Is there any movie player that could do mpeg-4 in debian?

2001-03-15 Thread calyth
I'm just curious if there's any software out there for linux that could read mpeg-4. If there's any, could you guys name them? Calyth

Re: Reboot only w/ mouse - SOLVED

2001-03-15 Thread kmself
on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:24:02PM -0500, Barry Mathieu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > One of the responses concerning using a plam pilot to interface > with my machine will need further investigation. Essentially, you need a laplink (null) serial cable, appropriate software for the palm (there's

Re: grip cddb config

2001-03-15 Thread Mike
Lewis, James M. wrote: > Thanks, but that doesn't seem to work for me.!? I'm at a loss > as to why. more info: >cddbcmd -h freedb.freedb.org:8880 -l 3 -d sites # works >cddbcmd -h freedb.freedb.org:888 -l 3 -d sites # works >cddbcmd -h freedb.freedb.org:8880 -l 4 -d sites

Re: /usr/bin/man and /etc/man config on debian 2.2 potato stable

2001-03-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:23:33AM +0100, Kim De Smaele wrote: > Hi all, > > I just installed potato 2.2 ( stable on my laptop and for some unknown > reason /usr/bin/man and /etc/man.config where not installed. > Can some one send me a reply witch the 2 files attached please. apt-get install man-

xf86 4.0.2

2001-03-15 Thread Jason Majors
I just started using debian (I've been using Redhat for years), and I'm having trouble with my X-Window system. I installed the 4.0.2 packages from woody, but noticed that xserver-svga is still 3.3.6 and xserver-common is installed as both 4.0.2 and 3.3.6. When I run startx with the 3.3.6 XF86Confi

Re: need help with dialup mail config

2001-03-15 Thread John Hasler
Carel Fellinger writes: > you can use the info in the files used by pon/poff to set up diald, you > even can use the /etc/chatscript/provider file. You can also run pppconfig, go to 'Advanced', and select 'Demand'. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: need help with dialup mail config

2001-03-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:43:15PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: ... > I checked some docs, and got lost. A book of mine suggests using diald, but > that would mean dial on demand. I understand diald needs its own connection > files wich seems a waste after finally setting up a working set of pon / >

Re: spontaneous partitions type changes (GRUB)

2001-03-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:31:26AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > below the 1024 cylinder limit. That extended partition covered most > of the disk well above the 1024 cylinder limit, but Windows prefered to be more precise: it _started_ below the 1024 limit, but extended to

Re: Seeking GUI for Postgresql

2001-03-15 Thread Fraser Campbell
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I currently use MySQLMan to handle the MySQL databases on my system. I > want to find a similarly capable tool to manage PostgreSQL databases. > Any Suggestions?? BTW I already have WebMin but that does not allow the > indepth table managemment that MySQLM

Re: something wrong with security.debian.org?

2001-03-15 Thread John Griffiths
At 11:07 PM 3/15/2001 -0500, Mark Hurley wrote: >On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:30:16PM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: >> is something wrong with security.debian.org? >> >> I'm trying to apt-get update at the moment and its timing out... >> >> consistently for the last hour. >> >> is it just busy or d

Re: something wrong with security.debian.org?

2001-03-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:30:16PM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: > is something wrong with security.debian.org? > > I'm trying to apt-get update at the moment and its timing out... > > consistently for the last hour. > > is it just busy or does it need a kick or is something going badly wrong? D

Re: something wrong with security.debian.org?

2001-03-15 Thread Mark Hurley
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:30:16PM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: > is something wrong with security.debian.org? > > I'm trying to apt-get update at the moment and its timing out... > > consistently for the last hour. > > is it just busy or does it need a kick or is something going badly wrong? D

Re: Debian never powers off

2001-03-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
I got following message. I assume this was for ML. So I answer here. On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:05:03PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > * Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Add append line with "apm=on" in lilo.conf and run lilo. > > My lilo.conf is like: > > append="hdc=ide-scsi apm

Re: IDE UDMA/xx Hard drive and Debian

2001-03-15 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, George M. Butler wrote: > Hi all, > > release does not support the IDE UDMA/100 mode. I have read the Howto > Doc on UDMA > but I am afraid that it did not seem clear to me. Does it even matter > if the kernel supports the > UDMA/100? The ASUS manual says that the board s

Re: Tux Laptop Comment and Recommendation.

2001-03-15 Thread Tom Pfeifer
I have the model that was called the Obsidian when TuxTops sold it, and I believe the Emperor is essentially the same unit except it has updated graphics (like the Dell Inspiron 5000e). I got mine with 256 MB of RAM. I've been very happy with it. It's rugged, reliable, comfortable to use, and wit

Re: spontaneous partitions type changes (GRUB)

2001-03-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:42:42AM -0500, D-Man wrote: ... > It recognized the partitions in the same way whether they were hidden > or not. They showed up as E: and F:, but other than showing up in "My > Computer", they did nothing else. I think the properties listed it as > 0 bytes or something

something wrong with security.debian.org?

2001-03-15 Thread John Griffiths
is something wrong with security.debian.org? I'm trying to apt-get update at the moment and its timing out... consistently for the last hour. is it just busy or does it need a kick or is something going badly wrong?

IDE UDMA/xx Hard drive and Debian

2001-03-15 Thread George M. Butler
Hi all, I am assembling a new computer at home. It has an Asus P5A motherboard (super socket 7) and a AMD6- 2/500 Mh processor. I want to install the lastest Debian 2.2r2 from CDs. What would be a suitable EIDE hard drive to use? I am worried that the Linux kernel on this release does not supp

Re: Help with printer

2001-03-15 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Matheson Cameron wrote: > Hey, > > just parallel port support isn't enough (that could > apply to parallel IDE, etc). In the CHARACTER DEVICES > section of the kernel config, there is an option > PARALLEL PRINTER SUPPORT that you need to say yes to > > Hope that helps, > Came

Kernel 2.4.2 and kapm-idled

2001-03-15 Thread Jonathan Markevich
OK, I know it's just an idle daemon, but what do I need to adjust in my Woody setup so it's not included in the system load? I don't need to disable apm, do I? Probably a FAQ somewhere, right...? -- Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.geocities.com/jmarkevich The penalty for lau

Re: printing pdf containing font not recognised by ps printer

2001-03-15 Thread Mark Mackenzie
> I have a document that contains fonts that are unrecognisable to a > postscript printer (hplj2100tn) Just in case anyone else has this problem, pdftops from the xpdf package seems to fix this (as apposed to pdf2ps from gs). Mark

Can't SSH. need help!

2001-03-15 Thread Mark Livingstone
Hi! One of my boxes is running openssh_2.3.0 with only ssh2 enabled.. When i first installed Debian and ssh i could easily connect to

Re: Functionality simular to FreeBSD's jails

2001-03-15 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 15 March 2001 08:03, Ilya Martynov wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested if there is exists some software which allows to > implement virtual boxes under Linux (something that provide simular > capabilities as FreeBSD's jails). The only thing I know about is > user-mode linux kernel. Does any

/usr/bin/man and /etc/man config on debian 2.2 potato stable

2001-03-15 Thread Kim De Smaele
Hi all, I just installed potato 2.2 ( stable on my laptop and for some unknown reason /usr/bin/man and /etc/man.config where not installed. Can some one send me a reply witch the 2 files attached please. thx Greetz Kim

Re: Tux Laptop Comment and Recommendation.

2001-03-15 Thread hammack
Great feedback - thanks for the comments!! John - Original Message - From: To: "User Debian" Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 4:44 PM Subject: Re: Tux Laptop Comment and Recommendation.

Re: [OT] Linux palmtop computers?

2001-03-15 Thread csj
Thanks for the tip. I was looking at something more like the Psion. Agenda is a stylus-based PDA. It has a keyboard accesorry but the site says "Note: This item is not yet available." http://www.agendacomputing.com/products/accessories_keyboard.html I guess I have to wait some while before wr

Re: Tux Laptop Comment and Recommendation.

2001-03-15 Thread kmself
on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:42:06PM -0800, hammack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > QLITechnology picked up Tux Laptops. Here's what I am thinking about: > Emperor (also know as a Dell Insipiron 5000), 15.1", SXGA+ 1400X1050, > 128MB, 20GB HD, CD-ROM, 1.44 FD, and Lucent soft modem with Debian > facto

Re: [OT] Linux palmtop computers?

2001-03-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 07:54:50AM +0800, csj wrote: > I'm looking for a Linux-based palmtop computer. Is there such an > animal? I have hit a number of project pages (e.g. pengachu), but no > one seems to be shipping a finished product. > > I prefer a handheld with a keyboard because I find han

Re: help: speech recognition, java and viavoice

2001-03-15 Thread Eric Richardson
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > dear all, > > i'm trying to install viavoice (ibm's voice recognition engine) on my woody > system. viavoice requires "blackdown java JRE-1.2.2 rev RC4". other than > a few non-technical details, i know nothing about java. don't even know > what a JRE is. but i'

X and Netscape key problem

2001-03-15 Thread Timothy Bedding
I am having problems with the delete key. I can use an xmodmap to map keycode 22 to 0xff08. Although xterm and emacs cope with this, Netscape does not. Thus I can delete correctly in both xterm and emacs. Has anyone any idea what might be causing this? Is this a known X problem? In /var/log/xd

Re: Functionality simular to FreeBSD's jails

2001-03-15 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:15:57AM -0700, Ray Percival wrote: > Not knowing about *BSD's jails I'm not sure if you want to > restrict a user to only one part of the filesystem why not use > chroot? Because root can break out of a chroot(). Trivially. It's not related to devices, like some seem

Re: Reboot only w/ mouse - SOLVED

2001-03-15 Thread Barry Mathieu
YES! Using this mouse copy & paste technique allowed me to successfully reboot, without the keyboard. This keyboard has given me trouble in the past (Dell Quietkey). I am a former casual RedHat user, and in the past I would have simply hit the power key. This keyboard trouble happens infrequentl

Re: Scripting help

2001-03-15 Thread Mike Brownlow
Scott E. Graves wrote: > If I had a list containing redundant entries, what command could I use > suppress the duplications. Here's an example list: uniq -- Mike Brownlowhttp://www.wsmake.org/~mike/ - 1024D/

Re: Debian with read-only /usr

2001-03-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 12:41:23PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > I was unclear in my question... I'm definitely planning to do a read-only > export from the server. My concern is with how apt will behave if/when run > on the workstations, where /usr will be forced to be ro by the ro export. >

[OT] Linux palmtop computers?

2001-03-15 Thread csj
I'm looking for a Linux-based palmtop computer. Is there such an animal? I have hit a number of project pages (e.g. pengachu), but no one seems to be shipping a finished product. I prefer a handheld with a keyboard because I find handwriting recognition too fiddly to let you get any real work d

Scripting help

2001-03-15 Thread Scott E . Graves
If I had a list containing redundant entries, what command could I use suppress the duplications. Here's an example list: man man ls df find find find This would be obtaining using `sa -u | grep scottg | awk '{print $8}' ` to list all programs executed by user scottg. I need to condense the lis

Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-15 Thread Martin WHEELER
(I'm not subscribed to this list, due to volume of traffic; but was advised today to follow up the thread via archives. Please cc any further comments/responses to me personally off-list. Thanks.) Many thanks to all who responded both on- and off-list; particularly those who pointed out the prob

Re: .startx & ximian-gnome

2001-03-15 Thread Richard C. Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, March 15, Marcelo Chiapparini did write: > I run potato 2.2r2 plus ximian gnome. I have just found that the file > /~.xsession is not read when a X session starts. Where should I put the > information present in the file .xsession in this case? Are you using gdm? If so, try ch

Re: RDram

2001-03-15 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 03:33:16PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:48:44PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I have the unfortunate task of upgrading one of my users' systems to more > > > memory. She's using RDR

Re: no sound with kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-15 Thread Gudmundur Erlingsson
I have the same problem. I updated the kernel to 2.4.2 and the sound became partly disabled. According to dmesg the kernel finds and sets the soundcard correctly (I have ESS1868), I can play soundfiles by sending them to either /dev/audio or /dev/dsp, using cat (this I can do both as root and norma

Re: Reboot only w/ mouse.

2001-03-15 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 March 2001 17:03, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: [...] > have you really gotten focus back when replugging in a ps2 keyboard? Works with my laptop, but not with my desktop computer. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Lin

Tux Laptop Comment and Recommendation.

2001-03-15 Thread hammack
QLITechnology picked up Tux Laptops.  Here's what I am thinking about: Emperor (also know as a Dell Insipiron 5000), 15.1",  SXGA+ 1400X1050, 128MB, 20GB HD, CD-ROM, 1.44 FD, and Lucent soft modem with Debian factory installed.   I know the soft-modem rases a red flag, but QLI says that th

Re: Reboot only w/ mouse.

2001-03-15 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > have you really gotten focus back when replugging in a ps2 keyboard? Yes, I have done it several times. I believe that if you run a ps/2 keyboard through a (physical) switch for connecting multiple systems to one keyboard/mouse/monitor that this is

Zope-emarket in sid

2001-03-15 Thread Thomas Deselaers
Hello everybody, I am running the latest sid and I wanted to install zope and the zope-emarket module. Just after installing Zope tells in the List of products just after EMarket "Broken product EMarket". What do I have to do to make this work. It would be fine if somebody could help me, because

Re: RDram

2001-03-15 Thread Robert Kerr
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Matthew Sackman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:48:44PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have the unfortunate task of upgrading one of my users' systems to more > > memory. She's using RDRam, and I need to buy (shudder) more of it for > > her. I have the numbe

Re: NVdriver problems

2001-03-15 Thread Matthew Sackman
I may be completely wrong here, but I was under the impression that the nvidia drivers will only work with XFree 4.01 or greater. And to get any of the real benefits out of XFree 4.01 (hardware 3d renedering etc) you need a 2.4.x kernel. Thus if I were you, I'd get hold of a 2.4.2 kernel, complile

Re: Functionality simular to FreeBSD's jails

2001-03-15 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Cashman wrote: > VSD creates replicas of a working GNU Linux file system and uses this as a > template for Virtual Servers. The replica files (not the > entire OS) are 'hardlinked' to the original image, and share the same inode > as the original file (which saves disk space). Each > replic

Re: RDram

2001-03-15 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:48:44PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: > Hi all, > I have the unfortunate task of upgrading one of my users' systems to more > memory. She's using RDRam, and I need to buy (shudder) more of it for > her. I have the numbers off of her current chips, and need to match the > sp

Re: Reboot only w/ mouse.

2001-03-15 Thread Andre Berger
* Mathieu, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010315 22:44 +0100: > Is there anyway to reboot my machine simply by using the mouse? Is there > any way > to re-establish communication with the keyboard w/ only a mouse? Any ideas? > I really don't want to push that power button.

Re: nameserver for class CHAOS ?

2001-03-15 Thread Gavin Hamill
> > It's not terribly important, and I'd do a grep on your entire /var/named > > (or wherever your zone files live) for CHAOS... > > hmm! > > grep CH /etc/bind/* > > nothing! > > maybe i've got a hosed slave/master relation specification...? Your zone files live in /etc/bind? The debian default wa

Debian lpd server Solaris lpr client trouble.

2001-03-15 Thread aphro
hi. For many moons i have had a lpd print server running on a debian 2.2r2 system. basically it just re-spools to another win32 system which prints to the printer. sofar i only have used it on other linux machines and it has worked great. today i am trying to setup a solaris machine to print to it

Re: Reboot only w/ mouse.

2001-03-15 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Thu 15 Mar 01, 3:41 PM, William T Wilson said: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Mathieu, Barry wrote: > > > My keyboard is not responding (poof - dead), even the LED indicator > > for caps lock doesn't illuminate. I have X running, w/ ICEWM. There > > If your keyboard has fallen out of the socket th

Re: executable problem

2001-03-15 Thread David Z. Maze
Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MC> I've just compiled a FORTRAN program but I am unable to run the MC> executable, because "bash: qhdiv0.e: command not found". I think MC> this is because the present directory it is not in the PATH. You should run './qhdiv0.e', then. This expli

RDram

2001-03-15 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi all, I have the unfortunate task of upgrading one of my users' systems to more memory. She's using RDRam, and I need to buy (shudder) more of it for her. I have the numbers off of her current chips, and need to match the speed. Is there some guide somewhere as to what the numbers mean? Thanks

Re: ppp mystery

2001-03-15 Thread Thomas Delany
Gil, I had a very similar problem with my US Robotics V.Everything external modem. This may sound insane, but my problem seemed to be related to modem initialization strings. There is a setting someplace in Windows for its dialer that makes it create a log file when it dials the modem. One of t

Re: Reboot only w/ mouse.

2001-03-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
> heh. i've had this happen. > > if you're luck enough to have the letters "s", "u", either "h", > "a", "l", "t" or "r", "e", "b", "o", t" and all the letters in your > root password, you can cut and paste your way into a > reboot. this has happened to me before, and worked. That's quite creati

Re: executable problem

2001-03-15 Thread kmself
on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 05:24:28PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I've just compiled a FORTRAN program but I am unable to run the > executable, because "bash: qhdiv0.e: command not found". I think > this is because the present directory it is not in the PATH. Pl

Re: Reboot only w/ mouse.

2001-03-15 Thread kmself
on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 03:14:44PM -0500, Mathieu, Barry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Trouble. > > My keyboard is not responding (poof - dead), even the LED indicator > for caps lock doesn't illuminate. I have X running, w/ ICEWM. There > is a mouse menu that allows reboot, but only works if lo

Re: executable problem

2001-03-15 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, if you want to run a program in your current directory, you should type: ./program-to-run ./ forces bash to look in the current directory. If you want to add this to your path, you can edit .bashrc in your homedir. Add a line like: PATH=$PATH:./ but do not catch me on this one. My bash is n

.startx & ximian-gnome

2001-03-15 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
I run potato 2.2r2 plus ximian gnome. I have just found that the file /~.xsession is not read when a X session starts. Where should I put the information present in the file .xsession in this case? My .xsession file is the following: #!/bin/sh # exec /usr/bin/fetchmail Thanks in advance -- __

Re: ppp mystery

2001-03-15 Thread Gl Elad
Sorry for not making myself clear. Yes there is a connection, and I get a message from the remote machine. The problem is that the "message" usually looks like garbage. Neither program knows how to respond exactly, so they time out and hang up (at least that's what it looks like to me). wvdial

Re: no sound with kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-15 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Matthew Bryant Baxa wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:16:09PM +0100, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > > > I used gom as the mixer. When I booted the 2.4.2 kernel (witeh the same > > /etc/modules) and tried to play a song I got this: > > "Cannot open audio device. Please make sure that the audio device

Re: Reboot only w/ mouse.

2001-03-15 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
heh. i've had this happen. if you're luck enough to have the letters "s", "u", either "h", "a", "l", "t" or "r", "e", "b", "o", t" and all the letters in your root password, you can cut and paste your way into a reboot. this has happened to me before, and worked. can you ssh into your machine?

SSSSSSH error@^%&$ PLEASE help

2001-03-15 Thread Mark Livingstone
Hi! One of my boxes is running openssh_2.3.0 with only ssh2 enabled.. When i first installed Debian and ssh i could easily connect to

more nfs problems (thank you all for last time)

2001-03-15 Thread Forrest English
sorry folks, i don't know why i didn't tail my syslog on those systems sooner. it would have helped a lot faster. here is my network setup. server/router/etc (truffula.net) eth0 192.168.2.1 (lan2.truffula.net) eth1 externalip eth2 192.168.1.1 (lan1.truffula.net) on eth0

Re: Reboot only w/ mouse.

2001-03-15 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Mathieu, Barry wrote: > My keyboard is not responding (poof - dead), even the LED indicator > for caps lock doesn't illuminate. I have X running, w/ ICEWM. There If your keyboard has fallen out of the socket then you can plug it back in. It should work fine. (Well, if you

Re: Debian and HP49G

2001-03-15 Thread John Galt
lrzsz and minicom may be a bit better. It's certainly freer... On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Chris Gray wrote: >On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, David Z. Maze wrote: >> Glenn Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> GB> I just got an HP49G calculator ... purchased the "PC >> GB> Connectivity Kit" in a fairly clueless

Re: Neet to get PostgreSQL 7.0.X

2001-03-15 Thread Arcady Genkin
Jorge Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to install PostgreSQL 7.0.X for my job, the version in potato > is 6.5.X, so what options do I have, I have downloade the .deb from > unstable but it has unmet dependencies. So what options do I have? I > was thinking about upgrading to unstable

executable problem

2001-03-15 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi, I've just compiled a FORTRAN program but I am unable to run the executable, because "bash: qhdiv0.e: command not found". I think this is because the present directory it is not in the PATH. Please, I need to know: a) where is the file where the PATH is defined b) what should I write in it

Re: nameserver for class CHAOS ?

2001-03-15 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Gavin Hamill wrote: >> Besides, 'host' is shorter to type than 'nslookup'... =) > >But not 'nsl' ;))) count the keystrokes... >gdh > > > > -- You have paid nothing for the preceding, therefore it's worth every penny you've paid for it: if you did pay for it, might I remin

Re: Intel FW82810 chipset

2001-03-15 Thread TeknoDragon
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, TeknoDragon wrote: > I'm trying to setup an i810 and a matrox g400 (on debian/testing)... but > when I try to start X the screen never comes up and there's no error (EE) > messages in X's logs... More info: (mem\ was ok) It appears that the i810 is losing out to the g400...

Re: Selecting i686 for compiled code?

2001-03-15 Thread John Galt
pentium-builder will allow processor-specific instruction sets. On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > >I am compiling my first set of code under Debian and the >Debian package management system. > >I downloaded the source for bash and I want to try to >compile it for the i686 instructi

Re: Serial port weirdness

2001-03-15 Thread pplaw
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 08:50:20AM +, Sunnanvind Briling Fenderson wrote: > Hi; I just installed Debian on my x86-notebook again (I ran it a lot last > year, but never really mastered it), and I tried to run pppconfig to > connect, via modem, to my ISP. Alas - it couldn't find my modem. At al

Reboot only w/ mouse.

2001-03-15 Thread Mathieu, Barry
Trouble. My keyboard is not responding (poof - dead), even the LED indicator for caps lock doesn't illuminate. I have X running, w/ ICEWM. There is a mouse menu that allows reboot, but only works if logged-in as root, which I am not. And, I am a bit of a Linux newbie. Is there anyway to reboo

Re: Functionality simular to FreeBSD's jails

2001-03-15 Thread Colin Cashman
> No. chroot is not safe enough. I want to create virtual boxes in which > I can give root rights to other people and I want to be sure that they > can't break other boxes. > > AGAIK if you have root you can escape chroot'ed directory. Another > problems that root can have direct access to devices.

Re: So, anyone knows wtf Apache.pm is? Was: Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:32:23AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Wed 14 Mar 2001, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > > Hmm, interesting... Why tf did I install apache-perl in the first place? > > Because the combination apache + mod-perl had/has(?) a pretty bad memory > leak? Which was why apache-per

RE: grip cddb config

2001-03-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
> -Original Message- > From: Eric G. Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 10:51 PM > To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' > Subject: Re: grip cddb config > > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:22:57PM -0500, Lewis, James M. wrote: > > Does anyone have a grip config

RE: Intel FW82810 chipset

2001-03-15 Thread Josep Ll. Paniagua
UNSUBSCRIBE ME PLEASE!! > -Mensaje original- > De: TeknoDragon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Enviado el: jueves, 15 de marzo de 2001 20:38 > Para: Nathan E Norman > CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Asunto: Re: Intel FW82810 chipset > > > On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: >

Re: Intel FW82810 chipset

2001-03-15 Thread TeknoDragon
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > I'm in the process of doing this right now. You also need agppart > support compiled into your kernel. I'm using kernel 2.4.2; I couldn't > get the PCI network card to play nice with 2.2.x and knew the i810 > stuff was in the 2.4.x kernels as well :

RE: Debian with read-only /usr

2001-03-15 Thread Josep Ll. Paniagua
UNSUBSCRIBE ME PLEASE!! > -Mensaje original- > De: Eric G. Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Enviado el: jueves, 15 de marzo de 2001 17:52 > Para: Debian-User > CC: Dave Sherohman > Asunto: Re: Debian with read-only /usr > > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:22:47AM -0600, Dave Shero

Re: Debian with read-only /usr

2001-03-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:22:47AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I'm looking at NFS-mounting /usr for a largish number of machines, with the > basic idea that then I can just keep the binaries on the central server up-to > date and the workstations will all follow along with (hopefully) a minimum

on upgrading to testing

2001-03-15 Thread James D . Freels
Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I am not currently subscribing to the list(s). I am looking for an honest opinion. I currently am a Debian 2.2.r2 (with several extensions) user. Because of several circumstances among which are: 1) I manually installed Xfree86-4.0.2 over the stable version to get

Re: nameserver for class CHAOS ?

2001-03-15 Thread will trillich
Gavin Hamill wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, will trillich wrote: > > > i've gotten a strange DNS/NAMED/BIND error message: > > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > Mar 12 10:36:45 server named[2991]: No root nameservers for class > > CHAOS > > > > where do i look to determine whether or no

Dell OptiPlex GX110

2001-03-15 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, We received such a machine and I've installed Debian testing/unstable on it. I'm running 2.4.3-pre4 and one problem I was not able to get solved is for DMA/UltraDMA. The box has a Maxtor 20GB 7200rpm 5T020H2 model and whenever I try to set the using_dma flag with hdpar

Re: Debian with read-only /usr

2001-03-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:07:27AM -0600, Carl Greco wrote: > You could always mount the `/usr' filesystem on the server as readonly > and use the `remount' option of `mount' to remount `/usr' as writeable > during an apt upgrade. The other option would be to export `/usr' > readonly, i.e., in the

Re: Frontpage Extensions

2001-03-15 Thread Nate Amsden
"P.A. Barrow" wrote: > Is there a library that can be installed to resolve this issue? Is it > possible to implement the Frontpage extensions on a Debian system, most > of the documentation for FPE imples RedHat was used. libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 is the package you want. and yes it is possible to se

Re: etherexpress card and modconf

2001-03-15 Thread Tomasz Wolak
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:17:00PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Don Seiler wrote: > > > > >hullo. > > > > > >I'm having trouble getting my Intel EtherExpress card online. Using > > >modconf, when I try at add the "eexpress" modu

no sound with kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-15 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Hi everybody, I just compiled the 2.4.2 kernel. Everything is working fine except for the sound. Under kernel 2.2.17 I had this is my /etc/modules: sound mpu401 ad1848 opl3sa2 opl3 options opl3sa2 dma=1 dma2=0 io=0x538 mpu_io=0x330 mss_io=0x530 irq=7 options opl3 io=0x388 I used gom as the mixe

Re: kmod and NAT broken in 2.4.1?

2001-03-15 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I don't think I was trying to contact the external interface, but we may be > using that word differently. > > My router has a card eth1 with address x.y.z.q, used both by me and the > outsi

Re: xdm font failure

2001-03-15 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:52:12PM +, Timothy Bedding ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Okay, I solved the perl problem and managed to configure debconf. > I will explain the debconf resolution after I have got X working... > > Now, I have a problem with xdm not working. > It is xdm version 4.0.2

Re: ppp mystery

2001-03-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Gil Elad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 1. I tried connecting using Minicom at different speeds ranging from 19 to > 38 kbps without success. "Without success" doesn't mean anything in this context. I'm not necessarily expecting you to make a connection. Your modem ought to work at 115200 bps -

Re: nfs problems

2001-03-15 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I just remembered something: nfs might not let you export cdroms. I had this with redhat about a year ago. You also can not proxy nfs (that is: install a nfs server and mount a nfs mounted filesystem). I do not know what the status is now. I do know that the exports file is vary annoying, esp

Re: Functionality simular to FreeBSD's jails

2001-03-15 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > No. chroot is not safe enough. I want to create virtual boxes in which > I can give root rights to other people and I want to be sure that they > can't break other boxes. The closest Linux

Re: kmod and NAT broken in 2.4.1?

2001-03-15 Thread Ross Boylan
At 10:25 AM 3/15/01 -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > 2) iptables NAT facility doesn't seem to work. I have a line > iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.10.0/24 -o eth1 -j SNAT > --to-so

Re: XFree86 4.0.2 and anti-aliased fonts?

2001-03-15 Thread Felix Natter
Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I've heard that it might be possible to use anti-aliased fonts with > XFree86 4.0.2, but I couldn't find more information about it. Can somebody > point me into the right direction? check the documentation on http://www.xfree86.org --

Re: fetchmail at login

2001-03-15 Thread Steve Cooper
You may benefit from also checking out getmail. It's simpler, cleaner and may be less prone to dropping mail (a fact advertised by the author of getmail). I find it works really well, particularly when combined with wmbiff. Wmbiff can be set up to execute getmail whenever its polling detects m

Re: nfs problems

2001-03-15 Thread Tomasz Wolak
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Forrest English wrote: > ok, here's what i do on the server. > > /etc/exports file contains > /cdrom 192.168.2.30 > > and the client's fstab contains > 192.168.1.10:/cdrom /nfscdrom nfs rsize=1024,wsize=1024 0 0 > > i on the server, i then did... /etc/init.d/nfs-server

Re: OpenSSH public key auth

2001-03-15 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:48:54AM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > Hi! > > I am running unstable with OpenSSH_2.5.1p2 installed. Now I am trying > to connect to a machine that is running Redhat 6.2 with SSH 2 from > ssh.com. The regular login works OK, but I am having problems getting > public

Re: Debian with read-only /usr

2001-03-15 Thread Benjamin Pharr
At 10:22 AM 3/15/01 , you wrote: I'm looking at NFS-mounting /usr for a largish number of machines, with the basic idea that then I can just keep the binaries on the central server up-to date and the workstations will all follow along with (hopefully) a minimum of effort. I'm a little concerned

viavoice installation question - debian

2001-03-15 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i'm installing ibm's viavoice on debian woody. in converting the rpm package ViaVoice_runtime-3.0-1.2.i386.rpm to a deb package using alien, i'm getting the following error: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of libviavoiceps.so not recognized BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: dl-version.c: 2

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