On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:40:29PM -0500, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
Hi!
I would like to know what window manager is the most popular in the Debian
community.
Thanks in advance!
Marcelo
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Marcelo Chiapparini
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On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 06:20:33PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote:
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 06:43:09PM -0700, cls-colo spgs wrote:
debs,
one of my potatoes has a smtp error:
$ fetchmail
fetchmail: imap connection to mail.pcisys.net failed: connection refused
25 messages for username
debs,
one of my potatoes has a smtp error:
$ fetchmail
fetchmail: imap connection to mail.pcisys.net failed: connection refused
25 messages for username at mail.pcisys.net (86395 octets).
reading message 1 of 25 (3349 octets)..fetchmail: smtp connect t localhost
failed
fetchmail: smtp
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 08:43:40PM -0600, Bob Edwards wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to install Star Office 5.2 ?
I have downloaded the file which is a .bin file, and
put it in a seperate directory. what is next ? I know
how to install .tar files and .gz files, but not
.bin files.
I
debs,
...trying to wean myself from the netscape email client (hopefully with
fetchmail/exim/mutt). i've got mutt running to compose/send my email. now,
i'm trying to get my email.
here is my sample fetchmail result:
$ fetchmail
1 message for pplaw at mail.pcisys.net (804 octets).
reading
debs,
now that my email trifecta (fetchmail/exim/mutt) is working out, i wonder if
there's a way to save a copy of the new messages i send (other than adding my
own email addy on the to: line).
as always, ia, t.
bentley taylor
(potato on 2.2.17)
//
debs,
where do i tell fetchmail my username? (background: my isp username is
pplaw, and my non-root account is bt. when i run fetchmail, i get, [EMAIL
PROTECTED], instead of, [EMAIL PROTECTED])
ia, t.
bentley taylor
(potato on 2.2.17)
//
u
debs,
this is the error message i get when trying to send an
email using mutt:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
unknown local-part: pplaw in domain pcisys.net
...suggestions?
ia, t.
bentley taylor
(potato on 2.2.17)
//
S.Salman Ahmed wrote:
RP == Ray Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RP Does anyone out there have a step by step to install kernel
RP sources on 2.2. Thanks very much
RP
Installing kernel sources is as easy as 1, 2!
1) Download source for the current stable kernel (2.2.17)
cls--colo spgs wrote:
S.Salman Ahmed wrote:
RP == Ray Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RP Does anyone out there have a step by step to install kernel
RP sources on 2.2. Thanks very much
RP
Installing kernel sources is as easy as 1, 2!
1) Download source
Joshua Kruck wrote:
#1 does anyone other than me have a problem where star office 5.2 takes
about a year and a half to load. It takes almost two minuets to laod on
my thunderbird 700 with 96 megs of ram. Is this normal? if its not is
there anything i can do to speed this up? I dont really
cls--colo spgs wrote:
Joshua Kruck wrote:
#1 does anyone other than me have a problem where star office 5.2 takes
about a year and a half to load. It takes almost two minuets to laod on
my thunderbird 700 with 96 megs of ram. Is this normal? if its not is
there anything i can do
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
do you get any error messages or anything? i've never had problems
(with either the
icon or the menu (tools--check spelling)).
bentley taylor
(potato on 2.2.17)
//
The icon is greyed out and the button dosent push. The tools - check spelling
thing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting cls--colo spgs [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
do you get any error messages or anything? i've never had problems
(with either the
icon or the menu (tools--check spelling)).
bentley taylor
(potato on 2.2.17
debs,
i have a 5 minute, ugly boot:
# dmesg
[snip]
SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dynamic
channels, max=256).
SLIP linefill/keepalive option.
PPP BSD Compression module registered
RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 rpc.statd forgot to set
AF_INET in udp sendmsg. Fix it!
RPC:
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 11:26:32PM -0600, cls-colo spgs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
debs,
i have a 5 minute, ugly boot:
# dmesg
[snip]
SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dynamic
channels, max=256).
SLIP linefill/keepalive option
cls-colo spgs wrote:
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 11:26:32PM -0600, cls-colo spgs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
debs,
i have a 5 minute, ugly boot:
# dmesg
[snip]
SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dynamic
channels, max=256
stefan goeman wrote:
Hello,
I am installing Debian (potato) on a laptop PC.
I have two questions concerning XF86config.
1) How should I set up a touchpad mouse ?
[snip]
...it should be the same as a std mouse--/dev/psaux ps2...
hth.
bentley taylor.
ps i ad-libbed the subject
b.
//
whoever thinks dlinux is a tough install should be pointed to
http://www.rocklinux.org. ...they'll really have _fun_. muhahaha. (i'm
sticking w/
dlinux, thank you.)
later.
bentley taylor.
//
Alec Smith wrote:
I must say that I find the constant reviews and comments that say Debian
is
Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
If the author is not able in configuring gpm or X
he probably shouldn't write articles for linuxworld.com
I thought the same thing.
Ditto here, come on... get your hands dirty.
I'd like to offer a more settling comment. Getting a driver's
mv /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm /etc/rc2.d/dont_use_S99xdm
hth.
bentley taylor.
//
Trevor Ramoutar wrote:
I actually got Debian installed! Woohoo!!! However, how do I disable
xdm so that I can log in from the console? Also I seem to be using
WindowMaker, how do I switch to Gnome(which I'm sure I
debs,
i installed potato, like usual. via pon, i can dialout
to my isp, but i don't know if there's a connect since
i can't ping--the cursor just goes to the next line and
waits.i triple checked the dns entries and the
other pppconfig stuff.
i can ping myself, but nothing else...not
...some sort of licensing issue is the sticking point.
Daniel Lesage wrote:
[snip]
Mind you, I don't understand how come the debs don't compile out of the
box, but that's another matter.
[snip]
Sven Gaerner wrote:
Hi,
can someone tell why the Debian IceWM Version is not linked against imlib or
if I can download a version for Debian (Potato) of IceWM that is linked
against imlib.
I think it would be nice to also have JPEG images as background without
installing GNOME stuff.
debs,
after a new install ...never experienced this before:
i can pon, but can't ping.
...suggestions?
ia, t.
bentley taylor
(potato on 2.2.17)
//
cls-colo spgs wrote:
debs,
after a new install ...never experienced this before:
i can pon, but can't ping.
...suggestions?
ia, t.
bentley taylor
(potato on 2.2.17)
//
also, let me ask whether my _not_ having a ppp.log has anything to do with
it?
thx.
bent.
//
you may need a scsi-free kernel. now, where to ftp one from debian.org, i
can't
tell you at the moment. (i've got to be somewhere soon, so i can't do the
research.
maybe someone else can be of more assistance.)
hth.
bentley taylor.
//
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just upgraded slink to
debs,
testing for sound (via saytime), i get a
no-deivce error; yet, i see audio in /dev.
Script started on Wed Sep 27 17:28:28 2000
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ saytime
opening /dev/audio: No such device
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /dev/ ¦less
atibm
audio
^
audio1
bpcd
cdrom
[snip]
Script done on
debs,
i use icewm (with liquid theme). back in the good
ole slink days, dlinux had iceconf (which is a great
configuration tool for setting up a background image,
default theme, etc.).
is iceconf still available? if not, why?
ia, t.
bentley taylor
(potato on 2.2.17)
//
debs,
i need to reinstall potato (after losing my pcmcia
modem to a custom kernel).
w/o having to dselect or apt-get over and over, is
there a way for the system, with one apt-get
command, to get and install the *.deb files in
/var/cache/apt/archives?
ia, t.
bentley taylor
(potato on
debs,
my deskbox likes the taste of kernel 2.2.17; but my
lapbox is getting stuck:
Script started on Mon Sep 11 17:53:15 2000
EBUSINESS:/tmp/linux# makemenu menuconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
make -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1]: Entering directory
thx to mr. norris, my problem is fixed.
bentley taylor.
//
Gregory T. Norris wrote:
Make sure you have libncurses[45]-dev installed...
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 06:26:08PM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote:
debs,
my deskbox likes the taste of kernel 2.2.17; but my
lapbox is getting stuck
debs,
i can't get postgresql to fireup from an xshell:
$ psql
Connection to database 'template1' failed.
FATAL 1: SetUserId: user 'bt' is not in 'pg_shadow'
...suggestions?
ia, t.
bentley taylor.
//
debs,
prob resolved via: chmod 667 /dev/ttyS0
(q gooberfile)
thx.
bentley taylor.
(potato on 2.2.16)
//
cls-colo spgs wrote:
debs,
in trying to config gphoto, i get, the user doesn't
have read or write access to the selected serial
device. please check the permissions...
i know
PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 08:01:38 -0600
From: cls-colo spgs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debs debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: gphoto--/dev/ttyS?
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
debs,
in trying to config
debs,
in trying to config gphoto, i get, the user doesn't
have read or write access to the selected serial
device. please check the permissions...
i know that my modem is on /dev/ttyS2, to which i have
access as a non-root user; so, the permissions for
that shouldn't be a problem. the
wow, what a great explanation! (after reading the initial posting, i wondered
what
does /dev/null do? (which was the question i was going to post.) then i read
man
null, and thought, okay, that's what 'null' does. then i came to mr.
trillich's
post and really learned a few things. )
sir,
...same here. (i just thought it was something funny about netscape, which is
where
i noticed it.)
i wonder what gives?
now getting ready to perch,
bentley taylor
(potato on 2.2.16)
//
Krzys Majewski wrote:
[snip]
my ATI Xpert 98 makes X seem a bit darker
than ...
[snip]
-chris
yes; and /var/cache/apt/archives
hth.
bentley taylor
(potato on 2.2.16)
//
Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
[snip
Does apt-get also save the downloaded software?
If so where would I look for it to save to a floppy or zip?
---
Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
chris at cwaiken
i've had success with the script command (to capture the fast-scrolling screen
messages):
~ script [my madeup file name]
~ [type the command i'm trying to execute]
~ exit
then i can use cat [my madeup file name] |less and read the output at my
leisure,
send it to the printer, paste in an
hi hawk,
...not afaik, but maybe someone else has a deeper experience.
bentley taylor
(potato on 2.2.16)
//
hawk wrote:
i've had success with the script command (to capture the fast-scrolling
screen
messages):
~ script [my madeup file name]
~ [type the command i'm trying to
sorry if this is too late, but when i mkboot, i have to
type the whole path:
# mkboot /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16 (or substitute for the
kernel version i was using that the time).
hth.
bentley taylor
(potato on 2.2.16)
//
Richard Robbie wrote:
I am unable to successully execute mkbook. I
logged
hi,
...mind if i join in the fun?
i can follow mr. deackes's info, and thx for providing it.
using mutt, i can compose and send an email. but the from line has the
incorrect sender address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).btw, bt is my non-root
user
account.my email addy is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi esko,
ah-ha! yes, that did the trick.
thx for your help.
bentley taylor.
(potato on 2.2.16)
//
Esko Lehtonen wrote:
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:01:14AM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote:
hi,
...mind if i join in the fun?
i can follow mr. deackes's info, and thx for providing
mv /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm /home/[non-root user directory]
hth.
bentley taylor.
//
Michael Tanney wrote:
How do I stop linux/xdm from automatically starting XWindows whenever it
boots.
Thanks, Michael Tanney
Send your favorite photo with any online greeting!
[snip]
Someone posted to move the symlink into a user's home directory. While
this would work, it's a suboptimal solution.
curiously, what makes it suboptimal?--it moves the file out of the way,
it keeps x at bay until desired, and doesn't hurt the system. what's
missing?
thx.
bentley
debs,
mistakenly, i put the kabosh on local printing due to
my inept networking attempt. here's what i get from an
lpr:
Script started on Tue Aug 22 11:06:42 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
uname -a¦lpr Status Information: sending job
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] connecting to
debs,
i lost the lo part of ifconfig, i.e., all i get is
the ppp0 part. (linux-wise, i'm trying to figure out
what to do with a nic.) i suspect the prob is causing
the obsfucation of my print jobs, seeking a network
environment when probably i have nothing even close.
please un-dense me.
debs,
update:
ifconfig -a gives me not only lp and ppp0, but it also give me eth0.
for now
i'd like to not have eth0. how do i not have it in the picture?
ia, t.
bentley taylor
(potato on 2.2.16)
//
cls-colo spgs wrote:
debs,
i lost the lo part of ifconfig, i.e., all i get
debs,
update:
i tried to shutdown eth0 (ifconfig eth0 down), but it still shows up with
ifconfig
-a..
how do i stop this interface?
ia, t.
bentley taylor
(potato on 2.2.16)
//
cls-colo spgs wrote:
debs,
update:
ifconfig -a gives me not only lp and ppp0, but it also give me eth0
MTU:1514 Metric:1
RX packets:3491 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3391 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
1NET:/home/bt# exit exit
q: why is my lo barren--no ip addressing...?
ia, t.
bentley taylor
(potato on 2.2.16)
//
cls-colo spgs
debs,
eth0 is found at boot:
# dmesg
[snip
3c59x.c:v0.99H 27May00 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
eth0: 3Com 3c905C Tornado at 0x1400,
00:01:03:1a:41:3f, IRQ 11 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx
split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface. MII
transceiver found
Conrad Delbert Seaman wrote:
[snip]
...I'm trying to get my X86 up and running, but
I can't because there is no support for the ATI XPERT 2000 video card.
[snip]
any help would be appreciated...
thanks in advance
Sincerely
Conrad Delbert Seaman
hi,
i have an ati xpert 98d 3d agp
debs,
what's the command for removing user accts?
ia, t.
bentley taylor.
//
# mkdir /holdfiles
# cp /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm /holdfiles
(that should do the trick.)
bentley taylor.
//
Patrick J Draper wrote:
How do I stop my Debian 2.1 machine kicking straight
into X windows or how do I get out once it has.I'm
having problems and wish to boot to the command
line.Many
oops,
the second should be:
# mv /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm /holdfiles. (cp won't give you what you want to
accomplish.)
sorry for the mixup.
bentley taylor.
//
cls--colo spgs wrote:
# mkdir /holdfiles
# cp /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm /holdfiles
(that should do the trick.)
bentley taylor
let me get this straight, you've installed, but it won't run? or it won't
install?
(the 2d paragraph sounds like it won't install, but the 4th sounds like it's
installed, but won't load/run.)
if it's installed, the run command is ~/.xwp (with ~/ being the path to .xwp).
if it won't install, let
oops, the run command is just ~/xwp (_not_ ~/.xwp...no . before the xwp).
(i usually run it from a drop-down menu, resulting in xterm rustiness.)
sorry for the confusion,
bentley taylor.
//
..
cls--colo spgs wrote:
let me get this straight, you've installed, but it won't run? or it won't
i usally get a basic x with non-graphical
xf86config. i can usaually get x up and running;
although, the font size may be too big, so i tighten it
up with XF86Setup. (once you have a working x, you
shouldn't get the dreaded errno 111. then you should
be able to use XF86Setup.)
with xf86config,
# cd /boot
mkboot /boot/vmlinuz[or the name of your kernel]
hth.
bentley taylor.
//
Marshal Wong wrote:
Hey all,
You would think that after 2 years of experience with Linux, I would
know how to make a linux boot disk, but I don't. So how do I do it?
:)
I heard of dd the
mornin',
my printing experiences are ltd to hp laserjets, so i'm
trying the osmosis approach...
anyway, whenever my printing jobs hide (usually after
my kerneling, for some odd reason), i have to do four
things:
1. rm /etc/printcap;
2. re-run magicfilterconfig;
3. lprn stop
4. lprn
debs,
i read yesterday that kernel-package is the 2d most
beneficial feature of dlinux (after
apt-get--untouchable!)so i thought i'd give it a
whirl.
using kernel-package (6.05), i've been trying to test a
custom (compliled) 2.2.16 kernel in 2, slink lapboxes.
after i run make menuconfig,
compiled and packaged. You can also transfer this
kernel image package to other machines and install it there with dpkg -i.
This is pretty well covered in /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.
//
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, cls--colo spgs wrote:
debs,
i read yesterday that kernel-package is the 2d
...icewm (with liquid for a theme). it's clean and
doesn't remind me of m$. (be sure to apt-get iceconf
so you can hide the taskbar and use cool background
images.)
hth.
bentley taylor
//
Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
I am looking for a window manager for debian that will
not soakup the system
debs,
...thought i'd devote some energy to get mutt 1.0.1-9
working on my potato deskbox.
my issue is that the from addy isn't correct.
the man, faq, and howto specify to modify ~/.muttrc,
which i don't have.
i even tried setting my email addy (at set hostname)
in Muttrc, to no avail.
(btw,
hi nick,
here's what i did:
1. added the potato entry to /etc/apt/sources.list
. (ex: below)
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main
contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable
non-US
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main
contrib non-free
^^^add
debs,
wanting to fully migrate from the 2.0.36 kernel, i need
to install a floppy, custom 2.2.16 kernel on my
dual-boot, potato deskbox.
here's what i did to customize the kernel:
make menuconfig
make dep
make install
make modules
make modules_install
i rtmfm (oops, rtfm), which says to run
debs,
i figured it out--(since i dual boot with loadlin, i
shouldn't have been focusing on lilo. i realized the
directory from where my old 2.0.36 kernel was booting
and copied the new kernel there). oh, well...
later.
bt.
//
cls--colo spgs wrote:
debs,
wanting to fully migrate
debs,
successfully, i've done a compile of source kernel
2.2.16 for my potato deskbox; but trying to do the same
thing (approximately 5 times) on my slink lapbox leads
to the infamous kernel panic. the first re-boot (via
floppy) after the compile is fine. it's the next
re-boot after that, that
John Pearson wrote:
On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 08:04:50PM -0700, cls--colo spgs wrote
debs,
i finally upgraded my 2.0.36 kernel by compiling 2.2.16
on my potato box.
in the process, i lost lpr.
...error message:
lpr: connect: connection refused
jobs queued, but cannot
debs,
i finally upgraded my 2.0.36 kernel by compiling 2.2.16
on my potato box.
in the process, i lost lpr.
...error message:
lpr: connect: connection refused
jobs queued, but cannot startd daemon
did my compiling miss the mark? (how may print
again?--i re-ran
Dave Slotter wrote:
[snip]
I don't know if I'm running slink or potato or whatever,
[snip]
//
cat /etc/debian_version
(2.1 = slink)
(2.2 = potato)
hth.
bentley taylor.
//
debs,
i'm running potato and would like to use gphoto. the
box has version 0.4.2-1 which gives this error:
gphoto: error in loading shared libraries:
libgphoto_konic_qm100.so.0: cannot open shared object
file: no such file or directory
so, i searched for the *qm100.so.0 file at debian.org
debs,
in my potato box(es), my window mnager is icewm; my
theme, liquid.
is there a way make the xterm box a see-through (to
the background or to a background image)? (in other
words, do i have to use the white/gray box in xterm or
could i use an image or a different color background
for
Brian Stults wrote:
cls--colo spgs wrote:
is there a way make the xterm box a see-through (to
the background or to a background image)? (in other
words, do i have to use the white/gray box in xterm or
could i use an image or a different color background
for xterm boxes?)
AFAIK
Cam Ellison wrote:
I have played around at getting Linux up and running, and so far seem
to have things doing reasonably well, at least at the command line.
I'm now trying to set up XFree86, and am having problems with the
configuration. It cannot detect my mouse (I have a Glidepoint) at
Philipp Kolmann wrote:
Declan Grady wrote:
[snip]
Also, how do I use a boot-manager (and where do I get one !) ? - I need to
boot either W98 or debian, each on its own partition .. at present I can use
cfdisk and fdisk to set the active partition then reboot.
lilo = Linux Loader =
debs,
i'm working on my first kernel recompile. i'm at the
point where i need to move the recompiled kernel to the
to boot location. unfortunately, i cannot find the
recompiled kernel.
detailed synopis (pursant to kernel.org's,
linux-2.2.14.tar.gz readme):
1. currently running potato on
re: hp...i'd stay away from the deskjet820cse (for
windoze), though. ...for obvious reason$. (i have one
that was a donation. i've never been able to get it to
handle linux print jobs.) however, the hp laserjets
are great, but pricey.
my .02.
bentley taylor.
//
Justin Megawarne wrote:
Jay Kelly wrote:
Hey Its me again,,
Can I upgrade from Debian 2.1 to something like potato? And if so do I do it
with agt-get or something..
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hi,
the choice is yours. (i did it w/i the last couple of
weeks on my deskbox;
debs,
i'm just upgrading my slink lapbox to potato (on the
2.0.36 kernel). my boot hangs at scsi.
i copied a scsi-free kernel into /boot. but it still
tries to boot the scsi kernel and then hangs.
i renamed /boot/linux to /boot/vmlinux-2.0.36, the name
of the kernel that i had been using.
Chad Day wrote:
I'm trying to upgrade my perl on my debian 2.1 system to 5.005, but am
having serious problems, as shown below. Myself and another system admin
here have both tried this, but have gotten either stuck or broken libc. I'm
back at the point where I have to fix this, and I'm
Jay Kelly wrote:
uick question,
How would I edit a file such as XF86Cofig? I mean what is the command to
open it so I can change a few things such as pointer.
Thanks
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hi,
i just use anthony's editor (ae):
1. as root,
debs,
i upgraded my slink deskbox to potato. (thanks project
for a seamless transition. and btw, it looks and
feels great!) i, not thinking i'd lose some of my
favorite themes, replaced the ones in slink with the
ones in potato.
is there any way to get the back the old themes?
(e.g., blueice
debs,
in terms of upgrading to potato from slink, i just need
to finish unpacking 282k of archives. but i get the
following error message(s).
error: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc.xfree86-common-old
already exists! aborting installation of
xfree86-common package.
please clean up your
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