OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-14 Thread Paul McHale
Just curious how long people have left their system running without reboot. I once left my server at a co-locate for over 3 months and it ran fine. In three years, I have never had to reboot because of crash. I have rebooted about once every 3 to 4 months (guessing average) after maintenance. T

Re: Which mail user agent do you use?

2001-11-14 Thread Craig Dickson
Brian Nelson wrote: > And, in the end, you will find true bliss with gnus. No, because I use emacs as a text editor, not a desktop platform. I don't even use emacs's shell windows, much less use it as an ftp client or a bad, hideously slow web browser (I tried that a while back just for laughs, b

Re: Which mail user agent do you use?

2001-11-14 Thread Craig Dickson
dman wrote: > check the User-Agent: or X-Mailer: headers to see what people are > using. Yes, good advice. I do this when I see someone sending out screwed-up messages. Usually they're using Outlook or Netscape. > On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:26:11PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > | Now I use mu

Re: Which mail user agent do you use?

2001-11-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now I use mutt, which allows me to use my own text editor (emacs), > supports multiple accounts, doesn't crash, supports all the common > mailbox formats (I prefer maildir), intelligently handles mailing lists, > and is configurable as hell. And, in the

WOODY update: remote clients can't open X display

2001-11-14 Thread Rick Macdonald
I updated three woody/sid machines to the current woody today. It had been one to three months since I last updated to woody. Everything went flawlessly (almost 500 packages on one box). But then I later discovered that I can't send X displays back to any of the machines, even if I run "xhost +".

Annoying file access behavior

2001-11-14 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hi all. I have a bit of a problem. Every time I work with big files (movies, converting mp3s to wavs for ripping), my system slows down to a crawl for some time, while it is emptying the buffers. Here's a quick example: I'm converting mp3 into wav using xmms. The whole song will convert without any

Re: BUSINESS PROPOSAL

2001-11-14 Thread Patrick McFarland
Heh, its still trolling. The new and improved spam-flavored kind. On 15-Nov-2001, Shaya Potter wrote: > I don't think this makes much of a difference, as I don't think this is > a case where the "troll" is going to respond. The responder just wanted > to have some fun. If he shouldn't be wasting

Re: BUSINESS PROPOSAL

2001-11-14 Thread Shaya Potter
I don't think this makes much of a difference, as I don't think this is a case where the "troll" is going to respond. The responder just wanted to have some fun. If he shouldn't be wasting bandwidth: that's another question. But the response put a smile on my face. shaya On Thu, 2001-11-15 at

Re: OpenGL/Glide packages

2001-11-14 Thread Patrick McFarland
I missed the beginning of this, but if you exepct to be using ogl with any recent card, you need the right kernel modules (mainly dri/drm with the right voodoo driver) On 14-Nov-2001, Cameron Matheson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:18:15PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > OK, for XF86-4,

Re: Way Confused about Version Numbers

2001-11-14 Thread Patrick McFarland
Here, ill help. The kernel number has nothing to do with the distro number. Kernel 2.2.x or 2.4.x works with potato, woody, or sid. On 14-Nov-2001, dman wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 10:20:38PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > | Rafe B.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > | > Where do

Re: BUSINESS PROPOSAL

2001-11-14 Thread Patrick McFarland
*points to the "Dont feed the trolls" sign on the wall* On 14-Nov-2001, Stephen Gran wrote: > Aw, come on now - the representatives of Lawrent Kabila were going to > give us $25M. You guys only want to give us $22M. Cheapskates. > Steve > -- > "If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going o

Re: Best choice for video card

2001-11-14 Thread Patrick McFarland
It isnt up to the distro or desktop enviroment to what video card you choice. Its up to the windowing manager. I presonally recommend an ati raedon or raedon 8500, or any recent matrox card (450+ or 550). Nvidia likes to make their own versions of software often making it incompatible with most

Re: Matrox G-450 Under X Vers. 3.3.6

2001-11-14 Thread Patrick McFarland
There is basically no point not running Xf4 with a card like that. You will get no 3d acceleration, and matrox doesnt officially support Xf3 anymore. I suggest you just run woody. You will also want to run a 2.4 kernel to get dri/drm working well. On 14-Nov-2001, Rafe B. wrote: > > I'm using p

Re: OpenGL/Glide packages

2001-11-14 Thread Cameron Matheson
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:18:15PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, for XF86-4, do I just need xserver .deb version 4, xserver-common v4? Yeah, just make sure that you're using the 'tdfx' driver in your XF86Config-4. Cameron Matheson _

Re: Way Confused about Version Numbers

2001-11-14 Thread dman
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 10:20:38PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: | Rafe B.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: | > Where does "potato" leave off and "woody" begin? | | Potato = stable = 2.2r? yes. | woody = testing = version 2.3 I heard "3.0" was going to be woody's number. | sid = unstab

Re: GNome without esd

2001-11-14 Thread dman
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:52:37AM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: | I took out esd and now there are no sounds in gnome. That's right, esd is the sound daemon. If the daemon isn't available to send sound to, you don't get sound. This is kinda like saying "I shutdown apache, and now I can't serve

Re: adding truetype fonts

2001-11-14 Thread nate
Reza said: > Hi guys.. > I just read the HOWTO for TrueType fonts in Bet@ > Virtual Cafe (links from debianplanet), I can get it > works now, and X looks good, but my problem now is > that if I add some fonts, xfontsel would see it, but I > can't use it, it said that can't find the > -ttf-blablabla

Re: Which mail user agent do you use?

2001-11-14 Thread dman
First : check the User-Agent: or X-Mailer: headers to see what people are using. On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:26:11PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: | Now I use mutt, which allows me to use my own text editor (emacs), Ditto, but ugh (I use vim :-)). | supports multiple accounts, What do you mean

Re: xfree DGA module and vmware

2001-11-14 Thread nate
Alejandro Diego Garin said: > Hi all! > > Someone know anything about a DGA extension needed for vmware to > use fullscreen mode? vmware has always required DGA for fullscreen mode. in many X 3.3.6 servers it was built in. x4 is very modular. vmware even had special X servers with DGA support for

Re: Best choice for video card

2001-11-14 Thread nate
Hanasaki JiJi said: > Didn't the manufacturer go bankrupt and get bough by nvidia? > 3dfx? yeah they did. one of my friends worked at STB.. then at 3dfx..now hes at nvidia.. still good cards though. the specs are out on them(for most of the features of the chipset) so i think support will continu

Re: Converting From Red Hat to Debian

2001-11-14 Thread dman
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 04:58:11PM -0800, Mark Seven Smith wrote: | ATI Rage 128 video card [removed all other peripherals too] | WHY I BELIEVE THE VIDEO CARD IS AT FAULT: | Basically, Red Hat Linux 6.1 also had this problem--I had | to get RH7.1 (with the newer XFree86 stuff on it) before I |

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-11-14 Thread dman
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 06:00:00PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: | Ian Balchin wrote: | > | > Karsten & Matthew, | > | > Thanks, you have cleared up the mysteries for me. Well, | > almost. | > | > s, if Debian is looking for a bashrc or profile file, it | > won't mind if it has a dot

Re: HD spin down with hdparm : HD always wakes up !!!

2001-11-14 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Tom Allison wrote: > What do you mean by that statement. > is this a conflict or what. I'm having roughly the same problem as > described. Umm, they're the log daemons. The drive's spinning up because something needs to write to the log. You'll use less power and your driv

Re: HD spin down with hdparm : HD always wakes up !!!

2001-11-14 Thread Tom Allison
Dominique Deleris wrote: Hello folks ! I am now in the process to reduce power consumption on my Woody box (great, isn't it?) So far I've managed to get DPMS working so that my monitor will go to standby mode when I'm AFK. Now the question: I have two HD, /dev/hda and /dev/hdc that are mounted

ulimit -n problem

2001-11-14 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, I'd like to test an overloaded apache with 2000 httpd processes running as nobody on it. However, I can't ulimit the maximum number of open file descriptors for "nobody" as well as common users. Is there any way to achieve this? Thanks. -- Patrick Hsieh<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SuSE - The Linu

Re: HD spin down with hdparm : HD always wakes up !!!

2001-11-14 Thread Tom Allison
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: On 14 Nov 2001, Dominique Deleris wrote: I can't figure out what's provoking this behaviour? 200 ?00:00:00 syslogd 203 ?00:00:00 klogd I'll leave it at that. What do you mean by that statement. is this a conflict or what. I'm having ro

Re: Way Confused about Version Numbers

2001-11-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Rafe B.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Gad, I'm real confused. > > I can roughly grok the difference between > stable, unstable, etc. > > But what's this business of "2.2r3" and "2.2r4"? Debian release numbers. 2.2r3 = Potato 3 upgrades > > How does this relate to the versio

Re: Running DirectX Games using Linux OS [Offtopic response to unrealistic zealot response]

2001-11-14 Thread john
csj wrote: > On Saturday 10 November 2001 03:27, Lambrecht, Joris wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've been off the thread for some time but ... > > > > > > Just to let you all know that http://www.transgaming.com/ is offering > > WineX wich it claims (and has had some good reports allready) to > > ena

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-11-14 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 06:00:00PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Ian Balchin wrote: > > > > Karsten & Matthew, > > > > Thanks, you have cleared up the mysteries for me. Well, > > almost. > > > > s, if Debian is looking for a bashrc or profile file, it > > won't mind if it has a dot

Re: How do I set a domain name?

2001-11-14 Thread Williasm Dowling
That edit to /etc/hosts did the trick. Many thanks! Will --- Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Lo, on Tuesday, November 13, Williasm Dowling did write: > ^ > >Minor nit, but it looks like you've got a typo in your MUA configuration. > >> I am having trou

bugzilla in sid/unstable

2001-11-14 Thread Charles Baker
I tried to install buzilla on my sid/unstable machine via `apt-get install buzilla` and it seemed as if all was going fine until I got a message "Preconfiguring packages..." It would never go any further, just maxed out the cpu. I did not have mysql installed, I seem to recall that bugzilla uses my

Re: Which mail user agent do you use?

2001-11-14 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
Craig Dickson wrote: | developers didn't seem interested in the idea of automatically | checking the mailbox (not a server, but the local mailbox itself) | every few minutes, which I wanted because I use fetchmail to retrieve Sylpheed does that (now). I have a fetchmail setup that grabs my ma

Re: configuring X in unstable

2001-11-14 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
Eric Smith wrote: | According to D. on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 04:39:12AM -0800: | > try dpkg-configure xserver-xfree86 That is assuming | > that it downloaded when you upgraded. Check to make | > sure that you have it installed. | nope | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ dpkg --configure xserver-

Re: cupsomatic

2001-11-14 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, ben wrote: > > apt-get install cupsomatic-ppd > > this returns an invalid operation error. Well Ben... All I can say is PEBCAK.

Re: Way Confused about Version Numbers

2001-11-14 Thread flonesaw
Rafe, It's simple. 2.2Rev4 is the version number of the Debian distribution itself. And, since it is 2.2something, that makes it "Potato". (As it says on the Debian site, each release has a code name from the movie, Toy Story.) Each of the four thousand-odd software packages which make up a

Re: Converting From Red Hat to Debian

2001-11-14 Thread Steve Kieu
> So: isn't there a way to perhaps, "put the parts in > place", > the way they do with SlackWare? I am almost ready Has any one tried to install debian like this: boot using the rescue disk set, (whatever it is but has tar , gzip, and file system utilities and a text editor) run fdisk to parti

adding truetype fonts

2001-11-14 Thread Reza
Hi guys.. I just read the HOWTO for TrueType fonts in Bet@ Virtual Cafe (links from debianplanet), I can get it works now, and X looks good, but my problem now is that if I add some fonts, xfontsel would see it, but I can't use it, it said that can't find the -ttf-blablabla .. can anyone tell me ho

Re: OpenGL/Glide packages

2001-11-14 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, You'll need agpart in the kernel, along w/ tdfx support (I'm assuming you're using X4...). Then install libglide3, xlibmesa, and edit your XF86Config-4 so that DRI is enabled. Cameron Matheson On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 05:14:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, can anyone tell me what

Way Confused about Version Numbers

2001-11-14 Thread Rafe B.
Gad, I'm real confused. I can roughly grok the difference between stable, unstable, etc. But what's this business of "2.2r3" and "2.2r4"? How does this relate to the version number "2.2.18pre21". Where does "potato" leave off and "woody" begin? What's with the 2.4.x kernels? Where do they

Re: Upgraded X to 4.1: Lost 1280x1024 mode

2001-11-14 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 08:26:56AM -0800, FGL wrote: > I've just upgraded from potato to woody, including X from 3.3 to 4.1. As a > result, I've lost the 1280x1024 mode that I've been using for years. > I too faced the same problem, but on updating X 3.3.6 to 4.1 on potato. I noticed the

Matrox G-450 Under X Vers. 3.3.6

2001-11-14 Thread Rafe B.
I'm using potato 2.2r3 (or is that "2.2.18pre21"). Whatever. I recently switched to a Matrox G-450 AGP card. (Thanks to those who helped me "turn off X.") Question: can I expect that the X driver module for the Matrox G-400 will work? Has anyone tried this? (The G-450 isn't offered as a

Amiga installation

2001-11-14 Thread Joseph Doss
Whenever I try to instal Debian on my 68040 Amiga, I get to the endo of the installation where it asks if I want to enable it to boot from a har drive and when I acknowledge this it tells me, "Installing a boot loader is not yet possible for Debian/m68k" ..Whats up with this? What am I doin

Re: X upgrade / downgrade / upgrade??

2001-11-14 Thread FGL
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:22:39PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Losing patience, I installed a Matrox Millenium 2MB card and the XFree > 4 servers. Now, I get an immediate error starting X "can't open socket > - - make sure no other X is running" or words to that effect. I may have > a

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-14 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Peter Good ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 18:52, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > * Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > * Kyle Girard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > > Has anyone been able to get the nvidia drivers to work with the stock > > > > 2.4.14

Re: Converting From Red Hat to Debian

2001-11-14 Thread Mark Seven Smith
On Monday 12 November 2001 12:52 pm, nate wrote: > Mark Seven Smith said: > [..] > > > how can I install Debian on my second drive, without > > having to go through the install procedure (which is > > incompatible in *text mode* with my video card)? > > [..] > > > cable modem, ATI Rage 128 video ca

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-14 Thread Jens Gecius
Peter Good <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [nvidia] > symbols. Once I switched that on, it worked perfectly, and has done since, > including Twinview with SVIDEO out. Well, tried twinview, but disabled it again after it crashed with some applications. I had it set to double the desktop (kind-a-nice

Re: network card problem

2001-11-14 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 08:34, Richard Weil wrote: > You don't happen to remember the name of the utility > do you? I found a few possible suspects on the 3com > website -- I'm not sure which of them, if any, will do > the job. Thanks. It's the disk with the dos drivers for the 3com 3c509x cards.

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-14 Thread Jens Gecius
Peter Good <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > * Kyle Girard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > > Has anyone been able to get the nvidia drivers to work with the stock > > > > 2.4.14 kernel? > > > > > > > > I've compiled the drivers many ti

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-14 Thread Daniel D Jones
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wednesday 14 November 2001 18:52, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > * Kyle Girard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > Has anyone been able to get the nvidia drivers to work with the stock > > > 2.4.14 kernel? >

procmail adding extra "From " header line

2001-11-14 Thread Tres Hofmeister
I upgraded a potato box to woody recently. With the current sendmail (8.12.1-2) and procmail (3.21.20011028.3.15.2-2), it looks like the mail delivery agent (MDA) is sensible-mda, which seems to use procmail as a first choice. What I'm noticing is that messages in my mailbox now h

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-14 Thread Peter Good
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 18:52, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > * Kyle Girard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > Has anyone been able to get the nvidia drivers to work with the stock > > > 2.4.14 kernel? > > > > > > I've compiled the drivers many times

Re: Galeon + Junkbuster /= Ture

2001-11-14 Thread Greg Norris
Junkbuster works fine here, with both Galeon and Mozilla. Just be sure to set HTTP Version to 1.0 in your browser configuration... junkbuster doesn't support 1.1. On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:09:51PM +, Preben Randhol wrote: > Mozilla and Galeon does not play well with junkbuster. Does anybody

Re: Hiding init 1 safely

2001-11-14 Thread Aaron Hall
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:29:00AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear members , > > Is there any safe way , whereby , I can hide init 1 from all > > others who access my mac ? > > It sounds like you're trying to secure against physical access.

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-14 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > * Kyle Girard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Has anyone been able to get the nvidia drivers to work with the stock > > 2.4.14 kernel? > > > > I've compiled the drivers many times before but it just doesn't want to > > work with this kerne

Re: having 2 debian installations...

2001-11-14 Thread Nicholas . Rohozen
> Hi, > > I've got 2 debian installations. Now after some while I updated one of > it in dselect to the newest packages. This was a 100MB packages > download from the internet. > > After installing the packages I was asked whether the newly downloaded > package files should be deleted. I answered n

Re: having 2 debian installations...

2001-11-14 Thread Geoff Beaumont
On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 23:14, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > /var/cache/apt/archives, if you pay close attention apt tells you this when it > asks about remving the packages. Just copy the debs to the same dir on the > other box and apt will only download missing packages or updated ones. You could

Re: Wordperfect 8 now is broken for current Debian/Sid

2001-11-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
> Dear Kevin: > > Thank you very much. This fixed the problem. It is because of folks > like you that make Linux such a pleasure to use! > > It seems a bug report for xlib6 is on order. Has one been submitted. > I would be happy to do so it need be. Yes, see bug reports #118796 and #119643

Failed installation of Debian v2.2.r3

2001-11-14 Thread Sohnen-Moe Associates, Inc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, My installation did not go too well. Although I did manage to get the initial installation done, there is a show-stopper problem: When the system is booting, it gets to the point where it says: "Calculating module dependencies..." ( ..

Re: Best choice for video card

2001-11-14 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Didn't the manufacturer go bankrupt and get bough by nvidia? nate wrote: Hanasaki JiJi said: Nate, any tips on getting the multimedia stuff to work on a 3500TV? nope. sorry. i looked into possibly doing that too but the driver development looked too alpha for me to even try. i got a winTV

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-14 Thread Timo Boewing
Kyle Girard wrote: Has anyone been able to get the nvidia drivers to work with the stock 2.4.14 kernel? It works well with my 2.4.14. Got it from the FTP of kernel.org and did just a patch for my USB graphic table (Aiptek 8000U), but i think it has nothung to do with the nVidia drivers. I

Re: having 2 debian installations...

2001-11-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Nov-2001 Christian Groessler wrote: > Hi, > > I've got 2 debian installations. Now after some while I updated one of > it in dselect to the newest packages. This was a 100MB packages > download from the internet. > > After installing the packages I was asked whether the newly downloaded >

Re: having 2 debian installations...

2001-11-14 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
Try copying the .deb packages from /var/cache/apt/archives onto the other machine in the same location. Then if you're using apt-get to upgrade, it should see them there automatically. It should tell you when you're about to upgrade that it needs to get 0Kb of data or something. Er, I think that m

Re: Best choice for video card

2001-11-14 Thread nate
Hanasaki JiJi said: > Nate, any tips on getting the multimedia stuff to work on a 3500TV? nope. sorry. i looked into possibly doing that too but the driver development looked too alpha for me to even try. i got a winTV PCI card instead and use that for video capture. nate

Re: cupsomatic

2001-11-14 Thread ben
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, ben wrote: > > > when i run cupsomatic, it returns an error relating to missing ppd > > files. where do i get them and where should i put them? > > apt-get install cupsomatic-ppd this returns an invalid operation error.

RE:cupsomatic

2001-11-14 Thread Andrew Agno
Try using your favourite high level package manager and search for ppd. Andrew.

Re: cupsomatic

2001-11-14 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, ben wrote: > when i run cupsomatic, it returns an error relating to missing ppd > files. where do i get them and where should i put them? apt-get install cupsomatic-ppd

having 2 debian installations...

2001-11-14 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, I've got 2 debian installations. Now after some while I updated one of it in dselect to the newest packages. This was a 100MB packages download from the internet. After installing the packages I was asked whether the newly downloaded package files should be deleted. I answered no in the hope

Quick question, ICQ through iptables how to?

2001-11-14 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, I did not find out how to enable ICQ protocol through iptables, ; I got two boxes connected via plip, one to the internet working as firewall (ip tables) . I can not use any ICQ client in box two. Thanks in advance. = S.KIEU http://briefcase.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Briefcase - Manage y

cupsomatic

2001-11-14 Thread ben
when i run cupsomatic, it returns an error relating to missing ppd files. where do i get them and where should i put them?

making lilo pretty

2001-11-14 Thread Jason Currey
I noticed some previous emails about creating a lilo splash screen. My question is what version of lilo do you need to be running to add the splash screen? Do you need to apply any patches? As I followed the http://www.13thfloor.at/Software/lilo-splash link and it talks about a LILO-gfx patc

Re: Best choice for video card

2001-11-14 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Nate, any tips on getting the multimedia stuff to work on a 3500TV? nate wrote: David Teague said: Hi Would some kind soul please tell me which video card to put in my new machine (which is still in the planning) that will Debian Woody and Gnome X out of the box? for stability - matrox g4

Re: Linux counter registration?

2001-11-14 Thread nate
said: > Have you registered your machines at Linux Counter? I wonder if we > really are in second place, or if we are undercounted? no. i run about 35 debian systems and have never registered nor do i plan to. nate

Re: Best choice for video card

2001-11-14 Thread nate
David Teague said: > Hi > > Would some kind soul please tell me which video card to put in my > new machine (which is still in the planning) that will Debian Woody > and Gnome X out of the box? for stability - matrox g400. the machine im on now has been up for 180days 22hours. running ona G400. i

Re: Which mail user agent do you use?

2001-11-14 Thread Corey Halpin
Doesn't anyone use exmh besides me? Maybe I'm just strange. blah, blah, blah, I like it. crh -- Corey R. Halpin (http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~halpin/ ) Student of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of Wisconsin-Madison

Re: How do I set a domain name?

2001-11-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 03:40:30PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > I do not have a registered domain name; I suppose I need to set something > > fake like home.net. > > You could use your ISP's domain, but it tends to work better if you use a > fake domain, like home.net or home.wxd or whatever.

OpenGL/Glide packages

2001-11-14 Thread JakeCatfox
Hi, can anyone tell me what packages I need to install from a clean Debian installation (with 2.4.5 kernel) to make OpenGL and Glide work, and use Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament? What needs to be compiled into the Kernel? I have a VooDoo 3 2000 PCI card. Thx, Deven Gallo

Re: Gigabyte GA-7ZX & sound chip

2001-11-14 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Keith O'Connell: > Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > OK - I am up for this! Unfortunatly I do not know how. I can think of no > > > occassion when I have tried to get sound from a command line program. > > > Can anyone tell me a command line program that I can install to test to > > > see if

Best choice for video card

2001-11-14 Thread David Teague
Hi Would some kind soul please tell me which video card to put in my new machine (which is still in the planning) that will Debian Woody and Gnome X out of the box? Some seem to have trouble with NVIDIA, but my technician wants to use an nvidia TNT 2 32 MB AGP video card. Someone help an old

Re: ARRGH!!! Tulip card again

2001-11-14 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 13:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > HELP! > > This is driving me absolutely positively mad. > > I have a Netgear F? 310TX network card, which is a PNIC 82c168 (tulip clone). > > I *cannot* get this card to run reliably on the latest Debian stable > (2.2.Rev4). As you note,

Re: HD spin down with hdparm : HD always wakes up !!!

2001-11-14 Thread J. Bruce Fields
> Everything is fine with /dev/hdc (/home), but /dev/hda will > always wake up after a few seconds of sleep ! Try just leaving a tail -f of some of the files in /var/log running in a window on your desktop while you work. This will may be enlightening. One particularly likely culprit: syslogd is

Re: ARRGH!!! Tulip card again

2001-11-14 Thread jeff
On Wednesday 14 November 2001 16:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > HELP! > > This is driving me absolutely positively mad. > > I have a Netgear F? 310TX network card, which is a PNIC 82c168 (tulip > clone). > > I *cannot* get this card to run reliably on the latest Debian stable > (2.2.Rev4). > > I ha

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-14 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Kyle Girard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Has anyone been able to get the nvidia drivers to work with the stock > 2.4.14 kernel? > > I've compiled the drivers many times before but it just doesn't want to > work with this kernel ... no matter what I do I get unresolved > symbols... i've tr

Re: which package contains file domainname ?

2001-11-14 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, November 14, Heinrich Rebehn did write: > Shaul Karl wrote: > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I am using debian testing and i am wondering how i can find out which > >>package > >>contains 'domainname' or any other file i require. I tried 'dpkg -S' but it > >>only > >>seems to search the p

Re: How do I set a domain name?

2001-11-14 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, November 13, Williasm Dowling did write: ^ Minor nit, but it looks like you've got a typo in your MUA configuration. > I am having trouble installing exim; when it fails it says: > hostname: Unknown host > hostname --fqdn gave non-zero exit code

ARRGH!!! Tulip card again

2001-11-14 Thread flonesaw
HELP! This is driving me absolutely positively mad. I have a Netgear F? 310TX network card, which is a PNIC 82c168 (tulip clone). I *cannot* get this card to run reliably on the latest Debian stable (2.2.Rev4). I have used both the tulip.o and the old_tulip.o drivers. The old_tulip.o module wo

Re: Gigabyte GA-7ZX & sound chip

2001-11-14 Thread Keith O'Connell
Stephen Gran wrote: > > OK - I am up for this! Unfortunatly I do not know how. I can think of no > > occassion when I have tried to get sound from a command line program. > > Can anyone tell me a command line program that I can install to test to > > see if the sound module is OK. A CD player or j

Re: Which mail user agent do you use?

2001-11-14 Thread Glyn Millington
If you have a _lot_ of mail, and subscribing to this list sets you off to a good start!, then you could do much worse than Gnus with a version of (X)Emacs. Hard to begin with, but brilliant! Glyn -- ** * Here

nvidia drivers & kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-14 Thread Kyle Girard
Has anyone been able to get the nvidia drivers to work with the stock 2.4.14 kernel? I've compiled the drivers many times before but it just doesn't want to work with this kernel ... no matter what I do I get unresolved symbols... i've tried using the kernel headers in the kernel-source package an

Re: abiword coughs on libexpat.so.0

2001-11-14 Thread DvB
DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That what I've got installed and I still got that error. scratch that, libexpat must've upgraded itself after I made the symlink... sorry about the misinformation :-) (read all of the bug for the complete, acurate story).

X upgrade / downgrade / upgrade??

2001-11-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Problem: (work) I have a Compaq Deskpro 5200MMX 200M Pentium machine - lots of software on the disk, lots of users. The disk was originally in a Compaq Deskpro P166 - I upgraded hardware and memory to a "new" machine with new CD-RW etc. Th

Re: hard drive data recovery

2001-11-14 Thread Alan Shutko
Matt Fair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My laptop just went out, would would be the best way to recover the > data on this? Would I hook it up the hard drive to another computer > and try reading it from that? Maybe http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/02/1949209&mode=nested would be helpfu

Re: HD spin down with hdparm : HD always wakes up !!!

2001-11-14 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Dominique Deleris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hello folks ! ... > Everything is fine with /dev/hdc (/home), but /dev/hda will > always wake up after a few seconds of sleep ! > > I can't figure out what's provoking this behaviour? Logging probably -- your /var is on /dev/hda. Dima --

Re: abiword coughs on libexpat.so.0

2001-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:47:01PM -0600, DvB wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 07:46:08PM +, joe golden wrote: > > > I recently upgraded kernels to 2.2.19. Abiword (0.7.13-0.3) was > > > working before the upgrade. Now starting abiword in an xterm

Re: I can only print half a page, USB *or* parallel

2001-11-14 Thread DvB
Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am using a 'testing' workstation at home, and I've been trying to get CUPS > (cupsys v1.1.10-4) working. The problem is that I can print about half of a > test page before the printer hangs indefinitely. > Have you tried cupsomatic? I had lots of si

Re: HD spin down with hdparm : HD always wakes up !!!

2001-11-14 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Wednesday 14 November 2001 12:46 pm, Dominique Deleris wrote: > Everything is fine with /dev/hdc (/home), but /dev/hda will > always wake up after a few seconds of sleep ! > > I can't figure out what's provoking this behaviour? My guess would be a cron job, such as exim looking at the outgoing

Re: HD spin down with hdparm : HD always wakes up !!!

2001-11-14 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 14 Nov 2001, Dominique Deleris wrote: > I can't figure out what's provoking this behaviour? > 200 ?00:00:00 syslogd > 203 ?00:00:00 klogd I'll leave it at that. -- Baloo

Re:

2001-11-14 Thread root
> David Crow wrote: > > How is it that Debian is able to read from and write to FAT32 > volumes? With Linux, this requires 3rd party software? > > Thanks, > David Crow the simplest answers are a) linux, whether debian or otherwise, is a real operating system, and b) no. welcome to a better worl

Re: abiword coughs on libexpat.so.0

2001-11-14 Thread DvB
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 07:46:08PM +, joe golden wrote: > > I recently upgraded kernels to 2.2.19. Abiword (0.7.13-0.3) was working > > before the upgrade. Now starting abiword in an xterm gives the following: > > /usr/bin/AbiWord_d: error while lo

hard drive data recovery

2001-11-14 Thread Matt Fair
Hi, My laptop just went out, would would be the best way to recover the data on this? Would I hook it up the hard drive to another computer and try reading it from that? Are there tools that I can get? Would I just read a raw version of it like a tape drive? I have never done data recovery before,

Re: abiword coughs on libexpat.so.0

2001-11-14 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake joe golden: > I recently upgraded kernels to 2.2.19. Abiword (0.7.13-0.3) was working > before the upgrade. Now starting abiword in an xterm gives the following: > /usr/bin/AbiWord_d: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.0: > cannot open shared object file: No such file

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