Re: AVI player?

2001-04-23 Thread Zac Epkes
I suggest avifile, it comes with a simple player called aviplay , its very nice for divx especially, i would suggest xine, but even on my P3 650Mhz and 256MB Ram, the sound never seems to be synchronous with the video... With debian u will have to tell it where the qt libs AND source files are..

Re: terminal types

2001-04-23 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 04:22:06PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > > that did it. thanks! > > On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, ktb wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 04:00:03PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > > > what are my available choices as to terminal types? when i telnet into a > > > redh

Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

2001-04-23 Thread Renai LeMay
Well it really depends what you use it for. Personally, the best price/performance graphics card for Linux is the Geforce 2 mx from Nvidia - about $160 Australian. You will, however, to get good performance, have to download and install the drivers yourself, and run unstable or woody, as they b

Proper use of cvs

2001-04-23 Thread csj
I managed to download some source trees using cvs (five different programs in fact). None of them would compile successfully. Note that these are sources of programs whose latest ftp/http sources all compiled smoothly (give and take a one-line tweak). Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Or is cvs su

Re: HOWTO remove a previous wildcard file list?

2001-04-23 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:40:01PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Mark Hurley wrote: > >I *sometimes* list the files before deleting them: > > > > ls A*.pdf > > > >Ensuring I have only listed the ones I wish to delete, I then enter: > > > > rm A*.pdf > > > >Great, but anyone

Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

2001-04-23 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:56:17PM -0500, Michael Danicich wrote: > Modem: Go with external. You can rest assured they are not WinModems and > will work under Linux. My USRobotics 56k external > modem worked great up until I got DSL. :) > > Sound Card: I've only used a Creative AWE64 Gold ca

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2001-04-23 Thread Kao, Roger

Re: HOWTO? Fix a term that has "space junk"

2001-04-23 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:47:22PM -0400, Mark Hurley wrote: > I'd like to think I resort to man's, HOWTO's etc. before posting. > BUT.this one has been bugging me for a while now. > > When I run... > > cat *somebinaryfile* > > My term displays irregular ansi characters. (I've called

Re: Using dhcp on a home cable connection

2001-04-23 Thread Mircea Luca
Brendan O'Connor wrote: > > I have my ethernet card detected and working (using tulip.o, and etherconf > from Progeny), connected to a cable modem, but the internet isn't working at > all. > > # The ethernet interface, configured by etherconf > iface eth0 inet dhcp > hostname progeny

Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

2001-04-23 Thread Michael Danicich
Modem: Go with external. You can rest assured they are not WinModems and will work under Linux. My USRobotics 56k external modem worked great up until I got DSL. :) Sound Card: I've only used a Creative AWE64 Gold card. It has worked almost flawlessly using the Sound Blaster driver. Video

Skeletal packaging?

2001-04-23 Thread Peter
Hi folks, This is something that's bugged me for a while and I'm sure there must be a way to do it... Basically, there are lots of cases where I remove packages that other packages depend on when I replace them with an alternative I have compiled myself. One example of this is qmail. I removed

Re: How to remove messages from mbox based on relative date?

2001-04-23 Thread Ken Irving
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:53:07PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:33:30PM -0500, John Patton wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:05:07PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a .procmailrc and am filtering, but now I don't want to have to > > > delete my me

Re: pdp11 support

2001-04-23 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:32:21PM +0200, Ellenkamp, Guus wrote: > Can anyone tell me whether there is a version of Linux for the pdp11? wouldn't that be wonderful? as i recall...hmm, this takes some effort... our pdp-11 was running RSTS/E in 128k of ram, back at the university of evansville in 1

Re: PPPoe question

2001-04-23 Thread ha shao
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 02:56:00PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > > I have been using the roaringpenguin pppoe package successfully. This > morning I noticed that in the potato dist there is a pppoe pkg. This > question I have is that if I run a pppoe -v the binary in the package

Re: making bootable CD from running debian setup

2001-04-23 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 01:33:16PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:13:03PM -0500, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > i'm thinking of making this a VPN or NAT box only, no user > > interaction whatever. surely we don't need lots-o-fancy packages > > & such jus

Re: removing inetd

2001-04-23 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 05:34:53PM -0500, Peter Sch?ller wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > at boot, i was starting innd, of which i believe i've > > gotten rid. but i still see inetd as a pid when i > > run top. > > > > how do i remove inetd or stop it from starting.

Re: Shell prompts (was Re: floppy permissions)

2001-04-23 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 08:14:27PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:07:38PM -0500, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > here's my iteration on top of your stuff, and > > please > > feel free to gimme pointers on how to make this (particularly colors) more > >

The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

2001-04-23 Thread John and Kristy Woodill
Well i have given up on trying to configured Windows / Linux together.  I can't get the hardware right and don't feel like fucking with it anymore.  I wanna build a computer just for linux-debian.  I know what kinda motherboard and KMD processor i wanna get but could someone please list what

Re: send and recieve mail on local network

2001-04-23 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:31:18PM -0500, ktb wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:22:23PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:12:16PM -0500, ktb wrote: > > > > > > I was too quick here is more that can be added to above - > > > > > > 2001-04-23 21:04:11 14rsBN-0002kN-00 => [EM

Re: How to remove messages from mbox based on relative date?

2001-04-23 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:33:30PM -0500, John Patton wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:05:07PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a .procmailrc and am filtering, but now I don't want to have to > > delete my messages when they get old in certain mbox files. > > > > Can I run procm

Re: send and recieve mail on local network

2001-04-23 Thread ktb
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:22:23PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:12:16PM -0500, ktb wrote: > > > > I was too quick here is more that can be added to above - > > > > 2001-04-23 21:04:11 14rsBN-0002kN-00 => [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=smarthost > > T=remote_smtp H=femail.sdc1.sfba.h

Re: How to remove messages from mbox based on relative date?

2001-04-23 Thread John Patton
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:05:07PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Hi, > > I have a .procmailrc and am filtering, but now I don't want to have to > delete my messages when they get old in certain mbox files. > > Can I run procmail with another conf file and have it send messages with a > "delivered" d

Re: send and recieve mail on local network

2001-04-23 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:12:16PM -0500, ktb wrote: > > I was too quick here is more that can be added to above - > > 2001-04-23 21:04:11 14rsBN-0002kN-00 => [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=smarthost > T=remote_smtp H=femail.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.106] > 2001-04-23 21:04:11 14rsBN-0002kN-00 Completed >

Re: send and recieve mail on local network

2001-04-23 Thread ktb
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:08:02PM -0500, ktb wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:51:04PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:41:56PM -0500, ktb wrote: > > > I have put together a deb mail server (10.10.10.9) running postfix > > > that receives mail from the outside and sends f

Re: hda timeout waiting for DMA?

2001-04-23 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:57:54PM -0500, ktb wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:19:17PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > > > > I've got a server that's been running for quite some time now with no > > problems. Actually, it's running right now. However, just today, I've > > noticed some log

Re: send and recieve mail on local network

2001-04-23 Thread ktb
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:51:04PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:41:56PM -0500, ktb wrote: > > I have put together a deb mail server (10.10.10.9) running postfix > > that receives mail from the outside and sends fine. I have a deb > > workstation (192.168.10.7) running ex

Re: hda timeout waiting for DMA?

2001-04-23 Thread ktb
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:19:17PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > > I've got a server that's been running for quite some time now with no > problems. Actually, it's running right now. However, just today, I've > noticed some log entries I've never seen before: > > > Apr 23 15:22:27 cx6330

Re: Sendmail

2001-04-23 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya peter i'd add the following...( my guess/fix/test ) debian:/etc/mail/relay-domains pageone.net.au change /etc/mail/sendmail.cf too... change Dj to be your primary mail server restart sendmail and everything should be hunky dory... and if you are NOT running secure pop3,

Re: running more then one XClient at one time

2001-04-23 Thread ktb
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:42:42PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi, > Is it possible to run more then one X at the same time? Perhaps one as root > and one as a normal user, so that the second one can be reached e.g. over F8? > > If yes (i assume that) > 1. How is that on a system wich turns

Re: send and recieve mail on local network

2001-04-23 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:41:56PM -0500, ktb wrote: > I have put together a deb mail server (10.10.10.9) running postfix > that receives mail from the outside and sends fine. I have a deb > workstation (192.168.10.7) running exim which I would like the mail > forwarded to. > > My problem is I

send and recieve mail on local network

2001-04-23 Thread ktb
I have put together a deb mail server (10.10.10.9) running postfix that receives mail from the outside and sends fine. I have a deb workstation (192.168.10.7) running exim which I would like the mail forwarded to. My problem is I can't send mail from the server to the workstation. In my /etc/

Re: requiero driver

2001-04-23 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:22:28PM -0500, correoeliane wrote: > hola So you want a driver, saying 'Hi' won't do much good. Maybe you should try a search or try giving more information... English will help emensly with me. Mike

Re: fixing brocken Syslog

2001-04-23 Thread Colin Watson
Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I recently made an upgrade. After that my syslog was dead. I mean everything >is now logged directly to the console. klogd seems not to satart anymore >(??!!) >what should i do? syslogd and klogd were split recently - apt-get install klogd? -- Coli

requiero driver

2001-04-23 Thread correoeliane
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2001-04-23 Thread correoeliane
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Using dhcp on a home cable connection

2001-04-23 Thread Brendan O'Connor
I have my ethernet card detected and working (using tulip.o, and etherconf from Progeny), connected to a cable modem, but the internet isn't working at all. When I run pump, I get a long pause, and "Operation failed." with no further explanation. So I removed pump and installed dhcp-client.

Sendmail

2001-04-23 Thread Peter Donaldson
I have recently had my first crak at Linux. It seems to b working fine except for sendmail. I can receive mail fine but when it come to sending mail i getan error msg from outlook. when i go send/receive it is telling me Server Responce: 550 ...Relaying denied. I'm not sure where i went wrong i ha

Re: More/less'ing stderr

2001-04-23 Thread csj
On Tuesday 24 April 2001 08:31, Manuel Reiter wrote: > Hi csj, > > > How can I more/less stderr? A couple of programs I use (e.g. > > cdrecord) use stderr for --help. So my usual method of scrolling > > thru the built-in help ("programfoo --help | more") doesn't work. > > Try "programfoo 2>&1" -- t

Re: OT: Converting from pine to mutt

2001-04-23 Thread Peter Schüller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I know I'm missing something pretty simple. I've read through several > docs and sample .muttrc files, but it's not the answer isn't making itself > clear to me. If anyone could point me to a "newbie" howto doc online, I'd > appreciate it. Well do

How to remove messages from mbox based on relative date?

2001-04-23 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I have a .procmailrc and am filtering, but now I don't want to have to delete my messages when they get old in certain mbox files. Can I run procmail with another conf file and have it send messages with a "delivered" date older than N days? Is procmail even the right tool, I'm not so sure..

Re: HOWTO remove a previous wildcard file list?

2001-04-23 Thread John Galt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Mark Hurley wrote: > >Anyone know of a method to easily solve this ... > >I *sometimes* list the files before deleting them: > > ls A*.pdf > >Ensuring I have only listed the ones I wish to delete, I then enter: > > rm

Re: OT: Converting from pine to mutt

2001-04-23 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > I've beening using pine for quite a while now have several folders in > ~/Mail. My main inbox is ~/Mail/mbox, but my spam filters and other > procmail recipes have created several other mail folders. Because the > filters work so well (no credit t

Re: More/less'ing stderr

2001-04-23 Thread Manuel Reiter
Hi csj, > How can I more/less stderr? A couple of programs I use (e.g. > cdrecord) use stderr for --help. So my usual method of scrolling thru > the built-in help ("programfoo --help | more") doesn't work. Try "programfoo 2>&1" -- this redirects stderr to stdout, which you can then pipe to less

注册 认证 送IP卡!

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hda timeout waiting for DMA?

2001-04-23 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
I've got a server that's been running for quite some time now with no problems. Actually, it's running right now. However, just today, I've noticed some log entries I've never seen before: Apr 23 15:22:27 cx633007-b kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA Apr 23 15:22:27 cx633007-b kernel: ide_dm

More/less'ing stderr

2001-04-23 Thread csj
How can I more/less stderr? A couple of programs I use (e.g. cdrecord) use stderr for --help. So my usual method of scrolling thru the built-in help ("programfoo --help | more") doesn't work.

OT: Converting from pine to mutt

2001-04-23 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
I've beening using pine for quite a while now have several folders in ~/Mail. My main inbox is ~/Mail/mbox, but my spam filters and other procmail recipes have created several other mail folders. Because the filters work so well (no credit to me, I assure you), mbox rarely contains anything. I've

Re: startx asking for a password

2001-04-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:43:13PM -0300, Mike G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi, > I'm running potato, and when I try to startx I get something like > password: > password: <...> > Any one got any idea of this? > PS: I interrupt it happily with ^C Look for a 'su' or 'sudo' call in your ini

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

2001-04-23 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, The Nose Who Knows wrote: > Eric Richardson wrote: > > Is this a problem that needs to be looked at for the distribution? It > > sure makes the out of box experience with Debian a little rough. > > I've recently started using two laptops (one belongs to work, one is > mine) wi

how to authenticate cucipop to an NT box

2001-04-23 Thread Lindsay Allen
Hello world, Has anyone done this? I need a clue as I have tried all sorts of pam things w/o success. I'm running samba 2.0.7 and I want to shift the mail off the NT box to my Debian box but let users keep their passwords. Lindsay -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: Upgrading

2001-04-23 Thread Eric Richardson
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > on Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 04:45:12PM -0400, Eileen Orbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have been using Debian 2.2 for about a year now. Could some kind sole > > tell me what is the best way to upgrade Debian? I see Debian 2.2r3 was > > released today

Re: ipmasq

2001-04-23 Thread Steve Witt
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Robert Voigt wrote: > I compiled a 2.2.19 kernel because I want to use ipchains and do IP > masquerading. > The ipmasq package description on the debian website says one should enalbe > CONFIG_FIREWALL, CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL, CONFIG_IP_FORWARD, and > CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE. > > I

Re: removing inetd--thx.

2001-04-23 Thread p
messrs schuller and perry, thx very much. all is well! bentley taylor. //

Re: Upgrading

2001-04-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 04:45:12PM -0400, Eileen Orbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using Debian 2.2 for about a year now. Could some kind sole > tell me what is the best way to upgrade Debian? I see Debian 2.2r3 was > released today. > > Also should i update my kernel to

Re: ipchains packets logs get displayed on active tty

2001-04-23 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > All that has been done when I shut down to install a tape drive. (And a > > new kernel, of course.) Some time back I had three daemons writing to the > > screen, but now it is just ipchains. I would

Re: networking 2 pcs

2001-04-23 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 05:24:09PM -0500, john connolly wrote: > > I have two pcs connected by a crossover cable. Both have their nics > > appropriately configured, (to 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2, resp). I > > cannot > > get them to ping each other

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-04-23 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Unless you have some dire need to use ttyS0 and ttyS2 I would highly recommend not trying to. Due to the fact that chances are both serial devices are going to need the IRQ quite often it is better to use different ports. For instance use ttyS0 and ttyS1 and disable ttyS2 and ttyS3. The oth

Unidentified subject!

2001-04-23 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
forgive me if this message shouldnt have been sent into this list. If so, please reply to me a suitable list for matters to come. My problem is with serial ports irq sharing. I have both /dev/ttyS0 and ttyS2 sharing irq 4, and ttyS1 and ttyS3 sharing irq 3. On ttyS0 I have the mouse connected. The

Re: networking 2 pcs

2001-04-23 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 05:24:09PM -0500, john connolly wrote: > I have two pcs connected by a crossover cable. Both have their nics > appropriately configured, (to 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2, resp). I > cannot > get them to ping each other. I think the problem is that the telnetd > service > is

SOLVED: Soundcard volume too low using AC'97 onboard chip

2001-04-23 Thread Kent West
I'm copying the Debian-User list so this solution will go into the archives. Problem: I have a Gateway E-3400 with an onboard AC'97 sound chip. Using the ALSA drivers I was able to get the card working, but with very low volume. Hanasaki, below, had the same problem on his ASUS K7M board. If a

networking 2 pcs

2001-04-23 Thread john connolly
I have two pcs connected by a crossover cable. Both have their nics appropriately configured, (to 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2, resp). I cannot get them to ping each other. I think the problem is that the telnetd service is shut off in both of them. The slackware box is connected to the internet so

Re: XFree86 logging

2001-04-23 Thread Chris Majewski
Well, if you don't find a nicer solution, you could write a bit of C code to read the /var/log/X*.log file and copy it to one of the syslog facilities. See also the syslog manpage. -chris Willi Dyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi *, > > how to enable XFree86 4.0.2/syslogd to log msgs from

Re: Compiling ghostscript 5.50 on woody : HELP !!!

2001-04-23 Thread Dominique Deleris
Thanks a lot ! I finally succeeded compiling ghostscript painless, thanks to you ;-) Now I have another (hopefully final) problem : when setting my printer with printtool, and trying to print ASCII test to it, nothing happens. I know that configuring my /etc/printcap with magicfilterconfig is OK

Re: removing inetd

2001-04-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > inetd should be running. If you wish to disable innd and if it's started by > inetd, edit /etc/inetd.conf and comment out the appropriate line. > or better yet, dpkg --purge inn (or inn2).

Re: removing inetd

2001-04-23 Thread Peter Schüller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > at boot, i was starting innd, of which i believe i've > gotten rid. but i still see inetd as a pid when i > run top. > > how do i remove inetd or stop it from starting. > (currently i stop it by killing the pid.) inetd should be running. If you wis

removing inetd

2001-04-23 Thread p
debs, i got a call from my isp complaining that i was generating news error messages (i think because i don't know how to set up the domainname in knews). at boot, i was starting innd, of which i believe i've gotten rid. but i still see inetd as a pid when i run top. how do i remove inetd or

fixing brocken Syslog

2001-04-23 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi all, I recently made an upgrade. After that my syslog was dead. I mean everything is now logged directly to the console. klogd seems not to satart anymore (??!!) what should i do? cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For encrypted Mail get my Public Key from "search.keys

voodoo3 Xvideo [was: Re: AVI player?]

2001-04-23 Thread James Leigh
The tdfx driver is busted in 4.0.2 and 4.0.3 for yuv overlay. Alex [from xpert@XFree86.Org list] has put a binary version of the latest cvs version on the link below. Just replace the tdfx_drv.o with the one from 4.0.2. I use debian sid and it work on my system for aviplay. james http://www.no

Re: startx asking for a password

2001-04-23 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
On Tuesday 24 April 2001 01:43, Mike G wrote: > hi, > I'm running potato, and when I try to startx I get something like > password: > password: > password: > Any one got any idea of this? > PS: I interrupt it happily with ^C looks like it asks for root (or another user) through "su". I am not

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-23 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
On Monday 23 April 2001 18:41, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:12:10AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > Hi there, I am looking for suggestions of a GUI email program > > > (sorry i just like them better) Anyway...I was wondering if > > > anyone had any suggestions? > > Tr

running more then one XClient at one time

2001-04-23 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi, Is it possible to run more then one X at the same time? Perhaps one as root and one as a normal user, so that the second one can be reached e.g. over F8? If yes (i assume that) 1. How is that on a system wich turns X through the init levels on or 2. on a system wich starts X with the startx c

Re: why does ps->eps conversion reduce line thickness?

2001-04-23 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:08:30PM +1000, Mark Mackenzie wrote: > I do ps->eps conversions using: > > echo -n '\004' | gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=epswrite \ > -sOutputFile=box.eps box.ps >/dev/null > > using box.ps below. When box.ps is printed, it comes out as a 1mm thick > 1" box (quite dark). Wh

XFree86 logging

2001-04-23 Thread Willi Dyck
Hi *, how to enable XFree86 4.0.2/syslogd to log msgs from XFree86? TIA MfG/Regards, Willi -- ...is a registered (#210445) user of:Debian 2.2r3 GNU/Linux icq# 49564994###AIM: wdyck###GnuPG-Key: 1024D/8BFCA69B Fingerprint: DAD2 E564 B725 E6A3 5A0F 1497 4411 F30F 8BFC A69B pgpJhev2

Re: DIVX player for debian 2.2

2001-04-23 Thread Matthias Gasser
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 02:59:39PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello!! > >Can anybody tell me where to find a player for the DIVX called (on > windows) > MPEG format, (it is MPEG-4??) > >I would prefer a debian package for potato, but anyway I don't mind to > compile by myself. >

X forwarding over SSH

2001-04-23 Thread aphro
hi. i thought it was a generic problem but it seems more application specific. I've been playing with it for the past few hours. I'm trying to load netscape through a SSH tunnel off a solaris 7 machine. through my trials ive reconfigured and recompiled ssh on the solaris machine about 6-7 times n

ipmasq

2001-04-23 Thread Robert Voigt
I compiled a 2.2.19 kernel because I want to use ipchains and do IP masquerading. The ipmasq package description on the debian website says one should enalbe CONFIG_FIREWALL, CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL, CONFIG_IP_FORWARD, and CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE. I couldn't find CONFIG_IP_FORWARD in the kernel compile

help with php4 and horde

2001-04-23 Thread John Baillie
We have horde/IMP setup with php3, UWIMAP, LDAP and mysql and all works well.   There is some school management software we would like to test (schoolmation).   Schoolmation requires php4 The Debian default is to install horde with php3. If we do decide to use schoolmation it will sit on the

PPPoe question

2001-04-23 Thread ahall
Hello, I have been using the roaringpenguin pppoe package successfully. This morning I noticed that in the potato dist there is a pppoe pkg. This question I have is that if I run a pppoe -v the binary in the package reports a version of 1.0. rp pppoe is at version 3.0. Why the discrepancy in

Linux Classes

2001-04-23 Thread Anthony @ PencilFight Design
Hello all, A while back I was looking for some classes offered on Linux and some people requested that if I find any to let them know. So here is what I found, http://lintraining.com/ The classes are pretty expensive but if it is for your J.O.B. it may be worth it. Any way that's my 2 cents. Thank

Problems with pache later a potato->unstable upgrade.

2001-04-23 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hi, Since I upgrade my debian box to unstable, I'd had been problems with my apache installation. Now I can't see my index page on my localhost server. Its say that can't found a document on / on localhost. But I modify my httpd.conf to specify that my document root is on it must be. I use apt

Re: AVI player?

2001-04-23 Thread Peter Schüller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Well, there's no Debian package for it (AFAIK), but mplayer works better > than avifile for me. It supports a number of outputs (SDL, Xv, > framebuffer, x11, etc..) and also can use the win32 codecs for playing > divx. A question before I start ins

Re: AVI player?

2001-04-23 Thread James Willcox
Well, there's no Debian package for it (AFAIK), but mplayer works better than avifile for me. It supports a number of outputs (SDL, Xv, framebuffer, x11, etc..) and also can use the win32 codecs for playing divx. JW On 23 Apr 2001 16:16:41 +0200, Andrzej Swedrzynski wrote: > Hello! > > Is there

Re: AVI player?

2001-04-23 Thread James Willcox
Well, there's no Debian package for it (AFAIK), but mplayer works better than avifile for me. It supports a number of outputs (SDL, Xv, framebuffer, x11, etc..) and also can use the win32 codecs for playing divx. JW On 23 Apr 2001 16:16:41 +0200, Andrzej Swedrzynski wrote: > Hello! > > Is there

Re: where to find ttmkfdir?

2001-04-23 Thread Dominique Deleris
Yes indeed, but with XFree 4 :-) I use XFree 4.0.2 from woody (testing)

Re: app for making cards?

2001-04-23 Thread csj
On Tuesday 24 April 2001 00:14, Ron Farrer wrote: > Ken Irving ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I couldn't find anything either, and wrote a Perl script to > > do the job, learning a little postscript along the way. The > > script takes eps images and puts them in the postscript output, > > scaling t

Re: AVI player?

2001-04-23 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hi Janet, I didn't use any unstable or testing when I installed avifile locally. I *do* use only stable sources here. I pulled down his tarball and built it locally, and used the windll's(?) he had provided. All the required files needed to build it were gained via dselect/apt. It did h

Re: Tutorial for kernel compiling the Debian way, RFC

2001-04-23 Thread Robert Voigt
On Monday 23 April 2001 12:28, Sebastiaan wrote: > > Perhaps you have mentioned it somewhere, but it may be worthy noting that > you can compile kernels on a fast machine for a slower machine (with the > correct config files), copy the .deb file and install the package on the > slower machine. Th

Re: Tutorial for kernel compiling the Debian way, RFC

2001-04-23 Thread Robert Voigt
On Sunday 22 April 2001 11:26, Jesse Goerz wrote: > I wrote a basic document intended to help Debian newbies compile custom > kernels using kernel-package. I'd really appreciate any and all comments, > suggestions, additions, subtractions you may have. (constructive > welcomed, the rest accepted)

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-23 Thread Peter Schüller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > > Hi there, I am looking for suggestions of a GUI email program > > > (sorry i just like them better) Anyway...I was wondering if > > > anyone had any suggestions? KMail? I've just switched to it. http://kmail.kde.org, or apt-get install kmail.

Re: where to find ttmkfdir?

2001-04-23 Thread Michael Soulier
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 03:09:59PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: > Here's what I do when I want new True Type fonts : > > 1. Download TrueType font > 2. Convert all font file names to lowercase (important) > 3. Copy .ttf file in dans /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType > 4. Generate fonts.dir : mk

Re: AVI player?

2001-04-23 Thread Ilya Martynov
JP> Also, I have not been able to find a way to get avifile to resize JP> the movie to fullscreen, I could only play it at the default size. It works for me. I can both set fixed ratio from pop-up menu - x0.5, x1, x2 and both just resize aviplay window. BTW IMPORTANT NOTE for all aviplay users:

Re: AVI player?

2001-04-23 Thread Janet Post
Hello, Just adding my 2 cents worth BE CAREFUL installing aviplay. You cannot do it (in my experiance) if you are only using stable potato. Many of the packages you need can only be found in either woody or unstable. Also, I have not been able to find a way to get avifile to resize the m

Re: german keyboard

2001-04-23 Thread Ralf Batri
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:58:49 +0200, Karsten Heymann wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Ralf Batri wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 12:59:22 +0200, Frank Preut wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 07:48:06PM +0200, Ralf Batri wrote: > > > > install-keymap is on the system, but don't find any >

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-23 Thread Dominique Deleris
I've just discovered Emacs+Gnus, and it's TERRIFIC ! I've dropped evolution & balsa. Emacs is so cool and powerful... Dominique

Need help from anyone using phppgadmin (unstable)

2001-04-23 Thread John Foster
I have it installed but when I try to login I get this error message. Any Help is appreciated. Warning: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL 1: SetUserId: user 'password=' is not in 'pg_shadow' in /usr/share/phppgadmin/lib.inc.php on line 130 Error - /var/www/phppgadmin/index.php Postgr

Re: app for making cards?

2001-04-23 Thread Ron Farrer
Ken Irving ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I couldn't find anything either, and wrote a Perl script to > do the job, learning a little postscript along the way. The > script takes eps images and puts them in the postscript output, > scaling to fit. > > http://www.mosquitonet.com/~jkirving/pub/c

Re: Changing some settings

2001-04-23 Thread Ilya Martynov
V> When my potato boots it warns me of a modprobe problem (char-major-10-135). V> I've tried to modify modules.conf putting an "off " at the end of the V> relating line. It works for some boot but "a thing" (I know that in debian V> potato "it" exists, but I cannot figure out where/what to ma

Re: X memory problem

2001-04-23 Thread John Foster
|--STUFF SNIPPED| > No, it asks it, but I really don't think it has anything to do with the > windowmanager, since it's there using XDM (before logging in to KDE, but > I'll check your suggestion and see if makes any difference). |

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-23 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 05:06:26AM -0500, Rob Zietlow wrote: > Hi there, I am looking for suggestions of a GUI email program (sorry i > just like them better). That's what I thought, until I tried mutt. Rob -- Cold, adj.: When the politicians walk around with their hands in their own

Re: why does ps->eps conversion reduce line thickness?

2001-04-23 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:08:30PM +1000, Mark Mackenzie wrote: > I do ps->eps conversions using: > > echo -n '\004' | gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=epswrite \ > -sOutputFile=box.eps box.ps >/dev/null > > using box.ps below. When box.ps is printed, it comes out as a 1mm thick > 1" box (quite dark). Wh

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