Is Nvidia Geforce supported on potato?

2001-05-13 Thread Lars Jensen
Is the eVGA Nvidia Geforce 2 MX 32MB Video Card supported on potato, or is there some way of getting it to work? Any help appreciated. Thanks, Lars. %%% Lars Jensen, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno NV 89512-3999. Tel: 7

k2.4.4 and alsa w/devfs

2001-05-13 Thread The Doctor
Anybody got a guide or FAQ on how to get my ALSA happy with the brave new world of devfs? I had no problems compiling and running ALSA in 2.2.18 and 0.5.8 modules but 2.4.4 w/devfs and 0.9x modules are barfing up errors about /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer, which I don't have in /dev anymore. Newbie

Re: Is Nvidia Geforce supported on potato?

2001-05-13 Thread Chris Spencer
On Saturday 12 May 2001 23:22, Lars Jensen wrote: > Is the eVGA Nvidia Geforce 2 MX 32MB Video Card supported on potato, or > is there some way of getting it to work? Any help appreciated. The SVGA server from XFree 3.3.6 (which comes with Potato) might work with it but I dunno for sure. You'd be

Building ALSA Driver in Debian

2001-05-13 Thread Patrick Greenwood
I have 2.2.17 Debian on a Dell 4100 with SoundBlasterPCI_64V which I've guessed to use the ens1371 driver. The ALSA INSTALL documentation has, so far, seemed to get me the furthest. Here is some hopefully important output. I would appreciate any guidance anyone has to help me get sound from my spea

Re: Building ALSA Driver in Debian

2001-05-13 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, You're also supposed to add a bunch of stuff to the /etc/modules.conf file too (actually in Debian, you add it to /etc/modutils/, and then run update-modutils) check out http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-howto/ Cameron Matheson On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 10:55:47PM -0700, Patrick Gre

Re: TuxTops Amethyst (Compal N20U OEM) lockups, video/APM suspected

2001-05-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:05:47AM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > Previously posted to debian-laptop, no responses yet. Problems continue > after latest updates, seems to be display related as leaving system > powered on w/ X off has yet to crash. Slightly updated. More

Re: funky hardware problem

2001-05-13 Thread Richard KHOO Guan Chen
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Monte Milanuk wrote: > Played musical chairs w/ the drives > on the ide cables, the whole nine yards. Nothing helped. Suddenly, the HD > started 'clunking' ominously. Went and got a 'new' 1.2GB HD from the local > computer shack for about $10-15, and magically everything w

Re: Request for assistance

2001-05-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 08:14:38PM -0700, Forrest Cameranesi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 2:44 PM -0700 05/11/2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > >on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:29:50PM -0700, Forrest Cameranesi > > > > >I don't see a reference to your SCSI controller. This is going to make > >a dif

How can I change the keyboard layout ?

2001-05-13 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi ! My keyboard is set to the default 'us', I need to change it to 'es'. I expect it to work in tty1, is this configuration valid for X ? Do I need to configure it in another place for it to run under X ? After reading consolechars and charset man pages, I'm very much confused. I'

Circuslinux on Potato

2001-05-13 Thread Joan og Jesper
Hi Does somebody know, if it's possible to install (and how) "circuslinux" form the testing distr. on Potato. Thanks in advance Jesper gertz

Re: cdrecord can't get mmap on /dev/zero

2001-05-13 Thread David Purton
On Sun, 13 May 2001, David Purton wrote: > On Sat, 12 May 2001, Simeon Walker wrote: > > > > > > > Using cdrecord 1.10a18-2 on an up to date Debian unstable installation > > > with kernel 2.2.18 (self compiled) trying to write to CD writer: > > > > > > cdrecord: Invalid argument. Cannot ge

mutt, email and ssl: SSL is unavailable.

2001-05-13 Thread Erik Steffl
I have the following setting in mutt: set folder="{localhost/ssl}mail" I start mutt and it says: SSL is unavailable. is there anything I have to do to enable ssl? Since the description of mutt package says it supports ssl I thought it would work right away. There is no separate mutt-ssl pac

Port

2001-05-13 Thread Antonio Lobato
Hello! I`m having a trouble with "to bind port 16001". The output of some programs talk-me these (the sound-properties program output is just a example. I get these error message, but the Gnome Control Center open after in sound conf) : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sound-properties

debian; php4; and apache 1.3.19

2001-05-13 Thread Martin WHEELER
[Please cc any replies to author, as not subscribed to this list. Thank you.] Recent upgrade from testing gives me apache 1.3.19-1. Great. (Upgrade from 1.3.9 long awaited.) Now can anyone point me towards a .deb or otherwise of ph

xdm on beta-blockers

2001-05-13 Thread Martin WHEELER
OK, I give up. Can anyone explain to me why xdm now takes a full 60 seconds to load and kick in? [Celeron 433, 64M, ATI Rage 128 16M, debian 2.2r3+testing, upgraded daily.] I'm flummoxed. It doesn't appear to be a memory-swapping problem -- more of a security-permissions related thing, as no-one

smtp-refuser with sendmail problem

2001-05-13 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
Hello, i have sendmail set up and use smtp-refuser. But my sendmail reports: May 13 13:50:38 work sendmail[4414]: twist localhost to /usr/sbin/smtp-refuser /usr/lib/smtp-refuser/fuckoff-svfsun May 13 13:50:38 work sendmail[4414]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 25: twist_option: dup: Bad file d

xdm on beta-blockers (2)

2001-05-13 Thread Martin WHEELER
Sorry; on previous, forgot to add: [Please cc any replies to author, as not subscribed to this list. Thank you.] OK, I give up. Can anyone explain to me why xdm now takes a full 60 seconds to load and kick in? [Celeron 433, 64M, AT

X setup

2001-05-13 Thread David Underwood
Greetings Debian folk, I have a problem that I hope that you may be able to help me with. I am not entirely new to Linux having run both Redhat and Mandrake over the last year or so. Having said that I am no guru either! However I am totally new to Debian. I have just recently installed 2.2r3

Re: xdm on beta-blockers (2)

2001-05-13 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:59:51PM +0100, Martin WHEELER wrote: > Sorry; on previous, forgot to add: > > [Please cc any replies to author, as not subscribed to this list. > Thank you.] > > OK, I give up. > > Can anyone explain to m

NIS broken in unstable

2001-05-13 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I just upgraded NIS on my machine (unstable w/2.4.4) and now it won't bind to the domain, so I'm basicly screwed... Anyone know what happened? -Jon

Re: NIS broken in unstable

2001-05-13 Thread Cheng H. Lee
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 09:57:36AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Hi, > > I just upgraded NIS on my machine (unstable w/2.4.4) and now it won't > bind to the domain, so I'm basicly screwed... > > Anyone know what happened? > > -Jon > Hi, There's apparently a problem with the unresolved rp

Re: Circuslinux on Potato

2001-05-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 09:41:01AM +0200, Joan og Jesper wrote: > Hi > > Does somebody know, if it's possible to install (and how) "circuslinux" > form the testing distr. on Potato. > Make sure you have all the depends met and install it with dpkg. Depends: libaudiofile0, libc6 (>= 2.1.2), lib

Problems with sendmail

2001-05-13 Thread Robert Schmidt
I upgraded to woody and downloaded the newest version of Sendmail. I've been running 8.9.3 for a while with no problems. The problem now is that /var/spool/mqueue-client gets filled with local bounces: like >>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <<< 550 5.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying denied 550

Old packages?

2001-05-13 Thread Rüdiger Kuhlmann
Hi! Is there any place where one can download not-most-recent versions of unstable packages? Yours, Rüdiger. -- A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Ghandi

Sawfish debs for potato

2001-05-13 Thread Henrik Enberg
Anyone know where to find a fairly modern version of sawfish for Potato? I don't have the bandwidth to download Ximiam Gnome (and I don't want it). Thanks Henrik -- In Hoc Signo Emacs

MBR Problem

2001-05-13 Thread The Doc
Hello all, I need a way to clear my master boot record on my first hard disk. No matter how much I uninstall and reinstall lilo (or potato), when I boot up, I get LI 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 4

I'm so lost

2001-05-13 Thread thedoghouse
Hi guys. I'm sure you get sick of fielding questions from people that must seem braindead but I need some suggestions. I have made the big leap for me and installed Debian. I had a few problems (once it crashed during install) but I'm there, I'm at bash and I don't know what to do. I thought t

RE: MBR Problem

2001-05-13 Thread Robert Schmidt
fdisk /mbr should do it -Original Message- From: The Doc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 11:46 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: MBR Problem Hello all, I need a way to clear my master boot record on my first hard disk. No matter how much I uninstall and

Custom install disks

2001-05-13 Thread Brian Schramm
I need to install a system that does not have hardware support with the current boot disks for install. I have a kernel that will work on the machine on my debian potato machine here. I would like to know how to make a boot disk for install that will use that kernel. I installed the boot-floppy

RE: I'm so lost

2001-05-13 Thread Robert Schmidt
You should be able to reboot using: shutdown -h now -h means halt, you can also -r for reboot. If you could provide more info on the crash it would be helpful to the list, and you might want to get the newest version of debian (2.2r3 I believe). Check out debian.org for more info on that. -

Re: who gets this bug, pppconfig or ash?

2001-05-13 Thread Gregory T. Norris
What version of ash do you have? It seems to be working fine here, using 0.3.8-5 from unstable. On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 01:14:10PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > Whenever I do "pon", /etc/resolv.conf get rewitten with, > > -e \nnameserver 198.73.176.2 > > (i.e., I can only get to hosts listed

Re: I'm so lost

2001-05-13 Thread ktb
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 09:46:28AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi guys. I'm sure you get sick of fielding questions from people that > must seem braindead but I need some suggestions. > > I have made the big leap for me and installed Debian. I had a few > problems (once it crashed during

RE: MBR Problem

2001-05-13 Thread D. Hoyem
If this is a dual boot system do the fdisk /mbr from the dos prompt. --- Robert Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fdisk /mbr should do it > > -Original Message- > From: The Doc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 11:46 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject:

RE: MBR Problem

2001-05-13 Thread The Doc
I tried fdisk /mbr and then reinstalled potato, installing lilo on /dev/hda1, not the MBR. I still get that shit when I boot. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

RE: MBR Problem

2001-05-13 Thread Robert Schmidt
Are you doing this on a clean drive? Did you partition under linux? I searched around on google (it is pretty easy to find "40 40 40" :) ) and other people have had this problem, but I couldn't find a conclusive solution. make sure lba32 is in /etc/lilo.conf it is in all the lilo.conf's I have on

RE: MBR Problem

2001-05-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi doc those silly lilo problems could be due to many possible reasons... try each of the following... - boot off floppy ( best bet ) - boot into single user than run lilo again ( if it fails..try more of the following experiments - use a rescue disks and create a bootable flop

Re: debian newbie questions -- security

2001-05-13 Thread Alexander Steinert
> 3) I want to have a system that is as secure as possible without > sacrificing usability. Where can I get good guidance on securing Debian? I Not only for that you might want to take a look at http://www.infodrom.ffis.de/Debian/doc/index.html Stony

Re: who gets this bug, pppconfig or ash?

2001-05-13 Thread John Hasler
Gregory T. Norris writes: > What version of ash do you have? It seems to be working fine here, using > 0.3.8-5 from unstable. IIRC this is related to ash's attempt to be pedantically POSIX-compliant. In any case, I've fixed the problem in pppconfig by using /bin/echo, which is what I should have

Re: debian newbie questions -- security

2001-05-13 Thread Bud Rogers
On Sunday 13 May 2001 11:52, Alexander Steinert wrote: > > 3) I want to have a system that is as secure as possible without > > sacrificing usability. Where can I get good guidance on securing Debian? > > I > > Not only for that you might want to take a look at > > http://www.infodrom.ffis.de/De

Re: X setup

2001-05-13 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, Make sure that XF86_SVGA is installed (it might not be, that's often happened to me). Try 'apt-get install xserver-svga' Cameron Matheson On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 10:16:31PM +1000, David Underwood wrote: > Greetings Debian folk, > > I have a problem that I hope that you may be able to hel

RE: MBR Problem

2001-05-13 Thread The Doc
I think I'm just going to resort to booting off a floppy. I appreciate all the help I've recieved. doc _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

CUPS: "The Document contained no data"

2001-05-13 Thread Pedro I. sanchez
Hello, I'm running unstable with cups 1.1.6 and can't get the menus at http://localhost:631 to work. If I click on "Do Administration Tasks" I get the subject error message. The same happens with the other menu entries except "help" and "download software" which work OK. I have the default cupsd.

Re: I'm so lost

2001-05-13 Thread Abner Gershon
I am like you a complete novice to unix/linux and in the process of installing Debian on my PC. I haven't installed a GUI yet so I can't help you directly with that but I can recommend a book that helped me get a basic understanding of the bash shell and Linux utilities and file system organization

Re: cdrecord can't get mmap on /dev/zero

2001-05-13 Thread Paul McDermott
hi, there is a bug with cdrecord and kernel 2.2.x try using 2.4.x kernels. Paul On 12 May 2001, Graham Williams wrote: > Using cdrecord 1.10a18-2 on an up to date Debian unstable installation > with kernel 2.2.18 (self compiled) trying to write to CD writer: > > cdrecord: Invalid argument. C

shutdown/reboot problems

2001-05-13 Thread James Haskell
hello all, when i shutdown or reboot, linux usually (~90%) goes into an infinite loop printing the error message: "iput: inode 00:03/536871170 count wrapped" then i have to hard reset, and fsck checks my root partition. is this is a usbdevfs problem?? i have a usb mouse (which i've been using

Re: [users] mutt, email and ssl: SSL is unavailable.

2001-05-13 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Erik Steffl (on Sun, 13 May 2001 02:08:18AM -0700): > is there anything I have to do to enable ssl? Since the description of > mutt package says it supports ssl I thought it would work right away. > There is no separate mutt-ssl package... my experience is that the mutt package does

openldap slapd.conf trouble RESOLUTION

2001-05-13 Thread jereme
Hi List, Thanks for the assistance. The resolution for this was simple, their was another occurrence of slapd running, (not sure how or why, too much has changed since then) It was caching old info and causing lots of trouble. I removed it, removed my old db's, rewrote a simple s

Re: TuxTops Amethyst (Compal N20U OEM) lockups, video/APM suspected

2001-05-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:05:47AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm having problems with hard lockups on the system with distressing > regularity -- up to several times a day, sometimes while in use, > sometimes while sitting unattended or idle. I suspect either video or > APM is leading to the

Sound and devfs

2001-05-13 Thread Laurynas Biveinis
Hello, I decided to play with devfs on testing distribution. Installed devfsd, recompiled 2.4.4 kernel, rebooted. Everything works, but there is a problem with sound - on boot aumix tries to restore mixer settings and fails - modprobe cannot find /dev/sound/mixer device. If I do `modprobe sound'

Re: xdm on beta-blockers (2)

2001-05-13 Thread Erik Steffl
Martin WHEELER wrote: > > Sorry; on previous, forgot to add: > > [Please cc any replies to author, as not subscribed to this list. > Thank you.] > > OK, I give up. > > Can anyone explain to me why xdm now takes a full 60 seconds t

RE: Problems with sendmail

2001-05-13 Thread Robert Schmidt
I'm not trying to use ldap, I'm assuming I would see that in my /etc/mail/sendmail.mc? (there is nothing there referring to ldap) I might have had problems with my domain name. I changed my /etc/hosts to call myself notquitesonic.worldfactors.com (another hostname I had set up for dns reasons a wh

Re: I'm so lost

2001-05-13 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 05/13/01 09:46:28 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi guys. I'm sure you get sick of fielding questions from people that > must seem braindead but I need some suggestions. > > I have made the big leap for me and installed Debian. I had a few > problems (once it crashed during install) but I

question de newbie sur le son

2001-05-13 Thread JFLANCE
Dans un e-mail daté du 13/05/01 00:36:35 Paris, Madrid (heure d'été), [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Voilà mon problème : J'ai installé la potato 2.2r2 et je n'arrive pas à configurer le son. J'avais au début de l'installation du son sous root mais pas en tant qu'utilisateur, la machine m

Re: TuxTops Amethyst (Compal N20U OEM) lockups, video/APM suspected

2001-05-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:12:24AM -0700, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:05:47AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'm having problems with hard lockups on the system with distressing > > regularity -- up to several times a day, sometimes while in use, > > someti

Re: ftp.isc.org refusing connections

2001-05-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 12, 2001 at 01:59:30PM -0500, Bud Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thought I would download the latest bind sources. ftp.isc.org is > refusing connections. Are they down or has my reputation preceeded > me? FWIW: me too. Getting a connection refused. I'd try contacting them out

Re: xdm on beta-blockers

2001-05-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:54:43PM +0100, Martin WHEELER ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > OK, I give up. > > Can anyone explain to me why xdm now takes a full 60 seconds to load and > kick in? > [Celeron 433, 64M, ATI Rage 128 16M, debian 2.2r3+testing, upgraded > daily.] > > I'm flummoxed. > It doe

3c905C Drivers

2001-05-13 Thread The Reutzels
I want to get my NIC working and the only drivers that I found for the 3c905C are not for Debian.  Could anybody help point me to the right place to get these drivers so I can get my network up and running.   

Ghostscript

2001-05-13 Thread Will Collins
Hi all i'm havin a few probs with installing ghostscript 5.5 with debian 2.2r2, using 2.4.4 kernel I untarred and un gzipped it, like the instructions say all goes well up to the 'make' command part then it spits out errors. anyone know why? thanks Will Collins <>

[OT] Maxtor Ultra ATA/100 pci card

2001-05-13 Thread ktb
I've been searching through various Linux hardware databases and the archives and can't find support listed for the card. Anyone have any experience with this card and 2.4 kernel? I see there is support for the Promise card. Thanks kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhau

Re: 3c905C Drivers

2001-05-13 Thread Jason Majors
The 3c59x kernel module covers that card. On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:14:33PM -0700, The Reutzels scribbled... > I want to get my NIC working and the only drivers that I found for the 3c905C > are not for Debian. Could anybody help point me to the right place to get > these drivers so I can get

Re: [OT] Mutt Threading (was Re: LOGO (with the turtle))

2001-05-13 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (08/05/01 21:06), will trillich wrote: (Oops, I lost the author of this in some over-enthusiastic snipping) >> Message-ID: >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> and in Andrew's mail: >> In-Reply-To: >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> That seems to be why its threaded under an existing discussion on my >> machine, b

Re: X broken ???

2001-05-13 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
"Dominique" == Dominique Deleris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dominique> Having upgraded my woody box this evening, I am not able to Dominique> run X anymore. It will complain that it does not find the Dominique> 'fixed' font. Anyone having the same problem ? What can I Dominique> do ? I had the s

Re: mutt and mailinglists

2001-05-13 Thread Aldo Maggi
* sabato 12 maggio 2001, alle 14:10, chris scrive: > hi, > > i just wann ask, howto tell my mutt that it saves all the mail from this > mailing list automaticly in a seperate mailbox? > you have to configure procmail aldo > -- Odi et amo, quare id faciam fortasse requiris? nescio sed f

Re: [OT] Maxtor Ultra ATA/100 pci card

2001-05-13 Thread Edward Kear
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 02:48:32PM -0500, ktb wrote: > I've been searching through various Linux hardware databases and the > archives and can't find support listed for the card. Anyone have any > experience with this card and 2.4 kernel? I see there is support for > the Promise card. > Thanks >

Re: mutt and mailinglists

2001-05-13 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (13/05/01 00:16), Aldo Maggi wrote: > * sabato 12 maggio 2001, alle 14:10, chris scrive: >> i just wann ask, howto tell my mutt that it saves all the mail from >> this mailing list automaticly in a seperate mailbox? > you have to configure procmail Procmail if you want it to arrive in a sepe

Re: mutt, email and ssl: SSL is unavailable.

2001-05-13 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 02:08:18AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > this is what package description says: > > o Advanced IMAP client supporting Kerberos authentication (and in some > situations SSL encryption). Emphasis on the phrase 'some situations.' More specifically it means rebuilding t

Re: Problems with sendmail

2001-05-13 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Rick, May want to check with upstream on this one as this doesn't show you everything that sendmail thinks about the local host... In my case it ignores completely any IPv6 interface that sendmail is listening on even when sendmail is compiled with NETINET6 support... I'm attaching to this

Re: Old packages?

2001-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
Rüdiger Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there any place where one can download not-most-recent versions >of unstable packages? Not really, although some not-quite-recent versions might be kept around due to being the versions in testing. The disk space required to keep multiple old version

RE: MBR Problem

2001-05-13 Thread Jim Darrough
If your drive has more than 1024 cylinders, that can cause a problem as well. If it is, you might try repartitioning it into two partitions, then install potato on the first partition. Making sure of course that the first partition ends at cylinder 1023. Also, if you have SCSI drives, sometimes

Re: mutt, email and ssl: SSL is unavailable.

2001-05-13 Thread Waldemar Brodkorb
Hello Erik, * Erik Steffl wrote: > I have the following setting in mutt: > > set folder="{localhost/ssl}mail" > > I start mutt and it says: > > SSL is unavailable. recompile the mutt-package, because the standard package has no ssl-support. mutt -v , will tell you this. cya Waldemar -- "

Re: kppp

2001-05-13 Thread Robin Gerard
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:35:08AM +0200, M G Berberich wrote: > Hello, > > Am Mittwoch, den 09. Mai 2001 23:00:37 schrieb Robin Gerard: > > I have installed KDE successfuly but > > when I launch kppp, after the connection > > has bein established, I received this > > message : > > dead unexpect

Re: woody release date

2001-05-13 Thread Stuart Krivis
On Saturday, May 12, 2001, at 11:25 PM, Ethan Benson wrote: my personal guess is that anything before late november is not going to happen. but who knows, if more people help with boot floppies that would probably help. the main thing is going to be seeing how many times freezes have to be res

fatal server error

2001-05-13 Thread James Jackson
I recently purchased a copy of Debian linux and installed it on my computer. After installing I tryed "startX and ended up with this error: System: '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp "> " -eml "Errors

heads-up (and a chance to object) on expect packages

2001-05-13 Thread Mike Markley
Hi all, I'm planning to drop the two separate expect packages (expect5.24 and expect5.31) and create a single "expect" package with the current version. An automated upgrade path will be provided. Nothing depends on either of these. The only dependencies are on the current virtual package "expect

Re: woody release date

2001-05-13 Thread John Hasler
Stuart Krivis writes: > But FreeBSD also does a better job at new releases, and FreeBSD is high > quality like Debian IMO. Compare the size of a FreeBSD release to the size of a Debian release. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: fatal server error

2001-05-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 13, 2001 at 05:34:32PM -0500, James Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I recently purchased a copy of Debian linux and installed it on my computer. > After installing I tryed "startX and ended up with this error: > System: '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xk

Re: k2.4.4 and alsa w/devfs

2001-05-13 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 01:43:11AM -0400, The Doctor wrote: > > Anybody got a guide or FAQ on how to get my ALSA happy with the brave new > world of devfs? > I had no problems compiling and running ALSA in 2.2.18 and 0.5.8 modules but > 2.4.4 w/devfs and 0.9x modules are barfing up errors abou

Re: I'm so lost

2001-05-13 Thread Gordon Hart
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 09:46:28AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have made the big leap for me and installed Debian. I had a few > problems (once it crashed during install) but I'm there, I'm at bash I dont think you say what version you installed, but see if you can get the latest potato

TeX/LaTeX: How do you configure it? How do you get it "rolling"?

2001-05-13 Thread Usuario Universo Online
Hello- I've downloaded all the packages for minimum Tex/LaTeX installation under Debian. However, my tetex-bin package is still broken (it's "C**" in dselect), but there's no "conflict" or abything. It seems it's a matter of configuring. I've already tried texconfigure. I'm stuc

Re: I'm so lost

2001-05-13 Thread Steve Gran
On Sun, 13 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi guys. I'm sure you get sick of fielding questions from people that > must seem braindead but I need some suggestions. > > I have made the big leap for me and installed Debian. I had a few > problems (once it crashed during install) but I'm

Re: TeX/LaTeX: How do you configure it? How do you get it "rolling"?

2001-05-13 Thread freedman
On Mon, May 14, 2001, Usuario Universo Online wrote: > Hello- > > I've downloaded all the packages for minimum Tex/LaTeX installation > under Debian. However, my tetex-bin package is still broken (it's "C**" > in dselect), but there's no "conflict" or abything. It seems it's a > matter of

Xserver problems...

2001-05-13 Thread Dimitrios Rovas
Hi! one or two weeks ago I've upgraded my machine at work. Ever since, when I'm trying to display from another computer I'm getting the following message... _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 My debian distribution is the sid/unstable. I also tried it at home, with the wood

RE: 3c905C Drivers

2001-05-13 Thread Rob Zietlow
I tried to get this to work. I tried 2 different NIC cards and the built in one on my laptop. I could not get 1 NIC (the older one) to work and my laptop. It did however work with my new NIC. (this is on kernel 2.2.18) using Debian's 2.2r2. All 3 seemed to work great with 2.4.X kernel. I am

Re: Ghostscript

2001-05-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 08:31:25PM +0100, Will Collins wrote: > I untarred and un gzipped it, like the instructions say all goes well up to > the 'make' command part then it spits out errors. You must be compiling source tarball. Get source from latest unstable (if there is .diff, get them) then u

Re: woody release date

2001-05-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 13, 2001 at 08:57:41PM -0500, S. Salman Ahmed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "JH" == John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > JH> Stuart Krivis writes: > >> But FreeBSD also does a better job at new releases, and FreeBSD > >> is high quality like Debian IMO. > JH>

Hardware problems Adaptec AIC7892 and 256Meg Ram wierdness - longish.

2001-05-13 Thread john
Hello all, This is possibly (even probably) offtopic. We have a very strange problem here with one of our servers: The box: A dual PIII 866Mhz, Adaptec 7892 160Mb/s scsi card, IBM 20G drive, 3 Intel EEPro100 nics (82557), 512 Mb RAM (133MHz), GigaByte 6VXDC7 rev 1.0 Mainboard. This box is our

Re: TeX/LaTeX: How do you configure it? How do you get it "rolling"?

2001-05-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:11:47AM +, Usuario Universo Online wrote: > I've downloaded all the packages for minimum Tex/LaTeX installation > under Debian. However, my tetex-bin package is still broken (it's "C**" > in dselect), but there's no "conflict" or abything. It seems it's a > m

Password Recovery

2001-05-13 Thread Shirmay Li
Hi, We use Debian Gnu/Linux 2.1. The root password is lost(yes we are kicking ourselves). I've tried to boot into the single user mode by typing linux single at the lilo boot: to recover the password. But the method does not work. Could you tell the proper way please? Thanks in advance.

Re: Password Recovery

2001-05-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:36:57PM +1200, Shirmay Li wrote: > Hi, We use Debian Gnu/Linux 2.1. The root password is lost(yes we are > kicking ourselves). I've tried to boot into the single user mode by typing > linux single at the lilo boot: to recover the password. But the method does > not work.

Re: Password Recovery

2001-05-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 10:55:59PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:36:57PM +1200, Shirmay Li wrote: > > Hi, We use Debian Gnu/Linux 2.1. The root password is lost(yes we are > > kicking ourselves). I've tried to boot into the single user mode by typing > > linux singl

Re: woody release date

2001-05-13 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Stuart Krivis wrote: > > On Saturday, May 12, 2001, at 11:25 PM, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > my personal guess is that anything before late november is not going > > to happen. but who knows, if more people help with boot floppies that > > would probably help. the main thing

Need help porting math software

2001-05-13 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, I am trying to compile the CONTENT package (a dynamical systems tool) on debian . The source code can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/CONTENT As such the package does not install nor compile on debian. I was able to obtain very helpfull insight into the problem from www.amath.was

testing upgrade stallout

2001-05-13 Thread burningclown
Hi, I ran what proved to be a rather large apt-get dist-upgrade last week, and wound up with some dependency conflicts which I don't know how to get around/rid of. The packages downloaded did not finish installing, and when I try to run apt-get dist-upgrade NOW what I get is the following: Readi

Re: testing upgrade stallout

2001-05-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:09:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > I ran what proved to be a rather large apt-get dist-upgrade last week, and > wound up with some dependency conflicts which I don't know how to get > around/rid of. The packages downloaded did not f

Re: woody release date

2001-05-13 Thread Forrest English
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2001, Stuart Krivis wrote: > > > > > On Saturday, May 12, 2001, at 11:25 PM, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > > my personal guess is that anything before late november is not going > > > to happen. but who knows, if more people h

dns/named log message "learnt"?

2001-05-13 Thread will trillich
May 13 15:37:16 server named[16551]: ns_forw: query(mail2.something.com) NS points to CNAME (rain.something.com:) learnt (CNAME=11.22.33.44:NS=55.66.77.88) what does that translate to, in newbiespeak? -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #16 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Why are *.rp

Re: Changing bug origin

2001-05-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:31:35PM +0200, peter karlsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > Is it possible to change the submitter address on bug reports? I have > several open reports submitted under obsolete addresses that I would like > to update my address for. There's a page on manipulati