Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry

2002-06-18 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 21:03, Matthew Dalton wrote: > What does your BIOS think the size and geometry of your drive are? Bios believes CHS is 2495/255/63, and size is about 2e10 bytes (I didn't write down the exact number). > I'm thinking the problem is that Linux is getting confused by the > BI

Woody install insists on using Potato packages

2002-06-18 Thread Grant Edwards
Hi all, I've been trying to install Woody (using both the vanilla and bf floppy series downloaded on Saturday 15 June) for several days now. If I've counted correctly, I'm on my 7th attempt. :) The first several failed due to unresponsive http servers, and the next few ended in dselect hell wher

Re: most secure services (DNS, Web, Mail)

2002-06-18 Thread nate
> Hi All, > > Ive finally decided to venture and let people see my machine permanently > connected to the net. This machine is of course running debian. It is > running testing as of a couple of months or so. I plan to let it go into > woody and stay there (upgraded to woody so many months ago pri

Re: Where are the GAIM sounds?

2002-06-18 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 15:30, Nick Traxler wrote: > Subject says it all. I listed gaim, gaim-common, and gaim-gnome. > None of them seem to have any sounds, so am I missing a package, or are > they not in the debian version? I'm using unstable. My gaim uses esd. Do you have that properly configure

Re: building Postgresql

2002-06-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:43:28PM -0600, Jorge Santos wrote: | So, I was building postgresql from source (via debian/rules build) | when it failed due to a missing header file, so I apt-got the package | which contained the file reran the build and got the following: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian/

xemacs background won't show an .xpm file

2002-06-18 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
I posted this question to the xemacs list. No one has responded, so I thought I'd try here: I recently bought a new PC and installed Debian 3, XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 from a Debian package. On my Red Hat box, I was able to display a pixmap, grey.xpm, as the background in xemacs. For a screen

Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry

2002-06-18 Thread Matthew Dalton
Aaron Maxwell wrote: > shiznit:~# df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 11G 4.5G 6.0G 43% / > /dev/hda2 926M 65M 814M 8% /mnt/hda2 > > Note that: > 1) /dev/hda2 is smaller than it should be. > 2) /dev/hda3 could not be m

Re: Can't get audio to work

2002-06-18 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 12:41 am, you wrote: > The 'K7' builds are only for us who run AMD Athlons. I thought I > made this point in my previous message, but obviously not. Not sure what you mean. Last I heard the Duron, Thunderbird, and XP are all part of the Athlon product line. I have a 950

OS hallucinates hard drive geometry

2002-06-18 Thread Aaron Maxwell
Hi, I'm running woody with kernel 2.4.18. (This is a custom kernel - I downloaded the source, and built it with make-kpkg.) My hard drive is 20 GB with three primary partions: Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1459 11719386 83 Linux

Re: Can't get audio to work

2002-06-18 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 12:25 am, you wrote: > As far as what's next, what happens when you try and play an mp3 > file? Whether via xmms or mpg123, you should get some meaningful > output. "Failed to open sound device." libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or d

Re: Letting users look at a read-only FS

2002-06-18 Thread Dale Hair
> Wouldn't umask=007 be better? Otherwise the gid part is redundant since > the group really doesn't matter if other has the same permissions as > group... I don't remember how I came up with this line, it was several months ago, looking at it now what you say makes sense. I think I tried umas

Re: Can't get audio to work

2002-06-18 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
> > in effigy. They won't blame Red Hat. After all, it was my > > decision to upgrade to 7.3. Not Red Hat's. > > Glen, could I interest you in apt-rpm ?? It's a rather sweet > package for your RH boxes. No. Downloading the rpms isn't the problem. The constant upgrades are. I need a

Re: SOLVED! sound problems...

2002-06-18 Thread Steven Yap
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 11:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > All I needed to do the entire time was to set permissions on /dev/dsp0! You shouldn't need to change the permissions for /dev/dsp0 or any of the audio devices. Merely add yourself to the "audio" group (as root): adduser yourUserId au

Backup utilities

2002-06-18 Thread Jorge Santos
Hello, I'm looking for recommendations on backing up the home directories here at work. The scenario is as follows: I have several work stations mounting their homes from a central server via NFS so I don't think I'll be needing anything sophisticated, I could use tar and a cron job but I rather

building Postgresql

2002-06-18 Thread Jorge Santos
So, I was building postgresql from source (via debian/rules build) when it failed due to a missing header file, so I apt-got the package which contained the file reran the build and got the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian/rules build ~/package

Bringing up an interface without an IP address

2002-06-18 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi, I have a requirement for an IDS, that the interface it listens on be up, and in promiscuous mode without an IP address assigned to it. I'm trying to work out how best to achieve this, preferably, doing it "the Debian way". >From reading interfaces(5) there appears to be no way to directly sti

Re: Letting users look at a read-only FS

2002-06-18 Thread Travis Crump
Dale Hair wrote: I use this line but there may be a better way. /dev/sda1/win2k ntfsdefaults,users,ro,umask=0,gid=6 0 0 Wouldn't umask=007 be better? Otherwise the gid part is redundant since the group really doesn't matter if other has the same permissions as group... --

simple (?) post install 2.2r6 problems

2002-06-18 Thread jani . pohjanraito
Ok, I managed to get my potato baked, and despite some problems with Xwindows I got that as well as gnome running (with mouse!).. ..however there are a few things that didn't quite work out properly. - Xwindows starts up into 640 x 480 8 bit color mode. It should run 32 bit colors under 1280 x 10

RE: make-kpkg problem?

2002-06-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Does anyone know what this means? I've been using make-kpkg for over a > year with no problems, but this started happening a week or so ago. > try doing a make-kpkg clean and then starting it again. Remember that after a clean you must run it with the --revision switch if you want to add a

Re: How to report a Bug (Which Package?)

2002-06-18 Thread Rox de Gabba
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 03:22, Bob Proulx wrote: > > I have just installed woody from scratch (due to trying ext3fs); > > and then I run "tasksel". I selected "X11"; and then choose > > "kdm" out of "xdm", "gdm", and "kdm". > > > > Apparently, it installs everything, unfortunately it does not My

RE: How to report a Bug (Which Package?)

2002-06-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Jun-2002 Abdul Latip wrote: > As suggested in http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting ; I am > sending this to "debian-user". > > I have just installed woody from scratch (due to trying ext3fs); > and then I run "tasksel". I selected "X11"; and then choose > "kdm" out of "xdm", "gdm", and "kdm

Re: Re: More modem problems with kernel 2.4.18

2002-06-18 Thread Bob Hauck
On 18 Jun 2002, Seth Carbon wrote: > 1) The modem has worked fine with every kernel I've put in since I > installed potato. Now both potato (with bunk's upgrades) and woody > fail. Have you taken a look in /etc/serial.conf? Check very carefully to see if any lines are uncommented, and if so tha

Re: How to report a Bug (Which Package?)

2002-06-18 Thread Bob Proulx
> I have just installed woody from scratch (due to trying ext3fs); > and then I run "tasksel". I selected "X11"; and then choose > "kdm" out of "xdm", "gdm", and "kdm". > > Apparently, it installs everything, unfortunately it does not A suggestion. It is possible to run 'tasksel -t' and select w

REQUEST

2002-06-18 Thread Barrister, musa yakubu
REQUEST Dear Friend, I am a Solicitor resident and practicing in Lagos, Nigeria and I am using this correspondence to urgently seek and request your assistance and cooperation in a sensitive but highly beneficial financial arrangement. An important clien

make-kpkg problem?

2002-06-18 Thread Lance Simmons
make-kpkg keeps dying on me. I've tried several different kernel-source packages, but they all seem to die in pretty much the same way: When I run fakeroot make-kpkg kernel_image make-kpkg runs through the kernel configuration, and then does this: *** End of Linux kernel configuration. **

Re: Exim authentication

2002-06-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 03:44:57PM -0700, Mike Mimic wrote: | How can I set that user should login for SMTP the same | as for POP3? So he should use the same username and | password as for POP3 (that is the user linux account | username and password). This is not easy to do directly, and is flaky

How to report a Bug (Which Package?)

2002-06-18 Thread Abdul Latip
As suggested in http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting ; I am sending this to "debian-user". I have just installed woody from scratch (due to trying ext3fs); and then I run "tasksel". I selected "X11"; and then choose "kdm" out of "xdm", "gdm", and "kdm". Apparently, it installs everything, unfortu

Re: Problem with installing on i386

2002-06-18 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:22:03AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got the problem figured out, but I don;t know how to solve it. > I'm installing the current Debian (2.2r6) off of the hard drive (I'm > booting from the floppies, if that matters) and the drivers.tgz I > downloaded puts the

Re: how to stop console cursor blink?

2002-06-18 Thread Shaul Karl
Here neither. Sorry for that. setterm -cursor off seems to turn the cursor off. I think a start point for turning the blinking off might be tput. --- Begin Message --- On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 13:06, Helgi Örn wrote: > On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 10:40, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > How to stop console cur

Re: fetchmail

2002-06-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Henning, Brian wrote: > what protocol does fetchmail use to fetch mail from hotmail? It doesn't. apt-cache search hotmail gotmail - Utility to download email from a Hotmail account So, install gotmail. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bri

Where are the GAIM sounds?

2002-06-18 Thread Nick Traxler
Subject says it all. I listed gaim, gaim-common, and gaim-gnome. None of them seem to have any sounds, so am I missing a package, or are they not in the debian version? I'm using unstable. -- Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

mirror, the perl script mirroring package

2002-06-18 Thread Paul E Condon
I am attempting to setup a local private mirror of debian using the perl script package. It has run for several days. It quits from time to time and waits for the next initiation event from crontab, but it can't seem to clear its queue of requests to set up softlink into the pool. I've tried point

Re: [OT?] Digest version available?

2002-06-18 Thread Chris Kenrick
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 09:55:31AM +1000, Chris Kenrick wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:25:39AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [sot of off topic] > > > > is there a digest version available of debian-user? Couldn't find one on the > > mailing list pages.. > > > > Jani > > Well, there is

Re: [OT?] Digest version available?

2002-06-18 Thread Chris Kenrick
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:25:39AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [sot of off topic] > > is there a digest version available of debian-user? Couldn't find one on the > mailing list pages.. > > Jani Well, there is debian-user-digest (or at least was). However, it was broken last time I looked

Re: Duas Placas SCSSi PCI, pode?

2002-06-18 Thread Francisco M Neto
» Assim falou Usuario Infohouse Internet em Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:00:11PM -0300: > Nunca usei mas algue pode me dizer se eu vou ter algum problema de conflito ao > usar duas placas SCSSI PCI para HDS em um micro? Se tiver IRQ pras duas, nao. -- []'s, francisco m. net

Re: driver

2002-06-18 Thread D.
There is a driver for your Aureal Audio card at sourceforge.net/projects/aureal/ . It is not the Debian version but if you read the readme I think that it works great, its the driver that I use. The name of the debian version is au88xx-kernel-source_1.1.2-1_i386.deb If you do a search with goog

Re: Printer Recommendation Requested

2002-06-18 Thread Jameson C. Burt
The Lexmark Optra Color 45 inkjet has postscript and you can even get a network card included, but it costs about $1100. This is one of the very few postscript inkjet printers. All inkjet manufacturers make exorbitant profits off their ensuing ink sales, legally designing their cartridges to atte

Re: numeric keypad vs. nvi/vim ???

2002-06-18 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Thank you, for your participation. Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 10:30:41AM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > | > | Is there some configuration option that allows the numeric keypad to > | type numbers into either nvi or vim? > | > | Currently, typing 0 - 9 puts p - y

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2002-06-18 Thread jani . pohjanraito
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[OT?] Digest version available?

2002-06-18 Thread jani . pohjanraito
[sot of off topic] is there a digest version available of debian-user? Couldn't find one on the mailing list pages.. Jani -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fetchmail

2002-06-18 Thread Henning, Brian
Hello- what protocol does fetchmail use to fetch mail from hotmail? thanks, brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Kernel Panic - ext2 vs cramfs

2002-06-18 Thread curtis
I give up. I've been going over old posts on this, but I just don't get it. Here's the problem, I installed kernel-image-2.4.18-k7 using dselect. After installation, I go to my lilo.conf and add in the line initrd=/initrd.img and having saved the file type lilo. Just so we can get that out of t

Re: Letting users look at a read-only FS

2002-06-18 Thread Dale Hair
I use this line but there may be a better way. /dev/sda1/win2k ntfsdefaults,users,ro,umask=0,gid=6 0 0 On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 16:39, Steve Juranich wrote: > I have the following /etc/fstab: > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > #

Exim authentication

2002-06-18 Thread Mike Mimic
Hi! How can I set that user should login for SMTP the same as for POP3? So he should use the same username and password as for POP3 (that is the user linux account username and password). Mike __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FI

Re: SCSI parity errors

2002-06-18 Thread Thomas Good
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem with my SCSI harddisk/controller which occurs more often > lately. The errors have the form: > > (scsi0:A:1:0): parity error detected in Data-in phase. SEQADDR(0x7c) > SCSIRATE(0x88) > > and are repeatedly printed in the system

Re: artsd, scsi & me

2002-06-18 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Tuesday, June 18, 2002, at 02:20 , G. L. `Griz' Inabnit wrote: No. The AIC-7xxx is built onto the motherboard. Well, that would qualify for 'very unlikely'. Have you tried reseting the controller in the Adaptec BIOS? That has fixed most AIC-7xxx issues I've had. I also notice you didn'

Re: OGG wont do

2002-06-18 Thread Dale Hair
> Yep did that allready but i cant figure out yet how to name that file i tried > to put it into my home dir with the names .abcde and .abcde.config and both > times it used the default configs so i always start it with the -c option. When I first tried it I would get an error message and it wo

Re: Net Installation

2002-06-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:57:47AM -0400, Matthew Tedder wrote: | | So how do I make an installation disk since my old i386 doesn't boot from | CDROM? | | I dd'd the root.bin to floppy because the README said this was needed for the | install.. I have to use rescue? That's strange.. "resc

Re: in debian, awk is mawk not gawk

2002-06-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:59:21PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: | debian world, awk is mawk. | So I installed gawk. However unlike when one installs postfix, and | exim gets kicked out, mawk is unphased and still what one gets if | one types "awk". So? One solution : # update-alternatives --di

Re: in debian, awk is mawk not gawk

2002-06-18 Thread Bob Proulx
> It seems I would have to got to /etc/alternatives and rip it up and > point it over by hand. That confused me too when I first tried debian. But then I learned that the 'debian way' is to use update-alternatives to manage the alternatives links. update-alternatives --display awk update-al

Re: numeric keypad vs. nvi/vim ???

2002-06-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 10:30:41AM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: | | Is there some configuration option that allows the numeric keypad to | type numbers into either nvi or vim? | | Currently, typing 0 - 9 puts p - y into the document, oddly inserting | lines _above_ the current line with each

Re: erratic mouse with xfree86 4.1.0?

2002-06-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:13:16PM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote: | > "Derrick" == Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Is gpm running? If so, that is going to cause problems. | | Ah ha! That was it. I should have known - thanks. | All seems to be ok after stoping

Re: Net Installation

2002-06-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 08:57, Matthew Tedder wrote: > > So how do I make an installation disk since my old i386 \ > doesn't boot from CDROM? > > I dd'd the root.bin to floppy because the README said this > was needed for the install.. I have to use rescue? That's > strange.. Yes, you initia

Re: Printer Recommendation Requested

2002-06-18 Thread Neal
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 17:03, Mike Fontenot wrote: > > I've got a Lexmark Optra Ep that just died, and > I need to replace it. I've read the linuxprinting.org > web page, and that has helped some, but I don't see > many of their recommendations in the mail-order catalogs > that I've got. > > My w

Re: latex-2e

2002-06-18 Thread Steve Juranich
Well, since you posted this to a Debian list, I'm assuming you're runnind debian. If this is true: apt-get install tetex-bin The latex binary provided therein supports latex2e. -- Stephen W. Juranich

Re: latex-2e

2002-06-18 Thread David Wright
> Can you give an idea where I can get the installation disk for the latex > 2e? Well, since you are writing to debian-user: # apt-get install textex-base tetex-bin tetex-extra The tetex packages are based on LaTeX 2e. The extra packages contains the AMS LaTeX style files useful for doing nice

SCSI parity errors

2002-06-18 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I have a problem with my SCSI harddisk/controller which occurs more often lately. The errors have the form: (scsi0:A:1:0): parity error detected in Data-in phase. SEQADDR(0x7c) SCSIRATE(0x88) and are repeatedly printed in the system logs, until the partitions are mounted read-only. Usu

Re: OGG wont do

2002-06-18 Thread Florian Struck
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 23:23, Dale Hair wrote: > I'm generally a GUI person but I found abcde much easier. You might > want to edit etc/abcde.config to suit your preferences or copy it to > your home directory and modify it. Yep did that allready but i cant figure out yet how to name that file i

latex-2e

2002-06-18 Thread RRRoque32
Can you give an idea where I can get the installation disk for the latex 2e ? I've checked some of the books like the boxed set by addison wesley and according to them it does not go with the package. I really need the latex-2e for my papers in math. Please reply ASAP. Please reply to

Letting users look at a read-only FS

2002-06-18 Thread Steve Juranich
I have the following /etc/fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # /dev/hda2 / ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda3 noneswapsw 0 0 proc/proc

Re: Where is a Debian Tech. Overview?

2002-06-18 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002, Matthew Tedder wrote: > > Where can I find a Debian technical overview? I am interested so I can > figure out how to build my desktop server OS. That is, something that > describes: > > a. The installation process Easiest thing, if possible, is to just try to find a sp

Re: 'Semi-Hot-Swap' of IDE discs - bios

2002-06-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, nate wrote: > > > Dear list, > > > > for backup purposes (on i386 architecture) I'm planning the purchase of > > two 60GB-IDE discs, an exchange frame [right word?] and a > > PCI-IDE-Controller Card. SCSI is no option due to the huge difference in > > the price, at l

Re: OGG wont do

2002-06-18 Thread Dale Hair
I'm generally a GUI person but I found abcde much easier. You might want to edit etc/abcde.config to suit your preferences or copy it to your home directory and modify it. > Hi yep no problem anymore my latest problem was that i lost my xmms config > and > i forgot that i need to use /dev/dsp1

Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.18 (Solved, but...)

2002-06-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Paul E Condon wrote: > Has the Debian approach worked for anyone who wants a full install, including > modules? Take care in answering yes. OK, yes. BUT the only modules which I've _needed_ to create "the Debian way" are the pcmcia-cs modules, which are unpacked from the pcm

Re: OGG wont do

2002-06-18 Thread Florian Struck
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 22:06, Charles Lewis wrote: -snip- > > The other thing that I can't figure out is why I can't get xmms to work. > It just freezes up when I try to play these songs. I just solved a similar problem go to your output plugin-config in xmms's preferences and fill the approp

Printer Recommendation Requested

2002-06-18 Thread Mike Fontenot
I've got a Lexmark Optra Ep that just died, and I need to replace it. I've read the linuxprinting.org web page, and that has helped some, but I don't see many of their recommendations in the mail-order catalogs that I've got. My wife has been bugging me to get a color printer anyway, so I guess

Re: OGG wont do

2002-06-18 Thread Florian Struck
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 22:12, Steve Juranich wrote: -snippall-- Hi yep no problem anymore my latest problem was that i lost my xmms config and i forgot that i need to use /dev/dsp1 instead of dsp =) *stupid* I tryed oggenc using the comandline tool abcde (nice) im not gonna do grip at all its

Re: 'Semi-Hot-Swap' of IDE discs

2002-06-18 Thread nate
> Dear list, > > for backup purposes (on i386 architecture) I'm planning the purchase of > two 60GB-IDE discs, an exchange frame [right word?] and a > PCI-IDE-Controller Card. SCSI is no option due to the huge difference in > the price, at least here in Germany. > > Since my knowledge about IDE/AT

Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.18 (Solved, but...)

2002-06-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 11:33:17PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > I upgraded to Woody two or three months ago, but did not upgrade the kernel > then because I did not feel confident of my ability to read and follow the > various directions. Recent posts in this thread gave me a feeling of > confide

Re: cannot run X apps when 'su'

2002-06-18 Thread Martin Rowe
Hi all Don't know if it's been mentioned on this thread yet, but Francois Gouget wrote a script, sux[1], to transfer $DISPLAY and X cookies so X apps work fine when assuming another user's identity. Details were posted here[2] about a year ago and I've appreciated it ever since. Just use it as

apt-proxy 111 connection refused

2002-06-18 Thread Paul Scott,,,
I just installed apt-proxy. I stopped and started inetd. I have lines in sources.list on another machine addressing this machine. The default apt-proxy.conf looks fine for now. When I run apt-get update on the other machine I get 111 connection refused. Do I need something in /etc/exports o

Re: Placa de vídeo i810

2002-06-18 Thread Francisco M Neto
» Assim falou Willien Carvalho Fernandes em Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:00:50AM -0300: > Estou tendo varios problemas pra configurar essa placa no Debian 2.2 R6, > alguém poderia me ajudar ? > > Tentei configurar o X mas ele não reconhece a placa . Vc precisa usar o driver XF86_SVGA. O X

Re: off-topic..mas nem tanto!!!

2002-06-18 Thread Francisco M Neto
» Assim falou Rodrigo Gruppelli em Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 05:20:47PM -0300: > Aproveitando a deixa, que tipo de maquina precisa pra emular totalmente um > playstation? Totalmente, eu falo com total velocidade etc e tal de modo q > nao de a perceber que é emulador... :) Na verdade eu acho qu

Re: OGG wont do

2002-06-18 Thread Steve Juranich
> > http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic/alright.ogg > > Yep i can hear it sounds good until it stops =) what is it? It's the first 500 frames of "Feelin' Alright" by Joe Cocker. > But as it is always the same thing one problem solved the next one comes up > =/ > i manage to play all mp3's

Re: what if I have a 2nd cdrom drive?

2002-06-18 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi Dan, On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:07:11PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: ( ... ) > Swifteax. Neateaux. Are these words, and if so, what do they mean? > OK, so I must do this myself. OK, I make a link in /dev from hdd to > cdrom2 then I make a directory in /, then I make a entry in > /etc/fstab.

Re: OGG wont do

2002-06-18 Thread Charles Lewis
I got grip to rip oggs. Here is my command line in grip: /usr/bin/oggenc Then I can play them using ogg123, as long as I'm not in KDE. For some reason KDE requires control of oss? *shrug* The other thing that I can't figure out is why I can't get xmms to work. It just freezes up when I try to p

Re: Message is frozin

2002-06-18 Thread Paul Yeatman
A, thanks so much for the help. I had no idea what was going on. The commands as offered helped me get one of the messages delivered so that I could begin determining what was going on. I crossed-mounted my home directory from a Debian linux box to a Red Hat box. This home directory has a .f

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-18 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On 18 Jun 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: > In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: > > then go ahead and get a service contract. If you're running a > server than has to have five nines up-time, then you'd better > pay to have somebody guaranteed on-site in 60 minutes from when > the phone rings. And

Re: most secure services (DNS, Web, Mail)

2002-06-18 Thread Mark Lanett
djb's dns, but it's a slight pain to install. There is a debian source package somewhere. Also see http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html but I don't recommending installing his package (he dumps all sorts of crap in /etc). ~mark - Original Message - From: "Shri Shrikumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "D

Where is a Debian Tech. Overview?

2002-06-18 Thread Matthew Tedder
Where can I find a Debian technical overview? I am interested so I can figure out how to build my desktop server OS. That is, something that describes: a. The installation process b. What minimally must be installed c. Where everything is And, does Debian support LSB 100% yet or nearly?

Re: OGG wont do

2002-06-18 Thread Florian Struck
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 18:50, Steve Juranich wrote: > Okay, here's a small known good OGG file. At least, I was able to listen > to it here at home. I tried to pick something to match your earlier > indicated musical taste. :) > > http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic/alright.ogg Yep i can he

Re: using archived debs

2002-06-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alex Hunsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.06.18.1823 +0200]: > I'm setting up debian (Potato 2.2r3) on a couple of linux boxes. > Given that I've done a hefty download on one of them, can I avoid > re-downloading it? I presume downloaded debs are stored in > /var/cache/apt/archives to

Re: cannot run X apps when 'su'

2002-06-18 Thread Nuno Silva
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | Hello, | you shouldn just copy over .Xauth files.. It will ruin root X access ;) What do you mean, "ruin root X access"? What X access does root have in the first place? You certainly don't 'startx' as root in the first place, do you? Well, you can startx as

Re: apt + proxy

2002-06-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 03:08:39PM +0200, Andrea Balzi wrote: > When I tried launch "apt-get install " but did not contact the > proxy for the demands. > Have mistaken I something? Yes. Edit /etc/environment. Mine looks like this (for example...)

[sjcarbon@eskimo.com: Re: More modem problems with kernel 2.4.18]

2002-06-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Throwing this back over the fence... -- Baloo --- Begin Message --- On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 03:13, Paul Johnson wrote: > Your internal modem, if roasted and ground sufficiently fine, will make > a surprisingly strong espresso. Go get an external modem. > > http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/#i

autoplaying cd's

2002-06-18 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi All, Is it possible to get linux to autoplay audio / mp3 cd's in xmms like winamp does in windoze. Also, can xmms autodetect whether to use esd or arts. Thanks, Shri -- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I

Re: Re: More modem problems with kernel 2.4.18

2002-06-18 Thread Seth Carbon
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 03:13, Paul Johnson wrote: > Your internal modem, if roasted and ground sufficiently fine, will make > a surprisingly strong espresso. Go get an external modem. > > http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/#internalmodem Even if I'm destined for a good string cup, I'd still like

Enabling thread concurrency in Posix Threads.

2002-06-18 Thread Shivakumar Patil
Hi There, I have Potato 2.2.19 kernel and the following packages installed libc6-dev 2.2.5-4, libpth-dev 1.4.1-2 and glibc-doc 2.2.5-4. I was trying to understand the concepts of threads on linux. I executed a program from Stevens book and is attached to this mail. On the command

RE: Exim Vs Sendmail

2002-06-18 Thread Ronald Castillo
Thanks a lot to all of you who gave me help on this topic. Exim already had make a simlink to sendmail, so no changes were necessary for the script. Ronald -Original Message- From: Jan Johansson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: martes, 18 de junio de 2002 9:40 To: Ronald Castillo; debian

Re: Message is frozin

2002-06-18 Thread Erik Mathisen
I had this happen to me not too long ago. What was happening to me someone was sending email to my system to an alias that was not properly configured. What I did, a tail on the /var/log/exim/mainlog and found the message ID's that were frozen. I then ran a : exim -M . That cause

Message is frozin

2002-06-18 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, a want to quickly check the list here to see if anyone knows anything about the following. I came in today and had 4 or 5 messages with subject line "Message frozen" and contents as such: Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROT

SOLVED! sound problems...

2002-06-18 Thread alo
> my first guess here would be that (in case you're logged on to your > machine as a user != root, which I really hope) there's a problem > with the permissions of the sound devices. Are you able to play > sound as root? Is your everyday user account allowed to make use of > /dev/dsp (e.g. is this

Strange "hold" on dist-upgrade

2002-06-18 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hi ! now that's strange for me: Eddie: # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back fvwm initrd-tools lynx-ssl mjpegtools mplayer-k6 snd transcode Eddie: # dpkg --get-selections fvwm

Re: Dll's missing

2002-06-18 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.18 13:42 Duane Clark wrote: YUFUFI wrote: I'm using winestuptk and it put some line for dlls : [DllOverrides] ; default for all other dlls "*" = "builtin, native, so" I'm not pointing a window dir right now. 'cos whether I point it or not. wine can't find same dlls like DISPLAY.d

most secure services (DNS, Web, Mail)

2002-06-18 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi All, Ive finally decided to venture and let people see my machine permanently connected to the net. This machine is of course running debian. It is running testing as of a couple of months or so. I plan to let it go into woody and stay there (upgraded to woody so many months ago primarily for i

Re: Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

2002-06-18 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
So, if I'm understanding this correctly, SIZE indicates how much memory has been reserved for the application (and therefor not available to other applications), Nope. By default at least, Linux will overcommit memory. So, you can run 40 different programs all with a 1GB size. brk just basic

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-18 Thread Grant Edwards
In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: >> If you're running a server than has to have five nines up-time, >> then you'd better pay to have somebody guaranteed on-site in 60 >> minutes from when the phone rings. > > Umm... 5 9's = ~5 min/year, so they had better be there a lot faster > than 60 minut

driver

2002-06-18 Thread manoj v
hi from where do i get the driver for vortex 8810? and i got ur email from the following link: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2000/debian-user-24/msg02457.html _ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. h

Re: erratic mouse with xfree86 4.1.0?

2002-06-18 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Derrick" == Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is gpm running? If so, that is going to cause problems. Ah ha! That was it. I should have known - thanks. > | (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled > What is this? Maybe this is causing the problems? I don't

Re: little postfix problem...

2002-06-18 Thread Andrew Sweger
On 18 Jun 2002, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > I'm having a very simple problem with postfix and aliases. > Here is an extract of my /etc/aliases file: > > webmaster: root > root: user > postmaster: root > > I issued the command $postmap /etc/aliases > > And when someone send a ma

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