functions which implement file operations which would be useful to a device, like reading and writing.

Re: Lilo and vga=mode Question

2000-11-03 Thread kmself
on Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:45:34AM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:57:55PM -0500, David Bellows wrote: > > The numbers in the second column are in hex. The proper way to specify > > hex for lilo would be (for you specifically): > > vga=0x0122 > > is t

Re: XFree 4.0.1

2000-11-03 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
ethan, it's been my experience that some tarballs don't respect where you want to locate them in the sense that they spew binaries, links and libraries wherever they please. i've seen many games install themselves in /usr/local, like i told them to, and then just push their libraries wherever they

Re: ISDN

2000-11-03 Thread Moritz Schulte
Gnanasekaran Thoppae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > how do i configure isdn on debian? Install the package isdnutils and have a look at /usr/share/doc/isdnutils/HOWTO.isdnutils.gz. It's really easy, just let isdnconfig create the template config files for you end configure them. > i live in Muni

Re: Lilo and vga=mode Question

2000-11-03 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:33:21AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:45:34AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:57:55PM -0500, David Bellows wrote: > > > The numbers in the second column are in hex. The proper way to specify > > > hex for lilo would be

New user rant..urr, questions.

2000-11-03 Thread sysy
** WARNING ** I TYPE A LOT! DEAL WITH IT!! --+ I'm an experienced computer user, and have been looking at Linux closer and closer over the last few years. On a couple of occaisions I have attempted to install various flavours of Linux with.. umm.. "classic" results. You see, I'm cursed..

unstable ==? woody

2000-11-03 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Can I change my /etc/apt/sources.list from: deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free to deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free and it will be the same for now, but after the next release, I will then be in stable, instead of a

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2000-11-03 Thread Bill Barnes
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Re: dead hoarse, crawling away.

2000-11-03 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Colin Watson wrote: > > Helgi =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D6rn?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >guran remberg wrote: > >> I have just read an article by a chap named Kurt Seifrieds, which was > >> mainly about security on Debian. I was alarmed and have decided to > >> switch to Red Hat as many experts advises

Re: sed question

2000-11-03 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, Andrei Pelinescu - Onciul wrote: > Jesse Goerz wrote: > > > > I'm trying to write a script and as part of it I need to change the "/" in a > > variable to a "." and then put it right back into another variable. I've > > tried > > using sed but can't seem to grip these regula

Re: web browser

2000-11-03 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:15:33PM -, John-Mark wrote: > Hi I have recently installed Debian Linux as my first > distribution of Linux. I cant find the web browser Netscape on > the official cd's or any other web browser can any one tell me > if there is a web browser on the cd's if not Netscap

Re: Printer & DOC's

2000-11-03 Thread USM Bish
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 06:39:20AM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 13:45, Helgi Örn wrote: > > > Another question is; is there a friendly program for reading all the > > HOWTO's and FAQ's in a convenient manner? > > Install apache or boa and use a browser: > > lynx http://lo

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-03 Thread mike
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 22:36:11 +051800, USM Bish said: > Been on this list for the last few months. Never > noticed anything posted on Opera web browser for > Linux. > > I have a triple OS system (Win98, deb and slack) > I am in the process of an upgrade from slink to > potato and Slack 7.1.

Mozilla M18 and Java

2000-11-03 Thread Adam Wilson
Has anyone succesfully downloaded the jre.xpi from netscape with Mozilla M18? Loads the Java 2.0 Plug-in window and shows two buttons, Java for Windows and Java for Linux though if I click on the Linux one it does nothing. I downloaded the jre.xpi manually but I haven't the slighest idea what

Re: Vim editor

2000-11-03 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, David Z. Maze wrote: > Jesse Goerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > JG> I just installed the Vim editor but seem to be having some > JG> problems. When I type help it says: > JG> > JG> "Sorry, help file "/usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt" not found" > JG> > JG> I tried typing help v

Re: Mac and DNS Problem

2000-11-03 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 03:54:51PM +0100, Andreas Rabus wrote: > > Hi, > > i've got a Mac with OS 9.0... in an TCP/IP LAN with about twenty nodes. > I also have three DNS Severs. :) > > Now i got "unapproved updates" and "zone transfers AXFR" from that Mac. > The TCP/IP conf at the Mac seems cle

Opera for Linux

2000-11-03 Thread USM Bish
Been on this list for the last few months. Never noticed anything posted on Opera web browser for Linux. I have a triple OS system (Win98, deb and slack) I am in the process of an upgrade from slink to potato and Slack 7.1. I have several programs, inclusive of Netscape, which run from /opt di

ISDN

2000-11-03 Thread Gnanasekaran Thoppae
hi, how do i configure isdn on debian? i live in Munich, Germany and i have a T-online account with Deutsche Telekom. is there a GUI for gnome or kde specific for isdn? -gnana

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