[westk@acu.edu: Re: Can't get sound to work!]

2001-01-20 Thread Marcial Zamora III
- Forwarded message from Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Rev. Ferret wrote: > Ok, I added myself to user audio and I now get sound from things. There is > just one problem. The sound skips. It sounds like a broken record player, > where it plays the same bit over and over > again. I

Re: Can't get sound to work!

2001-01-20 Thread Kent West
Rev. Ferret wrote: Ok, I added myself to user audio and I now get sound from things. There is just one problem. The sound skips. It sounds like a broken record player, where it plays the same bit over and over again. I tried chmod'ing the audio things to world usable, but it didn't help.

"talk" doesn't

2001-01-20 Thread Kent West
I can't get the "talk" program to work. Just as a test, I'm trying to talk to myself within X. I open two terminals, find which terminal is which with the "tty" command, and then from one terminal (say /dev/pts/0) I type "talk westk pts/1". The screen divides into two sections (upper and lower)

Re: Sorry, off topic, but HOWTO get to bios with IBM Thinkpad 755...

2001-01-20 Thread Mircea Luca
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've wasted another hour or so trying to answer this simple > question, starting at IBM's Laptop support homepage. > > To paraphrase somebody else, if I knew who I would give > credit, but... I have seen a lot of progress in my lifetime of > computing experience, and

Re: Can't get sound to work!

2001-01-20 Thread Rev. Ferret
Ok, I added myself to user audio and I now get sound from things. There is just one problem. The sound skips. It sounds like a broken record player, where it plays the same bit over and over again. I tried chmod'ing the audio things to world usable, but it didn't help. Any ideas on how to g

Re: Can't get sound to work!

2001-01-20 Thread Kent West
Rev. Ferret wrote: It seems that my card is recognized. Everything looks normal except for the output of my /dev/sndstat. I can use apps to control tracks of audio cd's and things like that. I just can't use any mixer apps or play any audio except for cd audio. I can't figure out what's wrong

Problem with xterm

2001-01-20 Thread Defresne Sylvain
Hello, I'm having a problem with the xterm. Sometime, when a launch lots of xterm, the system forget who is connected ... Then, the result of w is strange : $ w 4:45am up 32 min, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.08, 0.03 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WH

imap package ignores MH style email folders (potato)

2001-01-20 Thread Jameson C. Burt
With mh style (directory) folders in ~/Mail, I tried several imap mail user-agents, imp, postilion, and mutt, requesting (if needed) the folders directory "Mail/", but all these imap-aware user-agents responded essentially, "0 Messages" then if I look for folders, I see all the following as fol

Re: Start up?

2001-01-20 Thread Jon Pennington
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 09:16:56PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Joshua Kruck wrote: > > > hello, > > Is there come kind of script that run when the machine boots that i can > > put commands into? I want to run sound on when the machine boots, i > > would also like to mount some samba commands. Can so

Re: Can't get sound to work!

2001-01-20 Thread Rev. Ferret
It seems that my card is recognized. Everything looks normal except for the output of my /dev/sndstat. I can use apps to control tracks of audio cd's and things like that. I just can't use any mixer apps or play any audio except for cd audio. I can't figure out what's wrong. Using redhat and ma

Re: Bizarre Kernel Install

2001-01-20 Thread Nate Amsden
Dragón wrote: > >It doesn't give me any error message but when > it starts is still running its oldest kernel. > > What's that I'm doing wrong? > > Thanks. > > In / > > total 100 > drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 dic 16 19:45 bin > drwxr-xr-x2 root ro

Re: Start up?

2001-01-20 Thread Kent West
Joshua Kruck wrote: hello, Is there come kind of script that run when the machine boots that i can put commands into? I want to run sound on when the machine boots, i would also like to mount some samba commands. Can someone point me to an easy way to do this? Thanks Joshua Wow; this is a v

[bvmcg@yahoo.com: vga8x16 font...]

2001-01-20 Thread Marcial Zamora III
- Forwarded message from Brian McGroarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Okay, this is driving me NUTS. I *know* there used to be a vga8x16 font. But I can't find what package contains it. I've installed every last font pack I could find, but I can't find vga8x16 anywhere. This was my standard xte

[ferret@optonline.net: Can't get sound to work!]

2001-01-20 Thread Marcial Zamora III
- Forwarded message from "Rev. Ferret" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Hi, I'm having problems getting my sound blaster 16 working. I used modconf to select the sb module, which in turn selected a bunch of the oss modules. After doing this, I can play audio cd's, but whenever I try to run gmix it

Re: problem compiling kernels

2001-01-20 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 07:45:18PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: :>>"Jonathan" == Jonathan D Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : Jonathan> Personally I've built alot of kernels, but have never got kpkg to : Jonathan> behave. Probably because I can build a kernel without it and thus : Jonathan>

Re: Start up?

2001-01-20 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:24:10PM -0600, Joshua Kruck wrote: > hello, > Is there come kind of script that run when the machine boots that i can > put commands into? I want to run sound on when the machine boots, i > would also like to mount some samba commands. Can someone point me to an > easy wa

Re: Sorry, off topic, but HOWTO get to bios with IBM Thinkpad 755...

2001-01-20 Thread Carl Fink
IIRC, you hit F1 during the bootstrap. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: anyone using inews?

2001-01-20 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:51:36AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sorry, I should have mentioned that I am using 2.2r (potato). > I just downloaded inews and trn with apt-get. I don't see > any way to find out the version of inews. Well, my inews comes from the inn package (actually the sub

Re: Can't get sound to work!

2001-01-20 Thread Kent West
Rev. Ferret wrote: Hi, I'm having problems getting my sound blaster 16 working. I used modconf to select the sb module, which in turn selected a bunch of the oss modules. After doing this, I can play audio cd's, but whenever I try to run gmix it tells me that I do not have a mixer installed or

Frequent download time outs

2001-01-20 Thread Jeff Kelm
I am having trouble getting reliable downloads using Debian 2.2. After downloading 30-150KB the download usually stops and eventually times out. I noticed this first when I tried using apt-get to download the base system packages. During 'apt-get update' download of the package lists, the system

Sorry, off topic, but HOWTO get to bios with IBM Thinkpad 755...

2001-01-20 Thread DTi4565459
I've wasted another hour or so trying to answer this simple question, starting at IBM's Laptop support homepage. To paraphrase somebody else, if I knew who I would give credit, but... I have seen a lot of progress in my lifetime of computing experience, and a lot of it has been in the wrong dire

Re: netscape ftp vs http

2001-01-20 Thread Nitebirdz
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Svante Signell wrote: > Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 23:24:56 +0100 (CET) > From: Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: netscape ftp vs http > Resent-Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:27:20 -0600 > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > What

Re: problem compiling kernels

2001-01-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Jonathan" == Jonathan D Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jonathan> Personally I've built alot of kernels, but have never got kpkg to Jonathan> behave. Probably because I can build a kernel without it and thus Jonathan> haven't spent the time to really learn how to use this tool.

filtering in mutt

2001-01-20 Thread aphro
hi is there a way to filter mail in mutt? i am testing mutt in IMAP mode so i do not believe i can use procmail or anything external to do it. the mail system is cyrus so i do not have access to the mail files themselves either, so the filtering has to be done by the client itself. i don't need an

Re: anyone using inews?

2001-01-20 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:37:48AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [trouble posting to his ISP's server with inews] Are you using trn's inews or another one? Which version? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Emacs Esc- key (off topic)

2001-01-20 Thread Dale Morris
My apologies for posting off topic. I want to bind the Alt key to the Meta key in Emacs. Is there a simple 'newbie' way to do that? thanks in advance dale

anyone using inews?

2001-01-20 Thread blair . kelly
I am having trouble posting a news article from my home computer over a ppp connection to my ISP's NNTPSERVER. I can read news fine; it is only posting with which I am having a problem. I believe the problem is that my /etc/news/sys file is not set up correctly. When I installed inews via apt-g

Re: /proc filesystem information??

2001-01-20 Thread Nitebirdz
> Where can I find information on the hardware settings and certain > software settings (swap space, TCP/IP) settings that are run-time > configurable in the /proc filesystem? If you have the kernel source, check out /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysctl and also check the manual page for sysctl.

Start up?

2001-01-20 Thread Joshua Kruck
hello, Is there come kind of script that run when the machine boots that i can put commands into? I want to run sound on when the machine boots, i would also like to mount some samba commands. Can someone point me to an easy way to do this? Thanks Joshua

Re: x documentation

2001-01-20 Thread ktb
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 04:46:45PM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > >Just about every setting under XF86Setup.. It has been a real pain > before and I finally gave up and perchased an ATI RAGE, now I own the > voodoo300 (killer card!) but this box is a starter box for a friend > who will lo

Re: changing console resolution?

2001-01-20 Thread kmself
on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:55:30AM -0800, forrest ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > well, since i've completely failed to get x working beyond a messed up > 640x480 res that flickers and uses really wacky colors on this > machine... is there a way to change the console resolution to somthing a > little

Re: vga8x16 font...

2001-01-20 Thread kmself
on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 04:28:14PM -0800, Brian McGroarty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Okay, this is driving me NUTS. > > I *know* there used to be a vga8x16 font. But I can't find what > package contains it. I've installed every last font pack I could > find, but I can't find vga8x16 anywhere. >

Re: x documentation

2001-01-20 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Just about every setting under XF86Setup.. It has been a real pain before and I finally gave up and perchased an ATI RAGE, now I own the voodoo300 (killer card!) but this box is a starter box for a friend who will love linux since it is a command line OS and stable. Yes, I really would personal

vga8x16 font...

2001-01-20 Thread Brian McGroarty
Okay, this is driving me NUTS. I *know* there used to be a vga8x16 font. But I can't find what package contains it. I've installed every last font pack I could find, but I can't find vga8x16 anywhere. This was my standard xterm font previously. Any clue where it is?

locale? -- charset problems -- \222, \223, \224

2001-01-20 Thread kmself
OK, I've fixed the locale problem (thanks again, Chris). *Most* email now works. I'm finding though that the occasional post has characters which still aren't displayed properly. One, for example, displays the octal codes for /222, /223, and /223. I suspect that this is Microsoft latin1 extensi

Re: can't ssh into box anymore

2001-01-20 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, little more info, I did manage to break something :) my sparc boxes are clustered, so after doing the upgrade on the master node (my last email) I did: # for i in `members`;do ssh -f $i apt-get -qq -v upgrade;done Three out of the eight remaining boxes choked (on glibc I think, though might

Re: Boot DOS from hda0 with Lilo??? Howto??

2001-01-20 Thread ktb
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 06:26:05PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I guess I've gotten the mbr all messed up with System > Commander, or else maybe laptop has caught virus. > What do you have on the disk? I've never used a laptop so I don't know how boot loaders react differently, if at all.

Re: x documentation

2001-01-20 Thread ktb
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 02:26:05PM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > >Hello, > > I need to find help/readme/html references to repairing x. I have an > older box, with 1mb trident and a basic svga monitor (circa 1992) and > have not been able to get x to run on it. This box is going away t

Re: syslogd and exim cron job every 20 minutes

2001-01-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 06:36:44PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, if you look at the line that's logged, you'll see that it's not > > coming from Exim at all, but from cron. So changing the way syslog > > handles the mail facility won't h

Re: strange files, break-in?

2001-01-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 07:20:52PM +0100, Igor Mozetic wrote: > I've noticed three strange files in /root dir: > > host:~# ls -al /root > -rw-r--r--1 root root 1024 Jan 5 11:20 ..hwm > -rw-r--r--1 root root 214184 Jan 5 11:20 ..pwd > -rw-r--r--1 root root

Re: automount

2001-01-20 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 03:50:45PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: : :hiya bostjan : :donno about youbut i prefer all automount points to be at the :same plae /.autofs ( in my stuff ) or maybe /mnt/autofs Depends on the situation, for a basicly stand alone setup (like this one, I presume), yes. For

Re: automount

2001-01-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hiya bostjan donno about youbut i prefer all automount points to be at the same plae /.autofs ( in my stuff ) or maybe /mnt/autofs based on your /etc/auto.floppy... should be able to view its contents ls -la /floppy/floppy ( after you stick a floppy in ) ls -la /cd-rw/cd

Re: can't ssh into box anymore

2001-01-20 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, Now that I've secured my machines... Sparcstation20 (sun4m Ross HyperSparc processor) Setting up ssh (1.2.3-9.1) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/ssh/sshd_config ... Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd. The upgraded server is accepting both password and RSA authenticati

Re: syslogd and exim cron job every 20 minutes

2001-01-20 Thread Arcady Genkin
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, if you look at the line that's logged, you'll see that it's not > coming from Exim at all, but from cron. So changing the way syslog > handles the mail facility won't help. Yes, that's why I tried adding "cron.!*" to the rule. But it see

Re: locale problems -- LANG=en_US and iso-8859-1 fsckups

2001-01-20 Thread kmself
on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 10:17:27AM -0500, Chris Gray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > This is driving me nuts. > > > > My current setting of LANG=en_US fails on the last three points. >^ > > perl: warning: Setting

Boot DOS from hda0 with Lilo??? Howto??

2001-01-20 Thread DTi4565459
I guess I've gotten the mbr all messed up with System Commander, or else maybe laptop has caught virus. TIA

Re: cant compile gtk theme

2001-01-20 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 02:40:56PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote: > Incidentally, compiling and installing from source into your regular > system is generally not a good idea. You should seperate those packages > which you compile and install yourself. Add something like > '--prefix=/extras --sysco

Re: Forcing modem connection to 57600 bps

2001-01-20 Thread John Carline
Jarkko Niemi wrote: > After using my dial-up connecton with speed reporting I wanted to force > my modem up to it's maximum speed. It works from windows side, so, it's > just up to configuring it also to Linux. Windows doesn't help, there is > just one box where to check as "[] use always this spe

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-20 Thread hpknight
"Steve R. Hastings" wrote: >I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux >distributions. Please explain the top few reasons why you chose Debian >rather than something else. I started out in the Linux world with Redhat 5.2, which was a good place to start. Seemed easy enoug

Re: syslogd and exim cron job every 20 minutes

2001-01-20 Thread Arcady Genkin
mike polniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How would I get rid of the message about exim cron job being printed > > at /dev/xconsole? This job runs every 20 minutes and I would like not > > to see reports of it unless there was an error. > > > Edit /etc/cron.d/exim file. This would let

Can't get sound to work!

2001-01-20 Thread Rev. Ferret
Hi, I'm having problems getting my sound blaster 16 working. I used modconf to select the sb module, which in turn selected a bunch of the oss modules. After doing this, I can play audio cd's, but whenever I try to run gmix it tells me that I do not have a mixer installed or my kernel doesn't sup

Re: can't ssh into box anymore

2001-01-20 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:41:33PM +0100, Torbjorn Pettersson wrote: : : When apt upgraded ssh from 1.2.3-8.0.1 to 1.2.3-9.1 for me it :worked on the x86 boxen, but on all my sparcs, sun4m and sun4u, :some using pam, and some don't, I got the same problem, that is :I can't log in any more, and the

Re: can't ssh into box anymore

2001-01-20 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
"Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:54:36PM +0100, Torbjorn Pettersson wrote: > > : Are the server a sparc? It seems that the ssh package from the > :security team is broken on sparc, at least it doesn't work for me... > > I have ssh on 9 sparc 4m machin

Bizarre Kernel Install

2001-01-20 Thread Dragón
It doesn't give me any error message but when it starts is still running its oldest kernel. What's that I'm doing wrong? Thanks. In / total 100 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 dic 16 19:45 bin drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 ene 20 22:20 boot drwxr-x

Re: X config errors, boot issues

2001-01-20 Thread mike polniak
> > 4) Also, it is rather ridiculous to have to log in to halt or reboot > the computer. How can I add the Shutdown/Restart option to gdm? > In gdm.conf put HaltCommand=/sbin/shutdown -h now -- ~~~

x documentation

2001-01-20 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, I need to find help/readme/html references to repairing x. I have an older box, with 1mb trident and a basic svga monitor (circa 1992) and have not been able to get x to run on it. This box is going away today to a very remote area in California with no internet access. red hat will w

Re: syslogd and exim cron job every 20 minutes

2001-01-20 Thread mike polniak
Arcady Genkin wrote: > How would I get rid of the message about exim cron job being printed > at /dev/xconsole? This job runs every 20 minutes and I would like not > to see reports of it unless there was an error. > > , [ /dev/xconsole ] > | Jan 20 14:38:01 tea /USR/SBIN/CRON[5850]: (mail) C

Re: "true?" rescue floppy

2001-01-20 Thread Bob Hilliard
Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what do you mean by "true"? > I thought the "resuce" disk he was looking for > was the boot disk for the debian installation. By a "true rescue disk" I mean a floppy that has a bootable kernel and enough utilities to repair a damaged system. I don't kno

imap package ignores MH style email folders (potato)

2001-01-20 Thread Jameson C. Burt
With mh style (directory) folders in ~/Mail, I used the imap mail user-agents imp, postilion, and mutt, giving (if needed) the folders directory "Mail/", but all user-agents responded essentially, "0 Messages" then if I look for folders, I see all the following as folders (that is, every file

Re: syslogd and exim cron job every 20 minutes

2001-01-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
Well, if you look at the line that's logged, you'll see that it's not coming from Exim at all, but from cron. So changing the way syslog handles the mail facility won't help. Also, exim is configured by default (on debian) to handle its own logging and not go through syslog. The cron logs come f

Re: 2nd NIC seen but ifup fails

2001-01-20 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:22:38PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 06:23:47PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > :On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 08:49:40PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: > :> I have two identical NIC's the both came up fine before reboot. Now > :> ifup eth0 works fine.

Re: 2.4 kernel, problems shutting down eth0 interface

2001-01-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
Well, I can't say I've got the same problems. I've been using 2.4.0 since about test8 on my laptop, with almost complete success WRT PCMCIA. One difference is that I don't use the PCMCIA modules that ship with the kernel, but the pcmcia-cs package from unstable. What kind of network card do you h

Re: strange files, break-in?

2001-01-20 Thread kmself
on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 07:20:52PM +0100, Igor Mozetic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've noticed three strange files in /root dir: > > host:~# ls -al /root > -rw-r--r--1 root root 1024 Jan 5 11:20 ..hwm > -rw-r--r--1 root root 214184 Jan 5 11:20 ..pwd > -rw-r--r--

(sans sujet)

2001-01-20 Thread Espace1949
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term question

2001-01-20 Thread Ken Weingold
Sorry if this is not the most appropriate forum for this, but I have a question about terminal setting on my Debian system. Default term setting was vt100. Everything was fine, but in top, when I would hit 'u' to limit the user processes, the user prompt would look like this: $<5>$<3>$<2>$<2>Whi

Re: X config errors, boot issues

2001-01-20 Thread David B . Harris
To quote D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # # I have a couple of issues to resolve now with my Debian installation: # # 1) I commented out the tulip module in /etc/modules, but when I boot # it still tries to config eth0. This is currently a problem (I must # wait for it to time-out) because I moved

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-20 Thread kmself
on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 08:02:00PM +1100, CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:12:34AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > 5) A mission to get all configuration out of programs/scripts and > > > into config files in /etc. > > > > ...and more-or-less *flat* in /etc.

Re: gppp

2001-01-20 Thread John Hasler
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > The dial-up utility which appears in the foot menu under the internet > submenu is the gnome-ppp 0.99.0. When I try to run it (as an alternative > to pon/poff) I received an error: "The ppp daemon died unexpectedly", > quite vage, isn't? Try gpppon. It's a gnomish wra

X config errors, boot issues

2001-01-20 Thread D-Man
I have a couple of issues to resolve now with my Debian installation: 1) I commented out the tulip module in /etc/modules, but when I boot it still tries to config eth0. This is currently a problem (I must wait for it to time-out) because I moved my computer and have no ethernet network availab

Re: How to make apt-get upgrade interactive?

2001-01-20 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, January 20, Hall Stevenson did write: > * Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010120 09:10]: > > Hello, all. > > > > While I generally trust apt-get upgrade, I'd like to have it print out a > > list of the packages to be upgraded and possibly check with me before it > > actually d

Re: gppp

2001-01-20 Thread Frank Preut
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 06:51:10PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > I am running potato 2.2r plus ximian-gnome. The dial-up utility which appears > in the foot menu under the internet submenu is the gnome-ppp 0.99.0. When I > try to run it > (as an alternative to pon/poff) I received

Re: [Q]apt-get'ting x4 debs...

2001-01-20 Thread Defresne Sylvain
* W. Crowshaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So, I found the necessary X4 debs for my powerpc debian. At this > mirror location, they are > ftp://ftp.digex.net/debian/pool/main/x/xfree86/xserver-xfree86_4.0.2-1_powerpc.deb > > . How do I set up sources.list so that it downloads the necessary > p

Re: How to make apt-get upgrade interactive?

2001-01-20 Thread John Galt
You could run it "dry" once with apt-get -s... On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Richard Cobbe wrote: >Hello, all. > >While I generally trust apt-get upgrade, I'd like to have it print out a >list of the packages to be upgraded and possibly check with me before it >actually does anything. I'm a little unsur

Re: Sound for woody with 2.2.12

2001-01-20 Thread John Galt
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Jonathan Gift wrote: >William Leese wrote: >> the module named "sb.o".. ..and voila, that is.. ..if your SB16 uses the >> default settings.. > >I wondered if you could help me out here... I have a SB16 and have >succesfully compiled the sound options in the kernel and can hear

Re: Sound for woody with 2.2.12

2001-01-20 Thread John Galt
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Rick Loga wrote: >I want to get sound working on my woody box with kernel version 2.2.12. >I was originally slink and a half with kernel 2.2.12. I upgraded to >potato and then woody. I have ready numerous how-to's, articles, >tutorials, and mailing lists trying to figure out

syslogd and exim cron job every 20 minutes

2001-01-20 Thread Arcady Genkin
How would I get rid of the message about exim cron job being printed at /dev/xconsole? This job runs every 20 minutes and I would like not to see reports of it unless there was an error. ,[ /dev/xconsole ] | Jan 20 14:38:01 tea /USR/SBIN/CRON[5850]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x \ | /usr/sbin/exi

Re: How to make apt-get upgrade interactive?

2001-01-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010120 09:10]: > Hello, all. > > While I generally trust apt-get upgrade, I'd like to have it print out a > list of the packages to be upgraded and possibly check with me before it > actually does anything. I'm a little unsure how to do this, though. Based >

Re: cant compile gtk theme

2001-01-20 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Marcial Zamora III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # hey all. im tryin to install a gtk theme from source, and am getting this error: # # checking for gtk-config... no # checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... no # *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found # *** If GTK was install

Re: cant compile gtk theme

2001-01-20 Thread Philippe Marzouk
Le sam, 20 jan 2001 20:26:19, Marcial Zamora III a écrit : > hey all. im tryin to install a gtk theme from source, and am getting > this error: > > checking for gtk-config... no > checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... no > *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found > *** If GTK

Re: How to make apt-get upgrade interactive?

2001-01-20 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:09:30PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > APT::Get::Show-Upgraded "true"; I have the following and it works: APT::Get::Show-Upgraded "yes"; Cheers, Sven -- "{sum += $2} END {print sum}", said Tom awkwardly.

Re: mailing list digest splitting

2001-01-20 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Matias Vidal saw fit to inform me that: >Hi, you can split the digest if you use procmail to organize your >mail... >In your .procmailrc add a rule that catch the digest and execute formail >+1 -ds >>FullPathToTheMailbox > >Something like this: > >:0 >* ^Subjet:.*Debian-user-digest.* >| formail +

cant compile gtk theme

2001-01-20 Thread Marcial Zamora III
hey all. im tryin to install a gtk theme from source, and am getting this error: checking for gtk-config... no checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... no *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or se

How to make apt-get upgrade interactive?

2001-01-20 Thread Richard Cobbe
Hello, all. While I generally trust apt-get upgrade, I'd like to have it print out a list of the packages to be upgraded and possibly check with me before it actually does anything. I'm a little unsure how to do this, though. Based on the manpage, I added APT::Get::Show-Upgraded "true"; t

[Q]apt-get'ting x4 debs...

2001-01-20 Thread W. Crowshaw
So, I found the necessary X4 debs for my powerpc debian. At this mirror location, they are ftp://ftp.digex.net/debian/pool/main/x/xfree86/xserver-xfree86_4.0.2-1_powerpc.deb . How do I set up sources.list so that it downloads the necessary packages. I have tried combinations such as deb ftp:/

[Q] creating deb from source...just curious

2001-01-20 Thread W. Crowshaw
Although I successfully created a powerpc deb of qmail, I have several questions about my methods. I knew I need to start with the source, so using apt-get and the following sources.list line: #deb-src ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/debian stable main contrib non-free I retrieved (If i remember exactl

Re: rpm vs deb

2001-01-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 13:57:29 -0500, Tino Ionescu wrote: > I am confused over one topic. If you install a rpm package will it be > known to the system? Not if you install it using "rpm". If you use "alien" it will be registered with the packaging system. HTH, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening

rpm vs deb

2001-01-20 Thread Tino Ionescu
Hi , I am confused over one topic. If you install a rpm package will it be known to the system? Basicly what I am tring to do,is to install Java1.3 from IBM, because the one from Blackdown has a bug(can't use the debugger) and I would like to avoid a lot of warning against dependacies. Can any

Re: CD-ROM compatibility

2001-01-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
Creative used several models of CD-ROMs with Sound Blaster cards. Some used a proprietary interface, while others used an IDE interface (the cards had both). I believe different modules are required for the different varieties, but I would first try 'insmod sb'. Bob On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:5

Re: strange files, break-in?

2001-01-20 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 07:20:52PM +0100, Igor Mozetic wrote: :I've noticed three strange files in /root dir: : :host:~# ls -al /root :-rw-r--r--1 root root 1024 Jan 5 11:20 ..hwm :-rw-r--r--1 root root 214184 Jan 5 11:20 ..pwd :-rw-r--r--1 root root1

Re: 2nd NIC seen but ifup fails

2001-01-20 Thread Igor Mozetic
> I have two identical NIC's the both came up fine before reboot. Now > ifup eth0 works fine. ifup eth1 says no such interface. cat /proc/pci > shows both nics. What do you have in /etc/network/interfaces ? -Igor Mozetic

Re: 2nd NIC seen but ifup fails

2001-01-20 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 06:23:47PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: :On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 08:49:40PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: :> I have two identical NIC's the both came up fine before reboot. Now :> ifup eth0 works fine. ifup eth1 says no such interface. cat /proc/pci :> shows both nics. : :you'

strange files, break-in?

2001-01-20 Thread Igor Mozetic
I've noticed three strange files in /root dir: host:~# ls -al /root -rw-r--r--1 root root 1024 Jan 5 11:20 ..hwm -rw-r--r--1 root root 214184 Jan 5 11:20 ..pwd -rw-r--r--1 root root11356 Jan 5 11:20 ..pwi ..pwd is ascii with a lot of control chars

Re: No available ptys

2001-01-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 20:38:57 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The error message I receive is "xterm: no available ptys". > c) I cannot run the "script" program as user. As root there are no >problems. The error message I get is "openpty failed". This happens >in "X" as well as in

Re: LVM, MD, what's what?

2001-01-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 10:45:25AM -0500, Alec Smith wrote: > Right now I've got a 10GB drive split into 4 partitions (/, /boot, /home, > and swap). I'd like to add another drive to the system, adding its space to > /home, which is /dev/hda7 under my current setup. The machine currently > runs k

Re: netscape ftp vs http

2001-01-20 Thread csj
On Saturday 20 January 2001 06:24, Svante Signell wrote: > What am I doing wrong trying to download files from > eg. http/:www.fileplanet.com or http://www,3ddownloads.com using > Netscape (4.76)? > > You don't get the possibility to on the file, it > just starts downloading to the Netscape buffer

problem with cups and g-brief

2001-01-20 Thread GBechly
Hello, I am using Debian unstable with Kernel 2.4.0, and yesterday finally made the transition from lprng to cups. Everything works quite well, except for a single problem with the LaTeX package g-brief: Compared to the printout with lprng, the printout of g-brief is now shifted upwards for about

Re: 2nd NIC seen but ifup fails

2001-01-20 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 08:49:40PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: > I have two identical NIC's the both came up fine before reboot. Now > ifup eth0 works fine. ifup eth1 says no such interface. cat /proc/pci > shows both nics. you'll have to specify the second nic on the `mod-line' see for examples in

Re: CD-ROM compatibility

2001-01-20 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi. I'm pretty sure I had the exact same cd-rom setup on a Dell 486/33 that I had. You need the cdu31a driver. I don't remember all the exact details of how I got it to work, just that I did. Check out /usr/src/linux/Documentation/cdu31a if you have the kernel source installed or else I can send it

Re: Sound for woody with 2.2.12

2001-01-20 Thread Jonathan Gift
William Leese wrote: > the module named "sb.o".. ..and voila, that is.. ..if your SB16 uses the > default settings.. I wondered if you could help me out here... I have a SB16 and have succesfully compiled the sound options in the kernel and can hear sound fine. But I saw somewhere someone with th

Re: How to obtain a listing of packages installed that may be used to clone config

2001-01-20 Thread Defresne Sylvain
* hogan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've seen some vague reference to this before. But can't figure out when or > where. > > A friend is going to switch from Debian to Win2K (I know - completely evil) > for their cable modem sharing machine. I set up the Debian box and would like > to take a snap

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