Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-13 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:25:06PM +, Avtar Marwaha wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 06:22, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > > foomatic-compiledb -t ppd pnm2ppa > > > > did that too > > what was the output when you ran this command? got it - you have to execute that command sitting in /etc > >

Re: (semi-OT) JPG files -> Movie file

2002-11-13 Thread Jörg Johannes
> well for now I think I have to settle on imagemagick. it can > convert a bunch of images(even jpeg) to an animated gif. I > installed ucbmpeg, and also mjpegtools but both immediately > segfault when processing the first JPG file. Actually I > was able to get mjpegtools to create a YUV file witho

Re: woody to testing

2002-11-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:42:35PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: >> 2.2.2 I believe (I don't run testing, and I don't use no skeenking KDE >> or GNOME so you don't have to trust me on that, but that is also the >> real reason I'm happy with Woody ;-) > > KDE3

Realmedia's Helix Producer Basic

2002-11-13 Thread lameth
Has anyone tried realmedia's helix producer basic yet? And if you have, did you have any luck getting it to actually work? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

APIC error

2002-11-13 Thread Hugh Saunders
hello, i use woody with an Abit BP6 [dual cele500] but recently have started getting theses errors on the console and in sys log, any ideas? Nov 14 06:33:41 nomessin kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 08(02) Nov 14 06:34:14 nomessin kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 04(08) hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: changing GNU Emacs fonts in KDE 2

2002-11-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:24:25AM +, Faheem Mitha wrote: > Oops, I logged out and back in, and then it started working. I'm not > sure why, though. So it looks like unchecking the checkbox did the > trick. Does anyone have any other comments about this? AFAIK, KDE sets these resources when it

Re: aptitude locked

2002-11-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:13:10PM -0500, Seneca wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:08:08AM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > > Last day I had a heavy crash of my woody box. > > I suspect some misbehaviour of xmms here. > > The whole display was very flickery and no > > application responded any mor

Re: gpg backwards compatability

2002-11-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:05:34AM -0600, Justin Ryan wrote: > Welp, I thoght this might be pertinent, but I am running 1.0.6 and even > adding the line it mentions to the options file does not help. Anyone > have any idears? It looks like gpg 1.0.6 simply does not support the cipcher your key is

Re: XFree86

2002-11-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:07:56PM -0800, Vince Hillier wrote: > > Not only do you not tell us what you want to configure directly, you short form >"subject". Did that extra second to type the three extra keys "ect"? If you're going to be anal, then don't top post, don't use Stupid Outlook Quo

Re: Compiling RedHat network driver

2002-11-13 Thread mdevin
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 23:00:32 -0500, Edward Guldemond wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:42:30AM +1000, mdevin wrote: > > One further thing: Obviously you don't need this kernel-headers-2.4.18 > > package to compile a 2.4.18 kernel because I didn't have it and my > > kernel compiled OK without

Re: alsa: no device

2002-11-13 Thread Jack O'Quin
Thaden, Looks like you're making good progress. > unfortunately, programs relying on alsa still don't work. alsaplayer has > the most eloborated error message: > > snd_pcm_open: No such file or directory (default) > /usr/lib/alsaplayer/output/libalsa.so failed to load > I could not find a suit

Re: Recovering ext3 files *with* their names (btw, 1 million files)

2002-11-13 Thread nate
judy m. down said: > I would like to recover as many as possible of my more than 1 million > files in a corrupted ext3 directory, *along with their filenames*. I > don't mind losing half the files, as long as the other half come with > their names. Without the names, the contents are useless.

routing broadcasts

2002-11-13 Thread Anton Verevkin
Hello debian-user, Does anybody know how to allow broadcast UDP packets pass through a router (with NAT) on 2.2r2 (2.2 kernel)? Actually the problem concernes Samba - I have 2 networks - internal and external, a router with Samba server between them. I want to be able to see the outside

insmod issues

2002-11-13 Thread mdevin
I am having an ongoing battle to get my network card to work. It built in on my ASUS A7V8X mobo and uses a broadcom 4400 driver which is on the CD that came with the motherboard. Now, I have the module compiled for my particular kernel version (2.4.18). In fact, I just recompiled my kernel and t

Re: address book for mutt

2002-11-13 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:28:29AM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > Do you still have the address book on your windows machine? Is it > possible to export the addresses as vCards? If so, it might make sense > for you to do so, and then import them into gnomecard (in deb package > gnome-pim).

Re: Compiling RedHat network driver

2002-11-13 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:46:24PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > "mdevin" == mdevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > mdevin> One further thing: Obviously you don't need this > mdevin> kernel-headers-2.4.18 package to compile a 2.4.18 kernel > mdevin> because I didn't have it an

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-13 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 06:46:46AM -0700, Dan Owens wrote: > On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Chip Rose wrote: > > Another thing you might want to check is if your hard drive needs dma > turned on. What speed does "hdparm -t /dev/hda" give you? /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 18.06 seconds

Re: X 4.2 byting more than I can allow it to chew

2002-11-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:44:39PM -0500, Seneca wrote: > Over the past 10 days, I have noticed that X 4.2.1-3 has been gradually > eating up more and more of my system's memory and swap. In the > beginning, the XFree86 process only used about 26M, but today it had > reached the point of using 70M

Re: Compiling RedHat network driver

2002-11-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:42:30AM +1000, mdevin wrote: > > One further thing: Obviously you don't need this kernel-headers-2.4.18 > package to compile a 2.4.18 kernel because I didn't have it and my > kernel compiled OK without it. I compiled heaps of things as modules > too. That confuses me?

Re: Compiling RedHat network driver

2002-11-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"mdevin" == mdevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mdevin> One further thing: Obviously you don't need this mdevin> kernel-headers-2.4.18 package to compile a 2.4.18 kernel mdevin> because I didn't have it and my kernel compiled OK without mdevin> it. I compiled heaps of things

Re: Apache (PHP not working)

2002-11-13 Thread Michelle Storm
> Install the new kernel, the reboot into it. Run 'depmod' and > 'update-modules', then you can run modconf and select your Ethernet > driver. It's called '8139too' and it should be in 'kernel/drivers/net' > section. I didn't compile the kernel myself. I just choose the one I wanted from dselect

Re: dockable apps for icewm?

2002-11-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 05:08:04PM +0100, Jens Grivolla wrote: > I am currently using blackbox on one of my computers with the default > theme + bbkey, licq and gkrellm in the slit. While licq and gkrellm > need a certain width to be usable (no tiny mode), I don't feel that > the screen gets too c

X 4.2 byting more than I can allow it to chew

2002-11-13 Thread Seneca
Over the past 10 days, I have noticed that X 4.2.1-3 has been gradually eating up more and more of my system's memory and swap. In the beginning, the XFree86 process only used about 26M, but today it had reached the point of using 70M (that is alot of swap, my system only has 192M of it). Any sugg

Re: Unsuscribe

2002-11-13 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, deFreese, Barry wrote: > I know, it's the next Microsoft consipiracy!! Hehe, sorry, couldn't resist > that one!! Maybe "unsuscribe" is a new Microsoft Windows Office Program: UNSU - Illiterate Outlook for unsu peaople. Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit -- T

Re: ot: german isp's

2002-11-13 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, ben wrote: > can anybody recommend a cheap linux-friendly isp in germany? > > ben > Freenet -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: maxtrox fb issue

2002-11-13 Thread Tom Vier
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:57:54AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 01:44:34AM -0500, Tom Vier wrote: > > i have a REALLY weird fb issue. tty2 (or vc2, whatever you want to > > call it) is screwed up. 1, 3, 4, etc. all work. but, when i switch to 2, my > > monitor says invalid sync.

Re: Need help ?

2002-11-13 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:23:36AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 09:22:20PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > dpkg -i wvdial~1.deb > > Does dpkg care about the filename? It looks like FAT ate his .deb. No (going by observation), I think dpkg gets the package name from control

Re: Apache (PHP not working)

2002-11-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:32:15AM -0800, Michelle Storm wrote: Content-Description: body > A little background. > > jade@dragon:~$ uname -a > Linux dragon.ursine.dyndns.org 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 >unknown unknown GNU/Linux > > **I would be using the newest kernel: 2.

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:12:01AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > works okay when i am root. > > when i am a user, it prints, bash: /dev/lp0 access denied! > > do i change permissions on /dev/lp0 or add the user to some group? Which group owns /dev/lp0? rob@leserver:~$ ls -Ll /dev/lp0 crw-rw

Re: unstabe to testing [was: Re: woody to testing]

2002-11-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:36:49PM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote: > Is it possible to slowly revert to testing from unstable by just > changing the sources.list and essentially having no upgraded packages > found until they have propagated down the tree? Yep. Just point your sources.list at test

RE: Need help ?

2002-11-13 Thread Vince Hillier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No, it doesn't. Yea, that's how FAT got FAT. ;) Vince Hillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://plutonium.homeunix.com |-Original Message- |From: Rob Weir [mailto:rweir@;softhome.net] |Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 4:24 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: automatic shutdown on heat problem

2002-11-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:41:28AM +0100, Sven Hartrumpf wrote: > What is the best way to shutdown (power off) automatically a Linux box when > the temperature (on motherboard) rises to a critical value due to fan > (or AC, ...) failure? > > (I am sure more people have lost hardware in such situat

Looking for a backup to CD-R(W) program

2002-11-13 Thread Joe Nahmias
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello list, I am looking for recommendations for software to backup my debian (sarge) machine to my cd burner. As this is my home machine, I don't think I need the client-server functionality of amanda or some of the other backup packages... I'm jus

Re: Upgrading kernels...

2002-11-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:50:26AM -0800, Vince Hillier wrote: > I recall a couple of years ago hearing about loading new kernel > without actually rebooting. But it was new then, and you actually did > have to reboot, it just skipped the POST and what not. > > Has anything been done in this area

Re: woody to testing

2002-11-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:42:35PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > 2.2.2 I believe (I don't run testing, and I don't use no skeenking KDE > or GNOME so you don't have to trust me on that, but that is also the > real reason I'm happy with Woody ;-) KDE3 is apparently not going enter sid until the Gr

Re: SUBSCRIBE

2002-11-13 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > Sergey A. Ovchar wrote: > > >Hello , > > > > > > > > > > > ? "" > > man procamil > > ;) man /dev/null - burn. =|:-( -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Recovering ext3 files *with* their names (btw, 1 million files)

2002-11-13 Thread judy m. down
I would like to recover as many as possible of my more than 1 million files in a corrupted ext3 directory, *along with their filenames*. I don't mind losing half the files, as long as the other half come with their names. Without the names, the contents are useless. Presumably this means recover

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 01:54:57AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > I recently installed blackbox once and couldn't seem to get much going > until i did "apt-get install menu". it provides the update-menus command > and helped me in getting more stuff accessible via the popup menu. Ah, yes. menu

Re: Need help ?

2002-11-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 09:22:20PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > dpkg -i wvdial~1.deb Does dpkg care about the filename? It looks like FAT ate his .deb. -rob msg12851/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: export DISPLAY / remote Xclient?

2002-11-13 Thread sean finney
hiya, security-wise, this isn't the greatest of ideas for a few reasons. first of all, can you ssh to this hp-ux machine instead of telneting? it goes without saying why that's bad. in addition, forwarding x in the clear is not a good idea, because it's only slightly more complicated to sniff out

Re: java plugin for mozilla; mozilla crashes

2002-11-13 Thread Erinn
Actually, you can't place the plugins directly in your Mozilla plugin directory. You have to make a symbolic link in your Mozilla plugin directory to the plugin. Otherwise it will always crash. This is for Galeon but that's +/- Mozilla anyways. http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:HBXmPx1tLfcC:ga

Re: Software Selection Internet Admin School

2002-11-13 Thread John
Dan Hunt wrote: Would you please consider making suggestions for a school? Inside the school youth log with usernames in a M$ enviroment. I have been asked to suggest software / equipment that would: A) Provide firewall services. B) Log ( capture ) the username and website visited. C) Report t

RE: Need help ?

2002-11-13 Thread Vince Hillier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After dealing with new users over the years, you learn real fast to pick out what people are actually asking, sure, if you read it and take it for what it is, and not what the user actually meant, you are correct. Take a minute and ask yourself "w

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-13 Thread Brian Nelson
iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > same thing for dselect and aptitude. And for every other C++ program you have... > any thoughts?? Beat maintain

Re: Compiling RedHat network driver

2002-11-13 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:42:30AM +1000, mdevin wrote: > One further thing: Obviously you don't need this kernel-headers-2.4.18 > package to compile a 2.4.18 kernel because I didn't have it and my > kernel compiled OK without it. I compiled heaps of things as modules > too. That confuses me? W

Re: export DISPLAY / remote Xclient?

2002-11-13 Thread nate
arief_mulya said: > Dear all, > > > I install Debian Woody in my laptop which works perfectly! > > Something I haven't able to accomplish is: > - telnet to a HP-UX machine > - do export DISPLAY=my.host.name:0.0 > - type a program name you need to turn off the nolisten option for the X server quic

Printing to Xerox DC400

2002-11-13 Thread arief_mulya
Dear all, Another question, In the office we use Xerox DC400 as printing machnine. I've read Linux Printing HOWTO and even gone to the website. Read some stuff, but still don't get it. Actually, I think I don't get it at all. Still get used to Wind*** ways of printer installations :-( I have

Re: can't find startx after installing Xserver-Xfree86

2002-11-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Nimar Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I installed Debian - Woody - stable on an x86 machine > and then installed the package XServer-Xfree86 and > walked through all the configuration steps. At the end > when I executed startx it couldn't find the command! > What else do I need to inst

RE: Software Selection Internet Admin School

2002-11-13 Thread Vince Hillier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I assume you are requesting suggestions for a linux based router? For firewalling, if you are running a 2.2 kernel, look into ipchains, if you are running 2.4 look into iptables. There is a lot of firewall generator programs out there - gaurddog,

Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.2.1-3

2002-11-13 Thread Joshua Lee
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:09:15PM +, Richard Kimber wrote: > I upgraded. It works fine, though the upgrade wasn't entirely smooth, and > I only got it working by restoring the previous config, so having a backup > is clearly important. There were some font differences, but they were > minor

export DISPLAY / remote Xclient?

2002-11-13 Thread arief_mulya
Dear all, I install Debian Woody in my laptop which works perfectly! Something I haven't able to accomplish is: - telnet to a HP-UX machine - do export DISPLAY=my.host.name:0.0 - type a program name everytime I get error message like this (from the HP-UX): /usr/bin/X11/xrdb: Connection refused

I want to find a Chinese (Big5) text input solution

2002-11-13 Thread steven
Dear all:   I am a Taiwanese telecom manufacturer. I am looking for a Big5 Chinese text input solution for Chinese SMS phone. Which means that the total size of hte solution has to be less than 100 KB beacause it's not for PC but for telephone.   If anyone who's got some idea, please tell me.

Re: [OT] Debian NetBSD

2002-11-13 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 22:16, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:31:53PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 14:54, Todd Marek wrote: > > > has anyone here used Debian NetBSD yet? if so how does it compare to > > > debian linux? > > > > Not that I've used it, but I

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives

2002-11-13 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:21:59AM +, Pigeon wrote: > Well I've got round my ldconfig problems. Eventually I found > base2_1.tgz on my Debian CD, unzipped it on my Windoze box, wrote it > to a CD, and copied stuff in using the rescue disk. With the addition > of some of the rescue disk itself (

Re: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 after apt-get upgrade today from unstable included incorrect symlink?

2002-11-13 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 04:50 pm, Ravenhall wrote: > Package: libstdc++3 > Version: 1:3.0.4-13 > > After running a dist-upgrade today from unstable, several programs > (including apt-cache, apt-get, and mozilla) would give the following > error when attempting to launch them from a console: >

Re: XFree86

2002-11-13 Thread Scott Henson
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 20:56, Sergey A. Ovchar wrote: > Hello. > How can I turn off automatic start X-server after booting the system? > apt-get remove xdm kdm gdm wdm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree86

2002-11-13 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:56:27AM +0300, Sergey A. Ovchar wrote: > How can I turn off automatic start X-server after booting the system? apt-get remove --purge xdm (or gdm or kdm) -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: XFree86

2002-11-13 Thread nate
Sergey A. Ovchar said: > Hello. > How can I turn off automatic start X-server after booting the system? first find out what display manager is installed: dpkg -l | grep "[xgk]dm" something like xdm, kdm or gdm should come back, then do update-rc.d -f gdm remove where gdm is the display manager

ot: german isp's

2002-11-13 Thread ben
can anybody recommend a cheap linux-friendly isp in germany? ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude locked

2002-11-13 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:08:08AM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > Last day I had a heavy crash of my woody box. > I suspect some misbehaviour of xmms here. > The whole display was very flickery and no > application responded any more, though I saw, that > gkrellm was still working. Even switching

Re: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 after apt-get upgrade today from unstable included incorrect symlink?

2002-11-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 07:50:49PM -0600, Ravenhall wrote: > I want this bug report to get to the correct maintainer, so I am mailing > it to the debian-user mailing list as well as the bug submission email. When you do this, please use the X-Debbugs-Cc: header rather than just mailing both submi

Re: mutt and Mozilla mail

2002-11-13 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 08:59:32PM -0600, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > I like Mozilla mail, but sometimes I am at work and I would like to be > able to access my mail through the command line. > Well I find Mutt should do its job just fine, but what I also find is > Mozilla will seem to get confus

Re: [OT] Debian NetBSD

2002-11-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:31:53PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 14:54, Todd Marek wrote: > > has anyone here used Debian NetBSD yet? if so how does it compare to > > debian linux? > > Not that I've used it, but I thought it had been tripped up some due to > certain core pa

XFree86

2002-11-13 Thread Sergey A. Ovchar
Hello. How can I turn off automatic start X-server after booting the system? -- Best regards, Sergey mailto:ovserg@;kah.hs.ukrtel.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Text files in "windows mode"

2002-11-13 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Matthew" == Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> I am trying to create a bunch of text files for use with a Matthew> streaming MP3 player (Audiotron). However, due to the fact that Matthew> the developers use Windows CE as their "kernel", every danged Matthew> playlist I

Re: Text files in "windows mode"

2002-11-13 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 07:04:19PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I am trying to create a bunch of text files for use with a streaming > MP3 player (Audiotron). However, due to the fact that the developers > use Windows CE as their "kernel", every danged playlist I make is not > understood by

mutt and Mozilla mail

2002-11-13 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
I like Mozilla mail, but sometimes I am at work and I would like to be able to access my mail through the command line. Well I find Mutt should do its job just fine, but what I also find is Mozilla will seem to get confused with the mailbox in question once I use Mutt on it. If I select a a mess

Re: can't find startx after installing Xserver-Xfree86

2002-11-13 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:44:22PM -0800, Nimar Arora wrote: > I installed Debian - Woody - stable on an x86 machine > and then installed the package XServer-Xfree86 and > walked through all the configuration steps. At the end > when I executed startx it couldn't find the command! > What else do I

Re: (semi-OT) JPG files -> Movie file

2002-11-13 Thread nate
nate said: > perhaps something to convert to motion jpeg? or mpeg? or avi? > (would prefer mpeg-1 due to it's portability but i'll take > anything). well for now I think I have to settle on imagemagick. it can convert a bunch of images(even jpeg) to an animated gif. I installed ucbmpeg, and also

Re: Text files in "windows mode"

2002-11-13 Thread John
Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: I am trying to create a bunch of text files for use with a streaming MP3 player (Audiotron). However, due to the fact that the developers use Windows CE as their "kernel", every danged playlist I make is not understood by the player because it cannot understand my debia

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-13 Thread iain d broadfoot
nate wrote: iain d broadfoot said: apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory same thing for dselect and aptitude. / any thoughts?? find the package that has that fil

Re: [OT] Debian NetBSD

2002-11-13 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 14:54, Todd Marek wrote: > has anyone here used Debian NetBSD yet? if so how does it compare to > debian linux? > > Thanks > Todd Marek Not that I've used it, but I thought it had been tripped up some due to certain core parts being under a BSD license that proves to be no

Re: Preload Openoffice.org at X startup

2002-11-13 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 19:19, Edward Guldemond wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:07:31PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > Failing any built-in, background server type functionality, would > > "cat > /dev/null &" in my .xinitrc be of any > > /real/ use? > > >From a theoretical standpoint, not

Re: changing GNU Emacs fonts in KDE 2

2002-11-13 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 01:45:09 + (UTC), Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear People, > > Judging from old posts on Google, the correct way is to change fonts > on an application is to put your preference in the .Xresources file, > ie. something like > > Emacs.font: -adobe-courier-me

Re: Javascript and forms

2002-11-13 Thread Try KDE
Your html is ill-formed. The text field should be: input type="text" name="n1" size=20 -tk Michael Naumann wrote: I have a small problem accessing form-vars via JavaScript. In below example, I have two vars in a form, one of type radio (n0) and a normal input-var (n1). In the JavaScript

Radeon 9000 Pro

2002-11-13 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi All, Ive just tried to get my Radeon card going, by using the Option "ChipId 0x4242" in my Xfree86 config file, with XFree86-4.2.xx, viz the lastest deb's & had no joy :-( Any hints most greatfully & needfully accpeted! Greek Geek The easiest way to figure the cost of living is to ta

Re: filtering unicode files

2002-11-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:49:29PM -0300, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > Hi all. > > I´m trying to use grep to filter a string on a unicode file. If I make a > cat on the file, i can see the contents, but if i pipe a grep after the > cat, the string (exists in file) didn't match. Is it possible to use

Software Selection Internet Admin School

2002-11-13 Thread Dan Hunt
Would you please consider making suggestions for a school? Inside the school youth log with usernames in a M$ enviroment. I have been asked to suggest software / equipment that would: A) Provide firewall services. B) Log ( capture ) the username and website visited. C) Report this information. M

Re: No contact to ppp0

2002-11-13 Thread pphilli2
Tobias, >I'm just migrating from RedHat 7.3 to Woody and got te following >problem: >when I try to dial up to the internet wvdial does everything alright >and pppd starts up. After that I can find pp0 in /proc-directory. >The problem ist, no programm (ping, Opera, Phoenix, GFTP etc.) uses >or find

libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 after apt-get upgrade today from unstableincluded incorrect symlink?

2002-11-13 Thread Ravenhall
Package: libstdc++3 Version: 1:3.0.4-13 After running a dist-upgrade today from unstable, several programs (including apt-cache, apt-get, and mozilla) would give the following error when attempting to launch them from a console: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: ca

changing GNU Emacs fonts in KDE 2

2002-11-13 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, Judging from old posts on Google, the correct way is to change fonts on an application is to put your preference in the .Xresources file, ie. something like Emacs.font: -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 However, for me this is ignored by emacs when it starts up

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-13 Thread nate
iain d broadfoot said: > apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > same thing for dselect and aptitude. > > / > > any thoughts?? find the package that has that file(us

Re: java plugin for mozilla; mozilla crashes

2002-11-13 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi It happened to me too, I just downloaded the "jre.xpi" (there is a link for it in the mozilla page) and opened it as root. it works perfectly since... Bye -- Haim On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 20:40, george wrote: > Hi I have a problem with the java plugin in mozilla: I installed the sun > jvm 1.4.

Printing Problem

2002-11-13 Thread Harold Crouch
I'm using Debian (woody) and I have two locales installed on my computer: en_US ISO-8859-1 ru_RU KOI8-R After adding an additional XkbLayout and XkbOptions to my XF86Config-4 file and adding the environmental variables to /etc/profile, I am able to display and type both the English and R

RE: Unsuscribe

2002-11-13 Thread deFreese, Barry
I know, it's the next Microsoft consipiracy!! Hehe, sorry, couldn't resist that one!! Barry deFreese NTS Technology Services Manager Nike Team Sports (949)-616-4005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Technology doesn't make you less stupid; it just makes you stupid faster." Jerry Gregoire - Former CIO at Dell

Re: aptitude locked

2002-11-13 Thread nate
Michael Naumann said: > Warning: could not lock the chache file. Opening in read-only mode. I have never used this program, but if it were me the first thing I would do is run strace on the app strace aptitude and see what file(s) its trying to access. if the screen scrolls to hell and back

Re: can't find startx after installing Xserver-Xfree86

2002-11-13 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* Nimar Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [14-11-2002 01:49]: > I installed Debian - Woody - stable on an x86 machine > and then installed the package XServer-Xfree86 and > walked through all the configuration steps. At the end > when I executed startx it couldn't find the command! > What else do I need to

Re: can't find startx after installing Xserver-Xfree86

2002-11-13 Thread nate
Nimar Arora said: > Hi, > > I installed Debian - Woody - stable on an x86 machine > and then installed the package XServer-Xfree86 and > walked through all the configuration steps. At the end > when I executed startx it couldn't find the command! > What else do I need to install? if thats the *ONL

Re: Compiling RedHat network driver

2002-11-13 Thread mdevin
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:04:28 -0500, Edward Guldemond wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:30:10AM +1000, mdevin wrote: > > I have a ASUS mobo (A7V8X) with a 10/100 Broadcom network card built in > > (not the gigabit one). The CD that came with the mobo has a linux > > driver on it. It is for R

argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-13 Thread iain d broadfoot
apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory same thing for dselect and aptitude. / any thoughts?? i'm scared to reboot in case it doesn't come back at all. (shivers horri

SonicBlue Rio S50

2002-11-13 Thread Patrick Lane
I recently bought a Rio S50 w/ the impression that it would easily work with linux (I see Rio 500 support everywhere). However, I can't for the life of me get this thing to work. Has anyone had any experience with this, or any other newer Rio model, and linux? (sorry for the duplicate to those on

Re: Preload Openoffice.org at X startup

2002-11-13 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:07:31PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Failing any built-in, background server type functionality, would > "cat > /dev/null &" in my .xinitrc be of any > /real/ use? From a theoretical standpoint, not really. It's not loading the binary from disk that makes loading

Text files in "windows mode"

2002-11-13 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I am trying to create a bunch of text files for use with a streaming MP3 player (Audiotron). However, due to the fact that the developers use Windows CE as their "kernel", every danged playlist I make is not understood by the player because it cannot understand my debian created text files. Is ther

RE: Unsuscribe

2002-11-13 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 06:57:52 +0100, Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Rob Weir wrote: > > > >> It certainly is annoying, but I'd bet that most > >> are just random acts of mistyping rather than concerted > conspiracies > >> of stupidity. > > > >I think it

can't find startx after installing Xserver-Xfree86

2002-11-13 Thread Nimar Arora
Hi, I installed Debian - Woody - stable on an x86 machine and then installed the package XServer-Xfree86 and walked through all the configuration steps. At the end when I executed startx it couldn't find the command! What else do I need to install? Thanks, Nimar

Re: XFree86

2002-11-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 05:45:07PM +0300, Sergey A. Ovchar wrote: > Hi. > Does anybody khow, how can I configure the subj? Yeah. In mutt, hit s. *duck* http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `

Re: Use of telinit by regular users

2002-11-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Cameron Dale wrote: > I am not a member of this mailing list, so please copy me on all replies. > > I have a 4 year old laptop running potato (2.2r6). I use the various > runlevels to > control the services that are running. I want a regular user to be able to > switch runle

aptitude locked

2002-11-13 Thread Michael Naumann
Last day I had a heavy crash of my woody box. I suspect some misbehaviour of xmms here. The whole display was very flickery and no application responded any more, though I saw, that gkrellm was still working. Even switching to a console (ALT-F1) did not succeed. I had the the X-screen still visible

Re: Use of telinit by regular users

2002-11-13 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 01:00:20PM -0800, Cameron Dale wrote: > I am not a member of this mailing list, so please copy me on all replies. > > I have a 4 year old laptop running potato (2.2r6). I use the various > runlevels to > control the services that are running. I want a regular user to be ab

Re: Use of telinit by regular users

2002-11-13 Thread nate
Cameron Dale said: > I am not a member of this mailing list, so please copy me on all replies. > > I have a 4 year old laptop running potato (2.2r6). I use the various > runlevels to > control the services that are running. I want a regular user to be able to > switch runlevels, but telinit seems t

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