proftp does not want to show symlinked directories...

2001-09-03 Thread jdls
Hi, I have proftpd running and anonymous ftp too and I wanted the anonymous ftp directory to show files residing in another directory so instead of just copying or moving files to the directory I want to show I just create a softlink ln -s /foo/bar /false/foo/barthe problem is the files are

Make that the ESS1878 (was: Opti 1868)

2001-09-03 Thread JakeCatfox
Does anyone know if this is supported in the kernel (2.2.19 or 2.4.5?) or if I need a driver? If I need a driver, where can I get it? Thanks, Deven Gallo

Re: Can't install latest gnucash

2001-09-03 Thread Brian Nelson
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Also, typically when you install packages in stable that are from > | unstable, you need to build them yourself (apt-get source ...) since > | potato packages are build against libc5 whereas woody/sid packages are > | build against libc6. > | > | Confused yet?

Re: Fonts in GTK

2001-09-03 Thread J . Roger Jones
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 15:03:35 -0700 "J. D. Kitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a working GNOME install from Woody. I just updated to Sid, > and everything seemed to go quite nicely, but now in GNOME, or > rather anything that uses GTK, I see only a bunch of little squares > where I should be

Opti 1688 woes

2001-09-03 Thread JakeCatfox
I can't seem to get my Opti 1688 sound card to work! I installed OSS with Debian kernel 2.2.19pre17 at install time. It says it's loding "soundlow" at boot time. But when I try to use sound, I just get "no such device: /dev/dsp" errors. Does anyone know what I'm missing here? Any info would be

Help! with exim -- freezing mail

2001-09-03 Thread Cam Ellison
How do I either: (1) change exim's idea of my system id number or set it up so it will detect it properly when I install? For reasons I won't go into, I screwed up my system and had to reinstall, but I kept the /home directory intact. Naturally, I created a new account for myself (different na

Re: Can't install latest gnucash

2001-09-03 Thread dman
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:39:32PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: | Andy Davidson <'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'> writes: | | > I wanted to upgrade to the latest version of gnucash which has some | > features I need that are not in the stable version (1.3.4) But it is | > only in unstable, so I added the follo

Re: ot: vcd's on mtv

2001-09-03 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
[Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 03:40:15PM +] p : > cannot open cd-rom device: /dev/cdrom > > permission denied User who is accessing the vcd in the cdrom drive does not have permissions to do so. Please add the user, say 'foo' to the 'cdrom' group by doing 'adduser foo cdrom' at the su/root prompt.

Re: debian: usb logitech mouse help with devfs required

2001-09-03 Thread Tim Moss
Brendan J Simon wrote: I'm trying to get my USB Logitech optical mouse to work with my Pentium machine. It is currently running a mixture of testing and stable distros. I am currently using the latest kernel-image-2.4.x-k6 with devfs and xfree86 from stable (ie. not version 4.x.x). I have

Re: debian: usb logitech mouse help with devfs required

2001-09-03 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:00:43PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: | | I'm trying to get my USB Logitech optical mouse to work with my Pentium | machine. It is currently running a mixture of testing and stable | distros. I am currently using the latest kernel-image-2.4.x-k6 with | devfs and xfr

Konqueror eats up memory and dies under KDE2.2

2001-09-03 Thread James L. Morton
This is a really odd problem. I didn't see it at bugs.debian.org so I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem. Using the Konqueror 4:2.2.0.20010822-1 package in Sid, if I start Konqueror under KDE it will eat up all available memory until it is killed by the kernel. However, if I start

debian: usb logitech mouse help with devfs required

2001-09-03 Thread Brendan J Simon
I'm trying to get my USB Logitech optical mouse to work with my Pentium machine. It is currently running a mixture of testing and stable distros. I am currently using the latest kernel-image-2.4.x-k6 with devfs and xfree86 from stable (ie. not version 4.x.x). I have been searching the net

Re: Fonts in GTK

2001-09-03 Thread Hall Stevenson
* J. D. Kitch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010903 19:16]: > I had a working GNOME install from Woody. I just updated to Sid, and > everything seemed to go quite nicely, but now in GNOME, or rather > anything that uses GTK, I see only a bunch of little squares where I > should be seeing text. Can anyone tel

Re: Can't install latest gnucash

2001-09-03 Thread Brian Nelson
Andy Davidson <'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'> writes: > I wanted to upgrade to the latest version of gnucash which has some > features I need that are not in the stable version (1.3.4) But it is > only in unstable, so I added the following line to sources.list > deb http://http.us.debian.org/ unstabl

installation

2001-09-03 Thread sortelyn
I have without luck tried to install Debian. The problem arises, because the following file can not be downloadet:   http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disk-i386/current/images-1.44/reiserfs/rescue.bin   But this is not so weird, since it does'nt exist so why is the install

Re: quick Q about dos disketts

2001-09-03 Thread Wayne Topa
[EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi all. what do I need to install to be able to format DOS diskettes? > thanks! apt-get install fdutils mtools fdutils Description: Linux floppy utilities This package contains utilities for configuring and debugging the Linux flo

Re: Re : append still does not solve the problem NB : Please cc: me if you have any solution

2001-09-03 Thread Wayne Topa
[EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > As you suggested I gave the append entry : > Image = /boot/kernel-2.4.9 > label = Woody-249 > Root= /dev/hda10 > VGA = 0x31A > append = "hdd=cdrom lp=parport0 parport=0x378,none video=vesa"

AC97 sound HOWTO

2001-09-03 Thread Jonathan David Pearce
I have a new mainboard with built-in AC97 sound. I installed the kernel module ac97_codec. That hasn't gotten me to where I need to be, though. What do I need to do to get this sound working? I know pnpdump is not the way to go, because it detects nothing. Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks

Re: krb5 and fetchmail

2001-09-03 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the same setup, except that I don't have NTLM or SDPS enabled. > My fetchmailrc contains the following: I only turned them on because they were there by default; I doubt they're relevant, but I suppose you can try them. Hm. The only other th

Re: dominate xdm?

2001-09-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Shaul Karl wrote: > > > New install and just got X to work. xdm starts twm, which is lame, on > > VC7 with a login. You can't get out of it on that console. Startx won't > > work anywhere of cours. > > > > I want to use e.g. icewm. How do I reconfigure xdm to default to a > > different > > window

Re: Security from others when server running

2001-09-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya extremely hard to protect a server if people have physical access to it... - they can just pull thepower cord... - they can hit ctrl-alt-delete ( remove that option from /etc/inittab if you dont like anyone rebooting it ) - they can pull nic wires .

Re: What replaces glimpse?

2001-09-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 05:38:25PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 03 Sep 2001, Andras BALI wrote: > > No, glimpse is removed from the Debian archive for good due to the > > fact that there was no new upload for almost three years and it had a > > grave security bug since March 2000. Newer ups

Re: quick Q about dos disketts

2001-09-03 Thread Adam Warner
On 03 Sep 2001 18:31:16 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all. what do I need to install to be able to format DOS diskettes? > thanks! apt-get install mtools and apt-get install gfloppy if you want to be able to format floppies using a GNOME graphical interface. Regards, Adam

Re: GNOME Blank Screensaver

2001-09-03 Thread Adam Warner
On 03 Sep 2001 11:21:24 -0700, Tim Moss wrote: > Adam Warner wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Does anyone know how to set up a blank screensaver under GNOME? > > > > I've checked web and newsgroup archives and I can't find a solution that > > works! > > > > I'm running Debian unstable. > > > > Even i

Re: quick Q about dos disketts

2001-09-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 06:31:16PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all. what do I need to install to be able to format DOS diskettes? > thanks! > xuc $ apt-get install fdutils $ man superformat -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What pa

Re: Matrox G450 comments?

2001-09-03 Thread Volker Schlecht
* Sean Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010904 00:00]: > mga.o is open source, mga_hal.o is not though, and you will need that to > use it with XFree86 (for DRI anyway, I'm pretty sure you can get 2d only > still). With Xfree 4.1.0 this is no longer the case. You still need the proprietary module for

Re: news servers and port 119

2001-09-03 Thread Dmitriy
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 05:47:13PM -0500, Paul B. Bertrand wrote: > I recently upgraded to a generic 2.4.8-k6 kernel from a 2.2.17 kernel > and found that I am no longer able to connect to my non-isp newsserver, > namely giganews. I am, however, still able to connect to my isp > newsserver. Initi

Re: dominate xdm?

2001-09-03 Thread Shaul Karl
> New install and just got X to work. xdm starts twm, which is lame, on > VC7 with a login. You can't get out of it on that console. Startx won't > work anywhere of cours. > > I want to use e.g. icewm. How do I reconfigure xdm to default to a > different > window manager, and/or turn xdm off? I co

Re: Can't install latest gnucash

2001-09-03 Thread Andy Davidson
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 03:07:26PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > My guess would be these libraries somehow conflict with something in the > stable branch. You'd probably have to do a "dist-upgrade" with all that > implies... The newest version definitely does alot more than previous > ones (s

news servers and port 119

2001-09-03 Thread Paul B. Bertrand
I recently upgraded to a generic 2.4.8-k6 kernel from a 2.2.17 kernel and found that I am no longer able to connect to my non-isp newsserver, namely giganews. I am, however, still able to connect to my isp newsserver. Initially, I thought this was a giganews or isp issue, but when I rebooted with

Re: apt problems with http.us.debian.org?

2001-09-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Mike Kuhar" wrote: >Good evening Fellow Debians, > >I went to do an apt-get upgrade, just a few moments ago, after doing an upda >te >on unstable. It told me I had 54 packages to upgrade. The problem is that >only >half actually downloaded and upgraded from http.us.debian.

Re: exim: how to rewrite?

2001-09-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:52:46PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > It´s a big trouble! I did all i could do after reading several docs. And > now? > Exim is not able to rewrite my local address to the email address for my > real mail account at gmx. > > I have no id

Re: Fonts in GTK

2001-09-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 03:03:35PM -0700, J. D. Kitch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I had a working GNOME install from Woody. I just updated to Sid, > and everything seemed to go quite nicely, but now in GNOME, or > rather anything that uses GTK, I see only a bunch of little squares > where I shoul

apt problems with http.us.debian.org?

2001-09-03 Thread Mike Kuhar
Good evening Fellow Debians, I went to do an apt-get upgrade, just a few moments ago, after doing an update on unstable. It told me I had 54 packages to upgrade. The problem is that only half actually downloaded and upgraded from http.us.debian.org. The rest 404'd on me. What gives? Any one e

Re: Can't install latest gnucash

2001-09-03 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:35:26PM -0700, Andy Davidson wrote: > I wanted to upgrade to the latest version of gnucash which has some > features I need that are not in the stable version (1.3.4) But it is > only in unstable, so I added the following line to sources.list > deb http://http.us.d

RE: apt problems with http.us.debian.org?

2001-09-03 Thread Mike Kuhar
OK. Thanks for the info. Michael W. Kuhar EDS * 1.440.366.5195 - Home * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 1.440.892.6419 - Bus * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Oliver Elphick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 6:29 PM To: Mike Kuhar Cc: debian-user@l

quick Q about dos disketts

2001-09-03 Thread xucaen
Hi all. what do I need to install to be able to format DOS diskettes? thanks! xuc

Fonts in GTK

2001-09-03 Thread J. D. Kitch
I had a working GNOME install from Woody. I just updated to Sid, and everything seemed to go quite nicely, but now in GNOME, or rather anything that uses GTK, I see only a bunch of little squares where I should be seeing text. Can anyone tell me what I hosed, and what I need to do to correct it?

Re: Matrox G450 comments?

2001-09-03 Thread Sean Morgan
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 13:39:43 -0500 "Gregory T. Norris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to replace the video card on one of my boxes, and I'm thinking > of getting a Matrox G450. I'd appreciate any comments on how well this > card is working for people. I don't have any real need for dual-head

exim: how to rewrite?

2001-09-03 Thread timohart
Hi! It´s a big trouble! I did all i could do after reading several docs. And now? Exim is not able to rewrite my local address to the email address for my real mail account at gmx. I have no idea why! Hop you will see the cause in my /etc/exim/exim.conf: MAIN CONFIGURATION SE

Can't install latest gnucash

2001-09-03 Thread Andy Davidson
I wanted to upgrade to the latest version of gnucash which has some features I need that are not in the stable version (1.3.4) But it is only in unstable, so I added the following line to sources.list deb http://http.us.debian.org/ unstable main and did an 'apt-get update' and then 'apt-ge

Re: What is kapm-idled?

2001-09-03 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:07:47AM +0800, csj wrote: > What is kapm-idled and why is it consuming up to 80% CPU? It's most > malevolent when my computer is doing nothing useful. What's the graceful > way to disable or shut it down (assuming that doing so would not harm my > system)? > > apropos ka

[no subject]

2001-09-03 Thread METALFREAK666
Sehr geehrte Damen und HErren ich habe ein probelem debian zu installieren unzwar habe ich das asus a7v mit dem promise udma controller udma 100 daran ist eine udma 100 platte 20 gigs Debian selber habe ich von www.linuxiso.org die ersten 3 cd`s hiermit konnte ich debian teilweise zum installiere

Re: overkill...

2001-09-03 Thread Jeff Maxson
On 2 Sep 2001, Joel Mayes wrote: > > Jeff> ok, I installed overkill and the data file. How do I run > Jeff> it? it seems to need a server and a port. any ideas? > > G'day Jeff, > > You need to run the overkill server /usr/games/overkill-server (it > might be in a seperate package) you c

Re: What VPN is recommended?

2001-09-03 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 03:12:12AM -1000, James L. Morton wrote: > Hey, > > On Mon, 2001-09-03 at 00:47, Rino Mardo wrote: > > hi. i have a working knowledge of vpn and i would just like: > > a) confirmation with the list regarding my knowledge of how it works > > You're basically correct in y

Re: overkill...

2001-09-03 Thread Jeff Maxson
On 2 Sep 2001, Joel Mayes wrote: > > Jeff> ok, I installed overkill and the data file. How do I run > Jeff> it? it seems to need a server and a port. any ideas? > > G'day Jeff, > > You need to run the overkill server /usr/games/overkill-server (it > might be in a seperate package) you c

What is kapm-idled?

2001-09-03 Thread csj
What is kapm-idled and why is it consuming up to 80% CPU? It's most malevolent when my computer is doing nothing useful. What's the graceful way to disable or shut it down (assuming that doing so would not harm my system)? apropos kapm kapm: nothing appropriate

802.11b reccommendation requested...

2001-09-03 Thread Aaron Traas
Hi... my campus just added a bunch of 802.11b base stations for wireless access by students. I'm running Woody with a 2.4.7 kernel on a Dell Inspiron 7500. Does anyone have any experience with an 802.11b wireless adapter that works with Debian out-of-the-box? My current network adapter is an Intel

ot: vcd's on mtv

2001-09-03 Thread p
debs, mtv plays mpg's, but i can't get it to play vcd's: cannot open cd-rom device: /dev/cdrom permission denied check env variable mtv vcd device (see "mtv -h" for help) any guidance would be appreciated. ia, t. bentley taylor. //

Voodoo5, unstable, X11 v.4, and gl apps

2001-09-03 Thread John F. Davis
Hello I am trying to get quake3 arena working with debian. So far, I have all the GL related stuff installed but I can't get quake3 to work and all my rendering seems to be in software. In my XF86Config-4 file, I have the glx and dri modules loaded. I have the tdfx and glide drivers installed.

Re: xwrapper not available?

2001-09-03 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: >> >> We strongly advice against make the server SUID! > > So, I won't.. But thanks for your workaround. Does anybody know were > Xwrapper can be found for a Debian potato installation? apropos Xwrapper yeilds: Xwrapper.config man Xwrapper.config has this: /e

Re: Security from others when server running

2001-09-03 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 03 Sep 2001 15:33:50 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Hi, I'm running a server in a public location, and the applications running >on the server run in their own virtual console (or an xterm window). However, >if someone came up and closed the xterm or hit ^C they could cancel the >serve

Re: Security from others when server running

2001-09-03 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi, I'm running a server in a public location, and the applications running > on the server run in their own virtual console (or an xterm window). However, > if someone came up and closed the xterm or hit ^C they could cancel the > server o

Re: Offline APT

2001-09-03 Thread Thomas Bleicher
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:00:24AM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > I got this reply off-list: > > On Sat, 2001-09-01 at 12:40, Thomas Bleicher wrote: > > I do: > > > > apt-get -qq --print-uris [upgrade | install ] > urls > > > > and then run my script on the file urls. Now it has a name to ;) $

Security from others when server running

2001-09-03 Thread JakeCatfox
Hi, I'm running a server in a public location, and the applications running on the server run in their own virtual console (or an xterm window). However, if someone came up and closed the xterm or hit ^C they could cancel the server operation, which risks data loss, server failure, etc., and the

Re: dominate xdm?

2001-09-03 Thread ktb
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:43:07AM -0400, richard wrote: > New install and just got X to work. xdm starts twm, which is lame, on > VC7 with a login. You can't get out of it on that console. Startx won't > work anywhere of cours. > > I want to use e.g. icewm. How do I reconfigure xdm to default to

Re: startx not for normal user?

2001-09-03 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 06:18:57PM +0200, Remco van 't Veer wrote: > Hmm, after trying gdm (with partial success) and reinstalling xdm, > the latter seems to work.. But I still don't understand why I am not > allowed to run startx. I noticed /etc/X11/Xserver reads Console, > which seems to imply

dominate xdm?

2001-09-03 Thread richard
New install and just got X to work. xdm starts twm, which is lame, on VC7 with a login. You can't get out of it on that console. Startx won't work anywhere of cours. I want to use e.g. icewm. How do I reconfigure xdm to default to a different window manager, and/or turn xdm off? I couldn't find th

Matrox G450 comments?

2001-09-03 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I need to replace the video card on one of my boxes, and I'm thinking of getting a Matrox G450. I'd appreciate any comments on how well this card is working for people. I don't have any real need for dual-head support, so I don't plan on using the binary-only mga.o driver from Matrox... I'd great

Re: mounting CDs? and emacs under SU?

2001-09-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 08:56:20PM -0400, Peter Christensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This is how I did it (I think!) before my hard drive crashed and I had > to replace it. Now that I've reloaded Linux I can't edit /etc/fstab > with emacs. Emacs works OK with a normal signon, but under SU I

Re: GNOME Blank Screensaver

2001-09-03 Thread Tim Moss
Adam Warner wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know how to set up a blank screensaver under GNOME? I've checked web and newsgroup archives and I can't find a solution that works! I'm running Debian unstable. Even if I add a file in /usr/share/control-center/.data called Blank.desktop with these conte

Re: What replaces glimpse?

2001-09-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Sep 2001, Andras BALI wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 05:38:25PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > Htdig seems to be for html only. > > To be a bit more precise, it can index files that can be retrieved > using the HTTP protocol. The core program can index only HTML and > plain text fil

Re: What replaces glimpse?

2001-09-03 Thread Andras BALI
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 05:38:25PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Htdig seems to be for html only. To be a bit more precise, it can index files that can be retrieved using the HTTP protocol. The core program can index only HTML and plain text files, but you can use external parsers for any type

Re[4]: startx not for normal user?

2001-09-03 Thread Calvin Chong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Hello Martin, With reference to your great message on below, MFK> also sprach Calvin Chong (on Tue, 04 Sep 2001 12:21:25AM +0800): >> Please check that your X is chmod'ed to rwsrwsr-x MFK> don't make X setuid!!! if I don't make /usr/bin/X11/X suid ho

Re: startx on another terminal say, tty8 and then tty9

2001-09-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:25:59PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > A]] I tried startx -l:8 for getting > XWindows onto tty8 and then Ctrl+Alt+F8 to get there > > Result : >(1) If the machine has not put up XWindows by default, then it comes >on tty7 , which is t

Re: nvidia-glx and dpkg-divert

2001-09-03 Thread Geoffrey Romer
> > Dude, the Debs are just a packaged version of the Nvidia drivers, and > > auto-download from Nividia's site, so it makes no difference. > > It certainly does make a difference. I was not criticising Debian > packages/maintainers, merely the nature of the Nvidia drviers. As far as supporting

Re: kill netscape persistant

2001-09-03 Thread ktb
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 06:33:13PM +0200, Thomas Halahan wrote: > > When netscape (4.75) crashes I often still get: > > "PID" /usr/lib/netscape/475/navigator/navigator-smotif.real > > running under processes. even if i try to explicitly kill > it with its pid it will not go away. this is real

Re : append still does not solve the problem NB : Please cc: me if you have any solution

2001-09-03 Thread shyamk
As you suggested I gave the append entry : Image = /boot/kernel-2.4.9 label = Woody-249 Root= /dev/hda10 VGA = 0x31A append = "hdd=cdrom lp=parport0 parport=0x378,none video=vesa" (my lilo as installed looks slightly different but that hasn't created an

kill netscape persistant

2001-09-03 Thread Thomas Halahan
When netscape (4.75) crashes I often still get: "PID" /usr/lib/netscape/475/navigator/navigator-smotif.real running under processes. even if i try to explicitly kill it with its pid it will not go away. this is really inconvenient as to get rid of this process running in the background i en

Re: xwrapper not available? (Re: startx not for normal user?)

2001-09-03 Thread Calvin Chong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Hello Remco, With reference to your great message on below, >> >> We strongly advice against make the server SUID! eh?! please stat /usr/bin/X11/X urself!! :p RvtV> So, I won't.. But thanks for your workaround. Does anybody know were RvtV> Xwrap

Re: Programming in Java

2001-09-03 Thread Thomas Halahan
be warned, i did this and X was upgraded with the jdk, and x broke which took a while to fix. > > echo "deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian potato > non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list (all one line) > > apt-get update > > apt-get install j2sdk1.3 > > > Have a look the packages "jikes" and > >

Re: Gnome Freeze (me too!)

2001-09-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, dman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:22:23PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > | Worse! I think I had the wrong sound card driver. I've rebuilt the kernel > | sound, but now I get the dreaded "Can't Open /dev/dsp device". I haven't > | figured out why yet. > > I recommend bui

Full screen on xine

2001-09-03 Thread BT
Hi, I am unable to make xine display fullscreen. The "F" key does not work even with the " -pf" option . Any ideas? regards bt -- == ///, \ /, / >. Balbir Thomas \ /, _/ /.

xwrapper not available? (Re: startx not for normal user?)

2001-09-03 Thread Remco van 't Veer
> >> We strongly advice against make the server SUID! So, I won't.. But thanks for your workaround. Does anybody know were Xwrapper can be found for a Debian potato installation? On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 00:21, Calvin Chong wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: MD5 > > Hello R

Re: startx on another terminal say, tty8 and then tty9

2001-09-03 Thread ktb
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:25:59PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A]] I tried startx -l:8 for getting > XWindows onto tty8 and then Ctrl+Alt+F8 to get there > > Result : (1)If the machine has not put up XWindows by default , then > it > comes on tty7 , which is the default. >

Re: Re[2]: startx not for normal user?

2001-09-03 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Calvin Chong (on Tue, 04 Sep 2001 12:21:25AM +0800): > Please check that your X is chmod'ed to rwsrwsr-x don't make X setuid!!! martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- dimmi in 10 secondi i nomi

startx on another terminal say, tty8 and then tty9

2001-09-03 Thread shyamk
A]] I tried startx -l:8 for getting XWindows onto tty8 and then Ctrl+Alt+F8 to get there Result : (1)If the machine has not put up XWindows by default , then it comes on tty7 , which is the default. (2) if XWindows comes up as default , then this shows an error , saying

Re: What replaces glimpse?

2001-09-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Sep 2001, Andras BALI wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 03:14:58PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > Apt/dselect has just removed my glimpse package :-( > > > What is supposed to replace this? > > > I've occasionally found packages removed in updates, recently it was > > aptitude. Not s

Re: Weird font problem with gnumeric, gimp and others

2001-09-03 Thread Calvin Chong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Hello Dominique, With reference to your great message on below, DD> Hello DD> When I launch gimp (for the first time), the 'GIMP Installation' DD> window shows only lines and lines of squares instead of text. Please give some information about your

Weird font problem with gnumeric, gimp and others

2001-09-03 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello When I launch gimp (for the first time), the 'GIMP Installation' window shows only lines and lines of squares instead of text. I have the same problem with gnumeric cells but only for a magnification above 75%. And if I type 6 letters in a gnumeric cell, only 3 square blocks are shown. (co

Re[2]: startx not for normal user?

2001-09-03 Thread Calvin Chong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Hello Remco, With reference to your great message on below, RvtV> Hmm, after trying gdm (with partial success) and reinstalling xdm, RvtV> the latter seems to work.. But I still don't understand why I am not RvtV> allowed to run startx. I noticed /et

Re: startx not for normal user?

2001-09-03 Thread Remco van 't Veer
Hmm, after trying gdm (with partial success) and reinstalling xdm, the latter seems to work.. But I still don't understand why I am not allowed to run startx. I noticed /etc/X11/Xserver reads Console, which seems to imply anybody on the console is allowed to run X. I am sorry about replying to m

startx not for normal user?

2001-09-03 Thread Remco van 't Veer
Hi, I just installed Debian on a fresh workstation but only root can open a X session. First I tried startx using a normal user but it complains: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions. You should be using Xwrapper to start the server or xdm. We strongly advice agai

Kernel Error in Syslog and X keeps crashing!

2001-09-03 Thread Case, Benjamin
Every once in a while X just freezes up on me. I have to hard reboot. Weh I come back up there is this message in syslog : Sep 2 20:28:11 tbird kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA kernel module version 1.0-1251 Sep 2 20:41:31 tbird kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 20878

Re: modem not detected

2001-09-03 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
=?iso-8859-1?q?fouad=20HENNI?= wrote: >Hello, >I installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato) on my PC but >when I tried to configure my internet connexion (by >wvdial) my modem was not detected. >I have an internal Motorola SM56 internal modem. >I noticed that 'wvdial' tried to detect the modem only

Re: ppp configuration (LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests )

2001-09-03 Thread John Hasler
Dan Pomohaci writes: > Using plog I saw that the connection is established but after few seconds > the modem hangs. The last message in plog is: LCP: timeout sending > Config-Requests Please post the complete and exact output of plog and the contents of /etc/chatscripts/provider and /etc/ppp/peers

richiesta di informazioni

2001-09-03 Thread Sergio Biagiotti
Buonasera, scusate il mio problema è il seguente : ho un cliente che deve installare su 5 server HP LC2000 con le seguenti configurazione: PIII 933 512 mb ram 2 x 18 gb scsi 3 (160 mb) in raid 1 scheda raid PCI 1 canale SCSI 3 la versione LINUX debian 2.2 questo hardaware và bene grazie 10

Re: Matrox Millenium IIs and XFree86 3.6 - UPDATE

2001-09-03 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote: > I am attempting to get a Matrox Millenium II card (4MB, PCI) to > work with XFree86 3.6 (as found in potato), but no matter the resolution > or color depth I choose, the picture has very obtrustive vertical lines > (to the point that one can bar

Re: server on a 486/100 with 408mb drive

2001-09-03 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello Jonathan, On Monday, September 03, 2001 at 3:11:40 PM, you wrote (at least in part): > you can get kernel 2.4 support in potato (I use this on production > workstations), but adding this to /etc/apt/sources.list: > #kernel 2.4 stuff > deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 with Potato & dri

2001-09-03 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Jon Masters saw fit to inform me that: >On 02 Sep 2001 02:32:12 +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > >> Any ideas what am I missing ? > >Do you have agpgart and other modules correctly inserted? sometimes >dependencies seem to miss-generated and fail to get the correct modules >installed prior to the X s

ppp configuration (LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests )

2001-09-03 Thread Dan Pomohaci
Hi, I try to connect to my ISP using pppconfig. I put all corect settings (I tested in Windows and worked OK). Using plog I saw that the connection is established but after few seconds the modem hangs. The last message in plog is: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests I tried all three type of con

Re: machine version and platform?

2001-09-03 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 01:26:38PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > Is there a command that will show my machine, kernel and (possibly) > debian version? > > I recall using such a command but cannot, much to my embarassment, > remember it! > > Thanks for any help. > > Rory > uname -a Cliff

Re: cyrus packet version

2001-09-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:32:42PM +0200, Piotr Esden-Tempski wrote: > I have a little question but very importaint for me. Why is the version > of the cyrus in debian packets so terrybly old? It is 1.5.19 there is > allready 2.0.16 out. Can somebody tell me why it is so and if there will > be a ne

Re: What VPN is recommended?

2001-09-03 Thread James L. Morton
Hey, On Mon, 2001-09-03 at 00:47, Rino Mardo wrote: > hi. i have a working knowledge of vpn and i would just like: > a) confirmation with the list regarding my knowledge of how it works You're basically correct in your assumptions:) I'd be willing to bet there aren't many people out there who

Re: server on a 486/100 with 408mb drive

2001-09-03 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 04:50:55PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: :On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:24:30PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: :i've already got a server running potato with 2.2.17. I figured :woody was stable enough to be used on a server by now. You can still get bit hard by a stray typo, but I've

Re: machine version and platform?

2001-09-03 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 03 Sep 2001 13:26:38 BST, Rory Campbell-Lange writes: >Is there a command that will show my machine, kernel and (possibly) >debian version? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux shlurptopf 2.2.19 #9 Wed Apr 18 13:20:48 CEST 2001 i686 unknown [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 2.2

Re: machine version and platform?

2001-09-03 Thread Miguel Griffa
uname ? On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 01:26:38PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > Is there a command that will show my machine, kernel and (possibly) > debian version? > > I recall using such a command but cannot, much to my embarassment, > remember it! > > Thanks for any help. > > Rory > > > --

Re: Problems with APM after recompiling of kernel.

2001-09-03 Thread Preben Randhol
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/09/2001 (10:40) : > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:06:58PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: > > Interestingly, I have a similar problem on my laptop. The 2.4.9 > > kernel broke apm (/proc/apm didn't exist) but it appeared to load > > properly on bootup. 2.4.8 stil

Re: cyrus packet version

2001-09-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 03 Sep 2001, Piotr Esden-Tempski wrote: > I have a little question but very importaint for me. Why is the version > of the cyrus in debian packets so terrybly old? It is 1.5.19 there is Because the cyrus 1.5 maintainer did not have enough spare time to package 2.0.x, AFAIK. > allready 2.0

Re: machine version and platform?

2001-09-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 01:26:38PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > Is there a command that will show my machine, cat /proc/cpuinfo ... and other files in /proc, depending on what you want; also see the following: > kernel uname -a > and (possibly) debian version? cat /etc/debian_ver

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