Re: downloading debian

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, kumar suresh wrote: So is there any site from where we can get latest debian? Check out http://cdimage.debian.org/ftp-mirrors.html for a list of Debian CD Image mirrors. (This link was last posted on the list just a couple of days ago.) Cheers. -- Dave Steinberg [EMAIL

Re: Best way to move to 2.4 kernel?

(of doing it with Potato). Hopefully, someone else can. Good luck! -- David Steinberg -o) Computer Engineering Undergrad, UBC / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v

/proc/bus/usb permissions in Linux 2.4.4 (OT?)

. Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong? Are others having success using usbdevfs with these options in 2.4.4? Thanks for any answers you can provide. -- David Steinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SMTP Connections

some rewriting and aliasing configuration in exim. On what basis could a mail server decide which hosts it is going to allow to connect to it? Thanks for your help. -- David Steinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SMTP Connections

... Could you expand on this? How would a mail server decide which IP addresses to block? Why would it suddenly decide that it doesn't like mine? :) -- David Steinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SMTP Connections

wrong. It wasn't looking up MX records because I had made it use gethostbyname(), instead of a direct DNS lookup. As a result, it was trying to connect to hosts that didn't accept their own mail. It's all fixed now. Thanks so much for your help. -- David Steinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

glibc compatibility

any given app? (I realize that this is probably a fairly big question; a pointer to a web reference would be appreciated if its easier than answering.) Thanks very much for your help. -- David Steinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

Sawfish theme g): sawfish-themes gtk-themes helix-sweetpill Anyways, it all seems to be working together quite nicely. Hope this helps out any other would-be Ximian-purgers out there. -- David Steinberg -o) Computer Engineering Undergrad, UBC / \ [EMAIL

Re: sawfish on woody

On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: No mirror problem. It's just not there. I think you may be mistaken cause unstable != woody. -Jeff You're correct; it's not there. I think it's probably related to the librep dependancy. -- David Steinberg -o) Computer

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

is to install the missing packages from debian unstable. use of apt's pinning feature can aid this. Okie dokie. Thanks for the advice. I'll get on it (I'm still keeping my theme packages, though). :) -- David Steinberg -o) Computer Engineering Undergrad, UBC

Re: An intro to Debian website

be very happy to contribute to this project (assuming you're looking for volunteers). I also think a section on the differences between stable, testing and unstable would be useful, along with some advice on who should use which. -- David Steinberg -o) Computer

Re: Woody nukes Gnome

with the Woody ones? -- David Steinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Simple Install Question

. It's not ideal, but at least you'll be able to hold on to your personal data (the stuff that really matters) if anything happens to the other file system. Good luck. -- David Steinberg -o) Computer Engineering Undergrad, UBC / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 3dfx openGL? what do I need? (kernel 2.4, X 4.x)

. Also, no problem with Quake or TuxRacer. Anyone else experiencd this? Any idea why it might be? -- David Steinberg -o) Computer Engineering Undergrad, UBC / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]_\_v

Re: 3dfx openGL? what do I need? (kernel 2.4, X 4.x)

are a little different. -- David Steinberg -o) In a world without walls Computer Engineering Undergrad, UBC / \ and fences, who needs [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v Windows and Gates?

Re: Linux wannabe

, it takes fully 40 seconds longer to boot Windows 98 SE into a usable state (and I disabled all of the silly little applets that I could) than it does to boot Linux 2.2.18, start a plethora of services, start GDM, and log into GNOME. -- David Steinberg -o) Computer Engineering

Re: Linux Network Security: POP

system, not yours. :) -- David Steinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting Helix-Gnome

seen any problems like that yet. I'm curious to know more. Which release were you using, and which packages gave you problems? -- David Steinberg -o) Computer Engineering Undergrad, UBC / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]_\_v

Re: Eek! X won't go away!

had made xdm a dependency, figuring that it was a typically useful package to have with an X installation. Of course, you're allowed to disagree and remove xdm if you wish. If you're not using it, it's just wasting disk space, and you won't lose anything by removing task-x-window-system. -- David

Testing + libglide3?

, 13 newly installed, 51 to remove). Is there any better way to get it? Or should I just take a deep breath and make my system a testing-unstable hybrid? -- David Steinberg -o) Computer Engineering Undergrad, UBC / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]_\_v

Installed X 4.0.2, Mouse Pointer Chopped off in 3.3.6!

unexpected startup messages, and runs almost perfectly. The only problem is the top half of the mouse pointer doesn't show. Has anyone else experienced this odd phenomenon? Does anyone know what might have changed to cause this, and if there's any way to fix it? Thanks in advance. -- David

Re: shutting down w/ ctrl+alt+del

this: ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now Just change -r to -h. HTH. -- David Steinberg -o) Computer Engineering Undergrad, UBC / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]_\_v

Re: Mouse

/dev/psaux directly. Maybe I was just lucky, or maybe I'm not using the same version of gpm (I'm using 1.17.8-18), but that was my experience. Hope it helps. -- David Steinberg -o) Computer Engineering Undergrad, UBC / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]_\_v

Re: windows

window manager, you'll see an option called Decorate dialog windows similarly to application windows. Turn this one on, and your dialog boxes will be drawn with all the same controls as other windows. -- David Steinberg -o) Computer Engineering Undergrad, UBC

Re: RealPlayer installer problem

to slap the installer around to accept the rp8 file? I found that an easy solution was to simply grab the realplayer package from unstable, and install that instead. It expects the current rp8 file. -- David Steinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Voodoo 3

it specifically mentions that there is no kernel configuration necessary). If anyone could point me in the right direction, I'd be most appreciative. TIA. -- David Steinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Multimedia Performance Solved

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:16:52AM -0800, David Steinberg wrote: A few days ago, I installed potato, and things were again not so good. I applied the IDE patch and compiled a kernel, and things improved, but they're not as good as they were

Multimedia Performance

, either. My question: could the difference be the pentium optimizations in the Mandrake binaries? If so, what might be the key pieces of software that I should recompile to get similar performance? If not, any ideas what the difference might be? Any help is sincerely apprecaited. -- David Steinberg

Re: Multimedia Performance

using that chipset, or some other disk controller? -- David Steinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: potato_install

an lsmod, and checking to make sure that the sbpcd module is loaded. If not, try modprobe sbpcd. -- David Steinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Getting Started with Debian: Package Selection Sanity

packages that were installed because of it remain? Sorry for the newbie questions. Thanks for any help. -- David Steinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]