Printing w/Epson SC800

2000-09-11 Thread John Gilger
I feel like a total mental case. I have potato up and running fine, but even though I've read a pile of f'ing manuals I can't get my epson sc800 printer to listen when debian talks! I have installed apsfilter, lprng, and aladdin-ghostscript as recommended in the PRINTING-HOWTO, but for some unknow

Re: please help updating calendar

2000-09-11 Thread ferret
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 03:54:13AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > If there are no fixed events then everything should go in the yearly > > > files. > > > > The events are fixed. The main point is that the Jewish calendar is based > > on > > the motio

Re: Another Poll (Update)

2000-09-11 Thread Pat Mahoney
I apologize, it was an immature thing to do, but I've never seen a poll that lets you vote many times. In my defense, I had the choice of either inflating a poll or memorizing the names of unpronounceable Hindu (should that be Hindi?) gods for my Asian Mythology class. Also, debian is now much fu

[no subject]

2000-09-11 Thread Stephen Hupman
Hi I am attempting to configure X. I can make the blank screen appear and that is about it. Help. The information required to configure this software is very specific. I don't know how to find some of the information, ie video card, clockchip, RAMDAC, can you help? Stephen Hupman _

Re: installation

2000-09-11 Thread Gregg C
Doh, mixed up my ata's! I was digging around at asus's site recently, and looked at that board. But I forgot about the ata100, and so I thought your problem was ata66 wasn't working. Like joonas, I haven't used it, but I remember reading about the ata100 patch a while back. It is supposed to wor

Re: hostname/netname

2000-09-11 Thread Gregg C
From: Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: hostname/netname Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:11:53 -0500 On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:51:08PM -0400, Gregg C wrote: > Just your hostname goes in hostname (simple enough) gotcha. > Put your domain name in /etc/

Re: kernel compiling--now working

2000-09-11 Thread cls-colo spgs
thx to mr. norris, my problem is fixed. bentley taylor. // "Gregory T. Norris" wrote: > Make sure you have libncurses[45]-dev installed... > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 06:26:08PM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote: > > debs, > > > > my deskbox likes the taste of kernel 2.2.17; but my > > lapbox is getti

Re: installation

2000-09-11 Thread George Frederick Viamontes
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, M Joonas Pihlaja wrote: > Hi George, > > I had this same problem just a week ago with the same > motherboard. You don't specify which Debian release you have, > but I think Potato doesn't have support for ATA-100 in the > kernel. You're on the right track though: > > i)

Re: muttzilla Working!

2000-09-11 Thread Dale Morris
Got it running and other than an irritating little info box from netscape complaining about not being able to convert string to "true" to type boolean, which probably has something to do with my Xterm, .Xdefaults file, it works just like it's supposed to. Amazing.. Dale Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: hostname/netname

2000-09-11 Thread Will Trillich
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:51:08PM -0400, Gregg C wrote: > Just your hostname goes in hostname (simple enough) gotcha. > Put your domain name in /etc/hosts put a line like: > > 192.168.1.1 server.dontUthink.com server do i hafta be my own nameserver to do that? (i am, but i'm asking if it's

Re: Ethernet trouble

2000-09-11 Thread Nick Willson
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > > > Seeking help using a network card in a PC. The card is a Linksys Etherfast > > 10/100 LAN card. > > Do you know what revision (ie v1 vs v2 vs v3 vs v4) of card this is? >

Re: Ethernet trouble

2000-09-11 Thread Nick Willson
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 03:50:20AM -0700, Nick Willson wrote: > > > Here is result of "modprobe tulip": > > /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/tulip.o: init_module: Device or resource busy > > Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including > > invalid IO or IRQ parameters > > /l

Re: Another Poll (Update)

2000-09-11 Thread Will Trillich
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:40:28PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > On 10-Sep-2000 I. Tura wrote: > and > >> > >>> > Vote often! > >> > >>I second that :) > > > > > > > > I say that this is not fair... Or I'm innocent and everybody votes > dozens > > of times in polls? you may be innocent, bu

Re: muttzilla

2000-09-11 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I'm trying to get muttzilla to work with netscape. I'm running version > 4.75, and slocate shows I have libc6 in /usr/lib/netscape/plugins-libc6, > when I click on a mail-to url, nothing happens. Anyone have this > working? I've checked, but there's no man page for muttzilla. > ... but there is

Re: apm/hdparm/power-supply saga, latest installment

2000-09-11 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Nate, It's a pretty simple reason a person would want to fully suspend a desktop box - using alternative power! I plan to run my entire configuration via 12Volt batteries and a ups like inverter. if I can reduce the draw of current, I can extend the life of my batteries. The whole reason I wa

Re: booting with lilo win2k

2000-09-11 Thread Bob McGowan
NTLDR is a file which should be in the root directory of the "system" disk (MS calls the disk with system files like boot.ini, NTLDR etc. the system disk). This disk is the one the BIOS will look to first for booting. This may _not_ be the disk which has the Windows files on it (MS calls the disk

Re: kernel compiling

2000-09-11 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Make sure you have libncurses[45]-dev installed... On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 06:26:08PM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote: > debs, > > my deskbox likes the taste of kernel 2.2.17; but my > lapbox is getting stuck: > > Script started on Mon Sep 11 17:53:15 2000 > EBUSINESS:/tmp/linux# makemenu    

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-11 Thread Bob McGowan
Run states 0 and 6 are both characterized by complete shutdown of all services. And since the script name is just a way to find the file(s) of interest (and _all_ files are "of interest" for 0/6) and it is the argument that actually causes the action, it doesn't matter what name is used so long as

Re: installation

2000-09-11 Thread M Joonas Pihlaja
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, George Frederick Viamontes wrote: > Hi, > I got a new motherboard (Asus A7V) that has the ultra-ata > support on the motherboard. I am able to get to the > installation screen for debian, but it does not see that I > have a hard drive. Is there a boot argument I need to pas

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-11 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:19:23PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > There is a README in /etc/init.d for a reason, you know .. > > I fully understand that you as the Grand Master of the Debian init system > might be annoyed by such a questi

kernel compiling

2000-09-11 Thread cls-colo spgs
debs, my deskbox likes the taste of kernel 2.2.17; but my lapbox is getting stuck: Script started on Mon Sep 11 17:53:15 2000 EBUSINESS:/tmp/linux# makemenu     menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/

Re: Potato splitvt not working

2000-09-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Potato splitvt not working Date: Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 03:10:41PM -0700 In reply to:Joey Hess Quoting Joey Hess([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > Followup to my own message. I received the 2.2 CD's today and did an > > > > apt-get --fix-broken --show-up

Re: Netscape Tar.gz files

2000-09-11 Thread Gregg C
Which you need to get from ftp.debian.org or a mirror, as netscape will not be on any of the cd's you may (or may not have. cd's don't come with non-free, which humorously enough means that everyone who wants netscape downloads it from debian.org, burning 30 or so megs of bandwidth, when instea

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-11 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:19:23PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >I uncommented the debug line in /etc/init.d/rc and noticed that > >all scrips in rc6.d / rc0.d were called with "stop" on shutdown > >_regardless of prefix_. Now I'm totally confused. > > Why don't you simply read the docu

Re: vga-alike x11 font wanted

2000-09-11 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > so my question is: does anybody know a 8x16 font with iso8859-1 encoding > > and a vga-alike look? > > http://boogie.cs.unitn.it/dz/debian/packages/xvgafont_1.0_all.deb > thx - this is what i've been looking for ... but this font does not have the line drawing characters needed for "mc", et

Re: hostname/netname

2000-09-11 Thread Gregg C
Just your hostname goes in hostname (simple enough) Put your domain name in /etc/hosts put a line like: 192.168.1.1 server.dontUthink.com server (or whatever IP you use instead of .1.1 Who is doing your DNS? Do you have a perminate link to the internet? That will determin how to do your

RE: Debian or Stormix

2000-09-11 Thread Paul McHale
> Now, on the other hand...if people simply do not care to learn > the sytem and > want to be 'up-and-running quick' then RH and their tools are good. This worked for me to a point. Redhat was up and running quickly, but then fell apart when something wouldn't work from the GUI based admin tools.

keyboard setting? (debian hates me part II)

2000-09-11 Thread Mark Sanchez
Hi all. I can not set the keyboard map in my debian 2.2 (potato). Symbols do not corespond with keyboard!. I try to 'loadkeys es' it responds 'Loading es.kmap' but it seems to do nothing (yes I have a spanish keyboard!:). And the 'Ctrl-C' sequence does not send an interrupt (I dont now if it se

Re: installation

2000-09-11 Thread Gregg C
I can't say if the A7V and its ata77 controler is supported, because I don't have one. But maybe the fist thing to ask you is are using the special floppies for ata66 systems? Check in the disks-i386 directory for them. From: George Frederick Viamontes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@list

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Pernegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I uncommented the debug line in /etc/init.d/rc and noticed that >all scrips in rc6.d / rc0.d were called with "stop" on shutdown >_regardless of prefix_. Now I'm totally confused. Why don't you simply read the document

network down! (debian seems to hate me)

2000-09-11 Thread Mark Sanchez
Hi all!. Got potato 2.2, and at install I could not load the network module so I loaded the dummy module ... I have a genius ge2500 ISA (Realtek chip) network card. after install, I edited the /etc/modutils/ne file to include options io=0x280 irq=5 and now I can modprobe the ne module (and it doe

installation

2000-09-11 Thread George Frederick Viamontes
Hi, I got a new motherboard (Asus A7V) that has the ultra-ata support on the motherboard. I am able to get to the installation screen for debian, but it does not see that I have a hard drive. Is there a boot argument I need to pass so that debian will recognize ultra-ata drives? Or do I need to

Re: realplayer plugin

2000-09-11 Thread Dale Morris
Might try plugger, it seemed to work for me.. Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I vaguely remember, after installing realplayer, having to > manually run one of the shell scripts (maybe mime-install??) > it comes with. > As for the mimetype-application bindings, editing ~/.mailcap > work

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 02:42:50AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "unlike rpm which you need to compile rpm to access a .rpm." > > I think not. I managed to open an .rpm using the Gnome file manager in a > debian-based installation. An .rpm appears to be a cpio archive. Correct me, > folks, if

Re: booting with lilo win2k

2000-09-11 Thread Arcady Genkin
William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > other=/dev/hda3 <-- notice hda3, make sure that yours points to the > label=win correct partition..ie is win2k really on hda1? That's funny. Is your /dev/hda3 an NTFS partition? I have the following in my lilo.conf: ,[ lilo.conf ] | bo

Re: sendmail or exim?

2000-09-11 Thread QBA
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:19:49PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm thinking about using sendmail or exim... Now I have sendmail > configured properly, but the default mta for debian is exim, so I > think it's a good idea to change it. > > What I need to do is the following: I have a

Re: Another Poll (Update)

2000-09-11 Thread Pollywog
On 10-Sep-2000 I. Tura wrote: and >> >>> > Vote often! >> >>I second that :) > > > > I say that this is not fair... Or I'm innocent and everybody votes dozens > of times in polls? I agree that it is unfair and that it makes the results meaningless. -- Andrew

Re: Netscape Tar.gz files

2000-09-11 Thread I. Tura
Use the debianized packages of Netscape in non-free section. They are four or five netscape.blah_blah_blah.deb They'll be installated in a minute. Best, Ignasi At 13.54 11/9/00 -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna ha escrit: >Hi: > > I am finding it difficult

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-11 Thread I. Tura
Actually I don't know your position in your work (I missed the full thread) but a simple suggestion: If you can be root there, why don't you install both, install a minimal set of programs for your work in RH, and progressively use more Debian... until leaving RH rotting in its pa

Re: Another Poll (Update)

2000-09-11 Thread I. Tura
At 16.00 8/9/00 -0500, Pat Mahoney ha escrit: >On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 03:51:54PM -0500, Paul T. McNally wrote: >> on 9/7/00 11:45 AM, Brooks R. Robinson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > Greetings, >> > There is yet another Linux version poll at www.justlinux.com! Debian is >> > sitting at 7%! Vo

Re: SUPPORT drivers

2000-09-11 Thread I. Tura
In Debian site http://www.debian.org/doc/ There is a link for http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html Best, Ignasi At 22.49 7/9/00 EST, MOISES ELLIS ha escrit: >do you have support for theses devices please >in your kernel

Re: Problem with the instalation!!!

2000-09-11 Thread I. Tura
The Packages.gz you mention just contains a text list of the programs that are available in the main directory of the CD or whatever. If you're using a CD you should have a Packages file, not compressed. It has the same info as Packages.gz Best, Ignasi At 13.52 6/9/0

RE: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-11 Thread Christian Pernegger
I uncommented the debug line in /etc/init.d/rc and noticed that all scrips in rc6.d / rc0.d were called with "stop" on shutdown _regardless of prefix_. Now I'm totally confused. Christian > -Original Message- > From: Bob McGowan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 200

Re: cvs over ssh

2000-09-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Sorry about that, just trying things (-: cvs works for me using a command line exactly like the one you sent in the first post.

Re: Potato splitvt not working

2000-09-11 Thread Joey Hess
Wayne Topa wrote: > > > Followup to my own message. I received the 2.2 CD's today and did an > > > apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade on another debian 2.1 > > > box. Splitvt works fine on this box. > > > > splitvt_1.6.3-7.1.deb but upgraded with the command > apt-get --fix-broke

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-11 Thread Bob McGowan
Check the directory /etc/rcS.d which is run when init goes to single user/halt, IIRC. Christian Pernegger wrote: > > Hi list, here's a quick one: > > I always thought that init, when changing runlevels, > called first the K* scripts of the new runlevel with "stop", > then the S* ones with "start

Re: Potato splitvt not working

2000-09-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Potato splitvt not working Date: Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:15:33PM -0700 In reply to:Joey Hess Quoting Joey Hess([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Wayne Topa wrote: > > Followup to my own message. I received the 2.2 CD's today and did an > > apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded d

hostname/netname

2000-09-11 Thread Will Trillich
i'm trying to figure out where i should put which components of my debian node name and my dns zone name... zone: dontUthink.com cpu: server if i have 'server' alone in /etc/hostname there seem to be places that don't know i'm in the dontUthink.com zone. if i have the whole server.dontUthink.com

Re: cvs over ssh

2000-09-11 Thread Aaron Brashears
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > cvs -t -d :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot co project > > is the proper command with options. > First, your suggestion: $ cvs -t -d :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot co project cvs checkout: unknown method in CVSroot: :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot cvs [checkout aborted]: Bad C

RE: cvs over ssh

2000-09-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > $ set | grep CVS > CVS_RSH=ssh > $ cvs -t -d :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot co project > cvs checkout: notice: main loop with CVSROOT=:ext:ritalin:/cvsroot > -> Starting server: rsh ritalin cvs server > permission denied > cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messa

cvs over ssh

2000-09-11 Thread Aaron Brashears
Hi there. Before I file a formal bug report I want to see if anyone else is experiencing my problem. I'm trying to connect to a cvs server here in the office using ssh. However, it seems that cvs isn't willing to launch ssh even tough it's installed and correctly configured to work. Here's a sample

Re: Debian or Stormix

2000-09-11 Thread Charles Lewis
I agree. Just recently installed Stormix at home and as far as I can tell it IS Debian, so I'm not sure exactly what it is supposed to be hiding. Stormix installation is fast and straightforward. I only have a couple of gripes. Serial mice work during installation but after reboot gpm is pointing t

Re: Own boot scripts

2000-09-11 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Julio Merino wrote: > I would like to know where should I put my own boot up scripts. For > example, I write one to restore my mixer setup on boot up and save it > in shutdown. I saved it in /etc/init.d and then I made the appropiate > links. > > I think that /etc/init.d is no

need faxmail for efax--any conflict w/hylafax-client?

2000-09-11 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'm in the final stages of getting efax set up on my server to answer the phone and email received faxes to me on my main machine. I see that faxmail is used to do this, but that is available only in the hylafax-client .deb. Would DL'ing that write over anything or otherwise interfere with efa

RE: sendmail or exim?

2000-09-11 Thread Christian Pernegger
I was surprised just how easy that was on my own LAN. 1) run /usr/sbin/eximconfig 2) select the smarthost option You want to relay for (accept mail from) your LAN, e.g. 192.168.0.0/24 3) edit /etc/email-addresses ("username: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" This is all you need. If you require any hel

Re: sendmail or exim?

2000-09-11 Thread Bruce Richardson
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/etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-11 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hi list, here's a quick one: I always thought that init, when changing runlevels, called first the K* scripts of the new runlevel with "stop", then the S* ones with "start". So I expected to find a K??networking in rc[06].d, but there's only a S??networking variant - in fact nowhere on the system

Re: Scsh (Was: Re: My orphaned packages.)

2000-09-11 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:42:14PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Since you are teaming with Martin Gasbichler, and since Martin is a > co-author of Scsh, I'd say that puts you two in as most qualified to > handle the package. (Daniel? Please forward this mail to Martin.) Yup, they are

Freezing during boot-up for installation

2000-09-11 Thread Rosa Edwards
I need help getting Debian installed. I bought a book, "learning Debian/GNU Linux" by McCarty (O'Reilly Pub.) which included a CD with debian. In the instructions it told me to create a boot disk. I followed the instructions and created a boot disk. I booted the computer using the boot disk and i

Scsh (Was: Re: My orphaned packages.)

2000-09-11 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Daniel" == Daniel Kobras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> On 10 Sep 2000, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: >> `scsh' ought to be taken over by someone who actually uses it. I've >> not even looked at it in over a year. Daniel> If nobody objects I'd like to do this together with

Re: Using RSA authentication with SSH - mini HOWTO

2000-09-11 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:24:03PM +0200, Carel Fellinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:29:14AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:02:18AM -0400, S . Salman Ahmed ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > clear description snipt but the one typeo

Re: laptop

2000-09-11 Thread Bruce Richardson
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Re: laptop

2000-09-11 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:01:30AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > > debian is the most laptop-friendly distro i've encountered. I'd have to question that, even in my recent-Debian-convert fervour. Slackware comes with a whole range of kernels - low power, apm etc. When I installed Debian on my work l

Re: mutt can burn in ****!!

2000-09-11 Thread Bruce Richardson
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Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-11 Thread Bruce Richardson
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Re: Deleted /dev/hda (MBR)

2000-09-11 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 04:39:24PM +0100, Dominik Bittl wrote: > I deleted /dev/hda as root and now i cant boot anymore (without > disc) !! eh, what do you mean? have you deleted the _device file_ '/dev/hda'? then, i could imagine, that there's no (big) data loss. these device files are the inter

Own boot scripts

2000-09-11 Thread Julio Merino
Hi all, I would like to know where should I put my own boot up scripts. For example, I write one to restore my mixer setup on boot up and save it in shutdown. I saved it in /etc/init.d and then I made the appropiate links. I think that /etc/init.d is not the proper place because it could interfer

sendmail or exim?

2000-09-11 Thread Julio Merino
Hi all, I'm thinking about using sendmail or exim... Now I have sendmail configured properly, but the default mta for debian is exim, so I think it's a good idea to change it. What I need to do is the following: I have a local network. So, I'm interested in beeing able to send mail in it. Then, I

Re: freeware windoze client that will do ssh?

2000-09-11 Thread John Ackermann
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, William Jensen writes: >Any ideas? I've got ssh working from work to home, now just need to=20 >get ftp set also. > >Wm I use TeraTerm with the "ttssh" module added by Robert O'Callahan. Check www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html John [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-11 Thread Julio Merino
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:09:08PM +0200, Jason Quigley wrote: > Does your bios have the setting memory hole at 64M activated? I'm not sure > if > that's the exact option. I only vaguely remember something like that as I > haven't rebooted for such a long time - and sorry - I refuse to for >

Re: HELP! with ethernet

2000-09-11 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 04:57:47PM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 03:28:12PM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 08:01:33AM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > No I did not write this! Just because we have the same name does not > mean you are allow

voodoo3 3000

2000-09-11 Thread dirk
Hi all. I searched dejanews and the debian-user archive but couldn't find anything of use. Of course, my voodoo3 3000 doesn't work, that is, 2D works but 3D doesn't. I am running potato, used only debs for glide, 3dfx etc. Furthermore I used apt-get to install everything so I assume everythin

Re: freeware windoze client that will do ssh?

2000-09-11 Thread William Jensen
My bad, I meant to say freeware windoze client that will do FTP with ssh On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:41:22PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 14:35:58 -0500, William Jensen wrote: > > Any ideas? > > Putty. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ > > HTH, > Ra

Re: freeware windoze client that will do ssh?

2000-09-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 14:35:58 -0500, William Jensen wrote: > Any ideas? Putty. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ HTH, Ray -- RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may not be a better one than the one the blocks live in but it'll be a sight more vivid. - The Hip

freeware windoze client that will do ssh?

2000-09-11 Thread William Jensen
Any ideas? I've got ssh working from work to home, now just need to get ftp set also. Wm pgp16662qQJOn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Using RSA authentication with SSH - mini HOWTO

2000-09-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:29:14AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:02:18AM -0400, S . Salman Ahmed ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: clear description snipt but the one typeo... > > Troubleshooting: If Something Breaks > - ... >

muttzilla

2000-09-11 Thread Dale Morris
I'm trying to get muttzilla to work with netscape. I'm running version 4.75, and slocate shows I have libc6 in /usr/lib/netscape/plugins-libc6, when I click on a mail-to url, nothing happens. Anyone have this working? I've checked, but there's no man page for muttzilla. thanks --dale

Re: ISDN newbie

2000-09-11 Thread C. Falconer
Is there the potential for a winmodem-style ISDN adapter? I mean, an internal PC device that looks like a modem/ISDN adapter, but uses a special windows driver to do its processing... is it feasable? At 11:17 PM 9/11/00 +0200, you wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 03:27:08PM -0300, Mario Olimpio

Re: hibernation on a desktop? Suspend-to-RAM on a desktop?

2000-09-11 Thread Thomas Hood
I suggest that you check out the "noflushd" daemon in the woody archive. Thomas Hood

Re: Debian or Stormix

2000-09-11 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:38:17PM -0500, William Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > An advantage of a "steep learning curve" is two-fold. Number one you get a > nice confidence boost from the effort it took to learn something new and > challenging. Second is you actually understand what the

Re: booting with lilo win2k

2000-09-11 Thread Dean
Hi Arcady: Does lilo show up on the screen while booting? If so hit shift to stop automatic boot-up. Then hit tab to see what choices are available. hth Dean Arcady Genkin wrote: > > Yesterday I had to install Win2000; while I suspected that it would > overwrite the MBR (where lilo lives), I

Re: vga-alike x11 font wanted

2000-09-11 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
> hi there, > > i found two fonts, which partly meet the criteria: > * vga - this one looks good and has the right proportions, but has a > wrong encoding (pc437) for a west-european xterm, so umlauts, etc. > are messed up. > * -etl-fixed-bold-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso8859-1 - it has the rig

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-11 Thread csj
"unlike rpm which you need to compile rpm to access a .rpm." I think not. I managed to open an .rpm using the Gnome file manager in a debian-based installation. An .rpm appears to be a cpio archive. Correct me, folks, if this is misinformation. Besides, you can always "alien"-ate an .rpm On Mon,

Re: OFFTOPIC attn list admin: Debian.org in the RBL?

2000-09-11 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:28:46PM +, Pollywog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am surprised to find that posts from the list are being rejected this > morning. I have added debian.org to my rbl_exept list to get around this > problem. > > Does anyone know what is going on? Hmmm: [EMAIL P

Re: Netscape Tar.gz files

2000-09-11 Thread QBA
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:54:02PM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi: > > I am finding it difficult to lacate the netscape binaries to install > the Navigator or communicator from ftp.netscape.com. I was in > particular interested in 4.73 but there are not binaries at the site. > Can so

Re: Potato splitvt not working

2000-09-11 Thread Joey Hess
Wayne Topa wrote: > Followup to my own message. I received the 2.2 CD's today and did an > apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade on another debian 2.1 > box. Splitvt works fine on this box. > > The box the orignal problem showed up on was upgrades with just an > apt-get upgrade. Wha

RE: laptop

2000-09-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
there is a list: debian-laptop. Just like debian-user but for laptop issues.

Re: ISDN newbie

2000-09-11 Thread dirk
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 03:27:08PM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > > Well, my doubts are: is it possible to use this RS232 to connect > to Linux serial port and then to use ISDN4Linux? I don't think so. I had an external dynalink ISDN modem for some time but I just used wvdial

RE: wxGTK and wxPython debs

2000-09-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Sep-2000 Johann Spies wrote: > Does somebody know where I can get debian packages of wxGTK 2.1 and > wxPython 2.1? in woody no?

RE: shared libraries

2000-09-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Sep-2000 Robert Kerr wrote: > Hi all, > I'm working at compiling a program under slink and keep getting the error > (when trying to run it) that it can't find the > libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3. Of course, that happens for a very good > reason--the version on slink is libc6.0. How can I find o

RE: strange package dependencies

2000-09-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > So apt wants to replace libesd-alsa0 with libesd0. But why? Sure, > xtux depends on `libesd0 (>= 0.2.14-0.2)' but `libesd-alsa 0.2.17-7' > which is installed provides `libesd0'. What is the point in replacing > `libesd-alsa 0.2.17-7' with `libesd0 0.2.17-7'? > the problem lies in the fact

Re: slrnpull failure

2000-09-11 Thread QBA
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 01:24:24AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with slrnpull or to be more precise with its connection > to ISP. I read file /slrn/slrnpull/QUICK_INSTALL and did all as it is > written there. So I run my /etc/ppp/ppp-on script to connect to ISP > (ev

RE: no telnet in x

2000-09-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Sep-2000 Jacob Ian Stowell wrote: > Hi all, > > I am experiencing a strange problem. I am unable to telnet from X into > my home computer. However, what is weird is that I can telnet into home > from the console. Also, I can use rlogin from X, and everything works > fine. Further, anoth

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-11 Thread Sven Burgener
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:02:45AM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > > Maybe the software in the distributions is about the same, but the > > distros themselves sure aren't. Right. > Support. OH yes support. The first time I set up RH (first linux ever) I > naturally had some problems and question

Re: Debian or Stormix

2000-09-11 Thread Phillip Deackes
William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > An advantage of a "steep learning curve" is two-fold. Number one you > get a > nice confidence boost from the effort it took to learn something new > and > challenging. Second is you actually understand what the system is > doing. > For example, if

Re: booting with lilo win2k

2000-09-11 Thread William Jensen
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:15:55PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Yesterday I had to install Win2000; while I suspected that it would > overwrite the MBR (where lilo lives), I had a boot floppy ready and > restored the MBR w/o problems. However I can't figure out how to > multiboot into it using LI

Re: Debian or Stormix

2000-09-11 Thread William Jensen
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:37:49PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: > "Ray Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you have been using FreeBSD I would just get Debian and for the > > same money you would spend on Storm get a good Debian book. Storm > > hides to much to really learn from IMO. > >

ISDN newbie

2000-09-11 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I just received a isdn connection at home. Till now, I've a USR isa modem working great with Linux. The isdn standard in Brazil is the Europe Standard. The NT used has a RS232 adaptor and according to the telco, it has a internal isdn adaptor. Well, my

Re: changing partiton size

2000-09-11 Thread QBA
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 06:24:36PM -0500, ktb wrote: > What's filling the partition up that fast? Are you running squid or > something like that? I've heard people mention the package -- logrotate > Maybe you could try that? If you can trim down whatever is taking so > much space maybe you wo

Using RSA authentication with SSH - mini HOWTO

2000-09-11 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:02:18AM -0400, S . Salman Ahmed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "NA" == Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > NA> if you want to keep 'hackers' out, i suggest using it and > NA> disabling password authentication in SSH and force RSA > NA> passphrase au

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