Re: Paquetes offix-files para Siag Office

2000-12-26 Thread LACIUS
Por costumbre prefiero trabajar sólo con paquetes *.deb. Se que en una distribución anterior a potato -creo que en la debian bo 1.3.1- se encuentran los paquetes offix-files, offix-trash y otros offix. La cuestión es si dichos paquetes se pueden integrar directamente en potato sin mayor

Re: Mis disquisiciones con Mozilla

2000-12-26 Thread 31
Nestor A. Diaz wrote: mmm... yo la verdad dudo un error un mozilla, porque no se dan una pasada por http://validator.w3.org/ y chequean los errores de la pagina, probablemente sea una tabla que no se cerro. pues yo lo dudo mas y me uno al club de usuarios con ese bug (en las últimas

Re: mrtg

2000-12-26 Thread antonioangel . sanzarrospide
Mrtg es uno de los mejores programas que he utilizado para consultas de variables snmp, pero sirve tambien para controlar otro tipo de variables. Esta preparado para dejar los datos en el subdirectorio /var/www/mrtg y consultarlos con un navegador. Interesa que instales tambien el apache para

Re: Manual de Exim

2000-12-26 Thread Enrique Robledo Arnuncio
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 03:15:52PM +0100, Miguelon wrote: Y ya que estamos, si alguien me pudiera decir o enviar algun script para lanzar exim junto con fetchmail al conectarme a mi proveedor le estaría muy agradecido. Muchas gracias Si no recuerdo mal, lo que hace fetchmail por defecto

configurar sound-blaster 16

2000-12-26 Thread Sergio Valdivielso Gomez
pues eso he configurado mi tarjeta de sonido sound-blaster 16, en dmesg me sale es siguiente mensaje: sound inizialization started sound inizialization complete No me salen mas mensajes relativos al sonido. El problema es que no escucho naita. ¿Alguien me ayuda? Muchas gracias. --

Re: configurar sound-blaster 16

2000-12-26 Thread Martínez
El Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 02:16:02PM +, Sergio Valdivielso Gomez garabateó: pues eso he configurado mi tarjeta de sonido sound-blaster 16, en dmesg me sale es siguiente mensaje: sound inizialization started sound inizialization complete No me salen mas mensajes relativos al sonido. El

[gracias] offtopic virus

2000-12-26 Thread Joaquin Fernandez Piqueras
Buenas, ante todo muchas gracias por vus[3~xxxestros consejos sobre lectores de correo, ade momento me quedo con evolution aunque no he tenido demasiado tiempo de probarlo. De todas formas me estoy repensando vuestro consejo sobre Mutt, lo estuve mirando y esta muy bien, los

raid en discos

2000-12-26 Thread Pablo Vazquez
alguien se acuerda a partir de que kernel traia soporte estable para raid de discos sin tener que parchear Clave publica http://bin.com.ar/pgp/pvazquez.asc

Re: Manual de Exim

2000-12-26 Thread Josep Ma. Ferrer
Miguelon wrote: Hola, en alguna ocasión he escuchado que había una traducción del manual de Exim. Pero como no logro encontrar nada es por lo que lo expongo en esta lista. Y ya que estamos, si alguien me pudiera decir o enviar algun script para lanzar exim junto con fetchmail al

Re: configurar sound-blaster 16

2000-12-26 Thread Ismael Canales
El Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 02:16:02PM +, Sergio Valdivielso Gomez dijo: pues eso he configurado mi tarjeta de sonido sound-blaster 16, en dmesg me sale es siguiente mensaje: Yo tengo una venerable sb16 value, en kernel esta compilado como modulo... Con el siguiente comando puedes probar el

RE: [OT] Super NOVATO con instalación disco duro nuevo

2000-12-26 Thread Ricardo Villalba
Gracias a todos por responder, sobre todo teniendo en cuenta las fechas en las que estamos, por cierto se me olvidó antes: ¡Feliz Navidad a todos! Bueno, voy a ver si lo he entendido todo (me corregis si me equivoco en algo) antes de ponerme manos a la obra: El cable de datos que va de mi disco

Re: [OT] Super NOVATO con instalación disco duro nuevo

2000-12-26 Thread Enrique Marcote Peña
Qué hay de nuevo Ricardo: Ricardo Villalba wrote: Gracias a todos por responder, sobre todo teniendo en cuenta las fechas en las que estamos, por cierto se me olvidó antes: ¡Feliz Navidad a todos! Bueno, voy a ver si lo he entendido todo (me corregis si me equivoco en algo) antes de

can't install Netscape

2000-12-26 Thread Robin Rowe
I read somewhere that if I put the Netscape gz file in /tmp then dselect will figure out to install it. That doesn't do it. I'm trying to install 4.75. What's the procedure? Related question, for gz files that have no debian install smarts at all how do I install those? Do I just create a

Script error in xconfig

2000-12-26 Thread Yoshiaki Goya
Hello, I want to rebuild kernel for USB and soud sopport. And I have installed kernel-source-2.2.17. However, when I run make xconfig, following error appears. Error in startup script: invalid command name button while executing button.ref (file scritps/kconfig.tk line 51) What

Re: can't install Netscape

2000-12-26 Thread ktb
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 10:02:43PM -0800, Robin Rowe wrote: I read somewhere that if I put the Netscape gz file in /tmp then dselect will figure out to install it. That doesn't do it. I'm trying to install 4.75. What's the procedure? That's the way you used to do it. If your running

Re: can't install Netscape

2000-12-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 10:02:43PM -0800, Robin Rowe wrote: I read somewhere that if I put the Netscape gz file in /tmp then dselect will figure out to install it. That doesn't do it. I'm trying to install 4.75. What's the procedure? apt-get install netscape-browser-475 Related question,

Re: can't play music cd

2000-12-26 Thread David Purton
On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Robin Rowe wrote: I want to play a CD using gtcd. It objects that it can't see the CD. Sure enough, not mounted. Do audio CDs mount? Can I convince autofs to do the job? You don't mount audio CDs make sure you're part of the appropriate group to access /dev/cdrom (or

USB Trackball

2000-12-26 Thread Dan Pomohaci
Put in /etc/X11/XF86Config: Section Pointer ProtocolImPS/2 Device /dev/input/mice ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection I have the same model and I tested with 2.2.18 kernel and works OK (now I use it with the PS2 adapter) Dan Pomohaci Ray Percival writes: Does anybody have a

cdr recomendations

2000-12-26 Thread David Purton
Hi, I'm thinking of buying a cd writer. The howto suggests that most ide drives should work fine with Linux. But I was just wondering what modals people have had good results with and more importantly if there are any to avoid. thanks

Re: ip forwarding setup

2000-12-26 Thread Brad Keryan
On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: [snip description of machines] What I want to do is get machine B's packets through to machine C. Ideally, machine B would have a realworld ip -- a setup where machine A listened for 2 real ips, and forwarded all packets for one out over its eth1 on

MIDI (/dev/sequencer) don´t work

2000-12-26 Thread Patrick Schnorbus
Hi, i want listening to some midi-files, but it don´t work. I´ve installed the kernel driver for my soundcard (emu10k1, SoundBlaster Live!). When i try to play a midi file there is following error message: Cannot open /dev/sequencer What do I have to do to play midi files? Patrick

Re: Help! Panic! Accidentally initialized / partition!!!

2000-12-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:59:02PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: I strongly suspect reinstallation is my ownly option. Can people confirm this? I don't want to reinstall until I am sure there is no other option. just reinstall, unless you have a full and current backup trying to restore the

Re: can't play music cd

2000-12-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:50:35PM +1030, David Purton wrote: On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Robin Rowe wrote: I want to play a CD using gtcd. It objects that it can't see the CD. Sure enough, not mounted. Do audio CDs mount? Can I convince autofs to do the job? You don't mount audio CDs

Re: cdr recomendations

2000-12-26 Thread Ross Boylan
I got a CDR from Sony several years ago. It developed some problems, and I was really impressed with the way they worked with me to fix them and ultimately took it in for warranty repair work (which did fix the problem). It's an IDE and I haven't yet braved the necessary screwing around to get

UNSUBSCIBE

2000-12-26 Thread Mans Joling

Re: cdr recomendations

2000-12-26 Thread Nate Amsden
David Purton wrote: Hi, I'm thinking of buying a cd writer. The howto suggests that most ide drives should work fine with Linux. But I was just wondering what modals people have had good results with and more importantly if there are any to avoid. Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun:

Re: can't play music cd

2000-12-26 Thread Nate Amsden
Ethan Benson wrote: NEVER *EVER* add yourself to group disk. *NEVER* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id uid=1000(aphro) gid=1000(aphro) groups=1000(aphro), 0(root),4(adm),5(tty),6(disk), 20(dialout),24(cdrom), 25(floppy),29(audio),50(staff),60(games),45(usb) *cough* shoot me :P nate -- ::: ICQ:

Re: can't play music cd

2000-12-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:19:00AM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: Ethan Benson wrote: NEVER *EVER* add yourself to group disk. *NEVER* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id uid=1000(aphro) gid=1000(aphro) groups=1000(aphro), 0(root),4(adm),5(tty),6(disk), 20(dialout),24(cdrom),

Setup of X 4.0 and ALSA

2000-12-26 Thread Preben Randhol
How do I setup X 4.0 on my machine. I upgraded my father's machine to woody, and it gave me a world of troubles as I lost the ISDN connection, X and sound. But now I have gotten all back. Except that I would now like to setup X 4.0 for him and setup an alsa module to handle the sound (the ESS

Re: cdr recomendations

2000-12-26 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 17:21:21 +1030 (CST) David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm thinking of buying a cd writer. The howto suggests that most ide drives should work fine with Linux. But I was just wondering what modals people have had good results with and more importantly if

Re: bash-question

2000-12-26 Thread Stephan Kulka
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 10:21:52AM +0100, Stephan Kulka wrote: That's quite a newbie question, but I don't know what to do. Yesterday I made a new directory for programming, I added this directory with export to my PATH. Yesterday everything went fine, but today I always get the error

Iomega PC2F SCSI Adaptor

2000-12-26 Thread scawt69
Hello, I need desperate help. I have looked all over the internet regarding Iomega's PC2F 8-bit SCSI Adaptor. I need the drivers for the card or any drivers that will work for the card. If you could email me back with ANY information about this card or where I can find the drivers for it, that

Re: MIDI (/dev/sequencer) don´t work

2000-12-26 Thread David Bellows
Patrick Schnorbus wrote: Hi, i want listening to some midi-files, but it don´t work. I´ve installed the kernel driver for my soundcard (emu10k1, SoundBlaster Live!). When i try to play a midi file there is following error message: Cannot open /dev/sequencer What do I have to do to

Re: Setup of X 4.0 and ALSA

2000-12-26 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! I neither have woody nor X4.0 but I think I can give you some hints on the alsa issue. It does a good job at my machine with an ESS card. I compiled it myself. For doing this, you need the sources of your kernel in /usr/src/linux. Then download the alsa sources from www.alsa-project.org.

Squid error

2000-12-26 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I installed woody squid (2.3.4-2) from source in a potato system and it worked fine for one week and then happens every time I access it. Bellow is the error message... While trying to retrieve the

Re: networked filesystems

2000-12-26 Thread Scott Patterson
I have just configured a simple network with one harddiskless computer that boots from a floppy and mounts a remote root through nfs. It should make administration much easier:) Now my questions: - which other alternatives are there? I have heard that nfs has a big overlay. I have also heard

Re: cdr recomendations

2000-12-26 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 05:21:21PM +1030, David Purton wrote: Hi, I'm thinking of buying a cd writer. The howto suggests that most ide drives should work fine with Linux. But I was just wondering what modals people have had good results with and more importantly if there are any to

Network config...why so many??

2000-12-26 Thread Xucaen
--- Terry Boon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /etc/network/interfaces is where you may want to look. Here's mine as an example (with one ethernet card): # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface iface lo inet loopback #

A Little Help for...!!!

2000-12-26 Thread Marcolongo, Mariano
Hi... I´m looking for a full corporate email solution for linux... Can you help me in my search? Tanks... Mariano Marcolongo Redes y Comunicaciones PROMINENTE - Plataforma de Servicios Informáticos Calidad Certificada ISO 9001

High ASCII characters at console

2000-12-26 Thread Malcolm Miles
I accidently more-ed a binary file and now everything I type at the console is in high ASCII characters. Is there an easy way to get back my normal console characters? -- Best wishes, Malcolm

Re: Network config...why so many??

2000-12-26 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Hi all, I'm just curious. why are there so many files that apparently hold the same information? I thought the network configuration were kept in files hosts, hostname, gateways,

Re: cdr recomendations

2000-12-26 Thread Peter Horton
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:04:18AM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: Does anyone know of any software for Linux like Adaptec's which allows you to to use a CDRW disk as if it were a hard drive? ie. being able to add and remove data at will? Some one is working on packet writing patches for the

RE: cdr recomendations

2000-12-26 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, I have a similar question with an exception. I need a CDR that will burn the credit card shaped/sized CDRs. I have heard that the Memorex models will burn them, and I know that the HP CD Writer 7200 Series won't (I have access to one at work). Anyone have experience?

Re: CD Audio tracks/file system

2000-12-26 Thread Scott Patterson
I had done that, but overlooked one small fact; I was in the cdrom group, but not the disk group, to which /dev/hdc was pointed. I had no rights to physically scan the CD for tracks! How has everyone else set up the permissions for their IDE /dev/cdrom links? I don't like being in the disk

Re: High ASCII characters at console

2000-12-26 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
On December 26, 2000 09:47 am, Malcolm Miles wrote: I accidently more-ed a binary file and now everything I type at the console is in high ASCII characters. Is there an easy way to get back my normal console characters? Typing 'reset' usually works. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pdflatex and dvips+ps2pdf

2000-12-26 Thread Vicente
I am starting to create an presentation based on slides. I want to use PDF format for this work. I will write the presentation with LaTeX. I have been testing pdflatex and dvips+ps2pdf, and get that text quality of the presentation is better with pdflatex than with dvips+ps2pdf. I want to use

Re: cdr recomendations

2000-12-26 Thread Scott Patterson
I have recently installed a CDRW drive on my machine. I chose a Philips CDRW800, a 4x 8x 32x drive. It is IDE and Linux needs to see CDR drives as SCSI - so a little configuring of the kernel and a couple of lines in /etc/lilo.conf was all it took. I now have both my CD-ROM and CDRW drives

help me

2000-12-26 Thread seena saj nandan
hello, i am seena from india, i am new to debain, i have some problem when i try make zlilo,(it show some error)can you please help me to come out this problem _ Chat with your friends as soon as they come online. Get Rediff Bol at

help me

2000-12-26 Thread seena saj nandan
hello, i am seena from india, i am new to debain, i have some problem when i try make zlilo,(it show some error)can you please help me to come out this problem _ Chat with your friends as soon as they come online. Get Rediff Bol at

Re: A Little Help for...!!!

2000-12-26 Thread Nate Amsden
Marcolongo, Mariano wrote: Hi... I´m looking for a full corporate email solution for linux... Can you help me in my search? for one of the corps i work for we use a combo of UW/IMAPD+qmail servers on redhat currently. i'm in the process of moving them to cyrus imap/pop+sendmail on

Re: help me

2000-12-26 Thread ktb
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:18:01PM -, seena saj nandan wrote: hello, i am seena from india, i am new to debain, i have some problem when i try make zlilo,(it show some error)can you please help me to come out this problem One thing you need to do is post the error message.

Re: PCMCIA - AVM ISDN Karte

2000-12-26 Thread Manuel Hendel
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 05:02:47PM +0100, Ralf Batri wrote: Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 17:02:47 +0100 From: Ralf Batri [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-User-Mailinglist debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Manuel Hendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PCMCIA - AVM ISDN Karte On Mon, Dez 25, 2000 at

Re: help me

2000-12-26 Thread Ralf Batri
On Die, Dez 26, 2000 at 04:18:01 -, seena saj nandan wrote: hello, i am seena from india, i am new to debain, i have some problem when i try make zlilo,(it show some error)can you please help me to come out this problem Where is the error-message, it's hard to handle without it.

Re: PCMCIA - AVM ISDN Karte

2000-12-26 Thread Ralf Batri
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: pcmcia-modules-2.2.17: Depends: kernel-image-2.2.17 (= 1:2.2.17-1) but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages can anyone help me out. how about overriding the depencies with apt-get install --nodeps

Kernel 2.4 on potato

2000-12-26 Thread Rino Mardo
hi. not wanting to reinvent the wheel, is it possible to use the kernel 2.4 with potato? if yes then what files, if any, should i get and from where? i've heard people say that it is possible but being the stubborn me i like to see it for myself so i'm willing to spend lots of time to make it

Re: PCMCIA - AVM ISDN Karte

2000-12-26 Thread Manuel Hendel
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 06:24:08PM +0100, Ralf Batri wrote: Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 18:24:08 +0100 From: Ralf Batri [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-User-Mailinglist debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Manuel Hendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PCMCIA - AVM ISDN Karte Sorry, but the

RE: A Little Help for...!!!

2000-12-26 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Yes, my consulting rates are very reasonable. (well, you _did_ say 'corporate') sendmail or exim, fetchmail and any of the many mailreader programs will provide a 'solution', whatever that is. GNOME Evolution might be what you're looking for, but it's not really finished yet. tka

Re: Script error in xconfig

2000-12-26 Thread Bill Jonas
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 11:54:43PM +0900, Yoshiaki Goya wrote: I want to rebuild kernel for USB and soud sopport. And I have installed kernel-source-2.2.17. However, when I run make xconfig, following error appears. If you want USB, forget 2.2.17; it doesn't have USB support (unless you get

[Q] Painting problem with latest woody

2000-12-26 Thread Sudhakar Chandra
Hi, I'm running a box that has woody + Helixcode GNOME. I'm also a Debian developer. I recently tried removing Helixcode GNOME so that I can package GNOME dependent software. It was very painful. I noticed after I removed Helixcode GNOME that my X session has started having painting problems.

Re: ip forwarding setup

2000-12-26 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 01:06:45AM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: Here is the situation: I have a laptop with wireless, and a desktop with wireless and regular ethernet. Lets call the desktop machine A. A has eth0 (ethernet to the rest of the world), and eth1 (10.0.10.1, in an adhoc wireless

Re: UDMA66 boot problem/HPT370

2000-12-26 Thread Karl Hammar
To install debian potato on an abit kt7-raid motherboard: (well, this is what I roughly did) 1 Connect your disk to the first ide controller, not to the HTP370 controller 2 I used the debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/ 2.2.20.0.1-2000-12-03/images-1.44/idepci disk set 3 boot

Re: can't install Netscape (solved)

2000-12-26 Thread Robin Rowe
Thanks, that works! I had already pulled down the gz for netscape and so took the manual install route. (I didn't know how to point apt-get at the local copy.) Manual install went smoothly, but netscape wouldn't load. Creating an alias of the old lib name using ln faked 4.75 into accepting a

Re: procmail

2000-12-26 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 05:07:42PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi to all! I am using fetchmail+exim+mutt as an email system. All the incomming emails goes to /var/spool/mail/myaccount. I would like now to store the different messages in separate mailboxes files defined in

Re: Where are the source packages for Debian?

2000-12-26 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 05:02:44PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: Sorry for this very elementary question, but where do you find the source packages for Debian? apt-get install base-config apt-setup see also 'apt-get-intro.html' at eGroups.com/files/newbieDoc/ for more such

Re: How to point apt-get at non-US?

2000-12-26 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 11:32:20AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: This is my /etc/apt/sources.list deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/ deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free non-US deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib

font-problems w/ KDE2

2000-12-26 Thread Florian Reiser
Hello guys, I've installed KDE2 today. All went fine except that after installing it and switching to the german environment the german umlauts are not correctly displayed. How can I make them appear correctly? For info: It's a debian potato system, running with the iso-8859-1 characterset. The

Re: can't install Netscape (solved)

2000-12-26 Thread ktb
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 10:52:58AM -0800, Robin Rowe wrote: Thanks, that works! I had already pulled down the gz for netscape and so took the manual install route. (I didn't know how to point apt-get at the local copy.) Manual install went smoothly, but netscape wouldn't load. Creating an

Re: Navigating your drive in text mode (was: Re: configuring network card solved.)

2000-12-26 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 02:43:33PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: --- S.Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But just know that you do not have to reinstall Debian to tweak and reconfigure the system. And telling newbies to reinstall Debian to do that, no matter how many smilies you use, just

Re: Navigating your drive in text mode

2000-12-26 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 03:55:38PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: --- Stephan Kulka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To find new packages you don't know about look at the Debian homepage and use the search function. I like it very much and you also can search for words which are no package names. I

Need help with software RAID

2000-12-26 Thread Patrick
Hi, I would really like to use stable potato, 2.2.17, but I can't get software raid working under debian for the life of me... I originally created the raid devices a year or so ago, on redhat 6.?, which used their custom kernel 2.2.5-15, and can use them fine if i boot into redhat or debian

Changing screen size along with screen resolution?

2000-12-26 Thread Lance Simmons
I know how to change screen resolution using ctl-alt-plus or ctl-alt-minus, but the absolute size of the screen doesn't change. Is there a way to change resolution _and_ screen size at the same time? I usually use 1600x1200, but now I'd like to run a linux game fullscreen at 800x600. That leaves

Can't start rpc.nfsd

2000-12-26 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I have a slight problem with my file-swapping. When I try to start rpc.nfsd, it gives me the following error: nfssvc: Function not implemented I have no idea what this could mean, or how to fix it. Please, if you know what's going on, help me. Thanks, Cameron Matheson

cut-and-paste

2000-12-26 Thread Robin Rowe
Is there a cut-and-paste how-to or FAQ somewhere? 1. What are cut, copy, paste, and undo keys that would be equivalent to ctrl-x, ctrl-c, ctrl-v, and ctrl-z keys in Windows? 2. What is gpm supposed to do and why does running it freeze my mouse in X? Cheers, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel 2.4 on potato

2000-12-26 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:25:32PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: hi. not wanting to reinvent the wheel, is it possible to use the kernel 2.4 with potato? if yes then what files, if any, should i get and from where? i've heard people say that it is possible but being the stubborn me i like to see

Re: Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)

2000-12-26 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001225 21:03]: Did you add xfstt to your X server's font path? In /etc/X11/XF86Config, section Files, the following line should work for the default setup: FontPath unix/:7101 See also /usr/doc/xfstt/FAQ.gz, esp question 1.2. I've tried adding

Re: cut-and-paste

2000-12-26 Thread paul
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 11:59:50 -0800, Robin Rowe said: - Is there a cut-and-paste how-to or FAQ somewhere? - - 1. What are cut, copy, paste, and undo keys that would be equivalent to - ctrl-x, ctrl-c, ctrl-v, and ctrl-z keys in Windows? In apps that don't have copy/paste menu's, you can just

Re: Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)

2000-12-26 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, December 26, Hall Stevenson did write: * Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001225 21:03]: Did you add xfstt to your X server's font path? In /etc/X11/XF86Config, section Files, the following line should work for the default setup: FontPath unix/:7101 See

apt-get update and dist-upgrade as cron job?

2000-12-26 Thread Michael Meding
Hi all, I made a file called update containing apt-get update cr apt-get dist-upgrade -y in my cron.daily directory and changed it wih chmod +x as root. Ok, now the script is updating my machine when run by hand but not as a cron job. Why ? This is on unstable. Thanks in advance. With

Re: Help! Panic! Accidentally initialized / partition!!!

2000-12-26 Thread kmself
on Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:59:02PM +1030, Mark Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: My friend has (had) Debian installed on his laptop. I got a call from him this morning saying he can't boot his laptop anymore! I'm over his place now and after using the rescue disk to mount his / partition,

Re: Iomega PC2F SCSI Adaptor

2000-12-26 Thread kmself
on Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:31:36AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, I need desperate help. I have looked all over the internet regarding Iomega's PC2F 8-bit SCSI Adaptor. I need the drivers for the card or any drivers that will work for the card. If you could

Re: Debian CD in store

2000-12-26 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, urbanyon wrote: I was browsing Software Etc and saw the Debian retail CD. Is this Debian 2.1 or 2.2? It didn't say on the box anywhere. If it's 2.2 I'll pick it up. Thanks. if it's the boxed version that comes with the o'reilly book, than it's 2.2 The Bronc

Re: Squid error

2000-12-26 Thread kmself
on Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 11:01:43AM -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all, I installed woody squid (2.3.4-2) from source in a potato system and it worked fine for one week and then happens every time I access it. Bellow is the error

Re: CD Audio tracks/file system

2000-12-26 Thread Matthew Sackman
Yep, that's exactely what I've done - both /dev/cdrom and /dev/hdc* are chown root.cdrom Then make sure that you are adduser yourself cdrom, and everything works as it should! Matthew On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 10:31:27 -0500, Scott Patterson said: I had done that, but overlooked one small

Re: High ASCII characters at console

2000-12-26 Thread kmself
on Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 01:47:11AM +1100, Malcolm Miles ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I accidently more-ed a binary file and now everything I type at the console is in high ASCII characters. Is there an easy way to get back my normal console characters? reset, as suggested. Running a program

Re: can't play music cd

2000-12-26 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 00:03:15 -0900, Ethan Benson said: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:19:00AM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: Ethan Benson wrote: NEVER *EVER* add yourself to group disk. *NEVER* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id uid=1000(aphro) gid=1000(aphro) groups=1000(aphro),

Re: Kernel 2.4 on potato

2000-12-26 Thread John Galt
Not a problem. You need make, gcc, and binutils at a minimum. Good things to have would be libncurses-dev (for menuconfig), TCl/TK (for xconfig), and kernel-package (makes things a LOT easier...). Just apt-get them--if you have apt set up for remote, you're golden: if it's still set up for CD,

Re: help me

2000-12-26 Thread kmself
on Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:18:01PM -, seena saj nandan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: hello, i am seena from india, i am new to debain, i have some problem when i try make zlilo,(it show some error)can you please help me to come out this problem First: Include a meaningful subject line in

Re: cdr recomendations

2000-12-26 Thread Jon Pennington
David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi, I'm thinking of buying a cd writer. The howto suggests that most ide drives should work fine with Linux. I really like my Mitsumi, and recently I've had good experience with HP models. HP9k and 8k models are all fine; I had a LOT of problems

Re: High ASCII characters at console

2000-12-26 Thread John Galt
Another thing I've found to help is to more the same file (up arrow the minute you find things screwed up), and page through the file until the --more-- prompt looks normal, then quickly quit out of more and you should have a properly working console again. On Tue, 26 Dec 2000

Re: cut-and-paste

2000-12-26 Thread ktb
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 11:59:50AM -0800, Robin Rowe wrote: Is there a cut-and-paste how-to or FAQ somewhere? 1. What are cut, copy, paste, and undo keys that would be equivalent to ctrl-x, ctrl-c, ctrl-v, and ctrl-z keys in Windows? 2. What is gpm supposed to do and why does running it

Re: keeping the screen on

2000-12-26 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 10:21:02PM +, q wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 09:16:14PM +, q wrote: debs, since i use rather nice background images for my potato boxes, i like to keep the screens on even though, i may not be using my computers for more than 15 minutes, after which

Re: Need help with software RAID

2000-12-26 Thread Dietmar Goldbeck
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 07:32:45PM -0600, Patrick wrote: Hi, I would really like to use stable potato, 2.2.17, but I can't get software raid working under debian for the life of me... I originally created the raid devices a year or so ago, on redhat 6.?, which used their custom kernel

Re: setting up apt-get server

2000-12-26 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 02:11:12PM +0100, Igor Mozetic wrote: I setup an rsync mirror of the kde2 site for my home network. I was wondering how to set it up so I can apt-get from workstations in my network the packages off my rsync mirror. Has anyone done this? Any pointers for me?

Re: backingup /home/foo/.* files

2000-12-26 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 11:59:45AM -0800, Brian Frederick Kimball wrote: Brian Frederick Kimball wrote: If it's nvi (the default vi on Debian), you want set wraplen=NN in your $HOME/.exrc. But nvi is pretty slim on features-- it doesn't even have multi-level undo. Better to just install

Re: keeping the screen on

2000-12-26 Thread cls/cs
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:36:26PM -0600, will trillich wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 10:21:02PM +, q wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 09:16:14PM +, q wrote: debs, since i use rather nice background images for my potato boxes, i like to keep the screens on even though, i

Re: can't play music cd

2000-12-26 Thread John Hasler
Matthew Sackman writes: ...there was a group dialout. What is this group doing there? 'dialout' is the group for the serial ports. and under which circumstances would one ever need to be a member of it? To open a serial port. You don't have to be in dialout to run pon because pppd is setuid

apache: php vs mod_perl [OT]

2000-12-26 Thread will trillich
regarding apache 1.3.9+ : php vs mod_perl -- all i've got under my belt is perl, and before launching on a whole new learning curve i thot i'd ask some of you who may know--- anybody got any benchmarkings on whether PHP outperforms MOD_PERL or vice-versa? how about development cycle -- which

problem with lpd daemon

2000-12-26 Thread Caste
Hi,I have just installed Potato Debian (first contact with linux), and I havesome printing problems.Initially the BSD system didnt run properly, but it ran, this took me totest cups 1.1.4, and it didnt run as I expected, and I decided to uninstallcups, and install BSD Line Printer

Re: keeping the screen on

2000-12-26 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:08:27PM +, cls/cs wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:36:26PM -0600, will trillich wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 10:21:02PM +, q wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 09:16:14PM +, q wrote: debs, since i use rather nice background images for my

Re: HTML editor

2000-12-26 Thread Michael Sauer
Any suggestions for a good HTML editor that does color highlighting understands PHP? My favorite editor is HomeSite, and I have yet to find anything comparable for Linux. I've tried running HomeSite with WINE, but haven't gotten that to work :( thanks for any suggestions. give bluefish a

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