Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-04 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 03 2000, wulfie wrote: > I'll second the anti-Nvidia driver lobby. I'm planning on buying a new computer soon (a Duron) and one of the things that was hardest to understand was which video card to get. It seems that there is an hiatus between el-cheapo, olde

X4 and a Trident Card? (was: Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts)

2000-11-04 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 04 2000, John S. J. Anderson wrote: > Once I got it working, however, I was quite impressed. It's > noticeably faster than XFree 3.3.6 on window movement and screen > redraws, even with the old 4 MB Trident card I've got. Old Trident Card? Hey, which one? We may be in the same boat.

Re: OFFTOPIC weird URL's

2000-11-04 Thread Bob Bernstein
> "croak" == Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: croak> What exactly are these spammers doing? Did they convert a croak> dotted-quad address into a decimal number? I can tell you an easier way to decipher them, but I too would like to know how they are contructed, i.e what's the al

G400, DRI, X4, and 4 million dollars

2000-11-04 Thread Mike Cathcart
Well, ok, I lied, but who was going to read another boring email about the G400 and DRI? Well, enough for sensationalistic email... I'm trying to get accelerated 3D in woody. Here's my system: * K62-400 * G400 * ALI M1541 on an ASUS P5A * linux 2.4.0test10, compiled with: /dev/agpgart:

SIS 900 NIC

2000-11-04 Thread Art Edwards
I'm trying (very patiently) to do a network install using a system with an embedded SIS 900. I have tried to install the sis900.0 module without success. This is particularly frustrating because the card was recognized and used on the same box with the Caldera open linux distribution. Any help woul

Re: I messed up Xfree86

2000-11-04 Thread John Hasler
Chris writes: > OK I've never understood what's so great about high resolutions. Lots and lots of really small pixels. > The higher the resolution, the smaller the stuff on your screen,... The higher the resolution the more stuff I can get on the screen while including enough pixels in each bi

GeForce2 w/ XFree86 4.0.1 [ a little new ]

2000-11-04 Thread Cisco.Addict
Sorry, is there any way i can get my GeForce2 GTS 64mb working in XFree86 4.0.1    (Im hopeing to be able to play Quake3)   Zac Epkes

Re: I messed up Xfree86

2000-11-04 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: km> OK I've never understood what's so great about high resolutions. The km> higher the resolution, the smaller the stuff on your screen, the km> closer to the screen you sit, the more you squint to see stuff, the km> sooner you go

test patterns for adjusting monitor?

2000-11-04 Thread Krzys Majewski
Anyone have test patterns for help with adjusting the various parameters of a CRT monitor? -chris

Re: Making the computer less noisy

2000-11-04 Thread Krzys Majewski
Jean-Michel Kelbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi ! > > i am wondering if there is a way to make the computer less noisy at some > moment (the NIGHT). What I mean is that the CPU fan does a lot of noise, > and the Hd too. Is there a porgram to make the cpu fan less rotating (if > the cpu doesn

Re: I messed up Xfree86

2000-11-04 Thread Krzys Majewski
"Claudette Woodgate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Corey, > > Where shall I send the case of beers and the strippers? I finally have my > Xfree86 4.0.1 up and running, at 1280x1024x16bpp. Thank You ! OK I've never understood what's so great about high resolutions. The higher the resolution,

Re: Unstable (Woody)

2000-11-04 Thread kmself
on Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 07:45:22PM -0800, Parrish M Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > How usable is unstable? I would like to use XFree86 4.0.1, but it > looks like I have to do an 'apt-get upgrade to do it. Quite, in my experience -- ~12 months both at home and work. Though it *w

Re: ISP Configuration help, please.

2000-11-04 Thread John Hasler
soluzar75 writes: > My ISP is LineONE http://www.lineone.net, and I have a generic > CompUSA-type external modem. I just need to know how to write proper > connection scripts (I think...). Run pppconfig as root and fill in the blanks. Start your connection with pon, monitor it with plog, and stop

ISP Configuration help, please.

2000-11-04 Thread soluzar75
I hope that someone can help me. I am a reasonably long-term user of Debian and other unixen, but one subject I have not yet mastered is how to configure my Internet Service Provider. I am writing this email from Windoze, which I am temporarily reduced to using for all my internet needs. My I

Unstable (Woody)

2000-11-04 Thread Parrish M Myers
Hi all, How usable is unstable? I would like to use XFree86 4.0.1, but it looks like I have to do an 'apt-get upgrade to do it. Thanks = --- Academia is a little like child | Parrish M. Myers rearing, it provides a chance at | The W

Stradling the fence

2000-11-04 Thread Peak Allan
I'm currently using mostly potato, but I've pulled a few packages from woody. If I change the sources.list back to potato will it mess up anything? __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yaho

Re: mv -i doesn't work?

2000-11-04 Thread Krzys Majewski
Oh haha, a reading problem. thanks, chris >-i, --interactive > prompt before overwrite

XFree86 4.0.1 and kernel 2.4.0-test10

2000-11-04 Thread James Dietrich
Anybody else having trouble with this combination? While running 2.4.0-test10, startx hangs after showing a plain gray screen sometime before completing successfully. At that point the system reponds to neither Ctrl-Alt-Backspace nor Ctrl-Alt-Fn, so I hit the reset button. Note that the exact sa

Re: Q: What loaded /usr/i486-linuclibC1?

2000-11-04 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 01:56:41AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed and removed a few items recently and just noticed a new > directory addition: > > /usr/i486-linuclibC1 Hmm, strange new addition. `dpkg -S /usr/i486-linuxlibc1` says it belongs to xlib6. I don't know what t

Re: ISDN

2000-11-04 Thread Shaul Karl
> hi again, > > i figured out that my isdn card support is not available > in the potato's kernel (2.2.17). I have ELSA Microlink ISDN PCI > internal isdn card and I do not see this card entry in modconf > hisax module insertion step. > [02:47:45 /tmp]$ zgrep "ELSA Microlink" /usr/share/doc/

Q: Can E menu use console commands?

2000-11-04 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, In MWM I could pass shell commands as a menu, and I think Window Maker allowed it. Can I do it in Enlightenment? I want to use the "import -root..." to take a screenshot. Other uses come to mind. Thanks, Jonathan

Q: What loaded /usr/i486-linuclibC1?

2000-11-04 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I've installed and removed a few items recently and just noticed a new directory addition: /usr/i486-linuclibC1 I have a feeling it was a libstd I was loading to get another app to run. I deleted it and the library but the directory and a few files and a link to bitmaps exists. How could I c

Re: wer-weiss-was: debian

2000-11-04 Thread jens
Hallo Leider kann ich Dir nicht helfen, ich leite Deine anfrage mal in die Debian-User Liste weiter. > Liebe/-r wer-weiss-was Experte/-in, > > ich versuche verzweifelt Debian 2.2 auf meinem Powerbook zu > installieren. Jedesmal, wenn ich im Installationsprogramm PCMCIA > konfigurieren möch

Re: woody upgrade still breaks apt-get

2000-11-04 Thread Russ Pitman
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:21:06PM +1100, Russell Davies wrote: > ; Tried both upgrade and dist-upgrade, can't be certain now but one gave a > ; bunch of errors and declined to work. The one that did loaded 57 files > ; including pcima stuff which I did not have or want and libc6 v2.1.96-1. > ; >

Re: new to Debian....

2000-11-04 Thread kmself
on Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 06:06:02PM +, wulfie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > although not new to linux. A little bit of skewed logic in places - I > install C dev system & kernel sources, but the .debs do not include > libcurses5 as a "recommended" to "make menuconfig". Huh? I'd have thought

Re: Installing LILO in MBR or in another partition

2000-11-04 Thread Terry Boon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Many thanks to David Maze and Jason Holland for their help with this question: I now have a happily working system. On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 02:48:54PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > I think the default setup for Debian is to use a fairly simple MBR, >

Re: DEBIAN 2.2: LOCAL PRINTER INSTALLATION

2000-11-04 Thread Mario Vukelic
> Yves POCCHIOLA wrote: > >I have replaced today my Suse2.3 version of Linux by a Debian 2.2 . I > >managed to get a working installalion at the exception of the local > >printer (HP Desk Jet 510 on parallel port). I didn't notice any question > >during the installation process concerning

Re: Off topic - Netscape

2000-11-04 Thread kmself
on Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 09:02:50AM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sorry for the off-topic, but does any one know > how to get rid of that stupid "Shop" button from the > top of the netscape screen? You've found your answer. See attached, though, for additional Netscape

Re: running ftpd other than root

2000-11-04 Thread C. Falconer
At 05:34 PM 11/4/00 -0600, you wrote: Is it possible, for securities sake to run wu-ftp as another user other than root? I can't find any info on this. Thanks! Yes, absolutely... but any ftp daemon must be started as root to open ports below 1024. All of the popular ones drop to a designat

Re: DEBIAN 2.2: LOCAL PRINTER INSTALLATION

2000-11-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
Yves POCCHIOLA wrote: >I have replaced today my Suse2.3 version of Linux by a Debian 2.2 . I >managed to get a working installalion at the exception of the local >printer (HP Desk Jet 510 on parallel port). I didn't notice any question >during the installation process concerning the print

OFFTOPIC weird URL's

2000-11-04 Thread Pollywog
I received a spam which promoted a website but the problem was the URL has something like this http://2704935062/somestupid/pornpage.html It was not an IP address or domain, so the only way I could find out what it was was to plug this into my browser and then do a "netstat". The website is hos

running ftpd other than root

2000-11-04 Thread Kelly Corbin
Is it possible, for securities sake to run wu-ftp as another user other than root? I can't find any info on this. Thanks! Kelly -- -- Kelly Corbin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- On the web @ http://www.theiqgroup.com -- The IQ Group, Inc. -- 6740 Antioc

Off Topic; can't mail Chris (Was: Re: libc6 header problems)

2000-11-04 Thread Pat Mahoney
Uh, Chris, I can't send email to you at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got the following errors: - The following address has permanent fatal errors - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (reason: 550 5.1.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown) blah... ... while talking to mailhub.9netave.ca -- Pat Mahoney

Re: Making the computer less noisy

2000-11-04 Thread David Rysdam
Check out hdparm. I use it to spin my server's HD down after (IIRC) 10 minutes. Makes a HUGE difference in sound. On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 08:16:32PM +0100, Jean-Michel Kelbert wrote: > Hi ! > > i am wondering if there is a way to make the computer less noisy at some > moment (the NIGHT). What I

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-04 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that wulfie wrote: > I'll second the anti-Nvidia driver lobby. I too have had severe lockups > either starting XF86 4.0 or ctl-alt-Fx'ing to a text console. My specific > hardware is a 16Mb Sparkle Nvidia Vanta AGP 2x card, this on my main SuSE > (sorry!)

DEBIAN 2.2: LOCAL PRINTER INSTALLATION

2000-11-04 Thread Yves POCCHIOLA
I have replaced today my Suse2.3 version of Linux by a Debian 2.2 . I managed to get a working installalion at the exception of the local printer (HP Desk Jet 510 on parallel port). I didn't notice any question during the installation process concerning the printer. I certainly missed something b

KDE2 + utah-glx?

2000-11-04 Thread Kristian Rink
Hi, folks! :)) Being a GNOME user for most of the time, now I am trying to mess around with KDE2 (or, 1.1.99 beta, to be honest :))) ), and, putting all of those to my potato without problems as *.deb-packages, everything seemed to be fine... Sadly things drastically changed after reinstalling

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-04 Thread Kristian Rink
Obviously Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thinks that: > I have been waiting for Opera for Linux for *ages* and am very pleased > indeed with what I have seen of the second beta. H, my $0.02 is that I am running (Debian) GNU/Linux for 99.95% because of the licensing and distribution po

Re: New user rant..urr, questions. (fwd)

2000-11-04 Thread sysy
>I encourage you to install Debian and keep notes, and to post the >notes, regardless of whether you stick with Debian. Your experiences >will help us. All of us. --+ Thanks for your encouragement. I, with previous projects, didn't approach a task with documenting it in mind.. so this is all new

Re: Does a debian-user webring or links list exist?

2000-11-04 Thread sysy
Thanks for your help.. I'll add that to my 'must read' list. =) Original message from: will trillich >nosing around, i found this debian faq, >which i may have run into earlier, but >now that i know as much as i do, i wish >i'd seen it sooner! > >http://ftp.opensource.captech.com/debian/doc/FAQ/d

Re: Does a debian-user webring or links list exist?

2000-11-04 Thread sysy
>have you been pointed to www.debianplanet.org yet? --+ No actually! L=) It didn't come up with a brief (very) search for debian resources. Thanks lots.

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-04 Thread marco
Saturday 04 November 2000 21:20, Phillip Deackes wrote: > I have been waiting for Opera for Linux for *ages* and am very pleased > indeed with what I have seen of the second beta. I hate Netscape more > than I hate Internet Explorer. Mozilla is just not usable at the moment > and although it gets

testing mutt

2000-11-04 Thread Rafael A . Schmitt
ignore this...sorry :/ Rafael. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | Rafael Alexandre Schmitt| | Blumenau - Santa Catarina - Brasil | | Powered by Debian 2.2 (Potato) | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: X4.0.1 crashing -- help!

2000-11-04 Thread iehrenwald
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Dan Griswold wrote: > Hi all, > > I was hoping that somebody could help me figure out what's going on. [snip] Make sure you're using the NVIDIA supplied GL and GLX libs. Follow the instructions on their web site for manual installation. Try adding Option "NvAgp" "0" to you

Re: libqt2.2.x help

2000-11-04 Thread Daniel Borgmann
try ./configure --with-qt-dir=/path/to/qt2 i guess there is a problem finding qt2 when qt1 is installed too. i'm not an expert in this, but maybe it works for you On Saturday 04 November 2000 21:13, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Hello, > > I am attempting to './configure' a new kde2 utility > (ht

debian file server

2000-11-04 Thread Sebastien Lacour
Hi all, I have a few ix86's sharing NIS & NFS on a LAN (with alphas and IBMs, but no matter) and i'd like to install potato2.2.17 on my 6 PCs. The problem is i just can't figure out how to install a file/application server properly. i use 'dselect'. i've got a partition for /usr only on my se

Re: Now that X4.0.1 Is Woody-Fied.

2000-11-04 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 02:13:48PM +0800, Corey Popelier wrote: > Most of you might have gotten bored to tears by my running efforts to get > the X4.0.1 in woody functional, and probably know by now I have, so I > thought I'd quickly and briefly say how: [snip] Err... did you try running the littl

Re: I messed up Xfree86

2000-11-04 Thread Claudette Woodgate
Actually, It's Joel. I'm using the wife's Pc right now. Yes well I believe there is a sample of a XF86Config fore buried in my filesystem somewhere. I'll try to figure out the syntax for the fonts from there. When I exit X, I noticed a message about not being able to load the Speedo fonts and tha

Re: I messed up Xfree86

2000-11-04 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 11:13:41PM -0500, Joel Dinel wrote: > OK, I found out that you don't use XF86Setup anymore. > > XFree86 -configure seems to detect my stuff OK. When I run XFree86 > -xf86config /root/whatever.file I get a nice empty gray screen, and > the mouse won't mouse. That's as far as

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-04 Thread Phillip Deackes
USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to all those who have replied either to > the list or on my personal mail. Finally decided > to give it a try. Downloaded the static binary > from the Opera site (Ver 4.0b1). Run it for over > 2 hrs right now. > > Initial impressions ... not that ba

try it again

2000-11-04 Thread Arne
-- Spruce: because this planet is being FedEx'd to hell 2 Description: Binary data

X4.0.1 crashing -- help!

2000-11-04 Thread Dan Griswold
Hi all, I was hoping that somebody could help me figure out what's going on. I am getting lock-ups on my computer when sound is playing and some sort of X activity occurs (such as moving a window or switching between virtual desktops). To get out of these I have to cycle the power: ctrl-alt-del d

Re: installing Star Office 5.2

2000-11-04 Thread cls-colo spgs
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 08:43:40PM -0600, Bob Edwards wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to install Star Office 5.2 ? > I have downloaded the file which is a .bin file, and > put it in a seperate directory. what is next ? I know > how to install .tar files and .gz files, but not > .bin files. > > I d

installing without a cd-rom

2000-11-04 Thread social reject
Hello! My computers cd-rom does not work at all. I have Debian on CD, so I was wondering if there is anyway I can still install it onto the system? I have like 4 other computers, so is there anyway I can jus put it all on floppies or something? Thanks..

libqt2.2.x help

2000-11-04 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, I am attempting to './configure' a new kde2 utility (http://www.1409.org/projects/kpsk/) and it depends on qt2.2 or better. This am, my apt-get included 19 megs, of the updates, qt2.2 was included - To my surprise. Yet, after a boot (just in case), I attempted to run the configure scr

Re: Installing LILO in MBR or in another partition

2000-11-04 Thread David Z Maze
Terry Boon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TB> In "Running Linux", the example lilo.conf includes the line TB> TB>boot = /dev/hda TB> TB> This will install LILO into the master boot record (MBR) of hda. The TB> explanation continues "If you give a partition device name (such as TB> /dev/hda2), i

Re: How to get ifup/ifdown source code

2000-11-04 Thread sena
I heard that Patrick Dahiroc wrote this on 04/11/00: > i'm curious to know how ifup/ifdown does it's magic. how do > i get the source code for these using apt-get > Well, first you need a deb-src line in your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main con

Re: Debian Potato and Alcatel Speed Touch USB?

2000-11-04 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 04 Nov 2000 20:27:59 +0100, Ringo De Smet writes: >Q: >Does the USB backport for 2.2 kernels supports networking stacks? Or am >I better of with the NIC connected ADSL modem? I don´t know about linux+USB+networking, but we have extensively tested the Alcatel Speed Touch here in .at-land

Making the computer less noisy

2000-11-04 Thread Jean-Michel Kelbert
Hi ! i am wondering if there is a way to make the computer less noisy at some moment (the NIGHT). What I mean is that the CPU fan does a lot of noise, and the Hd too. Is there a porgram to make the cpu fan less rotating (if the cpu doesn't work !) Thank Jean-Michel

Re: how to get the latest STABLE releases?

2000-11-04 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Daniel Borgmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: db> why aren't stable packages for the unstable tree moved to the db> potato tree? Because that would be very difficult. First, packages all depend on other packages. The package in woody may well depend on other packages with newer versions in

Re: Why doesn't alt-x in Emacs doesn't work?

2000-11-04 Thread Chris Gray
I just asked this question last week. What you probably need are the following lines in the keyboard section of your /etc/XF86Config file: Section "Keyboard" LeftAlt Meta RightAltMeta Cheers Chris On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Scott V. McGuire wrote: > > In a recently installed a

Message from syslogd...

2000-11-04 Thread J.P. Larocque
I went away for a few days, leaving my computer running (as it always is) and I had an Eterm open in my X session. When I came back, I got this: Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Thu Nov 2 16:46:54 2000 ... omega FYI, omega is my computer's hostname. Now, what exactly does this cryptic messag

Re: I messed up Xfree86

2000-11-04 Thread Corey Popelier
Claudette if I get either the beers or the strippers, you will have made a friend for life. In fact just the suggestion of them makes you a friend automatically :) I must thank whoever mentioned the XFree86 -configure command, that starting point was the catalyst to getting X working - the rest wa

Debian Potato and Alcatel Speed Touch USB?

2000-11-04 Thread Ringo De Smet
Hello, At last I have the opportunity to get an ADSL connection through the local phone company (Belgacom - Belgium). There are several ISP's offering the combined ISP/ADSL account, but all with the same hardware. I can get an Alcatel Speed Touch PSTN (connects to a NIC) or I can get the USB v

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-04 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 wulfie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ttmkfdir in the ttf dir :) Add the path to your fonts section in > XF86Config, freetype to the modules section (you already did both, it > seems) & you're there. What's the exact path to ttmkfdir on your box? I do

sgml and latex

2000-11-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I have a computer software manual written in sgml using Docbook. Now, in one of my latex documents, I would like to include this sgml manual as an appendix of my latex document. But I don't know how to do it. I can only convert sgml to jadetex, but not latex, so I cannot just use latex's \inc

sources.list to upgrade from slink to potato

2000-11-04 Thread Matheson
Hey,   I'm trying to upgrade my slink to potato with the three cd-set of binaries, but I don't know what my sources.list should look like to include all three cd's.  If someone could please send me an example file, I would appreciate it.   Thanks, Cameron Matheson  

new to Debian....

2000-11-04 Thread wulfie
although not new to linux. A little bit of skewed logic in places - I install C dev system & kernel sources, but the .debs do not include libcurses5 as a "recommended" to "make menuconfig". Huh? I'd have thought many kernel hand-rollers would do menuconfig & so this would be a popular reccomen

Re: installation problem

2000-11-04 Thread wulfie
Most likely the kernel is not aware of the ATA100 interface yet. If you can, slot in a multi-I/O card with IDE i/f & use this to install. You'll have to seek out a kernel patch for the ATA100 controller. The reported "Promise" controller is the ATA100 chipset being detected but not recognized. ==

RE: PPP Configuration

2000-11-04 Thread Nick Cook
On 04-Nov-2000 Marco Herrn wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to configure my internet connection on my potato system via > wvdial > an pppconfig, but neither of this works correctly. > When running wvdial, it starts the connection and holds it, but I > cannot > access the internet (I tried it with netsc

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-04 Thread wulfie
ttmkfdir in the ttf dir :) Add the path to your fonts section in XF86Config, freetype to the modules section (you already did both, it seems) & you're there. == Paul Sims ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SpireLUG - the Chesterfield Linux User Group www.spirelug.o

Re: I messed up Xfree86

2000-11-04 Thread Claudette Woodgate
Corey, Where shall I send the case of beers and the strippers? I finally have my Xfree86 4.0.1 up and running, at 1280x1024x16bpp. Thank You ! Now, I understand that Xfree86 4.0.1 has built-in True Type support. So that means I can do away with the xfstt? What lines do I need to add to my XF86Co

install via FTP HOWTO?

2000-11-04 Thread W. Lindenschmidt
Greetings, Debianites! I am a pseudo-newbie (been using RedHat 6.1 for about a year), but I want to upgrade to Debian. Since I am a student, I will wait until the winter break to do so, since Linux (Evolution, Mozilla, and StarOffice 5.2) is my working environment. I was wondering if there is

Re: mv -i doesn't work?

2000-11-04 Thread David Teague
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Anybody else have this problem? /bin/mv -i and /bin/mv --interactive > do not prompt before moving. From the stable fileutils. -chris Chris mv -i is not interatctive, rather it is query before overwrite. Exerpt from man mv: mv - move (rename) file

installation problem

2000-11-04 Thread lhomer
I have an asus-cubx motherboard with intel 440BX AGPset 100 MHZ W/ ATA100 and intel p3750EF, 750MHZ cpu I have two ide hard drives, either can boot windows with no difficulty The windows system reports a scsi device described as a "Windows 95-98 Promise Ultra 100 (tm) IDE controller (PDC202

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-04 Thread wulfie
I'll second the anti-Nvidia driver lobby. I too have had severe lockups either starting XF86 4.0 or ctl-alt-Fx'ing to a text console. My specific hardware is a 16Mb Sparkle Nvidia Vanta AGP 2x card, this on my main SuSE (sorry!) box. == Paul Sims ([

mv -i doesn't work?

2000-11-04 Thread Krzys Majewski
Anybody else have this problem? /bin/mv -i and /bin/mv --interactive do not prompt before moving. From the stable fileutils. -chris

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-04 Thread USM Bish
Thanks to all those who have replied either to the list or on my personal mail. Finally decided to give it a try. Downloaded the static binary from the Opera site (Ver 4.0b1). Run it for over 2 hrs right now. Initial impressions ... not that bad at all (but being a beta release, many things d

Re: New user rant..urr, questions.

2000-11-04 Thread David Teague
Hi Sy Many thanks for your detailed response. You asK > > > Question for you, if I may: > I am using an x86 system. If Debian ended up being my sole OS, > are there advantages to switching to another hardware platform? > Does Debian run better on other platforms? (all else being equal - > li

How to get ifup/ifdown source code

2000-11-04 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
i'm curious to know how ifup/ifdown does it's magic. how do i get the source code for these using apt-get -- "As a general rule, if you have trouble with the binary system, then probably it is because you do not really understand the decimal system ..." R.W. Hamming

Re: Off topic - Netscape

2000-11-04 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 10:06:09AM -0500, mike wrote: -| -|On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 09:02:50 -0500, Christopher W. Aiken said: -| -|> Sorry for the off-topic, but does any one know -|> how to get rid of that stupid "Shop" button from the -|> top of the netscape screen? -|> -| Read the Netscape.a

email alias postfix procmail

2000-11-04 Thread dirk
Hi all. I thought I had some simple problem, but I don't have any clue how to solve it. I made an alias for my own emailadress and this alias I want to use for another user. I have a dial-up machine and I am almost the only user. I am subscribed to several mailing lists and sort them out using proc

Re: Testing modems

2000-11-04 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 04 Nov 2000 11:28:28 EST, "Andrew Hagen" writes: >After reading the manual, open a comm program. Programs for these are in the >communications tree of packages. Once you are able to type in "AT" and >get back "OK", you are communicating with the modem. Then you can alter >the registers an

Re: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Damon Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Disclaimer: I use emacs for heavy duty stuff (eg., my thesis in LaTeX), > and Vim for everything else... Could you let us know how you live on both emacs and vim? Do you have to use the vi mode in emacs when using emacs? I tried out emacs before and ca

Re: Java 2 Runtime Environment

2000-11-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Put this in your sources.list: deb ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/java-linux/debian woody non-free You can replace the first part url with any mirros listed on blackdown.org Shao. Jay Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Guys, > Im running apache and need to add Java 2 Runtime Environment v 1

Re: Testing modems

2000-11-04 Thread Andrew Hagen
You'll need either a paper manual for the modem, or a downloadable one. I think you can download modem manuals from the USR or 3COM site. After reading the manual, open a comm program. Programs for these are in the communications tree of packages. Once you are able to type in "AT" and get back "

RE: Installing LILO in MBR or in another partition

2000-11-04 Thread Jason Holland
> In "Running Linux", the example lilo.conf includes the line > >boot = /dev/hda this is used if LILO will be the controlling boot manager for the system. The bios will read this first when the system is turned on. > > This will install LILO into the master boot record (MBR) of hda. The > ex

XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-04 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings -- Did the XFree86 upgrade last night. Wasn't too bad; if I hadn't mis-remembered the video card in this box, I think it would have been seamless. As it was, I had to do some reading and playing around to get /etc/X11/XF86Config set up the r

Installing LILO in MBR or in another partition

2000-11-04 Thread Terry Boon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In "Running Linux", the example lilo.conf includes the line boot = /dev/hda This will install LILO into the master boot record (MBR) of hda. The explanation continues "If you give a partition device name (such as /dev/hda2), instead of a drive de

Re: APC UPS-Pro 650 anyone ?

2000-11-04 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 10:57:10AM -0300, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > > Hi, im using PowerChute fromn APC. All works well except that the UPS > doesn't put itself to sleep, so it runs "On battery" forever. > > I've tried the same ups an same cable with a WinBug box and all work > well. > >

Testing modems

2000-11-04 Thread Cam Ellison
I am having problems with my USR 1171; among its uses is to answer the phone and take faxes. Now PMfax isn't happy with it, and I suspect some of the registers may be screwed up. Does ayone know of a test application (maybe something like Telix, which runs on DOS) that will poke around in the mod

PPP Configuration

2000-11-04 Thread Marco Herrn
Hello, I tried to configure my internet connection on my potato system via wvdial an pppconfig, but neither of this works correctly. When running wvdial, it starts the connection and holds it, but I cannot access the internet (I tried it with netscape and lynx). When running pon, it dials, but imm

Re: Off topic - Netscape

2000-11-04 Thread mike
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 09:02:50 -0500, Christopher W. Aiken said: > Sorry for the off-topic, but does any one know > how to get rid of that stupid "Shop" button from the > top of the netscape screen? > Read the Netscape.ad file (application defaults) and put the desired default lines in y

Why doesn't alt-x in Emacs doesn't work?

2000-11-04 Thread Dan Griswold
> "Scott" == Scott V McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Scott> In a recently installed and apg-get dist-upgraded potato, I Scott> can't use alt-x in emacs. Does anyone know why? Scott> (I know I can use escape-x, but I'm used to alt-x) Scott, I've had a problem like this befo

Re: grub?

2000-11-04 Thread Alan Salewski
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 01:59:58PM +, John Miskinis wrote: > Hello, > > FYI - I remember seeing some posts that indicated that the > CD that was shipped with this book has problems. I > do not know what the "grub>" prompt is all about though. GRand Unified Bootloader http://www.gnu.org/softw

Re: Mozilla M18 on potato (pentium100)

2000-11-04 Thread sena
I heard that Leen Besselink wrote this on 04/11/00: > Sounds like you logged in as a regular user, opened up a terminal program > like xterm, Eterm, Konsole, etc., and su'd (with the 'su' command or > similair) to root and tryed to start mozilla as root. This does not work > in Unix en thus Linux.

Re: Mozilla M18 on potato (pentium100)

2000-11-04 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Daniel Borgmann wrote: > when i try to run mozilla as root it says: > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 > - > what does that mean?? and yes, i did start it in X. > when i do the same as a regular user, i get no error message at all. Sounds like you log

Re: grub?

2000-11-04 Thread Moritz Schulte
"John Miskinis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FYI - I remember seeing some posts that indicated that the > CD that was shipped with this book has problems. I > do not know what the "grub>" prompt is all about though. GRUB ist the GNU Bootloader, it's a very powerfull one. AFAIK Mandrake uses GRU

Re: Off topic - Netscape

2000-11-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 09:02:50AM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > Sorry for the off-topic, but does any one know > how to get rid of that stupid "Shop" button from the > top of the netscape screen? from ~/.Xresources: ! shut off garbage toolbar buttons Netscape*toolBar.myshopping.isEnabled:

Re: Mozilla M18 on potato (pentium100)

2000-11-04 Thread Daniel Borgmann
hello! i just downloaded M18 from this place and unpacked the archive to /usr/local/mozilla/ but i have problems to start it. when i try to run mozilla as root it says: - ranger:/usr/lib# /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla /usr/local/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin MOZILLA_FIV

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