Still cannot subscribe

2002-03-28 Thread John Lord
Hi there, As mentioned before I have had problems subscribing with a new email addy to various debian lists. I know there have apparently been problems with the server or something, but although it should now work, I still get the same failure. Here's what I get back after confirming my reque

Re: Printer Setup (hp 1100)

2002-03-28 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 29 Mar 2002, Bill Moseley wrote: > Before spending too much time reading dated docs, is their a current > Debian-specific howto/doc on setting up printing? > > I installed magicfilter, and now looking at CUPS, but not sure if they > can be used together - or if they conflict. > > Anyone using

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Re: can't start gdm or login as user

2002-03-28 Thread Dale Hair
Thanks for replying to me direct, the list has about a 4 hour lag time today. > On 2002-03-28 12:03:48, Dale Hair wrote: > > My wife's laptop crashed last night and after restarting gdm will not > > start. I get a message > > > > Server Authorization directory (daemon/ServAuthDir) is set to > >

Re: [OT] Re: CALL FOR HELP

2002-03-28 Thread dave mallery
On 27 Mar 2002, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > =?iso-8859-1?q?=20?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > FROM: MRS MARYAM XXX > > XX COTE D' IVOIRE > > TEL:XXX- XX-XX-XX-XX > > [snip for confidentiality] > > I responded to a similar letter a while back concerning the civil > unrest in Niger

Re: maintenance mode in woody

2002-03-28 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 07:48, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello! > > how can I enter the maintenance mode in woody at boot time, for example for > run e2fsck? > TIA > Marcelo > -- > Marcelo Chiapparini > DFT-IF/UERJ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Should both my IDE CD drives use ide-scsi?

2002-03-28 Thread Bill Moseley
Allow me to follow up with something more specific and less verbose: I have two IDE CDs (CD/DVD in /dev/hdc and CD-R in /dev/hdd). I had /dev/cdrom symlinked to /dev/hdc. /dev/hdc is group "audio" and user "moseley" is part of that group -- I have permissions to read /dev/cdrom (/dev/hdc). xm

Re: can't start gdm or login as user

2002-03-28 Thread Allan Wind
On 2002-03-28 12:03:48, Dale Hair wrote: > My wife's laptop crashed last night and after restarting gdm will not > start. I get a message > > Server Authorization directory (daemon/ServAuthDir) is set to > /var/lib/gdm but this does not exist. Please correct gdm configuration > /etc/gdm/gdm.conf

Re: Openssh protocol 2 for potato < - rather urgent help needed

2002-03-28 Thread Alexander Steinert
> Has anyone any idea where I can find debs for potato for Recent versions > of OpenSSH? I need non-broken protocol 2 but still be able to support > protocol 1. > > Building OpenSSH3.1p1 from source requires an upgrade of OpenSSL. If I > replace the OpenSSL in Potato with version 0.9.6c (from

Re: OT - NFS through firewalls

2002-03-28 Thread Christopher Swingley
David, * David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-Mar-28 12:19 AKST]: > With the setup you describe, I don't believe you should even be able to > ping the NFS server from the clients, much less mount a volume. Try it! I can ping the NFS server, and mount the NFS drive. Both work because the client

midi problem

2002-03-28 Thread Nathan Langford
Hi, I don't know much about midi, so this may be idiotic. I have a Crystal sound card (cs46xx), but doing "modprobe cs46xx; modprobe soundcore" doesn't configure any midi devides. I'd like to be able to use rosegarden and for that playmidi -e has to work. Do I have to get another sound card or

Re: OT - NFS through firewalls

2002-03-28 Thread David Wright
With the setup you describe, I don't believe you should even be able to ping the NFS server from the clients, much less mount a volume. Try it! The trouble is that there is no way for the NFS server to address a client; so while a packet might get to from a client, there is no way it can send a r

Re: maintenance mode in woody

2002-03-28 Thread Paul F. Pearson
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello! > > how can I enter the maintenance mode in woody at boot time, for example for > run e2fsck? > TIA > Marcelo I don't remember how, but you should be able to search for "single user" and find the answer. This isn't Debian specific, BTW,

printing stopped working after package upgrade

2002-03-28 Thread Steffen Evers
Hi! Printing with apsfilter does not work for me any longer after doing my regular package upgrade in woody. I have noticed that lpr, libcups2 and some other printing related packages have changed. The printer does receive data, but is not able to handle it. It seems like that the data that is se

Re: maintenance mode in woody

2002-03-28 Thread Shri Shrikumar
- Original Message - From: "Marcelo Chiapparini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 4:48 PM Subject: maintenance mode in woody > Hello! > > how can I enter the maintenance mode in woody at boot time, for example for > run e2fsck? If u use lilo, when the menu appears,

Re: [OT] Re: CALL FOR HELP

2002-03-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 05:41:37PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > At 03:59 PM 03/27/02 -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > >=?iso-8859-1?q?=20?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> FROM: MRS MARYAM XXX > >> XX COTE D' IVOIRE > >> TEL:XXX- XX-XX-XX-XX > > > >[snip for confidentiality] > > >

Re: maintenance mode in woody

2002-03-28 Thread Billy Sneed
shutdown -F now will force linux to do reboot and run a fsck. Or, at the lilo prompt type "linux single" (assuming your kernel image is labeled "linux" in /etc/lilo.conf) and that'll boot to single user mode. fsck and other diagnostics can be run from there. billy Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:

Re: maintenance mode in woody

2002-03-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Mar-2002 Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello! > > how can I enter the maintenance mode in woody at boot time, for example for > run e2fsck? fsck should be run for you. other wise, if you really need to touch the system at the lilo prompt enter 'linux single'. This will run just enough of

Re: pppoe, rp-pppoe and tkpppoe confusion

2002-03-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 06:37:52PM +0100, Steffen Evers wrote: > pppoe seems to be the same as rp-pppoe. Is this correct? Yes. Source package is same. > If so, why is the GUI interface tkpppoe missing? Is there a separate > package available for it? I could not find it in woody ... No I do not

Re: Alsa and debian

2002-03-28 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Cheryl Homiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi! I am using woody and kernel 2.4.17. I am trying to get alsa running for my > soundblaster live card. > I am not using the debian packages; I am using the source from > alsa-project.org > for 0.9.0beta; I have all packages, drivers, libs and u

Woody install from scratch on 03/27/2002

2002-03-28 Thread Mike Dresser
Just installed Woody from scratch.. Aside from a few minor issues with box characters during install(instead of the box being drawn with high ascii, it used text characters), the install went pretty flawlessly. Hardware is a p120, Data-expert 8661 motherboard, 32 meg ram, 1.6 gig WDC hard drive,

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-28 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hello ! > > Besides, do most Windows apps (Word, > > WordPerfect) allow saving to this format? > > Not saving as such, but it is possible to convert a Word document to > postscript [...description deleted...] there > you are. This is exact the way those 4MB postscript files are created. (compar

pc camera

2002-03-28 Thread a
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Printer Setup (hp 1100)

2002-03-28 Thread Bill Moseley
Before spending too much time reading dated docs, is their a current Debian-specific howto/doc on setting up printing? I installed magicfilter, and now looking at CUPS, but not sure if they can be used together - or if they conflict. Anyone using an HP1100 that can share their experience? Also

Re: with respect to connecting to the internet

2002-03-28 Thread Billy Sneed
First thought: Can you access IP addresses, but not named sites? It could be a simple DNS issue. What's in /etc/resolv.conf? Example: When connected, can you ping 198.186.203.20 ? But not ping debian.org? ~> host debian.org debian.org. has address 198.186.203.20 billy nick wrote: > > >

Re: with respect to connecting to the internet

2002-03-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.28.1638 +0100]: > I don't quite know the nature of the problem, but no data flows from > the connection from either side even when the modem is online please show us the /etc/wvdial.conf file. then, initiate a connection with wvdial and post any

Re: What dumps files like magicCfLHA0 into my $HOME?

2002-03-28 Thread Shri Shrikumar
- Original Message - From: "Mario Vukelic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 6:32 PM Subject: What dumps files like magicCfLHA0 into my $HOME? > All with filenames like magic and contents like > > push graphic-context > viewbox 0 0 26.661 42.525 > affine 0.975207 0 0 0

Alsa with sblive: progress?

2002-03-28 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Ok, I finally found some examples buried deep in the installation guide for the drivers. below is the /etc/modutils/alsa file I made. Howeve, I still get: unable to open /dev/audio: no such device when I try to do anything with sound. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Alsa with sblive: progress?

2002-03-28 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Sorry, forgot the /etc/modutils/alsa file. alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 soundcore alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias snd-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-o

Re: How to install Debian on NEC Versa 6030X with NO floppy, nor a CD-ROM drive?

2002-03-28 Thread Shri Shrikumar
- Original Message - From: "Mr. Jan Hearthstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 9:05 PM Subject: Re: How to install Debian on NEC Versa 6030X with NO floppy, nor a CD-ROM drive? > --- Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > >

can't start gdm or login as user

2002-03-28 Thread Dale Hair
My wife's laptop crashed last night and after restarting gdm will not start. I get a message Server Authorization directory (daemon/ServAuthDir) is set to /var/lib/gdm but this does not exist. Please correct gdm configuration /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and restart gdm. and a blinking cursor. When I pre

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 22:12, Dave Thayer wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 05:26:01PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 21:50, dave mallery wrote: > [...] > > > i havent seen anyone mention XML. both star and open office now use it. > > > it is open by default. > > > > AbiWord us

OT: Netzero (was Re: I want a linux internet connection going thru a win98 box:how??)

2002-03-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* tony brito ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020323 22:14]: > Hello I am a new linux user > > I use netzero as my ISP and pay 9.95 per month! > netzero is installed on my win98 box. > I use a modem for dial-up service to netzero. Last I heard (it has been a while so they may have changed their system) the

Yamaha CDR not working

2002-03-28 Thread John Kerr Anderson
Hello, I have been trying to get a Yamaha CDR drive working using kernel 2.2.18 in a 2.2 version of Potato. I added SCSI support in the kernel, it comes up as recognised. I also put the append statement in lilo (I don't use a modular kernel). I have had the drive working before, but reinstalled

Re: What is neighbour table overlow?

2002-03-28 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 01:33:15PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian on a rather old computer. During > installation I'm getting "neighbour table overflow" messages. > What do these mean and are they serious? The installatiion seems to > continue regardless. It usually

Re: ssh and paswordless login between 2 woody machines

2002-03-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020325 16:26]: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 01:31:37PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 02:14:12PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > I have two woody machines, that I want to be able to use ssh to login from > > > one to the other without having to enter my

OT - NFS through firewalls

2002-03-28 Thread Christopher Swingley
I've got a setup like this: +--+ ++ |NFS | 10.0.0.20|Firewall| 192.168.1.1 ++ |Server|--||+-|Client 1| +--+10.0.0.38 ++|192.168.1.7 ++

Re: [OT] Re: CALL FOR HELP

2002-03-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:07:22PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:59:04PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > > > =?iso-8859-1?q?=20?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > FROM: MRS MARYAM XXX > > > > XX COTE D' IV

Re: SID Images

2002-03-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 09:25:30PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > Is there a SID netinst cd image? Not that I'm aware of ... there is a woody netinst iso image which is probably good enough for what you want to do. I beleive I found it at planetmirror.com ... it's not an "official" debian i

Re: Newbie, configure exim/fetchmail w/ dialup; daemon trouble.

2002-03-28 Thread Steffen Evers
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 23:33, Barry Mathieu wrote: > I removed the /etc/fetchmailrc file, and issued > > /etc/init.d/fetchmail stop > > and then I logged in as root and issued > > dpkg-reconfigure fetchmail-common > > and I made sure a non system wide fetchmail setup was completed. > > Then I

Re: Re: divx codec

2002-03-28 Thread Paolo Falcone
Derek Williams wrote: >On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 03:29, Alberto Vecchiato wrote: >> Hi all. Anoyone knows if it is possible to play divx movies on Linux? >> Any suggestion on the player, where to find codecs, etc.? <--snip--> >I personally prefer mplayer, which can be downloaded from: >http://www.m

maintenance mode in woody

2002-03-28 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello! how can I enter the maintenance mode in woody at boot time, for example for run e2fsck? TIA Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Kernel configuration for Installation kernel (bf2.4)

2002-03-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Olivier ROLAND wrote on Wed Mar 27, 2002 um 07:58:13PM: > There is no equivalent to the "UDMA 66" potato flavor for the woody. bf2.4 is meant to be. > Many users will need PDC202XX and N_HDLC support to install woody via I doubt that there are _many_ users with such combination. > It

FW: What is neighbour table overlow?

2002-03-28 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
This is not a serious error, but a config file is incorrect. If you had looked at ifconfig output, you would have guessed the reasons. Have the below two lines "/etc/network/interfaces" file (no double quotes) "iface lo inet loopback auto lo" If this still doesn't solve the problem, just run the

Alsa and debian

2002-03-28 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hi! I am using woody and kernel 2.4.17. I am trying to get alsa running for my soundblaster live card. I am not using the debian packages; I am using the source from alsa-project.org for 0.9.0beta; I have all packages, drivers, libs and utils and have successfully compiled. The documentation says t

Re: What is neighbour table overlow?

2002-03-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Mar-2002 Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian on a rather old computer. During > installation I'm getting "neighbour table overflow" messages. > What do these mean and are they serious? The installatiion seems to > continue regardless. > > Please reply to me directly since

potato & tomcat4 ???

2002-03-28 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Anybody installed tomcat4 on potato? Yes, I know that it must be done from source. How easy is it to install tomcat4? What are the dependencies? What do you think? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understanding is

problem installing the "woody" release

2002-03-28 Thread Oliver Bender
hi, i want to install the "woody" (testing) release on my alpha-PC; but the installation of the base system fails due to conflicts when trying to install ppp !! does anybody know or even solved this problem ? many thanks ! oliver bender -- --

with respect to connecting to the internet

2002-03-28 Thread nick
I don't know if you can help me, but I now have Debian installed, after some initial hurdles, but sadly, I am unable to connect to the internet. I have tried lynx and have tried mozilla as come with the potato distribution, but whilst I am able to make a connection using wvdial a

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-28 Thread Matthew Twomey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Juhan Kundla wrote: > Ühel ilusal päeval [28.03.2002] kirjutas Jason Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [Skip] > > > Again, on a shared media network (such as ethernet), you're not > > actually balancing the load at all. Only one n

missing seminar pakage in tetex1.0

2002-03-28 Thread Stephen Uhlhorn
I'm trying to use the seminar package that is supposed to be included in tetex1.0 on a potato system, but the directory that is supposed to contain the pakage is empty. There is a link to the seminar directory in the documentation listing, and the drectory exists, but there are no files under t

Routing question, mixed real+private IP network, ARP

2002-03-28 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
Hi folks, I have the following network: 192.168.1.2 +--- eth1 192.168.1.1 |eth0 aaa.bbb.ccc.130 +--- real IP network 192.168.1.3 + Debian Router | | +-aaa.bbb.ccc.129 192.168.1.4 +

Turkish Fonts

2002-03-28 Thread YUFUFI
Hi, It's been 3 months since I've been using only linux (first month rh then debian) 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

Re: samba and netbios question???

2002-03-28 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Your netbios name is usually your hostname. -- Arthur H. Johnson II Catechist, St John Catholic Church, Davison MI USA President, Genesee County Linux Users Group Debian GNU/Linux Advocate On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, axacheng wrote: > Hello List : > > i have a serious problem about samba authenticati

Re: vpn mystery

2002-03-28 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
We usually use FreeS/WAN (an ipsec implimentation) http://www.freeswan.org Its fast, and rock solid secure. Its somewhat of a pain to set up, but there is a rather large community to help with setup. We support FreeS/WAN commercially where I work however: http://www.linuxbox.nu -- Arthur H.

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-28 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 23:10:52 -0500 Jason Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope this clears things up somewhat. What you want isn't > unreasonable, but given the way the underlying ethernet protocol is > designed, and its interaction with IP, the kernel makes some > assumptions that prevent you

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-28 Thread Jason Healy
At 1017330461s since epoch (03/28/02 03:47:41 -0500 UTC), Juhan Kundla wrote: > Ühel ilusal päeval [28.03.2002] kirjutas Jason Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Only one node on an ethernet segment may broadcast at any one time, > This is not completely true. It is quite possible to divide an > ether

divx, codecs and mplayer (thanks!)

2002-03-28 Thread Alberto Vecchiato
Thanks a lot to everyone. Practically all of you suggested mu mplayer, so I've downloaded the CVS snapshot from the homepage and built the debian package as indicated in the documentation. It's very easy to do. Now I'm installing it. I'll tell you if all is ok. Thanks again. Alberto -- To

Re: divx codec

2002-03-28 Thread Derek Williams
On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 03:29, Alberto Vecchiato wrote: > Hi all. Anoyone knows if it is possible to play divx movies on Linux? > Any suggestion on the player, where to find codecs, etc.? > > Thanks in advance for any answer. > > Alberto Vecchiato > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

What is neighbour table overlow?

2002-03-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm trying to install Debian on a rather old computer. During installation I'm getting "neighbour table overflow" messages. What do these mean and are they serious? The installatiion seems to continue regardless. Please reply to me directly since I'm unable to subscribe to this list :)). Anthony

Re: plz help: nautilus does not start!

2002-03-28 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 08:51:46PM +0100, Leonardo Canducci wrote: > I've installed a brand new woody-debian last week. I installed > nautilus too because it worked well under the potato-debian I was > using before. > My problem is: I installed nautilus, nautilus-suggested and > nautilus-extra (str

Re: divx codec

2002-03-28 Thread Ionut Georgescu
www.mplayerhq.hu, avifile.sourceforge.net, xine.sourceforge.net ... try a query on freshmeat.net . The general opinion is that mplayer and xine rule (in this order :)). Ionut On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:29:24AM +0100, Alberto Vecchiato wrote: > Hi all. Anoyone knows if it is possible to play divx

Re: Should both my IDE CD drives use ide-scsi?

2002-03-28 Thread Ionut Georgescu
hi, On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 01:57:58AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > Hello, > The magic works because cdrecord is actually looking for the /dev/sg* devices. You have one /dev/sg for each scsi device on your system, native SCSI or ide-scsi. And if you examine the configuration you'll see that this

Re: Openssh protocol 2 for potato < - rather urgent help needed

2002-03-28 Thread John Kuhn
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:07:16AM +1000, John F wrote: > Hi all! > > Has anyone any idea where I can find debs for potato for Recent versions > of OpenSSH? I need non-broken protocol 2 but still be able to support > protocol 1. > > Building OpenSSH3.1p1 from source requires an upgrade of Open

Re: apt pin-priority and /etc/apt/preferences file

2002-03-28 Thread Ionut Georgescu
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:13:49PM -0800, justin cunningham wrote: > Will these two statements suffice or do I need to also list the packages > installed and give them a Pin-Priority: 100 or; pursuant that I want an > all woody box should I change the Pin-Priority of stable to 95? That > way my

installed TT Fonts now printing with CUPS Fonts print stretched double length

2002-03-28 Thread Wayne Brown
Hi, Could anyone please help with this: I installed the TTF server and fonts last night. And they are working fine. Except when I print now either in Abiword (using the normal AW fonts) the characters appear stretched double length, weird. Never used to. Also tried a test page in CUPS which did wo

Re: Fixing unmet dependencies (Was: Re: General Update Hints Potato->Woody)

2002-03-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 09:12:46AM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > 2. Did a "dselect update" (so that the available file get updated as > well). This doesn't seem to be the case when using "apt-get update". Correct. > 3. Did "apt-get install apt apt-utils dpkg debconf perl". This worked > without an

divx codec

2002-03-28 Thread Alberto Vecchiato
Hi all. Anoyone knows if it is possible to play divx movies on Linux? Any suggestion on the player, where to find codecs, etc.? Thanks in advance for any answer. Alberto Vecchiato -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Should both my IDE CD drives use ide-scsi?

2002-03-28 Thread Bill Moseley
Hello, I have two IDE CD drives, /dev/hdc is DVD player, and /dev/hdd is CD-RW. Through the magic of HOWTOs I have managed now to play audio CDs, play DVDs, and record audio CDs. How it all works is still mostly a mystery. The short question here is, should I uses scsi emulation for both drive

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-28 Thread Juhan Kundla
Ühel ilusal päeval [28.03.2002] kirjutas Jason Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [Skip] > Again, on a shared media network (such as ethernet), you're not > actually balancing the load at all. Only one node on an ethernet > segment may broadcast at any one time, so there could never be a time > where bo

Fixing unmet dependencies (Was: Re: General Update Hints Potato->Woody)

2002-03-28 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! Finally took the time to *try* to upgrade from Potato to Woody. On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote: > [...] > Feel free to post your intermediate results. Ok, here they are. I did the following: 1. Changed /etc/apt/sources.list so that it contains the following entries: deb h

Re: Newbie, configure exim/fetchmail w/ dialup; daemon trouble.

2002-03-28 Thread Glyn Millington
Barry Mathieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I removed the /etc/fetchmailrc file, and issued > /etc/init.d/fetchmail stop Yes but that only stops it, not removes the script - and if something else fires up the script. > and then I logged in as root and issued dpkg-reconfigure > fetchmail-co

Loading OSS

2002-03-28 Thread Bill Moseley
Linux audio still baffles me. AFAIK, I'm not running ALSA or OSS, but audio works. bumby:~# fgrep OSS /boot/config-2.4.17-k7t266 # CONFIG_CHR_DEV_OSST is not set CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m lsmod does not show "sound" loaded (and modconf doesn't show that OSS is loaded, either). But xmms works fine, a

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-28 Thread nate
> Now each of those horizontal lines is a different physical network > segment, each with its own collision domain, so each can run at a full > 10Mb/s independently. And, if you set up a Linux box like this, it will > work exactly as you want it to, with no questions asked! This is what > multi

Re: apt-get update errors

2002-03-28 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:32:10 -0700, Michael Griffis wrote: >Hi All, > >I'm a new Linux user so bear with me if my questions seem elementry. I >am having lots of fun. > >When running apt-get update I receive the following error: > >Failed to fetch >http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/te

Re: SID Images

2002-03-28 Thread Derek Williams
I used the xfs woody cd at: http://people.debian.org/~blade/XFS-Install/ to install my debian sid. I just edited the sources.list file by hand when given a chance to point apt at unstable instead of testing, worked wonderful, and its nice to have the whole system running under XFS. On Wed, 2002-03

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-28 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:28:37 -0600, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > >So, you cram all three 10 Mbit/s network cards into the computer and hook >it up to the network's 10/100 hub on three seperate ports. You run an ftp >server bound to eth0, a web server bound to eth1, and an IRC server bound >to eth2.

Re: Openssh protocol 2 for potato < - rather urgent help needed

2002-03-28 Thread nate
> Hi all! > > Has anyone any idea where I can find debs for potato for Recent versions > of OpenSSH? I need non-broken protocol 2 but still be able to support > protocol 1. > > Building OpenSSH3.1p1 from source requires an upgrade of OpenSSL. If I > replace the OpenSSL in Potato with version 0.9.

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-28 Thread nate
> I've thought up a good example of why somebody might want to put multiple > network cards, in one computer, all on the same network: > > Imagine that you have an existing 100 Mbit/s network, a fast computer not > yet on the network, and three salvaged 10 Mbit/s network cards. Sure, > you could

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-28 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:21:38 -0600 (CST), Richard Cobbe wrote: >Lo, on Wednesday, March 27, Kent West did write: > >> .PDF and postscript are great display formats, but they're not very >> useful for actual editting. Besides, do most Windows apps (Word, >> WordPerfect) allow saving to this for

Re: [OT] Re: CALL FOR HELP

2002-03-28 Thread Gary L. Dolan
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:59:04PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > =?iso-8859-1?q?=20?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > FROM: MRS MARYAM XXX > > XX COTE D' IVOIRE > > TEL:XXX- XX-XX-XX-XX > > [snip for confidentiality] > > I responded to a similar letter a while back concerning th

Re: SID Images

2002-03-28 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Matthew Daubenspeck quotation: > Is there a SID netinst cd image? Not that I know of. It would have to be updated daily, and there would be no guarantee that it would always work. Better to install the latest Woody image, or start from a minimal Potato installation, and then dist-upgrade

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-28 Thread Matthew Twomey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > I think the kernel is applying IP routing rules to ethernet ARP replies. > > I don't think it should be doing this, because an ARP reply is clearly > > related to a physical ethernet address. ARP has nothing to do with IP > > networks, only wit

Re: login via serial console respawns too fast

2002-03-28 Thread Ramesh Panuganty
I think some other device is using your serial port, may be a modem deviceor so. There is also a possibility that your entry in /etc/inittab isincorrect. 'getty' is trying to restart it, but is getting killed. Check thecorrectness of getty with "getty -c /etc/gettydefs"If you have any ppp cl

Re: Newbie, configure exim/fetchmail w/ dialup; daemon trouble.

2002-03-28 Thread Barry Mathieu
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:51:41PM +0100, Steffen Evers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 23:05, Barry Mathieu wrote: > > Fetchmail appears to running as a daemon and executes a query for mail > > every 300 seconds. To attempt to change this, I have a /etc/fetchmailrc > > with t

Re: Setting up virtual users on Courier IMAP?

2002-03-28 Thread jennyw
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 13:02, Angus D Madden wrote: > courier-imap is an IMAP server with maildir support, so it's best used > with qmail. You can use maildirs with postfix, but I have no experience > with that. I'm using courier with postfix now ... I use Procmail to write to the Maildirs. Works

Re: Setting up virtual users on Courier IMAP?

2002-03-28 Thread jennyw
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 12:22, Ramin Motakef wrote: > > > My understanding is that to use virtual users, you need to setup userdb > > > as the authentication method. I did this by changing the authdaemon rc. > > > This works for logging in to the IMAP server, but, unfortunately, I > > > cannot get

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-28 Thread Dave Thayer
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 05:26:01PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 21:50, dave mallery wrote: [...] > > i havent seen anyone mention XML. both star and open office now use it. > > it is open by default. > > AbiWord uses XML, and all the data is "encoded" in text, whereas > OO/S

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-28 Thread Jason Healy
At 1017271717s since epoch (03/27/02 19:28:37 -0500 UTC), Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > So, you cram all three 10 Mbit/s network cards into the computer and hook > it up to the network's 10/100 hub on three seperate ports. Ethernet is a shared medium. If any one of those three cards transmits, the hub

Re: [OT] Re: CALL FOR HELP

2002-03-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:59:04PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > > =?iso-8859-1?q?=20?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > FROM: MRS MARYAM XXX > > > XX COTE D' IVOIRE > > > TEL:XXX- XX-XX-XX-XX > > > > [snip for confidentiality] > > > > I

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-28 Thread Matthew Twomey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well the problem with these scenarios is you can't really do this: Put two (or more) interfaces in the same computer/router on the same multi-access (ethernet) network and assign them IPs in the same subnet. Historically, most platforms wouldn't allow

Re: Kernel Panic help

2002-03-28 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 02:36, Paul Mackinney wrote: > I thought rebuilding my kernel would be routine, but I can't get it to > boot. Here's what I'm doing: > > 1. Installed kernel-image-2.4.18-686. > 2. Copied to the config, modified it take out all the stuff not on my > system and the stuff I'll n