Re: Ummm...Losing disk space. HELP.

2001-02-07 Thread Ian Zimmerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob> I installed Debian 2.2 on a Gateway PC (PII-233) with no Rob> prbolems, and it's been running fine. However, it just recently Rob> ran out of disk space for some reason. Uppon investigation, I Rob> found that the /var/log dir was HUGE, specific

Re: Ummm...Losing disk space. HELP.

2001-02-07 Thread Sergio Enrique Schvezov
The message says something like an error on your hdc device (Secondary IDE interface Master) i recall 0x0d (i read almost all of the atapi interface for a school proyect) being an error in the medium it's a hardware problem (almost for sure), check the device or medium On Wed, 07 Feb 2001 19:4

Re: How to change the IP of a Debian box

2001-02-07 Thread Dave Thayer
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:03:31PM -0800, Known Human Nick Rusnov wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>it was written: > >Hi > > > >I need to change the "personality" of a Debian box. > > > >How do I change the IP/name of the machine? > > The IP is set in /etc/network/interfaces > > The hostnam

Re: dpkg's files list missing final newline

2001-02-07 Thread Mircea Luca
Eric Cheng wrote: > > Hi all, > Perhaps after an abnormal shutdown the files list file of dpkg was > damaged. Now I cannot dpkg -i or apt-get install anything. It complained > about "dpkg: error processing : > files list file for package `libgnome-pilot0' is missing final newline". I > tr

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-07 Thread Mircea Luca
Stewart Jenkins wrote: > Ok. I can leave the unix/:7101 uncommented and it starts x just fine. The > truetype path is what is causing the "can't find default font 'fixed'" error. > > -- If you're using xfstt you don't need anything else(IMHO).Just run xfstt --sync and that should be enough.On

dpkg's files list missing final newline

2001-02-07 Thread Eric Cheng
Hi all, Perhaps after an abnormal shutdown the files list file of dpkg was damaged. Now I cannot dpkg -i or apt-get install anything. It complained about "dpkg: error processing : files list file for package `libgnome-pilot0' is missing final newline". I tried to remove this and its depen

C++ linking problem

2001-02-07 Thread RAccess
Recently gcc was upgraded on debian testing/woody. Since then I have been having trouble compiling (mainly linking) C++ code. Here is the kind of error I get: g++ try.cpp /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++ collect2: ld returned 1 exit status AFAIK, C code is compiling perfectly. Any ideas how to

Re: Oracle 8i ProC and Debian Potato

2001-02-07 Thread Stan Brown
On Wed Feb 7 17:03:53 2001 "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote... > >> >> What am I doing wrong here? > >You've probably forgotten to install libc6-dev which contains these headers. >If not, you'll have to provide more details (e.g. a script(1) transcript of >a compilation attempt). > Interestin

Re: Oracle 8i ProC and Debian Potato

2001-02-07 Thread Stan Brown
On Wed Feb 7 17:03:53 2001 "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote... > >On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 14:16:36 -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >> bad news, _Lot's_ of erors. The firs one is failing to find stddef.h, tehn >> stdarg.h ... and so on. >> >> What am I doing wrong here? > >You've probably forgotten to install

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-07 Thread Stewart Jenkins
On Wednesday 07 February 2001 20:46, Stewart wrote: > > Section "Files" > RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" > FontPath "unix/:7101" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" > FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled" > Fon

Re: Removing symbolic links...

2001-02-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:08:07PM -0700, Stefan Srdic wrote: > While attempting to get my CD-Burner up and operational under Debian, I > managed to muck up a few things under the /dev directory. > > ls -l cdrom hdc scd0 > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Jan 24 15:08 cdrom -> scd0 > lrw

Re: Removing symbolic links...

2001-02-07 Thread ktb
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:08:07PM -0700, Stefan Srdic wrote: > While attempting to get my CD-Burner up and operational under Debian, I > managed to muck up a few things under the /dev directory. > > ls -l cdrom hdc scd0 > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Jan 24 15:08 cdrom -> scd0 > lrw

Removing symbolic links...

2001-02-07 Thread Stefan Srdic
While attempting to get my CD-Burner up and operational under Debian, I managed to muck up a few things under the /dev directory. ls -l cdrom hdc scd0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Jan 24 15:08 cdrom -> scd0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root9 Jan 27 08:50 hdc -> /dev/scd0 brw

Re: Ummm...Losing disk space. HELP.

2001-02-07 Thread kmself
on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:43:18PM -0600, Rob Rati ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I installed Debian 2.2 on a Gateway PC (PII-233) with no prbolems, and > it's been running fine. However, it just recently ran out of disk space > for some reason. Uppon investigation, I found that the /var/log dir wa

Re: Setting Reply-To: using exim?

2001-02-07 Thread Mark Phillips
Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Brian, thanks for taking the trouble to write this - it's been useful! I'd like to second this. Thanks Brian for your reply. Very much appreciated. Mark. -- _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~

True Type fonts

2001-02-07 Thread Stewart
True Type fonts in Linux are driving me nuts. Here is the scenario: I followed two different font de-uglification files. One for RedHat and one for Debian. This because I already had xfstt installed and this is what the RH explanation uses. The Debian version because I am using Debian. At o

Re: Forward 23 => 22, connection refused (OpenBSD & Debian)

2001-02-07 Thread ktb
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 05:14:18PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I'm trying to forward port 23 (telnet) on my firewall to 22 (ssh) on my > workstation. Getting around some outbound traffic filtering issues. > > However, when I attempt to connect to this interface, I'm getting > "connection

Ummm...Losing disk space. HELP.

2001-02-07 Thread Rob Rati
I installed Debian 2.2 on a Gateway PC (PII-233) with no prbolems, and it's been running fine. However, it just recently ran out of disk space for some reason. Uppon investigation, I found that the /var/log dir was HUGE, specifically the kern.log file. I removed all the files and rebooted the ma

Re: Searching for a library...

2001-02-07 Thread Pollywog
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001 19:02:58 -0600, ktb said: > > Have you searched the section - > "Search the Contents of the Latest Release" > ? > > I put in libstdc++ and got several hits. > > $ dpkg -S libstdc++ > might be helpful also. Also try 'apt-cache search libstdc++' but you need to ha

Forward 23 => 22, connection refused (OpenBSD & Debian)

2001-02-07 Thread kmself
I'm trying to forward port 23 (telnet) on my firewall to 22 (ssh) on my workstation. Getting around some outbound traffic filtering issues. However, when I attempt to connect to this interface, I'm getting "connection refused". The boxen in question are firewall: OpenBSD running ipf (firewall) a

Re: Searching for a library...

2001-02-07 Thread ktb
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:33:24PM +0100, jerome Moliere wrote: > Hi all Debian gurus, > I'm searching for a library required for running the java program, it > searches the libstdc++.so , so I tried to find this file in the > debian packages web page... > no success... > Is there a way using a

Re: XF86v4: mouse and fonts

2001-02-07 Thread kmself
on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 02:49:43PM -0600, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:20:14PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 11:14:39AM -0600, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 05:28:44AM -0800,

Re: making a boot disk

2001-02-07 Thread John-Mark
I have exactly the same problem in wanting to make a boot disk and get the same error message as you. Have you managed to solve the problem yet. Please let me know if you have a solution to this problem. Sorry I cant help you. All the best jm On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 10:22:03AM -0500, D-Man wrote:

Gigabyte 6VXD7?

2001-02-07 Thread Jens Gecius
Hi Folks! A little off-topic but maybe one or two fellow debian users have already experience with the Gigabyte Apollo Pro based Dual cpu board? Thanks for any information. I'm running unstable with 2.4.1 Yes, sound (es1370, creative 128 live) is NOT working properly... -- Tschoe,

Re: portmap: which package??

2001-02-07 Thread Frank Preut
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 09:36:23PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > once you have disabled portmap, please report to me whether you have > xdm delays during initlevel 3 login. if yes, then you are suffering > from the same problem that i have, namely that xdm/X and xfs don't > communicate via ipc but insis

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-02-07 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Matthias G. Imhof wrote: >I am actually having the same problems as the original poster, but my modultils >are version 2.4.1 which I must have gotten as a deb file from unstable or >testing. > >Any ideas why modconf 2.4.1 does not see the modules in /lib/modules/2.4.1?

Re: AT&T Korn shell for Debina (potato) ?

2001-02-07 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 07 Feb 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > On Wed Feb 7 12:15:42 2001 Moritz Schulte wrote... > > > >There's a public domain version of the Korn shell packaged as 'pdksh'. > > It's not very close to the most curretn version ksh93. I'm on it. I've just asked in debian-legal about the AT&T lic

mail server... exim and qpopper

2001-02-07 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi.,.. I'm having some problems setting up my email pop server... I have installed qpopper I don't have a valid domain... I figured I could use email addresses with IP addresses instead of domains for nowex [EMAIL PROTECTED] (where mike is a user on my localhost) Anyway.,.. Can anyone po

Re: Gnome 1.2 and potato

2001-02-07 Thread Moritz Schulte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Doesn't that partially defeat the point? I usually like to have the > newer versions of programs create the config files too, but in the > case of gnome I'd lose all the configuration I'd done to get it how I > want it. Are the config files that different and/or incom

Re: AT&T Korn shell for Debina (potato) ?

2001-02-07 Thread Stan Brown
On Wed Feb 7 12:15:42 2001 Moritz Schulte wrote... > > >There's a public domain version of the Korn shell packaged as 'pdksh'. > It's not very close to the most curretn version ksh93. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. --

wmmon in potato?

2001-02-07 Thread kmself
...I'm jus' lookin' for a good wmmon Anyone know what the status of wmmon under potato is? It currently depends on a couple of libs (xpm4g and another) which conflict with xlibs. Rats. I can build from source, probably will. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part

Re: apt-get tricks

2001-02-07 Thread kmself
on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:49:58PM -0500, Rich Renomeron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I have a CD-ROM-less laptop running the original 2.2 and a set of > official 2.2r2 CD's, and I would like to use them to upgrade without > having to connect to the internet. Is there any way, documen

Re: i810 in testing

2001-02-07 Thread Colin Watson
Glenn Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >so is the XFree support for i810 fairly seamless in v4? again, it's >more needing to get this done fast bec of work constraints than an >unwillingness to tinker. i'm dealing with a blecched SuSE box that carries >most of the scars of my early days running Li

Re: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-02-07 Thread kmself
on Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 08:25:00PM -0200, Jose Gracia Neto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Calm down! If you want, you can use a simpler apt-get interface called > console-apt - it requires a ncurses package. Or aptitude, which I believe is an update on capt. Rather different n woody, potato, and s

Re: xdm delays

2001-02-07 Thread kmself
on Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 04:32:24PM -0500, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hey, > > when i log in through xdm, i am presented with a precisely 60 second > long delay before the first line of my .xsession is executed. in fact, > using root privileges to modify the xdm files, i found out that >

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error!

2001-02-07 Thread kmself
on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:21:20PM -0800, jdls ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > In the middle of reading a disc for package installation of deselect an error > occurs: > > Trunks:/#hdc: cdrom_decode_status:status=0x51 > {DriveReady SeekComplete Error} > hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x

Re: Memory Problems on Compaq Prosignia w/Potato

2001-02-07 Thread Mark Lamers
Ian Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > I've just recently installed Potato on a Compaq Prosignia 300 > Server with 64M of RAM. Checking free, however, shows only > 13M. The Bios reports the correct amount on startup, and the > previous OS (NT) also had no problems with the memory. I tried > adding an ap

Re: Gnome 1.2 and potato

2001-02-07 Thread robhr
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > What if I have the debian gnome 1.0 packages installed already? Will > > the Ximian packages recognize that and upgrade them accordingly? Or > > will I have to uninstall 1.0 and install Ximian's 1.2? > > Since the Ximian packages have the same names (just differe

Re: Oracle 8i ProC and Debian Potato

2001-02-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 14:16:36 -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > bad news, _Lot's_ of erors. The firs one is failing to find stddef.h, tehn > stdarg.h ... and so on. > > What am I doing wrong here? You've probably forgotten to install libc6-dev which contains these headers. If not, you'll have to prov

Re: debian & poster

2001-02-07 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:09:02PM +0100, Allan Andersen wrote: > From: Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >I made a big debian poster using the open use logo GIMP file available > >from http://dusknet.dhs.org/~deek/debian/ -- it works quite nicely. > > > >Michael Janss

Re: Upgrade to g++ 2.95.3 in testing

2001-02-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:11:58 +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > I upgraded to gcc and g++ 2.95.3 in my testing system and I cannot compile > c++ anymore. The problem is it can't find libstdc++. The libstdc++*.so link is missing; Matthias has fixed this in newer packages already. Ray -- Cyberspace,

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-02-07 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Matthias G. Imhof" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any ideas why modconf 2.4.1 does not see the modules in > /lib/modules/2.4.1? insmod and friends can use these modules. The directory structure under /lib/modules/2.4*/ has changed. It seems that modconf isn't modified so that it finds the module

Re: keeping a process running?

2001-02-07 Thread Tibor D.
Michael A. Miller wrote: Can anyone suggest a way to monitor a process and restart it if it stops? Maybe "run" is what you're looking for?

RE: i810 in testing

2001-02-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Feb-2001 Glenn Becker wrote: > > o, god, whew. it's been a BAD day for my brain! > > so is the XFree support for i810 fairly seamless in v4? again, it's > more needing to get this done fast bec of work constraints than an > unwillingness to tinker. i'm dealing with a blecched SuSE box that

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-02-07 Thread Matthias G. Imhof
I am actually having the same problems as the original poster, but my modultils are version 2.4.1 which I must have gotten as a deb file from unstable or testing. Any ideas why modconf 2.4.1 does not see the modules in /lib/modules/2.4.1? insmod and friends can use these modules. Matthias -- *

RE: debian & poster

2001-02-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Feb-2001 Allan Andersen wrote: >> I made a big debian poster using the open use logo GIMP file available >> from http://dusknet.dhs.org/~deek/debian/ -- it works quite nicely. >> >>I'd love to see these offered commercially - not all of us are lucky >>enough to have poster printers. :) > >

RE: i810 in testing

2001-02-07 Thread Glenn Becker
o, god, whew. it's been a BAD day for my brain! so is the XFree support for i810 fairly seamless in v4? again, it's more needing to get this done fast bec of work constraints than an unwillingness to tinker. i'm dealing with a blecched SuSE box that carries most of the scars of my early days runn

Re: reiserfs annoyances

2001-02-07 Thread kmself
on Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 01:13:08PM -0800, Jim Nutt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Matthew Sackman writes: > > Just to say that I've just switched most of my partitions over to reiserfs > > and am having exactely the same problems: the boot procedure halts on each > > boot-up because of the request

Re: HP 9100 series cd -writer?

2001-02-07 Thread mike polniak
virtanen wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, mike polniak wrote: > > > Make sure you also have module sr_mod (for scsi cdrom) and that scsi > > > support is set with CONGIG_SCSI. > > > > Where is that module? > > > > If I'll run 'modconf' I cannot see that module. You can run> modprobe -l |grep

RE: i810 in testing

2001-02-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Feb-2001 Glenn Becker wrote: > > so ... the xfree86-common package in testing, which is apparently > v. 4.0.2-1, isn't really XFree86 v.4 (or better than?)? the > xserver-xfree86 package shows the same v. number in testing. i'm confused! > > sorry - i don't mean to be dense. i thought i w

RE: debian & poster

2001-02-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Feb-2001 Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > I've asked before, and I'll ask again... What font is used for the word > 'debian'? Anyone? Anyone? > mail Raul, the person who made the image.

RE: i810 in testing

2001-02-07 Thread Glenn Becker
so ... the xfree86-common package in testing, which is apparently v. 4.0.2-1, isn't really XFree86 v.4 (or better than?)? the xserver-xfree86 package shows the same v. number in testing. i'm confused! sorry - i don't mean to be dense. i thought i was running 4. :-S g ___

Re: Gnome 1.2 and potato

2001-02-07 Thread Moritz Schulte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > What if I have the debian gnome 1.0 packages installed already? Will > the Ximian packages recognize that and upgrade them accordingly? Or > will I have to uninstall 1.0 and install Ximian's 1.2? Since the Ximian packages have the same names (just different version

RE: debian & poster

2001-02-07 Thread Allan Andersen
> I made a big debian poster using the open use logo GIMP file available > from http://dusknet.dhs.org/~deek/debian/ -- it works quite nicely. > >I'd love to see these offered commercially - not all of us are lucky >enough to have poster printers. :) Yeah me too ... but I think the soluion will b

Re: problem with new (unstable) xlibs

2001-02-07 Thread Ian Zimmerman
John> I just did an update yesterday, and xlibs won't upgrade. John> Basically it fails when it tries to update app-default. I John> included my log of what happens if it helps. [...] Preparing to replace xlibs 4.0.1-1 (using .../xlibs_4.0.2-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xlibs ... dpkg:

RE: debian & poster

2001-02-07 Thread Allan Andersen
From: Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I made a big debian poster using the open use logo GIMP file available >from http://dusknet.dhs.org/~deek/debian/ -- it works quite nicely. > >Michael Janssen Wouldn't you go in some problems with the logo when you enlarge them ?

Re: keeping a process running?

2001-02-07 Thread kmself
on Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:09:04AM -0500, Michael A. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Can anyone suggest a way to monitor a process and restart it if > it stops? I seem to remember some discussion about this on > debian-user, but I haven't been able to track it down in the > archives. whi

Re: How to change the IP of a Debian box

2001-02-07 Thread Known Human Nick Rusnov
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>it was written: >Hi > >I need to change the "personality" of a Debian box. > >How do I change the IP/name of the machine? The IP is set in /etc/network/interfaces The hostname is set in /etc/hostname though you may have to adjust /etc/hosts too. as always, nick

mozilla, ssl, java, and other fun stuff

2001-02-07 Thread christophe barbe
I like debian. But there's is a big lack today in potato : no free www browser (I mean open-source and not buggy : ie not netscape) with java and ssl support. But it's a pity because mozilla is out with all required stuff. But we are still (in potato) with the M18-3 release. Today the 0.7 is out. T

Netscape plugins

2001-02-07 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
Sometimes Netscape gives me an error saying it's missing a plugin for the type text/plain or text/html. How do I solve this? -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Selling Soluciones Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r2

RE: i810 in testing

2001-02-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Feb-2001 Glenn Becker wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm strongly considering switching over to Debian at work ... but my > machine here has one of those evilish Intel i810 video jobs ... any > reports of success or failure with this chip and X in testing? > you must use XF4 if you want this to work

RE: How to change the IP of a Debian box

2001-02-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Feb-2001 Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: > Hi > > I need to change the "personality" of a Debian box. > > How do I change the IP/name of the machine? > name is in /etc/hostname IP is in /etc/network/interfaces.

debian on a apple powerbook

2001-02-07 Thread Brad Cramer
Has anyone had any sucess installing Debian on a Apple Powerbook 190cs (this is not a powerpc) I have had one laying around for about 2 years and would like to be able to do something with it. I has macos 7.6 installed but I don't have any programs for it and son't really want to but any. I have lo

Re: How to change the IP of a Debian box

2001-02-07 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 08:37:19PM +, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: > How do I change the IP/name of the machine? To change the hostname; type hostname To change the ipaddress, edit the file /etc/network/interfaces -- John

Re: XF86v4: mouse and fonts

2001-02-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:20:14PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 11:14:39AM -0600, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 05:28:44AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > I've upgraded my laptop from stable to testing. In the pro

Proftpd and Mysql

2001-02-07 Thread John Foster
Hi! Has anyone actually got Proftpd to work using mysql for authentification? Using proftpd from testing, and running the -l flag reports support for mysql is compiled in, but it doesnt work! If the user is in /etc/passwd it falls back to PAM. Running at -d 5 I see that mod_sqlpw is complaining

How to change the IP of a Debian box

2001-02-07 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi I need to change the "personality" of a Debian box. How do I change the IP/name of the machine? Thank you. -- Pedro Quaresma de Almeida e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

i810 in testing

2001-02-07 Thread Glenn Becker
Hi, I'm strongly considering switching over to Debian at work ... but my machine here has one of those evilish Intel i810 video jobs ... any reports of success or failure with this chip and X in testing? I found a few things in the list archives but they were sort of inconclusive as far as testi

Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers?

2001-02-07 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Dietmar Schultz wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:50:50AM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > > [...] > > (--) NVIDIA(0): Chipset: "RIVA TNT" > > (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 > > (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 > > (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor > [...] > > (--) N

Re: XF86v4: mouse and fonts

2001-02-07 Thread kmself
on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 11:14:39AM -0600, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 05:28:44AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > I've upgraded my laptop from stable to testing. In the process, I seem > > to have versioned up to XFree86v4. Currently: > > > > - X

Re: Is list active

2001-02-07 Thread kmself
Quite. Check your subscription options and/or procmail filters, and take it from there. on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 08:12:36PM -0800, Mike Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have not been getting debian-user-digest for over a week now. Does > anyone know what has happened? > -- > Mike Thompso

Re: /dev/ttyS0 permissions changing...

2001-02-07 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Bob Hilliard (on Wed, 07 Feb 2001 02:52:22PM -0500): > ppp changes the permissions to 640 on the device it is using, and > restores them when it exits. If it exits abnormally (crash, kill -9, > etc) the permissions are not restored. I have suspected that it does > not always rest

Re: mount: No medium found

2001-02-07 Thread kmself
on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:09:52AM -0500, Tino Ionescu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Mailer: Franklin Webmailer 1.0 > X-AOL-IP: 12.82.152.189 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi , > I tried

Re: How to delete a file called "-gzip"?

2001-02-07 Thread kmself
on Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:29:39PM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > this is a completely stupid thing I did. I wanted to make a zipped tar > archive of my complete user home account and write it to MOD. > > Unfortunately I used the following line: > > tar -cvvf

Re: 2.4.1 kernel and Debian

2001-02-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 09:45:59AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Tonite I'm going to install a fresh Debian on my Computer and then Upgrade to > the 2.4.1 kernel. First of all, wish me luck. Next, can anyone give me a > status on some of the problems that I will be facing. I've also heard

Re: /dev/ttyS0 permissions changing...

2001-02-07 Thread Bob Hilliard
Hugo van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Something on my machine is periodically changing /dev/ttyS0's > permissions to 640, whereas it needs to be 660 to use the modem ppp changes the permissions to 640 on the device it is using, and restores them when it exits. If it exits abnorma

RE: debian & poster

2001-02-07 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
I've asked before, and I'll ask again... What font is used for the word 'debian'? Anyone? Anyone? > -Original Message- > From: Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 7:34 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: debian &

RE: Urgent : Linux Certification

2001-02-07 Thread Holp, John Mr.
Joris, I am currently studying for the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) 102 "final" exam. The exams are TOUGH but I like their idea/concept. LPI is actually distribution independent for most areas. They accomplish this by retreating to the least common denominator - as an example to a

alsaplayer

2001-02-07 Thread Christopher Mosley
There seems to be no documentation for alsaplayer. I understand there are less analog <-> digital conversions to play a CD. However, whatever the gain in fidelity, it is lost as soon as you interact with the program. After opening a window with a mouse click the sound becomes and remains horrible

Re: Gnome 1.2 and potato

2001-02-07 Thread robhr
> Rob Rati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Are there Gnome 1.2 packages available for potato anywhere? > > Yes, Ximian (http://www.ximian.com/) is packaging GNOME for several > GNU/Linux distributions, including Debian Potato. If you want to give > it a try, add the following line to you /etc/apt

win98 -> Potato -> Internet

2001-02-07 Thread Paul Clark
I have a network of 2 potato boxen and 1 Win 98. Can somebody please tell me the name of the service or package I need on Potato to enable Win98 computers and perhaps other potato's to connect to the internet via one modem on a potato box? Thanks Paul Clark

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-07 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Anthony Campbell wrote: > Thank you; next question, where do you find it? Is there a .deb file > available? http://www.opera.com/download/linux.html, and yes, there are .deb's.

Re: Memory Problems on Compaq Prosignia w/Potato

2001-02-07 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:33:17PM -0500, Ian Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I've just recently installed Potato on a Compaq Prosignia 300 > Server with 64M of RAM. Checking free, however, shows only > 13M. The Bios reports the correct amount on startup, and the > previous OS (NT) also had no problem

Re: postgresql 7.0.3 -- but NO plperl ?

2001-02-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
will trillich wrote: >> ||/ Name Version Description >> +++-==--== >> ii postgresql 7.0.3-4 Object-relational SQL database > >aha. you're on 7.0.3-4. > >i'm using potato, so i had to go to samfundet.no/~tfhee

Re: HP 9100 series cd -writer?

2001-02-07 Thread virtanen
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, mike polniak wrote: > > Make sure you also have module sr_mod (for scsi cdrom) and that scsi > > support is set with CONGIG_SCSI. > > Where is that module? > > If I'll run 'modconf' I cannot see that module. > > > Then to make sure the scsi modules are loaded in t

Re: /dev/ttyS0 permissions changing...

2001-02-07 Thread David Wright
Quoting Hugo van der Merwe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Something on my machine is periodically changing /dev/ttyS0's > permissions to 640, whereas it needs to be 660 to use the modem... I > have now switched back to using ttyS1, but on laptops with only one > serial port this is not an option, so I'm s

Re: HP 9100 series cd -writer?

2001-02-07 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, mike polniak wrote: > > For most of the time 'xcdroast' command is > > answering: > > > > 'No Generic SCSI-Support has been detected.' > > (Anyway there are the modules sg and ide-sci emulation installed.) > > > > >From dmesg: > > ___ > > > > hdc: Hewlett-Packard

RE: Packages on ftp disappearing?

2001-02-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Feb-2001 Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > last weekend, I was able to download pptp source from woody. Today I > discovered that it does not longer exists there > (dists/woody/main/source/net). > > The only place where I could find it was in the 'pool' directory on > ftp.debian.org. > > Why do

Re: Memory Problems on Compaq Prosignia w/Potato

2001-02-07 Thread ktb
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:33:17PM -0500, Ian Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I've just recently installed Potato on a Compaq Prosignia 300 > Server with 64M of RAM. Checking free, however, shows only > 13M. The Bios reports the correct amount on startup, and the > previous OS (NT) also had no problem

Packages on ftp disappearing?

2001-02-07 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, last weekend, I was able to download pptp source from woody. Today I discovered that it does not longer exists there (dists/woody/main/source/net). The only place where I could find it was in the 'pool' directory on ftp.debian.org. Why does this happen? Is this package upgrading or something

majordomo+exim

2001-02-07 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have a debian slink system with smail and majordomo. Now I installed a new potato system with exim and majordomo and followed some instructions of both working. But majordomo is still not working. See the log: 2001-02-07 16:17:49 14QZA4-0002sw-00 == |/usr/lib/majo

Searching for a library...

2001-02-07 Thread jerome Moliere
Hi all Debian gurus, I'm searching for a library required for running the java program, it searches the libstdc++.so , so I tried to find this file in the debian packages web page... no success... Is there a way using apt-get to search the deb package containg a given file name ? I think so but

/dev/ttyS0 permissions changing...

2001-02-07 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Hello, Something on my machine is periodically changing /dev/ttyS0's permissions to 640, whereas it needs to be 660 to use the modem... I have now switched back to using ttyS1, but on laptops with only one serial port this is not an option, so I'm still wondering what it is that does this. I also

Perl OracleDBD for Debian?

2001-02-07 Thread Stan Brown
Does anyone know where I can get a .deb of Perl's OracleDBD for a Potato machine? I have installed the *1 DB, and it works finr. I have installed teh ProC package, and have yet to even get the sample files to compile (seem to be mising some standard headers?) So I figure the odds of getting Oracle

Memory Problems on Compaq Prosignia w/Potato

2001-02-07 Thread Ian Smith
Hi, I've just recently installed Potato on a Compaq Prosignia 300 Server with 64M of RAM. Checking free, however, shows only 13M. The Bios reports the correct amount on startup, and the previous OS (NT) also had no problems with the memory. I tried adding an append="mem=64M" line to Lilo.co

Re: Lilo problems after a debian installation...

2001-02-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Primary master (hda) with Debian, just installed las weekend > Secondary master (hdc) with Win98 already installed and working...(sic) > Well I install Debian on my primary disk and tell lilo to install at the > MBR (unsafe I know) > Now when I select to boot win98 it appears: > Loading win > L?

Re: HP 9100 series cd -writer?

2001-02-07 Thread mike polniak
virtanen wrote: > Didn't find any clue yet, what to do. > Still nothing happens. > For most of the time 'xcdroast' command is > answering: > > 'No Generic SCSI-Support has been detected.' > (Anyway there are the modules sg and ide-sci emulation installed.) > > >From dmesg: > ___ > >

Antwort: Re: Urgent : Linux Certification

2001-02-07 Thread "Martin_Tanzer"
I passed the available LPI tests. Without practice the tests are *very* tricky and difficoult - if you have practice and are experianced read the objectives and the related howtos and you will pass. martin MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07.02.2001 19:05:44 An: Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL P

Re: XFree86-4.0 screen resolution missmatched with monitor viewing area

2001-02-07 Thread judd
On 7 Feb, John Foster wrote: > Damon Muller wrote: >> While I don't know anything much about X4 modelines, and for myself >> using the monitor's onscreen display was enough to fix it up, for your >> problem of starting in the wrong resolution there is an easy fix. >> >> Under section `screen', go

XFree 4.0 and MS Natural Keyboard--problem

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff Beaird
Just upgraded from potato to woody, with X upgrade to 4.0 included, and now my MS Natural keyboard not working correctly. I've set "XkbModel" as "microsoft" in XF86Config-4, but /var/log/XFree86 tells me "Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap" Thanks for your help! -- Jeff Beai

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