Still MORE odd ps2 mouse behaviour on Debian 2.2r2 w.kernel (ANY)

2000-12-19 Thread John Foster
Ok I have tried recompiling kernels 2.2.13 from kernel.org which was working well. Also 2.2.17 from kernel.org; 2.2.18pre21 from Debian; 2.2.18 from kernel.org. I also tried upgrading gpm to the woody version. I completely reinstalled Debian on 2 clean reformatted disks. The result is the same on a

Re: exim-configuration--relaying mail

2000-12-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have my two machines setup. One Debian server, one Debian > workstation. The server is called server.mynetwork.net and the > workstation is called ws.onmynetwork.net. I have pointed my

exim-configuration--relaying mail

2000-12-19 Thread Jesse Goerz
I have my two machines setup. One Debian server, one Debian workstation. The server is called server.mynetwork.net and the workstation is called ws.onmynetwork.net. I have pointed my email client (balsa) on ws.onmynetwork.net at server.onmynetwork.net but for some reason exim is not relaying

Re: Where do I go from here? was: HT configure an IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive?

2000-12-19 Thread Dan Griswold
> "will" == will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: will> On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 04:11:26AM -0600, Kent West wrote: will> so it's a good thing to try -- if you power down and/or will> disconnect your zip drive, THEN try the eject button after will> powering it back on. if i

Re: Modules and kernel upgrades

2000-12-19 Thread Denzil Kelly
Yes, I had this problem a few weeks back. I posted a message here and here is the fix that worked for me. Ah! What you have there is a gotcha in the current Debian kernel-building documentation. Most dists put a .config in the linux directory that reflects the options used to build the distribu

Re: XFree 4.0.2, testing all new stuff to me

2000-12-19 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:44:09PM -0500, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > I'm wondering what to put in sources.list for the new testing distribution. > I've been holding off a wholesale woody upgrade for something exactly like > this! You would change ("stable" or "potato") to ("testing" or "woody")

USER / EMAIL limits

2000-12-19 Thread Fraser McAninch
I need to limit users to email space of about 30 megs + 10 megs webspace but I can't find the commands for this although I did read them somewhere .. any help out there thanks very much Fraser

Re: XFree 4.0.2, testing all new stuff to me

2000-12-19 Thread Rob VanFleet
Just replace 'potato' or 'stable' with 'testing' or 'woody'. I'm updating right now, so hopefully all just work as planned. -Rob On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:44:09PM -0500, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > I'm wondering what to put in sources.list for the new testing distribution. > I've been holding

XFree 4.0.2, testing all new stuff to me

2000-12-19 Thread Jonathan Markevich
I'm wondering what to put in sources.list for the new testing distribution. I've been holding off a wholesale woody upgrade for something exactly like this! When I tried just changing my potato entries to woody, I get threats to remove kdebase. I've begun to rely an awful lot on KDE2 lately... a

Re: 3c509 is being annoying

2000-12-19 Thread Brian May
> "Sebastiaan" == Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sebastiaan> Hi, I try to get a 3c509 network card working, which Sebastiaan> has worked before on my system. After some research I Sebastiaan> found out that the card worked correctly under Sebastiaan> windoze, but I can

Re: ssh (and maybe rsync) question...

2000-12-19 Thread Brian May
> "Chris" == Chris Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> Usually, you'd use ssh-agent to remember your passphrase, Chris> but I'm not sure if it will work with a cron job. Chris> Otherwise, you can't use a passphrase; just leave it empty Chris> when you generate the keys. >

Re: Postfix delivers more than once

2000-12-19 Thread Brian May
> "Andre" == Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:12:26PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote: >> >> > I have a strange problem with Postfix, my messages are sent >> more > than once. Does this soun

Re: yet another ppp failure story...

2000-12-19 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, W. Crowshaw wrote: > Now if I try calling up pppd directly with the command (pppd > /dev/ttyS0 38400 debug connect "chat -vf mychatscript" ), I get > this debug info upon connection: > > Dec 19 19:03:31 anima pppd[236]: Serial connection established. > Dec 19 19:03:31 anim

Re: yet another ppp failure story...

2000-12-19 Thread John Hasler
W. Crowshaw writes: > Looking at the ppp debug information I have directed to a log file... It was already directed to /var/log/ppp.log. > So what should I do now? Run pppconfig as root and then use pon to start the connection and poff to stop it. If you have trouble post /etc/chatscripts/provi

Re: Firewall for use with cable modem?

2000-12-19 Thread ktb
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:02:14AM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: > I have spent much of the day getting more and more confused about > firewalls and Linux. I am having a cable modem installed soon and want my > system to be secure. I have only the one computer, and am running Woody. > > Is there a

Re: ssh (and maybe rsync) question...

2000-12-19 Thread Chris Baker
Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > The ssh manpage says I may generate a keey pair with ssh-keygen, and > then put my public key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys in the remote host, > so I'd login without having to interact. > > I ran ssh-keygen, then copied ~/.ssh/identity

yet another ppp failure story...

2000-12-19 Thread W. Crowshaw
O.k. I've checked the archives, read the howto's, and as well as the FAQs, but I can't start a ppp connection going to my isp through a dialup. First, I try wvdial and I get this at the end of the standard output. Entering PPP mode. Async interface address is unnumbered (Ethernet0) Your IP a

Re: Window Maker

2000-12-19 Thread kmself
on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:32:31AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Chaps, > > Every now and again, I don't seem to get a pop-down menu whilst > running Window Maker under Potato. I can't seem to understand what > happens..I start up a few apps, and then can't start anymore.

Re: dpkg "was interrupted" error - you must run dpkg --configure -a

2000-12-19 Thread kmself
on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:06:22PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > dpkg "was interrupted". You must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' > > Well, I tried: "failed to write status record about gnome-pim to > var/log/dpkg/status; no space left on device" > > I guess I hav

Re: apt-get source problem with Licq

2000-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:27:16 +, Colin Watson said: >>dpkg-source -x licq_1.0-5.dsc > >This was a problem because it complained that the dsc file was not a >gzipped file and I gzipped it. Then it complained that the file was >not the size expected. I down

which magigfilter for Laserjet 5N?

2000-12-19 Thread debuser
I want to set up printing (preferably using magicfilter) for an HP Laserjet 5N. Since I don't see this printer listed in the magicfilter setup, which one works best with this printer? Thanks, Gerry

Re: Window Maker

2000-12-19 Thread iumarumo
Chaps, Every now and again, I don't seem to get a pop-down menu whilst running Window Maker under Potato. I can't seem to understand what happens..I start up a few apps, and then can't start anymore. I just get an empty "Applications" menu, and none of the icons are fired when clicked upon. The

Re: Banner server avoidence

2000-12-19 Thread Michael Meding
Hi, > Blocking out banner ads, while understandable, is not really moving toward > a solution. Aha. excuse me why not ? Why do you think debian is a success ? Because people like to do it this way. Without being influenced by anything commercial. Do you remember the days of the internet where si

Firewall for use with cable modem?

2000-12-19 Thread Phillip Deackes
I have spent much of the day getting more and more confused about firewalls and Linux. I am having a cable modem installed soon and want my system to be secure. I have only the one computer, and am running Woody. Is there a free (or low-cost) firewall which will work on Debian? I don't feel confid

Re: Banner server avoidence

2000-12-19 Thread Dwight Johnson
Given that banner ads have many objectionable features -- waiting for the damned things to show up from a remote server being the most egregious -- I am wondering what would be a better way for companies to tell us about their products. Rick Lehrbaum, on his site, linuxdevices.com, sold vendor spo

Re: 3c509 is being annoying

2000-12-19 Thread Terry Carney
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Sebastiaan wrote: > system. After some research I found out that the card worked correctly > under windoze, but I can not figure out why the card does not work under > Linux. > I have disabled pnp and the card insmods well. I can also give it an > address with ifconfig and pi

Re: Postfix delivers more than once

2000-12-19 Thread Andre Berger
Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:12:26PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote: > > > I have a strange problem with Postfix, my messages are sent more > > than once. Does this sound familiar to anyone? > > Does this happen only for local users or for everybody? Ther

Re: downgrading to potato

2000-12-19 Thread Alessandro Ghigi
The same happens to me. Changing the entries in /etc/apt/sources.list does leaves dselect (or apt-get) happy with the woody distribution. Any other ideas? Thanks Alessandro Stephan Engelke wrote > > Reactivating the potato entries in /etc/apt/sources.list and deleting > the woody one

Re: Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:11:36PM +0100, Defresne Sylvain wrote: > Hello, > * Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > It's because Debian has finally implemented the ``testing'' > > > distributions. It is a distributions sitting between the stable > > > (potato) and the new unstable (si

Re: Network Monitoring recommendation

2000-12-19 Thread Adam Shand
> 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? if you want something simple

Re: 3c509 is being annoying

2000-12-19 Thread Angel
> I have disabled pnp and the card insmods well. I can also give it an > address with ifconfig and ping to the card, but I am unable to ping > another host (and vice versa). As far as I know I have no firewall running I have had problems with this model of ethernet ... I can't remember now .. it

Re: installing pine

2000-12-19 Thread Adam Shand
> You can search the archives to find a link to the deb. There > are licensing issues with pine so Debian doesn't include it but > there are people who have built the debs. I just snagged the > latest stable release (source) from the pine web site. I had to > insta

RE: IMAP/webmail

2000-12-19 Thread Adam Shand
> The IMP/HORDE combination is pretty good. i did a lot of research on this not too long ago and the one i liked best was squirrel mail. it just came out with 1.0pre1 so it's pretty close to stable (i'm using 0.65 with good luck). http://www.squirrelmail.org/ one of my requirements was

Re: Postfix delivers more than once

2000-12-19 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:12:26PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote: > I have a strange problem with Postfix, my messages are sent more > than once. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Does this happen only for local users or for everybody? There is just one message from you in this list ;) Do the mes

Re: 3c509 is being annoying

2000-12-19 Thread Leen Besselink
> I have disabled pnp and the card insmods well. I can also give it an > address with ifconfig and ping to the card, but I am unable to ping > another host (and vice versa). As far as I know I have no firewall running Sounds like routing to me... dunno what though, if you use a 2.2 kernel it shoul

Re: exim configuration problem

2000-12-19 Thread Mike
Frodo Baggins wrote: > Hi debianers, > I have a small problem in configurating exim. I actualy have to ISP, > using the one or the other depending on the time of the day. Is the time of day when you switch fom one to the other always the same time of day? If it is, then here's an idea. Set up

Re: diskless debian

2000-12-19 Thread Ignasi Tura
In www.debianplanet.org or in www.debianhelp.org there was a document that treated this issue. Hope that helps, Ignasi __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

downgrade from Woody to Potato

2000-12-19 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi everyone, this question has been asked before, but I could not get any working results. After installing Woody a couple of days ago, I'd like to downgrade to Potato again. Is there a way to do this without reinstalling the system? Reactivating the potato entries in /etc/apt/sources.list an

Re: Banner server avoidence

2000-12-19 Thread Adam Shand
> Don Marti's posted a DNS hack which can be used to deny specific > domains on a sitewide basis, if you run DNS. The advantage is that > it's a one-time rule which works transparently for all systems on the > local net. The bad news is that an extensive list of blocked sites is > likely to be d

Re: apt-get source problem with Licq

2000-12-19 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:27:16 +, Colin Watson said: > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am having problems getting the latest sources for Licq. > >I can download the dsc diff, and tarball for version 1.0 manually > >from ftp.debian.org but when I try to get them with 'apt-get source

Re: Permissions - Newbie Style Question

2000-12-19 Thread sc
On 12/19/00 5:25 PM, Bob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >I have two questions (for now): What is the permissions setting for the home >directories. I suspect it should be something like rwx-- or >rwxrwx--- if >the group is unique to the specific username. Is this correct? They'll work if yo

Re: diskless debian

2000-12-19 Thread Sebastiaan
High, take a look at www.ltsp.org if you only want to run xwindows (or their output). Greetz, Sebastiaan > > Hi! > > May I ask where you found the HOWTO documents? I > > have a friend who want to install a diskless > > workstation but we can't seem to find any > > information. > > thanks! > >

3c509 is being annoying

2000-12-19 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I try to get a 3c509 network card working, which has worked before on my system. After some research I found out that the card worked correctly under windoze, but I can not figure out why the card does not work under Linux. I have disabled pnp and the card insmods well. I can also give it an

Re: make-kpkg question.

2000-12-19 Thread Adam Shand
> you definitely do not want use the patches for 2.2.18 with any other > kernel, unless you really know what you are doing (you would have to > make sure that the files that the patch changes are unchanged between > 2.2.18 and whatever you will use). yah, i know that :) > I don't know whethe

exim configuration problem

2000-12-19 Thread Frodo Baggins
Hi debianers, I have a small problem in configurating exim. I actualy have to ISP, using the one or the other depending on the time of the day. Each one of them has a smtp host to relay mail for. Obviously, each one of these smarthosts is smart enough not to relay mail iussed by a machine having

Re: apt-get with Packages out of arbitrary directory?

2000-12-19 Thread Manegold
On 19-Dec-2000 David Z. Maze wrote: > Manegold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > M> Is there a way to use apt-get on packages in a directory somewhere > on a > M> system, that are not organized like archive and that do not have > M> Packages.gz files > > Nope. > > M> (how are those created anyhow?)

Problems with commercial program.

2000-12-19 Thread Stewart James -Stootles-
I was wondering if anyone could help me with a problem I have having. I am new to Debian but have been using redhat/mandrake for a few years. I recently switched to Debian. (great distro by the way) At work we use iplanet(netscape) messaging server and their directory server. This means using ne

Re: diskless debian

2000-12-19 Thread Brian May
> "Knud" == Knud Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Knud> Hi I am about to start installing some diskless Knud> workstations. Knud> I have found this documentation Diskless-root-NFS-HOWTO Knud> Diskless-HOWTO NFS-Root mini-HOWTO Knud> NFS-Root-Client-mini-HOWTO Knud

Re: apt-get with Packages out of arbitrary directory?

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Horton
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:50:22PM +0100, Manegold wrote: > > Is there a way to use apt-get on packages in a directory somewhere on a > system, that are not organized like archive and that do not have > Packages.gz files (how are those created anyhow?). > Have a look at 'apt-move'. P.

Re: 2.4 module madness

2000-12-19 Thread Hans
>From what I remember binutils also had to be upgraded. I didn't, but simply made the same directory tree as the 2.2.x kernels under 2.4.0-test10, moved the modules to the right sub-directory, ran depmod -a and loaded the modules. YMMV. --Hans At 08:28 AM 12/18/00 -0500, Jonathan Markevich wrote:

Re: 2.4 module madness

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Horton
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 08:28:15AM -0500, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > This has the air of a FAQ, but, here I ask anyway. > > I've compiled 2.4.0-test 12 on my potato system... and it won't load any > modules. This APPEARS to be the new structure of the /lib/modules > directory.. nothing's immedia

Re: Debates about the 'deb' in debian?

2000-12-19 Thread Scott Patterson
>On a recent linux radio show a guest pronounced the 'deb' >with an 'a' sound as in 'day'.And a bio article in the Nov/Dec >issue of 'Maximum Linux' quotes Debra (Ian's wife) as >'...remembering debates on how to pronounce the name'. >So are there still debates about saying 'deb

Re: apt-get source problem with Licq

2000-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am having problems getting the latest sources for Licq. >I can download the dsc diff, and tarball for version 1.0 manually >from ftp.debian.org but when I try to get them with 'apt-get source >licq', I get an older version even though my sources.list is set up

Re: depmod question

2000-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i *just* downloaded and compiled 2.4.0-12 for the very first time. after >my very first reboot with this kernel, i'm getting: > ># depmod -a >depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in >/lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o 2.4.0-test12 is known

Re: Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Defresne Sylvain
Hello, * Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > It's because Debian has finally implemented the ``testing'' > > distributions. It is a distributions sitting between the stable > > (potato) and the new unstable (sid). New package goes into > > unstable, and 14 days later, if no b

Re: Scanner support??

2000-12-19 Thread Lee Elliott
Angel Parra wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a Tawain scanner, it's a pararel port scanner, Tawain, > 9600P. > > Which program, driver,.. I need to use it. It's this scanner > suported by SANE? > > Thank you for all. > > Angel > If it's a TWAIN scanner then you can probabl

Re: kernel panic

2000-12-19 Thread q
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:40:35PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > egads, man. don't reinstall an operating system! > > don't you have any spare kernels laying around? i always leave myself at > least 1 other old kernel. > > as for vim, try: > > echo "set textwidth=76" >> $HOME/.vimrc

Permissions - Newbie Style Question

2000-12-19 Thread Bob
I have three debian based boxes running (two Corel and one potato.) On all three machines, the default install is to allow everyone on the system to view every directory, including each other's home directories. This is true when using telnet or ftp as well. I really have no need to read my son'

Re: installing pine

2000-12-19 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Dwight Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, ktb wrote: > > > > > You might want to try mutt. I like it a lot better. It > > > took some configuring but it isn't as clunky as pine. > > > > I have recently been trying mutt a

Postfix delivers more than once

2000-12-19 Thread Andre Berger
I have a strange problem with Postfix, my messages are sent more than once. Does this sound familiar to anyone? -- Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: package pools

2000-12-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:06:00AM +0100, John Beining wrote: > Is the package file dd. 12/18/00 > /dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz complete? Where are the > links with the files in the pools? I got surprised by that also. Only those packages which are common to potato seem to be shown i

dpkg "was interrupted" error - you must run dpkg --configure -a

2000-12-19 Thread DTi4565459
dpkg "was interrupted". You must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' Well, I tried: "failed to write status record about gnome-pim to var/log/dpkg/status; no space left on device" I guess I have run out of space. Had about 930 megs in ext2 partition and I am only trying to install from Debi

RE: Oracle

2000-12-19 Thread Braxton Robbason
I know this is sacrilege, but I found it fairly easy to install oracle on an intel box running solaris. you can get the cd-rom set for solaris 8 from sun for $80 and install it in as many places as you want. You'll have to check to ensure that your hardware is supported before trying to install so

Re: depmod question

2000-12-19 Thread David A. Rogers
imm.o is actually dependent on another module, but noone told depmod. Try to find what imm is dependent on. dar On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i *just* downloaded and compiled 2.4.0-12 for the very first time. after > my very first reboot with this kernel, i'm getting: > > #

RE: depmod question

2000-12-19 Thread Jason Holland
pete, ok, i've been digging up some info on this. It seems that zip drives on the parallel port require the lp module to be loaded. # modprobe lp # modprobe imm Possibly you need parallel port printer support compiled in your kernel??? Maybe its puking on that, just a long shot. Jason >

Weird audio cd behavior

2000-12-19 Thread David A. Rogers
I'm running potato with 2.2.17, ALSA with cs4236b chip. Run xplaycd. Press start. First track plays. After first track plays, it doesn't go on to the second track, it stops like I'd pressed the stop button (no I didn't). No matter what track I start playing, it stops when the track is finished.

Helping switching on rest sound modules...

2000-12-19 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I have a SB16 nicely configure with everything working fine. I just noticed in earlier posts that peole with a similiar card had other sysnthesizer options turned on. The modules they are loading which I haven't compiled are: mpu_io op13 What would I turn and and where to get these? I assume

RE: depmod question

2000-12-19 Thread Jason Holland
> > i originally compiled imm support as a module because you never > know when a > friend will come over with one of these things... > > well, i recompiled the kernel and modules without imm support, > and there are > no complaints from depmod. > > but this kind of sucks! it's precisely the reaso

Re: Previous versions of woody .debs

2000-12-19 Thread Andy Griffiths
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 15:18:36 Colin Watson wrote: > > As far as I know, I'm afraid, previous versions haven't been kept until > very recently. With the advent of package pools, previous versions of > packages are now kept around for a while in debian/pool on Debian > mirrors, although I assume that

kde2

2000-12-19 Thread Dale Kosan
Hello,have been trying to install kde2 but apt keeps telling me I have an error in line 28.I put the line in that I seen posted here but no go.Can someone post the line or point me to the site where I can find out how to continue.Thanks in advance

Re: Horde/IMP problems

2000-12-19 Thread mario
Hi Amal, Thanks for your answer! Indeed, I just found the problem: I copied a /etc/passwd from one computer to another and the mysql uid changed; then the data dir weren't writable/readable by mysqld and it could not get authentication information from mysql (e.g., in Folders.php

question regarding samba usage

2000-12-19 Thread Walter Tautz
I am trying to get access to a home account on another unix host(solaris) to my linux machine. It works pretty well using the smbmount command however i would like to have this occur automagically when I login or perhaps have the system automount this without my having to type in an extra passwd

RE: incorrect kernel version

2000-12-19 Thread Jason Holland
Try looking at the top of your /usr/src/linux/Makefile VERSION=2 PATCHLEVEL=2 SUBLEVEL=16 or whatever... Jason > -Original Message- > From: Robert Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 12:27 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: incorrect kernel

Re: depmod question

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Tue 19 Dec 00, 1:08 PM, Jason Holland said... > Peter, > what modultils version are you using?? the 2.4 series requires at least > version 2.3.18 or above. check your > /usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/Changes file for other relevant software > updates you might need to make. If that is no

incorrect kernel version

2000-12-19 Thread Robert Newton
I've installed a patch on my 2.2.17 kernel (win4lin). The new kernel compiles and boots however it now thinks that it is a 2.2.12 kernel (Identifies itself this way at the start of the boot). Needless to say, it has a little difficultly loading modules. The kernel that was compiled before installi

Re: Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:18:11PM +0100, Defresne Sylvain wrote: > Hello, > > * Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > After today's woody update there are many packages shown in dselect as > > obsolete/local. The Packages file was much smaller than the previous > > version. What's up? > >

Re: Sylpheed

2000-12-19 Thread Cam Ellison
Christoph Simon wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 07:46:01 -0800 > It's now installed here :-) > > I apt-get it from helix. > Thanks, Christoph. Based on your suggestion, I went looking, and found it. Didn't occur to me to include "unstable" in my search. <:-/ Cam

RE: depmod question

2000-12-19 Thread Jason Holland
Peter, what modultils version are you using?? the 2.4 series requires at least version 2.3.18 or above. check your /usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/Changes file for other relevant software updates you might need to make. If that is not the problem, imm.o is the driver for an Iomega parallel po

apt-get source problem with Licq

2000-12-19 Thread Pollywog
I am having problems getting the latest sources for Licq. I can download the dsc diff, and tarball for version 1.0 manually from ftp.debian.org but when I try to get them with 'apt-get source licq', I get an older version even though my sources.list is set up for Woody. If I download the files ma

Debates about the 'deb' in debian?

2000-12-19 Thread mikpolniak
On a recent linux radio show a guest pronounced the 'deb' with an 'a' sound as in 'day'. And a bio article in the Nov/Dec issue of 'Maximum Linux' quotes Debra (Ian's wife) as '...remembering debates on how to pronounce the name'. So are there still debates about saying 'deb

Re: Devices for SCSI Tape Drives

2000-12-19 Thread kmself
on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:14:45AM -0500, Andy Bastien ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Pending further investigation, we now allege that Victor R. Cain wrote: > > Could some one tell me where to find descriptions of what > > the different device designations mean, especially the > > /dev/nst* and /

depmod question

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i *just* downloaded and compiled 2.4.0-12 for the very first time. after my very first reboot with this kernel, i'm getting: # depmod -a depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o i'm curious - i compiled this kernel by the book. what is causing thi

OT: ext2resize

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
just downloaded ext2resize, and am shocked to see how little documentation there is. the HOWTO gives an artificial example using a file containing a filesystem. the man page basically says nothing other than: SYNOPSIS ext2resize i'd like to use use this progr

Re: The Debian way (kernel)

2000-12-19 Thread Bill Jonas
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:48:01PM -0600, David A. Rogers wrote: > 1) copy /boot/config-x.y.zz (2.2.17 if potato) to .config in the base dir of > your kernel source. If you don't you won't start with the default options > used to build the stock kernel. ...and run "make oldconfig" after you do th

Re: nvidia geforce2 mx overclocking in linunx?

2000-12-19 Thread Jon Pennington
Bostjan Muller wrote: > > Hi! > > I have found articles all over internet how to overclock nvidia's geforce2 mx > in windooze... since nvidias card's are around 10% slower in linux I thought I > would overclock it in linux, but I couldn't since there is no programe to do > it, at least none that

How to install libqt-dev, kdebase-dev with apt on unstable ?

2000-12-19 Thread Michael Meding
Hi all, specifying the package names does not work, neither does apt-get install kdebase-dev. So how to get the packages, despite downloading all and dpkg -i'ing 'em ? Thanks. Michael

dselect produces error ?

2000-12-19 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, A lot of the of the optional packages that have been marked for installation don't install when using dselect. Instead it produces the following error : Media Change: Please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ -Official i386 Binary-3 (2814)' in the drive '/cdrom/' an

Re: No cut/paste?

2000-12-19 Thread Robert L. Harris
There's not much more detail. I can highlight text in one xterm or in netscape. Usually I can click in another xterm, the netscape location bar, etc and click both left and right buttons to paste text. Now when I do the paste click nothing happens. No paste or anything. The cut window doesn'

Re: diskless debian

2000-12-19 Thread Scott Patterson
> May I ask where you found the HOWTO documents? I > have a friend who want to install a diskless > workstation but we can't seem to find any > information. > thanks! There is also a project called LTSP, Linux Terminal Server Project, at http://www.ltsp.org. The developers use Red Hat, but I kn

RE: Oracle

2000-12-19 Thread Lewis, James M.
> Greetings, > > We are currently in the process of setting up the curriculum for teaching > the Oracle database system here at the University of Advancing Computer > Technology. I feel that it would be a good idea to teach Oracle > administration on some sort of UNIX platform, and I am very in

Re: Oracle

2000-12-19 Thread Eric Richardson
> Eric Langager wrote: > > Greetings, > > We are currently in the process of setting up the curriculum for > teaching the Oracle database system here at the University of > Advancing Computer Technology. I feel that it would be a good idea to > teach Oracle administration on some sort of UNIX pl

Re: Devices for SCSI Tape Drives

2000-12-19 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that Victor R. Cain wrote: > Could some one tell me where to find descriptions of what > the different device designations mean, especially the > /dev/nst* and /dev/st* devices? > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt The /dev/nst* devices are th

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-19 Thread Shao Zhang
How about just using dvipdf if you don't need all those fancy pdf features? Shao. Thomas Halahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Joerg, > > I use 2 ways > > 1) The ps route is good if you have lots of ps figures. > > > pslatex filename.tex > > dvips filename -o > > ps2pdf filename.ps > > the ps

Devices for SCSI Tape Drives

2000-12-19 Thread Victor R. Cain
Could some one tell me where to find descriptions of what the different device designations mean, especially the /dev/nst* and /dev/st* devices? Thanks, Vic Cain -- Prediction is very hard -- especially when it's about the future -- Yogi Berra The future will be better tomorrow - J. Danforth

Re: Sylpheed

2000-12-19 Thread Christoph Simon
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 07:46:01 -0800 Cam Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have seen a couple of references to this application (suppposedly a > .deb package) over the last few months, but can't seem to find it at the > US, Canada, and Japan (where it apparently was originally) sites. Does > a

Re: Package pool information?

2000-12-19 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 05:12:51PM -0500, Paul D. Smith wrote: > I'm really interested in the package pools implementation that's going > on now. > > Which list(s) are the best to subscribe to/and/or read archives of if I > want to keep up-to-date with this new feature (issues, decisions, > announ

Re: Load crash from speakers at startup

2000-12-19 Thread Hall Stevenson
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 06:55:13AM -0500, David Purton wrote: > > just recently my speakers have started making a load > > crash sound at startup around when the sound card is initialised. > > I had the very same thing happen to me a while back. I narrowed > > it down to be the SoundBlaster mod

Need some help with Cyrus/Postfix configuration

2000-12-19 Thread Chris Mason
I've installed posfix and Cyrus useing the debs, and both appear to run fine. I can connect to the IMAP port and create folders in my user account from another workstation. I was able to pop mail fine, postfix was deliving properly to my unix account. Now I have modified /etc/postfix/main.cf to unc

Sylpheed

2000-12-19 Thread Cam Ellison
I have seen a couple of references to this application (suppposedly a .deb package) over the last few months, but can't seem to find it at the US, Canada, and Japan (where it apparently was originally) sites. Does anyone know where it has gone? TIA Cam

Re: diskless debian

2000-12-19 Thread sena
On 19/12/2000 at 06:36 -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Hi! > May I ask where you found the HOWTO documents? I > have a friend who want to install a diskless > workstation but we can't seem to find any > information. > thanks! > You can find them at many more at your local Linux Documentation Project mirror

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