Re: How To: Use DE-528CT or DFE-530TX+

2002-02-24 Thread tunggul a siswoyo
Pada Mon, 25 Feb 2002 01:58:50 + "Michael Pruitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> menulis: >For those who stuck because no one seems to know the answer on this, I > was able to solve it. >The DE-528CT is a NE2000 PCI clone with a RTL8029 chipset that sells for > under $15. But when you try insm

Re: ipchains on startup

2002-02-24 Thread tunggul a siswoyo
Pada Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:52:34 +1100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] menulis: > Just wondering if Debian had any specific place to put ipchains stuff for > initialising the rules on bootup. > > R, > > AJFC. > > PS. Please CC responses, I'm not currently subscribed. > > > Just make a script in /etc/init.d

Package purging problems

2002-02-24 Thread A S
Hello, I am fairly new to the debian package mgmt system. While experimenting with some of it, I seem to have messed up some configuration files to cause the following errors to be reported every time I run dpkg --purge gnome-core Error is : /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnome-core.postrm: scrollkeeper-up

Re: Internet sharing with linux and windows 2000

2002-02-24 Thread Elizabeth Barham
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Iv=E1n_Filpo?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My brother has windows 2000 pro on his computer and i have linux on mine. I > dont have a linux modem. > > So I want to be able to use the internet from my brothers. > > Using his computer as gateway to the internet. > > > is this pos

Re: How to use the Linux Progress Patch (Splash Screen)?

2002-02-24 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi Gordon, > David Odin has updated the patch to 2.4.13 [1], and I have created > Debian-packages [2] with a Debian-like design. They're still > preliminary, but work with 2.4.17. Thanks! It patched quite well. :-) My newly minted Kernel didn't produce very good results (i.e. it went to an odd

Re: Need Newbie installation Help~

2002-02-24 Thread Elizabeth Barham
"ming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > HI: > I have a Desktop computer which already have Win2k pro and Win2k > Advanced Server installed as Dual-boot. and there is a Mandrake 8.1 > on my hard disk but i use floopy to boot mandrake8.1. > I am going to install Debian based on these enveriment. > h

Re: Installing Kylix on Debian Potato

2002-02-24 Thread Didier Malenfant
I kinda feel stupid but I just answered my own question. This site: http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sources/ has a cool list of apt-sources for various problems/packages and kylix support is in there. Maybe somebody else will find the link useful. -D On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 19:5

Re: openldap 2.0.23 not writing to replica log

2002-02-24 Thread nate
> Yeah, you need to define a replica. Slapd doesn't write anything to > the replog that isn't going to be sent to a replica. from what i've seen, slapd doesn't send the data, slurpd does .. but i do have a replica setup: replica host=replica.mydomain.com:389 binddn="cn=admin,o=

Re: Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.

2002-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 2002.02.25 02:43 Bob Thibodeau wrote: I also like vlc. Some files will play better in one program while others work in another. I keep vlc, mplayer, xanim and xine around. BTW, keep in mind that many mov files you find will be encoded in a quicktime format that is proprietary and unavailable

Need Newbie installation Help~

2002-02-24 Thread debianlist
HI:    I have a Desktop computer which already have Win2k pro and Win2k Advanced Server installed as Dual-boot. and there is a Mandrake 8.1 on my hard disk but i use floopy to boot mandrake8.1.     I am going to install Debian based on these enveriment.how can i setup the boot l

Need Newbie installation Help~

2002-02-24 Thread ming
HI:    I have a Desktop computer which already have Win2k pro and Win2k Advanced Server installed as Dual-boot. and there is a Mandrake 8.1 on my hard disk but i use floopy to boot mandrake8.1.     I am going to install Debian based on these enveriment.how can i setup the boot l

"Resrve" Boot Argument

2002-02-24 Thread Bruce Burhans
I'll be using an external modem with Debian, but there's a Winmodem on ttyS0. In order to prevent any problems, it seems like a wise idea to put the Linux modem on ttyS1 and to block the driver from probing ttyS0 with the Reserve bootprompt argument-

Internet sharing with linux and windows 2000

2002-02-24 Thread Iván Filpo
My brother has windows 2000 pro on his computer and i have linux on mine. I dont have a linux modem. So I want to be able to use the internet from my brothers. Using his computer as gateway to the internet. is this possible ?. If it is tell me what to do please because i have tried route add de

Re: Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.

2002-02-24 Thread Matt Garman
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:43:50PM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > I also like vlc. Some files will play better in one > program while others work in another. I keep > vlc, mplayer, xanim and xine around. > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 02:36:38PM -0500, Sean wrote: > > As many others have mentioned, mp

Installing Kylix on Debian Potato

2002-02-24 Thread Didier Malenfant
Borland's pre-install checkup program (borlandpretest) can only find one problem with my setup to install Kylix. The glibc loader apparently has a bug but they don't provide a patch for this. Here's a description of the problem in their own words: -- Some versions of the glibc loader can cause d

Re: 233 MHz CPU system - Debian and SO 5.2 question

2002-02-24 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Andreas" == Andreas von Heydwolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andreas> Would it make a difference in performance on the 233MHz Andreas> MMX CPU and 48Mb RAM system whether I choose potato or Andreas> Woody? I run woody on a 48 Mb Tecra 700ct I got real cheap (1 USD) with a 120 M

Re: openldap 2.0.23 not writing to replica log

2002-02-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 06:35:15PM -0800, nate wrote: > I have a woody machine running openldap 2.0.23 with > the replog directive set to /var/lib/ldap/replog > > if i delete the files replog and replog.lock(0 bytes each), > start slapd, and modify a record, the files are re > created, both with 0

Re: Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.

2002-02-24 Thread Bob Thibodeau
I also like vlc. Some files will play better in one program while others work in another. I keep vlc, mplayer, xanim and xine around. BTW, keep in mind that many mov files you find will be encoded in a quicktime format that is proprietary and unavailable on Linux. Unless somebody else knows someth

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Bob Thibodeau
I switched from Eudora and Pegasus in Windows to Elm and now mutt in Linux. I found the transition to be painless, although I did miss the folder handling in the early days. I did run Pegasus with WINE for a while, but made the final switch because I wanted to get away from the non-standard mailbox

openldap 2.0.23 not writing to replica log

2002-02-24 Thread nate
I have a woody machine running openldap 2.0.23 with the replog directive set to /var/lib/ldap/replog if i delete the files replog and replog.lock(0 bytes each), start slapd, and modify a record, the files are re created, both with 0 bytes again. is there anything other then the replog directive th

Re: 233 MHz CPU system - Debian and SO 5.2 question

2002-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 16:35:11 -0800 (PST) "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > But then then The Average User would have to learn the tools > (read: > > programming languages). It's been an end-user operation for 20 > > years (going back to WordStar 2.x) even on a nerdy OS like CP/M. > >

Re: can't ping pop.citiz.net

2002-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:54:26 -0800 (PST) John Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i can use mail from pop.citiz.net in Windows > but can't use it in Debian 2.2 and can't ping it. > > i use [EMAIL PROTECTED] to subsribe to this list but > was told i need approval from modulator. An amplitude modulat

How To: Use DE-528CT or DFE-530TX+

2002-02-24 Thread Michael Pruitt
For those who stuck because no one seems to know the answer on this, I was able to solve it. The DE-528CT is a NE2000 PCI clone with a RTL8029 chipset that sells for under $15. But when you try insmod ne2k-pci.o you get a bunch of symbol errors. You need to insmod 8390.o first (also located

ipchains on startup

2002-02-24 Thread aclark
Just wondering if Debian had any specific place to put ipchains stuff for initialising the rules on bootup. R, AJFC. PS. Please CC responses, I'm not currently subscribed. - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

Re: Testing my serial port?

2002-02-24 Thread John Hasler
Russ Pitman writes: > Quick and dirty:: In deb run pppconfig, it will probe the ports. Which it does by calling pppd: pppd nodetach noauth nocrtscts /dev/ttySX connect "chat -t1 '' AT OK\"; -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: Swap space

2002-02-24 Thread Caleb Shay
On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 15:49, Jeff wrote: > The swap size will depend on what you're using the system for. > For a workstation/desktop type of system, I've always done 128MB > swaps and when the RAM size goes above 128, I match the RAM and > swap size. Of course, this largely depends on what you ar

Re: any ideas? no network traffic gets through

2002-02-24 Thread Matthew Dalton
will trillich wrote: > i never have understood the "command > line args" portion of modconf: "Please enter any command-line > arguments for the XYZ module. Many modules can autoprobe and do > not require additional parameters." i don't understand the > syntax needed. The 'command line args' portio

Re: Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.

2002-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:01:11PM +0530, Amardeep Singh wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Balazs Javor wrote: > > What is the best solution on linux to play most > > movie formats? (doesn't need to be a single app) > > I have got good results with mplayer (debs available at marillat.free.fr). True .

Re: Testing my serial port?

2002-02-24 Thread Russ Pitman
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 04:34:35PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know, how can i test if me serial port is fried? my > external modem that used to work just fine, stopped working.. both > in windows and debian...(i dualboot) Its very strange ,because from > windows,

Re: Swap space

2002-02-24 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Another thing to think about is where to put them. If you have multiple drives, you'll want swap on each drive to give the OS a better chance to do paging where it's not already doing I/O. -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physically I'm at: 5101 N. 45th St., Tacoma, WA, 98407-371

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Re: 233 MHz CPU system - Debian and SO 5.2 question

2002-02-24 Thread nate
> But then then The Average User would have to learn the tools (read: > programming languages). It's been an end-user operation for 20 > years (going back to WordStar 2.x) even on a nerdy OS like CP/M. i wouldn't consider myself an average user, i use linux/unix everywhere and have been usin

Re: Procmail question

2002-02-24 Thread Tony Green
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 10:51, Corey Halpin wrote: > Does anybody have a procmail script to trim html out of email? > such that all the email I get is only text-plain? > :0 * ^Content-Type: text/html { :0 bfW: | (echo "[html stripped]"; lynx -dump -force_html -stdin) :0 ahfw:

Re: Swap space

2002-02-24 Thread Jeff
Charles Baker, 2002-Feb-24 13:26 -0800: > I'm about to install sid, using unoffical iso's, on a > machine w/ 384MB of RAM. Old rule of thumb was > 2*RAM-SIZE = SWAP-SIZE . Do I really need 768MB of > swap space?!?!?! Plus, since the install uses 2.2.20 > kernel, will it be able to handle a swap spa

Re: Looking for Gnome Panel icons, Re: Testing my serial port?

2002-02-24 Thread Ionut Georgescu
Sorry, the reply was ment for the previous message: Subject: Looking for Gnome Panel icons :) Sorry again, it happens on a 56K modem line :) Ionut On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:20:38AM +0100, Ionut Georgescu wrote: > Well, auto-apt search -f pixmap will probably give you a pretty good > list of

Re: Testing my serial port?

2002-02-24 Thread Ionut Georgescu
Well, auto-apt search -f pixmap will probably give you a pretty good list of packages that contain pixmaps. Or better: auto-apt search -f pixmaps | sed 's~^.*\ ~~' | sort -u this should give you a list of about 450 packages :) I think you should first look in /usr/share/pixmaps & Co. You'll fi

Re: Swap space

2002-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 13:26:30 -0800 (PST) Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm about to install sid, using unoffical iso's, on a > machine w/ 384MB of RAM. Old rule of thumb was > 2*RAM-SIZE = SWAP-SIZE . Do I really need 768MB of > swap space?!?!?! Plus, since the install uses 2.2.20 >

Re: Testing my serial port?

2002-02-24 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 04:34:35PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know, how can i test if me serial port is fried? my > external modem that used to work just fine, stopped working.. both > in windows and debian...(i dualboot) Its very strange ,because from > windows,

Re: 233 MHz CPU system - Debian and SO 5.2 question

2002-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:53:16 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 02:26:58AM -0800, ben wrote: > | On Saturday 23 February 2002 06:53 pm, Bob Underwood wrote: > | [snip] > | > > > | > > | Is the Star Office 5.2 address book reliable enough for mail merges, > or > | > >

Re: Need Newbie installation Help~

2002-02-24 Thread gMan
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 18:28:22 -0500, ming wrote: >HI: >I have a Desktop computer which already have Win2k pro and Win2k >Advanced Server installed as Dual-boot. and there is a Mandrake 8.1 >on my hard disk but i use floopy to boot mandrake8.1. >I am going to install Debian based on these enverim

Procmail question

2002-02-24 Thread Corey Halpin
Does anybody have a procmail script to trim html out of email? such that all the email I get is only text-plain? thanks, crh -- Corey R. Halpin (http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~halpin/ ) Student of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of Wisconsin - Madison

Need Newbie installation Help~

2002-02-24 Thread ming
HI:    I have a Desktop computer which already have Win2k pro and Win2k Advanced Server installed as Dual-boot. and there is a Mandrake 8.1 on my hard disk but i use floopy to boot mandrake8.1.     I am going to install Debian based on these enveriment.how can i setup the boot loa

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Solved: Need help with mailman setup

2002-02-24 Thread Ross Boylan
The reason that mailman wasn't working, images weren't showing on the homepage,and I couldn't see the apache docs was I wasn't running apache. Somehow, I had installed dhttpd, described as a secure web server that doesn't run cgi-bin scripts. I noticed this when I started to file a bug report

can't ping pop.citiz.net

2002-02-24 Thread John Joe
i can use mail from pop.citiz.net in Windows but can't use it in Debian 2.2 and can't ping it. i use [EMAIL PROTECTED] to subsribe to this list but was told i need approval from modulator. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olymp

Re: LFS question with "testing"

2002-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:37:27 -0500 Martin Weinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quick large file system question: > > if I upgrade to woody and use a 2.4.x kernel, will I have large > file support without recompiling glibc? If you upgrade to woody, glibc will automatically be upgraded to 2.2.5-3

Testing my serial port?

2002-02-24 Thread camilo
Hi, I would like to know, how can i test if me serial port is fried? my external modem that used to work just fine, stopped working.. both in windows and debian...(i dualboot) Its very strange ,because from windows, i can query the modem, and it responds like it was all Ok... so how can i tes

Looking for Gnome Panel icons

2002-02-24 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, I was trying to find some icon collections for the Gnome Panel on the net, but without luck. Many applications do not have icons/pixmaps installed for them so they don't look very nice on panels. I was hoping to find tons of custom icons on the net from which to choose, but using Google I was

Re: Need help with mailman setup

2002-02-24 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:14:40PM +, Alan James wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:49:18PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I've had mailman on my system for quite awhile, but only now am > > attempting to use it. Following the Debian README, I have tried to > > access it with > > http://localh

Re: consulta

2002-02-24 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Sunday 24 February 2002 18:13, Patricia Guiñales wrote: Hola Patricia ! > Tengo 33 años, desearía trabajar en una ciudad grande de Gran > Bretaña, preferiblemente Londres, con el único objetivo de > relacionarme y hablar ¡ por fin!en inglés; desgraciadamente no tengo > mucho tiempo, y desearía

Re: Mouse hangs in X

2002-02-24 Thread Bill Moseley
At 09:09 PM 02/24/02 +0100, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: >Dear Bill, > >using gpm, XF86Config-4 must contain "Protocol" "MouseSystems" and "Device" "/dev/gpmdata". I'm not sure, however, if that works for all sorts of mice. I tried this without luck: Section "InputDevice" Identifier

Re: Mouse hangs in X

2002-02-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 06:53:00AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > Every once in a while (more often in KDE than others) my mouse will freeze. > I can still use the keyboard. > > I see this in my output: > > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice > No such file or directory

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 06:30:17PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 21:56:23 -0800 > "Eric G. Miller" wrote: > > > Possibly dead? > > > > > Sylpheed: (which I just read about on this list). > > > > Works pretty well. Is fairly lightweight. I noticed it leaks a > >

Re: Mouse hangs in X

2002-02-24 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Dear Bill, using gpm, XF86Config-4 must contain "Protocol" "MouseSystems" and "Device" "/dev/gpmdata". I'm not sure, however, if that works for all sorts of mice. Alternative is to keep your settings and deactivate gpm. Regards, Joachim On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 06:53:00AM -0800, Bill Moseley wr

make the Xdm run as daemon

2002-02-24 Thread Yuval Lifshitz
Hi   I am using the mandrake Linux and I want to run it with no Screen. I am trying to use my PC's screen via XDMCP protocol but I cannot find the way, to run Xdm on the Linux, as a daemon. Is there any way I can use the startup files of Linux for that matter safely?   Thanks

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 21:56:23 -0800 "Eric G. Miller" wrote: > Possibly dead? > > > Sylpheed: (which I just read about on this list). > > Works pretty well. Is fairly lightweight. I noticed it leaks a > significant amount of memory over time (days). No idea about > IMAP support (think

Swap space

2002-02-24 Thread Charles Baker
I'm about to install sid, using unoffical iso's, on a machine w/ 384MB of RAM. Old rule of thumb was 2*RAM-SIZE = SWAP-SIZE . Do I really need 768MB of swap space?!?!?! Plus, since the install uses 2.2.20 kernel, will it be able to handle a swap space larger than 128MB? = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hac

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 09:41:54 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:33:55AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > > > Sylpheed is quite nice. I don't use it myself because I don't want to be > > dependent on an X app to read my mail (I use mutt), but my wife switched > > to Sylphee

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 09:22:22 -0800 Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > begin Michael P. Soulier quotation: > > > Sylpheed is excellent I'm told. > > Sylpheed is quite nice. I don't use it myself because I don't want to be > dependent on an X app to read my mail (I use mutt), but my

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 14:28, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Evolution is a heavy application and has some quirks. but it is a very > good IMAP client in that it allows shortcuts to your frequently used > mailboxes and only asks you to select from mailboxes as opposed to all > files. I run an IMAP server

Re: Using multiple versions of gcc

2002-02-24 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 24 Feb 2002, Balazs Javor wrote: > Hi, > > I have never done any developement on gcc before, > however I have the necessary packages installed, so that I > can compile packages distributed as source only. > > I have both gcc 2.95.x and 3.x installed on my Woody box > and they seem to coexist

Re: 233 MHz CPU system - Debian and SO 5.2 question

2002-02-24 Thread dman
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 02:26:58AM -0800, ben wrote: | On Saturday 23 February 2002 06:53 pm, Bob Underwood wrote: | [snip] | > > | > > | Is the Star Office 5.2 address book reliable enough for mail merges, or | > > | has any other word processor (Applixware?) an address book that can be | > > | us

Re: lilo problem

2002-02-24 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hello, I got sid working! *jump* Thanks to Alvin! -- Rudy Gevaert - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.webworm.org - keyserverID=24DC49C6 - http://www.zeus.rug.ac.be Private mail with incorrect quoting behavior will remain unanswered The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with

LFS question with "testing"

2002-02-24 Thread Martin Weinberg
Quick large file system question: if I upgrade to woody and use a 2.4.x kernel, will I have large file support without recompiling glibc? Thanks!

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 19:55, Bill Moseley wrote: > At 11:25 AM 02/24/02 -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > Although I read that IMAP can be slow if you have many mailboxes (I have > almost 100), and hundreds of messages a day. > > I have the same problem. The truth is that most mail cleints that

Re: upgrading debian 2.1

2002-02-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 01:23:23PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I've got a machine on my local network that I've installed 2.1 on (I > tried to install 2.2 from a cd on which I had burned a d/l iso but this > machine can't read the cd. The machine I burned it on has no problem > reading it.) If th

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2002-02-24 Thread Patricia Guiñales
Tengo 33 años, desearía trabajar en una ciudad grande de Gran Bretaña, preferiblemente Londres, con el único objetivo de relacionarme y hablar ¡ por fin!en inglés; desgraciadamente no tengo mucho tiempo, y desearía saber cuanto tiempo es el mínimo y cuanto me costaría y cuando   Muchas gracia

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Bill Moseley
At 11:25 AM 02/24/02 -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: >I believe nmh uses .mh_sequences or some such. So, that would probably >be the "standard" way. Sylpheed uses it's own sequence file, so it >won't even jibe with the mh way of managing mail. This is something >the Sylpheed folks should fix. I tr

Re: Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.

2002-02-24 Thread Sean
On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 10:04, Balazs Javor wrote: > Hi, > > What is the best solution on linux to play most > movie formats? (doesn't need to be a single app) > > I've been slowly trying to be able to perform most task on > my Woody box that I used to do on Window$. But I'm still > struggling a bi

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 01:00:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 10:05:13 -0800 Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: > > > > > Is there a debian package for Sylpheed? > > > > Yes, in Woody and Sid. > > > > > BTW -- why would using

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Re: LinuxFEST Belgrade, call for participation & sponsors

2002-02-24 Thread Martin Schulze
Somebody around in Yogoslavia who would like to go to LinuxFEST and represent Debian? Regards, Joey Boris DRAGOVIC wrote: > > Dear Sir/Madam, > > I am writing to invite you to participate in Linux FEST Yugoslavia in mid > April > 2002. Organized by Open Source Network of Yugoslavia (O

Re: 233 MHz CPU system - Debian and SO 5.2 question

2002-02-24 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Dear Andreas, IMHO StarOffice is the best word processor around. It can also do mail merges, with addressbook or any database you set up. However, it may be slow on your system. (I have 800 MHz, 128 MB and it runs very well.) You may want to try StarOffice / OpenOffice 6.0 . It is said to be fas

Re: xlib updating problem

2002-02-24 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > (CCing to debian-user in case someone has comments/corrections.) > > On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Charles Blair wrote: > > > Thanks for your help. I have version 2.2 (potato, I think). > > I am trying to upgrade to Tk8.3, which needs a newer xlibs. > > I d

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Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 10:05:13 -0800 Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: > > > Is there a debian package for Sylpheed? > > Yes, in Woody and Sid. > > > BTW -- why would using an X mail application exclude you from also > > running mutt? > > It's not so

Re: ethernet

2002-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 19:33:45 + Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > Sorry for this silly question, but I am newbie with the ethernet. > I plan to make a network local with three machines: > > M1:pentium 166 with potato, M2: 486SX with slink, M3: 486SX with slink > > I have read

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread csj
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 09:41:54 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:33:55AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > > > Sylpheed is quite nice. I don't use it myself because I don't want to be > > dependent on an X app to read my mail (I use mutt), but my wife switched > > to Sylphee

Re: 3c905c-TX-M hangs with much traffic (UPDATE)

2002-02-24 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, nate wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > I removed a TV card, and all is left is the video card and the > > network card, but still the same problem. > > i reccomend joining the 3c59x mailing list and posting there. > this is a very common probl

Re: ethernet

2002-02-24 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > Sorry for this silly question, but I am newbie with the ethernet. > I plan to make a network local with three machines: > > M1:pentium 166 with potato, M2: 486SX with slink, M3: 486SX with slink > > I have read the Howto Ethernet and the NET

ethernet

2002-02-24 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, Sorry for this silly question, but I am newbie with the ethernet. I plan to make a network local with three machines: M1:pentium 166 with potato, M2: 486SX with slink, M3: 486SX with slink I have read the Howto Ethernet and the NET4-HOWTO and I installed a (old) card accton (ISA) and the d

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Craig Dickson
begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: > Is there a debian package for Sylpheed? Yes, in Woody and Sid. > BTW -- why would using an X mail application exclude you from also > running mutt? It's not so much "prevented" as "made sufficiently painful". I tried using Sylpheed and mutt together severa

Re: xlib updating problem

2002-02-24 Thread Faheem Mitha
(CCing to debian-user in case someone has comments/corrections.) On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Charles Blair wrote: > Thanks for your help. I have version 2.2 (potato, I think). > I am trying to upgrade to Tk8.3, which needs a newer xlibs. > I downloaded an xlibs(numbers).deb package. Is it sufficien

Re: Using multiple versions of gcc

2002-02-24 Thread Simon Hepburn
/usr/bin/gcc is a symlink. point it where you wish. On Sunday 24 Feb 2002 4:53 pm, Balazs Javor wrote: > Hi, > > I have never done any developement on gcc before, > however I have the necessary packages installed, so that I > can compile packages distributed as source only. > > I have both gcc 2.9

Re: syncing debian packages on two machines

2002-02-24 Thread Simon Hepburn
Well I have only one box , so I can't guarante this will work, but you could try this: Install what you want on box1 Install apt-move and configure it Do apt-move sync. This will build you a local mirror containing only the packages you have on box1 Make this mirror your only apt source on box2

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread moseley
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:33:55AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Sylpheed is quite nice. I don't use it myself because I don't want to be > dependent on an X app to read my mail (I use mutt), but my wife switched > to Sylpheed after we decided that Outlook Express was too dangerous, and > she's

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Bill Moseley
At 08:46 AM 02/24/02 -0800, Wendell Cochran wrote: >> So, to start off with, I'm looking to make the transition to full-time >Linux easy by finding similar tools to I'm used to using. >[snip] > >Similarities can be confusing. Maybe -- maybe -- you'd do better >to accept differences, even seek them

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Michael P. Soulier quotation: > Sylpheed is excellent I'm told. Sylpheed is quite nice. I don't use it myself because I don't want to be dependent on an X app to read my mail (I use mutt), but my wife switched to Sylpheed after we decided that Outlook Express was too dangerous, and s

Using multiple versions of gcc

2002-02-24 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, I have never done any developement on gcc before, however I have the necessary packages installed, so that I can compile packages distributed as source only. I have both gcc 2.95.x and 3.x installed on my Woody box and they seem to coexist just fine. Now some packages seem to have preference

Re: exim inprint path

2002-02-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 10:39:20AM -0500, Paul wrote: > I have had debian potato on for a year. the printer never worked. I just > discovered exim is in the print path. I got rid of it but there is a hidden > file that keeps asking for it and I am at my wits end. Is there anybody > ,anywhere in

Re: How to use the Linux Progress Patch (Splash Screen)?

2002-02-24 Thread Gordon Fraser
Timothy R. Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Has anyone here tried the Linux Progress Patch on a recent 2.4.x-series > kernel? I was thinking about getting a little eye candy for my boot messages, > but I can't seem to find LPP for anything newer than Linux 2.4.2 (I'm runing > 2.4.17). I tri

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Wendell Cochran
> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 21:38:37 -0800 > From: Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [snip] > . . . Like many, I'm coming from a Windows environment. I've got > three linux machines under my desk and for a year now I've booted Win98 > used basically only browsers and Eudora (3.0) on my Win9

RE: syncing debian packages on two machines

2002-02-24 Thread Peter Kocks
One way is fine, as long as it does not also remove any critical packages from the production system. So, I assume that dpkg --get-selections does ONLY that, i.e. it just gets the selections if they are not already installed. It does not remove packages not in the selection list. Thanks Ray. --p

Re: Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.

2002-02-24 Thread Harold Bibik
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 04:04:41PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote something like this: > Hi, > > What is the best solution on linux to play most > movie formats? (doesn't need to be a single app) > > I've been slowly trying to be able to perform most task on > my Woody box that I used to do on Windo

NFS mount failure - why?

2002-02-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
nfs-kernel-server version 1.0-2 /etc/exports: /usr1 louise(rw) elsie(rw) sarah(rw) rover(rw,no_root_squash) 192.168.1.105 /usr2 louise(rw) elsie(rw) sarah(rw) rover(rw,no_root_squash) 192.168.1.105 /usr3 louise(rw) elsie(rw) sarah(rw) rover(rw,no_root_squash) 192.168.1.105 mount from sarah

exim inprint path

2002-02-24 Thread Paul
I have had debian potato on for a year. the printer never worked. I just discovered exim is in the print path. I got rid of it but there is a hidden file that keeps asking for it and I am at my wits end. Is there anybody ,anywhere in the world that knows how to fix this. thanks paul

Re: Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.

2002-02-24 Thread Amardeep Singh
hi, On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Balazs Javor wrote: > Hi, > > What is the best solution on linux to play most > movie formats? (doesn't need to be a single app) > I have got good results with mplayer (debs available at marillat.free.fr). In my opinion, it gives better output and is faster than window

Re: Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.

2002-02-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
I prefer Xine myself, but I'm told that mplayer is also excellent. I've tried aviplay, and it works fine. Realize that many .avis you may find do not have sound, but most should. Mike On 24/02/02 Balazs Javor did speaketh: > Hi, > > What is the best solution on linux to play most > mo

Re: xlib upgrade problem

2002-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 04:49:11PM -0600, Charles Blair wrote: >I have version 2.2 of Debian, running on a laptop. I recenty > tried using dpkg to install the version of xlibs in "testing" Don't do that without upgrading wholesale to woody. If you're trying to install a package that depends o

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