Missing Cd Audio Player XMMS input plugin...

2001-09-02 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
Deb-heads, Just installed XMMS 1.2.5 from Debian's Woody branch and everything seems to be fine EXCEPT when it comes to playing CDs. Poked around a bit and what I discovered is that I am missing the Cd Audio Player input plugin from my list of available input plugins. So...where can I find

Re: help

2001-06-15 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Peter Whittam [EMAIL PROTECTED] [140601 18:15]: I am trying to install Mozilla but it complains about unreachable files libstc++ - libc6.1-1.so.2 can anyone help? Try this (as root): # cd /usr/lib # ln -s libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 If

What happened to the task-gnome* packages in Woody?

2001-06-13 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
Debian Users, What happened to the task-gnome* packages in Debian Woody? I see that the packages are still available in both Potato and Sid but Debian they are curiously absent in Woody? If a user wishes to install Gnome, which packages must he install in the absence of a

Re: newbieDoc.sourceForge.net

2001-06-13 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] [130601 11:03]: Not that I'm against some duplication, but isn't this basically what www.linuxnewbie.org is doing? They were absolutely critical in my early days of linux, and I still head back there every so often to search the archives to see if anyone

Re: newbieDoc.sourceForge.net

2001-06-13 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* David D.W. Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [130601 15:17]: On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Robert A. Jacobs wrote: Hmmm...you might want to head over there and check it out again then. Sensei no longer works for Internet.com (he went to work for Trolltech, I think). Sooo...the fate of linuxnewbie

Re: Need help setting up SB PCI 128 sound card on potato system

2001-04-05 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Nate Amsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040401 08:58]: Joe Nahmias wrote: So far, I have downloaded the latest 2.2 kernel (2.2.19) and compiled in support for the card (CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=y), with no success. After booting the newly compiled kernel, the soundcard is recognized (see

Re: dist-upgrade to woody

2001-04-03 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
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Re: removing obsolete packages

2001-04-03 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
autoclean doesn't seem to do what I want. What you want is apt-get clean autoclean only removes packages that can no longer be downloaded. robert a. jacobs

Re: dist-upgrade to woody

2001-04-03 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
attempting to install itself or otherwise confusing the issue with regards to how X operates. IIRC, when many users upgrade to Woody, their X configuration is jacked up and they have to take matters into their own hands to straighten it back out. robert a. jacobs

Re: removing obsolete packages

2001-04-03 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com [030401 20:30]: on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 07:52:02PM -0500, Robert A. Jacobs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Iwan Mouwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030401 19:28]: Hi, is there a way to delete packages from the cache (or from some other directory

SOLVED! Apache mod_perl + mod_cgi in same directory

2001-04-02 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
greater flexibility. Now both .cgi and .pl files can reside in the same directory and each is handled by the appropriate Handler. robert a. jacobs

Apache mod_perl + mod_cgi in same directory

2001-03-29 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
directory and handle them accordingly. I would rather avoid that if possible for the sake of flexibility. Any suggestions? robert a. jacobs

Opera Browser and Plugins

2001-02-27 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
Has anyone managed to get any plugins installed while using the Opera web-browser? If so, which ones and how did you do it? I'm particularly interested in Flash and some form of media player... Thanks, robert jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SOLVED!: Upgrade Problems (Stable-Testing)

2001-02-26 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
Here's how I ironed out the problems in my system after upgrading from Potato to Woody: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [250201 21:56]: I was pretty sure everything other than my GUI and Sound was working properly based on watching the screen messages during boot and perusing dmesg. The only problem I

Re: Upgared stable to testing, and I broke X, help please.

2001-02-26 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
...there's a few places to start. robert jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Upgrade Problems (Stable-Testing)

2001-02-25 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
Good evening everyone, This is my first experience with upgrading from one version to another. I love the debian apt-get tool; for routine upgrades and keeping my system in top order with security updates it has been the greatest help. The upgrade from stable to testing has not been fun so

LAMP Question -- Perl AND PHP

2001-01-17 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
Running a Debian 2.2r2 system with a little bit of Woodage (nothing extreme) and still using the 2.2.17pre-* kernel packaged with Potato. Am venturing into the world of LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) and would like to do the installations from source (for the experience -- so please do not

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-05 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040101 17:44]: unstable is a symlink to sid now. sid is permanent unstable it will never be released, it will never be frozen. Why is this? rob

Re: upgrade to 2.2.18

2001-01-01 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010101 13:32]: hi all i just finished upgrading my machine to the stable 2.2.18 kernel and everything seems to be working fine. i just have a bunch of little questions someone could shed light on. snip! question 1 and 2 3) update-modules

Re: Perl's default include path

2000-11-25 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Neil Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] [251100 21:42]: I get these messages trying to install recent versions of debconf: monkey:/usr/src/gcc/build# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.5.22_i386.deb (Reading database ... 36741 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace

Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.

2000-11-24 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] [241100 09:16]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I'm working on it. Just recompiled my kernel the other day to support firewalling but haven't had time to work on the iptables and

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-23 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [231100 09:16]: bleah. how do i keep this program from starting on boot? i looked in /etc/init.d. can't even find a startup script for this thing! it's not in inetd.conf either. how does this thing get started? This is more of a question to the

Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.

2000-11-23 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* John-Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] [231100 09:38]: Hello all I have been battling with exim, fetchmail and mutt now for what seems like eons! I'm using *basically* the same configuration (MTA: exim, MDA: procmail, MUA: mutt POP3-GET-MY-MAIL-WHEN-I-NEED-IT-APP-:] : fetchmail). Maybe I can help?

Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.

2000-11-23 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Timmy Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [231100 17:08]: I'm using *basically* the same configuration (MTA: exim, MDA: procmail, MUA: mutt POP3-GET-MY-MAIL-WHEN-I-NEED-IT-APP-:] : fetchmail). Maybe I can help? i would use iptables to block port 25 from all but localhost, @home almost killed me

Re: xinetd and fetchmail

2000-11-22 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Robin Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [221100 13:54]: [snip salutations] RAJ My xinetd.conf only contains one stanza. Here it is: RAJ service smtp RAJ { RAJ socket_type = stream RAJ protocol= tcp RAJ wait

SOLVED! Was: (Re: xinetd and fetchmail)

2000-11-22 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Me [EMAIL PROTECTED] [221100 12:12]: Debian Users, I'm trying to be security conscious. I've heard xinetd is the way to go when it comes to an internet super-server so I apt-get installed it. Only problem is that I can't get it to work with fetchmail. My xinetd.conf

xinetd and fetchmail

2000-11-21 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
Debian Users, I'm trying to be security conscious. I've heard xinetd is the way to go when it comes to an internet super-server so I apt-get installed it. Only problem is that I can't get it to work with fetchmail. My xinetd.conf only contains one stanza. Here it is:

Re: Couple of questions from a recent convert

2000-11-20 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Willy Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] [201100 17:01]: Robert == Robert A Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * JD Kitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [181100 14:17]: Does the default install support an SB AWE32 for sound without recompiling the kernel? No the default install does not support SB AWE32. You

Re: System.map

2000-11-19 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Philipp Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] [181100 19:25]: On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:48:29AM -0600, Jason Holland wrote: You can recreate your System.map by running make install in /usr/src/linux, or wherever your kernel source is that you recently recompiled. Sure he can recreate it this way

Re: Couple of questions from a recent convert

2000-11-18 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* JD Kitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [181100 14:17]: Does the default install support an SB AWE32 for sound without recompiling the kernel? No the default install does not support SB AWE32. You need to patch the kernel and recompile. If your SB AWE32 is a pnp card, you will need to configure it

Re: Simple apt-get question

2000-11-18 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [171100 17:16]: I installed PostgreSQL to work with, and I noticed that it said that it was version 6.5 or so, and to just grab the newer package from the unstable tree. So my question is, how do I go about grabbing just _one_ package, and of

Re: SB AWE64 configuration problem

2000-11-18 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Willy Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] [181100 10:43]: Willy == Willy Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Regarding the problems I'm having with getting sound to work, I found a clue. Now if I only knew what it meant! This is what syslog says after attempting to modprobe to load the sound modules:

Re: insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep

2000-10-25 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [251000 18:09]: tjm wrote: Hello, I have had the same problem although it doesn't seem to cause any adverse condition with the machine. The startup script /etc/rcS.d/S20modutils (/etc/init.d/modutils) runs depmod -a when the machine boots, but

Delete Me -- Just a Test sorry

2000-10-25 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
Just a test message...had some problems with my procmail recipes and this post is just to see if I've got them straightened out. Sorry for any inconvenience. Thanks. rob jacobs

Re: insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep

2000-10-25 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [251000 18:09]: tjm wrote: Hello, I have had the same problem although it doesn't seem to cause any adverse condition with the machine. The startup script /etc/rcS.d/S20modutils (/etc/init.d/modutils) runs depmod -a when the machine boots, but

Re: Problem with desktop icons

2000-10-24 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
This is probably an obvious question, but: Did you save your session after making changes to it? * Casey Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [241000 17:22]: I have a weird problem in GNOME. The icons for my desktop shortcuts keep changing back to the default icon (a piece of paper) for no reason.