Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

2001-10-16 Thread Alan Shutko
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > To this extent, the CSS spec is severely flawed in that it grants > precedence to website author, not reader. This is bass ackwards. One major point of CSS was explicitly to grant precedence to reader to override things. It's browser vendors/authors who have been un

X: Too small fonts

2001-10-16 Thread scheme
After dist-upgrading after Oct. 8, I have a problem with dipslaying in X except with GNOME applications. I'm using unstable. The problem is fonts in X is too small, especially the Chinese characters in chinput. That's not the case before Oct. 1. I guess the problem can be due to the X system

Help: cannot login gdm except root

2001-10-16 Thread scheme
I cannot login with GDM with normal account, though root can. X server aborts with the following message: Error loading keymap /var/tmp/server-0.xkm Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap I'm using woody with kernel 2.4.9 and Xfree86 4.1.0. Another problem is after editin

Re: galeon bugs -- crashing

2001-10-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:33:21PM -0500, Rohan Deshpande ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greetings, > > I have just updated to galeon, and everytime I try to use any plugin Version? Java VM? -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Re: Unable to use X from remote host...

2001-10-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:58:03PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On my desktop machine (running woody) I enable X server access via > "xhost +" before I telnet into another machine. I then redirect that > machine's display via DISPLAY variable back to my desktop and try to >

Re: Problems browsing a site

2001-10-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:54:14PM -0700, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The web site of the San Francisco library has a feature where you can > look at your record and renew books. It uses java, I believe. > Unfortunately, I can't get it to work from Linux. Complain. http://kmself

Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

2001-10-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 07:55:06PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 08:45:06AM -0800, Christopher S. Swingley ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I just moved from Mozilla 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 and noticed th

Re: Typespeed without bad words

2001-10-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:30:36PM +, joe golden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Typespeed is a good typing tutoring program. > > We have used it a little bit here at our school. My students were > quite surprised to see words like whore, suck, prophylactic and hooker > for words for them to typ

printing commands comparision

2001-10-16 Thread dman
I know that Unix has 2 main printing systems : SysV and BSD. One has 'lpr' (and others) and the other has 'lp' (and others). IIRC 'lpr' is the BSD-style. What is the real difference between these two systems? I have CUPS as my printing system and (at least for a while) only the SysV commands we

extra text prints at the end of jobs

2001-10-16 Thread dman
I now have a Canon BJC-610 (color inkjet) working with CUPS through a custom "filter" script that invokes gs to generate the bjc610 data stream. This works great from my machine, and also allows the connected win95 and win98 machines to use it via samba. However, from the win* machines an extra

Re: /proc permissions and hsf modems

2001-10-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:19:35PM +, andrej hocevar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > lately i've inherited my brother's rockwell modem, which is a hsf, > meaning, as far as i know, it's a winmodem. so i took a look a > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Conexant+Rockwell-modem-HOWTO/hsf.html > the ins

Re: gs 6.5 package anywhere?

2001-10-16 Thread Ari Pollak
The newest gs 6 packages are at http://incoming.debian.org. hopefully they should be in unstable tomorrow. On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:09:45PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:57:50 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > The gs package is terribly ou

Re: illegal to link against python 2.x?

2001-10-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 01:45:08PM +0200, Timo Blazko Boewing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On the glimmer website (glimmer.sourceforge.net) I read that it requires > Python. However, the author states that it is "illegal" to link against > versions 2.0 and 2.1. Is python not GPL comliant? And if,

Re: gs 6.5 package anywhere?

2001-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > I wrote: > > > "Eric G. Miller" wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:57:50 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ro > > tt > > > er.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > The gs package is terribly outdated. Anyone know of a gs 6.5 > > > > package built with stp support? > >

Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

2001-10-16 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 08:45:06AM -0800, Christopher S. Swingley ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I just moved from Mozilla 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 and noticed that it doesn't > > seem to be respecting font sizes. For example, > > Frankly, this IMO is a feat

Re: /dev/input/mice on 2.4.12

2001-10-16 Thread Michael Danicich
Did you enable Event Interface Support in the Input Core section? Did you enable HID support (either full or basic) in the USB Support section? You didn't mention either of these... If that's all ok, you might need to create the /dev/input directory yourself. I remember having to do at least

Re: Adding a gateway for ppp?

2001-10-16 Thread mdevin
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:51:28AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to set up a new ppp connection with pppconfig. I know the > basics of this and have set up ones through bigpond and ozemail and can > connect to each with pon bigpond / pon ozemail. > > Now this time I am trying to c

Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

2001-10-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 08:45:06AM -0800, Christopher S. Swingley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just moved from Mozilla 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 and noticed that it doesn't > seem to be respecting font sizes. For example, > Shows up with all fonts being the same size except the last two lines, > whic

Re: CPU pegged at 100% (in GKrellM) since sawfish upgrade

2001-10-16 Thread Craig Dickson
Craig Dickson wrote: > Now, why would my CPU be pegged at 100% ever since upgrading to Sawfish > 1.0.1 in Sid tonight? Sorry about that, looks like the old Sawfish failed to terminate, and that was what was using up all the CPU. With that killed, everything's fine. HOWEVER -- change of subject h

cannot use X 3.3.6 as any user other than root

2001-10-16 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
I posted previously about not being able to get xdm to work so a user other than root could use X. I've basically given up on that route because it seemed that the problem I was having with xdm was to difficult to solve. Now I would just like to get X usable by another user perhaps through

CPU pegged at 100% (in GKrellM) since sawfish upgrade

2001-10-16 Thread Craig Dickson
Now, why would my CPU be pegged at 100% ever since upgrading to Sawfish 1.0.1 in Sid tonight? Anyone have any ideas on how to correct this by some configuration option (probably not as obvious as "Use All CPU=No"), or is a downgrade to Sawfish 1.0 the only option? Is anyone else even seeing this pr

Re: gs 6.5 package anywhere?

2001-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > "Eric G. Miller" wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:57:50 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > tt > > er.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > The gs package is terribly outdated. Anyone know of a gs 6.5 > > > package built with stp support? > > > > It's in unstable (don't know ab

Re: Sound not working in X/Gnome - Was:How to make on board VIA VT82C686B sound chip work?

2001-10-16 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:25:02AM +0200, Morbo wrote: > Hi, > > > I didn't realize that there was anyone else running a shuttle > > mainboard. Cool. On an unrelated topic, do you get some garbage on the > side of > > your screen that seems to be caused by interence from something? My board > > ha

Re: rescue

2001-10-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Tom Allison wrote: I have a kernel panic: VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or 03:06 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06. Now I've tried different root options to cover all of them including what was once /. Nothing works. I was b

uname -p?

2001-10-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On every Linux box I've ever used, uname -p prints 'unknown'. This has never affected me in the slightest, but every once in a while it occurs to me that I still have no idea what it means. I assume I could somehow make it print something i686 or something, although this is what's printed by unam

OT: Re: How to disable the `single' parameter when booting?

2001-10-16 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 07:45:15AM +, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Hi, ALL > > For the sake of security, how to disable the `single' parameter when > booting? just out of curiosity, do you also have the case inaccesible, and boot media disabled and the bios protected? I have always been of the impres

Re: Movie makers for Linux?

2001-10-16 Thread rich
On Wednesday 17 October 2001 01:02, Eric G. Miller wrote: > ucbmpeg works (more or less). You have to write a control file and > it takes a bit of tweaking to get good results, but it's doable. It > likes pnm files (though I think it will use png directly as well). ucbmpeg uses mpeg_encode. it

Mutiple mail servers : REPOST

2001-10-16 Thread Debian GNU
Hi all, I am using sendmail for mail distribution. I am planning to add one more mail server so that some users are in the first mail server and the rest in the new one (For the same domain). Internet mails arrive directly on the first mail server. Can I configure sendmail so that if a user is f

Re: gs 6.5 package anywhere?

2001-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Eric G. Miller" wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:57:50 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > er.net> wrote: > > > > > The gs package is terribly outdated. Anyone know of a gs 6.5 > > package built with stp support? > > It's in unstable (don't know about stp). Look for gs-alladin. g

Re: apt-get no X

2001-10-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
shöck wrote: What do i need to do in order to ensure that apt-get upgrade doesn't upgrade X-Windows? I have a fairly customized X-Windows set up, so I usually upgrade X myself. I've tried messing with dselect, but it's greek to me. I know it's fairly straightforward for 99% of planet earth, bu

Adding a gateway for ppp?

2001-10-16 Thread mdevin
I am trying to set up a new ppp connection with pppconfig. I know the basics of this and have set up ones through bigpond and ozemail and can connect to each with pon bigpond / pon ozemail. Now this time I am trying to connect through my local university (QUT). I went through the same process in

Re: Debian books

2001-10-16 Thread alex
Linux Cookbook http://www.linuxfreak.org/post.php/08/11/2001/119.html ramsubs wrote: > > > > Does anyone have suggestions of helpful books that are more directly > for > > > > Debian instead of just general linux? > > > > > > > > > > > I have a book called Debian Unleashed that is excellent. Alth

/dev/input/mice on 2.4.12

2001-10-16 Thread Patrick Schnorbus
Hi, I've just installed SID and compiled Kernel 2.4.12 - but - I havn't any /dev/input/mice device. I activated USB Support-> UHCI and Input core support->Mouse Support. My USB Mouse (Logitech MouseMan USB) is correctly connected. Any ideas? TIA Patrick

rescue

2001-10-16 Thread Tom Allison
I have a kernel panic: VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or 03:06 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06. Now I've tried different root options to cover all of them including what was once /. Nothing works. I was building a custom kerne

Re: gs 6.5 package anywhere?

2001-10-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:57:50 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The gs package is terribly outdated. Anyone know of a gs 6.5 > package built with stp support? It's in unstable (don't know about stp). Look for gs-alladin. If you want potato packages, I dunno -- you might b

Re: New startx behavior in testing?

2001-10-16 Thread Paul Mackinney
dman muttered: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:40:07PM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote: > | Since last night's Woody upgrade, startx no longer > | works as before. > > Yeah, there is a bug. Edit /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start > and change > > exec "$REALSTARTUP" > > to > > exec $REALSTARTUP

Re: Movie makers for Linux?

2001-10-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On 16 Oct 2001 16:19:40 -0600, "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > That almost works. First I had to hunt down mpeg2encode because it's > used by convert and not included in any Debian package (as far as I > could tell). After I did that I tried the command > > convert *.pn

Re: python library path on Debian LInux

2001-10-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 07:22:10PM -0400, Avdi B. Grimm wrote: > Now, as I understand it, Python2 shouldn't have any difficulty using the > python1.5 versions of PyGTK, wxPython, and other such libs. (Correct me > if I'm wrong). My question is, how can I make the python2 executable > "see" the pyth

Network: how can I set up remote printing (sid/lpr)

2001-10-16 Thread Alan E . Davis
In my high school classroom we have a small network of four linux boxen, with private block ip addresses (our Public School System domain is in a private block), with one printer. I have been able to ftp/telnet between my own boxen, but I am unskilled so don't know how much I can do with/among

Re: python library path on Debian LInux

2001-10-16 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On 16 Oct 2001, Avdi B. Grimm wrote: > I'm using Python on a Debian machine, and I've installed both the > python-1.5 and the python2 packages. I prefer to use python2. > Unfortunately, the way the Debian packages are arranged, many of the > additional libraries available for python (such as PyGT

Re: apt-get --diff upgrade?

2001-10-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:35:07PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > It sure would be neat if apt-get could just fetch the diffs. I'm sure > that 10MB mozilla package I just downloaded has a 1-line change in the > preferences file. > > Is there an outstanding fundamental reason why I shouldn't loo

Re: >From in mutt?

2001-10-16 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Robert L. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011016 15:56]: > > > I'm trying to use PGP but getting some errors. Part of it seems tied to > the fact that I'm getting ">From: " as the first from, with a > "From: " later in the header. > > Anyone know what's generating it? More importantly how do I

Re: >From in mutt?

2001-10-16 Thread Robert L. Harris
Yeah, that's in mine also by default. Thus spake David Raeker-Jordan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > > > > I'm trying to use PGP but getting some errors. Part of it seems tied to > > the fact that I'm getting ">From: " as the first from, with a > > "From: " later in the

Re: New startx behavior in testing?

2001-10-16 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:40:07PM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote: | Since last night's Woody upgrade, startx no longer | works as before. Yeah, there is a bug. Edit /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start and change exec "$REALSTARTUP" to exec $REALSTARTUP HTH, -D

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Re: >From in mutt?

2001-10-16 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > I'm trying to use PGP but getting some errors. Part of it seems tied to > the fact that I'm getting ">From: " as the first from, with a > "From: " later in the header. > > Anyone know what's generating it? More importantly how do I get rid of it? > > I found t

New startx behavior in testing?

2001-10-16 Thread Greg Wiley
Since last night's Woody upgrade, startx no longer works as before. Now, it completely ignores ~/.xsession and does not even create a default session if .xsession does not exist which leads me to believe that Xsession is never sourced. This means that the X server quits as soon as it's started.

Re: Upgrade Catch-22

2001-10-16 Thread Greg Wiley
On Tuesday, October 16, 2001 2:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It sounds like you are going to have to use method 2. > edit /var/lib/dpkg/status to trick dpkg into thinking modutils are not installed. > Get a hold of modutils 2.4.8.1 from somewhere. > Install this manually with dpkg -i > When yo

python library path on Debian LInux

2001-10-16 Thread Avdi B. Grimm
I'm using Python on a Debian machine, and I've installed both the python-1.5 and the python2 packages. I prefer to use python2. Unfortunately, the way the Debian packages are arranged, many of the additional libraries available for python (such as PyGTK) are as yet only packaged for Python1.5. App

Re: WHERE DID PINE SOURCE & DIFFS GO IN WOODY

2001-10-16 Thread Santiago Vila
Dean Roman wrote: > Where did the Pine source and diff .debs go in woody that were > part of the potato release? They were removed. There will be no more -src and -diff .deb's. > Are they planned for addition to the woody release or discontinued? In woody, pine is distributed in source-only form

Re: Sound Won't Work...

2001-10-16 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:42:59PM -0600, Michael Fontenot wrote: > > The only remaining problem is that the sound level is much > lower than when I have W95 booted up. Even when I > used "play -v file.au" to play the file at > the maximum gain allowed for no clipping (determined > via the "play

Re: [DEB] Freegeek non profit SHOULD use non-profit libr? Linux distro.

2001-10-16 Thread Paul M Foster
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:45:28AM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > The first in-a-rut NERDO that clackers about "flame bait" or "flame > war" get's "E" (gnus-summary-mark-as-expirable) pushed on the message > and I go on to read the coherent responses. ;-) I've been LIFTING > WEIGHTS and can

apt-get --diff upgrade?

2001-10-16 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
It sure would be neat if apt-get could just fetch the diffs. I'm sure that 10MB mozilla package I just downloaded has a 1-line change in the preferences file. Is there an outstanding fundamental reason why I shouldn't look into making a diffs system for apt? -jwb

>From in mutt?

2001-10-16 Thread Robert L. Harris
I'm trying to use PGP but getting some errors. Part of it seems tied to the fact that I'm getting ">From: " as the first from, with a "From: " later in the header. Anyone know what's generating it? More importantly how do I get rid of it? :wq! ---

Solved: gnome sound

2001-10-16 Thread Frank Preut
okay, okay.. it's all quite simple.. while it was admittedly stupid to start gnome with esd while mpg321 was running (which caused the crash and finally prompted me to carry my grief to this list), my other problems are rather easily solved because not only is mpg321 "esd-aware" or rather, can be m

Re[2]: keyboard win key enable?

2001-10-16 Thread Petre Daniel
Hello Timeboy, Tuesday, October 16, 2001, 15:44:41 Acasica, you wrote: T> - Re: keyboard win key enable? - T> On Tuesday Oct 16 02:42 Petre Daniel wrote: T> > ** i know that redhat can enable the windows key as a alt+fXX console shifter. T> > ** how can i enable my windows k

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-16 Thread Jim McCloskey
Following up on my own message to correct a mis-statement. I wrote: |> Xine is now very mature and very stable. The Debian packages (even |> in unstable) lag a little behind, This is wrong (I was looking in the wrong place). The package xine-ui in unstable supplies the most up-to-date version of

Re: Mail Filtering with cyrus-imapd

2001-10-16 Thread Dave Carrigan
Assuming that your cyrus imapd has sieve support, you do it with sieve. Ask google about mail filtering with sieve for more info. Here is an excerpt from my .sieve file: require "fileinto"; require "envelope"; require "vacation"; #vacation "I am on vacation and will return on July 13"; if h

Re: Movie makers for Linux?

2001-10-16 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > "Gary" == Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've got a series of still captures of some scientific data > > that I'd like to string together to form an animation, > > picture-book style. > > You can try using convert (part of the imagem

Re: Debian Installation Prob -> DSelect

2001-10-16 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 23:20, Karl wrote: > > [...] > How can I get all the packages from the net? (I have to install PPP and > PPPOE for DSL first but I don't manage to de-select everything new...) > Any other ideas? > try apt-[tab] and you might get something like apt-setup or apt-config. Ther

Re: Woody: X won't start after upgrade to 4.1 AMMENDED

2001-10-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > exec $REALSTARTUP > > > > > > i had the same problem: startx died, GDM login either. Applying the > > above solved it. > > > > Just upgraded and find something odd. Root can log into X with or > without the above 'fix'. Users can

(fixed) Re: modutils won't install on testing

2001-10-16 Thread DvB
Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Setting up modutils (2.4.10-3) ... > >depmod: Unexpected value (20) in > >'/lib/modules/2.4.9-686/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o' for > >ieee1394_device_size > > Known bug. The modutils package maintainer reduced the severity from > grave to importa

Re: more pictures from systems 2001

2001-10-16 Thread Mike Pfleger
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > this time more organized: day 2 on the systems 2001 fair. Hey, cool. Nice work, düde! ;) -How can I resist, after all the fun we've had trying to get mutt to display/use this properly, in the past few weeks? Tschüs, Mike Pfleger There's seventy bri

Re: illegal to link against python 2.x?

2001-10-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 13:45:08 +0200, Timo Blazko Boewing wrote: > On the glimmer website (glimmer.sourceforge.net) I read that it requires > Python. However, the author states that it is "illegal" to link against > versions 2.0 and 2.1. Is python not GPL comliant? >From python2-base's /usr/shar

Re: illegal to link against python 2.x?

2001-10-16 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 23:44, Craig Dickson wrote: > As for "how could it be changed"... the copyright owner can change the > license for a new version if they like. The copyright owner is not bound > by the GPL; the GPL defines how everyone else can use the software. Hello Craig, a new version is

gs 6.5 package anywhere?

2001-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
The gs package is terribly outdated. Anyone know of a gs 6.5 package built with stp support? It might make my Canon S400 print... Peter

Re: Sound Won't Work

2001-10-16 Thread Michael Fontenot
Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try using es1371 instead. I have about five of these cards running > under Debian, Red Hat, Slackware and Mandrake and all run fine with > es1371. Did the "cat /dev/sndstat" work for you? Mike Fontenot [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: illegal to link against python 2.x?

2001-10-16 Thread Craig Dickson
Timo Blazko Boewing wrote: > On the glimmer website (glimmer.sourceforge.net) I read that it requires > Python. However, the author states that it is "illegal" to link against > versions 2.0 and 2.1. Is python not GPL comliant? And if, how could it > be changed if versions <2.x where? I cannot fin

Re: offtopic: perldoc

2001-10-16 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 18:16, Colin Watson wrote: > Try pod2html. Ah, yes! Completely forgot a) not all docs reside in /usr/share/doc b) pod2html is on my system thank you for the help, Timo

Re: Sound Won't Work...

2001-10-16 Thread Michael Fontenot
"dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Then what does > > cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp > > do? It should produce static noise from the speakers. If that says > > No Such Device, then there are other problems. > Great!...the "cat /dev/urandom >/dev/dsp" worked (although at a lower than de

Re: Cannot print at all (Canon S400 + CUPS)

2001-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
dman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 11:26:48PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > | > | This is the first time ever that I have difficulty printing on > | Linux. Weird. > | > | Bootup reports: > | parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2] > | parport0: detected irq 7; use

RE: illegal to link against python 2.x?

2001-10-16 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 23:31, Justin Hahn wrote: > I believe this is out of date. Python 2.1.1 (and some versions or other of > 2.0.x) resolve the GPL issue. This is why python2 in debian did not contain > readline, but 2.1 does. > > --jeh > Ah, that's it! I was sure having read somewhere that py

Mail Filtering with cyrus-imapd

2001-10-16 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, I used an IMAP server (I think the UW server) that stored al emails per folder in one file. Sorting/Filtering works fine with deliver. Now I switched to cyrus-imapd because no user needs a shell account and accessing the server with Windoze Clients or Netscape/Mozilla works better. Unfortunate

Re: nfs issue

2001-10-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya Erik do you have a firewall ??? you might wanna add rpc.* to /etc/hosts.allow or /etc/hosts.deny too and restart inetd if you modified these files rpc.mountd: .you.com 192.168.1. rpc.nfsd: .you.com 192.168.1. c ya alvin On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, nate wrote: > Erik van der

illegal to link against python 2.x?

2001-10-16 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
On the glimmer website (glimmer.sourceforge.net) I read that it requires Python. However, the author states that it is "illegal" to link against versions 2.0 and 2.1. Is python not GPL comliant? And if, how could it be changed if versions <2.x where? I cannot find any license hints on python.org, s

Re: Upgrade Catch-22

2001-10-16 Thread Timothy Webster
I am not in front of my linux box right now. So this from memory. When did this "modutils 2.4.10-3" crap make it into testing? It sounds like you are going to have to use method 2. edit /var/lib/dpkg/status to trick dpkg into thinking modutils are not installed. Get a hold of modutils 2.4.8.1 fro

Re: nvidia-kernel + 2.4.12...

2001-10-16 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > I'm using 1541 + vesafb successfully so I doubt it's that. > > Have you tried just grabbing the tarballs direct from nVidia's servers and > installing them by hand? Works everytime for me. That said, I haven't used > 2.4.12 - I'm languishing back

Re: modutils won't install on testing

2001-10-16 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >My last apt-get upgrade tried to upgrade modutils and then bombed with >the following message: > >Setting up modutils (2.4.10-3) ... >depmod: Unexpected value (20) in >'/lib/modules/2.4.9-686/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o' for >ieee1394_

Debian Installation Prob -> DSelect

2001-10-16 Thread Karl
Hi! I have just installed Debian Base System, rebooted and wanted to do the "simple" install where packages are marked "install" already. When installation starts (also via dselect), it asks for the first CD, starts and then stops at 80% of I don't know what with "E: Internal Error. Could not

see the ethernet, now you don't....

2001-10-16 Thread Robert L. Harris
Installed a new box off Woody install disks and net. Looks good, customizing to be inhabited. This is a Dell PowerEdge 1300. Off the install disks it loads OEM i85527/85528 driver for what is supposed to be an eepro card. I download 2.4.12, configure the eepro into the kernel per the n

Re: Unable to use X from remote host...

2001-10-16 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:58:03PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: | On my desktop machine (running woody) I enable X server access via | "xhost +" before I telnet into another machine. I then redirect that | machine's display via DISPLAY variable back to my desktop and try to | run an X application

Re: nvidia-kernel + 2.4.12...

2001-10-16 Thread David
On Tuesday 16 October 2001 7:54 pm, Michael C. Alonzo wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:12:01PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > > On Sun, 2001-10-14 at 15:14, Michael C. Alonzo wrote: > > > im having problems with nvidia-*-1541*. i compiled 2.4.12 then > > > dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-2.4.12*.deb nvidia-g

Re: Mozilla on woody.

2001-10-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 01:23:44 +0200, Frank Preut wrote: > hm, i didn't find that very useful.. does that mean, trying to apt-get > mozilla 0.9.5-2_i386 isn't possible because the way it is packaged it can't > decide which to install first so that it works.. ?! That's just a peculiarity of the s

Re: Skipstone has stopped working

2001-10-16 Thread Hans Steinraht
I'm now running Mozilla 0.9.5 (because of my apt-get after apt-get remove -purge), but the problem started with the older version of Mozilla. So, I'm not sure that the cause of this is Mozilla 0.9.5. I'm first trying to trace what it could be, when I have the idea that it has something to do wit

Unable to use X from remote host...

2001-10-16 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On my desktop machine (running woody) I enable X server access via "xhost +" before I telnet into another machine. I then redirect that machine's display via DISPLAY variable back to my desktop and try to run an X application. But, the remote machines says that it can _not_ connect to my desktop

Re: apt-get source

2001-10-16 Thread Gerard Robin
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:34:10PM -0300, Alejandro Diego Garin wrote: > > hello! > > Could you tell me what is the deb-src link to download de source packages in > potato? deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stabl

galeon bugs -- crashing

2001-10-16 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Greetings, I have just updated to galeon, and everytime I try to use any plugin (java, realplayer, or what have you), I get this error: INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Exec of "java_vm" failed: 2 < System error?:: No such file or directory Gdk-ERROR **: Fatal IO error 9 (Bad file descriptor) on X

Re: Skipstone has stopped working

2001-10-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 21:06:48 +, Hans Steinraht wrote: > I did a apt-get remove --purge skipstone and mozilla-browser, followed > with a new install, but the only what Skipstone says while starting it is > a little spinning of my harddisk and further nothing. A new mozilla (0.9.5) has recen

x-window

2001-10-16 Thread werner.schuster
Hello   i am a linux beginner and installed Debian Linux at a ibm486 machine, and i am not able to install x-window. my problem is that i have a xga graphik card and none software recognizes this. even trying configuring the graphic card by hand. is there any howto which could solve my troub

Settings in WM won't save

2001-10-16 Thread Scott Glover
this is driving me nutz! btw: i've been searching for the answer... and now i'm here. problem: xwindows settings will not save. I'm still busy configuring x and related things... but every setting i change gets reset once the server is rebooted or x is restarted. For example; i'll run xvidtune

RE: Woody: X won't start after upgrade to 4.1

2001-10-16 Thread Bob Koss
> > "BK" == Bob Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BK> You guys are all ahead of me. I'm still trying to upgrade to > BK> 4.1. > BK> > BK> How did you generate the XFConfig-4 file? I ran XFree86 > BK> -configure and it wrote a file /root/XF86Config.new. It doesn't > B

Re: upgrade of x

2001-10-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Baier Arno([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > No, i had a problem with the script > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/40xfree86-common_xmodmap. > in the line with the grep command the "$OPTIONFILE" was lower case and > without ", this variable did not have a value and x hangs at this line. > >

Re: Movie makers for Linux?

2001-10-16 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Alexander Wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't have my machine here but I think I use gtksee for what you are > talking about... > > do apt-get isntall gtksee > > That should do it... > > On 16 Oct 2001, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > > I've got a series of still captures of some scientif

Re: Movie makers for Linux?

2001-10-16 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Gary" == Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've got a series of still captures of some scientific data > that I'd like to string together to form an animation, > picture-book style. You can try using convert (part of the imagemagick package), to make mpegs, as in

Re: .htaccess help!

2001-10-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Alexander Wallace([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello there, I hope you can excuse my ignorance in these matters... > > In order to protect certain html dirs with a password, I was told by a > good member of this list to make sure that I had the mod_auth enabled in > httpd.conf. W

RE: Woody: X won't start after upgrade to 4.1

2001-10-16 Thread Bob Koss
> > > > > > i had the same problem: startx died, GDM login either. Applying the > > above solved it. > > > You guys are all ahead of me. I'm still trying to upgrade to 4.1. How did you generate the XFConfig-4 file? I ran XFree86 -configure and it wrote a file /root/XF86Config.new. It doesn't wor

RE: Python versioning

2001-10-16 Thread Justin Hahn
> Thanks for the info. Is there any document specifying the > policy for the > version numbers of Python? E.g. is 2.1 a development version, or just > the next release after 2.0? Check the python website; I'm not a big pythoner, but some of my users are. IIRC, 2.1 just the next version after 2.0

Re: programs not appearing on desktop menu

2001-10-16 Thread Aidan Christian O'Reilly
This thread gave me the clues to fix my problem--my Debian menus were empty. Instead of having to edit the xterm file, I had to edit doc-linux-html, going to (approximately) line 420, and removing the extra quotes from the word "Pocket." Thanks to all, hope this helps somebody else. Aidan On Tue

Re: modutils won't install on testing

2001-10-16 Thread Frank Preut
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:22:54AM -0500, DvB wrote: > My last apt-get upgrade tried to upgrade modutils and then bombed with > the following message: > > Setting up modutils (2.4.10-3) ... > depmod: Unexpected value (20) in > '/lib/modules/2.4.9-686/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o' for > ieee139

Re: ext3 patch for kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-16 Thread Matthew Sackman
Synposis: (which I've posted before - hence is in the archives) Journaling. This is where a log is kept of all write transactions to each filesystem. The log is never cached - it has to be synced onto the harddisc after every transaction, and no transaction is allowed to take place until the log ha

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