how to watch VCD?

2000-11-18 Thread Jerry
I'm trying to watch VCD with gtv and plaympeg but it always tell me "vedio memory protecting", what does that mean? what sould I do before I can watch VCD? please help me about it, thanks

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

2000-11-18 Thread Brad
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 06:14:03PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: > 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? Read http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0002/msg02422.html So, the line looks like it should be:

Re: I want out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2000-11-18 Thread Randy Edwards
rik M antropov wrote: > > I want to be off all your mailing lists and forums. > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null If the list mantainer is watching, could I make a suggestion? The above sig takes two lines. Since people not understanding how to unsubscribe

Re: Network config

2000-11-18 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 11:11:02AM +0800, Gilbert.Li (§õ«Â¾§) wrote: 1. I am reading te list so there is no need to send me a private mail too. 2. Please start to write at the beginning of a line. Your mails are very hard to read. > > What do you mean? Are you talking about a driver, which is no

Re: Last woody upgrade = chaos?!

2000-11-18 Thread Ben Collins
> since woody runs great for me with 2.2, i suspect these failing packages > are just the old ones build for libc6 2.1.x Programs compiled against libc6 2.1.x should run perfectly fine under libc6 2.2. So that isn't the issue. -- ---===-=-==-=---=

Re: Last woody upgrade = chaos?!

2000-11-18 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 12:05:29AM +0100, Toens Bueker wrote: > > Hi *, > > I use woody for quite a long time already - but during the update from > libc6 2.1.97-1 to libc6 2.2 something went wrong. > > Several packages, which seem to use networking functions are now broken: > > - syslogd > -

Re: Compile error.

2000-11-18 Thread Corey Popelier
No, this driver will work with a 2.2.x kernel (I'm running it with 2.2.18pre21). As for the error, is this definately the 0.9.5 drivers from nvidia? And which TNT card have you got? Mine says rev 4 in /proc/pci. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Thu, 16 Nov

RE: Network config

2000-11-18 Thread 李威儒
> > > > Yes you need to have the module loaded for your network card > > > before you can actually use the eth0 interface w/ > ifconfig and such. > > > Silver > > > >if I don't have a built-in network driver, how do I > configure the driver. > > What do you mean? Are you talking about a

Re: capt & locale-zh

2000-11-18 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:43:14PM +0100, Johannes Zellner wrote: > wow! > > Trying to updgrade `locale-zh' with capt results in: > > [-] Packages that will be deleted > > [+] Req l

Re: Postscript printers

2000-11-18 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 11:58:27PM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote: > Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The 12i/n does speak TCP/IP too. I think it is really cool to connect > > to my printer's ftp-server ;) > > Hey, does it also have a builtin webserver? :) I am pretty sure one wo

# bye

2000-11-18 Thread makoto sugimoto

# bye

2000-11-18 Thread makoto sugimoto

Re: Minor? kernel woes...

2000-11-18 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:19:12PM -0800, brian moore wrote: :That's normal. Fix it by rm'ing it. 2.4 doesn't support :'/dev/sndstat'. Oh :) :> I did complile in the correct card driver (twice), I get the same :> behavior for /dev/pppox0. : :Never heard of that device. It's for PPP encapsulat

Unidentified subject!

2000-11-18 Thread makoto sugimoto
# bye

Re: Minor? kernel woes...

2000-11-18 Thread brian moore
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 09:01:51PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Hi, > > Perhaps I should go to a kernel list with this, but... > > Just installed 2.4.0-test10 and now a bunch of my devices are behaving > oddly, such as: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] drivers]$ cat /dev/sndstat > cat: /dev/sndstat:

Re: Q: RSA Authentication vs. Password Authentication in SSH

2000-11-18 Thread Brian May
> "Viktor" == Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Viktor> What's the advantage of RSA Authentication vs. Password Viktor> Authentication except that under the first one the sshd Viktor> server does not trust the client unless he has authorized Viktor> himself with a ke

Re: Postscript printers

2000-11-18 Thread C. Falconer
I have 4 HP Jetdirects at work - they're truely sexy. Theres also a Lantronix print server which was legacy... it lacks syslog support, so when users tell me its not working I have to go run special software. The jetdirects all log to loghost, which I have displayed on an old serial terminal.

Re: Last woody upgrade = chaos?!

2000-11-18 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Toens Bueker wrote: > I really need that machine up and running again urgently - what can I do? If you need the machine that desperately, why is it running unstable? This sounds like you made a bad choice.. Wichert. -- ___

Minor? kernel woes...

2000-11-18 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, Perhaps I should go to a kernel list with this, but... Just installed 2.4.0-test10 and now a bunch of my devices are behaving oddly, such as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] drivers]$ cat /dev/sndstat cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device [EMAIL PROTECTED] drivers]$ ls -l !$ ls -l /dev/sndstat crw-rw

Viaja Gratis contestando encuestas

2000-11-18 Thread Rafael Bravo
VIAJA GRATIS O GANA DINERO Compra cualquier producto y/o servicio: mecánica, coches, alquileres, telefonía, seguros, etc... ¿CÓMO? RELLENANDO ENCUESTAS También utilizando nuestro portal, demandando productos y servicios de otras empresas y recomendándonos. Para canjear Gamusinos por dine

@#@%! debian list software!

2000-11-18 Thread Brendan Cully
Apparently the list manager automatically forwards any mail with unsubscribe in the subject to debian-...-request now? Arrghh! please see the body of the message below, which was misrouted... - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CONFIRM u111819311

Q: RSA Authentication vs. Password Authentication in SSH

2000-11-18 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi list, first some stats: Ten weeks without internet access (actually without a phone line) directly translate into 11000+ messages on Debian User -- Argh! Once again, thanks to my telco "Deutsche Telekom" for their great service. Not. Anyway, guess I had a lot of time for reading and catching

NCR53C9x (MCA) SCSI problem with scanner

2000-11-18 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
I am trying to hook a scanner up to my NCR 3350 using the built in SCSI controller but the machine is crashing when I try to use it. I tried searching with Google and Deja but couldn't find anything. The machine is: NCR 3350 (486dx2 upgraded to AMD586, 16MB RAM, MCA bus) Debian Potato 2.2r1/D

Re: I want out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2000-11-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:23:56PM -0800, rik M antropov wrote: > I want to be off all your mailing lists and forums. ?? So leave. -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guid

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, There's quite a bit on the list about your question, but it doesn't seem like you're getting all of it, so to summarize: To unpack the driver you downloaded: you can `tar -xzvf whaterveritcallsitsself` or mv foo~1 driver.tgz then untar it or mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy to get long filename

Re: Last woody upgrade = chaos?!

2000-11-18 Thread Toens Bueker
Alson van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When was your last 'apt-get dist-upgrade'? I don't really know what's wrong > > - and that worries me ... > > yesterday > > attached is a ls -l of my /lib, so you can compare some versions of libs That was very helpful - I had one lib more than

Re: I want out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2000-11-18 Thread rik M antropov
I want to be off all your mailing lists and forums. Get FREE Email/Voicemail with 15MB at Lycos Communications at http://comm.lycos.com

[OT] Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
the three R's of NT system administration (as occationally practiced by me), Retry, Reboot, Reinstall... Thankfully folks around here (MIT) are smart enough not to rely on Windows being stable. -Jon

Re: Last woody upgrade = chaos?!

2000-11-18 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 01:00:43AM +0100, Toens Bueker wrote: > Alson van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Several packages, which seem to use networking functions are now broken: > > > > > > - syslogd > > > - ping > > > - ftp > > > - emacs > > > - apt-get > > > > > > Some of those

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:52:05PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > > > You most certainly *do not* need to reboot > > > That's what loadable modules are all about, inserting kernel level > code without a reboot :) :) Indignity justfied. A common joke at work is why, when we produc

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:49:14PM -0500, Brett Singer wrote: > nothing that starts with a '3c' seems to work - i think i have the tulip > driver (3c90x), but it's on a windows machine, and when i try to move it to > the linux box via floppy the filename truncates. what to do? Hmm. The tulip

Re: Last woody upgrade = chaos?!

2000-11-18 Thread Toens Bueker
Alson van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Several packages, which seem to use networking functions are now broken: > > > > - syslogd > > - ping > > - ftp > > - emacs > > - apt-get > > > > Some of those try to open a socket in /var/run/.nscd_socket (which > > does not exist). > > > >

Re: anXious usage?

2000-11-18 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:50:40PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > Wehn I isntalled from Potato afewhours gao, the install ran a nice > program > which I have found to be called abXious and prompted me through the X > setup. > Well to be honest, I made bad choices. > > I found

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread urbanyon
i think that modconf gets you back to that part of the installation - the only thing is, it doesn't help you if your device isn't listed. that said, it's waaay better than starting from scratch (which i've done a few times now). On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Sat, Nov 18, 20

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:45:35PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: :...or do you have to reboot first? Probably not. That's mostly a winblows :thing. You most certainly *do not* need to reboot That's what loadable modules are all about, inserting kernel level code without a reboot :) -J

RE: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread Brett Singer
> Did you need to install any software on the Windows machine (other > than the ethernet device driver)? If not you're probably in luck and > the protocol between your machine and the DSL box is "normal" IP > stuff. If you're connection from windows just involves setting TCP/IP > on the card to u

anXious usage?

2000-11-18 Thread Stan Brown
Wehn I isntalled from Potato afewhours gao, the install ran a nice program which I have found to be called abXious and prompted me through the X setup. Well to be honest, I made bad choices. I found this programs name as a comment in the begining of /etc/

Re: X setup help, please

2000-11-18 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:39:28PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > On Sat Nov 18 18:10:07 2000 Alson van der Meulen wrote... > > > >On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:59:50PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > >>Seting up a recycled machine for Dabian Potato. Superprobe returns: > >> > >>First video: Super-VGA

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:32:20PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: > Fast Ethernet PCI Network Interface Card, Model # 3CSOHO100-TX. > > i downloaded what i think is the same driver (3c90x), but the thing is, it > comes as a tar file, and when i move it (via floppy) from my windows > machine to the linux

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:32:20PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: > > > > What's the make and model? > Fast Ethernet PCI Network Interface Card, Model # 3CSOHO100-TX. > > > Mine wasn't seen either, until I loaded the correct kernel module. > I'm > > using a 3COM PCI Fast Ethernet card, which was c

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:32:20PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: :i downloaded what i think is the same driver (3c90x), but the thing is, it :comes as a tar file, and when i move it (via floppy) from my windows :machine to the linux box, the filename truncates. of course, i could :just download the driv

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:27:26PM -0600, sc wrote: > This was an option in the installation process if I'm not mistaken where > it asks you what's the main way you'll be connecting to the Internet or > if you computer is on a network already. Then you enter in all the > relevant info (IP addr

Re: X setup help, please

2000-11-18 Thread Stan Brown
On Sat Nov 18 18:10:07 2000 Alson van der Meulen wrote... > >On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:59:50PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >> Seting up a recycled machine for Dabian Potato. Superprobe returns: >> >> First video: Super-VGA >> Chipset: Trident GUI 9680 (PCI Probed) >> Memory: 102

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:24:40PM -0500, Brett Singer wrote: :not sure i follow you - tell me if this helps to clarify the situation: : :on the windows machines i'm using, it was pretty much plug and go - once the :cards were installed, i plugged in the ethernet cable, got an 'automatic' IP :add

Re: Netscape 6.0

2000-11-18 Thread kmself
> - NS 4.57: still primary for graphics, though I curse it every time I s/4.57/4.75/ Bah! -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread urbanyon
> prevent you from setting up your network card successfully unless your > card is supported by the list on the CD. that's it - it's not supported. > Have you tried using modconf and selecting other network cards to see if > there's another 3COM listing you can use? none of the others seem to

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread urbanyon
> > What's the make and model? Fast Ethernet PCI Network Interface Card, Model # 3CSOHO100-TX. > Mine wasn't seen either, until I loaded the correct kernel module. I'm > using a 3COM PCI Fast Ethernet card, which was compatible with the tulip > driver. I just tried it out and it worked.

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread sc
On 11/18/00 3:21 PM, urbanyon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >i am using a cdrom that came with the book 'learning debian gnu/linux' >(oreilly). various packages that even the book tells i need are not on >there. I've done installations from that CD before on LAN network connected systems successf

RE: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread Brett Singer
thanks for the quick response! > I have some user space hacks to get PPPoE to work (this is what most > ISP around the US use), if you need this email me directly and I will > forward it off the list so as not to suck up everyone's band width. not sure i follow you - tell me if this helps to clar

Re: Help with cron settings?

2000-11-18 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:03:01PM -0600, sc wrote: > On 11/18/00 4:26 PM, Alson van der Meulen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >try 5,10,15 * * * * sunkcost /bin/tar -cf /home/sunkcost/test.tar > >/home/sunkcost/test.txt > > > >you forgot a *, so cron tried to interpet sunkcost as day of week, which

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:10:33PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: > sorry about the last message - "dmesg" does work, but i don't see the > ethernet card. what to do? What's the make and model? Mine wasn't seen either, until I loaded the correct kernel module. I'm using a 3COM PCI Fast Ethernet

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:06:12PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: > > :-) Can you suggest a better book? it's nice to have a reference. If you don't know Unix at all, then the Sams-Net Debian book looks good. I didn't get it since there's too much basic knowledge there that I already have and not e

Re: Last woody upgrade = chaos?!

2000-11-18 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 12:05:29AM +0100, Toens Bueker wrote: > > Hi *, > > I use woody for quite a long time already - but during the update from > libc6 2.1.97-1 to libc6 2.2 something went wrong. > > Several packages, which seem to use networking functions are now broken: > > - syslogd > -

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, you're in a world of hurt with DSL and I feel your pain :) I have some user space hacks to get PPPoE to work (this is what most ISP around the US use), if you need this email me directly and I will forward it off the list so as not to suck up everyone's band width. Note if your ISP is using

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread sc
On 11/18/00 5:06 PM, urbanyon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Ah. What a crappy book. It was my first Debian book, and install, >> too. > >:-) Can you suggest a better book? it's nice to have a reference. >From this newbie's standpoint, I didn't think the O'Reilly book was all that bad as

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread urbanyon
sorry about the last message - "dmesg" does work, but i don't see the ethernet card. what to do? On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, urbanyon wrote: > > > Ah. What a crappy book. It was my first Debian book, and install, > > too. > > :-) Can you suggest a better book? it's nice to have a reference.

Re: X setup help, please

2000-11-18 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:59:50PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > Seting up a recycled machine for Dabian Potato. Superprobe returns: > > First video: Super-VGA > Chipset: Trident GUI 9680 (PCI Probed) > Memory: 1024 Kbytes > > RAMDAC: Trident Built-In 15/16/24-bit DAC

Re: Help with cron settings?

2000-11-18 Thread sc
On 11/18/00 4:26 PM, Alson van der Meulen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >try 5,10,15 * * * * sunkcost /bin/tar -cf /home/sunkcost/test.tar >/home/sunkcost/test.txt > >you forgot a *, so cron tried to interpet sunkcost as day of week, which >doesn't really work Oops. This was a mistake on my part in

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread urbanyon
> Ah. What a crappy book. It was my first Debian book, and install, > too. :-) Can you suggest a better book? it's nice to have a reference. > Try "dmesg | grep eth". Typically your first NIC on a PC will be called > "eth0". "dmesg" doesn't work. try something else, or is it som

Last woody upgrade = chaos?!

2000-11-18 Thread Toens Bueker
Hi *, I use woody for quite a long time already - but during the update from libc6 2.1.97-1 to libc6 2.2 something went wrong. Several packages, which seem to use networking functions are now broken: - syslogd - ping - ftp - emacs - apt-get Some of those try to open a socket in /var/run/.nsc

X setup help, please

2000-11-18 Thread Stan Brown
Seting up a recycled machine for Dabian Potato. Superprobe returns: First video: Super-VGA Chipset: Trident GUI 9680 (PCI Probed) Memory: 1024 Kbytes RAMDAC: Trident Built-In 15/16/24-bit DAC (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode))

Re: Postscript printers

2000-11-18 Thread Moritz Schulte
Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The 12i/n does speak TCP/IP too. I think it is really cool to connect > to my printer's ftp-server ;) Hey, does it also have a builtin webserver? :) moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ Debian/G

Re: Help with cron settings?

2000-11-18 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:41:45PM -0600, Damian Menscher wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, sc wrote: > > > I'm having troubles getting my backups automated. I set up a file "test" > > in the cron.d directory with the settings... > > > > 5,10,15 * * * sunkcost /bin/tar -cf /home/sunkcost/test.tar

Re: Help with cron settings?

2000-11-18 Thread Damian Menscher
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, sc wrote: > I'm having troubles getting my backups automated. I set up a file "test" > in the cron.d directory with the settings... > > 5,10,15 * * * sunkcost /bin/tar -cf /home/sunkcost/test.tar > /home/sunkcost/test.txt > > I thought that cron was supposed to check thro

Re: Help with cron settings?

2000-11-18 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:17:32PM -0600, sc wrote: > > (don't think this one went through. Apologies if this is a repost) > > I'm having troubles getting my backups automated. I set up a file "test" > in the cron.d directory with the settings... > > 5,10,15 * * * sunkcost /bin/tar -cf /home/

Re: fetchmail won't fetch

2000-11-18 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:01:47PM -0600, ktb wrote: > I'm a little farther along with my mail trials. Out going works > fine but I can't receive with fetchmail. I'm using exim, fetchmail > and pine on Potato. > My /etc/hosts contains the following line - > 192.168.10.7 debian.local debian > >

Help with cron settings?

2000-11-18 Thread sc
(don't think this one went through. Apologies if this is a repost) I'm having troubles getting my backups automated. I set up a file "test" in the cron.d directory with the settings... 5,10,15 * * * sunkcost /bin/tar -cf /home/sunkcost/test.tar /home/sunkcost/test.txt I thought that cron wa

Re: imagemagick is not installable

2000-11-18 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:31:09PM +0100, Johannes Zellner wrote: > Hi, me again, > > If I've installed geomview installing imagemagick fails because: > > ... > Unpacking imagemagick (from .../imagemagick_5.2.5-2_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/imagemagick_5.2.5-2

fetchmail won't fetch

2000-11-18 Thread ktb
I'm a little farther along with my mail trials. Out going works fine but I can't receive with fetchmail. I'm using exim, fetchmail and pine on Potato. My /etc/hosts contains the following line - 192.168.10.7 debian.local debian This is how I answered the questions from eximconfig: *Visible mai

Re: Help getting PS/2 mouse working, please

2000-11-18 Thread Stan Brown
On Sat Nov 18 13:51:07 2000 Moritz Schulte wrote... > >"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >[PS2 mouse] >> How can I test and make certain it is working, and get it configured >> corectly so that it works in console mde, and passes data on through >> to the X server? > >Have you already inst

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:21:54PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: > > i am using a cdrom that came with the book 'learning debian gnu/linux' > (oreilly). various packages that even the book tells i need are not on Ah. What a crappy book. It was my first Debian book, and install, too. Note: It is _no

Re: System.map

2000-11-18 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:48:29AM -0600, Jason Holland wrote: > You can recreate your System.map by running make install in /usr/src/linux, > or wherever your kernel source is that you recently recompiled. Sure he can recreate it this way but he still needs to copy it to the right place. #cp /u

Re: Problems wit ps/2 mouse

2000-11-18 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 04:48:33PM +0100, Edwin Hoff wrote: > 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

Re: SB AWE64 configuration problem

2000-11-18 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Willy Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [181100 10:43]: > "Willy" == Willy Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Regarding the problems I'm having with getting sound to work, I found > a clue. Now if I only knew what it meant! > > This is what syslog says after attempting to modprobe to load the > sound m

Re: Netscape 6.0

2000-11-18 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 04:20:53AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 01:57:39PM +0200, Johann Spies 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 i

Re: Postscript printers

2000-11-18 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 11:49:40PM +0100, Patrick wrote: > 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... Ve

Re: Skipstone [was: Netscape 6.0]

2000-11-18 Thread Daniel Borgmann
On Saturday 18 November 2000 20:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > |> i heared of skipstone and really really want to try it. but > |> unfortunatly there is only a woody version :( is there any way to get > |> skipstone for a potato system? > > I have Skipstone running fine on my potato system, and I r

Re: Network config

2000-11-18 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 02:20:35PM +0800, Gilbert.Li (§õ«Â¾§) wrote: > > Yes you need to have the module loaded for your network card > > before you can actually use the eth0 interface w/ ifconfig and such. > > Silver > >if I don't have a built-in network driver, how do I configure the drive

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-18 Thread Sean Furey
Hi Robert! > Excuse my ignorance on the maintainance of distribution lists, but why not > just reject submissions with attachments that match the pattern *.EXE? Thats the first idea I've seen that I'd agree with. Much as I dislike Outlook, I used to like it, I suspect many people still do, and

Re: Simple apt-get question

2000-11-18 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [171100 17:16]: > > > > I installed PostgreSQL to work with, and I noticed that it > > said that it was version 6.5 or so, and to just grab the > > newer package from the unstable tree. So my question is, > > how do I go about grabbing just _one_ package,

HELP!!!

2000-11-18 Thread urbanyon
apologies for the drama, i'm just at the end of my rope trying to install debian. i am using a cdrom that came with the book 'learning debian gnu/linux' (oreilly). various packages that even the book tells i need are not on there. i figured i would try and connect to the internet, but i can't se

Re: Couple of questions from a recent convert

2000-11-18 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* JD Kitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [181100 14:17]: > Does the default install support an SB AWE32 for sound without > recompiling the kernel? No the default install does not support SB AWE32. You need to patch the kernel and recompile. If your SB AWE32 is a pnp card, you will need to configure it

Re: XFree86 4.01

2000-11-18 Thread Michael Meding
Hi Ian, what does "X -configure" does on your machine ? That should work, also you can use a sample config like the ones supplioed by dri.sourceforge.net on the ressources page. http://dri.sourceforge.net/resources/XF86Config.voodoo3 Hope that helps. Greetings Michael Meding

Re: XFree86 4.01

2000-11-18 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 08:45:57PM -, Ian Lee wrote: > I am running Debian 2.2, with kernel 2.4 test10. > I have downloaded and installed the glibc21 binaires of 4.0.1, I run > XF86Setup and find that there is no Voodoo 3 option in the cards list. > > The XFree86 site days the card is support

XFree86 4.01

2000-11-18 Thread Ian Lee
I am running Debian 2.2, with kernel 2.4 test10. I have downloaded and installed the glibc21 binaires of 4.0.1, I run XF86Setup and find that there is no Voodoo 3 option in the cards list.   The XFree86 site days the card is supported but I can't find it.   Can anyone help?   Ian.  

Re: xfree 4: "unknown reason for exeption"; clock problems

2000-11-18 Thread Gerhard Kroder
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, John Galt wrote: > You probably wanted [EMAIL PROTECTED] no, i intentionally posted to mailinglist first. But since nobody could help i'll goto bugs... Gerhard

Re: Debian Package HOWTO. Who ?

2000-11-18 Thread Jesse Goerz
Uhh... In my opinion... >As a provocation it served its purpose. However I admit that I was unfair. >But I still think that my question for a more in-depth HOWTO is a valid one > > Some people suggest that I should read the developer's or packaging > manuals or even the source. But I am not a

during make-kpkg I get i386-none not in remapping table

2000-11-18 Thread Michael Meding
Hi all, I use potato with dpkg and debhelper from woody. When I try to compile 2.4.0-test11-pre7 after configuring it and doing a make-kpkg I get an error saying that i386-none is not in remapping table and not found in arch. So I have to specify --arch=i386. Doing this I get after a while of comp

Re: OT: working with cisco gear (Re: CISCO --> debian tool(s))

2000-11-18 Thread John Kramer
> > which are useful unless you have to manage lots of those boxes, > I wouldn't know. > but isn't that what OpenView is for? and is unbeatable in that field? > Openview doesn't manage those boxes specifically. It's an expensive SNMP-mib collector/network-discovery-agent/oh-crap-this-node-went-

Re: Help getting PS/2 mouse working, please

2000-11-18 Thread Stan Brown
On Sat Nov 18 13:51:07 2000 Moritz Schulte wrote... > >"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >[PS2 mouse] >> How can I test and make certain it is working, and get it configured >> corectly so that it works in console mde, and passes data on through >> to the X server? > >Have you already inst

Re: Network routes

2000-11-18 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 11:41:10AM -0800, Kyle J. Moore wrote: > I have just started using Debian in something other > than a simple network. I'm looking for what file and > syntax I should put entries for static routes. I'm > used to RedHat and things seem to be different in > Debian. Most of the

Re: OT: working with cisco gear (Re: CISCO --> debian tool(s))

2000-11-18 Thread brian moore
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:30:59PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 17:18:31 +0100, Dariush Pietrzak writes: > >> which are useful unless you have to manage lots of those boxes, > > >I wouldn't know. > >but isn't that what OpenView is for? and is unbeatable in that field? > > I

Network routes

2000-11-18 Thread Kyle J. Moore
I have just started using Debian in something other than a simple network. I'm looking for what file and syntax I should put entries for static routes. I'm used to RedHat and things seem to be different in Debian. Most of the docs I've seen while researching this refer to putting things in the /etc

screensaver/dpms solved

2000-11-18 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Thanks for the help. Adding xset -dpms s off in /etc/X11/xdm/ Xsetup and Xreset files worked. Kevin

Re: Question about shortcuts

2000-11-18 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Brian Kallinen wrote: > 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 appli

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

2000-11-18 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Damon Muller wrote: > 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 solut

Re: url forward

2000-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am new to domain name servers, so I may ask stupid questions, but I hope >someone can help me. I have just set up a nameserver which works fine. >Now I want to forward my www to my internet provider, but there is a >slight problem. My page does not have an

Re: Skipstone [was: Netscape 6.0]

2000-11-18 Thread mcclosk
|> i heared of skipstone and really really want to try it. but |> unfortunatly there is only a woody version :( is there any way to get |> skipstone for a potato system? I have Skipstone running fine on my potato system, and I really like it. I installed Mozilla from Debian (M18-3 in stable), an

Re: exim and mtt probs continue

2000-11-18 Thread Griffith Feeney
At 08:13 AM 11/18/00, you wrote: i continue to have problems setting up my email configuration. I have run eximconfig but have had trouble working out how to answer some of the questions I am not sure what is meant by some of the terms i.e. what is my visible mail name. To be honest i have used the

Re: global file for exporting variables (not profile)

2000-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
"Cameron Matheson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I need a file that I could export variables such as MESA_GLX_FX (ones >that do not depend on the shell), but I don't know of one, please, if >you know of one, share it with me. Try /etc/environment. This is read by pam_env, which needs to be configure

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