Re: Large file support in Woody

2000-11-17 Thread Jeff Lessem
In your message of: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 08:45:41 +0800, you write: >You have to patch the 2.2.17 kernel or you have to use 2.4 kernel. Yes, I am using 2.4.0-test10. -- Jeff Lessem.

Re: dpkg - perl - debconf

2000-11-17 Thread Joey Hess
Fredrik Bjurenfors wrote: > What can I do to fix this problem? Install perl-5.6 -- bugs have already been filed against perl. -- see shy jo

Re: killing old netscapes

2000-11-17 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Dwight Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > > > > From: Dwight Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > [Netscape] is a piece of > > > shoddy and amateurish programming that is a disgrace to the profession. > > You have misquoted me, sir. I _neve

easy to use ncurses or gtk fax program

2000-11-17 Thread Q89029292
Hi, Does anyone know of an easy to use fax client software package that will work with mgetty-fax. Eg type a fax then send it, needed for computer illiterate users so it has to be simple. It also has to be able to display an incoming fax. ncurses or gtk so long as its easy. Thanks in advance,

Re: softwareraid

2000-11-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya donno what youa re doing... what does /etc/fstab look like... what does /etc/raidtab look like.. c ya alvin On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Manuel Hendel wrote: > I did all shown in the Softare-Raid-HOWTO, but it didn't work. I did > the mkraid /dev/md0 with the umounted partition /var. It aborte

Re: How to change imwheelrc to scroll with mozilla line by line ?

2000-11-17 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Michael Meding, > mozilla keeps scrolling a page up or down even after adding a mozilla > section in the imwheelrc (exactly like the navigator section) and then > changing Page_Up and Page_Down to just Up and Donw respectively. I have found that the best solution to this is simply turning i

dpkg - perl - debconf

2000-11-17 Thread Fredrik Bjurenfors
gamma:/home/ollesson# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 79 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up debconf

Re: X color depth question

2000-11-17 Thread Corey Popelier
>From what I recall, in X3.3.6 TNT cards could not run above 16bpp mode. Mine (TNT1) ran fine at 16bpp mode however, so that was good enough for me. Now with X4.0.1, i have running in 1200x960 in 24bpp (Xfree86 server) so I can't complain at all. Oh, and I'm running the nVidia kernel and GLX supple

more XF 4.0.1 adventures

2000-11-17 Thread Jim Frey
Hello, Since my last post, I now have the keyboard working, after upgrading the debs and patching to 2.4-test10. I still have no mouse, using all the options dexter has. I still have varios screens with a green title bar - one login, two xterms and one clock. I would really appreciate a tip as

Okay, I give up. What do I put in apt-get's sources.list?

2000-11-17 Thread Joe Emenaker
I want apt to be able to get to the goodies at:   http://www.sandalwood.net/~terubou/linux/deb/   What do I put in sources.list?   - Joe

Re: mutt 1.2.5-4

2000-11-17 Thread cls-c/s
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 11:59:32AM +1100, Bek Oberin wrote: > cls-c/s wrote: > > i upgraded mutt to v1.2.5-4, and in so doing, my /etc/Muttrc changed to > > where: > > 1. i don't know where to specify my signature file; and > > 2. i don't know where to specify that i want a copy of my "sent" mes

Re: Netscape 6.0/konqueor

2000-11-17 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:37:13AM -0500, Anderson, Tim TL33E wrote: > On my box konqueror has been a breath of fresh air.. with the exception of > https support, which isn't there. Anyone know if that's a KDE thing or is > it just not compiled into the packages at kde.tdyc.com? I don't kno

Re: Large file support in Woody

2000-11-17 Thread ha shao
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:58:19PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I thought this limit was removed in for glibc 2.2. I did a > dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1024k count=3072 and it worked fine. > Previously this blew up at 2GB. I am sure I am mistaken about some of > this, which is causing

Debian 2.2 XEmacs colors is rxvt/xterm

2000-11-17 Thread Wayne Cuddy
I recently installed Debian 2.2 on one of my systems. I also have a RedHat 6.2 system. On my redhat system Xemacs-21 colorizes text in ttys that support color such as rxvt and xterm. It colorizes almost exactly the same as when running in its own X window. However on my Debian 2.2 system XEmacs

Re: Bug#15490: konqueror reloads page when starting xmms files

2000-11-17 Thread Daniel Borgmann
> > this happens really often, but i never managed to reproduce it. i watch a > > webpage in konqueror. then i start a new mp3 file in xmms and konqueror > > reloads. > > Aliens took over your computer ? :-) maybe ;-) > Sorry, this doesn't make sense. A reload is triggered by F5, a click on the >

installing packages: can't locate file/glob.pm

2000-11-17 Thread Chris Nestrud
Hello all. I'm trying to install the mime-support package and am getting the following error. I recently installed perl-5.6, and also have perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 installed, as various packages require different perl versions. I'm running Woody with latest upgrades as brought on by 'apt-get updat

Re: mutt 1.2.5-4

2000-11-17 Thread Bek Oberin
cls-c/s wrote: > i upgraded mutt to v1.2.5-4, and in so doing, my /etc/Muttrc changed to where: > 1. i don't know where to specify my signature file; and > 2. i don't know where to specify that i want a copy of my "sent" messages. > attached is my /etc/Muttrc. You probably want to specify these

mutt 1.2.5-4

2000-11-17 Thread cls-c/s
debs, i upgraded mutt to v1.2.5-4, and in so doing, my /etc/Muttrc changed to where: 1. i don't know where to specify my signature file; and 2. i don't know where to specify that i want a copy of my "sent" messages. attached is my /etc/Muttrc. ia, t. bentley taylor running on

exim thru firewall

2000-11-17 Thread ktb
I've looked through the 'mail-administer' and 'mail -user' howtos. I've searched the archives but I'm not coming across much that will help me. I want to use mutt, procmail and exim. At this point I'm just trying to get mail sent. I've run eximconfig using different configurations but my mail d

exim trouble

2000-11-17 Thread Russ Cook
I am no longer able to receive mail from my ISP. This is a sudden occurence, and due to no intentional action on my part. I'm attaching the mainlog file in the hope that someone can give me some advice regarding what to check. Exim is running as a daemon. mainlog> 2000-11-17 18:28:12 unexpecte

yellow in the linux console

2000-11-17 Thread Johannes Zellner
Hi, I really hate the ugly brown in the linux console. Can I change this to be a bright yellow instead ? (also for reverse yellow) -- Johannes

dnsdomainname

2000-11-17 Thread Johannes Zellner
After doing some massive upgrades, `dnsdomainname' doesn't work any more. (Also the lookup for a fully qualified hostname in `squid'). What should I do ? -- Johannes

Re: Problems with Matrox G400 AGP

2000-11-17 Thread Damien
> Dear all. > > I've just bought a new computer and I've choosen a Matrox > Millennium G400 AGP card (as they're one of the most open > source friendly companies out there). > [snip] i'm using one as well, which is working beautifully (dual-head, and all). i found dri to

A call for documentation

2000-11-17 Thread Tomas Sanchez
Hi debians! This mail is crossposted to debian-user, debian-user-swedish, debian-devel and debian-doc. I've done this because I don't really know where to post it since I call for two types of reactions. One is, _yes I want this to happen and I can help, the other being _yes it can be done and

Re: Apt-get UPgrade today

2000-11-17 Thread dude
i removed xmh, because i say it was conflicintg, duting the install' also remved xlibs which took out a whole bunch of packages Do you know where at-getkeeps a log of all its errors or messages? brw, thanks for your help. On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, John Galt wrote: > > xlibs conflicts with the ve

Re: Problems with Matrox G400 AGP

2000-11-17 Thread Charles Lewis
I have the same card with a 750 Duron (KT7-RAID m/b) and started having the similar problems (hard lock, no virtual console, no ctrl-alt-delete, black screen, etc) but only within the last few days. Everything was working beautifully under XFree 4, even under high resolutions and medium graphic int

Re: Large file support in Woody

2000-11-17 Thread Jeff Lessem
In your message of: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 22:39:01 +0100, you write: >there's a hardcoded 2GB limit in libc. You've to patch libc >and recompile yourself. My boss made that (for writing something >like 70 GB files), but he's not here currently, so I cannot ask him. I thought this limit was removed in f

Re: Postscript printers

2000-11-17 Thread Patrick
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 10:33:05PM +0100, Philipp Schulte took time to write: > I got a OKI 12i/n and it works just great. It has a builtin NIC > (10BaseT) and 4MB RAM and of course speaks PS :) The Oki 20 is also very cool... Very nice in a network environment (speaks TCP/IP, Appletalk, Netware,

Re: Debian 2.2 installer boot floppys

2000-11-17 Thread Chris Howells
paolo massei wrote: Hmm, problem solved thanks. I finally found some decent floppies (I must have tried about two sets before), and made images of root.bin and rescue.bin. I then booted, and waited past the messages "VM: do_try_to_free_ages failed for modprobe... (and kswapd), and eventual

Re: is possible mp3?

2000-11-17 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:05:28AM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Is it possible to add content to an exsisting mp3? I would > like to take a particular track and add an voice identifier > to it.. If so, what utility would I use to edit/create mp3's? It sure is possible to add content. mp3 f

Re: Problems with Matrox G400 AGP

2000-11-17 Thread John Hasler
> I've just bought a new computer and I've choosen a Matrox Millennium G400 > AGP card I'm using one. Works fine. > I've got an Asus A7V I seem to recall a problem with the G400 and a certain motherboard. That may be it. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwoo

How to change imwheelrc to scroll with mozilla line by line ?

2000-11-17 Thread Michael Meding
Hi all, mozilla keeps scrolling a page up or down even after adding a mozilla section in the imwheelrc (exactly like the navigator section) and then changing Page_Up and Page_Down to just Up and Donw respectively. Anybody has any ideas ? Thanks in advance. Michael Meding

Question about shortcuts

2000-11-17 Thread Brian Kallinen
Hi, I had a question about about using shortcuts under Debian (kern 2.2) running Gnome desktop under Sawfish. At the present time, I have shortcut icons for my applications in the bottom panel, but I was wondering how to setup up a key shortcut for the same applications, e.g., mapping a function

Re: capt segfaults

2000-11-17 Thread John Galt
Sig11's are often diagnostic of memory errors. Look at http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ It could be a real problem in capt, but if it's seemingly random and/or unreproducable, look into the possibility that the error is in hardware. If it's not random and it's reproducable, file a bug. On Fri,

Problems with Matrox G400 AGP

2000-11-17 Thread Rogerio Theodoro de Brito
Dear all. I've just bought a new computer and I've choosen a Matrox Millennium G400 AGP card (as they're one of the most open source friendly companies out there). Everything seems to be working fine with my hardware (I've got an Asus A7V and a Dur

Re: Large file support in Woody

2000-11-17 Thread Johannes Zellner
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 01:22:17PM -0700, Jeff Lessem wrote: > Now that woody is based on glibc2.2 I thought I would play with large > file support. Perhaps this was a mistake, as I have managed to create > a 3GB file, but I can't remove it. Any access to the file with the > fileutils package (ls

Re: netbase & nfs server

2000-11-17 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:33:11PM +0100, Johannes Zellner wrote: > After upgrading netbase, the nfs-server doesn't work any more: > Starting NFS servers:Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = > Connection refused > > what's the problem ? Portmapper annoyances - if you restart

netbase & nfs server

2000-11-17 Thread Johannes Zellner
After upgrading netbase, the nfs-server doesn't work any more: Starting NFS servers:Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused what's the problem ? -- Johannes

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade error

2000-11-17 Thread John Galt
Artifact of the perl5.00X -> perl 5.6 conversion. I installed perl-5.6 and it solved the problem right quick. On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > Did an apt-get dist-upgrade last night and ran into the following problem: > > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2

RE: Netscape 6.0/konqueor

2000-11-17 Thread John Galt
I think it's a kdelibs thing--have you tried kdelibs3-crypto? On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Anderson, Tim TL33E wrote: > On my box konqueror has been a breath of fresh air.. with the exception of > https support, which isn't there. Anyone know if that's a KDE thing or is > it just not compiled int

bluesky fonts in tetex

2000-11-17 Thread Martin Maciaszek
I noticed that tetex comes with the bluesky fonts on Debian. But somehow they aren't used. Dvips uses still the pixel fonts. What special magic do I have to apply to get dvips use the bluesky type1 fonts? Cheers Martin -- Running Windows on a Pentium is like having a brand new Porsche but only be

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade error

2000-11-17 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Try to install perl-5.6 first. j On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 09:34:38AM -0600, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > Did an apt-get dist-upgrade last night and ran into the following problem: > > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded. > 1 packages not fully installed or remove

Installation problems

2000-11-17 Thread James Copland
I'm having problems installing Debian on my system. I have the Promise UDMA66 card, a SiS 6326 video card and an Aureal Vortex 2 AU8830 sound card. None of these install, nor does my /dev/lp0 even though I know it is ECP, at 0x378-0x37F and 0x778-0x774 on IRQ 7 and DMA 3. I finally worked out how

Synchronizing the files on two machines

2000-11-17 Thread Allan F. Caetano
> "Christophe" == Christophe TROESTLER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christophe> Hello, Christophe> I would like to be able to synchronize the *certain* files on two Christophe> machines that are *not* directly connected to each other. Christophe> More precisely, I have to tran

Re: is possible mp3?

2000-11-17 Thread Scott Patterson
Of course, mp3 is a lossy format. So, every time you re-compress the mp3 it will sound a little worse. However, since mp3's sound pretty good to start with, one re-compression shouldn't sound much different:) A better solution would be to squeeze the audio directly into the file. I don't know i

Synchronizing the files on two machines

2000-11-17 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hello, I would like to be able to synchronize the *certain* files on two machines that are *not* directly connected to each other. More precisely, I have to transfer data daily between two machines and the only convenient way to do that is through floppies (ZIP / rewritable CDs). Do you know a p

Large file support in Woody

2000-11-17 Thread Jeff Lessem
Now that woody is based on glibc2.2 I thought I would play with large file support. Perhaps this was a mistake, as I have managed to create a 3GB file, but I can't remove it. Any access to the file with the fileutils package (ls, rm, etc.) returns with "Value too large for defined data type". I

Re: Problems with Make and MySQL perl modules

2000-11-17 Thread Ken Januski
Thanks Colin, that solved the problem. ken - Original Message - From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 1:15 PM Subject: Re: Problems with Make and MySQL perl modules > "Ken Januski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I downloaded msql-mysql-modules-1.22

capt segfaults

2000-11-17 Thread Johannes Zellner
capt segfaults from time to time with the following message: Exit: "Signal Handler (sig11)" is this a known problem ? -- Johannes

Re: bc - calculator

2000-11-17 Thread Daniel Freedman
Or you could just use: 'bc -l' on invocation to get bc to treat numbers as 'longs' HTH -Daniel > From: Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: bc - calculator > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; char

Re: basic xscreensaver question

2000-11-17 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Ethan Benson wrote: > > 2.I have the GL screensavers turned on, but I get errors about not > > setting my MESA_GLX_FX variable. Right now I have it so that it sets it in > > my bashrc. What would be a better (global) file to put that it so all > > programs could take advantage of it? > >

Re: Apt-get UPgrade today

2000-11-17 Thread John Galt
xlibs conflicts with the version you have ATM (at least it did for me last week when I apparently dealt with the problem). dist-upgrade should've solved it (that WAS the whole point of dist-upgrade at one time). If you know the culprit, just plain install it. My usual process for unstable upgra

Re: Strange behavior in X

2000-11-17 Thread Jim Crumley
> Sorry, forgot the details. =) I'm using an S3Virge video card (2 mb > video ram) with the S3V server (XFree 3.3.6). If you need anything > else just ask. Thanks. Well give the regular xserver-svga a try. Its supports S3 Virge and I think it less buggy (and better maintained) than the xserver

Re: Netscape 6.0

2000-11-17 Thread kmself
on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 04:14:40PM +, Ekkehard Kraemer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Daniel Borgmann wrote: > > > > > > My experience was that Mozilla M18 was not nearly as stable as > > > > Netscape 4.75 and I removed it from my system. > > > > > > i have found its certainly more of a pig > >

Re: VALinux box -> NT4 -> Debian emergency!

2000-11-17 Thread kmself
on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:57:38AM +, Rory Campbell-Lange ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi. > I've an urgent question, and I'd be most grateful if anyone with an > answer or advice would reply to me directly, as I only receive the > digest for the debian-user list. > > I'm trying to propel my

Re: is possible mp3?

2000-11-17 Thread Nick Zigarovich
Jaye, You can decode the MP3 to WAV format (can be done using mpg123 -w), and use your favorite WAV editor (waveforge, xwave, sweep) to layer in your content. I've never done any editing or mixing with the available Linux utilities, so I can' thelp you with specifics. Abstractly speaking, I w

Re: VALinux box -> NT4 -> Debian emergency!

2000-11-17 Thread Michael Smith
I put disks in and out of boxen all the time. The trick is to label everything. That way, you don't erase the good stuff. Otherwise, have fun. Robert Guthrie wrote: > On Friday 17 November 2000 04:57, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > > A small complication as that we need to practise installing N

Fwd: Re(2): [Xpert] Strange behavior in X

2000-11-17 Thread Casey Henderson
Sorry, forgot the details. =) I'm using an S3Virge video card (2 mb video ram) with the S3V server (XFree 3.3.6). If you need anything else just ask. Thanks. Casey -- Casey Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.umaine.edu/~hender97/

Re: [Xpert] Strange behavior in X

2000-11-17 Thread Casey Henderson
Sorry, forgot the details. =) I'm using an S3Virge video card (2 mb video ram) with the S3V server (XFree 3.3.6). If you need anything else just ask. Thanks. Casey -- Casey Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.umaine.edu/~hender97/

Re: Problems with Make and MySQL perl modules

2000-11-17 Thread Colin Watson
"Ken Januski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I downloaded msql-mysql-modules-1.2215.tar.gz today from CPAN. But when I >ran make I got these errors: >"LD_RUN_PATH -"/usr/local/." cc -o >/blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so -shared -L/usr/local/lib dbdimp.o >mysql.o -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -L/usr/loca

is possible mp3?

2000-11-17 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, Is it possible to add content to an exsisting mp3? I would like to take a particular track and add an voice identifier to it.. If so, what utility would I use to edit/create mp3's? tia, regards -- Jaye Inabnit, ARS ke6sls e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707-442-6579 h/m

Problems with Make and MySQL perl modules

2000-11-17 Thread Ken Januski
Hi I downloaded msql-mysql-modules-1.2215.tar.gz today from CPAN. But when I ran make I got these errors: "LD_RUN_PATH -"/usr/local/." cc -o /blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so -shared -L/usr/local/lib dbdimp.o mysql.o -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -/mysqlclient -lm -lz -L/usr/

emai client

2000-11-17 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi!! I am looking for a X e-mail client which could look to different mailboxes in different ISPs. Any suggestion? Thanks in advance! Marcelo _ Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Re: what fax software do you suggest?

2000-11-17 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> I like efax. It works with Class 1 modems too which is a bonus. It |> handles PS files very well and knows what to do. In fact, it relies on |> ghostscript to generate the fax image files. I second this. Efax is small, light and very dependable. It's author (Ed Casas) and maintainer (Dirk Edde

installing multiple versions of a given package

2000-11-17 Thread Walter Tautz
I am curious to know whether it would be possible to have two or more version of a given package exist compatibly and have the alternatives tool be able to pick one. REASON. Sometimes the features of one version are so annoying that one isn't interested in the `newer' version. I suppose most peop

Re: what fax software do you suggest?

2000-11-17 Thread USM Bish
For small time requirements that you envisage, the efax program is good enough. It is on the main sub dir of Debian. Has an utility called "efix" which does the job of conversion between fax, text, bit- map, greyscale, ps and other formats. For heavier workload, most people vouch for mgetty + se

Re: System.map

2000-11-17 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, Debian Ghost spoke on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 11:34:40AM -0500: > Recently I started getting a message when I do a ps -ef | grep *something. > > The message reads about my system map not matching my kernel. I recently > recompiled a kernel to include msdos support, but

RE: System.map

2000-11-17 Thread Jason Holland
You can recreate your System.map by running make install in /usr/src/linux, or wherever your kernel source is that you recently recompiled. Jason > > Recently I started getting a message when I do a ps -ef | grep *something. > > The message reads about my system map not matching my kernel. I re

Re: apt-move dain-brammage

2000-11-17 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 16 November 2000 17:13, Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > > I'm running the Potato version of this, if that matters. > > it does, woody as apt-move 4.x instead of 3.x shipped with potato, maybe > that release will work, it has a quite different apt-move.conf format so i > can't send you m

Re: Strange behavior in X

2000-11-17 Thread Digital Overdrive
Casey Henderson wrote: > > Hi, > I'm getting some weird display behavior in X and I need some help. I > do a lot of work using virtual consoles. Quite often when I'm in a > virtual console, if I press ctrl-alt-f7 to get back to X, my screen > goes blank. I try to go back to a virtual console

System.map

2000-11-17 Thread Debian Ghost
Recently I started getting a message when I do a ps -ef | grep *something. The message reads about my system map not matching my kernel. I recently recompiled a kernel to include msdos support, but that is all I've done. Anyone help with this? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ps -ef | grep netscape {no_ha

Re: Debian 2.2 installer boot floppys

2000-11-17 Thread Chris Howells
paolo massei wrote: >> to edit the file, even if I specify >> >> mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > > ^^ > > Perhaps here is the error: try with > > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > ^^ Thanks. 'msdos' turned out, *surprisingly* to be the correct option. It still hasn't helped me g

Strange behavior in X

2000-11-17 Thread Casey Henderson
Hi, I'm getting some weird display behavior in X and I need some help. I do a lot of work using virtual consoles. Quite often when I'm in a virtual console, if I press ctrl-alt-f7 to get back to X, my screen goes blank. I try to go back to a virtual console by pressing ctrl-alt-f1 (or f2 - f6)

Re: apt-move dain-brammage

2000-11-17 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 16 November 2000 17:13, Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > I'm running the Potato version of this, if that matters. > > it does, woody as apt-move 4.x instead of 3.x shipped with potato, maybe > that release will work, it has a quite different apt-move.conf format so i > can't send you min

Re: Simple question

2000-11-17 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, Salvador Petit Marti spoke on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 09:24:48AM +0100: > Sorry, I am a newbie in debian mailing lists... > Is debian-user a good place to ask questions about usability/problems with > woody? or there is another place?. I am subscribed to debian-testing

Re: what fax software do you suggest?

2000-11-17 Thread Jorgensen, Jens
I like efax. It works with Class 1 modems too which is a bonus. It handles PS files very well and knows what to do. In fact, it relies on ghostscript to generate the fax image files. Thomas Halahan wrote: > dear deb-users, > > I have a stand allone debian box with a fax modem. I want to send >

Re: Creative Soundblaster PCI238 and kernel

2000-11-17 Thread Ray Percival
opensource.creative.com -- Original Message -- From: Michael Epting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 06:21:19 -0800 >In 2.4.0-test10, it´s Creative Ensoniq AudiioPCI 97 (ES1371). I have >heard that some older PCI128´s might be ES1370, which is al

Re: Debian 2.2 installer boot floppys

2000-11-17 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, Chris Howells spoke on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:55:25AM +: > I have just obtained the full three CD-ROM Debian CD-ROM set. I wish to > try it out on my old computer first, which does not have a CD-ROM drive > capable of booting. > > Therefore I must make a boot fl

Problems wit ps/2 mouse

2000-11-17 Thread Edwin Hoff
I'm running debian potato on my computer. The problem is, that the system doesn't initialize my ps/2-mouse automatically. To get access to the mouse i always run gpmconfig "manually" as root, after this procedure the mouse works. Which settings are necessary to have the mouse configured automatica

Re: CISCO --> debian tool(s)

2000-11-17 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:47:54 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer writes: >On Friday 17 November 2000, at 9 h 25, the keyboard of Debian Ghost ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I was wondering if there were any debian tools used for working with Cisco >> routers and/or other Cisco gear. > >Everything is in

Re: Netscape 6.0

2000-11-17 Thread Daniel Borgmann
> > i heared of skipstone and really really want to try it. > > I just installed Skipstone, and it looks good (suits me better than > Galeon, at least). Apart from being leaner than Mozilla/Netscape (small > wonder, it aims to do much less), it has the one single feature which > made me pay for the

apache problem

2000-11-17 Thread Martin Würtele
hi, after the last woody update i have a strange problem with apache: i can't start apache and when i look in /var/log/apache/error.log i get the following line: apache: dl-close.c:122: _dl_close: Assertion `new_opencount[0] == 0' failed. any idea, what could be wrong? tia martin

Re: PHP setup with apache

2000-11-17 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, John Griffiths spoke on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:07:10AM +1100: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello all. > > I'm trying to get a Linux Apache Mysql Php (LAMP) setup going on a > machine on my home network. > > running a potato base install i'

RE: Netscape 6.0/konqueor

2000-11-17 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
On my box konqueror has been a breath of fresh air.. with the exception of https support, which isn't there. Anyone know if that's a KDE thing or is it just not compiled into the packages at kde.tdyc.com? tim > -Original Message- > From: Daniel Borgmann [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >g

Re: VALinux box -> NT4 -> Debian emergency!

2000-11-17 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Friday 17 November 2000 04:57, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > A small complication as that we need to practise installing NT4 onto the > new server as we have a completely new IT support department who don't Blasphemy! ;-) > much experience in this area. I'd like to get the VALinux box, possib

apt-get dist-upgrade error

2000-11-17 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Did an apt-get dist-upgrade last night and ran into the following problem: 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up debconf (0.5.01) ... Can't locat

Re: Create an Installation CD from /var../archives

2000-11-17 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, Robfrank spoke on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 12:58:30AM +: > I would like to create an instalation CD from my archived packages in > /var/cache/apt/archives. > > What I have tried is to create a bootable CD with the 2.88mb recue.bin and > include a directory of all of

Re: 'Stable' tracks 2.2r0, 2.2r1,...?

2000-11-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 06:31:28AM -0800, Monte Milanuk wrote: > Hello, > > A simple question here: > > If I have a machine that is using apt-get to stay in sync > w/ the security updates and bug fixes in stable, does this > automatically keep it up w/ the latest stable version? > i.e., my insta

Re: install 2.2 with 2.2.13 kernel

2000-11-17 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke on Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 04:19:32PM +0100: > > > Hi, > > sorry for my stupid question but how can i install debian 2.2 with the 2.2.13 > (or 2.2.15) kernel ?? apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.15 cd /usr/src tar -xIf kernel-source-2.2.15.tar

Re: Netscape 6.0

2000-11-17 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Daniel Borgmann wrote: > > > > My experience was that Mozilla M18 was not nearly as stable as > > > Netscape 4.75 and I removed it from my system. > > > > i have found its certainly more of a pig > ... > i heared of skipstone and really really want to try it. I just installed Skipstone, and it l

Re: Apt-get UPgrade today

2000-11-17 Thread dude
still Didnt help install xlibs which seems to be the root of the problem g On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, John Galt wrote: > > do a dist-upgrade and that should bring down the number of "not > installed"... > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, dude wrote: > > > > > > > Hello all. > > > > I've Just > > Upgraded to

Re: subnets & 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-17 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, robert_wilhelm_land spoke on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 01:31:16PM +0100: > > What does "bind for domain name resolution" mean? Does the mashine > want to contact a internet nameserver? yes, that's exactly what it means. > > Surprising that today after boot-up GOOFY _can_

Re: CISCO --> debian tool(s)

2000-11-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Friday 17 November 2000, at 9 h 25, the keyboard of Debian Ghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if there were any debian tools used for working with Cisco > routers and/or other Cisco gear. Everything is in Debian packages: m4 (to create configuration files) mrtg (to get stats

Re: Re: Conexion a internet

2000-11-17 Thread manurung
please send to me again thanks ** Original Message ** Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Shortly: Thinks connects to isp with Debian 2.2 potato, modem zoltrix external >56k, > >pentium 200 ,wvdial. Netscape does not go beyond "looking" > > > >If you want wide help, wri

Re: CISCO --> debian tool(s)

2000-11-17 Thread Youri Albinovanus
Debian Ghost wrote: > Hey Guys, > I was wondering if there were any debian tools used for working with Cisco > routers and/or other Cisco gear. I was thinking about things like > analytical tools and configuration tools. Mainly I am interested in > anything that is happening now and/or being devel

'Stable' tracks 2.2r0, 2.2r1,...?

2000-11-17 Thread Monte Milanuk
Hello, A simple question here: If I have a machine that is using apt-get to stay in sync w/ the security updates and bug fixes in stable, does this automatically keep it up w/ the latest stable version? i.e., my install cd's were 2.2r0. Now 2.2r1 is out. Soon (hopefully) 2.2r2 will be out. Wil

CISCO --> debian tool(s)

2000-11-17 Thread Debian Ghost
Hey Guys, I was wondering if there were any debian tools used for working with Cisco routers and/or other Cisco gear. I was thinking about things like analytical tools and configuration tools. Mainly I am interested in anything that is happening now and/or being developed. Any info much app

Re: Creative Soundblaster PCI238 and kernel

2000-11-17 Thread Michael Epting
In 2.4.0-test10, it´s Creative Ensoniq AudiioPCI 97 (ES1371). I have heard that some older PCI128´s might be ES1370, which is also available. If you check the archives, you will find several people saying that you need the ALSA drivers to make this card work. I can verify that it works with ALS

Re: Netscape 6.0

2000-11-17 Thread vijay
At Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:44:05 +0100 , Daniel Borgmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > My experience was that Mozilla M18 was not nearly as stable as >> > Netscape 4.75 and I removed it from my system. >> >> i have found its certainly more of a pig, and its interface is very >> sluggish, it does te

Re: Netscape 6.0

2000-11-17 Thread Daniel Borgmann
> > My experience was that Mozilla M18 was not nearly as stable as > > Netscape 4.75 and I removed it from my system. > > i have found its certainly more of a pig, and its interface is very > sluggish, it does tend to be less stable too, but only for certain > sites. i think for most people sticki

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