X environment

2002-02-05 Thread Terence Ng
Hi! I am using LeadTek WinFast 3D S600 Video Card, and I have installed xserver-svga, xserver-vga16 fo XF86Setup 3D S600 Video Card, and I have installed xserver-svga, xserver-vga16 for XF86Setup, and xfonts-base, xfonts-75dpi, xfonts-100dpi, etc. And I use icewm-gnome and other dependent app

Kernel 2.4.17 (smp) problems

2002-02-05 Thread Deva Seetharam
Hi All, i have a asuc cuv4x-d motherboard with dual pentium processors. currently, i am running kernel 2.2.19 with smp. now, i am trying to upgrade to kernel 2.4.17. algthough i am able to install the kernel-image, the machine hangs when i reboot. i have enabled RTC support, disabled APM. what el

Re: Total lockups using ext3

2002-02-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:24:25AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 05 Feb 2002, Arne Goetje wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 February 2002 07:53, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:20:17AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > After weeks of frustration, I've finally se

journalling filesystems comparison (was ReiserFS, ext3 (was praise to the debian gods))

2002-02-05 Thread Paolo Falcone
hello: No filesystem is perfect, as each filesystem has its own advantages and disadvantages. it's up to the user to select his filesystem of choice based on the environment which he is to use the filesystem. My additional observations on the following journalling filesystems ext3, ReiserFS, XFS,

Re: Stop dselect installing packages

2002-02-05 Thread Mark Lanett
Or don't use dselect. Just quit from it after installing, and use apt-get afterwards. ~mark

Re: EMail servers fail when domain.com is a cname alias not an IP

2002-02-05 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:35:22PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: | Why is it that when the default for a domain. For example, in my case, | hanaden.com maps to a cname, MTA's fail I believe that part of an RFC states that MX records can only point to IP addresses or A records but not to CNAME records.

Re: iF locales 2.2.5-2 -- Thank you. That worked.

2002-02-05 Thread Thedore Knab
Thanks I added another line and it worked. /etc/environment LANG=C LANG=en > This was a bug, it is corrected since yesterday. > Workaround: > put a second line (besides LANG=) in /etc/environment > upgrade without error and remove the line if you have no use for it.

Re: Linux-friendliest video card mfg?

2002-02-05 Thread Aaron Traas
Depends what you mean by friendly. NVIDIA pays employees to write their own high-quality Linux/X11 drivers, but they are closed source. Matrox and ATI provide some assistance to the open source community in writing drivers. If you want high 3D performance, go NVIDIA. If you want solid 2D performan

EMail servers fail when domain.com is a cname alias not an IP

2002-02-05 Thread hanasaki
Why is it that when the default for a domain. For example, in my case, hanaden.com maps to a cname, MTA's fail ex: hanaden.com mx IP ... no problem hanaden.com mx somename.domainD.org ... email for [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to [EMAIL PROTECTED] not ... [EMA

Re: Problem with windows partition

2002-02-05 Thread Chris Jenks
At 06:25 PM 2/5/02, Andrew Pounce wrote: By default lilo creates a backup of the boot sector in /boot so if you use lilo -u or -U /dev/hda1 it should restore it... If you read thru the lilo man page it will tell you more... Its rescued me on one or two occasions... -- Andrew On Tue, 2002-02-

Re: iF locales 2.2.5-2

2002-02-05 Thread Michel Loos
Em Qua, 2002-02-06 às 01:29, Thedore Knab escreveu: > I recently did an apt-get dist-upgrade on 2 [ unstable ] systems. > > Both had problem with the new unstable locales. > > Is this a bug or is there a way around it ? This was a bug, it is corrected since yesterday. Workaround: put a second li

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-02-05 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 07:42:32PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: | begin Jeremy Gaddis quotation: | | > My MUA of choice is Outlook (no flames please, I'm tired | > of them) and I have actually never had any problems with | > it. | | Except for not being able to read messages like this one? Or t

Re: adding a line to sources.list

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Hampson
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:57:08AM -0800, Brandon N wrote: > > --- Paul Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:34:06AM -0800, Brandon N wrote: > > > http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/dists/woody/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz > > de

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-02-05 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Jeremy Gaddis quotation: > My MUA of choice is Outlook (no flames please, I'm tired > of them) and I have actually never had any problems with > it. Except for not being able to read messages like this one? Craig

Re: music cd not work, please help

2002-02-05 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 5 Feb 2002, David Moore wrote: > es1371 is the driver for SB128 sound cards, and also several other sound > cards. He's also got soundcore, so I don't think modules are the > problem. Unless maybe it's a problem with ide-scsi? Oh, yes, that didn't even register. I put these in /usr/sbin on my

Re: How can I get mutt to dlete an entire thread?

2002-02-05 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:23:56PM -0500, stan wrote: > Still tweaking on my uutt config > > I have it set up so that all threads are compressed when I enter > a folder. I would like to be able to mark all messages in a given > thread as deleted from the index screen. At present if I hit "d" > onl

Re: How can I get mutt to dlete an entire thread?

2002-02-05 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:23:56PM -0500, stan wrote: | Still tweaking on my uutt config | | I have it set up so that all threads are compressed when I enter | a folder. I would like to be able to mark all messages in a given | thread as deleted from the index screen. At present if I hit "d" | onl

iF locales 2.2.5-2

2002-02-05 Thread Thedore Knab
I recently did an apt-get dist-upgrade on 2 [ unstable ] systems. Both had problem with the new unstable locales. Is this a bug or is there a way around it ? My error: debian:/home/tjk# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Don

Re: Verifying packages

2002-02-05 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:41:26 +1300 (NZDT), Cameron Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Cameron Kerr wrote: > > >My question is: Is it possible to verify all of the existing packages on > >the system so I can tell which packages have now corrupted files? > > Hi, I couldn't find

How can I get mutt to dlete an entire thread?

2002-02-05 Thread stan
Still tweaking on my uutt config I have it set up so that all threads are compressed when I enter a folder. I would like to be able to mark all messages in a given thread as deleted from the index screen. At present if I hit "d" only the message at the root of the thread is deleted. What do I nee

Re: music cd not work, please help

2002-02-05 Thread David Moore
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 21:32, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > It doesn't appear you have a sound module installed (I could be wrong, > there's a couple I don't recognize). es1371 is the driver for SB128 sound cards, and also several other sound cards. He's also got soundcore, so I don't think mod

Re: HELP. I can't login as root !!!

2002-02-05 Thread David Turetsky
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 02:13:28PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson uttered: --> On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --> --> > Hey guys, this is not a coruption, but a new thing with Gnome. I had --> > the problem and wrote Gnome Directly. They have decided that you --> > should not be able

Re: Verifying packages

2002-02-05 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Cameron Kerr wrote: >My question is: Is it possible to verify all of the existing packages on >the system so I can tell which packages have now corrupted files? Hi, I couldn't find anything to do this, so I made something myself. The md5sums for all package files are stored in

Re: Promise Ultra100 TX2 IDE Controller card Support

2002-02-05 Thread Edward Kear
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:40:15AM +1000, Maurice Helwig wrote: > I am new to linux and I have decided to use Debian. My problem is that I am > using a Promise Ultra100 TX2 IDE controller card. Promise do not seem to > provide a driver for it although I was told that they do when I bought the >

Re: Promise Ultra100 TX2 IDE Controller card Support

2002-02-05 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Maurice Helwig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am new to linux and I have decided to use Debian. My problem is that I am > using a Promise Ultra100 TX2 IDE controller card. Promise do not seem to > provide a driver for it although I was told that they do when I bought the > card. > My Question

Re: music cd not work, please help

2002-02-05 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, eric wrote: > My music cdplayer work under window98 and rh7.2, but I did not know > why it stop work on my 2.4.17-k7, > it work before. It doesn't appear you have a sound module installed (I could be wrong, there's a couple I don't recognize). Alternatively, does it work

Re: "syslog-ng[16821]: STATS: dropped 0" ?

2002-02-05 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Michael A. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've got a system that has started to produce many messages in > the system logs that say "syslog-ng[16821]: STATS: dropped 0". > I've looked over the syslog-ng docs, but I've been unable to > figure out what these messages mean. Can anyone expla

Re: adding a line to sources.list

2002-02-05 Thread D.
Here is what I have in my /etc/apt/sources.list "deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian woody non-free" DOn --- Brandon N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to get apt to install the blackdown java > files, the URL of > the Packages.gz file is: > > http://m

RE: W32/Myparty

2002-02-05 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
Gary, I also run Free Agent, though just for the newsgroups. My MUA of choice is Outlook (no flames please, I'm tired of them) and I have actually never had any problems with it. I do virus scanning on the mail gateway, before it even gets to reaching Outlook and by disabling a majority of attach

Re: OT: TV Out & DVD

2002-02-05 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Crispin Wellington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 12:32, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > > I'm putting together a 500Mhz-cpu machine to sit in my living room, > > primarilly to play dvd's. Ideally, I'd be displaying to the television > > there, however I'm not sure what to look

base-passwd

2002-02-05 Thread Charles Baker
I just did an ``apt-get update`` and then ``apt-get -u upgrade`` for sid. I noticed that base-passwd was going to be upgraded again and recalled the problems of a week or so ago. Is this one safe? = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hacking is a "Good Thing!" See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.h

music cd not work, please help

2002-02-05 Thread eric
Dear Debian users: My music cdplayer work under window98 and rh7.2, but I did not know why it stop work on my 2.4.17-k7, it work before. the following is my lsmod's result progeny:/home/fsshl# lsmod Module Size Used byTainted: P ppp_deflate39968 0 (autoc

Re: CUPS and enscript

2002-02-05 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 07:12:34PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: | On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 06:50:08PM -0500, dman wrote: | > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:21:44PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: | > | I'm in the process of migrating several systems from lpd to CUPS and | > | it's going pretty well aside f

Re: CUPS and enscript

2002-02-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 06:50:08PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:21:44PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > | I'm in the process of migrating several systems from lpd to CUPS and > | it's going pretty well aside from one detail: lpd has its if= in > | printcap, which provides an easy

Re: Proprietry Software - The Pain!

2002-02-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 02:52:33PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > Paul Sargent wrote: > ... > > Now Application A (What the apps are really doesn't matter. They're closed, > > I don't have source), for which the box was originally built, was developed > > by the software house on Debian. So when it ca

Re: Promise Ultra100 TX2 IDE Controller card Support

2002-02-05 Thread Jason Majors
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:40:15AM +1000, Maurice Helwig scribbled... > I am new to linux and I have decided to use Debian. My problem is that I am > using a Promise Ultra100 TX2 IDE controller card. Promise do not seem to > provide a driver for it although I was told that they do when I bought t

Promise Ultra100 TX2 IDE Controller card Support

2002-02-05 Thread Maurice Helwig
I am new to linux and I have decided to use Debian. My problem is that I am using a Promise Ultra100 TX2 IDE controller card. Promise do not seem to provide a driver for it although I was told that they do when I bought the card. My Question is ---   Does the latest version of Debian support

Re: undo apt-get install

2002-02-05 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 10:30, Rick Pasotto wrote: > When the installation process returns an error and even > 'apt-get -f install' bombs out, how do I tell apt-get to > forget that I asked for the packages and to just leave the > system as it was? > > The errors are: > trying to overwrite `/u

Re: Problem with windows partition

2002-02-05 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 05:00:01PM -0600, William Lacy wrote: | I installed debian on a desktop computer and for some reason although I | chose "make a boot floppy" the install script wrote "grub" the the mbr | of /dev/hda. Huh!? boot-floppies comes with grub now? I thought it was lilo. | I w

Re: 8139too on 2.2.19 ?

2002-02-05 Thread ben
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 12:48 pm, Jason Majors wrote: [snip] > > My friend kelly is having the same problem. We're going to try the 8139too > for him, because people on the list are suggesting it. > But I have the same card and never had to use the too on 2.2. check last month's archives. i re

Re: CUPS and enscript

2002-02-05 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:21:44PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: | I'm in the process of migrating several systems from lpd to CUPS and | it's going pretty well aside from one detail: lpd has its if= in | printcap, which provides an easy hook for throwing enscript filters | into the printing proces

Re: Device or resource busy error.

2002-02-05 Thread Ray
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:43:32PM -0800, James Rende wrote: > Folks. > > I am trying to get my aging machine as far away from > Windows as humanly possible. I can't, however, get > Debian to recognize my NIC. When I try to run modprobe > rtl8139 as root, I get an error telling me that the > Devi

Re: kernel-package: --append-to-version ?

2002-02-05 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Chuck Bearden wrote: > > I'm running Potato r4, with Adrian Bunk's packages to upgrade to a > 2.4 kernel. I'm building a custom kernel with kernel-package, and > I'd like to have the modules for my custom kernel land in a directory > other than /lib/modules/2.4.17/ . Essentially, I'd like to emu

Re: undo apt-get install

2002-02-05 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:30:17AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: | When the installation process returns an error and even | 'apt-get -f install' bombs out, how do I tell apt-get to | forget that I asked for the packages and to just leave the | system as it was? | | The errors are: | trying to

Re: 8139too on 2.2.19 ?

2002-02-05 Thread Ray
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 06:09:48PM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > did you happen to ever use two nics in the same pc that used the same > module?!? i'm wondering if that would work... as long as modules.conf > has eth0 and eth1 both specified... on the other hand, walking her > through all this ov

Re: A mutt question (new/different question)

2002-02-05 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:43:40AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: | I am relatively new to Debian. I installed mutt in order to avoid the clutter | of html mail, but sometimes I need to read email from people who | send only html. Yeah, it's annoying but this helps : ~~ /etc/mailcap, in the "Use

Re: Problem with windows partition

2002-02-05 Thread Andrew Pounce
By default lilo creates a backup of the boot sector in /boot so if you use lilo -u or -U /dev/hda1 it should restore it... If you read thru the lilo man page it will tell you more... Its rescued me on one or two occasions... -- Andrew On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 23:00, William Lacy wrote: > I i

Re: OT-COX DHCP Cable Internet conversion

2002-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:03:53 -0800 Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings: > > I wanted to post a quick note here for others going through the Cox cable > internet transition from Excite to Cox dhcp servers. > > When (if) you get your kit, copy the provided number and l

Re: Proprietry Software - The Pain!

2002-02-05 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 02:52:33PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote (0.91): > the difference is almost 100% in shared libraries used. You have few > options: Also, C++ support is amongst the worst culprit in the shared library dance... according to the LSB, if you want to distribute C++ applications, yo

Re: 8139too on 2.2.19 ?

2002-02-05 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 04:14:43PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: | > > | > My friend kelly is having the same problem. We're going to try the 8139too | > for him, because people on the list are suggesting it. | > But I have the same card and never had to use the too on 2.2. | The "neighbour buffer ov

Problem with windows partition

2002-02-05 Thread William Lacy
I installed debian on a desktop computer and for some reason although I chose "make a boot floppy" the install script wrote "grub" the the mbr of /dev/hda. I was stuck in a place with nothing but some debian cds, but I digress. I tried to load lilo but I messed up and typed boot=/dev/hda1 ins

Re: Proprietry Software - The Pain!

2002-02-05 Thread Erik Steffl
Paul Sargent wrote: ... > Now Application A (What the apps are really doesn't matter. They're closed, > I don't have source), for which the box was originally built, was developed > by the software house on Debian. So when it came time to build our box we > replicated their systems and used Debian

Re: X-windows + Mouse issue

2002-02-05 Thread ben
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 12:30 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: [snip] > > Unless you really have a need for the mouse in console mode, it's best > to get rid of gpm entirely. X's responsiveness to mouse events is > hindered by interposing an extra, unnecessary user process. There was > some interesting

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-02-05 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 05 February 2002 4:19 pm, Gary Turner wrote: > May I suggest Forte' Agent for mail on a Win box? It is text based, > will let you inspect attachments/html in raw form, and will warn and > query you should you try to open an executable. I

OT-COX DHCP Cable Internet conversion

2002-02-05 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Greetings: I wanted to post a quick note here for others going through the Cox cable internet transition from Excite to Cox dhcp servers. When (if) you get your kit, copy the provided number and log onto the cox web server and do the "migration" as directed to establish your account. Cu

kernel-package: --append-to-version ?

2002-02-05 Thread Chuck Bearden
I'm running Potato r4, with Adrian Bunk's packages to upgrade to a 2.4 kernel. I'm building a custom kernel with kernel-package, and I'd like to have the modules for my custom kernel land in a directory other than /lib/modules/2.4.17/ . Essentially, I'd like to emulate the behavior of Adrian's 2

Re: dpkg not recorded as installed, cannot check for epoch support !

2002-02-05 Thread Andreas Reislöhner
Hello , my problem is: "dpkg not recorded as installed, cannot check for epoch support !" if i get anny file to install with apt-get install or apt-get dis-upgrade Can anybody tell me what i must make to fix this problem ? thanks for help me andi

It's a simple and easy-to-follow plan and EVERY website will want this service

2002-02-05 Thread dollarmountain
  It's a simple and easy-to-follow plan and EVERY website will want this service.     Can you spend just 10 minutes a day sending e-mails to ANY websites on the Internet? iF so this UNIQUE program will make you a very good income ev

Re: 8139too on 2.2.19 ?

2002-02-05 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Jason Majors: > > my mom is (still) having trouble with a d-link 8139 dfe+ pci nic. i've > > used them on 3 pc's, with both potato and woody, and both 2.2.x and > > 2.4.x kernels. she was running a vanila potato install, with the > > 2.2.19pre1 kernel. rtl8139 (using modconf) failed to i

Re: 8139too on 2.2.19 ?

2002-02-05 Thread Jason Majors
> my mom is (still) having trouble with a d-link 8139 dfe+ pci nic. i've > used them on 3 pc's, with both potato and woody, and both 2.2.x and > 2.4.x kernels. she was running a vanila potato install, with the > 2.2.19pre1 kernel. rtl8139 (using modconf) failed to insert. she tried > everything...

8139too on 2.2.19 ?

2002-02-05 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hello, my mom is (still) having trouble with a d-link 8139 dfe+ pci nic. i've used them on 3 pc's, with both potato and woody, and both 2.2.x and 2.4.x kernels. she was running a vanila potato install, with the 2.2.19pre1 kernel. rtl8139 (using modconf) failed to insert. she tried everything... di

Re: X-windows + Mouse issue

2002-02-05 Thread Craig Dickson
begin ben quotation: > not sure if this will help, as i don't use a scroll-mouse--though the > erratic mouse motion is exactly the problem i had--and i don't even > understand why or how this solution works, but it does work for me, so > you might want to try it. > > in /etc/gpm.conf, do > > r

Re: X-windows + Mouse issue

2002-02-05 Thread ben
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 08:59 am, Greer, Darren (MED) wrote: > Lo all, I just installed the latest x-window-system-core from > "unstable". > > I have configured it to my system, and am having some issues with my > Mouse in X-windows. I have configured it with and without scroll > enabled with

Re: smtp error during fetchmail

2002-02-05 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:35:59PM +, p wrote: > ...sorry (mutt, exim, & fetchmail). ah, ic :-) > after sleeping on it, i think i'm going to re-roll my kernel (2.4.0), > as i recall trying to use my pcmcia modem, which would dial out but > could never connect. (that was months ago since i

Re: Device or resource busy error.

2002-02-05 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:00:16AM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > > > I am trying to get my aging machine as far away from > > > Windows as humanly possible. I can't, however, get > > > Debian to recognize my NIC. When I try to run modprobe > > > rtl8139 as root, I get an error telling me that the >

Re: kernel messages

2002-02-05 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:37:42AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote (0.77): > Garbage display by klogd daemon can be annoying. Set KLOGD="-c 4" in > /etc/init.d/klogd solved this problem on Linux 2.4.17-686 iptables > on Debian woody. This is the best solution. '-c 4' tells klogd to tell the kernel to onl

Re: eth0 up, but unable to ping out

2002-02-05 Thread ben
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 07:45 am, Tom Schuetz wrote: > I've got my rtl8019 acknowledged and "up", but am unable to ping > anything but lo and the local ip (192.168.1.1). > [snip] check that you've got eth0 configured in /etc/network/interfaces. it should be entered in lines beginning with aut

Re: xf86config-v3 broken in testing

2002-02-05 Thread ben
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 05:14 am, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > Hi > > xf86config-v3 seems to be broken in testing. When it comes to showing the > card database i get: > > ### >## Do you want to look at the card database? y

Re: OT: TV Out & DVD

2002-02-05 Thread Nathan Langford
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > I'm putting together a 500Mhz-cpu machine to sit in my living room, > primarilly to play dvd's. Ideally, I'd be displaying to the television there, > however I'm not sure what to look for in a video card. > > In order to get DVD's scaled to full scre

Re: adding a line to sources.list

2002-02-05 Thread Brandon N
--- Paul Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:34:06AM -0800, Brandon N wrote: > > I am trying to get apt to install the blackdown java files, the URL > of > > the Packages.gz file is: > > > > > http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/dists/

RE: ReiserFS, ext3 (was: 'praise to the debian gods')

2002-02-05 Thread Jeff Bonner
> > That having been said, I think most people would agree that > > ReiserFS is mature enough for almost any use at this point, > > and I'm not aware of any glaring problems with it. > > Aside from, say, the lack of good repair tools. Or do they > have one now? That really works? That I can't a

Re: Segfaults in seemingly unrelated programs -- SOLVED

2002-02-05 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
ldd gives a list of the libraries on which a program depends. After booting in single user mode, I choose a simple program (login) among the ones that were segfaulting and then methodically began reinstalling its libraries one by one. To find out which package contained the file which ldd was tell

Re: adding a line to sources.list

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Hampson
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:34:06AM -0800, Brandon N wrote: > I am trying to get apt to install the blackdown java files, the URL of > the Packages.gz file is: > > http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/dists/woody/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz > > What should the

Re: How to keep modules configs current

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Hampson
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 07:31:31PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote: > Hi, > > Sometimes when I compile a new kernel and include a > different set of modules it can happen that there > are some error messages at boot time issued mostly > by modprobe saying something about devices/modules > or aliases not

Re: passwd <-> smbpasswd sync?

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Hampson
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:22:35AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > Is there a way to sync the system passwords to the smb passwords, or > better yet, get samba to look straight from the system passwords? Unix password sync should be in the samba.conf file, but set to false. If you set it to t

adding a line to sources.list

2002-02-05 Thread Brandon N
I am trying to get apt to install the blackdown java files, the URL of the Packages.gz file is: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/dists/woody/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz What should the line in the sources.list file be? According the the man page, I shoul

How to keep modules configs current

2002-02-05 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, Sometimes when I compile a new kernel and include a different set of modules it can happen that there are some error messages at boot time issued mostly by modprobe saying something about devices/modules or aliases not found. Or sometimes that it cannot load a module because it might be compil

Re: A mutt question (new/different question)

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Hampson
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:43:40AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > I am relatively new to Debian. I installed mutt in order to avoid the clutter > of html mail, but sometimes I need to read email from people who send only > html. > I think I should be able to do this using the 'v' key, but when I do

passwd <-> smbpasswd sync?

2002-02-05 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
Is there a way to sync the system passwords to the smb passwords, or better yet, get samba to look straight from the system passwords? -- Baloo

CUPS and enscript

2002-02-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
I'm in the process of migrating several systems from lpd to CUPS and it's going pretty well aside from one detail: lpd has its if= in printcap, which provides an easy hook for throwing enscript filters into the printing process. I haven't been able to find an equivalent hook in CUPS. Where can I

setting up logfile rotation ?

2002-02-05 Thread briand
What's the "proper" way to set up rotation of logfiles which are added to the system. Fo example, I have added a fetchmail log file. I have found that the smb and nmb files for samba are not being rotated. Brian

Re: ReiserFS, ext3 (was: 'praise to the debian gods')

2002-02-05 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Craig> But quite stable at this point. I've been running ext3 on > Craig> all my fs's for several months, and have never seen a > Craig> problem that resulted from ext3 itself. > > > *My* experience > > Ext3 nearly toasted my ide-hd and "tidied up" abou

Re: A mutt question

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Hampson
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:04:32AM -0800, Michael Montagne wrote: > >On 05/02/02, from the brain of Andy Mott tumbled: > > > Yep - just add this line to your .muttrc: > > bind compose \n send-message > If you do that, how do you edit the message if you want to? Hit e. At least, on the defaul

Re: ReiserFS, ext3 (was: 'praise to the debian gods')

2002-02-05 Thread MH
> "Craig" == Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Craig> But quite stable at this point. I've been running ext3 on Craig> all my fs's for several months, and have never seen a Craig> problem that resulted from ext3 itself. *My* experience Ext3 nearly toasted my ide-

Re: direct ISDN connection

2002-02-05 Thread Vegh Karoly
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, George Karaolides wrote: > Can't see anything wrong with these, at first glance at least. > > Send me the output of > > ifconfig on both machines. on the one which should phone: inet:/etc# ifconfig isdn0 isdn0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FC:FC:0A:01:14:01 inet

Re: Device or resource busy error.

2002-02-05 Thread Jason Majors
> > I am trying to get my aging machine as far away from > > Windows as humanly possible. I can't, however, get > > Debian to recognize my NIC. When I try to run modprobe > > rtl8139 as root, I get an error telling me that the > > Device is not ready or in use. > > > > I'm running Debian 2.2r2 Ke

Re: direct ISDN connection

2002-02-05 Thread George Karaolides
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Vegh Karoly wrote: > Current setup of interface 'isdn0': > > EAZ/MSN:9905 Can't see anything wrong with these, at first glance at least. Send me the output of ifconfig on both machines. Best regards, | George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelide

building packages from source (apt-get source)

2002-02-05 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Hello, Could someone please point me to the documentation for building debs from source *WITH* changes to the source (via the configure script)? I'm trying to compile PostgreSQL from source, after having done an "apt-get source postgresql". After the download, dpkg-source was automatically run.

A mutt question (new/different question)

2002-02-05 Thread Paul E Condon
I am relatively new to Debian. I installed mutt in order to avoid the clutter of html mail, but sometimes I need to read email from people who send only html. I think I should be able to do this using the 'v' key, but when I do so first I get a screen with just a single line, and when I press the

Re: ReiserFS, ext3 (was: 'praise to the debian gods')

2002-02-05 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Jeff Bonner quotation: > First, the usual caveat: ReiserFS is an "experimental" kernel feature > and as such, you should observe all the normal cautions if this is a > critical production environment. Also, there is no dump and restore > with Reiser, but then again neither does the 2.4 k

Re: atx shutdown

2002-02-05 Thread craig duncan
You need to have APM support in the kernel or loaded as a module before there could be any hope of enabling it. The kernel option to enable APM at boot sounds like it does the same thing as the lilo line. Try it and see if it works. :-) > craig> Do you have the following in your lilo.conf? >

RE: X-windows + Mouse issue

2002-02-05 Thread Greer, Darren \(MED\)
Out of a lucky guess I have solved the issue. If I change both Input sections in the x config file to be ImPS/2, it works. Thanks, Darren -Original Message- From: Kurc, Marcin A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 11:19 AM To: Greer, Darren (MED) Subject: RE: X-

RE: X-windows + Mouse issue

2002-02-05 Thread Greer, Darren \(MED\)
This is a Microsoft Intellimouse PS/2 Compatible. I have now installed gpm and tried it with gpm with the same results. Thanks, Darren -Original Message- From: Craig Dickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 11:15 AM To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject:

Re: Newbie Needing Help With Sound

2002-02-05 Thread D.
I think that there is one step missing, and that is dpkg -i . After you build the kernel, you have to install it. Don --- Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > > > Once you exit out of the "make menuconfig" step, > the "Debian way" of > > compiling a kernel is next. > >

Re: X-windows + Mouse issue

2002-02-05 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Greer, Darren (MED) quotation: > Lo all, I just installed the latest x-window-system-core from > "unstable". > > I have configured it to my system, and am having some issues with my > Mouse in X-windows. I have configured it with and without scroll > enabled with the same problem. > >

Re: Whats happened to debian/dists/testing/main/binary-i386

2002-02-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Crispin Wellington wrote: > lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386 > -rw-rw-r--1 1176 1176 5888437 Feb 03 21:11 Packages > -rw-rw-r--1 1176 1176 1619616 Feb 03 21:11 Packages.gz > -rw-rw-r--1 1176 1176 81 Feb 03 21:27 Release >

Re: eth0 up, but unable to ping out

2002-02-05 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Tom Schuetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I've got my rtl8019 acknowledged and "up", but am unable to ping > anything but lo and the local ip (192.168.1.1). ... > eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 9. Cascade interrupt, eh? I just had this problem with a 3COM (Vortex) card the other

Re: ISO file

2002-02-05 Thread Michael Merritt
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 11:06 am, Phaseuth Arun wrote: > I have a window XP which I could just send the file to the CD-ROM drive. > That will not work isn't it? > > Thank, > > arun No, you'll have to use something that will actually make a CD from the ISO image file. Did some software not co

Re: A mutt question

2002-02-05 Thread Michael Montagne
>On 05/02/02, from the brain of Andy Mott tumbled: > Yep - just add this line to your .muttrc: > > bind compose \n send-message > > HTH :o) > > Andy > > If you do that, how do you edit the message if you want to? -- Michael Montagne [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.boora.com

Re: ISO file

2002-02-05 Thread Michael Merritt
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 10:55 am, Phaseuth Arun wrote: > Hello there, > Just finfish downloading the file binary-i386-1.iso for CD-ROM. How can I > write that file to a CD or I just use the normal CD-RW utility? > > Thanks, > > arun What platform are you trying to write the disk on? If you ar

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