Re: Need help with USB

2004-01-18 Thread Kent West
Paul E Condon wrote: I am attempting to get working a USB connection from my Sarge machine to a Handspring Visor. I have never before had USB working on this machine (never tried before). I am heading for using jpilot. I am using kernel 2.4.22 i686, recently installed. It seems to have all the

Re: Need help with USB

2004-01-18 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: I am attempting to get working a USB connection from my Sarge machine to a Handspring Visor. I have never before had USB working on this machine (never tried before). Also, usbview might be of some value to you. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

informacion

2004-01-18 Thread guille
Hola: Quisiera instalar debian en mi ordenador y ya tengo las particiones en mi disco duro de windows, lo que no se ¿es si tengo que hacer otro tipo de particion ya que no puedo instalar a debian? Espero pronto su respuesta gracias

xfree86 + ati problem with 2.6.0 kernel

2004-01-18 Thread Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler
Hi, I'm using an ATI Rage 129 Pro Graphics card with no problems with the 2.4.23 kernel and and xserver-xfree8 4.2.1-15. I tried the same sith the 2.6.0 kernel and I get an error with the fbdevhw sub module of ati which is unable to find a valid framebuffer device. The complete log-file and

Re: console font size

2004-01-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
konf wrote: hello, when i boot my debian box [no X windows installed) i see too big console fonts.how could i reduce font size ? thanks in advance You get very nice consolefonts with SvgaTextMode. It will depend on your video card because the package is no longer supported, but is in all Debian

Re: informacion

2004-01-18 Thread Russ Schneider
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, guille wrote: Hola: Hello. Quisiera instalar debian en mi ordenador y ya tengo las particiones en mi disco duro de windows, lo que no se ¿es si tengo que hacer otro tipo de particion ya que no puedo instalar a debian? Mi espanol es muy mal. Manuales de Particiones

Re: gpm start at reboot

2004-01-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kent West wrote: Dennis Kaplan wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2004 12:18 pm, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Dennis Kaplan wrote: How do I get my gpm mouse driver to start after a reboot. Right now I am running gpmconfig after every reboot. If you did a Debian install of gpm, it will have a gpm

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-18 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 17 January 2004 2:22 pm, Monique Y. Herman wrote: If there's a package that will solve a problem for me, I would rather have it available without any documentation at all than have it completely unavailable due to lack of documentation. Amen, I actually find I get better support

Re: Need help with USB

2004-01-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:02:42PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: I am attempting to get working a USB connection from my Sarge machine to a Handspring Visor. I have never before had USB working on this machine (never tried before). Also, usbview

Re: Gnome-session startup failure

2004-01-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
A.L.Meyers wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A.L.Meyers wrote: Hi! When trying to start gnome-session, I get the Debian splash screen but then gnome exits, the console indicating an error in /usr/lib/libXft.so.2. Ideas welcome on how to get around this. Lux /var/log/gdm ?

[OT] tuxracer + bunny hill: possible?

2004-01-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi! Latest thread on games prompted me to install tuxracer. I never play games, pure programming. Now I cannot get past bunny hill. Is it possible to get all 23 herrings and yet do it under 35 secs? Why did I ever start tuxracer? Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Need help with USB

2004-01-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
Make sure you have the following in /etc/fstab: none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 if you add that during a session, do a: mount -a as root to mount the USB devices. ap -- Andrew J Perrin -

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004, at 10:47 -0500, John Kerr Anderson wrote: We've been using SBC Yahoo Dsl, but were so outraged at their arrogance, poor quality service, and lack of support that we decided to cancel. Can anyone recommend an ISP that is actually good? We're thinking of switching to

Need help with onboard LAN on mobo K8V deluxe

2004-01-18 Thread Werner Schubert
I've installed Debian 3.0v2 with Kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. Can someone help me bringing up the onboard LAN driver. Under Knoppix or Xandros there is a driver sk98lin in use. But how can I generate this driver with the kernel that I use ? On the ASUS CD there is a driver for 3C2000. I am new in

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004, at 11:14 -0500, Brett Carrington wrote: I wouldn't recommend cable for the pure fact that you are sharing the cable line with everyone on your block. Kiddie MP3 trader guys will sap your bandwidth but malicious hacker #434 can sniff anything on that line. I don't think

Re: xfree86 + ati problem with 2.6.0 kernel

2004-01-18 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004, at 19:20 +0100, Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote: Hi, I'm using an ATI Rage 129 Pro Graphics card with no problems with the 2.4.23 kernel and and xserver-xfree8 4.2.1-15. I tried the same sith the 2.6.0 kernel and I get an error with the fbdevhw sub module of ati which

Re: USB Floppy installation

2004-01-18 Thread peter a
But that would only work with the so far unstable Sarge-release? As this is a server install I would prefer a stable release.. or is it possible to use the installer too boot a Woody installation? /peter a On 2004-01-17 16:10, Damon L. Chesser wrote: peter a wrote: SNIP Peter: have

Re: [OT] tuxracer + bunny hill: possible?

2004-01-18 Thread Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The same to me -:))). Please, help! Vlada Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: | Hi! | | Latest thread on games prompted me to install tuxracer. I never play | games, pure programming. Now I cannot get past bunny hill. Is it | possible to get all 23 herrings and yet

Re: [OT] tuxracer + bunny hill: possible?

2004-01-18 Thread Lance Simmons
* Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040118 13:34]: The same to me -:))). Please, help! Vlada My sons can all do it. -- Lance Simmons signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Need help with USB

2004-01-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 02:06:45PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: Make sure you have the following in /etc/fstab: none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 if you add that during a session, do a: mount -a as root to mount the USB devices. ap Thanks. That got usbview working.

Re: [OT] tuxracer + bunny hill: possible?

2004-01-18 Thread Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nice to know it, but what's the secret? Vlada Lance Simmons wrote: | * Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040118 13:34]: | |The same to me -:))). Please, help! Vlada | | | My sons can all do it. | - -- Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka Klukovicka 1530 155

Re: Need help with onboard LAN on mobo K8V deluxe

2004-01-18 Thread Jens Rantil
Hi Werner, On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:55:28 +0100 Werner Schubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone take my hand an tell me what I have to do. Sure I can. First log in as root. If you are lucky (which you probably are) you just write this in your terminal: # modprobe sk98lin If you don't get

Re: Need help with USB

2004-01-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
You need usbserial and visor to sync your palm pilot. In the .config file they're: CONFIG_USB_SERIAL=m CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_VISOR=m ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North

Re: [OT] tuxracer + bunny hill: possible?

2004-01-18 Thread Travis Crump
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi! Latest thread on games prompted me to install tuxracer. I never play games, pure programming. Now I cannot get past bunny hill. Is it possible to get all 23 herrings and yet do it under 35 secs? Why did I ever start tuxracer? Hugo. Yes. The up arrow makes you go

apt problem

2004-01-18 Thread Deryk Barker
I'm having a problem with my wife's machine (running testing) and I can't seem to find a way out. While doing an upgrade it broke because apparently both kdepim-libs and libkcal2 contain the file /usr/lib/libkcal2.so.0.0 apt-get -f install doesn't get past this point, so we have 99 packages not

Re: [OT] tuxracer + bunny hill: possible?

2004-01-18 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:42:25 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi! Latest thread on games prompted me to install tuxracer. I never play games, pure programming. Now I cannot get past bunny hill. Is it possible to get all 23 herrings and yet do it under 35 secs? Why did I ever start tuxracer?

Re: Need help with onboard LAN on mobo K8V deluxe

2004-01-18 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Son, 2004-01-18 um 19.55 schrieb Werner Schubert: I've installed Debian 3.0v2 with Kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. Can someone help me bringing up the onboard LAN driver. Under Knoppix or Xandros there is a driver sk98lin in use. But how can I generate this driver with the kernel that I use ? On the

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 10:47:33AM -0500, John Kerr Anderson wrote: We're thinking of switching to charter cable internet, but rumour is they're partnered with Micro$oft. Any recommendations??? Actually, they're not partnered with Microsoft. Paul

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:14:23AM -0500, Brett Carrington wrote: I wouldn't recommend cable for the pure fact that you are sharing the cable line with everyone on your block. Kiddie MP3 trader guys will sap your bandwidth but malicious hacker #434

Ctrl - s, s key problem

2004-01-18 Thread Yan Xu
I am new to debian and linux. I installed Debian last week. Now, I have a problem. If I press Ctrl - s in a terminal or in Emacs, the s key will not reponse anymore no matter how I press it. That's annoying. I have to reboot the machine to get the s key to work again. But, I do need Ctrl - s,

Re: [OT] tuxracer + bunny hill: possible?

2004-01-18 Thread Russell
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:42:25PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi! Latest thread on games prompted me to install tuxracer. I never play games, pure programming. Now I cannot get past bunny hill. Is it possible to get all 23 herrings and yet do it under 35 secs? Why did I ever start

Re: Gnome-session startup failure

2004-01-18 Thread A . L . Meyers
Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A.L.Meyers wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A.L.Meyers wrote: Hi! When trying to start gnome-session, I get the Debian splash screen but then gnome exits, the console indicating an error in /usr/lib/libXft.so.2. Ideas welcome on how

Re: Ctrl - s, s key problem

2004-01-18 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Yan Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-18 21:28]: I am new to debian and linux. I installed Debian last week. Now, I have a problem. If I press Ctrl - s in a terminal or in Emacs, the s key will not reponse anymore no matter how I press it. That's annoying. I have to reboot the machine to get

Re: Mozilla broken, does not start up

2004-01-18 Thread A . L . Meyers
Uwe Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:20:08 +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: Unfortunately these do not work. One further information is that not only mozilla-bin but another process called gconfd-2 is left hanging and must be killed. Then go and do this ! Personally, I'd

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2004-01-18 Thread ANDREY
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checking whether partition mounted as ext3

2004-01-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, Just wondering if anyone knows of a easy and definitive way to determine whether a specific mounted partition is ext2 or ext3, and if ext3, whether is mounted as ordered data or journal. Currently, I look at the boot messages, but they are not always clear. Thanks in advance.

Re: Bootable CD Rom problem?

2004-01-18 Thread Mac McCaskie
Thanks, I had a feeling it was something like that. I've decided to go ahead and 'upgrade' the old IBM for a Joe's Garage blue plate special. -mac with screwdriver in hand mccaskie Kent West wrote: Mac McCaskie wrote: I've been trying to re-install deb stable from a CD (3.0r2 and 3.0r1

Re: viewing multi-page .tiff: how to in linux

2004-01-18 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:28:32AM -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Brian Potkin wrote: Installing the mgetty-viewfax package takes only a minute or two and gets you 'viewfax', which is capable of viewing multipage tiffs. It would be useful to know whether it works for you. Brian.

Re: [OT] tuxracer + bunny hill: possible?

2004-01-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi! Latest thread on games prompted me to install tuxracer. I never play games, pure programming. Now I cannot get past bunny hill. Is it possible to get all 23 herrings and yet do it under 35 secs? Why did I ever start tuxracer? Hugo. I did bunny hill and increasing

Re: Inline PGP signatures and headers created by mutt

2004-01-18 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 05:28:16PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Pigeon writes: Should I file a wishlist bug asking for the mutt docs to explain what outlook compatible actually entails? Of course. Include a patch. Done! -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here:

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-18 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 05:32:49PM -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote: Paul Morgan wrote: On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 13:18:50 -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote: So you would wish, for instance, to deprive me of a package which I can understand and use simply because the documentation is not adequate enough for

Re: Ctrl - s, s key problem

2004-01-18 Thread Yan Xu
Thorsten Haude wrote: Hi, * Yan Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-18 21:28]: I am new to debian and linux. I installed Debian last week. Now, I have a problem. If I press Ctrl - s in a terminal or in Emacs, the s key will not reponse anymore no matter how I press it. That's

Re: Tuning X

2004-01-18 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:26:11PM +0100, David Baron wrote: Thanks for your response. I have an ATI-rage 3D AGP 64m card. Not a terrific game playing card but my main focus is not games. However, I would like to get the same level of performance I have under Windows. There, I have full

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-18 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 07:01:03PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: John Hasler wrote: Kevin Mark writes: compare what you get from the windows world. no community. no help. need to buy $$$ books. pay for tech support. This is an outright falsehood. There are just as many, if not more,

Re: confused with initrd.gz VERSES initrd.img

2004-01-18 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:08:38AM -0800, Dennis Kaplan wrote: My mouse does not work with the new kernel for same reason. It is a stone age regular serial mouse nothing fancy - I used to run the gpm driver and it was working or lets say it is still working with the old kernel but it does

Re: console font size

2004-01-18 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 02:13:24PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:36:23PM +0800, Ryan Mackay wrote: Sometime near Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:51:18AM +0100, konf wrote: hello, when i boot my debian box [no X windows installed) i see too big console fonts.how could i

Re: checking whether partition mounted as ext3

2004-01-18 Thread Doug Holland
On Sun 18 Jan 2004 1:16 pm, Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, Just wondering if anyone knows of a easy and definitive way to determine whether a specific mounted partition is ext2 or ext3, and if ext3, whether is mounted as ordered data or journal. Currently, I look at the boot messages, but

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] You're sharing bandwidth, as in, the same spectrum on the cable line. If you sit on your cable modem with a packet sniffer, you'll see broadcasts for the IP subnet you're on and packets destined for you only. Watch the light on the modem flicker,

Re: Ctrl - s, s key problem

2004-01-18 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, Please send me every mail only once. * Yan Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-18 21:48]: Thorsten Haude wrote: I don't know about EmacsOS, but the terminal is locked with Ctrl-s. Just press Ctrl-q to unlock it. Many thanks for the reply. However, it is not the lock problem. Only the s key is

System builder Downline

2004-01-18 Thread DR.HANS MOB
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Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Nano Nano
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 02:57:59PM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: [snip] In anycase, it is pointless paranoia. A much more plausible scenario is a disgruntled employee at any of the computers between you and the destination sniffing packets. Or someone hacking those computers/routers. I

Re: Linux compatability for IBM desktop machines

2004-01-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 12:59:29 -0500, Mark Roach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 14:38, Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, I am writing to ask whether anyone has any Linux experience with something similar to the two desktop machines described at [...] From the descriptions

Re: [OT] tuxracer + bunny hill: possible?

2004-01-18 Thread Lance Simmons
* Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040118 13:42]: Nice to know it, but what's the secret? Vlada Lance Simmons wrote: | | My sons can all do it. They won't tell me. -- Lance Simmons signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Linux compatability for IBM desktop machines

2004-01-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 18:55:09 +0530, Sanjay Chigurupati [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, About the desktops, 1) check what NIC its using: netgear normally has linux drivers available 2) soundcard : which make is it? 3) Intel : which model? 4) Nvidia Quadro 4: might be available ( check their

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Brett Carrington
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 01:07:04PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 02:57:59PM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: [snip] In anycase, it is pointless paranoia. A much more plausible scenario is a disgruntled employee at any of the computers between you and the destination

Re: Ctrl - s, s key problem

2004-01-18 Thread Yan Xu
Thorsten Haude wrote: Hi, Please send me every mail only once. Sorry for that. I clicked reply and found the last mail was sent to you only, so have to sent to the list again. * Yan Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-18 21:48]: Thorsten Haude wrote: I don't know

Re: apt problem

2004-01-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Deryk Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040118 21:06]: I'm having a problem with my wife's machine (running testing) and I can't seem to find a way out. While doing an upgrade it broke because apparently both kdepim-libs and libkcal2 contain the file /usr/lib/libkcal2.so.0.0 Your can use dpkg

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 01:07:04PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: I don't know how it's done, but it's totally true: everything on your cable modem can be intercepted easily by people on your same subnet. Not these days. Cable companies got a bit more

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:18:48PM -0500, Brett Carrington wrote: I'd guess the cable modems are ignoring data not meant for you specifically. The actual cable line still carries all data however and it's just a simple matter of

Re: Linux compatability for IBM desktop machines

2004-01-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 06:56:56 -0600, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, I am writing to ask whether anyone has any Linux experience with something similar to the two desktop machines described at (http://www.unc.edu/cci/index/ccishop/departmental.html) See

Re: Installing mplayer 1.0pre3 from source

2004-01-18 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 08:35:06AM -0600, Benjamin Sher wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/L-Files/Downloads/Tars/MPlayer/Win32/win32codecs$ ls acelpdec.ax huffyuv.dll m3jpeg32.dll nsrt2432.acm vp4vfw.dll alf2cd.acmi263_32.drv m3jpegdec.ax pclepim1.dll vssh264core.dll asusasv2.dll

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Brett Carrington
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 01:26:29PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 01:07:04PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: I don't know how it's done, but it's totally true: everything on your cable modem can be intercepted easily by people on your same subnet. Not these days. Cable

Re: informacion

2004-01-18 Thread Pedro M.
Según el COMO ( HowTo) puedes reemplazar alguna de ellas por una de Debian, utilizando el partidor de la instalación de Debian. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.es (traducción al español del enlace que aparece más abajo). Un saludo. - Original Message - From:

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Nano Nano
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:18:48PM -0500, Brett Carrington wrote: [snip] I'd guess the cable modems are ignoring data not meant for you specifically. The actual cable line still carries all data however and it's just a simple matter of modulating/demodulating it. Just how much bandwidth are

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:35:37PM -0500, Brett Carrington wrote: But how? The lines are -still- shared, they didn't change the entire infastructure. Is each user's cable connection now encrypted end-to-end? I imagine any amount of secure

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Nano Nano
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:35:37PM -0500, Brett Carrington wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 01:26:29PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 01:07:04PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: I don't know how it's done, but it's totally true: everything on your cable modem can be intercepted

Re: Installing mplayer 1.0pre3 from source

2004-01-18 Thread Todd Pytel
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 08:35:06 -0600 Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a newbie but I thought I should try to install mplayer from source. So I downloaded the tarball source for mplayer 1.0pre3 and, using gcc3.33 compiler on Xandros 2.0 (Debian), I compiled it. It looks fine but

Re: proper use of aptitude in stable/unstable mixed systems

2004-01-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.01.17.1124 +0100]: On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:34:07PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: Debian's nice in terms of dependency handling, but this really only applies to stable. I wonder why we don't accept the fact that a lot of users run a total

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Brett Carrington
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 01:42:06PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Probably just turned on switching on the headend, and giving everyone a virtual segment. See Nano Nano's response which seems to make my argument moot then. But I recall the cable system is like this: H H H H | | |

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 01:40:46PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:18:48PM -0500, Brett Carrington wrote: [snip] I'd guess the cable modems are ignoring data not meant for you specifically. The actual cable line still carries all data however and it's just a simple

Re: Installing mplayer 1.0pre3 from source

2004-01-18 Thread Nano Nano
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 03:49:48PM -0600, Todd Pytel wrote: On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 08:35:06 -0600 Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a newbie but I thought I should try to install mplayer from source. So I downloaded the tarball source for mplayer 1.0pre3 and, using gcc3.33

Re: Ctrl - s, s key problem

2004-01-18 Thread Nate Duehr
On Sunday, Jan 18, 2004, at 13:28 America/Denver, Yan Xu wrote: I am new to debian and linux. I installed Debian last week. Now, I have a problem. If I press Ctrl - s in a terminal or in Emacs, the s key will not reponse anymore no matter how I press it. That's annoying. I have to reboot the

Re: Documentation and Useability

2004-01-18 Thread Mac McCaskie
But why should they be deprived of the opportunity to use it simply because others can't figure out how to? Sure, it's tough on those who can't figure it out, but that's no reason to make life hard for those who can. This agruement contradicts itself. On the one hand it is stated plainly about

Re: checking whether partition is mounted ext3

2004-01-18 Thread David Baron
cat /proc/mounts mount command and /etc/mtab contents simply parrot what is in /etc/fstab. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Nano Nano
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:56:53PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: [snip] Yes all the channels and the traffic are coming on the same wire. Each channel is at a different frequency (kind of like for regular antenna reception), and the tv picks out whichever channel you want. Could a device in

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Brett Carrington
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 02:05:02PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:56:53PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: [snip] Yes all the channels and the traffic are coming on the same wire. Each channel is at a different frequency (kind of like for regular antenna reception), and

Re: Installing mplayer 1.0pre3 from source

2004-01-18 Thread David Castellanos Serrano
El dom, 18-01-2004 a las 22:02, Pigeon escribió: On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 08:35:06AM -0600, Benjamin Sher wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/L-Files/Downloads/Tars/MPlayer/Win32/win32codecs$ ls acelpdec.ax huffyuv.dll m3jpeg32.dll nsrt2432.acm vp4vfw.dll alf2cd.acmi263_32.drv

Re: Installing mplayer 1.0pre3 from source

2004-01-18 Thread Todd Pytel
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:58:15 -0800 Nano Nano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's hard but only first order hard -- just keep plodding and you'll get it. See, the reason I like Debian is that it handles first order hard for me. What's the point of doing it by hand? Some projects teach you something

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Jeff McAdams
Nano Nano wrote: Could a device in theory record every channel simultaneously? Yes. Could it in practice? Depends on what you consider practical, I guess. I would say no. Your typical TV or VCR has one or two receivers or tuners in it. A receiver or tuner is capable of receiving or tuning a

Re: Firebird 0.7 crashes w/ Java plugin

2004-01-18 Thread Curt Daugaard
Hi, My thanks to Kristian, Roberto, and ABrady. The problem was a combination of things: needing to install gcc3.2 and figuring out where Firebird looks for the plugins and in what order. I created a link to JRE home/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so within

Re: console font size

2004-01-18 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:02:13PM +0100, konf wrote: P You could also try svgatextmode, which doesn't require framebuffer or P playing around with things at boot. Unfortunately the author seems to have P given up on it some time ago so it mostly only supports older graphics P cards. But

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 02:05:02PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:56:53PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: [snip] Yes all the channels and the traffic are coming on the same wire. Each channel is at a different frequency (kind of like for regular antenna reception), and

Re: Installing mplayer 1.0pre3 from source

2004-01-18 Thread Nano Nano
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:13:57PM -0600, Todd Pytel wrote: [snip] Do you actually understand what all the various compile-time options are, and why you may or may not want them? For probably 99% of users, the basic options in premade packages are all they need. If you're in that 1% left

Re: Tuning X

2004-01-18 Thread David Baron
I haven't the foggiest on how to accomplish this. I tried on shell dialog dpkgconfig of xf86config but aborted it when I could no longer answer its question. Never got to any direct-rendoring support. It is included here somewhere along the line but it might be easier to edit the config file

init-script question: iptables and networking

2004-01-18 Thread Christian Schnobrich
Hello, like many, I have an old box set up as gateway. Upon reboot, I'd like it to load the appropriate iptables rules and set /proc/../ip_forward to 1. Until now, I'm doing this by a self-made init script that will do just that, but won't understand any of the usual start|stop|restart|[etc]

RE: Tuning X, more ...

2004-01-18 Thread David Baron
I have a bunch of files on /etc/X11 XF86Config-4 HAS a DRI section, mode=666. XF86Config Does not. The file backed up by the script dialog that I aborted is a copy of the -4 file XF86Config-4.debconf. There is also XF86COnfig.in, -4.in, -4.kxconfi.backup:q All of the -4 files have a DRI

sarge courier imap with virtual hosts

2004-01-18 Thread hanasaki
Hello All, Courier, in sarge, seems to be setup to supply email from ~/Maildir How can I set it up to pull mail from: [domian]/[FirstTwoLettersOfLocalPart]/[LocalPart]/Maildir exim4 is being used for smtp. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 02:05:02PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: Could a device in theory record every channel simultaneously? Yes. Could it in practice? No. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and

Re: Ctrl - s, s key problem

2004-01-18 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Nate Duehr said... On Sunday, Jan 18, 2004, at 13:28 America/Denver, Yan Xu wrote: I am new to debian and linux. I installed Debian last week. Now, I have a problem. If I press Ctrl - s in a terminal or in Emacs, the s key will not reponse anymore no matter how I press

Re: glibc_2.3

2004-01-18 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harland Christofferson wrote: i have an application that is requesting glibc_2.3. i cannot find it when i search debian packages. i've apt-get(ed) some libc packages but the app. still balks. i have also googled and found a lot on glibc_2.3 but

Re: Documentation and Useability

2004-01-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:01:07PM -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote: But why should they be deprived of the opportunity to use it simply because others can't figure out how to? Sure, it's tough on those who can't figure it out, but that's no reason to make life hard for those who can. This

Re: checking whether partition mounted as ext3

2004-01-18 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:51:28 -0700, Doug Holland wrote: On Sun 18 Jan 2004 1:16 pm, Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, Just wondering if anyone knows of a easy and definitive way to determine whether a specific mounted partition is ext2 or ext3, and if ext3, whether is mounted as ordered data

Re: Need help with USB

2004-01-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:38:04PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: Jan 18 12:30:40 big kernel: usb.c: USB device 14 (vend/prod 0x82d/0x100) is not claimed by any active driver. The device number increments each time I make another attempt to hot sync. Clearly, I need another driver, but what

Re: viewing multi-page .tiff: how to in linux

2004-01-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Brian Potkin wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:28:32AM -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Brian Potkin wrote: Installing the mgetty-viewfax package takes only a minute or two and gets you 'viewfax', which is capable of viewing multipage tiffs. It would be useful to know whether it works for

Re: Need help with USB [SOLVED]

2004-01-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 06:21:11PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:38:04PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: Jan 18 12:30:40 big kernel: usb.c: USB device 14 (vend/prod 0x82d/0x100) is not claimed by any active driver. The device number increments each time I make another

Re: viewing multi-page .tiff: how to in linux

2004-01-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:50:58PM -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Anybody got any ideas how to view a multi-page .tiff file? The only thing I use windows for anymore is to view .tiff's I get from work and Linux does not (that I have found) have a way to view the other

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 02:05:02PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:56:53PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: [snip] Yes all the channels and the traffic are coming on the same wire. Each channel is at a different frequency (kind of like for regular antenna reception), and

Re: checking whether partition is mounted ext3

2004-01-18 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 23:34:17 +0100, David Baron wrote: cat /proc/mounts mount command and /etc/mtab contents simply parrot what is in /etc/fstab. The OP wanted to see also what ext3 journal option is in effect. You can't see that in /proc/mounts, so the mount command would be the way to go.

Re: [OT] tuxracer + bunny hill: possible?

2004-01-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:42:25PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi! Latest thread on games prompted me to install tuxracer. I never play games, pure programming. Now I cannot get past bunny hill. Is it possible to get all 23 herrings and yet do it under 35 secs? Why did I ever start

Re: checking whether partition mounted as ext3

2004-01-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 01:51:28PM -0700, Doug Holland wrote: Content-Description: signed data On Sun 18 Jan 2004 1:16 pm, Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, Just wondering if anyone knows of a easy and definitive way to determine whether a specific mounted partition is ext2 or ext3, and if

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