Re: Problem Booting After Install

2003-05-29 Thread Kent West
Scott MacMaster wrote: - Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 12:35 PM Subject: Re: Problem Booting After Install Scott MacMaster wrote: I was able to view the contents of lilo.conf. Here ar

Re: Multiple kernel-header packages?

2003-05-29 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
>> I've compiled the kernel myself, using kernel-source-2.4.20, and >> compiled the additional modules I needed (nvidia etc.) using >> kernel-headers-2.4.20. > Oh. In that case, you should ignore the kernel-headers package; it's > just a subset of what's already in the kernel source. Use your ker

Re: OT: The Hurd

2003-05-29 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 22:48, David Fokkema wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:20:00PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > I just installed the Hurd on a Gateway E-1800. It's a bare minimum > > install, with lots of broken-ness. > > > > And they say installing Debian GNU/Linux is hard. Debian GNU/Linux

Re: How to turn off scsi emulation?

2003-05-29 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Am Dienstag, 27. Mai 2003 20:37 schrieb Joel Konkle-Parker: > Somewhere during the process of installing Woody and updating to > kernel-image- 2.4.18-686, my Zip drive came under the control of ide-scsi. > I can't think of any good reason to have scsi emulation for my Zip drive, > so how do I turn

WTerm Package Depedency Problems/Conficts

2003-05-29 Thread Dale Nursten
Has anyone managed to fix this yet?? Still getting the same message :) Thanks Dale On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:10:30AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 09:27:45PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > > There is a dependency problem with wterm. I just tried to install it on > > my

RE: The Hurd

2003-05-29 Thread deFreese, Barry
> -Original Message- > From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 2:01 PM > To: debian users > Subject: Re: The Hurd > > > deFreese, Barry wrote: > > >>From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >>I just installed the Hurd on a Gateway E-1800. It's a

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Jerry Quinn wrote: > Hi, all. I have a debian box serving as my firewall/router/dhcp > server. The dhcp does the job fine, except for dns. > > I'd like to have dns lookups work correctly for my internal network. > So is there a simple means of having my dhcp clients being ab

Re: [SOLVED] Lilo & Descriptor Checksum Error

2003-05-29 Thread Brian
Kevin McKinley wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003 08:36:33 -0700 Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: /etc/lilo.conf - boot=/dev/hda3 root=/dev/hda3 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label = Linux read-only - This told lilo to pu

Re: Problem Booting After Install

2003-05-29 Thread Scott MacMaster
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 12:35 PM Subject: Re: Problem Booting After Install > Scott MacMaster wrote: > > >>>I was able to view the contents of lilo.conf. Here are the contents > >>> >

Re: GNOME applets not appearing in menu

2003-05-29 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 15:08, Johan Braennlund wrote: > Hello. I'm having a problem with installing new GNOME (GNOME 2) applets in > unstable, in that they don't seem to want to appear in the applet menu > (right click -> Add to Panel). For instance, I've installed multiticker, a > news ticker apple

Re: make-kpkg, where is it?

2003-05-29 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Jens Kubieziel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030528 21:37]: > > My dselect couldn't found make-kpkg package, where can I get it? > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S make-kpkg This works only, if you have the package allready installed. If you search for uninstalled files, use packages.debian.org or apt-file

Re: [OT] Novell Challenges SCO and claims ownership of Unix

2003-05-29 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 13:02, Aryan Ameri wrote: > Hi there: > [***SNIP!!!***] > The question that come's to mind is, what exactly did Microsoft buy from > SCO ? > Isn't it obvious? They bought a few more months of FUD from SCO! > Cheers > > -- > /* There is SCO owned IP all over the Linux ke

Re: Mozilla opens full-screen with Xinerama

2003-05-29 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
--+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:27:39AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:39:49AM -0400, John M Flinchbaugh wrote: > > i'm actually seeing this as

Re: runlevels [was: fried(?) computer hangs on boot]

2003-05-29 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 10:34:46AM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > Well, I would, but I can't log in. I have it booting up now, I get a > login prompt, it'll accept my username, but it hangs trying to > authenticate my password. Do you think this is a problem with login (I > think that's the p

Re: The Hurd

2003-05-29 Thread Kent West
deFreese, Barry wrote: From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I just installed the Hurd on a Gateway E-1800. It's a bare minimum install, with lots of broken-ness. Which ISO did you use, K3?? If so, let me know if your network applications such as ping, cvs, telnet, ftp, etc work. I

Re: sndconfig problems: sound only works until reboot

2003-05-29 Thread Benjamin Rutt
Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think the problem is that sndconfig uses modules > which are normally not active (temporarily activating > them or something) - I allready found it uses a module > called 'opl3' which was not active. > > I now have got the following sound modules instal

Re: Multiple kernel-header packages?

2003-05-29 Thread David Z Maze
"Jan C. Nordholz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've compiled the kernel myself, using kernel-source-2.4.20, and > compiled the additional modules I needed (nvidia etc.) using > kernel-headers-2.4.20. Oh. In that case, you should ignore the kernel-headers package; it's just a subset of what's al

display manager fails to start at login

2003-05-29 Thread Christoph Groth
Hello fellow Debian users, A week ago I got a used Hercules 3d Prophet 4500 graphics board from a friend as a replacement for my good old Matrox Millennium II. Unfortunately, only closed-source drivers are available for the new card. (I wouldn't buy such a card, but this is a different situation)

Re: OT: The Hurd

2003-05-29 Thread Kent West
David Fokkema wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:20:00PM -0500, Kent West wrote: I just installed the Hurd on a Gateway E-1800. It's a bare minimum install, with lots of broken-ness. And they say installing Debian GNU/Linux is hard. Debian GNU/Linux is a piece of cake. If anyone ever complain

mkinitrd

2003-05-29 Thread Axel Gerster
Hello, can someone please explain to me how to get an module into an existing initrd.img and get it loaded on bootup? Or does someone know a good howto? Thx. Axel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: The Hurd

2003-05-29 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:20:00PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I just installed the Hurd on a Gateway E-1800. It's a bare minimum > install, with lots of broken-ness. > > And they say installing Debian GNU/Linux is hard. Debian GNU/Linux is a > piece of cake. If anyone ever complains about how har

Re: GUI Login and Gnome/KDE Problems

2003-05-29 Thread spahmtrahp
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I am attempting to migrate from RedHat to Debian. I just can not take > living in "dependency hell" anymore, and keeping it updated is almost as > expensive as the product from Redmond. I made the same switch recently. > My questions: > 1. What is

Re: fried(?) computer hangs on boot

2003-05-29 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:42:57PM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 2003, Pigeon wrote: > > Me, I run with the sides off the case and if I want an estimate of the > > CPU temp I stick my hand in and feel the heatsink. > > I find that if I keep the side off of my case, I get higher CPU te

O.T. Novell challenges SCO's Linux claims (Update)

2003-05-29 Thread D.
Here is a update on the current SCO/IBM Lawsuit for those that are interested. http://about-cnet.com.com/2100-1016-1010569.html?type=pt Don __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSC

RE: The Hurd

2003-05-29 Thread deFreese, Barry
> -Original Message- > From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 12:35 PM > To: debian users > Subject: OT: The Hurd > > > I just installed the Hurd on a Gateway E-1800. It's a bare minimum > install, with lots of broken-ness. > > And they say installing

Re: make-kpkg, where is it?

2003-05-29 Thread Jens Kubieziel
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 01:29:16PM -0500, Ernesto Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > My dselect couldn't found make-kpkg package, where can I get it? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S make-kpkg kernel-package: /usr/bin/make-kpkg kernel-package: /usr/share/man/man1/make-kpkg.1.gz -- Jens Kubieziel

Article by HP about Linux's growing Popularity

2003-05-29 Thread D.
I thought that you all might be interested in this article from HP. I also thought that some people might want to tuck it away someplace so that when someone asks for a reference that they can use, it could be provided. http://www.hp.com/sbso/advice/articles_networking12.html Don __

Re: make-kpkg, where is it?

2003-05-29 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Ernesto Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > My dselect couldn't found make-kpkg package, where can I get it? kernel-package. Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GnuPG-Key ID: 2

OT: The Hurd

2003-05-29 Thread Kent West
I just installed the Hurd on a Gateway E-1800. It's a bare minimum install, with lots of broken-ness. And they say installing Debian GNU/Linux is hard. Debian GNU/Linux is a piece of cake. If anyone ever complains about how hard it is to install Debian again, point 'em to the Hurd. But I'm hav

Re: Cheap high resolution (1600x1200) video card for debian

2003-05-29 Thread Bradley M Alexander
I had a GeForce2 Pro with 64MB RAM until two weeks ago. It died and I went out and bought a GeForce4 MX with 64MB DDR RAM for US $69. The drivers, while closed source, are excellent and they release relatively often. And nVidia seems quite Linux friendly, their releases seem to correspond to the re

GNOME applets not appearing in menu

2003-05-29 Thread Johan Braennlund
Hello. I'm having a problem with installing new GNOME (GNOME 2) applets in unstable, in that they don't seem to want to appear in the applet menu (right click -> Add to Panel). For instance, I've installed multiticker, a news ticker applet but can't for the life of me figure out how to start it, wh

Re: Multiple kernel-header packages?

2003-05-29 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
> If you want to compile your own kernel, I'd recommend purging the > kernel-headers packages, and apt-getting kernel-source-2.4.20. If you get > the package from unstable (-7) it will have the latest security patches and > Debian patches. I already have built the kernel. My problem is that I can't

Re: make-kpkg, where is it?

2003-05-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 01:29:16PM -0500, Ernesto Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > My dselect couldn't found make-kpkg package, where can I get it? Try 'kernel-package' instead. (Also, http://packages.debian.org/ has a search engine that will let you find the answers to this kind of question.) Cheers, --

Knoppix, Radeon 9000, and LCD

2003-05-29 Thread jennyw
I was trying out Knoppix 3.2 on my desktop and the screen goes blank during boot (after hitting return). I tried a few options, but haven't had any luck. Any suggestions? I have a Radeon 9000 video card and a ViewSonic VG800 LCD display. On my other Debian box (which has a Rage Pro), I use t

Re: DVD VMG info ?

2003-05-29 Thread Jeremy Petzold
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 10:49 am, David selby wrote: > Am happily playing with gmplayer & xine. I have come across some DVDs > which xine refuses to do anything with and gmplayer reports "cant open > VMG info!" > > Can anybody shine any light on this ? > > Dave do you have libdvdcss2 installed?

make-kpkg, where is it?

2003-05-29 Thread Ernesto Gonzalez Gomez
Hi, My dselect couldn't found make-kpkg package, where can I get it? Thanks, in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sndconfig problems: sound only works until reboot

2003-05-29 Thread Joris Huizer
Well, I couldn't really find the interesting part - the link to the article about the other laptop is a broken; I think the problem is that sndconfig uses modules which are normally not active (temporarily activating them or something) - I allready found it uses a module called 'opl3' which was no

Re: Mozilla opens full-screen with Xinerama

2003-05-29 Thread Bill Moseley
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:39:49AM -0400, John M Flinchbaugh wrote: > > i'm actually seeing this as well come recently on sid with metacity as > the wm. mozilla is opening maximized covering everything but my > gnome-panels. hitting the maximize button shrinks it down to a more > acceptable size

Re: Lilo & Descriptor Checksum Error

2003-05-29 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 28 May 2003 08:36:33 -0700 Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /etc/lilo.conf > - > boot=/dev/hda3 > root=/dev/hda3 > compact > install=/boot/boot.b > map=/boot/map > vga=normal > delay=20 > image=/vmlinuz > label = Linux > read-only > - This told lilo t

Re: Spamassassin auto-learn not working

2003-05-29 Thread Patrick Kirk
My SpamAssassin version is 2.54 (1.174.2.17-2003-05-11-exp) installed on Woody. Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: What version of SpamAssassin are you using? AutoLearn just appeared in 2.50 or 2.52. I have my installations autolearning right now. Hi all. I have tried to put one caentral bayes datab

Re: Nic card modules

2003-05-29 Thread David Z Maze
Piero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A question about Nic cards and modules. > This is the output of "ifconfig eth0": > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:05:5D:AA:3B:E0 >inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 >UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST

Re: Multiple kernel-header packages?

2003-05-29 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
> Are you running a stock kernel, on unstable? You should probably > upgrade to the appropriate 2.4.20-3 kernel image and rebuild your > modules against its header package, then; IIRC, it fixes a couple of > local root exploits but breaks binary compatibility with extant > modules. I've compiled t

Re: Lilo & Descriptor Checksum Error

2003-05-29 Thread Brian
Elie De Brauwer wrote: is it possible to rerun lilo with a certain level of verbosity and paste the output here ? Attached. (Because I can't for the life of me get anything to paste into a mozilla compose window. UGH.) liloverbosity Description: application/java-vm

Re: Spamassassin auto-learn not working

2003-05-29 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
What version of SpamAssassin are you using? AutoLearn just appeared in 2.50 or 2.52. I have my installations autolearning right now. > Hi all. > > I have tried to put one caentral bayes database for all accounts and > for some reason it isn't working. I never see auto-learn=ham or > auto-learn=

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[OT] Novell Challenges SCO and claims ownership of Unix

2003-05-29 Thread Aryan Ameri
Hi there: As a while ago The SCO lawsuite and it's consequences on GNU/Linux was mentioned in this list, I thought I would update the list that it has been found that SCO's claims has been found to be completely groundless, as SCO does not own any IP or Copyright on Unix. Novell does. Bruce P

Re: Lilo & Descriptor Checksum Error

2003-05-29 Thread Elie De Brauwer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 28 May 2003 18:49, Brian wrote: > Elie De Brauwer wrote: > >Did you run lilo after you copied the kernel ? Didn't it give any errors ? > > I just followed the newbie guide, and to me it looked like lilo was run > by the dpkg -i process as

Re: Lilo & Descriptor Checksum Error

2003-05-29 Thread Brian
Elie De Brauwer wrote: Did you run lilo after you copied the kernel ? Didn't it give any errors ? I just followed the newbie guide, and to me it looked like lilo was run by the dpkg -i process as it asked me several questions about LILO. I googled on this problem and found someone else suggesti

curious 3.0r1 absent kernel-image package

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen Hewitt
After installing Debian for the first time on a PC from the 7 official binary 3.0r1 CDs, I'm curious to find that no kernel-image package is installed. For example: (grumpi is the hostname) grumpi:~# uname -r 2.2.20-idepci grumpi:~# dpkg -s kernel-image-2.2.20-idepci Package: kernel-image-2.2.20-

Re: Problem Booting After Install

2003-05-29 Thread Kent West
Scott MacMaster wrote: I was able to view the contents of lilo.conf. Here are the contents lba32 boot=/dev/hdb1 root=/dev/hdb1 install=/boot/boot-menu.b map=/boot/map delay=20 vga=normal default=Linux image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=LinuxOLD

Re: Linux vs Windows

2003-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:46:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi group, > > > MindCraft has been well established as nothing short of a HOAX put on by > Microsoft. IIRC it was a test between two servers, one of which was > configured by the best minds in the business. The other configure

Re: dual booting

2003-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 12:03:10AM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > MS-DOS and the Win95/98/ME systems need to be on what they think is C:, > which would mean the first drive that has a filesystem they can read > (FAT, VFAT, FAT32,) and preferably the first primary partition of the > first physical dr

Re: how to get MOzilla to print to Cups printer through kprint

2003-05-29 Thread Michael Bona
Use Postscript/Default in Mozilla's print dialog. As "print command" in the properties for Postscript/Default insert "kprinter --stdin" (without the quotes). Then, after printing in Mozilla, the KPrint dialog box opens with all the usual options (different printers, pages etc.) Michael Jeremy P

Re: Lilo & Descriptor Checksum Error

2003-05-29 Thread Elie De Brauwer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 28 May 2003 17:36, Brian wrote: > I took everyone's advice from yesterday (thanks!) and made a new kernel > today that I was sure had support for IDE stuff and my filesystems and I > skipped the initrd stuff. The newbie guide was helpful:

OT: Putting down the SCO FUD

2003-05-29 Thread Chris Spencer
I know a number of people expressed interest in the SCO Vs. IBM lawsuit. You may find these articles of interest. -Chris -Forwarded Message- From: Jeremy Hogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OS:N:] Putting down the SCO FUD Date: 28 May 2003 11:56:36 -0400 If there

Re: aptitude and multiple distros

2003-05-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 06:30, Steve Lamb wrote: > On 28 May 2003 06:07:40 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With apt-get, I can do: > > # apt-get -u -t testing install foobar > > # apt-get -u -t unstable install snafu > > > How do I do the same in aptitude from the command lin

Re: PNG -- can't we all just get along?

2003-05-29 Thread Soren Andersen
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 11:17:51PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I have a mostly testing system. When I try to get the latest > development stuff for libpng, this happens: > # apt-get -du install libpng12-dev > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages

Re: X11: How to export an environment?

2003-05-29 Thread David Z Maze
Abdul Latip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In a shell, it is easy to change the environment by using > "export". E.g. switching the "PRINTER" env. (Correct terminology would be "setting an environment variable"; in Bourne-style shells, this happens to be done via the 'export' command.) > Is there

Re: Debian + SB51G

2003-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 03:22:23PM +0200, Bruno Agostini wrote: > Hello > > I have a SB51G Shuttle barebone with an integrated > Intel I845GE graphic controler and an ATI Radeon 9100 > in the AGP slot. > > The installation of Debian 3.0 failed when I > configured the X server. I compiled the kern

OT: Paul Johnson - direct mail problems

2003-05-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
Your procmail recipies are hanging. My mail to you was bounced. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? "Yes," said Marvin. "Wearily I sit here, pain and misery my only companions. And vast intelli

Re: Mozilla opens full-screen with Xinerama

2003-05-29 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
--pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 06:24:54PM -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > Try xfwm as your window manager. It's configurable, light-weight and=20 has > full xinerama suppo

Re: usbdevfs boot error

2003-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 12:22:48PM +, Guldo K wrote: > Hello everybody :-) > > usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout > usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_BULK failed dev 2 ep 0x85 len 512 ret -110 This means that you have some USB device that either broken or the driver for it is broken. Some IN endpoint (EP: 5 IN )

Re: runlevels [was: fried(?) computer hangs on boot]

2003-05-29 Thread Kent West
Vikki Roemer wrote: Kent West wrote: Try "apt-get --reinstall install anacron". Well, I would, but I can't log in. I have it booting up now, I get a login prompt, it'll accept my username, but it hangs trying to authenticate my password. Do you think this is a problem with login (I think

Re: Nic card modules

2003-05-29 Thread Elie De Brauwer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > A question about Nic cards and modules. > This is the output of "ifconfig eth0": > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:05:5D:AA:3B:E0 >inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 >UP BROADCAST RUNNIN

Lilo & Descriptor Checksum Error

2003-05-29 Thread Brian
I took everyone's advice from yesterday (thanks!) and made a new kernel today that I was sure had support for IDE stuff and my filesystems and I skipped the initrd stuff. The newbie guide was helpful: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html although I found the /usr/doc/kernel-p

Re: konsole font

2003-05-29 Thread Soren Andersen
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 05:30:03PM +, Gabor Szekelyhidi wrote: > Soren Andersen wrote: > > I'd be much obliged if you might try to find out which package your > > file "/etc/fonts/local.conf" comes from and let me know on the List. > It's in the fontconfig package. > Gabor Much obliged. Now

Re: man, oh man

2003-05-29 Thread Mike M
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 17:11, Travis Crump wrote: > From man man: > > PAGER If $PAGER is set, its value is used as the name of the program > used to display the manual page. By default, exec /usr/bin/pager -s is > used. > > /usr/bin/pager can be changed using /usr/bin/update-alternatives >From

Nic card modules

2003-05-29 Thread Piero
A question about Nic cards and modules. This is the output of "ifconfig eth0": eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:05:5D:AA:3B:E0 inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3 errors:

Re: blocking icmp...

2003-05-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:51:15AM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: [snip] > > I've been blocking all incoming, non-stateful, ICMP for a > > number of years on my cable-connected LAN and have never had a > > problem, but I don't run any type of globally acces

DVD VMG info ?

2003-05-29 Thread David selby
Am happily playing with gmplayer & xine. I have come across some DVDs which xine refuses to do anything with and gmplayer reports "cant open VMG info!" Can anybody shine any light on this ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: Problem Booting After Install

2003-05-29 Thread Scott MacMaster
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 8:39 AM Subject: Re: Problem Booting After Install > Scott MacMaster wrote: > > >>If you use the boot floppy and go into the selection process, try > >>pressing Alt-F2 and se

Re: Cheap high resolution (1600x1200) video card for debian

2003-05-29 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 16:01, J F wrote: > Is there a cheap high resolution (1600x1200) video card for debian. Not cheap, but at this resolution you definitely want a matrox card. > 3D is not important, but 2D and crispt text > is very, very important. Especially if 3D is not important, go for

Re: My first question on Debian

2003-05-29 Thread Jeremy Petzold
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 09:57 am, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> > Ever had tha hard disk fail on your server? and in Solaris/Sparc, > >> > simply remove the defected hard disk and add a new one. Without a > >> > single reboot or interference in work. *That* I call near pe

Re: My knoppix hard disk install has open office in german solved

2003-05-29 Thread J F
It was EN .iso from the filename. Weird. I fixed it by doing an apt-get remove openoffice.org and set the regional settings and then apt-get install openoffice.org Works great now. THanks all. --- On Mon 05/26, T. Albert Re: My knoppix hard disk install has open office in german __

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-29 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Jerry Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jeffrey L. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Setting up DNS takes a couple of hours in one go. Getting around it > > will take about the same amount of time in smaller chunks. You have > > three (or more) alternatives: > > > > 1) configu

Re: runlevels [was: fried(?) computer hangs on boot]

2003-05-29 Thread Vikki Roemer
Kent West wrote: Vikki Roemer wrote: Did that, got a couple of weird errors, and found out anacron is what's freezing up the system. The errors are: starting blinkenlights: nice: start-stop-daemon: no such file or directory. gdnc unable to make connection to 127.0.0.1:538 -- network is unrea

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-29 Thread William Cooper
Jerry Quinn wrote: Thanks for the info. This is clearly depressing. I was hoping someone had already made it simple to Do The Right Thing(tm). Ah, well. I guess I can add fixing a DNS server to work right to the list of many projects I might get around to doing some day. Thanks, Jerry H

Re: My first question on Debian

2003-05-29 Thread Jamie Lawrence
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I know there is Solaris on intel. I just doubt that it allows you to > hot-swap IDE hard disks. I know of no Solaris X86 drivers for any of the hotswap IDE hardware. For that matter, does anyone make HS IDE gear anymore?

Re: Error with new kernel

2003-05-29 Thread Tran Tuan Anh
> put '*' in the disk drive drivers and filesystem options of your config > so > that you have those things embedded into the kernel; this allows you to > forget about initrd > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200305/msg02759.html > -- > Mike M. THanks for your help! but

[Fwd: debootstrapping sarge interrupts]

2003-05-29 Thread Frank Schwidom
--- Begin Message --- I call: debootstrap sarge /debian and while it is downloading the program interrupts with the errormessage: "Couldn't download libnewt0". What i have to do? Frank. --- End Message ---

Re: strange kernel error ?

2003-05-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 27, 2003 at 01:55:39AM +0100, Grzesiek Sedek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > I'm getting strange error in my logs: > > kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobesss -s -k net-pf-10, errno = > 2 > any ideas what it's all about? Check your init scripts or modules settings (/etc/m

Re: Please help me find my lost interrupt!

2003-05-29 Thread J F
If you can boot with rescue disk or knoppix and get to the drive and see it's contents, then it is most likely a softw are problem. The errors you describe sound like broken hardware (either motherboard, but most likely drive) to me, though. Borrow another drive and plug it in to see if it works.

postfix vs exim [WAS: Re: dfokkema: fix your mta]

2003-05-29 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 12:39:35PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > Why won't exim apply the qualify_domain rules to the headers? I traced > some mails through exim, and the header Mail-Followup-To: dfokkema is > not qualified, so not rewritten, :-( I asked around on the exim-users list, a

Cheap high resolution (1600x1200) video card for debian

2003-05-29 Thread J F
Is there a cheap high resolution (1600x1200) video card for debian. My old system is running an ATI 3D Pro Turbo PC2TV installed 4 years ago. The thing I liked about it is I have a Virtual desktop of approximately 2000 x 1800 with a panning window of 1600x1200. Fonts were readable even if medium s

new? problem with old adaptec 2940UW

2003-05-29 Thread Gary Reed
I'm new to Linux so appreciate your patience. This is on a new machine (SIS648-based MB/2.4G P4) with full complement of CDs and hard drives (2 IDE hard drives/2 CDs - one read only, one writable), ati 9000pro vid card, etc. and a misbehaving scsi 2940UW -- thankfully the OS's are installed on an

R: boot-floppies package

2003-05-29 Thread ..:: Athena - Joe Scaramucci ::..
mkboot maybe is what you are looking for. Ciao joe --> -Messaggio originale- --> Da: Floris Bruynooghe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --> Inviato: mercoledi 28 maggio 2003 14.20 --> A: Debian Users --> Oggetto: boot-floppies package --> --> --> Why can't I find the boot-floppies package any

Re: My first question on Debian

2003-05-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> > Ever had tha hard disk fail on your server? and in Solaris/Sparc, simply >> > remove the defected hard disk and add a new one. Without a single >> > reboot or interference in work. *That* I call near perfect. >> >> Solaris is often called Slowlaris. Not without reaso

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