Re: I broke x

2000-09-18 Thread Nate Amsden
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 08:14:36PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > > > quite possible it is something else, i have blocked port 6000 on many > > machines and have ont had much problems, also i believe(and seeing the > > error makes me believe more) that X uses unix soc

apt-get/dselect

2000-09-18 Thread Dale Morris
After having had trouble with finding packages in apt-get and using dselect and making a few mistakes, I find I've gotten my system a little out of whack. Everything is working fine, but I mistakenly deleted some packages with dselect. Just recently I went to use slrn and found it wasn't there, apt

Re: dselect and apt-get

2000-09-18 Thread Adam Scriven
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 02:37:34PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've made heavy use of apt-get to install packages as needed. While this is > great it does require me to know or find out the package name, or is there a > better way? I don't know if this is a better way or not, but I usually j

Re: dselect question

2000-09-18 Thread David Z Maze
Joel Dinel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JD> When I enter dselect and go to "[I]nstall and upgrade wanted packages", JD> dselect wants to install 59 packages. I don't want these packages. How do JD> I go about "flushing" the list of packages that dselect believes should be JD> installed ? Go to the

Installing individual unstable packages

2000-09-18 Thread paul
Hi Guys, What is the best practise for obtaining and installing the odd unstable package in to a stable system? Cheers, -Paul.

Re: deb packages not offered: lame xcdplay?

2000-09-18 Thread Hubert Chan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On this note, does anyone want to weigh > in on how well alien works for converting RPM's? Well, the one package I tried alien on (galeon) worked fine. One thing you should watch out for, though, is that RedHat has certain files in different locations than Debian (no

dselect and apt-get

2000-09-18 Thread paul
Hi Guys, I've made heavy use of apt-get to install packages as needed. While this is great it does require me to know or find out the package name, or is there a better way? From time to time I drop in to dselect to be able to search and find packages, but if I try to select and install from d

Re: man dd <-- broke

2000-09-18 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 08:26:46PM -0500, William Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey guys, > > I just did a man dd and received: > > > gzip: /var/cache/man/cat1/dd.1.gz: not in gzip format > Manual page dd(1) line ?/? (END) > > I haven't done anything to the system. info dd works though.

Re: Searching in dselect

2000-09-18 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 05:31:52AM +0200, Helgi Örn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all Debian's > > How can I search for a package in the dselect program? '?' brings up a list of keystrokes. '/' starts a search. 'n' finds next instance of pattern. You might also want to use apt-cache: $

Solution: gpm and X and mouse (correction)

2000-09-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Oops sorry for my bad memory, As listed in the complete listing of /etc/gpm.conf in my previous posting: Set in /etc/gpm.conf as: repeat_type=raw and set X to read /dev/gpmdata with ps2 protocol. This is correct solution for gpm mouse. (My original posting had "repeat_data" in place for "rep

Re: Installation help

2000-09-18 Thread Nate Amsden
Martin Scott Goldberg wrote: > So I can possibly unhook the 5.25" floppy and fit the CDrom in the > connection. i've never heard of a 5.25" floppy hooked to an IDE controller .. :) > I need to install it on the space on the 40gig though, so are you saying I > should unhook the 40gig from the dma

Re: your mail

2000-09-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:53:34PM -0400, Stephen wrote: > >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, i

Searching in dselect

2000-09-18 Thread Örn
Hi all Debian's How can I search for a package in the dselect program? Thank's, Helgi Örn

Re: I broke x

2000-09-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 08:14:36PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > quite possible it is something else, i have blocked port 6000 on many > machines and have ont had much problems, also i believe(and seeing the > error makes me believe more) that X uses unix sockets to communicate > making it (as far a

Re: Begone, vile emacs!

2000-09-18 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 07:22:38PM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 07:51:29AM -0400, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > > > bash-2.03$ dpkg -S `which emacs` > > dpkg: /usr/bin/emacs not found. > > > > What package do I have to purge? > > $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/emacs > dpkg: /usr/bin/

Re: APM: disable mouse interrupt?

2000-09-18 Thread Nate Amsden
maybe time to switch to a USB or serial mouse :) or find a MB that supports that ...it may be worth emailing the company that makes the MB(provided its not a real old one) and askin them about that .. nate Krzys Majewski wrote: > > Sadly, interrupt 12 is not listed in the power management sec

Re: UDMA100 support?

2000-09-18 Thread Nate Amsden
Victor Cassen wrote: > > Can anyone tell me if UDMA100 support is available or will be > available anytime soon? I am trying to do an install to such a > machine. I found the UDMA66 kernel, but the install program (loadlin) > complained that no disks were detected. linux was indeed the first OS

Re: I broke x

2000-09-18 Thread Nate Amsden
david sowerby wrote: > > While trying to be smart I closed port 6000, thinking this would just shut > down x's network capabilities (I'm not on a network). I added "-nolisten tcp" > to /etc/X11/Xserver and sure enough it closed port 6000 and x won't run using > starx. I can start the xserver by gi

Re: Packages???

2000-09-18 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 01:56:27PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've installed RH, MD, SuSE, Caldera, FreeBSD, etc. and now would > like to install Debian 2.2 I know, I know, but I like "punishment" :) > > I'm kid of hesitant because of all the new "nomenclature" suc

Re: bash login for root

2000-09-18 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 02:31:51PM -0700, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > I'll have to think a bit before I say it's really bad. I think it's not > > a *good* idea > > It's a horrible idea. > > All someone has to do then is crack your user account, and they

TI-89

2000-09-18 Thread ZaCkStEr17
HI, I AM LOOKING TO BUY WHOLESALE TI-89 GRAPHING CALCULATORS. I AM LOOKING FOR A SUPPLIER. CAN YOU SUPPLY ME? BEST REGARDS, ZACK.

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-18 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
Okay, my printing situation is getting weirder. In desparation I tried using printtool, and used it to set up my printer exactly the same way I had set it up under Mandrake before switching to Debian. I was excited when printtool successfully printed when I tried its option for printing a postscr

Re: gpm and X and mouse

2000-09-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Good for you. But some of your comment was strange to me. My story is based on potato stable (Installed when it was late stage of unstable and continuously upgraded.) There was no need for me to touch /etc/init.d/gpm. I see same file in my woody box. (My woody with 2.4 test kernel crash with

dselect question

2000-09-18 Thread Joel Dinel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I enter dselect and go to "[I]nstall and upgrade wanted packages", dselect wants to install 59 packages. I don't want these packages. How do I go about "flushing" the list of packages that dselect believes should be installed ? I seldom use dsele

Re: apt-get problems

2000-09-18 Thread Joel Dinel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recompiled the same kernel with --revision=3:custom.1.0, rebooted, and now everything is OK ! Thanks for the quick answer ! On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: > Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:02:37 -0700 > From: Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: apt-get problems

2000-09-18 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
> I must've recompiled 2.2.16 at least 10 times using the same method > (kernel-package), and apt never tried to update my kernel on me before. > > Any tips ? This is dribing me nuts. I can't do a succesful apt-get > dist-upgrade anymore, since apt wants to install 2.2.17-1 everytime. I went into

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-18 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 08:40:26AM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: > You are able to print text files with lpr and you can't print > Postscript-files that way? Correct. > What's the output of "lpr -V -V your-file.ps"? That gives me no output... are you sure the -V options are correct? I don't see -V lis

Too many messages

2000-09-18 Thread Rob
Heh. guys this is sort of off-topic (sorry) but its so typically me that I signed up for like four of the topics on the mailing list and im revieving like 200 messages a day, which I just dont have time to read, how can I cancel all of the lists except for one? Heh sorry :x _thaR

Re: ISDN Login

2000-09-18 Thread b.j. halfkann
ippd uses the same files for authentification as pppd for modem-connections: /etc/ppp/pap-secrets /etc/ppp/chap-secrets (ppp-Howto, /usr/share/doc/ppp/FAQ.gz) for pap-authentification is it: username * very_secret for chap-authentification: client (username) server (providername) very_secre

Re: apt-get problems

2000-09-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
Apparently kernel-image-2.2.17-1 uses an epoch, so apt (or dselect) wants to replace your image with that one. This happened at least once before and the way to avoid the problem is to use an epoch yourself when creating the package: make-kpkg --revision=3:custom.1.0 kernel_image /usr/share/doc/

Re: finding a tarball on a fat-less fat partition--disk editor? (fwd)

2000-09-18 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > i said, they suck, not that they are bad. this means, that they are not > > that simple to use as diskedit for dos and lack the one or other > > interesting feature - at least the last time i looked out half a year ago. > > ;-) > > For one-use once, i'll put up with almost anything. I assume

Re: gpm and X and mouse

2000-09-18 Thread Krzys Majewski
Thank you! This works for me. Note that I also had to hack my /etc/init.d/gpm to look at the repeat_data variable, though it may be an old /etc/init.d/gpm. My gpm version is the latest with respect to "stable", "unstable" was down when I tried. I agree that this is the sort of thing that really s

Re: SCSI bus busy

2000-09-18 Thread kmself
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:22:33PM -0400, Andrew Dixon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi everyone, > when I try to boot my system (Potato) I get this error and then it hangs: > > scsi0: SCSI bus busy, waiting up to five seconds > scsi0: bus busy, attempting abort > > > this is weird b

apt-get problems

2000-09-18 Thread Joel Dinel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just compiled kernel 2.2.17 today with the kernel-package tools. I installed the resulting kernel-image-2.2.17_custom1.0_i386.deb with dpkg -i. Everything is OK. Now, as soon as I apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, apt wants to install a newer

Re: OT: shell prompt tip

2000-09-18 Thread kmself
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:57:20PM +0200, Julio Merino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > NOTE that this is OFFTOPIC. > > would you like to recognize fastly if you're a normal user or root? > Change the default debian PS1 to something like this for your user: > > PS1='\[\e[22m\e[40m\e

RE: deb packages not offered: lame xcdplay?

2000-09-18 Thread drudd
On this note, does anyone want to weigh in on how well alien works for converting RPM's? I'd prefer that to tarballs for the same reason as the previous poster, in keeping my dpkg database as complete as possible, for updating and removal reasons. Douglas Rudd

RE: man dd <-- broke]

2000-09-18 Thread William Jensen
Update, I deleted the cache version, redid man dd and it worked fine. Is this just a case of something being corrupted? - Forwarded message from William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 20:26:46 -0500 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: man dd <-- broke User-Agen

/etc/init.d/network v. /etc/network/*

2000-09-18 Thread kmself
Could someone set me straight on the distinction between /etc/init.d/network and the definition files under /etc/network: interfaces, options, and spoof-protect. We've got a balky server which doesn't like coming on-line (and occasionally likes going off) when it boots. I suspect multiple netwo

man dd <-- broke

2000-09-18 Thread William Jensen
Hey guys, I just did a man dd and received: gzip: /var/cache/man/cat1/dd.1.gz: not in gzip format Manual page dd(1) line ?/? (END) I haven't done anything to the system. info dd works though. Any ideas what might cause this 'sudden' change? Wm pgpQ3rxtWbTQR.pgp Description: PGP signature

XEmacs 21 and updating packages question

2000-09-18 Thread Omen Wild
Something that has been bothering me for quite a while: someone went through the trouble of making a /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/ directory, but then when I use XEmacs' built in package updating I overwrite the packages that Debian installs. This just doesn't seem right. I have found th

I broke x

2000-09-18 Thread david sowerby
While trying to be smart I closed port 6000, thinking this would just shut down x's network capabilities (I'm not on a network). I added "-nolisten tcp" to /etc/X11/Xserver and sure enough it closed port 6000 and x won't run using starx. I can start the xserver by giving the path on the command lin

Re: bug in gdb! it segfaults!

2000-09-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
> > now whether gdb should let me print "pow(run.m*run.dr, 2)" or not, that's > > gdb segfaulting. a debugger should _NOT_ segfault, under any > > circumstances. > > Unless, there is a hardware problem, esp. memory, gdb will stress out > your memory more than most apps. Do a kernel compile work

Re: gpm and X and mouse

2000-09-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Yes, I wonder this too. I think current /etc/gpm.conf default is bad. Here is background and solution. gpm repeat data to /dev/gpmdata but in MS Mouse protocol in its default setting. So if you set X mouse setting to read from /dev/gpmdata with MS mouse protocol, it works. (Well not perfect,

Re: bug in gdb! it segfaults!

2000-09-18 Thread Mike Phillips
> > now whether gdb should let me print "pow(run.m*run.dr, 2)" or not, that's > gdb segfaulting. a debugger should _NOT_ segfault, under any > circumstances. Unless, there is a hardware problem, esp. memory, gdb will stress out your memory more than most apps. Do a kernel compile work fine ? H

Re: gpm and X and mouse (fwd)

2000-09-18 Thread Chris Majewski
It's been three computers and four mice already, and I've never had this working, so I'm curious if anyone has got it to work and under what circumstances, so that maybe the next time I spend money I can make duplication of these circumstances a consideration. -chris -- Forwarded messag

Re: deb packages not offered: lame xcdplay?

2000-09-18 Thread Michael Smith
There was an intent to package (ITP) lame awhile ago--check out the debian developer list archives. Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > dear all, > > there are a few packages i like to have, like lame and xcdplay. can't find > any deb pkgs, though. > > i have no problem compiling a tarball, but i'd rath

deb packages not offered: lame xcdplay?

2000-09-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, there are a few packages i like to have, like lame and xcdplay. can't find any deb pkgs, though. i have no problem compiling a tarball, but i'd rather keep my dpkg database as complete as possible. does anyone know of a site that offers packages of these softwares or is compiling a ta

Re: disc partition plan for new install

2000-09-18 Thread kmself
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 03:50:25PM +, Gary Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I will be upgrading soon to a faster box. This will leave me a > machine to use strictly in Debian-Linux. I will use the Debian > package because it seems to be the distribution least hidden (behind > make-easy app

[no subject]

2000-09-18 Thread Stephen
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: Begone, vile emacs!

2000-09-18 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 05:22:01PM -0400, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > > why not dpkg -l emacs ? > > un emacs (no description available) > > > or better yet, dselect. > > Never thought I'd hear someone say that! :) > > I also tried apt-get remove emacs* but it didn't help.

Re: free Interrnet provider for Linux and exim

2000-09-18 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:04:51PM +0300, Dan Pomohaci wrote: > Thanks everybody (and especially Tim Anderson) who helped me to find > an free Internet provider for Linux. I succeeded to connect to > worldshare.net. > Now I have an other question. How can I use their outgoing server > (smtp.worldsh

OT: animation programs

2000-09-18 Thread Carl Fink
Thought I'd ask the folks on this list: any recommendations for a couple of animation programs? I'm looking for two: one that's comparable to Flash, producing 2D, simple stuff, and one that can produce 3D, rendered stuff based on models. Yeah, that's vague: I haven't done any animation in abou

Re: POP -> IMAP w/ Maildirs?

2000-09-18 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Keith G. Murphy, > However, I'd like to go to a solution, probably using maildirs, that > does not involve messages in their home directories; in fact, maybe not > requiring them to have accounts on our Linux server at all. A combination of vpopmail and courier imap will do what you want. B

Re: bug in gdb! it segfaults!

2000-09-18 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 12:35:03PM -0700, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote: > Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > contact FSF or debian? > > bug-gdb@gnu.org And also "info gdb". There's a long section on how to report bugs. Cheers, Chris -- It is much easier to be critical than t

Re: xinetd/tcp wrappers problem

2000-09-18 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 08:40:38PM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > Hello, > > I run xinetd and I found that compiled-in tcp wrappers don't work... > > hosts.allow: > > identd : ALL : severity daemon.info : allow > proftpd : ALL : severity daemon.info : allow > > ALL : ALL : severity daemo

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-18 Thread Douglas M. Hespe
Hi Tom, I am having a similar problem at the moment. I suspect it may have something to do with upgrading since the new stable came out. As we speak I am dist-upgrading in the hope that this will fix things. During the normal apt-get upgrade there was a segfault message for libpaper and the mac

Re: Firewall Box

2000-09-18 Thread kmself
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 09:07:22AM -0500, Matt Kopishke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, I need to implement a firewall at work. It will be for the most part > a pretty simple set up. I am going to set one of our Linux Boxes between > the Router and the Switch. The Box has 3 NICs, one for the r

UDMA100 support?

2000-09-18 Thread Victor Cassen
Can anyone tell me if UDMA100 support is available or will be available anytime soon? I am trying to do an install to such a machine. I found the UDMA66 kernel, but the install program (loadlin) complained that no disks were detected. Any help will be appreciated. Replies to this list, and a cc

Re: rsync trouble

2000-09-18 Thread Allan Andersen
Jeff Green wrote: > > 2 most likely causes from person experience. Either you have run out of > processes. (ulimit -a will show you how many you have available) or you > have run out of rlogin connections on the remote machine edit the > relevant line in the inetd.conf to read nowait.100 rather th

Re: Begone, vile emacs!

2000-09-18 Thread Ray Percival
I know that when 2.2 installs in is emacs19. But of course you know that as soon as you remove emacs RMS sends large men to your house to break your knees. :) I like emacs but it is big. -- Original Message -- From: "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Repl

Re: Begone, vile emacs!

2000-09-18 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> why not dpkg -l emacs ? jm> un emacs (no description available) It's probably "emacs19" or "emacs20", or one of the xemacs varieties. The simplest way to find out what package a particuler file belongs to is with dpkg -

Re: OT: no cdrom audio from sound card line out

2000-09-18 Thread Mike Werner
Mark Schiltz wrote: > I think I have tried everything, maybe my sound card is not fully supported? I > have a motherboard with built-in soundpro (CMI8330). The sound is working with > the exception of the cd audio. I know the cd is working because I can use the > phone plug on the face of the cdrom

Re: Begone, vile emacs!

2000-09-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:02:23AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > I discovered emacs is on my system, and I don't particularly want it > > > there. > > > I have no idea how it got there either, and it's probably taking up a > > > healthy am

Re: bash login for root

2000-09-18 Thread Joey Hess
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I'll have to think a bit before I say it's really bad. I think it's not > a *good* idea It's a horrible idea. All someone has to do then is crack your user account, and they can trivially edit one of your dotfiles and the next time you su to root, they have cracked

Re: disc partition plan for new install

2000-09-18 Thread Carl Johnson
"John L . Fjellstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [1 ] > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:46:11AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > > > /swap - 2xRAM > > I don't think the 'rule' of swap being 2xRAM is necessary anymore. > I have 256 MB RAM, and 133 MB swap, and hardly use the swap at all > (currently us

Re: bash login for root

2000-09-18 Thread Joey Hess
Bruce Richardson wrote: > Debian doesn't put .bash_profile in for root. I assume you mean on a new install of debian 2.2 This is a bug in base-config (my package). See bug #66963 I hope to fix this eventually. -- see shy jo

Re: Begone, vile emacs!

2000-09-18 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:02:23AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > I discovered emacs is on my system, and I don't particularly want it there. > > I have no idea how it got there either, and it's probably taking up a > > healthy amount of disk space. Here's some interesting stats... > > > >

minicom doesn't work. Why ?

2000-09-18 Thread Pablo De Napoli
Hi! Minicom doesn't work on my system. I think the problem is in my system (and not a bug in minicom) , because the same version used to work before (that I needed to reinstall my system). I cannot even type a single character on the terminal emulator. When running under X11, I got the message:

Termcap and Terminfo (fwd)

2000-09-18 Thread Alberto Pereira
People, After moving a RH based server to Debian I found a strange problem. In this server runs locally a program (acessed by Windows machines with Telnet) originally from SCO UNIX and the terminal must be reconfigured to "SCO ANSI". Default Debian instalation don't have "scounix" term

Re: OT: no cdrom audio from sound card line out

2000-09-18 Thread Mark Schiltz
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, David Z. Maze wrote: > Mark Schiltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > MS> I think I have tried everything, maybe my sound card is not fully > MS> supported? I have a motherboard with built-in soundpro > MS> (CMI8330). The sound is working with the exception of the cd > MS> audio. I

Re: how to briefly disable mouse under X?

2000-09-18 Thread David Z. Maze
Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KM> What's a good way to programmatically disable the mouse under KM> X, and re-enable it again, without restarting X. By KM> programmatically I mean "not by unplugging the mouse or cutting KM> the wire and re-soldering it". Umm, you can't, really; the m

Re: include dirs

2000-09-18 Thread David Z. Maze
jereme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: j> I hope this question is directed to the correct group and not j> too redundant. I checked the list archives and the policy manual j> before mailing this off. What i would like is for someone to point me j> towards a good source of information about what head

Re: include dirs

2000-09-18 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, jereme wrote: > hi all, > > I hope this question is directed to the correct group and not > too redundant. I checked the list archives and the policy manual > before mailing this off. What i would like is for someone to point me > towards a good source of information

Re: gpm and X and mouse

2000-09-18 Thread James Dietrich
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 01:19:51PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > I've tried to tell X to use the fifo /dev/gpmdata as its > pointing device but it doesn't work. The mouse behaves fine > under gpm (even cut&paste works) but is unuseable under X. The > mouse cursor does move when I move the mouse, b

Re: OT: no cdrom audio from sound card line out

2000-09-18 Thread David Z. Maze
Mark Schiltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MS> I think I have tried everything, maybe my sound card is not fully MS> supported? I have a motherboard with built-in soundpro MS> (CMI8330). The sound is working with the exception of the cd MS> audio. I know the cd is working because I can use the phone

Re: dselect questions

2000-09-18 Thread David Z. Maze
Cantoni, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MC> 1) Should overwrite the source list with a new list when selecting MC> (A)ccess? You probably never need to re-run the (A)ccess command from dselect. For APT, it tends to be significantly easier to manually edit /etc/apt/sources.list anyways. MC> 2)

html2ps

2000-09-18 Thread nw x
Hi, Debians: I have a question about html2ps that is I just install it under my usr/local directory and then I use the command html2ps filename.html > filename.ps however, it report the following warning message: can not find the file and /usr/local/lib/html2ps/html2psrc and then it just conver

how to briefly disable mouse under X?

2000-09-18 Thread Krzys Majewski
What's a good way to programmatically disable the mouse under X, and re-enable it again, without restarting X. By programmatically I mean "not by unplugging the mouse or cutting the wire and re-soldering it". -chris

Re: gpm and X and mouse

2000-09-18 Thread Ray Percival
I am having the same problem with the mouse pointer in X. I'll have to try this when I get home sounds like a bug to me. -- Original Message -- From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:19:51 -0700 (PDT) >I've tried to tell X to us

RE: free Interrnet provider for Linux and exim

2000-09-18 Thread Pollywog
Or... you could always check POP mail from the woldshare.net pop account right before sending. On 18-Sep-2000 Dan Pomohaci wrote: > Thanks everybody (and especially Tim Anderson) who helped me to find > an free Internet provider for Linux. I succeeded to connect to > worldshare.net. > Now I have

gpm and X and mouse

2000-09-18 Thread Krzys Majewski
I've tried to tell X to use the fifo /dev/gpmdata as its pointing device but it doesn't work. The mouse behaves fine under gpm (even cut&paste works) but is unuseable under X. The mouse cursor does move when I move the mouse, but in completely erratic and unpredictable ways. The only way I've got t

RE: free Interrnet provider for Linux and exim

2000-09-18 Thread Pollywog
On 18-Sep-2000 Dan Pomohaci wrote: > Thanks everybody (and especially Tim Anderson) who helped me to find > an free Internet provider for Linux. I succeeded to connect to > worldshare.net. > Now I have an other question. How can I use their outgoing server > (smtp.worldshare.net) for relaying my e

Re: APM: disable mouse interrupt?

2000-09-18 Thread Krzys Majewski
Sadly, interrupt 12 is not listed in the power management section of the BIOS setup. It goes, perversely, something like this: Interrupt 3 [Primary Secondary Disabled] Interrupt 4 [Primary Secondary Disabled] Interrupt 5 [Primary Secondary Disabled] Interrupt 6 [Primary Secondary Disabled] Inter

Re: gnupg help

2000-09-18 Thread Vee-Eye
> And then select the old uid with "uid" and delete it with "deluid". > > Hubert But there is a problem with publically distributed keys, as someone (Ethan, I think) pointed out in the "previous" (Nietzsche: Die ewige Wiederkehr des Gleichen ...IIRC) thread. Here is the gnupg-handbook speaking:

Re: POP -> IMAP w/ Maildirs?

2000-09-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The Cyrus IMAP server (http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/) is designed to handle mail for users who don't have accounts on the machine. I'd take a look at it. I've been looking to do something like this and still haven't gotten it together. I'm going to suggest hacking UW IMAP to do this might be dif

Re: bug in gdb! it segfaults!

2000-09-18 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hello all, > > i'm debugging a c++ program, and found something very distressing: > > % gdb wellspring core > GNU gdb 19990928 > (warranty snipped) > This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"... > Core was generat

Re: Display problems with woody

2000-09-18 Thread Jim Lisi
Bill Barnes wrote: > > Hello List: > > Just ran a dist-upgrade from woody, kde2, helixcode. > Now gedit opens a display as non-root user, but as root, says > Xlib: connection :0.0 refused by server > Xlib: client is not authorized to connect to server > > gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Re: this beeping makes me sick

2000-09-18 Thread William Jensen
xset b off & I have that in my .xinitc and it works like a charm. - Forwarded message from Peter Malewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:06:29 +0200 From: Peter Malewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: QBA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: this beepi

bug in gdb! it segfaults!

2000-09-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hello all, i'm debugging a c++ program, and found something very distressing: % gdb wellspring core GNU gdb 19990928 (warranty snipped) This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"... Core was generated by `./wellspring'. Program terminated with s

xinetd/tcp wrappers problem

2000-09-18 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
Hello, I run xinetd and I found that compiled-in tcp wrappers don't work... hosts.allow: identd : ALL : severity daemon.info : allow proftpd : ALL : severity daemon.info : allow ALL : ALL : severity daemon.notice : deny /etc/xinetd.conf: service ident { socket_type = stream

free Interrnet provider for Linux and exim

2000-09-18 Thread Dan Pomohaci
Thanks everybody (and especially Tim Anderson) who helped me to find an free Internet provider for Linux. I succeeded to connect to worldshare.net. Now I have an other question. How can I use their outgoing server (smtp.worldshare.net) for relaying my email. In exim.conf I put: smarthost: driver

Re: Kernel panic (continuation)

2000-09-18 Thread Julio Merino
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 11:04:59AM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > would be helpful if you specified what kind of MB you have with what > kind of controller, and what brand/type of HD, on the linux-kernel > mailing list the IDE guy has cursed Western Digital drives for not > behaving in a sane manner

Mini SQL Deb

2000-09-18 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings! Is there a .deb available for the Mini SQL database from http://www.hughes.com.au? I couldn't find one off the Debian site, so I thought I'd ask the general populace. It's for a class that I'm taking, and I don't want to have to use their server. Thanks, Brooks

Re: gnupg help

2000-09-18 Thread Hubert Chan
Vee-Eye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2) You could add an > uid to your key ("gpg --edit-key " and then with "adduid" add the > new address). And then select the old uid with "uid" and delete it with "deluid". Hubert

Installation help

2000-09-18 Thread Martin Scott Goldberg
Here's the deal - I have an abit bx62.0 motherboard with an abit hotrodd66 (dma66) adaptor plugged in to a pci slot. I have a memorex 48x atapi cdrom and a 40 gig HD plugged in through the hotrod. The first problem is that the cd will not boot. I have the same problem with Freebsd and Beos cd's

include dirs

2000-09-18 Thread jereme
hi all, I hope this question is directed to the correct group and not too redundant. I checked the list archives and the policy manual before mailing this off. What i would like is for someone to point me towards a good source of information about what headers i need on my system, where

Re: Begone, vile emacs!

2000-09-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 07:51:29AM -0400, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > bash-2.03$ dpkg -S `which emacs` > dpkg: /usr/bin/emacs not found. > > What package do I have to purge? Is there some other obscure tool for > finding files in packages? Who put it there? My condolences on emacs. I agree

Packages???

2000-09-18 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I've installed RH, MD, SuSE, Caldera, FreeBSD, etc. and now would like to install Debian 2.2 I know, I know, but I like "punishment" :) I'm kid of hesitant because of all the new "nomenclature" such as "dselect" "dpkg", "apt-get", etc. I've been monitoring this news list for a while, and I have

Re: disc partition plan for new install

2000-09-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Sep 2000, John L . Fjellstad wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:46:11AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > > > /swap - 2xRAM > > I don't think the 'rule' of swap being 2xRAM is necessary anymore. > I have 256 MB RAM, and 133 MB swap, and hardly use the swap at all > (currently using about 712 KB

Re: Debian 2.2

2000-09-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Sep 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > looks like bad cds to me, i'd get new ones from somewhere(not sure where > to reccomend) see the debian homepage for who has them, or if you have a > CD-R you can make your own. it seems since debian does not make their > own cds(non commercial) quality can be q

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