Re: Procmail w/Pine

2000-08-17 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
> Zope mailing-list mail get put into zope folder. All other mail get put > into $HOME/mail/inbox but pine isn't recognizing them. > Any suggestions? Your problem is not with procmail, but with pine. Under M(ain) --> S(etup) --> C(onfig), you want to put a nice little X next to enable-incoming-fo

Bad Samba filesharing problem

2000-08-17 Thread Craig McPherson
Dear list, Please help save the life of our loyal Linux server. If I can't get this problem fixed soon, the higher-ups are going to order our faithful server to be Euthanized and replaced with a horrible Windows NT Server monstrosity. So to keep our faithful little server from suffering a fate w

Re: Hardware Modems

2000-08-17 Thread ferret
This is a Lucent Venus chipset modem. AFAICR, this is a PCI modem chipset with an hardware DSP. You will need to have PCI serial support in your kernel, or you will have to use 'lspci' to determine resource use. You may want to check out www.linmodems.org for more information. There should be a l

Procmail w/Pine

2000-08-17 Thread Jack Morgan
I'm trying to get procmail to sort some mail. I want mail from zope mailing list to go to a folder zope and all the rest to go to $HOME/mail/inbox. Here is my .procmailrc --- # Please check if all the paths in PATH are reachab

adding modules into Debian 2.2

2000-08-17 Thread John Anderson
I just upgraded from Debian 2.2 using the idepci disks. After installation I noticed that there is no lp module for the parallel printer port. The Debian website talks about adding additional modules into the kernel after the installation. I have downloaded the 3 drivers disk images for the stan

Re: Netscape 4.73 and dynamic fonts

2000-08-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 01:32:37AM +0200, Frederik wrote: > Hi, > > I'm experiencing some problems viewing certain webpages, because the font > that is being used, is not big enough. I've put scaling and dynamic fonts > on and off in all possible ways, but no luck. Help/Font Displayers shows > the

Re: crystal soundcard module fail

2000-08-17 Thread hogan
> /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/cs4232.o: unresolved symbol ad1848_init_Re5f86f0c > /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/cs4232.o: unresolved symbol schedule_timeout_R17d59d01 > /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/cs4232.o: unresolved symbol probe_uart401_R6467f99b > /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/cs4232.o: unresolved symbol unload

CONFIG_KMOD in kernel

2000-08-17 Thread John Reinke
Out of curiosity, should I have CONFIG_KMOD on or off when configuring kernel 2.2.17? I have CONFIG_MODULES=y. Is CONFIG_KMOD the same sort of thing? I guess I've always assumed that if I use modules, I should have a way for the kernel to load them. John

crystal 4232 sound card module fail

2000-08-17 Thread Debian Mail
Hello, Debian Ghost here. Trying to get a crystal 4232 based sound card to work. I have just compiled a new kernel 2.2.15 and run potato 2.2. For some reason, I did not see the option to choose a module for crystal 4232 sound card in the 'make config'. I've seen one before, but don't know what op

crystal soundcard module fail

2000-08-17 Thread Debian Mail
Hello All, I am trying to get my crystal 4232 sound card working. I just recompiled my kernel, but did not see an option for a module of this type. I have seen one before in the make config, but I can't remember what I selected to be able to select that to build it in or make a module. I've tried

anonymous ftp/potato

2000-08-17 Thread Neil . L . Roeth
Can someone tell me how to set up anonymous ftp on a potato system? Including changes required for /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/pam.d/ftp, etc.? I added the user ftp, modified the PAM ftp file by commenting out one line, and it allows me to log in as anonymous, but when I do an ls it shows nothi

Re: apt-get omit kernel-image 's

2000-08-17 Thread Jay Barbee
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:54:55AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > hi there ... > > is there a way to configure apt-get to omit > automatically kernel-image packages? perhaps used dselect to put the packages you don't want installed on

fyi: Winux??

2000-08-17 Thread Andrew McRobert
looks like the 'blue screen of death' is coming to a computer near you ... ... from today's AustralianIT (http://australianit.com.au) WINUX RUMOUR WinInfo says Microsoft has been working for the past year with a company called Mainsoft to port Windows to Linux and, possibly, other versions of UN

Re: xdm init level question

2000-08-17 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: nlm> Basically, I seem to recall the sysvinit maintainer saying that nlm> this is done simply to maximize the flexibility for the admin. nlm> Where other distributions and sysvinit based Unixes define some nlm> policy regarding what is sta

Problem with mouse

2000-08-17 Thread Michael L Ried
I installed the debian Linux onto my PC but it did not create a device file for my mouse. How would I create a device file for my mouse? I have a IMSI mouse-PS/2 mouse.

Re: xdm init level question

2000-08-17 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Lehel Bernadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: lb> If you had looked more carefully, you would have seen that xdm lb> isn't started only at runlevel 2, it's started at every runlevel. Who says I didn't look carefully enough to see that? I did notice it's started at all levels above 1. I want

Re: Emacs and ISO-8859-1 characters

2000-08-17 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 18 2000, André Dahlqvist wrote: > I have a strange problem that I discovered while switching to using > emacs as an editor in Mutt. It turns out that emacs will not accept > non-ASCII characters like åäöé if I'm running emacs from within an > xterm, but it works fine on the console or as a s

Re: X can't find the mouse!

2000-08-17 Thread John Griffiths
At 09:30 PM 8/17/2000 -0700, Trevor Ramoutar wrote: >So I installed Debian 2.2. Everything went well but after the installation >I'm at the prompt and I type in startx and I get: > >Fatal Server Error: >Cannot open mouse (no such file or directory) > >and I don't know what to do! Help! for a ps

Re: O'Reilly Debian 2.2?

2000-08-17 Thread Michael Soulier
On 18 Aug 2000, John Conover wrote: > Does anyone know when the O'Reilly will distribute Debian 2.2? Who cares? I got O'Reilly's book with a supposed copy of 2.1, and it was a modified VA Linux kernel that completed crippled my sound and networking. All my problems went away when I got a

Re: xdm init level question

2000-08-17 Thread Brad
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 04:06:58PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > I'm glad this question was asked - I'm learning a lot on this list. > > I plan to set my system up like this, so I don't boot directly into X, but > how should I start xdm? If I run xdm or switch to a runlevel with X, will > I still be

Re: xdm init level question

2000-08-17 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dzm> So X and console login, under Linux, is *not* an either-or case. dzm> Under the default Debian setup, you get console logins on tty1..6, and dzm> X starts (by default) on tty7. This means that you can press dzm> Ctrl+Alt+F1..6 to get si

X can't find the mouse!

2000-08-17 Thread Trevor Ramoutar
So I installed Debian 2.2. Everything went well but after the installation I'm at the prompt and I type in startx and I get: Fatal Server Error: Cannot open mouse (no such file or directory) and I don't know what to do! Help!

Re: Emacs and ISO-8859-1 characters

2000-08-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> It turns out that emacs will not accept > non-ASCII characters like åäöé if I'm running emacs from within an > xterm, but it works fine on the console or as a stand alone X > application. To make things even stranger I can always display such > characters if I open a

Re: mimencode, which package?

2000-08-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> In which package do I find mimencode In the package `metamail'

apt-get and Slink

2000-08-17 Thread Kenrick, Chris
I'm having a few problems trying to successfully apt-get packages on a Slink system (yeah, I know I should upgrade to Potato, but not quite yet :) ) rat:/var/lib/dpkg# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian slink main contrib non-free I can retrieve the package list with n

O'Reilly Debian 2.2?

2000-08-17 Thread John Conover
Does anyone know when the O'Reilly will distribute Debian 2.2? Thanks, John -- John ConoverTel. 408.370.2688 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 631 Lamont Ct. Cel. 408.772.7733 Campbell, CA 95008 Fax. 408.379.9602 http://www.johncon.com

unpartitioning, thanks

2000-08-17 Thread Ed Burton
Thanks to all who replied to my cry for help! I finaly used FDISK in the Windows\Command directory to remove the Extra DOS partition, which only had a copy of my recycle bin. Of course I defraged first. Then I rebooted from the RESCUE disk, after my BIOS loaded ( there is an option to boot

Re: xdm init level question

2000-08-17 Thread David Z. Maze
John Reinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JR> I'm glad this question was asked - I'm learning a lot on this list. JR> I plan to set my system up like this, so I don't boot directly into X, but JR> how should I start xdm? If I run xdm or switch to a runlevel with X, will JR> I still be logged in as ro

mimencode, which package?

2000-08-17 Thread Brian Lavender
In which package do I find mimencode brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/

Re: Looking for old Debian Logo Candidate (Ant)

2000-08-17 Thread I. Tura
I didn't know that there was an ant proposed for a logo, so I had curiosity as I admire ants, heh. here it comes: http://www.debian.org/vote/1999/vote_0004 At 13.54 2/8/00 -0400, Kirk Hilliard ha escrit: >I am trying to find one of the candidates from the Debian Logo >c

Fwd: Install Debian using PCMCIA Zip100 miniDrive

2000-08-17 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Install Debian using PCMCIA Zip100 miniDrive Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 18:45:57 -0400 From: Daniel E. Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello all. I have a question regarding installing debian on my laptop. I have a zip100 minidrive that I use with a pc

cdimage.debian.org

2000-08-17 Thread Ray Percival
appears to be down at the moment does anyone have a copy of the pseduo image kit they would be willing to send me. Thanks.

Re: ### a problem with installing Deb 2.1

2000-08-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
> I'm trying to install v2.1 on my machine, and I'm running into a > problem. Don't we all? > I am at the part "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules" and I > select > "cdrom". When I get the menu list "Select CD Interface Type" > none of the > selections seems to work. What kind of C

### a problem with installing Deb 2.1

2000-08-17 Thread Open Source
I'm trying to install v2.1 on my machine, and I'm running into a problem. I am at the part "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules" and I select "cdrom". When I get the menu list "Select CD Interface Type" none of the selections seems to work. After selecting one of the items, I'm asked t

Netscape 4.73 and dynamic fonts

2000-08-17 Thread Frederik
Hi, I'm experiencing some problems viewing certain webpages, because the font that is being used, is not big enough. I've put scaling and dynamic fonts on and off in all possible ways, but no luck. Help/Font Displayers shows there aren't any installed. Might this be the reason of this problem? If

Emacs and ISO-8859-1 characters

2000-08-17 Thread André Dahlqvist
I have a strange problem that I discovered while switching to using emacs as an editor in Mutt. It turns out that emacs will not accept non-ASCII characters like åäöé if I'm running emacs from within an xterm, but it works fine on the console or as a stand alone X application. To make things even s

Re: Multiple Mail Accounts?????

2000-08-17 Thread Jim Ray
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 06:24:20PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > Hello, > > I have multiple mail accounts with my isp. How can I setup linux so I > can have my 1 login into my linux box and be able to handle all of the > accounts? fetchmail would fit nicely. There is a config program called f

Re: Multiple Mail Accounts?????

2000-08-17 Thread Tal Danzig
Hello, Try Pronto (http://www.muhri.net/pronto It's a very nice client, and it can handle multiple email accounts (POP, IMAP, mbox, mairdir) Tal On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 18:24:20 -0500, Chris Hoover said: > Hello, > >I have multiple mail accounts with my isp. How can I setup linux so I > c

Multiple Mail Accounts?????

2000-08-17 Thread Chris Hoover
Hello, I have multiple mail accounts with my isp. How can I setup linux so I can have my 1 login into my linux box and be able to handle all of the accounts? What I really want is to be able to use 1 mail program and be able to see all of the mail I get. Then I would like to have it setup so

RE: xdm init level question

2000-08-17 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 17-Aug-2000 Paul D. Smith wrote: > I'm sure this has been discussed before (I have an uneasy feeling it may > be a "oh no, not this again" question); maybe someone can put the > rationale into a file in /usr/share/doc/ somewhere? I tried searching > the list archives (user, x, boot, etc.) with

apt-get omit kernel-image 's

2000-08-17 Thread jens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi there ... is there a way to configure apt-get to omit automatically kernel-image packages? - -- with friendly regards jens luedicke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1i iQA/AwUBOZxtOqF

re: Debian packages..

2000-08-17 Thread Michael Fox
Hi, Problem I am having is with packages. I have an old machine that is still running Slink, and at this time I do not wish to upgrade it. With potato changing to stable, I have since modified my sources.list to reflect the fact that stable is not what I want, but rather slink deb http://http.us

Is there something i'm missing here (WAS Which version of Debian will run on my system?)

2000-08-17 Thread John Griffiths
surely you could run even a 2.4 kernel on a 386 with 8 Mb of ram? I thought it was the Window managers and applications you chose to ran on linux that dicated the hardware specs.. not the distribution version? if i'm wrong i'd better find out why because it means i'm worng about a lot of stuff.

Re: Which version of Debian will run on my system?

2000-08-17 Thread Michael Soulier
The latest stable is 2.2. You're machine is more powerful than mine, and I'm running 2.2 with no performance problems. Mike On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Richard Swen wrote: > I am very new to Linux and would like to know the best > version of Debian to install on my computer. > > p3 5

Which version of Debian will run on my system?

2000-08-17 Thread Richard Swen
I am very new to Linux and would like to know the best version of Debian to install on my computer. p3 550mhz 128megs of ram vodoo 3 3000 soundblaster live 3com 3c905c Maxtor 13.0gig UDMA/66 ABIT BE-6 II Motherboard IOMEGA 250MB Zip Drive 3com 56K Fax/Voice/Data Modem Thank you, Richard Swen

Duplicating a file system / re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Dan Griffiths
Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:17:28AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > For some reason that I do not understand the authors of the "Hrad Disk > Upgrade > > Mini How-To" claim about this or very similar one that > > > > Previous versions of the Mini How-To stated that you co

Problem with a 2 GB+ Fujitsu SCSI disk, model M2952SYU

2000-08-17 Thread Alain Reinhardt
Allô, I have a 2 GB+ Fujitsu SCSI disk, model M2952SYU, dated 1997, that I have "liberated" from a clumsy 9x system. Under that system and also when I used it with different Linux distrib thereafter it did not work properly. It would "tik" and then I would get a disk error message. This was a y

Re: Installing Debian

2000-08-17 Thread Tal Danzig
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:48:39 +0100, Tancock, Matthew said: > Ok, I've only ever installed Redhat before, which is very easy... > > a friend lent me a copy of debian (3 cd's labled potato source 1,2,3) > I've copied them but i get the feeling i'm missing something, if I am, what > am i missin

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:17:28AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > For some reason that I do not understand the authors of the "Hrad Disk > Upgrade > Mini How-To" claim about this or very similar one that > > Previous versions of the Mini How-To stated that you could also > use "tar" to c

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Christoph Simon
> > ( cd ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd ; tar xf - ) > Previous versions of the Mini How-To stated that you could also > use "tar" to copy the disk, but this method was found to have a bug. I do not know that bug, and I am not aware of any, as I am using tar this way very often. I have never

netscape annoyance

2000-08-17 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! Since ~4 hours ago netscrap tells me every 2 minutes Netscape: subprocess diagnostics (stdout/stderr) Warning: Actions not found: PrimipiveParentCancel It doesn´t seem to hinder functionality in any way, but it sure as hell is annoying. Can it be that bit-rot has taken it´s way here

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Shaul Karl
> > Hi All, > > Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror > > a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact > > > > Thanks in Advance > > Bill > > > > ( cd ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd ; tar xf - ) > For some reason that I do not understand the

Re: unpartitioning with rescue disk

2000-08-17 Thread Shaul Karl
You might want to check GNU parted boot disk. But do read closely its USER file, both in order to determine if it fits your needs and in order to find out how to use it. I had good expreince with its repartition and resizing features, but bad one with its mkfs.ext2 feature. > Quoting Ed Burton

Re: xdm init level question

2000-08-17 Thread John Reinke
I'm glad this question was asked - I'm learning a lot on this list. I plan to set my system up like this, so I don't boot directly into X, but how should I start xdm? If I run xdm or switch to a runlevel with X, will I still be logged in as root? What if X crashes and returns the system to non-X,

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Christoph Simon
> If there's not enough space, tar czf or tar cIf and later tar xzf / tar xIf! > Bzip2/tar.gz compression really rocks (if you've got a fast cpu). >> ( cd ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd ; tar xf - ) With this line, you do not have to worry about disk space, as long as the destination drive has enough.

xdm login problems

2000-08-17 Thread Nathan Smith
Hello all: A strange problem with xdm. The setup is this: a NIS server we'll cleverly call server, and a NIS client we'll cleverly call client. xdm works with no problems on server. Console logins on client work fine. However if I start xdm and then try to log in on client the following happen

Re: xdm init level question

2000-08-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Paul D. Smith wrote: > I'm sure this has been discussed before (I have an uneasy feeling it may > be a "oh no, not this again" question); maybe someone can put the > rationale into a file in /usr/share/doc/ somewhere? I tried searching > th

problems upgrading standard kernel to 2.2.17-ide

2000-08-17 Thread Dave Bresson
So with the new release of potato, i've gone and done a clean install onto a new machine of mine. The problem at hand (i think) stems from the fact that this machine has a HighPoint 66 card, so i thought it ideal to install the special 2.2.17-ide kernel included with potato. So during the fresh

leafnode: Clients (newsreaders) do not see any group?

2000-08-17 Thread Shaul Karl
Package: leafnode Version: 1.9.15-3 Severity: normal I have just installed leafnode and run fetchnews for the first time. Although it took me far less then 60 min to download it groupinfo looks O.K, isn't it? [19:59:27 shaul]$ head /var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo 1.aardvark 1 1 0 -x- 12hr 1

Re: MONOCHROME mutt/mc, COLOR ls/elvis ...?

2000-08-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Will" == Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Will> mc ==> monochrome w/reverse-video and bold The terminal type mc considers to be color-capable is defined in /etc/mc/mc.ini (overriden by ~/.mc/ini). You can force colormode by using "mc -c". Ciao, Martin

kernel-panic (fwd)

2000-08-17 Thread Fethi A. Okyar
Dear Debian Gurus: I have been using Linux since 1995. All this time I never experienced a serious system crash, until recently. I am using Debian 2.0.14. My system has four partitions: devicesize mount /dev/hda1 ~1Gb / /dev/hda2 128Mb swap /dev/hda3 ~3Gb /usr /dev/hda4 ~1Gb

Re: PARITY SIMMS(was: Re: Older hardware running newer software (was: Re: etc))

2000-08-17 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! Why not watch out at ebay.com? Very exotic HW components are sold there!! Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User" Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 4:50 PM Subject: RE: Older hardware running newer software (was: Re: Installi

NFS'ing two Debian boxes

2000-08-17 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello What package is recommended for doing NFS between two Debian machines? I mean, what's needed for the server, what for the client(s)? I see the following available: # apt-cache search nfs [snip] nfs-server - User space NFS server. [snip] nfs-kernel-server - Kernel NFS server support [snip]

xdm init level question

2000-08-17 Thread Paul D. Smith
I'm sure this has been discussed before (I have an uneasy feeling it may be a "oh no, not this again" question); maybe someone can put the rationale into a file in /usr/share/doc/ somewhere? I tried searching the list archives (user, x, boot, etc.) with various keywords (init, xdm, level, etc.) bu

Apache - CGI

2000-08-17 Thread Gregor Mocnik
How do I enable CGI execution in directories other than ScriptAlias? I have Debian Slink, apache 1.3.9, and kernel 2.2.3. In ScriptAlias directory it works just fine! In srm.conf I do this: AddHandler cgi-script .cgi In access.conf I add this: Let's I want to enable it in all users home directo

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hi If there's not enough space, tar czf or tar cIf and later tar xzf / tar xIf! Bzip2/tar.gz compression really rocks (if you've got a fast cpu). Regards, Stephan Hachinger - Original Message - From: "Christoph Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 4:08 PM Subj

Re: Hardware Modems

2000-08-17 Thread Robert Waldner
>> I think this CONFIGP is a TSR that makes the connection between the >> (hardware!!!) modem and the COM port. Ungh, let me guess, this is a [pci,isa]-card - modem which *emulates* a serial-port to the OS? In older times you set the the port to emulate via a jumper, nowadays it´s most likely s

Re: MONOCHROME mutt/mc, COLOR ls/elvis ...?

2000-08-17 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:25:10AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Will Trillich wrote: > > hmm. i must have some odd video settings. i used your .muttrc > > settings verbatim [thanks!], and i do see bold items here and > > there, but still no color. (mc has the same trouble -- monochrome > > and b

Re: Can ssh harm apache-ssl ?

2000-08-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:32:40 -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > Petr Danek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PD> i read somewhere that ssh can harm apache-ssl because of using > PD> open-ssl. Is this opinion right ? > > That doesn't make any sense, particularly given that ssh has nothing to do > with SS

Re: Hardware Modems

2000-08-17 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > windows, reaching the capacity of 115 Kbps (at least, windows say that). > Take a look at their DOS readme section: Windows is lying, most likely :} It frequently reports the connection speed between the computer and the modem, rather than between t

Re: Window Manager

2000-08-17 Thread John Reinke
If I understand you courrectly, to change where the default window manager points, read the make-alternatives man page. the command is something like this: make-alternatives --configure x-window-manager and it will give you a choice to select from, or to make no changes. It works for me on potato

Window Manager

2000-08-17 Thread Frederik
I've installed Enlightenment (via apt-get) as my window manager. /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager still points to icewm though. I've tried to change this through the gnome config panel, but that made my screen turn black, even console windows, so that was sub-optimal ;-) I'd like to change it man

bttv/i2c stack question for you smart minds

2000-08-17 Thread Hans
I want to install the latest and greatest bttv drivers for my Pinnacle PCTVPRO. Two questions: 1) The bttv homepage (http://www.strusel007.de/linux/bttv/) says I need to apply a new i2c stack for kernels older than 2.3.34. I'm using 2.2.13 and there is a diff patch on the page, but it doesn't say

Re: (3Com) Ethernet card 100Base-only capable? (SOLVED)

2000-08-17 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello people Thanks tons to all those who replied (also privately). It turned out to be a configuration problem. The card was set to 100MBit. In a private mail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] quite appropriately pointed out to me the following: I've got several 3C905Bs in use, and they've all worked in 10

Re: Hardware Modems

2000-08-17 Thread romeu
I used to think that way, to. But, according to the reply they gave me (with an English even worse than mine), they did it !!! "Our modem is a hardware modem, but it has not direct access to the COM port, so it will not work under weird operating systems", or something like that. Actually, the mod

Re: setup SoundBlaster AWE64 on potato

2000-08-17 Thread Hans
Basically it comes down to this: 1) make a pnpdump, edit the /etc/isapnp.conf and run $isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf 2) compile a kernel with the SB drivers build in as modules 3) reboot with the new kernel 4) insert the modules with modprobe -a (they are sound and sb) with the sb having parameters like

problem with font

2000-08-17 Thread a
i have Debian 2.0. When i use the command below: xterm -fn -adobe-* both the foreground and background color is black. However "xterm -fn -misc-*" works. Many X programs have the same problem. Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because i'll leave the list in a minute.

Re: Hardware Modems

2000-08-17 Thread David Teague
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > They're making hardware modems that DON'T work under Linux. What do you mean? Does anyone know what this is about? I know about WinModems, all "winmodems" are certainly hardware modems, but different from the ones that have intelligence left in,

Problems with DOD and ISDN

2000-08-17 Thread Robert Kasunic
Hello all, I've ISDN here and my setup is working quite nice for a almost a year now. I'm trying to switch to Dial on demand now for convenience. It is already working, but there are a lot of unwanted connections triggered to my ISP. I've already read that this behaviour is caused by using dynami

OT: monitor gets fuzzy after 20 minutes of usage

2000-08-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Hi all, At home, I have had a Mag DX15T (15 inch on Trinitron tube) for several years (3, maybe 4). It recently started acting up. It's sharp as ever in X when I initially turn it on, but goes fuzzy, especially near the bottom of the screen, after about 20 minutes. When I exit X and go to the c

Re: KDE-->GNOME, how to switch

2000-08-17 Thread hogan
Check /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager symlink.. - Original Message - From: "Greg Strockbine." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 2:48 AM Subject: KDE-->GNOME, how to switch

Re: unpartitioning with rescue disk

2000-08-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ed Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I tried to partition with the Rescue disk, then > lost my Win32 MBR. I am using EZ_Bios (installed from > floppy) from Western Digital (I have a new 10.2g WD > drive), so luckily I was able to restore the MBR. My > Award BIOS cannot read above 2gb I want

Copying a partition, was Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror > a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact Well I wouldn't call "man dd" a safe way of doing this unless you mean you want to make a bit for bit copy of the dis

KDE-->GNOME, how to switch

2000-08-17 Thread Greg Strockbine.
I did the stormix install of the latest Deb, and I told it to install both KDE and GNOME. It comes up in KDE and I can't figure out how to make the switch to GNOME. I thought I had to put something like "gnome-exec" in my xstart file, but I don't even see such a file in my home directory, just a

charset issues

2000-08-17 Thread davidturetsky
On bouncing mail down from Windows/Outlook Express to debian/exim and back to Windows I find a line has been added and the resultant post no longer displays HTML under Outlook Express I am trying to set up a mailing list send out via debian/exim where some of the recipients will want to view the p

Re: Inetd problems?

2000-08-17 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: > After upgrading to woody, I now see these messages: > Aug 15 04:03:41 pedgr634 inetd[3373]: smtp/tcp: bind: Address already in use > > Aug 15 04:03:41 pedgr634 inetd[3373]: ftp/tcp: bind: Address already in use > > Aug 15 04:03:41 pedgr634 inetd[3373]: time/tcp: bind: Ad

Re: Installing Debian

2000-08-17 Thread Rick Loga
The Debian website has documentation on what to do with the 3 CD's to install Debian: http://www.debian.org/. --- Jeff Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >I think the key is probably that "source" you'd need to build all the >programmes from that, you need the binaries. >Jeff > >> "Tancock, Mat

Re: News Release from IBM FYI...

2000-08-17 Thread Keith G. Murphy
John Foster wrote: > > Hey all; take a look at this! Seems IBM has finally decided to get on > the wagon all the way :-) > > http://www.ibm.com/news/2000/08/153.phtml > This intrigued me: "Recently, IBM announced: Linux running on a wrist watch." Never could find a link for it... I noticed a

Inetd problems?

2000-08-17 Thread Patrik Magnusson
After upgrading to woody, I now see these messages: Aug 15 04:03:41 pedgr634 inetd[3373]: smtp/tcp: bind: Address already in use Aug 15 04:03:41 pedgr634 inetd[3373]: ftp/tcp: bind: Address already in use Aug 15 04:03:41 pedgr634 inetd[3373]: time/tcp: bind: Address already in use Aug

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-17 Thread Keith G. Murphy
mike wrote: > > Stormix is an easy way to get Debian potato up and running on your > computer > with a graphical installer. The Debian/Stormix distribution also includes > the newest Helix-gnome and 2.2.16 kernel. > You also get a very useful graphical front-end to apt-get and dse

Re: mutt -- in color

2000-08-17 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Will Trillich wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:42:24PM -0600, Rev GRC Sperry wrote: > > Here's my color section of my .muttrc: > [snip] > > hmm. i must have some odd video settings. i used your > settings verbatim [thanks!], and i do see bold items here and > there, but still no color. (mc h

Re: fetchmail is eating my mail

2000-08-17 Thread Andre Berger
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andre Berger writes: > > I had pretty much the same symptoms. It happened because fetchmail didn't > > know where to deliver the mail because localhost was unknown. > > That should result in the mail being left on the server. Right; I don't know what wen

Hardware Modems

2000-08-17 Thread romeu
They're making hardware modems that DON'T work under Linux. - Repassado por Romeu Freitas Flores Junior/RJ/Petrobras em 17/08/00 11:49 - Romeu

Re: (3Com) Ethernet card 100Base-only capable?

2000-08-17 Thread Jos Lemmerling
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi guys > > I got myself a second box onto which I just installed potato! Yippie! > I have one problem, though: the network card. :( > > > > If this is really so, I think it's annoying for cards as this to exist. > Are there any specific reasons for h

Re: Installing Debian

2000-08-17 Thread Jeff Green
I think the key is probably that "source" you'd need to build all the programmes from that, you need the binaries. Jeff > "Tancock, Matthew" wrote: > > Ok, I've only ever installed Redhat before, which is very easy... > > a friend lent me a copy of debian (3 cd's labled potato source 1,2,3) > I'

netkit-inetd installation problem

2000-08-17 Thread Pietro . Abate
Hi, I've this annoying problem with netkit-inetd and subsequently with netbase. During the preconfiguration phase dpkg says: - zed:/usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf# dpkg --configure netkit-inetd Setting up netkit-inetd (0.10-2) ... Can't call method "default" without a package or object referenc

Re: Installing Debian

2000-08-17 Thread hogan
Consult the instructions at: http://www.au.debian.org/releases/potato/#new-inst Or your local mirror.. - Original Message - From: "Tancock, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 12:48 AM Subject: Installing Debian > Ok, I've only ever installed Redhat before,

kernel-panic

2000-08-17 Thread Fethi A. Okyar
Dear Debian Gurus: I have been using Linux since 1995. All this time I never experienced a serious system crash, until recently. I am using Debian 2.0.14. My system has four partitions: devicesize mount /dev/hda1 ~1Gb / /dev/hda2 128Mb swap /dev/hda3 ~3Gb /usr /dev/hda4 ~1Gb

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Marcello Mezzanotti
Nico De Ranter wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:42:19AM -0300, Marcello Mezzanotti wrote: > > Thomas Guettler wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:17:08PM +1000, Bill wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to > > > > mirror >

Installing Debian

2000-08-17 Thread Tancock, Matthew
Title: Installing Debian Ok, I've only ever installed Redhat before, which is very easy... a friend lent me a copy of debian (3 cd's labled potato source 1,2,3) I've copied them but i get the feeling i'm missing something, if I am, what am i missing, if i'm not, what do i do with these disks

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