Re: partition table woes

2001-07-27 Thread dman
More info, if anyone is interested -- my swap isn't quite working. I get Unable to find swap-space signature errors. It is possible that I overwrote that block, or that the partitions are slightly off. [After some more experimenting] I noticed that gpart reported 2 sectors unallocated between t

Re: pdf editor

2001-07-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 06:33:31PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > Is it REALLY that easy to print from Linux now? Is there even a printing > application in the base distribution? Troll? > So yes, I am suggesting that perhaps it's time to take a good hard look at > how dependent printing is on pro

Re: AGP cards...anything weird?

2001-07-27 Thread Jeff Maxson
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jeff, > > > SuperProbe, and it gives me something like a Yamaha 6388 VPDC chipset > and > > a RAMDAC of a generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC. Needless to say, I > can't > > find support for this setup on xf86config. > > It might help to know which versio

Re: Reading a Sylpheed mailbox

2001-07-27 Thread dman
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 08:05:38PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: | Sam Varghese wrote: | | > I need to read an inbox from Sylpheed in any | > common Windows mail program. | | Sylpheed's mailboxes are in the MH format. Each mailbox is a directory Ahh, there's the key - knowing the format. | and ea

Re: AGP cards...anything weird?

2001-07-27 Thread dman
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 11:35:41PM -0400, Jeff Maxson wrote: | I noticed that others on this list have said they have an AGP card | (which mine is) and have installed some extra module. Do I need to | do this? I have an AGP card too. AFAIK it makes no different to the OS whether the card is

OT: color emacs/auctex in console?

2001-07-27 Thread Jeff Maxson
Sorry about the OT... I'd like to edit latex docs in emacs using auctex with the nice syntax-highlighting. I apt-got emacs20, auctex, and their suggested packages. Loading up a latex document will now get me all the whiz-bang formatting features of auctex, but I can't seem to get the color to k

Re: AGP cards...anything weird?

2001-07-27 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Jeff, > SuperProbe, and it gives me something like a Yamaha 6388 VPDC chipset and > a RAMDAC of a generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC. Needless to say, I can't > find support for this setup on xf86config. It might help to know which version of X you are running (potato, 3.3; woody / sid, 4.0.3), an

sid / woody ppp not setting default gw

2001-07-27 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Hi! I have a laptop with an ethernet card connection to a local network and a modem for connecting to the Internet. Earlier versions of pppd always reset the default gateway to the dial-in server when I connected (and reset it back to eth0 after I hang up). A recent upgrade seems to have broken

AGP cards...anything weird?

2001-07-27 Thread Jeff Maxson
I was able to get my neomagic-powered laptop running X as a fresh newbie (after tons of reading), but am having a problem with my desktop. I run SuperProbe, and it gives me something like a Yamaha 6388 VPDC chipset and a RAMDAC of a generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC. Needless to say, I can't find s

Debian install issues!

2001-07-27 Thread Brad Pillatsch
  Okay lets try this again, this time with just a little more information. =) Here's the problem I am having.  This occurs on all the flavors of the latest stable release root disks.  Basically when the root disk loads up into the install menus, specifically the first release notes window an

Re: Fatal X server error.

2001-07-27 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Chip, > I am having a problem with startx. The error message says: > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' Do you have the font packages installed, like xfonts-base, xfonts-75dpi, xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-scalable? You don't say what version of X you are running, but the versio

Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?

2001-07-27 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, John Galt wrote: > world IS compliant, just not to mutt's amended standards. To be precise, > there's a mode in mutt that breaks even pine compatibility: a signed Yes. Just as a warning for others, either let mutt do the pgp/mime the way it wants, or do not let it sign messag

Re: Reading a Sylpheed mailbox

2001-07-27 Thread Craig Dickson
Sam Varghese wrote: > I need to read an inbox from Sylpheed in any > common Windows mail program. Sylpheed's mailboxes are in the MH format. Each mailbox is a directory and each message is a single file. The files are numbered, representing their order in the mailbox (which is not really importan

Reading a Sylpheed mailbox

2001-07-27 Thread Sam Varghese
This question is not on-topic but I would be grateful if someone could help. I need to read an inbox from Sylpheed in any common Windows mail program. It is for one of the older members of a charity group (http://www.vicnet.net.au/~rpds/); her mailbox was stuffed silly so I downloaded it from the

Re: Debian Issues!!

2001-07-27 Thread Mark Wagnon
This was posted earlier in the week: http://www.linuxiso.org/debian.html Don't forget to donate to the cause if you find yourself liking Debian (and you will). Good luck! -- Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: partition table woes

2001-07-27 Thread dman
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:25:21PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 12:13:10PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | - gpart Guess PC disk partition table, find lost partitions | ...gpart sounds promising. You've tried this yet? As of now I have :-). Some othe

Re: Fatal X server error.

2001-07-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya fu you need to hav xfs running... or comment out "unix/:-1" from your /etc/X11/XF86Ccnfig file and add some explicitly defined FontPaths ... # make sure you have the directories you list FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" ... c ya alvin = = http

dhcp & ip addresses

2001-07-27 Thread Eric Boo
Hi all, I'm using pump on SID. My ISP is a cable provider who do not issue static ips. Usually, when I use pump, I have the same ip address for months, unless I switch off the modem and someone else grabs it. When I reboot into windows on the same machine, I get another ip address, then when I g

Re: I have a problem with a ethernet card

2001-07-27 Thread dman
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:57:27PM -0300, Pablo A. Masciotta wrote: | I have a 3com Etherlink III ISA Card on my Celeron A 350Mhz and i are using | the 3c509 module to load the card on my linux, like i do in the RedHat | distro. But... the module go fine and it´s configure all the card but | wh

Re: Debian Issues!!

2001-07-27 Thread dman
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 05:25:16PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:51:14PM -0700, Jaimos F. Skriletz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > (I didn't want to wait for the CD or purchase one since I have no cash | > to spare) | | False economies at best. You can purchase the

Fatal X server error.

2001-07-27 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, I am having a problem with startx. The error message says: _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1' Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0

Re: Mouse Setup

2001-07-27 Thread R1nso13
remember, the device NAMES are irrelivant. your mouse could be called /dev/mongoose and still function as a mouse if you give it the correct major and minor numbers which you can view w/ 'ls -l'. So if you can't find a mouse device, consider just making one of your own.

I have a problem with a ethernet card

2001-07-27 Thread Pablo A. Masciotta
I have a 3com Etherlink III ISA Card on my Celeron A 350Mhz and i are using the 3c509 module to load the card on my linux, like i do in the RedHat distro. But... the module go fine and it´s configure all the card but when i ping an IP number the card send data, but, no recive any packag

Long delay during boot of eth0

2001-07-27 Thread Lance Peterson
Hello. My system boots all the way, but has a long, annoying delay when the boot sequence gets to the line below: Configuring eth0: using NWAY device table, not 8 After a minute or longer, it says "done" and moves on. It appears it is waiting for some autoconfiguration it is requesting. I alre

Re: pdf editor

2001-07-27 Thread John Galt
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: >John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> $EDITOR/TeTex and dvipdfm? But why you would force people to deal >> with Adobe right now is beyond me > >It is not necessary to deal with Adobe to deal with PDF files. No, there's xpdf _et al_, but the .pdf spec

Re: Debian Issues!!

2001-07-27 Thread John
You can get a debian image at: http://www.linuxiso.org/ I also installed debian (hamm) as my first linux/unix experience. Took me 3 months to get everything working. Loved every minute of it. John -- -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Using [Debian] Linux _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ pgpz15iRlIPy0.pgp De

Re: Debian Issues!!

2001-07-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:51:14PM -0700, Jaimos F. Skriletz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > To whom it may concern, > > Hello, I'm tradionally a Window's 98 OS user and am currently in the Spell checking on long rants is strongly recommended. > project of teaching myself linux and wanting to

RE: Debian Issues!!

2001-07-27 Thread Israel Evans
Or better yet, an an online script that takes care of the whole process for you! Or at least some of it, well maybe a little bit. ok, well, I'll just go read the Howto files a dozen more times. :) ~Israel~ -Original Message- From: Ben Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Re: Debian Issues!!

2001-07-27 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:51:14PM -0700, Jaimos F. Skriletz wrote: > cash to spare) to begin this project, but little to my knowledge, I have > spent the last three days reading though your FAQ's, readme files, etc > trying to figure out how to get the image which should be a simple afair, > yet f

Re: Quake 3

2001-07-27 Thread jason pepas
Thanks for all the help guys - It works like a charm :) I wrote up some notes on my experience for others having trouble: http://jason.pepas.com/linux/tutorials/quake3.php let me know if i left anything out. In a few days I will attempt to get it working with a Geforce2 MX, and will update tha

RE: Debian Issues!!

2001-07-27 Thread Israel Evans
Hello, I'm involved in the same process as you at the moment. Maybe my experience with this will help you, maybe not. I've just successfully created the .iso image. and it did seem strange at first, but I finally got everything to work. It may be that your connection is wacky and that might b

Re: [icewm-themes] Call For Votes

2001-07-27 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 17:35:52 +0200 Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello dear Debian users, > > I am going to revise the current icewm-themes package, since in my > opinion there should be some new cool themes (that user get from > icewm.themes.org anyways), and on the other hand we cou

Re: Shared Libs

2001-07-27 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Does anyone know of a good site that has a supply of Linux shared libraries? >I'm specifically looking for libm.so.5. That would be the Debian libc5 package, then. You should try http://packages.debian.org/ to search for what package contains a given file. -- Colin Wat

Quake 2 Problem

2001-07-27 Thread JakeCatfox
I'm trying to run Quake 2 from X, but when I do, it tells me it can't find ref_softx.so, even though it's right there in the directory with it. Does anyone know what the problem might be? -- Deven

Shared Libs

2001-07-27 Thread JakeCatfox
Does anyone know of a good site that has a supply of Linux shared libraries? I'm specifically looking for libm.so.5. Thanks, Deven "Where the hell is the lib" Gallo

Autoconf bugs?

2001-07-27 Thread Geoffrey Romer
I'm trying to build a software package from CVS, and I'm getting the following errors when I try to run autoconf: ---snip--- autoconf: Undefined macros: ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_LANG_PUSH ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_LANG_POP ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_LANG_P

Re: pdf editor

2001-07-27 Thread Alan Shutko
John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > $EDITOR/TeTex and dvipdfm? But why you would force people to deal > with Adobe right now is beyond me It is not necessary to deal with Adobe to deal with PDF files. > If you want to change the .pdf, might I suggest changing the > filetype to something tha

Re: Backup strategey? (Was: Preventing windows from scr...)

2001-07-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 08:22:37AM -0700, Paul Mackinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Cormac McGuinness muttered: > > All my files/data were gone (I had two synchronised copies though, so I > > wasnt really worried :) ) > > I'm a recent convert to Linux as my defaul boot-OS and the OS I do em

Debian Issues!!

2001-07-27 Thread Jaimos F. Skriletz
To whom it may concern, Hello, I'm tradionally a Window's 98 OS user and am currently in the project of teaching myself linux and wanting to learn how to use its operating system. After talking to some of my friends who are devout linux users, I have recived advice that Debian is one of the best

Re: Debian Install Problem

2001-07-27 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm installing from a Debian CD-ROM I got from ISO Image 1 [ver. 2.2r3]. I partition my hard disk, install the OS and Modules, then the drivers, and usually that goes fine [drivers sometimes fails], and then I choose to install the base system, and 4 years later [not r

Re: Problem with interface eth0 [RESOLVED]

2001-07-27 Thread dude
which modules? On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, heissu wrote: > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 19:44:51 +0200 > From: heissu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Debian UserList (en)" > Subject: Re: Problem with interface eth0 [RESOLVED] > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Mart van de Wege wrote: > > > On Wed,

Re: partition table woes

2001-07-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 12:13:10PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 12:46:50AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > | If you know how you sized your partitions, you can try plugging in the > | appropriate values, and saving the table. Since the partition table > | doesn

Re: /dev/fd0u1743 help

2001-07-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya superformat will format 1.44mb floppies to 1.77 or higher if needed tomsrtbt disks also has the ability to format more space into the floppy you can also modify the default mke2fs options to allow more data ( not as much overhead .. sometimes the extra 100 bytes is all you needed) c ya

Re: pdf editor

2001-07-27 Thread John Galt
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, harsha wrote: >hi, >> apt-get install xpdf-i ( this will get the package for you) > >xdpf-i helps you to view the decryption support. I am not looking for a viewer. > > >> > I would like to know if there exists a package to **edit** pdf files. >

Re: Debian Install Problem

2001-07-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 04:28:17PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm installing from a Debian CD-ROM I got from ISO Image 1 [ver. 2.2r3]. I > partition my hard disk, install the OS and Modules, then the drivers, and > usually that goes fine [drivers sometimes fails], and then I choose to > i

Re: Mouse Setup

2001-07-27 Thread Kent West
James Rodgers wrote: Hi, I am having problems getting X to start. During the XF86Config I hit return so hat the default /dev/mouse is set. However looking at /dev/ afterwards /dev/mouse doesn't exist; hence xstart fails with the message 'mouse not found'. I have a Microsoft Intellimouse E

Re: DVDs

2001-07-27 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Hereward Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Saturday 21 July 2001 14:20, Brian Nelson wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:02:04AM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: > > > Through fortuitous means, I just acquired a DVD player! > > > > > > I've looked at the DVD HOWTO and it recommends a whole bunch >

Re: /dev/fd0u1743 help --> SOLVED

2001-07-27 Thread Mike Pfleger
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 04:39:30PM -0500, Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Mike Pfleger wrote: > > try mknod /dev/df0u1743 b 2 76 > > brw-rw1 root floppy 2, 76 May 31 22:12 fd0u1743 > > that's what it is on my machine :) > >

Re: /dev/fd0u1743 help

2001-07-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Mike Pfleger wrote on Fri Jul 27, 2001 um 02:19:39PM: > I tried > mknod /dev/fd0u1743 b 2 77 apt-get --reinstall install fdutils or call /usr/sbin/MAKEFLOPPIES manually. > to install such, but this is apparently wrong, and resulted in not being > able to mount the device at all, let a

Re: lilo stuff -- [ soundblaster sb 16 ]

2001-07-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya markus... you need to find that file... whatever it is called... you need to find the kernel that supports your scsi controller... since you have /dev/hda... its 10x simpler to boot linux off of hda and redirect it to /dev/sda for its root fs... etc... have fun alvin On Fri, 27 Jul 200

Re: VERY URGENT - 20 yrs

2001-07-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya this scamm been going on for 20 yrs... email/web is just extending the life of all the scams you can think of... c ya alvin On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Didn't the FBI and Secret Service make a big arrest recently > concerning this scam? I'm surprised it's still go

Re: Backup strategey? (Was: Preventing windows from scr...)

2001-07-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya cormac two synchronized copies??? am assuming that mean that if you erased foo.txt on the master... it erases it on the other disk too??? - if you lost your files/data on the master... it wasn't mirrored/synchronized to the other set hummm - curious to see how/why you l

Re: /dev/fd0u1743 help

2001-07-27 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Mike Pfleger wrote: MP> Hello. MP> MP> I have a firewall based on fireplug, and am looking at migrating to coyote MP> linux. I would like to extract my config files from fireplug, so that I MP> may catalog my IRQ settings, etc. in my system logbook. To my dismay, I MP> do n

Re: pdf editor

2001-07-27 Thread harsha
hi, > Sounds like the poster wanted to fill in PDF Forms, and the only app I know > that can do that is Acrobat Reader. hmmn there is no GNU utility for the same purpose. I have a problem in viewing some pdf files. xpdf refuses to open them but acrobat reader reads them. is it because the pd

Re: Mouse Setup

2001-07-27 Thread Sean Quinlan
* James Rodgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-27 22:00): > I am having problems getting X to start. During the XF86Config I hit > return so hat the default /dev/mouse is set. However looking at > /dev/ afterwards /dev/mouse doesn't exist; hence xstart fails with > the message 'mouse not found'. I ha

/dev/fd0u1743 help

2001-07-27 Thread Mike Pfleger
Hello. I have a firewall based on fireplug, and am looking at migrating to coyote linux. I would like to extract my config files from fireplug, so that I may catalog my IRQ settings, etc. in my system logbook. To my dismay, I do not have a /dev/fd0u1743 entry, and my attempts to make such have n

Re: pdf editor

2001-07-27 Thread harsha
hi, > apt-get install xpdf-i ( this will get the package for you) xdpf-i helps you to view the decryption support. I am not looking for a viewer. > > I would like to know if there exists a package to **edit** pdf files.

Re: pdf editor

2001-07-27 Thread Alan Shutko
"J.A.Serralheiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > well, do you want to VIEW or CHANGE pdf files? Sounds like the poster wanted to fill in PDF Forms, and the only app I know that can do that is Acrobat Reader. > xpdf is very nice to view. Well, except that it doesn't support bookmarks or thumbnai

re: Mouse Setup

2001-07-27 Thread mikrolahti // linux-tuki
>I am having problems getting X to start. During the XF86Config I hit return so hat the default >/dev/mouse is set. However looking at /dev/ afterwards /dev/mouse doesn't exist; hence xstart fails >with the message 'mouse not found'. I have a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer with PS/2 lead, how do >

Re: pdf editor

2001-07-27 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
well, do you want to VIEW or CHANGE pdf files? xpdf is very nice to view. apt-get install xpdf-i ( this will get the package for you) On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, harsha wrote: > Hi, > I would like to know if there exists a package to **edit** pdf files. I > have some forms in pdf form which i have

Re: mutt and doc files -solved

2001-07-27 Thread Duncan Watson
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 12:46:22PM -0700, Duncan Watson wrote: > Hi all, > > I saw the recent thread about doc files and wanted to solve my problem. I > use applixware's doc reader called 'words'. I would like to get mutt to > use 'words' for my viewer. I am not interested in auto-view for doc

Re: lilo stuff -- [ soundblaster sb 16 ]

2001-07-27 Thread Markus Hansen
hi Alvin Oga wrote: > hi markus > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 12:21:14PM +0200, Markus Hansen wrote: > > > > the lilo and the old lilofile (which worked pretty good) are attachements > > now. > > maybe i forgetz an important scsi thing to set on in the kernel? > > or maybe it was the wrong scsi dri

Re: Quake 3

2001-07-27 Thread Sean Quinlan
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-27 21:50): > Does Quake 3 work with the S3 Savage and the VooDoo 3? Not sure about the S3 Savage, but the Voodoo 3 definitely works... have a look at dri.sourceforge.net for information on getting DRI working, which you'll need for 3d accelleration

Mouse Setup

2001-07-27 Thread James Rodgers
Hi,   I am having problems getting X to start. During the XF86Config I hit return so hat the default /dev/mouse is set. However looking at /dev/ afterwards /dev/mouse doesn't exist; hence xstart fails with the message 'mouse not found'. I have a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer with PS/2 lead,

Re: Promise IDE ATA-100 controller on ASUS A7V133

2001-07-27 Thread John Galt
The bootdisks will NOT be the final kernel, unless you want to be horribly obscene. Use the idepci disks, get the system up, then customize the system kernel with scsi-ide and all of the neat tools. In fact, it's gotten to the point that I only specify the parts necessary in the initial configur

pdf editor

2001-07-27 Thread harsha
Hi, I would like to know if there exists a package to **edit** pdf files. I have some forms in pdf form which i have to fill. I did make a search at freshmeat, sourceforge but none turned up regards harsha

Re: Quake 3

2001-07-27 Thread JakeCatfox
Does Quake 3 work with the S3 Savage and the VooDoo 3?

Re: mozilla with SSL for galeon in unstable?

2001-07-27 Thread Craig Dickson
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Mozilla is in non-us now. It was pointed out to me to simply > install mozilla-psm, and it worked! But it's Mozilla 0.9.1. They released 0.9.2 a few weeks ago. Galeon also is out of date (and there's no point in updating it until Mozilla is current, since the latest Ga

Re: Problem with interface eth0 [RESOLVED]

2001-07-27 Thread heissu
Mart van de Wege wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 23:05:15 +0200 > heissu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I want a ethernet card (3Com). I have compiled the kernel to that > > ethernet card. I want configure the interface whith the ifconfig > > command.But when I do: # ifconfig eth0 numIP netmask num

Re: mozilla with SSL for galeon in unstable?

2001-07-27 Thread John Galt
Shows how much I know: I belong to the Rev. Krusty's church :) (for people that missed the joke: KDE has it's own browser [konqueror], and KDE's maintainer within Debian is Ivan E Moore II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > >Mozilla is in non-us now. It was poi

Re: Debian Install Problem

2001-07-27 Thread JakeCatfox
I'm installing from a Debian CD-ROM I got from ISO Image 1 [ver. 2.2r3]. I partition my hard disk, install the OS and Modules, then the drivers, and usually that goes fine [drivers sometimes fails], and then I choose to install the base system, and 4 years later [not really] it tells me that th

Re: mozilla with SSL for galeon in unstable?

2001-07-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Mozilla is in non-us now. It was pointed out to me to simply install mozilla-psm, and it worked! John Galt wrote: > I think there will be one, as soon as mozilla's maintainer does the Great > Mozilla Upgrade(tm).

Re: mozilla with SSL for galeon in unstable?

2001-07-27 Thread John Galt
I think there will be one, as soon as mozilla's maintainer does the Great Mozilla Upgrade(tm). Apparently they're going to split the package in to main and non-US components and do some other things involving splitting off pieces parts. They promised it RSN a while ago, so your guess is as good

Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?

2001-07-27 Thread John Galt
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Martin F. Krafft wrote: >also sprach Adam Bell (on Wed, 25 Jul 2001 04:04:35PM -0400): >> Okay, so can anyone tell me what popular (to Debian Users) MUA sends >> every >> single message as an attachment to an empty message? > >as others have said, it's micro$oft's inabili

Re: ACPI vs. APM

2001-07-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:27:43PM -0400, Steve Gran wrote: > Hello all, > I was hoping someone could help me out. I'm running kernel 2.4.7 on a an > Ali MB w/ a P III chip. The BIOS boot messages tell me that this board > uses ACPI as it's protocol, so I enabled that in the kernel, but it doesn'

Re: Quake 3

2001-07-27 Thread Andrew Agno
jason pepas writes: > Andrew - I am running a G200, so I may have to do the same... Also check out www.debianplanet.org in the HowTo section. Andrew.

mutt and doc files

2001-07-27 Thread Duncan Watson
Hi all, I saw the recent thread about doc files and wanted to solve my problem. I use applixware's doc reader called 'words'. I would like to get mutt to use 'words' for my viewer. I am not interested in auto-view for doc files. My .mailcap line reads as follows for msword: application/msword;

Re: cvs permissions

2001-07-27 Thread Joey Hess
Martin F. Krafft wrote: > okay, with the preserve option i have succeeded at preserving the file > permissions If you get /etc-in-cvs to fully work, I'd really like to see a mini-howto detailing what you did. I use cvs for my home directory (and it's quite cool to walk up to a box you last used 1

esound

2001-07-27 Thread Steve Gran
Hello all, I'm having an interesting problem - esound has up and quit on me for some reason. I'm running Debian testing, and it worked just fine (although occasionally it wouldn't disconnect from a user after logout) up until a few weeks ago. I ran an apt-get upgrade, and esound was one of the pa

Re: cvs permissions

2001-07-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:14:07PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 05:50:19PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > | CVS is pretty much exactly what i am looking for. i would love to > | create a CVS repository each for every one of the remote machines. > | then everyone could checkout and

ACPI vs. APM

2001-07-27 Thread Steve Gran
Hello all, I was hoping someone could help me out. I'm running kernel 2.4.7 on a an Ali MB w/ a P III chip. The BIOS boot messages tell me that this board uses ACPI as it's protocol, so I enabled that in the kernel, but it doesn't power down the monitor properly. I also have APM enabled, as that

Packages to run kernel 2.4.x on potato (release 17)

2001-07-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
I have prepared the packages needed to run kernels up to 2.4.7 on a Debian 2.2r3 (potato) system. Please read [1] for more information. Changes since the last release: + added: kernel-image-2.4.7-i386 Binary packages: o kernel-headers-2.4.7 o k

Re: Response...A NEWBIE inquiry......

2001-07-27 Thread d
Jaye Inabnit, Mart van de Wege, Kent West, Mark Wagnon, This is NOT in any special order just wanted to send a BIG Thank You for the info and will be testing this out over the weakend (BAG!). Again, to make a short story longer, from what I have seen and read in most of these messages the one

Re: cvs permissions

2001-07-27 Thread dman
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 05:50:19PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: | i/we operate a number of remote servers, and sometimes, configuration | is impossible because of slow links; then, vi takes 10 seconds to | start, and a keystroke is echoed in 5... unacceptable. | | so i would like to change confi

Re: Newbie Question

2001-07-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
Wayne Topa wrote: >Update. After 4 hours of checking mirror sites I still do not have >any reference to the x86info package. I do, noe, have the debfoster >package tho. :-) > >But I learned a lot in the process. Don't relay on the mirror lists. >The listed paths for the packages for

Re: VERY URGENT

2001-07-27 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Whoa, thats the second rich guy to die today. Sani, quit this while you are not in jail yet. -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator

Re: VERY URGENT

2001-07-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Didn't the FBI and Secret Service make a big arrest recently concerning this scam? I'm surprised it's still going on. "SANI IBRAHIM" wrote: > THE PROPOSAL: Just before my father died he called my attention to the > money and charged me to look for a foreigner who would assist me in the > trans

Re: A NEWBIE inquiry......

2001-07-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* d ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010726 20:46]: > ONE more for the ROAD, please.where is a GOOD place for a NEWBIE that > is NOT a programmer nor very familiar with UNIX or Linux to learn how to > get started. I Know READ, READ, READ, etcetera, at 61 I do NOT have that > much time left to do all o

cd pseudo image...

2001-07-27 Thread Israel Evans
Hello there good people! I've just finished making my pseodo image and had one particular error come up that has me worried. after I transform the pseudo-image into the official cd image I get "ERROR: file corruption in binary-i386-1.iso . File changed during transfer?" I didn't think I

Re: Promise IDE ATA-100 controller on ASUS A7V133

2001-07-27 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:57:32AM -0700, David Grant wrote: > Okay, everyone keeps telling me to use the idepci disks, which sounds like > it would probably work. But on the website it says that the idepci ONLY > supports IDE and PCI devices, not SCSI. I don't have any SCSI devices, but > actual

Re: install dpkg without dpkg

2001-07-27 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 10:23 a.m. 27/07/01 -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:43:11AM -0500, John Patton wrote: > Probably the easiest thing would be to reinstall everything, I agree. > but if you really want to the ar command (which is built > into sash, BTW, and is on the rescue disk if I rememb

Re: install dpkg without dpkg

2001-07-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:43:11AM -0500, John Patton wrote: > Probably the easiest thing would be to reinstall everything, I agree. > but if you really want to the ar command (which is built > into sash, BTW, and is on the rescue disk if I remember > correctly) will unpack deb files. Just get yo

Re: How to get an Iomega 100MB USB Zip Drive to work with Debian?

2001-07-27 Thread Joern Larsen
Hi, Guy! And thanks for your help! Hoewer, I cannot get my system to recognize the zip drive using mount /dev/sda4 /mnt I get the message back that "the kernel doesn't recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device". I also tried to install hotplug, usbutils etc. but these need libc6 >= 2.2.2-2, and I a

Re: Newbie Question

2001-07-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Newbie Question Date: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 08:09:17AM -0400 In reply to:Wayne Topa Quoting Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Subject: Re: Newbie Question > Date: Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 07:35:10PM -0700 > > In reply to:Vineet Kumar > > Quoting Vineet Kum

Re: Promise IDE ATA-100 controller on ASUS A7V133

2001-07-27 Thread David Grant
Okay, everyone keeps telling me to use the idepci disks, which sounds like it would probably work. But on the website it says that the idepci ONLY supports IDE and PCI devices, not SCSI. I don't have any SCSI devices, but actually I do want SCSI emulation for my CD writer. But are there other li

Re: debian install problem with scsi

2001-07-27 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:35:23AM -0700, RB Bruce wrote: > If I remove the quantum from the machine debian loads > fine. If I leave it in, it times out and says it is > going to try harder over and over again before it gets > to the first blue install screen. Check for SCSI ID conflicts. Try

Re: How long from release to unstable?

2001-07-27 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:10:34AM -0700, Jeremy Whetzel wrote: > I'm just wondering how long it generally takes > something like the next version of X to make it's way > into the unstable branch of Debian? I'm looking It very much depends on the package. X is enormous, and there are many indivi

debian install problem with scsi

2001-07-27 Thread RB Bruce
I have been trying to install debain 2.2.3 on to a machine with a 29160 scsi card an IBM 18gig ultra160 harddrive and a quantum 18gig SCA ultra160 with a 80-pin to 68-pin converter. If I remove the quantum from the machine debian loads fine. If I leave it in, it times out and says it is going to

VERY URGENT

2001-07-27 Thread SANI IBRAHIM
SANI IBRAHIM. TO: THE PRESIDENT / C.E.O Sir, RE: MONEY TRANSFER / INVESTMENT PROPOSAL INTRODUCTIO: l am Dr SANI IBRAHIM a Civil Servant in the Ministry of Health. l know this proposal will come to you as a surprise because we have not met before either physically or through correspondence. I

Re: Debian Install Problem

2001-07-27 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm new to the list. I'm trying to install Debian on an i386 machine, and I've gotten it working, but now when I try to reinstall after I had some problems, it keeps telling me there was a problem installing the base system, that, or the installer refuses to let me

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