Re: dump package list to file?

2000-11-25 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 01:44:29PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: > > I want to dump a list of the packages I have installed on a current > > potatoe installto a file, so I can later build a machine with the same > > packages? How do I do this? > > > > Easy. Just do 'dpkg -l > filename' No, I don

via82c686a sound - 2.2.18 => 2.4.0-p11

2000-11-25 Thread Brian McGroarty
using the prebuilt 2.2.18 kernel package, sound on a Via 82c686a chipset sounds fine. Previous to 2.2.18, I was using ALSA - I removed it when 2.2.18 added PCI 82c686 support. With 2.4.0-pre8 through 11 the sound has clicks and pops. Can anyone suggest how to go about finding the problem without

Weird Error

2000-11-25 Thread Joseph Anthony
I just installed Debian 2.2 and compiled the 2.2.17 kernel on a 3.2 gig Quantum Fireball EX. The drive is a slave on the primary IDE cable and both drives are jumpered correctly. I did bad block scans when initializing all partitions and nothing bad came up. This is the error: Starting deferred ex

usb port question

2000-11-25 Thread Dale Morris
I'm using a handspring visor, which I have set up using a serial docking cradle. I've also got a usb cradle and I would like to try and configure my system to use it. My serial port cradle is /dev/ttyS0 which is symlinked to /dev/Pilot. What are the standard tty names for USB? I'm using a fairly ne

Help with setxkbmap

2000-11-25 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I am running Debian 2.2 (stable) plus some helix-gnome stuff. I want to use setxkbmap to switch the keyboard mapping but always get the following error: # setxkbmap Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property What does this mean? Any ideas on how to fix it? -- Pedro

Re: Perl's default include path

2000-11-25 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Neil Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [251100 21:42]: > I get these messages trying to install recent versions of debconf: > > monkey:/usr/src/gcc/build# dpkg -i > /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.5.22_i386.deb > (Reading database ... 36741 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to re

Re: starting gnome from kde

2000-11-25 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 09:22:54AM -0500, Andrew Dwight Dixon wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm an old-school fvwm fan but I recently decided to try gnome and kde > > because I told my sister I'd help her install Linux and she'll > > definitely want to use one or the other. An

mkboot

2000-11-25 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all Can anyone tell me a reliable way to make a boot disk? I've tried the mkboot util, and I have to say it's pretty average - it hasn't successfully booted a disk, only get's to: "LILO boot: Loading linux" and dies ... I'm pretty sure there's a way to make a boot disk with dd, but can't reme

Re: Trouble compiling kernel -- solved

2000-11-25 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
Thanks to a swift response, my problem was solved--apparently I just needed to symlink /usr/include/asm to /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 Though I wonder what made me suddenly need the symlink, if I didn't have it before, or what made me lose it if I did have it before. (I notice I did already h

Re: Analog to digital converters for Linux

2000-11-25 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, You should be able to find your card on this website: http://stm.lbl.gov/comedi/ Shao. Matthias M?ller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A german company offers a lot PCI-cards with differnet functionalaty. > > http://www.kolter.de/home_engl.htm > > good luck > Matthias > > * Samuel Tardieu

Re: Using PuTTY with an SSH Server

2000-11-25 Thread Damian Menscher
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > I am using the latest (stable) release of PuTTY on Win2000 Professional > to connect to a Debian server running OpenSSH. I have also installed > Hummingbird Exceed 6.2 on the Win2000 machine. > > It seems that PuTTY doesn't support X forwarding. So how

Trouble compiling kernel with latest Woody

2000-11-25 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
Since dist-upgrading to the most recent Woody packages, I have been unable to compile a kernel. Both the 2.2.17 kernels and 2.4.0test10 kernels abort with the same error. I can't think of anything else that could be the problem, outside of the recent dist-upgrade, because I have already compiled

GPG signing with Spruce

2000-11-25 Thread Jared Johnson
Hullo, It seems that Spruce is not willing to GPG sign an email, despite its settings which think that it is doing so. I'm using spruce 0.7.4 from woody. I have spruce set up to store my passphrase, and always sign. I'm really not sure if i'm doing something wrong, or if there's some bug in Spr

Meaning of parport message on bootup

2000-11-25 Thread Dan Griswold
Hi all, I was hoping somebody could translate the following bootup message for me: parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation. What would I do with 'procfs'? Could the fact that I don't have 'interrupt-driven operation' enabled be the cause of my print-spoo

Kernel 2.4-test11 not recognizing IDE-cdrom

2000-11-25 Thread maarten
Hi all, Somehow 2.4test11 doesn't recognize my cdrom. Strange, but that is how it appears to me. It's a 52x Creative Labs cdrom. When I mount it, I get no errors, but when accessing the drive, there's nothing there. But it really truly is mounted! I re-compiled the kernel four times now, and it

Re: Script that partially completes mirror from CDs

2000-11-25 Thread Karl Hammar
Have you tried copydir from the mirrodir package? Regards, /Karl --- Karl HammarAspö Data [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lilla Aspö 2340 +46 173 140 57Networks S-742 94 Östhamm

Re: samba or NFS mount

2000-11-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 05:01:29PM -0500, Debian Ghost wrote: > Thank you for the reply. > So samba is the only way to "mount" an NT filesystem? Sounds good... > Do I need to run a samba server on the linux machine or would the server > be an application on the NT machine. I went to samba.org/samba

Re: X

2000-11-25 Thread Johan Ur Riise
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 11:20:56PM +0100, Johan Ur Riise wrote: > got the resolutions sorted out with the addition the Modes-line > in XF86Config-4: > > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" > EndSubSection > > Now I have to

Re: X

2000-11-25 Thread Johan Ur Riise
got the resolutions sorted out with the addition the Modes-line in XF86Config-4: SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection Now I have to specify the correct keyboard (norwegian) -- Johan Ur Riise 90 15 77 78

Re: samba or NFS mount

2000-11-25 Thread Stefan Cars
You do not need to run a samba server to mount filesystems on your Linux box from NT via samba At 17:01 2000-11-25 -0500, Debian Ghost wrote: Thank you for the reply. So samba is the only way to "mount" an NT filesystem? Sounds good... Do I need to run a samba server on the linux machine or wo

Re: samba or NFS mount

2000-11-25 Thread Stefan Cars
There is some NFS products for NT At 16:37 2000-11-25 -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: Hi, AFAIK if the files are on an NT server your only option is samba, although if you really wanted to get weird you could use appletalk wich both NT and GNU/Linux (via netatalk) can speak -Jon -- To UNSUB

Re: samba or NFS mount

2000-11-25 Thread Debian Ghost
Thank you for the reply. So samba is the only way to "mount" an NT filesystem? Sounds good... Do I need to run a samba server on the linux machine or would the server be an application on the NT machine. I went to samba.org/samba to read the FAQs and I'm still a little confused as to what I do to g

Re: X

2000-11-25 Thread Johan Ur Riise
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 09:25:12AM -0800, John Bagdanoff wrote: > > defaultcolordepth in the file, resolution is next to go. > If it's not /etc/X/XF86Config-4 then you're not there yet. > > I think you have some packages missing. How about: > xutils got that one. -- Johan Ur Riise 90 15 77 78

Re: docbook-utils

2000-11-25 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 12:19:59 -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > At the installation section, they mention a docbook-utils rpm > > package which contains some shell scripts and perl utilities, such as: > > docbook2html, docbook2ps, d

Re: samba or NFS mount

2000-11-25 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, AFAIK if the files are on an NT server your only option is samba, although if you really wanted to get weird you could use appletalk wich both NT and GNU/Linux (via netatalk) can speak -Jon

Solved! Re: Where is the sqrt() function in glibc? What is libm?

2000-11-25 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Passing -lm to gcc helped. Thanks to everybody who quickly helped me out. :) -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HertzSCHLAG:http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/hs/

qt's, what to keep, what to virtually vaporize

2000-11-25 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, I'm trying to pin down some weird bugs from kde2 and a post from the debian-kde list prompted me to look at my own system. it really boils down to the qt libs I currently have installed and I would welcome advice: ii libqt1g1.45-1.1 Shared Library used by applications li

Re: font *fixed* not found.

2000-11-25 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 25 2000, Chris Niekel wrote: > Anyone knows how to solve this? Is there any documentation I should have > been reading? apt-get dist-upgrade didn't tell me about this, nor sent it > mail. apt-get --reinstall install xfonts-base did the trick for me. []s, Roger...

Re: KDE2 installation

2000-11-25 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 24 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > yes, downloading .debs is not the right way to manage a debian > system Indeed, that's not the easiest/best way. But now that he has already downloaded a bunch of files, he can save some effort (especially if he is using a modem) and

Re: more than one .sty file in a tex document!?

2000-11-25 Thread Manegold
In what order did you load the packages? Maybe g-brief overwrites your settings, if it's loades after fancyhdr. Thorsten On 24-Nov-2000 Manuel Hendel wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 08:42:05AM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: >> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 08:42:05 -0800 >> From: "Eric G . Miller" >>

libgtk1.2-dev uninstallable

2000-11-25 Thread mcclosk
This is a potato system kept up to date with the most recent additions to proposed-updates, and security. In an effort to solve a problem I have with Sawmill menus, I tried to install the package libgtk1.2-dev, but got the response below: -

samba or NFS mount

2000-11-25 Thread Debian Ghost
Hey Guys, I was wondering what would be better to use in this situation. I want to basically be able to have read access to a particular LAN device on which the files are on a NT server and the client(s) that I want to be able to read files (mostly spreadsheets *.xls) that change daily. So I guess

Re: getting XFree (potato!!) to work with geforce 2 MX (<- !!)

2000-11-25 Thread Daniel Borgmann
On Thursday 23 November 2000 13:38, Manuel Reiter wrote: > On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Daniel Borgmann wrote: > > well, thanks.. the problem is how to get X running with potato? > > i don't want to tell my father to install woody. > > i guess he will compile xfree 4 on his own if there is no other solutio

Re: Where is the sqrt() function in glibc? What is libm?

2000-11-25 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Saturday 25 November 2000 04:36, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > Anybody who can help me, getting sqrt() to work? Or is my code > incorrect? $ gcc -o test test.c -lm - Davide

Re: Where is the sqrt() function in glibc? What is libm?

2000-11-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 18:36:56 +0100, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > This is the output I get by gcc: > > 18:29 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Projekte/c/2 $ gcc -o test test.c > /tmp/ccc01936: In function `main': > /tmp/ccc01936(.text+0x17): undefined reference to `sqrt' > /tmp/ccc01936

Where is the sqrt() function in glibc? What is libm?

2000-11-25 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi folks, I'm trying to learn C using the K&R book. I wrote the following code to test something they are mentioning in chapter 2.7, but I can't compile it. #include #include int main(int argc, char argv[]) { int i = 4; printf("I

Re: font *fixed* not found.

2000-11-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 09:12:08 +0100, Chris Niekel wrote: > I recently did un upgrade to X 4.0.1, and now my Xserver doesn't want to > start any more. It first complained about font 'fixed' not being available, This is often caused by having a fontserver specified which isn't available/running.

Re: docbook-utils

2000-11-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 12:19:59 -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > At the installation section, they mention a docbook-utils rpm > package which contains some shell scripts and perl utilities, such as: > docbook2html, docbook2ps, docbook2pdf, etc. > Does somebody know where to f

Re: lprng and magicfilter problem

2000-11-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 15:24:07 +0100, Daniel Reuter wrote: > lprng runs the inputfilters by default on the host on which the job is > issued, and NOT on the server with the printer attached. That means the > host has to do the work of rendering anything, the server lprng just > forwards the job d

Installing pcf fonts

2000-11-25 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I'm trying to install the snap font of blackbox fame for use with gnome and sawfish. The file is snap.pcf. I don't know that much about fonts, but I've tried putting the file in each of /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc. After putting it in each dir

Perl's default include path

2000-11-25 Thread Neil Booth
I get these messages trying to install recent versions of debconf: monkey:/usr/src/gcc/build# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.5.22_i386.deb (Reading database ... 36741 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace debconf 0.5.25 (using .../debconf_0.5.22_i386.deb) ...

Re: strange dns problem on login to isp

2000-11-25 Thread Pollywog
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 19:54:06 +0100, Peter O. Fedichev said: > > Hello, > > I have installed Debian linux both on my laptop and the desktop. I am > using the both of the computers to login to my university Computer > Center which serves as an isp for its employees. I am using one and the >

Re: hosts for rdate?

2000-11-25 Thread Rolf Schillinger
that is one thing. The other is that every nfs server can be used too. bis bald, Rolf On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, tjm wrote: > Look here: > > > http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html > > > > Bruno Boettcher wrote: > > > > hello, > > i am searching for some hosts for time updating

Re: hosts for rdate?

2000-11-25 Thread tjm
Look here: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html Bruno Boettcher wrote: > > hello, > i am searching for some hosts for time updating of my hosts > where can i find the listings of hosts offering this service? > i am in France BTW, so any host network-near Strasbourg wo

Re: cron "unusual event"

2000-11-25 Thread brian moore
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 09:22:09AM -0500, Debian Ghost wrote: > Hey Guys, > I was wondering what may be causing my logcheck to report every time a > cron session is opened / closed via root. The weird thing is that root has > no user crontab file. Would this be talking about /etc/crontab and > cron

strange dns problem on login to isp

2000-11-25 Thread Peter O. Fedichev
Hello, I have installed Debian linux both on my laptop and the desktop. I am using the both of the computers to login to my university Computer Center which serves as an isp for its employees. I am using one and the same external modem and have the following problem: I am using wvdial and if I

Re: X

2000-11-25 Thread John Bagdanoff
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 05:48:26PM +0100, Johan Ur Riise wrote: > On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 08:38:13AM -0800, John Bagdanoff wrote: > > > > See if you have xserver-xfree86 installed. > I have now, but I had to install it manually Why manually? You don't use apt-get? If you are using apt-get instal

New ricochet works fine

2000-11-25 Thread Aaron Brashears
I asked this question a while ago, and I've seen it appear twice since. So, to set answer that question, it works fine with my debian woody installation. First, with my particular laptop, I had to enable the serial port in the bios. I intend to eventually apply the usb back port, but I have too m

Re: Sound config

2000-11-25 Thread Ray Percival
Do this and be very carefull. Take a look at your /etc/apt/sources.list add a line for unstable. Do a apt-get update then do a apt-get install sndconfig. Then do not wait do not pass go do not collect $200 comment out the unstable line from your sources. Then do a apt-get update and press on. Ye

Re: Converting to SCSI. HELP!!!

2000-11-25 Thread Andrew Hagen
If you decide to go SCSI, get 2 SCSI cards: 1 for your SCSI hard drives, and 1 for other SCSI devices like CD-ROM drives, tape drives, etcetera. It would also be advisable to replace any IDE device you have with a SCSI, USB, or firewire device if possible. There are plenty of good SCSI host adapte

Re: X

2000-11-25 Thread Johan Ur Riise
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 08:38:13AM -0800, John Bagdanoff wrote: > > See if you have xserver-xfree86 installed. I have now, but I had to install it manually > > If not, then: > apt-get install xserver-xfree86 > > Then run dexter dexter will not run, dexter: unknown X server (X) detected! but I r

Sound config

2000-11-25 Thread Gian Piero Ascenso
Hi, I've got a YAMAHA YMF715 sound chip on my mother board and I used to drive it with OPL3 SAx2 when I used Corel Linux. Now I'm using Debian 2.2 but I can't find the sndconfig tool I had in Corel. Apt-get couldn't fetch package sndconfig. I've looked into the mail-list archive and in Feb 2000

Re: X

2000-11-25 Thread John Bagdanoff
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 11:58:40AM +0100, Johan Ur Riise wrote: > My X will not start neither with xdm nor startx. > Here is the output from > X -probeonly 2>x > I have not configured X again after this weeks upgrades, > should I? > > This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported

Re: Long finle names on a CD-ROM not visible

2000-11-25 Thread Arcady Genkin
urbanyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > have you tried mounting it with vfat support? sorry i don't have the > command right now (newbie, me), but i'll look through my notes and send it > along (assuming somebody doesn't get to it before i do!). The problem was with the Joliet support. I had it

Re: Long finle names on a CD-ROM not visible

2000-11-25 Thread urbanyon
have you tried mounting it with vfat support? sorry i don't have the command right now (newbie, me), but i'll look through my notes and send it along (assuming somebody doesn't get to it before i do!). On 24 Nov 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: > All of a sudden when I mount a CD-ROM the long filename

Re: good sound cards?

2000-11-25 Thread urbanyon
what NIC do you have that works? On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Kevin Krafthefer wrote: > Hello, > > I am adding sound to my debian machine and have had bad luck so far*. > Could those of you fine list subscribers that have had a positive, > enriching experience with installing and using your sound card o

Re: dns help

2000-11-25 Thread Sebastiaan
> > Your problem is here: > > > 89 IN PTR sacred-key.org > ^^ > Try putting a dot (.) after that: > THANK YOU!!! I have all forgotten the warnings about the dots. Now I will never forget it again. But there is only one other

Re: Bug#69197: inadequate backup instructions

2000-11-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 10:28:12PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > There's a bug filed against the doc-debian package, including the Debian > > FAQ, about not having good backup instructions for users (admins). See > > http://bugs.debian.org/69197 for details. > > > > Can someone please sugg

Re: X

2000-11-25 Thread Johan Ur Riise
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 03:13:14PM +0100, Johan Ur Riise wrote: > On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 11:58:40AM +0100, Johan Ur Riise wrote: > > My X will not start neither with xdm nor startx. > Someone told me I have to run dexter, which says: > > dexter: unknown X server (X) detected! I did a XFree86 -con

Re: Ok heres my problem

2000-11-25 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Jason Holland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It looks like the vfat partition type is not supported by the kernel your > running. Are you using modules?? If so, try loading it before you try and > mount the partition. You could also cat /proc/filesystems to see which filesystems (drivers) can

Re: startx problem -> $??P?+@(

2000-11-25 Thread Shaul Karl
> Dave Bacon wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have just upgraded quite a few packages with dselect. And now when I > > run "startx" I receive the following error messages. Can you help? > > > > > > > > var: allowed

Re: Staroffice can't print to deskjet 840C

2000-11-25 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > On Sáb 25 Nov 2000 07:19, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > > Hi, > > I use CUPS and I configure my Deskjet 840C. I print perfectly from any > > application, but from staroffice I can't print to it. > > > > Why? Someone has any idea about it? > > > > Is because Staroff

cron "unusual event"

2000-11-25 Thread Debian Ghost
Hey Guys, I was wondering what may be causing my logcheck to report every time a cron session is opened / closed via root. The weird thing is that root has no user crontab file. Would this be talking about /etc/crontab and cron.daily / monthly ? I'm not sure what else it could be. Give the Ghost s

Re: X

2000-11-25 Thread Johan Ur Riise
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 11:58:40AM +0100, Johan Ur Riise wrote: > My X will not start neither with xdm nor startx. Someone told me I have to run dexter, which says: dexter: unknown X server (X) detected! I do have an xserver and /etc/X11/X is a link to /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 X -version says: XFree

Re: dns help

2000-11-25 Thread sena
On 25/11/2000 at 14:31 +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > sacred-key.org nameserver = ns.sacred-key.org.sacred-key.org ^^^ > sacred-key.org preference = 10, mx = mail.sacred-key.org.sacred-key.org

Re: dump package list to file?

2000-11-25 Thread Phillip Deackes
> I want to dump a list of the packages I have installed on a current > potatoe installto a file, so I can later build a machine with the same > packages? How do I do this? > Easy. Just do 'dpkg -l > filename' -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux 2000

dns help

2000-11-25 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I am trying to setup a dns server but I am having some trouble. I have registered a domain name sacred-key.org and linked it to my dns server, which has a domain name from my provider, called jon.planet.nl. I have installed bind and set up the scripts, but until now I have not been succeeded

Re: Analog to digital converters for Linux

2000-11-25 Thread Matthias Müller
A german company offers a lot PCI-cards with differnet functionalaty. http://www.kolter.de/home_engl.htm good luck Matthias * Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001125 12:41]: > I'm looking for a PCI card with several analog input channels. This card > must work with Linux, as I plan to use it

Re: dump package list to file?

2000-11-25 Thread Leen Besselink
> I want to dump a list of the packages I have installed on a current > potatoe installto a file, so I can later build a machine with the same > packages? How do I do this? dpkg --get-selections > file

XFree86 + NV_GLX

2000-11-25 Thread Daniel Wagner
Hello, I've a TNT2-Ultra graphicscard and it works fine with the standard nv driver of the xfree 4 package, but is there a package where the accelerated driver is included (that means, mesalibs, xfree-driver, kernel-module)? thanks for any advice, Daniel Wagner -- @gpg: http://stud3.tuwien.ac.a

Script that partially completes mirror from CDs

2000-11-25 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Hello all. Does any one has a script that would 1. Look into the debian site, get instructions about directory structure (packages). 2. Look into CDs -binaries- loaded in /cdrom, or /whatever. 3. Upon finding a match, will retrieve it from CD and put it in the partial local mirror in the ri

hosts for rdate?

2000-11-25 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am searching for some hosts for time updating of my hosts where can i find the listings of hosts offering this service? i am in France BTW, so any host network-near Strasbourg would be fine... -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: eth0 problem

2000-11-25 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 01:58:12PM +1100, Daniel Knights wrote: > >Do the servers all have the same type of network-cards? I have a 3Com > >3c900 Combo and it seems this card doesn't react anymore after some > >time. An ifdown+ifup brings it back again. > >Phil > > > Hi Phil > > The card is a Ne

X

2000-11-25 Thread Johan Ur Riise
My X will not start neither with xdm nor startx. Here is the output from X -probeonly 2>x I have not configured X again after this weeks upgrades, should I? This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to XFree86@XFree86.Org and patches submitte

Re: startx problem - one step closer

2000-11-25 Thread Jaume Teixi
Dave Bacon wrote: > Thanks to Jaume for the very helpful reply. > > After following the suggestion listed below I am now able to bring up a > graphical display, > but it is only an "x"(mouse cursor) on top of a coarse gray back ground. I > am not sure, > but I think I still may need to specify

Analog to digital converters for Linux

2000-11-25 Thread Samuel Tardieu
I'm looking for a PCI card with several analog input channels. This card must work with Linux, as I plan to use it in an embedded system. If anyone has an URL describing such a card, I'd be happy to receive it by *private* mail. Thanks in advance. Sam

dump package list to file?

2000-11-25 Thread Brian Lavender
I want to dump a list of the packages I have installed on a current potatoe installto a file, so I can later build a machine with the same packages? How do I do this? brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/

Re: eth0 problem

2000-11-25 Thread Leen Besselink
> > The card is a Netgear with a Tulip Digital 21040 chip which is what we have > in the Redhat and SuSe servers and they do not behave this way. Do they all have the same kernel (read: driver) version ? Maybe Suse/RH use a newer driver ? Because I can remember tulip drivers having problems with

Re: Staroffice can't print to deskjet 840C

2000-11-25 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
On Sáb 25 Nov 2000 07:19, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > Hi, > I use CUPS and I configure my Deskjet 840C. I print perfectly from any > application, but from staroffice I can't print to it. > > Why? Someone has any idea about it? > > Is because Staroffice need to print to a postscript printer...

Re: Resolve.conf

2000-11-25 Thread Monte Milanuk
Well, just a guess, but I might check your /etc/inetd.conf, and your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files. Might be something awry there. Monte James Preece wrote: > OK I have got that back in now Thanks. > > I can not seem to get remote access to my box, seems like no telnet, no ping >

Re: HELP! - LILO (SCSI)

2000-11-25 Thread Jeff Davis
I have had this problem before as well. I do not know what causes it, although it usually happens after some kind of hardware issue. Reinstall LILO and it should work fine. I am not extremely familiar with this process, but there are good man pages (man lilo and man lilo.conf). Here are some ideas

Re: Staroffice can't print to deskjet 840C

2000-11-25 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 12:19:23AM -0600, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > Hi, > I use CUPS and I configure my Deskjet 840C. I print perfectly from any > application, but from staroffice I can't print to it. > > Why? Someone has any idea about it? > > Is because Staroffice need to print to a pos

Re: simple network card setup (netgear 10/100 tulip) - solved

2000-11-25 Thread Jeff Davis
Thanks to all who replied! My network is working fine right now. appearenty none of the drivers on the cd will work with a FA311 (I could be wrong, but i tried to find one), so I compiled a new one from http://www.scyld.com/network/index.html, called natsemi (National Semiconductor) I was very

Re: KDE2 installation

2000-11-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 12:25:44AM -0500, Seung-woo Nam wrote: > I downloaded all deb files for kde2 from kde2 mirror ftp server. However, > when I tried to install packages, I got whole bunch of dependency errors. Can > I just put the ftp path in /etc/apt/sources.list file and apt-get would take

font *fixed* not found.

2000-11-25 Thread Chris Niekel
Hi, I recently did un upgrade to X 4.0.1, and now my Xserver doesn't want to start any more. It first complained about font 'fixed' not being available, and after I editted XF86Config to have more FontPath lines, it now complains with: Could not load fontset '-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-

Re: Bug#69197: inadequate backup instructions

2000-11-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 11:06:12PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Hi, > > There's a bug filed against the doc-debian package, including the Debian > FAQ, about not having good backup instructions for users (admins). See > http://bugs.debian.org/69197 for details. > > Can someone please suggest an an

Staroffice can't print to deskjet 840C

2000-11-25 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hi, I use CUPS and I configure my Deskjet 840C. I print perfectly from any application, but from staroffice I can't print to it. Why? Someone has any idea about it? Is because Staroffice need to print to a postscript printer...and a Deskjet is not a Postscript printer Rogelio

Re: Problem updating to woody from stable

2000-11-25 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Try installing perl-5.6 before upgrade. apt-get update apt-get install perl-5.6 apt-get dist-upgrade If I'm remembering correctly that worked for me. Kevin On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 10:57:40AM -0800, Vaibhav Goel wrote: > Hi all: > > I recently tried apt-get upgrading my stable distribution to w

Re: install trouble: stuck at "select tasks"

2000-11-25 Thread Joey Hess
Lawrence H. Robins wrote: > I am (trying to be) a new Debian user. I have the 2.2r0 CD set > and got through most of the installation without a problem, but > near the end of the install, after installing the base system, > booting it, creating a root account and a user account, I > accidentally e