Re: char-major-10-135

2001-04-06 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Philipp Lehman posts: > is that for "real time clock"? Do I need kernel support > for that? Yes, it is. You need to compile 'rtc support' either into the kernel or as a module. > Can I safely change the alias to "off"? Go ahead, you can switch it off. Usually a normal 'joe' user does not r

Re: fast graphics in testing. please to help?

2001-04-06 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
mudbuddha Last Name wrote: > What is the fastest card that would have driver in > debian ftp for very fast opengl? Try nVidia Riva TNT-2 chipset cards, they have got good support. I hope the mudBuddha smiles :-) -- ragOO, VU2RGU Keeping the Air-Waves FREE...Amateur Radio Keeping you

Re: xfree86 4.x and unstable

2001-04-06 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
JACKSON, DEAN posts: > does anyone know of a good place to start for newbie > documentation on setting up the 4.x Xserver? The debian-user mailing list archive at http://www.debian.org/ has a good search interface. Use it and dig... Please do try http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/ and

Re: Netscape

2001-04-06 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Simmons-Davis posts: > whether the complete Netscape Navigator and Communicator > packages come on the official Debian 6 cd set Netscape products have a license which is not DFSG compliant. They are non-free and due to this nature they do not come on the Official Debian 6-CD set. Please do a sea

RE: Newbie-xwindows graphics server?

2001-04-06 Thread Rick Commo
I am using an ATI XPert98 with an AOpen 15" LCD monitor.  I used the simple install and it did not detect my video card  what I did was   (1) apt-get install xserver-mach64  (I am assuming that the ATI 3D RAGE PRO is mach 64 based)   (2) XF86Setup     card = ATI XPert 98     scr

cdda2wav not copying right? (long)

2001-04-06 Thread Ron Farrer
hello; When copying an audio CD to .wav format, I use cdda2wav like so: cdda2wav -D 1,4,0 -B This works great except for one thing. Sometimes it produces "skips" in the .wav. The only thing I can think of that would cause this is that perhaps it is copying data too fast? My system is all SCSI:

Re: sis900 problem

2001-04-06 Thread Mark Devin
I noticed from your message in the Debian-user mail group that you have the same Mother board as me. I was wondering if you have gotten the sound card on that board to work? It is Cmedia's CMI8738 audio controller. Please give me any suggestions you may have on getting this to work. I have comp

Re: Need to do some weird keymapping

2001-04-06 Thread Brian Nelson
Look into loadkeys -Brian On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 09:24:49PM -0500, Craig McPherson wrote: > I'm in a situation where I need to do some keymapping. This is what I > need to accomplish. > > 1. This is for console only. X is not installed on the machine. > > 2. A few keys (like the up and do

RE: Installing Debian

2001-04-06 Thread Aaron
I just had another thought, what if I were to run fdisk with the /mbr parameter. I think that the right parameter or its something close. Then I would run /sbin/lilo to reinstall lilo on the mbr. Could that maybe work? Aaron -Original Message- From: Aaron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: F

RE: Installing Debian

2001-04-06 Thread Aaron
Thanks Daniel, I'll look into this. I'm not sure since I don't know much about how hard drives work, but is the LBA setting just for IDE drive or does it work with SCSI as well. I ask of course because I am having this problem on a my primary SCSI drive (sda I think). Aaron -Original Message-

Re: Installing Debian

2001-04-06 Thread Daniel Freedman
Aaron, Hi. I think this might have to do with the LBA setting (maybe in your bios) of your hard drive. See the following article for common symptoms such as LI (then lockup, rather than LILO then boot). I know you get 'LIL' rather than 'LI', but it's probably worth looking into: http://www.li

Newbie-xwindows graphics server?

2001-04-06 Thread user138
I have a ATI 3D RAGE LT PRO that is driving a flat panel monitor,  I cant seem to find any video settings that work with this hardware?  has anyone used something similar?  the refresh rate is static at 60hz and uses resolutions 1024x768 800x600 640x480.  also is it advisable to use 32bit co

Re: Installing Debian

2001-04-06 Thread Dan
Aaron, Actually Red Hat could still be in the MBR, and when you install Debian Lilo doesn't have enough space to load onto to the MBR. So try what I suggested, and if it works e-mail me back. Dan - Please do not add me to you addres

RE: Installing Debian

2001-04-06 Thread Aaron
hey Dan, thanks for the reply. I could erase the hard disk and start from scratch, but I don't think having something on the hard before doing the install is a problem. If I can't eventually figure this out I will erase everything and start over. I had a installation of redhat on the machine and I

Re: Installing Debian

2001-04-06 Thread Dan
Arron, I am a total newbie to linux installs and I was able to install LILO just fine the first time I popped it in. Since then I have had no troubles, but navigating the OS in Command Line prompt, but that is what I want to learn. I am now setting up security and learning the VI Editor. All I g

Re: Alsa under Debian has me baffled

2001-04-06 Thread Timmy Douglas
it would be nice to know the soundcard you are using and the packages/versions you have. i don't use alsa now, but i used to and maybe this page can help but it is old: http://members.home.com/tdouglas/alsa.html i just compile my card into the kernel and i think that is the best way to do it if

Installing Debian

2001-04-06 Thread Aaron
I just recently bought a set of debian cd's and am now trying to install debian on my pc. I have some experience installing Linux using redhat and I have done some freeBSD installs so I am not totally new to this, but I can't seem to make this work. Every time I do an install and then do the reboo

Mobile Computers

2001-04-06 Thread Juan Alberto Cirez
Hello there. This question has nothing to do with qmail or ezmlm per say. but here it goes: I think it was sometime time last year when I saw an article in the Linux Journal about mobile computers. I think there were designed to use the CROUSE chip from Transmeta. There was several pictures of some

Re: matlab - scilab

2001-04-06 Thread David Purton
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Sergio E . Schvezov wrote: > hi i'm posting here to see if u can recommend me any good math > program like mathlab > > i've tried scilab (binary) and if i execute scilab it does nothing > and if i execute scilex it says i need libtermcap 2 wich i tried to > apt get but it said

upgrading kernel 2.1

2001-04-06 Thread mrweb
I have had Debian 2.1 installed and running in text mode for about a year now. I have not played with it much as I prefer to have a working X server, hence I have used and maintained several Mandrake systems, which I am sick of. I am stuck in text mode in Debian with a dial up connection as I live

Need to do some weird keymapping

2001-04-06 Thread Craig McPherson
I'm in a situation where I need to do some keymapping. This is what I need to accomplish. 1. This is for console only. X is not installed on the machine. 2. A few keys (like the up and down arrow keys, the < and > keys, and a few other) need to work normally. 3. All other keys need to be

Re: sources.list

2001-04-06 Thread Nathan
I can't answer your question at i have ni, but on a similar topic is there i an unstable site for security.debian.org?? i have the stable site in the sources.list file but i am looking for the unstable site because i am running unstable. "Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote: > In looking at http://package

Packages to run kernel 2.4.x on potato (release 7)

2001-04-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
I have prepared the packages needed to run kernels up to 2.4.3 on a Debian 2.2r2 (potato) system. Please read [1] for more information. It seems the isdnutils in potato is sufficient what means that the packages seem to be complete - please contact me when you think that there are still packages

Re: command for system beep?

2001-04-06 Thread hammack
The bell: You can use a script with the echo $'\a'. I did the following #bell # make the iteration length as desired or put in another line after the echo with # a call to another bell but with a different name. I did a recursive call and the bell # continued and then a note came up "out of syste

Re: MTA security

2001-04-06 Thread Nate Amsden
Dave Sherohman wrote: > > From a security standpoint, how does exim compare to sendmail? What about > postfix? > > It appears that exim is Debian's default MTA, which is why I've run it > before and it's what I'm most familiar with. Now I've inherited a network > with several sendmail installat

internet filter

2001-04-06 Thread John Patton
Hi, My son just turned 10, and I was interested in being able to set up some sort of internet filter for him. I don't need to tie his hands as far as browsing goes, nor do I need something that is childproof or otherwise beyond his ability to circumvent. I just want something that would prevent hi

Re: virtual eth0

2001-04-06 Thread Ed Kear
At 01:59 PM 4/6/01 +0200, Markus Mohr wrote: Hi! I´m trying to configure eth0:0 and eth0:1 with /etc/network/interfaces. iface eth0:0 inet static address 192.168.1.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1 S

Re: HP's InkJet drivers on Debian -- success?

2001-04-06 Thread Bill Wohler
I got a Slackware gs binary (with a cdj970 driver that handles the OJ G85 double-sided printing option) from a friend and simply overwrote /usr/bin/gs. UGLY. But it works. I'm hoping the ghostscript packager can incorporate the HP stuff, since as CBS said, it's hell to build this stuff.

Re: Sys Admin

2001-04-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... ditto on williams comments... easy to automate the admin of the machines... ( more fortunate...than unfortunate ?? almost as easy to automate teh people-side too - answer is noor where is the budget for it.. c ya alvin http://www.Linux-1U.net ... 6

Re: ftpd security fixes?

2001-04-06 Thread Brandon High
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > anyone hear about any security fixes for ftpds that were > found a few weeks ago ? haven't seen any news on > security.debian.org. Try asking on the debian-security list. I haven't seen anything about ftp on the list though -B -- Brandon High

Re: Sys Admin

2001-04-06 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > If you want to do it as a career (you are a masochist, and not because > of UNIX) you can look for "junior sysadmin" type job listings. Heh. I agree. *Most* UNIX sysadmin jobs resemble management more than they resemble playing with your home Lin

Re: StarOffice crashes when opening files...

2001-04-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 10:37:38PM +0200, Pierfrancesco Caci ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Something in the latest 2 weeks has changed in Debian unstable and > makes Staroffice crash at the moment of opening a file. Anyone else > having this problem? Have you been able to identify what's going w

Re: Pascal

2001-04-06 Thread Ryan Sackenheim
This one looks interesting. http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ -Ryan On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 02:45:02PM +0200, Ales Jerman wrote: > Does anybody know any good pascal compilers? Maybe also for X. > Thanks! > Bye, > > Ales > >

Re: coexistence with Windows 2000

2001-04-06 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 09:25:01PM +, Darryl Röthering wrote: | But I want to get the bootsector from linux to copy into Windoze. | | Now, as I sit here looking at the /boot I see two possibilities: | | boot.b | boot.0301 | | Which is the one I want to capture & is the syntax just: | | dd

Re: Pascal

2001-04-06 Thread Robin Gerard
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:56:50PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > a seach with: apt-cache search pascal gave me the following interesting > packets: > > gpc - The GNU Pascal compiler. > and there is more interesting. I guess you need at least gpc. > > Greetz, > Sebastiaan

Re: partition

2001-04-06 Thread Robin Gerard
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:52:26PM +0500, dim wrote: > Hello Robin, > > Friday, April 06, 2001, 4:01:06 AM, you wrote: > > RG> I want to install potato2.2r2 on the partition D of the 4Gb hard disk. > When installing Linux on hdc5 say to lilo to sit into beginning > of hdc5. > Then add to

sources.list

2001-04-06 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
In looking at http://packages.debian.org, I seem to have many versions from the unstable group. I have no idea how this happened. I did a dist-upgrade Wednesday evening from potato to woody. Following is the pertinent part of my sources.list: # debian sites deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian

Re: Moving to a new hd

2001-04-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
I've done this a few times and it's been a while, but what I recall doing was: 1. mke2fs /dev/hdb1. 2. mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt 3. 'cp -ax' from / to /mnt each of the directories which do not exist on a separate partition. Do not include /proc or /tmp. Use mkdir to create /mnt/proc and /mnt

Re: (OT) Donating old hardware...

2001-04-06 Thread Brian Nelson
Toss the stuff into one of the gorges. I have some friends that I'm sure would be willing to help. :) I remember throwing a refridgerator off the top of Cascadilla. Ah, the memories... -Brian On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:45:00PM -0400, Daniel Freedman wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001, Karsten M

Re: Apache module

2001-04-06 Thread FunguzSheep
* Francois Leib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010406 16:45]: > >Do u know where I can find the ldap module for apache? > > > >I'm looking for something like mod_ldap.so or something like that. > 1. http://nona.net/software/ldap/ 2. you could install libapache-mod-auth-pam and libpa

Re: HP's InkJet drivers on Debian -- success?

2001-04-06 Thread FunguzSheep
* Chris Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010406 23:20]: > I am interested in knowing whether anybody has successfully managed to use > HPs InkJet drivers on Debian -- currently they are only available as > binaries for RedHat (SuSE and Mandrake coming soon). > > Unfortunately my attempts to compile th

Re: matlab - scilab

2001-04-06 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Eric Richardson wrote: > "Timothy J. Ford > > > > you should try octave, it's very good. > > > How does this compare to Mathematica? For a GPL symbolic algebra system, you can try Maxima. For a free (as in beer for non-commercial use) closed source option, look at MuPaD (htt

Re: Missing header files

2001-04-06 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > > I've done this probably 15 times today, but I /cannot/ get libc6-dev to > install. This is turning into a real show stopper because so many of the > packages I need depend on it. > Ah, to heck with it. I don't know how glibc6-2.2.2-4 ended up i

[Semi-OT] Debian-related job in Seattle

2001-04-06 Thread Pann McCuaig
Hello all, Owing to personal and family considerations I will be relocating to the East coast in the near future. As a result my current position will be open. The announcement is at http://www.defender.org/geekjob.html Linux geek required, anti-Microsoft bigots need not apply. FWIW, I've reall

Re: ftp: cannot resolve hostname

2001-04-06 Thread Erik Steffl
eamon ansel roque wrote: > > Hi! > > I configured my isdn connection on 2.2r2 so that it connects to my ISP, > but I don't seem to be able to do anything else. When I try and use ftp, > I get: cannot resolve hostname try to check whether numeric ip address works if the numeric IP address wo

Re: Missing header files

2001-04-06 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Philipp Lehman wrote: > > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade > apt-get install libc6-dev I've done this probably 15 times today, but I /cannot/ get libc6-dev to install. This is turning into a real show stopper because so many of the packages I need depend on it. -- steve

coexistence with Windows 2000

2001-04-06 Thread Darryl Röthering
Apologies in advance. Through delete-itis, I inadvertently lost the good advice I receive for my Debian coexistence with windows. I got everything set up ok & I can now boot Linux by using a boot floppy. My default MBR is still Windows 2000, so without the boot floppy in I get Windoze. But I

Re: Missing header files

2001-04-06 Thread Erik Steffl
"Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote: > > What do I need to download and install in order to get the following: > > gtk.h > gdk.h > gdkkeysyms.h > Xlib.h > time.h > types.h > stat.h > un.h > uninstd.h > errno.h > xmmsctrl.h > configfile.h > > and the list goes on and on. I'm apparently missing a few dev

ftp: cannot resolve hostname

2001-04-06 Thread eamon ansel roque
Hi! I configured my isdn connection on 2.2r2 so that it connects to my ISP, but I don't seem to be able to do anything else. When I try and use ftp, I get: cannot resolve hostname Any ideas?! Thanks, Eamon

Re: matlab - scilab

2001-04-06 Thread Timothy J. Ford
Octave is a Matlab-like numerical package which is distributed under GNU General Public License rules. For matrix and linear algebra computations it is ideal. Mathematica is mainly a symbolic algebra tool and is not free. I have not used it myself. Octave does not have a symbolic algebra compon

Re: Missing header files

2001-04-06 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Stephen E. Hargrove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Rick Macdonald wrote: >Thanks Rick. I was afraid it was the libc6-dev pkg. Anyone have an idea >as to how I can overcome the following: > > ># apt-get install libc6-dev > >Sorry, but the following packages ha

Re: Freefonts -> LaTeX

2001-04-06 Thread Alan Shutko
Christophe TROESTLER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anybody knows whether there is a package (or any help) to use the > fonts in the ``freefont'' package with LaTeX. Oh, you have got to be kidding CTAN doesn't appear to have anything. If I were to do this (and trust me, I would _not_ d

Re: Missing header files

2001-04-06 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > >> >> What do I need to download and install in order to get the following: >> >> gtk.h >> gdk.h >> gdkkeysyms.h >> Xlib.h >> time.h >> types.h >> stat.h >> un.h >> uninstd.h >> errno.

Re: Freefonts -> LaTeX

2001-04-06 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Christophe TROESTLER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does anybody knows whether there is a package (or any help) to use the >fonts in the ``freefont'' package with LaTeX. It seems technically >possible (they are Type 1 fonts and the .afm's can be found on the >Web) but bit tedious

Re: Missing header files

2001-04-06 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S unistd.h > libc6-dev: /usr/include/unistd.h Thanks Rick. I was afraid it was the libc6-dev pkg. Anyone have an idea as to how I can overcome the following: # apt-get install libc6-dev Sorry, but the following packages

Re: Debian GNU/Linux on DEC Alpha ...

2001-04-06 Thread Ron Farrer
DI Josef Synka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dear Debian-Team, > > Recently I learned about the availability of Debian GNU/Linux > and its excellent performance on various systems. Further I was > told that it is supposed to be more stable than Suse of RedHat > Linux - is that true? > > Having re

Re: matlab - scilab

2001-04-06 Thread Eric Richardson
"Timothy J. Ford > > you should try octave, it's very good. > How does this compare to Mathematica? Eric :-)

HP's InkJet drivers on Debian -- success?

2001-04-06 Thread Chris Howells
I am interested in knowing whether anybody has successfully managed to use HPs InkJet drivers on Debian -- currently they are only available as binaries for RedHat (SuSE and Mandrake coming soon). Unfortunately my attempts to compile the drivers in failed, due to the fact that printing with the ne

pcmcia startup order: was Re: /etc/network/interfaces

2001-04-06 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, More than one person is having problems with the startup sequence with pcmcia. Is this a problem with the distribution? I searched open and closed bugs for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and could not find anything reported about this. Is this a problem that needs to be looked at for the distribution? It

Re: Missing header files

2001-04-06 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 03:17:27PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: | | What do I need to download and install in order to get the following: | | gtk.h | gdk.h | gdkkeysyms.h These should be in gtk-dev or some similar name. (Probably need gdk-dev too). | Xlib.h something like X-dev | time.h

Re: Missing header files

2001-04-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > > What do I need to download and install in order to get the following: > > gtk.h > gdk.h > gdkkeysyms.h > Xlib.h > time.h > types.h > stat.h > un.h > uninstd.h > errno.h > xmmsctrl.h > configfile.h [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S unistd.h libc6-dev

Re: matlab - scilab

2001-04-06 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
Your looking for Octave. Tim Sergio E . Schvezov wrote: hi i'm posting here to see if u can recommend me any good math program like mathlab i've tried scilab (binary) and if i execute scilab it does nothing and if i execute scilex it says i need libtermcap 2 wich i tried to apt get but it s

Re: Star Office + Unstable

2001-04-06 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "Rainer" == Rainer Merz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 10:32:44AM +0200, Matthias Wieser wrote: >> Does anybody else has this problem? > yep, we are running three Sid Boxes here having exactly the > same problems since a couple of days. Curre

Re: matlab - scilab

2001-04-06 Thread Timothy J. Ford
you should try octave, it's very good. -- Professor Timothy J. Ford | Department of Mathematics | "Don't worry, Skipper, Florida Atlantic University| everything's in my hands!" Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991 | -- Gilligan

StarOffice crashes when opening files...

2001-04-06 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
Something in the latest 2 weeks has changed in Debian unstable and makes Staroffice crash at the moment of opening a file. Anyone else having this problem? Have you been able to identify what's going wrong ? Pf -- ---

Re: Diverting browser output

2001-04-06 Thread Alan Chen
This my not be quite what you're looking for, but setting up your web browser to go through a proxy like junkbuster might be a good start. Opening up the code for junkbuster might also allow you to start logging outbound data sent via the proxy. --- csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Basically I wa

Missing header files

2001-04-06 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
What do I need to download and install in order to get the following: gtk.h gdk.h gdkkeysyms.h Xlib.h time.h types.h stat.h un.h uninstd.h errno.h xmmsctrl.h configfile.h and the list goes on and on. I'm apparently missing a few development packages? -- steve

Freefonts -> LaTeX

2001-04-06 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi, Does anybody knows whether there is a package (or any help) to use the fonts in the ``freefont'' package with LaTeX. It seems technically possible (they are Type 1 fonts and the .afm's can be found on the Web) but bit tedious to do -- especially considering somebody else probably got the same

char-major-10-135

2001-04-06 Thread Philipp Lehman
I'm getting modprobe complaints about char-major-10-135 not being found. modules.conf defines an alias pointing to "rtc", is that for "real time clock"? Do I need kernel support for that? Or can I safely change the alias to "off"? I don't seem to miss anything in the current situation. TIA -- Phi

ftpd security fixes?

2001-04-06 Thread aphro
anyone hear about any security fixes for ftpds that were found a few weeks ago ? haven't seen any news on security.debian.org. seems the ftp bugs are much more serious then the ntp bugs :) (e.g. 100x more people running ftpds then ntpds ..) last time i tried to exploit it on my desktop system

Re: matlab - scilab

2001-04-06 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, depends on your needs. Matlab works fine for matrix operations and simulations. If you need more analitical math I recommend Maple. It gives you the ability to calculate with complex formulas without loosing precision (exact). For statistical math you can try SPLUS. Most standard and not stand

Moving to a new hd

2001-04-06 Thread Philipp Lehman
A while ago a bought a new IDE hd for one of my Debian boxes, hooked it up as hdb, moved /home, /usr, and /var there, but left the root file system on hda1 (on the old drive). Now I want to get rid of the old hd altogether (it's slow and noisy). So, after performing some extensive surgery on a liv

Re: command for system beep?

2001-04-06 Thread ktb
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 09:07:59PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: > I want to write a shell script that beeps on a certain event. I don' want the > output from the soundcard but from the system speaker, like when I do > something wrong. But it would be nice if I could make the sound shorter or > lon

Re: command for system beep?

2001-04-06 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Robert Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want to write a shell script that beeps on a certain event. I don' want the >output from the soundcard but from the system speaker, like when I do >something wrong. But it would be nice if I could make the sound shorter or >longer t

Re: okay here's a more specific question to get me started on the alsa path

2001-04-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 08:30:41AM -0400, Shawn Garbett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm really floundering getting alsa going. All the howto's, etc that > I've read all recommend recompiling your kernel with soundsupport as the > first step. Building your own kernel is recommended. While defa

How to get gnome 1.4 out of woody "pool"

2001-04-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
I see the new gnome 1.4 debs in the Pool directoroes, but this line in sources.list still only gets me the old debs. What do I need to do? deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian woody main non-free contrib ...RickM...

Re: command for system beep?

2001-04-06 Thread Erik Steffl
Robert Voigt wrote: > > I want to write a shell script that beeps on a certain event. I don' want the > output from the soundcard but from the system speaker, like when I do printf "ring a bell\a\n" it should work with both c printf function and printf program. > something wrong. But it wou

installing debian and bootloaders

2001-04-06 Thread Jasper
I'm about to start installing Debian 2.2r2. How does debian deal with bootloaders? Will it allow me to install lilo or other on a floppy so that I don't have to deal with bootloaders on my harddrive or entries in my mbr. I run windows as my primary and linux as the secondary. Mandrake let me do

Re: Diverting browser output

2001-04-06 Thread Brandon High
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, csj wrote: > Basically I want to capture (log?) what my browser sends out > when I click a link (stuff like what the POST request actually > posts). I can probably figure some of this out by saving and digging > thru the source (say, replacing the POST with a GET) but I want

matlab - scilab

2001-04-06 Thread Sergio E . Schvezov
hi i'm posting here to see if u can recommend me any good math program like mathlab i've tried scilab (binary) and if i execute scilab it does nothing and if i execute scilex it says i need libtermcap 2 wich i tried to apt get but it said it was in a way, not there anymore thank u all in adva

Re: XFree 4 and 2-button-mouse

2001-04-06 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 06 Apr 2001 20:12:13 +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > > Hi! > > I´m sure it´s in the documentation, but I can´t find it... I think it is not, I've searched an hour or so yesterday. I don't have my laptop with me right now, but IIRC something like: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Gene

Diverting browser output

2001-04-06 Thread csj
Basically I want to capture (log?) what my browser sends out when I click a link (stuff like what the POST request actually posts). I can probably figure some of this out by saving and digging thru the source (say, replacing the POST with a GET) but I want something more thorough and paranoid.

command for system beep?

2001-04-06 Thread Robert Voigt
I want to write a shell script that beeps on a certain event. I don' want the output from the soundcard but from the system speaker, like when I do something wrong. But it would be nice if I could make the sound shorter or longer than that, or two short sounds. What's the command for that? Btw,

Re: XFree 4 and 2-button-mouse

2001-04-06 Thread Robert Voigt
> What´s the magic to emulate Emulate3Buttons from XF/3 in XF/4? Add a line to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 in section "InputDevice" (the one for the mouse, not the keyboard): Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" It's documented in info XF86Config

Re: Installing communicator.

2001-04-06 Thread Eric Richardson
Simmons-Davis wrote: > > Hello, > > My question now is: how do I get Communicator on my sytem in order to run > "apt-get install communicator"? Currently when I try to run it it sends back > the response: > > "Package communicator has no available version, but exits in the database. > This typic

Re: windows password

2001-04-06 Thread William Cooper
Title: Re: windows password Hi, the problem is the Debian machine's shares security is setup as USER. The machine trying to browse the Linux machine must have a user with a password that is the same as a user and password on the Linux machine. Check the smb.conf man file. You could also load t

Routing problems

2001-04-06 Thread Derrick \(Thrawn01\)
I have a debian machine on a network, and has a modem.   Both of theses links could be up at anytime. when the ppp link is down i wan't to use a gatway on the network to access. but when the ppp is up I wan't it to access the ppp first before it trys the network.   I thought about seting up

Re: MTA security

2001-04-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:32:17PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > >From a security standpoint, how does exim compare to sendmail? What about > postfix? > > It appears that exim is Debian's default MTA, which is why I've run it > before and it's what I'm most familiar with. Now I've inherited a n

Installing communicator.

2001-04-06 Thread Simmons-Davis
Hello, My question now is: how do I get Communicator on my sytem in order to run "apt-get install communicator"? Currently when I try to run it it sends back the response: "Package communicator has no available version, but exits in the database. This typically means the package was mentioned in

Re: windows password

2001-04-06 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Elfert wrote: > hello all, > > Our windows 98 OS2 machine sees our Progeny/Debian machine nicely but insists > on a password to browse and refuses any offered. We have pored over the > smb.conf line by line for hours and cannot figure out what's wrong. > Any suggestions ple

MTA security

2001-04-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
>From a security standpoint, how does exim compare to sendmail? What about postfix? It appears that exim is Debian's default MTA, which is why I've run it before and it's what I'm most familiar with. Now I've inherited a network with several sendmail installations. I wouldn't consider arbitrari

Re: Debian for infants

2001-04-06 Thread Scott_Patterson
>I would like to write a little program or two for the entertainment of my 18 >month old daughter as she really likes banging around on the keyboard (or >sometimes playing with the trackball mouse. > >Can anybody tell me how to get keyboard input onto the root window to be >re-directed into the

XFree 4 and 2-button-mouse

2001-04-06 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I´m sure it´s in the documentation, but I can´t find it...I could only dig up "look it up in the documentation of the InputDevice-Module. Ok, this is mouse_drv.o, but I can´t find documentation for it, so I have to ask: What´s the magic to emulate Emulate3Buttons from XF/3 in XF/4? TIA,

Re: Fvwm2rc

2001-04-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
Please respond to list mail on-list. List reinstated. Reply-to set to list. on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 02:33:00PM +0200, Ales Jerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 08:05:37AM +0200, Ales Jerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > Hello! > > >

Re: Running the Netscape installer.

2001-04-06 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I am trying to get Netscape on my system. I have the installer > on my system configured correctly with the archive file from > the Netscape ftp site (it extracted correctly from the /tmp > location). Assuming you've download and extracted a tar.gz file from Netscape, you need to change to the d

RE: windows password

2001-04-06 Thread Joris Lambrecht
You're probably asked for an IPC$ password of some sort ? This means that you're machine was not added correctly to the domain. Check this first if that's the case. regards, joris -]-Original Message- -]From: Hall Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -]Sent: vrijdag 6 april 2001 19:41 -]T

Re: Running the Netscape installer.

2001-04-06 Thread D. Hoyem
Why not use apt-get install communicator ? That will install Netscape 4.76 all required files. --- Simmons-Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Debian Group, > > I am trying to get Netscape on my system. I have the > installer on my system > configured correctly with the archive file from the

Re: windows password

2001-04-06 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Our windows 98 OS2 machine sees our Progeny/Debian > machine nicely but insists on a password to browse and > refuses any offered. We have pored over the smb.conf > line by line for hours and cannot figure out what's wrong. Make sure "encrypted passwords" is enabled in your smb.conf file becaus

Re: svgatextmode: should i file a bug report?

2001-04-06 Thread Colin Watson
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ># apt-get install svgatextmode > >Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > svgatextmode: Depends: console-tools but it is not installable >E: Sorry, broken packages > > ># apt-get install console-tools >Package console-tools has no

Running the Netscape installer.

2001-04-06 Thread Simmons-Davis
Dear Debian Group, I am trying to get Netscape on my system. I have the installer on my system configured correctly with the archive file from the Netscape ftp site (it extracted correctly from the /tmp location). The Netscape icons came up as part of the menu and main start bar but whenever I cli

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