Re: sid: how to awake the fetchmail daemon?

2002-03-08 Thread Ovidiu Damian
That did it. Thank you very much! * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 08 Mar 2002, Ovidiu Damian wrote: > > I'm running sid and I have followed the recommendation to run > > fetchmail as user "fetchmail". I am trying to come up with a shell > > command to wake up th

Re: XF86 4.2.0?

2002-03-08 Thread Scott Henson
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 00:16, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > I noticed there haven't been any updates to the X Strike Force in over two > weeks... could this mean XF86 4.2.0 is an imminent release and they just want > us to be surprised, or that there just isn't any news? > > Also, does anyone know

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-08 Thread Joe
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 04:25:55AM +, Richard Steusloff wrote: > > I got Mozilla via Ximian's website ximian.com. Got the Gnome desktop and > have not had nary a problem with Mozilla. No dependency problems at all, > at all. Ximian has not had the desktop for 2.2 up for very long, but it

Threaded Perl

2002-03-08 Thread Ryan White
I was trying to install threaded perl but perl5-thread and perl-5.005-thread do not have installation candidates. I"m sure I am not the only person that has wanted to have threaded perl support under debian (w/o compiling perl my self). Is there a different package that I should be installing or is

Re: Incorporating testing or unstable

2002-03-08 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi, > Can anyone tell me the process by which I might incorporate [...] > specific- instances of testing packages but on the whole remain > at stable. First, create an /etc/apt/preferences file, and put something like this in it: #-- Package: * Pin: release a=stable

XF86 4.2.0?

2002-03-08 Thread Timothy R. Butler
I noticed there haven't been any updates to the X Strike Force in over two weeks... could this mean XF86 4.2.0 is an imminent release and they just want us to be surprised, or that there just isn't any news? Also, does anyone know if anyone has packaged unofficial XFree86 4.2.0 debs? If not, c

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-08 Thread Timothy R. Butler
> Any suggestions? Konqueror, which is part of KDE, is very stable, and I've found quicker than Mozilla too. I hear Opera is pretty nice too, although I haven't played with it much. -Tim -- Timothy R. Butler

Re: Kernel 2.4.18

2002-03-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:44:43PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > kernel-source-2.4.18 isn't in sid, yet kernel-image-2.4.18-* is. > Does anyone know when it will arrive? > > Also, when will kernel-*-2.4.18* arrive in woody? I did not see but now I see: osamu@:$ apt-cache policy kernel-source-2.4.1

Re: Massive issues with WMaker and X

2002-03-08 Thread Jonathan Ard
Ok, so now I'm having problems with my ISP's mail server, so forgive me if this gets posted twice. Anyway, I found out what the problem was. It was a bum cpp package in sid. Oops. A simpe apt-get update/upgrade fixed it. I guess that is what I get for running unstable :-( Thanks, jonathan

Re: Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-08 Thread Angus D Madden
Karl E. Jorgensen, Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:57:58PM +: > Hi > > Has anybody else had experience with setting up a Debian GNU/Linux box > for friends who wants to get started with computers? If so then I'd > appreciate your comments/input. Have done this as well for family. It really saves ti

I need your heop !

2002-03-08 Thread 李建泰
Hi my name is HiramLeeI am a Debian/linux fan , live in Taiwan .I had installed "chdrv package" into the Chinese consloe envirement .And I can't  see the " curser " in my editor emacs and vi .so I don't know my keyin position !!??Could you help me how to see the " curser " in the Chinese env

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2002-03-08 Thread Richard Steusloff
I got Mozilla via Ximian's website ximian.com. Got the Gnome desktop and have not had nary a problem with Mozilla. No dependency problems at all, at all. Ximian has not had the desktop for 2.2 up for very long, but it is there now. Subject: the quest for a *stable* browser To: debian-user

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-08 Thread hanasaki
I run the nightly builds of mozilla with almost no problems. timothy bauscher wrote: I downloaded Mozilla via apt-get. It crashes often. I would like a stable open source alternative to Mozilla. Any suggestions? (==timothy==) --

the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-08 Thread timothy bauscher
I downloaded Mozilla via apt-get. It crashes often. I would like a stable open source alternative to Mozilla. Any suggestions? (==timothy==)

Re: I thought sound was going to be easy.

2002-03-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Chris Jenks wrote: > At 07:35 PM 3/8/02, Bill Moseley wrote: > >I've got a Sound Blaster Live! (Value) card, and I can cat .wav files to > >/dev/audio. > > > >But, I was unable to get this (from the sound HOWTO) to work: > > > > dd bs=8k count=4 sample.au > > >no erro

Re: sid: how to awake the fetchmail daemon?

2002-03-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 08 Mar 2002, Ovidiu Damian wrote: > I'm running sid and I have followed the recommendation to run > fetchmail as user "fetchmail". I am trying to come up with a shell > command to wake up the fetchamil daemon and check my mail while I'm > in Mutt. Try running /etc/init.d/fetchmail awaken (

lite applications

2002-03-08 Thread Nicholas Imfeld
I have set up an old 486 laptop with debian.  I am looking for an x email client (preferably graphical as opposed to test based) and a web browser that don’t require a lot of space, memory, etc.  Do any of you have any recommendations as to programs that I should try?   Much appreciated,

sid: how to awake the fetchmail daemon?

2002-03-08 Thread Ovidiu Damian
I'm running sid and I have followed the recommendation to run fetchmail as user "fetchmail". I am trying to come up with a shell command to wake up the fetchamil daemon and check my mail while I'm in Mutt. I have added my username to /etc/sudoers like this: ddamian wayfarer = (fetchmail) NOPASSWD:

Trying to get more than one wmnet in wharf

2002-03-08 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
How exactly do you get more than one wmnet fired up and swallowed by wharf? -- Baloo

Re: I thought sound was going to be easy.

2002-03-08 Thread Chris Jenks
At 07:35 PM 3/8/02, Bill Moseley wrote: I've got a Sound Blaster Live! (Value) card, and I can cat .wav files to /dev/audio. But, I was unable to get this (from the sound HOWTO) to work: dd bs=8k count=4 sample.au no errors "recording", but playing the resulting sample.au just makes cracklin

Re: Performance Issues with Spamassassin

2002-03-08 Thread Chris Hilts
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:33:21PM -0500, Anthony and Mary Ann Tantillo wrote: > I have begun using spamassassin (2.01) with razor (1.19) as a mailfilter > in combination with fetchmail (5.9.8), procmail (3.2.2), and exim (3.3.4). > When I fetch a large number of messages (e.g. when I first start

Solved: LARGE fonts on Mozilla/Galeon menus--any fix?

2002-03-08 Thread Paul Mackinney
Paul Mackinney declaimed: > After using a smaller loaner monitor for a few weeks, I'm back to my > old, higher resolution setup in X. But now Mozilla and Galeon are both > using these absolutely huge fonts for their menus, can't find a thing > about this in the docs. Reinstalling didn't help, reclu

Performance Issues with Spamassassin

2002-03-08 Thread Anthony and Mary Ann Tantillo
I have begun using spamassassin (2.01) with razor (1.19) as a mailfilter in combination with fetchmail (5.9.8), procmail (3.2.2), and exim (3.3.4). When I fetch a large number of messages (e.g. when I first startup the computer), response slows to a crawl. If I monitor the processes using top, s

Incorporating testing or unstable

2002-03-08 Thread Craig Sampson
Hello all, Can anyone tell me the process by which I might incorporate specific packages, probably from testing, into stable including the packages (probably) updated dependancies but without totally corrupting my apt database with testing references? My worry is that if I point my apt sources

Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-08 Thread Kent West
Daniel Toffetti wrote: Hi ! I've searched through the archives looking for the correct configuration of a three wheel mouse (in my case, it's a Genius Optical NetScroll+ Eye PS/2) This is what I currently have (working well except for the wheel): Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mous

Re: Kernel question

2002-03-08 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Charles Parker wrote: > I don't see a 2.4 kernel in the stable Debian packages. I've been told it's > usually NOT a good idea to take a kernel directly from kernel.org because it > won't contain the customizations provided by your distribution, and things > will likely break. I

Re: attached: new error output and XF86Config

2002-03-08 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I changed my modules section the way it was suggested and now I get new errors. I'm attaching my output from startx, also attaching my XF86Config. thank you all! XFree86 Version 3.3.6a / X Wi

Re: sudo shell script

2002-03-08 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 08:22:14PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Is there a way to enter ones password for sudo when putting sudo in > a script? Something akin to > > sudo -p mypassword mv /var/log/exim/mainlog . > If the commands are executed within the password timeout, then it'll ask once,

questions about fvwm config, XF86Setup, fonts

2002-03-08 Thread xucaen
Hi all, now that I have X running again, I notice a few things. XF86Setup no longer works. when I select it from my fvwm menu nothing happens. no errors no screen flashing, nothing. My fonts are different. I think some font packages didn't get installed. What are the names of the default font packa

sudo shell script

2002-03-08 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Is there a way to enter ones password for sudo when putting sudo in a script? Something akin to sudo -p mypassword mv /var/log/exim/mainlog . Lance -- Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Massive issues with WMaker and X

2002-03-08 Thread Manoj Mathew
Do you have the package 'menu' installed? mvm. On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 01:42:56PM -0800, Jonathan Ard wrote: > > Ok, so I am having some major issues with Window Maker. When I start it > up, it tells me it can't load the Applications Menu, and that I should > check the output in the terminal t

LDAP+NIS w/PAM question

2002-03-08 Thread nate
I wanted to know if this was possible. I thought I had it working before but I think I had not updated the NIS mappings .. I have a NIS server, and an LDAP server, both have the same userids, but both have different passwords. I want to be able to authenticate off of LDAP or NIS. The problem se

Re: XDMCP Howto? [SOLVED]

2002-03-08 Thread Caleb Shay
Thanks to everyone for your help. I now have it working exactly as I wanted. For those who care, this is what I did to each of the machines. Commented out the servers in the [servers] section of gdm.conf. Added x5:5:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/X -indirect localhost > /var/log/XFree86.log 2>&1 to /et

segfault with postponed and mutt_1.3.27-4_i386

2002-03-08 Thread Mike Fedyk
Maybe the subject change will make more eyes look at the message... If you *haven't* seen this problem yourself, I'd like to know, as well if you have. Mike On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:20:54PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > If I have more than one message postponed, mutt segfaults, this is with mbox

Re: AIM Installation Errors

2002-03-08 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:05:51PM -0500, Bannerman, Israel wrote: > To all: > I downloaded AIm but everything I try to run it I get this: > > aim:error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-lib6.1-1.so.2: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory > > Is

X not starting: solved

2002-03-08 Thread xucaen
Hi all! Thank you all so much for your help! I have X up and running. for some reason my XF86Config file got converted to an Xfree v4 config file even though I didn't install v4. I copied in one of my backup's and that worked. Also another problem that I was not anticipating: "fvwm" has changed to

Re: Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-08 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:42:43PM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > For a file manager, use rox. If your friend is comfortable with a text > > interface, emelfm should be very good. > > Which package is rox in? An "apt-cache search" turns up lots of proxies > and the roxen

Re: ssl for webmin

2002-03-08 Thread Tim Moss
Apparently, on Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 12:37:11AM +, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > > Any ideas why enabling SSL support for webmin through the webmin browser > > doesn't work? I have uninstalled and reinstalled webmin many times > > thinking something just must not have gotten installed right, but t

Re: Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-08 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 06:18:20AM +0800, csj wrote: > > I have this one installed. Somehow I don't know how the tabs work. Are > they just fancy decorations? Are they anything like Galeon's or Opera's > tabs? > Let me elaborate. Under Fluxbox -> Configuration, Enable Sloppy Win

Re: BSD or System V

2002-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 01:59:35PM -0500, Jorge Escalante wrote: > Is Debian based on BSD or SysV? There are elements of both. Linux systems tend to veer towards System V (e.g. initscripts), but there are lots of BSD influences (for example, ps is a mix of both). -- Colin Watson

Re: Woody

2002-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:54:56PM -0300, C?sar Augusto Seronni Filho wrote: > Hi guys, anyone knows any news about the stable release of woody? > How many month we need to wait for it? It's getting there, but I doubt you'll find anyone both informed enough and brave enough to give you a date. See

LARGE fonts on Mozilla/Galeon menus--any fix?

2002-03-08 Thread Paul Mackinney
After using a smaller loaner monitor for a few weeks, I'm back to my old, higher resolution setup in X. But now Mozilla and Galeon are both using these absolutely huge fonts for their menus, can't find a thing about this in the docs. Reinstalling didn't help, recluctant to trash all prefs & start o

Re: Certificate printer software? / turboprint

2002-03-08 Thread David Jardine
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:50:48PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 16:38:54 +0100, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > > >Hi Stan, > > > >turboprint (http://www.turboprint.de) works for many printers and does > >really a good job. However, it is not free software. > >There is a version

I thought sound was going to be easy.

2002-03-08 Thread Bill Moseley
I've got a Sound Blaster Live! (Value) card, and I can cat .wav files to /dev/audio. But, I was unable to get this (from the sound HOWTO) to work: dd bs=8k count=4 sample.au no errors "recording", but playing the resulting sample.au just makes crackling noises. I'm finding the HOWTOs a bit

Re: ssl for webmin

2002-03-08 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> Any ideas why enabling SSL support for webmin through the webmin browser > doesn't work? I have uninstalled and reinstalled webmin many times > thinking something just must not have gotten installed right, but that's > apparently not the issue. > > I should note that there are no firewalls b

Re: BSD or System V

2002-03-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Mar-2002 Jorge Escalante wrote: > Is Debian based on BSD or SysV? > sysV.

ssl for webmin

2002-03-08 Thread curtis
Any ideas why enabling SSL support for webmin through the webmin browser doesn't work? I have uninstalled and reinstalled webmin many times thinking something just must not have gotten installed right, but that's apparently not the issue. I should note that there are no firewalls between the

BSD or System V

2002-03-08 Thread Jorge Escalante
Is Debian based on BSD or SysV? My Computer's Opinion ~~ if( desire == play_games() ){return getNintendo64();} if( (desire == computing() ) (user != smart) ) {return getMicrosoft();} if( ( desire == computing() )(user == smart) ){return getLinux();}

Re: Basic linux network questions (long)

2002-03-08 Thread Heather Stern
Richard Wurdack wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > I figured out at least one problem: There's a typo in the Linux networking > HOWTO. In resolve.conf (I erroneously said route.conf, below), 'nameserver' > doesn't have a space! I somehow stumbled across the correct

Re: Recording in stereo

2002-03-08 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Verify with a mixer that line-in is selected as a recording source. Bob On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:35:27PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Hi, > > I am facing some problem while recording from my tape player. My set up > is as follows: > >Kernel 2.4.18, Debian woody, >alsa 0.9beta10 >

Re: Missing ICQ features / anyone seen those?

2002-03-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 16:10, Balazs Javor wrote: > There are two features I've been missing / would like to have > in ICQ, but I havn't found any implementation with either... > So I thought I bring this up, maybe somebody knows one, > or gets an idea for implementing one :) > > 1. The Windows cl

Re: Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-08 Thread James Mayer
> Weird. Is it a laptop CPU? or underclocked? Laptop CPU. Intel's developer documentation agrees with you, though regarding the desktops... -- Excellent day for putting Slinkies on an escalator.

Re: Modules suddenly missing

2002-03-08 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:37:06PM +1100, Graham Williams wrote: > About a week ago I updated a Debian box, running a custom kernel > 2.4.16, with a dist-upgrade in unstable (it's been running unstable > for a long time, and this just brought it up to date). > > On the next reboot (a few days late

Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-08 Thread Bob Thibodeau
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 05:58:54PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > On Friday 08 March 2002 18:03, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > The important parts for making the wheel work are > > > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off" > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > > Well, now at least it doesn't crash, but

RE: Basic linux network questions (long)

2002-03-08 Thread Richard Wurdack
I figured out at least one problem: There's a typo in the Linux networking HOWTO. In resolve.conf (I erroneously said route.conf, below), 'nameserver' doesn't have a space! I somehow stumbled across the correct token in a man page somewhere, fixed my resolve.conf, and now I've got name resolutio

Re: Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-08 Thread Brian Nelson
Simon Hepburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson wrote: > > > Those old (FX chipset?) motherboards only have a cacheable area of 64MB, > > so using more than 64MB can actually reduce performance, though I think > > this effect would be less significant on Linux. > > That would be the TX

Re: Massive issues with WMaker and X

2002-03-08 Thread Jonathan Ard
Nevermind. It's fixed. It looks like the problem was with the cpp-2.95 package in sid. I had no /lib/cpp file. I just upgraded and it looks like that file has been put back in. I guess that is what I get for running unstable :-( Jonathan On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 13:42, Jonathan Ard wrote:

Re: Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-08 Thread Brian Nelson
James Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:05:29AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > "Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > [snip] > > > Hardware: > > > - Motherboard. Carbon-16 didn't work, so it must be old. > > > - 133 MHz Pentium (probably MMX) > > > >

Re: Kernel question

2002-03-08 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Charles" == Charles Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> I don't see a 2.4 kernel in the stable Debian Charles> packages. I've been told it's usually NOT a good idea to Charles> take a kernel directly from kernel.org because it won't Charles> contain the customizations

Re: Basic linux network questions (long)

2002-03-08 Thread Heather
> Hello, > > Sorry for the cross-post, but this thread has generic and laptop related > issues. > > I installed Potato (running the default 2.2.19 kernel) on an IBM 600e > Thinkpad about a month ago. I seem to have clobbered something > > This problem list is in chronological order. I'm not (

Re: Certificate printer software? / turboprint

2002-03-08 Thread Gary Turner
On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 16:38:54 +0100, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: >Hi Stan, > >turboprint (http://www.turboprint.de) works for many printers and does really >a good job. However, it is not free software. >There is a version which does not cost anything and is ok for many purposes. >The full versi

Re: courier-imap setup

2002-03-08 Thread Jens Gecius
"Shri Shrikumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>I'm having some trouble getting courier-imap to work on my unstable >>box. (courier-imap-ssl is currently not installable due to >>dependency-problem, I filed a bug already). >> >>So, I installed it, and tried to connect with gnus and >>netscape-messe

No DSP

2002-03-08 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I have a problem I have never been able to resolve. If I compile my kernel with SB16 support I get a dsp driver that allows me to play sound. If I compile a kernel with SB16 as a module I am not able to use the DSP, even after I load SB16 with modprobe. I just got a Midiman 66, but I still have

Re: no mouse in console

2002-03-08 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
| Managed to get a fresh install of woody running but have no mouse in console mode. Mouse works in X. | I remember being asked where the mouse was and choosing psaux. It was just a guess. How can I debug this? The gpm man page isn't particularly helpfull. | I do see /var/run/gpm.pid. But have

Missing ICQ features / anyone seen those?

2002-03-08 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, There are two features I've been missing / would like to have in ICQ, but I havn't found any implementation with either... So I thought I bring this up, maybe somebody knows one, or gets an idea for implementing one :) 1. The Windows client allow for a pseudo chat like view of the messages ex

Re: Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:05:29AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > "Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [snip] > > Hardware: > > - Motherboard. Carbon-16 didn't work, so it must be old. > > - 133 MHz Pentium (probably MMX) > > Probably not. I believe 166 MHz was the slowest Pentium-M

Re: Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-08 Thread csj
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 21:27:47 +0530 "Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try fluxbox. It is fast and light. I particularly like its tabbed > window arrangement. I have this one installed. Somehow I don't know how the tabs work. Are they just fancy decorations? Are they anything like Galeon

Re: Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-08 Thread Petro
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 08:42:43AM -0800, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:27:47PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:57:58PM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > >> - Mail client - sylpheed? (there was a discussion on debian-user > about > >> this

Massive issues with WMaker and X

2002-03-08 Thread Jonathan Ard
Ok, so I am having some major issues with Window Maker. When I start it up, it tells me it can't load the Applications Menu, and that I should check the output in the terminal to see what the problem is. Unfortunately, I am running wdm, so I don't have a terminal to look at. So, I stopped wdm,

Re: Kernel question

2002-03-08 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 20:49, Scott Henson wrote: > You need to dist-upgrade to woody if you want a 2.4.x kernel. Wrong. See other post in thread Also > cooking your own kernel from kernel.org sources work just fine. There > shouldn't be anything wrong with it. You need new modutils and pos

Re: Kernel question

2002-03-08 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 19:52, Charles Parker wrote: > I don't see a 2.4 kernel in the stable Debian packages. http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html -- I did not vote for the Austrian government

Re: TV over LAN?

2002-03-08 Thread Peter De Wachter
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 09:25:51PM +0100, Timo --Blazko-- Boewing wrote: > in my LAN i have running a gateway, a workstation and a laptop. The > workstation is equipped with a TV card (BT878) and works just fine. > Is there a way to view TV on my laptop by using the PC and the LAN? VideoLAN sounds

Basic linux network questions (long)

2002-03-08 Thread Richard Wurdack
Hello, Sorry for the cross-post, but this thread has generic and laptop related issues. I installed Potato (running the default 2.2.19 kernel) on an IBM 600e Thinkpad about a month ago. I seem to have clobbered something This problem list is in chronological order. I'm not (necessarily) looki

RE: TV over LAN?

2002-03-08 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| Hello everyone. This question is not meant that serious, but | nevertheless with interest: | | in my LAN i have running a gateway, a workstation and a laptop. The | workstation is equipped with a TV card (BT878) and works just fine. | Is there a way to view TV on my laptop by using the PC and th

Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-08 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Friday 08 March 2002 18:03, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > The important parts for making the wheel work are > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Well, now at least it doesn't crash, but the wheel doesn't work. > I set mine up on the first try after following the

Re: locale problem

2002-03-08 Thread Simon Hepburn
apt-get install localeconf Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi, > > after upgrading to woody from potato its seems that > I've lost the locale configuration. After installed > the language-dev package and running "dpkg-reconfigure locales", > choosing the "en_US.ISO8859-1" option, I got the message t

Re: Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-08 Thread Simon Hepburn
Brian Nelson wrote: > Those old (FX chipset?) motherboards only have a cacheable area of 64MB, > so using more than 64MB can actually reduce performance, though I think > this effect would be less significant on Linux. That would be the TX chipset. I dont think that the FX,VX Chipsets had this l

Re: Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-08 Thread Brett Parker
> > You do not need gtcd to rip cd's. Install cdparanoia and lame > > (unofficial package). That should do the trick without pulling in the > > gnome libs. > > Is there a GUI for that? So far I've been running gtcd + cdparanoia + > blade myself, with gtcd providing the GUI. grip, tends to do a g

Re: Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-08 Thread James Mayer
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:05:29AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > "Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [snip] > > Hardware: > > - Motherboard. Carbon-16 didn't work, so it must be old. > > - 133 MHz Pentium (probably MMX) > > Probably not. I believe 166 MHz was the slowest Pentium-M

Re: Boottime keymap

2002-03-08 Thread Timo Benk
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:10:06PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > Hi ! > > I've renamed boottime.kmap.gz in /etc/console to boottime.kmap.gz.bak > and copied es.kmap.gz in /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty to > /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz, so that the spanish keymap loads every > time I boot. >

RE: AIM Installation Errors (typeo correction)

2002-03-08 Thread Kristopher Borodiansky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bannerman, Israel writes: > Is there a way to cut and paste an output from rxvt to > paste into an email on Debian? > Kristopher Borodiansky writes: >> Israel, >> >> Please pardon the typeo. The link should be made from >> /usr/lib/libstdc++-

RE: AIM Installation Errors

2002-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 14:14, timothy bauscher wrote: > Than try: > > cp /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 /usr/lib/libstdc++-lib6.1-1.so.2 > > I had the same problem, or similar, > when installing Java. This is how I > solved it, and it works perfectly fine Likewise, I had the same problem. Why

Re: Certificate printer software? / turboprint

2002-03-08 Thread stan
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:38:54PM +0100, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > Hi Stan, > > turboprint (http://www.turboprint.de) works for many printers and does really > a good job. However, it is not free software. > There is a version which does not cost anything and is ok for many purposes. > The

RE: AIM Installation Errors (typeo correction)

2002-03-08 Thread Kristopher Borodiansky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Israel, Please pardon the typeo. The link should be made from /usr/lib/libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so to /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2. Regards, Kristopher Borodiansky - -- Don't read any sky-writing for t

Charset problem

2002-03-08 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Hi, I'm a woody user and I'm having problems with the ISO8859-1 charset, characters like áéíóúçàèèìòù doesn't work in many programs, specially gnome programs. Follow a list of programs that have this problem: - Evolution: When you use one of these chars in the "File as" field of a contact and mod

Re: Kernel question

2002-03-08 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Charles Parker quotation: > I don't see a 2.4 kernel in the stable Debian packages. I've been told it's > usually NOT a good idea to take a kernel directly from kernel.org because > it won't contain the customizations provided by your distribution, and > things will likely break. Not t

Re: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 08/03/02 Manoj Srivastava did speaketh: > I beg to differ. A computer is a marvelous, versatile, > flexible, configurable tool, and, I prefer to actually learn how > to use ones tools. As with everything in life, I prefer to have the choice. I'm using Debian because it's the best,

RE: AIM Installation Errors

2002-03-08 Thread Kristopher Borodiansky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bannerman, Israel writes: > Could you guide me through the steps to do that? I am new to Linux and > haven't learned all that I should know yet. > > Thanks alot!!! > Kristopher Borodiansky writes: >> The way I remedied this was creating a symbolic

Re: Kernel question

2002-03-08 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Rich Puhek quotation: > I don't believe Debian "customizes" the kernel at all. There are > pre-compiled versions available with different options set (see things > like "kernel-image-2.2.19-compact" and "kernel-image-2.2.19-ide" There are also usually some extra patches applied, which I p

RE: AIM Installation Errors

2002-03-08 Thread timothy bauscher
Than try: cp /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 /usr/lib/libstdc++-lib6.1-1.so.2 I had the same problem, or similar, when installing Java. This is how I solved it, and it works perfectly fine now. The alternative would be to download the libraries from Debian via apt-get. Just figure out what pack

Re: mozilla-psm installed but not https

2002-03-08 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Try a few different sites. I'm using mozilla-psm. One night, I went to three banking sites to check my accounts. Two worked, but one rejected me because the browser was identified as Netscape 6 and the site wouldn't believe that I could support 128-bit encryption. It allowed connections with Netsca

Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-08 Thread Bob Thibodeau
The important parts for making the wheel work are Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Every thing else should stay to match your physical device. I set mine up on the first try after following the advice at http://www.koala.ilog.fr/ (boy was I surprised!) make s

Re: Kernel question

2002-03-08 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Charles Parker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... I've been told it's > usually NOT a good idea to take a kernel directly from kernel.org because > it won't contain the customizations provided by your distribution, and > things will likely break. This is usually the case with DeadRat, but

Re: AIM Installation Errors

2002-03-08 Thread Kristopher Borodiansky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Bannerman, Israel writes: > aim:error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-lib6.1-1.so.2: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory > > Hello Israel, The reason for this is that the version of AIM you are attempting to install is

Re: TV over LAN?

2002-03-08 Thread Thomas Hessling
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 17:27, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Last I heard, xhost and X forwarding over ssh were unrelated. You > only need one or the other, and I would recommend using the ssh > solution, as xhost is rather easily exploitable. Sorry if I made a mistake here, I'm not that familiar with th

Re: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-08 Thread John Cichy
On Friday 08 March 2002 13:36, David Jardine wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:12:53AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > >>"Francisco" == Francisco M Marzoa Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Francisco> An elitist... well, if you can configure X from scratch > > Francisco> faster than

Re: Kernel question

2002-03-08 Thread Scott Henson
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 13:52, Charles Parker wrote: > I don't see a 2.4 kernel in the stable Debian packages. I've been told it's > usually NOT a good idea to take a kernel directly from kernel.org because it > won't contain the customizations provided by your distribution, and things > will like

grabing a pseudoterminal

2002-03-08 Thread mpaindav
Hello, I would like to monitor the output of a pseudoterminal in another pseudoterminal. I have an application running in e.g. /dev/pts/0 (I have no control over how this application is started), and I would like to observe it in e.g. /dev/pts/2 If I had control on the application, I would simpl

Re: Kernel question

2002-03-08 Thread Rich Puhek
Charles Parker wrote: > > I don't see a 2.4 kernel in the stable Debian packages. I've been told it's > usually NOT a good idea to take a kernel directly from kernel.org because it > won't contain the customizations provided by your distribution, and things > will likely break. I've also been told

Re: TV over LAN?

2002-03-08 Thread Loren Jordan
I did this a while ago... I am almost afraid to admit this but I used Real Video, set up the free evaluation "limited stream count" server and the "free" producer. The producers input was /dev/bt??? (it's been a while but is the same type of card as yours) and produced to the local server.

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