wheel scrolls but arrows keys don't in netscape

2001-05-15 Thread Erik Steffl
I have set up the netscape according to: http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ now the scrolling with mouse works fairly ok but I cannot scroll using space (full page) or arrow keys. what's strange is that when I use left/right arrow keys the Location: fields becomes acti

logitech mouseManPlus and fourth button: how to make it work?

2001-05-15 Thread Erik Steffl
Q: is there any way to get the fourth button (on the side of the logitech mouseMan with wheel) working? It does not work at all - not even with xev. I have: logitech cordless mouseMan wheel mouse (4 buttons & wheel) XFree86 Version 4.0.3 here's what works and how (so far

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread will trillich
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 09:00:49PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Hall Stevenson writes: > > ...you've pretty indicated that *nothing* will satisfy you, even a browser > > you've never tried. > > ??? What's your problem? oh goody, a flame war! i can't wait to see what productive traffic THIS generat

Re: woody release date

2001-05-15 Thread will trillich
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 06:57:47PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, May 13, 2001 at 08:57:41PM -0500, S. Salman Ahmed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > "JH" == John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JH> Stuart Krivis writes: > > >> But FreeBSD also does a better job at ne

Re: NAT problem, !

2001-05-15 Thread will trillich
sorry, didn't get to quote your message -- some odd format. (in mutt i could read it by going into another level of 'viewer' but it wasn't a quotable option.) On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 10:08:44AM +1000, Steve Kieu wrote: > = > S.KIEU for NAT or masquerading, first set up your firewall box as yo

no mutt-ssl but we can have apacvhe-ssl? what's the deal?

2001-05-15 Thread Erik Steffl
the README.Debian for mutt says: SSL support ~~~ SSL support has been disabled because debian cannot legally distribute binaries of a GPLed program li

Re: Copying one hard drive to another

2001-05-15 Thread will trillich
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:48:29PM -0500, Bryan Andersen wrote: > Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:06:17PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > > I need to copy everything from hard drive to another. I'm assuming this > > > is > > > done w/ dd, but I need to be sure. Could som

OT! -- puerto rico isp?

2001-05-15 Thread will trillich
going out of town (out of country, by some definitions) and rather than have to fall back on aol to keep in touch, do any debianistas here know of a good isp in puerto rico? i just need a ppp/tcp-ip connection from isabella or san juan... :) i gotta have my email. beaches are nice, but not withou

anyone going to USENIX?

2001-05-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
I know it's still a little ways off, but is anybody here planning on attending the USENIX Technical Conference in Boston this year? It runs from June 25 - 30. If enough people from the Debian community will be attending, it would be worthwhile to get together, eat, drink, exchange GPG keys, discu

Re: dual NICs

2001-05-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?prodkey=ANA-62022&cat=%2fTechnology%2fFast+Ethernet%2fDuraLAN+Network+Interface+Cards Adaptec Duo64 ANA-62022 ( Dual NIC ) http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?cat=Test&prodkey=ANA-62044 Adaptec Quartet 6944A ( Q

Re: Copying one hard drive to another - links

2001-05-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya dan no problem with tar no problem with hard links... i just dont use um...if it dont work for me...i remove um and use relative symlinks c ya alvin On 15 May 2001, Dan Christensen wrote: > Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - yes the hardlinks for gunzip and gzip is not a is

Re: wallpaper problem ;-)

2001-05-15 Thread V.Suresh
But I don't know how to tell wmaker to keep the wpaper centred? It always tiles wpapers. How do I set that? Once upon a time, maarten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard. And typed: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "V.Suresh" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I am using gnome + wmaker. Whenever I

Re: config of xfree86 with i810

2001-05-15 Thread V.Suresh
No flames please, regarding one's choice of window manager, editor, etc. Can never says one's choice is the best. ;-) Once upon a time, "francisco m . neto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard. And typed: >» V.Suresh disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > >> First, install all packages for X, mostly

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread ha shao
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 02:55:35AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 02:20:19PM +0800, ha shao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I am not. Try use it with 64MB of RAM > > Doing same. > > Galeon's running with about 17 tabs open. I'm starting to cut into > swap. O

Re: mozilla, netscape and java

2001-05-15 Thread Mark Hurley
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 01:39:06PM +0200, William Leese wrote: > > > (ftp.netscape.com has it, just find your way to netscape 6.01) > > # unzip jre.xpi -d $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/plugins 'jre-image-i386/*' > # cd $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/plugins > # ln -s jre-image-i386/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji

Re: Copying one hard drive to another

2001-05-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:16:45AM -0700, patrick q wrote: > I get lazy and tend to use Midnight Commander (mc) to copy partitions. > I havn't had any problems to date, but is this bad practice? > How does mc do its copying anyway? Hi, MC does good job copying most staff. Press F1 for explanati

Re: log server

2001-05-15 Thread ktb
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 09:50:39PM -0500, Bryan Andersen wrote: > ktb wrote: > > > > I've set up a log server, which I fire up as - > > /sbin/syslogd -r > > > > The machine I'm logging from I've recompiled Debian source and pointed it > > to a different syslog.conf file. I've got it set up to lo

Re: log server

2001-05-15 Thread Bryan Andersen
ktb wrote: > > I've set up a log server, which I fire up as - > /sbin/syslogd -r > > The machine I'm logging from I've recompiled Debian source and pointed it > to a different syslog.conf file. I've got it set up to log as normal > but also log to the server, with the following - > *.*

Re: dual NICs

2001-05-15 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > You can not have 1 NIC with 2 IPs simply not possible, Perfectly possible. The mail server at work has 3 IPs. One of the ethernet ports on the firewall has 2 IPs. Think IP aliases (the o

Re: scripted jumpstarts?

2001-05-15 Thread ktb
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:26:18PM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > I just started at a new company. They're using alot of Redhat because > they can kickstart the installs and script them also, making the installs > real easy once the initial scripting is done. > > Does debian have t

log server

2001-05-15 Thread ktb
I've set up a log server, which I fire up as - /sbin/syslogd -r The machine I'm logging from I've recompiled Debian source and pointed it to a different syslog.conf file. I've got it set up to log as normal but also log to the server, with the following - *.* @host So far all I have

Re: scripted jumpstarts?

2001-05-15 Thread freedman
On Tue, May 15, 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > I just started at a new company. They're using alot of Redhat because > they can kickstart the installs and script them also, making the installs > real easy once the initial scripting is done. > > Does debian have this capabilty? Any

Re: Copying one hard drive to another - links

2001-05-15 Thread Dan Christensen
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - yes the hardlinks for gunzip and gzip is not a issue in that > case since its in the same directory/partitions > - hardlinks is a problem when it crosses directories > and partitions since it keeps the leading / Hardlinks can't cross partiti

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread John Hasler
Hall Stevenson writes: > ...you've pretty indicated that *nothing* will satisfy you, even a browser > you've never tried. ??? What's your problem? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Hot swap IDE drive -- Badiane

2001-05-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya you should NOT have to unmount fs before taking the disk out... ( scsi drives not have that requirement either... i think that hotswap disks are NOT trivial issue to get it working right... ide makes hotswapping even harder to implement... i hope it has an sca connector c ya alvin On Tue

Unable to gain access to secure sites

2001-05-15 Thread Tham Kine Seng
Hi to all, I'm a newbie to Linux sys and I need some help here. I am unable to access secure sites using mozilla and netscape, is there any package that I should install on my Debian before I can do it? Or is it a Kernel thing? I am using Kernel 2.4. Thanks for any help rendered.

Re: dual NICs

2001-05-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya if you need 4 eth ports for each different ethernet cable... thats one problem... - use 2x dual nic pic cards.. - use one quad nic pci card - but i sounds like oyu need a quad nic card ( intel, adaptec, dlink ).. if you need 4 virtual ip# and dont care that

wwwoffle and Content-Encoding: gzip

2001-05-15 Thread Carl Johnson
I recently discovered that I can't display cached files that are sent as gzip-ed files using the http header 'Content-Encoding: gzip'. I have tried both w3m and netscape browsers, and neither of them will display them, but both of them will display properly when I am online. W3m shows a blank scre

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
* John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010515 20:29]: > Karsten M. Self writes: > > Version? Of both Galeon and Mozilla. > > 0.8.3 and M18-3. > > There's no point in persuing this further, though. Just stick with Netscape Navigator/Communicator... you've pretty indicated that *nothing* will satisfy

Re: Copying one hard drive to another - links

2001-05-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya dan congrats you found more differences in ln ... :-) - very interesting differences in ln ( see the next test below ... done same way as yours... - .pine having been local to the dir makes a difference when my .prinrc023592 file was elsewhere - y

Re: dual NICs

2001-05-15 Thread Zac Epkes
You can not have 1 NIC with 2 IPs simply not possible, i think u can buy network cards with upto 4 ports that all act alone, or something similar... - overid3 =) On Tuesday 15 May 2001 14:12, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Hay all. > > Does anyone have any knowledge of a network card that has two > i

bdf fonts

2001-05-15 Thread omicron
hello i've got a few bdf fonts and i don't know how to install them. i'm running the xfs-xtt font server. please help thanks in advance regards omicron -- ** omicron Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sridhar N) www:omicron.symonds.net pubkeys:omicron.symonds.net/pubk

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:36:42PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:22:29AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > noah writes: > > > I changed my mind when I saw that it depends on GNOME crap. Can't I > > > install a browser without installing a fscking "desktop environment"? >

Re: debian; php4; and apache 1.3.19

2001-05-15 Thread will trillich
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:38:55PM +0100, Martin WHEELER wrote: > -- > Martin Wheeler -StarTEXT - Glastonbury - BA6 9PH - England > [1] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.startext.co.uk/ > > - Share your knowledge. It's one way to achieve immortality. - cool sig. i

Re: 3c509B driver, trouble configuring

2001-05-15 Thread Stefan Srdic
Bob Wilkinson wrote: > Also see http://www.scyld.com/network/3c509.html Sorry, I cut and pasted the wrong link... > > > Only the IRQ and transceiver setting may be overridden when using > the driver as a module. Setting two cards to 10base2/IRQ10 and > AUI/IRQ11 is done by using the xcvr and irq

Re: I'm so lost

2001-05-15 Thread will trillich
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:43:16AM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I hope that my ramblings have helped to head you in a right direction. > Good luck with your Debian experience. nice job on those ramblings. we need more folks like you 'round here. (and over at the newbiedoc project, of course...) -

PCTEL driver for kernel 2.4.x: Announcement:

2001-05-15 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
> Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:43:26 +0200 > From: Jan Stifter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Announcement: PCTEL driver for kernel 2.4.x > > hello, > > The driver version is: >PCTEL Linux PCI driver, version 4.27.211 > It should work on all 2.4.x kernels. > > http://www

Re: PHP3 and mysql

2001-05-15 Thread John Griffiths
>wendy:/etc/php3/apache# apt-get install php3-mysql >Reading Package Lists... Done >Building Dependency Tree... Done >Sorry, php3-mysql is already the newest version >0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 56 not upgraded. > >Any idea? 56 not upgraded?

Re: PHP3 and mysql

2001-05-15 Thread Keneth
it said: wendy:/etc/php3/apache# apt-get install php3-mysql Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, php3-mysql is already the newest version 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 56 not upgraded. Any idea? > > > > Fatal error: Call to unsupported o

Re: PHP3 and mysql

2001-05-15 Thread John Griffiths
> > Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_connect() in >/var/www/template.inc on line 122 > (I can connect to the mysql server locally.) > >Could anyone tell me how to fix it? Thank in advanced! > #apt-get install php3-mysql ususally fixes this one for me.

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread John Hasler
Karsten M. Self writes: > Version? Of both Galeon and Mozilla. 0.8.3 and M18-3. There's no point in persuing this further, though. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

PHP3 and mysql

2001-05-15 Thread Keneth
I have just re-install php3, the apache can run php3 well, however, it doesnt seem to able to connect to the mysql server with PHP, that is mysql_connect() Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_connect() in /var/www/template.inc on line 122 (I can connect to the mysql se

Re: sources.list file

2001-05-15 Thread will trillich
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:40:04PM +0200, Goeman Stefan wrote: > Hello, > > Can somebody tell me what is wrong with the following entries in > my sources.list file > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > deb http://non-us.debian.org stable non-US > deb http://secu

Re: xdm on beta-blockers (2)

2001-05-15 Thread Martin WHEELER
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > Brian Nelson wrote: > > Check the list archives. This exact question has come up several > > times on the list recently. Thanks for the tip. I don't subscribe regularly to debian-users, so had missed this. The 'new' behaviour of xdm -- combined with othe

Re: Hot swap IDE drive -- Badiane

2001-05-15 Thread Kevin Ross
> We have purchased a bunch of hot swap IDE trays for a > proposed backup server. When they are pulled out, the > computer freezes. Has anyone experienced this and if > yes have they found a solution for this. > > I'm using the 2.2.18 kernel. Just checking, but did you umount the filesystems fi

Hot swap IDE drive -- Badiane

2001-05-15 Thread Badiane Ka
We have purchased a bunch of hot swap IDE trays for a proposed backup server. When they are pulled out, the computer freezes. Has anyone experienced this and if yes have they found a solution for this. I'm using the 2.2.18 kernel. Badiane __ Do

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:14:54AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > Mozilla I'm getting through the standard Debian packages. > > It hasn't changed version since stable. Is that okay? > No need for anything newer? > > http://galeon.source

Re: manual install

2001-05-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 02:31:18PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > I've got a machine here that I'm trying to install Debian on. Right now > it boots over the network but it does have a hard disk and I'd like to > install Debian on the hard disk. > > My problem is that I can't get dboots

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:17:10AM -0400, geordie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I've updated my review of GNU/Linux web browsing alternatives, largely > > in light of recent advances by the Mozilla and Galeon teams. I'm > > looking for feedback, pa

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:15:40PM -0500, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self writes: > > >Settings / Preferences / Advanced / Filtering / Cookie Manager > > > ...brings up a Persistent Data Manger dialog with options for: > > There is no 'Filtering' under ' Settings / P

Re: Provides field broken in unstable

2001-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Benjamin Greiner) wrote: >I just ran into what seems to be broken implementation of the Provides: >field in apt/dpkg (from unstable). [...] >Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > libkmid-alsa: Depends: libarts (>= 4:2.2-cvs20010512-1) Nope, versioned prov

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread John Hasler
Karsten M. Self writes: >Settings / Preferences / Advanced / Filtering / Cookie Manager > ...brings up a Persistent Data Manger dialog with options for: There is no 'Filtering' under ' Settings / Preferences / Advanced'. There is under 'Browsing', but it offers no relevant choices. > You'r

Re: 3c509B driver, trouble configuring

2001-05-15 Thread Mithras
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Bob Wilkinson wrote: > Also see http://www.scyld.com/network/3c509.html which tells us > > Only the IRQ and transceiver setting may be overridden when using > the driver as a module. Setting two cards to 10base2/IRQ10 and > AUI/IRQ11 is done by using the xcvr and irq module o

Re: Pakiety Debiana

2001-05-15 Thread Stuart Krivis
alien helps to convert from rpm to deb man alien or apt-get install alien if man alien doesn't produce results... On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:30:02AM +0200, mec wrote: > Cze¶æ > U¿ywam na swoim komputerze RH ale chcia³bym dowiedzieæ siê du¿o na temat > pakietów Debiana lub co¶ w stylu porównani

Re: newbie install problem

2001-05-15 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
>From the lilo manual (probably in /usr/doc/lilo): Disk error codes - - - - - - - - If the BIOS signals an error when LILO is trying to load a boot image, the respective error code is displayed. The following BIOS error codes are known: 0x40 "Seek failure". This might be a media problem

iproute2 -- help

2001-05-15 Thread debian
Hi. I have a 256k ADSL that I want to split into 2 channels of 128k. One for Office and the other for databases. I have read the Adv-Routing-HOWTO-8.html -- http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Adv- Routing-HOWTO-8.html They make the test with 10Mbit, but a just want to use 256K for my test. Where ca

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 07:36:57AM -0500, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I wrote: > > It still crashes, and it [Galeon] still gives me no control of images. > > Karsten M. Self writes: > > What image controls do you want? > > Netscape lets me turn off images in "preferences" and then cl

Re: 3c509B driver, trouble configuring

2001-05-15 Thread Mithras
I'm replying to thank Stef for his advice, and to remark about an apparent inconsistency in the implementation of the 3c509 driver. On Mon, 14 May 2001, Stefan Srdic wrote: > > : /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/3c509.o: invalid parameter parm_io > > That error reports that the I/O parameter used is inva

Re: [users] Re: email: Windows (Outlook, Eudora) -> Linux

2001-05-15 Thread morten
On 15, maj, 2001 at 06:16:09 -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Viktor Lakics (on Tue, 15 May 2001 07:17:09PM +0100): > > The most comfortable way (I never tried it though) seems to be to > > have a nice KDE 2.1.1 desktop. I use Debian potato, and noticed, > > that there is a kmail import utility

German keyboard

2001-05-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everyone, I have a little question. After upgrading to woody some special characters on the german keyboard won't work under X11 anymore. ö,ä,ü work. All characters reached through AltGr+"key" don't work. (for example "@" doesn't work!) Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? Bye, N

scripted jumpstarts?

2001-05-15 Thread Robert L. Harris
I just started at a new company. They're using alot of Redhat because they can kickstart the installs and script them also, making the installs real easy once the initial scripting is done. Does debian have this capabilty? Any thoughts on how or any GOOD short to the point HOWTO's on se

Re: [users] Re: email: Windows (Outlook, Eudora) -> Linux

2001-05-15 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Viktor Lakics (on Tue, 15 May 2001 07:17:09PM +0100): > The most comfortable way (I never tried it though) seems to be to > have a nice KDE 2.1.1 desktop. I use Debian potato, and noticed, > that there is a kmail import utility under Utilities in the KMENU. > It imports Outlook express

Re: installation

2001-05-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:40:45AM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > actually it's a Briq from Total Impact > > http://www.totalimpact.com i know nothing of this hardware. > device=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > partition=0 > timeout=1 > default=linux > > image = vmlinux-nfs > label

Re: Copying one hard drive to another

2001-05-15 Thread AtiZ
> the contents from one to another, I do use dd > (dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=102400), and it works > miraculausly well:). I do suppose it will fail if the I regularly backup win95 partitions with dd. To be more accurate: I am not backing up the whole partition, but only the used space. First I

Re: IPMasqing NFS

2001-05-15 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 05:19:36PM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote: > On Monday 14 May 2001 17:07, Chris Majewski wrote: > > > I'm going through a gateway/firewall which does port forwarding / > > ipmasq / NAT / ... Isn't "VPN" just microsoft terminology for exactly > > that, or is it something else

null SSID for Aironet 350 wireless NIC?

2001-05-15 Thread Jay Ford
Anybody know how to specify a null SSID for use by a Cisco (Aironet) 350 wireless NIC (via the ario & ario_cs drivers loaded as modules)? It seems to default to "WaveLAN Network" whenever I try to set the SSID to nothing. I can set it to other stuff, but not a null string. Any help will be appre

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Craig Holyoak
> > Galeon I downloaded from ftp.sourceforge.net: > > > > ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/galeon/ > > > > ...currently looks like: galeon_0.10.5-1.mozilla.0.8.1_i386.deb > > I see only rpm files and tar.gz files there. The download page > says to look in ftp://galeon.ufies.org/pub/g

Re: wallpaper problem ;-)

2001-05-15 Thread maarten
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "V.Suresh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using gnome + wmaker. Whenever I set a background wallpaper using > gnome, and restart X, the wallpaper setting by wmaker overrides gnome > settings. How do I prevent this? Help please. erm.. don't take this the wrong w

Re: 3c509B driver, trouble configuring

2001-05-15 Thread Bob Wilkinson
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:21:42PM -0600, Stefan Srdic wrote: > Mithras wrote: > > > : /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/3c509.o: invalid parameter parm_io > > That error reports that the I/O parameter used is invalid. Your base address > for > your card should read 0x210. > > Test this by directly using

Re: Port

2001-05-15 Thread aziem_chawdhary
You still need to have local loopback networking, even though you are not physically on a network. You need to set it up with ifconfig. Something like "ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up" Then run the gnome applications On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:17:40PM -0300, Antonio Lobato wrote: > > On Mon, 14 May 2001

Re: manual install

2001-05-15 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Kevin van Haaren wrote: > I probably won't be able to help, but before ANYONE can help they'll need to > know exactly what machine you have. The more info you can provide on > make/model/processor speed/etc... the more likely you're to get help. It's a Briq from total impact (http://www.totali

Re: galeon crashes when running as user

2001-05-15 Thread Thomas Hess
On 15 May 2001 21:04:07 CEST, Thomas Hess said: > hi, > > I have some trouble with galeon, when I run it as user it crashes with a > Segmentation-fault before showing the browser-window, started as root it > works fine. > It seems like I need to set some permissions for my user-account. I g

Re: dual NICs

2001-05-15 Thread Rich Puhek
Adaptec makes a 4-port PCI card, Intel has some two port cards. I'm sure there are others out there as well. If I remember correctly, the Adaptec unfortunately took an IRQ for each port, which was a bit of a pain. --Rich Matthew Sackman wrote: > > Hay all. > > Does anyone have any knowledge o

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Forrest English wrote: > have you tried skipstone? it's basicaly like galeon, without all the > garbage. Debian package search results Release Quality Package (size) testing100%skipstone 0.7-1 (995.5k) unstable100%skipstone 0.7-2 (167.7k) Strange that 0.7-

Re: Disk mirroring

2001-05-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > I wrote: > > > badoual loic wrote: > > > > > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:22:56PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > > > It would be great if the copying is done incrementally (copy the newer > > > > files only). > > > > > > cpbk is good for that > > > > Looks like an interesting package, but

Re: CPAN, woody and perl?

2001-05-15 Thread Robert L. Harris
That seemed to work. Now to find some missing modules needed for "jabber/Jarl" Robert Thus spake Rich Puhek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Try setting your CPAN to "ask" for dependancies instead of automatically > installing them. That way, you can skip the perl-5.6.1 portion... maybe > anyhow. > >

Provides field broken in unstable

2001-05-15 Thread Benjamin Greiner
Hello, I just ran into what seems to be broken implementation of the Provides: field in apt/dpkg (from unstable). I have selfmade CVS KDE packages installed, all with a version tag 2.2-cvs20010512-1, let's call it vcvs for short. Among those are: libkmid vcvs, which depends on libarts (>= vcvs);

dual NICs

2001-05-15 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hay all. Does anyone have any knowledge of a network card that has two independant eth ports on it? The reason I ask is that I've gotta get 4 eth ports into a server squashed into a 2U rack which means I only have 3 expansion cards available... I look forward to hearing from you! Matthew -- M

Re: CPAN, woody and perl?

2001-05-15 Thread Rich Puhek
Try setting your CPAN to "ask" for dependancies instead of automatically installing them. That way, you can skip the perl-5.6.1 portion... maybe anyhow. --Rich :x "Robert L. Harris" wrote: > > I just ran a "perl -MCPAN" and did the "install Bundle::CPAN" and it's > trying to install and compi

galeon crashes when running as user

2001-05-15 Thread Thomas Hess
hi, I have some trouble with galeon, when I run it as user it crashes with a Segmentation-fault before showing the browser-window, started as root it works fine. It seems like I need to set some permissions for my user-account. I gave rw-permissions for user recursiv for /usr/lib/mozilla and /usr/

Re: config of xfree86 with i810

2001-05-15 Thread francisco m . neto
» V.Suresh disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > First, install all packages for X, mostly done during installation itself. > Now run xf86config, and select VGA-16. Then startx, see if X comes up, > It should, but with an ugly resolution & color. What you need is > SVGA server, but if you select

Re: Disk mirroring

2001-05-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > badoual loic wrote: > > > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:22:56PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > > It would be great if the copying is done incrementally (copy the newer > > > files only). > > > > cpbk is good for that > > Looks like an interesting package, but this bug worries me: > > http:

Re: email: Windows (Outlook, Eudora) -> Linux

2001-05-15 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi, The most comfortable way (I never tried it though) seems to be to have a nice KDE 2.1.1 desktop. I use Debian potato, and noticed, that there is a kmail import utility under Utilities in the KMENU. It imports Outlook express 5.0 folders, and pegasus mail folders. And eudora addressbok. Don't a

Re: Ximian evolution unable to lock /var/spool/mail/xxxx

2001-05-15 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 15 May 2001 10:24:57 +0200, franck routier wrote: > > chmod o+w /var/mail did the trick. > (no need for sticky bit for me) Good > This is not set by default on debian. Does anyone know : > > 1) why evolution needs it (does not run as the user's id ?) The user should not be able to write /v

Re: XFree4.0.2, Matrox G400, & Kernel2.4.4

2001-05-15 Thread Sean Morgan
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:18:43AM -0400, Austin Jones wrote: > Help! > > I'm running Debian potato on a PIII-800EB w/ Tyan Tiger Motherboard. > > I have the dual head Matrox G400 card connected to a ViewSonic (monitor 1) > and Komodo (monitor 2) and I cannot get a signal to the > second moni

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread b3
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:07:42PM +1000, Craig Holyoak wrote: > Where did you get your .deb's from? The links on the website seem to be > dead! Just picked up the Galeon/Mozilla/various libs/kitchen sink package from a combination of: deb http://www.markybob.com/mozilla/deb/ ./ and debian unsta

Ati All-In-Wonder 128 Pro AGP?

2001-05-15 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, Does anyone have any experience with setting up the Ati All-In-Wonder 128 Pro AGP graphics card with the latest task-x-window-system in unstable? I tried all the ati options in xf86config without any luck. When I run startx, all I get is a black blank screen. I know it's the graphics card bec

manual install

2001-05-15 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Hi All, I've got a machine here that I'm trying to install Debian on. Right now it boots over the network but it does have a hard disk and I'd like to install Debian on the hard disk. My problem is that I can't get dbootstrap to run. I try passing yaboot the argument, initrd=root.bin in

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Joey Hess
Karsten M. Self wrote: > Isn't w3m a Japanese-oriented invention? It was written by someone from that country, but it is oriented much more to people who want a small, fast, correct, and excellent text mode browser. -- see shy jo

Re: [users] Re: perl locale

2001-05-15 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Alan Shutko (on Tue, 15 May 2001 02:00:41PM -0400): > Why are you setting LANG=en instead of LANG=en_US? i am not setting anything anywhere. in fact, i am lost! martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: nslookup equivalent?

2001-05-15 Thread Glyn Millington
"V.Suresh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > which package in debian is equivalent to nslookup in redhat/suse? > nslookup gives the ip address of a given website. It's part of the dnsutils package Glyn -- so here we are then http://members.tripod.

Re: nslookup equivalent?

2001-05-15 Thread Glyn Millington
"V.Suresh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > which package in debian is equivalent to nslookup in redhat/suse? > nslookup gives the ip address of a given website. Sorry about last post - half-asleeo and didn't realise that _lots_ of people responded already Glyn -- so

Re: apt-get offline

2001-05-15 Thread Gordon Hart
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:28:12PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > So enough of talking, here comes my idea of how to do it: Is there a > shell-script that can change the x'es in the downloaded file names > back to % (the script, I edit with emacs, this is no problem). > Unfortunately, I have no

Skipstone [was Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)]

2001-05-15 Thread Jim McCloskey
I'd like to endorse the endorsements of Skipstone. For me, it's been fast, light and dependable (as browsers go). There's a lot that it doesn't claim or try to do, but for simple browsing, it's the best solution I've found (I've tried Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera). And when it crashes, it crashes

Re: xdm on beta-blockers (2)

2001-05-15 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Nelson wrote: > Check the list archives. This exact question has come up several > times on the list recently. It's also fixed in unstable, and should be fixed in testing soon if it is not already. -- see shy jo

Re: perl locale

2001-05-15 Thread Alan Shutko
MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > LANG=en Why are you setting LANG=en instead of LANG=en_US? -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! In which level of metalanguage are you now speaking?

Re: Console: weird scrolling

2001-05-15 Thread b3
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:43:17PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Quoting Bill Spears([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > In console mode, scrolling leaves the top 4 or 5 lines unmoved. This > > has happened twice now, both times while I was using 'man', ctr-z, doing > > some stuff, 'fg', ctrl-z, etc. Does this

Re: perl locale

2001-05-15 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Joey Hess (on Tue, 15 May 2001 11:56:58AM -0400): > Also, see the section of perllocale(1) under "LOCALE PROBLEMS". alright. but i am apparently too stupid. i have /usr/lib/locale/en_US/* and locale -a lists en_US as well. furthermore, just `locale` gives LANG=en LC_CTYPE="en" LC_NUME

CPAN, woody and perl?

2001-05-15 Thread Robert L. Harris
I just ran a "perl -MCPAN" and did the "install Bundle::CPAN" and it's trying to install and compile perl-5.6.1... I'd rather not do this as I'd like to keep the perl package nice and clean in the .deb format.. Thoughts? :wq! -

irq share problem

2001-05-15 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
Here's a problem I already posted once, but stubornly remains: I have 4 serial ports. 2 on board and 2 in an old i/o adapter. The thing is that I cant have thenm both working at the same time. I know waht you r thinkg " use different irqs". I cant, I have none left. port=/dev/ttySx Both ports wor

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