Re: xfree4.0 and 3d accel

2001-03-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Cool. Are there instructions anywhere on getting Quake working? I'm going through the howto, but I'm missing libraries apparently: [EMAIL PROTECTED] quake]$ ldd quake.x11 libm.so.5 => not found libX11.so.6 => not found libXext.so.6 => not found libc.so.5 => not found I h

serial terminal emulator for 'linux' term type?

2001-03-02 Thread idalton
Someone mentioned it on irc, on #debian a couple weeks ago, but I can't remember the reference. Said there was some serial terminal emulator that supported the 'linux' term type, so one wouldn't have to mess around with minicom. Anyone know what it is? -- Ferret

apt-get strangeness?

2001-03-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Ok... lupus:/usr/lib# dpkg -l xlib6g Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-===

Re: Eek! X won't go away!

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach kmself@ix.netcom.com (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:42:15PM -0800): > $ startx & exit > > ...which is what I use (do what I mean, not what I say). I can assure > you there are no console sessions on this box. this will kill my X immediately and log off. the only way i got it to work is

Re: xfree4.0 and 3d accel

2001-03-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
it's automatically set up to use 3D acceleration. pete On Fri 02 Mar 01, 11:27 PM, Michael P. Soulier said: > Hey people. I recently installed XFree86 4.0 and am using the tdfx driver > for my Voodoo 3. Is it automatically set up to use 3D accel, or do I still > have to work to do if I want

Re: apt-get via firewall

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:52:28PM -0800, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:55:32AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is there a way to run apt-get through a ftp/http firewall? > > > > Thank you > > Can you see web page from behind firewall? > If so, you can us

Re: correct files

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach John Galt (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:44:32PM -0700): > Have you discussed this with the boot-floppies team? nope. haven't had a chance yet. "the last time i tried" was yesterday night. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "

Re: Eek! X won't go away!

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:48:30PM -0800, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > ... > > > so if you dislike xdm, at least set NoZap in XF86Config! > > > > Um. How about: > > > > $ startx ; exit > > I think better option is to use nohup and actually exit. t

Re: correct files

2001-03-02 Thread John Galt
Have you discussed this with the boot-floppies team? On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: >also sprach ktb (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:42:20PM -0600): >> Snag, at minimum - >> rescue.bin >> root.bin > >... except the last time that i tried root.bin from like 5 different >locations, dd'ing and loop mo

Re: HP LJ III with Jet Direct and Linux

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 01:30:11PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have an old HP Laserjet III with an old JetDirect card in it that I > have purchaed used. I have to use the parallel port to print to it, > but would like to use the network card instead. It was configured

confusing problems with /usr/include/linux when comipling modules

2001-03-02 Thread ctest
i'm trying to compile userlink-source on the latest "stable" distribution. it complains that /usr/include/linux/modversions.h dosn't exist (which it dosn't), and if i switch /usr/include/linux to be a link to /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.17, it just chokes during compile with compile errors. i've

Re: unresolved symbols in 3dfx.o

2001-03-02 Thread Ron Peterson
Johnny Blade wrote: > > I've been attempting to prepare my machine to play > some quake, but I can't get the 3dfx.o module to work. > I downloaded the device3dfx source using apt-get, ran > the buildpkg script, and then installed the .deb > created. As the deb is trying to update-modules, I > se

xfree4.0 and 3d accel

2001-03-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I recently installed XFree86 4.0 and am using the tdfx driver for my Voodoo 3. Is it automatically set up to use 3D accel, or do I still have to work to do if I want to play Quake? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. How

Re: It's MY computer, not Bill's!

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:00:06PM -0500, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also sprach Robert Tucker (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 10:14:44PM -0800): > > Ok... Now, what is vmware? And pvm? I see I have a lot of > > memorization to do. I have two other computers (both 486's) and I > > plan to initially

Dual boot, multiple kernels, sytem map problem (was Re: Switching between two file systems.)

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:39:54PM -0500, Fu-Dong Chiou ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:03:02PM -0500, Fu-Dong Chiou ([EMAIL PROTECTED] > > edu) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a problem. I have RedHat on /dev/hd1, and Debian on /de

Re: Setting Up Partitions:Solved,Thanks

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach kmself@ix.netcom.com (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:08:47PM -0800): > Advice I've heard (no emperical evidence myself) is that higher > utilization is best placed toward the physical midpoint of the disk > radius. This tends to equalize head movement in and out. Unless heads > park in either

Re: Setting Up Partitions:Solved,Thanks

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:22:47PM -0500, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also sprach Ian Thomas (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 06:42:29PM -0800): > > > > hdb1 (this is already my freebsd swap partition) > > > > hdb2 /boot (this will be a primary partition) > > > > hdb3 (extended partition containing l

manually installing mozilla plugins

2001-03-02 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hey, I was wondering if their was a way to manually install mozilla plugins. I need the java one, but I can't get it because I can't get FTP to work with my proxy server (help with that too please). I did manage to download it from a Windoze machine (the proxy server), and so now I have a file n

Re: compiling a program

2001-03-02 Thread Ron Peterson
Philipp Bliedung wrote: > > Hi, > > I have simple question concerning compiling a programm > When I compile a program from the sources and it beakes for whatever > reason, how can I get rid of all the files that were created so far or > how can I remove this 'broken' program ? Is there anyt

Re: It's MY computer, not Bill's!

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach will trillich (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:47:12PM -0600): > ANY operating system? would that include mac os x? :) > seriously, would it do mac os 8 or 9? don't quote me on it, but i don't think so. i should have said - any operating system that runs on x86. martin [greetings from the hea

apt-get testing

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
hey, how can i use apt-get to get something like postfix-0.0.20010228-1 out of testing? i have testing/main and some other testing's in my sources.list, but apt-get --download-only install testing/postfix doesn't work, and apt-get --download-only install postfix reports that postfix is already

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-03-02 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:07:58PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:52:17PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > > When /var went down, I was able to tar and bzip2 up /home /etc /root > > and drop them into a windows partition which meant that I lost no real > > why did you

Re: kill: cannot kill some processes

2001-03-02 Thread Ron Peterson
William T Wilson wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, brian moore wrote: > > > > does the process list "Z" under STAT ? if it is the process has gone > > > zombied and i don't think there is much you can do. sometimes zombie'd > > > processes die on their own eventually many times they will not die un

Re: It's MY computer, not Bill's!

2001-03-02 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:00:06PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > vmware allows you to run windoze on top of linux. or any operating > system as a matter of fact. and pvm is distributed processing, i > really just threw it in to emphasize that i don't see a place for > computer games in the life of any p

Re: remote printing

2001-03-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:24:08PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ lpr mail.out > lpr: connect: Connection refused > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. > > I've checked, the the lpd daemon is running on both machines. > > What am I missing? Ah,

RE: have you seen this driver?

2001-03-02 Thread Rob Zietlow
For the Aureal. Take a look on sourceforge.net I saw it out there when I had to get it. You will have to compile it yourself. It used to be at linux.aureal.com but they went out of business, but the driver modules are at sourceforge. I had no problems compiling and installing it and it worked gr

Re: Setting Up Partitions:Solved,Thanks

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Ian Thomas (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 06:42:29PM -0800): > > > hdb1 (this is already my freebsd swap partition) > > > hdb2 /boot (this will be a primary partition) > > > hdb3 (extended partition containing logical > slices) > > > hdb5 / > > > hdb6 /var > > > hdb7 /tmp > > > hdb8 /home > > >

anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-02 Thread Ethan Benson
see subject, all the documentation i have been following on linuxprinting.org involves ghostscript, which is broken on debian. (see my other mail, all it does when run by lpd is spit out "svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.") if anyone has gotten this or a similar model working on debian could

remote printing

2001-03-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I need some help getting remote printing to work. I have a print server with a local printer attached. I used magicfilter and now it works great. Now, I'd like to be able to use lpr to remotely print to it like I do at work. My local /etc/printcap is lp|Remote printer entry:\

Re: after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

2001-03-02 Thread Ron Peterson
> When I start X Windows, using the KDE window manager, I change to root > (with su - ) > for administrative tasks. However I seem unable to run X window > applications. > > Whatever X application I try to run, I inevitably get a message similar > to "... unable to open display". Try this. W

Re: Setting Up Partitions:Solved,Thanks

2001-03-02 Thread Ian Thomas
I finished installing the system. I got all the partitions working after having to use expert mode in fdisk. I then jumped back into the debian curses install and it went right on to the next step, no problems. That is a very robust installer. As of right now I am booting from floppy until

Re: correct files

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Robert Tucker (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:41:24AM -0800): > After reading the above ref. I am curious as to getting on-line > after I boot into Linux. Do I need to have some files available > beyond rescue.bin and root.bin? dbootstrap is mentioned as the > program to use to continue install

Re: AARGGGHHHH! no X in Woody

2001-03-02 Thread David Purton
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Martin Fluch wrote: > > > > On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Matheson Cameron wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > I can't get X windows to work in Woody. xdm doesn't > > start on its own, and if I try 'startx', it says: > > > > X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (N such file or directory), > > Is the

Re: correct files

2001-03-02 Thread Robert Tucker
ktb wrote: > Assuming i386 and your going to do an install off the Internet - > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/ > > Snag, at minimum - > rescue.bin > root.bin > > Read this section again - > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-met

Re: i18n and fonts

2001-03-02 Thread Glenn Becker
> What's the output of the following: > > $ locale LANG=C LC_CTYPE="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_COLLATE="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_PAPER="C" LC_NAME="C" LC_ADDRESS="C" LC_TELEPHONE="C" LC_MEASUREMENT="C" LC_IDENTIFICATION="C" LC_ALL=C ... this is what I set it to with the c

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-02 Thread Colin Watson
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >you know how you hit "c" to open other mailboxes and it says: > > Open mailbox ('?' for list): > >well, i can no longer use '?' to see the list of mailboxes. it does >nothing; it simply drops me back to the main mailbox index. > >the only thing i can

Re: X 4.0 Upgrade /etc/X11/X ?

2001-03-02 Thread Terry Hancock
Thanks! This was the problem. Now I have X windows again. Some other stuff is not working completely (the fonts look _bad_ all of a sudden), but I'm running again. Thanks for the help (and in 15 minutes, too!), Aaron and the two others who replied. Terry Hancock > > Indeed, there is no /etc/X

Re: ghost for linux?

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Carel Fellinger (on Sat, 03 Mar 2001 02:17:44AM +0100): > reading your reaction gives me the eery feeling I've missed what > this thread was about. To me that's the single most horrible thing > that comes from mailing-lists instead of plain good old netnews, > you loose context easily.

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Peter Jay Salzman (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:15:35PM -0800): > On Fri 02 Mar 01, 8:06 PM, MaD dUCK said: > > are you running mail as root??? don't do that! > just out of curiosity, why? i've never heard a compelling reason > for that the simplest reason: because you shouldn't ever be l

RE: Samba problem

2001-03-02 Thread toolus muleus
>> [2001/02/26 22:26:25, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216) >> file_init: Information only: requested 1 open files, 1014 are available. This is common in my log file as well. Is it a problem? Can it be fixed? _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your f

Re: ghost for linux?

2001-03-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:59:25PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: reading your reaction gives me the eery feeling I've missed what this thread was about. To me that's the single most horrible thing that comes from mailing-lists instead of plain good old netnews, you loose context easily. I know I should

[OT] OpenGL Experiance

2001-03-02 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
Anyone have OpenGL experience? I'm porting my companies engineering software from HP/IBM/SGI UNIX systems to Linux. Our graphics take advantage of OpenGL. From what I can see OpenGL is a set of graphics libraries that need a special graphics card to run. I found the OpenGL libraries (actually Me

an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, you know how you hit "c" to open other mailboxes and it says: Open mailbox ('?' for list): well, i can no longer use '?' to see the list of mailboxes. it does nothing; it simply drops me back to the main mailbox index. the only thing i can think of is that i *just* updated woody u

Re: correct files

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach ktb (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:42:20PM -0600): > Snag, at minimum - > rescue.bin > root.bin ... except the last time that i tried root.bin from like 5 different locations, dd'ing and loop mounting it several times, it never turned out to be a valid filesystem and i could never use it. may

error with python/sgmltools in sid

2001-03-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'm running Lyx 1.1.16fix1, using sgmltools under the DocBook class to translate my sgml class document to other formats. Regardless of what I do to view or export the text, I get an error stating: File "/usr/lib/sgml/misc/sgmltools/python/utils.py", line 250

Error message from dpkg

2001-03-02 Thread Poe-Min Oliver Wu
This is the message thrown back when I run apt-get: == (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/apache-doc_1.3.9-13.2_all.deb (--unpack): files list file for package `doc-linux-zh' contains empty filename Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/a

Re: Latest Lyx for 'Potato'?

2001-03-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:39:59AM +0200, Hannu Virtanen wrote: > Does anyone know, if there is available any debian ('stable, 'potato') > package of the latest version (1.1.6fix1-1) of Lyx? ... Not that I am aware of... I DL'd that version from www.lyx.org and compiled it myself, getting it inst

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:27:55AM -0800, Nate Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > SamBozo Debian User wrote: > > > > Hello to the group, > > Recently there were comments made as to the "foolishness" of > > rebooting just to reset an edited config file. How about a list of > > the cli entr

Re: Eek! X won't go away!

2001-03-02 Thread Erik Steffl
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: ... > > so if you dislike xdm, at least set NoZap in XF86Config! > > Um. How about: > > $ startx ; exit I think better option is to use nohup and actually exit. that way you are sure. or use virtual console lock:-) if such a beast exists. erik

Re: Question re. AbiWord

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:36:13PM -0800, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there a way to give root (or anyone else) permission so this error > doesn't come up? I login to a non-root account (gdm), but sometimes I > open a terminal as root and want to run a graphical application. I > a

Re: HP LJ III with Jet Direct and Linux

2001-03-02 Thread Rob Rati
"Lewis, James M." wrote: > > > > > I have an old HP Laserjet III with an old JetDirect card in it that I > > have purchaed used. I have to use the parallel port to print to it, > > but would like to use the network card instead. It was configured and > > running on another network, and there is

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-03-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:52:17PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > When /var went down, I was able to tar and bzip2 up /home /etc /root > and drop them into a windows partition which meant that I lost no real why did you do that? if you have seperate partitions there is no need to back them up,

Laptops: QLITech aquires TuxTops line (was Re: GPS)

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 02:41:29PM -0500, Glenn Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Even more, does anyone on list know of a good source for 'Linux laptops' > now that both linuxlaptops.com and tuxtops.com seem to have suspended > production? > > Glenn Becker > Online Producer, Community > SCI

Re: debian command list

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:40:19AM -0800, Mike Egglestone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all... > I'm looking for a web site that would have > a nice list and basic description of debian commands. > Anyone know of such a place? > > or even just linux commands for that matter... O'Reilly's

Re: startx not starting X and mouse wheel not wheeling

2001-03-02 Thread Simon Hepburn
I don't have an intellimouse so this is an educated guess :-) I think you may have a conflict between X and gpm. Try disabling gpm and setting your device to /dev/psaux in XF86Config-4: Option "Device""/dev/psaux" Good luck, Simon. On Saturday 03 March 2001 1:07 am, Charles Lewis wrote:

Re: Mirroring only potato/woody but not sid?

2001-03-02 Thread csj
On Saturday 03 March 2001 01:22, Tibor D. wrote: > Lars Knudsen wrote: > > Have you tried adding > > > > sid/ > > > > to your exclude file ? I am mirroring the i386 part of the debian > > tree in a single rsync run using a relatively long exclude file. > > This seems perfectly possible on a 64k lin

Re: Switching between two file systems.

2001-03-02 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Sorry, I should have done that. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~#more /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=30 message=/boot/message linear default=RedHat7 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22 label=RedHat7 read-only root=/dev/hda1 image=/boot/vmlinu

Re: correct files

2001-03-02 Thread ktb
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:34:20AM -0800, Robert Tucker wrote: > Ok... I admit it. I seem to be a simpleton. I've been through the dirs > and read all the docs and instructions and I've looked at all the files, > etc. and I'm still not sure which files I use to create the disks I need > to put Debi

Re: pppd wanted

2001-03-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to set up a network connection between two computers which are > connected with a serial cable (null modem). > One computer is an i386 with 2.4.0, the other is an Macintosh Quadra 610 ^^^ > with 2.2.10, bot

Re: Newbie struggling with Windows rsync to make Debian install CD

2001-03-02 Thread mike polniak
> The exact command I am using is as follows: > > rsync --verbose --progress --stats --block-size=8192 > saens.debian.org::debian-cd/2.2_rev2/i386/binary-i386-1.iso . > > which as far as I can tell is what the readme file says to do, substituting > a real site for the sample given. I have tried

Re: Lost linux partition

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:12:11AM +0800, #KUNDAN KUMAR# ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I boot from boot floppy only, no lilo... and the boot floppy stratightaway > loads the kernel without any lilo prompt.. and then gets stuck at Kernel > Panic: No root file system. > I do have debian rescue di

startx not starting X and mouse wheel not wheeling

2001-03-02 Thread Charles Lewis
I had X (XFree86 4.0.2)working fine until I started trying to get my IntelliMouse wheel to work. I even tried running xf86config again. When I startx it attempts to load but fails with no error messages. The last few lines after it attempts: ... (**) Mouse1: Protocol: "IMPS/2" (**) Mouse1: Core Po

Re: Napster Block Ipchains Debian 2.2

2001-03-02 Thread John Galt
I'm thinking you could use a snort ruleset to do the trick... They have a policy ruleset that covers it at http://www.snort.org/Files/03012001/policy.rules Looks like about a dozen or so rules for napster, and another half dozen or so gnutella On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Martin Marconcini wrote:

Re: Switching between two file systems.

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:03:02PM -0500, Fu-Dong Chiou ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem. I have RedHat on /dev/hd1, and Debian on /dev/hd5 (that I > just transferred from another HD). The problem is, when I boot into Debian, > the system.map of RedHat is still being used

apt-get breakage

2001-03-02 Thread Chris Brown
AAA! apt-get dist-upgrade hosed my system yesterday! Well, hosed is a bit rough... everything works but it seems 'su' is busted. It says: "su: Unrecognized Linux-PAM error Sorry." I've tried reinstalling all packages related to login, libpam, libpam- modules, etc. I've tried pwconv'ing and pw

Re: Eek! X won't go away!

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach kmself@ix.netcom.com (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 02:28:39PM -0800): > $ startx ; exit ... which you can probably suspend... even more dangerous because now the user doesn't even notice that the system has been accessed over lunch. i think you can suspend. i am not sure. martin [greeting

correct files

2001-03-02 Thread Robert Tucker
Ok... I admit it. I seem to be a simpleton. I've been through the dirs and read all the docs and instructions and I've looked at all the files, etc. and I'm still not sure which files I use to create the disks I need to put Debian on my machine. I want to do as little disk generation as possable (i

Themes don't install on gnome/potato

2001-03-02 Thread hanasaki
I downloaded a theme from and used "control center" to install it. The theme seems to be in ~/.themes but is not available under themeselector.

Re: is there a way to probe a sound card's settings to see if it broken

2001-03-02 Thread John Galt
cat /dev/sndstat would be the first thing I tried. Today seems to be my day to refer to howtos...:) http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO.html On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Walter Tautz wrote: >I have recently suffered a mysterious failure in my sound >card that was working perfectly (es1371) and the m

Re: Eek! X won't go away!

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:55:51PM -0500, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also sprach Glenn Becker (on Tue, 27 Feb 2001 04:14:48PM -0500): > > I don't really know what the purpose of xdm is. There are packages to > > 'prettify' it, but I just object to the whole thing. :-) > > well, do consi

Re: Help geting hP jetdirect printer to work with Debian

2001-03-02 Thread John Galt
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Stan Brown wrote: >I;m integrating a Debian "testing" machine inot a network with lot's of >FreeBSD machines, and some HP-UX, and Sun machines. > >I'm having a hard time geting the Debian box to print to our networked >(JetDirect) printer. Can anyone give me a pointer to some d

Re: potato and kernel 2.4

2001-03-02 Thread John Galt
This is more appropriate on debian-user, redirected. BTW, it's a FAQ, look in the archives: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0102/msg02154.html Just out of curiosity, what prompted you to use -project to ask? There has been a rash of -user type questions on -project as of late, and I'm wond

Re: Printer recommendations

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:26:36PM -0500, Alec Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm faced with recommending a new printer for my parents as their old unit > is starting to show its age. The goal is to find something for $350 or > less which is Linux friendly since I'll also be using it. The print

Re: waiting for x server to begin...

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 03:33:35PM -0800, michael young ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > recently installed xfree86-4. now when I try to > start x I get: > > waiting for X server to begin accepting connections > > .. > ... > . > > and so on...What else do I need to do? Check your networking co

Re: AGP Card SiS 6326

2001-03-02 Thread Willi Dyck
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 05:53:42PM -0300, Marcelo Luiz de Laia wrote: > Hi, > > Please, how do I can configure (set) my Video Card SiS 6326 8MB AGP Ver 2.2 > on my Debian? I don't run X on my card video!!! What kind of problem do you have? I had the same video card and didn't have problems with i

RE: HP LJ III with Jet Direct and Linux

2001-03-02 Thread Lewis, James M.
> > I have an old HP Laserjet III with an old JetDirect card in it that I > have purchaed used. I have to use the parallel port to print to it, > but would like to use the network card instead. It was configured and > running on another network, and there is some info to that respect in > the d

Re: Napster Block Ipchains Debian 2.2

2001-03-02 Thread Mike Dresser
> Well, my method wasn't perfect, but it would probably get the napster > traffic down 75% (depending on the knowledge of the userbase in > question). Never underestimate the power of free music =) > > I don't think you can get around the opennap problem, since you wouldn't > know where it is loc

Re: Setting Up Partitions

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:09:56AM -0800, Ian Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a copy of Debian 2.1 Slink that I am trying > to install to a second harddrive. > > I just recently found out on a website that cfdisk > cannot create extended partitions. I attempted to do > this whe

Re: Getting Helix-Gnome

2001-03-02 Thread Pollywog
> > >Is there an ftp equivalent? I am having trouble getting apt-get to work > >using http, and am limited to using the ftp method at teh moment. > > You can download the packages with wget and add a line pointing > to their location on your harddisk to sources.list (that's what I

Re: AGP Card SiS 6326

2001-03-02 Thread Marcelo Luiz de Laia
Sorry!! This went my first e-mail to the lists. I was trying to solve my problem quickly. Do you have a suggestion of which lists to participate? Or do you suggest that I don't send messages using vary lists at the same time? Is this? Marcelo At 13:24 02/03/01 -0800, Alexander Hvostov wr

Re: Problems with mail local to Debian machine

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:27:38AM -0500, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have set up a "stable" machine that I plan on using for, among other > things, and Amanda tapehost. > > Amanada mails you a report after every run. Problem is, I'm not getting > that report. Further if I fire up el

How can I get top to show both cpus?

2001-03-02 Thread Jason Price
I am running a dual cpu box and would like to get top to display the load on each cpu seperately. When I briefly had Mandrake 7.2 installed, top showed each cpu individually, so it obviously can be done. How can I configure it to do so?

Re: Getting Helix-Gnome

2001-03-02 Thread Felix E. Klee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>But I'd highly recommend against using the Helix packages. I've found >>that they have conflicts with other packages on a recurring basis. I have installed them on three computers with different configurations and had no pro

Re: [PLUG] ram tests

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Michael Leone (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 04:00:38PM -0500): > There is memtest86. You might do better to bring them to a local computer > shop, and ask them to leave it in their RAM tester overnight. I know PCM, on > Walnut St. in Philadelphia, will do this for you. found memtest86. i think

Re: [PLUG] ram tests

2001-03-02 Thread Michael Leone
- Original Message - From: "MaD dUCK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian users" ; "plug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 3:37 PM Subject: [PLUG] ram tests > so i got a couple of pc100 sdram dimms sitting 'round and i don't know > if they work. i have this linux box sitting h

Re: AGP Card SiS 6326

2001-03-02 Thread Alexander Hvostov
Marcelo, Do *not* crosspost this to irrelevant lists. You *will* get flamed (or worse). Regards, Alex. --- PGP/GPG Fingerprint: EFD1 AC6C 7ED5 E453 C367 AC7A B474 16E0 758D 7ED9 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/CM>CC/IT d- s:+ a16 C++()>$ UL>$ P--- L++>++$ E+ W+(-)

Re: i18n and fonts

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 10:30:55PM -0500, Glenn Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > This is in the way of a partial followup to an earlier query of mine about > locales and locale definitions ... > > I managed to change LC_ALL back to what I understand to be the default > value, "C" ... > >

Re: ghost for linux?

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Peter Jay Salzman (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 12:14:36PM -0800): > true. it's called initrd. rd for ramdisk. > > > utmp/wtmp, > > what does the kernel have to do with utmp and wtmp? why would the kernel > care about who is logging into your system? okay, i see where you are coming fro

Re: Garbage for Text

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 08:19:23PM -0500, Robert Mosher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just got XFree 3.3.6 running on Debian 2.1r2, unfortunately the text is > unreadable. It appears as a whole bunch of vertical lines, or random > blocks. It appears this way at every resolution. However when I br

AGP Card SiS 6326

2001-03-02 Thread Marcelo Luiz de Laia
Hi, Please, how do I can configure (set) my Video Card SiS 6326 8MB AGP Ver 2.2 on my Debian? I don't run X on my card video!!! Thanks Very Much! Marcelo Mocada, como faco para configurar minha placa de video SiS 6326 8MB AGP Ver 2.2 no Debian para poder executar o X?? Muito obrigado. Mar

ram tests

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady/memtest86 looks nice. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "when faced with a new problem, the wise algorithmist will first attempt to classify it as np-complete. this will avoid many tears and tantru

Re: X 4.0 Upgrade /etc/X11/X ?

2001-03-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Terry Hancock wrote: > > Well, I needed a bunch of library packages from the > unstable (Woody) release, so I tried using apt-get > to do it, and it decided I needed to upgrade the X > packages as well. So okay, I wanted 4.0 anyway, but > here's the problem (after eliminating some intervening > s

ram tests

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
so i got a couple of pc100 sdram dimms sitting 'round and i don't know if they work. i have this linux box sitting here which i want to use to test the things, but i don't know what software to use. do you know of any hardcore ram test software for linux which will do read and write tests on the r

Re: USB Printer Setup

2001-03-02 Thread Tom George
Bastian Bowe wrote: Hello, what happens if you send some peace of text directly (as root) to the device? eg. $ echo "This is a test" > /dev/usb/lp0 Bye Interesting. I get a message "No such device."

Re: X 4.0 Upgrade /etc/X11/X ?

2001-03-02 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:25:36PM -0800, Terry Hancock wrote: > $ X > /tmp/x.out 2>&1 > X: Cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), > aborting > Indeed, there is no /etc/X11/X, but I don't know what > should be there. Is it a symlink? If so, to what? This file should be a symlink t

Re: X 4.0 Upgrade /etc/X11/X ?

2001-03-02 Thread Kent West
Terry Hancock wrote: Indeed, there is no /etc/X11/X, but I don't know what should be there. Is it a symlink? If so, to what? Yes. lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 20 Mar 1 01:50 /etc/X11/X -> /usr/bin/X11/XFree86

X 4.0 Upgrade /etc/X11/X ?

2001-03-02 Thread Terry Hancock
Well, I needed a bunch of library packages from the unstable (Woody) release, so I tried using apt-get to do it, and it decided I needed to upgrade the X packages as well. So okay, I wanted 4.0 anyway, but here's the problem (after eliminating some intervening steps): $ X > /tmp/x.out 2>&1 X: Can

Re: ghost for linux?

2001-03-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Fri 02 Mar 01, 2:59 PM, MaD dUCK said: > also sprach Carel Fellinger (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:30:56PM +0100): > > /var: copy it to /tmp first? > >or add rescue.bin and boot.catalog to /var? > > thing is: the boot process needs scratch space. true. it's called initrd. rd for ramdi

Re: ghost for linux?

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Carel Fellinger (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:30:56PM +0100): > /var: copy it to /tmp first? >or add rescue.bin and boot.catalog to /var? thing is: the boot process needs scratch space. log files, utmp/wtmp, pid files and all that jazz. these reside in /var, and a bootable cdrom mu

Re: mutt editor

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Marcelo Chiapparini (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 04:29:11PM -0300): > Thank you, this option worked too. I will remain stick with this one... if you prefer ee over vi in general, then my approach will be the better one. if you only want ee in mutt, use the .muttrc approach. martin [greetings

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