Re: promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support

2001-09-01 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Again, I just wanted to say that after I sent off my reply on where to find it I saw that it looks like you're running the same kernel as me from reading your sig, kernel-2.4.9 w/ext3. You should be able to find it in there. Jim

Re: promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support

2001-09-01 Thread Jimmy Richards
HTH, Jimmy Richards BitchX. It's like tubular, tripendicular, gnarly, and totally bitchin'! On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 07:34:23PM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Hi, > > I went through the kernel options but could not find support for promise > ultra ata100 controller. (Promis

Re: Mozilla & JAVA

2001-09-01 Thread Jimmy Richards
fully, sound and all. But I have no symlink(nor did I make one) in /usr/lib/mozzila for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 -> libXt.so Is something rotten in denmark? Or is it just me? Bewildered, Jimmy Richards The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the univer

Re: Mozilla & JAVA

2001-08-30 Thread Jimmy Richards
t all worked out ok. Jimmy Richards

Re: Mozilla & JAVA

2001-08-30 Thread Jimmy Richards
d make the following symlink... ln -sv javaplugin_oji-mozilla-0.9.3.so /usr/lib/j2re1.3/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so Hope that's all you need, Jimmy Richards On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 07:47:11PM +0200, Georges Goncalves wrote: > Hi, > > I really wo

Re: problem in upgrade to testing

2001-08-19 Thread Jimmy Richards
libb2* libdb3* HTH and Good Luck, Jimmy Richards UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. --Dennis Ritchie

Re: partitioning revisited

2001-08-09 Thread Jimmy Richards
Oh, A couple things I wanted to include that I forgot. Just thought I would let you know that I have 512 MB's of ram and felt that I wouldn't be using swap very much, so I made my swap partition 256 MB. And, in case it's of any help, here is some info about my layout. I just made a

Re: partitioning revisited

2001-08-09 Thread Jimmy Richards
hat which does not kill | > | Maidstone, Kent (UK) | us, usually still hurts. | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | That's just life, I'm afraid" | > +--+ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRI

Re: aptitude woes

2001-08-07 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Again, Ah. Ok. Maybe it is a package dependency problem then, because when I do a 'dpkg -p aptitude' I show libncurses5 as a depends for aptitude. Do you have libncurses5 installed? What does the above command show on your system? I imagine you probably got it straight

Re: aptitude woes

2001-08-06 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi, There was an error when dpkg tried to install the package, but has nothing to do with aptitude itself per se. Try doing a dpkg -C and/or dpkg -l libncurses5 you'll probably see that libncurses5 is not fully installed. See if you can figure out how to fix it. dpkg --configure -a

Re: nvidia: downgrade to XFree86 4.0

2001-08-06 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi, The tarballs are not source either. They just install an already built binary. You can get the latest .tar.gz of them from www.nvidia.com HTH, Jim R. On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 06:36:38AM -0600, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 01:34:59P

Re: nvidia: downgrade to XFree86 4.0

2001-08-06 Thread Jimmy Richards
/usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1 -> libGLU.so.1.3 -rw-r--r--1 root root 490796 Jul 13 00:31 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1.3 -rw-r--r--1 root root26252 Jul 13 00:31 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLw.a (wrapping off on above listing intentionally) Hope that helps,

Re: linux certification

2001-08-03 Thread Jimmy Richards
try and help answer questions, and have also made a number of mistakes when doing so. But oh well. I think a number of my replys have helped too. :-) It's good way to get Linux concepts ingrained into your noggin. Good luck in your endeavor. Live and Let Learn I always say!

Re: How to detect scans

2001-08-01 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hello, If you like iptables as a firewall you could check out firestarter at http://sourceforge.net/projects/firestarter/ I really like it. It shows ports probes and you can click on someone who port probes you and select 'Deny all connections from this machine'. Of course that re

Re: add multiple users .....or import from text file....

2001-08-01 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi, There is a utility called 'newusers'. But I think it may be kind of limited as I don't think it copies over the files from /etc/skel. Hope that helps though, Jim R. On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:42:53PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > Hello all... > > Does a

Re: How to stop some system services?

2001-07-29 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Tao, You can shut it down with '/etc/init.d/zope stop' and to keep it from starting again during bootup you can use the update-rc.d command like so 'update-rc.d -f zope remove'. You might want to check out the man page for that command. Hope that helps, Jim Ric

Re: kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work

2001-07-28 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi, Do you use lilo? If so could you please post that file? And also the output of ls -l /boot/vm* Thanks, Jimmy Richards On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 12:36:03PM +0800, Tao Liu wrote: > I upgraded my potato to sid today, > and I installed the package&

Re: (newbie from RH) How can i create a .deb package, or compile a source .deb package ?

2001-07-28 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Armin, I am not able to give a very good answer myself, but I am will give you what little info I know. I was hoping that someone would have replied to your question already but from my mail it does not look like anyone has yet. An answer may be in the mailing list archives too,

Re: dselect question

2001-07-26 Thread Jimmy Richards
| grep zgv xzgvinstall zgv purge c243491-a:~# HTH, Jimmy Richards On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:55:38PM -0500, Lance Peterson wrote: > I selected some a package with dselect and then it automatically selected > a *bunch*

Re: Problem with interface eth0

2001-07-26 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi, Did you compile the driver into the kernel, or as a module? Try the command 'lsmod' if you compiled it as a module and see if you have it loaded. If not, do 'modprobe . What kind of 3com card is it? Jim Richards On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:05:15PM +0200, heissu wrote

Re: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-26 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:46:57PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > ...um, what package you got that in? I can't find a package matching > > > 'x86info', and apt-cache search turns up a blank on the term. Try: > > > > > > $ dpkg -S $( which x86info ) > > > ...am I missing somethin

Re: gunzip: ae_962.orig.tar.gz: not in gzip format

2001-07-26 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Andy, Once in a while the someone names the file .tar.gz when they tar it then don't use gzip on it. Try just untaring with tar xvf and see what happens. That may do it, not sure. HTH, Jim Richards Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of

Re: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-26 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:46:57PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:46:32PM -0500, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:38:46AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 06:29:43AM -0600, J

Re: nslookup and packages

2001-07-26 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Kalle, You can go to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages to lookup pacages that contain the file foo. HTH, Jim Richards Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.--Mark Twain On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at

Re: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-26 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi, How about trying the 'x86info' program. You should be able to get it apt-get. Then run the command 'x86info -mhz'. Here's what I get from running the command... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ x86info -mhz x86info v1.3. Dave Jones 2001 Feedback to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Found 1 CPU Intel

[OT] error compiling libFOX - pthread problem?

2001-07-23 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help my try to determine why fox-0.99.142 doesn't seem to want to compile for me. It seems to act like I don't have libpthread. I tried it with fox-0.99.174 also and get the same error as follows... make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/f

Re: Display managers

2001-07-23 Thread Jimmy Richards
ed with 'update-rc.d -f xdm remove', for example. But that removes them all, and as you said they would be restored on an upgrade. HTH, Jimmy Richards A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket

Re: TOT Re: Optimizing potato

2001-07-23 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Andy, Take a look at this web. It may help answer your question. http://www.x86.org/articles/computalk/help.htm Cheers, Jim Richards You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax, tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. --Pearl Williams

Re: screen 1024x768 desktop 1600x1200

2001-07-22 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hey, Glad you were able to find and cure the problem with the help of the debian-user mailing list! {:-) Jim Richards The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems they never come out again. --Al Goodman On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 11:48:16PM

Re: screen 1024x768 desktop 1600x1200

2001-07-22 Thread Jimmy Richards
in there? That might fix it. Not sure if that works ok on potato or not, if potato is what you're using. HTH, Jim On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 09:43:07PM +0200, Markus Hansen wrote: > hi Jimmy Richards > > the solution of the display is 1024x768, but the desktop is

Re: screen 1024x768 desktop 1600x1200

2001-07-22 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi, I'm reading the man page for XF86Config to try to come up with a solution. I see in there an option called 'Virtual ' that looks like it would be in the Screen Configuration section. Do you have any line in you're XF86Config-4 file that has 'Virtual' on it? If so it is probab

Re: screen 1024x768 desktop 1600x1200

2001-07-22 Thread Jimmy Richards
27;dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86' and then pick 1024x768 as you're only resolution in there. That command assumes that your xserver is the 'xfree86' xserver. HTH, Jimmy Richards You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking fiv

Re: Is there something wrong with my CPU ?

2001-07-22 Thread Jimmy Richards
Maybe the 16 is the cpu register being used to detect possible errors? Jim R. > > CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 05 > > Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting

Re: Is there something wrong with my CPU ?

2001-07-22 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi, No. Nothing wrong there. Says 'OK'. I'm not exactly certain what the remainder of the line means. It may mean the the kernel is using a compiled in bugfix for buggy chipset/fpu's. Or it may mean that it reports errors based on an exception with a value of 16. I'll bet someone c

Re: Unable to upgrade libc6, cannot find why

2001-07-22 Thread Jimmy Richards
there. Even though I have never used the -L option myself, it seems like I have seen it in the manpage for cp for a long time and therefore think that it's a valid option even in older versions a cp, but not sure. For me it shows as '-L, --dereference always follow symbolic links'. My v

Re: Kernel upgrades

2001-07-16 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hello Wayne, I always upgrade my kernel with kernel source that I have downloaded. But I would think that if you are using apt-get to upgrade your system, that it would offer you a newer kernel via it's upgrade method. If you're not using apt-get you could download a newer kernel .

Re: sl anyone? was [Re: ./ in PATH, always bad?]

2001-07-16 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:57:24PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:36:09PM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote: > | Hi, > | > | I found that I type 'la' by mistake more often than 'sl', so I made > | symlink for sl to la. :-) I Love t

sl anyone? was [Re: ./ in PATH, always bad?]

2001-07-16 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi, I found that I type 'la' by mistake more often than 'sl', so I made symlink for sl to la. :-) I Love that train coming down the track! Ok, so there's no track. Maybe that could be in a future version of sl? Anyway, I love that choo-choo. Jim Richards To err is human, but to rea

Re: Library versions (libg++2.7.2/libc6.1-1)

2001-07-16 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:19:53AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I'm trying to install some software whose installer wants to see > libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2, libg++.so.2.7.2, and libstdc++.so.27. > I've installed libg++27 and symlinked those libraries from > /usr/lib/libc5-compat to /usr/lib and /

Re: Unable to delete file

2001-07-16 Thread Jimmy Richards
Cool. Glad to be of help. Are you adminisetring Linux system at 'The IQ Group' there in Kansas? I love Kansas. I used to live on a farm there every summer when I was a kid, just outside a little tiny town called White City. Boy, those were the days. Jimmy Richards O

Re: Real Player for potato

2001-07-16 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:23:23AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:54:44PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > So, is it fine to just run the installer rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin > > > > I have already downloaded from real.com, or is there some better way to > > > >

Re: Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem

2001-07-15 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 05:42:02PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > I have recently ugraded from potato. So 70debconf is the new file instead of > apt.conf? Hi, Joey Hess sent a response on this explaiing that the 70debconf is a file for programs to use so that they do not have to mes

Re: Using dselect to update Sid (and failing)

2001-07-15 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 03:21:05PM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 08:59:14PM -, Kurt Dresner wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I can't seem to get my computer to update with dselect. It just fails to > > find about 30% of the .deb files, with

Re: Using dselect to update Sid (and failing)

2001-07-15 Thread Jimmy Richards
I get 'unable to fetch' error, or after a successful apt-get update the apt-get dist-upgrade gives http 404 errors, then I change servers in my sources.list and try again. Sometimes the dist-upgrade says there's no packages to update. I usually try a few times and then it goes. I dunno wh

Re: [OT] xumod - undefined symbol error (2nd try)

2001-07-15 Thread Jimmy Richards
gain for you're help. I'm off to get xumod working again as per instructions below, Jimmy Richards o _ _ _ __o __o/\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) _`\<, _`\<, _>(_) (_)/<_\_| \ _|/' \/ (_)

Re: Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem

2001-07-14 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:35:25AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Jimmy Richards wrote: > > I got something you can try. Go to you're /etc/apt/apt.conf.d dir > > directory and then edit the file named 70debconf. Add the following > > lines below the line that's alre

Re: Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem

2001-07-14 Thread Jimmy Richards
ng to be hard on you. Actually just trying to help you out for future correspondences. Thanks and I Hope That Helps, Jimmy Richards Hello, welcome to the psychiatric hotline. If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly. binE1GMc73Ltx.bin Description: PGP Key 0x0062D7A7. pgpZB8biruz0S.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Netscape Plugins

2001-07-13 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:36:14PM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: > > I'm sync'd to Unstable as of a few days ago. But this is a > problem that's stayed there through many upgrades of Netscape. > > It won't recognize plugins. > > I have installed RealPlayer via the debian package and it kept > telli

Re: Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem

2001-07-13 Thread Jimmy Richards
ig Then when you are done you can restore 70debconf to it's original form. This cause apt-get to act like dpkg --force-overwrite --force-depends. Good Luck and let me know how it goes! Jimmy Richards He that is slow to believe anything and everything is of great understand

Re: linksys nc100 problem. modversions.h not found.

2001-07-13 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Again Crombie My bad. The package you need to get is the kernel-headers package, not the kernel-source, for that file. Still, you might wanna check out the kernel-source anyway. Sorry 'bout that! Jim Richards o _ _ _

Re: linksys nc100 problem. modversions.h not found.

2001-07-13 Thread Jimmy Richards
apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.19 Then I think you have to untar or bunzip2 it like so... tar zxvf or tar jxvf Then it should make a directory called 'linux' and you can optionally do the following (it's a good idea)... mv linux linux-2.2.19 ln -sv linux-2.2.19 linux

Re: Problems with ATI Rage 128 RF video card (signal 11, symbols)

2001-07-13 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hello Dark Elf, I have some suggestions that might work. I didn't really see an unresolved symbol problem myself, but maybe I missed it. I'm running unstable myself, so your package may be a little differently named depending on what version of debian you're using. But I would sugg

Re: Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem

2001-07-13 Thread Jimmy Richards
h it if you want to upgrade to testing. You might try 'apt-get install debconf perl-5.005-base perl-5.005' and see what happens with that. But really, I think you'll be ok saying yes. Hope that helps, Jimmy Richards > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Unable to delete file

2001-07-13 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:17:34PM -0500, Kelly Corbin wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade to the unstable release and have hit a major snag. > > Doing an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' fails with the following message: > > Unable to update link /usr/share/doc/tk8.2/copyright : > Operation not permitted > >

Re: Problem upgrading testing: Perl may be unconfigured ..

2001-07-13 Thread Jimmy Richards
onf package and > now it seems to have completed preconfiguring the packages > and is now unpacking the various packages. It will probably > take the whole night. I am keeing my finger crossed. > > Thanks. > > Sebastian. > > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:33

Re: Problem upgrading testing: Perl may be unconfigured ..

2001-07-13 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 03:23:00PM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi: > I am running the unstable Debian. I tried upgrading ( apt-get > update; apt-get dist-upgrade ) and it seems to abort somewhere > along the way with: > >Perl may be unconfigured ( can't modigy goto in lvalue subro

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-13 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:40:49AM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:32:35PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > > Can you resolve 192.168.1.45 into a fully qualified > > domain name? > > Errr... excuse the cluelessness, but how would you recommend > doing that? I don't run local

Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

2001-07-12 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:28:41AM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote: > OK, I've read with great amusement all the chest-thumping going on about > MUAs, MTAs and how Microsoft email products are things that you scrape > off the bottom of your shoe. > > I, for one, am brand-spanking new at Linux and have ye

Re: More video problems

2001-07-10 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:18:15PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I just installed a new, low-end video card in my machine; it's a PCI card > based on the nVidia Riva TNT Vanta chipset. Basically it works fine, with > the very irritating exception of an intermittent flicker of the screen, > more no

Re: sendmail 8.12 $s macro not fully qualified

2001-07-10 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:46:28PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > I just upgraded to sendmail 8.12 (woody) and have found that the $s > (sender's host) macro no longer expands to a fully qualified > hostname. Here's a sample log message: > > Jul 10 10:37:55 gbr sm-mta[17480]: f6AHbtce017480

Re: [users] Mail from OE to linux--Thanks!

2001-07-10 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:59:35PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 05:32:55PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks to all who replied. Your sapient advice has gotten me up and > > running. This reply is being composed in mutt, somehow it seems to > > have known to use v

Re: Ouch, debconf stopped working

2001-07-10 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:03:13PM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > Ok, ok, I know I should have known better. I upgraded to > unstable/testing some time ago, a few days ago I noticed > X4.x was finaly in unstable so I upgraded again. Only to > find out debconf can't live with a recent perl upgrade.

Re: dpkg problem

2001-07-10 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:02:03AM -0700, David Fuchs wrote: > Joost Kooij wrote: > > >[ouch! next time, please hit enter after +/- 72 characters.] > > > Sorry, I've corrected this now... > > > > >On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:08:27AM -0700, David Fuchs wrote: > > > >>I've recently installed

Re: [OT] sendmail FEATURE access_db - configuration help needed

2001-07-09 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:25:33PM +0800, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Jimmy Richards wrote: > > > Greetings GNU/Linuxer's, > > > > I am hoping someone might be able to help me with the access_db > > feature in sendmail. Her

[OT] sendmail FEATURE access_db - configuration help needed

2001-07-08 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Again, I should have added that I get the following messages in my log when trying use that config... Jul 8 06:49:52 c243491-a fetchmail[9371]: SMTP error: 451 4.3.0 Temporary system failure. Please try again later. Jul 8 06:49:52 c243491-a sm-mta[9373]: ruleset=check_relay,

[OT] sendmail FEATURE access_db - configuration help needed

2001-07-08 Thread Jimmy Richards
Greetings GNU/Linuxer's, I am hoping someone might be able to help me with the access_db feature in sendmail. Here's what I did to try and get it to work. I made a file /etc/mail/access containing one line followed by a newline, is the newline ok to have in there? (username changed

Re: No keyboard or mouse in X

2001-07-08 Thread Jimmy Richards
odule name on it's own line in there. A way to get modules to load only when neeeded and called upon by the kernel is to put them followed by the proper parameters(if the module needs one) into the file /etc/modutils/aliases and then run the command 'update-modules'. Hope T

Re: shutdown as user

2001-07-07 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:31:21PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > > Hi! > > What can i do to use shutdown as normal user? > > Timo > Hello Timo, I do it like this... su root halt HTH, Jim Richards > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cannot connect to certain web sites

2001-07-07 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 08:07:16AM -0400, Kyle Girard wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone know why I wouldn't be able to connect to certain web > pages while i'm in linux? I can connect to almost any webpage but > the following (at this is all i've found so far) > > http://java.sun.c

Re: x wincdow login after reboot

2001-07-06 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:33:20PM -0400, Peter Kok wrote: > Hi all > > I would like to stop X-window login after reboot > > how do i do it? > > Tks > > regards > Peter > Hi, Try update-rc.d -f xdm remove HTH, Jim Richards > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: No keyboard or mouse in X

2001-07-06 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 12:38:45PM -0700, Geoffrey Romer wrote: > tatus: O > Content-Length: 1943 > Lines: 42 > > I've been having some trouble setting up a friend with a Debian system. > > First, I installed Debian 2.2 (stable) from CD, using the normal install > methods. The mouse (a USB mouse)

Re: Apt-get

2001-07-06 Thread Jimmy Richards
in there as 'ir', which means 'installed reinstall'. If I remember, I just hit the minus sign and then the plus sign on it in aptitude and that fixed it. Another way is to manually edit the file /var/lib/dpkg/status. HTH, Jimmy Richards --- Debian giv

Re: error trying to use XFree86 4.x.x with USB Microsoft Intellimouse....

2001-07-04 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:42:16AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > Ok, Followed the instructions at www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/ Hiya There Walter, I'll try and help you out here. I use /dev/usbmouse, but /dev/input/mice applies to the device file in the same way. I'll get to it in

Gratuitous Entertainment - ChatBreak

2001-07-03 Thread Jimmy Richards
Howdy Folks, I thought this might bring a smile to your faceand break up the day a little. It's written with AOL chat room's in mind, but I suppose it could apply to a mailing list as well! I hope you like it... Have you ever said this to someone "I'm ju

Re: apt-get slow w/dsl?

2001-06-30 Thread Jimmy Richards
t except apt-get seems really > slow. I don't know if it's just the US servers or my crappy connection. > > Any thoughts? Hi Leonard, You might want to try a utilty called 'apt-spy'. HTH, Jimmy Richards > -- > Leonard Leblan

[OT] xumod - undefined symbol error

2001-06-29 Thread Jimmy Richards
Greetings and Salutations All, I have an unreolved symbol when I try to run 'xumod'(an Unreal Tournament umod file unpack utility). I was using it just fine until I reinstalled Debian a few weeks ago. I reinstalled because I wanted to use the xfs journaling filesystem, in case you

xaw3g Segfault

2001-06-29 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hello Fellow Debianites, I have tried to use the xaw3gd widget set and followed the instructions in the README.Debian, but it bombs out with a Segfault. I'm lost as to what I might be doing wrong and am hoping that someone might be able to help. I think it may be a little trickier

Re: internet w/ dhcpcd

2001-06-28 Thread Jimmy Richards
on to your network provider then I'll assume that you are using an older kernel and something else is the problem. Hope that helps anyway, Jimmy Richards > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: xfree 4.1 packages

2001-06-26 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:48:38AM +0200, Thomas Hess wrote: > hi, > > anyone knows a location for xfree 4.1 deb-packages? thx in advance. > > tom Hi There Tom, You can check out this web site. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ Good Luck, Jim Richards > -- > Thoma

Re: net mask

2001-06-26 Thread Jimmy Richards
t to be pretty rude. It's no big deal to me, but in the future you might want to reply to the mailing list only, fyi. Thanks again for pointing out the error of my ways. Cheers, Jimmy Richards > - Original Message - > From: Jimmy Richards <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: net mask

2001-06-25 Thread Jimmy Richards
213.201.43.0/24 11010101.11001001.00101011 . (Class C) Broadcast: 213.201.43.25511010101.11001001.00101011 . HostMin: 213.201.43.1 11010101.11001001.00101011 .0001 HostMax: 213.201.43.25411010101.11001001.00101011 .1110 HTH,

Re: Can't read bootup message

2001-06-25 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 11:40:14AM +0200, Matthias Fechner wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > > I noticed that when I booted up Linux, I saw some error message. But > > the message just when very fast that I couldn't really read it. dmesg and > > the messag

Re: Anacron job 'cron.daily'

2001-06-25 Thread Jimmy Richards
job file into a temporary holding directory with something like the following... cd /etc mkdir temp_removed_cron.daily cd cron.daily mv htdig ../temp_removed_cron.daily Or maybe edit the /etc/cron.daily/htdig file so that it doesn't run by making every line a comment. Hope th

Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

2001-06-24 Thread Jimmy Richards
s plugged in with a little bash or perl scripting I imagine, but I don't use a laptop myself. As an aside, you should only make your reply's to the debian-user mailing list, not to a person's private e-mail address and the mailing list. Good Luck, Jimmy

Re: locale error on potato

2001-06-24 Thread Jimmy Richards
eems to be different than that one sid. > So, how do I correct this? > > TIA. > > Greetings, > > Stefan. Hi, I don't know if potato has this command or not, but you might try running 'locale-gen' and see if that fixes it.

Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

2001-06-24 Thread Jimmy Richards
y, I meant the command to be 'dpkg-reconfigure -plow fetchmail' Hope that helps!, Jimmy Richards > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - End forwarded message -

Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

2001-06-24 Thread Jimmy Richards
ity holes fixed in that area. Nobody knows how many of those are still left. The safest way to run fetchmail is to run it as an unpriviledged user (e.g. using the system-wide fetchmail facility described below, and the "fetchmail" user), delivering through SMTP. This is Debian's de

Re: Mosaic: can't find library 'libXt.so.6'

2001-06-23 Thread Jimmy Richards
You might try 'ldd /usr/bin/mosaic'(or whatever it's path is). If it says 'libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXt.so.6' on one of the lines in that display then try making a symlink... ln -sv /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 /usr/lib ...and see if tha

Re: integrity check?

2001-06-23 Thread Jimmy Richards
unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);' > Hello Robert, I think 'debsum -s -a' is the command you could use to do that check. Cheers, Jimmy Richards > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of &q

Re: Logging Init output?

2001-06-21 Thread Jimmy Richards
her processing of the boot process until you press CTRL-Q to let it continue. It gives you a chance to read and examine the boot messages at your leisure, but it can be hard to catch it when it's on the last one or two boot processes though. Cheers, Jimm

Re: another strange bootup message: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

2001-06-20 Thread Jimmy Richards
is is static ip setup? Hope that gets you started in the right direction, Jimmy Richards > > Andrea > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] binWlbvwc6LK6.bin Description: PGP Key 0x0062D7A7. pgpSSQX0wjHXG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: memory

2001-06-20 Thread Jimmy Richards
put in the exim.config file I don't know why that wouldn't work. That is if you know. You could run the command 'eximconfig' and choose to the 'Smart Host' option (I think) and then put in your company's mail host as the relay machine. Hope that's right. >

Re: Xfree86-4 and large default fonts

2001-06-18 Thread Jimmy Richards
get you the 75 dpi fonts you want, but like I said, I dunno really, just a guess. Hope that might help, Cheers. Jimmy Richards > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] biniEVaYKwwD6.bin Description: PGP Key 0x0062D7A7. pgpRa8KoGixu5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: XMMS: root can / user can not listen Audio CDs

2001-06-18 Thread Jimmy Richards
rently existing group from the system adduser - add a user to a an already existing group deluser - delete a user that currently belongs to the specified group from that group Just check out the man pages fro those commands, of course. Hope that helps, Jimmy Ric

Re: Windows-like crashes!

2001-06-17 Thread Jimmy Richards
ng to take advantage of at this point in time. Oh well, I look forward to the next release of NVidia drivers, but my friend probably does not. What else can I say... The moral of the story is, like someone else who posted back on the NVidia drivers are notoiously buggy, and if the 0.9-769's w

Re: Help with glib-config

2001-06-14 Thread Jimmy Richards
using the 'unstable'(or sid) version of Debian. So, for me, 'glib-config' is supplied by the 'libglib1.2-dev' package. Do you have that installed? If not then installing may cure you're problem. If you already have it installed could you reply with the error m

Re: talk does not work after ?

2001-06-08 Thread Jimmy Richards
sses with using ktalkd if I'm not mistaken. Hope that helps and good luck, Jimmy Richards > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] binkjQJpD5VbW.bin Description: PGP Key 0x0062D7A7. pgpU9mx5pgnm8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sendmail Security Violation?

2001-05-23 Thread Jimmy Richards
npages to get a better idea of how logcheck works like you were saying. Thanks Again, Jimmy Richards binabTHGuQEge.bin Description: PGP Key 0x0062D7A7.

Sendmail Security Violation?

2001-05-23 Thread Jimmy Richards
no big deal. I am just curious. Thanks, Jimmy Richards binjOYNeIPLzD.bin Description: PGP Key 0x0062D7A7. pgpizF7RAxtBl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: opera

2001-05-18 Thread Jimmy Richards
b deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main non-free contrib deb http://www.opera.com/~tfheen/debian potato non-free Cheers, Jimmy Richards > E: Package liblcms has no installation candidate > > huh? how am i going to install this? > > martin;

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