why no DRI for G200 in X4

2000-11-05 Thread Jeremiah Savage
I've been tring to get DRI working for my G200 on 440BX w/o much success. I've compiled linux-2.4.0-test10 with agpgart and dri, installed the latest X4 debs (including xlibmesa3, xlibosmesa3 & xserver-xfree86), configured with dexter, made the /dev/agpgart device (mknod /dev/agpgart c 10 175), do

Re: DSL & Firewall

2000-11-05 Thread Jesse Goerz
Try going to www.smoothwall.org. It's a firewall distribution. My local LUG just had a class on how to install it. It is *amazingly* easy to configure. The only catch is it "takes over the system" so you need an extra computer. The beauty is it'll run on a 386 with 8 meg (so the web site claim

enlightenment keybinding

2000-11-05 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I always have the impression that enlightenment is bloated and slow. After tried out one of the light theme, it actually uses less memory than sawfish(2MB only on my system with pager and iconbox) However, it seems to me that the keybinding is not as powerful as sawfish. Anyone know how I ca

DRI diff in phase2v30 and offical?

2000-11-05 Thread Burton Windle
Hello. I was very happy to finally get DRI working on my Voodoo3 2000 with the phase2version30 beta debs. However, when I "upgraded" my woody box to the offical Deb Xf4 packages, DRI stopped working. Has anyone else noticed this too? I am running Linux kernel version 2.4.0-test10. -- Burton Wind

Re: aside: perl's unpack()

2000-11-05 Thread Brad
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 08:46:05PM +1100, Damien wrote: > > > > a.b.c.d > > > > n = d + c * 256 + b * 256 ^ 2 + a * 256 ^ 3 > > after reading the previous mail, this is what i was thinking. i went to test > it in perl afterwards, but got the wrong result. could anyone tell me what's > wrong with

Re: WordPerfect 8 on Debian 2.2 with XFree86 3.3.6

2000-11-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
WP8 works fine for me with xlib6 3.3.6 (in oldlibs--WP 8 uses libc5). On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 11:10:08PM -0500, Iohan wrote: > I installed WP8 (download version) and I get the following when I try to > run 'xwp' > > xwp: can't load library "libXt.so.6" > > From perusing the not-so-helpful Co

Re: WordPerfect 8 on Debian 2.2 with XFree86 3.3.6

2000-11-05 Thread David Z Maze
Iohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Iohan> I installed WP8 (download version) and I get the following when I try Iohan> to run 'xwp' Iohan> Iohan> xwp: can't load library "libXt.so.6" ... Iohan> When attempting to install WordPerfect 8.0 on the download version of Iohan> Corel Linux 1.0, the follow

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Re: WordPerfect 8 on Debian 2.2 with XFree86 3.3.6

2000-11-05 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I installed WP8 (download version) and I get the following when I try to > run 'xwp' > > xwp: can't load library "libXt.so.6" > > From perusing the not-so-helpful Corel knowledgebase, this

WordPerfect 8 on Debian 2.2 with XFree86 3.3.6

2000-11-05 Thread Iohan
I installed WP8 (download version) and I get the following when I try to run 'xwp' xwp: can't load library "libXt.so.6" From perusing the not-so-helpful Corel knowledgebase, this is the closest relevant article I got: The information in this document applies to: WORDPERFECT V8.0 LINUX Proble

Re: Stradling the fence

2000-11-05 Thread kmself
on Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 02:08:36PM -0800, Peak Allan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > --- kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 06:26:17PM -0800, Peak Allan > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I'm currently using mostly potato, but I've pulled a few packages > > > from woody. If I c

Segmentation Faults!

2000-11-05 Thread Matheson
Wow,   I get segmentation faults whenever anything (or me) tries to remove stuff (rm).  When by system boots up, a see up bunch of segmentation faults, cause certain things try to rm -f, and now when I try to log in I get:   tux login: root System bootup in progress - please wait   Password:

Re: How stable are the XFree86 4 packages?

2000-11-05 Thread Sean
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:47:21AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, I know that they're not really reccomended for the average user > yet, but I wanna try them out so bad! :-) LOL > I've got a K6-500, 64Mb ram, Voodoo 3 w/16Mb, and I'm running a > mostly potato system. What I would like t

Re: problems with XSERVER after UPGRADE

2000-11-05 Thread John Bagdanoff
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 08:34:50PM -0500, Alessandro Ghigi wrote: > > > > Alessandro Ghigi wrote: > >>I am running woody on a laptop since one year. After the last upgrade > >>(i.e. last night) the xserver does not work. It complains that none of > > the > >>configured devices can b

Re: [OT] Mozilla and JunkBuster - Solved! (maybe)

2000-11-05 Thread Damon Muller
Hi folks, Following up on Karsten's (I think) advice, I went to www.mozilla.org to check out the bugs filed against mozilla, and there was one regarding junkbuster. I think the specific error was for something else, but the advice it gave was to turn off `Enable Keepalive' under Debug -> Networkin

How stable are the XFree86 4 packages?

2000-11-05 Thread soluzar75
OK, I know that they're not really reccomended for the average user yet, but I wanna try them out so bad! :-) I've got a K6-500, 64Mb ram, Voodoo 3 w/16Mb, and I'm running a mostly potato system. What I would like to know is: Would I be better off trying to install the whole of woody, or buildi

joystick

2000-11-05 Thread jason lee
hello all, i'm new to linux and i'm trying to get my microsoft sidewinder working under debian 2.2. i've recompiled my kernel with: make menuconfig (enabled joystick support; built-in sidewinder support) make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install after rebooting (and m

Debian/KDE2/Konqueror

2000-11-05 Thread Christoph H.
Hi! I have following problems with Konqueror: 1.) Java is installed (jdk+nsplugin), but the Java applet is always shown in an extra minimized window, not embedded in web-site. 2.) I've installed Real Player 7 Basic NS-PlugIn, but if I want to load a page with embedded Real Player panel (rpm), th

Re: problems with XSERVER after UPGRADE

2000-11-05 Thread Alessandro Ghigi
> > Alessandro Ghigi wrote: >>I am running woody on a laptop since one year. After the last upgrade >>(i.e. last night) the xserver does not work. It complains that none of the >>configured devices can be detected. I tried to reconfigure using >>XF86Setup, and found that my card

Re: sticky bit, powersaving & hdd spindown

2000-11-05 Thread Damien
> I can't help wondering if you could do away with the hdd altogether, > e.g. booting the thing once and for all from floppies. The P/S fan > solution I've posted before -- if it's an old and wimpy machine and > you're daring you could maybe try even more extreme things like nuking > the f

Re: sticky bit, powersaving & hdd spindown

2000-11-05 Thread Damien
> I occasionally use a 64MB ramdisk, for recording music (actually for > testing whether the HDD is a bottleneck in music recording). To use > the ramdisk, I say: > > mkfs.minix /dev/ram 65536 > mount /ram > > Can't remember why I used the minix filesystem, you can probably use > anything

Re: aside: perl's unpack()

2000-11-05 Thread Damien
> IP networks use big-endian notation and PCs use little-endian; you > need to convert the value before splitting it back into octets: > > > ($a, $b, $c, $d) = split(/\./, "50.55.48.52"); > $n = $d + ($c << 8) + ($b << 16) + ($a << 24); > print "$n = ", join(".", unpack("C4", pack("N", $n))), "\

XFree86 4.0.1 crashes hard

2000-11-05 Thread Jeremy Hankins
Well, I've been futzing with this for a couple days now, and no luck, so I'll see if anyone here has any suggestions. I've got an s3 virge card, viewsonic monitor. Come the upgrade to XF 4.0 I've got to re-create the XF86Config file -- no biggy, I ran xf86config to get a base version, and tweaked

Re: Samba uprade 2.0.5a -> 2.0.7 fails

2000-11-05 Thread Pann McCuaig
I was running 2.0.5a on a slink box with kernel 2.0.36 and upgraded to potato. Had similar problems. Something in the deep dark recesses of my mind (probably saw a posting on this list in the past) told me to upgrade to kernel 2.2.17 before I started trying to truly diagnose the problem. Worked pea

RE: DSL & Firewall

2000-11-05 Thread Pollywog
On 06-Nov-2000 Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > Why cant I just set my "/etc/hosts.deny" > file to "ALL: PARANOID", comment out the "telnet" "ftp" and > "http" lines out of my "/etc/inetd.conf" file? Wouldn't > that be enough protection for my system? > It is not enough, because most services d

Re: xbase-clients_4.0.1-1_i386.deb is missing sessreg

2000-11-05 Thread Brendan Cully
On Sunday, 05 November 2000 at 14:55, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: > It seems that xbase-clients-4.0.1 doesn't have the sessreg binary. This > sessreg binary is called by the /etc/X11/wdm/Xstartup startup file: This now appears to be in the xutils package. Maybe you should try to install task-x-window-

DSL & Firewall

2000-11-05 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
My "Mom & Pop" phone company had an insert in my latest phone bill that indicated they would be providing DSL service in the very near future. A friend of mine suggested that if I get the DSL service that I should set up a firewall to protect myself. He also suggested that I start with a page

Re: SB Live! (XGamer)...

2000-11-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Matthias Czapla wrote: > In Kernel 2.2.17 there is direct Support for SB Live!. Just compile it > in. I keep hearing this and I keep looking and I can't find it in my 2.2.17 source (from potato debian package). _Please_ point me to a file! ...RickM...

Re: woody upgrade still breaks apt-get

2000-11-05 Thread Russ Pitman
Russell, I had a look at dnscache , as a result had to install bind so I set up a caching only name server as per the HOWTO and as the deb README,well almost. Got online this am and apt-get worked ok. Updating right now. I guess i'll leave it at that now it dosen't appear to be broke. Maybe wo

Using dpkg-buildpackage

2000-11-05 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I have been trying to build a debian package out of plain sources using deb-make and dpkg-buildpackage. I need to pass an argument to configure (--with-qt2) but I don't know how to do it from dpkg-buildpackage. I know I can edit configure.in and set it there, but I don't think that's the way to

Re: Samba uprade 2.0.5a -> 2.0.7 fails

2000-11-05 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Because I wanted to hook up a Win2000 machine to my network, someone > suggested me to upgrade my Samba server to 2.0.7 That is a strongly recommended upgrade - MS gave Win2k interoperabili

Samba uprade 2.0.5a -> 2.0.7 fails

2000-11-05 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Because I wanted to hook up a Win2000 machine to my network, someone suggested me to upgrade my Samba server to 2.0.7 Things used to be working, 2.0.7 is in stable, so I just did apt-get install samba. No luck. Now my smb log shows ugly things like: > [2000/11/05 22:15:20, 1] smbd/server.c:main(

Re: X4 lacking color definitions

2000-11-05 Thread Brian
--- brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 10:37:54AM -0800, Brian wrote: > > A fresh X install this morning made X4 an interesting > surprise. > > > > One problem which I don't know which package to report the > bug > > to. Help? > > > > Programs like Netscape, fetchmai

Re: Stradling the fence

2000-11-05 Thread Peak Allan
I haven't done an "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" since I installed the woody packages. However I'm concerned that I may be missing out on security upgrades. I'm thinking about going all the way to woody, but I'm worried about stability. I have a single-user home desktop and don't need rock

GDM XDMCP Problem

2000-11-05 Thread Daniel Whelan
Hey...I recently aquired a nice little 15" monochrome X-terminal (NCD 15r) and have been having some trouble in getting everything working fine in conjunction with a Debian-woody box. I got the thing to boot with no problem using TFTP and BootP, but the problem occurs when logging into the remote m

Re: New X Server crashes

2000-11-05 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
"Andy" == Andy Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MAS> 1. xdm now takes over a minute from when the daemon is started, either MAS> by init or manually, to when the login widget appears. Is this MAS> normal now, or is there anything I can do to speed it up? Andy> I don't know. Maybe it's trying

Re: sticky bit, powersaving & hdd spindown

2000-11-05 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Krzys Majewski wrote: > Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i've been working on a stand alone music player for the last couple of > > months. > > it's currently a bit loud (being based around an old p166 with a very noisy > > hdd & powersupply

NT4 in VMWare VM can't see Samba over network - Yes, PlainTextPassword set :)

2000-11-05 Thread Robin Collins
Not really a Debian issue but maybe someone can help me out here. There are two computers here, for the sake of discussion called A and B. B runs Samba 2.0.7a on Potato. A is multi-boot. When booted to native NT4 SP6a with PlainTextPassword set A can see B and access B's shares perfectly. When

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and gdm

2000-11-05 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just upgraded to XFree86 4.0.1, and I can't log in using gdm any more (I'm > using the Helix version). From what I can tell, the X packages have a new > /etc/X11/Xsession file which gdm doesn't like very much. Has anyone noticed > this problem too? An

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-05 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
"John S. J. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

Re: problems with XSERVER after UPGRADE

2000-11-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
Alessandro Ghigi wrote: >I am running woody on a laptop since one year. After the last upgrade >(i.e. last night) the xserver does not work. It complains that none of the >configured devices can be detected. I tried to reconfigure using >XF86Setup, and found that my card (NeoMagic NM256 et

Re: Linux on Mac

2000-11-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 12:57:06PM -0800, Carl A. Fahsltrom wrote: > I would like to use debian on a Mac. But I do not want to distroy the Mac > Install. Does anyone know of an alturnative to FIPS for Mac There is a howto floating around somewhere. When I installed Debian/PPC on my G4 as a dual

Re: X4 lacking color definitions

2000-11-05 Thread brian moore
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 10:37:54AM -0800, Brian wrote: > A fresh X install this morning made X4 an interesting surprise. > > One problem which I don't know which package to report the bug > to. Help? > > Programs like Netscape, fetchmailconf, etc consistently report > that they don't know colors

Re: "non-US/main" section

2000-11-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
milenium moon wrote: >I come from Indonesia. I want ask you about >licensing/limitation of use from "non-US/main" section >that include in Debian 2.2 Official CDs. If in my CDs >contain "non-US/main" section (application/software) >is legal or ilegal if I instal to my computer (on one >

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-05 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Marc Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's not all that hard... I went through this last night. Well, yah, it shouldn't have been. 8^/= I was doing the right thing, and for some reason, it wasn't working. Then, it started working. I'm not sure

Linux on Mac

2000-11-05 Thread Carl A. Fahsltrom
I would like to use debian on a Mac. But I do not want to distroy the Mac Install. Does anyone know of an alturnative to FIPS for Mac Thanks, Carl A. Fahlstrom _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://ww

audio in

2000-11-05 Thread Debian Ghost
Hey Guys, Is there a program that will capture audio in? I want to record some sound bytes. Thanks, D. Ghost!

Re: Name server

2000-11-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 11:39:06AM -0800, Jay Kelly wrote: > Im running bind and apache on the same box. I use to host my web but have > moved it over to another hosting co. I have removed the entry in named.conf > but when I try to open the url I stll am getting it from my apache server > and not

Re: Woody clobbers Blackdown!

2000-11-05 Thread Bob Bernstein
UPDATE! --==++==-- When we last visited Bob, he was struggling with starting communicator-smotif... Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- begin nfg snip --- > > INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not load > /usr/lib/j2re1.3/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_oji.so: l

Re: Woody

2000-11-05 Thread Sean Furey
Hi John! > I have used Slink and now use Potato. As I seem to be getting > problems installing KDE on Potato and many people say they > are running Woody successfully, I wonder if I shall go to Woody. I've been using woody here for about a month now. So far I've been lucky, spotted warnings here

Q: Can E menu use console commands?- Answered w/Thanks

2000-11-05 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Thanks for getting back to me. I've completely comfortable with E's menus, I just couldn't seem to pass it a direct shell command. Anyway, I thought I had the right command, someone on the list kindly echoed it, and when I retyped it another time it worked... E menus did that to me before. A s

Re: Stradling the fence

2000-11-05 Thread kmself
on Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 06:26:17PM -0800, Peak Allan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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? Chances are that if you've done "apt-get update && apt-get upgr

Name server

2000-11-05 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello all, Im running bind and apache on the same box. I use to host my web but have moved it over to another hosting co. I have removed the entry in named.conf but when I try to open the url I stll am getting it from my apache server and not the new host co. I have also changed the name servers ov

Re: sticky bit, powersaving & hdd spindown

2000-11-05 Thread Krzys Majewski
Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i've been working on a stand alone music player for the last couple of months. > it's currently a bit loud (being based around an old p166 with a very noisy > hdd & powersupply fan. I can't help wondering if you could do away with the hdd altogether, e.g. bo

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-05 Thread Joey Hess
wulfie wrote: > It would make sense if ttmkfdir was included with freetype, but it appears > not to be. fttools has mkttfdir, which works -- see shy jo

Re: sticky bit, powersaving & hdd spindown

2000-11-05 Thread Krzys Majewski
Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Under DOS there was the possibility of treating some of your RAM like a > > disk (hence the name ramdisk). Not sure if Linux can do this, but if > > so, then just copy the binary to a ramdisk and run it from there. Yes it can be done. You will need to enab

Re: New X Server crashes

2000-11-05 Thread kmself
on Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 04:02:18AM -0800, Michael Abraham Shulman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I wrote: > > MAS> Okay, it appears to be working now. > > Well, more or less. Everything runs fine with `startx', but I'm > having some peculiar difficulties with xdm. Specifically, > > 1. xdm now t

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-05 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 11:03:55AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > It really is just that simple. I had zero luck getting xfstt to cooperate > with XF4, and had all sorts of weird font-isms until I disabled it. Aterm > would display hash instead of line-drawing characters, rxvt wouldn't even > START,

Re: test patterns for adjusting monitor?

2000-11-05 Thread Krzys Majewski
Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 08:58:01PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > Anyone have test patterns for help with adjusting the various > > parameters of a CRT monitor? > > On http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/ there is a tool called "ctscreen" which

Re: New X Server crashes

2000-11-05 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: > I wrote: > > MAS> Okay, it appears to be working now. > > Well, more or less. Everything runs fine with `startx', but I'm > having some peculiar difficulties with xdm. Specifically, > > 1. xdm now takes over a min

gnome-ppp

2000-11-05 Thread Clayton Stapleton
Hi Folks; Have Debian 2.2 running on a Pentium 166MMX, 2 hard drives, only one containing Debian. After configuring Gnome-ppp and attempt to dial out get the following error "The pppd died unexpectedly". So tried the Help menu item on the Gnome-ppp window to have a look at any help they had availa

Re: aside: perl's unpack()

2000-11-05 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Damien wrote: > > > 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 algorithm. > > > > a.b.c.d > > > > n = d + c * 256 + b * 256 ^ 2 + a * 256 ^ 3 > > after reading the previ

Re: Can't login using WDM!

2000-11-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 01:05:01PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: > > Last night I upgraded all X packages to XFree4.0.1, and now I can't > login to X using WDM. Every time I enter my userid and password in the > WDM login panel, the login panel disappears, I see a plain grey > background, and the

RE: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-05 Thread Marc Wilson
It's not all that hard... I went through this last night. Ok, I have my ttf fonts in /usr/share/lib/fonts/truetype. I created a symlink /usr/lib/X11/fonts/truetype to match the other font paths, and added that to my fontpath list in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. I then went there and used ttmkfdir to c

X4 lacking color definitions

2000-11-05 Thread Brian
A fresh X install this morning made X4 an interesting surprise. One problem which I don't know which package to report the bug to. Help? Programs like Netscape, fetchmailconf, etc consistently report that they don't know colors anymore: Warning: Color name "black" is not defined Warning: Color n

problems with XSERVER after UPGRADE

2000-11-05 Thread Alessandro Ghigi
I am running woody on a laptop since one year. After the last upgrade (i.e. last night) the xserver does not work. It complains that none of the configured devices can be detected. I tried to reconfigure using XF86Setup, and found that my card (NeoMagic NM256 et cetera) is not in the list any more

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-05 Thread USM Bish
When I first commenced this thread three days ago, my intentions were two-fold. Firstly, the need to scout for a suitable replacement for my out of date Netscape 4.51. Secondly, because of a lot of hype in our local WIA / WAP hardware circuits (and else- where in Asia I suppose) on the pros

RE: apt-get through a proxy ?

2000-11-05 Thread Jason Holland
I set my shell env settings http_proxy and ftp_proxy and it works perfect. Jason > > I can't go through our intranet proxy, although I configure my > apt.conf file to use it... > > Is there a HOWTO about 'apt-get' ? (and other 'apt' programs?) > > Please show me an URL, where I can see a usable '

Woody clobbers Blackdown!

2000-11-05 Thread Bob Bernstein
I finally put a bullet in my teeth and dist-upgraded a potato system to woody. In potato I had been running communicator-smotif with the Blackdown Java plugin. Here's what I have now, post-upgrade: communicator-base 4.73-19Communicator base support communicator-nethelp-473 4.73-19

Re: "non-US/main" section

2000-11-05 Thread David Z Maze
milenium moon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mm> I come from Indonesia. I want ask you about mm> licensing/limitation of use from "non-US/main" section mm> that include in Debian 2.2 Official CDs. If in my CDs mm> contain "non-US/main" section (application/software) mm> is legal or ilegal if I instal

Re: lost my backspace key - solved, new question

2000-11-05 Thread David Bellows
Hello everyone, OK, I checked out the manpage for xmodmap and figured out how to get my backspace key to work properly. I then inserted the following line into my ~/.bashrc file: xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace" This does work. My question is, is this the best place to put such a command? Is

apt-get through a proxy ?

2000-11-05 Thread Gyulai Mihaly
I can't go through our intranet proxy, although I configure my apt.conf file to use it... Is there a HOWTO about 'apt-get' ? (and other 'apt' programs?) Please show me an URL, where I can see a usable 'apt.conf' file using a proxy... Thanks. -- GYULAI Mihály http://gyulai.freeyellow.com Rej

KDE2 problems

2000-11-05 Thread Daniel Borgmann
hello! i installed the kde2 debs and everthing worked fine. then i made an update and now i can't start it at all. the output in .xsession-error is: *snip* ksplash: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3: undefined symbol: getButtonShift__14QPlatinumStyleRiT1 kdeinit: error i

"non-US/main" section

2000-11-05 Thread milenium moon
I come from Indonesia. I want ask you about licensing/limitation of use from "non-US/main" section that include in Debian 2.2 Official CDs. If in my CDs contain "non-US/main" section (application/software) is legal or ilegal if I instal to my computer (on one computer) and how if I want install to

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and Voodoo3 -- how do I test?

2000-11-05 Thread Adam Lazur
Thomas J. Hamman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Okay, I have the latest 2.4.0 test kernel compiled with DRI and the 3dfx > driver, I have XFree86 4.0.1 running fine > > Now how do I even find out if I have 3D hardware acceleration working? Check out dri.sourceforge.net .adam -- [

apache sending request to old hostname

2000-11-05 Thread Debian Ghost
Hello All, I have a strange thing going on with apache and I'm not sure why this is happening. When I put a request in from my localhost to go to http://localhost/. It will work. But when I try to go to localhost/anything, it tries to send me to my hold hostname. I've looked in apache.conf and se

Re: Q: Can E menu use console commands?

2000-11-05 Thread Adam Lazur
Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > 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. Why not edit ~/.enlightenment/file.menu (and the other m

Re: G400, DRI, X4, and 4 million dollars

2000-11-05 Thread Adam Lazur
Mike Cathcart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Well, ok, I lied, but who was going to read another boring email about the > G400 and DRI? Well, enough for sensationalistic email... [ snip ] > glxinfo output: > [ snip ] > OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect > OpenGL version string:

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-05 Thread wulfie
http://www.mindspring.com/~john_mcl/adding_fonts.html This is not XF4-specific but does give a good guide to getting ttfs running in X in general, plus all the required tools can be downloaded in a single tarball. It would make sense if ttmkfdir was included with freetype, but it appears not to be.

Re: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 06:37:33PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > > Umm... Basically I just made a point to learn enough about both of them. Yeah, me too. > Vim is very cool, and fast, and has great syntax highlighting, and is > perfect for just about everything. But when it came to my thesi

Re: DEBIAN 2.2: LOCAL PRINTER INSTALLATION

2000-11-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 04:38:08PM +0100, Yves POCCHIOLA wrote: > Thanks for the advices, I can print now ASCII and Postscript with > apsfilter and LPRng packages. > > Apsfilter configuration setting was proposed during the installation > by the Debian tool: dselect. > > I tried first to use the

Re: DEBIAN 2.2: LOCAL PRINTER INSTALLATION

2000-11-05 Thread Mario Vukelic
> I tried first to use the magicfilter package but I missed the first time to > activate > properly the configuration and I was not given a second chance to run the > configuration even after removing and installing again the package. I'm glad I could help. Probably you want to know that dpkg l

Re: Hi I am having a problem with X.

2000-11-05 Thread Mario Vukelic
> Hi, >If any one who can help me, I am a new user of debian, I am > working on Intel 810 chipset but debian refuse to make X work on the in > built AGP so, I am currently using the shell & is deprived of use of X, > So any body out there have any idea about the problem > > Thanks, > Gurpr

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

2000-11-05 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rogerio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

MC and .profile

2000-11-05 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, I've set up an alias beep='echo -en "\a"' in my .profile file. Now if I log into my account and execute beep my speaker beeps as expected. But if try to execute it out of the Midnight Commander it doesn't work. What need I to do? Another Thing related to that problem is that if I execute fetc

Re: DEBIAN 2.2: LOCAL PRINTER INSTALLATION

2000-11-05 Thread Yves POCCHIOLA
Thanks for the advices, I can print now ASCII and Postscript with apsfilter and LPRng packages. Apsfilter configuration setting was proposed during the installation by the Debian tool: dselect. I tried first to use the magicfilter package but I missed the first time to activate properly the c

Re: SIS 900 NIC

2000-11-05 Thread Rafael A . Schmitt
* Art Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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 t

My GNOME desktop doesn't appear

2000-11-05 Thread Karl Philipp
Hi, I updated several packages regarding to X-Windows, enlightenment and GNOME. Now, if I do a login via the X-Windows login, the X-Windows login will re-appear. In the file ~/.xsession-errors you can read Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect t

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-05 Thread Sean
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 04:34:28PM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote: <---snip---> > > This is what made me choose a Matrox G400 for my new system > (together with the recommendation of a close friend that said > the G400 was running quite fast in his system). > <---snip---> I also op

Re: email alias postfix procmail

2000-11-05 Thread dirk
Problem solved. I hate it when things are sooo easy once you have figured it out. Just to save a few hours for someone else: Use fetchmail. There seem to be some issues about multidrop stuff, read the man page. using fetchmail, your fetchmailrc looks like this: set postmaster "dirk" poll pop.x

lost my backspace key

2000-11-05 Thread David Bellows
Hello everyone, Hopefully this will be an easy one. I just installed the lbreakout game from unstable. It updated a couple of X packages enroute. They didn't look like they were anything critical so I let it go ahead and do it. But now I've discovered a problem, my backspace key no longer work

Re: SB Live! (XGamer)...

2000-11-05 Thread Matthias Czapla
13sQQS-05t-00 > After managing to get my XFree86 4.0.1 running last night (which > seemed an achievement) I set upon setting up an SB Live! (Xgamer)... I > downloaded the drivers from opensource.creative.com and compiled them > with few warnings. I then did a 'make install' and got the following >

Re: sed question (bibtex problem)

2000-11-05 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Brian, Check this: sed '/%$/{ N s/%\n// }' yourfile.bib It should work from command line using bash's multiline input capability (with the '). It checks for % at the end of lines (hence the $), then reads the next line into the buffer and then removes the %\n sequence (I don't quite unders

Re: test patterns for adjusting monitor?

2000-11-05 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 08:58:01PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Anyone have test patterns for help with adjusting the various > parameters of a CRT monitor? On http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/ there is a tool called "ctscreen" which should work pretty good. It is written in Java. The zipp

Re: ISP Configuration help, please.

2000-11-05 Thread John Hasler
Kent West writes: > Another option is wvdial, which (in Woody at least), has enough > intelligence to search for your modem... Pppconfig can do this. > It'll also redail automatically if the connection gets dropped,... And this. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill

Q: Log kept what install and when

2000-11-05 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Is there a log kept by dpkg/apt-get/dselect of what installed and by date? Check status file reveals whether something is installed only. Thanks, Jonathan

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

2000-11-05 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Back again... Got things working. I'm forwarding my log in case I did anything wrong. What loaded /usr/i486-linuclibC1? Now had a new /usr/i486-linuxlibC1. Noticed with dpkg -S that it made the directories. Checked status and xlib6 installed as optional priority. Further checking showed that

Re: New X Server crashes

2000-11-05 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
I wrote: MAS> Okay, it appears to be working now. Well, more or less. Everything runs fine with `startx', but I'm having some peculiar difficulties with xdm. Specifically, 1. xdm now takes over a minute from when the daemon is started, either by init or manually, to when the login widget ap

Hi I am having a problem with X.

2000-11-05 Thread Gurpreet Singh
Hi, If any one who can help me, I am a new user of debian, I am working on Intel 810 chipset but debian refuse to make X work on the in built AGP so, I am currently using the shell & is deprived of use of X, So any body out there have any idea about the problem Thanks, Gurpreet -- Quote

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-05 Thread Kristian Rink
Obviously Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thinks that: > I can understand that, however I have no problem with commercial apps. I > like the fact that I have a *choice*. My system runs a range of apps > from GNU to commercial. I use Linux because I like it and it is good. If > it cost me mone

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