Re: Power button doesn't work

2001-06-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:34:19PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > This is correct. You don't need to recompile your kernel to get APM > support -- simply add "apm=on" to the command line. With grub it > looks like : > > ## > # Entry 0: > title Debian Potato (Linux 2.2.19) > root(hd0

Re: Freeamp MP3 player problem

2001-06-12 Thread Jonas bazz Egidius
David Nusinow wrote: > On Tuesday 12 June 2001 08:35 pm, Alex Kwan wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I have used apt to installed the Freeamp, the sound is good > > but have following problems: > > (1) only can play at root, other users can't (can open the > > freeamp but can't play), how to fix it? > > Add

SN-5100TX or Pulse H1012

2001-06-12 Thread Renai LeMay
Hi, I need to find out whether the SN-5100TX 10/100 pci network card and/or the Pulse H1012 pci network card are supported under linux. I think they most probably are, but I need to find out which driver to use for them. (Yes, I have searched google and looked at the linuxdoc hardware compati

Evolution and Balsa in unstable

2001-06-12 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
I used to use balsa in unstable but recently balsa dependence is broken. Is it the case of just me. I think the evolution dependence for libgal6 is broken too -- Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Local non-mirror debian archive

2001-06-12 Thread Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, John Griffiths wrote: > walrus:/home/john# apt-cache show apt-ftparchive > W: Unable to locate package apt-ftparchive > walrus:/home/john# man apt-ftparchive > No manual entry for apt-ftparchive > walrus:/home/john# apt-cache search apt-ftparchive > walrus:/home/john# > > what

Re: Freeamp MP3 player problem

2001-06-12 Thread David Nusinow
On Tuesday 12 June 2001 08:35 pm, Alex Kwan wrote: > Hi! > > I have used apt to installed the Freeamp, the sound is good > but have following problems: > (1) only can play at root, other users can't (can open the > freeamp but can't play), how to fix it? Add whatever users to the 'audio' group. -

Re: Local non-mirror debian archive

2001-06-12 Thread John Griffiths
At 11:34 PM 6/12/01 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >Dave Sherohman wrote: >> Does any tool currently exist that will create an archive of this sort >> for me? If not, where can I find documentation on setting it up manually? > >apt-ftparchive(1) or dpkg-scanpackages(8), take your pick. > >You really need

Re: Local non-mirror debian archive

2001-06-12 Thread Joey Hess
Dave Sherohman wrote: > Does any tool currently exist that will create an archive of this sort > for me? If not, where can I find documentation on setting it up manually? apt-ftparchive(1) or dpkg-scanpackages(8), take your pick. You really need to do something about your broken mailer, btw: Ma

Freeamp MP3 player problem

2001-06-12 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! I have used apt to installed the Freeamp, the sound is good but have following problems: (1) only can play at root, other users can't (can open the freeamp but can't play), how to fix it? (2) can't create or save the playing list, how to fix it? Thanks! Alex

RE: Route problem

2001-06-12 Thread Ian Perry
try route del -host 192.168.0.100 reject I just checked it out...it worked here -Original Message- From: Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 12:59 PM To: Ian Perry Cc: 'Brian Schramm'; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Route problem

Latex version 2.09 from 7 Dec 89 ??

2001-06-12 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, Don't ask me why 'cus I don't know, but my fearless leader has decided he needs an ancient version of LaTex on his spiffy new Debian laptop. Since this is from Dec 1989, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess I can't get a .deb for it :) Anyone have a clue where I could find source, and wha

RE: Route problem

2001-06-12 Thread Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Ian Perry wrote: > route del ipnumber > or are you talking about the ipfwadm or ipchains ? Hmmm didn't work here: ~# route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.0.12* 255.255.255.255 UH

RE: Route problem

2001-06-12 Thread Ian Perry
route del ipnumber or are you talking about the ipfwadm or ipchains ? -Original Message- From: Brian Schramm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 12:30 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Route problem Is there a way to remove a route from the route table tha

Route problem

2001-06-12 Thread Brian Schramm
Is there a way to remove a route from the route table that is set up to reject that ip address? I have tried on several machines with no luck. I am tired of rebooting to clear it. Brian Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 104442754 AIM schrammbrian www.linuxexpert.org

Re: Power button doesn't work

2001-06-12 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 05:09:37PM +, p wrote: | On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 06:33:27PM -0400, Derek Hans wrote: | > What is APM? | | // | | (a)dvanced (p)ower (m)anagement. | | (i believe it would allow for the box to be shutoff via command, | rather than manually pushing the power (off) butt

Re: Modules issues

2001-06-12 Thread ktb
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 11:06:47AM -0700, Michael Dickey wrote: > After installing the kernel & modules I just compiled > I find that when booting there are all sorts of error > messages, most including something about modules.conf > being more recent than modules.dep. I can only glimpse > the mess

Subdomain on different machine?

2001-06-12 Thread Adahma
I'm on a Woody box with all updates, running the most recent apache from there. Is there a way to tell apache to "defer" to another IP address? What I'm trying to do is...I have a sub-domain just entered as a CNAME entry pointing to my main machine. The actual machine that serves up the content I

Re: Slow network -- Reverse DNS lookups

2001-06-12 Thread ktb
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:49:03PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > Hi > > some of my linux servers inside a private range IP lan, are giving slow > responses to clients inside the lan connecting to ftp or ssh. > Whe had no DNS running. > It seems to me this is because proftpd and sshd are doin

Re: Networking problem (SAMBA???)

2001-06-12 Thread ktb
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:06:09PM +0200, aparra wrote: > Hello!! > > > I have a GenuineIntel, Pentium 100. I use this machine as server, with > Samba, to serve printer, and files. I have also an other machine > (identical) as router and www server. But the problem is that some times > the

Re: printer (EPSON 780) setup -- tips for dummy like me

2001-06-12 Thread Jack
Hi, there: I did not get it work by using Parallel Port. However, it's now working by USB. Surprise?! Here are steps I did: . kernel support for USB: CONFIG_USB=y CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y CONFIG_USB_UHCI=m CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT=m CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=y . alias usb uhci # in /e

Kde 1.2

2001-06-12 Thread Jonathan Daugherty
Is there any place where I can get the source lines for kde 1.2? -- Jonathan Daugherty Dept. of Computer Science / UCNS Workstation Support Group The University of Georgia

Re: some problems.

2001-06-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: some problems. Date: Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:55:08PM -0500 In reply to:John Quoting John([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > using Grub, my linux entry looks like this: > > title Debian kernel 2.4.5-k6 > root (hd0,1) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.5-k6 root = /dev/hda2 ro idebus=66 hdd=i

Re: bl2seq in blast2 package

2001-06-12 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi, > We just installed blast2 on our debian (potato, powerpc) machine. > > First thing we noticed is that there exists (only) one command called > 'blastall' but not e.g. the 'bl2seq' we expected from or SGI-version. > > If you have an expl

Re: AVI Player (mplayer)

2001-06-12 Thread Francois Gouget
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Reza wrote: > Hi... > I think someone suggested to use Mplayer for AVI > player, but now, I have a little bit problem when I'm > playing DivX movies, the sound is not good, it stop > sometimes, and then I could hear the sound again, and > it only happened if I play DivX movies

Re: Power button doesn't work

2001-06-12 Thread p
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 06:33:27PM -0400, Derek Hans wrote: > What is APM? // (a)dvanced (p)ower (m)anagement. (i believe it would allow for the box to be shutoff via command, rather than manually pushing the power (off) button.) hth. bentley taylor. //

bl2seq in blast2 package

2001-06-12 Thread haase
Hi, We just installed blast2 on our debian (potato, powerpc) machine. First thing we noticed is that there exists (only) one command called 'blastall' but not e.g. the 'bl2seq' we expected from or SGI-version. If you have an explanation or any pointer, please let us know. Thanks, Sebastian Haas

Local non-mirror debian archive

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
I'm looking to set up a local debian archive which largely ignores the offical site. apt-move looked promising, but it's too concerned with mirroring. I want to have a directory on a fileserver that I can just throw debs into and have them (in an apt-move like fashion) turned into a usable archiv

Re: Power button doesn't work

2001-06-12 Thread Derek Hans
> "Derek Hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is it normal that my power button doesn't work? > > After running shutdown -h now, the system shuts down and issues a > > message saying > > "Power down." > > However, when I hit the power button, the computer just beeps but > > still stays on. The o

Re: transfer between win2k and debian

2001-06-12 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:09:51PM -, Em Huynh wrote: > Hi all, > > I got a little network (100baseT w/switch) going with win2k and debian. When > I transfer from my debian box (p3 566 w/ultra 66 hd) it seem to peak at > about 3000k-4000k. > > Does that seem right for a 100 base t network?

RE: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-12 Thread der.hans
Am 12. Jun, 2001 schwäzte Chapman, Matt so: > I could totally lose window$ (other than work) if I could get something > that would produce Flash (.swf) files like Swish www.swishzone.com under > Linux (my preferred OS). Anyone out there know of such a beast? Tried PHP? Rasmus recently gave a pre

some problems.

2001-06-12 Thread John
using Grub, my linux entry looks like this: title Debian kernel 2.4.5-k6 root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.5-k6 root = /dev/hda2 ro idebus=66 hdd=ide-scsi initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.5-k6 however, when it boots, it does not set idebus to 66, it defaults to 33, and tells me to "add idebus=xx", wh

[Q]: Exim no longer using smarthost?

2001-06-12 Thread Marshall, Hunter
I have somehow dorked my exim config (this is NOT the result of a version change). I am desparate to get back to being able to send out mail (by NOT using Outlook). Today I diddled the exim.conf and the aliases file. Somewhere my mail stopped going out. It appears that exim is trying to connect to

no i810 support in xserver-svga_3.3.6-38_i386.deb ?

2001-06-12 Thread Darxus
I'm running Debian Testing with a 2.2.19 kernel. I have an i810 video card, which I have working with xserver-svga_3.3.6-11potato32_i386.deb. X's output from both are in attached files. A diff of the 2 seems to show that i810 support is nolonger present: 37c37 < i810, i810-dc100, i810e,

transfer between win2k and debian

2001-06-12 Thread Em Huynh
Hi all, I got a little network (100baseT w/switch) going with win2k and debian. When I transfer from my debian box (p3 566 w/ultra 66 hd) it seem to peak at about 3000k-4000k. Does that seem right for a 100 base t network? I believe both network cards( netgear ) are running at full duplex (

Re: Grub: Does it allow for modularized kernel fs

2001-06-12 Thread Otto Wyss
Sorry I just discovered, that this thread isn't relayed (?!?) to the usenet newsgroup, so I wasn't aware of theses messages. I'm replying in just one message. > > > > Does anyone know if the fs in Grub allows the kernel to load his > > > > necessary fs as modules? I.e. if Grub contains a an ext2

Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-12 Thread Matthias Richter
Chapman, Matt wrote on Tue Jun 12, 2001 at 03:28:05PM: > I could totally lose window$ (other than work) if I could get something that > would produce Flash (.swf) files like Swish www.swishzone.com under Linux > (my preferred OS). Anyone out there know of such a beast? MING[1] is kind of a solut

Canon LBP 800

2001-06-12 Thread Blue Rat
Basically, it all boils down to finding the driver for this printer. The page at linuxprinting.org looks pretty discouraging and doesn't offer an actual link to anything but the Canon homepage, where they have drivers for every brand of winbloze under the sun... We've got one of those paperweight m

Re: 486 router is very slow

2001-06-12 Thread Leen Besselink
> > On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 01:52:41 +0200 (CEST), Leen Besselink > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I set up a router with my old 486 computer. I have there potato witch > > >> kernel > > >> 2.4 installed. > > >> > > >try running 2.2 or 2.0 instead, that might help also. > > > > In a router, havi

Re: Unable to use ppp with the 2.4.5 kernel

2001-06-12 Thread Evrard Nicolas
On 07:41 12.06.2001 Steve Kowalik wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:31:52AM +0200, Evrard Nicolas uttered: > > Hello, everyone ... > > > > I finally succesfully compiled the 2.4.5 kernel using make-kpkg but in > > order to have my modules.dep set by depmod I had to make some symlinks > > bec

RE: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-12 Thread Chapman, Matt
Well, I could totally lose window$ (other than work) if I could get something that would produce Flash (.swf) files like Swish www.swishzone.com under Linux (my preferred OS). Anyone out there know of such a beast? -matt -Original Message- From: USM Bish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: Re: xfree86 4.0

2001-06-12 Thread MRZ
> In reply to:Eduardo Gargiulo > > Quoting Eduardo Gargiulo([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi all. > > > > How can I upgrade my potato_r0 to install xfree86 v4.x? > > You would have found that question answered if you had look tru the > archives. All these details are 100% in the archives, just look usi

Re: I: tftp & batch file

2001-06-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: I: tftp & batch file Date: Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 01:37:45PM +0200 In reply to:Minervini Luigi Quoting Minervini Luigi([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Hi, > > I need help to create a tftp server on a Linux machine to download Routers > > configurations (by a Linux batch file)

Re: your mail

2001-06-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Date: Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:18:59AM -0700 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi, all - > > Have a lovely, clean and working pair of 3c509 NICs, both > for use in a router. > > But they're both insisting on being on

Re: xfree86 4.0

2001-06-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: xfree86 4.0 Date: Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:59:27PM -0300 In reply to:Eduardo Gargiulo Quoting Eduardo Gargiulo([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi all. > > How can I upgrade my potato_r0 to install xfree86 v4.x? You would have found that question answered if you had look tru the a

[palic@billgotchy.de: What's wrong?]

2001-06-12 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from Jan-Hendrik Palic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Jan-Hendrik Palic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What's wrong? Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 20:02:57 +0200 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Branden... sorry, I don't know whether write a bugreport or m

Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-12 Thread Thomas Halahan
yes latex rules, spend a bit of time getting your slide (color) template and pdf stuff ok, then save time, get better looking presentation (with less fluff) and have a truely sharable presentation. i have played with texpower with pdflatex and dvipdfm with good results. on the downside its

Re: [OT] LaTeX and \input{file}

2001-06-12 Thread Thomas Halahan
or use \usepackage{verbatim} ... \verbatiminput{filename.txt} this package also provides the comment environment which is good for big comment blocks. tom

Strange symbol in program

2001-06-12 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi, Profiling my executable, it shows that a huge part of the time is spent in a function called FF_wac. Running nm -C -p -o myprog |grep FF_wac yields: myprog:08a7c5e0 T FF_wac But nowhere can I find what this function is. It doesn't exist in any of the object files that I link in. Does anyone

IBM Java 1.3 - Anyone get to work?

2001-06-12 Thread ChrisHoover
I'm trying to get DB2 to install and run on my Debian box. One of the programs it needs is java. IBM is highly recommending that you install and run their version of java. I have pulled down the .rpm for it and installed it both as a rpm and as a deb (not at the same time). Anyway, no matter wh

X 4.0 on potato - Now get Fatal error

2001-06-12 Thread MRZ
Hi. It seems that I've finally managed to get X 4.03 onto my Debian potato box (ie: all the links/files/directories appear to be present and correct); but configuration must still be wrong. After the install was completed I initially ran "xf86config" but have also tried "xf86cfg" and "X --conf

Modules issues

2001-06-12 Thread Michael Dickey
After installing the kernel & modules I just compiled I find that when booting there are all sorts of error messages, most including something about modules.conf being more recent than modules.dep. I can only glimpse the messages before they are gone. Everything seems to work fine, though. Is there

Re: misconfiguration

2001-06-12 Thread Sebastiaan
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I accidentally misconfigured the package 'snort', so dpkg is unable to > >finish the installation process. I am unable to run dpkg-reconfigure, > >because the package is not fully installed. I am also unable to ru

RE: [OT?] ugly screen fonts in .pdf files [solved again]

2001-06-12 Thread Lewis, James M.
> -Original Message- > From: Matthias Richter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 11:28 AM > To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' > Subject: Re: [OT?] ugly screen fonts in .pdf files > > > Lewis, James M. wrote: > > > I am using pdflatex to make .pdf files of a docum

Xserver security setting

2001-06-12 Thread Michael Dickey
After upgrading to 2.2r3 I found that X would only start in 800x600 mode. I tried running XF86Setup again (maybe not the right way to go about fixing this?) and successfully got all the way through the setup until it started the Xserver with 1024x768 resolution and saved the config file. I then tri

Re: misconfiguration

2001-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I accidentally misconfigured the package 'snort', so dpkg is unable to >finish the installation process. I am unable to run dpkg-reconfigure, >because the package is not fully installed. I am also unable to run >dpkg-preconfigure, but that has no effect becaus

Slow network -- Reverse DNS lookups

2001-06-12 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
Hi some of my linux servers inside a private range IP lan, are giving slow responses to clients inside the lan connecting to ftp or ssh. Whe had no DNS running. It seems to me this is because proftpd and sshd are doing reverse DNS lookups. So I supose the way to solve this is to set up a dns serve

misconfiguration

2001-06-12 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I accidentally misconfigured the package 'snort', so dpkg is unable to finish the installation process. I am unable to run dpkg-reconfigure, because the package is not fully installed. I am also unable to run dpkg-preconfigure, but that has no effect because the package already has been con

Re: Unsent mail under exim

2001-06-12 Thread Volker Schlecht
> > Not exactly! I mean when you send a message but the dialup connection > > is not on by your misfortune, I think that exim takes care of it and > > queues it somewhere waiting to send it out later on. > (as root): runq > exim tries to deliver message id. > If no id is supplied all messages in

Re: Power button doesn't work

2001-06-12 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:27:24AM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: | "Derek Hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > Is it normal that my power button doesn't work? | > After running shutdown -h now, the system shuts down and issues a | > message saying | > "Power down." | > However, when I hit the power

Re: Getting an old boot disk

2001-06-12 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:46:58PM -0400, Matt Gerginski wrote: | Hi, its me again, the kid with the 486. The newest boot disk that i can | get to boot on the 486 is from 1.3.1. the installation was good, | except, i found out there were no dhcp utilities shipped with 1.3.1. | That was the whole

Re: nvidia-glx won't install

2001-06-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Jun 2001, Anthony Fox wrote: > "Jonathan David Wheelhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > An apt-get update & dist-upgrade got the newer nvidia-kernel-src and > > nvidia-glx-src packages(1.0.1251-1). I ran the build scripts > > (ie. make-kpkg modules-image & dpkg-buildpackage -us uc > >

mutt keybindings: fvwm interfering?

2001-06-12 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
I'm trying to bind my and keys to last-entry and first-entry respectively. xev sees them properly. It all works from the console (though colours don't, but that's not a problem). Is xterm screwing me up? Have I left out a vital piece of information? Is my windowmanager from hell? Baffled, Ai

Re: networking broken (ifup, route add)

2001-06-12 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 12:57 PM 06/12/2001 -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: SO, 1) what's wrong with ifup, 2) how to manually add localhost. try "iface lo inet loopback" (for 127.0.0.1) -- I think this is a /etc/network/interfaces specification, not an actual command: omega:/local# iface lo inet loopback

Re: Debian Double Dutch Gnome?

2001-06-12 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:18:07PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > As my flatmate prefers Gnome over KDE (as do I) this is really bothersome. What am I doing wrong, or is there some bug in localization, and if the latter, how can I help? Work-around that did it for me: edit ~/.gnome/gdm, change

Unidentified subject!

2001-06-12 Thread Helliandro Souto Henrique
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RE: [OT?] ugly screen fonts in .pdf files [solved]

2001-06-12 Thread Lewis, James M.
> > What version of ghostscript are you using? Some (older) versions use > bitmapped fonts for all non-Postscript-standard fonts, which > includes the > computer modern fonts to which LaTeX defaults. The newest gs > (7.something) will embed postscript fonts, which is what you want for > this. Yo

Re: networking broken (ifup, route add)

2001-06-12 Thread Gregory Guthrie
oops, 10.10.10.0 != 10.10.0.0 according to routing tables, ifconfing should give you an address like 10.10.10.x is this correct? -- Good observation, error on my part. I corrected; omega:/local# cat netset # # emergency network setup ifconfig

Re: nvidia-glx won't install

2001-06-12 Thread Anthony Fox
"Jonathan David Wheelhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > An apt-get update & dist-upgrade got the newer nvidia-kernel-src and > nvidia-glx-src packages(1.0.1251-1). I ran the build scripts > (ie. make-kpkg modules-image & dpkg-buildpackage -us uc > respectively) but dpkg -i on the nvidia-glx deb

Re: Any Clearcase users on Debian?

2001-06-12 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Regarding Any Clearcase users on Debian?; %% Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ndr> I'm trying to get Clearcase (huge, expensive code revision ndr> system) to work on Debian but I can't get the mvfs module to ndr> load. Has anybody tried this before? and succeeded? Please don't

Re: [OT?] ugly screen fonts in .pdf files

2001-06-12 Thread Matthias Richter
Lewis, James M. wrote: > I am using pdflatex to make .pdf files of a document. It prints just fine > but looks bad when viewing with acroread. This is a FAQ here: \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{ae} should accomplish what you want. You could also use acrobat readers built-in fonts with \u

Re: [OT?] ugly screen fonts in .pdf files

2001-06-12 Thread ANDREW PERRIN
What version of ghostscript are you using? Some (older) versions use bitmapped fonts for all non-Postscript-standard fonts, which includes the computer modern fonts to which LaTeX defaults. The newest gs (7.something) will embed postscript fonts, which is what you want for this. You should also cha

Re: icq through masqueraded firewall /socks4

2001-06-12 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Paul Haesler wrote: > Ah forget it. It seems to work with outsiders - it's just transfers > between clients on the LAN that doesn't work. I don't think the problem is with the firewall, but with ICQ. ICQ 99 and earlier used a different protocol from ICQ 2000. When clients

nvidia-glx won't install

2001-06-12 Thread Jonathan David Wheelhouse
Hi An apt-get update & dist-upgrade got the newer nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src packages(1.0.1251-1). I ran the build scripts (ie. make-kpkg modules-image & dpkg-buildpackage -us uc respectively) but dpkg -i on the nvidia-glx deb gave a missing xlibmesa-dev problem. I apt-get install that

I've got a corrupt filesys. How do I check integrity of all installed packages?

2001-06-12 Thread oivvio polite
OK, here's an other: Last week I played around with hdparm to optimize hd performance. Not only did manage to speed up the hd considerably, I also managed to corrupt my file system. I could still boot after fsck. I can still get up kmail to write you this. Most stuff still works but some services

RE: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-12 Thread Chapman, Matt
Good point. But what about the presentation product in StarOffice which does transitions and everything... I have done a presentation with and many people thought I was using Powerpoint up until I ended the presentation and my GNOME was revealed! (with large tux background image) ;) -matt -

RE: Querying Oracle

2001-06-12 Thread Lewis, James M.
> > I'd like to query a database on an Oracle NT server from my laptop > using the LAN at my office. > > What should I install to this end on my linux-box laptop? > You could install the client software from oracle. I have oracle 8.1.7 and it works fine. I haven't tried any free tools. There

Re: two questions on emacs under Mutt

2001-06-12 Thread stimpy
On (08/06/01 17:29), Vittorio wrote: > I've installed Mutt and am using as my pet e-mail composer emacs. Me too! I use mutt-alias.el and post.el which are both available from http://www.davep.org/mutt/ post.el is a mail mode for Emacs that contains various functions including automatic line wrapp

[OT?] ugly screen fonts in .pdf files

2001-06-12 Thread Lewis, James M.
I am using pdflatex to make .pdf files of a document. It prints just fine but looks bad when viewing with acroread. Is there some trick to using different fonts to make the screen display look good? I have tried using a couple of postscript fonts as well as the usual tex fonts (ccr). I have als

Re: loki games under woody

2001-06-12 Thread oivvio polite
Aquila and Lance, Thanks a lot to both of you. It turned out glibc 2.2 was not the problem. I was installing from iso images I made on an other machine (the machine I'm installing on is a subnote book with no cdrom) and mkisofs had decided to rename some files. oivvio On Tuesday 12 June 2001

Re: Not Loading Modules

2001-06-12 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
well, I had a pci ethernet card identified on /proc/pci I think the kernel autodetects most pci hardware, yet, the corresponding drivers may not be built in the kernel. Of course we must trick this by loading a module. So, by automatically Identifying some hardware doesnt necessarily mean that the

Querying Oracle

2001-06-12 Thread Victor
I'd like to query a database on an Oracle NT server from my laptop using the LAN at my office. What should I install to this end on my linux-box laptop? Ciao Vittorio

Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-12 Thread Rajkumar S.
On 12 Jun 2001, Graham Williams wrote: > In a similar vane I use the LaTeX "prosper" package which does a very > good job of bringing together texpower, hyperref, ifmslides, in a > simple to use and familiar (LaTeX) environment and provides > plug-n-play glitz just like powerpoint, all presented u

Re: Debian and RAID

2001-06-12 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I got a system working with an adaptech 2100S. Works ok El Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:49:25AM +0200, Manuel Segura dijo: -| hello, -| here i run 3 compaq servers with "Compaq Smart Array 431" -| in Proliant 370 -| -| It works fine -| -| Bye -| -| > Jack a écrit : -| > -| > Hi, -| > -| > I want t

Re: Not Loading Modules

2001-06-12 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I compiled a 2.2.19 kernel with module support and sound > modules for my sound card selected, ran make modules > and make modules_install, then copied everything in > /usr/src.../arch/i386/boot to /boot. The kernel boots and > all my regular programs run perfectly but dmseg contains > nothing t

Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-12 Thread USM Bish
My personal preference is to use HTML presentation on a browser. Totally platform independent. Opera 5 supports full screen (F11 toggle), and it is *actually* the "full" screen with no browser borders, (unlike IE which still has the browser frame around). This is true for both the Linux and W

Re: Power button doesn't work

2001-06-12 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Derek Hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it normal that my power button doesn't work? > After running shutdown -h now, the system shuts down and issues a > message saying > "Power down." > However, when I hit the power button, the computer just beeps but > still stays on. The only thing I can

Re: Network problem, box sending tcp flags SWE on SYN.....

2001-06-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 03:42:13PM +0200, Alwyn Schoeman wrote: > Hi, > > I have this problem where my box cannot talk through a pix firewall which > allows everything through, but can talk to any box on the local network. On > closer investigation with tcpdump it appears that it initiates tcp

Networking problem (SAMBA???)

2001-06-12 Thread aparra
Hello!! I have a GenuineIntel, Pentium 100. I use this machine as server, with Samba, to serve printer, and files. I have also an other machine (identical) as router and www server. But the problem is that some times the win98 machines stops viewing the network, put I still have IP conexi

Not Loading Modules

2001-06-12 Thread Thomas H. George
I compiled a 2.2.19 kernel with module support and sound modules for my sound card selected, ran make modules and make modules_install, then copied everything in /usr/src.../arch/i386/boot to /boot. The kernel boots and all my regular programs run perfectly but dmseg contains nothing to indica

Any Clearcase users on Debian?

2001-06-12 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I'm trying to get Clearcase (huge, expensive code revision system) to work on Debian but I can't get the mvfs module to load. Has anybody tried this before? and succeeded? Please don't tell me to revert to Redhat 6.2 :-( Nico - "It

Network problem, box sending tcp flags SWE on SYN.....

2001-06-12 Thread Alwyn Schoeman
Hi, I have this problem where my box cannot talk through a pix firewall which allows everything through, but can talk to any box on the local network. On closer investigation with tcpdump it appears that it initiates tcp communication using flags SWE (WE is unknown to me). Local machines tend

Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable (ssh)

2001-06-12 Thread Robert Ruzbacky
Yes, I got the same message with our server. I had to kill all the ssh sessions that "didn't exist". I also had a problem with ssh which asked me to create more pttys, which I did and this also alleviated the problemnot sure why ssh (I think v 1.3) does this (ie creates phantom processes whe

Re: loki games under woody

2001-06-12 Thread Lance Simmons
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:36:34PM +0200, oivvio polite wrote: > > Descent3 from www.lokigames.com states glic 2.1 as a requirement and > wan't install under woody (glibc 2.2) > > Has anyone found a workaround for this? There may be other ways to do it, but this works: 1. copy the cd files to

gnome

2001-06-12 Thread Guilherme Borges
Hi, ich wanted to install the new gnome(from ximian). I installed with dselect the task-ximian-gnome. So far i think I installed all packages. But when I try to start gnome or nautilus i get : >nautilus: error in loading shared libraries: libgnomecanvaspixbuf.so.1: cannot open shared object

Fw: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0

2001-06-12 Thread Frans Schreuder
> > Frans> -edited the raidtab file ( I noticed there beeing a raid > > Frans> directory so I copied it from it's original location in /etc) > > > > > The raidtab file needs to be in /etc. I have noticed the /etc/raid > > directory as well, but AFAIK it is not used. (This could be considered > > a

Re: icq through masqueraded firewall /socks4

2001-06-12 Thread David Purton
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Paul Haesler wrote: > Ah forget it. It seems to work with outsiders - it's just transfers > between clients on the LAN that doesn't work. > > Of course there are better ways to transfer files on the LAN than > icq. But it makes it difficult to test things. Is there anyth

Re: kernel-package question

2001-06-12 Thread ktb
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:00:09PM +0300, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > Hi > > I've just compiled a custom kernel with 'kernel-package > --revision=3:win4lin1 kernel-image'. the kernel I was compiling was the > source of the kernel from which I originally installed the system - > 2.2.19-reiserfs. when r

Re: your mail

2001-06-12 Thread ktb
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:18:59AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, all - > > Have a lovely, clean and working pair of 3c509 NICs, both > for use in a router. > > But they're both insisting on being on IRQ 10, which > rather complicates things. > > I've tried the 3c5x9tools pack

I: tftp & batch file

2001-06-12 Thread Minervini Luigi
> -Messaggio originale- > Da: Minervini Luigi > Inviato: lunedì 11 giugno 2001 16.08 > A:debian-user@lists.debian.org > Oggetto: tftp & batch file > > Hi, > I need help to create a tftp server on a Linux machine to download Routers > configurations (by a Linux batch file

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