Re: XF86_SVGA consuming over 60% of my memory

2000-12-02 Thread Greg Strockbine
Christoph Simon wrote: > On Sat, 02 Dec 2000 18:14:07 -0800 > Greg Strockbine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > > > used to be I could have 2 emacs sessions, an xterm, > > > > gqview, several netscape windows, and more and run > > > > for over a month with no lose of resources. It was rock

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #705

2000-12-02 Thread nilly
** Original Message ** FROM: debian-user@lists.debian.org SENT: Fri 12/01/2000 11:47 AM TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBJECT: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #705 > > > >Content-Type: text/plain > > > >debian-user-digest Digest Volume 100 : Issue 705 > > > >Today's T

Re: Video Card Setup

2000-12-02 Thread John Griffiths
>On with my babble. So what do you say? I want to be able to play DVDs >to the TV along with desktop environment (did I mention Glide support?) At >the same time, I want people to be uploading to me without any bog down and >me being able to Quake 3 on my NVidia card all at the same time. (

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #712

2000-12-02 Thread nilly
** Original Message ** FROM: debian-user@lists.debian.org SENT: Sat 12/02/2000 4:37 AM TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBJECT: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #712 > > > >Content-Type: text/plain > > > >debian-user-digest Digest Volume 100 : Issue 712 > > > >Today's To

Progeny Linux

2000-12-02 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
My latest copy of Maximum Linux Magazine has an ad for Progeny Linux "built by debian's founder and leading Debian developers"... What's this all about?? A better Debian?? See: http://www.progeny.com -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com

Video Card Setup

2000-12-02 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
If none of you know already, I'm the server at my LAN parties. However I've come to a point where I don't know what to do. Opinions and/or advice would be appreciated. Here's what all (PCI cardwise) I want in my box (the numbers correspond to the PCI slot; 0 is AGP): 0. Nvidia Card

Terminals/dim screens = use bold everywhere but dselect is...dim

2000-12-02 Thread S Taylor
Do color monitors die after four years? The boot messages are barely visible; seems they've gotten worse over two months since I installed Debian 2.2. I've got the monitor buttons for brightness and contrast at maximum, setterm=bold within Linux, so I can see. And X allows me to look at dselect. W

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #715

2000-12-02 Thread nilly
** Original Message ** FROM: debian-user@lists.debian.org SENT: Sat 12/02/2000 5:21 PM TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBJECT: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #715 > > > >Content-Type: text/plain > > > >debian-user-digest Digest Volume 100 : Issue 715 > > > >Today's To

paperport scanner

2000-12-02 Thread Dale Morris
I've got a visioneer 6100 scanner. I'm hoping to use it with sane, but I don't know how. I've ran some searches, and it doesn't look like there are any drivers for it in the linux world, has anyone got one of these things working? If so, where do I start? I've rtfm and there's no entry for sane and

Re: APT and stable/unstable packages

2000-12-02 Thread mikpolniak
On 02 Dec 2000 22:14:57 EST, mikpolniak said: > > On Sat, 2 Dec 2000 19:04:14 -0800 (PST), Yuri Niyazov said: > > > Please reply to my email address also, I am not subscribed to the list yet. > > I am currently running a hacked and hacked-over again old unstable > version of 2.2. > > O

Re: APT and stable/unstable packages

2000-12-02 Thread Nate Amsden
since unstabled moved to a new glibc version a couple months ago, attempting to install virtually any package from unstable will most likely fail because the glibc does not match. unless you upgrade your glibc to woody's release, maybe it can run potato software. if it were my system though i wou

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #717

2000-12-02 Thread nilly
** Original Message ** FROM: debian-user@lists.debian.org SENT: Sun 12/03/2000 2:42 AM TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBJECT: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #717 > > > >Content-Type: text/plain > > > >debian-user-digest Digest Volume 100 : Issue 717 > > > >Today's To

Re: APT and stable/unstable packages

2000-12-02 Thread mikpolniak
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000 19:04:14 -0800 (PST), Yuri Niyazov said: > Please reply to my email address also, I am not subscribed to the list yet. > I am currently running a hacked and hacked-over again old unstable version > of 2.2. > On a separate partition I am now installing 2.2 stable, and have a

APT and stable/unstable packages

2000-12-02 Thread Yuri Niyazov
Please reply to my email address also, I am not subscribed to the list yet. I am currently running a hacked and hacked-over again old unstable version of 2.2. On a separate partition I am now installing 2.2 stable, and have a question: I have an NVidia graphics card that requires XFree86 4.0 to

Win4Lin

2000-12-02 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi folks, Which is the RPM based distribution closest to Debian? Win4Lin only comes in rpm and i don't want to mess my intallation. Thanx. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tel. 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #716

2000-12-02 Thread nilly
** Original Message ** FROM: debian-user@lists.debian.org SENT: Sun 12/03/2000 7:07 AM TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBJECT: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #716 > > > >Content-Type: text/plain > > > >debian-user-digest Digest Volume 100 : Issue 716 > > > >Today's To

Re: XF86_SVGA consuming over 60% of my memory

2000-12-02 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sat, 02 Dec 2000 18:14:07 -0800 Greg Strockbine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > > used to be I could have 2 emacs sessions, an xterm, > > > gqview, several netscape windows, and more and run > > > for over a month with no lose of resources. It was rock > > > solid, now its limping like a

Re: XF86_SVGA consuming over 60% of my memory

2000-12-02 Thread Greg Strockbine
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:04:28PM -0800, Greg Strockbine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I'm running Debian potato, so I have the pre version 4 of XFree. > > It used to run like a champ. After installing a few more packages > > and doing an update here or there, i

Quake installation

2000-12-02 Thread Yobb
Help. Am I missing something? I downloaded and tried to install the following: quake-lib_1.06-10.deb quake-x11_0.1.1-1.deb I got the following error: # dpkg -i quake-x11_0.1.1-1.deb (Reading database ... 46278 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace quake-x11 0.1.1-1

Re: /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-12-02 Thread kmself
on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 05:21:38PM -0600, Rob VanFleet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 04:33:23PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote: > > Is it common for people to keep all the debs after they've been > > installed. I always delete mine (or rather I allow dselect to do it). > > If I

Re: Logitech MouseManPlus, gpm, and X

2000-12-02 Thread Wouter de Vries
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 06:22:17PM +, Rick wrote: > > yes, I did, and it wasn't super-easy, but I'm not at home to look at > configs at the moment to give advice. I'm thinking that I used the PS/2 > protocol, and spent a fair amount of time reading vague directions and > tweaking settings and

Re: Email cleanup

2000-12-02 Thread Tim Kramer
Perl has Mail::IMAPClient which would allow you to script everything that you just described. R/ Tim "L.U.S.T List" wrote: > > -- > List: Linux User Support Team List > Sender: Brian Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Email cleanup > Date: Fri, 1 Dec

Curious behavior of iptables and masquerading

2000-12-02 Thread Mark Phillips
I noticed that if I run: iptables -t nat -P POSTROUTING DROP iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT then masquerading works, but if I run the last two commands in the opposite order (so that they appear in the opposite order

3dfx kernel module

2000-12-02 Thread Richard Taylor
I was wondering, if you want to use the 3dfx kernel module with a kernel other than 2.2.17, what do you have to do? When I needed to install the module I just grabbed the source, because there is no binary (of course) from the debian archive and then followed the simple instructions. These build

Re: Kernel error

2000-12-02 Thread Defresne Sylvain
i Hello * Eileen Orbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to recompile my kernel and keep coming up with a error: > > Basically I downloaded the latest kernel and unzipped it.. > Ran make xconfig > make dep > make bzImage Ok. > On make bzImage I get this error at the end:

Re: XF86Config Missing

2000-12-02 Thread Defresne Sylvain
Hello * Mike ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > My friend has just reinstalled Debian Potato and upgraded to woody but > XF86Config seems to be missing so he cant configure x4 for his videocard. He > has a geforce 2 so he needs to use xfree4. It also seems to be missing on my > on my woody i

Re: Partitioning disk

2000-12-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 03:38:25PM -0500, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > Is there a HOWTO (or sth similar to one) explaining how to setup sth > like this ? I am not at all familiar with chroot (or chroot jails), but > the idea of having stable and unstable on the same machine is very > interesting. >

RPC: Unable to send; errno = Operation not permitted

2000-12-02 Thread Mark Phillips
I ran /etc/init.d/nfs-server restart and got: Stopping NFS servers: mountd nfsd. Starting NFS servers:Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to send; errno = Operation not permitted I can't work out what's wrong. Any ideas? Thanks, Mark. _/___/~~___

Kernel error

2000-12-02 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, I am trying to recompile my kernel and keep coming up with a error: Basically I downloaded the latest kernel and unzipped it.. Ran make xconfig make dep make bzImage On make bzImage I get this error at the end: as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsec.s make[1] as86: Command not found make[1] *** [

XF86Config Missing

2000-12-02 Thread Mike
Hi, My friend has just reinstalled Debian Potato and upgraded to woody but XF86Config seems to be missing so he cant configure x4 for his videocard. He has a geforce 2 so he needs to use xfree4. It also seems to be missing on my on my woody installation as well. It used to be there but it isnt

Re: swap size

2000-12-02 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000 15:41:02 -0800 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 12:01:44PM -0600, Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:35:16PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > a couple of days ago a was configuring a bunch of boxes with 1G ram >

Re: hda not recognized during install

2000-12-02 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Dec 01 2000, Hannes Schuddel wrote: > My harddisk is not recognized during bootup so > I am not able to install the system from harddisk. > > I use an ASUS A7V mainboard, > with ata100 controller > and Maxtor DMax 5400/512 harddisk. I have this exact motherboard and it is really imp

Re: swap size

2000-12-02 Thread kmself
on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 12:01:44PM -0600, Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:35:16PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > a couple of days ago a was configuring a bunch of boxes with 1G ram > > and i allocated 1G of swap, because my boss said so. a co-worker the

apt-get & apache init script problems.

2000-12-02 Thread horton
Hello, while trying to remove sendmail from my box, I get this error with apt-get remove sendmail: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: sendmail 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgr

Re: /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-12-02 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 04:33:23PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote: > Is it common for people to keep all the debs after they've been > installed. I always delete mine (or rather I allow dselect to do it). > If I kept all the debs that I've installed I think it would take up a > whole lot of disk space

Re: Which gives an error message.

2000-12-02 Thread Brenda J. Butler
--- Begin Message --- Tim, On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 07:43:57PM -0800, Tim Uckun wrote: > I am having an odd problem when I type which "something" it says > shell-init: could not get directory: getcwd: cannot access parent > directories: nosuch file or directory > > Can anybody clue me in as to why

Re: laptop install

2000-12-02 Thread kmself
on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 05:17:42PM -0500, Jane Rose ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am having problems installing Debian 2.1 on my Toshiba 2545xcdt. I am > unable to boot either from the rescue disk or the CD ROM "Debian > GNU/Linux." "root.bin.." loads but linux seizes up. Any suggestions?? I'd

Re: Partitioning disk

2000-12-02 Thread kmself
on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 03:38:25PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "EB" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > EB> On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 08:17:23AM -0200, Christoph Simon > EB> wrote: > >> Wouldn't it be nice to give it more use even today. Maybe >

RE: A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Javier Sieben
-Mensaje original- De: Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: debian-user Fecha: Sábado, 02 de Diciembre de 2000 07:23 p.m. Asunto: Re: A lilo config question >Javier Sieben wrote: Is much easier in this form. Thanks, Erik. Javier

debianhelp.org is down?

2000-12-02 Thread QBA
Hi, There is a link to www.debianHELP.org on www.debian.org/related_links#misclinux but when I clicked on it I got message 'Cannot open the HTTP connection to www.debianhelp.org port 80; [No route to host].' Can anyone tell me what is going on with this host. And btw, is it a good site for debian

Re: Sound Blaster 16 Module

2000-12-02 Thread mikpolniak
On Sat, 02 Dec 2000 16:10:32 -0500, Eileen Orbell said: > Hi, > > I just bought a new soundblaster 16 sound card. I have never installed a > kernel module so could someone help me on this please? Actually this will > hopefully be the first time I have sound on a Linux box. > >

Re:

2000-12-02 Thread mikpolniak
On , said: > Hi, > > I just bought a new soundblaster 16 sound card. I have never installed a > kernel module so could someone help me on this please? Actually this will > hopefully be the first time I have sound on a Linux box. > I installed a Creative soundblaster last week

RE: A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Javier Sieben
-Mensaje original- De: Oliver Elphick Para: Javier Sieben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fecha: Sábado, 02 de Diciembre de 2000 06:23 p.m. Asunto: Re: A lilo config question >"Javier Sieben" wrote: > >Hello > > > >I'm a newbie and need to know how can I make a lilo item menu that loads the > >

Re: A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Javier Sieben wrote: > > -Mensaje original- > De: Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Para: Debian User > Fecha: Sábado, 02 de Diciembre de 2000 07:01 p.m. > Asunto: Re: A lilo config question > > > 1) you can also create a lilo entry that will boot debian into a run > >level that does no

laptop install

2000-12-02 Thread Jane Rose
I am having problems installing Debian 2.1 on my Toshiba 2545xcdt. I am unable to boot either from the rescue disk or the CD ROM "Debian GNU/Linux." "root.bin.." loads but linux seizes up. Any suggestions?? -- MZ

Re: XFCE

2000-12-02 Thread Bob Bernstein
> "MS" == Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MS> Or build the binary debs for your system from the source debs MS> in woody. Thanks. For some reason, in all the years I've been using Debian, that is a method I have never used. (I think I once futzed around with a lynx src deb,

RE: A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Javier Sieben
-Mensaje original- De: Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: Debian User Fecha: Sábado, 02 de Diciembre de 2000 07:01 p.m. Asunto: Re: A lilo config question > 1) you can also create a lilo entry that will boot debian into a run >level that does not start xdm. > > 2) you can also spec

Voodoo 3, XFree 4.0 and DRI

2000-12-02 Thread Michael Sauer
Can anybody tell me, what I have to install / configure to have a working GL-lib based on DRI with hardware acceleration? mfg Mischel S aus P Homepage: http://fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de/~waldi E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: #27995885

Re: XFCE

2000-12-02 Thread Moritz Schulte
Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > you'll see there is a version now in unstable. > > If you're using stable, then I would first try to the unstabe deb, and > if there was no luck with it, I would build from source. It's very > easy to do this with xfce. [...] Or build the binary

Re: A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Erik Steffl
1) you can also create a lilo entry that will boot debian into a run level that does not start xdm. 2) you can also specify run level at lilo prompt during boot 3) the other option is to change default run level to a run level that does not start xdm, see /etc/nittab and look for lines like

RE: A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Javier Sieben
-Mensaje original- De: Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: Debian User Fecha: Sábado, 02 de Diciembre de 2000 06:38 p.m. Asunto: Re: A lilo config question >On Saturday 02 December 2000 15:21, Javier Sieben wrote: >> Hello >> >> I'm a newbie and need to know how can I make a lilo item

Re: Sound Blaster 16 Module

2000-12-02 Thread Erik Steffl
IMO you'd better go with alsa. you need to recompile the kernel with modularized sound support, but do not pick any actual sound modules. See the docs in /usr/src/linux (or wherever your linux kernel sources are) to see how to compile kernel. get the alsa stuff then, you need at least alsa-

Re: Best Light Web browser??

2000-12-02 Thread kmself
on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 04:55:12PM +0100, Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I've tested Chimera2, Express, Arena, and gzilla. Anything else out > there as a simple web browser capable of getting through the > gimp-manual? Of the lot, the only one that didn't crash after 30 secs >

Re: A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 02 December 2000 15:21, Javier Sieben wrote: > Hello > > I'm a newbie and need to know how can I make a lilo item menu that > loads the kernel and don't execute xdm (for use the text console)? This is not a lilo issue. xdm is being started by the rc.d scripts. You can stop xdm from

dselect problem

2000-12-02 Thread Javier Sieben
Hello: I have a problem with dselect (or was the dependencies involved). I would use the libesd0-alsa that provides libesd0 and conflicts with libesd0. That's Ok. I deselect libesd0 and select for install the alsa part. And then dselect follow the dependencies and displays that gtop and others pac

Re: /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-12-02 Thread Brian Stults
Rob VanFleet wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 03:00:55PM -0500, Christopher W Aiken wrote: > > I want to install Debian 2.2 to a second machine. I have > > used "apt-get" to get and install a whole lot of stuff > > (over 65MB of files) on my first machine. After I install > > on my second mach

A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Javier Sieben
Hello I'm a newbie and need to know how can I make a lilo item menu that loads the kernel and don't execute xdm (for use the text console)? Regards, Javier

Re: /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-12-02 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 03:00:55PM -0500, Christopher W Aiken wrote: > I want to install Debian 2.2 to a second machine. I have > used "apt-get" to get and install a whole lot of stuff > (over 65MB of files) on my first machine. After I install > on my second machine can I copy "/var/cache/apr/a

Re: repairing corrupted kernel to boot

2000-12-02 Thread Sebastiaan
Hmm, strange. Maybe you should try to boot a rescue floppy and do the job from there. I do not have experience yet with Debian rescue disks, but you can also go to redhat and download the bootdisk and the rescue disk. After you have booted, you can mount whatever you want and fix it (or do a chroot

mutt startup view

2000-12-02 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, Can I configure mutt that way that the first screen is the folder view. If I use mutt -y not every folder shows up, even if I mentioned it in the mailboxes directive. Ciao, Timo<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- .-'~~~-. .'o oOOOo`. | Timo Benk ;~~~-.oOo o`. | Ger

Sound Blaster 16 Module

2000-12-02 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, I just bought a new soundblaster 16 sound card. I have never installed a kernel module so could someone help me on this please? Actually this will hopefully be the first time I have sound on a Linux box. Thanks Eileen Orbell Software & Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMA

Re: apt-get libgnomeprint

2000-12-02 Thread kmself
on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 01:50:25AM +0100, Defresne Sylvain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello > > * Some Linux User ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > i wrote previously about this. whenever i run apt-get i get stuck on this: > > Unpacking libgnomeprint-bin (from > > .../libgnomeprint-bin_0.25-0.1_i3

Re: XFCE

2000-12-02 Thread Bob Bernstein
> "CWA" == Christopher W Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CWA> Does anyone know id there is s deb package of the XFCE WM? I CWA> tried an "apt-get install xfce" and it failed with a not CWA> found. I solve these problems by surfing to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages an

LILO installation

2000-12-02 Thread Franco Vecchiato
My PC is a Pentium 200 MMX, 64 MB RAM and 10 GB HD, and I tried to install Debian 2.2 rev 0 (directly from CD-ROM).I think my Bios full supports this HD because I see 10 GB when I run it.I have a 3 GB bootable primary partition for Windows (system) = hda1 and a 1.5 GB logical partition for W

Re: sources.list

2000-12-02 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 02 December 2000 13:38, Bud Rogers wrote: > I believe the relevant line in /etc/apt/sources.list is > > deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US > > which is right out of /usr/share/doc/apt/examples. I would > appreciate a hint on what that line should be. I answe

Re: Hi all

2000-12-02 Thread Tim Uckun
At 03:03 PM 12/2/2000 -0500, you wrote: In a message dated 12/2/00 2:52:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why runlevel 2? That makes no sense to me. It's the second one you need. I thought runlevel 2 was no network? I have always ran linux on runlevel 3. The tricky

/var/cache/apt/archives

2000-12-02 Thread Christopher W Aiken
I want to install Debian 2.2 to a second machine. I have used "apt-get" to get and install a whole lot of stuff (over 65MB of files) on my first machine. After I install on my second machine can I copy "/var/cache/apr/archives" from the first to my second machine and do a "dpkg -i *.deb" to ins

repairing corrupted kernel to boot

2000-12-02 Thread lists
My potato linux partiton won't boot - I assume it was damaged by a series of power outages. I initially got a "crc checksum" error upon booting. /boot is on /dev/hda2 & / is /dev/hda5. When I use the debian boot floppy ( "rescue root=/dev/hda5" ) I get the usual startup messages, then: VFS: m

Re: Hi all

2000-12-02 Thread Tim Uckun
At 08:59 AM 12/2/2000 -0500, you wrote: Yikes! Run level 2 is the debian default. You sure didn't need to reinstall on that score. Sorry if I was too late. Actually SSH was not working ither. It was never installed (wh not?) then I did a apt-get ssh and it said there was a dependency for l

sources.list

2000-12-02 Thread Bud Rogers
apt-get update gives me these errors: Err http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Sources 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/stable/non-US/source/Sources 404 Not Found

Re: missing info pages (eg emacs)

2000-12-02 Thread Chris Gray
> Jeremiah H Savage writes: jhs> I'm running a freshly installed Potato system on i386. It jhs> seems there are 14 packages for which no info pages have been jhs> installed, most notably emacs. But I have installed emacs20 jhs> and xemacs21. I have checked for a package such as

Re: what is > ?

2000-12-02 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
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Re: [UNIX help]

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Re: help setting up a slave machine ...

2000-12-02 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 02 Dec 2000 16:27:55 -0200, Jan Pfeifer writes: >ps.: I don't have a hub, is it possible to connect the cards directly >with a common cable ? (one of the cards don't take coaxial cables) You need a crossover-cable, if you don´t know how to crimp one yourself, ask your local dealer ;-) &r

Re: help setting up a slave machine ...

2000-12-02 Thread Jan Pfeifer
yes, no harddisk. But I found the following: ".../linux/Documentation/nfsroot.txt" and the program "bootparamd" and I think I found my way. I'm still in doubt about which files should be shared ("/home", "/usr" a part of "/etc") and which not ("/tmp", "/var", another part of "/etc"). And how t

Re: swap size

2000-12-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:35:16PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > a couple of days ago a was configuring a bunch of boxes with 1G ram > and i allocated 1G of swap, because my boss said so. a co-worker then > told me that the appropriate amount of swap to allocate should be > twice the ram. i r

Re: XFCE

2000-12-02 Thread mikpolniak
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:13:42 -0500 (EST), Christopher W. Aiken said: > > Does anyone know id there is s deb package of the > XFCE WM? I tried an "apt-get install xfce" and it > failed with a not found. > Point your sources.list to woody. I just d/l it a week ago and it works fine i

Re: libmng problem

2000-12-02 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Frank Frijns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After collecting all the needed packages (debian; e.g. .deb) I fail to > collect all needed ones. One of them is libmng. [...] > KDE (Kdebase for instance) won't install because of dependencies with > this package. Has anyone a good package (this failing

Mosaic work?

2000-12-02 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I dl the latest Mosaic for Linux and it tells me to uncompress and run it. I did but it makes a request for a LibXt.so.6 file which is there. Is this version viable? Are there others? Thanks, Jonathan -- "Hey, I think I finally got the hang of i-"

XFCE

2000-12-02 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
Does anyone know id there is s deb package of the XFCE WM? I tried an "apt-get install xfce" and it failed with a not found. -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux

Re: Few question of newbie | need urgent help.

2000-12-02 Thread John Hasler
Antonio Rodriguez writes: > If I am not mistaken, the name of the dialout group is "dip" or > similar,... The dialout group is "dialout", but that is not what you want for ppp. The correct group for ppp is "dip". A user must be in "dip" to run pppd but need not be in "dialout". -- John Hasler [

Re: Few question of newbie | need urgent help.

2000-12-02 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, New Star Service Company wrote: ->1) I install Debian 2.1 today , I'm single user. -> I need setup internet dialup network urgently. -> I use "pppconfig" to setup internet connection. setup is ok. -> I use #pon in root for dial, connection ok , everything ok. ->

Unix/Linux Congress

2000-12-02 Thread Luz Futten
Hi, the 15th of november started a free congress in a spanish irc network. Some conferences are in spanish and some others in english, if you're interested, have a look at: in spanish, latest calendar: http://umeet.uninet.edu/spanish/des.html info in english: http://umeet.uninet.edu/english/p

Re: [OT] Apple IIe help please

2000-12-02 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, December 1, Lizard did write: > At 06:25 PM 12/1/2000, D-Man wrote: > > >Hi all. I apologize for the off topic-ness of the message and the > >cross-post. > >I have a friend who has a program she likes (written in BASIC) on an Apple > >IIe. > >I have a way to get into the code an

Re: [OT] Apple IIe help please

2000-12-02 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:25:07PM -0500, D-Man wrote: > > Hi all. I apologize for the off topic-ness of the message and the > cross-post. > I have a friend who has a program she likes (written in BASIC) on an Apple > IIe. > I have a way to get into the code and list it on the screen. What I

Re: Potato install termwrap problem

2000-12-02 Thread USM Bish
I have faced the same problem with a fresh installation with Linux Central binary CD distribution. Downloading a fresh base system and installing from hard disk made no difference. Secondly, the lp module is also not being configured on doing a Configure of the Installed kernel. No clues on th

Re: Best Light Web browser??

2000-12-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've tested Chimera2, Express, Arena, and gzilla. Anything else out >there as a simple web browser capable of getting through the >gimp-manual? Of the lot, the only one that didn't crash after 30 secs >from Chimera2. If you

Re: upgrade errors: libgnomeprint-bin 0.25-0.1, overwriting files

2000-12-02 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > Problems upgrading libgnomeprint11 because of libgnomeprint-data > dependencies because libgnomeprint-bin tries to overwrite > /usr/bin/gnome-font-install which is also in lobgnomeprint6. All these error messages (I saw a lot of them in the last time) depends on dpk

Re: scanner doesn't scan...

2000-12-02 Thread dirk
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 04:06:31AM -0500, Alec Smith wrote: > I think what Dirk meant was he's got an /etc/sane.d/mustek.conf which has > a line > > /dev/scanner > > as its contents. > > After the mustek.conf file includes that line, /dev/scanner should be > symlinked to /dev/sg0. > Indeed, thi

Re: Best Light Web browser??

2000-12-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 16:55:12 +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Any other choices aside Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, for something low > footprint? For browsing documentation, a text-mode browser such as lynx, links or w3m usually suffices. w3m is my current favourite because it supports both frames/t

balsa lib dependences

2000-12-02 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello! I've downloaded the last version of balsa (1.0.0-2) in a deb format. When I run dpkg -i package-balsa.deb, the installation complains about the following libraries are not instaled: 1- libbonobo1 (>=0.23) 2- libgal1 3- libgtkhtml5 (>=0.7) 4- libltdl0 5-liboaf0 6- libpspell2 (>= 0.11.0.1-

Re: Few question of newbie | need urgent help.

2000-12-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
New Star Service Company wrote: > > 1) I install Debian 2.1 today , I'm single user. > I need setup internet dialup network urgently. > I use "pppconfig" to setup internet connection. setup is ok. > I use #pon in root for dial, connection ok , everything ok. > but when i use

Re: Few question of newbie | need urgent help.

2000-12-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 21:49:56 +0600, New Star Service Company wrote: > 1) I install Debian 2.1 today The current release is 2.2. > I use #pon in root for dial, connection ok , everything ok. > but when i use $pon command in my user account (/home/satyajit), I > received > error

Best Light Web browser??

2000-12-02 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I've tested Chimera2, Express, Arena, and gzilla. Anything else out there as a simple web browser capable of getting through the gimp-manual? Of the lot, the only one that didn't crash after 30 secs from Chimera2. Any other choices aside Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, for something low footprint?

Re: gnome without window manager

2000-12-02 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Thanks a lot to Hubert and Timmy for the advices! I was able to configure the window manager from the gnome control panel regards, Marcelo __ Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Few question of newbie | need urgent help.

2000-12-02 Thread New Star Service Company
1) I install Debian 2.1 today , I'm single user. I need setup internet dialup network urgently. I use "pppconfig" to setup internet connection. setup is ok. I use #pon in root for dial, connection ok , everything ok. but when i use $pon command in my user account (/home/satyaji

fips/win swapfile ?

2000-12-02 Thread Dale Morris
I'm installing 2.2 on a friends computer. He wants to keep windows onboard, but I seem to have misplaced my old PartitionMagic CD and don't want to spend the money to buy another one. Hence, I'm using FIPS. Reading the help file for fips, it tells me that I have to remove the windows swap file man

Re: DESTROY (perl experts please) (fwd)

2000-12-02 Thread pigfoot Chen
¡°¡mWayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>¡n¡G > Subject: Re: DESTROY (perl experts please) (fwd) > Date: Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 12:07:06PM +1100 > In reply to:Damien > Quoting Damien([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > hrm. afaik, unstable refers to the helixcode distribution - thus unstable > > helixcode w

Re: help setting up a slave machine ...

2000-12-02 Thread Sebastiaan
ops, forgott one thing: you do not have a harddisk in your slave. For that, have a ook at the linux diskless terminal server project at www.ltsp.org. Maybe there is more information you could use. Sorry for my stupidity, Greetz, Sebastiaan

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