gtk-config and glib-config?

2000-12-14 Thread Ken Weingold
I am trying to install gaim, but configure can't seem to find gtk-config and glib-config. What packages do these come with? I am wondering if I don't have them. Thanks. -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

2000-12-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:06:26PM -0800, B. Dragoo wrote: > > My main issue is getting user accounts over. It would > be very easy to copy the lines from my passwd, shadow, > and group files over to the potato box, but I'm > concerned about the fact that RH begins uids with 500, > while Debian b

Re: What is VNC?

2000-12-14 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:20:03AM +0100, Manegold wrote: > Hi! > I'm wondering what VNC is. According to the package listing it is a > remote display system. Therefore something like X. > But what does that mean? Can I use it instead of X? > Does it need special apps that make use of it, or can no

Re: remote management

2000-12-14 Thread Matt Fair
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:31:57PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: > :I am managing my server remotely using ssh. If my network connection > :goes down for some reason, I have no control over it, is there a way > :where I could check to see if there is a network connection and then > :restart the conne

POP server recomendations?

2000-12-14 Thread JD Kitch
I running a Debain Potato system, and only serving mail for a handfull of users. I see a few different POP server packages available, and was wondering which one is most recomended/easiest to configure/most secure...etc, etc... Thanks in advance, jdk

Re: Exim, RBL/ORBS, fetchmail and POP3

2000-12-14 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Are you absolutely sure? I ask because the fetchmail man page makes it > sound like it can do just that. Pretty sure - exim (at least on my computer) gets mail from fetchmail via 127.0.0.1.

Re: [OT] Recent increases in d-u posts?

2000-12-14 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 10:09:58PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > Quoth Ignasi Tura, > > Let's see if we continue this way or we just split (I suggest > > debian-novice if there's the case). > > Splits have been proposed countless times in the past, and it's always > been concluded that it wouldn't

Re: IPMasq Probs

2000-12-14 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:43:21PM +1030, David Purton wrote: > > Hello, I'm attempting to get IP Masquerading happening on my dial uppotato > box, so far without luck > > I can't even ping a remote ip address > > Which log files will can contain errors? > > I haven't played with any rules or a

Re: Woody: Can't start X as regular user

2000-12-14 Thread Stuart Krivis
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 03:59:15PM +, sena wrote: > > When anyone but root tries to run 'startx', I get the following error: > > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. > > Of course, users can still use X via [xg]dm. > Yadda, yadda... > > > I didn't see anything about this in t

Re: New documentation for Debian available

2000-12-14 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:44:25PM -0600, David A. Rogers wrote: > I am in the process of writing some documentation for Debian. It is > oriented toward end-user desktop systems instead of servers. Eventually, > it will give enough information to allow the end-user to set up a ocmplete > home sys

Re: apt-get sources.list

2000-12-14 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:23:09PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to configure my sources.list file but am having difficulty > finding out what URI to put in. > This is what I have so far > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-3 > (2814)]/ unstable

Re: 2.4.0-test12kernel problem

2000-12-14 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
ok, ethan. you've made some very good points on all counts. i concede and have changed my knowledge base accordingly. :-) pete On Thu 14 Dec 00, 5:41 PM, Ethan Benson said... > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:50:21PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: > > > > Actually, I did use this since quite a w

Re: installation

2000-12-14 Thread David Husk
    Hi a friend on mine put me onto Linux systems and I am looking for the starting place to download Debian. As I am not familiar with Linux I am finding it hard to find the base download or the starting point. If you could help me this it would be appreciated.               Regards        

Re: Search

2000-12-14 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 06:52:23PM -0500, dude wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > Go to http://www.debian.org/Bugs and you can search by the package name > > (or other criteria). > > well, the problem is how is a newbie supposed to determine > what package is giving the pro

Re: uninstalling X

2000-12-14 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:48:27PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > I have totally lost patience with the numerous problems running X, > though I have set it up numerous times in the past. I installed X > through tasksel, so it installed EVERYTHING. Can I reverse that? I > want to totally start agai

Re: Debian & Apt-get

2000-12-14 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:49:42PM -0700, Chris wrote: > Hello, > > I have installed the base Debian system and am now installing additional > items. > I plan to use the apt-get, but there appear to be a lot of options for using > it. > In addition, there appear to be other commands such as apt-ca

Re: google: "site:debian.org"

2000-12-14 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 01:21:38PM +0100, Thomas Guettler wrote: > I used to search the mailarchive of debian with google like this: > "site:debian.org foo". But it seems that google does not track the > mailarchive anymore. That's sad, because I found a lot of good answers > like this. Any ideas h

Re: es1370 sound stopped working

2000-12-14 Thread Ron Hale-Evans
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Ron Hale-Evans wrote: > I am running Potato with a SoundBlaster PCI64 sound card, which uses > the es1370 kernel module. I installed the soundcore and es1370 modules a couple of days ago, did a chmod a+rw to all /dev devices in group 'audio', and everything worked fine.

Re: more apt-get help please??

2000-12-14 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 07:14:50PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > HI all. The other day someone posted info about > apt-get. welp, in all my debian excitement I've > misplaced it somewhere... I have looked all over > the debian web site but couldn't find any info on > how to set up apt-get. (I know I saw i

Re: I'm Confused with SBLive!

2000-12-14 Thread Stéphane BOREL
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:40:46PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "RV" == Rob VanFleet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > RV> AFAIK, it's exactly the same. I'm not sure of that. With kernel 2.2.17, I had version 0.6 and with the driver from creative, it is version 0.12. What's more, the s

Re: I screwed up my apt/dpkg system

2000-12-14 Thread Scott Bronson
> Previously Mehrdad Oveisi wrote: > > My system is half-woody as I upgraded to Progeny; everything went fine. > > I'm tempted to say that if you switch to progeny and things break > you should go to progeny for support. This definitely does not > belong on debian-dpkg, but debian-user. This mess

Re: es1370 sound stopped working

2000-12-14 Thread Francois Gouget
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Ron Hale-Evans wrote: > Greetings, all-- > > I am running Potato with a SoundBlaster PCI64 sound card, which uses > the es1370 kernel module. I installed the soundcore and es1370 modules > a couple of days ago, did a chmod a+rw to all /dev devices in group > 'audio', and ever

Re: I'm Confused with SBLive!

2000-12-14 Thread Rob VanFleet
> Is there any difference b/w the SB Live! driver available from > opensource.creative.com and the one that is already in the current 2.2.x > kernel ? AFAIK, it's exactly the same. The problem is that the stock 2.2.17 kernel included with potato doesn't have it; why, I don't know. Rather than re

Re: Manpages

2000-12-14 Thread Xucaen
--- Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do I have to install the manpages? > > it should've been done for you. if it's really > not there, then something is > very wrong with your system. > I don't have the man pages either! I installed the 11 base disks and 4 driver disks (yes,

Re: Debian CD in store

2000-12-14 Thread kmself
on Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 03:53:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was browsing Software Etc and saw the Debian retail CD. Is this Debian > 2.1 or 2.2? It didn't say on the box anywhere. If it's 2.2 I'll pick it > up. Thanks. If it's the yellowish boxed set with a Myth

more apt-get help please??

2000-12-14 Thread Xucaen
HI all. The other day someone posted info about apt-get. welp, in all my debian excitement I've misplaced it somewhere... I have looked all over the debian web site but couldn't find any info on how to set up apt-get. (I know I saw it somewhere..) anyways, if anyone can point me to where some info

Dynamic MMap ran out of room in apt-get dist-upgrade

2000-12-14 Thread Keith G. Murphy
The title says it all. Trying to upgrade to unstable. Has anyone seen this before?

Re: make-kpkg question.

2000-12-14 Thread Erik Steffl
Adam Shand wrote: > > hey. > > i wanna build my own kernel using make-kpkg with some custom patches (the > openwall patch and the sub domain patch from wirex) with the release > 2.2.18 kernel (which isn't in debian yet). > > it looks like i can just put the patches into /usr/src/kernel-patches b

Re: 2.4.0-test12kernel problem

2000-12-14 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:41:23 -0900 Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:50:21PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: > > > > Actually, I did use this since quite a while, but then, there is at > > least one situation, when it doesn't (can't) work: If I compile the > > sam

Re: 2.4.0-test12kernel problem

2000-12-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:50:21PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: > > Actually, I did use this since quite a while, but then, there is at > least one situation, when it doesn't (can't) work: If I compile the > same kernel with different options (for instance to test tuning > options), calling them,

Re: 2.4.0-test12kernel problem

2000-12-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:14:29AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > ethan, i had another thought about this issue. > > you claim that: > > "my system finds System.map-kernelversion just fine." > > i think that's inaccurate. looking over what you _actually_ said, i think > what you actua

Re: Manpages

2000-12-14 Thread David Z Maze
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> I am new to Debian. Chris> I have installed the base system. Umm, you kind of need to install the rest of the system. The base system contains a minimal set of packages, such that (a) it can fit on a sane number of floppies and (b) you can install the re

Re: remote management

2000-12-14 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I hate it when I miss something in a post and feel the need to reply twice... If all you're looking for is to know when the server is back on line, start an xterm do a `ping server.domain` when the server comes back you'll start seeing the echo replies fly by and you can reconnect. BTW the

Re: Exim, RBL/ORBS, fetchmail and POP3

2000-12-14 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > BTW, is it possible to use Exim's RBL/ORBS blackholing with fetchmail > _and_ POP3? exim's blackholing only works if the messages are delivered direct to your computer and not via fetchmail

Re: exim outgoing addresses...

2000-12-14 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 12:05 PM 12/14/2000 -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:36:59AM -0600, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > I have my system setup as a satellite, which forwards all email to a > smarthost, who delivers it. > > But when it arrives, I'd like the addresses to show where they came from,

Re: remote management

2000-12-14 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:31:57PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: :I am managing my server remotely using ssh. If my network connection :goes down for some reason, I have no control over it, is there a way :where I could check to see if there is a network connection and then :restart the connection? be

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

2000-12-14 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:06:26PM -0800, B. Dragoo wrote: :My questions, then, are these: is there anything :about this situation that will make Debian break? Are :there debianized packages that rely on having normal :(i.e., non-system user) uids above 1000? Is there :anything I would be ver

Re: Manpages

2000-12-14 Thread John Hasler
Peter Jay Salzman writes: > that is absolutely WILD that the man pages weren't installed. sounds > like your install didn't complete correctly. The base system installed correctly: it does not include the man-db package that provides the man command. The base system includes only the bare necess

Re: make-kpkg question.

2000-12-14 Thread David Z Maze
Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AS> i wanna build my own kernel using make-kpkg with some custom patches (the AS> openwall patch and the sub domain patch from wirex) with the release AS> 2.2.18 kernel (which isn't in debian yet). AS> AS> it looks like i can just put the patches into /usr/sr

Re: Manpages

2000-12-14 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Thu 14 Dec 00, 6:36 PM, Chris said... > Hello, > > I am new to Debian. > I have installed the base system. > >From here I want to learn and am told the manpages are a good start. > When I type: > > man apt-get > > for example, the system replies that Bash does not know what man is. h

Debian and Oracle

2000-12-14 Thread Eric Jennings
Hi,   Is there any intention of validating the ORACLE 8I database running under Debian.   We are just about to start doing this and wonder if this has been acheived anywhere and if so with what results.      Thanks Eric

Re: Exim, RBL/ORBS, fetchmail and POP3

2000-12-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 07:44:36PM -0500, John Bacalle wrote: > BTW, is it possible to use Exim's RBL/ORBS blackholing with fetchmail > _and_ POP3? just today my isp told me that that can be done through procmail. have a look at the orbs homepage -- groetjes, carel

Re: alsa and modutils

2000-12-14 Thread David Z Maze
David A Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DAR> On 14 Dec 2000, David Z Maze wrote: DZM> Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CS> It seems that kernels and the alsa driver like to live in CS> certain directories. I assume here, you do have the kernel CS> sources comiled and installed

Manpages

2000-12-14 Thread Chris
Hello, I am new to Debian. I have installed the base system. >From here I want to learn and am told the manpages are a good start. When I type: man apt-get for example, the system replies that Bash does not know what man is. Do I have to install the manpages? If so, how to I get them t

make-kpkg question.

2000-12-14 Thread Adam Shand
hey. i wanna build my own kernel using make-kpkg with some custom patches (the openwall patch and the sub domain patch from wirex) with the release 2.2.18 kernel (which isn't in debian yet). it looks like i can just put the patches into /usr/src/kernel-patches but my question is do i have to wai

RE: I'm Confused with SBLive!

2000-12-14 Thread Javier Sieben
-Mensaje original- De: Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: Javier Sieben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Debian User Fecha: Jueves, 14 de Diciembre de 2000 05:30 p.m. Asunto: Re: I'm Confused with SBLive! >I was able to download 2.2.17 kernel sources, where the emu10k1 module was >present. I

RE: I'm Confused with SBLive!

2000-12-14 Thread Javier Sieben
-Mensaje original- De: Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org Fecha: Jueves, 14 de Diciembre de 2000 08:01 a.m. Asunto: Re: I'm Confused with SBLive! >I got the same card working. But I took the sources from, I think >www.alsa-project.org. You could try th

es1370 sound stopped working

2000-12-14 Thread Ron Hale-Evans
Greetings, all-- I am running Potato with a SoundBlaster PCI64 sound card, which uses the es1370 kernel module. I installed the soundcore and es1370 modules a couple of days ago, did a chmod a+rw to all /dev devices in group 'audio', and everything worked fine. This morning I was using the Window

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Re: how to tell what functions in a library

2000-12-14 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:06:32 -0700 (MST) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the best way(s) to tell all the functions contained in a library > or object file (other than reading the man pages)? Take the static version of it, then you can use nm(1) to see all defined symbols, or you can use "ar t

how to tell what functions in a library

2000-12-14 Thread debuser
What's the best way(s) to tell all the functions contained in a library or object file (other than reading the man pages)? Thanks, Gerry

Re: Search

2000-12-14 Thread dude
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: > Go to http://www.debian.org/Bugs and you can search by the package name > (or other criteria). well, the problem is how is a newbie supposed to determine what package is giving the problem?

Re: apt-get sources.list

2000-12-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All succesfull thanks for all help On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:23:09PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to configure my sources.list file but am having difficulty > finding out what URI to put in. > This is what I have so far > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386

remote management

2000-12-14 Thread Matt Fair
I am managing my server remotely using ssh. If my network connection goes down for some reason, I have no control over it, is there a way where I could check to see if there is a network connection and then restart the connection? Thanks Matt

backup UPS

2000-12-14 Thread Matt Fair
Hello, I am using an APC BACK-UPS PRO 650 with the APC Cable 940-0095A. I used the debian package to install the daemon. The funny is that my server comunicates with it, it updates the /etc/apcupsd.stats file with the voltage stuff, but it doesn't shutdown, even when I set a TIMEOUT in /etc/apcu

Re: problems after upgrade to progeny

2000-12-14 Thread Erik Steffl
Andre Berger wrote: > > I've just upgraded my potato box to progeny. There's a problem with > xserver-xfree86 (4.0.1-12), the mga driver, and geometry. Vertical > window borders are partly gibberish, like waves, and the text of lines > between these parts is slanted to the right or left. This may

Re: invalid group name / home directory changed

2000-12-14 Thread ktb
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:15:02AM -0600, Robert Guthrie wrote: > On Tuesday 12 December 2000 18:48, Erik Steffl wrote: > > ktb wrote: > > > I don't know how but every file and directory has recursively changed in > > > my home directory. What has changed is group and owner of all files. > > > the

Re: Sound Card Blues

2000-12-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 01:56:54PM -0800, Henry House wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 01:07:57AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > lsmod gave > > bash: lsmod: command not found > > 1. You must be root to run lsmod I don't think so. You do need to have /sbin in your path or call out /sbin/lsmo

problems after upgrade to progeny

2000-12-14 Thread Andre Berger
I've just upgraded my potato box to progeny. There's a problem with xserver-xfree86 (4.0.1-12), the mga driver, and geometry. Vertical window borders are partly gibberish, like waves, and the text of lines between these parts is slanted to the right or left. This may sound poetic, but makes things

Re: Loopback encrypted filesystem, anyone?

2000-12-14 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Lance Simmons, > I've looked at the archives but haven't found much helpful on this. > Have other people had success at creating loopback encrypted > filesystems? If you don't want to mess around with patching kernels (and a few userland apps, from memory), a good alternative is cfs, the Cr

Re: Network Monitoring recommendation

2000-12-14 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Craig Coles, > I am looking for a tool to monitor the through-put of my connection to the > internet. I want to know if my connection is maxing out, or my users just > have slow connections to the internet. Is there a debian package to do > this, or a recommendation otherwise? Can thes

Re: I'm Confused with SBLive!

2000-12-14 Thread Rob VanFleet
I was successful just downloading the oss emu10k1 source from http://opensource.creative.com. As long as you have kernel-headers-2.2.17 installed, you just have to compile the module and it will work with the stock 2.2.17 potato kernel. Just compile the module, make install, add 'alias sound emu1

Re: alsa and modutils

2000-12-14 Thread David A. Rogers
On 14 Dec 2000, David Z Maze wrote: > Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CS> It seems that kernels and the alsa driver like to live in certain > CS> directories. I assume here, you do have the kernel sources comiled and > CS> installed (BTW, why aren't you using the latest?). The kernel

RE: UDMA66 boot problem/HPT370

2000-12-14 Thread Alexander
I´m desperate to install debian eventhough it doesn´t seem to work with me.I had Suse installed a year ago, but I don´t want to put up with there funnyrc.config-thingy any more.It seems that my onboard HPT370 controller should be supported on the udma66floppies.I just got unlucky and so it

Re: Sound Card Blues

2000-12-14 Thread Henry House
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 01:07:57AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > lsmod gave > bash: lsmod: command not found 1. You must be root to run lsmod 2. If your PATH is not set correctly you can run it as /sbin/lsmod -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgpQYk

Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

2000-12-14 Thread B. Dragoo
This is not a "Which is better, Red Hat or Debian?" question, but a very specific question about a distro migration of one specific box. I've done a lot of research on this, and have found no answers particular enough to my situation. The box in question is still running RH 5.2 (with all security

Re: alsa and modutils

2000-12-14 Thread JoshNarins
Yes, this pops up with a particular Intel NIC driver also, and affects all debian past 2.2.16 The simple key is to unpack source that is no longer unpacked by defaults. apt-get source kernel-headers-2.2.17 You might need to do this first... apt-get install kernel-headers-2.2.17

Re: cd-burning

2000-12-14 Thread David Bellows
paolo massei wrote: > Yes, but I've never understood howto use/write the necessary TOC file > for cdrdao, and so... I prefer -dao option of cdrecord ;) > I'm sure that cdrecord works fine for you, so just for the sake of information, here is how I typically record a CD (for archival purposes, n

Re: alsa and modutils

2000-12-14 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 13:45:43 -0800 (PST) Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /usr/src/alsa-driver-0.5.10 > /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver -> /usr/src/alsa-driver-0.5.10 Oops, I didn't mean this one. I run configure from /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver. BTW, I took the sources from the debian pa

Re: alsa and modutils

2000-12-14 Thread David Z Maze
Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CS> On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:46:20 -0800 (PST) CS> Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CS> AP> Greetings. I'm trying to compile (from source) alsa-driver and the other AP> components of alsa, and running into this (rather opaque) problem: AP> AP

Re: alsa and modutils

2000-12-14 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 13:45:43 -0800 (PST) Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No dice - did what you suggested: > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17 > /usr/src/linux -> /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17 > > /usr/src/alsa-driver-0.5.10 > /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver -> /usr/src/alsa-driver-0.5.10 >

Re: Sound Card Blues

2000-12-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kent thanks for the heklp I have had a look for /dev/sndstat but no such file exist. How is this file created? I am added to ythe audio group. When I try to enable Audio I get the following message "Audio was enabled for Enlightenment but there was an error communicating with sound sever (Esound).

Re: alsa and modutils

2000-12-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
No dice - did what you suggested: /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17 /usr/src/linux -> /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17 /usr/src/alsa-driver-0.5.10 /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver -> /usr/src/alsa-driver-0.5.10 New error: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/alsa-driver-0.5.10/kernel' make[1]: *** No rule

libncurses - which one?

2000-12-14 Thread David A. Rogers
There are two libncurses packages available for potato. How do you decide which one to install? Thanks, dar

Re: I'm Confused with SBLive!

2000-12-14 Thread Scott Patterson
>I tried to install the emu10k1 module from ALSA. Having any troubles with >it, I deinstalled it. When I read that the final kernel (version 2.2.17) >had these module in it, I download, compile and install it with the modules. >But I can't use audio. There is a debian package for kernel 2.2.18p

Re: Anyone a script log in get mail?

2000-12-14 Thread Chris Gray
> Jonathan Gift writes: jg> Hi, jg> I don't want to reinvent tehwheel, especially if someone has jg> done a really nice set of the best tires around... I have pon, jg> fetchmail, and mutt. Anyone have a shell script that ogs in, jg> starts fetchmail, waits until it's done,

Re: libpcap.so.0 or libpcap.a?

2000-12-14 Thread Brian May
> "Tor" == Tor Slettnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "meepmeep" == meepmeep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: meepmeep> I'm trying to compile dsniff and when I try to configure meepmeep> it, it complains that it cannot find libcap.a. I found meepmeep> a libpcap.so.0 somewhere else

Re: MP3 players

2000-12-14 Thread Scott Patterson
>> >The little baby 64M players, I don't see the point of. I don't know what >> >song I want -next-, let alone for the next hour, or "you're stuck with >> >this hours worth of music all day". Icky. >> >> Wrong...64MB is plenty for when I go running. It's very lightweight >> and durable. Besi

Re: missing /dev/hda2

2000-12-14 Thread Seung-woo Nam
Hi: Type 'cfdisk /dev/hda' and see if the partition's there. If it is, you can mount it with the device name and if it isn't, you can make a new partition. Maybe the second partition was st up as a logical partition, in which case it should be /dev/hda5. Seung-woo Nam - Original Message -

Debian CD in store

2000-12-14 Thread iehrenwald
I was browsing Software Etc and saw the Debian retail CD. Is this Debian 2.1 or 2.2? It didn't say on the box anywhere. If it's 2.2 I'll pick it up. Thanks.

Re: I'm Confused with SBLive!

2000-12-14 Thread Robert Guthrie
I was able to download 2.2.17 kernel sources, where the emu10k1 module was present. I used kernel-package to compile my kernel (with emu10k1 module, no other sound modules were needed). I use dpkg -i on my custom kernel .deb pacakge and then ran modconf. Worked fine for me, though you only g

Konqueror + potato problem

2000-12-14 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hello, I installed some weeks ago kde2 without problems...but early by a strange reason...konqueror browser didn't work. Whe I try to open any location appear a message like this: Unable to open HTML-Text file. I reinstalled konqueror via apt-get remove ; apt-get install but didn't work --

Re: How do I save my diagram using dia?

2000-12-14 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 12:08:41PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > When using dia, there is no option to save a new diagram and > everything is lost when I exit. With the right mouse click into your diagram you get a menu where you can save your file. -timo -- .-'~~~-. .'o oO

How do I save my diagram using dia?

2000-12-14 Thread Johann Spies
System: Potato. When using dia, there is no option to save a new diagram and everything is lost when I exit. I have used dia on Slink and did not have this problem. I have also tried dia -e /tmp/diagram But it just quits without saving everything. I have also tried the following: -

Re: alsa and modutils

2000-12-14 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:46:20 -0800 (PST) Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings. I'm trying to compile (from source) alsa-driver and the other > components of alsa, and running into this (rather opaque) problem: > > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/alsa-driver-0.5.10/kernel' >

Re: ssh dpkg question

2000-12-14 Thread Colin Watson
Andrew Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This may be silly, but here goes. I have downloaded the new version os >ssh due to the security announcement a little bit ago. Looking at its >depends I see that it requires libz1 but I can not find that package >anywhere on the debian site. I do have zlib

alsa and modutils

2000-12-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings. I'm trying to compile (from source) alsa-driver and the other components of alsa, and running into this (rather opaque) problem: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/alsa-driver-0.5.10/kernel' gcc -DALSA_BUILD -D__KERNEL__ -O2 -m386 -DCPU=386 -DLINUX -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fomi

ssh question / 2nd post first did not work

2000-12-14 Thread Andrew Hall
Hello, This may be silly, but here goes. I have downloaded the new version os ssh due to the security announcement a little bit ago. Looking at its depends I see that it requires libz1 but I can not find that package anywhere on the debian site. I do have zlib1g installed. What's the differ

Re: mouse attention problem

2000-12-14 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
is gpm running? do you see any gpm messages in /var/log/messages? do you see any wierd messages on the console that you started X from? pete On Thu 14 Dec 00, 11:22 AM, William Heindl said... > > I tried this on debian-laptop and got no response, so I'm trying > here > > > I have a probl

Re: Re: KDE2-where

2000-12-14 Thread jfclisham
Eileen, Does your Konqueror recognize your Netscape Plugins? Thanks John > > From: Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 13:33:52 -0500 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: KDE2-where > > Try this: > > add this to your sources.list > de

Re: cd-burning

2000-12-14 Thread paolo massei
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 05:12:20PM +0100, M G Berberich wrote: > > Simply using the " -dao " option in your command line, you'll be able > > to create your live-concert cd's, mantaining the numerical > > order of the tracks and their separation. > > > > Ex.: cdrecord -v -eject -dao speed=n dev=x,

RE: IMAP/webmail

2000-12-14 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, The IMP/HORDE combination is pretty good. Brooks > -Original Message- > From: Chris Mason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 9:56 AM > To: Debian-User > Subject: IMAP/webmail > > > I need to setup a debian box with postfix and imap, ands web

mouse attention problem

2000-12-14 Thread William Heindl
I tried this on debian-laptop and got no response, so I'm trying here I have a problem with the focus of my mouse. Intermittently (maybe 10% of the time), the mouse focus fails to change to the new window I'm pointing at. So, I aim at a new window, but my keystrokes come up in the last wi

Re: Network Monitoring recommendation

2000-12-14 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that sena wrote: > On 14/12/2000 at 17:26 +, Craig Coles wrote: > > I am looking for a tool to monitor the through-put of my connection to the > > internet. I want to know if my connection is maxing out, or my users just > > have slow connections

Re: Loopback encrypted filesystem, anyone?

2000-12-14 Thread Hung Hin Lik, Shell
Lance Simmons wrote: > > I've looked at the archives but haven't found much helpful on this. > Have other people had success at creating loopback encrypted > filesystems? Did you read the encryption-HOWTO ? I can create the crypted-fs after reading the HOWTO.. Well, I have written a document ab

Re: 2.4.0-test12kernel problem

2000-12-14 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
ethan, i had another thought about this issue. you claim that: "my system finds System.map-kernelversion just fine." i think that's inaccurate. looking over what you _actually_ said, i think what you actually meant to say is: "nothing seems to complain about not finding a Syst

Re: Resolving http addresses

2000-12-14 Thread John Stevens
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:49:27AM -0700, Clayton Stapleton wrote: > The /etc/resolv.conf had two nameservers that shows up in /var/log/messages. > I am wondering how they got there as I never entered them. My ISP is > Dynamic and I never know in advance what they will be. So I commented them > out

Loopback encrypted filesystem, anyone?

2000-12-14 Thread Lance Simmons
I've looked at the archives but haven't found much helpful on this. Have other people had success at creating loopback encrypted filesystems? The international kernel patch includes how-to pages, but I don't seem to be following the instructions. In particular, I'm not sure what patch to use on th

Re: Debian is not for me

2000-12-14 Thread Clayton Stapleton
Thanks for the warning about adding myself to the group disk. And have removed myself from disk. And then changed the group from disk to audio for /dev/hdd. I was already a user of audio. Sound is still playing fine. Clay On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, you wrote: > [quotations reordered] > > > > Then, make

Re: Resolving http addresses

2000-12-14 Thread Clayton Stapleton
The /etc/resolv.conf had two nameservers that shows up in /var/log/messages. I am wondering how they got there as I never entered them. My ISP is Dynamic and I never know in advance what they will be. So I commented them out but it made no difference. Still cannot "resovle host www.mozilla.org". Cl

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