Re: helix-gnome for debian?

Brian Stults wrote: > > Does anyone know if there are plans for the folks at Eazel to release > helix-gnome for debian? > > -Brian > -- Nevermind. After some more searching, I found threads on a couple different mailing lists about this. Seems there was some debate, and some misunders

Re: quake-3dfx and mouse

> For some reason, my mouse doesn't work when I try to run quake-3dfx. > /dev/mouse is a symlink to the correct device, and even running as root, > no-go. > > Has anyone else encountered this problem? Fixed it? Well, I don't know if it's the case, but if you are trying to run Quake3 on Slink (XF

helix-gnome for debian?

Does anyone know if there are plans for the folks at Eazel to release helix-gnome for debian? -Brian -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452

outdated deb's in dselect

i'm having problems with outdated packages and dselect, ala dpkg. for instance, the alsa modules at version 4.1 are pretty old. say i want the updated alsa, for whatever reason. unsupported soundcard, whatever. so i download the source from alsa and install it. but i also want to install xm

Re: Broken startup; syslogd hangs...

Interesting, and thanks for the note. The notable thing here is that this system was perfectly working before the re-boot, running X, Apache, servlets, etc.. Then the re-boot killed stuff. I had unintentionally laid the problem basis, resorted an old fstab, and .. now, what else! So, I don'

Newbie Question!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok I sure this is a real stupid question, but Im a newbie here. I just installed Debian and looks like its running great. I log in as root and noticed that the promt before the cusor is an > instead of the :# I see on my other machine. When I try to start the xf86config I get no such file, But I kn

Re: Newbie Question!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 07:13:29PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: Please stop screaming -- one exclamation point is enough. > I just installed Debian and looks like its running great. I log in > as root and noticed that the promt before the cusor is an > instead > of the :# I see on my other machine. T

Re: more real runlevels?

On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 07:49:37PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > From: kmself@ix.netcom.com > > > > Reasonable rational. Though one preference of mine has been to prepend > > a '_' (eg: _S99foo _K99foo). Makes clear what's been changed. More > > recently, I modify through update-rc.d. >

Newbie Question!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok I sure this is a real stupid question, but Im a newbie here. I just installed Debian and looks like its running great. I log in as root and noticed that the promt before the cusor is an > instead of the :# I see on my other machine. When I try to start the xf86config I get no such file, But I kn

Re: Broken startup; syslogd hangs...

On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 01:39:20PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote > At 10:10 AM 05/13/2000 +0930, John Pearson wrote: > >On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 04:49:21PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote > > > Help!! > > > > > > I had a working system, and after several weeks up we were moving some > > > (Apache) files

Re: Limiting Access

Quoth Peter Good, > usergrouptelnet ftp > access10 no yes > access20 no yes > shells yes yes > allothers yes yes > > It's a web hosting box, that also hosts shell accounts. the people with > webpage packages don't need telnet and all webpage accoun

Re: Linux on VAIO PCG-N505X

On Tue, 9 May 2000, Martin Oldfield wrote: > > I happily run potato on my Sony VAIO PCG-N505X, but there are a couple > of niggles I'd like to fix: > > 1. Suspending the laptop does bad things to the interrupt handling on >the modem. I've tried a couple of different PCMCIA modem cards, bu

Want to use module source to access file system

I have a trashed NTFS partition, and am hoping to repair it. I thought the NTFS module source would be a good place to start. I would prefer not to use it as a module, but just drive it from a program. I'm hoping to find where the damage is and see if any of the backup copies (e.g., the mirror M

Re: invisible cursor in X windows

On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 10:09:27PM +0200, Vladimir Yelistratov wrote: [snip... mouse config okay...] > What is unclutter? A setting in XF86Congig? It's just a program that hides the cursor. You'd know if you were using it. > I did not make any special setting there. > Is it possible to run

Re: mounting a NTFS partition at boot time

I just noticed this thread, and even though it's late I thought I'd chip in since I didn't see a resolution. I had problems mounting NTFS unless I said read-only. >From fstab: /dev/hda3 /ms/h ntfsdefaults,ro,uid=1000,gid=1001 0 2 You need to be on potato for this to work, but I think

Re: more real runlevels?

> From: kmself@ix.netcom.com > Reasonable rational. Though one preference of mine has been to prepend > a '_' (eg: _S99foo _K99foo). Makes clear what's been changed. More > recently, I modify through update-rc.d. > Does that work? (Doesn't that break if the control script uses glob patter

Re: KXICQ

On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 04:41:49AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It mean the compiled binary executable is update to date so no need > compile again.Maybe you can have make clean first. Or possibly there's no Makefile yet. $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/kde $ make $ make install > On Tue,

Re: Connecting through firewall

On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 06:17:50PM +0200, Toth Attila wrote: > > I work at EDS. Here, we have an https firewall that requires a > > login/password in order to open a connection to the internet. I want to > > set up a Debian box on our intranet that will be able to use console apps > > to access the

Re: Does anyone have an idea how to ...

On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 09:34:53PM +0200, Menno Slaats wrote: > I have a question, how to partition my hard-disk > > I have a 8,4 Gb HD, and want to put Windows 2000 and windows millennium > edition, and corel linux and mandrake linux on it. With 8,4 GB and four OSs, you're going to be spare for

exmh question

hello, I would like to know how to fix this problem when trying to run exmh the first time. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ exmh exmh: inc: no mail to incorporate No Path entry in your .mh_profile file. Run the "inc" command to get your MH environment initialized right. I tried running ./inc in that dir

setting up a new mirror (unofficial)

Greetings, I am, and have been attempting to set up a local mirror of stable & frozen & unstable. I live behind a firewall and the local admin seems to think that the rsync port should be closed. I was hoping to use mirror to install only the i386 and powerpc binary branches. Unfortunately my class

Re: Does anyone have an idea how to ...

Forget windows, partition your hd (lets say: 600 mb corel (both / and /usr/) 600 mb mandrake (both / and /usr/) and a few other partitions (for both distribution) eg. 6,5 gb for /home 700 mb for /var Ron Rademaker PS. Why use 2 different linux distributions? Just use Debian and y

Creating booklets with Latex

Hello! About a week ago I wrote to this list and asked about creating booklets with latex. I got many replies, several helped me alot. Now I have a new problem with the booklet making. The problem: The booklet is supposed to be in A6 format. So I wrote the text on A5 used psbook to make A5 book

Re: Linux Version

Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >AS a new user to Linux, what flavor of linux should I use for a server with >Windows clients? And where can I download a cdimage of it. I tried >cdimage.debian.org but that was a bad link. Can someone give me the exact >link to the cdimage file download? What

Re: UNIX VIRUS - HONOR SYSTEM

:-> "Bruce" == Bruce Kingsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - YOUR HAVE NOW RECEIVED THE UNIX VIRUS - > This virus works on the honor system: > If you're running a variant of unix or linux, please forward > this message to everyone you know and delete a bunch of your > files

Re: KXICQ

It mean the compiled binary executable is update to date so no need compile again.Maybe you can have make clean first. On Tue, 9 May 2000, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > When I download KICQ and attempt to install it, it fails at the make > point saying - nothing to be done. Is there a parameter I

Does anyone have an idea how to ...

I have a question, how to partition my hard-disk I have a 8,4 Gb HD, and want to put Windows 2000 and windows millennium edition, and corel linux and mandrake linux on it. Anyone some idea? Thanks, Menno Slaats

Re: Subject: LS-120 install

It's a lot more tricky. Basically with a compliant x86 system the BIOS calls that access the FDC/FDD are translated into ATAPI calls so REAL-MODE accesses work. This allows bootloaders such as syslinux to transparantly boot floppy disks in one of these drives. I don't know how this happens in deta

Re: Epson 740

Ment (may I call you Ment? ;), Thanks for your reply. :) Sometimes I feel pretty thick, since I've been using Debian for about 3 years and still stumble over stuff like this. *sigh* Anyway, you willing to spoon-feed me a bit, here? I already had gsfonts installed, so I installed apsfilter u

depmod and /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0

Hello, I have installed potato on an old machine. I'm trying to reconfigure the modules so that the ethernet card will work. When I run depmod, I get the following message: depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/modules.dep for writing So I do "cd /lib/modules" and "ls" and get: 2.2.15 "u

Broken startup; syslogd hangs...

At 10:10 AM 05/13/2000 +0930, John Pearson wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 04:49:21PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote > Help!! > > I had a working system, and after several weeks up we were moving some > (Apache) files around and wanted to make sure that the system setup for > Apache was OK, se we re

UNIX VIRUS - HONOR SYSTEM

- YOUR HAVE NOW RECEIVED THE UNIX VIRUS - This virus works on the honor system: If you're running a variant of unix or linux, please forward this message to everyone you know and delete a bunch of your files at random.

Re: fdisk problem

> /dev/sdb111024 1061 1085 200781 82 Linux swap > /dev/sdb121024 1086 1115 240943+ 83 Linux native > > I deleted partition 11 and 12 but after creating a new partition starting > at cylinder 1061 there is still the wrong bin value of 1024. > i don't think,

Re: linux 2.2.15 compile probs

On Sat, 13 May 2000 19:53:01 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > Anyone know of such errors and the way to go? The same with > > 2.2.15 (vanilla) and 2.2.16pre2, latest woody here. > > > which compiler (version) do you use? > did you install the right kernel header files? As I said, latest woody

Re: Sound problems (PCI128)

> bash: lspci: command not found > pciutils is the name of the package (in potato) -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the answer, I want the problems back!

Re: linux 2.2.15 compile probs

> Anyone know of such errors and the way to go? The same with > 2.2.15 (vanilla) and 2.2.16pre2, latest woody here. > which compiler (version) do you use? did you install the right kernel header files? -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the an

Re: quake-3dfx and mouse

On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 12:16:29PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: > Strange, but when I kill gpm it works. Strange that X should work with gpm > with no repeater and quake can't. > > Solutions for this? > Quake and Quake2 are both svgalib games. Quake3 has no such problem. I really forget the reaso

linux 2.2.15 compile probs

Hi. Anyone know of such errors and the way to go? The same with 2.2.15 (vanilla) and 2.2.16pre2, latest woody here. Thanks in advance, Alexander --> In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/tty.h:26, from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/sched.h:21, from /

Sound Blaster PnP problem

Hi. I've decided to really clean up my Linux box and fix all the little misconfiguration problems I've had with the system, so I might have quite a few posts in the next little while. My fist problem is my PnP Sound Blaster16 ISA card. It plays cds well, and I've gotten bplay to work when

Re: Sound problems (PCI128)

>Try "lspci -v -v". >It will tell you, which card you own. >Look at the section name with "multimedia". bash: lspci: command not found A search for lspci in dselect gave no result either... / David

fdisk problem

After partitioning my HD I deleted three partitions and made two new ones. Now there is an overlapping of one partition although I didn't enter the begin value (number of cylinders) displayed by fdisk: --- Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads

Re: amd home map

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Barak Pearlmutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone gotten the AMD configuration option for the home map to > work? We cannot figure it out, and we've tried a couple different > things. I've been told bad things about AMD. If you're set

Re: How do I stop my machine logging on to IP every 5 minutes?

Phillip Deackes said: > Everything works very nicely except that my system logs onto the > Internet every 5 minutes or so. I suspect Exim, but am not sure what to > change to stop it. I collect mail manually using Fetchmail and have it > passed on to Exim for distribution using .forward. Perhaps I

Re: quake-3dfx and mouse

Strange, but when I kill gpm it works. Strange that X should work with gpm with no repeater and quake can't. Solutions for this? -Dan On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 11:43:48AM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: > For some reason, my mouse doesn't work when I try to run quake-3dfx. > /dev/mouse is a symlink to

Re: Connecting through firewall

> I work at EDS. Here, we have an https firewall that requires a > login/password in order to open a connection to the internet. I want to > set up a Debian box on our intranet that will be able to use console apps > to access the internet (such as lynx, apt-get, lftp, etc...). Is there For lynx i

xfs-xtt killed when application use Truetype font

When I run some application which will use the truetype fonts.. THe applcation hang and if I kill the applcation. The X will exit abnormally and then I find that the xfs-xtt is then killed. any solution?

quake-3dfx and mouse

For some reason, my mouse doesn't work when I try to run quake-3dfx. /dev/mouse is a symlink to the correct device, and even running as root, no-go. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Fixed it? TIA -Dan -- "... the most serious problems in the Internet have been caused by unenvisaged m

Video conversion software?

Is anyone aware of a Linux package that can convert between different video formats, e.g. mpeg --> avi? I did use the Debian package search tool, but didn't spot anything. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Con's Science and Technology Programming

Re: /dev/hda1 mounts read only

> I booted my potato box this morning and the hard drive mounted read only. No > errorss, fsck didn't report any problems, it just mounted read-only. Looking > at fstab I see no reason why this would happen. I managed to use mount > /dev/hda1 / -t ext2 -w -o remount successfully but any reboot come

Re: Debian Link

Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Im new to linux and was looking for a link to download Debian. Where can I >find a ISO format of Debian? http://cdimage.debian.org/ -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: invisible cursor in X windows

Hi, Eric "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > Assuming /dev/mouse --> /dev/psaux, it might actually be a window > manager problem. Do you use xdm (or an equivalent) and do you see a > cursor there (the good ol' X cursor)? I do not see cursor neither in xdm nor kdm (KDE desktop manager) But mouse works!

Linux Version

AS a new user to Linux, what flavor of linux should I use for a server with Windows clients? And where can I download a cdimage of it. I tried cdimage.debian.org but that was a bad link. Can someone give me the exact link to the cdimage file download?

/dev/hda1 mounts read only

I booted my potato box this morning and the hard drive mounted read only. No errorss, fsck didn't report any problems, it just mounted read-only. Looking at fstab I see no reason why this would happen. I managed to use mount /dev/hda1 / -t ext2 -w -o remount successfully but any reboot comes up rea

Re: How do I stop my machine logging on to IP every 5 minutes?

Phillip Deackes wrote: > > I have recently changed to an Internet Provider where I do not have to > pay telephone charges on a timed basis, so I decided to initiate dial on > demand on my system since I have an ISDN line. > > Everything works very nicely except that my system logs onto the > Inte

Re: Q: Purchasing the Learning Gnu/Debian Book

On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 08:20:39AM +0200, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I'm going to move from my present distribution to Debian and know you have > an upcoming 2.2 release coming out soon. Will the book Learning GN/Debian > Linux still be applicable? > > Thanks, > > Jonathan > AFAIK, the boo

Re: newbie help in setting up mta!

On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 07:32:15PM +, john smith wrote: > Can someone please guide me thru setting up masqmail? I am lost. I don't > know where to begin. masqmail.conf? the docs tell me to configure it first > using make, make install etc.. but I dont think I have to do that anymore > since

Re: Newbie Slink install CDROM problem on old computer

> If you are like me and your CDROM is hanging off a soundcard or > add-in card, then hda-hdd isn't enough. If this is your case, you need > to add a mount point. I had that problem with my /dev/hde. > > If this is your case and you need to add a mount point, log in as root: > > cd /dev > ls -l

Re: Epson 740

On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 06:39:57PM -0700, Matthew Thompson wrote: > Hello, all, > > I recently purchased a 740 for my home network. I have a Debian 2.1 > server with magicfilter and gs-5.10 installed. I was unable to get the > printer to work with any of the normally available filters in magicfi

Re: Framebuffer settings for the Matrox MGA Milenium

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since I couldn't use the framebuffer with my ATI Rage IIc I switched to > an old Matrox MGA Milenium card. It does work perfectly but I don't know > the lilo.conf values (vga=...; append=...) to get a 880x6

Re: NIC Cards...is there any difference between them?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, "KULISHdotCOM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree, avoid the $10 types. I bought 5 realtek 8139 type cards for 6 > bucks a piece. I've also got 6 of them floating around, plus two in another location. It semi-regularly fails in an Alpha, bu

Re: Limiting Access SOLVED

Found out why, missed taking the comment off this # Uncomment and edit /etc/security/access.conf if you need to # set access limits. # (Replaces /etc/login.access file) account required pam_access.so hehe pays not to work when tired, edited access.conf to suit, and now have telnets to th

Re: Limiting Access

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Peter Good <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I dunno, I'll look into NIS, but originally I thought Pam would handle > it. There is a PAM module that implements what you're looking for. I played around with it for a while, back when I was using Red

Re: gcc 2.95.2

On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 02:00:14PM +0200, Jens Luedicke wrote: > Hi there ... > > I'm using Debian Slink 2.1 and I want to > update my gcc. I've gotten the following > frozen-packages already: > > gcc-2.95.2-10.deb > cpp_2.95.2-10.deb > libc6_2.1.3-10.deb > libc6-dev_2.1.3-10.deb > ldso_1.9.11-8.

Re: re-writing e-mail

> A quick question. Is there a way to rewrite e-mail addresses with > exim without having the rewritten domain being considered as local? > Am I making sense? > not sure, if i understand you right, but this is my rewrite rule: #

gcc 2.95.2

Hi there ... I'm using Debian Slink 2.1 and I want to update my gcc. I've gotten the following frozen-packages already: gcc-2.95.2-10.deb cpp_2.95.2-10.deb libc6_2.1.3-10.deb libc6-dev_2.1.3-10.deb ldso_1.9.11-8.deb locales_2.2.3-10.deb binutils_2.9.5.0.37-1.deb Will I run into trouble if I inst

Re: Konfucious (KDE2 beta1)?

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 12-May-2000 Bart Szyszka wrote: > >> > Any word yet on DEBs of Konfucious (KDE2 beta1)? When is something going > >> > to > >> > be done about the fact that there are always RPMs of something released > >> > before > >> > there are DEBs? > >> most KDE people are not

Re: What's with LILO in Potato??

On Wed, 10 May 2000, John Foster wrote: > I just upgraded to the most recent version of LILO, in potato frozen. It > is telling me that there is a fatal error: kernel /vmlinuz is too > big--what gives? This is the kernel that I have been using for over a > year with no changes. Might this be a B

Re: How do I stop my machine logging on to IP every 5 minutes?

Further to my previous post, I have discovered the cause of the connections, but do not know how to stop them. I set isdnctrl to give me a more verbose log and on doing dmesg | xless I could see the following immediately before every auto connection: OPEN: 62.136.66.48 -> 192.168.1.10 UDP, port: 5

Re: "wall" permission

On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 12:42:19PM +0700, Umum Wijoyo wrote: > Can anybody help me here? > > I don't know why, but my "wall" program permission seems to get violated > each time by normal users. It always changes to root: tty ownership. > ??? > Urip Hudiono > --- > Bandung, Indonesia

How do I stop my machine logging on to IP every 5 minutes?

I have recently changed to an Internet Provider where I do not have to pay telephone charges on a timed basis, so I decided to initiate dial on demand on my system since I have an ISDN line. Everything works very nicely except that my system logs onto the Internet every 5 minutes or so. I suspect

Re: CADD program

Pat Mahoney wrote: > > On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 12:39:28PM -0700, Fish Smith wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a good computer aided drafting > > and deisign program for X? == For 3D solid modeling and rendering see; http://www.blender.nl/ For real ser

Re: NIC Cards...is there any difference between them?

Second the Linksys 10/100 endorsement. On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 07:38:46PM -0500, KULISHdotCOM wrote: > I haven't used those cards in months... > > I switched to linksys 10/100... can get them for 15 bucks US and they work > flawlessly. All my 8139s have been donated to the local landfill. > > -

Re: gnomeConf.sh missing for configuring gnome stuff

Duh... Never mind, folks. Just checked the dist. page and discovered libgnome-dev. Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > I'm trying to build some gnome apps off the gnome site, but have run > into this roadblock when I run configure. AFAICT the major gnome stuff > is installed. Anyone know what the goof

Re: gnomeConf.sh missing for configuring gnome stuff

Make sure you have libgnome-dev installed. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 12 May 2000, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > I'm trying to build some gnome apps off the gnome site, but have run > into this roadblock when I run configu

re-writing e-mail

Hey all! A quick question. Is there a way to rewrite e-mail addresses with exim without having the rewritten domain being considered as local? Am I making sense? Okay, I'm setting up a professor's computer who is on the school's LAN. Mail is recieved via a IMAP server (I've setup fetchmail to s

gnomeConf.sh missing for configuring gnome stuff

I'm trying to build some gnome apps off the gnome site, but have run into this roadblock when I run configure. AFAICT the major gnome stuff is installed. Anyone know what the goof is? TIA Kenward

[Kevin Cosgrove ] [PLUG] FW: humor?? UNIX - Not a virus.....

Gotcha all! Delete your old .deb's and upgrade, you Rats! Bwahhaha! haha! --- Start of forwarded message --- Date: Fri May 12 22:52:55 2000 From: Kevin Cosgrove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [PLUG] FW: humor?? UNIX - Not a virus. Topics: [PLUG] FW: humor?? UNIX - Not a virus..

"wall" permission

Can anybody help me here? I don't know why, but my "wall" program permission seems to get violated each time by normal users. It always changes to root: tty ownership. ??? Urip Hudiono --- Bandung, Indonesia

Re: Emacs - was Re: Mail/news software

On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 11:36:57PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Pat Mahoney wrote: > > > > > So I offered her to install GNU/Linux on her machine and set it up for > > > every tasks she wants to do. > > > > Can I ask why you want her to run GNU/Linux? (I mean, not that I don't want > > her ru

Re: CADD program

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 12:39:28PM -0700, Fish Smith wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good computer aided drafting > and deisign program for X? > Varkon is a commercial gpl'ed CAD program. I have no experience with Varkon or CAD in general, but I know Varkon is not a "true solid modeller." Deb's