anyone playing DVDs?

2001-03-24 Thread Krzys Majewski
OK I'm about to re-open the dvd can of worms. The video place down the street rents them out, and since I don't have a tv or a vcr, this might be an elegant solution to the movie problem (yes, I know about the MPAA, sigh). Is anyone playing DVDs succesfully in linux? I don't have any micro

.bashrc

2001-03-24 Thread stephen
I've been running Debian for about 3 days now (been running RedHat for 5 years+). I've read through several docs, but haven't found (if I did find it, I must've read right past it) answers to a couple of problems. 1) When I log in, my .bashrc isn't executed. Here's my ls -al: -rwx-- 1 steph

Soundblaster Live! Driver is not running?

2001-03-24 Thread timohart
Hi! I had compiled debians kernel-2.2.18-21 with soundsupport and EMU10K1 (not as modules) to get sound for my Soundblaster Live! Player 5.1. Then i installed the package alsa-base cause it is needed for some kde-packages and i thought this is all i have to do. But now i have seen: at boottime i g

Re: Authoring tools (was Re: Star Office)

2001-03-24 Thread Krzys Majewski
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > lyx requires non-free software, thats a showstopper. It does? Which? -chris

Re: Star Office

2001-03-24 Thread Alan Shutko
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > What version of abiword are you using? I'm running 0.7 under > unstable/testing, and it's definitely tolerable for light use. It's > mostly what I pull out to do something that involves short text and > hardcopy -- a letter, say. Actually, I love LaTeX for letters.

Re: printer woes

2001-03-24 Thread Roberto Diaz
> #lpr: connect: No such file or directory > #jobs queued, but cannot start daemon > Anybody know what I should do? This is something has been happening to me several times.. every time the daemon went up after some retrials.. since this system is always up I didn't research the problem farther. (

printer woes

2001-03-24 Thread Eric R Cheney
Hi all. I'm making progress but still stuck setting up a printer with debian... Right now I have magicfilter on the system and BSD style lpr I've run through the /usr/sbin/magicfilterconig routine and set up an appropriate filter for my printer The printer is connected to the parallel

Re: Authoring tools (was Re: Star Office)

2001-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:39:18PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Probably. I've always found if I'm using nedit I keep asking myself why > I'm not using vim ;-) Though I'll sometimes pull up nedit for > cut'n'paste out of Netscape edit dialogs. yup for me i use emacs, but for this individual s

Re: Mouse problems on X (intellieye)

2001-03-24 Thread jennyw
Thanks! It turned out to be a combination of my gpm settings (I'm still not sure what gpm really is) and the XF86Config settings. Currently, I'm using -m /dev/psaux -t pnp -r ms3 for gpm and using the ps/2 protocol in XF86Config. Don't know why it works, but it does ... Thanks! Jen --- Jaso

RE: problems compiling the kernel 2.4.2 with: debian testing/unstable

2001-03-24 Thread Peter Good
In /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/Makefile, you need to replace all instances of -oformat with --oformat. This threw me a bit too on kernels until I went and checked the upgrade messages, which tell you this. Peter -Original Message- From: Miguel F. M. Sousa Filipe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: problems compiling the kernel 2.4.2 with: debian testing/unstable

2001-03-24 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi! On Sun, Mar 25, 2001, Miguel F. M. Sousa Filipe wrote: > I've instaled debian 2.2r0.. and then.. updgraded to the unstable version > with dselect, i can't see what package could be missing to cause this.. or > any other reason... totaly lost out here! Without thinking too hard about your sp

where is kde2.1 download for debian?

2001-03-24 Thread eric
do anyone know where is kde2.1 download? sincere eric --- Begin Message --- hello --- End Message ---

problems compiling the kernel 2.4.2 with: debian testing/unstable

2001-03-24 Thread Miguel F. M. Sousa Filipe
Hello, I'm not being capable to compile the 2.4.2 kernel in my linux debian... and i can't understand the cause of the error, the problem aparently happens right at the end.. after compiling: /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bbootsect.S here is the error message that apears on the console: make[1]: E

Authoring tools (was Re: Star Office)

2001-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:22:06PM -0900, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:13:47PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > What version of abiword are you using? I'm running 0.7 under > > unstable/testing, and it's definitely tolerable for light use. It's > > m

problem compiling pcmcia with kernel 2.2.18

2001-03-24 Thread Pollywog
I am unable to make pcmcia kernel modules for kernel 2.2.18. I am running woody and I used 'make-kpkg' to build modules. Anyone know what the problem might be? from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/vmalloc.h:4, from /usr/src/linux/include/asm/io.h:101,

Re: Star Office

2001-03-24 Thread Krzys Majewski
"Michael Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > standards. If you want WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean), use LyX. LyX rocks, too bad its latex conversion is not invertible: foo.lyx -> foo.tex -> bar.lyx != foo.lyx In fact, the example I tried (some random thing I was typing) broke hope

Re: How do I make a debian boot cd

2001-03-24 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:47:56 -0800 (PST) Denzil Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I go about burning a cd that will serve the > same function of a boot floppy. I guess the question I > really want answered is what files need to be added to > a cd to to allow me to use it as a boot cd. If

Re: Mounting Linux 2.4 NFS share on an OpenBSD 2.8 machine

2001-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 12:19:35PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: > # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported > # to NFS clients. See exports(5). > /null localhost i have read that exporting nfs filesystems to localhost is a huge security hole,

Re: Star Office

2001-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:13:47PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > What version of abiword are you using? I'm running 0.7 under > unstable/testing, and it's definitely tolerable for light use. It's > mostly what I pull out to do something that involves short text and > hardcopy -- a letter, sa

Mounting Linux 2.4 NFS share on an OpenBSD 2.8 machine

2001-03-24 Thread Damon Muller
Hi folks, I have an OpenBSD 2.8 machine that I've been building up, and is sitting on my LAN. I want to back it up, so I was intending to mount a directory from my Debain GNU/Linux (Testing with 2.4.1-ac2) onto the BSD box. I added "/tmp" to the exports file: # /etc/exports: the access control l

Re: Resource limit question

2001-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:18:24PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Um. I feel stupid asking this, but what resource limits *do* work, and per user process limits work (though pam_limits and/or ssh is broken in that you must set it higher then the number of root owned processes for logins to wo

Re: How do I make a debian boot cd

2001-03-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
See section 4.11 of the CD-Writing-HOWTO. If you burn the official Debian CD .iso images, using the pseudo-image kit, the first CD is bootable. See http://cdimage.debian.org for more information. Bob On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:47:56PM -0800, Denzil Kelly wrote: > How do I go about burning a c

Re: staroffice..

2001-03-24 Thread John Galt
Just remember: old age and treachery will beat out youth and skill any day... On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Christoph Simon wrote: >On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 16:21:45 -0800 >Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The problem is that we are outnumbered by all them young >> whippersnappers. > >Or maybe it j

How do I make a debian boot cd

2001-03-24 Thread Denzil Kelly
How do I go about burning a cd that will serve the same function of a boot floppy. I guess the question I really want answered is what files need to be added to a cd to to allow me to use it as a boot cd. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domai

Re: Resource limit question

2001-03-24 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:18:24 -0800 "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > Um. I feel stupid asking this, but what resource limits *do* work, and > how can user resource limits be imposed at the system level? I've been > looking at the bash man pages -- there's no more specific resource > utilization interf

Re: Resource limit question

2001-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 03:41:22PM -0900, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:35:47PM -0500, Martin Weinberg wrote: > > Thanks very much for the info! Good to know. I've been assuming that > > this has been working for years. I do have a vague recollection that

Re: Star Office

2001-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:09:09PM -0500, Michael Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 02:53:51PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > abiword is unusably buggy in potato (and helix/ximian) kword in > > the unofficial potato repository is also quite buggy (it makes most of > >

Making /etc/hosts.allow | hosts.deny changes effective (was Re: easy question - getting changed files read)

2001-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 04:18:09PM -0700, Mike Millner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When I make changes to files, for example hosts.deny or hosts.access > how do I get the OS to see them without rebooting? I know with my DNS > files I can do a "rndc reload" and the changes are read but with these

Re: Resource limit question

2001-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:35:47PM -0500, Martin Weinberg wrote: > Thanks very much for the info! Good to know. I've been assuming that > this has been working for years. I do have a vague recollection that > "memoryuse" has worked in the past under Linux, no? i don't know > Do you, by any cha

Re: Hepl, please, I broke my sound :-(

2001-03-24 Thread ktb
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:19:13PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > On Sat Mar 24 18:07:15 2001 ktb wrote... > > > >On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:47:36PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > >> broken my sound? > >> > > > >I have the same card and it uses - > >es1371 > >ac97_codec > >kent > > > > Sorry that's

Re: Resource limit question

2001-03-24 Thread Martin Weinberg
Ethan Benson wrote on Sat, 24 Mar 2001 14:32:44 -0900 >> I have set a hard limit on memoryuse to 1 (10M). limits (or >> ulimit -a) shows the limit but, it doesn't seem to be working. >> For example, with the limit set the following bit of code > >[sniped code] > >> compiled as follows: >>

apt-get install gmc failed

2001-03-24 Thread Robin Gerard
Hello, after my system failed, gmc does not work fine I have the message "segmentation fault". I desinstall gmc (apt-get remove gmc) and when I reinstall gmc I have the message of error which follow in attached document. How can I reinstall gmc correctly ? Thanhs for your help. -- Gerard de

Re: staroffice..

2001-03-24 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 16:21:45 -0800 Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is that we are outnumbered by all them young > whippersnappers. Or maybe it just that they make so much more noise... -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help shit .

Re: Star Office

2001-03-24 Thread Michael Soulier
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 02:53:51PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > abiword is unusably buggy in potato (and helix/ximian) kword in > the unofficial potato repository is also quite buggy (it makes most of > the text invisible randomly when your typing). ted might be ok, i > haven't done much testing

Re: staroffice..

2001-03-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 03:52:44PM -0600, Bud Rogers wrote: > On Saturday 24 March 2001 15:41, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > unstable and testing. No menu problems. Then again I've defined my > > own WMaker menus, crotchety old fart that I am. > > Hey, let's hear it for crotchety old farts. I'm

Re: Hepl, please, I broke my sound :-(

2001-03-24 Thread Stan Brown
On Sat Mar 24 18:07:15 2001 ktb wrote... > >On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:47:36PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >> broken my sound? >> > >I have the same card and it uses - >es1371 >ac97_codec >kent > Sorry that's over my head. How can I make certain that I have the corect modules instal

Re: libxaw7 - undefined symbol?

2001-03-24 Thread Toens Bueker
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone else with these problems? Am I missing something? > > something goes currently wrong with linking when the paths to the libc5 > libraries are before the paths to the libc6-X11 libraries in > /etc/ld.so.conf. As a workaround move the lines > /usr

Re: sshd error message

2001-03-24 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 24 March 2001 18:10, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "Bud" == Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Bud> Is it possible that you have an entry for sshd in > Bud> /etc/inetd.conf? I think you would get that error if Inetd > is Bud> already bound to port 22. > Bud> > > I

Re: resizing partitions

2001-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:18:15AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat 24 Mar 01, 1:06 PM, Michael P. Soulier said: > > Hey people. I've recently found out that my /tmp partition might > > be too small for a particular application. I know that fips is > > supposed t

Re: Star Office

2001-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 03:33:54PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > StarOffice, that bloated stuck pig of an office suite, isn't packaged. > It probably offers the best compatibility with MS file formats, however. any other suggestions? abiword is unusably buggy in potato (and helix/ximian) kwo

Re: Hepl, please, I broke my sound :-(

2001-03-24 Thread jens
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:47:36 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >I have a new machine that I am setting up. It has a Creative Labs Sound >Balster PCI >16 sound card in it. > >I installed a minimal "stable" system, and then pointed my apt-get source to >the >Progeny RC1. Then I installed thier RC1. > >Almos

Re: Star Office

2001-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:53:41AM +, Keith O'Connell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I need to be able to read, and compose MS compatible documents. I have > pretty much decided that the path of least resistance for me will be > Star Office. > > I cannot find it in the 2.2r2 distributi

Re: Resource limit question

2001-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 04:29:38PM -0500, Martin Weinberg wrote: > > I have set a hard limit on memoryuse to 1 (10M). limits (or > ulimit -a) shows the limit but, it doesn't seem to be working. > For example, with the limit set the following bit of code > > ==

Re: easy question - getting changed files read

2001-03-24 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 04:18:09PM -0700, Mike Millner wrote: > When I make changes to files, for example hosts.deny or hosts.access > how do I get the OS to see them without rebooting? I know with my DNS > files I can do a "rndc reload" and the changes are read but with these > types of files I do

Re: i810 problems

2001-03-24 Thread Alvin Oga
yi victor.. try the following... - install the agpgart stuff root# rpm -ivh I810Gtt-0.1-6.src.rpm cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ compile agpgart stuff - install intels silly X11 driver root# rpm -ivh XFCom-i810-glibc2.1-1.0.0-rh60.i386.rpm - check that it works root# XFCom_i810 -

Re: Nautilus

2001-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 02:23:41PM -0500, Francois Fayard wrote: > Hi, > > I have problems installing nautilus on my debian potato. Here is my > sources.list : > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > deb http://spidermonkey.ximian.com/1.4beta1/distributions/debian unst

Re: sshd error message

2001-03-24 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 24 March 2001 17:28, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > After the latest sid update, I noticed that sshd prints the following > messages in /var/log/auth.log: > > Mar 24 18:24:25 viper sshd[7084]: fatal: Cannot bind any address. > > > even though I am able to ssh into that system from other machin

Re: openssh incompatibility with ssh.com's ssh

2001-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:37:34AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > dear all, > > woody uses openssh 2.2.0 which is incompatible with ssh.com's ssh [1]. > > i NEED the most current version of openssh, which i think is 2.2.3. the current version in sid/unstable is 2.4.1p2 or 2.4.2p1 (maybe p2) j

easy question - getting changed files read

2001-03-24 Thread Mike Millner
When I make changes to files, for example hosts.deny or hosts.access how do I get the OS to see them without rebooting? I know with my DNS files I can do a "rndc reload" and the changes are read but with these types of files I don't know hot get the read.   Thanks, Mike

Re: Hepl, please, I broke my sound :-(

2001-03-24 Thread ktb
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:47:36PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I have a new machine that I am setting up. It has a Creative Labs Sound > Balster PCI > 16 sound card in it. > > I installed a minimal "stable" system, and then pointed my apt-get source to > the > Progeny RC1. Then I installed thier

Re: i810 problems

2001-03-24 Thread Nate Amsden
Victor wrote: > Where is that glx module, I couldn't find it!! > Is there anybody out there able to explain in a straightforward way (step by > step) how I can set the i810 graphic card? if your just looking to get 2D working then thats not too hard, to get 3D working i don't have personal ex

Research for Customer Profiles Assingment

2001-03-24 Thread Steve Huber
I am doing reasurch for my Customer Profile project for my Customer Behavior course at Eastern Illinois University. The product I am doing reasurch for is GPS maps out side of the US for the private sector. Any demographic, psyhographic, and geographic information you could sent me about yo

Hepl, please, I broke my sound :-(

2001-03-24 Thread Stan Brown
I have a new machine that I am setting up. It has a Creative Labs Sound Balster PCI 16 sound card in it. I installed a minimal "stable" system, and then pointed my apt-get source to the Progeny RC1. Then I installed thier RC1. Almost everythign worked flawlesy, including sound. Now I have been

i810 problems

2001-03-24 Thread Victor
I've installed potato 2.2r2 on my desktop, a Celeron Compaq Presario, endowed unfortunately of an Intel 82810 graphic card which I would use with X and kde. I've read all the extremely poor and distressing pieces of "Documentation" about i810 both under the various /usr/doc and www.debian.org/br

Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

2001-03-24 Thread ktb
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 12:52:17PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > If these Debian patches are so great, why aren't they in the official > > > kernel source? > > > > > > > Because the patches didn't exist when 2.2 was released. That is the > > nature of

Re: audio recording in xawtv

2001-03-24 Thread Roberto Diaz
> Hmm, I'm working on someting similar to this. > How did you get sound working in xawtv at all? In my case I had to run > a jumper > from "line out" on the WinTV card to "line in" on the sound card. Given > this, I > can't see how recording sound can work at all. Yes tha

Re: Soundblaster Live Player! Which driver?

2001-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 02:07:57PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If you're posting to the list regarding a new topic, not as a reply to an existing thread, *don't* reply to an existing post. Under many mailers, your message will be read as threaded into the discussion you'r

Re: Mouse problems on X (intellieye)

2001-03-24 Thread Jason Majors
Try using the protocol "IMPS/2". And disable 3 button emulation, you only need that if you want simultaneous left and right clicks to be a middle click...your mouse wheel is your true third button. That should fix you. On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:36:50AM -0800, jennyw scribbled... > I'm using an Mic

Re: Samba Password

2001-03-24 Thread ktb
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 09:27:57PM +0100, Gregor Kaleta wrote: > I have a problem with the Samba Password. Samba is running and the > correct smbpasswd file exists. But when I want to login (for using > shares) from my Win98SE Client, I get the Error that my Password was > wrong. What have I done w

Re: fbtv won't run for anyone but root

2001-03-24 Thread Nate Amsden
Stan Brown wrote: > > I finally figured out how to ge framebuffer working, but now I can't get fbtv > to > work for anyone but root. I have added the appropriate users to the vidoe > group, > and they can use xawtv. /dev/fb0 is owned by roo, group video and is rw--w--- > mode, > which looks wro

Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

2001-03-24 Thread Krzys Majewski
Well, OK.. I guess *somebody* has to patch the kernels, so it may as well be the people who "sell" them, i.e. distribution "vendors" like Debian and RedHat.. as long as the patches aren't forking the kernel source tree, official or effective, I'm happy - chris On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Shawn Yarbr

Re: staroffice..

2001-03-24 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 24 March 2001 15:41, Karsten M. Self wrote: > unstable and testing. No menu problems. Then again I've defined my > own WMaker menus, crotchety old fart that I am. Hey, let's hear it for crotchety old farts. I'm glad I'm not the only one. -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http:

Re: 'setxkbmap dvorak' not working

2001-03-24 Thread Adrian Kubala
On Saturday 24 March 2001 03:29 pm, you wrote: > My initial thought was that 'setxkbmap' was failing because you didn't use > the -layout switch, but 'setxkbmap [dvorak|us]' works fine here. Sorry I > can't be of more help. I know that trying to hunt down keyboard problems > in X11 is a real pain

Re: staroffice..

2001-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 09:22:20AM +0100, Roberto Diaz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > There is a powerpoint filter in Kpresenter, see http://www.koffice.org for > > details. > > Yes but for kpresenter to work I have to install kde 2.x I even havent > installed kde 1.x and since I am using windowM

fbtv won't run for anyone but root

2001-03-24 Thread Stan Brown
I finally figured out how to ge framebuffer working, but now I can't get fbtv to work for anyone but root. I have added the appropriate users to the vidoe group, and they can use xawtv. /dev/fb0 is owned by roo, group video and is rw--w--- mode, which looks wrong to me. What should it be? -- St

Re: apt question

2001-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 03:47:47AM +0100, Radu Muschevici ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > is it posible to have two distro lines in /etc/apt/sources.list > like this: > > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free

Re: Matlab R11 doesn't want to run after recent apt-get upgrade

2001-03-24 Thread Kenneth Litko
Wow... reported Thursday (by someone other than me), new package available Saturday morning... Thats what I call service... thanks Branden! (xlib6 maintainer) The libs in package xlib6 (which Matlab was trying to find the correct versions of) were accidentally linked to libc6 when they should h

Resource limit question

2001-03-24 Thread Martin Weinberg
I have set a hard limit on memoryuse to 1 (10M). limits (or ulimit -a) shows the limit but, it doesn't seem to be working. For example, with the limit set the following bit of code /* Name: tst.c */ #include #include #include #

Re: 'setxkbmap dvorak' not working

2001-03-24 Thread Tom Marshall
I use the XF86Config file to set dvorak mode with XFree86 3.3. Here are the relevant lines from the keyboard section in /etc/X11/XF86Config: Section "Keyboard" Protocol"Standard" AutoRepeat 500 30 XkbModel"pc102" XkbLayout "dvorak" XkbKeymap "xfree86(us)" EndSect

Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

2001-03-24 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
Krzys Majewski wrote: > > OK, so these are official kernel.org patches then? Or something else? > Here is the README.Debian file from kernel-source-2.2.18pre21: (yes it looks like somebody forgot to update the title) kernel-source-2.2.17 for DEBIAN --- These patch

Re: openssh incompatibility with ssh.com's ssh

2001-03-24 Thread Nate Amsden
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > dear all, > > woody uses openssh 2.2.0 which is incompatible with ssh.com's ssh [1]. > > i NEED the most current version of openssh, which i think is 2.2.3. > > is there any way of getting it short of uninstalling my ssh deb package and > installing a tarball from o

Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

2001-03-24 Thread Krzys Majewski
ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If these Debian patches are so great, why aren't they in the official > > kernel source? > > > > Because the patches didn't exist when 2.2 was released. That is the > nature of a patch. For the most part patches are created to fix > bugs that were unknown

Re: List

2001-03-24 Thread Nate Amsden
Jay wrote: > > If i was to create my own cd that had everything on it that you put on > yours, what would i need. Is there anything that is on a mirror site thats > not on your cd? you talking about a debian cd? if so see http://cdimage.debian.org and follow the directions to make a cd. i think

Re: Applying kernel patches

2001-03-24 Thread Nate Amsden
Hall Stevenson wrote: > > I apologize that this isn't directly Debian-related, but I know there > are some people around who probably know the answer... > > I'm currently running kernel 2.4.2-ac20. I just downloaded the patch for > 2.4.2-ac24. My question is, can I apply this patch against my cur

Re: Samba Password

2001-03-24 Thread Nate Amsden
Gregor Kaleta wrote: > > I have a problem with the Samba Password. Samba is running and the > correct smbpasswd file exists. But when I want to login (for using > shares) from my Win98SE Client, I get the Error that my Password was > wrong. What have I done wrong? maybe win98se is using encrypted

Re: Network configuration

2001-03-24 Thread Nate Amsden
Steve Doerr wrote: > > Hi. I wonder if anybody has any advice on network configuration, > because I can't get eth1 to pass any traffic out of my router box. > > I've got box1's eth0 connected to my dsl line through the dsl > modem/router and it picks up the ip, etc. through dhcpcd. This card is

RE: Lion Worm

2001-03-24 Thread Peter Good
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free That's my sources.list, I have the space there, It usually works, but there may have

Network configuration

2001-03-24 Thread Steve Doerr
Hi. I wonder if anybody has any advice on network configuration, because I can't get eth1 to pass any traffic out of my router box. I've got box1's eth0 connected to my dsl line through the dsl modem/router and it picks up the ip, etc. through dhcpcd. This card is connected to the internet fine.

Samba Password

2001-03-24 Thread Gregor Kaleta
I have a problem with the Samba Password. Samba is running and the correct smbpasswd file exists. But when I want to login (for using shares) from my Win98SE Client, I get the Error that my Password was wrong. What have I done wrong?

Applying kernel patches

2001-03-24 Thread Hall Stevenson
I apologize that this isn't directly Debian-related, but I know there are some people around who probably know the answer... I'm currently running kernel 2.4.2-ac20. I just downloaded the patch for 2.4.2-ac24. My question is, can I apply this patch against my current source tree (2.4.2-ac20) ??

Unreasonable setuid changes?! Am I hacked?

2001-03-24 Thread Mullins, Ron
Prolog: Running Debian Potato 2.2 r2 with most recent security updates from the security servers. *Any* suggestions or comments welcome. I was checking my RADIUS server logs...just for the fun of it :-) and came across this in my setuid.changes line: ***

Re: staroffice..

2001-03-24 Thread Chris Howells
From: Roberto Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Yes but for kpresenter to work I have to install kde 2.x I even havent > installed kde 1.x and since I am using windowMaker I am a little bit It's better to not have KDE 1 first, since you won't then get any nasty hangovers when you use KDE 2. > afraid of

Nautilus

2001-03-24 Thread Francois Fayard
Hi, I have problems installing nautilus on my debian potato. Here is my sources.list : deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://spidermonkey.ximian.com/1.4beta1/distributions/debian unstable main deb http://spidermonkey.ximian.com/evolution-snapshots/distributions/

Re: audio recording in xawtv

2001-03-24 Thread Stan Brown
On Sat Mar 24 08:16:17 2001 Roberto Diaz wrote... > >Hi!.. > >I am trying out the avi recording capabilities of xawtv (latest stable >potato version) but I am not getting success with audio. The video is fine >but I've never get audio.. xanim +Ae doesnt work.. the xanim control >widget shows me a v

List

2001-03-24 Thread Jay
If i was to create my own cd that had everything on it that you put on yours, what would i need. Is there anything that is on a mirror site thats not on your cd? Till next time, Jay ___ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemount

Re: mrtg weirdness.

2001-03-24 Thread Nate Amsden
Nate Amsden wrote: > > ive been having this problem for sometime and am wondering what could be > wrong. after subscribing to the mrtg list i figured out what was wrong..me. i was expecting to see(for some reason i don't know why) stats of the machine on the port not stats of the port. and what i

Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

2001-03-24 Thread ktb
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 08:53:46AM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > > > Use the 'kernel-source' packages and you will get extra features and > > bugfixes patched in by Debian which are not in stock Linux. For example > > 'kernel-source-2.2.18pre21'. Wh

Re: A fact & a problem

2001-03-24 Thread Hansmartin Dettinger
Hi David, check rtl8139.o instead of <18>39 hope this helps Hansmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- > Von: David Carlile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hey Bob, > > It sounds like we are trying to install the same module. I have the same > kernel build as you (2.2.18pre21) if I'm not mistaken. Check t

Re: apt question

2001-03-24 Thread Radu Muschevici
On Sat, 24 Mar, 2001 at 09:58:28 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib > > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib > > Entries like this are not wise, because you will get only the newest > packages in the

Re: Matlab R11 doesn't want to run after recent apt-get upgrade

2001-03-24 Thread Kenneth Litko
I have a CRDOM from Mathworks that has both Windows and Linux versions. It also includes Simulink, though I don't use it. -- Ken Hi, I have a dual-boot system and use MatLAb 5.3 Student version in windows. I was unaware of the linux version. Where did you get it from? Dave W - Original Mes

Re: openssh incompatibility with ssh.com's ssh

2001-03-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, you can use regular apt or dpkg commands to remove openssh, and use "alien" to transform the new openssh tarball into a .deb so that you can manage it with the packaging system. -Jon

Re: Mouse problems on X (intellieye)

2001-03-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, Try XF86Setup this config utility allows you to tweeak the device settings and see the results (there are ofcourse many key bindings for when you completely disable the mouse). -Jon

xserver-xfree86 upgrade in limbo (unstable)

2001-03-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, ran a dist-upgrade last night on my "unstable" box and xserver-xfree86 is stuck in unconfigurable limbo. first error: Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.0.2-11) ... dexconf: /etc/X11/XF86Config already exists. dpkg: error processing xserver-xfree86 (--configure): subprocess post-installation scri

openssh incompatibility with ssh.com's ssh

2001-03-24 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, woody uses openssh 2.2.0 which is incompatible with ssh.com's ssh [1]. i NEED the most current version of openssh, which i think is 2.2.3. is there any way of getting it short of uninstalling my ssh deb package and installing a tarball from openssh's site? pete [1] only for those who

Mouse problems on X (intellieye)

2001-03-24 Thread jennyw
I'm using an Microsoft's optical mouse (Intellieye), and am having trouble getting it to work well with X. In particular, I can't get the mouse to emulate the middle button (I tried using Emulate3Buttons). I'm using Debian 2.2 which comes with XFree86 3.3.6.11. Although I think this is an X issue

Gnome: short question

2001-03-24 Thread William Leese
A shamefully stupid question: how do i change the text background (and foreground) colors of gtk apps? I found the .gtkrc file but had no clue how to change the colors (if it does that) because of the odd way of defining different colors (0.897 / 0.763 etc.. ) I've installed a few themes to see

Where to put an xmodmap script

2001-03-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Where is the best place to load an xmodmap script automatically in Debian? If I put it in .xsession (which previously didn't exist), I get dumped back to an xdm login. Thanks, Brian

Re: GMix reports no mixer devices

2001-03-24 Thread jens
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 13:56:22 +, you wrote: >bug report > >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=89391&repeatmerged=yes > >has already been reported. > >LeeE I DON'T FLIPPING BELIEVE IT ! I don't know how many hours I spent screwing around with that ! I posted i

How to clear dselect list?

2001-03-24 Thread jennyw
For some reason, when I run dselect and select I for install (without using S for select), I get a list of stuff I don't remember selecting (this happened shortly after I installed Ximian Gnome using apt, per Ximian's instructions). Some of the files it says it's going to remove include task-helix

Re: resizing partitions

2001-03-24 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
parted and ext2resize. also, partition magic knows about ext2, so that's your easiest option. just get a partition magic bootdisk. DON'T use fips. wrong tool for the job. fips doesn't know how to split ext2 filesystems. only vfat and dos. pete On Sat 24 Mar 01, 1:06 PM, Michael P. Soulier

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