Re: Sound Volume in Gnome

2000-10-16 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Oh okay. I did find a pretty good workaround, but your solution sounds good also. Whichever you prefer I guess. My solution is in my Gnome Startup Programs I put gmix -i as one of the programs. gmix is the gnome audio mixer program, but when called with the -i option it just initializes the mixe

Why doesn't Debian officially include the KDE ?

2000-10-16 Thread Matthew Sherborne
Why doesn't Debian officially include the KDE ? (Please forgive my ignorance) <>

Re: disk files too large to fit on floppy disks

2000-10-16 Thread C. Falconer
No dude - the files that you have will be disk dump archives... essentially images of a disk To create the disks from dos/windows you'll need an executeable called rawrite2.exe, which you can download from the same place you got the images. Or if you have a unix box usedd if=imagename of=

Re: Using GnuPG with mutt

2000-10-16 Thread YoonSuk Cho<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:37:10PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > Hi. Is the stock mutt.deb in 2.2 support gnupg? Reason is I can't seem to > make gnupg sign my mails. > I think you must upgrade mutt 1.2.5i or later before gpg installed. And then install the gpg. reference site http://www.mutt.org

Re: KDE time and date display

2000-10-16 Thread John Bagdanoff
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:24:35AM -0700, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > I feel a little silly asking this question, but... > > I've a few machines running Debian at work. Some were installed from the > start recently with potato and some have been around a while and were > slink machines that have sinc

Re: What documentation and what order

2000-10-16 Thread kmself
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:52:40PM -0500, David A. Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've used Unix and other Linuxes for some time now, but I am just starting to > use Debian. What documents should I read and in which order to get up do > speed on how Debian does things? Would it be better to

Re: Multiple X consoles on LINUX

2000-10-16 Thread Joey Tsai
> I would like to get multiple X consoles on my LINUX PC. http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue23/lg_answer23.html#monitor // joey tsai

Multiple X consoles on LINUX

2000-10-16 Thread suraj vijayan
I would like to get multiple X consoles on my LINUX PC. I'm able to switch to a different console by , but I'm unclear how to get xdm get running on all the consoles. Thanks, Suraj. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN

Install Debian on a PS/2 9557 with 486 & integral SCSI controller?

2000-10-16 Thread Flynn
Pre-purchase question about Debian on a PS/2 9557. I am considering buying a set of Debian installation CDs to install on my PS/2 with a 486 SLC CPU, and an integral SCSI controller on the motherboard. The bus is MCA, of course. I have a 540 MB SCSI hard drive, and a 4X Sony, SCSI CD-ROM. With t

Whoops I really do need help...

2000-10-16 Thread John Travis
Okay short story, I did a reiser-debian install and I REALLY need help setting up X. I am using my old XF86Config so that should be fine. I posted this already, but then the strangest thing happened. I was working on getting it fixed, I swapped xdm for gdm and presto, xdm fired up and I

Re: Can apt be steered?

2000-10-16 Thread Michael Epting
Here I go replying to myself again. I noticed just now that the same sort of problem happens if your sources.list contains kde.tdyc.com stuff. That is, we get kde2 package combinations that don't work. I'm beginning to think there is a serious fundamental problem with apt... The one useful su

Re: Sound Volume in Gnome

2000-10-16 Thread tjm
Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > > Hi, I just moved over from RH and when I used gnome on there it used to > save and restore my sound volume settings when I logged in and out. I > sort of have that working in Debian (Woody), except it only restores my > sound settings after I run the gnome mixer program

Re: Sound Volume in Gnome

2000-10-16 Thread Dave Thayer
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 12:19:27PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > Hi, I just moved over from RH and when I used gnome on there it used to > save and restore my sound volume settings when I logged in and out. I > sort of have that working in Debian (Woody), except it only restores my > sound setti

Mozilla and RealAudio

2000-10-16 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Has anyone managed to make Mozilla (nightly builds) and RealAudio to work together? I downloaded RealAudio, and installed it, changed the preferences settings, but it still doesn't work. When I click on a Real link, it wants to download the file, no matter what I do. It works fine in communicato

Re: Problem with '/etc/shutdown.allow'

2000-10-16 Thread Brian May
> "Carel" == Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Carel> I've just read the Fine Manual just to please you:) and I Carel> think it only effects Ctrl-Alt-Del from the console, not Carel> calling shutdown from the command-line unless you make it a Carel> SUID program. (for

Re: Help setting up X! (NEVER MIND :-)

2000-10-16 Thread John Travis
Thanks for the response, unfortunately I had all of those packages installed. I was actually about to post another cry for help on some newsgroups but... after a few more apt-gets, fixing a link or two, and swapping xdm for gdm I have a functionall X setup. So I now have a full reiser debian pota

Re: apt-get error

2000-10-16 Thread Brian May
> "kmself" == kmself writes: kmself> On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:34:33PM -0500, Pascal Hos kmself> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Since yesterday I keep getting the following error when running >> apt-get upgrade: >> >> Fetched 9272kB in 1m19s (117kB/s) 11% [Scanning

Re[2]: compiling kernel

2000-10-16 Thread Kasatenko Ivan Alex.
Hello Lazar, Tuesday, October 17, 2000, 2:31:21 AM, you wrote: >> fleysh > Could someone, however, explain the difference between >> fleysh >-- "586" for generic Pentium CPUs, possibly lacking the TSC >> fleysh >and >> fleysh >-- "Pentium" for the Intel Pentium/Pentium MMX, AMD K5, K6 and K6-3D

Re: Password Change Machine

2000-10-16 Thread Brian May
> "Damian" == Damian Menscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Damian> My suggestion follows: One possibility is to take Damian> advantage of NIS. On the server machine you have a second Or openldap. Although, LDAP is (IMHO) currently harder to configure, especially if you not use to LDAP

Re: IMP error: 'document contained no data'

2000-10-16 Thread Matthew Thompson
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, ian mckerrow wrote: > I've had that same spontanious error using netscape > under MS. I tried to discover the cause but gave up > after a few hours and went to bed. The next morning > the error was absent. I concluded that it was caused > by my internet connection and not a

Re: Syncronize pc-clock w/timeserver

2000-10-16 Thread John Hasler
Eric G . Miller writes: > There's also chrony: > ... > I've been using it for over a year on a dial-up. Barely had to do > anything (set a password, choose a server). Actually you didn't have to do either (though I recommend that you do both). The postinst generates a random password, and a defa

Re: CD-drive blocked after successless mounting

2000-10-16 Thread Jason Lunz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: >I think the problem is, that the CD remains in a "twilight" status: >neither mounted nor unmounted. I've seen it happen where the gnome panel CD player somehow locked the tray when you put in a non-audio disc, and only its eject button

GDM background image

2000-10-16 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I'm looking for a way to set the background image for gdm. I know it is set in /etc/gdm/Init/Default using xsetroot, but I want to set it to an image not a color. As far as images goes xsetroot apparently can only handle bitmaps, my question is: How do I set the background of gdm to a jpg (or s

Re: machine hangs, etc. (fwd)

2000-10-16 Thread Krzys Majewski
Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 07:21:22PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > Yeah, I took out the CPU last night, removed the custom cooler > > I put on last week, and put the stock cooler back, smearing some > > standard white heatsink compound on the con

Re: exim help needed (fwd)

2000-10-16 Thread Krzys Majewski
Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mine says: > > postmaster: root > root: phil Aha, so does mine, now. (except for the phil part..) > Doesn't your ISP offer you a SMTP-Relay-Server? If you are connected > most of the time you don't need one anyway... Dunno, what's that? I want my

Re: DVD movies?

2000-10-16 Thread Krzys Majewski
Thanks for your comprehensive response, this is exactly what I was looking for.. > Well, the dvd (the stuff on there is mpeg-2, no?) is encrypted using > weak CSS. MPAA blessed players decrypt this and play it as a mpeg-2? > movie. The legally questionable DeCSS (search for it on any search

Re: Syncronize pc-clock w/timeserver

2000-10-16 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:03:22AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:52:57 PDT, "Stephen A. Witt" writes: > >On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Morten Bo Johansen wrote: > >> Also if you have some other advice for me based on some > >> package(s) (instead of netdate) that are in Debian 2.2 th

Re: Framebuffer Console ???

2000-10-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Framebuffer Console ??? Date: Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 07:49:36PM -0400 In reply to:Christopher W. Aiken Quoting Christopher W. Aiken([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > When I played with the RH and Slackware flavors > of Linux, I could add the following lines to > my lilo.conf file to g

Re: Framebuffer Console ???

2000-10-16 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 07:49:36PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > When I played with the RH and Slackware flavors > of Linux, I could add the following lines to > my lilo.conf file to get a nice looking bootup > screen and a much better resolution on my console > screens. > > # VESA framebuf

Re: changing file attribute colors

2000-10-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: changing file attribute colors Date: Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:10:25PM -0500 In reply to:will trillich Quoting will trillich([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:53:49PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Once, long ago when I used other distributions, I used to

/etc/environment file: What is it?

2000-10-16 Thread Malte Cornils
Hi, I'd like to know where to find more information on the /etc/environment file, I couldn't find a man page or info page for it and searching through the Debian mailing lists didn't turn anything up either. It would be great if you could point me to some information wrt its use, which programs

IMP error: 'document contained no data'

2000-10-16 Thread Matthew Thompson
Hello, I'm running IMP as the frontend for my mailserver. Oddly enough, things were working fine before I left out of town for a week. I got back, and whenever I try to send a message (whether as a Reply, or as a new message), I get a Netscape: Error window that says 'The document contained no d

Re: Problem with '/etc/shutdown.allow'

2000-10-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:23:47AM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: > > Sorry, Ivan, I didn't make this very clear. I *do* want to use > Ctrl-Alt-Del. I just wanted to point out that it is behaving > differently, since I have '/etc/shutdown.allow'. Now I have to be logged > in at least as a nor

Added a hard drive - Problems now

2000-10-16 Thread Joel Dinel
I added a second hard drive to my system. hda : HD #1 hdb : CDROM hdc : CDRW hdd : HD #2 This is what I get when I boot Linux : ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA

Re: CD-drive blocked after successless mounting

2000-10-16 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
mike wrote: > > Try /usr/bin/eject /cdrom or /dev/hd?. I did so, but with no success :( I think the problem is, that the CD remains in a "twilight" status: neither mounted nor unmounted. Thank you very much anyway. Andreas. > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:47:23 +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder s

Re: Problem with '/etc/shutdown.allow'

2000-10-16 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
"Kasatenko Ivan Alex." wrote: > > Hello Andreas, > > Monday, October 16, 2000, 8:26:20 PM, you wrote: > > AH> There are two users on my debian system, who I want to be able to reboot > AH> and halt without being root. For this purpose I created > AH> /etc/shutdown.allow with the corresponding us

Framebuffer Console ???

2000-10-16 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
When I played with the RH and Slackware flavors of Linux, I could add the following lines to my lilo.conf file to get a nice looking bootup screen and a much better resolution on my console screens. # VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k vga=791 Is there any way to do this in Debian 2.2? The

First Install

2000-10-16 Thread ian mckerrow
Hi all. I'm a newbie who's constantly getting tripped up by MS baggage. I recently installed slink from CD onto a amarda 4160T laptop as a trial and it all worked (up to a point). I read docs which indicated the pcmcia works better under potato so with false confidence I decided to install it fr

Re: compiling kernel

2000-10-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:47:04PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > use make menuconfig, it has a lot of online help and explains all of those > options. make config has the exact same help, just answer `?' and you get the help output. as for the TSC, you could look at /proc/cpuinfo in the `Flag

Re: Can apt be steered?

2000-10-16 Thread Michael Epting
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 05:53:04PM -0400, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: > If the package doesn't say "Helix", purge it. You don't > need any non-helix gnome packages to have a working gnome > distribution. > > > > apt-get upgrade broke my Gnome this weekend. Looking in my apt/archives, I > > see that

Re: can anyone tell me what is causing this or what this means?

2000-10-16 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:03:34PM -0700, RenX99 wrote: > This is the error message that i am getting... since i didn't set up, > i'm not sure what it's trying to do, can anyone help? > /etc/cron.daily/exim: > Exim retry database in spool /var/spool/exim > Failed to open database file retry: Inval

Re: Computer unusable -- can't get lilo to work

2000-10-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:01:19PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > > Just wanted to say that I've solved my lilo problems. I hooked up an old > disk with debian on it and used the lilo on that. Now my new IBM hard > drive boots properly (when made the third drive). > > I am still curious about wh

Re: Syncronize pc-clock w/timeserver

2000-10-16 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:52:57 PDT, "Stephen A. Witt" writes: >On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Morten Bo Johansen wrote: >> Also if you have some other advice for me based on some >> package(s) (instead of netdate) that are in Debian 2.2 that >> would appreciated. > >There is another one that I can't think of r

Re: gnome-session quit starting sort of

2000-10-16 Thread Tricky Rick
Tricky Rick wrote: > > gnome quit starting but it still shows it's running. > > I had to change my .xinitrc to start enlightenment. > > If I try to start gnome-seeion manually it still doesn't seem to be > running but the process is running. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps aux | grep gnome > mccomb

Re: changing file attribute colors

2000-10-16 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:53:49PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Once, long ago when I used other distributions, I used to have > problems with dangleing symlinks. To help in locating those buggers > I changed my copy of .dircolors to allow them to be shown in > blinking red. > > Well today I ran in

can anyone tell me what is causing this or what this means?

2000-10-16 Thread RenX99
This is the error message that i am getting... since i didn't set up, i'm not sure what it's trying to do, can anyone help? RenX99 - Forwarded message from Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.dai

Re: Syncronize pc-clock w/timeserver

2000-10-16 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Morten Bo Johansen wrote: > > Hi, > > > I would like to use netdate to syncronize my computer's > timesetting with that of a timeserver but no matter what > timeserver address I pass to netdate I get the following > lacklustre message: > > Connection with udp to x

Re: Nvidia, XF86 4.0.1, Cluebies unite!

2000-10-16 Thread Cody BoXeR Brownstein
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 03:05:45PM -0400, Shawn FitzGerald wrote: [snip] > I then added the Driver "nvidia" line to my Device section in > /etc/X11/XF86Setup and ran startx. Big Hard Flaming Crash. Many > multi-colored squares on the screen. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace did nothing. > Ctrl-Alt-F1-8 did nothi

Re: apt-get error when updating

2000-10-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: apt-get error when updating Date: Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 07:22:12PM +0200 In reply to:Willi Dyck Quoting Willi Dyck([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello! > > i'm getting this error msg when doing an apt-get update. i want to > update from 2.1 to 2.2. > > W: Couldn't stat source p

Re: compiling kernel

2000-10-16 Thread Lazar Fleysher
The online help does not answer on that question... On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > use make menuconfig, it has a lot of online help and explains all of those > options. > > nate > > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > fleysh >Hi everyone! > fleysh > > fleysh >I am t

Re: Mouse in X doesn't work if gpm is installed

2000-10-16 Thread Jesse Goerz
On the debian website there is a FAQ-o-matic which covers this. I just checked and it seemed to be down but it might be up by the time you get this. It's in the documentation section. Jesse On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Marco Herrn wrote: > I use the potato distribution from LinuxTag 2000. > If I instal

Re: Questions About dpkg and friends

2000-10-16 Thread Damien
> > dpkg -S file > > > > will tell you if a file exists in an installed package > > > > apt-cache search string > > > > will search package name and descriptions > > > > I was under the impression that one can search local caches of all > available packages NOT just those you have installed a

Re: staroffice

2000-10-16 Thread Manfred Sindhoff
Agner-Nichols wrote: > > I downloaded the Staroffice binaries (10 files with an extension of .bin) > >from the Sun site and realized I have no idea how to install them (to a > Pentium 166 with a 2.2.12 kernel (it was a Corel install)); the > documentation from Sun gives no guidance; do they need t

Re: LILO to boot FreeBSD

2000-10-16 Thread Joel Dinel
Please disregard the previous post. I found out I had a 't' at line 107. Now I don't want my BSD's UFS drives to be accessible to Linux. When I boot Linux, I get the following : ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hdd: FUJITSU MPF3102AT, ATA DISK drive hdd:

LILO to boot FreeBSD

2000-10-16 Thread Joel Dinel
Here's my setup for 4 IDE devices : hda : Linux HD hdb : CDROM hdc : CDRW hdd : FreeBSD I want to be able to boot FreeBSD off the slave hard drive on the secondary IDE controller. This is my lilo.conf entry for BSD: other=/dev/hdd1 table=/dev/hdd loader=/boot/chain.b la

Re: Can apt be steered?

2000-10-16 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
If the package doesn't say "Helix", purge it. You don't need any non-helix gnome packages to have a working gnome distribution. Tim Michael Epting wrote: > > apt-get upgrade broke my Gnome this weekend. Looking in my apt/archives, I > see that I have a gnome-bin (and maybe some other Gnome-rel

Re: compiling kernel

2000-10-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
use make menuconfig, it has a lot of online help and explains all of those options. nate On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Lazar Fleysher wrote: fleysh >Hi everyone! fleysh > fleysh >I am trying to compile 2.217 kernel and I am offered to choose the CPU fleysh >family. Could someone, however, explain the dif

Re: xdm

2000-10-16 Thread Ray Percival
apt-get remove xdm should do the job. -- Original Message -- From: Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:40:17 -0400 >Hi, > >How do I stop debian booting into xwindows? I stupidly must have set it to >that. > >Thanks > > >Eileen Orbe

compiling kernel

2000-10-16 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hi everyone! I am trying to compile 2.217 kernel and I am offered to choose the CPU family. Could someone, however, explain the difference between -- "586" for generic Pentium CPUs, possibly lacking the TSC and -- "Pentium" for the Intel Pentium/Pentium MMX, AMD K5, K6 and K6-3D and how to che

Re: xdm

2000-10-16 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Eileen Orbell wrote: > Hi, > > How do I stop debian booting into xwindows? I stupidly must have set it to > that. > > Thanks If you don't like xdm at all, then remove the xdm package by issuing dpkg --purge xdm if you just dont want to be started as default, then remo

Re: Nvidia, XF86 4.0.1, Cluebies unite!

2000-10-16 Thread Francois Fayard
Have a look at http://games.luv.asn.au/lsd/nvidia-mini-howto.html It works fine on my computer Francois

xemacs, procmail and syntax highlighting

2000-10-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai, in some other tread on mutt and vi (I know shouldn't have read it:) I saw that vim can highlight structures in procmailrc. But I can't find it for xemacs. Am I looking in the wrong places or is xemacs no longer all potent? A related thing I haven't been able to refigure out yet is how to get

xdm

2000-10-16 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, How do I stop debian booting into xwindows? I stupidly must have set it to that. Thanks Eileen Orbell Software & Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Fear the Penguin.

Re: Help setting up X!

2000-10-16 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi John! For some days i had the same problem. I made much changes of fontpackages and found by doing this the minimal required packages for the fonts that X will work : xfonts-75dpi (or 100dpi) , xfonts-base , xfonts-pex. If you have all these packages installed i can do no more for you. You shou

Re: Syncronize pc-clock w/timeserver

2000-10-16 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
kmself@ix.netcom.com said: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:59:03PM +0200, Morten Bo Johansen ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I would like to use netdate to syncronize my computer's > > timesetting with that of a timeserver but no matter what > > timeserver address I pass to

Re: Symlinking /tmp to /var...

2000-10-16 Thread kmself
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:19:08AM +0200, Daniel Reuter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello there, > > On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 05:45:26AM -0500, Bud Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote

Re: apt-get error

2000-10-16 Thread kmself
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:34:33PM -0500, Pascal Hos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Since yesterday I keep getting the following error when running apt-get > upgrade: > > Fetched 9272kB in 1m19s (117kB/s) >

Re: which software for professional Mailling? OT: Actual help

2000-10-16 Thread Matthias Mann
C.Falconer wrote: Note - "very happy" not just satisfied. The client has to think "Wimmern! - Diese Person ist erstaunlich" Thank you very much for this suggestion. I will save it in my haed and for security on my harddisk.

Re: Password Change Machine

2000-10-16 Thread Damian Menscher
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > > > Set root's shell to whichever you prefer, and set > > > the regular user's shell to /usr/bin/passwd. > > > > Yeah...I thought of this at first, but I need a solution that doesn't > > mess with the passwd file at all, as the passwd file is distribute

Re: switiching window managers

2000-10-16 Thread kmself
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 09:50:08AM -0400, Eileen Orbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ho do I switch window managers? I am looking to switch to kde which I have > downloaded and installed? > I thought I added a line in .xinitrc > #kde > startkde What's your startup method? What is your desired

Re: Syncronize pc-clock w/timeserver

2000-10-16 Thread kmself
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:59:03PM +0200, Morten Bo Johansen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > I would like to use netdate to syncronize my computer's > timesetting with that of a timeserver but no matter what > timeserver address I pass to netdate I get the following > lacklustre messag

X PixMap library not installed

2000-10-16 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Even though I just: dpkg -i xpm4g_3.4k-5.deb, The X PixMap library When pcmcia source is installed: X Windows include files found. X PixMap library not installed. If you wish to build the 'cardinfo' control panel, you need the XPM library and the X Windows include files. See the HOWTO

Re: Password Change Machine

2000-10-16 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
> > Set root's shell to whichever you prefer, and set > > the regular user's shell to /usr/bin/passwd. > > Yeah...I thought of this at first, but I need a solution that doesn't > mess with the passwd file at all, as the passwd file is distributed to > other machines on a regular basis, and the use

Re: Debian box sick... "hda lost interrupt" "Unknown vector 67"

2000-10-16 Thread Robin M. Stephens
At 12:06 PM 16/10/00 -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: >No, no ideas. But I'm suffering from very similar problems. It's a >network with 19 new computers, which tend to break down as often as >once a day. All of them have Asus motherboards, some have Pentium III >others have AMD K6 3D. Also, there are

Re: Debian box sick... "hda lost interrupt" "Unknown vector 67"

2000-10-16 Thread Robin M. Stephens
At 12:10 AM 17/10/00 +1100, hogan wrote: >I have a 486DX4/100 (Overdrive) with 32MB of RAM that I run Debian on.. > >Up until yesterday it was running like a dream.. Now it does stuff like >"Unknown vector 67 in CPU#0" and after that and something about idling says >"hda interrupt lost" over and ov

apt-get error

2000-10-16 Thread Pascal Hos
Since yesterday I keep getting the following error when running apt-get upgrade: Fetched 9272kB in 1m19s (117kB/s) 11% [Scanning packages]Template does not contain a Template: line at /usr/l

Re: Questions About dpkg and friends

2000-10-16 Thread Walter Tautz
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Damien wrote: > > If you grab the Contents-i386.gz (or whatever) file out of the archive - > > it's in dists/stable or dists/unstable, depending - then you can grep > > through that for whatever you need. I usually find that faster than the > > available search tools on the

Re: Syncronize pc-clock w/timeserver

2000-10-16 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 23:59:03 +0200, Morten Bo Johansen writes: >Also if you have some other advice for me based on some >package(s) (instead of netdate) that are in Debian 2.2 that >would appreciated. I can´t help you with this specific problem, but have you (simple approach) tried ntpdate (packa

Re: fvwm95, xf86_svga or a smoked gfx-card

2000-10-16 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:46:08 -0200, Christoph Simon writes: >> I´ve compared the whole /etc/X11, /usr/lib/X11 and /usr/X11R6 to the >> last backup, no differences found. > >Did you also check the dotfiles at home? Try entering as a differrent >(new) user to see if the problem remains. <[EMAIL

Sound Volume in Gnome

2000-10-16 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I just moved over from RH and when I used gnome on there it used to save and restore my sound volume settings when I logged in and out. I sort of have that working in Debian (Woody), except it only restores my sound settings after I run the gnome mixer program once. When I reboot it resets the

Re: Password Change Machine

2000-10-16 Thread Daniel Whelan
Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Daniel Whelan wrote: > > > I'm currently configuring a machine to be the master password machine > > for a large network of machines. Is there a way to configure it to allow > > only root to get an actual console, and to have all other users > > redir

Syncronize pc-clock w/timeserver

2000-10-16 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Hi, I would like to use netdate to syncronize my computer's timesetting with that of a timeserver but no matter what timeserver address I pass to netdate I get the following lacklustre message: Connection with udp to x.x.x.x failed I converted to Debian a couple of weeks ago and th

Re: Password Change Machine

2000-10-16 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Daniel Whelan wrote: > I'm currently configuring a machine to be the master password machine > for a large network of machines. Is there a way to configure it to allow > only root to get an actual console, and to have all other users > redirected to a password change program?

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2000-10-16 Thread Veit Waltemath
Change to 16 or 32bpp. This is an know behaviour from Netscape. -- cu Veit [EMAIL PROTECTED] [de]

Nvidia, XF86 4.0.1, Cluebies unite!

2000-10-16 Thread Shawn FitzGerald
Have been having trouble getting X11-4 and the nvidia drivers to play nice together. Will explain what I have done so far, since it might be likely that one of my failed attempts has screwed something up. I'm new to Debian, with most of my prior experience being with RH (4-6.2). I am begining to lo

Re: xconsole message: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...

2000-10-16 Thread Moritz Schulte
Till Neunhoeffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Oct 11 11:26:18 wetap50 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for [...] > This happens on several machines, all of which are running potato with a > 2.2.17pre6 from the debian kernel source package. [...] It is a known problem in 2.2.16 and s

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2000-10-16 Thread Pat Mahoney
I just installed netscape on woody (apt-get install netscape): $ dpkg --get-selections | grep netscape netscape netscape-base-4 netscape-base-475 netscape-jave-475 It works ok, but the icons on the buttons are in 1-bit color. I am running X in 24bpp mode. Any ideas? -- Pat Mahoney <[EMAI

changing file attribute colors

2000-10-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Once, long ago when I used other distributions, I used to have problems with dangleing symlinks. To help in locating those buggers I changed my copy of .dircolors to allow them to be shown in blinking red. Well today I ran into an Orphan symlink problem. So I proceded to modify my .dircolors fi

What documentation and what order

2000-10-16 Thread David A. Rogers
I've used Unix and other Linuxes for some time now, but I am just starting to use Debian. What documents should I read and in which order to get up do speed on how Debian does things? Would it be better to read a book? If so, which one? I particular, I am interested in: - Setting up X. - Settin

Re: DVD movies?

2000-10-16 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:51:03PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Anybody play DVD movies on Linux, or know somebody who does? > Does it work? Yes it works, but the MPAA would like to stop it. See the links below for info on getting it to work. (No, I don't have a dvd drive nor can I afford one

Re: fvwm95, xf86_svga or a smoked gfx-card

2000-10-16 Thread Christoph Simon
> I´ve compared the whole /etc/X11, /usr/lib/X11 and /usr/X11R6 to the > last backup, no differences found. Did you also check the dotfiles at home? Try entering as a differrent (new) user to see if the problem remains. Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ?

Re: burning CDs

2000-10-16 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 01:25:52 +0700, Umum Wijoyo writes: >> If you are not careful Goldenhawk software by default uses "RAW" files >> not "ISO" files. >> You need to make a cue file that gives the right cluster size something >> like:- You don´t happen to know how one can deal with the combination

Re: burning CDs

2000-10-16 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:25:52AM +0700, Umum Wijoyo wrote: > > If you are not careful Goldenhawk software by default uses "RAW" files > > not "ISO" files. > > You need to make a cue file that gives the right cluster size something > > like:- > > O-oh! > > But then, I just burned my CD: I think

fvwm95, xf86_svga or a smoked gfx-card

2000-10-16 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! After a power outage a few hours ago, I fsck´ed (no problems found), and tried to re-startx. X and fvwm95 came up, but with a somewhat spooky colormap, like some kind of green (eg the background, which was simply grey) was missing. I´ve re-ran XF86Setup, apt-get remove´d + install´ed fvwm

Re: HP 4L

2000-10-16 Thread C. Falconer
At 11:34 AM 10/16/00 +0300, you wrote: I've tried to make my HP Laserjet 4L to work for two nights now, and I am in need for some help. The problem is: gs prints ps-files so that only one fourth (top-left corner) of ps is actually printed (fitted on one sheet). I've checked ps's with ghostview, a

Can apt be steered?

2000-10-16 Thread Michael Epting
apt-get upgrade broke my Gnome this weekend. Looking in my apt/archives, I see that I have a gnome-bin (and maybe some other Gnome-related packages) that is not from Helix and I suspect that is the source of my problem. So, does anybody know a way to steer apt preferentially. That is, how can I

Re: burning CDs

2000-10-16 Thread Umum Wijoyo
> If you are not careful Goldenhawk software by default uses "RAW" files > not "ISO" files. > You need to make a cue file that gives the right cluster size something > like:- O-oh! But then, I just burned my CD: I think it's fine... though I haven't tried it out for a real install yet... Anyway.

Help setting up X!

2000-10-16 Thread John Travis
I was running Storm, upgraded to Woody without any problems (minus the libc6 saga :-). However some power failures encouraged me to do a full reiser-debian install (yes I know the disks aren't supported). I've got a quasi functional potato box right now. My networking is set up so I can apt-get

Re: Problem with '/etc/shutdown.allow'

2000-10-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:26:20PM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: > Hello, debian-users! > > There are two users on my debian system, who I want to be able to reboot > and halt without being root. For this purpose I created > /etc/shutdown.allow with the corresponding user names. Now when I p

Re: MouseManWheel thumb button

2000-10-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 03:25:53AM +0200 On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 03:25:53AM +0200, Stéphane BOREL wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem trying to setup my Logitech mouseman wheel (4 buttons > and a roller) under gtk. > > Actually, X11 setup

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