epson stylus color 740 - ugly printing

2001-01-15 Thread Erik Steffl
I have epson stylus color 740 printer and cupsys 1.1.4-3 the printing seems to be working but: lp -d epson740 picture.jpg # 360 dpi prints a picture but it's ugly, the colors are quite off (not completely off, just noticeably different) lp -d epson740_720 picture.jpg# 720 dp

Is there any way to prevent a package from upgrading?

2001-01-15 Thread Lance Simmons
I really like apt-get upgrade, but there's a package I don't want to upgrade. The version of apsfilter in unstable right now says that it requires a version of ghostscript that hasn't yet made it to unstable. Perhaps it would be possible to make it work without the more recent version of ghostscrip

Problem fetching mail from MS Exchange server

2001-01-15 Thread Cyrus Patel
Hello all, I have set up fetchmail to get mail from our local MS Exchange server. It has been working fine up till now. Now it does not seem to be able to fetch my mail anymore. I am using woody, fetchmail version is "Version: 5.5.3-1". Here is my log entry: fetchmail: 5.5.3 querying 10.61.1.

Re: cannot boot laptop after kernel upgrade

2001-01-15 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 05:00:48 +, Phil Brutsche said: > > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:44:20 -0600 (CST), Phil Brutsche said: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > No, not a bad floppy. I think ThinkPads only seem to boot with the > Tecra disk. > > > > >

Re: Help! Wrecking my system trying to get sound

2001-01-15 Thread Monte Milanuk
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > I don't know. Maybe it'll show up as an ISAPNP device (mine shows up > under both, though only the controller shows up as a PCI device). These > on board things are a little weird. Try pnpdump. Here is the output of pnpdump. It is kinda long, but no mention of a CS

aspell libpspell-imp dependency workaround (unstable)

2001-01-15 Thread kmself
A fix to this problem has been uploaded but I couldn't access it. aspell in unstable currently fails unable to find /usr/lib/libpspell-impl.so.2. *.3 is the current version of libpspell-impl Until the update is available, you can run: $ cd /usr/lib $ ln -s libpspell-impl.so.3. libpspell

Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-15 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:04:10AM +, Tiarnan O Corrain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 06:38:54PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > > Does anyone know any utility to make pdf files from dvi or ps ones? I > > > believe pdf is just an enhanced version of ps, but am not sur

Help! with Error 23 (among other things)

2001-01-15 Thread Cam Ellison
I hardly know where to start... I am running woody, and flirted with linuxconf before getting rid of it, and in the process tried to eliminate exim from my system because I couldn't figure out how to configure it properly to send (received just fine). All this may be irrelevant, but I mention it

Re: Creative Ensoniq modules..

2001-01-15 Thread Stefan Srdic
"John S. J. Anderson" wrote: > Permissions problem on /dev/dsp? User not in audio and/or cdrom > groups? > > john. Thank you so much for your words of wisdom :-D I edited the /etc/group file and inserted my user name beside the audio group. I've been able to access my Ensoniq card ever since..

Re: cannot boot laptop after kernel upgrade

2001-01-15 Thread Pollywog
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:44:20 -0600 (CST), Phil Brutsche said: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I don't know how that could happen, I did "make oldconfig" > > That would do it... > > The driver file

Re: could not open default font 'fixed'

2001-01-15 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Ker Ruben Ramos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Thanks guys! # > 'xfonts-base'. You could also 'apt-get install task-x-window-system' and # > you'll get tons of stuff. For a more minimal(but actually working :) # > install, 'apt-get install task-x-window-system-core'. You can also use # > 'taskse

Re: could not open default font 'fixed'

2001-01-15 Thread Ker Ruben Ramos
Thanks guys! - Original Message - From: "David B. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ker Ruben Ramos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 12:53 PM Subject: Re: could not open default font 'fixed' > To quote "Ker Ruben Ramos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # I've got a Fatal se

Re: could not open default font 'fixed'

2001-01-15 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Ker Ruben Ramos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I've got a Fatal server error while trying to start X. I've got # xfonts-100dpi and 75dpi installed.. anybody know what package do i need to # have the 'fixed' font? 'xfonts-base'. You could also 'apt-get install task-x-window-system' and you'll ge

Re: Help! Wrecking my system trying to get sound

2001-01-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:45:51PM -0700, Monte Milanuk wrote: > Umm... this is making me nervous... lspci shows my NIC and my video > adapter (both onboard) but not the sound. Any ideas? > > ishamael:/home/monte# lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge >

Re: cannot boot laptop after kernel upgrade

2001-01-15 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I don't know how that could happen, I did "make oldconfig" That would do it... The driver file system struture changed quite a bit in 2.4 > > Um... what errors did you get when you tried

Re: wvdial connects, but then ppp gets launched and crashes

2001-01-15 Thread Jeffrey Nowakowski
Have you tried "apt-get install minicom"? You also might want to try running pppconfig instead of wvdial. This isn't expert advice, just something else to try. -Jeff > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:27:21 EST > > First, thanks to many who have tried to help me with multipl

could not open default font 'fixed'

2001-01-15 Thread Ker Ruben Ramos
I've got a Fatal server error while trying to start X. I've got xfonts-100dpi and 75dpi installed.. anybody know what package do i need to have the 'fixed' font?

Re: [OT] two domains and one ip / apache

2001-01-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:09:57PM -0600, ktb wrote: > I've been searching for a while in the Apache documentation. I have > heard it is possible to have a working setup where you have one ip and > two domain names. Do I use aliasing with Apache to do this on the > server side or what? The examp

Fw: Moron X not working

2001-01-15 Thread hammack
  - Original Message - From: Joris Lambrecht To: 'hammack' Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 4:02 AM Subject: RE: Moron X not working   Hi,,   why not use xf86config to set up everything you'll probably see your trackball listed ...   also take a look at http://www.xfree86.org   rega

Re: [OT] two domains and one ip / apache

2001-01-15 Thread kmself
on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:09:57PM -0600, ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've been searching for a while in the Apache documentation. I have > heard it is possible to have a working setup where you have one ip and > two domain names. Do I use aliasing with Apache to do this on the > server side

Re: Internal PCI modem with Potato

2001-01-15 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 09:40:51PM -, Mark Scott wrote: > Hello all > > I am having trouble getting my linux to recognise my pci internal modem. I > am new to the Intel platform but have succesfully managed to install potato > on my m68k mac and connect using ppp albeit with an external modem

Re: Starting Program as non-root

2001-01-15 Thread kmself
on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 05:52:02PM -0900, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 05:56:52PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:55:25PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I need to start up a program (setiathome) as

Re: cannot boot laptop after kernel upgrade

2001-01-15 Thread Pollywog
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:13:36 -0600 (CST), Phil Brutsche said: > > Looks like you forgot to compile in the IDE drivers :) I don't know how that could happen, I did "make oldconfig" > > > I then rebooted to the old kernel, 2.2.16 successfully and tried > > installing the new kernel image a

Re: Epson Stylus Photo 870

2001-01-15 Thread Matthew Dalton
Jay Ford wrote: > Text printing works, which is good. The problem is that graphic > (PostScript...) doesn't work well or at all, probably because I don't have > the right printcap entries, gs devices, and/or magicfilter filters. I dug > through the HOWTOs, list archives, & other places, but can't

Re: cannot boot laptop after kernel upgrade

2001-01-15 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 04:01:40 + (UTC), Pollywog said: > I installed kernel 2.4.0 on my ThinkPad 560 and after I was done, I > made sure /etc/lilo.conf was correct and ran lilo, and I rebooted. > This is what I got: > > request_module[block-major-3] root fs not mounted > > VFS: cannot o

Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-15 Thread Jim McCloskey
> Does anyone know any utility to make pdf files from dvi or ps ones? I > believe pdf is just an enhanced version of ps, but am not sure. There was a *long* thread about this on the list recently. Search the archives. Briefly, the options are: . run pdftex or pdflatex, rather than tex or late

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-15 Thread Ignasi Tura
I hate Windows (1995-now) so I start to get interested in Linux. (1997) but I don't have the adequate attitude/knowledge (1998. Debian 2.0 install ok but problems with Winblows, still needed at the time). I keep on trying (1999. RedHat, but flakey e

Re: Creative Ensoniq modules..

2001-01-15 Thread Ignasi Tura
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:03:56AM -0700, Stefan Srdic wrote: > 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

Re: cannot boot laptop after kernel upgrade

2001-01-15 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I installed kernel 2.4.0 on my ThinkPad 560 and after I was done, I > made sure /etc/lilo.conf was correct and ran lilo, and I rebooted. > This is what I got: > > request_module[block-major-

[OT] two domains and one ip / apache

2001-01-15 Thread ktb
I've been searching for a while in the Apache documentation. I have heard it is possible to have a working setup where you have one ip and two domain names. Do I use aliasing with Apache to do this on the server side or what? The examples I see use aliasing for sub domains. I want one domain to

Epson Stylus Photo 870

2001-01-15 Thread Jay Ford
In an effort to print to my Epson Stylus Photo 870, I have the following installed: package version --- --- gs-aladdin 6.50-2 lprng 3.7.4-1 magicfilter 1.2-39 on my Debian box (mostly potato but with 2.4.0-test5 kern

cannot boot laptop after kernel upgrade

2001-01-15 Thread Pollywog
I installed kernel 2.4.0 on my ThinkPad 560 and after I was done, I made sure /etc/lilo.conf was correct and ran lilo, and I rebooted. This is what I got: request_module[block-major-3] root fs not mounted VFS: cannot open root device "301" or 03:01 Please append a correct "root= " boot option K

Re: Internal PCI modem with Potato

2001-01-15 Thread Ronald L. Chichester
Mark Scott wrote: > Hello all > > I am having trouble getting my linux to recognise my pci internal modem. I > am new to the Intel platform but have succesfully managed to install potato > on my m68k mac and connect using ppp albeit with an external modem. > > I have searched the archives and was

Re: **NVIDIA driver petition**

2001-01-15 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 02:50:32PM -0500, Terry Warner wrote: > If I remember correctly when I was out there .. what prevents them from open > sourcing it, is the OpenGL code they use in their drivers. > > Something with the OpenGL code, and something with SGI (If memory serves me > right). I ha

Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-15 Thread John Griffiths
>> Like dvipdf or dvipdfm or dvips and ps2pdf ? > >Do you know what package they're in, or whether they're available to >install using apt-get? apt-get install gs that will get you ghostscript which contains most of the utilities you need apt-get install xpdf or xpdf-i if you use non-US has

Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 09:46:43PM +, Tiarnan O Corrain wrote: > Dear All, > > Does anyone know any utility to make pdf files from dvi or ps ones? I > believe pdf is just an enhanced version of ps, but am not sure. dvipdfm is my favorite method. Works far better than ps2pdf IMHO. Mi

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 02:07:25PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ethan> just overwriting it. this is the Right Way to do a > Ethan> bootloader IMO, that way you don't have any possiblity of a > Ethan> grub package upgrade break

Re: Creative Ensoniq modules..

2001-01-15 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan Srdic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With all of this I still can't get my sound card to work, I do know > that the device works because I have ran esd and heard the sample > that plays. But I cant used any programs like XMMS or CD playing > sof

re: 'No spool file found' with printtool

2001-01-15 Thread James Lindenschmidt
I didn't know printtool existed for Debian, although I did use printtool when I ran Red Hat. For Debian, try running magicfilter. I have an HP DeskJet 812C (the same printer, just a different number painted on) and magicfilter set it up nicely on my Debian potato box. Make sure you have magicfilt

Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-15 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 06:38:54PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > Does anyone know any utility to make pdf files from dvi or ps ones? I > > believe pdf is just an enhanced version of ps, but am not sure. > > > > Help much appreciated > > Like dvipdf or dvipdfm or dvips and ps2pdf ? Do you kn

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-15 Thread Brian May
> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ethan> just overwriting it. this is the Right Way to do a Ethan> bootloader IMO, that way you don't have any possiblity of a Ethan> grub package upgrade breaking or altering your current Ethan> bootloader setup. You mean b

re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-15 Thread James Lindenschmidt
There is a ghostscript utility called 'ps2pdf' that will convert a postscript to a .pdf file. Syntax is: ps2pdf input_file.ps output_file.pdf See man ps2pdf for more info. PDF is a compressed version of PS, as far as I know... > Does anyone know any utility to make pdf files from dvi or ps ones?

Re: Starting Program as non-root

2001-01-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 05:56:52PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:55:25PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I need to start up a program (setiathome) as non-root from the startup > > scripts. I have access to the scripts, I just want it to ru

Re: strange permissions

2001-01-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:37:17PM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > > what is the no-mod option of fsck all about? i dont see it on the man page > nor is there an option for it... fsck -n /dev/hda4 which will flood the screen with errors saying `no' to all fix questions. no changes will be ma

Re: Making PDF files from dvi - word of warning

2001-01-15 Thread John Griffiths
>> Does anyone know any utility to make pdf files from dvi or ps ones? I >> believe pdf is just an enhanced version of ps, but am not sure. >> >> Help much appreciated > >Like dvipdf or dvipdfm or dvips and ps2pdf ? PDF's made with proprietary Adobe software get amazingly small file sizes throu

Re: Help! Wrecking my system trying to get sound

2001-01-15 Thread Monte Milanuk
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > Yea I'd grab a copy of 2.2.18 from ftp.kernel.org (or suitable mirror) > and try the cs4226 module (I recall it showed up in 2.2.17 and is for > these newer mobo/soundcard jobs). You still probably want to try lspci > to get I/O, IRQ and DMA parameters. It's easier t

Re: Creative Ensoniq modules..

2001-01-15 Thread Stefan Srdic
"Francisco M . Neto" wrote: > » mike said this and I say that: > > > 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 de

Re: OT: X window-managers

2001-01-15 Thread Ignasi Tura
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:23:26AM -0600, ktb wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:47:28AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > > Hi all. I'm curious.. > > I installed X for the first(?) time last weekend > > and I installed FVWM. I had heard about Gnome, > > but decided not to use it because I wanted > > somet

Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 09:46:43PM +, Tiarnan O Corrain wrote: > Dear All, > > Does anyone know any utility to make pdf files from dvi or ps ones? I > believe pdf is just an enhanced version of ps, but am not sure. > > Help much appreciated Like dvipdf or dvipdfm or dvips and ps2pdf ? --

Re: security updates?

2001-01-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:08:19PM +, Ruben Leote Mendes wrote: > > I think the new packages solve the problems mentioned in a recent thread > in debian-security: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-0101/msg00011.html > > Anyone confirms this? no, that is a glibc 2.2 specific proble

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 02:48:58PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > > Could it be simpler than launching a `grub-install /dev/sda' (or > whichever partition you wants to install it to)? You should have > copied all the files in /usr/share/grub/i386/ to a directory > /boot/grub/ (don't know why th

'No spool file found' with printtool

2001-01-15 Thread Mark Phillips
hi, i'm trying to get my HP deskjet 810C working using printtool. i configured it, then tried to print an ASCII and a PostScript test page. in both cases, a page was printed which said only: "No spool file found." any ideas as to what could be going on? here is some information that might be use

Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-15 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Dear All, Does anyone know any utility to make pdf files from dvi or ps ones? I believe pdf is just an enhanced version of ps, but am not sure. Help much appreciated -- Tiarnán Ó Corráin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus." --- GPG fingerprint: 4A05 1FC3 5370 26

Re: X4.0 debs for powerpc

2001-01-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
XF 4.0.2 debs are in unstable, aka sid. On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:26:57PM -0500, W. Crowshaw wrote: > Are there any deb packages available of X4 for the powerpc? If so, > where are they. > > I have already checked > > deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/ woody/powerpc > > using apt-get and

Re: Starting Program as non-root

2001-01-15 Thread kmself
on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:55:25PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I need to start up a program (setiathome) as non-root from the startup > scripts. I have access to the scripts, I just want it to run as a regular > user. Can anyone tell me how? Thanks in advance! $ ma

Starting Program as non-root

2001-01-15 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I need to start up a program (setiathome) as non-root from the startup scripts. I have access to the scripts, I just want it to run as a regular user. Can anyone tell me how? Thanks in advance! Ben Pharr

Re: Booting problem

2001-01-15 Thread kmself
on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 07:37:29PM +0100, Bolem?nyi Attila ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > HI! > > I have an Abit BE6-II motherboard with HPT370UDMA/ATA 100 raid > cintroller. > When I try to install the Potato, I have a message, so I have not a hard > disk. > How can I install the Potato to my comp

Re: .forward syntax

2001-01-15 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, January 15, Ayman Haidar did write: > I haven't used .forward file for a long time. if you use fetchmail and > procmail (of course I do) you can add this line to .fetchmailrc > mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %s" > > I hope this helps > Since most of the MTAs shipped with Linux d

Re: PPPoE misbehaving

2001-01-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
>> I tried setting the MTU and MRU to 1500 with the >> same results (and a slight drop in transfer speed). With PPPoE, from what I've read, the "ideal" MTU setting is actually 1492. For what it's worth, I did try the Roaring Penguin with no problems. I have a Linksys router that handles PPPoE for

re: PPPoE misbehaving

2001-01-15 Thread astrogeek
Thanks list, the problem is solved. I built the newest rp-pppoe and this made everything work for me again, so I can let the 2.4.0 kernel wait until I'm comfortable with netfilter. Andrew W.

Re: strange permissions

2001-01-15 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
>on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 05:05:06PM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >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 1436828515

Re: Debian compatibility(?)

2001-01-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:24:09PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > > --- "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > think so. Debian requires that > > all packages installed be done through it's > > packaging tools to maintain it's > > database. It also lays things out on the file > > system a l

Re: can't locate module char-major-5

2001-01-15 Thread Ayman Haidar
I am not sure what it does, but if you look at the /etc/modules.conf or the /etc/modutils/aliases you should find it there. comment it and it should go away. Once upon a time Jeff East ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Well, since I upgraded from 2.1r2 to 2.2 (via apt-get > dist-upgrade), I'

X4.0 debs for powerpc

2001-01-15 Thread W. Crowshaw
Are there any deb packages available of X4 for the powerpc? If so, where are they. I have already checked deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/ woody/powerpc using apt-get and they don't appear to be there? thanks, -- W. Crowshaw __ Do You Ya

Re: .forward syntax

2001-01-15 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
If you are trying to forward all of your mail to a differnet address then your .forward file should just have a line(s) with the address as to where they are to be forwarded to. Ex: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] This will forward your email to both of the above addresses. If you are forw

Re: help..kernel compile

2001-01-15 Thread Ayman Haidar
solved the problem; it turned out that I was getting an error line right after I do "make menuconfig". the error was (cd include;..) cannot be found. of course that drove me crazy for couple of days. it seems according to the Makefile it's supposed to cd to the include dir and create a symlink for

Re: .forward syntax

2001-01-15 Thread Ayman Haidar
I haven't used .forward file for a long time. if you use fetchmail and procmail (of course I do) you can add this line to .fetchmailrc mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %s" I hope this helps Once upon a time Adam Read ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm looking for a doc on how to write .forwa

Question about Gnome packages

2001-01-15 Thread Steve R. Hastings
I am using Gnome. I use the whole thing, gdm, the desktop, the panel, everything. I would like to be able to upgrade everything as new versions come out. If I use the command # dpkg -l '*gnome*' I get a big list of Gnome packages. But it's redundant: lots of the packages depend on other pac

Re: Debian compatibility(?)

2001-01-15 Thread John Hasler
Michael P. Soulier writes: > think so. Debian requires that all packages installed be done > through it's packaging tools to maintain it's database. Not true. You can install whatever you want in /usr/local and it will work fine. The packaging system just won't know about it. Xucaen writes: > w

esd auto-start with Gnome?

2001-01-15 Thread Steve R. Hastings
I have a Gnome desktop set up and working great. I used the packages in unstable, not the Ximian/Helixcode stuff. But I am having trouble with esd, the esound daemon. esd isn't automatically starting up. I went to the Gnome Control Panel, and under Sound I checked the checkbox to automatica

Re: Debian compatibility(?)

2001-01-15 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > --- "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> think so. Debian requires that >> all packages installed be done through it's >> packaging tools to maintain it's >> database. It also lays things out on the file >> system a little differen

Re: as86 solved

2001-01-15 Thread John Galt
file a bug if you think it's wrong. On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Xucaen wrote: >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

Re: .forward syntax

2001-01-15 Thread Casey Webster
when i was using a .forward file, it had a single line with my email address to forward to on it, thats it. -Casey On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Adam Read wrote: > I'm looking for a doc on how to write .forward files. I've searched > sendmail.org, all the documentation that comes with sendmail, and the

Re: PPPoE misbehaving

2001-01-15 Thread Philippe Marzouk
Le lun, 15 jan 2001 22:47:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > I recently had ADSL service installed, and I have had some strange > problems with it connecting to certain WWW sites. For example: > http://tempo.gsu.edu, http://www.mbnanetaccess.com, http://www.aol.com, > http://http.us.debian.org(!).

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-15 Thread Brian May
> "Joachim" == Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joachim> Could it be simpler than launching a `grub-install Joachim> /dev/sda' (or whichever partition you wants to install it Joachim> to)? You should have copied all the files in Joachim> /usr/share/grub/i386/ to a

Re: Debian compatibility(?)

2001-01-15 Thread David Z. Maze
Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: X> "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MPS> think so. Debian requires that all packages installed be done MPS> through it's packaging tools to maintain it's database. It also MPS> lays things out on the file system a little differently (better MP

Re: (newbie) how can I change the display resolution???

2001-01-15 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:28:31PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > > --- Pietro Cagnoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) install (if you didn't yet) xserver-svga, > > and make it your default x > > server when the installation script ask you if > > you want to; > > Hello, sorry to interject here, but I a

Re: gtv, mozilla, and X questions

2001-01-15 Thread Diego Biurrun
Hi ! I had the same problem with mozilla. Running it once as root solved that. Probably has to configure some stuff on the first startup... Diego Biurrun Colin Watson wrote: > > >Mozilla: I tried the binary download of Mozilla 0.7 and it won't run > >(it starts up all the mozilla-bin processes

Re: Answering machine software?

2001-01-15 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 08:30:52PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: > Sorry, I'll be more clear. :) There's no 'mgetty' in Unstable(Sid). > There is no mgetty-viewfax, there is no mgetty-fax, there is no > mgetty-voice. :) Each and every one of those packages gives: > > Package mgetty has no availa

Re: (newbie) how can I change the display resolution???

2001-01-15 Thread Xucaen
--- Pietro Cagnoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) install (if you didn't yet) xserver-svga, > and make it your default x > server when the installation script ask you if > you want to; Hello, sorry to interject here, but I am curious, I have a diamond stealth card and I have only the s3 server i

Debian compatibility(?)

2001-01-15 Thread Xucaen
--- "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > think so. Debian requires that > all packages installed be done through it's > packaging tools to maintain it's > database. It also lays things out on the file > system a little differently > (better than most). what's this?? Does this mean

Trying to understand the package pools

2001-01-15 Thread bryan
Quick question . . . Maybe I don't understand the package pools yet but I noticed today that when searching for for the package kernel-source-2.2.18 on www.debian.org, the only thing that the site returns (for either stable, testing, or unstable) is the pre-release package: kernel-source-2

.forward syntax

2001-01-15 Thread Adam Read
I'm looking for a doc on how to write .forward files. I've searched sendmail.org, all the documentation that comes with sendmail, and the LDP. If anyone could help I'd be most greatful. Could you also cc your replys to me as I'm not subscribed. Thank you, Adam Read [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: security updates?

2001-01-15 Thread Ruben Leote Mendes
Hello Felipe, On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 12:13:13PM -0300, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > > doing an apt-get -u dist-upgrade appears libc6*, locales as new > packages in security.debian.org but no advice was mailed nor published > in security.debian.org. > So are they real or someone has hacked s

Re: emu10k1 module

2001-01-15 Thread Benjamin Black
Martin Albert wrote: You should edit in /etc/modutils, then update-modules. You should end up with a /etc/modules.conf that includes ... (my lines (for two soundcards)): alias sound-slot-0esssolo1 alias sound-slot-1emu10k1 how do you figure this out? i mean where exactly do yo

Re: Subject: Can't find /etc/X11/*

2001-01-15 Thread Kent West
ktb wrote: On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 09:37:41AM -0800, Tom Schuetz wrote: Also, once the X-server is started, how do I safely shut it down from a command line? When I hit ^alt-DEL, it just brings me back to the XDM login; I can get other consoles, but when I try to startx I get told the server

Re: 'S' permissions -- in home dir?

2001-01-15 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, January 15, Thomas J. Hamman did write: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:11:53AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > I have a related question: How come almost every file in my home > directory has s or S permissions set? Even if I change them to x, I > find later on that they have mysteriou

RE: 'S' permissions

2001-01-15 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, January 15, Fernando Carvajal did write: > it's the suid bit but the file have no execution permission Minor nit, but drw-r-Sr-- is actually the set*gid* bit; setuid would be drwSr--r--. Richard

Help compiling package with apt-get -b source...

2001-01-15 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. Did I do soemthing wrong here? I wanted to have a few packages compiled from source, and did apt-get -b source packages Then, there was a problem with the frist one (menu)... In menu-2.1.5/debian/control, I see that the package doesn't build-depend on any other (and the error doesn't see

Re: automatically setting "From:" with mh

2001-01-15 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:19:14 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Robert Rambled, > >> I´ve simply set it in the components: > >> [waldner:~/Mail] egrep Waldner *comp* >> components:From: Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <...> >THanks. THis is *exactly* what I needed. > >Could I talk you out of the f

Re: Trouble installing (and/or removing) gsfonts-x11

2001-01-15 Thread Andreas Boman
Nevermind people. I solved it. thanks Andreas

Re: Trouble installing (and/or removing) gsfonts-x11

2001-01-15 Thread Andreas Boman
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:42:39 -0500 (EST) Andreas Boman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having problems getting gsfonts-x11 installed (using > unstable/sid -quite by accident, thought I was getting woody :). > > It seems that whatever I do the problem just will not go > away. Below are

Internal PCI modem with Potato

2001-01-15 Thread Mark Scott
Hello all I am having trouble getting my linux to recognise my pci internal modem. I am new to the Intel platform but have succesfully managed to install potato on my m68k mac and connect using ppp albeit with an external modem. I have searched the archives and was not able to find any pointers

Re: Help! Wrecking my system trying to get sound

2001-01-15 Thread Monte Milanuk
--- "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > Yea I'd grab a copy of 2.2.18 from ftp.kernel.org (or > suitable mirror) > and try the cs4226 module (I recall it showed up in > 2.2.17 and is for > these newer mobo/soundcard jobs). You still probably > want to try lspci > to get I/O, IRQ and DMA parameters. It's

PPPoE misbehaving

2001-01-15 Thread astrogeek
I recently had ADSL service installed, and I have had some strange problems with it connecting to certain WWW sites. For example: http://tempo.gsu.edu, http://www.mbnanetaccess.com, http://www.aol.com, http://http.us.debian.org(!). Sending email has also stopped working. Almost everything els

Re: Getting Gnome desktop on woody

2001-01-15 Thread csj
On Sunday 14 January 2001 17:06, Steve R. Hastings wrote: > Now all I need to do is get the esound daemon going and play my > favorite music in Xmms. You don't need the esound daemon to use Xmms. It's intelligent enough to use sound drivers from various sources. As an example, I can use both the

Re: Trouble installing (and/or removing) gsfonts-x11

2001-01-15 Thread dommel
Hi, You can try either to remove the package using 'dpkg -r gsfonts- x11'. After that, reconfigure your packages using 'dpkg --configure - a' and try to manually install gsfonts-x11 since apt will look for the latest version, and it seems like the package which comes with woody isn't compatible

Re: apt-get install postgres7-potato ?

2001-01-15 Thread will trillich
> > -Original Message- > From: will trillich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 6:43 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: apt-get install postgres7-potato ? > > did i see someone post a "here's a sources.list line to install > postgres v7 on potato..."

Re: automatically setting "From:" with mh

2001-01-15 Thread dochawk
Robert Rambled, > I´ve simply set it in the components: > [waldner:~/Mail] egrep Waldner *comp* > components:From: Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > distcomps:Resent-From: Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > forwcomps:From: Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > rcvdistcomps:Resent-From: Robert

Re: Permissions 101

2001-01-15 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 09:10:01PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > Suid shell scripts don't work. > Big security problem.. :) Thanks to all for such rapid responses. It was an easy one I guess. > Cliff Hey Cliff! Permanent fatal errors on your email address, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bob Bernstei

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