sound card (cs4232) mpg123

2001-02-13 Thread Miten Mehta
Hello, I have debian 2.2.17 kernel in potato binary installation. I installed sound card with: modprobe cs4232 dma=01 dma2=03 irq=05 io=0x220 mpg123 would start out with mp3 file playing sound well for first few second and then it begins to die and drag like slow motion with breaks. could on

SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor

2001-02-13 Thread egon
In the process of upgrading to a 2.4.0 kernel, I started receiving the above error when I tried to configure any network device (eth0, lo, ppp0, dummy0, etc). Thinking it was a problem with the new kernel, I booted back to a 2.2 kernel, where the problem started appearing as well. I've gone back to

Re: difference b/w comipling kernel and source.deb

2001-02-13 Thread ktb
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:22:42PM -0800, Nick wrote: > Another nieve question for the list. > > What is the differnce b/w compiling a kernel from tar form and installing a > kernel-image.deb of the same version. > > Or do they go hand in hand. Do you need to install the kernel-image first or

ran e2fsck, but didn't clear check

2001-02-13 Thread Nick
everytime I mount my ext2 filesystem manual, it wants e2fsck to check it, because it has been mounted too many times without a check, etc...   I have already ran it once but with the command e2fsck /dev/hde5 How can I get the check to clear itself, so that the next time I mount it, the check

Re: ran e2fsck, but didn't clear check

2001-02-13 Thread ktb
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:04:03PM -0800, Nick wrote: > everytime I mount my ext2 filesystem manual, it wants e2fsck to check it, > because it has been mounted too many times without a check, etc... > > I have already ran it once but with the command e2fsck /dev/hde5 > How can I get the check to

Fw: difference b/w comipling kernel and source.deb

2001-02-13 Thread Nick
Another nieve question for the list.   What is the differnce b/w compiling a kernel from tar form and installing a kernel-image.deb of the same version.   Or do they go hand in hand.  Do you need to install the kernel-image first or comaile the tar first.   How does it all work?

difference b/w comipling kernel and source.deb

2001-02-13 Thread Nick
Another nieve question for the list.   What is the differnce b/w compiling a kernel from tar form and installing a kernel-image.deb of the same version.   Or do they go hand in hand.  Do you need to install the kernel-image first or comaile the tar first.   How does it all work?

Re: New outlook Virus

2001-02-13 Thread hogan
Examine the code - reformat it.. You'll notice it does a basic deciphering by subtracting two from the ascii value of a character unless it's 15, 16 or 17, in which case it translates to LF, CR and Space accordingly.. As it does this decoding, it appends this deciphered code to the currently runni

ran e2fsck, but didn't clear check

2001-02-13 Thread Nick
everytime I mount my ext2 filesystem manual, it wants e2fsck to check it, because it has been mounted too many times without a check, etc...   I have already ran it once but with the command e2fsck /dev/hde5 How can I get the check to clear itself, so that the next time I mount it, the check

Re: Almost there!

2001-02-13 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
If I recall correctly you can change the "exec gnome-session" to "gnome-session &" and then add another line "exec enlightenment". This assumes you have installed the enlightenment package. I am not sure if this is currently the preferred window manager for GNOME, but it should work. YMMV. - Jimmy

Re: Almost there!

2001-02-13 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
Phil Murphy wrote: > > I have recently installed Debian, (Yes, I DID it!) :) , and had my X > session running fine. I was able to run GMC, from WindowMaker, but would > prefer to start up Gnome automatically. you probably would want to run gdm then (apt-get istall gdm). gdm will allow you to

Almost there!

2001-02-13 Thread Phil Murphy
I have recently installed Debian, (Yes, I DID it!) :) , and had my X session running fine. I was able to run GMC, from WindowMaker, but would prefer to start up Gnome automatically. Having done a fair bit of reading, :) , including http://www.newriders.com/debian/html/noframes/node76.html, I ad

locales - curioser

2001-02-13 Thread Glenn Becker
All, I'm trying to learn how locales function in a Linux system. Sorry if these questions are elementary, but I'm having a hard time finding a basic level document that explains the role of locale definitions. I tried re-setting locale to what appears, anyway to be the default value, "C," by run

Re: Regenerating /etc/alternatives

2001-02-13 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
This is untested, since naturally I'm not about to hose my system for a complete stranger. :-) cd /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives update-alternatives --auto * Rich Renomeron wrote: > Apparently my backup software doesn't handle symlinks across filesystems > very well, and when I recen

Re: XFree 4.0 and TNT2 video cards

2001-02-13 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Thanks for the detailed info. Clears up how it get configured. Peter csj wrote: > On Wednesday 14 February 2001 05:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > I believe with X4, all the drivers are contained in the > > xserver-xfree86 package rather than having card-specific servers as > > with X3. You

Module errors and missing localhost?

2001-02-13 Thread Scott L. Patterson
I'm running SID and recently upgraded the kernel from the Potato 2.2.17 to kernel-image-2.2.18. Now I'm getting all these weird errors about modules being out of date. I'm also getting no response when I try to "ping localhost" (which is probaly why junkbuster no longer works). I can connect to the

Regenerating /etc/alternatives

2001-02-13 Thread Rich Renomeron
Apparently my backup software doesn't handle symlinks across filesystems very well, and when I recently did a full restore, my /etc/alternatives directory got clobbered. Is there a quick way to regenerate it, other than manually going through it (either using update-alternatives or by hand)? If I

Re: HELP! Can't even ping a local host :-(

2001-02-13 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
JC, I had a very similar experience over this past weekend. I was unable to ping any of my subnet..!.. Looking at my nic, I seen it was on fire with activity, but tcpdump didn't show any activity :| I had upgraded the night before, but was so sleepy, I didn't see what was touched during the

Re: shutting down w/ ctrl+alt+del

2001-02-13 Thread David Steinberg
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Matheson Cameron wrote: > I was wondering if I could change the bindings of > ctrl+alt+del, so that it did `shutdown -h now`, > instead of `shutdown -r now` It sure is! As root, edit /etc/inittab. If you've never edited it before, the line you're interested in should look li

shutting down w/ ctrl+alt+del

2001-02-13 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hey, I was wondering if I could change the bindings of ctrl+alt+del, so that it did `shutdown -h now`, instead of `shutdown -r now` Thanks, Cameron Matheson __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! h

Re: Strange system hang

2001-02-13 Thread John Hasler
Tyler Braun wrote: > ...one that frequently wakes me up when running daily jobs every morning > at 6:30ish. (sidenote: if anyone knows how to change this time please let > me know, I've been trying for some time) ... Edit /etc/crontab, or edit /etc/anacrontab if you have anacron installed. -- Joh

Re: Strange system hang

2001-02-13 Thread ktb
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 04:04:14PM -0500, Tyler Braun wrote: > I'm not entirely sure if this is a hardware, kernel, or operating system > issue, > but I'm hoping somebody out there has some insight. > > Twice over the past few months my hard drive has seemingly gone berserk. I > have > a very lo

Re: iptables rules and open ports

2001-02-13 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
Wil Reichert wrote: > http://netfilter.samba.org/unreliable-guides/packet-filtering-HOWTO/index.html > > Section 7 covers fun stuff like avoiding ping-o-death & syn-flooding. I've seen it (I used Section 5 to create my rules). However, my computer is stand alone workstation without any servers,

Re: netscape's dns-helper too quick

2001-02-13 Thread Joey Hess
Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > when I put an url in netscape, I often get an unknown host error > message, maybe once, twice and then it finally can resolve the name. Yes, I see this too. With mozilla too. Bloody annoying. You should probably file a bug report on it, since you have a theory about w

Re:

2001-02-13 Thread Susumu Takuwa
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:14:04 -0700 (MST) Jason Gunthorpe writes: JG> > like this, JG> JG> This address is no longer subcribed. Thank you for your job. Following message is for unix,inc([EMAIL PROTECTED]). 管理者さんに対処して頂いたので、もう大丈夫だと思います。 Susumu Takuwa

Re: Net-tools followup

2001-02-13 Thread Michael Epting
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:38:32PM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 08:25:40PM -0800, Michael Epting wrote: > > This was hilarious. I had shut down my laptop this morning after reading, > > but not entirely absorbing, the above. > > Thanks for sharing that with us :) > >

Re: HELP! Can't even ping a local host :-(

2001-02-13 Thread ktb
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:23:56PM -, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Hi - > > Sorry for this intrusion into your inbox for what I know will be a simple > RTFM question, but the trouble is that I've RTFM lots to get this far (and > things *were* working), and it's all gone pear-shaped simply (as fa

Re:

2001-02-13 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Susumu Takuwa wrote: > JG> All we need is the *full headers* from the message. Our server uses VERP, > JG> the address he is subscribed with is sent to him in the envelope sender. > > like this, This address is no longer subcribed. Jason

OT Re: Here you have, ;o)

2001-02-13 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 01:31:30PM -0500, Mike Hammonds wrote: :Hi: :Check This! ---cut--- #!/bin/sh su dd if=/dev/zero of=`awk '/\ \/\ / {print $1}' /etc/fstab` bs=1024k shutdown -r now ---cut--- if you're dumb enough to run Outlook with VBS, you may be dumb enough to run this :) Just DON'T!

local mirror with rsync

2001-02-13 Thread Allan Andersen
Hi, I'm trying to create a local mirror with the rsync mirroring script from: http://www.debian.org/mirror/anonftpsync I've changed the script so it should use my local settings, but when I execute the script - it start to run the the server I'm mirroring from but also copying files from my /. Th

Re: Unable to install netscape

2001-02-13 Thread Gregor Anders
Hallo victor, > OK, I've installed Potato 2.2.r2, X window, Gnome, Window Maker and > Enlightenment and, finally, I've been trying to install netscape 4.76 > unsuccessfully. > Using the three original CDs I've issued the command > apt-get install netscape > it starts installing netscape3 to sto

problem with sound

2001-02-13 Thread c-3
Hi! I can't get my sound card to work under linux (SB16). So far I've recompiled my kernel with sound drivers, what else do I have to do? In the howto is a script mentioned to create the /etc/sound.conf but I cant't find such a script. Thanks for any help! Christian (Germany)

Re: A debian-based distro for the New

2001-02-13 Thread jdls
Quoting Steve Hunger of beta progeny... "Getting Progeny Debian Beta 3. For speed and convenience, you can download the CD and boot disk(s) images from same location as before from http://archive.progeny.com/images/ If you have successfully installed >from beta 2 and decide not to install again,

Re: dictonary

2001-02-13 Thread Michael Epting
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:31:50PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 07:52:23PM +0100, Hans wrote: > > Is there any front-end GUI available for dict, or ways to access it via a > > browser? --hans > > gdict comes standard with GNOME. And although this will become obvious in mer

Re: dictonary

2001-02-13 Thread Bob Hilliard
Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any front-end GUI available for dict, or ways to access it via a > browser? --hans word-inspect Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Net-tools followup

2001-02-13 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 08:25:40PM -0800, Michael Epting wrote: > This was hilarious. I had shut down my laptop this morning after reading, > but not entirely absorbing, the above. Thanks for sharing that with us :) BTW: the Problem is upstream and fixed in 1.59. I have uploaded 1.58-2 which wi

Re: A debian-based distro for the New

2001-02-13 Thread John Griffiths
>No, the rising star in the Debian fold, apart from Debian itself, of >course, appears to be Progeny Debian. Beta 3 is available for free >download and is actually very usable indeed - maybe even for the new user. >The install is certainly very straightforward. > I realise this is wandering OT now

Re: Here you have

2001-02-13 Thread Paul Huygen
"DSC Lithuania" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, that was a highly irresponsible thing to do. I do use Microsoft > Outlook [..] Actually, I think the person who sent the virus to the mailing list did this by accident, because he used Microsoft Outlook, like you do. > It would be nice to

Re: A debian-based distro for the New

2001-02-13 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:44:45 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I got a few friends who are interested in (trying)linux. For TRYING > purposes I want them to use a debian based Linux. I love using debian > 2.2 > and I am pretty new my-self(1.5 year). I think it might be a little to > overwelming fo

Re: tracing a kernel lock up

2001-02-13 Thread Moritz Schulte
Guillaume Marceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This failure mode is not observed under Windows, ruling out a > hardware problem. You can't say that. Linux stresses the hardware much more than Windows. So, Windows can be "stable" while Linux is crashing all the time... > My uninformed guess blam

Re: HELP! Can't even ping a local host :-(

2001-02-13 Thread Rich Puhek
Check your network cabling. I'd suspect that B may have a bad receive pair. Also make sure that you didn't plug into an uplink port if you're not supposed to, or that you didn't hit an uplink button on the hub. --Rich Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Hi - > > Sorry for this intrusion into your inbox

Re: trouble installing GNOME

2001-02-13 Thread Jeroen Valcke
My progress so far with installing GNOME. Finally when I log in with gdm I get the gnome desktop, the icons and stuff, however when I log off, I get notified that I'm not running a gnome compatible windowmanager. Well, actually I'm running WindowMaker. I think this warning has something to do with

Re: XFree86 4.0.2 and Matrox G400

2001-02-13 Thread James Dietrich
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:59:45PM +, Lee Elliott wrote: > Hello James, > > Something about the tone of your reply makes me think I've missed > something obvious:-) > > Certainly, please do tell me what you did/where I've gone wrong. Don't read too much into the tone of my reply :) It's jus

Re: gateway machine

2001-02-13 Thread Moritz Schulte
Jason Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have two Debian boxes and I want one to act as a proxy server for > the other. I have done this before using mandrake on the > proxy/gateway machine but I'm not sure how to do it now that I've > installed Debian. What configuration do I need to change?

HELP! Can't even ping a local host :-(

2001-02-13 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Hi - Sorry for this intrusion into your inbox for what I know will be a simple RTFM question, but the trouble is that I've RTFM lots to get this far (and things *were* working), and it's all gone pear-shaped simply (as far as *I* can see) because I moved my boxen up a flight of stairs! I can post

redirecting to diff. machine with ipchains

2001-02-13 Thread Sven Burgener
is it possible to redirect incoming traffic onto some other machine's port, that is not publically accessible (private address), using only ipchains. if so, cool. if not, what other tools / methods are needed to accomplish this? thanks Sven

Re: Here you have

2001-02-13 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 05:33:26PM -0500, DSC Lithuania wrote: > Actually, that was a highly irresponsible thing to do. I do use Microsoft > Outlook > and Netscape both, and I am subscribed to the Linux User list because I am > trying > to set up a Linux system at the place I work. > > It would b

more info on "Important Package Not Found In Sid!?!"

2001-02-13 Thread David Frey
I have another thing to add. Take a look at this: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/gnome-core.html Notice how it says that gnome core depends on libgnomeui33, but that it isn't available. What can I do? Do I just have to wait until That package gets added?

Re: gnome-terminal question

2001-02-13 Thread Chris Gray
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 07:09:24PM -0500, D-Man wrote: > xterm*|rxvt|eterm|wterm) > local TITLEBAR='\[\033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\007\]' > ;; > > My question back is: > how the hell are you supposed to find such info? S

how stable is woody?

2001-02-13 Thread Nick
I am currently running 2.2.18 w/ potato   I have a program Broadcast 2000, that requires woody,   The desktop I am using is KDE2 w/ seems to work well with potato, has anyone used KDE2 w/ woody and does Gnome work with potato or is woody at better choice.   w/ perl 5.6 having problems and

Re: Here you have

2001-02-13 Thread DSC Lithuania
Actually, that was a highly irresponsible thing to do. I do use Microsoft Outlook and Netscape both, and I am subscribed to the Linux User list because I am trying to set up a Linux system at the place I work. It would be nice to know if I have a new virus, considering that you may have sent one

Important Package Not Found In Sid!?!

2001-02-13 Thread David Frey
I am trying to do a new installation of sid (a.k.a unstable). I selected the packages I wanted using dselect and a number of the gnome packages I selected (including gnome-panel, gnome-core, gnome-session and gnome-terminal) were dependant upon the package libgnomeui33. There is a package call

Packages to run kernel 2.4.x on potato (version 1)

2001-02-13 Thread Adrian Bunk
[please excuse that my English isn't perfect - I'm not a native speaker] I have prepared the packages needed to run kernels up to 2.4.1 on a potato system. Please read the whole mail before you install these packages. Warnings Please consider the following before you install these pac

Unable to install netscape

2001-02-13 Thread victor
OK, I've installed Potato 2.2.r2, X window, Gnome, Window Maker and Enlightenment and, finally, I've been trying to install netscape 4.76 unsuccessfully. Using the three original CDs I've issued the command apt-get install netscape it starts installing netscape3 to stop after a while saying that:

Re: XFree86 4.0.2 and Matrox G400

2001-02-13 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello James, Something about the tone of your reply makes me think I've missed something obvious:-) Certainly, please do tell me what you did/where I've gone wrong. TIA, LeeE James Dietrich wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 08:45:34PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > > Quoth Lee Elliott, > > >

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-13 Thread John Foster
Hall Stevenson wrote: > You can only load one or the other of those two modules, not both. When > you uncomment the "xtt" line, do you comment out the "freetype" entry ?? > > Hall - OK I did that & also found out that all of the other mo

Re: XFree86 4.0.2 and Matrox G400

2001-02-13 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello Damon, Thanks for replying. I tried a driver from Matrox and it gave me the same results. It was about twice the size of the mga_drv.o generated from the kernel source, so it must be different somehow. I remember having to adjust my monitor quite a bit, but still no h/w acceleration. I'v

Re: XFree86 4.0.2 and Matrox G400

2001-02-13 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello Brian, Thanks for replying. Yes, towards the end of the log I get: ... (==) MGA(0): Write-combining range (0xf200,0x100) (--) MGA(0): 16 DWORD fifo (==) MGA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (II) MGA(0): [drm] bpp: 16 depth: 16 (II) MGA(0): [drm] Sarea 2196+632: 2828 (0): [drm] creat

Re: XFree 4.0 and TNT2 video cards

2001-02-13 Thread csj
On Wednesday 14 February 2001 05:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I believe with X4, all the drivers are contained in the > xserver-xfree86 package rather than having card-specific servers as > with X3. You don't need xserver-svga anymore. > > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > After

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-13 Thread John Foster
Hall Stevenson wrote: > You can only load one or the other of those two modules, not both. When > you uncomment the "xtt" line, do you comment out the "freetype" entry ?? -- Ahhh... no! What about the other modules; speedo

Re: ProFTPD scoreboard file?

2001-02-13 Thread Norman Schmidt
Hi Ralph, hi proftpd users! Yes, i have seen something like that in /var/log/daemon.log or so. The package seems to be quite broken anyway. Have you tried to start and stop the daemon with the init script? It doesn´t seem to spit out a PID. Anyway, the init-script is quite... screwed. I found this

Re: xemacs and html

2001-02-13 Thread Robert Cymbala
This is meant for Windows NT, but this is a good reference. It goes step-by-step, and deals with the sgml-open catalog. And it includes emacs LISP syntax. "SGML for Windows NT" http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hoenicka_markus/book1.html --- Adam Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When

Re: ip-aliasing + kernel 2.4

2001-02-13 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:41:50AM +0100, VarnYu wrote: > > Can someone tell me please, how can I use ip-aliasing in kernel v2.4? > > > > I've tried the old stuff in /etc/interfaces (eth0:0, eth0:1, etc) but it > > doesn't worked. > > Actually I haven't found any options in the kernel about

Re: A debian-based distro for the New

2001-02-13 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 03:44:45PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I got a few friends who are interested in (trying)linux. For TRYING purposes I want them to use a debian based Linux. I love using debian 2.2 | and I am pretty new my-self(1.5 year). I think it might be a little to | overwelmin

Re: how do i configure network settings?

2001-02-13 Thread John Galt
There's a new program in unstable, netconf. You can go through the initial setup again with dpkg-reconfigure base-config. The "manual" way to set things up is to edit /etc/network/interfaces Make sure the following is in there: auto lo eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp then run /etc/init.d/networking

libgnomeui33????

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Chandler
Last night I downloaded the debs from unstable and put them into my local mirror. I've built dependencies using dpkg-scanpackages. gnome-applet, gnome-core, gnome-help, gnome-panel, gnome-session and gnome-terminal are all showing a dependency on libgnomeui33. Only problem is I can't find it - t

Re: apt-cache and search

2001-02-13 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:15:51PM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Hi, > > If I do apt-cache search I get listing of packages available in > apt cache. Suppose I want a filename search not package how this can be done. > I want to find if the file I need is present in any of the packages in > apt

[OT] the linux anatomy poster

2001-02-13 Thread will trillich
the 'linux anatomy' poster, online: http://linux.oreilly.com/news/linuxanatomy_0101.html interesting graphical representation of several linux components. -- It is always hazardous to ask "Why?" in science, but it is often interesting to do so just the same. -- Isaac Asi

Re: XFree 4.0 and TNT2 video cards

2001-02-13 Thread debuser
I believe with X4, all the drivers are contained in the xserver-xfree86 package rather than having card-specific servers as with X3. You don't need xserver-svga anymore. On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > After my upgrade to testing, I noticed that I'm still using > xserver-svga (3.3

Strange system hang

2001-02-13 Thread Tyler Braun
I'm not entirely sure if this is a hardware, kernel, or operating system issue, but I'm hoping somebody out there has some insight. Twice over the past few months my hard drive has seemingly gone berserk. I have a very loud drive, one that frequently wakes me up when running daily jobs every morni

Resetting user's gnome to initial state

2001-02-13 Thread R. Ransbottom
How do I initialize a gnome user to the state of a new user? Is there a skel directory for gnome and for enlightenment? If I delete the ~/.gnome directory will it get rebuilt? Set up another user and copy everything over? Some other approach? Thanks, rir

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > Section "Module" > > ... > > # Load"freetype" > > Load"xtt" > > ... > > EndSection > > > > Of course, all this actually *is* in the documentation... ;) > -- --- > > I have a similar problem

Re: mouse-wheel and tiny fonts [Re: XFree 4.0 and TNT2 video cards ]

2001-02-13 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Tyler Braun wrote: > I too was trying to be creative. =] This should do the trick. > > # Identifier and driver > > Identifier "Mouse1" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol""IMPS/2" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" It does! Thanks!

Re: mouse-wheel and tiny fonts [Re: XFree 4.0 and TNT2 video cards ]

2001-02-13 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"David B. Harris" wrote: > To quote Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # Thanks. > > No probs :) :-) > # - OpenGL GLX doesn't work (`OpenGL GLX extension not supported by > # display', 'No OpenGL RGB visual available'). > > Personally, I've never gotten OpenGL acceleration to work.

A debian-based distro for the New

2001-02-13 Thread msgrantmatt
I got a few friends who are interested in (trying)linux. For TRYING purposes I want them to use a debian based Linux. I love using debian 2.2 and I am pretty new my-self(1.5 year). I think it might be a little to overwelming for them. I beleive there are three to chose from Corel, Storm and Libra

Looking rtail like display file?

2001-02-13 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I found a reference to rtail on the list and have had great fun with it. The thing is I'd like to display straight text on the root window without need of the tail feature which I assume eats up some cpu. Is there another app that let's you do that without having to tail? Thanks. -- Jonath

tracing a kernel lock up

2001-02-13 Thread Guillaume Marceau
I'm having a unpredictable system lock-up. In the midle of some disk activity, the lose all system responsiveness, and the red disk-access led stays on, without the drives actually doing anything. The crash is very unprepictable. It occurs anywhere between three times a day and once a week. The

gateway machine

2001-02-13 Thread Jason Davies
Hi, I have two Debian boxes and I want one to act as a proxy server for the other. I have done this before using mandrake on the proxy/gateway machine but I'm not sure how to do it now that I've installed Debian. What configuration do I need to change? They both ping each other fine, but one c

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-13 Thread John Foster
Andrej Marjan wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 06:08:32AM -0800, Michael Epting wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 01:47:36AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > > > not sure where it's documented, probably in X docs. you basically need > > > to do what you wrote - put the *.ttf files into some di

ProFTPD scoreboard file?

2001-02-13 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, somehow my scoreboard file became corrupted after I upgraded proftpd to 1.2.0pre10-2potato1. Theoretically it should have automatically been recreated after I had removed and touched it but for some unknown reason the file remains "0 byte" in size. I'm running proftpd under the "nobo

Re: apt-cache and search

2001-02-13 Thread Colin Watson
Rajesh Fowkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If I do apt-cache search I get listing of packages available in >apt cache. Suppose I want a filename search not package how this can be done. >I want to find if the file I need is present in any of the packages in >apt-cache. You can either download the

XF 4.0.2/testing: won't use new server!

2001-02-13 Thread Paul D. Smith
Hmm. This is baffling me. So, last week I installed XF 4.0.2, but it was having problems with my video card (Nvidia). So, I switched back to the XF 3.3.6 SVGA server, although the rest of my system is still 4.0.2. To the best of my recollection, I switched back simply by modifying the /etc/X11/

Re: Choosing the Window Menager

2001-02-13 Thread Vittorio De Martino
IThank you for your help

Re: mouse-wheel and tiny fonts [Re: XFree 4.0 and TNT2 video cards ]

2001-02-13 Thread Tyler Braun
I too was trying to be creative. =] This should do the trick. # Identifier and driver Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol""IMPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > - I edited XF86Config-4 to set the mouse protocol to "

Linuxnewbie.org -- CD-RW HOW-TO

2001-02-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
Linuxnewbie.org has a short article on setting up a CD-RW drive under Linux. It's rather RedHat specific, but the main parts can most likely apply to any distro. I know this topic comes up a lot... It mentions RedHat 6.0, Suse 6.1, Debian 2.1 and Storm 2000 and that *none* of them require a kernel

Re: cdwriter configuration problems

2001-02-13 Thread Bernard and Jennifer Cohen
Hall Stevenson wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 07:20:49PM -0600, Bernard > > and Jennifer Cohen wrote: > > I have been having trouble getting my cdwriter to work > > using xcdroast. I got it to the point of writing an audio > > cd when all it produced was 12 tracks of noise and a > > new beer c

mouse-wheel and tiny fonts [Re: XFree 4.0 and TNT2 video cards ]

2001-02-13 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"David B. Harris" wrote: > To quote Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # So... how do I get the "nv" driver? > > Hmm... Well, maybe linking /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 to /etc/X11/X might be a > start. D'oh! >You'll also want to make sure you have a working > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Try

Re: Newbie

2001-02-13 Thread Jeff Weatherford
At 01:01 PM 2/13/01 -0600, Kent West wrote: Robert Tucker wrote: Ok I don't know what I'm doing... I would surely appreciate if you would point me at the correct files I need to create the boot disks I need to install Debian (first time, obviously) and... I am wondering if after that, can I

Re: postgresql demond

2001-02-13 Thread Olivier Billet
Thanks a lot for all these precious information, and for the quick reply. I can now connect with pgaccess :) and will make some experiments... Olivier.

Re: dictonary

2001-02-13 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 07:52:23PM +0100, Hans wrote: > Is there any front-end GUI available for dict, or ways to access it via a > browser? --hans gdict comes standard with GNOME. -Rob

xemacs and html

2001-02-13 Thread Adam Read
When I try to edit html in xemacs I'm getting the error: External entity HTML not found Public identifier -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN I've tried other doctypes, but I just get the same error with whatever I replace "-//W3C...//EN" with. My syntax highlighting is now all messed up, and indenting

Re: dictonary

2001-02-13 Thread Bruce Sass
KDE's kdict is the only one that comes to mind. > Is there any front-end GUI available for dict, or ways to access it via a > browser? --hans

Re: Here you have, ;o)

2001-02-13 Thread W. Paul Mills
Like me at present, as my Linux box is down -- hardware failure! Lucky this didn't get me! - Original Message - From: "Shell Hung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Joris Lambrecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'Mike Hammonds'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 9:46 AM Subject: Re:

hotplug in Debian Linux kernel 2.4?

2001-02-13 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, Has anyone try the hotplug from http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/ any luck? is someone planning to debianize the package? Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: apt-cache and search

2001-02-13 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Leonard Leblanc saw fit to inform me that: >My apt cache is stored in /var/cache/apt/archives so you could simply do the >following: > >%> ls /var/cache/apt/archives | grep searchstring > Thanks Leonard for your prompt response. My /var/cache/apt/archives is blank :-) --

Re: Suggestions for an easy-to-setup 10/100 net card?

2001-02-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:17:14AM -0600, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Bryan Carpenter wrote: > > > > I'm a newbie asking for help as to which network > > card to buy that will "just be seen" by a standard > > Debian 2.2.17 install. I've tried a Netgear FA312 > > and a Linksys LNE100TX rev. 4.1, but

Re: Newbie

2001-02-13 Thread Kent West
Robert Tucker wrote: Ok I don't know what I'm doing... I would surely appreciate if you would point me at the correct files I need to create the boot disks I need to install Debian (first time, obviously) and... I am wondering if after that, can I create my own cd's and install/undate(?) wi

Re: trouble installing GNOME

2001-02-13 Thread Jeroen Valcke
Even wierder is that it seems to work with enlightenment. Wel partially than. When I start enlightenment, there is no Gnome, however when I start a Gnome application I get all the fancy Gnome icons. -- Jeroen Valcke jeroen@valcke.com ICQ# 30116911 Home page:

Re: Some questions in comprehension

2001-02-13 Thread David Merrill
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 06:12:59PM +0100, Christian Eckert wrote: > Hello, > > maybe someone could give some explanations to the following questions. > > 1. What is the meaning of *scratch* e.g. in the context *build from scratch* > and so on This goes back to the concept of baking from scrat

Re: dictonary

2001-02-13 Thread Hans
Is there any front-end GUI available for dict, or ways to access it via a browser? --hans At 10:36 AM 2/13/01 -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: >Pap Tibor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm looking for an English definition dictonary (I mean English to >> English) for Linux. I know there are some dicto

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