Mail & Sound probs

2001-04-14 Thread Nic Strong
First ofhaving to resort to hotmail to send this because I seem to have broke mail on my box! When ever I use a mail client (mutt, evolution) trying to send (configured to use sendmail) I get the message: Error sending message, child exited 71 (Operating system error.). Also incoming seems

Re: scp trouble(potato)

2001-04-14 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Nate Amsden wrote: > Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > > > > On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Nate Amsden wrote: > > > > > this only happens on 1 machine..(i run a couple dozen potato > > > servers/workstations), when trying to scp to or from it i get this: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

mail error (woody)

2001-04-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
Since yesterday's woody update, everytime I send mail, I get the error message: Error sending message, child exited 71 (Operating system error.). The message gets sent, but mutt doesn't know this, so the screen isn't cleared automatically. This happens both with mutt and balsa, so I doubt it i

Re: scp trouble(potato)

2001-04-14 Thread Nate Amsden
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Nate Amsden wrote: > > > this only happens on 1 machine..(i run a couple dozen potato > > servers/workstations), when trying to scp to or from it i get this: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/aphro/window.xwd . > > [EM

Re: scp trouble(potato)

2001-04-14 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Nate Amsden wrote: > this only happens on 1 machine..(i run a couple dozen potato > servers/workstations), when trying to scp to or from it i get this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/aphro/window.xwd . > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > Linux xxx.xxx.xx

Re: Update on 'unstable' left Gnome unusable

2001-04-14 Thread Jeff Davis
I have a thread I started up a little ways, so watch that series as well. It is called "startx not working, but X does". try the following: 1) get a command line with no graphical login. kill any X process or xdm or gdm 2) do: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ X& ( it will start an X server. Hit ctl-alt-F1 t

Re: email worries

2001-04-14 Thread John L. Fjellstad
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 07:25:22PM -0400, Eileen Orbell wrote: > I had a DNS error yesterday which is fixed to day. But I have run into a > email problem now. I am using sendmail and qpopper. I can send email fine > but cannot receive. If I send email from my 2000 box to my debian account

scp trouble(potato)

2001-04-14 Thread Nate Amsden
this only happens on 1 machine..(i run a couple dozen potato servers/workstations), when trying to scp to or from it i get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/aphro/window.xwd . [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Linux xxx.xxx.xxx 2.2.18 #1 Fri Jan 26 15:45:53 PST 2001 i686 unknown

Update on 'unstable' left Gnome unusable

2001-04-14 Thread Larry Elmore
I'm running Unstable with kernel 2.4.2 and performed an update using apt-get yesterday. At first X was dead, but I was able to get it running (it never asked me whether or not to overwrite /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, but certainly did so). Now, however, I can't get past the gdm login screen except by se

Re: Email permissions - was Email embarrasment

2001-04-14 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 10:24:35AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:55:52AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > The netscape message was missing from hs' mailq. Why? > > This is almost normal, I think: ... > So my guess from what you've said is that netscape is either being run

Re: Can extra keyboard keys execute shell commands?

2001-04-14 Thread Peter Durieux
Hi, I've seen a program for doin that stuff, hotkeys on freshmeat, but there is also an debian package in de testing / unstable. But does someone know a program for doing this stuff under console ? ;-) grtz Peter Durieux On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 2

Re: startx not working, but X does

2001-04-14 Thread Jeff Davis
I am still at a loss... I tried downgrading alomost every package with the letter "x" in it back to when it was working. However, you might find the following helpful: $ X& $ DISPLAY=:0 gnome-session ... worked for me to get gnome running. Replace 'gnome-session' with 'kde2' and it will start

Re: Can extra keyboard keys execute shell commands?

2001-04-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 04:40:47PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just curious anyway that I can assign a key on my keyboard (I > already know how to name and map the keys) to execute a command? > If you want tu know, I'm know using XFree86 4.0.2 and > Window Maker Yup. The easiest way

Re: startx not working, but X does

2001-04-14 Thread Jens Gecius
Corey Popelier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you just did an upgrade today, then you aren't the only person with the > problem. However, I suspect its' actually a KDE related problem that's > breaking X. I've now reverted to a X/WindowMaker setup until I see some > more KDE updates arrive, and

Re: Should arrogant, self-important people be encouraged to use L inux?

2001-04-14 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is misquoted - I actually wrote this. > > The thing that got people like Karsten riled is the fact that this > > guy expected everyone else to provide him with wonderful documentation, > > on top of

Can extra keyboard keys execute shell commands?

2001-04-14 Thread brandtd
Just curious anyway that I can assign a key on my keyboard (I already know how to name and map the keys) to execute a command? If you want tu know, I'm know using XFree86 4.0.2 and Window Maker Thanks, Brandt Dusthimer Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://ww

email worries

2001-04-14 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, I had a DNS error yesterday which is fixed to day. But I have run into a email problem now. I am using sendmail and qpopper. I can send email fine but cannot receive. If I send email from my 2000 box to my debian account the email does not get bounced back, but I am not receiving any.

Re: soffice and vmware file access trouble

2001-04-14 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 14 April 2001 16:40, Elfert wrote: > Both StarOffice and VMware are failing because they claim to be unable to > access certain files. In VMware's case it's a log file. With soffice it's > sofficerc. The programs suggest a problem with the path or permissions, but > the path is dead-on,

Re: nvidia

2001-04-14 Thread Andy Wettstein
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 04:39:44AM -0500, Matt Fair wrote: > Hello, > I just got a new computer from Dell. It came with Red Hat so the first > thing I did was uninstalled it and put Debian on it because it is so > much easier to manage. The problem I was having was to get XFree86 to > work with m

Re: PS/2 mouse under X.

2001-04-14 Thread paul marwick
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrzej Swedrzynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recently I've installed Debian 2.2 potato. I tried to make my mo­ > use working under X but I can not. This is Logitech M-S48a PS/2 > mouse. It works great under gpm, but doesn't want even to move in > X. I selected

Re: I now have X, still no mouse

2001-04-14 Thread staf wagemakers
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 02:30:17PM -0700, Lorens Kulla wrote: > I've tried to make the links, my mouse is on com1 (ttyS0). When I issue the > command "ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse" I get file alreaddy Exists. My mouse > is a Logitech Moouseman Model:M-CV46. I seem to be really out of my league. T

soffice and vmware file access trouble

2001-04-14 Thread Elfert
Both StarOffice and VMware are failing because they claim to be unable to access certain files. In VMware's case it's a log file. With soffice it's sofficerc. The programs suggest a problem with the path or permissions, but the path is dead-on, the permissions are all set, and the files are

Re: Hepl! I messed up! PostgreSQL 7.1 RC1 pacakges

2001-04-14 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Again Stan, Sorry your having so much trouble. I'm not certain how to cure the dselect wanting to uninstall 208 packages. Maybe dpkg --clear-avail command? May I suggest using a script I made to save your currently installed package state/list to a floppy. Then if you

Re: printer and masqmail (potato r2)

2001-04-14 Thread Adam James
> I can't make sense of the whole thing. I suspect your /etc/printcap is > somehow messed up. You could rename it (just to have it around for > reference), wipe out the spool dirs in question, purge and reinstall > apsfilter. Personally, I'd prefer and suggest magicfilter, but I've > never tri

Re: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX

2001-04-14 Thread Adam James
> Can't locate /linux/modversions.h file    You need the relevant headers for your linux kernel. If you are using a  debian stock kernel, then search under dselect for kernel-headers, and  get the one corresponding to your kernel.  This will be installed into /usr/src/'kernel version'.   If you hav

Re: WTF -- klogd has disappeared from woody?!?

2001-04-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 01:06:41PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > dear all, > > i just updated woody and klogd has disappeared into thin air. It's found in the klogd package. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan

Re: WTF -- klogd has disappeared from woody?!?

2001-04-14 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Saturday 14 April 2001 14:51, you wrote: > Hello, > > Not sure if I can help clear this up, as I run sid(unstable). But i get the > following info from dpkg -p sysklogd > > Provides: syslogd, system-log-daemo > Recommends: klogd | linux-kernel-log-daemon > > > So why not install klogd along

Re: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c

2001-04-14 Thread Shaul Karl
> after recompiling 2.2.17 (official potato) i cant boot normally, but > only with cdrom as rescue. > I tried to recompile changing modules in different combination but > nothing. > Anybody can help? > Bye, from Luigi > Do provide some more details. -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Probs compiling gnucash 1.4.11 from sources (gtk-xmhtml.h is missing)

2001-04-14 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hello folks, > > since the packaged version of gnucash is 1.3.4 (even in unstable) I > downloaded the sources to for 1.4.11 and tried to compile from sources. > However ./configure tells me, that it can't find the gtk-xmhtml.h header > file. I have libgtkxmhtml1 installed, and tried to install

Re: I now have X, still no mouse......All set thanks

2001-04-14 Thread Lorens Kulla
I appreciate all the help. I will no doubt be back with other problems. Lorens Kulla - Original Message - From: Rob VanFleet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 11:42 AM Subject: Re: I now have X, still no mouse > On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 02:30:17PM -0700,

Re: WTF -- klogd has disappeared from woody?!?

2001-04-14 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
I don't know what is going on here, but klogd isn't the only package that has disappeared from woody. Sawfish, sawfish-gnome and gnome-applets are also missing. Most likely other packages are missing as well. I would like to reiterate, WTF? -Jeff On Saturday 14 April 2001 01:06, Peter Jay Salzm

Have I broken apt/dpkg ?

2001-04-14 Thread Daniel M. Griswold
Hi all, I am getting the strangest behavior from apt-get install. It yields the following message: dpkg: /build/buildd/dpkg-1.8.3.1/main/packages.c:191: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed. One of those times I was also given instructions to try dpkg --configure -a but it yie

Re: Galeon for potato

2001-04-14 Thread csj
On Saturday 14 April 2001 12:20, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 08:43:57PM -0400, Francois Fayard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to try galeon on my Potato+Ximian. > > I have mozilla from potato, and I've tried to find a deb of > > galeon. They all depends on x

Re: startx - Fatal server error

2001-04-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:43:43PM -0500, George M. Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > I am sure this is an old one too. But I just installed Debian > (potato) r2. I issue startx at the commnand line and get > > fatal sever error > Can't open mouse (no such file or directory ) >

WTF -- klogd has disappeared from woody?!?

2001-04-14 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i just updated woody and klogd has disappeared into thin air. it's not even in "dpkg -L sysklogd" # dpkg -L "sysklogd" | grep klogd /usr/share/doc/sysklogd /usr/share/doc/sysklogd/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/sysklogd/copyright /usr/share/doc/sysk

Re: how to avoid the X windiws login?

2001-04-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 05:13:36PM +0200, Duser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Well everytime i make X windows work on my pc on a debian installation > the next login i'm forced to have a graphic login (on tty7)wich leads > me directly to a working windows system (even if at installation time > i tol

Re: I now have X, still no mouse

2001-04-14 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001, Rob VanFleet wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 02:30:17PM -0700, Lorens Kulla wrote: > > I've tried to make the links, my mouse is on com1 (ttyS0). When I issue the > > command "ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse" I get file alreaddy Exists. My > > mouse is a Logitech Moouseman Model:

NVIDIA GeForce2 MX

2001-04-14 Thread Abel Gascón
Hello! I'm trying to install NVIDIA driver as follows in the NVIDIA web linux drivers. Well, I deploys the kernel packet tgz and the GLX packet tgz in respective folders, but when I try to obtain the NVIDIA kernel driver I receive an error and the make install command is not achieved. The error is

Re: Should arrogant, self-important people be encouraged to use L inux?

2001-04-14 Thread Cameron Matheson
It's not *that* hard. I was able to do it and I'm relatively new. Just takes a little reading and a lot of effort (and this list) Cameron Matheson On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:39:21PM -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The thing that got people lik

Re: computer hangs when idle

2001-04-14 Thread Erik Steffl
Gil Elad wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm running Potato with kernel 2.2.17 compiled with apm support on an > Intel PIII with an Intel D815EEA motherboard with apm enabled at BIOS. When > the computer is busy -- for example downloading a file from the web > everything's fine, console blanks after a fe

Re: how to avoid the X windiws login?

2001-04-14 Thread Erik Steffl
Duser wrote: > > Well everytime i make X windows work on my pc on a debian installation > the next login i'm forced to have a graphic login (on tty7)wich leads > me directly to a working windows system (even if at installation time > i told the system not to set xdm to give me the grph login), as

Re: PSPS - SPSS

2001-04-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 11:29:37PM +0200, Lecter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Miguel Angel wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 10:51:10PM +0200, Lecter wrote: > > > Hola, Miguel > > Hola Lecter > > > > > Existen algunos programas para realizar cómputos estadísticos como > > > xldlas y

Re: I now have X, still no mouse

2001-04-14 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 02:30:17PM -0700, Lorens Kulla wrote: > I've tried to make the links, my mouse is on com1 (ttyS0). When I issue the > command "ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse" I get file alreaddy Exists. My > mouse is a Logitech Moouseman Model:M-CV46. I seem to be really out of > my league.

Re: Probs compiling gnucash 1.4.11 from sources (gtk-xmhtml.h is missing)

2001-04-14 Thread Carl Greco
Richard Cobbe said on April 14, 2001 at 11:14 (-0500) >Lo, on Saturday, April 14, Viktor Rosenfeld did write: > >> Hello folks, > > > >> Was anybody lucky in installing 1.4.11 from sources? Or is there an >> unofficial site out there, that hosts Debian packages for gnucash? > >Try ximian: http://

I now have X, still no mouse

2001-04-14 Thread Lorens Kulla
I've tried to make the links, my mouse is on com1 (ttyS0). When I issue thecommand "ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse" I get file alreaddy Exists. My mouse is a Logitech Moouseman Model:M-CV46. I seem to be really out of my league.   Lorens>> i have a logitech mouseman, ps2 + serial-convertor>> a

Re: My mouse wont work...No X /Finally X,no mouse

2001-04-14 Thread Lorens Kulla
I've tried to make the links, my mouse is on com1 (ttyS0). When I issue the command "ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse > > i have a logitech mouseman, ps2 + serial-convertor > > and i think you might have to make the link /dev/mouse yourself, > > if it's not there, then > for ps/2 (as root) ln -s /dev/

enable hdparm at boot

2001-04-14 Thread shaulka
After struggling with the shell for some time I have come up with the following modifications for /etc/hdparm.conf and /etc/init.d/hdparm.sh that were suggested by Tommi Komulainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. (Tommi Komulainen suggestions can be seen as bug report #87451.) The following: 1) Does not use

from FTP: cre8 a custom Debain boot CD

2001-04-14 Thread Blazko
Greetings Debians! You might find my problem too simple, but even after using Linux for some tiny three years, I could not get a custom Debian boot CD to run the way it was intended...perhaps cos my brain was emptied by using SuSE Linux the past :-) Okay, here the prob: I want to settle over to

Re: startx - Fatal server error

2001-04-14 Thread Terry Warner
I don't know if this will work, but in the config file you could try putting /dev/psaux instead of /dev/mouse Just a thought Terry On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:43:43PM -0500, George M. Butler babbled: > Hi all, > > I am sure this is an old one too. But I just installed Debian (potato) > r2. > I

startx - Fatal server error

2001-04-14 Thread George M. Butler
Hi all, I am sure this is an old one too. But I just installed Debian (potato) r2. I issue startx at the commnand line and get fatal sever error Can't open mouse (no such file or directory ) I have run xf86config 4 times now and each time I select 4, the PS/2 mouse, the 3 button emulation, and

Re: Creating user w/ one command

2001-04-14 Thread John Hasler
Cameron Matheson writes: > my friend wrote a perl script to do a lot of different things, and one of > them was adding going to be adding a user. He can't do it though, > because the adduser command needs to be able to take parameters such as > password, etc. adduser _is_ a Perl script. Why not

Re: Should arrogant, self-important people be encouraged to use L inux?

2001-04-14 Thread Brenda J. Butler
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The thing that got people like Karsten riled is the fact that this > guy expected everyone else to provide him with wonderful documentation, > on top of excellent software (something many are already trying to > do), but in the same breath told every

Re: Passive mode FTP?

2001-04-14 Thread staf wagemakers
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:02:51PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 06:36:33PM +0200, staf wagemakers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 06:24:00PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > > > Whats the magic environment variable to get ftp to use FTP mode? > > > >

Re: An intro to Debian website

2001-04-14 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 10:43:21AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:43:49PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: > > In particular, I > > think Debian is missing a broad introduction, something that would be > > read prior to the installation guide, and a "now what" guide to follow > >

Re: Mailman package

2001-04-14 Thread staf wagemakers
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 01:45:58PM -0400, Matthew Haas wrote: > Also, I am running a Potato system but am currently trying to use > Mailman-2.0final (from woody/unstable)... Mailman-1.1.6 or whatever would > absolutely refuse to work for me. I've installed any dependencies it > required. You cou

Re: when does woody go stable?

2001-04-14 Thread Colin Watson
MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >are there any estimates as to when woody will go stable and replace >potato as the current dist? No - it'll release when it's ready. See archives of debian-devel-announce for the release manager's projections, though. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: Funny Story

2001-04-14 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:23:28AM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: | Lo, on Friday, April 13, Stewart Jenkins did write: | > Specifically: | > | > http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp1/exp1shepmarfeb.html | | Could someone provide an IP address for this? I'm having trouble resolving | *.nasa

Creating user w/ one command

2001-04-14 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, my friend wrote a perl script to do a lot of different things, and one of them was adding going to be adding a user. He can't do it though, because the adduser command needs to be able to take parameters such as password, etc. Is their a way to do this? Thanks, Cameron Matheson __

Re: [debian-user] PS/2 mouse under X.

2001-04-14 Thread Rüdiger Kuhlmann
Hi! >--[Andrzej Swedrzynski]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > use working under X but I can not. This is Logitech M-S48a PS/2 I seem to have the same mouse - it's an OEM with a black logo, right? I read on http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/, which has been cited on this list severa

Re: gtcd/sound problems

2001-04-14 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 11 Apr 2001 15:23:57 -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > 3. To add permissions to normal devices you may want to use as your > normal login, use the following command which adds the user to each of > the following groups. > adduser dialout > - repeat for - > floppy > tty > cdrom > disk > audio >

computer hangs when idle

2001-04-14 Thread Gil Elad
Hello, I'm running Potato with kernel 2.2.17 compiled with apm support on an Intel PIII with an Intel D815EEA motherboard with apm enabled at BIOS. When the computer is busy -- for example downloading a file from the web everything's fine, console blanks after a few minutes, and I get control b

when does woody go stable?

2001-04-14 Thread MaD dUCK
hey, are there any estimates as to when woody will go stable and replace potato as the current dist? please cc me. thanks, martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- the only real advantage to punk music is t

Re: Brother HL 730

2001-04-14 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Felix Natter (on Mon, 09 Apr 2001 09:47:46PM +0200): > > trying to use apsfilter to get a Brother HL 730 working on linux. > did you try http://www.linuxprinting.org ? now i did. and it worked. linuxprinting.org is awesome! thanks, martin; (greetings from the heart of th

Re: Funny Story

2001-04-14 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, April 13, Stewart Jenkins did write: > On Wednesday 11 April 2001 18:44, Steve Witt wrote: > > > > As I said, I heard this third hand and have no idea if its true or not. > > It was probably started by a bunch of Linux college geeks, I don't know. > > Someone from NASA will probably

Re: Hepl! I messed up! PostgreSQL 7.1 RC1 pacakges

2001-04-14 Thread Andre Berger
* Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-14 17:29 +0200: > On Sat Apr 14 02:18:40 2001 Oliver Elphick wrote... > >You got the packages built for unstable; if you look more closely in that > >URL you will also find packages for potato. > So I dselect _all_ postgress related packages (hey I ca

Re: printer and masqmail (potato r2)

2001-04-14 Thread Andre Berger
* robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-14 17:29 +0200: > with mutt in .muttrc : > set print_commande="lpr" : nothing printed > set print_commande="lpr -Plp1" : %%[stcolor.ps...]%% > set print_commande="lpr" nothing printed > set print_commande="lpr" ok but without accent in french It work and wo

Re: how to avoid the X windiws login?

2001-04-14 Thread Andre Berger
* Duser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-14 17:29 +0200: > Well everytime i make X windows work on my pc on a debian installation > the next login i'm forced to have a graphic login (on tty7)wich leads > me directly to a working windows system (even if at installation time > i told the system not to se

Re: Probs compiling gnucash 1.4.11 from sources (gtk-xmhtml.h is missing)

2001-04-14 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, April 14, Viktor Rosenfeld did write: > Hello folks, > Was anybody lucky in installing 1.4.11 from sources? Or is there an > unofficial site out there, that hosts Debian packages for gnucash? Try ximian: http://www.ximian.com/ They've got a number of GNOME packages built as

Woody (Testing) Missing Gnome Packages

2001-04-14 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I was hoping someone could tell me why Woody (Testing) is missing sawfish, sawfish-gnome and gnome-applets packages? There don't seem to be any important bugs filed against them and these aren't very new packages, I can't figure out why there wouldn't at least some old versions of these pac

Re: setting up VNC server on Linux

2001-04-14 Thread Mister Chris
One option would be to run the Xvnc server, and then connect locally using the SVGAlib client. That would allow you to avoid running another X server in addition to Xvnc. I've never tried it myself, but it seems like it might work, if you don't mind using SVGAlib. -Chris On Saturday 14 April

Probs compiling gnucash 1.4.11 from sources (gtk-xmhtml.h is missing)

2001-04-14 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hello folks, since the packaged version of gnucash is 1.3.4 (even in unstable) I downloaded the sources to for 1.4.11 and tried to compile from sources. However ./configure tells me, that it can't find the gtk-xmhtml.h header file. I have libgtkxmhtml1 installed, and tried to install libgtkmhtml

Re: PS/2 mouse under X.

2001-04-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:26:11AM +0200, Andrzej Swedrzynski wrote: > mouse. It works great under gpm, but doesn't want even to move in > X. I selected PS/2 as a mouse protocol and /dev/psaux for device > (it works for gpm). What can I do now? Try reading the repeated data from /dev/gpmdata. Yo

Re: how to avoid the X windiws login?

2001-04-14 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001, Duser wrote: > Well everytime i make X windows work on my pc on a debian installation > the next login i'm forced to have a graphic login (on tty7)wich leads > me directly to a working windows system (even if at installation time > i told the system not to set xdm to give me t

Re: Email permissions - was Email embarrasment

2001-04-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:55:52AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > Then I sent three test messages: one using xfmail (which is working > again), one using netscape and one using the mail-command from the > console. > > As user hs I did a mailq with the following result: ... > As root I did a mailq: .

Re: slow shutdown

2001-04-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 03:35:38PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > I've been playing around with NIS and NFS and now my system hangs for > about four minutes on shutdown. It goes along OK until it gets to: > > Deconfiguring network interfaces: > > then stalls and after four minutes shut

Re: CD-RW recommendations

2001-04-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 10:48:27PM -0400, Shawn D'Alimonte wrote: > On Friday 13 April 2001 22:23, D-Man wrote: > > I think my desktop qualifies as "cheap" ($, I only paid ~$400) > > because I bought some parts and kept some others. It is a Duron 750 > > with 128MB RAM. If I get that drive I will

Re: An intro to Debian website

2001-04-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:43:49PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: > In particular, I > think Debian is missing a broad introduction, something that would be > read prior to the installation guide, and a "now what" guide to follow > the installation. > > Some of the things to include in the intro would

Re: setting up VNC server on Linux

2001-04-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 01:16:32AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I've never been able to figure out how to get the vncserver to act like > a regular X server, serving both the local display and the remote > display. Instead, I've only been able to get the regular X server to > serve the local displa

how to avoid the X windiws login?

2001-04-14 Thread Duser
Well everytime i make X windows work on my pc on a debian installation the next login i'm forced to have a graphic login (on tty7)wich leads me directly to a working windows system (even if at installation time i told the system not to set xdm to give me the grph login), as you can imagine i'm cert

unstable xdm problem

2001-04-14 Thread Cian Cullinan
OK, here's the story: I have 3 boxes connected to a network, which for the most part is made up of FreeBSD machines. I recently installed debian potato on them, and that went more or less smoothly. However, I want them to have the Chooser come up, after they boot, so that a +user can have

Re: can't get volume

2001-04-14 Thread Ilya Martynov
>> I'm not an expert, GM> Me neither! >> but what does dev/cdrom have to do with sound if xmms plays? GM> Fair enough! Sorry for wasting everyone's time (not mine, I learned GM> something) ;-( AFAIK if you play misic from music CD permissions on /dev/cdrom does matters. Actually permission

Re: corel photopaint

2001-04-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:18:02PM +0200, Hans wrote: > > > >Found the problem. As soon as I set up her printcap file with a valid > >entry, it works fine. Baad Corel... > > > Are you saying that you first need to set up a printing system and then > choose a printer in the Photopaint config

Re: can't get volume

2001-04-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 01:58:00PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: > > I'm not an expert, but what does dev/cdrom have to do with sound if xmms > plays? > Make sure you set both master volume and PCM volume higher than zero, and > then check what ouput is slected in xmms. Should be OSS, but there may

Re: can't get volume

2001-04-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 09:00:49AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > > What are the permissions on /dev/cdrom ? > > Does chmod a+r /dev/cdrom help? I won't issue that command, since it goes against "the Debian way". Like I said, I added her to the audio group. She has rw access to /

Re: Best way to run a 2.4 kernel with "stable"?

2001-04-14 Thread Stan Brown
On Sat Apr 14 00:26:46 2001 Mark wrote... > >Is it safe to run a 2.4 kernel with stable? > I'm happliy runing 2.4.3. I did it by geting kernel-package, and fakeroot. The downloading the source from kernel.org. Works great! Lokk in /usr/share/kernel-package for so

Re: printer and masqmail (potato r2)

2001-04-14 Thread robin
Andre Berger wrote: > > * robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-13 02:06 +0200: > > Andre Berger wrote: > > > > > > * robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-11 19:02 +0200: > > > > > > Pb1: Printer. (I use lpr and apsfilter) > > . > > > > If I want to print a mail with mutt or a file with xemacs

Re: Hepl! I messed up! PostgreSQL 7.1 RC1 pacakges

2001-04-14 Thread Stan Brown
On Sat Apr 14 02:18:40 2001 Oliver Elphick wrote... > >"Stan Brown" wrote: > >I just really messed up! > > > >I have a "stable" machine, and i had installed all the PostgreSQL related pa > >ckages > >from the stable archive, and all was well. > > > >Then I downloaded all the PostgreSQL 7

Re: can't get volume

2001-04-14 Thread Glyn Millington
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Saturday 14 April 2001 10:00, Glyn Millington wrote: >> On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > Looks good. I add her to the audio group, fire up xmms, install >> > kmix and crank everything up. Nothing. kmix shows her card, no >

Re: Installing Windows2K and Red Hat

2001-04-14 Thread Willi Dyck
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 11:17:58AM -0400, Dan Hutchinson wrote: > Hello Debian User's, > I know I am using Red Hat and Not Debian, but does somebody know how > I can get Windows2000 on the same PC as Red Hat. I currently have Red > Hat installed, but when I boot from the Windows2000 CD it bypas

Re: Best way to run a 2.4 kernel with "stable"?

2001-04-14 Thread ktb
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 02:26:46PM +1000, Mark wrote: > Is it safe to run a 2.4 kernel with stable? > > If this is OK then, what is the best way to do it? > > Should I use Adrian Bunk's stuff to do it? > http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html > > Is this safe or will this cause potential prob

kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c

2001-04-14 Thread Luigi Bianca
after recompiling 2.2.17 (official potato) i cant boot normally, but only with cdrom as rescue. I tried to recompile changing modules in different combination but nothing. Anybody can help? Bye, from Luigi

Re: My mouse wont work...No X

2001-04-14 Thread Robert Voigt
Connect the mouse to the PS/2 port and put /dev/psaux in your XF86Config. It works fine here.

Re: can't get volume

2001-04-14 Thread Robert Voigt
On Saturday 14 April 2001 10:00, Glyn Millington wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Looks good. I add her to the audio group, fire up xmms, install > > kmix and crank everything up. Nothing. kmix shows her card, no > > problems. xmms is playing, the power's on, t

Re: Sane and Gimp - way round?

2001-04-14 Thread Robert Voigt
> The good news is that I've acquired a scanner - the bad news is that when > I try to install the stable version of Sane 1.0.1-1999-10-21-12, I get > the message telling me that Sane conflicts with Gimp 1.1 and that Gimp > 1,2 provides Gimp 1.1. > > Is there a way around this? I tried compiling

Re: CD-RW recommendations

2001-04-14 Thread Robert Voigt
> $200 > Iomega 4x4x6 USB CD-RW , part number in ad: 31475 Take the iomega, it doesn't have those stupid rebates attached to it. When I came to the US I was amazed how people jump like a dog when the marketing manager says "hops, here's a rebate". Fortunately this kind of sales practice is n

Sane and Gimp - way round?

2001-04-14 Thread Glyn Millington
I'm running a Potato system, but with those upgrades necessary in gtk to run the Gimp 1.2 - which is gorgeous. The good news is that I've acquired a scanner - the bad news is that when I try to install the stable version of Sane 1.0.1-1999-10-21-12, I get the message telling me that Sane conflict

Re: PS/2 mouse under X.

2001-04-14 Thread Dieter Schicker
Maybe you should stop gpm before starting X. Dieter --- Andrzej Swedrzynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > Recently I've installed Debian 2.2 potato. I tried > to make my mo­ > use working under X but I can not. This is Logitech > M-S48a PS/2 > mouse. It works great under gpm, but do

Re: Email permissions - was Email embarrasment

2001-04-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:55:52AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I removed her from the group mail > by editing the /etc/group file (is there another way of doing this?). gpasswd -d user group -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgphdVaJk0Mla.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: startx not working, but X does

2001-04-14 Thread Corey Popelier
If you just did an upgrade today, then you aren't the only person with the problem. However, I suspect its' actually a KDE related problem that's breaking X. I've now reverted to a X/WindowMaker setup until I see some more KDE updates arrive, and X is running fine. As for the cause of the problem,

Re: i810 woes... please help!

2001-04-14 Thread Phil Moore
Hi Alvin, I am aware of the XF86Com_i810 driver but I have read in several places that this is only needed with XFree86 3.3.5. Apparently though, XFree86 3.3.6 has i810 support built in (certainly the -showconfig option lists the i810). Cheers for the help though! Any other ideas? Phil --Ori

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