Re: Cannot login to woody box (i386)

2001-06-27 Thread Timmy Douglas
you need to boot into single usermode: LILO: linuxkernelname single i think somehow you got sid's libpam modules. anyways, they are fixed so once you are root, update and upgrade again

apt-get won't install package

2001-05-20 Thread Timmy Douglas
(please CC me replys if possible) root:~# apt-get install gnome-guile Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some

Re: ALSA problems in Debian/unstable

2001-04-28 Thread Timmy Douglas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefan Deibel) said: Hi, After upgrading to Debian/unstable I want to get sound with ALSA. I install alsa-source and compiled the alsa-driver for Soundblaster 128 PCI (Ensoni1 1371) it using kernel 2.4.3. After installation lsmod shows well, good luck. i have the same card and

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-28 Thread Timmy Douglas
Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c'mon, now you KNOW you'll never go back and look at 6000 old messages. what gives? Maybe not directly, but you can index them and search them. I was doing this with freewais-sf before I switch to debian (just haven't

Re: Alsa under Debian has me baffled

2001-04-06 Thread Timmy Douglas
it would be nice to know the soundcard you are using and the packages/versions you have. i don't use alsa now, but i used to and maybe this page can help but it is old: http://members.home.com/tdouglas/alsa.html i just compile my card into the kernel and i think that is the best way to do it

problem installing libsdl1.0-dev from woody

2001-02-24 Thread Timmy Douglas
after doing: apt-get update;apt-get install libsdl1.0-dev here is the error i get: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been

Re: How I got ALSA sound drivers kind of working

2000-12-23 Thread Timmy Douglas
lots of libraries. The ALSA Tutorial by Timmy says you should get esound-alsa and libesd-alsa0, but then adds that the latter conflicts with libesd, and many packages depend on libesd. yep, it is a pain in the butt. sounds like you had a really fun time with that. ;) I think if I was to

Re: gs error - i can't view postscript files

2000-12-16 Thread Timmy Douglas
Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Timmy Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: when i try to open a .ps file with gv or gs, i get this error: Is this with gs or gs-aladdin? gs-aladdin install gs-aladdin-manual-deinstall gs

gs error - i can't view postscript files

2000-12-15 Thread Timmy Douglas
when i try to open a .ps file with gv or gs, i get this error: GNU Ghostscript 5.10 (1998-12-17) Copyright (C) 1997 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details. Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from

Re: Relation(exim,fetchmail,mutt)=?

2000-12-12 Thread Timmy Douglas
Debian User [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Can someone explain what's the relation between exim, fetchmail and mutt or any other reader? If fetchmail fetches it, then why the servers have to be defined again for exim or mutt? fetchmail gives received mail to exim exim gives received mail to procmail

Low quality printing

2000-12-11 Thread Timmy Douglas
I am using a canon bjc4000 printer with the bj800 driver using apsfilter. it works fine, but the printing goes really slow. when i try to change the lights at the top to make it do less quality, it turns it back on when i try to print. does anyone know how to get this to print

Re: Very strange fetchmail problem

2000-12-10 Thread Timmy Douglas
try running fetchmail with verbose options and see if the output tells you any more... i would have suspected the firewall but it seems that you have already connected so i don't know how that would be the problem.

Re: Very strange fetchmail problem

2000-12-10 Thread Timmy Douglas
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 01:15:48 +0200 (EET), Martin Fluch [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ /usr/bin/fetchmail -p POP3 -va -t 60 -u fluch rock.helsinki.fi Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: fetchmail: 5.5.3 querying rock.helsinki.fi (protocol POP3) at Mon Dec 11 01:11:26 2000

Re: vanishing mail

2000-12-08 Thread Timmy Douglas
On Fri, 08 Dec 2000 15:44:53 -0500, A R [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It now connects fine, the mail is retrieved, or so I believe, at least that is what ius printed to the screen. Now, when I run mutt or mail as tony, it says no mail for tony. Where is it? What should I change in my in my

Re: exim doesn't deliver

2000-12-06 Thread Timmy Douglas
On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 21:49:16 -0200 (BRST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hello, I am trying to use exim+fetchmail. Fetchmail is fetching emails from my ISP without problems. The problem is with exim, because after fetchmail sends the messages to exim for local delivery, all messages are frozen in

Re: RESOLVED: all mail getting deferred

2000-12-06 Thread Timmy Douglas
On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 19:53:01 -0800, Nate Amsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: load at the time was 0.00-0.01 ..the machine is well equipped with a k6-3 400(256k full speed cache) 2MB l3 cache, 256MB ram .. wish sendmail(and other MTAs in general) would give more information ... exim and postfix didn't

Re: exim+fetchmail

2000-12-04 Thread Timmy Douglas
From: Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: exim+fetchmail Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 11:31:11 -0500 (EST) Hello! I am configuring the email in a potato box. I am connected to my ISP via modem. I want to use exim+fetchmail+mutt. So far I have some questions, and I wonder if someone in

Re: Who is 'nobody'?

2000-12-01 Thread Timmy Douglas
Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have seen this message two times now after using apt-get on a dialup-system: Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Nov 30 06:25:03 spyker su[6400]: + ??? root-nobody Nov 30 06:25:03 spyker PAM_unix[6400]:

Re: Sound Card

2000-12-01 Thread Timmy Douglas
Eileen Orbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could someone tell me what SOUND CARD would be the best to install on a Debian Box? Also the easiest would help.. I use a soundblaster pci 128. the es1371 kernel module works.

Re: gnome without window manager

2000-12-01 Thread Timmy Douglas
Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I've just installed helix-gnome in my potato box. The default for the gdm is to boot with helix-gnome running. After typing my username and password I found myself with a helix-gnome desktop without the window manager (sawfish in my

Re: Emacs shell with ^M's ???

2000-11-26 Thread Timmy Douglas
Jonathan D. Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Sorry for the repost, but I realize the original was posted after many of us Yanks we on the road for the Thanksgiving hollidy, so I figured I'd give it one more go. This is a second hand question and the machine in question is not

Re: Sound Card

2000-11-23 Thread Timmy Douglas
Tóth Gábor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I'm a new one, so where can I find an archive of this list? www.debian.org.. click on support, mailing llist, and archives i think. And how do I configure my soundcard? you need to compile a kernel with sound support and with the card you have. or

Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.

2000-11-23 Thread Timmy Douglas
John-Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all I have been battling with exim, fetchmail and mutt now for what seems like eons! I have made progress over the time and am at a situation now where I can receive mal I send to a normal user from root. However when trying to connect receive mail

Re: Sound Card

2000-11-23 Thread Timmy Douglas
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 23 Nov 2000 09:19:54 -0600, Timmy Douglas said: And how do I configure my soundcard? you need to compile a kernel with sound support and with the card you have. or you could get alsa modules, but that might be too much work... Too much

Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.

2000-11-23 Thread Timmy Douglas
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 for that. they don't allow any ``servers'' i think in

Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.

2000-11-23 Thread Timmy Douglas
Robert A. Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * 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

Re: Setting up SMTP and POP servers - QMail or what?

2000-11-19 Thread Timmy Douglas
Robin Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Up till now I've shyed away from implmenting mail on my Linux boxes, it seems so complicated and my nice friendly (!) Windows POP3 clients seem generally far easier to use. However, I've now gone back to an ISP (Demon) which tries to deliver mail

Re: The Microsoft tax

2000-11-19 Thread Timmy Douglas
Andrew Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All, I'm thinking of buying a new computer and I was looking for information on getting a refund for Windows. Any links, help, tips, success stories, or general M$ bashing would be greatly appreciated. buy one without windows. i got mine at

Re: Call for articles, HOW-TOs, and tips

2000-11-19 Thread Timmy Douglas
Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * How about something explaining the mail system? Explain MTAs, MUAs, the role of procmail. Or how about giving some explanations for typical setups and how a newbie would configure their system using eximconfig? i might do something like this once

Re: exim and mtt probs continue

2000-11-18 Thread Timmy Douglas
John-Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i continue to have problems setting up my email configuration. I have run eximconfig but have had trouble working out how to  answer some of the questions I am not sure what is meant by some of the terms i.e. what is my visible mail name. To be honest

Re: Printing problem

2000-11-13 Thread Timmy Douglas
Yes, Matt, I found that out and made the change. Actually, I deleted /etc/printcap and rebuilt it via magicfilter and it looks ok now but still doesn't work. here is what i do: - make sure you have parport, parport_pc, and lp in your kernel. - make sure you have all the suggested programs

Re: perl and ssmtp

2000-10-21 Thread Timmy Douglas
ssmtp.conf did not work. sSMTP does not run as a process so I assume this file is parsed each time mail is sent... so I should not have to do anything but add the line, save the file, and try it again correct? Timmy Douglas wrote: On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:31:04PM -0400, phiLLip maDDux II

Re: perl and ssmtp

2000-10-20 Thread Timmy Douglas
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:31:04PM -0400, phiLLip maDDux II wrote: Hello, I have a perl program that makes a call to ssmtp on the system to send out an email. When I send out the email I specify the from: however it does not work, it always makes it look like the email came from [EMAIL

Re: Linux not seeing all of my Ram

2000-10-20 Thread Timmy Douglas
use append 128M, then rerun lilo when you are done editing just in case. example (yours might not look like this): timmy:~/prgm/tsmtpd/src$ cat /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hda1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/boot/vmlinuz append=mem=255M

Re: gtk pixmap themes don't work

2000-10-17 Thread Timmy Douglas
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:02:10PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: Hi, I recently installed debian woody and I just noticed that the gtk pixmap themes don't work in gnome! I have all the latest packages, does anyone know what might cause this? Thanks. -Jeff Suggests: gtk-engines-gtkstep,

Re: BitchX auto accept DCC

2000-10-14 Thread Timmy Douglas
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 07:53:03PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: By default, BitchX auto accepts DCC transfers. I'm reading the (long) man pages right now, but it doesn't mention anything about DCC settings. How do I disable that ? try: /set option value /set -- will give a list of options i

Re: A series of newbieite questions

2000-09-24 Thread Timmy Douglas
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:37:11PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: ObeseWhale wrote: 1. Debian keeps starting X as soon as I boot into linux. It give me the graphical login screen and everything. This is annoying because I don't seem to be capable of exiting X... Is there any way to stop