Re: What is "pgpewrap"?

2001-01-14 Thread kmself
on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 07:05:56PM -0500, Scott Fenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi. I'm working to get GPG encryption working on Mutt (on unstable). > My problem is that whenever I try to encrypt, mutt fails to send > complaining "sh: pgpewrap: command not found". What is pgpewrap, > and wha

Re: commercial ssl certs and sslwrap

2001-01-14 Thread Harlan Crystal
I don't know about the quality of the encryption, but if you ever want to use that SSL cert for the web or other services, if your cert isn't verified with them, a window will pop up for the users every time they access saying how it's insecure. I was under the impression that the encryption is

Re: why use Debian?

2001-01-14 Thread Ernest Tucker
I have been computing so long that I used to debug a computer that was built with RTL cars and had a 26 bit word. You either latched the program in by hand or loaded from octal tape. --- Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 03:00:22PM -0700, Monte > Milanuk wrote:

Re: Network settings and ppp

2001-01-14 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Elizabeth R. Chichester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Okay, I made a mistake. When I set up Debian on my home machine, I was # thinking in terms of a home network and so set up networking (through # eth0). Unfortunately, I got ahead of myself and don't have everything # set up. Specifically,

Re: Sound Blaster Live

2001-01-14 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
On January 14, 2001 11:44 pm, Tim 'trout' Apple wrote: > Hello, I'm new to the list and debian. I have a sound blaster live > sound card and was wondering if someone could direct me to a site or > give me dir's on what to do to get it functioning. Thanks Use the emu10k1 module. No parameters shou

Re: Sound Blaster Live

2001-01-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 10:44:26PM -0600, Tim 'trout' Apple wrote: > Hello, I'm new to the list and debian. I have a sound blaster live sound > card and was wondering if someone could direct me to a site or give me dir's > on what to do to get it functioning. Thanks Welcome. http://www.linuxn

Network settings and ppp

2001-01-14 Thread Elizabeth R. Chichester
Okay, I made a mistake. When I set up Debian on my home machine, I was thinking in terms of a home network and so set up networking (through eth0). Unfortunately, I got ahead of myself and don't have everything set up. Specifically, I didn't have internet access handled. I did set up wvdial dur

Sound Blaster Live

2001-01-14 Thread Tim 'trout' Apple
Hello, I'm new to the list and debian. I have a sound blaster live sound card and was wondering if someone could direct me to a site or give me dir's on what to do to get it functioning. Thanks trout PS I have a few other Q's to but i'll fix one thing at a time .

Re: missing consoles

2001-01-14 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 11:18:12PM +0100, Brendon wrote: > > > > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 ^^ This is the problem :) You don't start in other consoles in runlevel 5, except the first 1 ! > > 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 No 5 here matey ! Cliff

an xbuffy problem? [was Re: Why do I get this error message?]

2001-01-14 Thread Lance Simmons
I haven't really solved this, but at least the problem has gone away. What I didn't mention originally (because I didn't think of it) was that I had xbuffy set to blink the keyboard's led to signal new mail. As I thought through the different possible causes of this error message, I remembered that

Re: ipchains and 2.4

2001-01-14 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Jason Arden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # >>ipchains: Incompatible with this kernel<< Linux 2.4.0 contains another re-write of the network/filtering code. It's now called 'Netfilter', and it's pretty sweet, in my humble opinion. Anyways, it's a re-write, and there are a number of userspace cha

Re: ipchains and 2.4

2001-01-14 Thread Brian May
> "Jason" == Jason Arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> Hello everyone... I have migrated over from Redhat and Jason> Mandrake to Debian and am loving it. I had compiled 2.2.18 Jason> successfully a few months ago and had been using it Jason> awhile. I heard that 2.4 becam

ipchains and 2.4

2001-01-14 Thread Jason Arden
Hello everyone... I have migrated over from Redhat and Mandrake to Debian and am loving it. I had compiled 2.2.18 successfully a few months ago and had been using it awhile. I heard that 2.4 became stable so I compiled it and installed it... I cannot get ipchains to work... Im not sure if I missed

NVidia, Open Your Eyes (and Sources!) (was: Re: Nvidia + 2.4)

2001-01-14 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jan 14 2001, Kent Nyberg wrote: > I have X working in 2.2.18, both 2d and GLX, but i guess we would > have to wait for stupid NVidia to release some sort of a patch for > it. The one that's out there is not an official patch. All these difficulties wouldn't happen with an Open Source

PPPD dying unexpectadly

2001-01-14 Thread warfride
I'm trying to connect to the internet on my potato(2.2r0) box.   I use an onboard PCTEL modem and it's driver (yes it's a winmodem, but it has a driver and it worked on RedHat)   I've used WvDial to manage the connection, but have used various others ie, Gnomes one, manual connect script, KPP

Re: telnet ...Connection refused

2001-01-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 05:11:54AM +0200, Debian User wrote: > In /etc/exim.conf I have > local_domains = localhost:debian and > host_accept_relay = localhost > > In /etc/inetd.conf I have > smtpstream tcp waitmail/usr/sbin/exim > exim -bs

Re: AWE64 and ALSA

2001-01-14 Thread Patrick Cheong Shu Yang
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:04:47PM +0530, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: > James W. Lindenschmidt wrote: > --snip-- > > > get my AWE64 working under ALSA. Can anyone point > > me in the right direction to accomplish this? > > --snip-- I got my AWE64 working under OSS by using the following irq/dma/io

Re: Suggestions for dual processor

2001-01-14 Thread Nate Amsden
Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > > Hi Debians! > > I want to buy a new computer. My old one is a five year old P100. > > I want to set up a little debian network: > > The new server -- the old P100 -- a SUN LX as XTerminal -- a not yet > bought notebook -- and a 486 as router for the internet or sec

Re: gtv, mozilla, and X questions

2001-01-14 Thread Casey W. Liscum
Thomas J. Hamman writes: > gtv: For a while now, the gtv program in the smpeg-gtv package has been > locking up when I try to use it to play mpeg's. Is it working for > anyone else? I've had problems with this, too. SDL parachutes deploying (segfaults) and such... I've found that 'plaympeg'

Re: Creative Ensoniq modules..

2001-01-14 Thread mike
On at 11:39 on Sun 14 Jan, Stefan Srdic wrote: > mike wrote: > > > Well i use es1371 also, but lsmod only shows es1371. In any case you > > can try modprobe es1371 and it will automatically load any dependencies. > > Its been working with gtcd and XMMS for mp3. > > I get an (unuse

Re: video card suggestions

2001-01-14 Thread Nate Amsden
Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > > I am going to be purchasing a new system in the near future and am looking > for suggestions on video cards. This system will be with me for quite some > time, so I am looking for something that has at least decent support at > the moment but not necessarily rock-solid.

Re: telnet ...Connection refused

2001-01-14 Thread Nate Amsden
Debian User wrote: > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to 127.0.0.1. > Escape character is '^]'. > Connection closed by foreign host. a quick fix would probably be to comment out all lines in /etc/hosts.deny, or comment out the exim line in inetd.conf and restart exim by /etc/init.d/exim start. i p

Re: Wow, after weeks re-installing everything, I finally started x

2001-01-14 Thread Nate Amsden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK. "locate gnome" finds MANY files. But "gnome" at prompt returns: > bash: gnome: command not found. what are you trying to do? start the gnome enviornment? the gnome enviornment is many programs, and usually is loaded with the command 'gnome-session'. i do not belei

[Q]: bad superblock

2001-01-14 Thread Christian SPENER
installed under sid=unstable the new kernel with the latest lilo now i can't boot the normal way, it stops when mounting my root partition, with an superblock error, and the option to maintain with the root password, or strg+d to boot normal way. with strg+d it reboots, and with the password

Re: Wow, after weeks re-installing everything, I finally started x

2001-01-14 Thread Casey Webster
when you are in X, use ctrl-alt-Fx instead of just alt-Fx to switch to a virtual console. i believe the command you want to start gnome with is gnome-session, if you start X via startx you should put that command in your .xinitrc or if you start X via xdm, put it in .xsession. -Casey On Sun, 14

Re: Wow, after weeks re-installing everything, I finally started x

2001-01-14 Thread David B . Harris
To quote [EMAIL PROTECTED], # So, I guess it is progress. Finally succeeded on Mitsubishi Amity laptop # with xf86config, using monochrome VGA and lowest resolutions. OK, now X will # start, and a get cross-hatched screen with a big black X in the middle. But # system is not responsive to key

Re: gtv, mozilla, and X questions

2001-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
"Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >gtv: For a while now, the gtv program in the smpeg-gtv package has been >locking up when I try to use it to play mpeg's. Is it working for >anyone else? I've had that problem; IIRC, I sort of tracked it to SDL weirdness, but eventually noticed a com

Wow, after weeks re-installing everything, I finally started x

2001-01-14 Thread DTi4565459
So, I guess it is progress. Finally succeeded on Mitsubishi Amity laptop with xf86config, using monochrome VGA and lowest resolutions. OK, now X will start, and a get cross-hatched screen with a big black X in the middle. But system is not responsive to keystrokes, like alt-F2 to try to star

Re: Creative Ensoniq modules..

2001-01-14 Thread Stefan Srdic
mike wrote: > Well i use es1371 also, but lsmod only shows es1371. In any case you > can try modprobe es1371 and it will automatically load any dependencies. > Its been working with gtcd and XMMS for mp3. I get an (unused) remark beside my es1371 module after listing the currently

Re: Cross-Platform Development?

2001-01-14 Thread D-Man
Put the other two suggestions together and use Python with wxPython (python bindings for wxWindows). I would highly recommend python instead of C/C++ becuase you won't have any compilation headaches or overhead while developing or deploying. You may also want to consider GTK as the gui toolkit.

Teac CDR-drive

2001-01-14 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Has anyone tried using the Teac CDW58E 8x8x32 ide cdrw drive with xcdroast or cdrecord? Compusa has them this week for $99. It appears that other Teac IDE drives work under linux (their new 10x8x32 is listed). Thanks for any advise. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.ne

wvdial connects, but then ppp gets launched and crashes

2001-01-14 Thread DTi4565459
First, thanks to many who have tried to help me with multiple newbie problems. I appreciate. Now trying to connect to modem pool of my university ISP. wvdial connects, but then says "Hu Prompt detected" and launches ppp, and then ppp hangs, and starts trying all over again. I found wv

telnet ...Connection refused

2001-01-14 Thread Debian User
Hello all. I have been trying to set up my 'email' system on my computer, on which I recently installed Debian 2.2r0. I intend to use exim, procmail, fetchmail, and mutt. At the moment I am having problems with fetchmail or is it with exim or [...fill the space yourself...]. I have been trying

Re: Creative Ensoniq modules..

2001-01-14 Thread mike
On Sun Jan14 at 18:17 , J. Davis wrote: > Here is what I get from lsmod. Not sire what "soundlow" is. > > > sound 59104 0 (unused) > soundlow 464 0 [sound] > es1371 24656 2 > soundcore 2896 7 [sound es1371] > > > Stefan Srdi

Re: video card suggestions

2001-01-14 Thread Sean
I've been very happy with my Matrox G400 MAX 32MB card The support for it is very good, it won't cook the other components in your case. As far as 2D acceleration, it's wonderful. As far as 3D acceleration it's good enough for me. I play the occasional bout of Q3 or UT, and thoroughly enjoy mor

Re: OT:Motherboards and Processors

2001-01-14 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jan 13 2001, tjm wrote: > Computer show today and looking for any recommendations > for stable motherboard and processor combinations in the > 700-800Mhz range, 133 Mhz bus and it doesn't matter whether > it's AMD or Intel for the chip. Well, I can say that I'm quite, quite happy with t

Re: video card suggestions

2001-01-14 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 04:47:31PM -0800, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > I am looking for input on performance, installation, drivers, x servers, > anything, related to 3d cards out there today. Direct experience would > help. I am very satisfied with my Geforce256. Last time I checked it offered gre

video card suggestions

2001-01-14 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
I am going to be purchasing a new system in the near future and am looking for suggestions on video cards. This system will be with me for quite some time, so I am looking for something that has at least decent support at the moment but not necessarily rock-solid. The new system is going to be a d

Re: strange permissions

2001-01-14 Thread kmself
on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:18:08AM +0200, Tommi Komulainen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:03:19AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > > ?---rwS--- 28781 14368285154294967295 Sep 29 1997 beta_test.frm > > > > ive never seen this before! the permissions (and filesi

Re: AFS for Debian?

2001-01-14 Thread kmself
on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 05:17:32PM -0500, Andrew Perrin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Folks- > > I'll likely be beginning work this summer at a campus whose network > strongly encourages the use of AFS (which used to stand for Andrew File > System). Unfortunately, the campus documentation suggest

commercial ssl certs and sslwrap

2001-01-14 Thread Nate Amsden
im curious if anyone has used a commercial ssl certificate from someone like verisign with sslwrap? ive read many places that in general self signed certs(and the tools that generate them) can have much poorer quality encryption(much has to do with the inability to get truely random data) then th

Re: How do you modify WindowMaker menus?

2001-01-14 Thread kmself
on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 07:24:20AM -0800, Denzil Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I want to add gmc to one of my windowmaker menus, > however, I've not been able to get it done. Does > anyone know how to accomplish this? I've created my own top-level menu ~/GNUStep/Defaults/WMRootMenu, attached

Re: Can I suppress all pgp messages?

2001-01-14 Thread mike
On Sat Jan13 at 01:06 , Lance Simmons wrote: > I think this was discussed recently, but I can't find it. > > How can I make everything to do with pgp disappear from the pager? No > one sends me encrypted messages and I don't send them to anyone. Can I > just suppress all references to encryption?

What is "pgpewrap"?

2001-01-14 Thread Scott Fenton
Hi. I'm working to get GPG encryption working on Mutt (on unstable). My problem is that whenever I try to encrypt, mutt fails to send complaining "sh: pgpewrap: command not found". What is pgpewrap, and what package is it in. TIA Scott Fenton PS. please forward replies to me, as I'm not on -use

Re: gtv, mozilla, and X questions

2001-01-14 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # X: The "xhost localhost" thing doesn't seem to work with X 4; what do I # need to do to allow my gf to run programs with her user when we're # logged into X as my user? I think the correct syntax is 'xhost +localhost'. However, if that doesn't wo

gtv, mozilla, and X questions

2001-01-14 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
I'm using unstable and having a few issues I could use some help with X: The "xhost localhost" thing doesn't seem to work with X 4; what do I need to do to allow my gf to run programs with her user when we're logged into X as my user? gtv: For a while now, the gtv program in the smpeg-gtv p

Re: missing consoles

2001-01-14 Thread Defresne Sylvain
* Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Brendon wrote: > > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> for some reason i can only use one console. when i > >>> 2> i get a blank screen with a blinking cursor. > >>> > >>> only one getty is started (checked process') after boot (init 5). > >>> anyone know a solutio

Re: strange permissions

2001-01-14 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:03:19AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > ?---rwS--- 28781 14368285154294967295 Sep 29 1997 beta_test.frm > > ive never seen this before! the permissions (and filesizes) are all out > of whack... Looks like a textbook-example of a corrupted filesystem. You ne

Re: Creative Ensoniq modules..

2001-01-14 Thread J. Davis
Here is what I get from lsmod. Not sire what "soundlow" is. sound 59104 0 (unused) soundlow 464 0 [sound] es1371 24656 2 soundcore 2896 7 [sound es1371] Stefan Srdic wrote: I just upgraded my sound card from an Vibra 16x

strange permissions

2001-01-14 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
hi all, over the last week or so a few of our users directories have started to have all sorts of funny permissions set on them [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/www/mysql/data/eyecandy# ls -la |more total 10313733596 drwx--2 mysqlroot 4096 Nov 6 19:02 . drwxrwx--- 54 mysqlroot

Creative Ensoniq modules..

2001-01-14 Thread Stefan Srdic
I just upgraded my sound card from an Vibra 16x to a Creative Ensoniq PCI. My question is, which modules do I need to use this card. I know that the es1371.o module will work with the card, but what other modules do I need to load in order to play midi and wave files and to listen to audio CDs? T

Re: missing consoles

2001-01-14 Thread Brendon
On Sunday 14 January 2001 23:31, Kent West wrote: > Brendon wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> for some reason i can only use one console. when i 2> > >>> i get a blank screen with a blinking cursor. > >>> > >>> only one getty is started (checked process') after boot (init 5). > >>> anyone know a s

Re: missing consoles

2001-01-14 Thread Kent West
Brendon wrote: Hi all, for some reason i can only use one console. when i 2> i get a blank screen with a blinking cursor. only one getty is started (checked process') after boot (init 5). anyone know a solution? Do you have some lines similar to this in your /etc/inittab file? If not, I th

Re: Missing tty2-6

2001-01-14 Thread Diego Biurrun
Have a look at /etc/inittab. Do you have the lines 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3 4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4 5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5 6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6 in it ? And what is your def

Re: missing consoles

2001-01-14 Thread Kent West
Brendon wrote: Hi all, for some reason i can only use one console. when i 2> i get a blank screen with a blinking cursor. only one getty is started (checked process') after boot (init 5). anyone know a solution? Do you have some lines similar to this in your /etc/inittab file? If not, I th

Re: Building a kernel

2001-01-14 Thread Diego Biurrun
Hi ! Well, you can do it like in other rpm-based distros, but there is a much more elegant way of doing it. Install the package kernel-package (as root run "apt-get install kernel-package") and then just do: 1. cd /usr/src/linux 2. make menuconfig 3. make-kpkg kernel-image 4. dpkg -i ../kernel-i

Re: missing consoles

2001-01-14 Thread Philippe Marzouk
Le dim, 14 jan 2001 23:18:12, Brendon a écrit : > > > Hi all, > > > > > > for some reason i can only use one console. when i > 2> i > > > get a blank screen with a blinking cursor. > > > > > > only one getty is started (checked process') after boot (init 5). > anyone > > > know a solution? > > >

AFS for Debian?

2001-01-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
Folks- I'll likely be beginning work this summer at a campus whose network strongly encourages the use of AFS (which used to stand for Andrew File System). Unfortunately, the campus documentation suggests that it is available only for kernel 2.2.10 and below, and the vendor's (transarc.ibm.com) s

Re: missing consoles

2001-01-14 Thread Brendon
> > Hi all, > > > > for some reason i can only use one console. when i 2> i > > get a blank screen with a blinking cursor. > > > > only one getty is started (checked process') after boot (init 5). anyone > > know a solution? > > Do you have some lines similar to this in your /etc/inittab file? If

Re: as86 solved

2001-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
Tommi Komulainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 12:42:38PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: >> I wonder why bin86 wasn't included in the >> dependancies for kernel-package and >> kernel-source-2.2.18pre21 > >I wondered this myself once, enough to file a bug against kernel-package. >But

Re: missing consoles

2001-01-14 Thread Kent West
William Leese wrote: Hi all, for some reason i can only use one console. when i 2> i get a blank screen with a blinking cursor. only one getty is started (checked process') after boot (init 5). anyone know a solution? William Leese Do you have some lines similar to this in your /etc

Re: Can't "talk" to user on same machine

2001-01-14 Thread Kent West
Brian Frederick Kimball wrote: Kent West wrote: My "/etc/inetd.conf file looks like: . . . talkdgram udp waitnobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.talkd ## ntalk dgram udp waitnobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd . . . Is

Re: Linux 2.4.0 on Debian 2.2 R2

2001-01-14 Thread Michael Madden
When I used dpkg to install the new modutils package, it gave me the option of installing a new /etc/modules file. If you choose yes, it gives you a basic /etc/modules files just with comments. You'll need to put in a line for each module you want loaded. For example, my /etc/modules looks like

Re: audio filesystem

2001-01-14 Thread Angel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am having trouble mounting audio filesystem in my CD-RW. > probably specifying the file system might solve the problem. > iso9660 filesystem is not accepted. Of course the audio CDs ar not iso9660, they are raw disks, you only have tracks, normaly one f

rescue kernel image

2001-01-14 Thread Xucaen
yikes! I just compiled a kernel, and I know it works because I did make zdisk and it boots and it detects my soundblaster CD ROM drive, but when I cp the image to /floppy/linux and run ./rdev.sh, it says "invalid or corrupt kernel image" how do I copy the kernel image that I compiled onto the rescu

Re: as86 solved

2001-01-14 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 12:42:38PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > I wonder why bin86 wasn't included in the > dependancies for kernel-package and > kernel-source-2.2.18pre21 I wondered this myself once, enough to file a bug against kernel-package. But it is a design decision as Debian runs on many pla

missing consoles

2001-01-14 Thread William Leese
Hi all, for some reason i can only use one console. when i 2> i get a blank screen with a blinking cursor. only one getty is started (checked process') after boot (init 5). anyone know a solution? William Leese

Re: running xconfig

2001-01-14 Thread mike
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 04:59:12PM +0100, Brendon wrote: > when opening an xterminal in kde2 and attempting to run make xconfig in > /usr/src/kernel-source-x.y.z/ i get the following error: > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > Ap

as86 solved

2001-01-14 Thread Xucaen
thanks all!!! i've installed bin86 and the kernel is compiling away. I wonder why bin86 wasn't included in the dependancies for kernel-package and kernel-source-2.2.18pre21 anyhoo, thanks!!! xucaen the forever grateful debian newbie __ Do You Y

Re: as86 command not found

2001-01-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
as86 is the assembler for 80x86 processors. It is included in the bin86 package in potato. apt-get install bin86 binutils contains as, which is the GNU assembler. I don't know if that will support the kernel source, however. On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 12:19:45PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all.. > I

Re: as86 command not found

2001-01-14 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 12:19:45PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > what is as86? what package does it belong to? Can > it be installed via apt-get? as86 is a 16-bit assembler for x86-architecture. You can install it with apt-get install bin86. as86 is not needed anymore for compiling 2.4-series kernels, t

Re: as86 command not found

2001-01-14 Thread Lance Simmons
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 12:19:45PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > > what is as86? what package does it belong to? Can > it be installed via apt-get? > You can always check http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages under "Search the Contents of the Latest Release" to find the package to which a file belon

Re: as86 command not found

2001-01-14 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 12:19:45 -0800 (PST), Xucaen wrote: >what is as86? what package does it belong to? Can >it be installed via apt-get? It's a 16-bit assembler that is needed for the kernel's boot sector. It's part of the "bin86" package, and yes, you can install it via apt-get. -- Sign the

Re: as86 command not found

2001-01-14 Thread Casey W. Liscum
Xucaen writes: > what is as86? what package does it belong to? Can > it be installed via apt-get? as86 is an assembler for 80x86 processors It belongs to package 'bin86' -- Casey W. Liscum "This sentence contains only one nonstandard English flutzpah." -- David Moser

Re: as86 command not found

2001-01-14 Thread Romain Lerallut
it's in bin86 HTH Romain Xucaen wrote: > > Hi all.. > I'm compiling a kernel, and everything goes well, > untill the very end, when I get a make error: > > as86: command not found > > I need to create a boot disk by compiling a > custom kernel, but the kernel that is produced is > not bootable

Re: Cross-Platform Development?

2001-01-14 Thread jake
I'm only a beginner but I understand that python is an excellent tool for what you seek. it comes with tkinter which is cross platform gui toolkit. Python is also rediculously easy to get and install on any platform. Andreas Gartus wrote: > > Hi Everybody! > > I plan to develop a little GUI appl

as86 command not found

2001-01-14 Thread Xucaen
Hi all.. I'm compiling a kernel, and everything goes well, untill the very end, when I get a make error: as86: command not found I need to create a boot disk by compiling a custom kernel, but the kernel that is produced is not bootable. what is as86? what package does it belong to? Can it be in

PostgreSQL 7.1 progress

2001-01-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
I'm in the process of packaging PostgreSQL 7.1beta3. It's not yet completing the build successfully, but it's now a question of changing debian/rules and the various files and dirs files. There may still remain some problems with perl-dependent stuff; perl is HELL! (metaphorically :-)) I'm also

Re: NIS /NIS+ problem

2001-01-14 Thread Nate Amsden
forgot to cc: the list .. Nate Amsden wrote: > > NIS+ and NIS are very different. NIS+ can work > with encrypted passwords and use shadow. > > see > > http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/nisplus/other.html > > on info on how to get nis+ workin..good luck :) > > i tried this a couple years ago on debian

Re: Can't "talk" to user on same machine

2001-01-14 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Brian Frederick Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Is "##" in front of the ntalk line? The wrapping of the text # makes this difficult to parse. IIRC you need ntalk enabled. You can # always run tcpdump on the interface being used to see what port the # talk program is trying to connect to

Re: default route

2001-01-14 Thread jake
Maybe not the most elegent solution but have you thought of puting the route add command into an rc script. -Jake Matt Chipman wrote: > > Thanks for all the replies everybody, the problem is still there, and > whatever route i put in /etc/network/interfaces still doesnt apply at boot. > > I am

Re: audio filesystem

2001-01-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 14:37:24 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am having trouble mounting audio filesystem in my CD-RW. That's understandable, as the standard Linux kernel has no filesystem for audio CDs. > Do you know if audio cd's has a special filesystem name that might work? You'll nee

audio filesystem

2001-01-14 Thread MrHobbit420
I am having trouble mounting audio filesystem in my CD-RW. probably specifying the file system might solve the problem. iso9660 filesystem is not accepted. Do you know if audio cd's has a special filesystem name that might work? thanks

Re: How do you modify WindowMaker menus?

2001-01-14 Thread Denzil Kelly
Thanks for all the advice. I just decided to dock the app instead of putting it in the menu. Now I'll just have to find a nice icon for it. --- Denzil Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It does handle menu entries for things I install > with > apt-get. When I initially installed potato, gmc > appe

Re: Software for making phone calls?

2001-01-14 Thread Charlie Kroeger
Anthony Campbell wrote: > Any software for Linux to let you make phone calls via the computer? Plate of Shrimp...well maybe you didn't see 'Repo Man' a seminal moment of film making... There was just an article in Linux Journal regarding this, tricky reading for me anyway, but the writer, Gr

Re: running xconfig

2001-01-14 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, for having authorization you must not have suid in the xsession. you can build the kernel as user, and when finished, su to root and do make modules_install and install arch/i386/boot/bzImage. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Brendon wrote: > when opening an xterminal in kde2 and at

Re: Cross-Platform Development?

2001-01-14 Thread Jason K. Fritcher
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Andreas Gartus wrote: > I plan to develop a little GUI application (GPLed of course ;-) using > Debian/GNU-Linux as primary development environment. Unfortunately the > app also has to run on Windoze... :-(( > Does anybody have experience developing such cross-platform apps? Ca

Xemian Gimp 1.2 works-Thanks all-Final Q...

2001-01-14 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, The Xemian gimp 1.2 seems to have done the trick. I have a few doubts though... 1. Even though in the woody directory on Xemian the file name for the deb ends in potato. I assume that this was compiled for potato then. 2. Either way, just upgrading libgtk1.2.7 to libgtlk1.2.8 and gimp1.04 to

Re: iptables problem

2001-01-14 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Igor Khavkine wrote: > Hi, I'm running unstable with a custom built linux-2.4.0. I'm trying > to setup a firewall rule with iptables the following way: > > iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -p tcp --dport 5865 -j REJECT > > The error message I get is: > ipchains: Protocol not available > > If I chage R

Re: Can't "talk" to user on same machine

2001-01-14 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Kent West wrote: > My "/etc/inetd.conf file looks like: > . . . > talkdgram udp waitnobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/in.talkd > ## > ntalk dgram udp waitnobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd > . . . Is "##" in front of the nt

Re: Can't "talk" to user on same machine

2001-01-14 Thread Kent West
Sebastiaan wrote: HI, you can try to do as user: $ mesg y It could be that you have your messages turned off. Greetz, Sebastian Sorry; meant to include that in my list of specs. Already tried that; no difference. Thanks anyway. On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Kent West wrote: I'm trying to ge

Re: running xconfig

2001-01-14 Thread David B . Harris
To quote William Leese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # i was. # tried: # # $ xhost +local: # # but it gives the same error. In order for 'xhost' to work, you have to be the user who started to X session; so: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xhost +local [EMAIL PROTECTED] su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make xconfig T

iptables problem

2001-01-14 Thread Igor Khavkine
Hi, I'm running unstable with a custom built linux-2.4.0. I'm trying to setup a firewall rule with iptables the following way: iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -p tcp --dport 5865 -j REJECT The error message I get is: ipchains: Protocol not available If I chage REJECT to DROP everything works perfectly

Cross-Platform Development?

2001-01-14 Thread Andreas Gartus
Hi Everybody! I plan to develop a little GUI application (GPLed of course ;-) using Debian/GNU-Linux as primary development environment. Unfortunately the app also has to run on Windoze... :-(( Does anybody have experience developing such cross-platform apps? Can you recommend a language or a tool

rescue disk doesn't support soundblaster

2001-01-14 Thread Xucaen
Hi all.. I know this has come up before, but I'm really confused. I have a soundblaster 16 CD ROM, but the rescue disk doesn't support this. I have read all the documentation that came with the debian distro 2.2r2 as well as the documentation on the debian.org web site, and the CD ROM HOWTO at lin

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Re: SVGA server

2001-01-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 08:24:07PM -0500, marty razorback wrote: > I have installed potato from a CD. The SVGA server does not install (I have > tried several times.) I know it exsits on the CD. I have a Trident 975 AGP > video card. Can anyone tell me how to install the SVGA server, either > d

Re: New Gimp 1.2 in pool is...?

2001-01-14 Thread Jonathan Gift
Colin Watson wrote: I too would be worried about using woody apps on my potato system, but the helix gimp file name did end in potato even though in woody directory. Like I said earlier, I aded it and the new libgtk 1.2.8 all as debs and everything seems to work All my gtk apps are running and so

Re: How do you modify WindowMaker menus?

2001-01-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 05:55:00PM +0100, Michal F. Hanula wrote: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 07:24:20AM -0800, Denzil Kelly wrote: > > I want to add gmc to one of my windowmaker menus, > > however, I've not been able to get it done. Does > > anyone know how to accomplish this? > > > Edit /etc/X11/W

Re: KDE packages?

2001-01-14 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Huh? I'm not playing with testing, so that would mean I wouldn't get kde updates. Not sure that makes any sense. Last I heard, Ivan was leaving 2.01 and allowing potato users to pull down 2.1 unstable with single addition of 'beta' to sources list. On Sunday 14 January 2001 07:59, Olaf Fo

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