Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

2003-03-02 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 11:52 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > I think I'd like to give KDE a shot now... Call me Nicolas Petrely-fied ... > > So, I'm pretty certain there are "K" equivalents to all "G" > applications. The only app I'm unsure about is Mozilla

Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.

2003-03-02 Thread Brian Durant
Other network cards are not an option. There is no expansion bay and the Ethernet card is built into the motherboard. The only alternative is a USB to Ethernet device of some sort. The Celvin is kind of a PC version of the iMac. Cheers, Brian Burkhard Ritter wrote: On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Brian

Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.

2003-03-02 Thread Brian Durant
I have tried this. It doesn't seem to work, unfortunately. The only alternative is getting a 25 ft. Ethernet cable and trying to run this through the house, but as I said in an earlier posting, this problem seems to be a Linux SiS 900 driver problem as Win 98SE works just fine. Cheers, Brian

Re: /etc/modutils/arch/i386

2003-03-02 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 11:47:23PM -0600, matt zagrabelny wrote: > i commented out the "alias char-major-10-135 rtc" line in > /etc/modutils/arch/i386 by the following: > > #alias char-major-10-135 rtc > > then run update-modules, however on reboot i still get > the error message about loading t

/etc/modutils/arch/i386

2003-03-02 Thread matt zagrabelny
i commented out the "alias char-major-10-135 rtc" line in /etc/modutils/arch/i386 by the following: #alias char-major-10-135 rtc then run update-modules, however on reboot i still get the error message about loading the char-major-10-135 module. but when i do the following: alias char-major-10-1

Re: GUI Mail Client

2003-03-02 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
al davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sylpheed uses a different storage format. I couldn't figure out how > to go back and forth between it and a text program like mutt. That > means you will have the same problem moving from pine. Sylpheed uses MH style mailboxes, or at least something that wo

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 02 March 2003 04:45 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > * Carla Schroder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030302 20:23]: > > On Sunday 02 March 2003 03:52 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > So, I'm pretty certain there are "K" equivalents to all "G" > > > applications. The only app I'm unsure about is Mozilla (

Re: repost -- phoenix, java and other plug-ins. are there any .debs?

2003-03-02 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 06:40:43AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > Hi Sandip, hello gary thankx for your help and nate's comments also were useful. for benefit of the group, i would like to summarize what i learnt in the process: - typically, location of the file

Re: Custom Kernel - Tux Boot-Time Logo Vanished Horror :)

2003-03-02 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Nick Boyce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030302 22:51]: > On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 5:04 pm, Sebastian D.B. Krause wrote: > > > > "Console drivers -> Frame-buffer support". You can only see this > > option when you enable "Code maturity level options -> Prompt for > > development and/or incomplete code/driver

Re: Howto auto unpack/read "README.Debian.gz" ?

2003-03-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 09:52:41AM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > * Joao Pedro Clemente ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > AS I've seen some of these files after installing some packages, as since > > they are not unpacked by apt-get, I am wondering if there isn't a "smart" > > way of reading this in

unqualified recipient rejected:

2003-03-02 Thread ScruLoose
Hi all, I keep seeing this pair of messages in my exim logs: 22:42:59 SMTP command timeout on connection from miguel (localhost) [127.0.0.1] 22:43:11 unqualified recipient rejected: H=miguel (localhost) [127.0.0.1] U=fetchmail It happens every five minutes, which is the frequency with which my

Re: KMail : Index 0 out of range

2003-03-02 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 22:01, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > On March 2, 2003 06:28 pm, Michael Naumann wrote: > > On Monday 03 March 2003 02:50, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > > On March 2, 2003 05:22 pm, Michael Naumann wrote: > > > > I'm using KMail (1.3.2) on a woody-box and it works perfectly. > > > > Exce

Re: Custom Kernel - Tux Boot-Time Logo Vanished Horror :)

2003-03-02 Thread Nick Boyce
On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 5:04 pm, Sebastian D.B. Krause wrote: > > "Console drivers -> Frame-buffer support". You can only see this > option when you enable "Code maturity level options -> Prompt for > development and/or incomplete code/drivers". Thanks guys - I've tried that now and it worked - well

Re: KMail : Index 0 out of range

2003-03-02 Thread John Hasler
Michael Naumann writes: > If I'm mistaken, can you please tell me what kind of questions should or > should not be put here? The question is quite appropriate for this list. Unfortunately I have no answer for it, other than the observation that every KDE or Gnome program that I have tried was bug

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-03-02 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 20:27, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 17:23, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 17:35, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > > > Hubert Chan wrote: > > > >>"Joseph" == Joseph A Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [snip] > > > > Evolution supports filtering base

Re: KMail : Index 0 out of range

2003-03-02 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 2, 2003 06:28 pm, Michael Naumann wrote: > On Monday 03 March 2003 02:50, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > On March 2, 2003 05:22 pm, Michael Naumann wrote: > > > I'm using KMail (1.3.2) on a woody-box and it works perfectly. > > > Except for one minor flaw: Each time i jump to a new message, > >

Re: KMail : Index 0 out of range

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Naumann
On Monday 03 March 2003 02:50, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > On March 2, 2003 05:22 pm, Michael Naumann wrote: > > I'm using KMail (1.3.2) on a woody-box and it works perfectly. > > Except for one minor flaw: Each time i jump to a new message, > > either via , +, Cursor or Mouse, > > I get a new entry in

Re: glx-no-gears

2003-03-02 Thread Joao Pedro Clemente
> This is just a sumptom. When I run glxgears all I get is a black > window. No animation of three rotating gears. Other > opengl-enabled programs and plug-ins I tried launch and run as > usual. I'm able to shut them down without resorting to anything > stronger than Ctrl-C. But all I see is an im

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

2003-03-02 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 2, 2003 03:52 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > I think I'd like to give KDE a shot now... Call me Nicolas > Petrely-fied > > :) Seriously though, I've contemplated it for some time now. I use > > Enlightenment as my WM and I know I can continue to use it if I'd > like. I've given Sawfish, and n

Re: lost sound ,help

2003-03-02 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a new one who use The Debian.I installed it but I can't make >sound card work ,can you tell me the command file name of the setup of the >sound device,and path ,thank you > >wood > > Debian, not being quite so consumer oriented as some of the other distros, does

Re: KMail : Index 0 out of range

2003-03-02 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 2, 2003 05:22 pm, Michael Naumann wrote: > I'm using KMail (1.3.2) on a woody-box and it works perfectly. > Except for one minor flaw: Each time i jump to a new message, > either via , +, Cursor or Mouse, > I get a new entry in .xsession-errors, saying: > QMenuData::removeItem: Index 0 out

Re: Dummy

2003-03-02 Thread Kent West
Teilhard Knight wrote: I guess you are right. I tried today to install as a root using rpm, and I got the reply you say: "database doesn't exist". Is alien in the distribution of Debian or should I grab it apart? I think I'll have a look. Leo Spalteholz wrote: I've never had much luck inst

Re: glx-no-gears

2003-03-02 Thread Steven Yap
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 09:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is just a sumptom. When I run glxgears all I get is a black > window. No animation of three rotating gears. Other > opengl-enabled programs and plug-ins I tried launch and run as > usual. I'm able to shut them down without resorting to an

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

2003-03-02 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Carla Schroder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030302 20:23]: > On Sunday 02 March 2003 03:52 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > So, I'm pretty certain there are "K" equivalents to all "G" > > applications. The only app I'm unsure about is Mozilla (and Phoenix). I > > thought they depended on GTK libs, but 'apt-

Problems installing courier-imap

2003-03-02 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, I've just done an apt-get install courier-imap but when running /etc/init.d/courier-imap I'm getting /etc/init.d/courier-imap: admins: command not found Which other package do I have to install? Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "More bits for your bite" Em

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 17:23, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 17:35, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > > Hubert Chan wrote: > > >>"Joseph" == Joseph A Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > > Evolution supports filtering based on custom headers - has from back > during the "Milestone" d

KMail : Index 0 out of range

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Naumann
I'm using KMail (1.3.2) on a woody-box and it works perfectly. Except for one minor flaw: Each time i jump to a new message, either via , +, Cursor or Mouse, I get a new entry in .xsession-errors, saying: QMenuData::removeItem: Index 0 out of range What is causing this? Should I be concerned? How

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

2003-03-02 Thread Carla Schroder
On Sunday 02 March 2003 03:52 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > So, I'm pretty certain there are "K" equivalents to all "G" > applications. The only app I'm unsure about is Mozilla (and Phoenix). I > thought they depended on GTK libs, but 'apt-cache show mozilla-browser' > doesn't seem to indicate that.

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2003-03-02 Thread Ambrose Scafidi
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Re: Problems with X and unstable

2003-03-02 Thread andyrew
Chris Hoover wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:46:16PM -0500 or thereabouts, andyrew wrote: Chris Hoover wrote: (EE) Failed to load module "pex5" (module does not exist, 0) Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a:spencode.o": No symbols found (EE) Failed to load module "xie" (module

Re: GUI Mail Client

2003-03-02 Thread al davis
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 11:56 pm, Rus Foster wrote: > Can anyone recommend a mail client which can take my > existing pine config and folders? One that takes the whole config will be hard. Several will take the folders, including kmail and mutt. (but mutt isn't GUI.) I use kmail and mutt

Re: help

2003-03-02 Thread Sebastian D.B. Krause
On 3470 September 1993, Solomon Goldstein wrote: > Hi, my name is Solomon Goldstein. I am installing Debian on my > machine. After I'm done, I get to the Login promt, so I login and > when I type "StartX", I get error message saying "Fatal Server > Error: No screens found". Would this mean that I

Re: help

2003-03-02 Thread Seneca
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 05:24:43PM -0600, Solomon Goldstein wrote: > Hi, my name is Solomon Goldstein. I am installing Debian on my machine. > After I'm done, I get to the Login promt, so I login and when I type > "StartX", I get error message saying "Fatal Server Error: > > No screens

Re: help

2003-03-02 Thread Mark Schouten
Hi, On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 05:24:43PM -0600, Solomon Goldstein wrote: > Hi, my name is Solomon Goldstein. I am installing Debian on my machine. > After I'm done, I get to the Login promt, so I login and when I type > "StartX", I get error message saying "Fatal Server Error: > > No sc

Switch from Gnome to KDE...

2003-03-02 Thread Hall Stevenson
I think I'd like to give KDE a shot now... Call me Nicolas Petrely-fied :) Seriously though, I've contemplated it for some time now. I use Enlightenment as my WM and I know I can continue to use it if I'd like. I've given Sawfish, and now Metacity, a try with Gnome and find both WMs rather lacking.

help

2003-03-02 Thread Solomon Goldstein
Hi, my name is Solomon Goldstein. I am installing Debian on my machine. After I’m done, I get to the Login promt, so I login and when I type “StartX”, I get error message saying “Fatal Server Error:     No screens found”.  Would this mean that I forgot to install something?   Tha

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-03-02 Thread David Z Maze
debian_newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I change the number of times I can boot up before fsck does a > complete file system check? It does it on my Woody machine every 20 > times. Other people have already mentioned tune2fs(8). > Also, I'm using ext3 filesystem. isn't it a journalized

Re: Dummy

2003-03-02 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 2, 2003 12:40 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > On March 2, 2003 08:03 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > > Kent West wrote: > > > > > Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > > >>> Kent West wrote: > > > > >>> > > > > >>> But > > > > >>> natively, Debian doesn't use the .rpm format > > > > >>> (although i

Re: apt-get, KDE, and gnomemeeting

2003-03-02 Thread sport woman
Hi Mark, > There is the option of building your own package > from source for > GnomeMeeting, although that likely is going to > require bringing in > various libraries as well. Thank you for explaining more about what is going on with the KDE/apt-get/gnomemeeting updating! I think I'll try the b

Re: apt-get, KDE, and gnomemeeting

2003-03-02 Thread sport woman
Hi Donald, Thanks for explaining the apt-get dist-upgrade problem, now I get it! I appreciate your being patient and detailed... it really clarified things for me. And for your words of encouragement for asking questions and offering advice when I think I know an answer. I'm definitely very gra

Re: debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD

2003-03-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:47:47PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Sunday, 02 March 2003, 02:07 AM -0800): > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:05:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > > to become available to me, and I'd like to install debian on it. > >

Re: Switching to console mode from X problem almost solved

2003-03-02 Thread GSO
>From someone else who's stuck with a S3 Trio as well - XFree86 4.1 doesn't support an accelerated S3 driver so I'm using XFree 3.3.6. Am guessing but maybe you are using XFree 4.1 - getting round the fact the driver isn't directly supported by using the svga module. The good news is XFree 4.2 s

Quest for intelligent remote x setup with laptop

2003-03-02 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, I have a shiny new desktop machine, so I thought I'm gonna use my old laptop as a X terminal to the desktop. I tried remote session logins via XDMCP, VNC and a local X session at the laptop with some apps started remotely (ssh-tunneled from the desktop). Each of these solutions seems to have

Re: Howto auto unpack/read "README.Debian.gz" ?

2003-03-02 Thread Jan Schulz
* Joao Pedro Clemente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if, for instance, "less" could automatically unpack it for try 'zless README.gz'... Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Switching to console mode from X problem almost solved

2003-03-02 Thread Sam Yuval
Several weeks ago I sent an email concerning my inability to switch from X windows to the virtual console using Ctrl+Alt+F1. I own a Viewsonic P810 21" monitor and an S3 Trio 2D/4X video adapter. It appears that the problem is cause the use of the wrong X server: when I started using xserver

Re: (OT) Virtual map in apache to another computer

2003-03-02 Thread Jamie Lawrence
On Sun, 02 Mar 2003, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > Not really...it's not for internal use only. > I've got a couple a hundred mp3 files and I want to share them with a friend > of my who lives a few miles away. I can't put them in /var/www because my > hard-disk is to small for all the files. So I wa

Re: Dummy

2003-03-02 Thread Teilhard Knight
> On March 2, 2003 08:03 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > Kent West wrote: > > > > Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > >>> Kent West wrote: > > > >>> > > > >>> But > > > >>> natively, Debian doesn't use the .rpm format > > > >>> (although it can in many cases with the "alien" package). > > > >> > > > >> T

Re: Problems with X and unstable

2003-03-02 Thread Chris Hoover
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:46:16PM -0500 or thereabouts, andyrew wrote: > Chris Hoover wrote: > > > >(EE) Failed to load module "pex5" (module does not exist, 0) > >Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a:spencode.o": No > >symbols found > >(EE) Failed to load module "xie" (module does

Re: Howto auto unpack/read "README.Debian.gz" ?

2003-03-02 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 06:41:59AM +, Joao Pedro Clemente wrote: > > AS I've seen some of these files after installing some packages, as since > they are not unpacked by apt-get, I am wondering if there isn't a "smart" > way of reading this instead of unpacking first... > > I wonder if, for i

[SOLVED] Re: netgear ma311 recognized but not working on testing

2003-03-02 Thread DvB
Got it working after installing some extra packages and modifying /etc/network/interfaces based on the info in: /usr/share/doc/linux-wlan-ng/README.Debian.gz Here're the packages: ii linux-wlan-ng0.1.15-1 ii linux-wlan-ng-modules-2.4.20-686 2.4.20-5+0.1.15-

RE: (OT) Virtual map in apache to another computer

2003-03-02 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Not really...it's not for internal use only. I've got a couple a hundred mp3 files and I want to share them with a friend of my who lives a few miles away. I can't put them in /var/www because my hard-disk is to small for all the files. So I want to setup a virtual map. Explanation: Server's out

Re: Mutt 1.5.x packages for Sarge?

2003-03-02 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 09:31:21PM +0100, Sebastian D.B. Krause wrote: > On 3468 September 1993, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > > Does anyone have or know where to get some 1.5.x mutt packages that will > > work on woody? > > http://people.debian.org/~nobse/debian/woody/backported/mutt/ > > Or in y

Re: parallel port cd-burner

2003-03-02 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi, On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:44:42PM -0600, Caitrin Torres wrote: > sgc:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/pcd0 /burner > mount: special device /dev/pcd0 does not exist > And it doesn't. ls /dev/pcd* turns up nothing. > > Any ideas? I'm a bit lost as to where to start looking for answers. > Yo

Re: Power off

2003-03-02 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Matthew Weier O'Phinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030302 13:01]: > > Many machines with ATX power supplies have a setting in BIOS that > requires you to hold the power button in for ~4 seconds to power off. > (Feature: your child can't turn of the computer just by pressing the > button!) I thought i

Re: Howto auto unpack/read "README.Debian.gz" ?

2003-03-02 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 06:41:59AM +, Joao Pedro Clemente wrote: > > AS I've seen some of these files after installing some packages, as since > they are not unpacked by apt-get, I am wondering if there isn't a "smart" > way of reading this instead of unpacking first... > > I wonder if, for i

parallel port cd-burner

2003-03-02 Thread Caitrin Torres
I have an external cd burner (Microsolutions Backpack) that connects to my parallel port. I know that it should be able to work with linux, as it seemed to "just work" when I was using Mandrake awhile back, but I can't get it working now. I recompiled my kernel and made sure all the modules I (

Re: Network config help needed

2003-03-02 Thread Barry deFreese
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please help me I'm trying to connect two pc's, but I allways get the message "unable to connect to remote host: No route to host". What am I missing? My config for pc1 looks like this: ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up rout add -host 192.168.0.2 eth0 "

Re: Dummy

2003-03-02 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 2, 2003 08:03 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > Kent West wrote: > > > Teilhard Knight wrote: > > >>> Kent West wrote: > > >>> > > >>> But > > >>> natively, Debian doesn't use the .rpm format > > >>> (although it can in many cases with the "alien" package). > > >> > > >> Thanks a lot, Kent. A

Re: Power off

2003-03-02 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 2, 2003 09:38 am, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Steve Wollkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > (on Sunday, 02 March 2003, 09:51 AM -0600): > > I have a similar problem with my computer here, with the added > > bonus that when it is sitting there saying "power down" the power > > switch

No UDMA2 on PIIX4 ide controller?

2003-03-02 Thread stefan
Hello, (I have not subscribed to this list yet, please send a CC of your reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) My laptop has a 440BX/ZX/DX chipset with a PIIX4 ide controller, and even though my hard disk and the controller are capable of udma2 I am not able to set a dma mode higher than mdma2. When the

Re: cdparanoia can't access scsi

2003-03-02 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Christof" == Christof Hurschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christof> another newbie problem. as root cdpranoia runs fine, as user Christof> and a member of the group cdrom I still get this error. I Christof> don't get it because /dev/cdrom which is linked to /dev/scd1 Christof> is set to

Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.

2003-03-02 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 2, 2003 02:06 am, Brian Durant wrote: > I checked Knoppix' web site, which directed to a page with "cheat > codes". I gave the command "knoppix noapic" at the boot prompt. > When the system started, I used "netcartconfig" to get the system > to broadcast a DHCP something or other. Unlike t

Re: New Kernel - No Network

2003-03-02 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 02 March 2003 3:27 am, Vince Turzo wrote: >what's a quick way to enable a static IP address? Check out the man pages for ifup and interfaces. Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD

2003-03-02 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:47:47PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Sunday, 02 March 2003, 02:07 AM -0800): > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:05:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > > to become available to me, and I'd like to install debian on it. > >

Re: Network config help needed

2003-03-02 Thread Wilfried Essig
Am Son, 2003-03-02 um 13.15 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Please help me > I'm trying to connect two pc's, but I allways get the message > "unable to connect to remote host: No route to host". What am I > missing? > > My config for pc1 looks like this: > ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255

Re: [OT] what are you running? (was Complaint)

2003-03-02 Thread Andrej Prsa
Hi Gary! > I'm using gnus, via GNU Emacs. It's a bear to set up, but I've been > using it since the Epoch (I exaggerate, slightly) and when I used to > read Usenet it was nice to have a common front-end for mail and > news. That and mail expiry, which I believe Mutt can now do, were my > main moti

Stratitec CPU Builders System from SAM'S Club?

2003-03-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
Has anyone used this system? My current desktop (an ageing P166) has had mouse problems since it was given to me and I have replaced the mouse 2 or 3 times. It works better for a while, but then performance degrades to near uselessness (as it currently is). I have decided that a new system that

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-03-02 Thread Wilfried Essig
Am Son, 2003-03-02 um 03.54 schrieb debian_newbie: > Hello Everybody, > > How do I change the number of times I can boot up before fsck does a > complete file system check? It does it on my Woody machine every 20 > times. Also, I'm using ext3 filesystem. isn't it a journalized fs? I > thought jour

Question, extending snmpd

2003-03-02 Thread Bill Bell
List, I have a private MIB for a custom hardware platform that I need to include in an snmp agent on my Woody Debian/Linux OS. I have been reading up on using mib2c to create a .h and .c file. Then compiling this output into the snmpd agent. My goal is to have a local snmpd_xxx.custom.i386.

Re: crontab just wont stop mailing ... !

2003-03-02 Thread Wilfried Essig
Am Sam, 2003-03-01 um 21.30 schrieb Dave Selby: > Anybody know where roots mail is kept ? Usually in file /var/mail/root. The other files in that directory are the mailstores from other users getting mail on your machine. (But not with cyrus imapd - and maybe other mailservers) Usually root shan

Re: Power off

2003-03-02 Thread daniel huhardeaux
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: [...] Also, if you want the machine to power down by itself on a 'shutdown -h', try installing apmd ('apt-get install apmd'). Done. Change nothing even with apm power_off=1 in /etc/modules -- : __ __ __ __ __ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] : /_//

Re: New Kernel - No Network

2003-03-02 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Sunday 02 March 2003 18:57, Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote: > On Saturday 01 March 2003 23:09, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > For 8139 cards, ne2k-pci will NOT work. You need the rtl8139, or 8139too > > drivers for RTL 8139-based network cards (they are 100mbit/s nics).

Re: AW: pppd problem...

2003-03-02 Thread Wilfried Essig
Am Son, 2003-03-02 um 02.05 schrieb Christof Hurschler: > Sorry, but how do I get rid of the "tap0" default route? Dear Christof, maybe by deleting the line "gateway ..." from the interface-section of tap0 in your "/etc/network/interfaces"? IMHO pppd denies in many cases the setting of a defaul

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-03-02 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 05:29:56PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: > Knoppix got finished earlier than expected. I first tried it on > another machine on my WAN/LAN to see if the CD would work with another > configuration. This went off without a hitch, though it is necessary to > prompt Knoppix to

cdparanoia can't access scsi

2003-03-02 Thread Christof Hurschler
another newbie problem. as root cdpranoia runs fine, as user and a member of the group cdrom I still get this error. I don't get it because /dev/cdrom which is linked to /dev/scd1 is set to allow read access by the group cdrom. >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cdparanoia -Q >cdparanoia III release 9.8 (Mar

Re: logcheck oddity -- actually logrotate oddity!

2003-03-02 Thread Chris Evans
On 2 Mar 2003 at 11:27, Martin Kacerovsky wrote: > > I wanted to rotate that file using logcheck and created a file > > I think you mean logrotate and not logcheck, logcheck is a tool used > to periodic checking of log files and generating e-mail messages about > unusual events or possible secur

Re: Howto auto unpack/read "README.Debian.gz" ?

2003-03-02 Thread Cam Ellison
* Joao Pedro Clemente ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > AS I've seen some of these files after installing some packages, as since > they are not unpacked by apt-get, I am wondering if there isn't a "smart" > way of reading this instead of unpacking first... > I use Midnight Commander for this (and a

AW: pppd problem...

2003-03-02 Thread Christof Hurschler
I removed diald and that solved the problem. At least I got pppd to work, and it seems to work fine. Thanks, Chris Dr.-Ing. Christof Hurschler Bodenstedtstr. 13 D-30173 Hannover [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0511 8039970 0172 5946909 > -Ursprungliche Nachricht- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[

Re: can't mount homemade cdroms on one machine

2003-03-02 Thread Michael West
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 12:13:35PM -0600, Todd Pytel wrote: > Yup, pretty much. Some older machines I work with (`96-`97 era) don't > even spin up for CD-RW's - the hardware has no idea the disc is there. > CD-R's work fine though. But I would think `98 era drives would be > better behaved. Maybe t

Re: New Kernel - No Network

2003-03-02 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Saturday 01 March 2003 23:09, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > For 8139 cards, ne2k-pci will NOT work. You need the rtl8139, or 8139too > drivers for RTL 8139-based network cards (they are 100mbit/s nics). Hi, as I used to use SuSE before Debian I visited old friends: http://sdb.suse.de/en

Re: debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD

2003-03-02 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Sunday, 02 March 2003, 02:07 AM -0800): > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:05:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > to become available to me, and I'd like to install debian on it. > > The system is an HP Omnibook A4100, > > P-II 300 > > 96 meg ram > > 20 gig hard

Re: Downloading Debian -Latest Release

2003-03-02 Thread Cam Ellison
* jim tate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Using jigdo-bin-0.6.9 , what is the best and complete URL to use. > I have went to debian /CD site for URL's but nothing works. > There is a complete list in /usr/share/doc/jigdo. Take your pick. Cam -- Cam Ellison Ph.D. R.Psych. From Roberts Creek on B

Re: Problems with X and unstable

2003-03-02 Thread andyrew
Chris Hoover wrote: (EE) Failed to load module "pex5" (module does not exist, 0) Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a:spencode.o": No symbols found (EE) Failed to load module "xie" (module does not exist, 0) Symbol FontFilePriorityRegisterRenderer from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/

Re: Power off

2003-03-02 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Steve Wollkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Sunday, 02 March 2003, 09:51 AM -0600): > I have a similar problem with my computer here, with the added bonus > that when it is sitting there saying "power down" the power switch > becomes inactive, and to actually turn off the machine I need to hit

Re: debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD

2003-03-02 Thread Klaus Imgrund
> > -if necessary, alternatives to / modifications of OpenOffice that > > don't require quite so much room to work as the standard OO > > installation needs? > > > > Would it perhaps be useful to compile stuff from scratch, rather > > than use generic debian packages? Compile OO? Didn't follo

glx-no-gears

2003-03-02 Thread csj
This is just a sumptom. When I run glxgears all I get is a black window. No animation of three rotating gears. Other opengl-enabled programs and plug-ins I tried launch and run as usual. I'm able to shut them down without resorting to anything stronger than Ctrl-C. But all I see is an image of unre

Re: (OT) Virtual map in apache to another computer

2003-03-02 Thread Jamie Lawrence
On Sun, 02 Mar 2003, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > Hello, > > A question about apache. > I want to setup a virtual map on my server (192.168.0.1) wich is running > apache. The map have to link to my winXP box wich contains my map with mp3's > winXP computer's IP is 192.168.0.3. Is it possible to set

Re: Dummy

2003-03-02 Thread Phil Reynolds
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 10:03:42AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > I guess you are right. I tried today to install as a root using rpm, and I > got the reply you say: "database doesn't exist". Is alien in the > distribution of Debian or should I grab it apart? I think I'll have a look. alien is in

Re: debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD

2003-03-02 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:05:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > So does anyone have suggesions about > -tweaks to get debian to run optimally on a (relatively) small > memory/processing speed budget; > -if necessary, alternatives to / modifications of OpenOffice that > don't require quite so much ro

Re: Custom Kernel - Tux Boot-Time Logo Vanished Horror :)

2003-03-02 Thread Sebastian D.B. Krause
On 3469 September 1993, Nick Boyce wrote: > "Aha", I thought, "perhaps I didn't request a framebuffer console in the > kernel config". But I've looked and looked - and can't find anywhere > in "make menuconfig" where a framebuffer console is even mentioned. "Console drivers -> Frame-buffer supp

Re: Custom Kernel - Tux Boot-Time Logo Vanished Horror :)

2003-03-02 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi, On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 04:39:32PM +, Nick Boyce wrote: > Mah Fello Tuxians, > > > "Aha", I thought, "perhaps I didn't request a framebuffer > console in the kernel config". But I've looked and looked > - and can't find anywhere in "make menuconfig" where a > framebuffer cons

Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.

2003-03-02 Thread Burkhard Ritter
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Brian Durant wrote: > Yes, it worked with Win 98 SE, until I erased the hard disk. I erased > the hard disk because too many bad, local techs had been mucking around > in it. The computer simply needed a clean install. I thought I would try > something different like Linux.

Custom Kernel - Tux Boot-Time Logo Vanished Horror :)

2003-03-02 Thread Nick Boyce
Mah Fello Tuxians, I've been using the bf24 kernel ever since I installed Woody, but I've just compiled my first custom kernel, and although the resulting kernel runs ok, I was distressed (shocked even ;-) to find I no longer get a cheery Tux logo in the top left-hand corner of the screen as Li

Re: Two ISA NICs

2003-03-02 Thread David P James
mike was roused into action on 2003-03-02 07:58 and wrote: Hello I've got a Debian Woody. I've got two ISA NICs (3com EtherLink III I guess). And I've got a problem :) A fragment of dmesg: eth0 : 3c5x9 at 0x220, 10baseT port, address 00 10 5a dc ee bc, IRQ 5 eth1 : 3c5x9 at 0x300, 10baseT port, ad

Problems with X and unstable

2003-03-02 Thread Chris Hoover
I am in need of some help. It appears that the X packages in the unstable distribution where updated and now I can not get into X. I am attaching the log from trying to run a startx to show what the problem is. Before this happened on Friday, I was running X without a problem on my Dell Insp

Re: Network config help needed

2003-03-02 Thread praveen kallakuri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- you dont have a lo in ur route: loopback interface. check whether you can ping to yourself (lo) 127.0.0.1 on each pc. then configure pc1 as 192.168.0.1. repeat the two steps with pc2, only changing the ip address. the initial sections of Net-HOWTO must help. so

Re: Dummy

2003-03-02 Thread Teilhard Knight
> Kent West wrote: > > Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > > > >>> Kent West wrote: > >>> > >>> But > >>> natively, Debian doesn't use the .rpm format > >>> (although it can in many cases with the "alien" package). > >>> > >> > >> Thanks a lot, Kent. A friend of mine told me Debian takes Red Hat drivers >

Re: New Kernel - No Network

2003-03-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Vince" == Vince Turzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Vince> I'm still trying to get connected with 2.4.20, while 2.2.22 Vince> connects without problems. My debian system is on a Vince> lan. The ifconfig screens look the same, except that eth0 Vince> has no IP address in 2.4.20,

Re: Power off

2003-03-02 Thread Steve Wollkind
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:16:46AM +0100, daniel huhardeaux wrote: > Hi list, > > I have 4 computers running kernel 2.4.18 or 2.4.19 and all of them, when > I ask to power down, *never* really dot it. They stay switch on with I have a similar problem with my computer here, with the added bonus t

(OT) Virtual map in apache to another computer

2003-03-02 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Hello, A question about apache. I want to setup a virtual map on my server (192.168.0.1) wich is running apache. The map have to link to my winXP box wich contains my map with mp3's winXP computer's IP is 192.168.0.3. Is it possible to setup a directory wich contains the files from a map from anot

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