Re: Help; apt-get trashed system, how to recover

2001-06-08 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Bravo!! Thanks. Gregory At 09:50 PM 06/08/2001 -0400, Paul Wright wrote: On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 15:53:14 CDT, Gregory wrote: > Help. > > > I went to fetch a new package, and my system decided it wanted to get 108 > MB of updates. It failed on a bunch of them, I tried again, and again, and > t

Xfree86 a.out installation question

2001-06-08 Thread Margarete Hans
I want to install Xfree86 4.1.0 on my laptop. I tried running the Xinstall.sh with the -check option to find out witch version I need. Here is the output: " Checking what OS you're running... uname reports 'Linux' version '2.2.19pre17', architecture 'i486'. Xinstall.sh: file: command not found Obje

Re: OT: Plucker with Potato

2001-06-08 Thread ktb
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 12:08:24AM -0400, Barry Mathieu wrote: > I probably committed a major Debian Faux-Pax by editing my source file > to temporarily point at the testing release to allow me to install > plucker. That is, with testing (rather than stable) in my source file > I, > > apt-get upd

OT: Plucker with Potato

2001-06-08 Thread Barry Mathieu
I probably committed a major Debian Faux-Pax by editing my source file to temporarily point at the testing release to allow me to install plucker. That is, with testing (rather than stable) in my source file I, apt-get update apt-get install plucker To my surprise, no conflicts were indicated an

Re: talk does not work after ?

2001-06-08 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 08:58:23PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > Hi, > I have ktalkd installed since kde does not accept any other . But I am unable > to talk even locally on my own pc. Talk hangs after stating "[Checking for > invitation on caller's machine]". > What may be the possible causes

Re: why is lg-issue?? upgraded all the time?

2001-06-08 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:21:51PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > The old issues don't change. Why are they constantly upgraded? > Have you considered checking the changelog? All debian packages must have one, else it is a bug. noah -- ___ |

Re: Multiple Sessions?

2001-06-08 Thread Erik Steffl
Chris Spencer wrote: > > Has anyone else running Unstable noticed that multiple tty sessions (ie: > ALT-CTRL-F1, F2, etc.) is gone? As well I have noticed that I can't start a > second X session. Am I missing something? gone in what way? works fine here but I haven't dist-upgrade'd in few days.

vnc icewm and no permissions

2001-06-08 Thread Roderick Cummings
I was using vnc on a small box to run a gui program, but I have managed to mangle it rather badly. Anyway, I got the idea to remove the menu's, toolbars, etc in icewm so you can't open any programs while logged in via xvncviewer. I did this my removing the menu package, and then going into /usr

why is lg-issue?? upgraded all the time?

2001-06-08 Thread Rick Pasotto
The old issues don't change. Why are they constantly upgraded? -- You contend that I am wrong to teach my son science and philosophy; I believe you are wrong to teach yours Greek and Latin. Let us both follow the dictate of our conscience. Let us allow the law of responsibility to operate for our

Re: List new packages after an apt-get update

2001-06-08 Thread Joel Mayes
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:52:30PM +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > After doing an apt-get update there are two types of packages I'm > particularly interested in: newly available packages (new to Debain > since the last time I did an apt-get update) and packages I have > already installed but that

Re: ip masq

2001-06-08 Thread Paul Wright
Hi Derya, > Hi all there, > > I'm working at a school and we have a debian server. We use ip masq for = > more than one hundred Windows NT . Last week i get an empty PC and = > installed debian to it. Now i have a problem. I want to find a way to = > connect to my second debian from my home but i

talk does not work after ?

2001-06-08 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, I have ktalkd installed since kde does not accept any other . But I am unable to talk even locally on my own pc. Talk hangs after stating "[Checking for invitation on caller's machine]". What may be the possible causes ? sincerely b thomas

Re: Help; apt-get trashed system, how to recover

2001-06-08 Thread Paul Wright
On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 15:53:14 CDT, Gregory wrote: > Help. > > I am running Debian 2.2, with upgrade to Woody from debian.org via FTP. > > I have been running well for over 5 months without reboot(!) or maintenance. > > I went to fetch a new package, and my system decided it wanted to get 108 >

DHCPCD

2001-06-08 Thread Sunny Dubey
Hey   Has anyone figured out how to get dhcpcd to work with a 3c509b NIC?   At first I thought that it was just me, but then I searched on google, and learn that this card does have a slight problem.   I've looked all over google and some various search sites, and everything posted doesn't s

Multiple Sessions?

2001-06-08 Thread Chris Spencer
Has anyone else running Unstable noticed that multiple tty sessions (ie: ALT-CTRL-F1, F2, etc.) is gone? As well I have noticed that I can't start a second X session. Am I missing something? -Chris

Re: Mounting an Audio CD

2001-06-08 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, Usually cd player doesn't require you to mount the cdrom drive, you just put audio cd in and start for example workborn (a cd player) then you are off. Make sure that the sym link /dev/cdrom linked to the actuall cdrom device you have in your system (like /dev/hdb or /dev/hdd ) and you have th

Re: switching from lilo to grub

2001-06-08 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > PS: grub is definatelly a great bootloader, I think I'll never go back > > to lilo. > > Same here, except on my machines with an XFS based root filesystem. > Grub does not yet support XFS, so I had to resort to LILO. I looked in > to writing XFS support for grub, but I

Re: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

2001-06-08 Thread Nic Strong
I had this problem with and older version of sendmail, when I hadn't checked this mail list for a while. Seemed to fork a version of sendmail per message or something like tha and gave similar messages. Maybe a newer version or something may sort that. Nic On 08 Jun 2001 21:08:13 +0200, Imre

Re: Upgrade Path From Potato :-(

2001-06-08 Thread Jeremiah H. Savage
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 04:25:56PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I'm not sure if I've screwed up here, but I decided to upgrade from > potato to woody last night, but now I can't seem to get X > reconfigured. Looking at dselect, it looks as if I have packages from > both 3.3 and 4.0 versions of X in

Re: Linux equivalents of Visual basic and Visual C++?

2001-06-08 Thread John
On Friday 08 June 2001 10:18, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi: > > Are there any programs around for linux which provide the sort of > programming environment given by Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual > C++? > > Thanks > > Sebastian

Upgrade Path From Potato :-(

2001-06-08 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I'm not sure if I've screwed up here, but I decided to upgrade from potato to woody last night, but now I can't seem to get X reconfigured. Looking at dselect, it looks as if I have packages from both 3.3 and 4.0 versions of X installed. This can't be good, right? I'm not sure what exactl

Re: Trials w/ Debian install

2001-06-08 Thread Dan Christensen
Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm a little embarrassed. I've installed debian around 50 times, but > somehow I can't do it on this computer. I've started the installer (off > of floppies), and I've gotten to the point where I should be able to > install the base system over the

gnome

2001-06-08 Thread Nic Strong
Maybe the worng list, but ever since I have upgaraded to ximian gnome 1.4 my task bar icons (along side the footstep menu) disapair every time I restart my session. Whats going on their ? Poked arround a little and ~/.gnome/panel.d/default/Applet_Config is getting overwritten every time to some

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #831

2001-06-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
Eric, Thanks! After changing the supplied script to use port 80, instead of 8000, and running the script as root from / everything is now working. > Subject: Re: Using Python's CGIHTTPServer to run CGI programs locally > Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 08:03:54 -0700 > From: "Eric G. Miller" > To: debian

Re: rescue cd

2001-06-08 Thread Dave Carrigan
John Patton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know how one would go about creating a debian > rescue cd? Here is what I did to make my rescue CDs. First, assemble the things you need: 1. A kernel image with your devices compiled in, plus ramdisk and initrd support. Modules are ok (o

Re: DRI - Voodoo3 - confusion

2001-06-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:52:06PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: > I want DRI for my Voodoo3 card. But I'm confused. > > Somewhere I read DRI is included in XFree86 4.0.1. > Somewhere else I read it's in the 2.4. kernel. > And in /var/log/XFree.0.log I found the line: > > (EE) TDFX(0): DRIScreenIni

Re: rescue cd

2001-06-08 Thread ktb
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:45:28PM -0500, John Patton wrote: > Does anyone know how one would go about creating a debian > rescue cd? Something bootable, with enough utilities on it > to really be able to fix a system. A custom made ramdisk > would be perfect. I've been trying to figure out how to

Re: rescue cd

2001-06-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
"John Patton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know how one would go about creating a debian > rescue cd? Something bootable, with enough utilities on it > to really be able to fix a system. A custom made ramdisk > would be perfect. I've been trying to figure out how to do > this, with no

Re: Trials w/ Debian install

2001-06-08 Thread ktb
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 12:23:17PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I'm a little embarrassed. I've installed debian around 50 times, but > somehow I can't do it on this computer. I've started the installer (off > of floppies), and I've gotten to the point where I should be able to > ins

Re: switching from lilo to grub

2001-06-08 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:27:53PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > Mostly it is. You'll want to get grub from woody or sid, though, as it > > comes with a handy script ('grub-install') that's not available in the > > potato version. > > I second that. Unfortunatelly sid's or woody's version o

Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2001-06-08 Thread Imre Vida
one more bit of info: I can ftp to the machine. This works absolutely fine. Funny. imre

Re: Is there a .deb of a (recent) html validator?

2001-06-08 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Lance Simmons wrote: > The only html debianized html validator I've been able to find > is wdg-html-validator, which doesn't validate html 4.01 > transitional pages. (A bug was filed about the need to update > from upstream sources over 13 months ago.) > > Does anyone have a .d

Help; apt-get trashed system, how to recover

2001-06-08 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Help. I am running Debian 2.2, with upgrade to Woody from debian.org via FTP. I have been running well for over 5 months without reboot(!) or maintenance. I went to fetch a new package, and my system decided it wanted to get 108 MB of updates. It failed on a bunch of them, I tried again, and again

rescue cd

2001-06-08 Thread John Patton
Does anyone know how one would go about creating a debian rescue cd? Something bootable, with enough utilities on it to really be able to fix a system. A custom made ramdisk would be perfect. I've been trying to figure out how to do this, with no luck. Any hints or pointers would be great. Thanks.

Re: switching from lilo to grub

2001-06-08 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 11:00:30AM -0700, Peter Hicks wrote: > > > > I wanted to make the switch from lilo to grub, and I was wondering what the > > proper procedure is. It could be as easy as apt-get install grub could it? > > Mostly it is. You'll want to get grub

Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2001-06-08 Thread Imre Vida
Andrei, thanks for your response > I've seen this before, and it has got something to do with too many > processes running on the system, eating up the file descriptor table. We > had a system in the office that had 50-some instances of a process > running, and were getting this message (I believ

Re: [OT] Minimum CPU speed for playing DIVX avis?

2001-06-08 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Nate Amsden wrote: > > Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > I got mplayer (http://mplayer.sourceforge.net) working very nicely, only > > that CPU utilization is constantly at 100% (~ 92% user, 8% system) and > > sound is very broken after 10 seconds playing. The video is fine > > tho

Re: Is there a .deb of a (recent) html validator?

2001-06-08 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 02:09:14PM -0500, Lance Simmons wrote: > The only html debianized html validator I've been able to find > is wdg-html-validator, which doesn't validate html 4.01 > transitional pages. (A bug was filed about the need to update > from upstream sources over 13 months ago.) > D

Re: Best way to setup a Soundblaster Live card

2001-06-08 Thread Scott_Patterson
>I would like to know what is the best (or easiest) way to setup a >sblive card. I know there is alsa and the kernel drivers. Maybe not the best way, but it worked fairly easy for me... Download a recent kernel (2.2.18 or better for kernel driver support). Do a "insmod sound; insmod emu10k1"

Re: machine crash

2001-06-08 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 01:51:04PM -0500, Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: > I'm at loss here, the log from messages file looks like it had something to do > with the drives and the one that was on console looked like it was null > pointer, beside that i have no idea how to find out which process it was

DRI - Voodoo3 - confusion

2001-06-08 Thread Robert Voigt
I want DRI for my Voodoo3 card. But I'm confused. Somewhere I read DRI is included in XFree86 4.0.1. Somewhere else I read it's in the 2.4. kernel. And in /var/log/XFree.0.log I found the line: (EE) TDFX(0): DRIScreenInit failed, disabling DRI. (This is with 16bpp) Do I have DRI already and it

Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display ":0.0"

2001-06-08 Thread Shawn P . Garbett
Just what does "Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display ":0.0"" mean and how do I get rid of it???

Re: machine crash

2001-06-08 Thread Kevin Ross
The fact that it happens at 6:25 AM tells me it's probably a cron job. In a default Debian installation, the files in /etc/cron.daily/ are run every day at 6:25 AM. I would look there first, to try to find the process that is causing problems. -- Kevin - Original Message - From: Petr [D

Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2001-06-08 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> Hi, > > i seem to have a problem with my Debian box. > > When i try to login to it using ssh it accepts > the login but then instead of the bash prompt > i get the following erromsg: > > bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable > > This has never happened before and i didn't > anythi

problem with remote stty and remote login

2001-06-08 Thread James D. Freels
When I perform a remote login using rsh or ssh to some of my Debian/Linux machines (but not all), I get the following error message to the console: stty: standard input: Invalid argument How can I fix the machine configuration so that it does not have this problem and the error message will not

Re: Auctex has vanished!!

2001-06-08 Thread Glyn Millington
"N. Raghavendra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 06:30:48PM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > > > Until this evening I had both Xemacs 21.1.10-5 and Emacs 20.7 on my > > machine, but removed the FSF emacs as I almost never use it. So far so > > good. But I find that auctex h

Re: List new packages after an apt-get update

2001-06-08 Thread David Z Maze
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JH> AFAIK, deity and aptitude do not single out newly available packages. JH> Dselect, however, will do everything you want. aptitude does call out newly available packages, though it considers a package 'new' until the new list is explicitly cleared (with 'f

Is there a .deb of a (recent) html validator?

2001-06-08 Thread Lance Simmons
The only html debianized html validator I've been able to find is wdg-html-validator, which doesn't validate html 4.01 transitional pages. (A bug was filed about the need to update from upstream sources over 13 months ago.) Does anyone have a .deb of either an update of wdg-html-validator, or of s

bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2001-06-08 Thread Imre Vida
Hi, i seem to have a problem with my Debian box. When i try to login to it using ssh it accepts the login but then instead of the bash prompt i get the following erromsg: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable This has never happened before and i didn't anything in the configuration

EDITOR hint (was Re: Babel and LaTeX)

2001-06-08 Thread Guy Geens
> "Ole" == Ole Sebastian Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ole> I had to run the command ''texconfig hyphen latex'' and learn how Ole> to use vi :) and then it worked. It's very hard to be a Linux user and avoid vi completely. :) However, during normal usage, you can set your prefered editor

Re: Help setting DISPLAY to an ipmasq'd machine.

2001-06-08 Thread Andrew Perrin
Yes, you're doing it wrong. 1.) You don't need two ssh sessions; just one, from xserver_machine to work_linux_box: ssh -C -X work_linux_box from xserver_machine 2.) When you set the display to ipmasq_box:0.0, you're asking the remote host to display X apps on the main display of your ipm

Re: Auctex has vanished!!

2001-06-08 Thread N. Raghavendra
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 06:30:48PM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > Until this evening I had both Xemacs 21.1.10-5 and Emacs 20.7 on my > machine, but removed the FSF emacs as I almost never use it. So far so > good. But I find that auctex has vanished from the Xemacs menus!! Odd > ;-) > > I've

machine crash

2001-06-08 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
Hey there, Today morning my machine locked up after 8 days of flawless run, before that it went down twice always between 6 and 6:30 am, before that it ran for over 80 days since the last power outage, i can't for the life of me figure out what is going on, the message on console display said some

Re: installing unstable version

2001-06-08 Thread Guy Geens
> "Jonathan" == Jonathan D Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jonathan> I've installed a number of "unstable" machines. My prefered Jonathan> method is to use a "stable" CD or floppy install and when Jonathan> prompted for install method, pick edit sources by hand Jonathan> replacing "stable"

Re: ram recognition problems

2001-06-08 Thread Sebastian Drews
aaron t hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 128Mb (8 shared) of ram. > It apears that debian is only recognising 13mb of my ram. Try to specify the amount of RAM to the kernel. Using lilo add "append="mem=128M"" to your lilo.conf. Sebastian -- Most people enjoy learning new things, but so

Re: pump sometimes must be restarted (cable modem)?

2001-06-08 Thread Robert L. Harris
Once a week my ATT cablemodem lease expires. Pump has never auto-released. I have a cronjob that runs monday at 5:00am, and thursday also. This covers the spread incase a cable outage actually drops my line and isn't on the sunday list for some reason. It's not just you Carl, I hve the same p

Re: pump sometimes must be restarted (cable modem)?

2001-06-08 Thread Alan Shutko
Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alan> Hmmm... it shouldn't happen every week, but if your IP changes, > Alan> pump will _not_ try to get a new lease... > > It might be an ISP policy. It's not. I have the same ISP. 8^) They do renumber on occasion, so maybe Carl got unlucky -- A

Re: Help setting DISPLAY to an ipmasq'd machine.

2001-06-08 Thread Dan Christensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > ssh -C -X ipmasq_box from work_linux_box > ssh -C -X xserver_box from ipmasq_box (same session as above) > > In a new work_linux_box session: export DISPLAY=ipmasq_box:0.0 > xterm & Don't set the DISPLAY variable. ssh does it for you. Dan

Re: two questions on emacs under Mutt

2001-06-08 Thread Alan Shutko
John R Lenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 05:29:26PM +, Vittorio wrote: > > 2) Is that possible to configure emacs to wrap lines at, say, 72 char? > > I don't know how you'd put it in your .emacs, but C-x f is > set-fill-column, so C-u 72 C-x f would do that for you.

Re: IBMJava2-SDK-1.3

2001-06-08 Thread Volker Schlecht
> Anyone know if there is a deb for this anywhere or if there are any problems > installing the tar on sid? I don't know about sid, but it used to run nicely on potato and runs well on woody, too. Installation was also absolutely painless using "alien". I suspect that this won't be any different

Re: french locale

2001-06-08 Thread Guy Geens
> "christophe" == christophe barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: christophe> I'm afraid it's not enough. IIRC this is basically what christophe> gdm does when you choose Fr in its menu but it doesn't christophe> work (at least on my install) with sid. Have you tried the following: - use fr_FR (

Re: switching from lilo to grub

2001-06-08 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 11:00:30AM -0700, Peter Hicks wrote: > > I wanted to make the switch from lilo to grub, and I was wondering what the > proper procedure is. It could be as easy as apt-get install grub could it? Mostly it is. You'll want to get grub from woody or sid, though, as it comes

Re: Help configure XFree 4.0

2001-06-08 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, This could mean a lot of different things, try sending us the *full* X output, and your XF86Config-4 file. Cameron Matheson On 07 Jun 2001 17:14:25 -0700, Lars Jensen wrote: > > > Does anyone know how to configure a Diamond Speedstar Plus with an > Tseng ET4000 chipset on woody with X 4

Re: pump sometimes must be restarted (cable modem)?

2001-06-08 Thread Guy Geens
> "Alan" == Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Carl" == Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Carl> periodically (perhaps every other week) my Internet connection Carl> via Optimum Online (Cablevision) freezes Alan> Hmmm... it shouldn't happen every week, but if your IP changes, A

Re: FYI : LINUX Users Tutorial and Exposition

2001-06-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I thought the project had to be free to be hosted by SF? This is clearly non-free... Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Yes, I noted that license too. Esp since it's the first page you see. The > site however looks like a real solid collection of data - it's now bookmarked > > :) > > tatah > > On

Trials w/ Debian install

2001-06-08 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I'm a little embarrassed. I've installed debian around 50 times, but somehow I can't do it on this computer. I've started the installer (off of floppies), and I've gotten to the point where I should be able to install the base system over the network. I have an 3COM Etherlink III, and the

lilo linux/WinME dual boot doesn't anymore

2001-06-08 Thread Rick Macdonald
I have an NEC laptop that was working as dual boot with lilo with WinME and woody. I did all of the following and now when lilo tries to boot WinME it says "invalid disk" or something similar. What could have broken it and how do I fix it? - did a refresh of woody to get recent updates (over 130

IBMJava2-SDK-1.3

2001-06-08 Thread Charles Lewis
Anyone know if there is a deb for this anywhere or if there are any problems installing the tar on sid? -- Charles Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] 817-556-4720

Re: two questions on emacs under Mutt

2001-06-08 Thread John R Lenton
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 05:29:26PM +, Vittorio wrote: > 2) Is that possible to configure emacs to wrap lines at, say, 72 char? I don't know how you'd put it in your .emacs, but C-x f is set-fill-column, so C-u 72 C-x f would do that for you. -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortu

switching from lilo to grub

2001-06-08 Thread Peter Hicks
Hello list, I wanted to make the switch from lilo to grub, and I was wondering what the proper procedure is. It could be as easy as apt-get install grub could it?

Re: List new packages after an apt-get update

2001-06-08 Thread Joey Hess
Graham Williams wrote: > After doing an apt-get update there are two types of packages I'm > particularly interested in: newly available packages (new to Debain > since the last time I did an apt-get update) and packages I have > already installed but that have been updated since the last time I di

Re: Dual-head G450 anyone?

2001-06-08 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On 8 Jun 2001, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Has anyone got a setup with a dual-head G450 card with two monitors > and, obviously, running Debian (potato or testing?). I'm planning on > getting a new system and now that I've had dual-head on my SGI for a > couple of years, don't think I could live withou

kernel 2.4.5-1 and pcmcia networking

2001-06-08 Thread Richard Black
Hi I just tried to upgrade to 2.4.5-1 from 2.4.3, but when I rebooted I had no networking. While booting there was an error to the effect that my interupts where set incorrectly...although they are fine in 2.4.3. I tried, incidently, to recompile pcmcia-cs, but that dies with syntax errors: make

ram recognition problems

2001-06-08 Thread aaron t hess
I have 128Mb (8 shared) of ram. It apears that debian is only recognising 13mb of my ram. (I am using "free" to chec this and the X log viewr and memstat) Is there any way I can get it to use most of it, so that things do not use so much swap. thanxs Aaron

Auctex has vanished!!

2001-06-08 Thread Glyn Millington
Until this evening I had both Xemacs 21.1.10-5 and Emacs 20.7 on my machine, but removed the FSF emacs as I almost never use it. So far so good. But I find that auctex has vanished from the Xemacs menus!! Odd ;-) I've tried re-installing the packag which contains auctex (still sitting onmn the

Re: linux on PS/2

2001-06-08 Thread csj
On Thursday 07 June 2001 08:44, Colin Watson wrote: > Andy Kaspar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I would like to install a linux on my IBM PS/2 70486, 14M RAM, > > 160M ESDI HD. I am in possession of a Debian 1.2 rescuedisk and a > > 1.2 rootdisk image. The kernel is able to detect my harddisk and >

Re: ascii formatting package

2001-06-08 Thread USM Bish
There is a powerful perl program which converts text to pdf directly, called "txt2pdf". This is a shareware. I forget the URL, but the link is available at freshmeat.net. As far as I recall it was from Sanface Software. I tried it a few months ago ... pretty good. USM Bish On Fri, Jun 08, 20

Re: mssql support for php4

2001-06-08 Thread ktb
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:43:00PM +0200, Teun Vink wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: ktb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 2:44 PM > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: mssql support for php4 > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:55:49AM

Re: hardware compatibility

2001-06-08 Thread Sean Morgan
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:17:27AM -0500, John Meyer wrote: > Will Debian run on a Performa 6300? ...Straight 6300? I've got one of those in my closet:) In theory you could go to mklinux.org to get a bootable kernel, then use that to run the debian installer & friends. I wouldn't want to t

Free Drivers? WAS: Dual-head G450 anyone?

2001-06-08 Thread Volker Schlecht
> > Has anyone got a setup with a dual-head G450 card with two monitors > > and, obviously, running Debian (potato or testing?). > Yes, runs fine here. X 4.0.3 from unstable and Matrox - Drivers from > ftp.matrox.com. Note that DRI, XV etc work only on the primary > monitor and onnly if you do not

Re: boot floppy

2001-06-08 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Also, If you do *not* want to run lilo on your system, you can make a boot CDrom. I used them on several boxes and it's just about as fast as booting off the hard drive. This requires a newer MB. gl On Wednesday 06 June 2001 21:04, ktb wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:22:48AM -0300, xgnu wr

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2001-06-08 Thread bernd b
Hi, I am having a problem with a Primary/DOS partition. (Debian 2.2r3) With cfdisk this partition was made. Both cfdisk and MSDOS fdisk report that this partition is WINDOWS FAT32 and 13.9 Gb large. However dir c: as well as format only see 5.66 Gb and after formatting the partition is only 5.66

Re: [OT] Minimum CPU speed for playing DIVX avis?

2001-06-08 Thread Nate Amsden
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I got mplayer (http://mplayer.sourceforge.net) working very nicely, only > that CPU utilization is constantly at 100% (~ 92% user, 8% system) and > sound is very broken after 10 seconds playing. The video is fine > though. > > I have a 333MHz Celeron wi

Re: two questions on emacs under Mutt

2001-06-08 Thread Anthony Fox
Vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've installed Mutt and am using as my pet e-mail composer emacs. Why don't you use one of the emacs mail tools? :) > 2) Is that possible to configure emacs to wrap lines at, say, 72 > char? Add to your .emacs: ;; for mail modes and text modes, turn on a

Re: Linux equivalents of Visual basic and Visual C++?

2001-06-08 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi: > > Are there any programs around for linux which provide the sort of > programming environment given by Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual > C++? you can try visual-tcl for interpreted language (tcl/tk) and kdevelop or qtdesigner for C+

Re: FYI : LINUX Users Tutorial and Exposition

2001-06-08 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Yes, I noted that license too. Esp since it's the first page you see. The site however looks like a real solid collection of data - it's now bookmarked :) tatah On Wednesday 06 June 2001 16:36, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Sadistic license tho, why can't I make a hard copy? > > Cameron Matheson >

Re: Help setting DISPLAY to an ipmasq'd machine.

2001-06-08 Thread maillst
OK, I just tried this: ssh -C -X ipmasq_box from work_linux_box ssh -C -X xserver_box from ipmasq_box (same session as above) In a new work_linux_box session: export DISPLAY=ipmasq_box:0.0 xterm & I get: _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 xterm Xt error: Can't ope

Re: Best way to setup a Soundblaster Live card

2001-06-08 Thread Robert Voigt
On Friday 08 June 2001 14:48, Robert Martinovic wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know what is the best (or easiest) way to setup a > sblive card. I know there is alsa and the kernel drivers. OSS (kernel driver) is probably easiest. modconf then select the emu10k1 module. Don't forget to add yo

Re: Dual-head G450 anyone?

2001-06-08 Thread Ramin Motakef
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone got a setup with a dual-head G450 card with two monitors > and, obviously, running Debian (potato or testing?). I'm planning on > getting a new system and now that I've had dual-head on my SGI for a > couple of years, don't think I could liv

two questions on emacs under Mutt

2001-06-08 Thread Vittorio
I've installed Mutt and am using as my pet e-mail composer emacs. 1) I'm experiencing problems with the accented characters so frequent in Italian. When I save an e-mail to be sent (C-x C-s) emacs invariably says that there are the accented characters and compells me to give a charset. Select

Re: The easiest way to have XFree 4.0.x runing on Potato?

2001-06-08 Thread David Z Maze
Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SK> I am not sure if this question has been asked , if SK> someone know please direct me. What do you really want? In my case, my potato box has a video card that's only supported under XF86 4.0, so I only really want the server binary, so downloading a tar

Re: Linux equivalents of Visual basic and Visual C++?

2001-06-08 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > > Hi: > > Are there any programs around for linux which provide the sort of > programming environment given by Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual > C++? > The closest I can think of is Borland's Kylix; I haven't tried it yet, but I love Delphi, its Windows equ

Re: Dual-head G450 anyone?

2001-06-08 Thread Andrew D Dixon
I'm running the G450 but without using 2 monitors. It's a very nice card and Matrox does release drivers for it so they should be able to tell you how well dual-head support is working. later, Andy Gary Hennigan wrote: > > Has anyone got a setup with a dual-head G450 card with two monitors > and

Re: Using Python's CGIHTTPServer to run CGI programs locally

2001-06-08 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:32:01AM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I want to write CGI programs in python for my personal use to be > executed from my browser on my home LAN. If I run CGIHTTPServer.py it > says that it is listening on port 8000. If I then try to access a file > in /cgi-bin netscape

Re: Linux equivalents of Visual basic and Visual C++?

2001-06-08 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 11:18:29AM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Are there any programs around for linux which provide the sort of > programming environment given by Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual > C++? Look in to kdestudio, as part of KDE 2.0.x. I don't actually use it, but fro

Re: two questions

2001-06-08 Thread Lars Jensen
Make a boot floppy: As root, issue mkboot /vmlinuz (see also man page for mkboot). this will make a faster booting floppy. Lars On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: > Hi, this is my first message to the list. > I had installed debian potato 2.2 and I'm new to debian. >

Re: Help setting DISPLAY to an ipmasq'd machine.

2001-06-08 Thread Andrew Perrin
It's non-trivial, since under the X protocol the socket will be initialized by work_linux_box, which means you need some way to tell ipmasq_machine to forward those packets to xserver_machine. You could do this with a specific ipchains rule for that situation, assuming you want *all* X packets comi

Re: Help setting DISPLAY to an ipmasq'd machine.

2001-06-08 Thread Alan Shutko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I want to set the DISPLAY variable on work_linux_box to display on > Xserver_machine to assist me doing off hours support. It will be > difficult to get the comany to modify the firewall. Can you ssh into work_linux_box from Xserver_machine? If so, the easiest thing

Re: Console Terminal Colors

2001-06-08 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 02:42:38PM +, Sebastian Drews wrote: > Christopher Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In FreeBSD I can use the "vidcontrol" command to change > > my non-GUI consoles to a black background with a green > > foreground. It is much easier on the eyes for me. Can > > this

Re: Help setting DISPLAY to an ipmasq'd machine.

2001-06-08 Thread Anthony Fox
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I want to set the DISPLAY variable on work_linux_box to display on > Xserver_machine to assist me doing off hours support. It will be > difficult to get the comany to modify the firewall. > > So, is this possible to do? If so, what exactly do I need to do on > the li

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