Re: Home network with Debian

2000-12-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I am not expert but I do not think there is special tool for /etc/network. I am sure you may install one of graphical configuration tool like linuxconf but understanding what they really doing may be beyond our needs. Everthing in /etc are user configurable, I think. Though I keep all or

Re: Home network with Debian

2000-12-28 Thread JD Kitch
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 06:39:46PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:22:23PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > > I've been running Debian Potato\Progeny for some time now, with a > > single nic attached to cable modem. I'm also running an ipchains > > firewall. I have added a second n

Re: kernel is using 50M of memory

2000-12-28 Thread Nate Amsden
brian moore wrote: > From here, I can, with the knowledge that the machine has 256M of RAM, > figure out the kernel usage: couldn't you look at the kernel log: Memory: 517152k/524288k available (1256k kernel code, 412k reserved, 5424k data, 44k init) in this case 1256k is the kernel? nate --

Re: gnapster error trying to connecting to servers

2000-12-28 Thread Nate Amsden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > When I start gnapster, there is a message "Finding best server" ... > then nothing happens. > > netstat shows that it has sent a syn out and is listening. I know it's > not an isp problem because I can use napster from Win98. I have this > problem on another debian bo

alsa rear speaker weirdness

2000-12-28 Thread debuser
I have a sound blaster live soundcard. I previously had alsa working properly with the alsa drivers from woody. However, I recompiled to a newer kernel and so I needed to download the alsa source and recompile that too. I tried the alsa source from woody package, but it was an older version and did

Locale annoying warning

2000-12-28 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I have a fresh unstable install and every time I operate on the packages with apt-get I get the following: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "c" are supported and installed on

How-to for potato udma66 support?

2000-12-28 Thread Glenn Murray
Let me rephrase the question. How do you use the udma66 support files contained in the potato distribution to install on a computer using a Promise Ultra 66 card? I can't find any documentation on these files anywhere, and it's driving me nuts. Thanks in advance, Glenn

Re: Problem with boot

2000-12-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Brian" == Brian Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> What I am talking about is I built the kernel using make-kpkg Brian> kernel_image and that creates a deb file for me to install. Brian> The problem is that the lilo utility at the command prompt Brian> does not install right

Re: Getting rid of "xconsole"

2000-12-28 Thread Hall Stevenson
* ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001228 23:02]: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:43:53PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > At some point, an "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" made a change that > > has "xconsole" starting up along with X-Windows. I personally don't like > > the program and don't use it an

Re: Primary or extended partition install?

2000-12-28 Thread Bek Oberin
Robin Rowe wrote: > If I'll be booting with lilo from the MBR may I install Potato on an > extended partition or must it be on a primary partition? Either is cool. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer

Primary or extended partition install?

2000-12-28 Thread Robin Rowe
If I'll be booting with lilo from the MBR may I install Potato on an extended partition or must it be on a primary partition? Thanks. Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Laptop eth0 problems

2000-12-28 Thread Michelle Murrain
Hi folks, I've got an HP Pavillion 5195 laptop, pretty new. I did some research, and found out that supposedly the internal ethernet card on this thing used tulip drivers. In fact the support folks from Accton, the folks who made the card, sent me a tulip driver for the card. The card is the EN

Re: Getting rid of "xconsole"

2000-12-28 Thread ktb
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:43:53PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > At some point, an "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" made a change that has > "xconsole" starting up along with X-Windows. I personally don't like the > program and don't use it and would like to get rid of it. > > I've went thro

Getting rid of "xconsole"

2000-12-28 Thread Hall Stevenson
At some point, an "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" made a change that has "xconsole" starting up along with X-Windows. I personally don't like the program and don't use it and would like to get rid of it. I've went through various files/scripts in /etc/X11 and it's subdirs in attempts to sto

Re: Wordperfect 8.0?

2000-12-28 Thread cjm2
Andre & Bob: As you both advised, the problem turned out to be a missing xpm4.7 -- Wordperfect now works fine after adding this. Thanks, Colin Andre Berger wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Hi: > > > > Sorry if this has been addressed before, I didn't find it in the > > archives... >

Re: ppp/chap client problems - solved

2000-12-28 Thread Gregory T. Norris
D'oh!!! There's a slight (single character) difference in the userid for dial-up, versus my usual login account. Unsurprisingly, it works just fine now that I'm using the correct account. A bad case of idiotneedsaclueitis, apparently...

OFFTOPIC: only commercial oss sound work with Quake2

2000-12-28 Thread Pollywog
I installed Quake2 and it would not work because sound would not initialize. I compiled a new kernel without sound support and then I installed the OSS (commercial) sound drivers and Quake2 ran normally (with sound). I tried it again with no sound and it would not work. Is anyone using the ALSA

Re: Device File Permissions

2000-12-28 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Andrew Gronosky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001228 20:53]: > > I noticed that some important device files- for example, /dev/dsp and > /dev/lp0 - are owned by root, belong to special groups (audio and lp, > respectively), and most importantly are *not* world-writeable. > > Is there an important reason

Re: XFree / Font error

2000-12-28 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Andy Wettstein ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001228 11:25]: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 10:22:18PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > Running Debian Woody and XFree86 v4.0.1 and trying to get TrueType fonts > > under X. I've followed the instructions fully, I believe, but still no > > TT fonts. I finally ran

Re: Device File Permissions

2000-12-28 Thread David Bellows
Andrew Gronosky wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been running Debian for a while, but only recently did I get > serious about configuring all my peripherals (sound card, printer, > etc.). > > I noticed that some important device files- for example, /dev/dsp and > /dev/lp0 - are owned by root, belong to s

Re: Home network with Debian

2000-12-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:22:23PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > I've been running Debian Potato\Progeny for some time now, with a > single nic attached to cable modem. I'm also running an ipchains > firewall. I have added a second nic, which I would like to connect > the wife's windows machine to, an

Home network with Debian

2000-12-28 Thread JD Kitch
I've been running Debian Potato\Progeny for some time now, with a single nic attached to cable modem. I'm also running an ipchains firewall. I have added a second nic, which I would like to connect the wife's windows machine to, and have my debian box do ip masq'ing for the windows box. I do alr

Device File Permissions

2000-12-28 Thread Andrew Gronosky
Hi, I've been running Debian for a while, but only recently did I get serious about configuring all my peripherals (sound card, printer, etc.). I noticed that some important device files- for example, /dev/dsp and /dev/lp0 - are owned by root, belong to special groups (audio and lp, respectively)

Re: X dies immediately after starting

2000-12-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:57:38PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Bob Nielsen wrote: > >On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:41:14PM -0500, searcher wrote: > >> > >> Bob Nielsen wrote: > >> Not sure if this will do it, but you can try: > >> > >> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common > > > >Stran

reinstalling accidentially removed failes

2000-12-28 Thread Johannes Zellner
Hi, I've accidentially removed some files in /usr/X11R6 but don't know which. Is there a way to find out, which files have been removed and which packages need to be reinstalled ? -- Johannes

Re: Making new tasks known to tasksel

2000-12-28 Thread Colin Watson
Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Still got another question concerning Debian's package mgmt system: How >and when are new task-* packages made available to tasksel? I had the >impression that running "apt-cdrom add" and then running "tasksel" would >be sufficient, and I was quite surprised

gnapster error trying to connecting to servers

2000-12-28 Thread lists
When I start gnapster, there is a message "Finding best server" ... then nothing happens. netstat shows that it has sent a syn out and is listening. I know it's not an isp problem because I can use napster from Win98. I have this problem on another debian box, too. Is there a default network se

Re: Confusion over library names

2000-12-28 Thread Colin Watson
"Michael and Ricia Banther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've just recently started using Debian Linux. I've been trying out a >"Hello, world" C++ program, and I've noticed what seems to be an odd naming >disconnect with the files in /usr/lib. > >The ld program supports a -l command line option. T

kapmd *not* taking all the CPU

2000-12-28 Thread Francois Gouget
I am running the kernel 2.4.0-test9 on my laptop and normally kapmd takes all the CPU when the laptop is idle. But I have noticed that after some use (1-3 days uptime doing compiles + debugging) kapmd no longer takes all the CPU even when the laptop is idle: kapmd: 37-38% idle: 61-62% top:

Re: Confusion over library names

2000-12-28 Thread D-Man
When libraries are named, the developer picks some sort of version number for it. That version number goes after the .so part of the filename. My guess for that libstdc++ you have is that it is for g++ 2.7.2 (old!). You probably have another one for 2.95.2. If you need to build a program yours

Re: The setfont utility

2000-12-28 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I've been searching for the setfont program, but I just can't find it. Do >someone know which debian package contains this utility ? I tried kbd, but it >conflicts with console-utilies, which is already installed. And >console-utilies didn't >install it (I think it should

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:34:57PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:05:30PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > > I think there's confusion between making links in /usr/include and > > > links in /usr/src. The first is bad [0], the second is (afaik) not. > > > > Hmm, as I und

Re: X dies immediately after starting

2000-12-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
Bob Nielsen wrote: >On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:41:14PM -0500, searcher wrote: >> >> Bob Nielsen wrote: >> Not sure if this will do it, but you can try: >> >>dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common > >Strange, that dies with the message > >mv: cannot create regular file 'etc/X11/Xw

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
Rob VanFleet wrote: >In /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz: > > "...unpack your kernel somewhere. Preferably somewhere other than > /usr/src/linux..." > >It also adds "more on this later", but I found no explanation as to why, jus >t >some possible places to un

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-28 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:34:57PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > I'm not trying to be rude, but the only person saying the > /usr/src/linux symlink is bad is you (and you don't sound convinced :) First of all, I'm *not* the only person saying that; I refer you to: http://lists.debian.org/debian

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:40:23PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > In /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz: > > "...unpack your kernel somewhere. Preferably somewhere other than > /usr/src/linux..." Unpacking implies a directory, which is not the same as a symlink. Don't worry about t

Re: 'testing' & dep conflicts

2000-12-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:10:41AM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hello > > I am running 'testing', upgraded from potato a few days ago. > > Two questions: > > 1. Why are packages kept back like follows? > >$ apt-get update && apt-get upgrade [ snip ] >The following packages have been

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:05:30PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: ... > Hmm, as I understood it, making a /usr/src/linux link is bad, /usr/include, > AFAIK, is not the issue. The module I tried to compiled looked for the > kernel-includes in /usr/src/linux/include. I'm just wondering why > /usr/src/l

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-28 Thread Rob VanFleet
In /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz: "...unpack your kernel somewhere. Preferably somewhere other than /usr/src/linux..." It also adds "more on this later", but I found no explanation as to why, just some possible places to unpack the sources to, none of which are /

Re: X dies immediately after starting

2000-12-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:41:14PM -0500, searcher wrote: > > Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > Yesterday I exited X and the next time I tried to restart it, it died > > without any error messages. I tried switching to a different window > > manager with update-alternatives, but that made no difference

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:05:30PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > I think there's confusion between making links in /usr/include and > > links in /usr/src. The first is bad [0], the second is (afaik) not. > > Hmm, as I understood it, making a /usr/src/linux link is bad, /usr/include, > AFAIK, is

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-28 Thread Jon Pennington
Rob VanFleet wrote: > > Hmm, as I understood it, making a /usr/src/linux link is bad, /usr/include, > AFAIK, is not the issue. The module I tried to compiled looked for the > kernel-includes in /usr/src/linux/include. I'm just wondering why > /usr/src/linux is bad, and how to tell compiles to lo

Re: Confusion over library names

2000-12-28 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, December 28, Michael and Ricia Banther did write: > The ld program supports a -l command line option. Why are you calling ld directly? g++ should do that for you--especially with respect to libstdc++ (see below). (Of course, gcc/g++ supports the same parameter.) > Playing arou

Re: Voodo3 3000

2000-12-28 Thread Jon Pennington
Rob VanFleet wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 08:52:32AM -0600, Jon Pennington wrote: > > Is this not the DRI-enabled package? > [snip] > > NOTE: You'll need the /dev/3dfx kernel driver to use this library. > > I thought that /dev/3dfx and 3dfx module were superseded by the tdfx module > for

compilation, header files and cdrecord

2000-12-28 Thread Jim McCloskey
Hello. I am trying to compile (so far without success) version 1.10 of cdrtools (a suite of programs which includes cdrecord). I'm doing this because the DVD/CD-ROM drive I have (a Toshiba SD-M1201) doesn't seem to be supported either under cdrecord 1.8 (potato) or cdrecord 1.9 (unstable). The sy

'testing' & dep conflicts

2000-12-28 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello I am running 'testing', upgraded from potato a few days ago. Two questions: 1. Why are packages kept back like follows? $ apt-get update && apt-get upgrade Hit http://security.debian.org potato/updates/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org potato/updates/main Release Hi

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-28 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 04:54:54PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 04:30:07PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:29:12PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > > I think it would be wise (and more debian like:) to explain how to > > > compile the kernel as

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 04:30:07PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:29:12PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > I think it would be wise (and more debian like:) to explain how to > > compile the kernel as *non* root using fakeroot. Furthermore I seem > > to recall discussions

Re: kernel is using 50M of memory

2000-12-28 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:26:48PM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: > On approximately Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:53:42AM -0800, brian moore wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 12:44:27PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > I was looking at the memory usage (gmemusage, and /proc/meminfo),

Confusion over library names

2000-12-28 Thread Michael and Ricia Banther
Hi, I've just recently started using Debian Linux. I've been trying out a "Hello, world" C++ program, and I've noticed what seems to be an odd naming disconnect with the files in /usr/lib. The ld program supports a -l command line option. This option, as I understand it, instructs ld to search

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-28 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:29:12PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > I think it would be wise (and more debian like:) to explain how to > compile the kernel as *non* root using fakeroot. Furthermore I seem > to recall discussions on this list that it's better to refrain from > using/creating that /u

Re: Voodo3 3000

2000-12-28 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 08:52:32AM -0600, Jon Pennington wrote: > Is this not the DRI-enabled package? [snip] > NOTE: You'll need the /dev/3dfx kernel driver to use this library. I thought that /dev/3dfx and 3dfx module were superseded by the tdfx module for DRI. Seeing as how that glide package

Re: how? - downloaded debs on one PC as preferred apt source on another?

2000-12-28 Thread kmself
on Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 02:15:06PM +, Martin Waller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I have a small network masqueraded (which is so easy to do with debian - > it's the best). On the Masquerading machine (one with modem...) I get my > updates off the net (and haven't deleted downlo

postfix installation broken

2000-12-28 Thread ocorrain
Hey all-- I tried to replace slink exim with potato postfix using apt-get install postfix. The installer downloads the relevant debs, then breaks down with: -- Setting up postfix (0.0.19991231pl05-2) ... dhelp_parse: You can add only directories under /usr/doc! dpkg: error processin

[OT] See you next year...

2000-12-28 Thread sena
Hi, sorry for this off-topic... :) I'll be going in a new-year vacations until 3 January. As someone suggested in another thread, I'll be using procmail to redirect debian mailing lists to /dev/null... I hope it works... See you in 2001... Regards, sena... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://decoy.at

perlqt module (off topic)

2000-12-28 Thread Matthew Sackman
I need to develop a new application and it's going to need a GUI. I was hoping to write it in Perl (cos it's easy!) and was hoping to use the PerlQt module, but there is no debian packaged version. I'm fine about installing it manually, I was just wondering whether anyone has had any experience wi

Re: cdrom issue

2000-12-28 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Are you running the default kernel? I had big problems with 2.4.0-test11 and two of my CD drives (one ROM, one RW). For me, installing 2.4.0-test12 fixed all problems. j Rick wrote: > > Hello, > > I got Unreal Tournament for xmas and am now trying to install it, but the > installer is not work

Re: [menuconfig] Segmentation fault

2000-12-28 Thread irvine
Just a final note on the problem that I was having. I tried recompiling the kernel yet another time and finally it worked. I suppose the problem with the memory still persists, but it didn't rear it's head on this occasion. Strange!!! Or maybe not. Anyway, thanks again. T:Irvine

Re: putting Apache into chroot()-prison

2000-12-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 04:02:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hey Norman, The name's Nathan ... I realize it's a difficult name to parse. >As an unbiased observer I will comment on your > comment concerning the quote/content ratio of the other > poster. You have your preference

Re: Problem with boot

2000-12-28 Thread ktb
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:37:52PM -0500, Brian Schramm wrote: > What I am talking about is I built the kernel using make-kpkg kernel_image > and that creates a deb file for me to install. The problem is that the > lilo utility at the command prompt does not install right and the mkboot > command

cdrom issue

2000-12-28 Thread Rick
Hello, I got Unreal Tournament for xmas and am now trying to install it, but the installer is not working happily with my cdrom (generic ATAPI). I have gotten it to work successful on my lady's potato distro, and I am running potato as well. The problem seems to be that it is not identifying th

Re: Help Me Get Back on List-ISP trouble

2000-12-28 Thread Jonathan Gift
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 06:46:27PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: > > I'm not really an expert in the protocols supported by fetchmail, but > I would say, that your ISP had previously support for the UID > stuff. If I remember right (from the last troubles I had, when I read > the fine manuals), th

rolling back to current woody from pre-test woody

2000-12-28 Thread debuser
Now that woody is in the testing stage, many of the packages on my system are newer versions than currently reside in woody. As some of the newer packages on my system are broken, I would like to roll back to the current woody snapshot. Is there an easy way to do this? Thanks, Gerry

Re: Help Me Get Back on List-ISP trouble

2000-12-28 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 20:51:01 +0100 Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Log > > fetchmail: 5.3.3 querying pop.wanadoo.fr (protocol POP3) at Thu, 28 Dec 2000 > 20:40:51 +0100 (CET) > fetchmail: POP3< +OK POP3 server ready (NPlex 2.1.112) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > fetchmail: POP3

Re: Problem with boot

2000-12-28 Thread Brian Schramm
What I am talking about is I built the kernel using make-kpkg kernel_image and that creates a deb file for me to install. The problem is that the lilo utility at the command prompt does not install right and the mkboot command from the command prompt does not make a bootable system for me but the

Re: kernel is using 50M of memory

2000-12-28 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:53:42AM -0800, brian moore wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 12:44:27PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I was looking at the memory usage (gmemusage, and /proc/meminfo), > > and I was noticing that 'linux' was using nearly 50m of memory. I >

Re: kernel is using 50M of memory

2000-12-28 Thread Jon Pennington
brian moore wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 12:44:27PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I was looking at the memory usage (gmemusage, and /proc/meminfo), > > and I was noticing that 'linux' was using nearly 50m of memory. I > > was rather disturbed, and wondering why > > Um, /p

RE: [lug] *440MHz, 512MB UltraSPARC 10 with FLAT 21" Color Monitor* Help installing Debian

2000-12-28 Thread Ulises V. Martinez
Hi, If anyone needs a very powerful workstation to run Linux, I have several 440MHz, 512MB UltraSPARC 10 with FLAT 21" Color Monitor 19.8" v.a which will be sold almost at cost. If interested, if interested please goto to http://www.novustar.com/sunultra/index.htm. IF you'll like to get one, ple

Re: [OT] Free Web Hosting w/PHP4

2000-12-28 Thread Mark Janssen
Jon wrote, and I found it in the Digest...: > Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 09:00:02 -0600 > From: Jon Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [OT] Free Web Hosting w/PHP4 > > Does anyone know if such a service exists? I'm looking for 3-5M of > storage on an Apache server with PHP4, but no SQL databa

Help Me Get Back on List-ISP trouble

2000-12-28 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Posting again, but with a little more info. First to bring everything up to date... My ISP ran into problems last week and I couldn't download more than one or two messages without Fetchmail hanging. I logged in to my ISP web page and they had a notice about this so I changed none of my setti

Re: OFFTOPIC: can't start Quake2

2000-12-28 Thread Pollywog
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 11:40:00 -0700, Cameron Matheson said: > Hey, > > That only happens to me when I'm already playing a sound (other games, > MIDI's, etc). I would make sure no other > processes are running, and also that your sound is configured properly. I am going to try Quake 1 (since

Re: kernel is using 50M of memory

2000-12-28 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 12:44:27PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I was looking at the memory usage (gmemusage, and /proc/meminfo), > and I was noticing that 'linux' was using nearly 50m of memory. I > was rather disturbed, and wondering why Um, /proc/meminfo doesn't say how much the

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-28 Thread Art Edwards
I hope this is not too late. I have several machines running NE2000 ISA cards. To get them to work I had to use DOS to turn off the plug-n-play feature and to assure that each is using a different IRQ and io address. For single NIC machines, I compiled ne into the kernel, making sure that the IO an

kernel is using 50M of memory

2000-12-28 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   I was looking at the memory usage (gmemusage, and /proc/meminfo), and I was noticing that 'linux' was using nearly 50m of memory.  I was rather disturbed, and wondering why   Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Re: sound on compaq deskpro

2000-12-28 Thread Jon Pennington
Aaron Stromas wrote: > > 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device > 2415 (rev 02) > Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation: Unknown device: b184 > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 > I/O ports at 2000 >

Re: Problem with boot

2000-12-28 Thread Art Edwards
I'm not clear about your question. I have rebuilt my kernel many times and simply adjusted the lilo.conf file to include the new kernel image. Are you rebuilding your kernel? If so, you can use make bzlilo to install it as default kernel. -- Arthur H. Edwards 712 Valencia Dr. NE Abq. NM 87108

Re: Problem with boot

2000-12-28 Thread ktb
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 01:59:23PM -0500, Brian Schramm wrote: > I am running Potato. I have my kernel customised so I can write to my ide > cd-rom. I also am running a 45G ide drive. > > If I install the kernel from the deb file and tell it to make a boot > floppy and a lilo image everything wo

subscibe

2000-12-28 Thread Jacek

sound on compaq deskpro

2000-12-28 Thread Aaron Stromas
Greetings, Can somebody help me to configure sound on this compaq deskpro box. lspci tells me it has a multimedia audio controller: 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2415 (rev 02) Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation: Unknown device: b184

Re: Usb scanner under Debian

2000-12-28 Thread Jorgensen, Jens
If /proc/bus/usb is empty perhaps you didn't: mount -t usbdevfs non /proc/bus/usb ? Paolo Pedaletti wrote: > Ciao, > I have an HP ScanJet 6300C (USB) > I have installed 2.4.0-test12 kernel with all the update program in > unstable (modutils ...) and compiled into the kernel usb support, usb fs,

Problem with boot

2000-12-28 Thread Brian Schramm
I am running Potato. I have my kernel customised so I can write to my ide cd-rom. I also am running a 45G ide drive. If I install the kernel from the deb file and tell it to make a boot floppy and a lilo image everything works. But if I run lilo or try mkboot that does not work. Can anyone tel

Making new tasks known to tasksel

2000-12-28 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi folks! Still got another question concerning Debian's package mgmt system: How and when are new task-* packages made available to tasksel? I had the impression that running "apt-cdrom add" and then running "tasksel" would be sufficient, and I was quite surprised when I found out that this was o

Exim and DSL

2000-12-28 Thread Art Edwards
I'm haveing some difficulty getting my network to accept mail messages. I'm using exim through a cicso router. I have forwarded port 25 to my mail machine. I am able to send mail to anyone. And I can receive mail from the local machines. When I try to send mail to my machine from another, I get not

Re: Sendmail

2000-12-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 04:53:45PM +, Sergio Matos wrote: > I'm needing help about sendmail. > How can I config sendmail to reject mails to outside my domain? What exactly is it you're trying to do? If you're trying to prevent non-local users from submitting mail to it then that should be th

Re: [OT] Hardware recommendation

2000-12-28 Thread Jon Pennington
Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:14:47PM +0100, Stephan Kulka wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I should buy a new SCSI harddisk. In the box where it should be used, > > there is an ultrawide Adaptec controller. Are there any disk which are > > recommendend, the size should be around

Help installing Debian

2000-12-28 Thread Glenn Murray
Hi, I am trying to install Debian on two workstations. They have Promise Ultra66 cards to which the hard drive is attached. The install kernel does not support these cards, but the (CheapBytes) installation CD has in dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-1.44/udma66 a readme whic

Re: emacs & w3m -- "Cannot open load file: poe"

2000-12-28 Thread kmself
on Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 01:02:11AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > I'm reaquainting myself with emacs after a several years absense. > > Discovered there's a w3m module, but when I launch it under either emacs > or xemacs I get (different) error messages. > > emac

Re: Voodo3 3000

2000-12-28 Thread Cameron Matheson
This card is beautiful. I love it, my friends love it. I've tried on on X3 and X4, it's wonderful on both (slightly better on X4, but then older games that don't support DRI don't work). I would definately get this card though, good stuff. Cameron Matheson - Original Message - From: <

Re: Difference Dependency-Recommendation

2000-12-28 Thread Holger Rauch
Hello John! First of all, thanks for your quick reply! On 28 Dec 2000, John Hasler wrote: > [...] > > I think both have the same result: the packet (usually, unless explicitly > > overridden) gets installed. > > No. dpkg (which is what actually installs packages regardless of the > front-end)

Re: OFFTOPIC: can't start Quake2

2000-12-28 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, That only happens to me when I'm already playing a sound (other games, MIDI's, etc). I would make sure no other processes are running, and also that your sound is configured properly. Cameron Matheson - Original Message - From: Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, De

Running latest Mutt w/o SASL

2000-12-28 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi! I did a dist-upgrade today and among the things I got is a version of Mutt that uses the SASL libraries. I use Mutt to pick up mail from a RedHat 6.2 server running RH's default version of IMAP (UW, IIRC). Now, the problem is that I don't have SASL installed on the RH machine (and don't want t

Re: [OT] Free Web Hosting w/PHP4

2000-12-28 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 12:08:30PM -0600, ktb wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 09:00:02AM -0600, Jon Pennington wrote: > > Does anyone know if such a service exists? I'm looking for 3-5M of > > storage on an Apache server with PHP4, but no SQL database access. I > > just have a few flat files tha

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 08:12:05PM -0600, David A. Rogers wrote: > Kernel 150 - Compiling the kernel - is open for enrollment (The Debian > University document has been updated to include information on compiling the > kernel in the Debian way). > > Debian University can be found at: > > http://h

Re: [OT] Hardware recommendation

2000-12-28 Thread ktb
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:14:47PM +0100, Stephan Kulka wrote: > Hi all > > I should buy a new SCSI harddisk. In the box where it should be used, > there is an ultrawide Adaptec controller. Are there any disk which are > recommendend, the size should be around 15 -20 gigabyte, the price > doesn't

Re: [OT] Hardware recommendation

2000-12-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:14:47PM +0100, Stephan Kulka wrote: > Hi all > > I should buy a new SCSI harddisk. In the box where it should be used, > there is an ultrawide Adaptec controller. Are there any disk which are > recommendend, the size should be around 15 -20 gigabyte, the price > doesn't

Re: putting Apache into chroot()-prison

2000-12-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 01:35:50PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:57:27PM -0800 or thereabouts, Nate Amsden wrote: [ 21 lines deleted ] > > not to discourage youb ut its pretty well known chroot() is not > > an ultimate solution for security, it has been in the past > > rat

[OT] Hardware recommendation

2000-12-28 Thread Stephan Kulka
Hi all I should buy a new SCSI harddisk. In the box where it should be used, there is an ultrawide Adaptec controller. Are there any disk which are recommendend, the size should be around 15 -20 gigabyte, the price doesn't play such a role. Sorry for being off topic. Stephan

Re: Apache Error: srm.conf

2000-12-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Apache Error: srm.conf Date: Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:19:13PM -0600 In reply to:Rob VanFleet Quoting Rob VanFleet([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Apache has been running fine for some time now, and for some reason (I suppose > it was from something being upgraded, but I don't re

Re: [OT] Free Web Hosting w/PHP4

2000-12-28 Thread ktb
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 09:00:02AM -0600, Jon Pennington wrote: > Does anyone know if such a service exists? I'm looking for 3-5M of > storage on an Apache server with PHP4, but no SQL database access. I > just have a few flat files that the PHP scripts read from/write to. > There is in

Re: Filemap limit and Squid

2000-12-28 Thread Nate Amsden
it's in the squid FAQ http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-11.html#ss11.25 nate Debian GNU wrote: > > Hello List, > > I am using Debian Potato/Kernel 2.2.17. I have > configured my linux box as a dialup gateway to > internet. I am using Squid as a transparent proxy with > ipchains. At times

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