Recently I installed XFree86 on my Intel box in the hopes of getting the
NVIDIA drivers up and running. I changed the config files for apt to
point to the unstable distro and did the upgrade but it didn't seem to
work. Currently I can't even get X up and running and am thinking about
reinstalling
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 22:54:59 hammack wrote:
> Dana, I am getting ready to install SO5.2 on my Linux side. As I recall on
> the MS side I was given an option of installing Suns Java. My installation
> guide states that I must have Glibc ver 2.1.0 installed. How can I
> determine what ver of glibc
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 05:29:54AM -0700, Yobb wrote:
> The actual module that I want load when /dev/scd0 is mounted is
> advansys.o. Is this possible? Do I have to modify /etc/modules.conf to
> make this work?
/etc/modules.conf is generated from files in /etc/modutils, so make
any changes rel
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 09:17:03PM -0600, ktb wrote:
> >
> > Would the following work?
> >
> > /boot (5 meg primary)
> > / (10240 meg logical)
> > /swap (64 meg primary)
> >
> > Just leaving the rest open until I get ready to install the other OSs.
> >
> > Anyone?
>
> What you have should
> # Hey All,
> #
> # I have just a quick (and probably stupid) question. I was under the
> # impression that you could just place scripts in the cron.daily,
> # cron.monthly, and cron.weekly directories and that those scripts would
> be
> # run. Now either there is an error in my script or I'm no
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 22:39:15 Seung-woo Nam wrote:
> Hi:
> If you don't want to use web browsing capability in StarOffice (who does
> anyway), you don't need Java support.
That did the trick, thanks!
Dana
To quote "Leonard Leblanc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
# Hey All,
#
# I have just a quick (and probably stupid) question. I was under the
# impression that you could just place scripts in the cron.daily,
# cron.monthly, and cron.weekly directories and that those scripts would
be
# run. Now either there
Hey All,
I have just a quick (and probably stupid) question. I was under the
impression that you could just place scripts in the cron.daily,
cron.monthly, and cron.weekly directories and that those scripts would be
run. Now either there is an error in my script or I'm not doing something
right.
Hi:
If you don't want to use web browsing capability in StarOffice (who does
anyway), you don't need Java support.
Seung-woo Nam
"Dana J . Laude" wrote:
> I'd like to install the current StarOffice 5.2 from
> sun.com since the version for Potato is old. When
> I attempt to run the .bin file it
To quote Glenn Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
#
# All,
#
# I have been trying to secure my Debian box, which enjoys a DSL
# connection. I've been going through /etc/inetd.conf, commenting out
# services, and K'ing others in the /etc/rc2.d/, until what I have left
is
# the following (output from nmap
I'd like to install the current StarOffice 5.2 from
sun.com since the version for Potato is old. When
I attempt to run the .bin file it complains about
"no java environment found".
Ideas anyone? Like which file Java file I need?
Thanks!
Dana
All,
I have been trying to secure my Debian box, which enjoys a DSL
connection. I've been going through /etc/inetd.conf, commenting out
services, and K'ing others in the /etc/rc2.d/, until what I have left is
the following (output from nmap):
Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1):
PortS
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 07:33:03PM -0800, Nick wrote:
> I am trying to set up my wheel mouse ,
> which requires a script for IMPS/2
>
> Where is .Xresources, I have looked in
> ~/.Xresources
> /home//.Xresoures
>
> Thanks for the help
>
I just created the file and put the following line in ~/.
> I just recently made the switch from Red Hat 6 to Debian 2.2.
> On RedHat there was a little program called sndconfig that did
> a nice job of recognizing my sound card and getting sound set up
> for my system. Is there a similar utility for Debian? Or a pointer
> to awebsite would also be apprec
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 07:47:27PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote:
> "Eric G. Miller" wrote:
>
> > "man blackbox" -- answers all these questions and more.
> >
> > example ~/.blackboxrc:
> > ...
> > session.screen0.toolbar.onTop: False
> > session.screen0.toolbar.autoHide: False
> > session.scree
"Eric G. Miller" wrote:
> "man blackbox" -- answers all these questions and more.
>
> example ~/.blackboxrc:
> ...
> session.screen0.toolbar.onTop: False
> session.screen0.toolbar.autoHide: False
> session.screen0.toolbar.placement: BottomCenter
> session.screen0.toolbar.widthPercent:
# Comments or suggestions welcome but it looks like I have wasted my
time and
# should have stayed with RH
With an attitude like that, you should have stayed with Red Hat. Or
better yet, Windows. When you having nothing installed other than
Windows, Office, and Internet Explorer, it's fairly stabl
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 10:09:03PM -0500, Michael A. Howard wrote:
> Testing debian to see if it meets my requirements for installation on a few
> servers to replace RedHat 6.1 & 6.2.
> I am a very happy RedHat user except it installs too many items like X that
> are unecessary for a server & nearl
I am trying to set up my wheel mouse ,
which requires a script for IMPS/2
Where is .Xresources, I have looked in
~/.Xresources
/home//.Xresoures
Thanks for the help
-Nick
look likes you don't have libc6-dev package and maybe binutils. Also, you may need to try install kernel-package which is designed to compile linux kernel in debian way.
hope that helps
sanOn 17 Feb 2001 22:09:03 -0500, Michael A. Howard wrote:
> Testing debian to see if it meets my requirement
Greetings everyone!
After just moving to Debian a few weeks ago, (coming from SuSE) I
finally
got my Cannon BJ-6000 working, and thought that I'd pass on what I
found
so others might not have to go through my experimental stage. :-)
Anyways, it seems like to get printing to work, it's how to in
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Jed Strauss wrote:
> I just recently made the switch from Red Hat 6 to Debian 2.2.
> On RedHat there was a little program called sndconfig that did
> a nice job of recognizing my sound card and getting sound set up
> for my system. Is there a similar utility for Debian? Or a p
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 03:04:01PM -0600, Lute Mullenix wrote:
> Ok, here's my situation. I was planning on doing the switch to Debian in the
> near future, but it came sooner than expected when the HD in my Brand X
> distro machine bellied up on me. So I went down and picked up a new 30 gig
> unit
Testing debian to see if it meets my requirements for installation on a few
servers to replace RedHat 6.1 & 6.2.
I am a very happy RedHat user except it installs too many items like X that
are unecessary for a server & nearly impossible to remove after the fact.
After reading about the other distr
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 06:09:29PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote:
> is there any way to get rid of the blackbox toolbar or allow it to go
> "behind" programs that come on top of it? i just migrated my TV from
"man blackbox" -- answers all these questions and more.
example ~/.blackboxrc:
...
session.sc
I just recently made the switch from Red Hat 6 to Debian 2.2.
On RedHat there was a little program called sndconfig that did
a nice job of recognizing my sound card and getting sound set up
for my system. Is there a similar utility for Debian? Or a pointer
to awebsite would also be appreciated.
Maybe you should try ExplorerPS/2 in XFconfig rather than imps/2. It all works
great for me.
On approximately Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:06:46AM -0500, Tyler Braun wrote:
> I experienced the same problems with my intellimouse. What you're looking for
> is
> quite simple, I guessed at how I could ge
Bud Rogers wrote:
>
> On Saturday 17 February 2001 12:18, Richard Cobbe wrote:
>
> > * the ball should be under my fingers, not my thumb, as it generates
> > the most pain.
>
> A pity, that. I've been using a Logitech Trackman Marble since
> Christmas and I really like it. Best $40 I've spent
is there any way to get rid of the blackbox toolbar or allow it to go
"behind" programs
that come on top of it? i just migrated my TV from mandrake 7.0 to
debian 2.2 and am
having trouble doin that, in mandrake it worked ok. im running X in
640x480 and am trying
to get kwintv to go fullscreen (the
Alt-Ctrl-F1 should take you back to the first virtual console (and
Alt-Ctrl-F2 to the 2nd, etc). You should be able to log into a text
console there and edit /etc/X11/XF86Config by hand or run XF86Setup or
the like
Tim
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 07:24:07PM -0600, Michael Light wrote:
> I recently
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Michael Light wrote:
> I recently had someone install Debian for me on my other computer.
> At the time we were setting up the device drivers for the X window
> system I didn't know what video card I had. He told me to go into
> file XF86Setup to put in the right device dri
Robin,
Thank you so much for the help. I just tried to use the boot disk.
After it booted into /dev/hda6, I ran lilo again, and then reboot the
machine, and it doesn't complain about the partation table again.
Chip
Robin Rowe wrote:
>
> Chip,
>
> I don't know what's wrong, but a typical wa
I recently had someone install Debian for me on my
other computer. At the time we were setting up the device drivers for the
X window system I didn't know what video card I had. He told me to go into
file XF86Setup to put in the right device driver. I did but apparently the
device driver
Hi,
Trying to get wine to run under woody
I've used winesetup to make a config file and create the windows dir
structure.
I've copied notepad.exe from my windos partition and when I type
$ wine notepad.exe I get this error:
FIXME:pthread_rwlock_rdlock
FIXME:pthread_rwlock_unlock
FIXME:pthread
Hi,
I'm running testing, and I just finally upgraded to X 4.0.2 yesterday.
>From what I understand, I should still be able to run 3.3.6, just by
changing the symlink /etc/X11/X to /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA (that's the
3.3.6 server that I ran to support my Voodoo 3). If do that, X starts
without any
Hi. I am running Debian 2.2.
I am trying to get my scsi card kernel module to load automatically when
I issue a mount command for that drive (or when other software like
dselect tries to mount that drive.)
My /etc/modules file reads as follows:
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot
> if it comes to it you can always go to runlevel 1 (init 1), when it
> prompts for
> the root password hit CTRL-D to come back to runlevel 2. that will
> effectivly
> restart all programs on the system except (i think) init, and of course
> the
> kernel.
>
> restarting programs really depends on
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Richard Cobbe wrote:
>Greetings, all.
>
>Over the last several months, I've been having increasing pain in my
>right wrist. A co-worker suggested that this is due to problems with
>standard mice and recommended that I try a trackball instead.
Look at the Mouse Systems one--3
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 10:54:48AM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
>
> Hi Brad,
>
> Looks like you just need/want to edit the Message Of The Day (/etc/motd)
> file.
actually sounds more like /etc/issue /etc/motd does not have any
reference to stable/unstable that i can see.
> Don't run
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 04:02:45PM +0100, c-3 wrote:
>
> And is there a way to compile a non compressed kernel image?
whenever you build a kernel (using any target zImage bzImage or
vmlinux) you will always have a uncompressed ELF kernel in the top
level kernel source directory at the end of the
> Xfree 4.x has TWO config filesunlike the old Xfree 3.x
>
> Make sure you are changing both files and not just the old type
XFree86.cfg
> one
>
> Took me a while to figure this one out
Presumably one is /etc/X11/XF86Config, what's the other one?
Cheers,
Brad
Congo Systems
12 Northgate
hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
h> I have squid proxying ftp/http on my firewall. Thus, I cna see web pages
h> from behind a firewall. I do not want to put a hole in the firewall to
h> let people on the instide directly communicate with the outside via http
h> or ftp.
h>
h> My netscape bro
John S. J. Anderson wrote:
> Is there any relatively-newbie-level guide to setting up a Usenet
> server under Debian (or under Linux, period)? I'm looking for
> something that discusses the pros and cons of the available options
> (inn vs. inn2 vs. leafnode vs. ...) and how to set each of them up
I have squid proxying ftp/http on my firewall. Thus, I cna see web pages
from behind a firewall. I do not want to put a hole in the firewall to
let people on the instide directly communicate with the outside via http
or ftp.
My netscape browser has a place to configure ftp/http/https firewalls a
Hi,
Just a quick question that shouldn't be too hard to answer. Since rolling
my own 2.4.1 kernel, I'm getting this annoying message during bootup that
i can't get to go away:
modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than
/lib/modules/2.4.1/modules.dep
i tried doing a 'depmod -a' t
Sorry to be a pest. Are there really no other suggestions for fixing
this problem? Upgrading net-tools didn't help...
/ Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
| I recently did and update/upgrade for the latest unstable (yeah, yeah,
| silly me :-), and now I get the following messages w
Richard Cobbe wrote:
> So, I'm looking for a trackball that will work well with potato/X. My
> primary goals:
> Do people have any other recommendations for trackballs (or other pointing
> devices, for that matter)?
I've got a Belkin Trackmaster (model F8E189) here. It's a PS/2 device,
three b
A few days ago, I made my leap into Linux world by installing
Debian 2.2r0 onto my 400 MHz AMD K6-2 system. Things have gone
fairly well, but there were a couple of things that got fouled
up that I can't seem to fix:
[1] The X Window system didn't get configured properly. The
xviddetect util
On 16 Feb 2001, another spammer wrote:
> P.S.: This is not spam mail.
It is Unsolicited.
It is Commercial (and Bulk)
It is Email.
It is spam, QED.
Send complaints as normal, folks.
--
Gary
Debian 2.1r4 (kernel v2.0.39); XFree86 3.3.6
Ghastly .sigs, have they no ending?
Ok, here's my situation. I was planning on doing the switch to Debian in the
near future, but it came sooner than expected when the HD in my Brand X
distro machine bellied up on me. So I went down and picked up a new 30 gig
unit and it now sits in my Pentium machine eagerly awaiting a new OS. I am
Humm...
I think the .kde dir still lives even if you compltely
remove kde with dselect.. SO, if you want a complete new install
with defualt values, might be a good idea following the removal to
do a locate kde and see what comes up. example:
locate kde | grep /home/yourusername | less
So fa
Hi,
yes, that is all correct too.
Thanks,
Sebastiaan
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Carl Greco wrote:
> Check that the libs actually exist, i.e., my potato (patched to
> current release) has the following:
>
> peregrine:/etc/init.d# ldconfig -nv /usr/X11R6/lib
> ldconfig: version 1.9.11
> /usr/X11R6/lib
When trying to select wmaker, wmakerconf, wmakerconf-data. A conflict saying
wmakerconf requires a higher level version of wmaker than is available, I use
Debian Woody, and this has a been a problem for some time now. I tried debian's
ftp site and couldn't find a higher version. When will this be f
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> Lo, on Saturday, February 17, Sebastiaan did write:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been using AlfaData's trackballs almost half my life now. Perhaps
> > they make them now with PS/2 and the third button enabled, *IF* they are
> > still in production.
>
>
Hi Cam,
That really sounds like it could be fun! Just thinking here, how to pull
off that ... How about using an 'at'command. give yourself 2 minutes to
change the kb, at will restart gpm then do it again 2 minutes later so
you can see if new stuff works, and if it doesn't gives you time to pl
Relative newbie running Debian 2.2. I've removed and
reinstalled KDE twice via dselect and consistently get the
same situation: I do not get a panel under KDE. I only get
a desktop with a couple of icons. I can manually run
kselect, which lets me set the options on the panel but the
panel doesn'
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 07:55:12PM +, John Carline wrote:
>
> And I no idea why you do that because I haven't found any of those
> distributions
> to be easier - only different.
>
> >
> > what is it about debian that inspires such zealotry?
> >
>
> Quality software, the ideals of the Free
I'm having trouble with Leafnode - moving back from Emacs/Gnus to
Vim/Mutt/Slrn, I wiped out the /var/spool/news folder. Long
story! I've replaced the folder (as user news) and leafnode
has donme it's magic and set up subfolder for the groups I want
to read. But the articles aren't coming
Okay. I have one machine set up as a gateway, and I'm using exim with
some rewriting rules for my email gateway. It's been working fine for
years, but now I set up a machine with DHCP, and I find I can't send
email outside my network from that machine. It looks like this is
happening because the d
Hi,
I have CD's 2.2r0 but a machine that doesn't boot from CD's. I have
another machine that I can make the rescue and other floppies.
The install/doc/ch-install-methods.en.html suggests four disk sets,
vanilla, compact, idepci or udma66.
The cd's have compact, idepci, safe, and udma66 and the b
Forrest English wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 03:40:00 +, John Carline whispered to the router:
>
Ahhh.. 'scuse me, I didn't whisper. I said it loud and clear.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> !!
> !! > I got a few friends who are interested in (trying)linux. For TRYING
> purposes I want them t
Check that the libs actually exist, i.e., my potato (patched to
current release) has the following:
peregrine:/etc/init.d# ldconfig -nv /usr/X11R6/lib
ldconfig: version 1.9.11
/usr/X11R6/lib:
libXaw3d.so.6 => libXaw3d.so.6.1
libforms.so.0.88 => libforms.so.0.88
libforms.so.
Lo, on Saturday, February 17, Bud Rogers did write:
> On Saturday 17 February 2001 12:18, Richard Cobbe wrote:
>
> > * the ball should be under my fingers, not my thumb, as it generates
> > the most pain.
>
> A pity, that.
Truly---it's starting to cause problems when I write for long stretches
Lo, on Saturday, February 17, Sebastiaan did write:
> Hi,
>
> I have been using AlfaData's trackballs almost half my life now. Perhaps
> they make them now with PS/2 and the third button enabled, *IF* they are
> still in production.
Is this www.alfadata.com? If so, it would appear that they no
I have crashed my share of drives too. What I learned is that I get the
very best luck out of Western Digital. Of all the WD drives, I only killed
one - and that was purely my fault - 1500Watts of RF without benefit of
an RF ground = bad/evil/smoke producing things to computers :) Yet WD
warrented
I have a Woody system (up-to-date), and isdnutils is set up in the
standard way.
in device.ippp0, the default route is being set, i.e., right after
typing "/etc/init.d/restart", a default route to ippp0 is set.
But when I dial out with "isdnctrl dial ippp0", the default route is
being deleted. Th
Dear list,
I'm running an HP Omnibook 5500 laptop here, and would like to use,
under X, the internal TrackPoint pointing device and an external
serial mouse at the same time (i. e., without restarting X to make the
switch).
More generally, is it possible to have more than one Pointer device
for t
Sorry to answer my own question, but a bit of research revealed that
while Xfree86 3.3 knows only one pointer, gpm can manage multiple ones
for it. My /etc/gpm.conf now has:
device=/dev/psaux
type=ps2
append="-M -t mman -m /dev/ttyS0"
and the pointer section in /etc/X11/XF86Config is:
Hi Brad,
Looks like you just need/want to edit the Message Of The Day (/etc/motd)
file.
Don't run gnome here - sri.
On Friday 16 February 2001 06:54, Brad Cramer wrote:
> I am not really new to linux (used Redhat for 3 years) but I am a recent
> Debian convert and I have a coulpe of simple
>
> Does anybody know where is "discover" or did anybody experience
> a similar error message in the latest xfree-xserver-update in unstable?
>
Apparently, it autodetects the video driver X should use, and apt looks
for it in the configure part of installing the X packages. You shouldn't
have
Hi,
I have been using AlfaData's trackballs almost half my life now. Perhaps
they make them now with PS/2 and the third button enabled, *IF* they are
still in production.
The biggest advanture is that they have a really big ball, so you can
scroll over your screen in notime and retain accurecy.
On Saturday 17 February 2001 12:18, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> * the ball should be under my fingers, not my thumb, as it generates
> the most pain.
A pity, that. I've been using a Logitech Trackman Marble since
Christmas and I really like it. Best $40 I've spent in a while.
--
Bud Rogers <[EMA
Hi,
I'm kind of stumped over the dmesg size. I did a search on it and found some
are considering a patch to provide on the fly dmesg buffer size etc... What I
need to do is find the output of several onboard cards - video and sound. I
have found the driver for the video (go XF86Setup!) but s
Greetings, all.
Over the last several months, I've been having increasing pain in my
right wrist. A co-worker suggested that this is due to problems with
standard mice and recommended that I try a trackball instead.
So, I'm looking for a trackball that will work well with potato/X. My
primary g
Hi,
it gives no errors. It shows all the libs and to which they are linked to.
Perhaps there is a problem because the program is 'old' (<1998) and uses
the old
binary format (cannot remember which).
Thanks,
Sebastiaan
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Carl Greco wrote:
> Run the following command and check
On Saturday 17 February 2001 11:46, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Well put. But the original poster said he was using *SUSE*. Now, if
> only he had been using Debian...
I have run SuSE as well as Debian. I went through the learning hurdles
Jan is talking about with Slackware. In terms if his quest
I have a Woody system (up-to-date), and isdnutils is set up in the
standard way.
in device.ippp0, the default route is being set, i.e., right after
typing "/etc/init.d/restart", a default route to ippp0 is set.
But when I dial out with "isdnctrl dial ippp0", the default route is
being deleted. Th
Does anybody know where is "discover" or did anybody experience
a similar error message in the latest xfree-xserver-update in unstable?
MH
--
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mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dave Thayer wrote:
> >
> > Is there anyway of getting xearth in a terminal window and not the
> > default root window?
> >
> > The man pages has nothing but I was wondering...
>
> Try xplanet, it has a -window option plus it supports nicer bitmaps,
> cloud overlays, other planets
>
> your p
On 17 Feb 2001, Bud Rogers wrote:
> On Saturday 17 February 2001 10:13, Jan van Veldhuizen wrote:
>
> > Why am I pegging away with Linux? If I start the Windows Setup right
> > now, my system will work completely in less than 1 hour
>
> > I'm feeling 20 years in the past, when configuring all
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 07:19:28AM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote:
> Osamu Aoki wrote:
...
> > By the way, when you have buggy multi-PC KB switcher, and
> > KB goes crazy, restarting gpm also intialize KB nicely.
> >
> OK, I'll offer a test. I do have a keyboard I want to try, and I don't
> want to go
> i must confess I just managed to get my sound
> card to work. I was wondering how to subscribe to
> napsterI am guessing because of the legal case
> against napster that one can not subscribe? I notice
> that newsgroups have a lot of files... any advice on
> how to find interesting sounds/mus
Run the following command and check for errors:
ldconfig -nv /usr/X11R6/lib
Sebastiaan writes:
>Hi,
>
>I try to run a program, but it seems that it cannot find the librarys
>needed. With ldd, I see that the following librarys can not be found:
>libXt.so.6
>libXext.so.6
>libX11.so.6
>
>They are
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, c-3 wrote:
> Date sent:Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:57:59 -0500
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> From: Erik van Roode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: general kernel question
> Forwarded by: debian-user@lists.de
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:13:39AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there anyway of getting xearth in a terminal window and not the
> default root window?
>
> The man pages has nothing but I was wondering...
Try xplanet, it has a -window option plus it supports nicer bitmaps,
cloud overl
i must confess I just managed to get my sound card
to work. I was wondering how to subscribe to napsterI am guessing
because of the legal case against napster that one can not
subscribe? I notice that newsgroups have a lot of files...
any advice on how to find interesting sounds/music etc.
-wa
Date sent: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:57:59 -0500
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
From: Erik van Roode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:Re: general kernel question
Forwarded by: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> At 10:32 PM 2/16/01 +01
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:46:10AM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote:
> When fetchmail gets mail, I think it passes it to sendmail which
> checks to make sure the domain exists. Today, my DNS servers listed
> in /etc/resolv.conf were down, and all the mail I fetched got bounced
> and lost. I'd like for thi
Indeed ... that sure will work. Uninstalling will
remove everything. As a matter of fact AFAIK the
post-removal script of packages call update-rc.d!
Since the package itself is not the offender, it
does not seem necessary to remove the package. If
xdm/ gdm (whatever) needs to be reactivated, o
I am leaving town for two weeks ... Unsuscribed
about 20 min back using the usual blank message
as described below all mails. Confirmation msg
was received within 5 min .. No problems at
the debain-user end .. at least for today.
Will be with you again ... shortly
USM Bish
On Fri,
I have similar problem on ATI mach64 system.
After checking system, I found FB support is enabled only on
Matrox system, if you are using default kernel.
I recompiled kernel with ATI, VGA, SVGA enabled.
Now my boot console screen goes crazy.
I am playing with it now. (Teleneting from other mach
Osamu Aoki wrote:
>
> I agree with Carel. As long as X read from /dev/gpmdata (most sane
> configuration but too many people disregards...), reboot is not
> needed for KB/mouse initialization.
>
> I just unplugged my mouse while in X4, replug -- cant move,
> restrted gpm to initialize, there I g
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:05:42PM +0100, peter wrote:
> with "apt-get update" you receive the package informations (provided by
> /etc/apt/sources.list)...
> with "apt-get install " you get the wanted packages...
> but it's usefull (when dealing with woody) to use "apt-get -s install
> ",
> then
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Greetings --
My ISP is once again changing Usenet providers, meaning that I'm going
to have to deal with the whole article renumbering mess. Grrr. (Did I
mention that this has happened before?)
I've decided that enough is enough, and it's time to bit
sc wrote:
>
>
> I'm not sure why Debian gets such low marks for newbies. Great for
> learning Linux because everything's not hidden behind a control panel.
> Not for every newbie, but it now has some reputation of eating every
> newbie for breakfast which is too bad.
>
I have had my problems wi
> I did my time with a Coco and OS9 as well. I can relate utterly to
OS9? Geez.. Awhile since I booted the old TRS80 and CoCo3 with that :) - I
should dig them up for old times sake - had fun playing Kings Quest under OS9
on CoCo3 :)
I had to laugh when Apple brought out OS9 :)
... had more caus
> What I did when presented with this problem was to do a bit of surgery on
the old
> ISA board and change its IRQ to a spare in the computer I was using. I cut
one
> track solder a wire the new interrupt pad to get it to work. With setserial
and
> this setup I was able to run four Serial Terminals
On Saturday 17 February 2001 07:40, Lute Mullenix wrote:
> Compared to that, Debian is a breeze. I see it like the old driving a
> car comparison, they just want to turn the key and drive, they don't
> want to change the plugs, let alone the water pump. They are just
> unwilling to expend the time
John Covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Hi. I am using 4.0.35 (using Debian unstable distribution) and if I
| use ls -1 -F all the links to directories have a slash at the end
| instead of @ .
|
| Any workaround or is new version coming out to fix this?
Thanks for the report.
However, I can't re
To quote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
# I guess the subject is clear enougth, does woody come with XFree4.0
and
# kde2?
There are currently no Woody ISOs. Whether Woody will have XFree86 4.0.x
or KDE2 will be determined when Woody is frozen, or when the part of
Woody that those packages are in is frozen.
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