Hi All,
Just got ADSL in sunny Tasmania (Australia) and went through the process
of making it work on debian testing. Here are some tips which might
help the next person. The killer was point #3, pppoeconf doesn't update
the chap-secret (instead it only changes pap-secret).
1. install the ppp
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:34:34AM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote:
> The motherboard I am running my debian setup on is quite modern (ABit BP7) and
> has capabilities to auto-power off at shutdown - windows does this ok. The
> default behaviour of debian is to say "Power off" after halt, at which point
on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 04:55:11PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:44:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> >
> > Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as '>From'. Needless to
> > say, this utterly borks things like GPG signatures.
> >
> > I
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 11:44:06PM -0400, dman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:57:50PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> | Recently I've had to move my webserver from port 80 to another
> | port (TimeWarner finally blocked off 80 for all personal accounts). For
> | some dumb reason I chose 79, and
on Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 01:44:48PM +0200, Antonio Arauzo ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying woody. I am using gnome with wmaker.
>
> When there is no open window on a workspace I can not use Ctrl+Alt+Right
> or left arrow to switch between workspaces, although it works ok when
> th
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:23:05PM -0400, dman wrote:
...
| Is there anything I can do other than wait for a fix?
Never mind. The wheels are turning a bit slowly. I just installed
the prev. version from /var/cache/apt/archives and all is well.
-D
Joe Barnett wrote:
> the problem is with libc6. theres a related bug in debian bug tracking
> system, but i forget the number...
>
> anyways, downgrade libc6 to 2.2.4-1, NOT 2.2.4-2 and all will be well.
Thanks! That did the trick.
> in an unrelated note, I can't unsubscribe from this list...
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:57:50PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
| Recently I've had to move my webserver from port 80 to another
| port (TimeWarner finally blocked off 80 for all personal accounts). For
| some dumb reason I chose 79, and now Netscape gives me security errors
$ grep 79 /etc/services
Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:
> I'd say it's around 30 MB (I forgot the
> size, but I believe it's MUCH MUCH LESS than 30MB).
Colin Watson wrote:
> I just got a potato install down to 30Mb. You might be able to get it
> smaller than this. It's only barely a Debian system, though. :)
Hello:
Curre
the problem is with libc6. theres a related bug in debian bug tracking
system, but i forget the number...
anyways, downgrade libc6 to 2.2.4-1, NOT 2.2.4-2 and all will be well.
in an unrelated note, I can't unsubscribe from this list... i've sent
an email to the address in the footer of each m
I've been using the cvs builds of mozilla in unstable for some time now,
and never had any problems. Suddenly, tonight, the latest build failed
to install during the configuration step, complaining that the mozilla
regxpcom tool had segfaulted during the Debian postinst script.
Worse, I can't even
"Karsten M. Self" wrote:
>> [...]
>> Is there a deb package for staroffice?
> Not currently, though there's an ITP (intent to package) OpenOffice, the
> free software version of StarOffice.
> Best bet is to go to the OpenOffice website and grab a build that's
> known to work. You can also get St
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:52:02PM -0400, Doug Fields wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > man apt.conf
> >In short: Put the line 'DSelect::Clean "never";' in /etc/apt/apt.conf.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Just FYI, on my woody system, I put it into /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf
> and that did the trick.
>
>
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 02:28:15AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:21:19AM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> > I have been asked by an application developer, who is trying to find out
> > problems with one of their products running on our server, to set up the
> > serve
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:21:19AM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
| I have been asked by an application developer, who is trying to find out
| problems with one of their products running on our server, to set up the
| server so that "core files can be written". What are these, and how would I
|
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 02:33:02AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote:
| On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 04:19:45PM -0700, Tim Moss wrote:
| > On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:06:50 +0200
| > "Carel Fellinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| >
| > > Some time agoo I did the "Chroot Woody in 15 minutes" thing and
| > > happi
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:44:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| I've been noticing this on a number of messages both from and to me.
|
| Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as '>From'. Needless to
| say, this utterly borks things like GPG signatures.
It also gives a bad quoting app
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:10:36PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 05:55:26PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) wrote:
| > On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Tim Moss wrote:
| >
| > > On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:15:07 -0700 (PDT)
| > > "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:16:07AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
[ stuff about international text input in vim6 ]
Somehow the default keymap for the console on my laptop from work is
set to use funky key combos for inserting international text. To get
a ~ or " I have to type the character then sp
Carel Fellinger wrote:
> Thanks, now I can atleast boot into woody. But I still wonder, what
> things would have been done and are now left out because I bypassed
> dbootstrap and friends.
Besides running base-config, removing unconfigured.sh, I think there
might be some code in dbootstrap to set
I want to thank you all for your help. Many of the solutions sounded great.
(Makes me wish I knew a bit about some of the other programming languages
available, but I'm strictly a beginner, so I'm sticking with bash at the
moment). But it's good to know that there's such a knowledgable group out
Recently I've had to move my webserver from port 80 to another
port (TimeWarner finally blocked off 80 for all personal accounts). For
some dumb reason I chose 79, and now Netscape gives me security errors
saying that access to this port has been disabled for security reasons.
There gotta be a way
man apt.conf
In short: Put the line 'DSelect::Clean "never";' in /etc/apt/apt.conf.
Thanks!
Just FYI, on my woody system, I put it into /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf
and that did the trick.
That file was created by the debconf package, but adding the line you
suggest works. As usual, I
Samuli Suonpaa wrote:
> > Stop! Could the file /var/www/testi.100M be in the OS cache during
> > the second try?
>
> It was, but it was there the first time also, I deliberately ran both
> these commands a couple of times and only reported the last attempt.
> (Should have mentioned that, thoug
Hans Steinraht wrote:
apt-get install xserver-svga
daryl
Peter S Galbraith wrote:
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
i'm having a HECK of a time trying to get UDMA/100 transfer speeds on my
system.
hdparm -t reports 35 MB/s. this is nowhere near the 100MB/s that i'm
expecting to get.
Why are you expecting 100MB/s? That's the bus maximum bandwidth.
It
Hi folks,
monday's dist-upgrade of unstable was a total disaster.
1) Konqueror crashing on every page. This was due to a libc bug,
downgrading to an earlier version fixes this behavior.
2) MySQL complaining about an empty root password. Even downgrading
three versions didn't help and I d
On Thursday, September 27, 2001 5:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is it possible to get some sort of driver to allow
> debian to auto power-off the machine like windows does?
What's cool is that the driver is in the kernel already!
You just have to turn it on. Append the string,
"apm=on", to
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Joey Hess wrote:
> Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:
> > <== randomize ==>
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> > ## print a file in random order
> > while(<>) {
> > $_{$_}=0
> > }
> > foreach (keys%_) {
> > print
> > }
>
> keys is hardly random. It always outputs the keys in the same
Thus spake Alex Hunsley:
> The motherboard I am running my debian setup on is quite modern (ABit BP7) and
> has capabilities to auto-power off at shutdown - windows does this ok. The
> default behaviour of debian is to say "Power off" after halt, at which point I
> manually turn off the power. Is i
* Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010927 19:18]:
> Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > > Actually, I would like to be able to cut
> > > and paste, with or without mouse, in different
> > > applications running under KDE. For example,
> > > a line from KWord to a search box at an
> > > internet site up under
How can I stop those annoying PAM_unix (cron) messages in auth.log ?
pam_unix (cron) : session opened by user mail
I thought the session module in /etc/pam.d/cron is responsible for logging,
but commenting out didn´t succeed !
btw. What´s the difference between Syslog Facilities auth and authpri
The motherboard I am running my debian setup on is quite modern (ABit BP7) and
has capabilities to auto-power off at shutdown - windows does this ok. The
default behaviour of debian is to say "Power off" after halt, at which point I
manually turn off the power. Is it possible to get some sort of dr
Hello. I have recently changed my ntpd setup
to get the system time from a TruTime gps clock.
According to the TruTime driver, my entry in
ntp.conf should be
server 127.127.5.1
The 5 for the driver and the 1 for the serial port.
ntpd appears to start normally but how do I test the
setup to ch
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 04:19:45PM -0700, Tim Moss wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:06:50 +0200
> "Carel Fellinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Some time agoo I did the "Chroot Woody in 15 minutes" thing and
> > happilly ran a chrooted Woody inside my Potato setup. But times have
> > changed
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:21:19AM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> I have been asked by an application developer, who is trying to find out
> problems with one of their products running on our server, to set up the
> server so that "core files can be written". What are these, and how would I
>
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:04:19AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote:
> On my machine root keeps getting email from cron saying "rm: cannot
> unlink `/var/cache/man/cat8/(whatever).gz': Permission denied".
>
> I've traced this behaviour to the man-db cron job trying to remove
> stale files from the /var
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 05:59:27PM -0400, Doug Fields wrote:
> I _never_ want to delete the downloaded .deb files.
>
> However, I haven't figured out a way to get dselect to stop asking. And,
> every now and then, I hit one too many returns and it defaults to "delete."
man apt.conf
In short:
Hi,
At Thu, 27 Sep 2001 18:34:52 +0200,
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> vim 6.0 was released yesterday and I just finished the packages for it.
> Please note however that if you have been using the prerelease packages
> I made this will be a downgrade (unfortunately I made a stupid
Hello,
Woody had the 2.0.14 version of slapd (OpenLDAP) upgraded a while ago,
instead of the official "stable" 2.0.11 version and also not the 2.0.15
most recent version.
Since then, with my LDAP PAM/NSS configured woody box, I get a
proliferation of slapd processes - over 20, as reported by
Thanks, everyone. I've printed out all the replies and will try
compiling the kernel.
Peter
i hope someone can point me to a solution on this. i've been chasing it
for days with no luck.
i have a machine running woody. i hadn't updated it in a while, so a few
days ago, i did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade on it. here's the
results. any suggestions will be /greatly/ appreciated.
Hi all,
I just encountered a very strange situation, which has rendered my zip
drive un-mountable. I was modifying a shell script mentioned on this
list as a way to back up a certain directory to my zip drive. After some
doing, I finally got to a point where I actually got the script to work
prope
Hi everyone,
i'm new to this list, and i need help!
i've searched the archives and can't find a solution to this problem.
i've been using debian for a few years now, and have been able to handle all
the problems that have come my way..until now...
here's my situation...
i have my debian box b
I have been asked by an application developer, who is trying to find out
problems with one of their products running on our server, to set up the
server so that "core files can be written". What are these, and how would I
do this?
I have also been instructed to, once a core file is generated, to "
Colin Watson wrote:
> Personally I think Wouter is right, no matter whom he's talking to.
Personally, I agree. It's not as if you get a certian limited number of
epochs to use in your tenure as a developer, and Wiggy has used them all
up in his long and illustrious history with the project. :-p
-
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:06:50 +0200
"Carel Fellinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Some time agoo I did the "Chroot Woody in 15 minutes" thing and
> happilly ran a chrooted Woody inside my Potato setup. But times have
> changed and now I need to beef up that woody partition into a full
> blown woo
Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > Actually, I would like to be able to cut
> > and paste, with or without mouse, in different
> > applications running under KDE. For example,
> > a line from KWord to a search box at an
> > internet site up under Netscape. I can cut
> > and paste from within KWord, and al
Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:
> <== randomize ==>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> ## print a file in random order
> while(<>) {
> $_{$_}=0
> }
> foreach (keys%_) {
> print
> }
keys is hardly random. It always outputs the keys in the same order for
a given set of keys.
--
see shy jo
Some time agoo I did the "Chroot Woody in 15 minutes" thing and
happilly ran a chrooted Woody inside my Potato setup. But times have
changed and now I need to beef up that woody partition into a full
blown woody install. Simply installing a kernel and booting from that
partition gave me an error
On my machine root keeps getting email from cron saying "rm: cannot
unlink `/var/cache/man/cat8/(whatever).gz': Permission denied".
I've traced this behaviour to the man-db cron job trying to remove
stale files from the /var/cache/man tree while running as user 'man',
because running the comma
I have a tough time asking for help, but but with this problem I am
having, I am leaning towards submitting this as a debian bug in
compiling/packaging of php4.
On potato, mysql 3.22.32, php4 4.0.3pl1-0 + mysql module, phplib
7.3dev-3.1. When I try to open a database via php, I now get a
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 06:15:40PM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> Does anyone have any example scripts for using MRTG to track Debian
> (processor, traffic, etc)?
>
> Much appreciated.
It's cricket instead of MRTG, but perhaps it'll help.
http://canaris.visionary.micromuse.com/cricket/
--
Does anyone have any example scripts for using MRTG to track Debian
(processor, traffic, etc)?
Much appreciated.
I've added a couple of 80 GB IDE hard drives to an NFS server running
Debian stable with a 2.2.19 kernel. It now has 3 IDE drives and one SCSI
drive and we want it to have about 14 local filesystem mounts (including
swap, proc, and devptr -- if those count as mounts) and normally two NFS
filesystem
On Thursday 27 September 2001 05:53 pm, you wrote:
> > Yeah, it is a slow old K6 III 400 with some (320MB) PC100 in CAS3 (CAS2
> > was giving me trouble). It's an old board, too. I don't have anything
> > that'll let me do ATA66, I think I'd need a new motherboard or to buy an
> > IDE controller.
On Thursday 27 September 2001 05:53 pm, you wrote:
> > Yeah, it is a slow old K6 III 400 with some (320MB) PC100 in CAS3 (CAS2
> > was giving me trouble). It's an old board, too. I don't have anything
> > that'll let me do ATA66, I think I'd need a new motherboard or to buy an
> > IDE controller.
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 16:55:11 EDT, Noah Meyerhans writes:
>Or switch to something other than mbox,
mh-style. ;-)
cheers+SCNR,
&rw
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Description: PGP
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:50:33 CDT, Dave Sherohman writes:
>On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:44:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>> Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as '>From'. Needless to
>> say, this utterly borks things like GPG signatures.
>>
>> I have no idea where this is happening
Hi all,
I _never_ want to delete the downloaded .deb files.
However, I haven't figured out a way to get dselect to stop asking. And,
every now and then, I hit one too many returns and it defaults to "delete."
So, I often end up downloading the same package(s) several times, wasting
my bandwi
> Yeah, it is a slow old K6 III 400 with some (320MB) PC100 in CAS3 (CAS2 was
> giving me trouble). It's an old board, too. I don't have anything that'll
> let me do ATA66, I think I'd need a new motherboard or to buy an IDE
> controller.
What chipset does this thing use? Is your kernel compile
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Jason Boxman wrote:
.
> There are "unofficial" XFree 4.x packages for Potato. Perhaps search
> the list archives.
.
Thank you Jason for your reply. I considered your suggestion but was
not pleased with it. If I choose to do it this way, it means that I would
h
> >
> > > But did you sign up for your notmail account using Mozilla? I've been
> > > trying to access it for the past six months using a variety of Linux
> > > browsers. I would get as far as the submit button (or whatever its
> > > equivalent). The url at that point would read *law* (as if I was
On Thursday 27 September 2001 05:22 pm, Mike Dresser wrote:
> > Yeah, that's pretty much where I stand today... I've got an old ATA33
> > disk. It's a Quantum Fireball 30GB disk. What sort of throughput should
> > I be getting?
> >
>
> Ouch. Get that DMA turned on. I've gotten 30+ meg per seco
On Thursday 27 September 2001 16:41, Vittorio wrote:
> I have an almost pure potato 2.2r3 installation (only 2.4.9 kernel is a
> stranger!) and now I need to download gimp 1.2 which is part of woody &
> testing. Issuing 'apt-get install gimp1.2' from woody I see that it
> requires to download some
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:53:11 +0200
LAMIRAULT Nicolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hello everybody,
>
> i will buy a laptop. Perhaps it will be the HP Pavillon N 5461.
> Does anybody have install debian linux on this laptop ?
>
> Could you send me some links to know on which laptops i can install
> Yeah, that's pretty much where I stand today... I've got an old ATA33 disk.
> It's a Quantum Fireball 30GB disk. What sort of throughput should I be
> getting?
>
> nebula:/home/jasonb# hdparm -t -T /dev/hdb
>
> /dev/hdb:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 2.09 seconds = 61.24 MB/sec
>
On Thursday 27 September 2001 02:12 pm, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > i'm having a HECK of a time trying to get UDMA/100 transfer speeds on my
> > system.
> >
> > hdparm -t reports 35 MB/s. this is nowhere near the 100MB/s that i'm
> > expecting to get.
>
> Why are you ex
"Karsten M. Self" writes:
> Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as '>From'. Needless to
> say, this utterly borks things like GPG signatures.
One variant of the Unix mailbox format uses /^From / to designate the
start of messages and thus (destructively and stupidly) escapes lines
in
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 03:50:33PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> I suspect that this is probably being done by "helpful" software on
> some intermediary machine, most likely either the sender's or your
> ISP's, as I use exim and mutt and have used fetchmail in the past,
> but don't recall ever act
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:44:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> I've been noticing this on a number of messages both from and to me.
>
> Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as '>From'. Needless to
> say, this utterly borks things like GPG signatures.
>
> I have no idea where this i
* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) [010927 13:45]:
> I've been noticing this on a number of messages both from and to me.
>
> Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as '>From'. Needless to
> say, this utterly borks things like GPG signatures.
>
> I have no idea where this is happen
Thus spake Nicole Zimmerman:
> I have no idea where I signed up for my hotmail account, but I have been
> able to read it in both Netscape and Mozilla.
>
> The hotmail addresses all look like that... something like:
> lc3.law5.hotmail.passport.com
> lw15fd.law15.hotmail.msn.com
>
> -nicole
>
> A
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:44:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>
> Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as '>From'. Needless to
> say, this utterly borks things like GPG signatures.
>
> I have no idea where this is happening (I run exim, fetchmail and mutt),
> or even if it's charact
* Karsten M. Self spake thus:
> I've been noticing this on a number of messages both from and to me.
>
> Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as '>From'. Needless to
> say, this utterly borks things like GPG signatures.
>
> I have no idea where this is happening (I run exim, fetchmail
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:44:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as '>From'. Needless to
> say, this utterly borks things like GPG signatures.
>
> I have no idea where this is happening (I run exim, fetchmail and mutt),
> or even if it's characteri
on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 03:41:20PM +, Vittorio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have an almost pure potato 2.2r3 installation (only 2.4.9 kernel is
> a stranger!) and now I need to download gimp 1.2 which is part of
> woody & testing. Issuing 'apt-get install gimp1.2' from woody I see
> that it
I've been noticing this on a number of messages both from and to me.
Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as '>From'. Needless to
say, this utterly borks things like GPG signatures.
I have no idea where this is happening (I run exim, fetchmail and mutt),
or even if it's characteristic
on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:02:56AM +, Yuwen Dai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi, All
>
> I'm new to Debian but not new to Linux. My question is
>
> what's the proper size of the '/' directory?
>
> Of cause, I exclude /usr, /var, /tmp from '/'. I worry about that if the
> root patition is
on Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 02:55:02PM +0100, Ross Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 14:33, Hans Gubitz wrote:
> > How can I change the number of terminals in textmode?
>
> If you mean the number of virtual consoles available via alt-f1 etc,
> then edit /etc/inittab.
...throug
on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:20:28PM -0700, Lars Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> How do I install woody over a ppp connection?
>
> Here's what I've done so far:
> First I downloaded the images and created the three installation
> floppies,
>
> rescue.bin, root.bin, drivers.bin.
>
> The
Hi all,
I'm writting a library. I'm using Automake and Autoconf, but it is not
working. I guess it is a problem with the debian sid packages because
another program that I have used to compile fine some months ago.
Well, I'll explain the error. I'm at ~/src/prodesk/libs, and its
contents is:
jul
Dave gets my vote for the best answer.
I'm a bit biased in that I like a "meat grinder" approach with sed, awk,
cat, and a lot of pipesigns, but you've got to admit, his little
oneliner script is much tidier than the "here's how it's done in my
favorite language" answers.
Dave Thayer wrote:
>
on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:00:46PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Hi all !
>
> I want to make simple backups of my work, nothing more complex than
> moving things to a different partition and/or disk. I know I can do it
> with a few commands like tar, gz and cp, but perhaps
on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 05:55:26PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Tim Moss wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:15:07 -0700 (PDT)
> > "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > apt-get upgrade this morning, upgraded a lot of GNOME stuff. Now
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 03:01:09AM +0800, csj wrote:
| Is there an option to make the wheel in (what else) a wheel mouse behave
| like the middle button in a conventional mouse? A "friend" bought an
| optical mouse which unfortunately has this feature. I know about the
| chopsticks emulation, but I
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:55:50AM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
| On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 09:20:04AM -0400, dman wrote:
| > | /dev/random gives random bits. I don't know where it is documented.
| > | There is a system call random() (see man 3 random). You could write a
| > | wrapper C program to
On Thu, 2001-09-27 at 22:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I've been trying to get my nvidia geforce3 to work here for quite some
> time now. I was able to upgrade to the latest release of XFree86, but ti
> seems like there may be some package problems (?)
>
> here's what I have on th
on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 05:48:55PM -0400, Peter Christensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I think I'm making progress! I tried apt-get (as suggested by Dman and
> Karsten). I ran :
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> After about two hours I lost my internet connection (not uncom
> "Osamu" == Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Osamu> On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 11:09:15PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
>> I had similar issue with my machine. If qualify domain is pointing to
>> domain I set up system for it did not work. But using alternative
>> domain name
on Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:14:22PM +0200, Wolfgang Hlawatsch ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) wrote:
> There must be some undocumented functin in dselect. I have two machines, and
> both of them have different access-methods. How can I change the access
> method since I want to install by a remote CD, which
Hi,
Jeremy Whetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm in the process of writing up a script that I need to be able to
> "randomly" switch around the lines in a text file. (ala a random mp3
> playlist) Would anyone have any suggestions? I was originally thinking
> of using a random number generat
on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:46:43AM +1200, Alistair Faulknor ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Hi people, I loaded Debian 2.2 Potato on my HP 6615 and It wont work!! It
> fails to open Xfree86 and won't open LILO. I think it's because it can't
> find the graphics card. Any help would be appreacited.
Y
> I am not sure why some applications use different
> clipboards (buffers)... anybody has explanation? pointer
> to docs?
How about this, http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html ??
Hall
Is there an option to make the wheel in (what else) a wheel mouse behave
like the middle button in a conventional mouse? A "friend" bought an
optical mouse which unfortunately has this feature. I know about the
chopsticks emulation, but I'm just wondering if instead of senseless
scrolling I can get
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:09:40PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| yes,
|
| installing gpm pointing to psaux and editing XF86config file to point to
| gpmdata does make the mouse work in console (great!) and X (useless) since I
| can't even control the mouse pointer/buttons (moves to fast and do
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 00:44:35 -0500
"will trillich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> debianistas tend to know where to look, so i'm hoping someone
> will point the way--
>
> i know i've run across it before but when i WANT to stub my toe
> on it, it's nowhere to be found: HOW can i have apache/web pag
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:49:20 EDT, Alan Shutko writes:
>Right... some Unix programs get upset by too great a change in time,
>though I don't know of any major problems.
I've had kernel-panics when the time was set backwards.
>IIRC, ntpd will eventually slew the clock to the correct time, it just
Hans Steinraht wrote:
>
> --
> Hi,
>
> I'm just new to Debian and installed the potato version from floppy.
> Next I want to do is installing X.
>
> With tasksel I downloaded and installed all the packages.
>
> After configuring all with the graphical tool I get the following
> error:
>
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> dear debian-user,
>
> i'm having a HECK of a time trying to get UDMA/100 transfer speeds on my
> system. hdparm -t reports 35 MB/s. i've played with this for at least 4
> hours now, and am coming to the realization that i definitely need help.
goe
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