Re: Ayuda urgente, cagada!

2001-01-13 Thread Antonio Castro
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Enzo Alberto Dari wrote: Antonio Castro wrote: ... Con loadlin también se puede hacer y es bueno proporcionar la información completa para que cada cual decida que opción le gusta más. Usar 'loadlin' puede presentar ventajas y desjentajas dependiendo de cada caso.

Re: Ayuda urgente, cagada!

2001-01-13 Thread Mario Teijeiro Otero
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 13 January 2001 00:20, Antonio Castro wrote: Precisamente he matizado que No siempre podemos elegir una BIOS, y un hardware concreto... Todo depende del equipo que tengas y no es tan dificil tener un equipo en el que resulte imposible

Re: arrancar

2001-01-13 Thread Ricardo Villalba
Carles Pina i Estany wrote: Hola aunque ya lo conocia, lo de los links, se encuentra a faltar algo que haga de autoexec para que el usuario ponga sus paridas sin tener que añadir un script y el link... IMHO Lo del autoexec.bat funciona en una máquina de juguete, cuando los comandos

Gestor de ventanas Qvwm: Recursos y temas para Qvwm.

2001-01-13 Thread LACIUS
Aparte de los elementos que trae por defecto la distribución potato del gestor de ventanas Qvwm he tratado de encontrar nuevos recursos y temas para el gestor de ventanas qvwm. En www.qvwm.org aparecen algunos ejemplos gráficos del fichero de configuración de temas pero no exponen los ficheros

Re: Problema con kernel 2.4

2001-01-13 Thread Miguel Angel Vilela
El vie, 12 ene 2001, César Talón escribió: Te ha pasado lo que a más de uno nos ha pasado con esta versión. El problema está en el Procesador elegido. Yo tengo un P-II, pero por defecto tiene la opción de P-III, por eso no funcionaba. Asegurate que es correcta en las opciones de Processor

Re: Esta lista

2001-01-13 Thread Roberto Ripio
El Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 12:13:45PM +0100, José Esteban escribe: Hola. (Y muchas más cosas razonables más) Supongo que muchos estaremos de acuerdo en que repasar esta lista, junto al resto a las que uno está suscrito acaba llevandose su buen tiempo. En mi opinión debería pensarse en

Re: Debian

2001-01-13 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Gustavo Noronha Silva (KoV) wrote: On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 01:16:30PM -0200, Eduardo Marcel Macan wrote: Ninguém gosta :) heh eu tb naum =P Hehehe, será mera coincidência :p Quando você seleciona um pacote (com + ) para ser instalado este pacote pode depender de outros...

Re: Netscape não roda

2001-01-13 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Realmente, O melhor que a Debian oferece é documentação de programas (em outras distros também), no inicio pode ser mais demorado resolver um problema sozinho lendo a documentacão, etc. É uma experiência que só traz benefícios pra quem a faz porque estará *realmente* aprendendo Linux.

Re: Netscape não roda

2001-01-13 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva \(KoV\)
e tb leiam o foca linux =P www.metainfo.org/focalinux (o site tava meio down quando enviei o email mas deve voltar logo...) []s! On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 09:23:56AM -0400, Gleydson Mazioli da Silva wrote: Realmente, O melhor que a Debian oferece é documentação de programas (em outras

Re: why use Debian?

2001-01-13 Thread kmself
on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 05:54:27PM -0500, James W. Lindenschmidt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux distributions. Please explain the top few reasons why you chose Debian rather than something else. Two (one?) words: apt-get I

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-13 Thread Vinod Kurup
I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux distributions. Please explain the top few reasons why you chose Debian rather than something else. 1. It's not commercial (more consistent with the whole Linux philosophy) 2. apt-get 3. debian-user is *so* friendly 4. There's a

init process directory

2001-01-13 Thread patd
hi all earlier i inquired about running a process via inittab with an owner other than root. the suggestion of 'su - myuser -c mycommand' did the job very well. i now have a similar question. i want to run the same process but i want the process to think that it's on a different directory.

Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro / 10 not recognized.

2001-01-13 Thread kmself
on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 07:48:46PM -0600, hanasaki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Support was added to the kernel when Potato was installed. The system does not seem to see the card. Any input would be appreciated. Post commands *and* output: $ cat /proc/version $ cat /proc/modules $

Re: Windows Hyperterm alternative for Linux

2001-01-13 Thread user list
I have used seyon successfully for dialup. It also works well for communicating with my cisco router. Art Edwards On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:01:09PM -0500, Frank Rocco wrote: Hello, Can someone point me to a program that does the same thing as the Windows HyperTerm program? Thanks

Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro / 10 not recognized.

2001-01-13 Thread Brian May
hanasaki == hanasaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hanasaki Support was added to the kernel when Potato was hanasaki installed. The system does not seem to see the card. hanasaki Any input would be appreciated. Make sure you are using the latest kernel (2.2.18 or 2.4.0, I use 2.2.18).

broken xlib?

2001-01-13 Thread Ernst Martin Witte
Hello! I 'v got a problem, probably caused by an update. On my system potato was (now it's woody with exactly the same problem) running. Something seems not to be correct with xlib or the locales stuff. e.g. emacs gives me some warning: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ emacs20 Warning: locale not

Re: Cannot get Philips CDRW PCRW80 4K17 - 800 Series to write

2001-01-13 Thread Casey Webster
read the FAQ's linked to on xcdroast.org. you have to have scsi emulation build in ther kernel or as a module, and you have to tell the ide-cd drivers to ignore your cdrom. Rather than doing this, i just didnt compile and IDE drivers at all, just scsi emulation and scsi support (the cd-r is the

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-13 Thread user list
WARNING WARNING WARNING! This is very long-winded. You can skip to the last paragraph. My trajectory to debian actually started when I got out of Grad school (1981) and decided that I wanted to do calculations at home. My first home machine was a Kaypro with two (count them!) floppy drives

Re: Unable to Install Debian From CD

2001-01-13 Thread sg . au
On Wed, 10 January 2001, fam van Marrewijk wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 5:24 AM Subject: Re: Unable to Install Debian From CD On 7 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have run

Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro / 10 not recognized.

2001-01-13 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In hanasaki's email, 12-01-2001: Support was added to the kernel when Potato was installed. The system does not seem to see the card. Any input would be appreciated. Thank you Is this a eepro100 card, or one of the Intel integrated ethernet controllers (on the motherboard). I have a

Re: Kernel 2.4.0 on Debian 2.2 R2

2001-01-13 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, no, I have compiled the 2.4.0 kernel without any probelms and both my 3c509 cards worked perfectly. Have you compiled the MCA stuff? This is needed by this card. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Michael Madden wrote: I've got 2 Debian 2.2 R2 systems. One has a NE2000 ISA NIC,

Re: /etc/resolv.conf not there with potato

2001-01-13 Thread Lyall Ward
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Cliff Sarginson wrote: On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:58:17AM +1000, Lyall Ward wrote: Hi, I am just learning how things work in debian and have come across a problem. There is no resolv.conf. I have tried just creating it and while this fixes the problem of the file

Re: 3c905c-txm driver problems

2001-01-13 Thread nate
benny k wrote: hey, i'm having trouble getting the 3com driver (3c90x) to work with potato r2, i386. i downloaded the driver from: http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linux/3c90x-1.0.0i.tar.gz in that tar should be a file called patch-2.2.5 patch the kernel your using and compile

Re: Getting Gnome desktop on woody

2001-01-13 Thread kmself
on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 01:43:37PM -0800, Steve R. Hastings ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello. I am a brand-new Debian user. I have another computer running Mandrake with the full Helix Gnome installed. (These days it's Ximian Gnome but I haven't updated in a while.) I'd like to get my

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-13 Thread kmself
on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 06:33:05PM -0600, Nate Bargmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: My story. In a word, apt-get rocks! People have difficulty believing the stability of Debian and the ease of apt-get. In fact I mostly use dselect and I don't harbor the disdain for it that others may (I

Re: Getting Gnome desktop on woody

2001-01-13 Thread Steve R. Hastings
I have still been working on this, and I can partly answer my own questions now... 0) I am used to Sawfish. What apt-get commands can I use to get it? # apt-get install sawfish-gnome Notes: a) You must have unstable (sid) in your sources.list b) You want sawfish-gnome, *not*

Re: Software for making phone calls?

2001-01-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Jan 2001, John Foster wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: Any software for Linux to let you make phone calls via the computer? - check out speak-freely and speaker at debian.org available via apt or dselect :-) -- We

Re: Desktopless StarOffice for 486?

2001-01-13 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 01:50:40AM +0100, Andre Berger wrote: Veit Waltemath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:30:32PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: On 12 Jan 2001, Andre Berger wrote: Hi, I have a 486 with less than 1 GB total HDD space (on three HDDs). Is there

inti 2: syslogd

2001-01-13 Thread Peter Quiel
hi i've got a very strange prob when my system changes into runlevle 2 it freez at starting syslogd. never had a prob before and i changed nothing since last reboot. any idees to solve to prob. ciao Peter

Re: Getting Gnome desktop on woody

2001-01-13 Thread Diego Biurrun
You should try apt-get install gdm. gdm is the gnome equivalent of xdm. Diego Biurrun Steve R. Hastings schrieb: I suspect that what I actually want here is to somehow replace the login prompt I now have from xdm(1) with the Gnome login prompt. I am unsure whether Gnome has a replacement

Re: Kernel 2.4.0 on Debian 2.2 R2

2001-01-13 Thread Casey Webster
I've got 3c509 cards (ISA) in 2 486's and neither have MCA support compiled in or built as modules, just the 3c509 driver compiled in. -casey On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, no, I have compiled the 2.4.0 kernel without any probelms and both my 3c509 cards worked perfectly. Have

Debian unstable? Sid or Woody

2001-01-13 Thread cyberz
Once now I tought that existed 3 debian dists: stable (potato) frozen (none at moment) and unstable (woody) Now It seems that unstable's sid... so what's woody, now? Thx for help ;) Greetings Andrea

Potato and Kernel 2.4.0

2001-01-13 Thread Stefan Nobis
Hi. I installed Kernel 2.4 on Debian Potato (2.2.r2). Some packages from unstable are needed to do so and i compiled all from source for a Debian 2.2r2 system. Here are the recompiled packages (apt-get-able): deb http://www.snobis.de/debian extras/kernel24/ Have fun with it. -- Until the next

Re: System.map irritation

2001-01-13 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rino Mardo) writes: --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:30:25PM +0700 or thereabouts, Oki DZ wrote: Hi, =20 I have the same problem after

Re: [0T] need a url that crashes netscape

2001-01-13 Thread ktb
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:31:40PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: Why not just open up another window and kill the netscape pid? Because I'm tiered of doing that for the 100th time. Why not write a script to save keystrokes? kent -- In order to make an apple

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-13 Thread Tibor D.
Well, our first (real) computer at home was the Amiga 1000 in 1986. I really liked that platform very much, but some Amigas later in 1996 I had to give it up and buy a Wintel-platform (Pentium Pro). But since I began working on that platform I was never happy with it. I never know what's so cool

Re: Debian unstable? Sid or Woody

2001-01-13 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
cyberz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once now I tought that existed 3 debian dists: stable (potato) frozen (none at moment) and unstable (woody) Now It seems that unstable's sid... so what's woody, now? woody is now testing http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2000/41/ -- Thomas Weinbrenner

Re: init / rc0.d

2001-01-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Benjamin Pharr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previously I was running Slackware, so I'm used to the BSD style of init, however Taking a look at the symlinks in rc0.d in appears that S35networking would be starting up the network. Not quite. Runlevel 0 means halt.

Re: init process directory

2001-01-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: earlier i inquired about running a process via inittab with an owner other than root. the suggestion of 'su - myuser -c mycommand' did the job very well. i now have a similar question. i want to run the same process but i want the process

Re: Desktopless StarOffice for 486?

2001-01-13 Thread Andre Berger
Sven Hoexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 01:50:40AM +0100, Andre Berger wrote: Veit Waltemath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:30:32PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: On 12 Jan 2001, Andre Berger wrote: I have a 486 with less than 1 GB total HDD

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-13 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 01:12:28AM -0500, Vinod Kurup wrote: I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux distributions. Please explain the top few reasons why you chose Debian rather than something else. 1. It's not commercial (more consistent with the whole Linux

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-13 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:28:13PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: Anyways, I've always felt that there were two main areas in the ease of a system - how easy it is to learn, and how easy it is to use. That's a very interesting approach. Never thought of it that way. Debian is like that.

Re: Software for making phone calls?

2001-01-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 06:10:02PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: Any software for Linux to let you make phone calls via the computer? There's also OpenH323, which should interoperate with NetMeeting. It's not packaged for Debian yet but someone is working on it. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-13 Thread mgriffa
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: Debian is like an ocean; the water of many rivers flows in it - if they did not dry up on their way. Phil Yeah, I've been a RH/SuSE user for about 3 years, and I'm migrating now to Debian, as It is the distro that mature linux users get the way I

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-13 Thread Susumu Takuwa
On 13 Jan 2001 10:38:54 +1100 Brian May writes: BM I didn't think Windows could boot from a slave drive? Yes. But i can boot Windows 98 by using GRUB with `map' command. GRUB's info says following, DOS/Windows --- GRUB cannot boot DOS or Windows directly, so you must

Re: [OT] Bash Script won't work in fvwm menu.

2001-01-13 Thread Ayman Haidar
I think the problem is with the $HOME , since the script is run as root, $HOME is for /root not the user home directory. try to give it the absolute directory and see. or try to make the script owned by the user. good luck Ayman Once upon a time ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-13 Thread W. Paul Mills
Consistancy. Debian has always been predictable. They were concerned about standards before anyone else thought about it. That said. When I wanted to change something, I had no trouble finding where to do that. Other distro's were not that way, way back when. Now, I am not sure, have never

Re: Machine/Domain Name

2001-01-13 Thread ktb
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:07:31AM +, cls/cs wrote: On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:51:17AM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: My Debian system has a name of darkstar.localdomain When I'm at home I can no longer send email to my office because of spam filters that were setup to reject any

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-13 Thread Romain Lerallut
Just FYI you can also swap disks with LILO. (I've not often seen it mentioned so I guess I'll say it aloud here) Apart from the syntax that was a bit more evoluted than GRUB's it is exactly the same. It's something like this: map-drive = 0x80 # Logically swap the drives so that

Re: Getting Gnome desktop on woody

2001-01-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Steve R. Hastings ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010113 05:08]: 1) How do I enable the Gnome desktop? I want the foot menu, the panel, applets, etc. This turns out to be provided by gnome-session. I already have gnome-session installed, and if I manually run it I get the foot menu and all the

Kernel boot messages

2001-01-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
I just upgraded my kernel to 2.4.0 with no apparent problems... I did notice on bootup some messages that scroll by far too quickly to read that I wanted to take another look at. I think they just have something to do with my CD-ROM drives (possibly because there's no discs in them). How can

Re: Kernel boot messages

2001-01-13 Thread Casey Webster
dmesg is just the kernel bootstrap messages and will catch all of that, once init is spawned, the kernel is done, and you should check syslog for further messages. -Casey On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: I just upgraded my kernel to 2.4.0 with no apparent problems... I did notice

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-13 Thread Susumu Takuwa
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 15:32:58 +0100 Romain Lerallut writes: RL Just FYI you can also swap disks with LILO. RL (I've not often seen it mentioned so I guess I'll say it aloud here) Oh, i have known that for the first time. I will read the document that you introduced to me. very thanks,

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-13 Thread Melissa Johnson
Well, here is mine. Back in 1994 I was in college in Niagara Falls, NY. There was a business development center at this little community college and an ISP being incubated. I went in for internet access, and the guy who owned the place asked me if I wanted free Internet access if I would

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-13 Thread Bob Hilliard
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob == Bob Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob # For booting Windows95 title WIN95 on /dev/hdb1 unhide Bob (hd1,0) hide (hd0,0) map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd2) (hd1) Bob rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 I didn't

Problems booting NT with Lilo

2001-01-13 Thread Dale Miller
Hi there, I am having a stragne problem with lilo that I have not seen before and not sure how to solve it. I am running Debian unstable on anIBM Thinkpad 600X with a 12 G hard drive. Recently, about a week ago, lilo 1:21.6 went into the distribution. Since that point in time I have been unable

Re: Kernel boot messages

2001-01-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
Casey, thanks for the reply. I've only recently switched to Debian and I don't recall either RedHat or Mandrake logging all of this info (or more likely, I never checked for it). Nonetheless, the error I'm looking for didn't show up. I've recompiled the kernel again. Why ?? ;-) The console has

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-13 Thread losthalo
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:28:13PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: Debian is like that. It's harder to learn than both Mandrake and Red Hat, but it's easier to use and maintain. I wouldn't have been able to go straight from Windows into Debian, I needed Caldera, Mandrake, and Red Hat

386-4 MB startup question

2001-01-13 Thread DSC Lithuania
Hi, I have an old copy of Debian 1.3.1 on CD, and can also download whatever I need. We are trying to set up an old 4-MB, 386 system (described below) with Linux, to use it as a mini-email server for a Windows 95/98 ethernet network. We are in Lithuania, which means that there is a lot

Re: [OT] Bash Script won't work in fvwm menu.

2001-01-13 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 08:44:59AM -0500, Ayman Haidar wrote: I think the problem is with the $HOME , since the script is run as root, $HOME is for /root not the user home directory. hmmm, why is it run as root? I don't know too much about fvwm2 -- it's quite a long time since I last used it --

Answering machine software?

2001-01-13 Thread David B . Harris
Hello everyone :) I have a plain USR Voice/Fax/Data modem, of the 56k variety. I was wondering if anyon knew if there is some software(prefferably Free, of course) which will act as an answering machine, using said modem? Ideally, it'd also be able to handle faxes, but since I have a fax machine

386-4 Meg install question

2001-01-13 Thread DSC Lithuania
Before I begin, let me apologize if this is a double. I didn't realize it, but I sent the first one before I was a member, so I am not sure that it went through. Hi, I have an old copy of Debian 1.3.1 on CD, and can also download whatever I need. We are trying to set up an old 4-MB,

Requirements to Build Gimp 1.2 Help

2001-01-13 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Ok, I'm on a potato system. Are the following what's needed to successfully compile the new Gimp 1.2? Download: apt-get source gimp1.2 apt-get source gimp-data-extras (1:1.2.0-1) apt-get libgtk1.2 (new 1.2.8) apt-get libgtk1.2-dev

dselect: 1 not upgraded

2001-01-13 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, recently X crashed while I was in the middle of upgrading some packages with dselect. Since then whenever I Install things with dselect it says that 1 package is not being upgraded. What I'm wondering is how I can find out which package it is that's not being upgraded. I've looked through the

help..kernel compile

2001-01-13 Thread Ayman Haidar
Hello, I am a new convert from Mandrake to Debian and so far I love it. I am having a problem compiling my kernel though. I have done it in the past with no problems. I tried initially to compile kernel-source-2.2.18pre21 ther kernel-2.2.17 but I get the same problem. here is what I am doing:

fvwm 2.3 packages announce

2001-01-13 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
Hello. I decided to get prepared to fvwm 2.4 release and made packages of fvwm 2.3, cvs version built on current testing/unstable. They can be obtained from http://people.debian.org/~sacha/debian/ Packages are fvwm-beta and fvwm-icons. If you want to try them, remove fvwm 2.2 at first: dpkg -r

Where libgtk 1.2.8 on ftp.debian.org?

2001-01-13 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I've found the source on GTK, isn't there a deb of a binary on ftp.debian.org somewhere? Thanks, Jonathan

Re: 386-4 Meg install question

2001-01-13 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, as far as I know, Debian should work with 4MB, but you need at least 12MB for installation (maybe you can borrow it somewhere?). You can save loads of memory with shutting down/removing everything that you do not need and compile the kernel as small as possible. Today I discovered that you

Re: help..kernel compile

2001-01-13 Thread David B . Harris
Did anyone else get this message 16 times? David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)

Re: help..kernel compile

2001-01-13 Thread Sebastiaan
Hmm, really strange. Have you installed all packages needed? kernel-package libc6-dev bin86 libncurses5-dev dpkg-dev Have you run 'make-kpkg clean' before doing anything? How does the old 'make dep; make bzImage; etc' behave? Good luck, Sebastiaan

Re: Machine/Domain Name

2001-01-13 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Chris, what you see below is what you need to change. I'm not sure what you mean when you say cwaiken.com is a redirector. If it just relays email for you that isn't good enough. When you attach to a SMTP server the HELO or EHLO is given with a single parameter: your fully-qualified domain

Re: New Gimp 1.2 in pool is...?

2001-01-13 Thread Colin Watson
Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colin Watson wrote: 'dpkg -I foo.deb' will show you information about a package you've downloaded. In this case, though, it depends on sid's glibc, so you'll have to 'apt-get source gimp1.2' and compile it yourself. I thought so, just holding out hope

Re: Requirements to Build Gimp 1.2 Help

2001-01-13 Thread Colin Watson
Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I'm on a potato system. Are the following what's needed to successfully compile the new Gimp 1.2? OK, I didn't see this message before replying to your earlier one; repetition and maybe a little more detail ... Download: apt-get source gimp1.2 apt-get

Re: Where libgtk 1.2.8 on ftp.debian.org?

2001-01-13 Thread Colin Watson
Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found the source on GTK, isn't there a deb of a binary on ftp.debian.org somewhere? URL:ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gtk+1.2/. It won't install cleanly on your potato box, though; stick with the older version if possible, otherwise build the

Re: Kernel 2.4.0 on Debian 2.2 R2

2001-01-13 Thread Colin Watson
Michael Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got 2 Debian 2.2 R2 systems. One has a NE2000 ISA NIC, and the other one has a 3Com 3C509 ISA card. I've recently updated the kernel to 2.4.0, and I'm having a great deal of trouble getting the network cards working. When it is booting up I get errors

Re: Kernel boot messages

2001-01-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 10:18:59AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: Casey, thanks for the reply. I've only recently switched to Debian and I don't recall either RedHat or Mandrake logging all of this info (or more likely, I never checked for it). Nonetheless, the error I'm looking for didn't

Re: Kernel 2.4.0 on Debian 2.2 R2

2001-01-13 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: Michael Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got 2 Debian 2.2 R2 systems. One has a NE2000 ISA NIC, and the other one has a 3Com 3C509 ISA card. I've recently updated the kernel to 2.4.0, and I'm having a great deal of trouble getting the network cards

Re: pon permissions

2001-01-13 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Tom, Another solution and one I prefer is to use the dial on demain feature. This will automatically start the dialup link once a call is made outside your domain. Works VERY well here using the kernel 2.2.17. Best of luck tweeking. On Friday 12 January 2001 10:25, Thomas H. George wrote:

trying to install ALSA

2001-01-13 Thread James W. Lindenschmidt
Hello everyone I'm still trying to install ALSA on my new potato system. I've progressed some, but I'm still stumped. Here's what I've done so far: 1. I realized I didn't have the kernel source installed, so I did apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.18pre21 from stable. However, this did not

glide and 3dfx.o

2001-01-13 Thread Casey W. Liscum
Hello, I have a Voodoo3 3000 board. I'm using kernel 2.4.0 and Debian testing. The following relevant packages are installed: ii libglide2-dev 2.60-6 ii libglide2-v3 2.60-6 ii device3dfx 2.3-5 I've got the /dev/3dfx device with perms set up as follows: crw-rw1 root

Re: trying to install ALSA

2001-01-13 Thread Casey W. Liscum
I got the following error: 'failed (probably missing /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h)'. I looked, and I am indeed missing that file. Try going to /usr/src/linux and do a 'make include/linux/version.h' as root. I think that may do it.. -- Casey W. Liscum This sentence contains only

Re: New Gimp 1.2 in pool is...?

2001-01-13 Thread Jonathan Gift
Colin Watson wrote: 'apt-get source gimp1.2' :) Done. Thanks. lftp ftp.debian.org:/debian/pool/main/g/gimp1.2 cat gimp1.2_1.2.0-1.dsc [...] Build-Depends: aalib1-dev, libglib1.2-dev, libgtk1.2-dev, libgtkxmhtml-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libmpeg-dev, libpng2-dev, xpm4g-dev,

Re: Where libgtk 1.2.8 on ftp.debian.org?

2001-01-13 Thread Jonathan Gift
Colin Watson wrote: URL:ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gtk+1.2/. It won't install cleanly on your potato box, though; stick with the older version if possible, otherwise build the newer one from source. I tried compiling and got an error straight away about gtk 1.2.7.. So you

Re: New Gimp 1.2 in pool is...?

2001-01-13 Thread Jonathan Gift
Colin Watson wrote: lftp ftp.debian.org:/debian/pool/main/g/gimp1.2 cat gimp1.2_1.2.0-1.dsc [...] Build-Depends: aalib1-dev, libglib1.2-dev, libgtk1.2-dev, libgtkxmhtml-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libmpeg-dev, libpng2-dev, xpm4g-dev, zlib1g-dev, slang1-dev, xlib6g-dev, debhelper,

Re: vi - what happened to set wraplen ?

2001-01-13 Thread Rino Mardo
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 01:08:45PM -0600 or thereabouts, will trillich wrote: anyone of you using vi with woody having the same problem? how'd u set or fix your wrap margins? within most vi clones and derivatives, try :set all to see ALL the available options. one of them will do

Strange console problem when X is running

2001-01-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
I already posted this in a different message, so if you've already read it, I apologize. I have determined a little more though... Here's the original message: I've recompiled the kernel again. Why ?? ;-) The console has started getting flakey... no characters +show up when I type. Or

Backup techniques

2001-01-13 Thread Alexander Steinert
Hi folks, I'd like to know which programs and strategies you (would) use to backup *one* debian box. In one case I have available a CD-Burner as backup device and in the other case a 640MB MO drive. Constraint: I don't want a complete backup of all partitions but in case of bad luck to install a

Linux 2.4.0 on Debian 2.2 R2

2001-01-13 Thread Michael Madden
I'd written yesterday describing problems with linux 2.4.0, Debian 2.2 R2, and NE2000/3C509 NICS. Thanks for all the help! The working solution was to download and install the new modutils package from: http://people.debian.org/~wakkerma/modutils_2.4.1-0potato1_i386.deb Thanks, Michael

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-13 Thread Colin Watson
Steve R. Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux distributions. Please explain the top few reasons why you chose Debian rather than something else. A friend at university (hi, Pete!) introduced me to Linux part-way through my first year

Re: Answering machine software?

2001-01-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 11:30:11AM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: Hello everyone :) I have a plain USR Voice/Fax/Data modem, of the 56k variety. I was wondering if anyon knew if there is some software(prefferably Free, of course) which will act as an answering machine, using said modem?

Re: help..kernel compile

2001-01-13 Thread Ayman Haidar
I am sorry if the message got sent many times. I am not sure if it's my fault or not, I got the same responses twice too. Once upon a time Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hmm, really strange. Have you installed all packages needed? kernel-package libc6-dev bin86

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-13 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, Steve R. Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux distributions. Please explain the top few reasons why you chose Debian rather than something else. It started with my Atari TT. When I first logged in via 28.8k modem and VT100 terminal

Re: mozilla 0.7 rpms

2001-01-13 Thread Ayman Haidar
Once upon a time Eray Ozkural (exa) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Please cc: to me since I'm not on the list Hi people, Since the debian package is out of date, I wanted to use the mozilla 0.7 rpms at http://people.redhat.com/blizzard/software/RH7/RPMS/ I

potato-woody ==portmapper problems

2001-01-13 Thread Andreas Boman
Hello people, I just upgraded my system to woody, and everything seems to run fine exept I can't get fam (file alteration manager) to work now. I get the following error: Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused fam[10940]: can't register with portmapper.

OT:Motherboards and Processors

2001-01-13 Thread tjm
Computer show today and looking for any recommendations for stable motherboard and processor combinations in the 700-800Mhz range, 133 Mhz bus and it doesn't matter whether it's AMD or Intel for the chip. Thanks, -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X issues

2001-01-13 Thread Gerry Chu
I inadvertently deleted /etc/X11 yesterday, and have been working to get it back up. Version 4.0.1 apt-get install task-x-window-system Worked...but No dexter. Didn't configure XF86Config for me. xf86config sorta worked, it says: XKB rules file '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86' not

Re: Answering machine software?

2001-01-13 Thread Ron Farrer
David B . Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have a plain USR Voice/Fax/Data modem, of the 56k variety. I was wondering if anyon knew if there is some software(prefferably Free, of course) which will act as an answering machine, using said modem? Ideally, it'd also be able to handle faxes,

Re: X issues

2001-01-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Gerry Chu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010113 15:48]: I inadvertently deleted /etc/X11 yesterday, and have been working to get it back up. Version 4.0.1 apt-get install task-x-window-system Worked...but No dexter. Didn't configure XF86Config for me. xf86config sorta worked, it says: I

Re: why use Debian?

2001-01-13 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 05:54:27PM -0500, James W. Lindenschmidt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux distributions. Please explain the top few reasons why you chose Debian rather than something else. All these replies are making

Re: Answering machine software?

2001-01-13 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED], # The getty family does this. vgetty is for voice. mgetty is for data, # and so on. Just do a 'apt-get -f install mgetty-voice' you might also # want to install the mgetty-docs package. Odd, never noticed this, but there's no 'mgetty' in Unstable. No

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