Re: Packages providing a daemon/service and configuration

2002-03-21 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most (all?) packages providing a daemon or other service will start > it when installed, without asking the user first. Is there a reason? > I often want to have such services ready for use (with documentation > and configuration files), but not s

Re: cdda2wav or cdparanoia ?

2002-03-21 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Matthew Daubenspeck quotation: > Would you then use LAME to convert to MP3? I would then use oggenc to convert to Ogg Vorbis, which sounds much better than mp3 and is patent-free. Craig pgp5EmO3sedHo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Almost there!

2002-03-21 Thread John Bruner
Hi, I have received help getting this far, but now am stuck. On my Mac IIfx, I can get to the configuration screen. I tell the installer which keyboard I have. The next thing the installer wants to do is partition the Hard drive. I select that option. When the screen changes, I lose approximately

Re: sound question

2002-03-21 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 07:53:24PM +0100, Malte Thoma wrote: > can anybody tell me, how to set up the soundsystem of my laptop? > I have tryed severalthings, but without success :-( > > lspci says: > 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio > Controller (rev 50) Try

Re: Dual boot default and Compatibility

2002-03-21 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, John Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Well, I've partitioned my harddrive with Partition Magic. > And I am currently downloading Mandrake GNU/Linux, because of everyone's > advice. > > NOW I know this is for DEBIAN GNU/Linux BUT I have to ask in here (because > I don't w

Re: DRI not enabled - Why?

2002-03-21 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: I was running a custom 2.4.13, but someone mentioned it might be a kernel thing, so I upgraded to a custom 2.4.18. Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: Hi Kent, everything you posted looks ok to me. What makes you think DRI _isn't_ enabled? What is the answer if you type 'glxinfo

Re: installing debian

2002-03-21 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Jackie Holster wrote: >Hi, I have been trying to install Debian for a couple of days now, i get > throught the process untill i reach where i have to pick which dictionary i > want to use as a default, when i click which, nothing happens, so i'm It's not a GUI, it's a me

Re: matrox g400 X problem

2002-03-21 Thread Good Times
this was the right thing this led me to read throught he xinerama howto and now things are better than they were before as i now have proper xinerama support thanks on Thu, 21 Mar 2002 Simon Hepburn typed > You are trying to use Xinerama and 3D accel together. They are incompatible. > > Simon

installing debian

2002-03-21 Thread Jackie Holster
Hi, I have been trying to install Debian for a couple of days now, i get throught the process untill i reach where i have to pick which dictionary i want to use as a default, when i click which, nothing happens, so i'm assuming I have picked the wrong keyboard, now with each new install

Exim and MySQL

2002-03-21 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
Does the potato version of Exim (3.12) contain support for MySQL?

RE: Installation of JDK

2002-03-21 Thread Lawrence, Gareth
This worked great thanks and also a big thanks to you Timothy for your post :-) Awesome, G. -Original Message- From: Angus D Madden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 22 March 2002 2:20 p.m. To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Installation of JDK Lawrence, Gareth, Fri, Ma

Re: fstab mounted windows shares

2002-03-21 Thread Matthew Dalton
curtis wrote: > > Question: > > In order to mount at boot windows shares I have the following fstab entry: > > //Server/sharename/home/Serversharesmb > username=user,password=password12 [cut] > Surely there is a way to not have to enter my username and password in > the fstab.

Worked around (was Re: libnss-ldap & woody & openssh, disconnect after login)

2002-03-21 Thread nate
> minor update, I have since tried to recompile OpenSSH 1.2.3(from potato), > OpenSSH 3.0.1 and OpenSSH 3.0.2(from woody) with/without pam and > with/without md5 passwords and the result is the same, the server > segfaults everytime. i worked around it. seems this bug in SSH is only tickled when

Packages providing a daemon/service and configuration

2002-03-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Most (all?) packages providing a daemon or other service will start it when installed, without asking the user first. Is there a reason? I often want to have such services ready for use (with documentation and configuration files), but not started immediately, i.e. not running by default. One exam

Re: cdda2wav or cdparanoia ?

2002-03-21 Thread Matt Garman
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 06:27:20PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: > I can't think of a reason why you *wouldn't* want to use cdparanoia. > I have even been able to extract good (not perfect but good) audio > from CD's that my regular CD-player wouldn't play. Similar story here: my roommate had a C

Re: Desperately trying to understand dselect (seeming inconsistency)

2002-03-21 Thread Russ Pitman
-snip- > It's a long-standing bug in dselect, and has been fixed in CVS. The fix > didn't make it in time for woody, but will be in dpkg 1.10 in woody+1. > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -snip- And sometime soon in unstable ? -- r

Dual boot default and Compatibility

2002-03-21 Thread John Lynch
Hello all, Well, I've partitioned my harddrive with Partition Magic. And I am currently downloading Mandrake GNU/Linux, because of everyone's advice. NOW I know this is for DEBIAN GNU/Linux BUT I have to ask in here (because I don't want to be added to yet another mailing list) and I figure s

Re: Time Zone

2002-03-21 Thread Billy Sneed
Run tzconfig. Comes in libc6 I believe. billy Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > Hi all ... > > i live in Argentina, but my system clock shows Thu Mar 21 23:44:30 EST 2002 > > how can i change it to ART instead of EST? > > TIA > > ~ejg -- You had me at HELO

Re: cdda2wav or cdparanoia ?

2002-03-21 Thread dave mallery
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > > > >Cdparanoia suggests using the SCSI-over-IDE functionality in the kernel to > > >improve its performance, but I find that it works quite well with the > > >plain IDE driver even in the 2.2 kernel. >

Re: Installation of JDK

2002-03-21 Thread timothy bauscher
> The error message I get is > > "Error: failed /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so, > because > libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file > or > directory" as root: cd /usr/lib/ ls libstdc++* | grep so For me this brings up: libstdc++-3-libc6.1-2-2.1

Time Zone

2002-03-21 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Hi all ... i live in Argentina, but my system clock shows Thu Mar 21 23:44:30 EST 2002 how can i change it to ART instead of EST? TIA ~ejg pgpefIAJndzfV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fstab mounted windows shares

2002-03-21 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question: > > In order to mount at boot windows shares I have the following fstab entry: > > //Server/sharename/home/Serversharesmb > username=user,password=password12 > > In order for this to work, of course, the username and passwo

Re: Installation of JDK

2002-03-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:25:28PM +1200, Lawrence, Gareth wrote: > "Error: failed /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so, because > libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > directory" See http://packages.debian.org/, under "Search the contents of pac

Re: Desperately trying to understand dselect (seeming inconsistency)

2002-03-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 02:51:40PM -0500, Michael Marziani wrote: > You didn't really answer my question at all. I know I can 'Q', and 'X' > to get out of the dependency screen, I am wondering why dselect cares so > much about a 'recommend' that it traps me in a dependency screen loop > just becau

Re: dosemu: com port problem partially solved

2002-03-21 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Ok, here's the problem in one sentence. "Need to be suid root to create lock files! Only I thought being in the dialout group got me around this in linux, but apparently not in dosemu. Is there a solution to this? TIA.

Re: Installation of JDK

2002-03-21 Thread Angus D Madden
Lawrence, Gareth, Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:25:28PM +1200: > Greetings All, > > having major troubles installing JDK on Debian - any suggestions would be > appreciated. > > The error message I get is > > "Error: failed /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so, because > libstdc++-libc

Re: Gnome menus, where is config stored?

2002-03-21 Thread Angus D Madden
stan, Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 07:06:48PM -0500: > I have a woody machine that no longer offers me the choice of adding the > gdict applet to my panles. > > I've deleted and readded the gdict package, but that did not fix it. > > So, I thought I'd go take a look at the configs, mmyself. Where are th

Re: mutt + smtp authentication

2002-03-21 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 03:29:26PM -0800, Dave Scott wrote: > I too would like to know how to get through this SMTP auth fieasco, I > have spent much time and got no where. > > So basically, I am still going to try the article, but > > 1) is there a Debian package with the SASL support for Postfi

Re: Kerberos

2002-03-21 Thread David Z Maze
dinni bartholomew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having some trouble building kerberos from the > source ... i keep getting > *** [all-recurse] Error 1 > errors when i try to run make... Which Kerberos? There are three in Debian (KTH krb4, MIT krb5, Heimdal krb5), plus the MIT krb4 distribut

Re: cdda2wav or cdparanoia ?

2002-03-21 Thread DvB
Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > cdda2wav and cdparanoia both run fine to extract the tracks of a CD-audio > what is the advantage to use one rather than another ? > TIA for an advice. > IIRC, cdparanoia is based on cdda2wav and is currently being maintained, whereas cdda2wa

Re: cdda2wav or cdparanoia ?

2002-03-21 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > >Cdparanoia suggests using the SCSI-over-IDE functionality in the kernel to > >improve its performance, but I find that it works quite well with the > >plain IDE driver even in the 2.2 kernel. > > Would you then use LAME to convert to MP3? gogo!

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Installation of JDK

2002-03-21 Thread Lawrence, Gareth
Greetings All, having major troubles installing JDK on Debian - any suggestions would be appreciated. The error message I get is "Error: failed /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so, because libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" I us

fstab mounted windows shares

2002-03-21 Thread curtis
Question: In order to mount at boot windows shares I have the following fstab entry: //Server/sharename/home/Serversharesmb username=user,password=password12 In order for this to work, of course, the username and password are in my case, my Domain Username and Password. T

Re: xterm defaults

2002-03-21 Thread Gerard Robin
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 07:01:52PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello, > > how can I change the default colors for xterm?. I need that the command > "xterm" open a xterminal with the desired colors, instead using "xterm -bg > color", for example. I didn't find this information in the man

Re: sound question

2002-03-21 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Malte Thoma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020322 10:57]: > Hallo, > > can anybody tell me, how to set up the soundsystem of my laptop? > I have tryed severalthings, but without success :-( > > I've got: > Kernel 2.4.18 > > lspci says: > 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97

Re: cdda2wav or cdparanoia ?

2002-03-21 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
At 06:27 PM 3/21/2002, you wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Gerard Robin wrote: > cdda2wav and cdparanoia both run fine to extract the tracks of a > CD-audio what is the advantage to use one rather than another ? TIA > for an advice. I can't think of a reason why you *wouldn't* want to use cdparanoi

Re: cdda2wav or cdparanoia ?

2002-03-21 Thread dave mallery
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > cdda2wav and cdparanoia both run fine to extract the tracks of a CD-audio > what is the advantage to use one rather than another ? > TIA for an advice. > paranoia is much more paranoid about quality, scratches, and jitter. also much slower...

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[FIXED] Mutt displays my message index all wrong

2002-03-21 Thread Tom Cook
Hi all, a week or so ago I was complaining that mutt displayed messages on the wrong line in the message index when accessing an IMAP server. FYI this problem has been fixed by upgrading to woody (and the new mutt, presumably). Thanks to those who offered help, Tom -- Tom Cook Information Techn

Re: make: *** [kernel-image-deb] Error 1

2002-03-21 Thread Alan James
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 03:11:47PM -0800, justin cunningham wrote: > Hello, I am trying to compile a custom 2.4.18 kernel and keep getting > this error: > > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/arch/i386/boot' > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18' > to

Re: cdda2wav or cdparanoia ?

2002-03-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Gerard Robin wrote on Thu Mar 21, 2002 um 10:47:20PM: > Hello, > cdda2wav and cdparanoia both run fine to extract the tracks of a CD-audio > what is the advantage to use one rather than another ? > TIA for an advice. RTFM -- Der Wahnsinn hat Methode!

Gnome menus, where is config stored?

2002-03-21 Thread stan
I have a woody machine that no longer offers me the choice of adding the gdict applet to my panles. I've deleted and readded the gdict package, but that did not fix it. So, I thought I'd go take a look at the configs, mmyself. Where are they stored? In what format? And BTW what's the name of th

Sound works, but not for Gnome

2002-03-21 Thread stan
I have a woody machine with sound working for things like mp4blaster, xwatv, etc. However, even though I have "use sound" check in Gonems configuratior, I'm not geting it's sounds. Sugestiosn -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Re: libnss-ldap & woody & openssh, disconnect after login

2002-03-21 Thread nate
> this is odd. > > I have been deploying LDAP at my company recently, and started going a > bit deeper, this time on a woody machine trying to get libnss-ldap and > libpam-ldap on a woody system. minor update, I have since tried to recompile OpenSSH 1.2.3(from potato), OpenSSH 3.0.1 and OpenSSH 3

Re: cdrw

2002-03-21 Thread dave mallery
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, jeff wrote: > hello folks... > > i'm trying to get my cdwriter to be recognized under > debian... > > seems like i can mount the /cdrom no prob... > > any pointers on how to create a device for the writer? it > seems to detect it ok at boot but i can't mount the > sucker

Re: No puedo bootear Debian.

2002-03-21 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> On Wednesday 31 December 1969 21:00, Daniel wrote: Yes, this is strange, I see a different date here... can somebody explain why ? -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is no spoon...' - The Matrix Running the bleeding edge Debian Sid version 3.0 Linux luni 2.4.13 #1 SMP Sun Oct 28 18:30:53

Re: cdda2wav or cdparanoia ?

2002-03-21 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Gerard Robin wrote: > cdda2wav and cdparanoia both run fine to extract the tracks of a > CD-audio what is the advantage to use one rather than another ? TIA > for an advice. I can't think of a reason why you *wouldn't* want to use cdparanoia. I have even been able to extract

RE: mutt + smtp authentication

2002-03-21 Thread Dave Scott
I too would like to know how to get through this SMTP auth fieasco, I have spent much time and got no where. So basically, I am still going to try the article, but 1) is there a Debian package with the SASL support for Postfix out there that I can install? 2) is there an easier solution, other t

Re: No puedo bootear Debian.

2002-03-21 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hola Daniel ! En esta lista solamente se esribe en inglés, si quieres escribir en español intenta en la lista [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Hola quisiera saber si alguien ha instalado, Debian Potato o Woody > en un PPC o iMac, ya que yo no lo he conseguido tengo un iMac con las > siguientes caracterist

kernel compile will not stop

2002-03-21 Thread p
debs, i'm trying to compile a kernel, but it will not stop compiling. compile method: --- the debian way -- 1) make meunconfig 2) make-kpkg clean 3) make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image kernel: --- 2.4.0 (i know, it's old, but it w

kernel compile complaint make: *** [kernel-image-deb] Error 1

2002-03-21 Thread justin cunningham
Sorry, this is an up-to-date woody box with ii kernel-package 7.99. justin

make: *** [kernel-image-deb] Error 1

2002-03-21 Thread justin cunningham
Hello, I am trying to compile a custom 2.4.18 kernel and keep getting this error: make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/arch/i386/boot' make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18' touch stamp-build need root priviledges make: *** [kernel-image-deb] Error 1 I don

Re: REMOVE ME FROM ALL MAIL LISTS

2002-03-21 Thread John Lord
Hi Paul On 17-Mar-02, you wrote: >> ATM I have to d/l mails on one side of my system, forward the >> interesting ones to my Debian side. Then boot into Debian to >> continue. If someone could tell us why it is so hard to do a simple >> sub/unsub, or correct this I would be very gratefull. > On

RE: [OT] Redefinition of Black Market [was Re: Screen-free Linux?]

2002-03-21 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| > If you sell me a piece of kit you very legally own, and I pay you in | > cash, that's black market : no trace, no taxes paid. The property traded | > is not necessarily illegal, it's just that the transaction is not | > visible to the State. | | Am I a business, or just a regular Joe? | | If I'

Re: No puedo bootear Debian.

2002-03-21 Thread Seneca Cunningham
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: No puedo bootear Debian. > > Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1904 01:00:41 -0600 > > Ok, a few hours delay in delivering messages is understandable, but this is a > bit much. No wonder

Re: Window Manager Probs *sigh*

2002-03-21 Thread dave mallery
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, SJ wrote: > I'm really not sure what I did wrong, but... > > After doing an apparently clean install of debian linux on a > new system, Gnome does not come up Window Maker does. I > know we installed Gnome but it's not even in the list of > Window Managers to switch to (actu

gnome fonts vs ximian fonts

2002-03-21 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi, why the ximian-gnome fonts look more sharp than the gnome fonts shipped with woody? TIA Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xterm defaults

2002-03-21 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello, how can I change the default colors for xterm?. I need that the command "xterm" open a xterminal with the desired colors, instead using "xterm -bg color", for example. I didn't find this information in the man pages. Thank you Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: kernel panic

2002-03-21 Thread Mark Janssen
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 21:42, Pier wrote: > My kenel (2.4.18) panic. > Request_module[block-major-3]:Root fs not mounted > VFS:Cannot open root device "301" or 03:01 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:01 > > I'm afraid that (as I read it)

Re:rw

2002-03-21 Thread Gerard Robin
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:20:50PM -0500, jeff wrote: > hello folks... > > i'm trying to get my cdwriter to be recognized under > debian... > seems like i can mount the /cdrom no prob... > any pointers on how to create a device for the writer? it > seems to detect it ok at boot but i can't m

cdda2wav or cdparanoia ?

2002-03-21 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, cdda2wav and cdparanoia both run fine to extract the tracks of a CD-audio what is the advantage to use one rather than another ? TIA for an advice. -- Gerard

ftp behaving strangely

2002-03-21 Thread Jason Stechschulte
We have a server that has been running ftpd for quite a while now. This week for some reason we can only ftp to it using passive mode. If we try to access it without using passive mode we get this: ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. 425 Can't create data socket (X.X.X.X,20): Address already in

Re: No puedo bootear Debian.

2002-03-21 Thread Bill Moseley
> From: Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: No puedo bootear Debian. > Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1904 01:00:41 -0600 Ok, a few hours delay in delivering messages is understandable, but this is a bit much. -- Bill Moseley

Kerberos

2002-03-21 Thread dinni bartholomew
I am having some trouble building kerberos from the source ... i keep getting *** [all-recurse] Error 1 errors when i try to run make... Please advise

Re: (hard drive not recognized)

2002-03-21 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, egemen wrote: > Hi, > I have problem with my Caleb it 144 MB UHD drive, > > my comp. did not recognize the drive > Can you help me? > Seems like a pretty old drive. Are you sure the drive still works? So you can't get your BIOS to recognize your drive.

Re: KDE problem

2002-03-21 Thread Corrin Lakeland
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 03:11, Wim Uyttebroek wrote: > KDE won 't launch anymore, it stops with Initializing > System Services... > Gnome does work ! Hello. Probably thh problem is that KDE crashed and left behind some files in /tmp (/tmp/dcop* to be precise). Until these files are deleted KDE will

Re: Desperately trying to understand dselect (seeming inconsistency)

2002-03-21 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Karsten M. Self quotation: > Otherwise, aptitude's interface is a vast, vast improvement over > dselect. I still occasionally drop into dselect, but do most of my > package selection from the command line with 'apt-get install foo'. I tend to use dselect for most things. For my daily Sid

Re: dosemu: com port problem partially solved

2002-03-21 Thread Herbert Xu
Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I discovered that my com ports work as root, but I'm not sure how to get > access > myself. My ttySx are currently set for root and dialout, and this isn't a > problem in linux since i am a member of dialout. However, I have tried > resetting > permissio

kernel panic

2002-03-21 Thread Pier
My kenel (2.4.18) panic. the boot message is : Request_module[block-major-3]:Root fs not mounted VFS:Cannot open root device "301" or 03:01 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:01 I'm afraid that (as I read it) the problem comes from my moth

RE:

2002-03-21 Thread Drew M Levitt
GET A NEW HARD DRIVE... THE CURRENT MODEL IS A 120GB not 144Mb   :)   have a nice day -Original Message-From: egemen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 3:17 PMTo: debian-user@lists.debian.orgSubject:     Hi,     I have problem with my Caleb

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Re: dosemu: com port problem partially solved

2002-03-21 Thread Alan James
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:00:25AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Hi Phil and list! > I discovered that my com ports work as root, but I'm not sure how to get > access > myself. My ttySx are currently set for root and dialout, and this isn't a > problem in linux since i am a member of dialout. Howe

Re: ncurses HeLP

2002-03-21 Thread Alan James
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 10:08:48AM -0600, Ronneil Camara wrote: > > And also, I am doing the traditional way of compiling the kernel, make > menuconfig, make dep clean modules_install bzImage > > Will this work on debian? It'll work but you might find it easier to: make menuconfig make-kpkg k

Unidentified subject!

2002-03-21 Thread yufufi
Hi, It's been 3 months since I've been using only linux on my pc and only problem left with is using turkish fonts. I tried lots of things but I have nothing! (for X) The doc on www.linuxdoc.org is for red-hat distro which actually doesn't work for red-hat 7.1 & 7.2 at all. I think it is very ol

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2002-03-21 Thread egemen
    Hi,     I have problem with my Caleb it 144 MB UHD drive,       my comp. did not recognize the drive     Can you help me?       Best Regards,     Ismail

RE: Desperately trying to understand dselect (seeming inconsistency)

2002-03-21 Thread Michael Marziani
You didn't really answer my question at all. I know I can 'Q', and 'X' to get out of the dependency screen, I am wondering why dselect cares so much about a 'recommend' that it traps me in a dependency screen loop just because I don't want to take its 'recommendation'. So does recommend = require

what the heck is this ? Syslog: meminfo

2002-03-21 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi, in one machine with kerlnel 2.2.19 with cipe modules, the syslog is showing this Mar 20 17:10:26 atila kernel: Mem-info: Mar 20 17:10:26 atila kernel: Free pages: 109752kB Mar 20 17:10:26 atila kernel: ( Free: 27438 (254 508 762) Mar 20 17:10:26 atila kernel: NonDMA: 10*4kB 8*8kB 7*16

Re: Desperately trying to understand dselect (seeming inconsistency)

2002-03-21 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Michael Marziani quotation: > I finally took the dselect plunge. Aptitude is far easier, but I heard > dselect can be more effective once it's mastered. dselect has a rather odd UI, but it's a very effective tool, with just one little exception... > ... but when I try to un-select > som

Re: tiny mouse howto - console gpm, X and mouse wheel

2002-03-21 Thread timothy bauscher
Carel, thank you for your suggestions. The wheel is working beautifully now. > > Well, i reinstalled gpm and install imwheel, > > because someone mentioned gpm might require > > imwheel??? My mouse still works, but not the > > No imwheel needed! Okay. > > A snip of my XF86Config-4 file: > > > >

Re: Desperately trying to understand dselect (seeming inconsistency)

2002-03-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Mar 21, 2002, Michael Marziani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I finally took the dselect plunge. Aptitude is far easier, but I heard > dselect can be more effective once it's mastered. The primary difference: dselect walks you through package "recommends" options. Generally, once you've g

Re: Mozilla X Opera

2002-03-21 Thread francisco m neto
» Assim falou Luis Alberto Garcia Cipriano em Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:59:55AM -0300: > Em geral, as fontes minúsculas são culpas dos "web designers" que adoram > colocar > CSS ou font tags fixando o tamanho em pixels, como se todos os monitores > estivessem numa mesma resolução padrão...

Re: Re: Lilo and kernel problems

2002-03-21 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 16:38:48 +, you wrote: >Mikko Heinonen wrote: > >> Hello ! >> >> I've got a terrible problem regarding kernel installation. I tried to >> install a newer 2.4 kernel to the recent stabile (2.2R5) installation and >> got the system badly messed up. (I compiled kernel couple t

Re: Where I Can Find OpenSSH+OpenLDAP Documents?

2002-03-21 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I installed libnss-ldap in woody, copied /usr/share/doc/libnss-ldap/examples/nsswitch.ldap to /etc/nsswitch.conf. in /etc/libnss-ldap.conf, the remote ldap server information is defined, and /etc/nsswitch.conf defines that: # the following two lines obv

Re: [OT] Redefinition of Black Market [was Re: Screen-free Linux?]

2002-03-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Mar 18, 2002, Jean-Marc V. Liotier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 20:42, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Apparently so. It's been 60ish years since WW2, the economy still > > functions, and taxes aren't confiscatorialy high (yet), so for us, > > the underground (or black) marke

sound question

2002-03-21 Thread Malte Thoma
Hallo, can anybody tell me, how to set up the soundsystem of my laptop? I have tryed severalthings, but without success :-( I've got: Kernel 2.4.18 lspci says: 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) I would like to use alsa, but haven't fou

Re: tiny mouse howto - console gpm, X and mouse wheel

2002-03-21 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:03:34PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: ... > Well, i reinstalled gpm and install imwheel, > because someone mentioned gpm might require > imwheel??? My mouse still works, but not the No imwheel needed! ... > A snip of my XF86Config-4 file: > > Identifier "Mouse1" > D

Desperately trying to understand dselect (seeming inconsistency)

2002-03-21 Thread Michael Marziani
I finally took the dselect plunge. Aptitude is far easier, but I heard dselect can be more effective once it's mastered. Ok.. For some strange reason dselect had a bunch of crap selected that I have no idea where it came from when I first entered dselect after a brand new minimum install. So I'

Weird keymap problem

2002-03-21 Thread Carel Fellinger
Tired of stretching my fingers to reach for the control key I thought of using my thumb instead, so I defined the right alt key to function as an extra control key. But this doesn't fully work! And it doesn't matter whether I try this in X with xkeycaps and copying the left Control key onto the r

Re: ncurses HeLP

2002-03-21 Thread Billy Sneed
Ronneil Camara wrote: > Thanks. Welcome. > Just wondering why you said "on an unstable box"? My computer is running unstable. The libs may be a different version on a potato box. Either way, it'll be libncurses[n]-dev. 'apt-cache search libncurses' will show you what your options are. > And al

Re: Updating glibc 2.1.3-19 to glibc 2.2.5-3 on potato

2002-03-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 09:09:03AM -0800, dinni bartholomew wrote: > I am new to debian... > I keep having problems whenever I want to install an app on this host > because of glibc dependancies...This is an out the box debian potato > install and as a result has glibc 2.1.3-19 many of the applic

Re: Broken vim man pages in potato

2002-03-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:03:25PM -0500, Michael Marziani wrote: > Did a apt-get install of vim on a minimum install of potato 2.2r5, then > used update-alternatives --config vi and selected vim. Now when I do a > 'man vi' I get: > > man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1.gz is a dangling symli

Re: cdrw

2002-03-21 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, jeff wrote: > hello folks... > > i'm trying to get my cdwriter to be recognized under > debian... > > seems like i can mount the /cdrom no prob... > That's nice. > any pointers on how to create a device for the writer? it > seems to detect it ok at boot but i can't mou

Re: dosemu: com port problem partially solved

2002-03-21 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hi! I already _am_ a member of dialout!

RE: checkpoint fw1 on debian

2002-03-21 Thread Ronneil Camara
Hi guys, And also, i need to install libcpc++-libc6.1-2.so-3 what file should i install? Thanks. > -Original Message- > From: Ronneil Camara > Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 11:07 AM > To: Robert Waldner; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: checkpoint fw1 on debian > > > Hi g

cdrw

2002-03-21 Thread jeff
hello folks... i'm trying to get my cdwriter to be recognized under debian... seems like i can mount the /cdrom no prob... any pointers on how to create a device for the writer? it seems to detect it ok at boot but i can't mount the sucker... TIA -jeff

Updating glibc 2.1.3-19 to glibc 2.2.5-3 on potato

2002-03-21 Thread dinni bartholomew
I am new to debian... I keep having problems whenever I want to install an app on this host because of glibc dependancies...This is an out the box debian potato install and as a result has glibc 2.1.3-19 many of the applications that i want to install require at least glibc 2.2.X. Is there some

Re: dosemu: com port problem partially solved

2002-03-21 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Hi Phil and list! > I discovered that my com ports work as root, but I'm not sure how to get > access > myself. My ttySx are currently set for root and dialout, and this isn't a > problem in linux since i am a member of dialout. However, I have t

RE: checkpoint fw1 on debian

2002-03-21 Thread Ronneil Camara
Hi guys, Ok. I've finally setup my debian. I got one question though. I have with me a SP5 and the command on redhat to install it is rpm -i --replacefiles something*.rpm What would this be in alien? Thank you very much again. Neil > -Original Message- > From: Robert Waldner [mailto:

Broken vim man pages in potato

2002-03-21 Thread Michael Marziani
Title: Message Did a apt-get install of vim on a minimum install of potato 2.2r5, then used update-alternatives --config vi and selected vim.  Now when I do a 'man vi' I get:   man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1.gz is a dangling symlink   'man vim' works just fine.  I checked and the ma

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