Re: unsuscribe

On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 07:38:10PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Colin Watson writes: > > In the meantime, I draw your attention to the line at the bottom of every > > mail to this list: > > > mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Which translated into English says: > > "To unsubs

Re: apt-get strangeness

On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > So, apt-get shouldn't be used when something's broken? I used apt-get in > the first place, so I take it that means that apt-get didn't catch the > problem. I know the packaging tools are much better than my rpm experiences, > but I'd love to s

Re: hdparm to increase performance

On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 10:47:17AM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Anyhow, several users did some tweeks and all seemed well tell the > next boot... fsck was the norm, and I actually died hard, down to > e2fsck and rebuilt the superblocks... Doesn't it explicitly say in the article tha

Re: hdparm to increase performance

On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 08:41:30AM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > > I just increased my harddrive throughput by 5 times. > > > > Mike > > Do you notice a difference though? I increased mine from about 3Mbps > to about 18Mbps, but I haven't felt it yet. -chris I did actually. T

Re: apt-get strangeness

On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 08:49:45AM +0100, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > > Try using dselect: in the Access menu, select apt as your preferred > method, verify that the source list is correct and then go on > updating your packages lists and then selecting the compiler. This will > bring up some conf

network printing

Hi All, I'm having some trouble getting my printer to work across my network. The printer works like a champ on the local machine (sendack, 192.168.1.1). But when I try from the remote machine (derico, 192.168.1.2) nothing happens and when I run lpq I get this: ---

Re: Backspace key doesn't work

On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:45:35PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Now to just track down a permanent fix for the keyboard problems... OK, got it, so now I can shut up about this whole thing. I noticed this message after shutting down X: sh: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp: No such file or directo

Re: Backspace key doesn't work

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 01:26:25PM +1100, Graham Williams wrote: > Ditto. Also, and at the same time, under one user's account (and only > one) on the same machine the left mouse button click with X stopped > working? I wish I knew where to look to fix the mouse problem. I managed to get the mou

Re: Printing under Debian..

Subject: Printing under Debian.. Date: Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:59:04AM +1030 In reply to:Paul Schulz Quoting Paul Schulz([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Greetings, > > A question about printing under Debian.. > > How does print filtering work under Debian. I had a system (which was > R

Re: problem with .netrc

> Hi, > > I've working .netrc and a .fetchmailrc file. The .netrc file works for ftp > and the .fetchmailrc works for fetchmail. Why have I got warning > messages from fetchmail 'unknown token' (in my .netrc file). If I rename the > .netrc file fetchmail poll my mails but if this file exist it giv

Re: DPMS on console?

> Is there a DPMS-capable console blanker? > I'm running this machine strictly in console mode, > and the screenblank nicely after a while while, but I'm > a bit disappointed that the monitor power LED doesn't start > blinking and stuff. Maybe it's still sucking up lots of power > despite being

Re: Newbie Installation Problem (ISDN)

> Hi everybody, > > I have a little problem during the installation of Debian (potato Version). > I downloaded the base files with FTP and everything works fine until I have > to specify on which way Debian should get the additional packages with > "apt-get". I cannot connect to the Internet becau

Re: TrueType fonts in X4

On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 09:50:48PM -0500, John S. J. Anderson wrote: > > for $x (sort keys %h){ %print %X [EMAIL PROTECTED]; }' > > You've got a couple typos on that last line; I rewrote it like so: i don't know where they came from, apparently something went wrong with the copy-paste.

Re: running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a cronjob?

On Nov 12 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > 1) Use "apt-get -d upgrade", so the files will be downloaded but not >installed. So you can run an apt-get upgrade in the morning while >disconnected, since all files were fetched, and then you'll bne >able to interact with dpkg. Tha

Re: Helix-Gnome not installable

On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Joel Dinel wrote: > I can't seem to install Helix Gnome on my woody box. Thats an interesting apt quirk, just list all the packages at once: auric{jgg}~/apt2/build/bin#./apt-get install task-helix-gnome task-helix-core sawfish-gnome rep-gtk-gnome libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 Readi

Re: Backspace key doesn't work

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 01:26:25PM +1100, Graham Williams wrote: > Ditto. Also, and at the same time, under one user's account (and only > one) on the same machine the left mouse button click with X stopped > working? I haven't tried any other users, but for my primary user account, the mouse doe

Re: Helix-Gnome not installable

> So I apt-get install task-helix-core. I get the same message, but wirh > sawfish-gnome. I install sawfush-gnome, now I get this same message about > rep-gtk-gnome. This goes on and on through more packages until : > > dimmu:~# apt-get install libgdk-pixbuf2 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Bu

Re: Printing under Debian..

David Z Maze wrote: > Paul Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PS> How does print filtering work under Debian. I had a system (which was > PS> Redhat) which did all the magic. What packages/setup do I need to get > PS> this to work. > > You probably want a print spooler (either lpr or lprng) an

Re: Helix-Gnome not installable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joel Dinel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ dependancy problem elided ] > Has anybody else encountered this? Is there woody boxes out there > running Helix?! I see this also, but I've already got a working install of Helix Gnome, so it's not a big deal.

Helix-Gnome not installable

I can't seem to install Helix Gnome on my woody box. dimmu:~# apt-get install task-helix-gnome Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distrib

Re: TrueType fonts in X4

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There seems to be much confusion on how to get TrueType fonts working > with the new X4 packages. Thanks for the clear instructions. I sorta had TrueType stuff working, but I think I've got stuff totally sorted now

Re: need help - inn2

> "RC" == Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RC> The problem appears (to me) to be an inability to connect to RC> my ISP news server. Learn a little more about the different kinds of news feeds. You will want to set up a 'sucking' news feed, so install the Debian package for suck.

Re: getting german "umlauts" on potato

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 03:46:39AM +0100, Gerald wrote: > It's so nice to get such an immediate reply to almost any question in > this list :) ! There's always somebody who knows... > > the thing with the /etc/environment worked - but I couldn't find any > link to it though. I wonder where it is i

Re: getting german "umlauts" on potato

It's so nice to get such an immediate reply to almost any question in this list :) ! There's always somebody who knows... the thing with the /etc/environment worked - but I couldn't find any link to it though. I wonder where it is invoked or better said "sourced". greetings, Gerald. -- >vvv

Re: Backspace key doesn't work

> Dave Sherohman wrote to Colin Watson on 13 Nov 2000 12:55:36 +1100: Dave> Different person, same problem. It _was_ working yesterday, Dave> then I upgraded a bunch of (woody) packages and backspace Dave> stopped working. The Windows key also stopped being usable Dave> as a

Problem with video card

Hi, Somebody knows what this line in the X4 log file means? (WW) TRIDENT(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum First I thought this refers to the video card, but I've got it in two different models from Trident. Which BIOS is meant and what could I do about it? TIA -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Backspace key doesn't work

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 01:34:49AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Casey Henderson) wrote: > > My backspace key stopped working in X for some odd reason. The ^^^ > Have you read the section on "Why doesn't my backspace, delete, or some > other ke

Re: Printing under Debian..

Paul Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PS> How does print filtering work under Debian. I had a system (which was PS> Redhat) which did all the magic. What packages/setup do I need to get PS> this to work. You probably want a print spooler (either lpr or lprng) and the magicfilter package. Inst

Re: Printing under Debian..

Paul Schulz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greetings, Hello; > A question about printing under Debian.. > > How does print filtering work under Debian. I had a system (which was > Redhat) which did all the magic. What packages/setup do I need to get > this to work. Depends on what you want t

Re: unsuscribe

Colin Watson writes: > In the meantime, I draw your attention to the line at the bottom of every > mail to this list: > mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Which translated into English says: "To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject 'unsubscribe' ". --

Re: OT: Wildcard renaming of files

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Martin Fluch wrote: >> A little bit bash programming... >> >> for $i in *.html ; do mv "$i" "${i:0:${#tmp}-1}" ; done >> >> Yes, I know, that this is quite cryptic ... but unfortunately I'm to tired >> to explain it ... I've need some sleep :-) >> >> Nevertheless it sho

Re: Backspace key doesn't work

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Casey Henderson) wrote: > My backspace key stopped working in X for some odd reason. The >Delete key works fine, but the Backspace key does nothing when I press >it. I tried several programs, and it doesn't work in any of them. Any >solutions? Thanks. Have you read the sect

Printing under Debian..

Greetings, A question about printing under Debian.. How does print filtering work under Debian. I had a system (which was Redhat) which did all the magic. What packages/setup do I need to get this to work. Thanks in advance.. PaulS

Re: unsuscribe

Carlos C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Esto... me he equivocado, se escribe unsubcribe. No obstante no hay >forma de darse de baja en las lista de correo de Debian. Ya lo he >intentado muchas veces... > > Lo siento. (Babelfish is a wonderful thing ... the common language on this mailing list is Eng

How to get my ATI AIW - Rage 128 Pro AGP to work in X?

Hi all, I'm new to Linux and I purchased Debian 2.2 (potato) a couple of weeks ago. I've been trying to get my ATI AIW - Rage 128 Pro AGP to work, but have been unsuccessful. I've read and tried several tricks from the net, things like "r128" and "ChipID 0x5246". When I run startx, there's a 2 se

Re: Gnome

On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 05:50:24PM -0700, Clayton Stapleton wrote: > Hi Folks; > Have Gnome up and running but have two problems. > After entering "~/$gnome-session" I get the following > output: > /dev/dsp: No such device > Unable to bind port 16001 > Then ran ~/$ls -l /dev/dsp to get

Gnome

Hi Folks; Have Gnome up and running but have two problems. After entering "~/$gnome-session" I get the following output: /dev/dsp: No such device Unable to bind port 16001 Then ran ~/$ls -l /dev/dsp to get the following crw-rw rootaudio Added myself to the audio g

Re: Wvdial & pppd

Thanks to all how replied to my query. Have changed to pppconf to set up my dial-up connection. Added myself to the dip and audio groups so that as the user I can enter pon and get a dial tone but that is all, turn it off with poff. The problem now is in /etc/ppp/peers/provider which askes for a de

TrueType fonts in X4

There seems to be much confusion on how to get TrueType fonts working with the new X4 packages. So i'll try to write up some clear directions. Many thanks to the authors of the XFree86 Font Deuglification Mini HOWTO (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/), and Kristin Aanestad (http://home.c2i.ne

Re: sysklogd breaks noflushd

Krzys Majewski wrote: > This the potato sysklogd and a noflushd compiled from the > sources in woody. > Presumably the problem is noflushd logging a "Spinning > down..." message, which gets flushed to the hard drive, heh. > Now, I've prefixed all the filenames in /etc/syslog.conf with > "-", like

Re: getting german "umlauts" on potato

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 01:13:10AM +0100, Andre Berger wrote: > > If you're on bash, add to /etc/profile: > > LANG=de_DE ; export LANG > LC_ALL=de_DE ; export LC_ALL > LC_CTYPE="iso_8859_1" ; export LC_CTYPE > LC_MESSAGES="de_DE" ; export LC_MESSAGES you could also write these like so: export L

Re: DPMS on console?

On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 05:54:02PM -0500, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Is there a DPMS-capable console blanker? > I'm running this machine strictly in console mode, > and the screenblank nicely after a while while, but I'm > a bit disappointed that the monitor power LED doesn't start > blinking and s

Re: [debian-user] OT: Wildcard renaming of files

On 12-Nov-00 22:25 Colin Watson wrote: > >> for $i in *.html ; do mv "$i" "${i:0:${#tmp}-1}" ; done > > > >for $f in *.html; do mv $f ${f/.html/.htm}; done > That's what the % flag solves (match only at the end), when put > immediately after the first / (so ${f/%.html/.htm}). The # flag does the

Re: need help - inn2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the reply. The news daemon is running as rc.news, as > called by /etc/init.d/inn2. Also running is innwatch. My active > file exists. The problem appears (to me) to be an inability to > connect to

Re: running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a cronjob?

On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 06:37:10PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: Walter Tautz writes: > > > Just wondering if this is possible in view of the fact that > > configuration is sometime done and so requires interaction. > > > Is the -q option appropriate? .any advice? > > > -walter > >

Re: getting german "umlauts" on potato

Gerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi there! > > i found out to be unable to get other responses from my box than beeps > when i press the german umlaut keys like öäü on console aswell as > xterm... > > what am i missing? > > i fiddled arround with consolechars (former setfont), > /etc/consol

Backspace key doesn't work

Hi all, My backspace key stopped working in X for some odd reason. The Delete key works fine, but the Backspace key does nothing when I press it. I tried several programs, and it doesn't work in any of them. Any solutions? Thanks. Casey -- Casey Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.uma

sysklogd breaks noflushd

Noflushd spins the disk up immediately after spinning it down, unless I do a etc/init.d/sysklogd stop. This the potato sysklogd and a noflushd compiled from the sources in woody. Presumably the problem is noflushd logging a "Spinning down..." message, which gets flushed to the hard drive, heh. N

Re: servers running debian

On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 02:35:10PM -0500, Jesse Goerz wrote: > ===On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Brad wrote: > > > > I know of one, although it was running RedHat until i took on the job. > > Personally, i find Debian _much_ easier to keep up-to-date. The day > > something new is released fo

Re: unsuscribe

Esto... me he equivocado, se escribe unsubcribe. No obstante no hay forma de darse de baja en las lista de correo de Debian. Ya lo he intentado muchas veces... Lo siento. Carlos C wrote: > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: need help - inn2

Thanks for the reply. The news daemon is running as rc.news, as called by /etc/init.d/inn2. Also running is innwatch. My active file exists. The problem appears (to me) to be an inability to connect to my ISP news server. I use shadow passwords on my system. Is this a problem? Is there a way

getting german "umlauts" on potato

Hi there! i found out to be unable to get other responses from my box than beeps when i press the german umlaut keys like öäü on console aswell as xterm... what am i missing? i fiddled arround with consolechars (former setfont), /etc/console-tools/config, console-screen.sh, /etc/profile (includ

unsuscribe

Re: OT: Wildcard renaming of files

Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: > "csj" == csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > csj> I have a bunch of files I want to rename from .html to .htm. Is > csj> there I way to rename them all at once? > > $ mmv '*.html' '#1.htm' Thanks to everybody that replied. I settled for the program "mmv." It's r

Newbie Installation Problem (ISDN)

Hi everybody, I have a little problem during the installation of Debian (potato Version). I downloaded the base files with FTP and everything works fine until I have to specify on which way Debian should get the additional packages with "apt-get". I cannot connect to the Internet because I have an

Re: running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a cronjob?

:: kmself writes: > on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 03:27:40PM -0500, Walter Tautz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: >> Just wondering if this is possible in view of the fact that >> configuration is sometime done and so requires interaction. > *DON'T* run a blind upgrade as a matter of course. Particularl

[OT] power supply meltdown, part ][

Anybody have experience with old 486 power supplies? I've got one here on my vintage 1993 486/33, I've unplugged the fan on it coz it was noisy and I'm too lazy to go to the basement, hunt for a voltmeter, soldering iron, and play the old 12->7V conversion game again. So I'm wondering what are the

DPMS on console?

Is there a DPMS-capable console blanker? I'm running this machine strictly in console mode, and the screenblank nicely after a while while, but I'm a bit disappointed that the monitor power LED doesn't start blinking and stuff. Maybe it's still sucking up lots of power despite being dark? I'm at

Re: need help - inn2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am using the inn2 package to try to set up a periodic download > of newsgroups I read frequently. I use a dial-up ISP, and have a > home LAN with three computers. I have read the docs that came with > the pa

Re: help!!!

On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 10:38:18PM -, daPenguin wrote: > Is there a way to install any linux distro on a Extended partition??? You can make logical paritions inside an extented one, and install linux on a logical > > is there any way to install linux on the same vfat partition with windows >

Re: running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a cronjob?

on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 03:27:40PM -0500, Walter Tautz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Just wondering if this is possible in view of the fact that > configuration is sometime done and so requires interaction. *DON'T* run a blind upgrade as a matter of course. Particularly if you're tracking unstabl

Re: servers running debian

on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 12:15:55AM -0800, Jeff Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does anyone know of any servers (web hosts or the like) that run Debian? > I noticed most run RedHat, but I am not sure why exactly. Any > explanation? bugs.zelerate.org, though this is going to be swapped to RH (und

Re: [debian-user] OT: Wildcard renaming of files

=?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCdiger_Kuhlmann?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >--[Martin Fluch]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> A little bit bash programming... >> for $i in *.html ; do mv "$i" "${i:0:${#tmp}-1}" ; done > >for $f in *.html; do mv $f ${f/.html/.htm}; done > >Requires a not too old bash. Beware of file nam

i810 and potato X

I'm trying to install debian on my wife's computer. She wants to use the gimp, but maybe she'll eventually like the whole setup. Her system has an i810 chipset. I'm installing debian potato off cd's from linux central. I downloaded 2.2.18pre19, compiled a new kernel with agpgart as a module, create

Re: eSound problem with old SB16

Esound appears to be broken on systems running later 2.4.0 kernels. Same thing happens on my SB128Pci. Unfortunatly since It's more or less unmaintained my solution is gonna have to be buy a SB Live if you want multiplexing. Greg * Jan Pfeifer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi, > > sorry if

Re: Bunches of virtual consoles

on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 11:28:42PM -0500, William T Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So suppose I wanted to have more than 12 virtual consoles on my system, > but I only have 12 F-keys to select them with. > > I know the kernel supports up to 255... is there any way to use more than > 12? Als

Re: hdparm to increase performance

On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Chris Majewski wrote: [...] > What about when I start netscape? I hear the disk crunching, > so presumably the binary isn't cached. Shouldn't increasing the > disk throughput speed up the time it takes to start netscape? I don't know. They must be doing something wrong ;-

Re: Formating partitions

on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 06:32:24PM -0700, Clayton Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi Folks; > Is there a program that will write zeros to a Linux > partition? I need to clean up a hard drive and doing > a mke2fs does not erase the old data, so that is not > a formatting program. dd if=

Re: Debian 2.2 crashes with Netscape..help

on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 07:27:57PM -0800, Francesco Bochicchio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 02:18:27PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > This isn't a crash, it's a system slowdown. > > The 'VM' messages seem to hint to Virtual Memory problems, however. > I've r

Re: signing gpg key with old key ...

on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 07:01:33PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 03:43:37PM -0900, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 02:01:35PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > Question for the gallery: Is there a

Re: OT: Wildcard renaming of files

On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 05:18:19AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a bunch of files I want to rename from .html to .htm. Is there I way to > rename them all at once? > > I remember from my DOS days a command like "ren" (or is it "rename"?) that > would do the trick. Something like: > > r

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 02:24:01PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > 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 li

Re: [debian-user] OT: Wildcard renaming of files

Hi! >--[Martin Fluch]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A little bit bash programming... > for $i in *.html ; do mv "$i" "${i:0:${#tmp}-1}" ; done for $f in *.html; do mv $f ${f/.html/.htm}; done Requires a not too old bash. Beware of file names containing .html elsewhere than at the end... Yours, Rüdige

Sendmail Virtualuser

Title: Sendmail Virtualuser Hi there, I just switched to debian. I was using sendmail as a MTA before. So now I would like to continue using it, even though exim ist installed as a default mailer. I have a huge amount of virtual email adresses that need to be forwarded to another email addr

Re: running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a cronjob?

:: Walter Tautz writes: > Just wondering if this is possible in view of the fact that > configuration is sometime done and so requires interaction. > Is the -q option appropriate? .any advice? > -walter Assuming you want to download the files at night, for example. I believe you can either:

running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a cronjob?

Just wondering if this is possible in view of the fact that configuration is sometime done and so requires interaction. Is the -q option appropriate? .any advice? -walter

Re: X 4.01 gives blank screen

Thanks for the advice. I changed Default Depth to 16 and now I can get a display, but it seems to decide that any resolution greater than 800x600 is not valid. I know that with only 2 MB of video memory I can't get some of them, but 1024x768 works fine with XFree 3.3.6. I get this line repeated

Re: servers running debian

===On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Brad wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 12:15:55AM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote: > > Does anyone know of any servers (web hosts or the like) that run Debian? > > I noticed most run RedHat, but I am not sure why exactly. Any > > explanation? > > I kno

Re: iso10646, fonts, emacs & woody

On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 01:40:14PM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Shouldn't unifont depend on xutils? It should. And there I thought I was smart including a Build-Depends because it uses bdftopcf, while forgetting a simple Depends for mkfontdir :-( -- The idea is that the first face shown to peo

X4 DRI refuses to go direct

Hi, After successful installation (some problems remain) of kernel-2.4.0-test10 on my Woody SMP machine the hope was for X4 to start up with direct rendering enabled. But this was not the case :( Another attempt was to insmod agpgart.o and mga.o manually before starting X: startx > x016.log 2>&1

Re: servers running debian

CricInfo (www.cricinfo.com) runs purely on Debian we currently have around 30 servers around the world. Each server is a Dual pentiums with 1G ram and each capable of serving well over 1 million page views during a day's cricket. We also run all our back office machines on Debian, though sadly we

problem with .netrc

Hi, I've working .netrc and a .fetchmailrc file. The .netrc file works for ftp and the .fetchmailrc works for fetchmail. Why have I got warning messages from fetchmail 'unknown token' (in my .netrc file). If I rename the .netrc file fetchmail poll my mails but if this file exist it give me this wa

Re: servers running debian

I have, under my wing: 2 dual-cpu rackmount servers 2 firewalls 4 workstations 2 home PC's --all running Debian -- Michael J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2250 Patterson #25 Eugene, OR 97405 (541)346-7562

Re: Workstation and IP-Masquerading

I just set up a masquerade box at work in about 1.5 hours (from scratch) with Debian. Just make your box with two nics, configure one nic for your outside connection, configure the other for 192.168.0.1, and then install the ipmasq package. One of the questions the package asks you is if you want

Fetchmail not Exim

On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 10:50:25AM -0600, Cliff Rice wrote: > I have question about Exim. No, it is not. > X-Fetchmail-Warning: recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED] didn't match any > local > ^^ > +name > ^ Look at

Re: iso10646, fonts, emacs & woody

A solution, perhaps: > "BB" == Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BB> Here are woody packages on board: BB> ii unifont 2122-1 X11 dual-width GNU unicode font In my fumbling around I had installed unifont. But then I installed yudit and learned that it could not find any

Re: sound problem with via82cxxx

On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 12:52:15PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have a KinetiZ7T mainbord with build in VT82C686A > use Debian potato and am trying to get sound. > > modprobe ac97_codec works > modprobe via82cxxx fails > Had the same problem, so I switched to ALSA.

Re: Debian 2.2 crashes with Netscape..help

On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 02:18:27PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > This isn't a crash, it's a system slowdown. The 'VM' messages seem to hint to Virtual Memory problems, however. I've read that the latest 2.2.x kernels have some VM problems. > Almost certainly resulting > from insuffici

EQL with Broadband

    Is it possible to do EQL with broadband?       Brandt Dusthimer

Re: exim help needed

Thanks Carel! This is exactly what I had in mind, but I didn't know how to pull it off. Much nicer than my /etc/init.d/tcp-pipes hack, though a bit more overhead (slow on this 486/33, should be ok on the p3/500). groetjes, chris > So I did it differently using tcp-wrappers/inetd, like this: > >

Re: Crystal CS4236B-104 with ALSA?

Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > Has anybody managed to get the above sound chip working under > Debian 2.2? > > I've browsed the archives for two hours now. Plenty of people have > had problems, nobody has posted with a solution. I won't bother > with posting my symptoms, they are identical with mo

Re: failed to connect port 25

Hi, I send this message first to you, but if you too do not know what to do, I will subscribe on the postfix list. On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 05:25:06PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi Sebastiaan, > > > and then it hangs. It is with every mailserver I tried.

Re: servers running debian

How about Slashdot and Freshmeat? :) -- Burton Windle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux: the "grim reaper of innocent orphaned children." from /usr/src/linux/init/main.c:1384 On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Brad wrote: > Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 03:26:02 -0600 > From: Brad <[EMAIL

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and kernel 2.4.0-test10

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Re: what happened to ssh2?

On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 22:27:16 -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Where did the ssh2 in stable go? IIRC, the maintainer was no longer interested in maintaining it, nor was anyone else. Newer versions of OpenSSH support the SSH protocol v2; you might try that instead. HTH, Ray -- UNFAIR Term appli

iso10646, fonts, emacs & woody

I recently kicked one of my potato boxes up to Woody-dom (Woody-hood?), and just today for the first time launched emacs20 in an X session. I was greeted with...nothing, so I typed 'emacs' at an xterm prompt and got this: Font `-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--15-140-75-75-C-90-ISO10646-1' is not defi

Exim Question

I have question about Exim. I get this "recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED] didn't match any local name" warning when I get my emails. The mail comes to my mailbox ok but this warning is a bit irksome. I think there is somthing amiss in the Exim as I looked in the /var/spool/exim/input and /v

eSound problem with old SB16

hi, sorry if this question is out of topic, but maybe this is a configuration problem and someone may help me ... :) I have an old SB16, which works great when used by OSS driver. When I try to use eSound for multiplexing, it sounds broken, as if it were playing a scratched old LP. Even if only

Re: failed to connect port 25

On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 05:25:06PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: Hi Sebastiaan, > and then it hangs. It is with every mailserver I tried. Other ports work > correct. What is going on? Has it something to do with my Postfix > configuration? Is the Postfix Daemon running? Check with ps -ef|grep postfix.

failed to connect port 25

Hello, I have just installed Postfix mailerdeamon, and now I am unable to send email out of the network. After searching, I discovered that I am also unable to telnet to the smtp port of the delivery-mailserver. That is: $ telnet mail.somewhere.nl 25 Trying 194 and then it hangs. It is with e

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