Re: X Starting

2000-12-09 Thread ktb
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 12:05:33AM -0200, Est?v?o Becker wrote: > Hi, I have another problem: How do I do for the X DON'T start when I start > my Linux? What file do I have to edit and where is it? > You could install xdm which would give you a graphical login screen that start

newbie install

2000-12-09 Thread shawn
Hello. Okay so I'm trying to install Debain 2.1 off of a CD. I installed a new slave drive on my primary IDE, and it is not formatted or partitioned. After booting from the debian CD, I get to the "boot:" prompt. I press enter and it looks like it is scanning my system specs, etc. (compiling the ke

Re: pppoe

2000-12-09 Thread John Hasler
Ken Weingold writes: > I know this is not much to go on, but any pointers would help. Install the pppoe package. Why did you think that Debian didn't have one? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: pppoe

2000-12-09 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 12:18:50AM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: :Anyone here ever get pppoe working? I have a base system installed :right now and need to get the packages. I don't even have a compiler :or anything. I installed the compact image so it would have support :for my 3Com NIC, which it

Re: Can't mount CD drive (was: Re: Hello first time)

2000-12-09 Thread mcclosk
|> I write there something like this: |> |> |> /dev/hdc/cdrom auto |> 0 |> |> Is that correct ? I believe it needs to look like this: /dev/hdc/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide ro: mounts it read-only

Re: how to execute stuff BEFORE disconnect

2000-12-09 Thread John Hasler
erik writes: > I would like to execute stuff (set my dynamic IP to 'off-line') right > before disconnect. is it possible? how? There is no reliable way to do it. You can edit poff and add commands to be executed before the kill command, but what the disconnect was unplanned? If your ISP hangs up

pppoe

2000-12-09 Thread Ken Weingold
Anyone here ever get pppoe working? I have a base system installed right now and need to get the packages. I don't even have a compiler or anything. I installed the compact image so it would have support for my 3Com NIC, which it does. ifconfig shows eth0. I have Mindspring for DSL and they ha

Re: Backspace key

2000-12-09 Thread Mike Merten
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 08:35:42PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:36:37PM +, Glyn Millington wrote: > -| > -|I've been upgrading things from Woody - a foolhardy venture but everythng > -|went well amd works beautifully apart from my backspace key which now > -|

Re: how to execute stuff BEFORE disconnect

2000-12-09 Thread CaT
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 09:02:38PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > there are scripts in /etc/ppp that are executed right after the > connection was established and scripts that are executed right AFTER > disconnect. > > I would like to execute stuff (set my dynamic IP to 'off-line') right > before

how to execute stuff BEFORE disconnect

2000-12-09 Thread Erik Steffl
there are scripts in /etc/ppp that are executed right after the connection was established and scripts that are executed right AFTER disconnect. I would like to execute stuff (set my dynamic IP to 'off-line') right before disconnect. is it possible? how? thanks in advance... erik

Re: postfix config (network unreachable?)

2000-12-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Mark Brown wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 01:03:01AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > I can ping crick, I can also telnet (using default telnet port) > > without problems but when I do telnet crick.fmed.uniba.sk 25 from > > command line I get the same message (network is unreachable, but onl

Re: postfix: what's local?

2000-12-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Mark Brown wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 01:15:09AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > main.cf:destinations = jojda, localhost > > > however, postfix is confused, when I send email it tries to connect to > > jojda.2y.net and then get jojda back as hostname, compalins and does not > > send em

Re: My Video card does'nt work ?

2000-12-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
Try running SuperProbe, which hopefully will be able to identify the chipset, from which you can determine which xserver to use. Take a look at 'man SuperProbe' before running it. On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 04:36:04AM +0100, Mateusz wrote: > I have Diamond SpeedStar A55 and I couldn't run X Server w

elvis and tin

2000-12-09 Thread W. Paul Mills
Recent upgrade (yesterday) of potato broke tin. Cannot post with elvis. Just comes back with a failed message. vim works ok. Any ideas?? elvis 2.1.4-1 vim 5.6.070-1 tin 1.4.1-1 -- * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not pe

My Video card does'nt work ?

2000-12-09 Thread Mateusz
I have Diamond SpeedStar A55 and I couldn't run X Server with it . My Debian Potato has not this card on any list with cards . What can I do ? There isn't my video card on XFree86 list ? Why ? Please help me ;-) __ Mateusz [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

Re: Debian + Kicq + gcc

2000-12-09 Thread Chris Gray
> Joel Douglas Maxwell writes: jdm> Hello Everyone, I'm having a problem installing kicq 2.0.0b1 jdm> in tarball. i got past ./configure, but when i ran make, i jdm> came across an error and kicq didn't install. I asked the jdm> developer of kicq, and he knew i was using debi

Helix-gnome control center problems

2000-12-09 Thread Rob VanFleet
For some reason, the gnome control center doesn't want me to configure any sawfish aspects. When I click on any of the sawfish configuration options, the left pane displays nothing, and eventually, the entire app freezes and has to be killed. Another thing I noticed is that the control center oft

Re: startx -- client arguments not respected

2000-12-09 Thread kmself
on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 02:27:01AM +0100, Defresne Sylvain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > > This problem appears to be related to an existing bug against > > xlients-base (#65787), though I don't believe it has the same source. > > I'm trying to

GL screen hacks corrupting display

2000-12-09 Thread Rob VanFleet
I'm using potato with the /dev/3dfx - Mesa combo for 3D. When I run a GL screen hack like gears or morph3d, it runs accelerated and looks nice. The problem is that when I exit them, the display in X is completely whacked; I can't do anything. So far, I've just been Alt-F1'ing back to a console a

Re: X: user not authorized to run the X server

2000-12-09 Thread Mike
Lindsay Allen wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm running 4.0.1-10 and now I get:- > > elm:$ startx > > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. > giving up. > xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server > xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. > > > Anot

X Starting

2000-12-09 Thread Estêvão Becker
  Hi, I have another problem: How do I do for the X DON'T start when I start my Linux? What file do I have to edit and where is it?  

Re: compiling gaim

2000-12-09 Thread Erik Steffl
anytime you are missing a file, go to debian web page, packages and use the last form, here's what it says for : FILEPACKAGE usr/lib/gnomeConf.shdevel/libgnome-dev usr/lib/obGnomeConf.sh devel/libobgtk-dev I guess you need to inst

X: user not authorized to run the X server

2000-12-09 Thread Lindsay Allen
Hi, I'm running 4.0.1-10 and now I get:- elm:$ startx X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. Another box runs 4.0.1-8 and works but I can't spot a

Re: Modem

2000-12-09 Thread rick
Have you tried using pppconfig as root? I had issues detecting my serial modem, and I ended needing to fix some BIOS settings. I have ABIT kt-7 RAID. rick On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:18:30PM -0200, Estêvão Becker wrote: > Hi, I have a problem with my Debian Linux 2.2: > When I try to conn

Re: Backspace key

2000-12-09 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:36:37PM +, Glyn Millington wrote: -| -|I've been upgrading things from Woody - a foolhardy venture but everythng -|went well amd works beautifully apart from my backspace key which now -|deletes the next character just like the delete key. I really want it to -|dele

Re: startx -- client arguments not respected

2000-12-09 Thread Defresne Sylvain
* kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > This problem appears to be related to an existing bug against > xlients-base (#65787), though I don't believe it has the same source. > I'm trying to figure out just where the problem is arising. > > The documented behavior of the 'startx' com

Modem

2000-12-09 Thread Estêvão Becker
  Hi, I have a problem with my Debian Linux 2.2:   When I try to connect to the internet by the X program, I receive a message like this:   "The connection was suddenness ended"   And when I try the wvdial:   "Can't connect with the modem."   My modem is the Motorola 33.6kbps and all the othe

Re: Configuring an HP JetDirect EX

2000-12-09 Thread Andreas Muck
Alec Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I've got an HP JetDirect EX I'm trying to configure on a Debian 2.2 system >using lprng as the print spooler. My /etc/bootptab appears to be OK since >the printer lists the correct IP, netmask, gateway, et al on its status >page. I don't know what the JetDi

Re: change xterm-debian

2000-12-09 Thread Nate Amsden
ktb wrote: > > I was wondering if there was anyway to permanently change the > environment variable TERM from xterm-debian to just xterm? > When I access pine at work to read mail it flips out. The > server is running redhat and it's not changing. It seems I've >

Re: Can't mount CD drive (was: Re: Hello first time)

2000-12-09 Thread Mateusz
Hi again I mount my cdrom, but when I want to use apt-cdrom I get a message Undefined..failed So edit my fstab file and I write there something like this: /dev/hdc/cdrom auto 0 Is that correct ? _

Re: permission problem

2000-12-09 Thread Nate Amsden
Hans wrote: > > I've moved /home from / to a new partition, but I now find that I can't run > certain things, e.g. Staroffice 5.2 and OpenOffice 6.05. I've checked > permissions, groups, fstab, etc. but all seems to be correctly set. And to > make things even stranger, not even root can install st

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #794

2000-12-09 Thread Nate Amsden
dude wrote: > the problem is that i want the second hard drive to be recognized in > kernel 2.2. get the ide patches from www.linux-ide.org or install the below package: aphro:~# apt-cache show kernel-image-2.2.17-ide Package: kernel-image-2.2.17-ide Priority: optional Section: base Installed-Si

Re: Three Stupid X Questions...

2000-12-09 Thread John Travis
On Sunday 10 December 2000 01:03, Defresne Sylvain wrote: > Hello > > * John Travis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > My third problem involves gtk themes, basically I can't use any. I get a > > warning about "libpixmap.so." I thought that maybe I could just add it > > to my modules to load in my X

Re: Backspace key

2000-12-09 Thread kmself
on Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 04:04:30PM -0800, Aaron Brashears ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:01:11PM +, Glyn Millington wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:36:37PM +, thus spake Glyn Millington: > > > > > > I've been upgrading things from Woody - a foolhardy ventur

Re: Three Stupid X Questions...

2000-12-09 Thread John Travis
On Saturday 09 December 2000 23:51, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 04:31:00PM +0100, John Travis wrote: > > I am not allowed to su to root and launch anything. I get a connection > > refuesed by server error. I am sure this is probably a one word edit in > > a config but I am ju

startx -- client arguments not respected

2000-12-09 Thread kmself
This problem appears to be related to an existing bug against xlients-base (#65787), though I don't believe it has the same source. I'm trying to figure out just where the problem is arising. The documented behavior of the 'startx' command is that it can be invoked specifying a client or client ar

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #794

2000-12-09 Thread dude
Hello. Here is the situation i recently was give as a gift an IBM deskstar I installed it on the third ide slot i have My first ide slot is my first hard drive My second ide slot is a cdrom My second hard drive is is on the thrid ide leaving my with one open ide My mother board support htp336

Re: installed from floppies; mounted ext pcmcia cdrom; bought 6 CD set...

2000-12-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 07:20:38PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > and now STUCK. I can look through the directory of the potato CDROM-#1, but > I cannot find an executable anywhere to start a complete install. Newbie is > still trying. There must be a simple apt-get install from cdrom so

Re: kernel compiling

2000-12-09 Thread Rick
try installing libncuses5-dev On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 04:10:45PM -0800, Nick wrote: > what packages are needed to compile a kernel > > after make menuconfig > i get the following error: > > lxdialog.o Error 1 > > something about curses.h > > any idea? thanks -nick > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: A few (simple) questions

2000-12-09 Thread Defresne Sylvain
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi there, > > I installed a few new things to my Debian installation > got most of the stuff working, but there are still > some problems. > I think those are very easy to solve, but I don't have > any idea how. > > > 1.) I managed to get sou

re: installed from floppies; mounted ext pcmcia cdrom; bought 6 CD set...

2000-12-09 Thread DTi4565459
and now STUCK. I can look through the directory of the potato CDROM-#1, but I cannot find an executable anywhere to start a complete install. Newbie is still trying. There must be a simple apt-get install from cdrom something command, but everything I try seems to fail. TIA for clues, dave

Re: CD-RW information

2000-12-09 Thread csj
On Sunday 10 December 2000 04:40, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "NV" == Norbert Veber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > NV> Hi, Can someone point me to information about supported CD > NV> burners in linux? I've finelly decided to go out and buy one, > NV> but I have no idea which one w

Re: Can't mount CD drive (was: Re: Hello first time)

2000-12-09 Thread Mateusz
Hello, BIG thanks for your help ;-) It does work I checked using 'dmesg', and there was my cdrom 'hdc' so , i mouinted it, and it does work ! ~Thanks ___ Mateusz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kernel compiling

2000-12-09 Thread Nick
what packages are needed to compile a kernel after make menuconfig i get the following error: lxdialog.o Error 1 something about curses.h any idea? thanks -nick

Install XFree86 4.0.1/can't boot/recovery puzzle

2000-12-09 Thread Griffith Feeney
Tried to install XFree86 4.0.1 last to accomodate a new Matrox G450. Followed ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.0.1/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc21/Install http://thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/3dlinux/6.shtml Now system hangs on boot following the message Starting X font server: xgsFontCachInitialize: h

Re: Hello first time - I have a problem with mounting cdrom

2000-12-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Mateusz" wrote: [please don't post in HTML - use plain ASCII only] >I have just installed Debian 2.2 and >I have some problemm with mounting my CDROM=20 >My Debian send me some message, but I don't understand it, I have a = >short journey with Debian , so I'm unexperience ;- >The mes

Can't mount CD drive (was: Re: Hello first time)

2000-12-09 Thread kmself
Please use a meaningful subject line. on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 12:42:39AM +0100, Michal Siwolowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have just installed Debian 2.2 and > I have some problemm with mounting my CDROM > My Debian send me some message, but I don't understand it, I have a short > journey

Lap Top Acer Travel Mate 507t

2000-12-09 Thread Dragón
Here my set up: # File generated by anXious - the Debian X Configuration Tool # anXious and xviddetect are (c) 2000 Randolph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # Suggestions and bug reports about this tool should be sent to # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # **

Re: Help using old dos partition...

2000-12-09 Thread C. Falconer
At 02:34 AM 12/10/00 +0100, you wrote: /hda1 dos /hda5 /boot /hda6 / /hda7 swap /hda8 /home Now I would like to use cfdisk to delete /hda1 and create two partitions, one for /usr/local and another for /tmp. Could someone check my steps? 1. Change to init 1 2. Use cfdisk to delete dos partition

A few (simple) questions

2000-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there, I installed a few new things to my Debian installation got most of the stuff working, but there are still some problems. I think those are very easy to solve, but I don't have any idea how. 1.) I managed to get sound (ALSA with via82...) but only as root. If ie. mpg123 ist start

Re: Three Stupid X Questions...

2000-12-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
John Travis wrote: >Running Woody, X 4.0.1, and the Nvidia .95 drivers. The first problem is >that /etc/X11/Xsession doesn't seem to get sourced during manual startx >logins. I would like to throw a few things in there (xscreensaver, etc.). >It does get sourced when using a login mana

Re: Three Stupid X Questions...

2000-12-09 Thread Defresne Sylvain
Hello * John Travis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My third problem involves gtk themes, basically I can't use any. I get a > warning about "libpixmap.so." I thought that maybe I could just add it to > my modules to load in my XF86Config-4 file but that didn't seem to work. You need to

Re: Backspace key

2000-12-09 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:01:11PM +, Glyn Millington wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:36:37PM +, thus spake Glyn Millington: > > > > I've been upgrading things from Woody - a foolhardy venture but everythng > > went well amd works beautifully apart from my backspace key which now > >

Debian + Kicq + gcc

2000-12-09 Thread Joel Douglas Maxwell
Hello Everyone, I'm having a problem installing kicq 2.0.0b1 in tarball. i got past ./configure, but when i ran make, i came across an error and kicq didn't install. I asked the developer of kicq, and he knew i was using debian because of the error. What seems to be the real problem, and how c

permission problem

2000-12-09 Thread Hans
I've moved /home from / to a new partition, but I now find that I can't run certain things, e.g. Staroffice 5.2 and OpenOffice 6.05. I've checked permissions, groups, fstab, etc. but all seems to be correctly set. And to make things even stranger, not even root can install stuff like Staroffice of

gnomeConf.sh

2000-12-09 Thread Hans
Recently I've stumbled upon a problem when compiling some programs from source code. When running ./configure it checks for gnomeConf.sh in /usr/local/lib which it can't find. I checked the whole system, but it isn't there altogether. What's the deal with gnomeConf.sh and how can I get around this?

Hello first time - I have a problem with mounting cdrom

2000-12-09 Thread Mateusz
I have just installed Debian 2.2 and I have some problemm with mounting my CDROM My Debian send me some message, but I don't understand it, I have a short journey with Debian , so I'm unexperience ;- The message is:   mount:  /dev/cdrom  is not a block device   I wrote a command : moun

Hello first time

2000-12-09 Thread Michal Siwolowski
I have just installed Debian 2.2 and I have some problemm with mounting my CDROM My Debian send me some message, but I don't understand it, I have a short journey with Debian , so I'm unexperience ;- The message is:   mount:  /dev/cdrom  is not a block device   I wrote a command : mount

Re: This list is rudderless, damn it, damn it, damn it

2000-12-09 Thread Brad
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 04:55:27PM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Somehow it looks to me that this footer must be either a > joke or he started some kind of behavioural experiment with us. If so, i do believe that's unethical. Besides, it has damaged both his and his institution's reputati

Re: Q: Using apt-get upgrade-Any way to get list first? Solved!

2000-12-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
Thanks for the feedback. Someone had earlier also suggested using apt(get -u upgrade to get the list and it worked. I'll keep yours on file as well. Jonathan -- "Hey, I think I finally got the hang of i-"

Help using old dos partition...

2000-12-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I have the following setup: /hda1 dos /hda5 /boot /hda6 / /hda7 swap /hda8 /home Now I would like to use cfdisk to delete /hda1 and create two partitions, one for /usr/local and another for /tmp. Could someone check my steps? 1. Change to init 1 2. Use cfdisk to delete dos partition and cr

Re: Serious problem with potato

2000-12-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 06:07:44PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: > Can anyone explain why /home should be somewhere near the last entry, > presumably in /etc/fstab ? > > I am all set to repartition my HD and reinstall potato, and having > solved my problems with /usr and /usr/local (mounting orde

change xterm-debian

2000-12-09 Thread ktb
I was wondering if there was anyway to permanently change the environment variable TERM from xterm-debian to just xterm? When I access pine at work to read mail it flips out. The server is running redhat and it's not changing. It seems I've seen this come u

Re: Who are the shitheads at Debian?

2000-12-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 05:26:57PM -0500, Christopher Mosley wrote: > In America we don't consider a Ph.D. in Psychology to be a real Ph.D.. > Psychology is more like what you major in when Hotel & Restaurant > management proves to difficult. Let's not resort to ridiculous stereotypes. If this

Re: GNU Emacs - smaller font

2000-12-09 Thread Hedi Berriche
> "Tom" == Tom Huckstep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> How do I make my font size smaller in GNU Emacs? for example (set-default-font "lucidasanstypewriter-14") -- Loose bits sink chips.

Re: Three Stupid X Questions...

2000-12-09 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 04:31:00PM +0100, John Travis wrote: > I am not allowed to su to root and launch anything. I get a connection > refuesed by server error. I am sure this is probably a one word edit in a > config but I am just not sure _which_ config. Any hints? GDM doesn't have > th

Re: Backspace key

2000-12-09 Thread Glyn Millington
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:36:37PM +, thus spake Glyn Millington: > > I've been upgrading things from Woody - a foolhardy venture but everythng > went well amd works beautifully apart from my backspace key which now > deletes the next character just like the delete key. I really want it to >

Three Stupid X Questions...

2000-12-09 Thread John Travis
Running Woody, X 4.0.1, and the Nvidia .95 drivers. The first problem is that /etc/X11/Xsession doesn't seem to get sourced during manual startx logins. I would like to throw a few things in there (xscreensaver, etc.). It does get sourced when using a login manager. Any personal xsession or

Backspace key

2000-12-09 Thread Glyn Millington
I've been upgrading things from Woody - a foolhardy venture but everythng went well amd works beautifully apart from my backspace key which now deletes the next character just like the delete key. I really want it to delete backwards - this is almost as bad as those first heady days when I disco

Re: Who are the shitheads at Debian?

2000-12-09 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, C. Falconer wrote: > At 01:33 PM 12/9/00 -0500, you wrote: > > > James K. Kroger, Ph.D. > > >To the folks flaming (albeit gently) this guy: > >Somehow I have a hard time believing that a PhD student,... > > > In New Zealand you're not allowed to claim a qualification if y

Re: Selective/partial upgrade from Potato -> Woody?

2000-12-09 Thread John Galt
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > I need a few packages which are not in potato, but are in woody. Ftp them down to your box and dpkg --install them > Can I do a selective update to get these packages only? Not easily, and not at all with potato's apt. > OR, if I add woody to the s

Re: What package to get konqueror to support https ?

2000-12-09 Thread John Galt
kdelibs3-crypto and kdebase-crypto: it isn't perfect yet, but it seems to do the trick as far as I've seen (of course, I don't use https sites that often, so YMMV). Basically, all the packages that look like they relate to konqueror in non-us... On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Michael Meding wrote: > Hi al

Re: Q: Using apt-get upgrade-Any way to get list first?

2000-12-09 Thread John Galt
Use a frontend like capt (console-apt) or aptitude. They show you a list of packages to be updated. Aptitude puts the packages to be upgraded in reverse cyan and sets the "SA" field to iu. Capt (package console-apt) will put them into the second list from the top--headed Installed packages (new

Re: Network Card Install

2000-12-09 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 02:54:04PM -0700, Chris wrote: > I have just installed Debian 2.2 onto my Dell computer. > During the module installation portion I could not get it to recognize my > network card, which is on the motherboard (I believe that it is a > 3Com Etherlink XL 3C905B-TX). What d

Re: Sound problem

2000-12-09 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:42:20PM +0100, Gian Piero Ascenso wrote: >I started Debian 2.2 a few weeks ago. Recently I've been able to configure > my YAMAHA sound chip with the opl3sa2 driver, but I'm baffled by a problem: > I can drive the CD and gmix (Gnome mixer) only if I log in as root. W

Network Card Install

2000-12-09 Thread Chris
Hello, I have just installed Debian 2.2 onto my Dell computer. During the module installation portion I could not get it to recognize my network card, which is on the motherboard (I believe that it is a 3Com Etherlink XL 3C905B-TX). Now that the system is up and running, how can I go in and add

permission problems

2000-12-09 Thread Umum Wijoyo
Hi! After I do an upgrade, I always experience users being able to do a "wall" (quite annoying!), and other programs there not supposed to. Why is this? How come the permissions get screwed up? How can I handle/prevent this? Should I check every program/binary and do a chmod accordingly? TIA U

Re: Who are the shitheads at Debian?

2000-12-09 Thread Jeff Green
You find it hard to believe a PhD student in a department of Psychology is incapable of stupidity??? have you ever met one??? Jeff Maciej Kalisiak wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 10:10:50PM -0500, Jim Kroger wrote: > > unsubscribe me, stick these 60 emails a day up your ass > > __

Re: SYN flood?

2000-12-09 Thread kmself
on Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 08:16:44PM +0100, Peczoli Zoltan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi, > > My system just seems to underwent a SYN attack. Kernel log says > > Dec 9 19:45:10 abcde kernel: possible SYN flooding on port 80. Sending > cookies. > > and repeats the message > > What could be th

Re: putting packages on hold

2000-12-09 Thread Defresne Sylvain
Hello * John O Sullivan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > I've been scouring the documentation, but I can't find the answer I > want to a simple question. > I want to put a package on hold, actually I've done it with dselect, > but I don't like dselect, and I'm sure theres some way of doing it >

Sound problem

2000-12-09 Thread Gian Piero Ascenso
Hi, I started Debian 2.2 a few weeks ago. Recently I've been able to configure my YAMAHA sound chip with the opl3sa2 driver, but I'm baffled by a problem: I can drive the CD and gmix (Gnome mixer) only if I log in as root. When I log in as normal user I can drive the CD with gcd but I can't her

Re: Inappropriate postings: [kroger@Princeton.EDU: Re: OT: regular expression question]

2000-12-09 Thread kmself
It had occured to me previously, and it's now being actively discussed on the debian-user mailing list, that Dr. Kroger's account or computer may have been commandeered by another person claiming the same name. In which case, I'd modify my previous admonition to a suggestion that Dr. Kroger take c

Re: What package to get konqueror to support https ?

2000-12-09 Thread Michael Meding
Hi all, thanks for the info and the help. Guess that works. Greetings Michael Meding

Re: tar help

2000-12-09 Thread kmself
on Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 10:33:05PM +0100, Thomas Wegner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hallo Karsten! Am Mit, 06 Dez 2000 schrieb kmself@ix.netcom.com: > > > > 2) forward the band to the second archive (mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf) > > > 3) tar -xvf /dev/nst0 path/of/the/files/* > >

putting packages on hold

2000-12-09 Thread John O Sullivan
Hi, I've been scouring the documentation, but I can't find the answer I want to a simple question. I want to put a package on hold, actually I've done it with dselect, but I don't like dselect, and I'm sure theres some way of doing it with dpkg. the manpage for dpkg says that 'hold' is a flag you c

compiling of gnome app fails

2000-12-09 Thread GBechly
Hello, I have a problem with compiling some gnome apps (e.g. glitter). Configure does usually work without errors, but make fails with the following error messages: make[3]: *** [glitter] Fehler 1 make[3]: Verlassen des Verzeichnisses Verzeichnis »/usr/src/glitter-1.0beta1/

Re: Who are the shitheads at Debian?

2000-12-09 Thread C. Falconer
At 01:33 PM 12/9/00 -0500, you wrote: > James K. Kroger, Ph.D. To the folks flaming (albeit gently) this guy: Somehow I have a hard time believing that a PhD student,... In New Zealand you're not allowed to claim a qualification if you're working on it - so he can't be a Ph.D student (ie,

Re: Who are the shitheads at Debian?

2000-12-09 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
HIS PICTURE IS ON HIS WEBSITE!!! click on http://www.princeton.edu/~kroger/home/ "Brian Stults,,," wrote: > > Jim Kroger wrote: > > > unsubscribe me, stick these 60 emails a day up your ass > > _ > > James K. Kroger, Ph.D. > > Center fo

Debian 2.2r2 CD images

2000-12-09 Thread Umum Wijoyo
Hi! Have the Debian 2.2r2 CD images been released anywhere yet? I'd like to make some; I've been looking and only found 2.2r0 images. OK! TIA. Umum Wijoyo

Re: This list is rudderless, damn it, damn it, damn it

2000-12-09 Thread John Galt
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Davide Libenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > James K. Kroger, Ph.D. > > > Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior > > ^^^ > > > > > > Is this a joke ? > > > > > > > > - Davide > > > >

CD-RW information

2000-12-09 Thread Norbert Veber
Hi, Can someone point me to information about supported CD burners in linux? I've finelly decided to go out and buy one, but I have no idea which one would work well. Also, what software do you recommend for cd writing? I did a search in the list archives, but didnt see anything relevant.. PS:

Installing Debian/2.2r2 Over Existing Redhat/6.2 System

2000-12-09 Thread Jonathan B. Horen
Shalom! I've been reading about the Debian distribution (I guess I should probably refer to it as GNU/Linux), and last week ordered a 3-CD set from CheapBytes. Looking forward to its arrival. Trying to be a good sysadmin for my home system, and I'm curious: has anyone installed Debian/2.2r2 over

PCMCIA support on Desktop system

2000-12-09 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Has anyone gotten the Actiontex pc-700 to work on a Gigabyte GA71XE4 mobo with an AMD Duron? I wanted to use it to transfer my digital camera pics w/o using Windoze, but I keep on getting the following error when trying to start card services after having compiled everything specifically for my se

Debian 2.2: download stops during "apt-get update"

2000-12-09 Thread Jeff Kelm
I am in the process of trying to upgrade my computers to 2.2. My workstation was running 2.0 and my server was running 1.3. When I upgraded my workstation, I started having network problems. Downloading files seems to frequently stop after 1-5 minutes. The network is still up, pinging the sourc

Re: X only as root

2000-12-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 01:02:25PM +0100, Dr. Guenter Bechly wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:31:48AM +, sena wrote: > > Well, I removed "rootonly" and put "console" instead and.. it worked... :) > > Yes, but note: Setting allowed_users=console does only work if you > start X from

Re: Removing print spooler

2000-12-09 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I have a little firewall server with no printer and I removed lpd, until now without difficulties. However, there still hangs around a lot of stuff in /etc/init.d /etc/rcS.d /etc/rcX.d /etc/cron.weekly and so forths. You have to remove that by hand as far as I know, but your system will keep

Removing print spooler

2000-12-09 Thread Tom Huckstep
I don't have a printer attached to my (standalone) potato machine. Is it a good idea, and safe, to remove the lpr package, given that its priority is standard? Is it easy to add lpr again if I do get a printer in the future? Are there any other printing packages that I might need to remove? Tom

GNU Emacs - smaller font

2000-12-09 Thread Tom Huckstep
I would like a slightly smaller font for use in GNU Emacs. I currently have (custom-set-faces '(default ((t (:family "Courier" :size "10pt"))) t)) In my .emacs file, which I imaging was put there when Emacs was configured, because I didn't put it there. It may have been made by XEmacs, because

Re: voodoo5 and debian

2000-12-09 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi reiner and all, thanks for replying! i have console and 2D X going perfectly. unfortunately, my system seems to hang when quake 3 loads in. i'm praying that you can tell me what might be wrong. i ... need ... quake ... i'm running 2.4.0test11. kernel config options are shown below:

SYN flood?

2000-12-09 Thread Peczoli Zoltan
hi, My system just seems to underwent a SYN attack. Kernel log says Dec 9 19:45:10 abcde kernel: possible SYN flooding on port 80. Sending cookies. and repeats the message What could be the reason and how can I prevent this happening in the future? Bye: pocok

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