Re: woody kernel question

2002-02-11 Thread Geoff Ludwiczak
Go to http://www.kernel.org and you should see the 2.4.18-pre9 patch. On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 09:18:55PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:56:29PM -0800, Geoff Ludwiczak wrote: > > I have been using kernel 2.4.18-pre9 for the past couple days and see no > > problems with it

Re: woody kernel question

2002-02-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:56:29PM -0800, Geoff Ludwiczak wrote: > I have been using kernel 2.4.18-pre9 for the past couple days and see no > problems with it so far. I was using 2.4.17 before, and had no troubles with > it either. Try 2.4.17, but if you're going to use 2.2, then just use 2.2.20.

Re: woody kernel question

2002-02-11 Thread Thomas Cook
I have used 2.4.17 without problems. If 2.2.18 is what comes with woody now, then I guess it looks like favourite for the woody release. Tom Geoff Ludwiczak wrote: > > I have been using kernel 2.4.18-pre9 for the past couple days and see no > problems with it so far. I was using 2.4.17 before,

Re: woody kernel question

2002-02-11 Thread Geoff Ludwiczak
I have been using kernel 2.4.18-pre9 for the past couple days and see no problems with it so far. I was using 2.4.17 before, and had no troubles with it either. Try 2.4.17, but if you're going to use 2.2, then just use 2.2.20. On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:34:00PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > I ha

woody kernel question

2002-02-11 Thread Paul E Condon
I have just done dist-upgrade from Potato to Woody. I have been using/learning Debian for a few months. This was the first serious change from my initial installation. The upgrade went smoothly, but took a while at 56k. I found many nice improvements, but saw that the kernel had not been upgraded.

Re: Mixing Debian releases the easy way - HowTo - questions

2002-02-11 Thread tluxt
--- tluxt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am particularly concerned about ensuring apt-get upgrade works properly, > and simply - ie, > not having extra-normal things to do for the person doing the upgrade. > > > From the following

Re: Problems with xf86cfg

2002-02-11 Thread ben
On Monday 11 February 2002 08:36 pm, Iván Filpo wrote: > I installed the x-window-system-core before and the command xf86cfg was > working, now that i have re-installed the system is not working. What > happens is when i try to execute it, it enter x-window then the window to > modify the stuff app

Problems with xf86cfg

2002-02-11 Thread Iván Filpo
I installed the x-window-system-core before and the command xf86cfg was working, now that i have re-installed the system is not working. What happens is when i try to execute it, it enter x-window then the window to modify the stuff appears then the x-window blinks and it disappears so i hav

Re: max # of processes in debian testing

2002-02-11 Thread Ionut Georgescu
Take a look at /etc/security/limits.conf It's about the same thing, but via PAM . Although I don't think this will 'temperate' your children :) ... Better add a line in the init.d script. Ionut -- *** * Ionut Georgescu * http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/~george/ * Registered Linux

Re: OT: Need help from bash experts...

2002-02-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi neal i think you also need to watch out for other ms windoze gotchas space in filenames are easy to handle... more common problems for tar, cp and other unix utils ... /home/me/tom's proposal/ ticks is a major problem /home/me/ leading spaced names/

Re: max # of processes in debian testing

2002-02-11 Thread debian
Hmm. That's great for shell scripts and interactive shells, but what about, for example, the number of sendmail children on a box? My problem is I have a machine that can handle more than 300 sendmail children at any given time, but once it hits 300 I've got to unplug the network and wait for those

Mixing Debian releases the easy way - HowTo - questions

2002-02-11 Thread tluxt
I'm trying to put together a howto, and could use your input. I've assembled a procedure, and some references- do you have any suggestions? My persoal goal is to have the procedure to run a Woody system, with all the latest KDE packages pulled from Sid. But, this procedure could be used for many p

Re: OT: Need help from bash experts...

2002-02-11 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Monday 11 February 2002 21:22, Neal Lippman wrote: [...] > At a bash prompt, I can issue either: > cp "/mount/windows/spaced name/*" target > OR > cp /mount/windows/spaced\ name/* target > and all works fine. > > However, from within a bash script, something like: > > #!/bin/sh > sourcedir=/moun

Re: OT: Need help from bash experts...

2002-02-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:22:06 -0500 Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I have tried all sorts of variants: > sourcedir="/mount/windows/spaced\ name" > sourcedir="/mount/windows/spaced\\ name" > sourcedir=/mount/windows/spaced\\ name" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat tst.sh #!/bin/sh d="foo b

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread John Cichy
On Monday 11 February 2002 21:32, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Monday, February 11, John Cichy did write: > > Hello all, > > > > It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it's lists. I > > have a debian mirror in my DMZ and have added an entry in my hosts file > > to use an internal

Re: OT: Need help from bash experts...

2002-02-11 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:22:06 -0500, Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for OT posting; I am not sure if there is a newsgroups for bash > experts, so I figured I'd try here. > > I need to be able to write a bash script that can copy files from a directory > who's name includes a spa

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, February 11, John Cichy did write: > Hello all, > > It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it's lists. I have a > debian mirror in my DMZ and have added an entry in my hosts file to use an > internal address to access the mirror, but it seems that dselect is ign

Re: OT: Need help from bash experts...

2002-02-11 Thread Geoff Ludwiczak
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 09:22:06PM -0500, Neal Lippman wrote: > Sorry for OT posting; I am not sure if there is a newsgroups for bash > experts, so I figured I'd try here. I'm no bash expert, I'll try though. > > I need to be able to write a bash script that can copy files from a directory > w

Re: start-stop-daemon and quoting in arguments

2002-02-11 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 02:54:53 +0100, Karsten Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > somehow I'm lost with start-stop-daemon and quoting. I'm trying to let > a self-recompiled slapd server both ldap and ldaps. When invoked from > the command line with > > slapd -d 255 -h "ldap:/// ld

Re: Locales and Java

2002-02-11 Thread Oki DZ
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote: > :~$ vvstartdictation > Starting ViaVoice Dictation > Java must be installed for ViaVoice Dictation to work. > Please wait while Java initializes... > java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name > com.ibm.speechapps.speakpa

OT: Need help from bash experts...

2002-02-11 Thread Neal Lippman
Sorry for OT posting; I am not sure if there is a newsgroups for bash experts, so I figured I'd try here. I need to be able to write a bash script that can copy files from a directory who's name includes a space (long story, but it's a windows directory under Win98 on a machine on my network).

Re: mp3 and background

2002-02-11 Thread Geoff Ludwiczak
I recognized that background immediately, it's from one of largo's window maker themes I think, check out his page, http://largo.windowmaker.org It's in his themes section On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 02:46:44PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 14:19, Michi Onken wrote: > > > Now on

XFree 4.1 with DGA in Potato?

2002-02-11 Thread Paolo Falcone
Hello: I'm currently using C.P. Botha's XFree 4.1 debianized for Potato. I have this little problem with DGA mode - whenever I try to full-screen an full-SVGA app (like SNES9x), it doesn't go to full screen. Looking at the console output, it said that xlib doesn't have DGA-support compiled. how

Re: Sharing network from VMWare client

2002-02-11 Thread Joseph Dane
> "C-Cose" == C-Cose Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: C-Cose> My questions are then: C-Cose> 1. Would I be able to change the vmnet IP to something in the C-Cose> 10.x.x.x range? Assuming that would also involve netmask C-Cose> changes, what would they be? you can do this, although I c

start-stop-daemon and quoting in arguments

2002-02-11 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi list, somehow I'm lost with start-stop-daemon and quoting. I'm trying to let a self-recompiled slapd server both ldap and ldaps. When invoked from the command line with slapd -d 255 -h "ldap:/// ldaps:///" the debug output shows that both options are accepted. But I don't manage to create

Re: Package a single binary.

2002-02-11 Thread Joey Hess
Blake Barnett wrote: > I've actually built quite a few packages for Debian. Just never a > single binary. All the tools want a complete source-tree to do so. I > have a pre-compiled, stand-alone binary (only requires libc6) and want > to make a deb so I can make it part of a virtual package whi

Re: SCCS question

2002-02-11 Thread stan
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 09:13:14PM +, Timothy Bedding wrote: > Does anyone here know of someone sympathetic > to free software development who might have access > to a machine that runs SCCS? > > I want to know because of work needing to be done > on CSSC, the free equivalent. > > I have it

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread John Cichy
On Monday 11 February 2002 19:04, Michel Loos wrote: > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 21:42, John Cichy escreveu: > > On Monday 11 February 2002 18:40, Michel Loos wrote: > > > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 21:19, John Cichy escreveu: > > > > On Monday 11 February 2002 18:15, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Feb

Re: Arbitrarily setting From: header in Mutt

2002-02-11 Thread Craig Dickson
begin csj quotation: > This is partly a test of my spanking new Mutt installation. So excuse me if > some things like mail wrap fails. > > My question: how do I arbitrarily set the From: header in Mutt. I know about > stuff like my_hdr and /etc/email-addresses. What I want to know is if > there

Re: max # of processes in debian testing

2002-02-11 Thread Yven J. Leist
On Monday 11 February 2002 19:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It looks like the default max number of processes in Debian testing is 300 > processes. How can this be increased? Any input would be appricated. > Thanks! > > Oh, on i386. :) the maximum number of processes can be set with the ulimit com

Re: Package a single binary.

2002-02-11 Thread Blake Barnett
I've actually built quite a few packages for Debian. Just never a single binary. All the tools want a complete source-tree to do so. I have a pre-compiled, stand-alone binary (only requires libc6) and want to make a deb so I can make it part of a virtual package which will install all dependanc

Re: downgrade a package

2002-02-11 Thread Thomas Cook
> Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > > Hi! > > I upgraded package 'kinkatta' with > > apt-get -t unstable install kinkatta > > to the unstable version. That was a mistake. How can > I 'downgrade' again? apt-get remove kinkatta apt-get install kinkatta/stable Tom

Re: mail notification

2002-02-11 Thread Thomas Cook
Check out 'man sh' and in particular the MAILPATH variable. In brief, setting it to '/var/spool/mail/my_user_name?"You have mail."' will cause it to print "You have mail." when you receive mail. If you can work control-G into that message then it should beep when you receive mail, assuming that b

Re: Package a single binary.

2002-02-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11 Feb 2002 16:58:43 -0700 Blake Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the simplest way to package a single binary? It just needs to be > installed in a certain directory with certain permissions. Should I > just create a custom Makefile with an install section to 'install' it? > > I

Re: Package a single binary.

2002-02-11 Thread csj
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 04:58:43PM -0700, Blake Barnett wrote: > What's the simplest way to package a single binary? It just needs to be > installed in a certain directory with certain permissions. Should I > just create a custom Makefile with an install section to 'install' it? > > Is there a

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread John Cichy
On Monday 11 February 2002 19:34, Thomas Cook wrote: > John Cichy wrote: > > [snip!] > > This has caused enough confusion! Why do you _need_ to use the symbolic > name for the mirror??? Why not just use the IP address in > sources.list? Like this: > > deb ftp://192.168.83.4/debian stable main co

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread Thomas Cook
John Cichy wrote: [snip!] This has caused enough confusion! Why do you _need_ to use the symbolic name for the mirror??? Why not just use the IP address in sources.list? Like this: deb ftp://192.168.83.4/debian stable main contrib non-free or whatever your local ip address is. Regards Tom

Arbitrarily setting From: header in Mutt

2002-02-11 Thread csj
This is partly a test of my spanking new Mutt installation. So excuse me if some things like mail wrap fails. My question: how do I arbitrarily set the From: header in Mutt. I know about stuff like my_hdr and /etc/email-addresses. What I want to know is if there's a way to do it so I don't have to

Sharing network from VMWare client

2002-02-11 Thread C-Cose Masters
Greetings, After haveing RTFM'd relevant sources wrt host-client networking for VMWare, I am still not able to connect to outside networks (ie www, email, etc.) from any VM guest (curr W98). Although the VMWare docs and Compton's "VMWare 2 for Linux" are ~very~ descriptive, they are neither infor

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread John Cichy
On Monday 11 February 2002 19:04, Michel Loos wrote: > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 21:42, John Cichy escreveu: > > On Monday 11 February 2002 18:40, Michel Loos wrote: > > > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 21:19, John Cichy escreveu: > > > > On Monday 11 February 2002 18:15, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Feb

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread Michel Loos
Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 21:42, John Cichy escreveu: > On Monday 11 February 2002 18:40, Michel Loos wrote: > > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 21:19, John Cichy escreveu: > > > On Monday 11 February 2002 18:15, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:43:25PM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: > > > > > Em

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread John Cichy
On Monday 11 February 2002 18:42, John Cichy wrote: > On Monday 11 February 2002 18:40, Michel Loos wrote: > > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 21:19, John Cichy escreveu: > > > On Monday 11 February 2002 18:15, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:43:25PM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: > > > > > E

422 Genealogy Databases [2]

2002-02-11 Thread Angie's Genealogy
Below is a list of 422 Genealogy Databases with over 1.5 billion names. I am offering to search these databases for only $1(US) per search. Just send a minimum of $10(US) to: Angie Giles P.O.Box 873 Rowlett, TX, USA 75030-0873 Because of technical reasons beyond my control, I might not be ab

Package a single binary.

2002-02-11 Thread Blake Barnett
What's the simplest way to package a single binary? It just needs to be installed in a certain directory with certain permissions. Should I just create a custom Makefile with an install section to 'install' it? Is there a simpler way? -- Blake Barnett (bdb) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sr. Unix Admi

Re: Geforce II under Xwindows

2002-02-11 Thread Jay Mallar
On Monday 11 February 2002 7:20 am, Ihab Mohsen wrote: > For some reason I cant run any xserver for my Geforce > II VE graphics card except the VGA_16 server so you > can guess what the graphics are like...any ideas which > server I should be running > > ___

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread John Cichy
On Monday 11 February 2002 18:40, Michel Loos wrote: > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 21:19, John Cichy escreveu: > > On Monday 11 February 2002 18:15, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:43:25PM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: > > > > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 ?s 13:50, John Cichy escreveu: > > > > > Hel

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread John Cichy
On Monday 11 February 2002 17:43, Michel Loos wrote: > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 13:50, John Cichy escreveu: > > Hello all, > > > > It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it's lists. I > > have a debian mirror in my DMZ and have added an entry in my hosts file > > to use an internal a

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread Michel Loos
Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 21:19, John Cichy escreveu: > On Monday 11 February 2002 18:15, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:43:25PM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: > > > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 ?s 13:50, John Cichy escreveu: > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > > > It seems the dselect ignores the host f

Re: max # of processes in debian testing

2002-02-11 Thread dman
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 01:19:04PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | It looks like the default max number of processes in Debian testing is 300 | processes. How can this be increased? Any input would be appricated. | Thanks! | | Oh, on i386. :) man ulimit (actually it's the bash manpage, type "/

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread John Cichy
On Monday 11 February 2002 18:15, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:43:25PM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: > > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 ?s 13:50, John Cichy escreveu: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it's lists. I > > > have a debian mirror in

Re: Locales and Java

2002-02-11 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
Andreas von Heydwolff wrote: Woody, i386. I got the US American ViaVoice rpms running but haven't dictated since the advent of the EURO made me define in /etc/profile Thanks, Yven and ben. Will continue tomorrow and post results. I'm afraid however yer man hasn't got umlauts in the Irish loca

Re: apt-get and 'deb file:\'

2002-02-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Tom Schuetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020211 08:19]: > I used to have debian 2.2 installed on one box, and at that time I was > able to 'apt-get install foo.deb', where 'foo.deb' was any file I'd > just put into my working directory. The directory didn't was never > mentioned in 'sources.list'. As

Re: max # of processes in debian testing

2002-02-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020211 10:25]: > It looks like the default max number of processes in Debian testing is 300 > processes. How can this be increased? Any input would be appricated. > Thanks! > > Oh, on i386. :) This must be a kernel issue, not a debian-specific one. I don't

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:43:25PM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 ?s 13:50, John Cichy escreveu: > > Hello all, > > > > It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it's lists. I have > > a > > debian mirror in my DMZ and have added an entry in my hosts file to use an

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread Michel Loos
Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 13:50, John Cichy escreveu: > Hello all, > > It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it's lists. I have a > debian mirror in my DMZ and have added an entry in my hosts file to use an > internal address to access the mirror, but it seems that dselect is igno

Re: debconf 1.0.26 problems

2002-02-11 Thread Stefan Bellon
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Bellon wrote: > > I have Debian GNU/Linux unstable on my notebook. Since a few days I > > have a problem: Whenever I install a packet that depends on > > debconf, I get the following error messages during set-up: > > > > Use of uninitialized value in

Re: Locales and Java

2002-02-11 Thread ben
On Monday 11 February 2002 01:34 pm, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote: > Woody, i386. I got the US American ViaVoice rpms running but haven't > dictated since the advent of the EURO made me define in /etc/profile > > set [EMAIL PROTECTED] > set [EMAIL PROTECTED] > export LC_ALL LANG LANGUAGE > [snip] i

SCCS question

2002-02-11 Thread Timothy Bedding
Does anyone here know of someone sympathetic to free software development who might have access to a machine that runs SCCS? I want to know because of work needing to be done on CSSC, the free equivalent. As you know, a lot of GNU software is useful to Debian users. So, I was hoping someone here

Re: Locales and Java

2002-02-11 Thread Yven J. Leist
On Monday 11 February 2002 22:34, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote: > Woody, i386. I got the US American ViaVoice rpms running but haven't > dictated since the advent of the EURO made me define in /etc/profile > > set [EMAIL PROTECTED] > set [EMAIL PROTECTED] > export LC_ALL LANG LANGUAGE > > Can this b

Re: downgrade a package

2002-02-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Christian Schoenebeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020211 11:39]: > apt-get -t unstable install kinkatta > > to the unstable version. That was a mistake. How can > I 'downgrade' again? Are you using /etc/apt/preferences ? Try setting a pin >1000 for the verision you want, i.e.: Package: kinkatta P

Re: downgrade a package

2002-02-11 Thread Glyn Millington
"Christian Schoenebeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > >   > > I upgraded package 'kinkatta' with >     apt-get -t unstable install kinkatta > > to the unstable version. That was a mistake. How can > I 'downgrade' again? Hmm - better not to post html! will a simple apt-get --purge remove k

Re: downgrade a package

2002-02-11 Thread Isabelle Hurbain
On Monday 11 February 2002 20:27, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > Hi! > > I upgraded package 'kinkatta' with > > apt-get -t unstable install kinkatta > > to the unstable version. That was a mistake. How can > I 'downgrade' again? > > Thanks, > > Christian Schoenebeck try to edit /etc/apt/prefe

Locales and Java

2002-02-11 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
Woody, i386. I got the US American ViaVoice rpms running but haven't dictated since the advent of the EURO made me define in /etc/profile set [EMAIL PROTECTED] set [EMAIL PROTECTED] export LC_ALL LANG LANGUAGE Can this be the reason for the error messages appended below that now show up when I

Re: Dual LCD monitors

2002-02-11 Thread Blake Barnett
ASUS has some of the deluxe model nVidia cards (http://www.asus.com) This LCD buyer's guide by ArsTechnica may be of some help describing the difference between the two interfaces: http://arstechnica.com/guide/flatpanel/flatpanels-1.html Good luck! On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 13:35, Gary Hennigan wrot

[oclug] masquerading realplayer

2002-02-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. Using kernel 2.2.12 and the ip_masq_raudio module, I've always been able to view video clips using realaudio. After changing kernels to 2.2.20, changing nothing else, it doesn't work. Any clues? How can I debug this? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL

Re: Dual LCD monitors

2002-02-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Blake Barnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You also have to live with the lower bandwidth of PCI, as it forces you > to have either 1 AGP & 1 PCI or 2 PCI for it to work. Moving > applications and such between the two screens can be painful. Though > definately not a show-stopper. Especially

Re: downgrade a package

2002-02-11 Thread Yven J. Leist
On Monday 11 February 2002 20:27, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > Hi! > > I upgraded package 'kinkatta' with > > apt-get -t unstable install kinkatta > > to the unstable version. That was a mistake. How can > I 'downgrade' again? simply remove it with "dpkg -r kinkatta" and install it via apt-g

Re: Dual LCD monitors

2002-02-11 Thread Blake Barnett
You also have to live with the lower bandwidth of PCI, as it forces you to have either 1 AGP & 1 PCI or 2 PCI for it to work. Moving applications and such between the two screens can be painful. Though definately not a show-stopper. Especially if you're like me and have a fairly static layout on

Re: Dual LCD monitors

2002-02-11 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 12:46:55PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > I'm "upgrading" from dual CRT monitors to a dual 20" LCD setup. The > problem is I have a G400 that can only do 1280x1024 and the flat > panels I'm buying optimally require 1600x1200. Additionally I'd really > like to ditch the analog

Re: cdrecord, 4416, tekram, recorded cds unreadable

2002-02-11 Thread Michael Stroucken
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 09:08:52AM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > Why are you mounting audio cd's? > What happens if you try to play them without mounting first? > > Has anyone else had this problem and come up with a fix, or does anyone > > know if and how data can be recovered from this situation?

Re: mp3 and background

2002-02-11 Thread Scott Henson
On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 14:19, Michi Onken wrote: > > Now on this auction was a screen shot with a > > great background. I was wondering if anyone could tell me where I could > > find some good backgrounds for gnome(this one was of an angel). Thank > > you for any help. > > Nice sources for wallpa

Dual LCD monitors

2002-02-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
I'm "upgrading" from dual CRT monitors to a dual 20" LCD setup. The problem is I have a G400 that can only do 1280x1024 and the flat panels I'm buying optimally require 1600x1200. Additionally I'd really like to ditch the analog outputs and go to full digital between my box and the monitors, and I'

downgrade a package

2002-02-11 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Hi!   I upgraded package 'kinkatta' with       apt-get -t unstable install kinkatta   to the unstable version. That was a mistake. How can I 'downgrade' again?   Thanks,   Christian Schoenebeck

Re: mail notification

2002-02-11 Thread Chris Jenks
At 01:21 PM 2/11/02, Cheryl Homiak wrote: Of course, I realize that one solution for this is to keep Pine open all the time in one of my consoles, but I wondered whether or not there are other solutions. -- Cheryl I know that biff is used for mail notification.

Re: debconf 1.0.26 problems

2002-02-11 Thread Joey Hess
Stefan Bellon wrote: > Hi! > > I have Debian GNU/Linux unstable on my notebook. Since a few days I > have a problem: Whenever I install a packet that depends on debconf, I > get the following error messages during set-up: > > Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at > /usr/share/perl5

Turning off VSync with a Voodoo5

2002-02-11 Thread David Chase
Hi all, Just wondering how I can turn off the VSync on my Voodoo5 running X 4.1.0-14, using xlibmesa3 4.1.0-14 and libglide3 2001.01.26-1.1. There isn't much info on this around the web, or at least, none I could find that helped. Thanks in advance, Dave

Re: /home: Stale NFS file handle

2002-02-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:10:46AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > Short answer: no. > > Ah, well. I've already rebooted them anyhow, though, so it doesn't > really matter. > > > Next time unmount on the clients before doing something > > lik

Re: mp3 and background

2002-02-11 Thread Michi Onken
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 12:57:27PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > First can > anyone recomend a mp3 to wav converter sutible for use in burning mp3s > to CD. I used to have music match under windows, but I want to do this Hi there, you can do this easily with xmms (apt-get install xmms) and then s

max # of processes in debian testing

2002-02-11 Thread debian
It looks like the default max number of processes in Debian testing is 300 processes. How can this be increased? Any input would be appricated. Thanks! Oh, on i386. :)

Re: mail notification

2002-02-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Of course, I realize that one solution for this is to keep Pine open all the time in one of my consoles, but I wondered whether or not there are other solutions. -- Cheryl

Re: What's sending "www 02/10/02:19.02 system check" messages

2002-02-11 Thread Aaron Hall
Hit wrong key, didn't follow up to list. Sheesh. :) On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Chris Evans wrote: > I've just transferred from Hamm to Potato and the new system is > Emailing me excellent security messages with subject line like: "www > 02/10/02:19.02 system check" ("www" is hostname). That's logcheck

mp3 and background

2002-02-11 Thread Scott Henson
I kind of have two questions that are really unrelated. First can anyone recomend a mp3 to wav converter sutible for use in burning mp3s to CD. I used to have music match under windows, but I want to do this under linux. Also I was recenlty poking around ebay and saw an auction for some debian C

Logs weirdness

2002-02-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Have just found something on my woody system that seems weird. Latest upgrade of fwlogwatch doesn't report any firewall messages so I was checking it out. In /var/log all of the main log files are empty. ie messages, syslog, kern, ppp, etc. _but_ there are now .0 logs that are, in fact, current

Re: Geforce II under Xwindows

2002-02-11 Thread David B Harris
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:02:27 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have GEForce II running right now. > I am running XFree86 4.1.0 (from unstable). > To make it run, you need to go to the nvidia site and download the > kernel file and the glx file, then modify your XF86Config-4 file to > unload GLcore

mail notification

2002-02-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hi all! I am using woody; have exim and fetchmail and Pine for mail, though considering a change to mutt. Can't use Xwindows or graphical systems because I am blind. I want to know whether there is a way I can set up my machine so that it will beep when I get new mail into /var/mail, but without di

Re: apt-get and 'deb file:\'

2002-02-11 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 08:14:44 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time), Tom Schuetz wrote: >I used to have debian 2.2 installed on one box, and at that time I was able to 'apt-get install foo.deb', where 'foo.deb' was any file I'd just put into my working directory. The directory didn't was never mentione

RE: apt-get and 'deb file:\'

2002-02-11 Thread Kurc, Marcin A.
you are talking about dpkg -i foo.deb not apt-get Marcin Kurc CAD Systems Administrator Cooper-Standard Automotive -Original Message- From: Tom Schuetz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 11:15 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: apt-get and 'deb file:\'

Re: /home: Stale NFS file handle

2002-02-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:10:46AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > Short answer: no. Ah, well. I've already rebooted them anyhow, though, so it doesn't really matter. > Next time unmount on the clients before doing something > like that. I just realized... The stale handles are because of the n

Re: modconf ; etc/modules and loading modules at boot up (fwd)

2002-02-11 Thread Roberto Pereyra
I don't know if this works in /etc/modules but try it in the command line and if this work put this line in the boot scripts under /etc/init.d/ I use this option ( -f) with a Lucent Winmodem driver that I have only in binary and compiled wit other kernel version, and this work fine. I use ins

Re: apt-get and 'deb file:\'

2002-02-11 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 16:14, Tom Schuetz wrote: > I've also R'd the FM, and now, as a last resort, I appeal to debian-user. > What do I need to do to install a deb that's sitting in my PWD? Ignore apt and use dpkg. dpkg -i foo.deb Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAI

Re: broken gpm

2002-02-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Ian Balchin wrote: > > > Hi, all, > > > > Some time back my mouse stopped marking on the screen in console > > mode. It is standard 2-button type. > * snipped * > > > > The cursor moves around the screen nicely, but cannot mark anything. > > > > I have it as /dev/ttyS0 > >

apt-get and 'deb file:\'

2002-02-11 Thread Tom Schuetz
I used to have debian 2.2 installed on one box, and at that time I was able to 'apt-get install foo.deb', where 'foo.deb' was any file I'd just put into my working directory. The directory didn't was never mentioned in 'sources.list'. Now, I'm working on a different machine, still 2.2, and wh

Re: proftpd and ftpaccess

2002-02-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi ! > First thanks to Black Liam ! > Ok. > I want to set up an ftp-server. > But I´ve got som problems. > The server I wnat to use is proftpd. > I´ve installed it on my system. > There was no ftpaccess, ftphosts and ftpusers so I `ve created

Re: /home: Stale NFS file handle

2002-02-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I took the NFS server down to replace a couple hard drives on > Saturday and now the clients are all complaining that the NFS handle > for /home is stale. mounting and umounting the same export elsewhere > doesn't work, despite some claims on lk

Re: Auth with PAM

2002-02-11 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 12:35:27 +0100, Tim Dijkstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get some app to use PAM to authenticate against the > /etc/shadow. Shouldn't it be enough for the app to > be a member of the 'shadow' group for this to work? Or are there any > other restriction

dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread John Cichy
Hello all, It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it's lists. I have a debian mirror in my DMZ and have added an entry in my hosts file to use an internal address to access the mirror, but it seems that dselect is ignoring that entry and trying the public address instead. Does

Re: Geforce II under Xwindows

2002-02-11 Thread matt
I have GEForce II running right now. I am running XFree86 4.1.0 (from unstable). To make it run, you need to go to the nvidia site and download the kernel file and the glx file, then modify your XF86Config-4 file to unload GLcore and dri. I got a lot of help from typing in your search favorite s

Win95 on Plex86

2002-02-11 Thread Chuck Higgins
Hi, Has anybody got Win95 working on Plex86? I've been able to boot-up a floppy image and then run the setup program from the Win95 CD. It then seems to work at first, doing the system check and copying installation files onto C:, but at the point when setup would have gone graphical it bombs

Re: modconf ; etc/modules and loading modules at boot up (fwd)

2002-02-11 Thread Roberto Pereyra
Hi Try with -f option insmod -f module insmod -f 8139too This option ignore the kernel version. bye roberto Roberto Pereyra Gualeguaychu Argentina GnuPG keyID: BB43E337 http://pgp.mit.edu -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:01:53 +0100 (MET) From: [EMAIL

Re: Can't un/install xdm/gdm/wdm

2002-02-11 Thread Kent West
Noah Meyerhans wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 04:17:25PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Setting up gdm (2.2.5.3-2) ... dpkg: error processing gdm (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 Well, if you want some debugging output, try adding the -x flag to the

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