I can't seem to find info elsewhere, so I'm asking here...
Has anyone successfully set up a dedicated Unreal Tournament server behind
a masquerading firewall? I have the server working and clients can connect
but I can't get the server advertising features to work.
I'm forwarding the UDP on
Dear friends,
I have tinkered and tinkered but still can't make kppp work from KDE to
dial my modem. I can use wvdial from a console (but only as root! BTW, how
do I get to use wvdial as another user?) and it connects immediately.
Any suggestionsas to getting kppp to do its thing? I'm using slin
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 05:33:59PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote:
> Ok I still trying to locate the file needed to change so I can start Gnome
> from the console. In you email you said /.xinitrc. What the path to that
> file. I did a locate .xinitrc and could find it. Have any idea's?
It doesn't exist by
Dear Debian users,
I've installed Debian recently. My GNU/Linux knowledge at the time is
quite basic, but I hope I can learn enough in the forthcoming times, so I
can help you more than I am able right now.
Let me start with the following situation that I have in my second
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 04:21:54PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
>
> If you have compiled a window manager in /usr/local then
> the system won't know about it and you'll need to register this window
> manager.
Or you can just change the /etc/alternatives symlinks by hand, and the
system will real
I need an obj file called libGL.so.1. xmms is nagging me abt it. I know that
it is part of the mesa3 packages but I can't seem to download any of them.
mesa3-glide (which is pretty much useless to me since its for 3dfx based
cards?), mesa3 or mesa3+ggi. cannot be downloaded. broken packages or m
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 05:14:39PM -0400, Bart Szyszka wrote:
> > Well, like I said the vast majority of Win9X only hardware works very poorly
> > even in Win9x
> Not from my experiences. Printers generally work well.
Win-printers normally share the following problems in Windows:
1. Completely wo
Ok I still trying to locate the file needed to change so I can start Gnome
from the console. In you email you said /.xinitrc. What the path to that
file. I did a locate .xinitrc and could find it. Have any idea's?
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Sent
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 07:37:11AM +, ktb wrote:
> kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 10:15:45PM +, ktb wrote:
> > > I there any way to configure Slink to boot directly into a 'regular
> > > user' account without entering user name or password? In other words
>
hi, instead of trying to download it from the everybuddy site in tar format or
maybe from source, just download everybuddy from the debian ftp site since
everybuddy has been already been packaged for debian install it via dpkg -i
everybuddy_ver_no_etc or you can install it thru apt if you have a
> The XF86Setup program is the closest you're going to get to that.
>
xvidtune might also be relevant.
> On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 05:11:08PM -0400, Daniel Lesage wrote:
> > Is there any way to configure X resolutions and select the default
> > directly from X (using a graphical interface), rat
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 07:24:50PM +0200, Atila Nemet wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there
> window manager which is low on system resources so I
> could set up X on this 486?
In addition to the others mentioned: flwm is very light-weight, but not
too confi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I do believe that your mouse should be symbolically linked
> to /dev/psaux and not /dev/ttyS0 or any sort of ttyS 'if' it
> is a ps/2 mouse that you are using.
>
> It is quite safe to delete mouse and relink mouse to /dev/psaux.
is there a reason why the Slink install d
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 11:26:19PM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> Just upgraded to potato - I can't seem to get rid of a pop-up message
> telling me I don't have a fvwm directory every time I start X - even
> though I thought I had. Where is this supposed to be?
cd $HOME
mkdir .fvwm
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On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 08:40:00PM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> How do I start gnome from potato?
>
> Thanks.
Please check the archives. This subject has come up several times in
recent days...
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On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 08:35:24PM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> I have just upgraded to potato. Previously, in slink, I had setup my
> window-managers file to start kde by default but now I get fvwm2 when
> I type startx. Why is this? The file still points to kde as the first
> option - is the
Daniel Burrows wrote:
> I'm trying to install everybuddy. http://www.everybuddy.com - I can't
> seem to get anywhere with it. Anyone use this app and got it to work? I
> need a step-by-step guide please!!
1) apt-get install everybuddy
2) Find the everybuddy entry in your window manager's menu - s
> john smith writes:
> > 1.what is a good gui program for dialing ppp instead of using pon blah in
> > the console or term.
>
> gpppon, in woody.
>
[01:53:22 /tmp]$ grep-available -P xisp
Package: xisp
Version: 2.6p1-2
Priority: optional
Section: contrib/net
Maintainer: Martin Bialasinski <[EMA
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" to load gnome when I use 'startx'?
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A simple approach would be to put "exec gnome-session" in you
Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> Can someone suggest how I configure potato for my AWE64 s/card?? Anyone
> have any experiences doing this? I would be interested to know what
> happened.
>
I've been using this card for quite some time with no problem. I think
I did it using only the following two docu
What will I need to put in /etc/X11/window-managers or ~/.xinitrc
to load gnome when I use 'startx'?
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 11:34:23PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> this will not work ... repeater ms3 is not implemented - as far as i
> remember ...
I commented out the repeater line, and now everything works nicely.
Thank you.
Is there any way of sending the packages that are being downloaded by
"apt-move sync" to the mirror before it finishes bringing everything
missing?
I am afraid I am going to run out of room soon if I don't manage to do
it. I haven't been able to figure how to do it.
Please send ideas soon
Thank
john smith writes:
> 1.what is a good gui program for dialing ppp instead of using pon blah in
> the console or term.
gpppon, in woody.
> 2.how can I give permission for users to use the modem device
Add them to the dip group. The command is 'adduser username dip', as
root.
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[EMA
Craig McPherson wrote:
> Hmm, this is a new one.
>
> When GPM is running, the mouse will work in the console... but the mouse
> cursor in X freezes and won't move. When I stop GPM, mouse access is
> lost in the console, and the X mouse cursor comes back to life. I've
> never before seen GPM caus
> When GPM is running, the mouse will work in the console... but the mouse
> cursor in X freezes and won't move. When I stop GPM, mouse access is
> lost in the console, and the X mouse cursor comes back to life. I've
> never before seen GPM cause the mouse to stop working in X... what could
> cau
Just upgraded to potato - I can't seem to get rid of a pop-up message
telling me I don't have a fvwm directory every time I start X - even
though I thought I had. Where is this supposed to be?
Thanks.
also the gnome enviornment is just that, an enviornment, it runs on top of
X, so your question should be how do you configure X to run gnome when it
starts. someone responded to your mails saying to install
'task-gnome-session', i suggest you do that and it should install the
software you need, th
The XF86Setup program is the closest you're going to get to that.
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 05:11:08PM -0400, Daniel Lesage wrote:
> Is there any way to configure X resolutions and select the default
> directly from X (using a graphical interface), rather than editing the
> XF86Config file by hand
Hmm, this is a new one.
When GPM is running, the mouse will work in the console... but the mouse
cursor in X freezes and won't move. When I stop GPM, mouse access is
lost in the console, and the X mouse cursor comes back to life. I've
never before seen GPM cause the mouse to stop working in X...
Is there any way to configure X resolutions and select the default
directly from X (using a graphical interface), rather than editing the
XF86Config file by hand or running a console application?
Thanks,
Dan.
Jay Kelly wrote:
> Is a real big defference between GDM and KDE?
There's a huge difference. GDM is nothing more than a GUI login app with
a couple of bells, whistles, gongs, and sirens tacked on. KDE is an entire
desktop suite. They're not exactly comparable.
> What who should I be using?
I d
I'm trying to install everybuddy. http://www.everybuddy.com - I can't
seem to get anywhere with it. Anyone use this app and got it to work? I
need a step-by-step guide please!!
Thanks.
> Well, like I said the vast majority of Win9X only hardware works very poorly
> even in Win9x
Not from my experiences. Printers generally work well. Monitors generally
work well. Mice/keyboards generally work well. Now I need to know how they
work on the Linux end. I love trackballs and Logitech's
I have a few questions abt using ppp
1.what is a good gui program for dialing ppp instead of using pon blah in
the console or term.
2.how can I give permission for users to use the modem device
thank you.
Get Your Private
Is a real big defference between GDM and KDE? What who should I be using?
Also how do I start Gnome from the console? With X I used "startx" whats the
command for Gnome?
Thanks Guys
Can someone suggest how I configure potato for my AWE64 s/card?? Anyone
have any experiences doing this? I would be interested to know what
happened.
Thanks.
I'm working on a rexx script to send search requests to the
Debian mailing lists search engine and display the results in
lynx. The advantage over the web page form is that you can
search more than one list at a time and it sorts the hits a
little better.
It's at http://loki.dhs.org/~rick/downloa
Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>And if you want contrib, non-free, non-us and security updates:
>
>deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
>deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free
>deb http://security.debian.org/debian-securit
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 12:53:32PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote
> Hi gang,
>
> I know that this has come up on the list recently, but I haven't really
> seen anything that has helped me solve this little problem.
>
> I have a couple of tulip-based ethernet cards (I think they are made by
> Acton, an
Atila Nemet wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there
> window manager which is low on system resources so I
> could set up X on this 486?
>
> Attila
I've tried most of them and on my machine the ones that use the least are
fvwm95,
blackbox and olvwm. I find fv
Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> I have just upgraded to potato and I can't get into X as a normal user, only
> root works. When I type startx (as a normal user) I get a message saying I
> don't have privileges to do it.
>
> Thanks.
Check out /etc/X11/Xserver file. The first line should be path to your
MTC
Linux gives the best of all worlds as long as Debian thrives. With all the
new distros with 'EASY' (read restrictive) installations that are targeted
to new users we
will get more driver and software support. Debian will allow us to have
maximal control over our systems because it does not inc
On 28-May-2000 Shane Wegner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am attempting to modify the Debian rescue flopy to be an emergency
> recovery for my system. Actually it's root.bin which I am modifying. I am
> having problems adding utilities. I need to add the raid tools as well as
> restore(8). When I chroot
I had this problem also. There is a fixed version in proposed updates. I
compiled from sources and had no problem.
Arthur H. Edwards
712 Valencia Dr. NE
Abq. NM 87108
(505) 256-0834
Hi there
I have installed debian-frozen-base-system on my 386 via floppy and my local
network.
Beside a problem to load any modules wich I was able to fix all went fine.
(I had to copy /etc/modules.conf to /target/etc/modules.conf cause it was
missing from the start !) A bug ?
It's the first time f
How do I start gnome from potato?
Thanks.
On Sun, 28 May 2000, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 07:29:32 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I'm having trouble with potato's C++. Programs, including 'Hello World',
> > compile cleanly but produce only produce some line feeds as output.
> Weird.
> > g++ --version 2.
I have just upgraded to potato. Previously, in slink, I had setup my
window-managers file to start kde by default but now I get fvwm2 when I
type startx. Why is this? The file still points to kde as the first
option - is there a different config file for this in potato?
Thanks v.much.
The easiest for me was to download the source for apache 1.3.12 from
www.apache.org. Then get mod_frontpage from www.freshmeat.net to get
Frontpage 2000 support. If you are looking for easy, this is pretty
straight forward. You can do regular publish from Frontpage rather than
FTP. There are ot
Did your kernel get upgraded too ? The PCMCIA package comes in matching
versions to the kernel version. Make sure the two versions match.
* Jens K. Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [28-05-2000 06:55 AM +0900]
> Please help.
> I just updated my frozen on my laptop.
> After updating, I am not able to use p
Atila Nemet wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there
> window manager which is low on system resources so I
> could set up X on this 486?
I'd suggest blackbox. Of the ones I've tried - which include Window
Maker, blackbox, Enlightenment, Sawmill (and its desce
Whats the Command to start Gnome from the console. With X I was using
Startx. What will I use to start Gnome?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
David Z Maze
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2000 9:59 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Gnome P
Hi!
Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there
window manager which is low on system resources so I
could set up X on this 486?
Attila
I have just upgraded to potato and I can't get into X as a normal user, only
root works. When I type startx (as a normal user) I get a message saying I
don't have privileges to do it.
Thanks.
Get Your Private, Free E-mai
Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jay> I am running Potato and have just install Gnome using apt-get
Jay> install gdm.
Note that this will just install the GNOME display manager; it won't
install any of the rest of the GNOME stuff that gdm doesn't directly need.
Jay> 1, When the gnome login s
Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello Group,
> I am running Potato and have just install Gnome using apt-get install gdm. I
> have two question.
>
> 1, When the gnome login screen appears I select gnome for my session from
> the drop down mune and enter my login and pass and hit enter. Th
Hi all,
just for information the config in the topic completly crash my boxes
so pay
attention.
If someone know why can post me how to fix
Thanks
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I want to setup intranet server for a small office,
which easy configue is recommand?
> >How to sync. my hw. clock to an external source?
> >
> >I tried 'rdate -a time.kfki.hu' but this isn't set my clock.
> >Runnig 'date' I got the same time as before using rdate.
> >
>
> You need the timeserver daemon. Take a look at 'xntpd'.
>
i think, that this is overkill - at least for a ho
> Recently somebody suggested that it may be my setup that is causing
> the problems and that it is better to have the two hard disks on the
> same cable and the two CDROM's on the other.
>
sound sensible. this was my first thought, too. :-)
> /etc/fstab is necessary for the system to shutdown pr
Hello Group,
I am running Potato and have just install Gnome using apt-get install gdm. I
have two question.
1, When the gnome login screen appears I select gnome for my session from
the drop down mune and enter my login and pass and hit enter. The screen
goes black the right back to the login scr
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 07:29:32 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm having trouble with potato's C++. Programs, including 'Hello World',
> compile cleanly but produce only produce some line feeds as output.
Weird.
> g++ --version 2.95.2
> (compiles clean w/ g++, but produces only a few blank
Hi.
I'm having trouble with potato's C++. Programs, including 'Hello World',
compile cleanly but produce only produce some line feeds as output.
dselect/apt indicates everything is up to date as of yesterday.
I've tried running ldconfig & even rebooting, with no luck.
btw: I have both the 'regu
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 01:16:37AM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> Is there a URL which anyone can recommend to take me through the process
> of upgrading to potato from slink?
You could have a look at
http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/potato/upgrade-i386/
The upgrading process is given in qu
At the moment my setup is like this:
/dev/hda - 10G IDE hard disk Fujitsi - recently installed after a hard
disk failure with Redhat which I only use to start up the system.(At
that stage I did not have a Debian system ready to install).
/dev/hdb - Ricoh MP 7040A CD-RW
/dev/hdc - 8G IDE hard di
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Jens K. Olsen wrote:
>
> Please help.
> I just updated my frozen on my laptop.
> After updating, I am not able to use pcmcia any longer. The pcmcia-core
> module is not being loaded automatically on startup any longer. When I
> try to load it using modconf, I get the following
I've downloaded a cd-image of the potato 1st test cycle. Installation goes
ok, but with potato there are tasks instead of profiles. The manual claims
it's still possible to select a profile. I can't find it. Is it a glitch in
the manual or am I doing something wrong?
Harry ten Berge
On Mon, 29 May 2000, James Sleeman wrote:
> Hi all,
> if anyone is interested I found the source of my problem with
> realplayer (lilo is still segfaulting though), I had a fish around the
> dot files in my home directory and there were two files and a directory
> left behind by realplayer, I
>How to sync. my hw. clock to an external source?
>
>I tried 'rdate -a time.kfki.hu' but this isn't set my clock.
>Runnig 'date' I got the same time as before using rdate.
>
You need the timeserver daemon. Take a look at 'xntpd'.
Success, Harry
How to sync. my hw. clock to an external source?
I tried 'rdate -a time.kfki.hu' but this isn't set my clock.
Runnig 'date' I got the same time as before using rdate.
Thanks
Attila
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Bart Szszka wrote:
Well see, that's what I mean. There's hardware that is great
on Windows, but there just aren't any drivers for it in Linux. Or sometimes the
second best hardware for Windows ends up being the best option for Linux simply
becausethe drivers are more complete.
I
So it has finally happened, I have become 'evil and twisted' it must be
the radiation emanating off these three computer screens;) I am simply
lazy and tiered of logging in on my personal computers. Also in
learning how to 'remove the logging in process' I would learn more about
using Linux. If
Hi all,
if anyone is interested I found the source of my problem with
realplayer (lilo is still segfaulting though), I had a fish around the
dot files in my home directory and there were two files and a directory
left behind by realplayer, I deleted these and realplayer sprang back to
life.
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I've installed TeTeX on my machine (from slink), but I can't get it
> running.
>
> I ran
>
> texhash
> texconfig all
>
> as root, but when I try to translate a file with "latex file" of "tex
> file" I get the following error message
>
The unresolved symbol is that during boot a module is loaded in that
shouldn't be loaded in, nothing to worry about.
About isdn, why don't you just delete all of your isdnutils: apt-get
remove idsnutils
Ron Rademaker
PS. Renaming will also work
On Sat, 27 May 2000, Jay Kelly wrote:
> Hello Gr
And if you want contrib, non-free, non-us and security updates:
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security potato/updates main contrib
non-free
Ron R
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 02:36:00AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 10:54:15AM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to point my apt sources.list file to a UK debian ftp site
> > for potato so I can perform an upgrade. The address for the site is:
> > ftp://f
I believe he wants potato, not stable. Your sources.list file should have
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian potato main
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> I am trying to point my apt sources.list file to a UK debian ftp site
> for potato so I can perform an upgrade. The address
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 10:54:15AM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> I am trying to point my apt sources.list file to a UK debian ftp site
> for potato so I can perform an upgrade. The address for the site is:
> ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian and I think it should be pointing to
> /dists/potato but
On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 06:51:58PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 08:07:10PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> [ snip ]
> > all keeping the logs owned by the unpriviledged user seems to buy you
> > is a security hole.
>
> That's why on new debian installations the log are owned
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 03:45:41PM -0500, Brad wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 10:42:29AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> >
> >Unix, Windows, Mac, OpenVMS, etc. Client-server -- though the
> >nomenclature is backwards from the usual meaning, your display is a
> >"server", and app
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 10:56:11PM +0100, Pedro Guerreiro wrote:
> [Please CC me in all replies, as I don't manage to read -user]
>
> Hi.
>
> I've setup muttzilla to call mutt from inside netscape, but it seems to have a
> problem, as I can't setup the From: field. I've setup the email address in
On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 10:15:45PM +, ktb wrote:
> I there any way to configure Slink to boot directly into a 'regular
> user' account without entering user name or password? In other words
> boot directly into a '$' prompt but requiring a password for root. I'm
> using shadow passwords.
> Th
I am trying to point my apt sources.list file to a UK debian ftp site
for potato so I can perform an upgrade. The address for the site is:
ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian and I think it should be pointing to
/dists/potato but when I try and change this in apt and perform a
apt-get update it bombs o
On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 09:58:25PM -0400, Bart Szyszka wrote:
>
> Well see, that's what I mean. There's hardware that is great on Windows, but
> there just aren't any drivers for it in Linux.
Well, like I said the vast majority of Win9X only hardware works very poorly
even in Win9x and the majori
Once upon a time, I heard Daniel Burrows say
>
> Whats the command for telling me if I have slink or potato?
>
cat /etc/debian_version or /etc/issue.net, /etc/issue
2.1 slink
2.2 potato
or check your /etc/apt/sources.list if you used apt to install debian.
Chanop
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Whats the command for telling me if I have slink or potato?
Thanks.
Please help.
I just updated my frozen on my laptop.
After updating, I am not able to use pcmcia any longer. The pcmcia-core
module is not being loaded automatically on startup any longer. When I
try to load it using modconf, I get the following messages:
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Except that I didn't create /var/log/ksymoops (I wouldn't have known
> how to or why to; I had never heard of ksymoops before I noticed the
> existence of the log files); it must have been created automatically
> in the upgrade process from slink to frozen.
>
> But that
Hi,
I am attempting to modify the Debian rescue flopy to be an emergency
recovery for my system. Actually it's root.bin which I am modifying. I am
having problems adding utilities. I need to add the raid tools as well as
restore(8). When I chroot to the floppy and try a restore, it give me thi
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