Re: dga in xfree4.0.2

2001-03-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
No problem with full-screen vmware here. My /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 makes no mention of DGA. Try editing your config file. Bob On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 11:36:07PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. I just fired up vmware after upgrading to XFree86 4.0.2, and > when I tried to maxim

Re: tulip and kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-07 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Jacob Stowell (on Wed, 07 Mar 2001 11:52:25PM -0500): > I checked ifconfig and it told me that my ethernet card has a base > address: > 0x7000 and an interrupt of 10. ifconfig tells you what? i/o addresses? that's news to me... > When I type modprobe tulip io=0x7000 irq=10 it says tha

Re: exim filters

2001-03-07 Thread Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying the exim interface to mail filtering, and, I > have sent about five messages to this list. I'm so sorry. > > The filter I'm trying is this: > > if personal and >$h_from contains "yahoo" or >$h_from contains "aol.com" or >$h_fr

TrollTech: Qt 2.3.0 released (Anti-alias for KDE)

2001-03-07 Thread #KUNDAN KUMAR#
Hi all, Qt 2.3.0 has the anti-alias font support. Its been released just a few hours ago. http://news.linuxprogramming.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-03-07-002-06-LT .The tar.gz files are available from ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/sources/qt-x11-2.3.0.tar.gz. Did anybody try this? I want to use bu

tulip and kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-07 Thread Jacob Stowell
Hi, I recently compiled kernel 2.4.2 and am having a difficult time getting the tulip driver module to load. The module loads fine using kernel 2.2.18 (from /etc/modules) without passing any parameter arguments. However, even when I try to load the module using irq and io values, it fails to loa

Re: DNS caching only name server: 1 simple question

2001-03-07 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Phil Brutsche (on Wed, 07 Mar 2001 10:27:54PM -0600): > > The problem that I am encountering is that whenever I reboot, my ISP's > > DHCP server re-assigns the nameserver IP addresses, even though the > > IP's of my ISP's DNS servers are static!! if you are using dhcpcd as your dhcp c

dga in xfree4.0.2

2001-03-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I just fired up vmware after upgrading to XFree86 4.0.2, and when I tried to maximize the screen it said that DGA wasn't enabled. I notice in the default config file that it's disabled. Is DGA not yet functional under XFree86 4.0.2? I couldn't find anything on this on the XFre

Re: DNS caching only name server: 1 simple question

2001-03-07 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I've recently learned how-to configure BIND as an DNS caching-only > server. So far the DNS caching server configuration of BIND has proven > to be awesome!! That combined with a few TCP/IP

Re: ipchains problem

2001-03-07 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Andrew Perrin (on Wed, 07 Mar 2001 08:11:50PM -0500): > The problem I'm running into is that my wife's e-mail (which uses > IMAP) often gets "TCP/IP Connection Dropped" errors. I suspect that these > happen when ipchains times out her port mapping. Can someone help with > setting ipchai

Re: After Debian install, XMS and HIMEM errors prevent Win95 laun ch.

2001-03-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 02:12:46PM +0100, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > I've installed Debian (aug. 2000 release), Win9x, WinNT or 2000 and QNX > (Neutrino) all on one machine and never had a similar problem. Did you by > any chance run some extraordinary installation script or reinstall/upgrade > some

CPU architectures (was Re: Win95 won't reboot after Debian install)

2001-03-07 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 11:57:44AM +0100, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: | | This A20-line crap rates as one of the most insane ideas ever put forth | in the whole history of PCs. Anyone who doesn't know already may want to | read up a little on what it's about, for example here | | http://www.phys.uu.nl/

Re: booting Win95 with LILO

2001-03-07 Thread D-Man
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 04:32:57PM -0800, scud wrote: | Hi everybody, | I decided to boot Win95 once again, for making some changes and install | software for useing with Wine. But the MBR has been rewritten during | Linux installation. I boot Linux with LILO. How exactly shuld look the | lilo.

Re: apt get install of red carpet

2001-03-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Brian Murphy wrote: > no package name was given. I tried apt-get install redcarpet but it didn't > work. Did anyone else do this? *lol* Try 'apt-cache search red.*carpet', it might find it for you. Jason

woody still missing a bunch of packages?

2001-03-07 Thread Mathew Johnston
It looks like woody is still missing lilo, passwd, slang1 and some other packages. Is there an ETA for these packages? Earlier today there were a lot more missing packages, but tonight they were back. Where are the rest? :) Mathew Johnston

SMPEG-XMMS for potato ?

2001-03-07 Thread Debian User
smpeg-xmms is depend on woody, but i use potato. where can i get smpeg-xmms for potato...? thanks

DNS caching only name server: 1 simple question

2001-03-07 Thread Stefan Srdic
I've recently learned how-to configure BIND as an DNS caching-only server. So far the DNS caching server configuration of BIND has proven to be awesome!!  That combined with a few TCP/IP tweaks in the /proc filesystem and this  Penguin flys :-D Throughout my testing I've only encountered one pr

Re: Problems Installing X

2001-03-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
I suggest that you check a few things: 1. What does 'ls -al /etc/X11/X' say? 2. Is xserver-xfree86 installed? (check 'dpkg -l xserver-xfree86') If not, install it with either dpkg or apt-get (it appears that sometimes this doesn't get installed in an upgrade). Bob On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02

Re: Problems Installing X

2001-03-07 Thread Stefan Srdic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I had installed Storm Linux which is based on potato and tried to upgrade by using the unstable distribution. I got the following error after upgrading to XFree86 version 4.02... "cannot stat etc/X11/X" I then made boot floppies and installed a completely clean i

Re: Printer recommendations

2001-03-07 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:17:55PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: | 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

Re: Debian quit booting

2001-03-07 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 09:14:00AM -0500, - wrote: | I have just the one floppy that was made during Debian installation.. I | wanted to make another boot floppy while Debian was working but I didn't | know how. Here is how to make a new boot floppy : Go to www.gnu.org/software/grub/ (the URL

apt get install of red carpet

2001-03-07 Thread Brian Murphy
hmm...according to the ximian site this is what you do: Ximian GNOME users can get Red Carpet through Ximian GNOME Update by selecting the "Red Carpet Beta" mirror. Otherwise, you can get it from . Debian users can add the following line to their apt-get line

Problems Installing X

2001-03-07 Thread dmacbanay
Hi, I had installed Storm Linux which is based on potato and tried to upgrade by using the unstable distribution. I got the following error after upgrading to XFree86 version 4.02... "cannot stat etc/X11/X" I then made boot floppies and installed a completely clean install by using boot floppi

Problems Installing X

2001-03-07 Thread dmacbanay
Hi, I had installed Storm Linux which is based on potato and tried to upgrade by using the unstable distribution. I got the following error after upgrading to XFree86 version 4.02... "cannot stat etc/X11/X" I then made boot floppies and installed a completely clean install by using boot floppi

Re: Installing Debian

2001-03-07 Thread b3
> Well first of all IMHO most of the defaults make sense. > The problem here is you trade off power for ease of use. And I Exactly - the more you "simplify", the more choice you lose. > have yet to see a really good way around this. Maybe the best > way would be to make "levels" of install like

ipchains problem

2001-03-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings - I have a small home network set up such that my wife's computer (Win 98), my linux laptop, and a linux sparc workstation all share a dialup connection managed by my desktop, which is a debian potato machine. I use ipchains to do this. The problem I'm running into is that my wife's e-

postgres 7.* with plperl for potato?

2001-03-07 Thread will trillich
any new news on the 'embedded perl within postgres 7.* for potato' front? samfundet.no/~tfheen has 7.0.3potato which is a postgresql beyond the standard 6.5.3 that's provided at debian.org; but it doesn't have the PLPERL language activated... any change on the horizon? -- It is always hazardous

woody installation

2001-03-07 Thread Brian Murphy
Not trying to start a flame war, but I have a legitimate question that has been kicked around a little, but not to my satisfaction :). What are the chances that the installation procedure will improve in woody versus what is currently in the potatoe distribution? I am a very new debian user, but

Re: apt-get problem

2001-03-07 Thread Brad Cramer
it's under the /pool/main/s/ dir. how do I access these packages? Are they only for stable? Thanks - Original Message - From: " W. Paul Mills " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 5:55 PM Subject: Re: apt-get problem > Because it is not there "slrn-ja" is, but no "sl

RE: dsl cisco 678 router

2001-03-07 Thread Chad Maine
Look here: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/474/pswdrec_6xx.html -Original Message- From: John Griffiths [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 4:02 PM To: Matt Fair Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dsl cisco 678 router At 05:56 PM 3/7/2001 -0600, Matt Fai

Re: dsl cisco 678 router

2001-03-07 Thread John Griffiths
At 05:56 PM 3/7/2001 -0600, Matt Fair wrote: >Hey, >I set a password on my router a while ago and cannot remember what my >password is. Is there a way to purge all the information on the cisco >router? >Thanks, >Matt The router Guru here says there is a way.. but he's F***ed if he can remember...

select arch with debuild

2001-03-07 Thread Ste Pelux
i converted sourcecode with dh_make , modified makefile and debian/* and succesfully compiled and buid package with debuild but can't select arch. in fact debuild (at some lines) says: make[2]: Entering directory `/home/pelux/temp/mplayer-0.11.pre24/libmpeg2' gcc -c -O4 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -pi

dsl cisco 678 router

2001-03-07 Thread Matt Fair
Hey, I set a password on my router a while ago and cannot remember what my password is. Is there a way to purge all the information on the cisco router? Thanks, Matt

Re: Java

2001-03-07 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Carlos Laviola (on Wed, 07 Mar 2001 08:33:26PM -0300): > Besides the fact that Java is kinda slow, it runs great. oh yeah, and besides it being a concept fault at core, you can even use it to write code. listen to jamie: http://www.jwz.org/doc/java.html i have a few additions he hasn

Re: Where should top-level info menu (dir) for emacs be?

2001-03-07 Thread Carl Greco
Depends of the definition of "Info-directory-list". On my system (2.2r2 with GNU Emacs 20.7.2) the default value is ("/usr/local/lib/info/" "/usr/local/info/" "/usr/share/info/" "/usr/info" "/usr/share/info/" "/usr/info" "/usr/share/info") (Not sure why all the multiple listings?) and "/usr/sh

Re: Java

2001-03-07 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 07-Mar-2001 San Segkhoonthod wrote: > I used to try IBM's JDK 1.3 and it worked fine (such > as JavaSpace, Sun's xsltc, apache's xalan). So, you > may want to check it out. Thank you. Indeed, it worked fine, I now love Java. :-) For those who also want to try out a neat JRE/JDK, here's the a

Re: Bash & .bashrc

2001-03-07 Thread ktb
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 04:40:25PM -0500, Colin Cashman wrote: > I have .bashrc set up to support color ls, but .bashrc isn't called when I > log in. > > If I subsequently start a new shell, however, or 'source .bashrc' then the > file is read and processed. > > What's the best way to handle th

Re: apt-get problem

2001-03-07 Thread W. Paul Mills
Because it is not there "slrn-ja" is, but no "slrn." "slrn" seems to exist only in stable. Brad Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : I am trying to install slrn with apt-get install slrn but I keep getting the : following message: : Reading Package Lists... Done : Building Dependency Tree... Done

X11 config file for solving 'startx' problems

2001-03-07 Thread Simon Harvey
hello i have here the X11 config file that was requested. other data: the display is a laptop gd6235 LCD display that is completely IBM VGA compatiable. the resolution is: 640x480x256 i could not find the maximum refresh rates - i checked on the web an i couldnt find any numbers. ,sorry i found

Re: Bash & .bashrc

2001-03-07 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, March 7, Colin Cashman did write: > I have .bashrc set up to support color ls, but .bashrc isn't called when > I log in. As expected. See bash's man page (specifically the `INVOCATION' section) for a discussion of the startup sequence. > If I subsequently start a new shell, ho

Where should top-level info menu (dir) for emacs be?

2001-03-07 Thread William F. Dowling
Where should the top-level info menu (dir) for emacs be? Debian policy says: > Info documents should be installed in /usr/share/info. Your package > must call install-info to update the Info dir file, in its > post-installation script: > > install-info --quiet --section Development

Re: rc.local equivalent

2001-03-07 Thread W. Paul Mills
Create a file in "/etc/init.d/" and call it whatever you wish. Then use "update-rc.d" to create the symlinks needed to make it work. See the "README" in "/etc/init.d/" for more details. Holp, John Mr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : A couple of days ago someone asked the question that was in the b

Re: bsd ftpd chroot'd environment

2001-03-07 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:41:12PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: > Hi! > > I am trying to set up chrooted environment for my bsd ftpd users, but I can't > seem to get any statically linked ls binaries (is there some ftpuser package > or > something)? And do I really have to copy this files to ever

Re: Midnight commander undelete?

2001-03-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > * Adam C Powell, IV wrote: > > > Oops, typo in the email! I was trying /#undel:hdb1 but to no avail. > > Just tried it again, no such file or directory. > > mc -V says the undelfs is not compiled in. I have no idea why, the > object file is compiled during build. Mayb

RE: Bash & .bashrc

2001-03-07 Thread Rob Zietlow
I had this similar issue on my system. If you look at the bash_profile you will see some calls to the .bashrc...but they are commented out (why?) just uncomment them, and you are good to go -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 20

Re: Java

2001-03-07 Thread San Segkhoonthod
I used to try IBM's JDK 1.3 and it worked fine (such as JavaSpace, Sun's xsltc, apache's xalan). So, you may want to check it out. san --- Carlos Laviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey folks, > > Is anybody running Blackdown's port of the JRE, > version 1.3.0 FCS? I tried > that, and also v1.2.

Re: [OT] Cool *nix/GNU/FS/Perl/FSF/etc. Caps?

2001-03-07 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Forrest English (on Wed, 07 Mar 2001 01:43:55PM -0800): > there's also copyleft, i forget their address right now. but a quick > google for copyleft store should come up with stuff. this and thinkgeek.com - which is precisely what john didn't want. martin > > -- > Forrest English >

Re: Bash & .bashrc

2001-03-07 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 07 Mar 2001 16:40:25 EST, "Colin Cashman" writes: >What's the best way to handle this so it's done automagically upon logging in? > Just throw "source .bashrc" onto the end of the >.bash_profile file? IMHO: yes. cheers, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Network Engineer | T: +43 1 89933

RE: Bash & .bashrc

2001-03-07 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 07-Mar-2001 Colin Cashman wrote: > I have .bashrc set up to support color ls, but .bashrc isn't called when I > log in. > > If I subsequently start a new shell, however, or 'source .bashrc' then the > file is read and processed. > > What's the best way to handle this so it's done automagicall

Re: rc.local equivalent

2001-03-07 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > A couple of days ago someone asked the question that was in the back of my > mind, but I don't recall seeing the answer/s. > > In Red Hat and some other Red Hat "like" distributions the pat

Re: [OT] Cool *nix/GNU/FS/Perl/FSF/etc. Caps?

2001-03-07 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 07-Mar-2001 Forrest English wrote: > there's also copyleft, i forget their address right now. but a quick > google for copyleft store should come up with stuff. http://copyleft.net :) > > -- > Forrest English > http://truffula.net > > "When we have nothing left to give > There will be no r

Bash & .bashrc

2001-03-07 Thread Colin Cashman
I have .bashrc set up to support color ls, but .bashrc isn't called when I log in. If I subsequently start a new shell, however, or 'source .bashrc' then the file is read and processed. What's the best way to handle this so it's done automagically upon logging in? Just throw "source .bashrc" o

Re: [OT] Cool *nix/GNU/FS/Perl/FSF/etc. Caps?

2001-03-07 Thread Forrest English
there's also copyleft, i forget their address right now. but a quick google for copyleft store should come up with stuff. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net "When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing l

Java

2001-03-07 Thread Carlos Laviola
Hey folks, Is anybody running Blackdown's port of the JRE, version 1.3.0 FCS? I tried that, and also v1.2.2, AND Debian's kaffe, but none seems to work at all. I'd like some tips from a person that has a proper JRE/JDK set up and running fine (note that I do not have any knowledge about Java at al

Re: rc.local equivalent

2001-03-07 Thread Forrest English
as far as i know there isn't one. make your own script in /etc/init.d and link to it in the runlevels that you want /etc/rc2.d is the default runlevels init scripts. personally, i like this method better, as you can just remove symlinks to stop them from starting up, but don't have to delete the

apt-get problem

2001-03-07 Thread Brad Cramer
I am trying to install slrn with apt-get install slrn but I keep getting the following message: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package slrn has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and

RE: scp frontend anyone?

2001-03-07 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 07-Mar-2001 Bostjan Muller wrote: > Hi! > > Does anyone know of any (working) scp frontend (either for console or for X), > that would work in debian.. I have tried kscp, but it lacks functionallity. > Is > there anything else out there? Yes, search freshmeat.net for scp (I did, got a lot of

Re: What kernel module for "Sound Max Digital Audio"?

2001-03-07 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Kent West wrote: > > > > > > Kent West wrote: > > > > integrated sound on a Gateway E3400 using ALSA> > > Andrea replied: > > > You don't say if you added in the /etc/modutils the requested aliases for > > your sound > > card, mine where created quite correctly by alsaconf, but i remember well,

Re: Trouble with kernel stability

2001-03-07 Thread Andrea Vettorello
franck routier wrote: > Hi, > > I have some trouble with my kernel for a few days : it breaks quite often, > giving me a oops... > I noticed it is particularly bad with drm accessing null pointer... (???), > but not only. X sometimes hangs up without warning too, and once my machine > couldn't unm

Re: [ze_mil@club-internet.fr: X error]

2001-03-07 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Branden Robinson wrote: > Would someone help this user for me? Dear Laurent, for sure you will found a quicker answer to your questions in the Debian mailing lists (for example debian-user =) instead contacting the packages maintainers... > - Forwarded message from Laurent Dubois <[EMAIL PRO

rc.local equivalent

2001-03-07 Thread Holp, John Mr.
A couple of days ago someone asked the question that was in the back of my mind, but I don't recall seeing the answer/s. In Red Hat and some other Red Hat "like" distributions the path sequence /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc.local can be used to execute your custom scripts and/or start daemons at boot tim

error when trying to run tstotext

2001-03-07 Thread John Covici
I am getting the following error when running tstotext on a pdf file. BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: dynamic-link.h: 62: elf_get_dynamic_info: Assertion `! "bad dynamic tag"' failed! Anyone have a clue? Thanksin advance for any help. -- John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scp frontend anyone?

2001-03-07 Thread Ilia Lobsanov
How about http://freshmeat.net/projects/secpanel/ ilia. On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:53:04PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: > Hi! > > Does anyone know of any (working) scp frontend (either for console or for X), > that would work in debian.. I have tried kscp, but it lacks functionallity. Is > there

woody broken

2001-03-07 Thread Mathew Johnston
I recently updated my woody/testing package list and have found that many packages are either no longer available or are obsolete. Some examples include mount, passwd, samba, rlinetd, and MANY more. I've tried many mirrors including ftp.debian.org and ftp.us.debian.org and they're all exhibiting th

Re: [OT] Cool *nix/GNU/FS/Perl/FSF/etc. Caps?

2001-03-07 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 07-Mar-2001 John Bacalle wrote: > * John Bacalle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010305 18:30]: >> Is anyone aware of a good source to buy quality hats/caps for Free >> Software types? I would prefere a Debian/Copyleft design vendor but I >> can't find anything of *good quality*. > > No one has any goo

Re: digest redux

2001-03-07 Thread Joey Hess
Jim McCloskey wrote: > I'm still trying to work out where debian-user-digest has gone. I've > mailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] a couple of times but there's not > been a response. * joeyh wonder's what's up with the debian-user digest Don't tell me it stopped as wel... Joey: there have been numerous com

scp frontend anyone?

2001-03-07 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! Does anyone know of any (working) scp frontend (either for console or for X), that would work in debian.. I have tried kscp, but it lacks functionallity. Is there anything else out there? B. -- Boštjan Müller [NEONATUS], [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://neonatus.net/~neonatus For my PGP key finger:

bsd ftpd chroot'd environment

2001-03-07 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! I am trying to set up chrooted environment for my bsd ftpd users, but I can't seem to get any statically linked ls binaries (is there some ftpuser package or something)? And do I really have to copy this files to every user I want to chroot? Is there no possibillity of ftpd using some onternal

RE: SETTING SYSTEM CLOCK

2001-03-07 Thread Friedrich Dumont
Thank you guys (John and Henrique) for your prompt answers and sorry for the words in caps - just wanted to make them stand out from the rest of my message. More feedback ? --- Friedrich

digest redux

2001-03-07 Thread Jim McCloskey
I'm still trying to work out where debian-user-digest has gone. I've mailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] a couple of times but there's not been a response. What I know for certain is that for many people the digest simply stopped coming more than a month ago. My impressions from reading the archives of debi

RE: SETTING SYSTEM CLOCK

2001-03-07 Thread Holp, John Mr.
If you want to force the systems clock time to be that if the hardware clock time do: hwclock -s or hwclock --hctosys all syntax in this instance is lower case John -Original Message- From: Henrique M Holschuh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 3:10 PM

Re: Potato to Woody upgrading method

2001-03-07 Thread Steven Dickenson
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 08:07:36AM +0100, Pap Tibor wrote: > I'm considering to upgrade my Potato system to Woody. I don't have Woody CD > set yet. The question is whether I upgrade my system through the internet or > buy it on CD. I've got a 56K/s minutepayed modem connection only. How much > dat

OT: Any scriptwriting (movies) software out there?

2001-03-07 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I've made the move to Linux a while back now and intend to stay. I have some vimrc F-Keys set up to duplicate script formatting. I just miss my Final Draft and wonder if anyone has done anything along those lines...? Hoping against hope, but worth a shot. Jonathan -- /* Jonathan Gift [EMA

Re: SETTING SYSTEM CLOCK

2001-03-07 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 07 Mar 2001, Friedrich Dumont wrote: > SETTING SYSTEM CLOCK USING THE HARDWARE CLOCK AS REFERENCE... That should not be in caps, unless your terminal is seriously screwed up. But it's a good thing to notice that patch to better document the hwclock script paid back... You want to muck aro

Re: Outlook to GNU/Linux mailbox conversion is possible with existing tools

2001-03-07 Thread Dan Jacobson
Hello Fellas, unfortunately when we read and reply to this list via netnews, the mailing list folks won't see it [smart]. So here's a repost via mail. My real address is jidanni @t kimo.com.tw Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Outlook to GNU/Linux mailbox conversion is possible with exist

dpkg/debhelper/debconf for potato

2001-03-07 Thread Alfred Munnikes
Hello Where can I download a potato version of debhelper, dpkg, debconf (and apt ?) ? For Xfree 4.02 (and many more woody packages I would like to compile on my potato system) I must have debhelper > 2.1.18, but debhelper requires debconf-utils but debconf (which provide debconf-utils) requires d

sound in potato

2001-03-07 Thread john gennard
I haven't previously configured sound in Debian. Now, having watched queries on the list, read the HOWTO and manpages, have had a go. My soundcard is a PC128 and the cdrom IDE/ATAPI on /dev/hdc. Kernel was recompiled, I enabled CONFIG_SOUND and CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371 and dmesg showed the card with th

SETTING SYSTEM CLOCK

2001-03-07 Thread Friedrich Dumont
Hi Debian Users! I am a relatively new to Linux and I am trying to install the latest stable release of Debian/GNU Linux 2.2r2 "Potato" in my old computer (486/DX2) at home. The installation process went fine. However when I boot the computer Linux starts to load correctly from either the hard dis

Re: spurious printer ?

2001-03-07 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > > On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Matthieu Paindavoine wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to setup an hp 5mp printer at home, off the parallel port. I > > am running kernel 2.4.2, with parport enabled, as well as the IEEE 1284 > > option. And the pr

Re: download

2001-03-07 Thread Kent West
Jason Beardsley wrote: > > I go to the ftp site and i see tons of things to download, where is the > actual things i need to install linux? > Instead of going to the ftp site, go to the web site (http://www.debian.org), and there you'll find a link on the left for Installation Instructions that

RE: download

2001-03-07 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, Just to get you initiated, RTFM at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html. After that, see http://cdimage.debian.org or check in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/. > I go to the ftp site and i see tons of things to d

Re: spurious printer ?

2001-03-07 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Matthieu Paindavoine wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to setup an hp 5mp printer at home, off the parallel port. I > am running kernel 2.4.2, with parport enabled, as well as the IEEE 1284 > option. And the printer seems to be correctly recognized at bootup > (parport0). > >

Re: etherchannel bonding problems, Something wicked happened

2001-03-07 Thread Rob Latham
Camm Maguire ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Greetings! I'll be doing channel bonding here soon on our cluster as > well, and was thinking of packaging ifenslave. I've read somewhere > that on redhat boxes, this tool is not necessary. Is this still the > most 'modern' way of getting this done? In

spurious printer ?

2001-03-07 Thread Matthieu Paindavoine
Hello, I am trying to setup an hp 5mp printer at home, off the parallel port. I am running kernel 2.4.2, with parport enabled, as well as the IEEE 1284 option. And the printer seems to be correctly recognized at bootup (parport0). I am using lprng for printing, and typing 'lpr somefile' doesn't d

RE: download

2001-03-07 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hmmm, you're realy new to linux are you not ? You'll need either 3 iso files (about 600MB each), take a look here http://cdimage.debian.org/ or use the BCD of GNU/Debian linux wich you can find at http://open-projects.linuxcare.com/BBC/ Good Luck, joris ps: this must be my top reply day, finger

download

2001-03-07 Thread Jason Beardsley
I go to the ftp site and i see tons of things to download, where is the actual things i need to install linux? ___ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/

Re: manually installing mozilla plugins

2001-03-07 Thread idalton
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 10:17:51AM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 04:36:46PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > > Just load it into mozilla. i.e., load the URL > > > > > > file:///path/to/jre.xpi > > > > > > Mozilla will offer to install the plugin, and do a bunch o

Re: exim filters

2001-03-07 Thread benalb
Cuando: mié, 07 de mar de 2001, a las 12:05:26 -0600 Quien: ktb Que: Re: exim filters >> [problem with exim filter] > As much traffic as this list gets there is no reason to be spaming the > list. It's just going to piss people off. You could also send mail to > yourself to test. I was no

Re: Socorro!!!

2001-03-07 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, if you want to print you need to install a printerfilter, like MagicFilter. You need the following to print: # apt-get install lprng magicfilter svgalib-dummyg1 gs gsfonts During installation you will be asked for configuration. You can do it again later with: $ magicfilterconfig or adapt

RE: Testing wants to remove most of my system...

2001-03-07 Thread Joris Lambrecht
i had something > similar < apparently had to do with perl (here too ?), took the risk, machine still works ... had to reinstall a bit. This, of course, is caused by some package wich is set to be removed and causes a cascade of dependencies to be activated. Most of the time this can be caused by a

RE: [ze_mil@club-internet.fr: X error]

2001-03-07 Thread Joris Lambrecht
This person probably installed/upgrade X 4.x on top of an existing X remove the entire X11 dir in /usr/bin/X11 reinstall X is the quickest way to make it work COULD take some reconfiguration for window managers etc. Joris -Original Message- From: mike polniak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: exim filters

2001-03-07 Thread ktb
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 06:38:54PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying the exim interface to mail filtering, and, I > have sent about five messages to this list. I'm so sorry. > > The filter I'm trying is this: > > if personal and >$h_from contains "yahoo" or >

Re: Testing wants to remove most of my system...

2001-03-07 Thread Kent West
Damon Muller wrote: Quoth Joey Hess, It's impossible to tell what you're running into since you didn't bother to post the actual apt message or any useful diagnostic information, but you might try removing base-config. Sorry, didn't include the (quite long) output previously on the off cha

network printing

2001-03-07 Thread Clair J. Sullivan
Hello. I am a newbie to Linux and am not quite sure where to turn. I am trying to set up my computer running Potato to do network printing. I have read the printing HOWTO and was not really sure how to do things for something over the network instead of LPT1. My network uses appletalk and I

Re: [ze_mil@club-internet.fr: X error]

2001-03-07 Thread mike polniak
Branden Robinson wrote: > Would someone help this user for me? > > - Forwarded message from Laurent Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > From: "Laurent Dubois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: X error > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Hello, > > >

Re: Trouble with kernel stability

2001-03-07 Thread Peter Kovacs
Does it always stop compiling at the same place? If not then you probably have faulty ram. Peter On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 06:17:47PM +0100, franck routier wrote: > Another point is I can't compiling kernel 2.4.1 any more. I get this error > message (after a make clean and make dep) : > > On the

X install/setup problems

2001-03-07 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I'm having problems trying to get x setup. I loaded the default xdm and twm and the gnome stuff on install. Since then I installed gdm. I'm currently using helix gnome on another box that is identical but running SuSE 6.4. I like this okay and I think it is using sawfish for window manager? H

dselect/apt-get problem

2001-03-07 Thread Dominique Rousset
Hello, I'm using woody from ftp.fr.debian.org. Since this morning update may obsolete/local list of packages has abnormally become large. In fact, there should be nearly only console-tool in it. Now every package beginning with a letter between m and z in th alphabetical order has become obso

Re: licq broken in woody?

2001-03-07 Thread Ray Percival
I've noticed this also looks like a bug to me. -- Original Message -- From: David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 23:19:46 +1030 (CST) > >Hi, ever since I upgraded to woody, licq hasn't worked. I'm using >gnomeicu, but I don't like it as mu

exim filters

2001-03-07 Thread benalb
Hi, I'm trying the exim interface to mail filtering, and, I have sent about five messages to this list. I'm so sorry. The filter I'm trying is this: if personal and $h_from contains "yahoo" or $h_from contains "aol.com" or $h_from contains "hotmail" or $h_from contains "mix

Re: Compiling/Installing D-link Ethernet Card Module

2001-03-07 Thread mike polniak
Arlo White wrote: > I'm trying to install a D-Link DFE-530TX+ Module for my ethernet card. I > found the via3043.c source code at there website and copyed it to my > /usr/src/via directory. This card uses the rtl8139 or 8139.too driver. I use both and each works fine. Run> modprobe -l -

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