ifconfig krashes system

2000-07-28 Thread Michael Haarman
No, really. I am going unsane with this. The saga begins with an upgrade to potato and fresh 2.2.15 kernel sources. I had hoped to support my wife's Windows VPN client through a firewalling gateway by patching with jhardin's VPN-Masquerading kit. Everything is going peachy, new kernel runs smoot

Re: kde.tdyc.com

2000-07-28 Thread Peter Good
Ahhh, i see now. http on kde.tdyc.com used to work for a long time, but obviously doesn't now, ta for the ftp line. Phil Brutsche wrote: > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > Failed to fetch > > http://kde.tdyc.com/dists/potato/rkrusty/binary-i386/Packages > > 40

Re: Squid

2000-07-28 Thread Jay Kelly
Well I want to filter what is allowed to be accessed. I noticed that when I choose not to use a proxy in IE I still cann access the web. Is there a way to stop access to the web unless they use the proxy ? On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 01:53:59PM +1200, C. Falconer wrote: > Restrict in what way? Do you

Re: can't login with kdm

2000-07-28 Thread John L. Fjellstad
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 06:57:19AM +0300, Dan Pomohaci wrote: > I can't login with kdm. I put the user name, the password, and the process > of login is starting but after few seconds it returns to login Check out /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession. There is a case statement there saying which environment to

can't login with kdm

2000-07-28 Thread Dan Pomohaci
Hi, I can't login with kdm. I put the user name, the password, and the process of login is starting but after few seconds it returns to login screen. I can login in text mode, and startx works OK. Xdm works fine but gdm has the same behavior. This problem appears after some upgrade in potato two w

RE: web server suggestions

2000-07-28 Thread J.T. Wenting
Tomcat is nice for testing and development, but performance is not good enough for live situations and it does not support the full Java2 EE platform. Also, there seem to be some annoying bugs in Tomcat, especially with JSP statements. J.T. Wenting http://www.hornet.demon.nl all spam sent to thi

Re: mounting floppy

2000-07-28 Thread Dale Morris
Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:57:12PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > > > I'm trying to mount a floppy that I made with Redhat 6.2 system. It > > mounted on a previous install of potato, but I reinstalled and now > > when I try to mount it I get the following err

Re: kde.tdyc.com

2000-07-28 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Failed to fetch > http://kde.tdyc.com/dists/potato/rkrusty/binary-i386/Packages > 404 Not Found > Failed to fetch > http://sunsite.tut.fi/ftp/Mirror/debian/ruins.tdyc.com/pub/dists/potato/rkrusty/binary-i386/Packages > 404 File Not F

Outlook/Outlook Express

2000-07-28 Thread dsbiloxi
Is it possible to transfer info from my "Contacts" listing in Outlook to "Contacts" in Outlook Express?   Thanks Dale BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Summers;Dale FN:Dale Summers BDAY:20001108 EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] REV:2729T032758Z END:VCARD

offtopic: need some help from os programmers pls.

2000-07-28 Thread michael young
Attn: to all great programmers out there.. Hoping that somebody please help me out with this problem? sum() { for x=1 to 10 do var=var+1 } shared int var=0 //shared variable fork(sum, 0); fork(sum, 0); //executing two concurrent processes I can't figure this one out...my questions are:

Re: current Redhat user evaluates Debian

2000-07-28 Thread Mark Suter
Folks, On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 11:17:58PM +, montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Still, when friends ask me about 'this thing called Linux', I recommend > they go out and buy the latest Red Hat boxed CD set; try Linux; and, if > they like it and want to get serious, switch to Debian, Slackw

Re: Software raid in 2.2.16 broken?

2000-07-28 Thread Richard Lindner
On 28 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That path is for 2.2.15 and the code is already incorporated in 2.2.16 > (i checked) > > thanks though > > nate Nate - you may have checked, but you don't seem to have understood. Read the note on Alan Cox's page properly - it's a 'patch -R' fix - in other w

Re: HELP! 2.1 install from PCMCIA cdrom

2000-07-28 Thread Jim Gale
So here I am: I've made 5 floppies. (root, rescue, driver[123]) and booted the system. As usual it boots up fine, but nowhere are there any hints about installing from the network. It gives me options for floppies or a cdrom drive. I keep reading nebulous references to "net install" but nobody

Newbie Install Questions

2000-07-28 Thread Dale Morris
I've used Linux (Redhat) for about 6 months and have just installed potato via ftp. I have some newbie questions I would appreciate some help with: 1.) If I download a file from the net, where does it go? Which directory, as netscape seems to automatically determine the target. 2.) Where's the *

screen saver

2000-07-28 Thread Dale Morris
I'm running potato with the combination gnome desktop and debian? taskbar/ice window manager. My screen saver doesn't work right. None of the screen savers I select in settings works. What do I need to do to get a proper screen saver? Thanks -- dale

Re: Squid

2000-07-28 Thread C. Falconer
Restrict in what way? Do you want one machine to have permission to use the cache, and another machine to be denied permission? then look into the ACL rules in squid.conf. If you want to filter web pages then look at an externel authenticator program - I use squidGuard (on a slackware box -

Re: kde.tdyc.com

2000-07-28 Thread Peter Good
Failed to fetch http://kde.tdyc.com/dists/potato/rkrusty/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://sunsite.tut.fi/ftp/Mirror/debian/ruins.tdyc.com/pub/dists/potato/rkrusty/binary-i386/Packages 404 File Not Found funny, neither of those work from here. tdyc used to, but d

Re: kde.tdyc.com

2000-07-28 Thread Andrew J Cosgriff
Mike Werner wrote : > JP Sartre wrote: > > Just curious if anyone knows what the story is with kde.tdyc.com? > > It's been down for a few weeks now, and it's the only place > > I know for kde debs. Anyone have a clue? Thanks. > > I installed KDE onto a friend's woody box last night off the tdyc.

Squid

2000-07-28 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello All, I am running a proxy server and would like to restrict access to the web(well atleast some web pages) on one of my clients. What will I need to add to the squid.conf and can I restrict one machine and allow access to another machine on the same network ? Thanks Jay -- It feels so good

Re: kde.tdyc.com

2000-07-28 Thread Mike Werner
JP Sartre wrote: > Just curious if anyone knows what the story is with kde.tdyc.com? > It's been down for a few weeks now, and it's the only place > I know for kde debs. Anyone have a clue? Thanks. I installed KDE onto a friend's woody box last night off the tdyc.com site via apt-get ... worked j

Re: kde.tdyc.com

2000-07-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
it seems fine to me. i installed off of it about a week ago. the deb lines im using: deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde contrib rkrusty deb http://sunsite.tut.fi/ftp/Mirror/debian/ruins.tdyc.com/pub potato kde contrib rkrusty it comes back with a couple not found errors but everything installed

Re: Software raid in 2.2.16 broken?

2000-07-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That path is for 2.2.15 and the code is already incorporated in 2.2.16 (i checked) thanks though nate On 27 Jul 2000, Camm Maguire wrote: camm >There is an errata patch on Alan Cox's website that fixes this. Its a camm >one liner. camm > camm >Take care, camm > camm >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EM

Re: ppp does not set default route

2000-07-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ive had this problem too to get around it i just 'ifconfig eth0 down' before logging on then restart networking after logging off in potato it shoulld be /etc/init.d/network restart nate On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Erik van der Meulen wrote: e.van. >Dear group. I am installing Potato in a laptop whi

Re: current Redhat user evaluates Debian

2000-07-28 Thread Ethan Pierce
Incredible :) - Original Message - From: "montefin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John L. Fjellstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 7:17 PM Subject: Re: current Redhat user evaluates Debian > > "In a galaxy far away, John L. Fjellstad" wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm a cu

Re: Xf86 xonfig for Compaq Deskpro TFT5000

2000-07-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
try including the output of the X server in any email when you have X issues. start X via: startx >&X.log X.log will contain all output from the server. ive run many g400s and havent had a problem. nate On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Aaron Stromas wrote: aaron. >hi, aaron. > aaron. >i'm having very li

Re: combining unused space into files

2000-07-28 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> > IN my last-ditch attempt to recover a long text (actually lyx) file that > > was deleted, I want to combine all of the unused space on my drive into > > files. There's about 80M altogether, and I want to break it into 10M pieces > > (so I can manipulate them in the 40M partition normally ass

kde.tdyc.com

2000-07-28 Thread JP Sartre
Just curious if anyone knows what the story is with kde.tdyc.com? It's been down for a few weeks now, and it's the only place I know for kde debs. Anyone have a clue? Thanks. JP

Suspend To RAM

2000-07-28 Thread Lorenzo Delana
I'have a K7V Asus motherboard that like other new motherboard support STR capabilities, by debian, wich command I use for to sleep in RAM only my MB? What support does I need in the kernel: I suppose ACPI->Enter sleep mode 1, or some like... but not only the original APM. Bye lore

RE: advanced power management and linux?

2000-07-28 Thread Christian Pernegger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > -Original Message- > From: Hans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 12:22 AM > To: Krzys Majewski; I. Tura > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: advanced power management and linux? > > > Laptops are noisy to

Re: debian- or linux- friendly hardware vendors?

2000-07-28 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 06:07:37PM -0500, techlists wrote: > VA Research.aka VA Linux systems > > They primarily use Debian Do they actually -ship- Debian though? According to their web pages, they ship RH6.2+VA-Enhancements. Certainly VA does lots of good things, though (like sourceforge,

Re: current Redhat user evaluates Debian

2000-07-28 Thread montefin
"In a galaxy far away, John L. Fjellstad" wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm a current RedHat user (started with Linux on RedHat because > it was available at Fry's), and I'm currently evaluating > Debian for a possible switch. > > Can anyone come up with a list of advantages of using Debian > Linux over

Re: advanced power management and linux?

2000-07-28 Thread Krzys Majewski
> Tip 4: use hdparm with the -S switch to suspend HDs after being idle for a > while. > I tried this on my current (and noisy) machine, but it said 16:05:04# hdparm -S 5 /dev/sda operation not supported on SCSI disks Is there an alternative for SCSI? -chris

Re: current Redhat user evaluates Debian

2000-07-28 Thread Richard Lindner
On 28 Jul, Bolan Meek wrote: > Oh, I almost forgot to mention: I feel that Debian's commitment > to Freedom in Software is stronger than that of RedHat, and that > is another advantage of Debian, but that's a > religious/political/ethical issue that maybe ought not be brought > up just yet.

Re: debian- or linux- friendly hardware vendors?

2000-07-28 Thread techlists
VA Research.aka VA Linux systems They primarily use Debian On 28 Jul 2000, at 17:11, pplaw wrote: > redhat wise (according to brochures): > > http://www.dell.com > http://www.tigerdirect.com > > (i use dlinux woody/potato and have no financial ties to either of the above.) > > hth, >

burner & sound

2000-07-28 Thread techlists
I've got three problems. I've had a debian 2.2 system set up on a Dell Dimension XPS T450 With mostly no problems. When I installed the system I choose the yamaha sound module, but although it said it installed correctly, I'm now sure it was the wrong one. The sound chip in this systems i

Re: debian- or linux- friendly hardware vendors?

2000-07-28 Thread pplaw
redhat wise (according to brochures): http://www.dell.com http://www.tigerdirect.com (i use dlinux woody/potato and have no financial ties to either of the above.) hth, bentley taylor. // brian moore wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 06:25:35PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > Can anyone reco

ESD Problem, kinda weird...

2000-07-28 Thread adam b.
So I'm running EsounD with gdm so that it starts up for all the local logins through gdm (because I have a quasi-shared machine...everyone on my floor is free to log in). Weird thing is that I installed the "esd &" line in the system initfile for gdm, but only the first user to log in ever

Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-07-28 Thread Hans
At 12:03 PM 7/28/00 -0400, Ethan Pierce wrote: >Hi, I was reading today on slashdot about Evolution 0.3. They have a download link for the tar.gz file. I was wondering if the apt-get utility will work if I use the spidermonkey.helixgnome.com source for the update? Has anyone else tried this? > >T

Re: Starting GNOME (newbie question)

2000-07-28 Thread Hans
"$startx gnome-session" works for me. == Hans At 02:00 PM 7/28/00 +, Marcio Rosa da Silva wrote: >I installed helix-gnome in my notebook and I want to know how to start >it. What should I put in my .xinitrc file? I tried sawfish directly, but >it doesn't work. > >Sorry for the newbie question,

Re: advanced power management and linux?

2000-07-28 Thread Hans
Laptops are noisy too and cost a bundle + you have to buy cards (modem, network, scsi). You can buy two desktops for the price of one notebook if you shop around (I can buy at least three, but hey, I'm Dutch, I watch every penny :-). BTW, APM is for thing like CPU, PCMCIA cards, not HDs, etc. What

Re: debian rocks

2000-07-28 Thread Simon Michael
amen !

upgrading package - configuration file

2000-07-28 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Can anybody tell me what happens when the config file format of a package changed from one version to the next. I mean, in the process of downloading, unpacking and installing the upgrade, what really happens? Are diffs used for this (config files)? Is this all up to the package maintainer

RE: Keyboard troubles...

2000-07-28 Thread Christian Pernegger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > How can I configure my box to work correctly with a German keyboard? > > During installation I selected de-latin1-nodeadkeys, here's what I got: > > * emacs will accept umlauts and the such when I'm on the local console > > * but when I'm logged in v

Re: Starting/Stopping SCSI HD's

2000-07-28 Thread Simon Hales
Hi Thanks for the quick reply, but unfortuately, no luck. I have done "hdparm -h" and "man hdparm" (I already had it, it seems), but very many of the features of hdparm (including all that seem to be relevant to starting/stopping/putting to sleep hard disks) are for IDE disks ONLY. These are "h

ppp does not set default route

2000-07-28 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Dear group. I am installing Potato in a laptop which has both an pcmcia lan connection but should be able to dial up to a provider occasionally. The lan card works fine. I can dial into the provider also, but am unable to get ethernet connectivity until I do: route add default ppp0 In the ppp-howto

Re: HELP! 2.1 install from PCMCIA cdrom

2000-07-28 Thread Morten Liebach
On 28, jul, 2000 at 09:56:49 -0700, Jim Gale wrote: > I didn't have any luck finding this topic in the archive, but I'm sure > it's come up before... > > I'm being tortured by a Sony Vaio laptop which does not have a built in > CDROM. Instead it has a PCMCIA connected CDROM drive. Happily the lapt

Re: [why is kernel recompilation necessary?]

2000-07-28 Thread Pollywog
On 28-Jul-2000 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > C'mon, you don't have to recompile MS Windows in order to install a > "module". Do you really think the Linux community would let Windows > actually do something *better* than Linux? ;^) Well let's just say faxing was easy in Windows, but that is on

Re: advanced power management and linux?

2000-07-28 Thread Aaron Solochek
I just bought a dell inspiron 5000, with the svga (1400x1050) 15" screen. I love it, and I have never really liked laptops before. I still prefer my desktop CRT for video quality, but this is a NICE screen. Debian installed on it fine, I only ran into some problems getting the network interfa

Re: advanced power management and linux?

2000-07-28 Thread Krzys Majewski
> It's very hard to guess. If you want silence, you live in a small > apartment and you have some extra cash, buy a laptop and you'll get in love > with it (but check the hardware, do not get a winmodem with it!). > This is very interesting! I hadn't considered laptops but now I will. Does a

AnyOne know of GUI for perl CPAN installs??

2000-07-28 Thread John Foster
I am looking for a GUI or web based interface for managing and installing CPAN modules. AnyOne ever seen such or even heard of one? Thanks! John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173

Re: [why is kernel recompilation necessary?]

2000-07-28 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Pollywog wrote: > On 28-Jul-2000 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > That's not the case at all. As some people have mentioned in this thread, > > certain proprietary drivers are distrubuted as binary-only kernel > > modules. This would obviously

Re: current Redhat user evaluates Debian

2000-07-28 Thread adam b.
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a current RedHat user (started with Linux on RedHat because > it was available at Fry's), and I'm currently evaluating > Debian for a possible switch. > > Can anyone come up with a list of advantages of using Debian > Linux over Redhat

What font for xterm in 1152x864 on 19" ?

2000-07-28 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi Since I have bought a great (only in size - it's lousy flickering) 19" monitor I can use only the following font in xterm: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-140-100-100-c-100-iso8859-1 Every other font looks absolutely ugly or, like the default xterm fonts you can choose with ctrl+right_mouse_

Re: current Redhat user evaluates Debian

2000-07-28 Thread Bolan Meek
"John L. Fjellstad" wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm a current RedHat user (started with Linux on RedHat because > it was available at Fry's), and I'm currently evaluating > Debian for a possible switch. > > Can anyone come up with a list of advantages of using Debian > Linux over Redhat Linux? I chose

Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-07-28 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Jul 28, Kent West scribbled: > Ethan Pierce wrote: > > > > Sorry all, the sources.list line should read: > > > > deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian/ ./ > > > > I thought the . in "./" was a typo, so I didn't include it. I got a > bunch of dependency error

Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-07-28 Thread Kent West
Ethan Pierce wrote: > > Sorry all, the sources.list line should read: > > deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian/ ./ > I thought the . in "./" was a typo, so I didn't include it. I got a bunch of dependency errors. So I went back and added the . and tried again; st

Re: volume control

2000-07-28 Thread Gary Hennigan
Michael Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 28 Jul 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > > I'm glad that worked. The Debian Way (TM) to do this, by the way, is > > to: > > > > chmod 660 /dev/mixer* > > chown root.audio /dev/mixer* > > > > and then add the users that you want to allow access to the

Re: current Redhat user evaluates Debian

2000-07-28 Thread Michael Soulier
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a current RedHat user (started with Linux on RedHat because > it was available at Fry's), and I'm currently evaluating > Debian for a possible switch. > > Can anyone come up with a list of advantages of using Debian > Linux over Redhat

Re: Tape backup software?

2000-07-28 Thread Kelly Corbin
Thanks for everyone's input, this gives me some good places to start! Kelly dave brookshire wrote: > > On the open source side of things, I'm a big fan of Amanda. You can > find the original source and stuff at ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/amanda, or > at http://www.amanda.org/. > > On the closed

Re: Help(!) with Slink install -- disk repartitioning problem

2000-07-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai Chris, > info on large disc problem snipped I'm no HD-guru, actually no guru at all, but I think I've dealt with a similar problem here, so... I think you hit the 8Gig limit. Older BIOSses can't cope with large disks (they won't pass the correct info onto the OS or something to that effect)

Re: current Redhat user evaluates Debian

2000-07-28 Thread Robert L. Harris
I did the same a while back. i've swiched all my boxes so far. First up the only weekness I've found. If you're running "stable" you may be a bit behind other distributions. Stable doesn't mean "hey, it worked fine for me". Stable means its been very thouroughly tested and done right. This

Re: HELP! 2.1 install from PCMCIA cdrom

2000-07-28 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 09:56, Jim Gale wrote: > I didn't have any luck finding this topic in the archive, but I'm sure > it's come up before... > > I'm being tortured by a Sony Vaio laptop which does not have a built in > CDROM. Instead it has a PCMCIA connected CDROM drive. Happily the laptop >

current Redhat user evaluates Debian

2000-07-28 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Hi, I'm a current RedHat user (started with Linux on RedHat because it was available at Fry's), and I'm currently evaluating Debian for a possible switch. Can anyone come up with a list of advantages of using Debian Linux over Redhat Linux? I would also love to hear any the weaknesses Debian has

Re: [why is kernel recompilation necessary?]

2000-07-28 Thread Pollywog
On 28-Jul-2000 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > That's not the case at all. As some people have mentioned in this thread, > certain proprietary drivers are distrubuted as binary-only kernel > modules. This would obviously not be possible if the whole kernel had to > be rebuilt to use a module. The co

debian rocks

2000-07-28 Thread Michael Soulier
I have to tell you, the more I use Debian, the more I like it. It's not the big things. The big thing is that it's Linux. It's the little things. I go hunting for the default vimrc file installed when I grabbed vim. On every *nix system in the world, it's probably in a subdirector

Re: [why is kernel recompilation necessary?]

2000-07-28 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Pollywog wrote: > On 28-Jul-2000 Kent West wrote: > > > > In still other words, can you use "make menuconfig" to compile a minimal > > kernel and then add modules later from whatever source even though you > > didn't tell the kernel to expe

Re: same debian, new hardware?

2000-07-28 Thread Krzys Majewski
> > 3) Make binary images of the old hard drives, automagically paste these > > onto the new hard drive. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure this is impossible. > > You mention SCSI in the old box, but don't say what's the hardware > in the new box. If IDE, you could install the new disk in the old > ma

Re: [why is kernel recompilation necessary?]

2000-07-28 Thread I. Tura
>The whole point of my post was to not have to read 17 web pages! >chris Oh man, nothing is perfect! But let me tell ou something. When some hardware companies are such bastards that they do such indecent drivers that collide with Windoze and at my left I have a scanner that I know that it

Re: advanced power management and linux?

2000-07-28 Thread I. Tura
At 15.15 27/7/00 -0700, heu escrit: >I'm researching new hardware for my linux box. I live in a small apartment >so my main requirement is that the damn thing be quiet. Does anyone have >reports of advanced power management working under linux? I know that is >in principle supported, but what are

Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-07-28 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, I was reading today on slashdot about Evolution 0.3. They have a > download link for the tar.gz file. I was wondering if the apt-get > utility will work if I use the spidermonkey.helixgnome.com source for > the update? Has anyone

HELP! 2.1 install from PCMCIA cdrom

2000-07-28 Thread Jim Gale
I didn't have any luck finding this topic in the archive, but I'm sure it's come up before... I'm being tortured by a Sony Vaio laptop which does not have a built in CDROM. Instead it has a PCMCIA connected CDROM drive. Happily the laptop is able to boot from the CDROM, so I just stuck my 2.1 CD i

Starting GNOME (newbie question)

2000-07-28 Thread Marcio Rosa da Silva
I installed helix-gnome in my notebook and I want to know how to start it. What should I put in my .xinitrc file? I tried sawfish directly, but it doesn't work. Sorry for the newbie question, but I'm a fvwm user and I'm used to put fvwm2 in my .xinitrc and create a .fvwm2rc and it's all! :-) []s,

NFS mounted /usr

2000-07-28 Thread Fire Dragon
I'm trying to build a small lan and being a bit short on HD space (250MB to 500MB tops) I wanted to have /home /usr and so forth be NFS mounted. I'm currently having a problem in which the /usr partition that is exported is corrupted by the client machine (broke exim when I installed ssmtp for exam

Re: LILO troubles

2000-07-28 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:47:16AM -0500, Jason Schepman wrote: > I'm having LILO problems. I'm pretty sure that my config file is correct. > When I try to boot, my screen fills up with 1's and 0's. I had the same trouble with the new lilo and could not solve it. Johann. -- J.H. Spies, Hugenote

Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-07-28 Thread Ethan Pierce
Sorry all, the sources.list line should read: deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian/ ./ >>> Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/28/00 12:15PM >>> Ethan Pierce wrote: > > Sorry, I found the answer to my question. Evolution .3 is a Microsoft > Outlook replacement fo

Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-07-28 Thread Kent West
Ethan Pierce wrote: > > Sorry, I found the answer to my question. Evolution .3 is a Microsoft > Outlook replacement for linux. To get it via apt-get add the following to > sources.list > > deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian > > run - apt-get update > -

Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-07-28 Thread Ethan Pierce
Sorry, I found the answer to my question. Evolution .3 is a Microsoft Outlook replacement for linux. To get it via apt-get add the following to sources.list deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian run - apt-get update - apt-get install evolution Enjoy - thi

Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-07-28 Thread Ethan Pierce
Hi, I was reading today on slashdot about Evolution 0.3. They have a download link for the tar.gz file. I was wondering if the apt-get utility will work if I use the spidermonkey.helixgnome.com source for the update? Has anyone else tried this? Thanks -Ethan

Re: modules.conf vs conf.modules

2000-07-28 Thread Kent West
"David Z. Maze" wrote: > > Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > KW> Is there a plain-english ("for dummies") page somewhere that > KW> explains how modules work (modutils vs /etc/modules vs kmod vs > KW> kerneld vs conf.modules vs modules.conf vs /etc/modutils/ vs auto > KW> vs specific items i

Re: volume control

2000-07-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting Michael Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I don't have to do a newgrp to be a member of that group, do I? > It works fine. Do I have to do a newgrp every time? That's kind of > annoying. I think you just have to log in. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653

Re: char-major-6

2000-07-28 Thread Shaul Karl
> > On 28-Jul-2000 Erik Mathisen wrote: > > I keep getting this stupid error in my syslog: > > > > modprobe: can't locate module char-major-6 > > > > now i searched my system, I dont have that module, how do I get this > > error to stop? It puts 2 or 3 entries in the log a minute. > > > > Any

Re: volume control

2000-07-28 Thread Michael Soulier
Actually, after creating this alias, it's not so bad... alias xmms='sg audio -c "xmms &"' Mike On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Michael Soulier wrote: > I don't have to do a newgrp to be a member of that group, do I? > > lupus:~# chmod 660 /dev/mixer > lupus:~# ll /dev/mix* > crw-rw

Re: volume control

2000-07-28 Thread Michael Soulier
On 28 Jul 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > I'm glad that worked. The Debian Way (TM) to do this, by the way, is > to: > > chmod 660 /dev/mixer* > chown root.audio /dev/mixer* > > and then add the users that you want to allow access to the audio > group. A lot of the things devices in /dev work this

Re: LILO troubles

2000-07-28 Thread jbardin
Jason Schepman wrote: > I'm having LILO problems. I'm pretty sure that my config file is correct. > When I try to boot, my screen fills up with 1's and 0's. > > please advise, > thanks. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null If you can get access to the lilo hel

Re: volume control

2000-07-28 Thread jbardin
Gary Hennigan wrote: > Michael Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 27 Jul 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > > > > Do they work as root? Make sure you have the mixer device(s) in > > > /dev. I don't have a Debian system handy with working sound, but my > > > laptop (sans sound) has /dev/mixer

Re: mounting floppy

2000-07-28 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:57:12PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > I'm trying to mount a floppy that I made with Redhat 6.2 system. It > mounted on a previous install of potato, but I reinstalled and now > when I try to mount it I get the following error message: [I cannot > determine the file type an

Re: Web interface to packages

2000-07-28 Thread jbardin
Christian Pernegger wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Why are there only i386 packages for download on Debians web site? > > I do not have, say, an Alpha but nevertheless it struck me as strange > that a search result from http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages leads > o

setting framebuffer mode during boot

2000-07-28 Thread Gilbert Laycock
I have framebuffer support compiled into my kernel, and I want to set the screen mode it uses when I boot. Currently it defaults to a 640x480/80x30 mode, and I want to set it to a higher resolution. I have an ATI Rage Pro card, so I think I should be using the atyfb frambuffer module. According t

Re: Xfree86-4.0.1 and Enlightenment

2000-07-28 Thread Robert L. Harris
I had the same problem. It turned out I needed -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 135336 Jul 2 06:31 libextmod.a in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extentsions, and then: then I had to update /etc/X11/XF86Config: Section "Module" Load"dbe" # Double buffer extension #SubSection "

Re: [why is kernel recompilation necessary?]

2000-07-28 Thread Pollywog
On 28-Jul-2000 Kent West wrote: > > In still other words, can you use "make menuconfig" to compile a minimal > kernel and then add modules later from whatever source even though you > didn't tell the kernel to expect these modules when you did the "make > menuconfig". I don't think that would wo

RE: Huge X-fonts in Frozen

2000-07-28 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: Huge X-fonts in Frozen shouldn't it be startx -- -dpi 100 ? (Note the -- which says following options are for X, not startx itself) HTH Thierry > -Original Message- > From: Kai Weber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 3:20 PM > To: debian-user@lists.d

Re: exim/procmail & mutt: some mboxes read as 'new', others don't

2000-07-28 Thread Kai Weber
+ Manoj Victor Mathew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Use the config command "mailboxes" in your .muttrc to specify > which mbox files need to be checked for new mail. > > My .muttrc reads ... > > mailboxes `echo $HOME/Mail/inbox*` `echo $HOME/Mail/per*` \ > `echo $HOME/Mail/gen*` `echo $HOME/Mail/list*`

Re: Huge X-fonts in Frozen

2000-07-28 Thread Kai Weber
+ Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > never mind, it can be set as a command-line option: > > startx -dpi 100 Does not work for me. Resolution is still 75x75 as xdpyinfo says. Kai. -- + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~bond/

RE: Keyboard troubles...

2000-07-28 Thread Christian Pernegger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > -Original Message- > From: Thomas Guettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 8:45 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Keyboard troubles... > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 03:50:29AM +0200, Christian Pernegg

Re: LILO troubles

2000-07-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting virtanen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting Jason Schepman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Yes. I'm able to boot from floppies. I just can't boot from the > > > hardrive. > > > "Boot"=hda. "Root"=hdb2(location of my / filesystem). > >

RE: Changing source CD in potato

2000-07-28 Thread Christian Pernegger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > -Original Message- > From: Antxon Alonso Lopez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 12:20 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Changing source CD in potato > > > > Hello > > I4m traying to install one packag

RE: web server suggestions

2000-07-28 Thread Adrian Thiele
How about Jakarta-Tomcat for Servlets and JSP. Apache works very well with it . Hey, this is Linux use Apache. Adrian Thiele http://tectpd.com Tec America, Inc. Thermal Printer Division mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (770) 449-3040 ext. 177 fax: (770) 242-9992   > -Original Message- >

Re: volume control

2000-07-28 Thread Gary Hennigan
Michael Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 27 Jul 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > > Do they work as root? Make sure you have the mixer device(s) in > > /dev. I don't have a Debian system handy with working sound, but my > > laptop (sans sound) has /dev/mixer and /dev/mixer1. > > > > If they

Re: why is kernel recompilation necessary?

2000-07-28 Thread Ethan Pierce
If 128 mb of ram is considered a beast of a machine? What class does my ½ gig of ram box fall in :) >>> Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/28/00 06:22AM >>> Hello there, On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Preben Randhol wrote: > Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 28/07/2000 (00:29) : > > Why is i

Xfree86-4.0.1 and Enlightenment

2000-07-28 Thread Ethan Pierce
Hi, I recently compiled x4.0.1 from source and all seemed to work well. I did this to get better accel from my tnt2. When I go to start E now I get: "Xserver does not support Shape extension Your server is out of date or misconfigured" Has anyone seen this error before, and if so, do you kno

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