Re: WMMail.App + Mutt annoyances

2000-05-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 10:52:08PM -0400, t.bedlam wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 10:09:56PM -0800, Ethan Benson was only >escaped alone to tell thee: > > > On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 07:05:47PM -0400, Chris Gray wrote: > > > > > I hacked on wmmail for a while to see if I could fix this. No l

Re: deskjet695c printer

2000-05-25 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 08:53:03PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > deskjet695c prints a seperator page each time a single page is printed. How > can I get it to stop? How do I remove the seperator page so it won't print > before any document I want printed? > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I

Re: Cannot mail out of debian

2000-05-25 Thread russ pitman
On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 11:21:41AM +0100, Graeme Mathieson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Russ Pitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > May 13 15:31:58 arjay kernel: Packet log: output DENY ppp0 PROTO=6 > > 203.31.178.49:1038 203.31.178.14:110 L=60 S=0x00 I

Re: Colormaps in Linux

2000-05-25 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 03:33:19AM -0700, Eric Hagglund wrote: > The problem I am trying to fix is that fonts and > images in Netscape have never been properly displayed > in Netscape. Instead of getting fonts, toolbars, > scrollbars and images displayed as the application > programmers and web des

Re: FTP and GNOME

2000-05-25 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 11:26:45AM -0500, Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote: > Hi: > > I'm not sure if it's an off-topic, but I want to create an icon to an > FTP address in the GNOME desktop, but I can't. If I create a URL > pointing to an FTP site, I get a Netscape window, and actually I expect >

Re: apache question

2000-05-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 08:25:08PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > Ethan> however one thing you should do on a debian system is chown > Ethan> /var/www to root and make sure its not group writable. also > Ethan> chown /var/log/apache/* to root.adm and make sure the > Ethan> permissions are 640 or

Re: Colormaps in Linux

2000-05-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Eric" == Eric Hagglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eric> The problem I am trying to fix is that fonts and images in Eric> Netscape have never been properly displayed in Netscape. Instead Eric> of getting fonts, toolbars, scrollbars and images displayed as Eric> the application programmers a

Firewall has holes

2000-05-25 Thread Jay Kelly
I did a check on my firewall using grc.com and found I have a hole from port 139 NetBios. Which I sure I did while I was playing with Samba. The question is how can I reverse this and shut down netbois. I have try to comment out netbios in /etc/sevides but I still have the problem. I want my firewa

Re: apache question

2000-05-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Ethan> however one thing you should do on a debian system is chown Ethan> /var/www to root and make sure its not group writable. also Ethan> chown /var/log/apache/* to root.adm and make sure the Ethan> permissions are 640 or 644. (you have to fix the apache cron Ethan> jobs to not undo this chan

TNT2-OpenGL-Mesa

2000-05-25 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Does anyone know step-by-step instructions for installing NVIDIA's OpenGL libraries? The instructions on their website imply that all I have to do is remove my libMesaGL and make a symlink from that to their libGL. But won't a new version of the mesag3 package undo that? It also fails to mention

Re: IDE CD-RW + sound

2000-05-25 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 05:39:56PM +0200, Vicente Torres wrote > > I have just installed a debian potato in a friend of mine's box. > He has an IDE cd-writer and he uses scsi-emulation > to record cds, but the CD player of KDE can not reproduce any > sound. This program is capable of reading CD-to

Re: Perhaps strange mail question

2000-05-25 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:21:13AM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote > I would like to accept mail for many domains and put them in > separate spool directories. IE mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > would go in /var/mail/foo/user and mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > would go in /var/mail/bar/user. > > Q1: Is this

Re: WMMail.App + Mutt annoyances

2000-05-25 Thread t.bedlam
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 10:09:56PM -0800, Ethan Benson was only escaped alone to tell thee: > On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 07:05:47PM -0400, Chris Gray wrote: > > > I hacked on wmmail for a while to see if I could fix this. No luck. It > > does set the timestamp back, but that doesn't seem to hel

Re: Network Q

2000-05-25 Thread Marshal Wong
> "Jay" == Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I configure eth1 with ip, netmask, etc. then do a ifconfig > all the information will show. After rebooting I do a ifconfig > and all the information is now gone. How do I make sure it > stays? edit the /etc/network/inter

Re: Sound Question

2000-05-25 Thread Marshal Wong
> "Jay" == Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I figure out what to uncomment from the > isapnp.conf. After doing pnpdump the file has several lines that > are all commented out. Any help would be great Try uncommenting the lines with parentesis ( ). They usually come

Debian Qestuin of the Day....

2000-05-25 Thread Jay Kelly
Ok here it is. I have two ethernet card one a linksys and the other netgear, Both using the tulip driver. I configure eth0 and eth1 with ifconfig xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and so on. the check the configuration with ifconfig and everything is fine. Then I reboot the system and try ifconfig and eth0 is fine h

Re: Building i585/i686 optimized packages?

2000-05-25 Thread David S. Bateman
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 09:24:30AM +0100, Dominic Blythe wrote: > > < snip> can you optimize a kernal for coppermine chips yet? does the kernal deal with the fsb or does it rely on the bios? same question about the AGP slot ( 4X OK in Linux) ? TIA Dave ---

Re: Kernel Config

2000-05-25 Thread Bart Szyszka
> Actually, /usr/src/linux is the default -- Linus ships the tree in a > format to go in a directory called linux. I don't use any "shipping" version of Linux. Prefer getting a base Debian system and them building up on it. No /usr/src/linux there. > In general, you want to symlink /usr/src/linux

Re: Wine

2000-05-25 Thread kent nyberg
It workes for me! Maybe you have a damn slow computer? On my P2 400 with 192 mb ram it takes a while to start programs in wine.. Or, perhaps you have not configured it right? On Fri, 26 May 2000, John Leget wrote: > Does anyone actually have wine working on debian woody. > > For a long time now

Re: Network Q

2000-05-25 Thread Matthew Dalton
Didi Damian wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I'll take it that you do an > 'ifconfig' with all the info and that enables your eth1. However, after > a reboot the information is lost. If this is the case, *and* you are > running potato, the configuration is stored in /etc/network

xg - Use `gnuclient' for quick edits. (Was: Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software)

2000-05-25 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Felix Natter wrote: >> john s jacobs anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Oh, I'm with you -- I'll often use vi for small edits, even if I have >> > XEmacs open on another desktop, just because doin

Sound Question

2000-05-25 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>1) after using the 'pnpdump' how do I save it to the >/etc/isapnp.conf. Easy way is to (as root) vi pnpdump edit changes w /etc/isapnp.conf q > >2) Where do I uncomment the (ACT Y) command? I didnt >see it. There is one of these lines per section. It's there, if needed in vi use the '/' c

Re: Sound Question

2000-05-25 Thread Stan Kaufman
Jay Kelly wrote: > > How do I figure out what to uncomment from the isapnp.conf. After doing > pnpdump the file has several lines that are all commented out. Any help > would be great Read http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/ and specifically http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/pn

Re: Network Q

2000-05-25 Thread Didi Damian
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I'll take it that you do an 'ifconfig' with all the info and that enables your eth1. However, after a reboot the information is lost. If this is the case, *and* you are running potato, the configuration is stored in /etc/network/interfaces. If you are runnin

Wine

2000-05-25 Thread John Leget
Does anyone actually have wine working on debian woody. For a long time now all ive been able to get it to do is just hog the CPU with a black window. Eterm showing building font metrics, it never seems to finish this. Just curious if it actually does work for anyone.

Network Q

2000-05-25 Thread Jay Kelly
When I configure eth1 with ip, netmask, etc. then do a ifconfig all the information will show. After rebooting I do a ifconfig and all the information is now gone. How do I make sure it stays?

sound crashes system .. more info

2000-05-25 Thread Mark Crotts
Reply-To: I forgot to include a few things in my mail. I noticed 2 new errors in my logs that I haven't noticed before. Here they are: modprobe: can't locate module sound-slot-1 modprobe: can't locate module sound-service-1-3 Also a "cat /proc/interupts" shows no conflicting IRQs. I tried recompil

RE: Sound Question

2000-05-25 Thread Jay Kelly
How do I figure out what to uncomment from the isapnp.conf. After doing pnpdump the file has several lines that are all commented out. Any help would be great -Original Message- From: Marshal Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 4:16 PM To: Jay Kelly Cc: debian-user@

sound crashes system

2000-05-25 Thread Mark Crotts
Reply-To: Hiya. I'm having problems playing sounds on my pc. First I'll explain the problem then I'll give some background data. I can play music cds fine, but if I try to use play, xmms or mpg123, it freezes my system and I have to reboot. This problem just started today when I upgraded my mother

X11 Quake1 display problems

2000-05-25 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey When I start Quake.X11 on Debian slink, It brings up the window, BUT when it does one half of the widow is black and the other is displaying the game in a greenish tint. If you have a solution I would appreciate it if you E-mail me back. thanks Jordan Swain

Re: installation problems

2000-05-25 Thread Marshal Wong
> "Carlos" == Carlos Pena <- Jefe Division Electrica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > writes: One question is where you got the CDs from. It looks like that some of the files have been truncated/corrupted... Marshal > Folks, I?ve tried to install Debian 2.1 (like 50 > times...). Everythi

Re: 3Dfx X Server and drivers

2000-05-25 Thread Marshal Wong
> "Kele" == Kele Kravelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone gotten the 3Dfx drivers and X Server to work in > Debian? they distributed the packages as rpm's and I couldn't > get them to convert and install using alien and had problems > using Debian's rpm package as well

Re: Sound Question

2000-05-25 Thread Marshal Wong
> "Jay" == Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to setup a SoundBlaster16 sound card, I have > recomplied the kernel for sound and pnp support. Now I see the > howto is telling me to: > Use pnpdump to capture the possible settings for all your Plug > and Pla

Re: kysmoops

2000-05-25 Thread mcclosk
|> One of the the required or standard or important packages in frozen |> (potato) recommends the ksymoops package. I avoided it for a long |> time, not feeling need for it, but since I like to = (hold) |> installed packages, and was even more annoyed by the suggestion |> coming up, I went ahead

Trying to figure out trigger for diald callouts

2000-05-25 Thread Marshal Wong
Hi! I have diald setup and everything works pretty well, except for the fact that I get random dial outs, even when I'm not doing anything that requires me to be online. I have found these triggers, and was wondering whether anyone has a clue to what they might be from. May 25 14:28:46 ul diald[

Re: ipfwadm

2000-05-25 Thread Nick
hey thankx fo all the replies, i tried the following in order echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward /sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny i get the following error: ipfwadm: setsockopt failed: Protocol not available. just so you have some background, i am running debian 2.1 w/ 2.0.38 kernel, never reco

partition magic

2000-05-25 Thread rosan Pascal
hello do you help me if you have  patition magic for download   merci

Sound Question

2000-05-25 Thread Jay Kelly
I am trying to setup a SoundBlaster16 sound card, I have recomplied the kernel for sound and pnp support. Now I see the howto is telling me to: Use pnpdump to capture the possible settings for all your Plug and Play devices, saving the result to the file /etc/isapnp.conf. Choose settings for the s

Re: driver

2000-05-25 Thread Ron Rademaker
What's your soundcard?? Ron Rademaker On Thu, 25 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi ...I need an audio driver for my computer..pls > help!! > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >

Re: Kernel Config

2000-05-25 Thread Alec Smith
Actually, /usr/src/linux is the default -- Linus ships the tree in a format to go in a directory called linux. In general, you want to symlink /usr/src/linux to the actual location of your kernel sources. If you use a .deb of the source, then you'd end up with /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.15 or simi

Different types of kernel

2000-05-25 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Someone was asking about this: (Gathered from http://auric.debian.org/~aph/bf/2.2.15/README.txt ) The flavors available for this architecture are `compact', 'idepci', and `udma66'. compact A Linux kernel with some non-critical device drivers removed, and a few

Re: Kernel Config

2000-05-25 Thread Bart Szyszka
> When I cd to /usr/src there is no linux in there. So it looks like I dont > have the source tree needed to run make menuconfig. What would I need to do > from here? I don't think it's really supposed to be 'linux'. Just a folder that the kernel source was bunzip2 and tar -xvf into. Mine's usuall

Re: driver

2000-05-25 Thread Robert L. Harris
I personally like www.opensound.com. It's $20 for something like a 5year license + updates. And the support I got from them on a REALLY screwy laptop was awsome. The guys called me back so it'd be their nickle (dime?). They were also willing to go through 4 ssh hops to log in and do some

Re: kysmoops

2000-05-25 Thread Bolan Meek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > |> Given that the directory isn't being rotated, is contantly growing, > |> neither "keysmoop" nor "keysmoops" returns any hits on Google, and > |> that "smoop" looks suspiciously like "snoop".. > > Forgive me; I mis-typed. The directory is actually `ksymoops' and it's >

driver

2000-05-25 Thread clara
Hi ...I need an audio driver for my computer..pls help!!

Re: Problem with installing potato on i810 based PC. (No agpgart

2000-05-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Where can I get them from? Is it safe to copy the drivers/char/agp directory > from the RedHat's 2.2.14 sources into the debian's 2.2.15, and use > the make-kpkg? somewhere, there should be a kernel patch. Apply that.

Re: Problem with installing potato on i810 based PC. (No agpgart

2000-05-25 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 10:24:15AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 25-May-2000 Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > > I just tried to install potato on the PC with i810 based motherboard. > > The problem is with it's VGA adapter. In the documentation attached > > to the xserver-svga I've read that it

Re: SMB Printing[solved]

2000-05-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i dont know why (and dont really care :) ) but i setup another machine next to me (identical hardware) with mandrake 7, and it works fine.. and i saw it was using lpd, not lprng, so i did an apt-get instll lpd (had to change my sources.list as the main debian site doesnt appear to have it) it remo

RE: Kernel Config

2000-05-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to get the current kernel you have : cd /usr/src wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/linux-`uname -r`.tar.gz if you are running 2.2.10 (i think you are since i installed that box?) it will get linux-2.2.10.tar.gz then extract it with tar -zxvf linux-`uname -r`.tar.gz the ` key is

RE: Kernel Config

2000-05-25 Thread Ron Rademaker
Download the sources ;) Ron Rademaker On Thu, 25 May 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: > When I cd to /usr/src there is no linux in there. So it looks like I dont > have the source tree needed to run make menuconfig. What would I need to do > from here? > > -Original Message- > From: Oswald Budden

Re: Kernel Config

2000-05-25 Thread Ron Rademaker
Make sure in /usr/src/linux and do make menuconfig. Ron Rademaker On Thu, 25 May 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: > If I want to edit my kernel what command do I use. I tried make menuconfig > but that doesnt work. Any help would be great... Im using slink > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [

RE: Kernel Config

2000-05-25 Thread Jay Kelly
When I cd to /usr/src there is no linux in there. So it looks like I dont have the source tree needed to run make menuconfig. What would I need to do from here? -Original Message- From: Oswald Buddenhagen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 1:06 PM To: Jay Kelly Cc: debi

RE: mod_frontpage and original Debian Apache src

2000-05-25 Thread Paul McHale
Sven, > I need a Apache webserver with Frontpage Server Extensions. > To get this binary I downloaded the FP Server Extensions from the web and > untarred the file. I built the mod_frontpage as well. Unfortunately, I don't recognize the problems you describe. I downloaded the apache source and

Re: Kernel Config

2000-05-25 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: > If I want to edit my kernel what command do I use. I tried make menuconfig > but that doesnt work. Any help would be great... Im using slink "make menuconfig" works fine... when you have the libncurses4-dev package installed. "make config" requires nothing

Re: Java 1.2 JDK released for Linux...

2000-05-25 Thread Robert Varga
IBM has also released a Technology Edition of their JDK 1.3 It can be downloaded from their website. It probably has a much more allowing licence than SCSL. Robert Varga On 24 May 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Joe Emenaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JavaSoft apparently released the Linux

Re: directories->files

2000-05-25 Thread Paul Clark
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > You had hard links to directories? Links by dragging from kfm or ln -s. > All the files should still be in the .tar.gz (check what 'tar tzvf > backup.tar.gz' says), so maybe you can create the directories manually > and use some appropriate set of --ex

Re: Kernel Config

2000-05-25 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> If I want to edit my kernel what command do I use. I tried make menuconfig > but that doesnt work. Any help would be great... Im using slink > could you say _precisely_ what you have done (commands, output)? the normal procedure to configure and compile a kernel is: - download the kernel source

Kernel Config

2000-05-25 Thread Jay Kelly
If I want to edit my kernel what command do I use. I tried make menuconfig but that doesnt work. Any help would be great... Im using slink

RE: directories->files

2000-05-25 Thread Paul Clark
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > could you please paste a ls -al snippet? total 256 -rw-r--r-- 1 paul privilag 112898 Mar 2 15:34 key_feature -rw-r--r-- 1 paul privilag94842 Apr 24 12:20 menu_benefits -rw-r--r-- 1 paul privilag49644 Mar 2 15:33 prod

Re: SMB Printing

2000-05-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
after about 3 hours of playin with it i got the smbprint script to work(part of the problem was the printer didnt like the laserjet filter so im using a postscript filter now) i can do cat filename | smb-printredir-ascii and it prints.. if i try to set it up through lprng i get an error: IF fil

Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software

2000-05-25 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Felix Natter wrote: > john s jacobs anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Oh, I'm with you -- I'll often use vi for small edits, even if I have > > XEmacs open on another desktop, just because doing the edit 'in-line' > > in an xterm fits my work-flow better. Again, it's all about choosing

3Dfx X Server and drivers

2000-05-25 Thread Kele Kravelin
Has anyone gotten the 3Dfx drivers and X Server to work in Debian? they distributed the packages as rpm's and I couldn't get them to convert and install using alien and had problems using Debian's rpm package as well (gave me a bunch of file or directory doesn't exist and dependency errors). I'm ru

Re: Network Q again

2000-05-25 Thread Steve Zinck
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 12:06:46PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Where does Debiean keep all the network settings(ie ip, subnet, gateway)? I > need to change it and cant find anything in the howto's /etc/init.d/network -- Steve Zinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://nerd.halifax.ns.ca

Re: network Q

2000-05-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:56:34AM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello Guys, > I have a network qestion. If my ip is 172.19.32.10 and a subnet of 255.0.0.0 > what would my broadcast be? 172.255.255.255 ? Yes. -- Nathan Norman "Eschew Obfuscation" Network Engineer GPG Key ID 1024

Network Q again

2000-05-25 Thread Jay Kelly
Where does Debiean keep all the network settings(ie ip, subnet, gateway)? I need to change it and cant find anything in the howto's Thanks

network Q

2000-05-25 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Guys, I have a network qestion. If my ip is 172.19.32.10 and a subnet of 255.0.0.0 what would my broadcast be? 172.255.255.255 ?

Re: various kernel-images

2000-05-25 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Parrish M Myers wrote: > Hi all, > > anyone know the difference between kernel-images? There are several to > choose from: > > kernel-image-2.2.15-idepci_... > kernel-image-2.2.15-ide_... > kernel-image-2.2.15-compact_ > etc... > > I can guess what the compact kernel i

Re: R: tulip.o kernel module

2000-05-25 Thread Gary Hennigan
Parrish M Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I built it by hand. Reason being I shouldn't have to recompile the > entire kernel to add one module. So I tried it that way. I downloaded > the 2.2.14 kernel-source and messed arround with the compile command > for a while and found that the sugeste

Logging

2000-05-25 Thread Tamas Nagy
Could you recommend any good online documentation about the logging under Linux? TIA, Tamas

xpacman

2000-05-25 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Has anybody had any troubble with the game xpacman? I decided to try it, but when I call upon it from debian games it just doesn't do anything. Steven is the mantainer. Below from my xterm: Any ideas? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -p xpacman Package: xpacman Priority: optional Section: non-free/games

Re: system clock workaround

2000-05-25 Thread Carl Johnson
"Owen G. Emry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My firewall machine (a trusty old 486 DX4) has a bios that doesn't like the > year 2000. It isn't a major problem but several things (e.g. make) > complain, so is there an easy workaround? > > I assume I can just set the real-time clock to, say, 199

Re: /dev/hda10

2000-05-25 Thread kmself
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:22:05AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:08:01PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > Could anyone please tell me what I have to do to access /dev/hda10? I can > > create it easily but trying to access it I get an 'unconfigured device' > > message for in

Re: various kernel-images

2000-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >anyone know the difference between kernel-images? There are several to >choose from: > >kernel-image-2.2.15-idepci_... >kernel-image-2.2.15-ide_... >kernel-image-2.2.15-compact_ >etc... > >I can guess what the compact kernel image is but what are the other >two? dpkg

Re: R: R: tulip.o kernel module

2000-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
marco frattola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Parrish M Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I built it by hand. Reason being I shouldn't have to recompile the >> entire kernel to add one module. So I tried it that way. I >> downloaded >> the 2.2.14 kernel-source and messed arround with the compile

Re: dumbass wm question

2000-05-25 Thread kmself
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 09:50:21AM +0100, Dominic Blythe wrote: > can somebody please explain the relationship between desktop, > window-manager, filemanager, X etc? i jus' don' get it. Since no one's tackled this... Reversing orders: - The X Window System (the full and proper name), aka X or X

Re: Staroffice w/JDK (potato)

2000-05-25 Thread Touloumtzis, Michael
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 03:53:26PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i searched the archives and am curious how to get staroffice to work with > the JDK in potato ? what directory do i point it to? seems no matter where > i point it to it says no JDK found (i have both jdk and jdk-dev > installed)

Re: directories->files

2000-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
Paul Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have just discovered after an extraction from a back up tar.gz >archive that some of my directories have turned into files. > >They look the right size for the old directories but I can't cd into >them. Is there a way to tell the system these files are in fa

RE: Problem with installing potato on i810 based PC. (No agpgart

2000-05-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-May-2000 Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > Hi All, > > I just tried to install potato on the PC with i810 based motherboard. > The problem is with it's VGA adapter. In the documentation attached > to the xserver-svga I've read that it requires the agpgart module, > which should be included with t

RE: directories->files

2000-05-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-May-2000 Paul Clark wrote: > I have just discovered after an extraction from a back up tar.gz > archive that some of my directories have turned into files. > > They look the right size for the old directories but I can't cd into > them. Is there a way to tell the system these files are in f

RE: Making documentation easier to find (was: Re: exim mail rout

2000-05-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-May-2000 David Henningsson wrote: >>what i mean, is, the reason newbies don't FIND the documentation >>is because it is an ORDEAL to do so. apprentice-guru status is >>required to know to search /usr/doc via zgrep AND /usr/share/doc >>AND info pages AND man pages AND apropos... > > You're q

xserver startup problem

2000-05-25 Thread Micha Feigin
unpgraded removed some problem on my machine (don't know which one if any caused the problem) and now when linux comes up, I get a message that it is looking for a valid xserver, it then says that it couldn't find any and goes into text login. once I login as a user I can start x with no problem us

directories->files

2000-05-25 Thread Paul Clark
I have just discovered after an extraction from a back up tar.gz archive that some of my directories have turned into files. They look the right size for the old directories but I can't cd into them. Is there a way to tell the system these files are in fact directories? Oh yes. They all appear to

R: R: tulip.o kernel module

2000-05-25 Thread marco frattola
i don't think you can build module(s) without building the kernel that will use it/them. i've always made my kernel a-la debian (with kernel-package) and never had problems with modules. the reason is (my opinion, please correct if i'm wrong) that kernel need to know which modules it has to be prep

cua-mode.el 1.7

2000-05-25 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, Anyone here experiences this using cua-mode.el in emacs 20.5: When I use the C-c to copy or C-x to delete some selected text in emacs and C-v to paste it copied text, emacs would paste the text with some conversion to some characters: [EMAIL PROTECTED]&*() woul

Re: R: tulip.o kernel module

2000-05-25 Thread Parrish M Myers
I built it by hand. Reason being I shouldn't have to recompile the entire kernel to add one module. So I tried it that way. I downloaded the 2.2.14 kernel-source and messed arround with the compile command for a while and found that the sugested command: gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/lin

Re: system clock workaround

2000-05-25 Thread David Wright
Sorry, already deleted the original posting: > "Owen G. Emry" wrote: > > > > My firewall machine (a trusty old 486 DX4) has a bios that doesn't like the > > year 2000. It isn't a major problem but several things (e.g. make) > > complain, so is there an easy workaround? > > > > I assume I can ju

various kernel-images

2000-05-25 Thread Parrish M Myers
Hi all, anyone know the difference between kernel-images? There are several to choose from: kernel-image-2.2.15-idepci_... kernel-image-2.2.15-ide_... kernel-image-2.2.15-compact_ etc... I can guess what the compact kernel image is but what are the other two? Thanks Parrish = ---

R: tulip.o kernel module

2000-05-25 Thread marco frattola
i built a 2.0.36 kernel with that driver, and worked like a charm... did you build the module driver with a kernel, or did you build it after? Marco Frattola (S3 - Sviluppo Software e Sistemi) - Cubecom S.p.A. Via de Marini,1 3 piano Torre WTC 16149 GENOVA tel. 010 6591184 > Has anyone been able

Kernel 2.4 Test version

2000-05-25 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi guys Anyone seen this yet? ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/README-2.4 Enjoy. :-) Sven

Re: Decoding BinHex4.0

2000-05-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting Tony ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I usually do this (long-winded): > save <> > hexbin -d <> > mv attachmnent-name.data attachment-name For this reason, I usually use uudeview and just run it on the whole mailbox containing the attachment(s). It finds them automatically and you can choose which t

Re: Opportunity is knocking at your door! Grab it!!

2000-05-25 Thread Sven Burgener
>Anyone else get this? [Snipped for berevity] Yup, and it's annoying. :-! Sven

Re: tulip.o kernel module

2000-05-25 Thread Robert L. Harris
Get 2.2.15. The tulip in that kernel works great on my netgear cards. Robert Thus spake Parrish M Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi all, > > Has anyone been able to compile and use the tulip.c file that comes > with the Netgear FA-310TX card? > > I finally got the module compiled but when I

Re: swissgerman keybord

2000-05-25 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi Lukas >How can I install my swissgerman keybord for the >console in Debian slink and potato? Most keys work >without problem, but the specific german keys "o, >"a and "u don't work. When I use "shfont" to >printout the whole fontlist this character where >printed out whithout problems. I had t

tulip.o kernel module

2000-05-25 Thread Parrish M Myers
Hi all, Has anyone been able to compile and use the tulip.c file that comes with the Netgear FA-310TX card? I finally got the module compiled but when I run 'depmod -a' the command returns depmod: ***Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.14/net tulip.o and if I run a 'insmod tulip' instead or

Re: system clock workaround

2000-05-25 Thread Vitux
"Owen G. Emry" wrote: > > My firewall machine (a trusty old 486 DX4) has a bios that doesn't like the > year 2000. It isn't a major problem but several things (e.g. make) > complain, so is there an easy workaround? > > I assume I can just set the real-time clock to, say, 1990, and have the > int

IDE CD-RW + sound

2000-05-25 Thread Vicente Torres
I have just installed a debian potato in a friend of mine's box. He has an IDE cd-writer and he uses scsi-emulation to record cds, but the CD player of KDE can not reproduce any sound. This program is capable of reading CD-toc, and after starting playing the seconds counter changes, but no sound c

mod_frontpage and original Debian Apache src

2000-05-25 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, I need a Apache webserver with Frontpage Server Extensions. To get this binary I downloaded the FP Server Extensions from the web and untarred the file. I applied the patch to the reqiured files. Then I ran the debian/rules file the the cmd option build to build the Apache binary. Everything w

Re: Fwd: Opportunity is knocking at your door! Grab it!!

2000-05-25 Thread Gary Hennigan
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 07:29:40AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Anyone else get this? [Snipped for berevity] Just checked my Spam box and I did not receive that message. > i don't know if i got this exact message or not, i delete anything > with sub

Perhaps strange mail question

2000-05-25 Thread Dan Brosemer
I would like to accept mail for many domains and put them in separate spool directories. IE mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] would go in /var/mail/foo/user and mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] would go in /var/mail/bar/user. Q1: Is this possible? Q2: Is this possible with exim? Q3: How could I authenticate

Re: kysmoops (was keysmoops)

2000-05-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Forgive me; I mis-typed. The directory is actually `ksymoops' and it's > obviously not the result of a security breach. > Oh well---another Linux learning experience, I suppose. For both of us... Glad to hear that your system's secure! -- "Two words: Windows survives.

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