Free alternative to File Maker

Hi, I know it's not a debian question, but I'm looking for an alternative to File Maker Pro. Let me explain my problem. I'm a french teacher and I prepare my students to various exams. We teachers have an association where we share subjects, courses and exercices. We've got a lot of files and we

Problem with my printer and cups

Hi, I've got a problem installing the printer of a friend on his plain woody. He's got a HP Deskjet 640C : this means a non posscript printer I've configured CUPS through the web interface after installing the package that contains all the PPD files. first : - the printer prints when I do a : ech

Generating C++ documentation in LaTeX Format

Hi, I need to document a lot of C++ code in LaTeX. What kind of tools are available for that. I'm thinking of both scripts that creates a LaTeX file from a C++ code (To start the documentation), or a LaTeX style. Thanks Francois --

Network with a PCMCIA card and kernel problems

Hi, I' running sid on my Dell Inspiron 8100. I connect to the network via a PCMCIA card Xircom ethernet 10/100 in a LAN through DHCP. Everything is fine with the 2.2.18pre21 kernel. But after switching to kernel 2.4.9 (That I've compiled myself), the lights of my network card are still blinkin

Kernel freezing at first boot of Potato

Hi, I've just bought a new laptop (Dell Inspiron 8100), and I have problems installing Debian on it. It seems that the kernel freeze at the first boot (The dbootstrap installation runs well, but not the first boot). It seems that there is a Problem with the PCMCIA controler (I have a PCMCIA Ethern

Gnuplot -> mpeg movie

Hi, I'm using gnuplot so display a graph. My goal is to make a movie of a camera moving around this 3d graph that I can load into PowerPoint (Sorry). My idea was to create a set of ps file, then convert it to png (ps2png), then convert it to jpeg (I don't know yet how to do that), and finally mak

Compiling ncurse for Solaris

Hi, I would like to compile mutt under Solaris. For the time being I have gcc,make,automake,autoconf,m4,binutils,gdb compiled for Solaris. Then I've compiled ncurse with the ./configure options : ./configure --prefix=my_dir --with-shared \ --with-profile \ --disa

Options passed to ./configure for the official debian packages

Hello, I would like to know where to find wich options where passed to ./configure before the compilation of Debian packages (Especially for gcc). Thanks Francois

Xserver Problem

it boots. Thaks for your help Francois -- Francois Fayard : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Schlumberger-Doll Research : http://www.slb.com Old Quarry Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877, USA Switchboard Tel : 1-203-431-5000 Direct Tel : 1-203-431-5511 Fax : 1-203-438-3819

Galeon for potato

Hi, I want to try galeon on my Potato+Ximian. I have mozilla from potato, and I've tried to find a deb of galeon. They all depends on xutils (>=4.0.1) and I don't want to install XF4. So I try to compile it but I have the error : checking for gnome-config... /usr/bin/gnome-config checkin

Nautilus

Hi, I have problems installing nautilus on my debian potato. Here is my sources.list : deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://spidermonkey.ximian.com/1.4beta1/distributions/debian unstable main deb http://spidermonkey.ximian.com/evolution-snapshots/distributions/

Sound card ESS Maestro

Hi, I'va got a potato installed on a DELL Latitude laptop computer. This computer has a ESS Maestro (Sound Blaster emulation) sound card. Could you tell me how I configure it ? Thanks Francois

Network Printer

Hi, I want to configure my potato with some network printers. My computer is hooked on the network through dhcp Do you know if there is a tool under Potato to configure the printers (Something in ncources or even in plain text) ? Thanks Francois

Problem with compiling my first GTK program

Hi, I'm trying to write a c program using GTK. I'm very new to C. When I compile the first program from the GTK Tutorial, I have : /* example-start base base.c */ #include int main( int argc, char *argv[] ) { GtkWidget *window; gtk_init (&argc, &argv); wind

Gcc, Objective-C

Hello, Sorry for this question that perhaps doesn't really suit to the debian-mailing list. But If someone has some advice, I would be great. I want to write a mathematical program (so no plateform dependencies) which used to be in Fortran 90. I want to switch to a real language. One of my choice

Fonts under X

Hello, I've installed XFree 4.0.2 on the top on my potato (From binaries of www.xfree86.org), and I use Sawfish+Gnome from HelixCode. The problem is that I have huge fonts under Mozilla (For bookmarks, URL, etc..) under the first page of Gnome control center, on the names under icons of gmc,etc...

Mutt and mounted file system via nfs

Hi, I have a problem with mutt and /mnt/mail/fayard with is my mailbox (/usr/mail is mounted via nfs). Mutt can read this mailbox but can't write on it. I don't think it is a permission problem since pine has no problem to write on that file. So my suspection is on mutt. Does anyone has this prob

Re: Nvidia, XF86 4.0.1, Cluebies unite!

Have a look at http://games.luv.asn.au/lsd/nvidia-mini-howto.html It works fine on my computer Francois

Re: Questions About dpkg and friends

> 1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what package it is > part of, what's the best way to find out what package you need? Have a look at www.debian.org in the Package section, there is a search tool for this. Francois

Keyboard under XF4.0.1

Hi, I have a problem with my keyboard under XFree4.0.1. My "Windows" key which used to be my META key under XF4.0.1 with the same XF86Config file (I have a fresh installation of Potato + XFree4.0.1 compiled by myself, and I used to have the same one exept that I've changed the PATH of XFree4.0.1 d

Re: Problems compiling drivers.

On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 12:14:55PM -1100, Pablo Zurita wrote: > I am a newbie to the Debian world. > I have a problem, I need to compile the drivers for my ethernet card and my > video card(GeForce DDR). When I try to compile, the compiler says that it > can't find linux/modversion.h > now checki

Re: Ispell and Vim

> Hi Francois, put the following in your .vimrc: > > noremap :! ispell % > > you can change the to any other key you want. > > Hope this helps, > > Juan Fuentes Thanks But I want vim to reload the new file with the correction.

Ispell and Vim

Hi, I want to use ispell under vim. That is map a key to run ispell with the current file and save the result in this file. Do you know how I can do such a thing ? Francois

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:52:20PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > Hi, I have been using Red Hat Linux exclusively for a little over a year > now, but feel that it is time to reinstall my system sometime soon. I > was thinking I would like to switch to Debian, but have a few questions: > > 1. The

Re: Anacron fails on exim job

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 12:39:46AM +0200, Kai Weber wrote: > Hi, > > after updating from potato to woody I have these Mails in roots inbox: > > --- snip - > > /etc/cron.daily/exim: > Exim retry database in spool /var/spool/exim > Failed to open database file retry: Invalid argument >

Re: Package manager

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:41:28AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm new to the lists and to Debian too. > I had installed Debian 2.2. The install process work fine but I don't > know how to install, remove o query the packages of the distribution. I > had used Redhat with rpm. Whe

Re: problem with installing netatalk

On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:08:28AM +0200, EMMETROP wrote: > Hello, > i tried apt-get install netatalk and the downloading seems OK but i got > several error messages after, what can i do now ? > Be more precise : What kind of errors do you have ? Francois > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubs

Re: Problem with gdm and XF401 in /usr/XF40/

On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 10:48:57PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > Francois Fayard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FF> I have compiled XF 4.0.1 in /usr/XF40 (I don't want XF 4.0.1 from Woody > FF> because I run Potato). But now Gdm doesn't start the X server at boot time

Problem with gdm and XF401 in /usr/XF40/

Hi, I have compiled XF 4.0.1 in /usr/XF40 (I don't want XF 4.0.1 from Woody because I run Potato). But now Gdm doesn't start the X server at boot time and I don't know where I have to configure this special installation. I have put the new Xfree PATH in /etc/profile and /root/.profile. Do I have

Re: sound

On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 12:45:14AM +0200, G.ROBIN wrote: > Bonjour, > lsmod indique que sound , soundlow et soundcore sont chargés. > Si je lance gmix je reçois : Make sure you have sound support > compiled into the kernel. > esd donne toujours /dev/dep : no such device > Comment faire pour que cel

Re: pon questions

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:35:21AM +0200, Francois Fayard wrote: > > 2) Can "pon" be set up to display a "connect" message > >for my wife and kids to see? The enter a "pon" command > >and expect to "surf" or read email before

Re: pon questions

> 2) Can "pon" be set up to display a "connect" message >for my wife and kids to see? The enter a "pon" command >and expect to "surf" or read email before the connection >is made. I just want to ask for something close to what is asked here. I would be pleased to have a script like po

Re: pon questions

On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 09:06:02PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > 1) How do I set up "pon" to issue a "ATM0" to shutoff >my modem speakers. > Edit /etc/chatscript/provider and replace ATZ by ATM0 Francois

Re: wvdial or ppp

On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 06:36:32PM +0200, Marc Maute wrote: > hi, > I must ask again. > OK step by step: > 1.I installed Debian. > 2.I configurate wvdial > with my old redhat etc/wvdial.conf > 3. I start wvdial > 4. It connected, (on redhat erverything works well) > On Debian nothing happend. It i

Encrypt a file

Hi, Does anyone knows a software that encrypts files with a password ? Thanks Francois

Re: apt-cdrom add trouble

On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 02:37:45PM +1000, Peter Good wrote: > You need to change /dev/cdrom to point to /dev/scd0 not /dev/hdc > > That's what i have here > /dev/hdc (ide DVDROM) is now /dev/scd0 > /dev/hdd (ide Burner) is now /dev/scd1 > > This is if you've enabled scsi emulation like i have in

Re: apt-cdrom add trouble

On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 09:39:50PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > My apt-cdrom add is not working. I was able to read from cdrom normally > until I installed a custom kernel image 2.2.17 with scsi support to > enable cd recording. After that I run dselect to install wmanager, but First question

Re: Geforce 2MX

On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 05:59:20PM +0100, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to get a Geforce 2MX card working with unstable. > I cant get X to work, not even fb. > Do I have to install XFree86 4.0.1? > Yes. I own a GeForce2 GTS that runs under Potato + XF401. You need nvidia drivers

GeForce problems due to ldconfig

Hi, I own a GeForce2 GTS card and I've installed the binary drivers from the nvidia site. But each time I run ldconfig (Which happen often when I install packages), my 3d configuration is broken due to the mesa files. Does anyone knows how to fix this ? Francois PS: Please don't flame me becaus

Re: balsa mozilla ...

On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 12:55:12AM +0200, G.ROBIN wrote: > Merci à tous ceux qui m'ont > aider à installer la debian 2.2. > > Maintenant wvdial me connecte sur mon > provider mais balsa et mozilla ne veulent > rien savoir, on dirait qu'il n'ont aucun rapport > avec wvdial ? je suis obligé d'envoy

Programms to convert Man pages-Mails in LaTeX

Hi, Does anybody knows if some programms that convert man pages, emails, info pages, etc... in LaTeX ? Thank you. Francois

Re: Mailbox directory with Mutt

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:48:29PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > in your ~/.muttrc you have to tell mutt your mailboxes. in my setup i have > /var/mail/me and ~/Mail as locations for all my mailboxes and i would just > press "c" to change mailboxes. i'm not in my debbie box right now but if i > reme

Mailbox directory with Mutt

Hi, I have a little problem with mutt. When I want to change directory, everything is considered as if my mailbox directory is my current directory. For example, I have to start mutt in ~/Mail in order to change from a mailbox to another (Using: c + mailbox name). I've added : set folder=/home/fa

Problems with AC97 PCI sound card

Hi, I own a AC97 PCI Audio sound card built in my main board. I've tried to load the ac97_codec module with modconf. Here is the list of my modules loaded in my kernel Module Size Used by ppp_deflate38988 1 (autoclean) bsd_comp3828 0 (autoclean)

Problems of /dev/ttyS0 permissions using wvdial

Hello, I use wmppp to start and stop my ppp-connexion. Everything works well, but sometimes I have problems with my permissions on /dev/ttyS0 (my modem) that are changed. I'm obliged to do a chmod g+rw /dev/ttyS0 to reconfigure my permissions. my starting script is : wvdial my stopping script is :

Boot Windows with LILO

Hello, I want to boot linux and w95 on my computer with LILO I have /dev/hda1: /boot /dev/hda2: Windows (I have untared the win98 partition I've previously saved on a CD-R) /dev/hda...: linux partitions Here is my lilo.conf: boot = /dev/hda delay = 20 timeout = 500 prompt default = Linux vga

Problems with ncurses programms

Hello, I have some problems with programms that uses ncurses (I think this is the source of the problem). I use rxvt (But there is the same problem under xterm), and when i run dselect or when i use vim inside mutt, that background of my term becomes black wheras I use lightyellow as background

Re: Mouse doesn't work in Xwindow, NFS, bug(3.)???

I have the same problems on my computer For nfs: uninstall everything using nfs For gpm: Change your gpm.conf to device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= repeat_type= type=ps2 append="" Francois

Re: problems with fetchmail eand exim

Hi, There is no problems with my fetchmailrc, it used to work with SuSE with sendmail Here is the result of ifconfig lo: loLink encap:Local Loopback LOOPBACK MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overrun

problems with fetchmail eand exim

Hi, I have problems using fetchmail with exim Here is the result of fetchmail -v -a: fetchmail: 5.3.3 querying clipper.ens.fr (protocol POP3) at Mon, 22 May 2000 19:21:43 +0200 (CEST) fetchmail: POP3< +OK QPOP (version 3.0b23) at clipper starting. fetchmail: POP3> USER fayard fetchmail: POP3< +

Problems with the compilation of the 2.3.44 kernel

Hi, I have some problems while trying to compile a 2.3.44 Kernel (I need it in order to use a 3D-Rage 128 driver). I compiled it just with the options I needed for this 3D-driver and It worked well (Yes...) But I want to recompile it with my old options : I need SCSI-Emulation to use my IDE-CDRW. *