Re: cd de audio

2000-11-05 Thread pookie
Prueba a instalarte cdtools... Luego en el shell escribe: cdplay [n_pista] Si no pones el nº de pista empieza por la 1. Tb puedes usar cdstop, cdeject, y no se si hay algo mas... Sobre lo de tener sonido como usuario yo tengo, pero no hice nada para ello... No sera que no tienes permisos para los

Re: cd de audio

2000-11-05 Thread Santiago Romero
El vie, 03 de nov de 2000, a las 09:22:36 -0300, Luis Zuccolo dijo: Hola: Agradeceria que alguien me informe como hacer para escuchar un cd de musica. Cuando trato de montarlo, no me deja, ya que no reconoce el formato de archivos. es que los CDs de audio NO se montan. Los CDs de audio

Re: Configurar puerto 6699 para OpenNapster

2000-11-05 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
El Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:24:16PM +0100, Santiago Fernandez contaba: y en /etc/inetd.conf: napster dgram udp waitroot/usr/bin/lopster ¿Y esto para qué? No vas a recibir nunca peticiones a este puerto (a no ser que te estén scaneando los puertos) a no ser que estés conectado a

RE: manual debianero de NFS, NIS

2000-11-05 Thread Antonio Rueda
Pasate por LuCAS (lucas.hisplainux.es) Tienes alguna cosa sobre administración de redes. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 2:58 PM Subject: manual debianero de NFS, NIS Hola debianeros. ¿Saben donde

No me abre sesiones X para los usuarios

2000-11-05 Thread Luis M. Arroyo Egoscozabal
Hola, el problemilla es el siguiente. He instalado el HelixCode, añadiendo una linea al sources.list, como ponía en el doc de La Espiral. Se me ha puesto el gdm como gestor de entrada gréfica, y como root ente al gnome perfectamente. Pero los usuarios no acceden, ni los viejos ni los nuevos.

Sobre sonido...

2000-11-05 Thread Luis M. Arroyo Egoscozabal
He instalado una SB16 , como root reproduce sin problemas, pero los usuarios no acceden a ella... La configuré como modulos, y despues hice: chmod 666 /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/hdb /dev/mixer Me he olvidado de algo? Gracias L.

RE: Sobre sonido...[ por no leer]

2000-11-05 Thread Luis M. Arroyo Egoscozabal
Vi en el correo de Santiago una alusion a hacer adduser usuario audio? No vale con dar los permisos a los dispositivos? Todavia no lo he probado, en cuanto arranque linux lo pruebo Gracias

Problemas con IMP

2000-11-05 Thread Andres Herrera
Guenas Tengo una serie de problemillas con el IMP de Potato. El mas urgente es el del envio del correo. Si escribo un mensaje simple y trato de enviarlo, en seguida me suelta un The document contained no data (desde Netscape). Lo mismo desde el NS y el IE en Guin. En cambio desde lynx o desde

Re: Sobre sonido...

2000-11-05 Thread Chafar
Luis M. Arroyo Egoscozabal wrote: He instalado una SB16 , como root reproduce sin problemas, pero los usuarios no acceden a ella... La configuré como modulos, y despues hice: chmod 666 /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/hdb /dev/mixer

[p][off - topic] suscripción

2000-11-05 Thread Yaro Páez
Necesito la direccion web para suscribirme a la lista, ya que cambiaré de buzón gracias _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public

Compilar con woody

2000-11-05 Thread Luis Taboada Rivas
Buenas a todos. Hace poco me he pasado a Woody, y tengo algunos problemas para compilar: -Aunque tengo instalado g++, el 'configure' de algunos programas me dice que el compilador de c++ no puede generar ejecutables. - A la hora dl enlazado, 'ld' no encuentra significado

Re: Java1.2.2

2000-11-05 Thread Luis Clausell
Yep Ramon! El Mon, 16 de Oct de 2000 a las 08:02 PM, Ramon Pons escribió: vengo intentando resolver un problema con mi instalacion de java. Font specified in font.properties not found [--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific] [...] Creo que me pasó algo

Re: Sobre sonido...[ por no leer]

2000-11-05 Thread Joaquin Urrutia
On dom, 05 nov 2000, Luis M. Arroyo Egoscozabal escribió: Vi en el correo de Santiago una alusion a hacer adduser usuario audio? No vale con dar los permisos a los dispositivos? Todavia no lo he probado, en cuanto arranque linux lo pruebo Gracias Yo lo unico que hago para que los usuarios

RE: Sobre sonido...[ por no leer]

2000-11-05 Thread Luis M. Arroyo Egoscozabal
Vi en el correo de Santiago una alusion a hacer adduser usuario audio? No vale con dar los permisos a los dispositivos? Todavia no lo he probado, en cuanto arranque linux lo pruebo Gracias Yo lo unico que hago para que los usuarios tengan acceso, es incluirlos en el grupo audio y listo, los

Re: Queries a postgres

2000-11-05 Thread Luis Clausell
Yep Gabriel! El Tue, 31 de Oct de 2000 a las 11:17 AM, Gabriel Tabares Barreiro escribió: Una nueva pregunta sobre postgres. Tengo Potato instalado con Postgres 7.0.2 (antes del cambio de librerias) y va bastante bien. El problema que tengo es que me exige que para nombrar un campo, tabla o

No me abre sesiones X para los usuarios

2000-11-05 Thread Luis M. Arroyo Egoscozabal
He desinstalado el gdm, por si era eso, y he intentado arrancar con startx a pelo para un usuario. El root entra sin problemas al AfterStep, pero el usuario recibe esto: --- s/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic,/usr

Re: No me abre sesiones X para los usuarios

2000-11-05 Thread Carlos Valdivia
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:20:31AM +0100, Luis M. Arroyo Egoscozabal wrote: Warning: /dev/mouse unable to get status of mouse fd (Argumento inválido) No tiene nada que ver pero a mí tb me sale esta línea desde que uso potato y no sé por qué. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: /dev/null: Permiso

Re: Problemas con IMP

2000-11-05 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 05:57:39PM +0100, Andres Herrera wrote: Si escribo un mensaje simple y trato de enviarlo, en seguida me suelta un The document contained no data (desde Netscape). Lo mismo desde el NS y el IE en Guin. En cambio desde lynx o desde links no hay ningun problema, por lo que

Re: Mer e-postfrågor

2000-11-05 Thread Jacob Jovelou
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 07:28:26AM -0800, Carl Winbäck wrote: Hejsan, nu kommer en e-postfråga till. Kan man få alla inkommande brev att automatiskt hamna i ~/mail/mbox istället för /var/spool/mail/användarnamn? Det är ju enkelt. Gör bara en symbolisk länk i /var/spool/mail/ dit du vill att

Re: Mer e-postfrågor

2000-11-05 Thread Per Eric Rosén
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Carl Winbäck wrote: Hejsan, nu kommer en e-postfråga till. Kan man få alla inkommande brev att automatiskt hamna i ~/mail/mbox istället för /var/spool/mail/användarnamn? Du kan göra en symbolisk länk *från* mbox också; ln -s /var/mail/$USER $HOME/mail/mbox. Däremot

Re: PORTA 21

2000-11-05 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Use o xinetd ao invés do inetd, ele permite que voce faça isso. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alguém sabe como mudar a porta do ftpd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gleyson

rc.local

2000-11-05 Thread Rafael A . Schmitt
Olá qual é o equivalente ao /etc/rc.d/rc.local no debian? eu quero que o comando insmod -f ltmodem seja executado a cada inicialização. no rh eu colocava esse comando no /etc/rc.d/rc.local. e no debian? Rafael. * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * Rafael Alexandre Schmitt

Re: rc.local

2000-11-05 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Coloca o script em arquivo em /etc/rc.boot Rafael A . Schmitt wrote: Olá qual é o equivalente ao /etc/rc.d/rc.local no debian? eu quero que o comando insmod -f ltmodem seja executado a cada inicialização. no rh eu colocava esse comando no /etc/rc.d/rc.local. e no debian? Rafael.

Coisas do XFree 4...

2000-11-05 Thread Cesar Cardoso
Fiz o upgrade para o XFree 4.0.1, tudo esta' correndo bem, no entanto... i) Porque diabos o /etc/X11/Xserves faz referencia ao /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA? E porque diabos ele cisma em voltar ao XF86_SVGA no boot, mesmo quando modifico o arquivo para referenciar /usr/bin/X11/XFree? Eu apaguei o

Re: rc.local

2000-11-05 Thread Adriano Freitas
Rafael A . Schmitt wrote: Olá qual é o equivalente ao /etc/rc.d/rc.local no debian? eu quero que o comando insmod -f ltmodem seja executado a cada inicialização. no rh eu colocava esse comando no /etc/rc.d/rc.local. e no debian? Por se tratar de um módulo, não seria melhor

Re: Como Desativar o XDM

2000-11-05 Thread DephiNit
Simples, apt-get remove xdm t+ DephiNit Em Sex 03 Nov 2000 04:26, Ademar Sousa escreveu: Oi Gente, mais uma dúvida: como desativar o XDM? não quero mais usar o login no ambiente gráfico. estou usando o 2.2 Até mais, Ademar

off-topic Exim

2000-11-05 Thread Rafael A . Schmitt
Olá alguém sabe se preciso alguma configuração especial no exim ou no mutt para conseguir mandar e-mails para listas de discussão? para essa eu consigo mandar, mas para a linux-br , mutt-users não consigo de jeito nenhum :/ antes eu usava o sendmail + mutt e funcionava sem problemas. o meu

XFree86 4.0.1 and Voodoo3 -- how do I test?

2000-11-05 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
Okay, I have the latest 2.4.0 test kernel compiled with DRI and the 3dfx driver, I have XFree86 4.0.1 running fine Now how do I even find out if I have 3D hardware acceleration working? Is there any simple test? None of my games currently work, but I know Myth 2 and Quake 2 need the older

tkdvi ? problem

2000-11-05 Thread Tino Ionescu
Hi gentlemens ! My question is regarding the a dvi-viewer - tkdvi - what happends is after installation via dselect, happends ... nothing , that is no tkdvi appears. Can anybody advise please ? PS I checked xgdvi but it's at unstable and require to upgrade libc6 and I would like to stay away

Re: Q: Can E menu use console commands?

2000-11-05 Thread Greg Gilbert
I don't know if it can do precisly what you want, but you can send commands to enlightenment using eesh. If you want to make a menu item a command like import -root, then just add it to your ~/.enlightenment/user_apps.menu, or whichever menu you want to use. Greg * Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL

sticky bit, powersaving hdd spindown

2000-11-05 Thread Damien
hello fellow debian users; i've been working on a stand alone music player for the last couple of months. it's currently a bit loud (being based around an old p166 with a very noisy hdd powersupply fan. after reading another posting by someone else on how to quieten down a computer, i finally

Re: sticky bit, powersaving hdd spindown

2000-11-05 Thread brian moore
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 06:11:36PM +1100, Damien wrote: i remember reading somewhere that the sticky bit could be used to instruct certain unixs to permanently cache a program. is this the case with linux? if not, can anyone offer any alternative solutions? No, nor has it been supported in any

To print to hpdeskjet 840C

2000-11-05 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
I want to print to a hp deskjet color printer... You know which filter I must to use? TIA Rogelio

Re: OFFTOPIC weird URL's

2000-11-05 Thread Joey Hess
Bob Bernstein wrote: croak What exactly are these spammers doing? Did they convert a croak dotted-quad address into a decimal number? I can tell you an easier way to decipher them, but I too would like to know how they are contructed, i.e what's the algorithm. a.b.c.d n = d + c *

Re: Java 2 Runtime Environment

2000-11-05 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Shao Zhang, Put this in your sources.list: deb ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/java-linux/debian woody non-free You can replace the first part url with any mirros listed on blackdown.org Minor correction: you *have* to replace the first part of the URL if you aren't in Australia, as

Re: SIS 900 NIC

2000-11-05 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
And what is exactly your problem? In the ifconfig step? Art Edwards wrote: I'm trying (very patiently) to do a network install using a system with an embedded SIS 900. I have tried to install the sis900.0 module without success. This is particularly frustrating because the card was recognized

Re: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-05 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Shao, Quoth Shao Zhang, Could you let us know how you live on both emacs and vim? Do you have to use the vi mode in emacs when using emacs? I tried out emacs before and cannot use it at all without the vi mode. Eg. C-d in vim scrolls page down but deletes lines in emacs... Umm...

Re: sticky bit, powersaving hdd spindown

2000-11-05 Thread Damian Menscher
On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Damien wrote: i've been working on a stand alone music player for the last couple of months. it's currently a bit loud (being based around an old p166 with a very noisy hdd powersupply fan. after reading another posting by someone else on how to quieten down a

SB Live! (Xgamer) with Debian Woody

2000-11-05 Thread Jamu Kakar
Hello, After managing to get my XFree86 4.0.1 running last night (which seemed an achievement) I set upon setting up an SB Live! (Xgamer)... I downloaded the drivers from opensource.creative.com and compiled them with few warnings. I then did a 'make install' and got the following messages:

Re: SIS 900 NIC

2000-11-05 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
The problem is during the install. After I install the Kernel and during the configuration of device drivers, when I try to install the sis9000 driver I get the usual error resonses insmod sis900 failed Arthur H. Edwards 712 Valencia Dr. NE Abq. NM 87108 (505) 256-0834 On Sun, 5 Nov 2000,

Re: Q: Can E menu use console commands?

2000-11-05 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Thanks for getting back to me. I tried passing it through eesh, should have mentioned it... I don't know if it can do precisly what you want, but you can send Well, instead of the standard: XClock NULL exec xclock I'd like: Foo NULL exec -import -screen (or root) root /tmp/Screnshot.jpg

Re: To print to hpdeskjet 840C

2000-11-05 Thread Vee-Eye
Vi scribis: I want to print to a hp deskjet color printer... You know which filter I must to use? ¿Que tal? Your choice depends on what you want to print: ( from http://www.linuxprinting.org ) mn magazine c't - Magazin fuer Computertechnik (21/2000) recommends for

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-05 Thread Kristian Rink
Obviously Rogerio Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] thinks that: In all reviews that I've studied, the NVIDIA cards seem to be the winners of performance, but the fact that they don't have a receptive attitude towards the community means that they don't want people like me as

Re: ISP Configuration help, please.

2000-11-05 Thread Kent West
John Hasler wrote: soluzar75 writes: My ISP is LineONE http://www.lineone.net, and I have a generic CompUSA-type external modem. I just need to know how to write proper connection scripts (I think...). Run pppconfig as root and fill in the blanks. Start your connection with pon, monitor it

Re: tkdvi ? problem

2000-11-05 Thread Shaul Karl
Hi gentlemens ! My question is regarding the a dvi-viewer - tkdvi - what happends is after installation via dselect, happends ... nothing , that is no tkdvi appears. Can anybody advise please ? What do you mean? Are you trying to issue tkdvi at an xterm prompt and nothing

Re: Making the computer less noisy

2000-11-05 Thread Andre Berger
Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jean-Michel Kelbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i am wondering if there is a way to make the computer less noisy at some moment (the NIGHT). What I mean is that the CPU fan does a lot of noise, and the Hd too. Is there a porgram to make the cpu fan

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-05 Thread Phillip Deackes
marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you tried konqueror? it's really a good browser, not only a file manager. I use it and I enjoy it: it rarely crashes, is faster to load than netscape and mozilla (I uninstalled them both!) and is quite smart. I have had a look at it when I tried KDE2,

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-05 Thread Phillip Deackes
Kristian Rink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: H, my $0.02 is that I am running (Debian) GNU/Linux for 99.95% because of the licensing and distribution policies and ethics, so Opera as another closed-source commercial application is not an option to me... I can understand that, however I have

New X Server crashes

2000-11-05 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
Hi, I just upgraded all the X packages to 4+ versions in unstable, and now my X server won't run. It dies with the error message *** None of the configured devices were detected.*** Fatal server error: no screens found It was working yesterday and the only thing I changed was installing the

Re: SB Live! (Xgamer) with Debian Woody

2000-11-05 Thread m_g_m
Sorry, but isn't the SB-Live already included into the 2.2.17-kernel? why not compiling a new one then? greetings, Michael Hello, After managing to get my XFree86 4.0.1 running last night (which seemed an achievement) I set upon setting up an SB Live! (Xgamer)... I downloaded the drivers

aside: perl's unpack()

2000-11-05 Thread Damien
I can tell you an easier way to decipher them, but I too would like to know how they are contructed, i.e what's the algorithm. a.b.c.d n = d + c * 256 + b * 256 ^ 2 + a * 256 ^ 3 after reading the previous mail, this is what i was thinking. i went to test it in perl afterwards, but got

Re: sticky bit, powersaving hdd spindown

2000-11-05 Thread Damien
Under DOS there was the possibility of treating some of your RAM like a disk (hence the name ramdisk). Not sure if Linux can do this, but if so, then just copy the binary to a ramdisk and run it from there. thanks for the tip. that looks like the best plan of action. cheers. -- Damien

Re: New X Server crashes

2000-11-05 Thread Phillip Deackes
Michael Abraham Shulman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just upgraded all the X packages to 4+ versions in unstable, and now my X server won't run. It dies with the error message *** None of the configured devices were detected.*** Fatal server error: no screens found It was

Re: installing without a cd-rom

2000-11-05 Thread wulfie
If the other pcs are networked simply mount the cd on one and use an ftp or nfs link. == Paul Sims ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SpireLUG - the Chesterfield Linux User Group www.spirelug.org.uk == On Sat, 4

Re: SIS 900 NIC

2000-11-05 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 03:15:14PM -0700, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: The problem is during the install. After I install the Kernel and during the configuration of device drivers, when I try to install the sis9000 driver I get the usual error resonses insmod sis900 failed No more error

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-05 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 09:32:03AM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you tried konqueror? it's really a good browser, not only a file manager. I use it and I enjoy it: it rarely crashes, is faster to load than netscape and mozilla (I uninstalled them

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-05 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:18:55PM +0100, Kristian Rink wrote: Obviously Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] thinks that: Hi, Netscape is well known as being one of the worst Linux apps. True, sadly... As already mentioned, try to get Yourself Mozilla and use one of those lighter

Re: New X Server crashes

2000-11-05 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
Phillip == Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MAS I just upgraded all the X packages to 4+ versions in unstable, and now MAS my X server won't run. Phillip When I did 'apt-get -u dist-upgrade' I noticed that Phillip task-x-window-system-core was maked as held back. After the Phillip

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-05 Thread Kristian Rink
Obviously Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] thinks that: I can understand that, however I have no problem with commercial apps. I like the fact that I have a *choice*. My system runs a range of apps from GNU to commercial. I use Linux because I like it and it is good. If it cost me money I

Hi I am having a problem with X.

2000-11-05 Thread Gurpreet Singh
Hi, If any one who can help me, I am a new user of debian, I am working on Intel 810 chipset but debian refuse to make X work on the in built AGP so, I am currently using the shell is deprived of use of X, So any body out there have any idea about the problem Thanks, Gurpreet --

Re: New X Server crashes

2000-11-05 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
I wrote: MAS Okay, it appears to be working now. Well, more or less. Everything runs fine with `startx', but I'm having some peculiar difficulties with xdm. Specifically, 1. xdm now takes over a minute from when the daemon is started, either by init or manually, to when the login widget

Re: Q: What loaded /usr/i486-linuclibC1?

2000-11-05 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Back again... Got things working. I'm forwarding my log in case I did anything wrong. What loaded /usr/i486-linuclibC1? Now had a new /usr/i486-linuxlibC1. Noticed with dpkg -S that it made the directories. Checked status and xlib6 installed as optional priority. Further checking showed that

Q: Log kept what install and when

2000-11-05 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Is there a log kept by dpkg/apt-get/dselect of what installed and by date? Check status file reveals whether something is installed only. Thanks, Jonathan

Re: ISP Configuration help, please.

2000-11-05 Thread John Hasler
Kent West writes: Another option is wvdial, which (in Woody at least), has enough intelligence to search for your modem... Pppconfig can do this. It'll also redail automatically if the connection gets dropped,... And this. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill

Re: test patterns for adjusting monitor?

2000-11-05 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 08:58:01PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: Anyone have test patterns for help with adjusting the various parameters of a CRT monitor? On http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/ there is a tool called ctscreen which should work pretty good. It is written in Java. The zipped

Re: sed question (bibtex problem)

2000-11-05 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Brian, Check this: sed '/%$/{ N s/%\n// }' yourfile.bib It should work from command line using bash's multiline input capability (with the '). It checks for % at the end of lines (hence the $), then reads the next line into the buffer and then removes the %\n sequence (I don't quite

Re: SB Live! (XGamer)...

2000-11-05 Thread Matthias Czapla
13sQQS-05t-00 After managing to get my XFree86 4.0.1 running last night (which seemed an achievement) I set upon setting up an SB Live! (Xgamer)... I downloaded the drivers from opensource.creative.com and compiled them with few warnings. I then did a 'make install' and got the following

lost my backspace key

2000-11-05 Thread David Bellows
Hello everyone, Hopefully this will be an easy one. I just installed the lbreakout game from unstable. It updated a couple of X packages enroute. They didn't look like they were anything critical so I let it go ahead and do it. But now I've discovered a problem, my backspace key no longer

Re: email alias postfix procmail

2000-11-05 Thread dirk
Problem solved. I hate it when things are sooo easy once you have figured it out. Just to save a few hours for someone else: Use fetchmail. There seem to be some issues about multidrop stuff, read the man page. using fetchmail, your fetchmailrc looks like this: set postmaster dirk poll

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-05 Thread Sean
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 04:34:28PM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote: ---snip--- This is what made me choose a Matrox G400 for my new system (together with the recommendation of a close friend that said the G400 was running quite fast in his system). ---snip--- I also opted for

My GNOME desktop doesn't appear

2000-11-05 Thread Karl Philipp
Hi, I updated several packages regarding to X-Windows, enlightenment and GNOME. Now, if I do a login via the X-Windows login, the X-Windows login will re-appear. In the file ~/.xsession-errors you can read Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to

Re: SIS 900 NIC

2000-11-05 Thread Rafael A . Schmitt
* Art Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm trying (very patiently) to do a network install using a system with an embedded SIS 900. I have tried to install the sis900.0 module without success. This is particularly frustrating because the card was recognized and used on the same box with the

Re: DEBIAN 2.2: LOCAL PRINTER INSTALLATION

2000-11-05 Thread Yves POCCHIOLA
Thanks for the advices, I can print now ASCII and Postscript with apsfilter and LPRng packages. Apsfilter configuration setting was proposed during the installation by the Debian tool: dselect. I tried first to use the magicfilter package but I missed the first time to activate properly the

MC and .profile

2000-11-05 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, I've set up an alias beep='echo -en \a' in my .profile file. Now if I log into my account and execute beep my speaker beeps as expected. But if try to execute it out of the Midnight Commander it doesn't work. What need I to do? Another Thing related to that problem is that if I execute

Re: X4 and a Trident Card? (was: Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts)

2000-11-05 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rogerio Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Nov 04 2000, John S. J. Anderson wrote: Once I got it working, however, I was quite impressed. It's noticeably faster than XFree 3.3.6 on window movement and screen redraws, even with the old 4 MB

Re: Hi I am having a problem with X.

2000-11-05 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, If any one who can help me, I am a new user of debian, I am working on Intel 810 chipset but debian refuse to make X work on the in built AGP so, I am currently using the shell is deprived of use of X, So any body out there have any idea about the problem Thanks, Gurpreet

Re: DEBIAN 2.2: LOCAL PRINTER INSTALLATION

2000-11-05 Thread Mario Vukelic
I tried first to use the magicfilter package but I missed the first time to activate properly the configuration and I was not given a second chance to run the configuration even after removing and installing again the package. I'm glad I could help. Probably you want to know that dpkg lets

Re: DEBIAN 2.2: LOCAL PRINTER INSTALLATION

2000-11-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 04:38:08PM +0100, Yves POCCHIOLA wrote: Thanks for the advices, I can print now ASCII and Postscript with apsfilter and LPRng packages. Apsfilter configuration setting was proposed during the installation by the Debian tool: dselect. I tried first to use the

Re: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 06:37:33PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: Umm... Basically I just made a point to learn enough about both of them. Yeah, me too. Vim is very cool, and fast, and has great syntax highlighting, and is perfect for just about everything. But when it came to my thesis

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-05 Thread wulfie
http://www.mindspring.com/~john_mcl/adding_fonts.html This is not XF4-specific but does give a good guide to getting ttfs running in X in general, plus all the required tools can be downloaded in a single tarball. It would make sense if ttmkfdir was included with freetype, but it appears not to

Re: G400, DRI, X4, and 4 million dollars

2000-11-05 Thread Adam Lazur
Mike Cathcart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Well, ok, I lied, but who was going to read another boring email about the G400 and DRI? Well, enough for sensationalistic email... [ snip ] glxinfo output: [ snip ] OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect OpenGL version string: 1.2

Re: Q: Can E menu use console commands?

2000-11-05 Thread Adam Lazur
Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: In MWM I could pass shell commands as a menu, and I think Window Maker allowed it. Can I do it in Enlightenment? I want to use the import -root... to take a screenshot. Other uses come to mind. Why not edit ~/.enlightenment/file.menu (and the other menus

apache sending request to old hostname

2000-11-05 Thread Debian Ghost
Hello All, I have a strange thing going on with apache and I'm not sure why this is happening. When I put a request in from my localhost to go to http://localhost/. It will work. But when I try to go to localhost/anything, it tries to send me to my hold hostname. I've looked in apache.conf and

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and Voodoo3 -- how do I test?

2000-11-05 Thread Adam Lazur
Thomas J. Hamman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Okay, I have the latest 2.4.0 test kernel compiled with DRI and the 3dfx driver, I have XFree86 4.0.1 running fine Now how do I even find out if I have 3D hardware acceleration working? Check out dri.sourceforge.net .adam -- [

non-US/main section

2000-11-05 Thread milenium moon
I come from Indonesia. I want ask you about licensing/limitation of use from non-US/main section that include in Debian 2.2 Official CDs. If in my CDs contain non-US/main section (application/software) is legal or ilegal if I instal to my computer (on one computer) and how if I want install to

KDE2 problems

2000-11-05 Thread Daniel Borgmann
hello! i installed the kde2 debs and everthing worked fine. then i made an update and now i can't start it at all. the output in .xsession-error is: *snip* ksplash: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3: undefined symbol: getButtonShift__14QPlatinumStyleRiT1 kdeinit: error

apt-get through a proxy ?

2000-11-05 Thread Gyulai Mihaly
I can't go through our intranet proxy, although I configure my apt.conf file to use it... Is there a HOWTO about 'apt-get' ? (and other 'apt' programs?) Please show me an URL, where I can see a usable 'apt.conf' file using a proxy... Thanks. -- GYULAI Mihály http://gyulai.freeyellow.com

Re: lost my backspace key - solved, new question

2000-11-05 Thread David Bellows
Hello everyone, OK, I checked out the manpage for xmodmap and figured out how to get my backspace key to work properly. I then inserted the following line into my ~/.bashrc file: xmodmap -e keycode 22 = BackSpace This does work. My question is, is this the best place to put such a command? Is

Re: non-US/main section

2000-11-05 Thread David Z Maze
milenium moon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mm I come from Indonesia. I want ask you about mm licensing/limitation of use from non-US/main section mm that include in Debian 2.2 Official CDs. If in my CDs mm contain non-US/main section (application/software) mm is legal or ilegal if I instal to my

Woody clobbers Blackdown!

2000-11-05 Thread Bob Bernstein
I finally put a bullet in my teeth and dist-upgraded a potato system to woody. In potato I had been running communicator-smotif with the Blackdown Java plugin. Here's what I have now, post-upgrade: communicator-base 4.73-19Communicator base support communicator-nethelp-473

RE: apt-get through a proxy ?

2000-11-05 Thread Jason Holland
I set my shell env settings http_proxy and ftp_proxy and it works perfect. Jason I can't go through our intranet proxy, although I configure my apt.conf file to use it... Is there a HOWTO about 'apt-get' ? (and other 'apt' programs?) Please show me an URL, where I can see a usable

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-05 Thread USM Bish
When I first commenced this thread three days ago, my intentions were two-fold. Firstly, the need to scout for a suitable replacement for my out of date Netscape 4.51. Secondly, because of a lot of hype in our local WIA / WAP hardware circuits (and else- where in Asia I suppose) on the

problems with XSERVER after UPGRADE

2000-11-05 Thread Alessandro Ghigi
I am running woody on a laptop since one year. After the last upgrade (i.e. last night) the xserver does not work. It complains that none of the configured devices can be detected. I tried to reconfigure using XF86Setup, and found that my card (NeoMagic NM256 et cetera) is not in the list any

X4 lacking color definitions

2000-11-05 Thread Brian
A fresh X install this morning made X4 an interesting surprise. One problem which I don't know which package to report the bug to. Help? Programs like Netscape, fetchmailconf, etc consistently report that they don't know colors anymore: Warning: Color name black is not defined Warning: Color

RE: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-05 Thread Marc Wilson
It's not all that hard... I went through this last night. Ok, I have my ttf fonts in /usr/share/lib/fonts/truetype. I created a symlink /usr/lib/X11/fonts/truetype to match the other font paths, and added that to my fontpath list in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. I then went there and used ttmkfdir to

Re: Can't login using WDM!

2000-11-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 01:05:01PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: Last night I upgraded all X packages to XFree4.0.1, and now I can't login to X using WDM. Every time I enter my userid and password in the WDM login panel, the login panel disappears, I see a plain grey background, and then

Re: aside: perl's unpack()

2000-11-05 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Damien wrote: I can tell you an easier way to decipher them, but I too would like to know how they are contructed, i.e what's the algorithm. a.b.c.d n = d + c * 256 + b * 256 ^ 2 + a * 256 ^ 3 after reading the previous mail, this

gnome-ppp

2000-11-05 Thread Clayton Stapleton
Hi Folks; Have Debian 2.2 running on a Pentium 166MMX, 2 hard drives, only one containing Debian. After configuring Gnome-ppp and attempt to dial out get the following error The pppd died unexpectedly. So tried the Help menu item on the Gnome-ppp window to have a look at any help they had

Re: New X Server crashes

2000-11-05 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: I wrote: MAS Okay, it appears to be working now. Well, more or less. Everything runs fine with `startx', but I'm having some peculiar difficulties with xdm. Specifically, 1. xdm now takes over a minute from

Re: test patterns for adjusting monitor?

2000-11-05 Thread Krzys Majewski
Philipp Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 08:58:01PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: Anyone have test patterns for help with adjusting the various parameters of a CRT monitor? On http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/ there is a tool called ctscreen which should

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