Re: samba - swat - problem

2001-05-17 Thread Dieter Schicker
Thank you for your hints. I restarted inetd, but the problem persists ... hm. --- Willi Dyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:18:36PM +0200, Dieter > Schicker wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I just installed Samba 2.2.0 and Swat on my potato > machine. When I try to > > acc

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-17 Thread Travis Place
On Fri, 18 May 2001 23:04:13 John Griffiths wrote: > At 03:00 AM 5/18/01 -, Brian Schramm wrote: > >Tryed, also I did not try any command paramiters. > > > >Brian > > > > We'll have to hope the big brains have an idea > > I've always just loaded the tulip module on install with those cards an

Re: Debian Distro on Floppies?

2001-05-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:11:12PM -0400, Ken Clarke wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to find a Linux Distro that can still be obtained for > floppy installation. If this is just for show, I will install Debian with IDEPCI boot floppy. (Or if you bother to be compatible with some old drives such as SB-CDR

Re: lprng problem.

2001-05-17 Thread Dana J . Laude
On Thu, 17 May 2001 18:29:12 Joel Mayes wrote: > G'day All, > > I'm running Debian testing with kernel 2.4.4 and can not get my printer > ( a HP deskjet 690C ) to work, I have the parport, partport_pc, and lp > loaded with the correct irq, ect settings. but any request to the printer > ejects

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-17 Thread Brian Schramm
OK, If I use my good Debian system to build this custom kernal, is there a way to get this to the box that only has the kernel on it? I am at the reboot of the install on this one and it is running 2.2.19 like my other machine. Brian Tomaas Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > dont use the tulip

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-17 Thread Michael Mueller
Addendum to earlier reply... I made the same mistake - confusing the 311 and 310. I am not sure if the natsemi driver needs the pci-scan.o driver. THe website site below will tell all. Sorry about that. Mike --- Tomaas Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dont use the tulip driver as its only in

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-17 Thread Michael Mueller
I recently spent lots of time on the LRP mailing list. THis topic was handled frequently. Perhaps this is not a Debian issue. Check out www.scyld.com for lots of in-depth info on drivers. My guess is that you need the new pci-scan.o and the new tulip.o driver. http://www.scyld.com/network/ http

Re: XFree86 4.0.x & tdfx DRI

2001-05-17 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> irt point 1, i have the agpgart & tdfx modules that came with 2.4.4 loaded > - afaik the dri stuff is all loaded in the x server, not the kernel. am i > wrong on this point? > > i'm running in 16bpp, and i have xlib[os]mesa3 installed. >From what I remember, you can get dri from both kernel sou

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-17 Thread Tomaas Ortega
dont use the tulip driver as its only in use for the netgear fa310 what you need to use is the src for the natsemi driver its at http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html Tomaas Ortega "Hey, does anybody else hear that giant sucking sound? That's my will to live" www.dematerialised.com - com

Problem installing from cd-rom.

2001-05-17 Thread Abner Gershon
I can boot my Debian 2.2r3 cd-rom just fine but at the point in the installation process when the applications are to be installed I get a message that my cd-rom drive was not auto detected and that I should specify a device file for accessing the cd-rom. I am clueless about this. Why could debian

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-17 Thread John Griffiths
At 03:00 AM 5/18/01 -, Brian Schramm wrote: >Tryed, also I did not try any command paramiters. > >Brian > We'll have to hope the big brains have an idea I've always just loaded the tulip module on install with those cards and sat back to enjoy the ride WARNING - This email is confidential

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-17 Thread Brian Schramm
Tryed, also I did not try any command paramiters. Brian John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > At 02:48 AM 5/18/01 -, Brian Schramm wrote: > >I have a new machine here with a netgear fa311 network card in it. I want to > >install Debian on it but the only drivers I can find are for Redh

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-17 Thread John Griffiths
At 02:48 AM 5/18/01 -, Brian Schramm wrote: >I have a new machine here with a netgear fa311 network card in it. I want to >install Debian on it but the only drivers I can find are for Redhat. Has >anyone gotten this card to work with Debian? Use the tulip module

Problem with netgear card

2001-05-17 Thread Brian Schramm
I have a new machine here with a netgear fa311 network card in it. I want to install Debian on it but the only drivers I can find are for Redhat. Has anyone gotten this card to work with Debian? Thanks Brian -- Brian Schramm http://www.linuxexpert.orgICQ 104442754 AIM schrammbrian [EMAIL

Re: woody upgrade

2001-05-17 Thread Steve Gran
On Thu, 17 May 2001, "Chris Parker" wrote: Just upgraded potato to woody > 2.4.4 kernel for i810 support. Could anyone tell me where to find out how > to get kernel 2.4.4 to go into lilo and how to get X back up and goin. > Either man pages or how-to , possibly some feed back?; Thanks > for a

Re: Re-installing everything.

2001-05-17 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:58:20PM +0100, Stephen J. Thompson wrote: > What is the best way of reinstalling all the packages on my system. I was > thinking along the lines of apt-get install --reinstall, but it does not seem > to work. The best way is to backup your config and home directories,

Re: OT:Plextor CDRW 12X10X32S

2001-05-17 Thread tjm
Thanks, that's what I needed to hear. -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X setup, continued.

2001-05-17 Thread Steve Gran
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Ilya Martynov wrote: > > > A> Is there some similar way to change the color depth (with > A> some keyboard shortcuts), or the only way is to kill the > A> server an then restart it in the desired color depth? > > AFAIK it is not possible to chanage color depth. At least wit

Re: Ati All-In-Wonder 128 Pro AGP?

2001-05-17 Thread Steve Gran
On Wed, 16 May 2001, "Dana J . Laude" wrote: > > On Tue, 15 May 2001 13:32:49 Bart Szyszka wrote: > > 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 opti

Re: ip-up.d/ not running

2001-05-17 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:54:36PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > >Hello, > > for whatever reason, I don't seem to get results running scripts in > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/~. I have one for time and it didn't seem to be working so I > just dropped another one in to mail me when it ran and no

Re: Installation ?mounting partitions?

2001-05-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 06:20:28PM -0700, Abner Gershon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am reinstalling debian 2.2r3 from CD after aborting mid floppy disk > installation a last week. OK. > My hard drive I already partitioned last week as per partitioning > mini-How To recommendations. The thin

Re: Viewsonic monitor compatibility?

2001-05-17 Thread Steve Gran
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Abner Gershon wrote: > > I need to buy a couple of monitors and specifically I > am considering the Viewsonic EF70. Does anyone have > experience using this monitor with Debian and X windows? I have a viewsonic E70 - I assume they're about the same. Mine functions beautifu

Re: Mouse in X

2001-05-17 Thread Arlequín
Joel: My mouse is on the first serial port I assume that this is /dev/ttyS0, isn't it? It is not PS/2 What furher info do you need??? Thanks for answering, Arlequín - Original Message - From: "Joel Mayes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 9:28 PM Subject: Re: Mouse

Re: OT:Plextor CDRW 12X10X32S

2001-05-17 Thread shadow
tjm wrote: > > Hello. I'm considering a Plextor 12X10X32 SCSI CDRW > and was wondering if anyone has used this with Debian > Linux and cdrecord/xcdroast successfully. If not, > I'm open to suggestions for a new CDRW unit. I'm using > 2.2r3 with a 2.2.19 kernel, SCSI only. > I've got one. It wo

Re: Installation ?mounting partitions?

2001-05-17 Thread freedman
On Thu, May 17, 2001, Abner Gershon wrote: > I am reinstalling debian 2.2r3 from CD after aborting > mid floppy disk installation a last week. My hard > drive I already partitioned last week as per > partitioning mini-How To recommendations. The thing is > I don't remember which partition was inten

Re: OT:Plextor CDRW 12X10X32S

2001-05-17 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 17 May 2001, tjm wrote: > > Hello. I'm considering a Plextor 12X10X32 SCSI CDRW > and was wondering if anyone has used this with Debian > Linux and cdrecord/xcdroast successfully. If not, > I'm open to suggestions for a new CDRW unit. I'm us

Installation ?mounting partitions?

2001-05-17 Thread Abner Gershon
I am reinstalling debian 2.2r3 from CD after aborting mid floppy disk installation a last week. My hard drive I already partitioned last week as per partitioning mini-How To recommendations. The thing is I don't remember which partition was intended for what purpose and the only way I can guess thi

OT:Plextor CDRW 12X10X32S

2001-05-17 Thread tjm
Hello. I'm considering a Plextor 12X10X32 SCSI CDRW and was wondering if anyone has used this with Debian Linux and cdrecord/xcdroast successfully. If not, I'm open to suggestions for a new CDRW unit. I'm using 2.2r3 with a 2.2.19 kernel, SCSI only. thanks -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT]: apache won't run cgi-script

2001-05-17 Thread Matthew Dalton
Cameron Matheson wrote: > I'm having a little trouble w/ apache. When I go to my page (www.mifix.net), > it says i don't have permission to execute the script. Everything's fine as > far as permissions on the script go, so I'm assuming this is something > wrong w/ my httpd.conf, anyone seen this

Re: debconf problem

2001-05-17 Thread Joey Hess
Viljo Marrandi wrote: > I have following problem - some time ago i was upgragding some parts of > 2.2 system To unstable or testing? How long ago, about 3 months, I take it? > What is this object method "value" it's trying to access? Some module that > i've removed by an 'accident'? If anyone ha

More Dpkg Broken errors

2001-05-17 Thread Kieren Diment
I tried Andreas' suggestion, and this is what happens: # apt-get --fix-broken remove procmail Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: procmail 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B o

[OT]: apache won't run cgi-script

2001-05-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I'm having a little trouble w/ apache. When I go to my page (www.mifix.net), it says i don't have permission to execute the script. Everything's fine as far as permissions on the script go, so I'm assuming this is something wrong w/ my httpd.conf, anyone seen this before? Thanks, Cameron M

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Dave Sherohman wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:07:58PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > > I just installed it today with out doing this. I just ran the installer > > from a > > directory that I created in my home directory. I've only tried the word > > processor out so far but it works grea

Re: Backup schecduling

2001-05-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya miquel assuming you want to use two hard disk backups... ( must be important data ) ?? main# mkdir /Backup_1 main# mkdir /Backup_2 -- you should alternate between the two backup disks/servers - if your main disk and your backup_1 dies...you still have yesterday on Backup_2

Re: Mouse in X

2001-05-17 Thread Joel Mayes
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:16:36PM -0300, Arlequ?n wrote: > Help!! > > I can set up my X Server to be able to use my mouse... > > > and if I try to run the XF86Config, it tries to switch to graphic mode and I > still CAN'T move my pointer. > > I've my 3 button mouse attached to the 1st. Serial

Re: galeon - skipstone?

2001-05-17 Thread Steve Cooper
Francois Gouget wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2001, Tommi Komulainen wrote: > [...] > > Hmm, now how on earth can I get all my cookies and bookmarks shared among > > all (mozilla, galeon, skipstone, konqueror, w3m) browsers..? > > Import/Export is really not an option anymore :-/ > >I can't help for

Mouse in X

2001-05-17 Thread Arlequín
Help!! I can set up my X Server to be able to use my mouse... and if I try to run the XF86Config, it tries to switch to graphic mode and I still CAN'T move my pointer. I've my 3 button mouse attached to the 1st. Serial Port (isn't a PS/2), tty0 I guess... But I can't get it work! Thanks Arle

Re: Unrelated to Debian. Telnet

2001-05-17 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Wayne wrote: >Hi All, >I search the web for an answer, but came up short. >Occasionally I get some junk mail that will hang >my system and won't let me get my mail. So I >telnet into my isp an look for the culprit. The >command I use is "retr #" <---"#" is the message number.

ip-up.d/ not running

2001-05-17 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, for whatever reason, I don't seem to get results running scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/~. I have one for time and it didn't seem to be working so I just dropped another one in to mail me when it ran and no joy. What do I have to do to get these scripts to run? BTW, system is potato an

Help starting x-windows with Gnome

2001-05-17 Thread Paul Mackinney
Hi, I'm having a lot of trouble getting Gnome set up. I've run clean installs several times, here's the current status: I've successfully installed the base potato config, a bunch of other packages, and Ximian-Gnome. When I run startx to start X-windows, I get a cursor and a test-pattern backgrou

Re: Backup schecduling

2001-05-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:08:55AM +0200, Miquel Mart?n L?pez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > I am trying to decide on backup schecduling and have several things in > mind. My system is on a main hard disk, and backups are made by > copying this HD to another (equal sized) one. > > Now, t

alsa-drivers oops my kernel when i reload them

2001-05-17 Thread glynis
i'm using the alsa 0-0.9beta4 drivers as built from source distributed with debian unstable. since debian has started distributing the beta drivers (including beta3), i've oopsed my kernel every time i've recompiled the modules, installed them, unloaded the old, loaded the new, then tried to play

lprng problem.

2001-05-17 Thread Joel Mayes
G'day All, I'm running Debian testing with kernel 2.4.4 and can not get my printer ( a HP deskjet 690C ) to work, I have the parport, partport_pc, and lp loaded with the correct irq, ect settings. but any request to the printer ejects a blank page, except the command 'lp foobar.txt' which prints

Re: Debian Distro on Floppies?

2001-05-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:11:12PM -0400, Ken Clarke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to find a Linux Distro that can still be obtained for > floppy installation. Yes I know about just hooking up a CD-ROM drive, > a modem, or a null-modem connection to this ancient machine I'm > worki

Re: [users] My Dilemma w/ ssh

2001-05-17 Thread Eric Richardson
Alex Strasheim wrote: > > I'm having the same problem (can't login), and hosts.deny didn't solve it. > I can't ssh to localhost either. > > I'm new to debian, and I'm just trying to get a usable system set up -- one > that I can ssh into. I haven't figured out the package management system > ver

Re: galeon - skipstone?

2001-05-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:42:01PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I've used this trick too. > > > Galeons bookmark import/export utilities are pretty damned sweet though. > indeed, except for some reason it likes to put the mozilla export in .mozilla/default/Cache which is quite wrong... or a

RE: [users] My Dilemma w/ ssh

2001-05-17 Thread Alex Strasheim
I'm having the same problem (can't login), and hosts.deny didn't solve it. I can't ssh to localhost either. I'm new to debian, and I'm just trying to get a usable system set up -- one that I can ssh into. I haven't figured out the package management system very well, so I dl'd and built my own Op

Re: Filesystem flag toggle ???

2001-05-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:24:19PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > If I have mounted /usr as ro, and I want to change it to rw while > running, how do I do it? mount -o remount,rw /usr -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpa7yqyNdnSw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: smbfs crashes after inactivity

2001-05-17 Thread Rich Puhek
One question/suggestion: Is samba running from inetd or as a standalone server? That's probably not directly applicable to your situation (now that I fully read your email...), but may not hurt. My W2K memory is fuzzy, but I recall that W2K is setup to time out and essentially disconnect from the

Re: Want to set up Dual Boot (sort of)

2001-05-17 Thread Paul Mackinney
Multi-boot methods I've used: Note: In all cases, Windows boots from /dev/hda1 which is drive C, a primary partition and the active partition. If you want to do something else, I wish you well but you are needlessly complicating your life. In the event of multiple Windows systems, each should inha

Wave Splicer

2001-05-17 Thread Jonathan Daugherty
Does anyone know of a good wave file splicing uitility? I have a book-on-cd and all the tracks are a minute long, and I'd like to find a way to easily combine all the wave files into one. By the way, using cat to put them together does not result in a valid wave file. -- Jonathan Daugherty D

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
On Friday 18 May 2001 00:07, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > b3 wrote: > > The install can be a bit tricky - make sure you run the installer > > first as root with /net, as this will do a "network install" - then > > switch to a normal user and run the installer to get the user stuff > > going. > > I just

Re: [users] My Dilemma w/ ssh

2001-05-17 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Cameron Matheson (on Thu, 17 May 2001 04:42:19PM -0600): > I have a little problem w/ ssh. Me and a few other folks started a free web- > hosting company, and I'm supposed to be the sysadmin. The server's at someone > elses house, so I am supposed to ssh in. For some reason, it alway

My Dilemma w/ ssh

2001-05-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I have a little problem w/ ssh. Me and a few other folks started a free web- hosting company, and I'm supposed to be the sysadmin. The server's at someone elses house, so I am supposed to ssh in. For some reason, it always says that the connection is refused (or something along those lines

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:07:58PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > I just installed it today with out doing this. I just ran the installer from > a > directory that I created in my home directory. I've only tried the word > processor out so far but it works great. What's going to be broken becau

smbfs crashes after inactivity

2001-05-17 Thread Robert Hawkey
I know this probably isn't the best list for this question but... We've got several machines set up in our office running Debian, RedHat and Slackware Linux that all mount a share on our Windows 2000 server. If any of the machines don't use the share for longer than a half hour or so Samba crashe

Re: What's the current best printing arrangement? (HP P1000)

2001-05-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:27:23PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Now I know what to do! (But it wasn't obvious!) Agreed. The cups postinstall should point you to localhost:631 to find docs. > So I configured it and ran a test page. Works. I then printed a > colour graph I had just print

Re: Debian Distro on Floppies?

2001-05-17 Thread freedman
On Thu, May 17, 2001, Ken Clarke wrote: > Hi, >I'm trying to find a Linux Distro that can still be obtained for floppy > installation. Yes I know about just hooking up a CD-ROM drive, a modem, or a > null-modem connection to this ancient machine I'm working with. I've been > getting razzed

Re: Emacs sends mail, but doesn't show-up in exim.

2001-05-17 Thread Mark Baker
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:42:04PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote: > 3. > ``man exim_tidydb'' >"It is suggested that it be run periodically on all three > databases, but at a quiet time of day, ..." > > Now there's just one question remaining in my mind... is Debian > configured to run exi

Apple G4 with MacOS 9.1 unable to connect to Debian 2.2 box

2001-05-17 Thread Cleto Pescia
Hello, I've run into a weird problem trying to have a PowerMac G4 with MacOS 9.1 connect to a Debian Linux 2.2 box (kernel 2.2.18). A friend of mine has a small network of Macs, with several releases of MacOS, all connected to a Debian 2.2 box acting as firewall / IP masquerading server for Intern

Unidentified subject!

2001-05-17 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
hello. I just found and old plotter HP 7470A in the middle of old scrap. Every information on how to set this to work under linux will be apreciated. Meanwhile I will make some search.. thank you J.A.Serralheiro

Can't load agpgart module

2001-05-17 Thread Bas van der Peet
When trying to load the agpgart module insmod gives the following error message: "couldn't find the kernel version the module was compiled for" I'm running testing with a 2.4.2 kernel Any help on how to fix this or pointers to documentation would be appreciated. Thanks, Bas

Backup schecduling

2001-05-17 Thread Miquel Mart?n L?pez
Hi all, I am trying to decide on backup schecduling and have several things in mind. My system is on a main hard disk, and backups are made by copying this HD to another (equal sized) one. Now, the point is I have one main HD and 2 backup HD, and have two criteria: a) Backup every one or two day

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
okay thanks every one for all the advise. I have just donwloaded the complete instalation file ( all the 97 megas) and will istall. I thougth about that when tried to find the package in dselect; I was just trying to make sure that there wasnt an easier/clean way to install. regards J.A.Serralheir

Re: Emacs sends mail, but doesn't show-up in exim.

2001-05-17 Thread Robert Cymbala
On Mon, 14 May 2001 at 11:38:48 -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: [snip] >Try sending a message to a both to a disappearing and >non-disappearing address. The disappearing address, after >delivery, should show up with a "D" in the mailq output, >while the non-disappearing address prevents the mail fr

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread p
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:07:58PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > b3 wrote: > > > The install can be a bit tricky - make sure you run the installer > > first as root with /net, as this will do a "network install" - then > > switch to a normal user and run the installer to get the user stuff > > go

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread Kevin Ross
> What's going to be broken because I didn't do a "network install?" If you're the only user who will be using it, nothing. If you have more than one user on your computer that will be using it, then you will have to do another install for that user, and that will take up a lot of disk space.

Debian Distro on Floppies?

2001-05-17 Thread Ken Clarke
Hi,    I'm trying to find a Linux Distro that can still be obtained for floppy installation.  Yes I know about just hooking up a CD-ROM drive, a modem, or a null-modem connection to this ancient machine I'm working with.  I've been getting razzed by my LUG for wanting to do this the old fash

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread Andrew D Dixon
b3 wrote: > The install can be a bit tricky - make sure you run the installer > first as root with /net, as this will do a "network install" - then > switch to a normal user and run the installer to get the user stuff > going. I just installed it today with out doing this. I just ran the install

Re: Documentacion sobre el enrorno grafico

2001-05-17 Thread DvB
On 17 May 2001 21:38:33 +0200, Alvaro Martinez wrote: > Hola todos: > > alguien me podria decir donde puedo encontrar documentacion acerca de las > Xwindow Translation: "could somebody tell me where I can find documentation on Xwindows"

Re: USB on Debian GNU/Linux Potato

2001-05-17 Thread Kevin Ross
Did you install the Mustek backend driver? There's info at: http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/scanners.html#1200UB Also, if you do: $ cat /proc/bus/usb/devices you should see your scanner listed. There's info in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/usb/scanner.txt about creating the device node under

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread b3
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:57:37PM +0100, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: > Hi, is there any staroffice package available from debian? StarOffice is cost-free commercial software that (AFAIK) isn't packaged for Debian. You can download it from Sun, however, and it does work under Debian. The install can

USB on Debian GNU/Linux Potato

2001-05-17 Thread Eddy Young
Hi, I have a Mustek 1200 UB USB scanner. How can I get it to work with Debian 2.2r2? I have successfully installed the USB module and it is loading correctly upon booting. I suspect that the appropriate device has not been created in /dev, but I don't know what it is supposed to be called. I al

Re: What's the current best printing arrangement? (HP P1000)

2001-05-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > I've been using a combination of magicfilter and lpr (and now > lprng), for a long time to print to inkjet printers. Today I > tried a new HP photosmart P1000 printer at work and searched for > the best way to make it work. > > Using magicfilter from testing/unstable, I pick the dj55

Re: [users] Re: What every retailer should know

2001-05-17 Thread Willi Dyck
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:45:35PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > because obviously, if only micro$oft can look at the code, then noone > else can find bugs *and* micro$oft has complete control over security. M$ is always good for a joke. Probaly a new tip for will trillich for his random signature:

Re: galeon - skipstone?

2001-05-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:24:01PM +0300, Tommi Komulainen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hmm, now that I started thinking about it, a lot of browser configuration > could be collected in one place. How many times have you cursed at the > different default fonts in different browsers? Or the prox

Re: X hangs in mysterious ways

2001-05-17 Thread Kevin Ross
> What's funny is that VESA comes up right, it detects my card > beautifully; but then it complains that there aren't any screens. Sounds like it can't find a matching resolution and refresh rate. The VESA driver is limited in what resolutions and refresh rates it will support. In Section "Moni

Re-installing everything.

2001-05-17 Thread Stephen J . Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, What is the best way of reinstalling all the packages on my system. I was thinking along the lines of apt-get install --reinstall, but it does not seem to work. Suggestions anyone? Thanks. Stephen. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versio

Re: tomcat for potato?

2001-05-17 Thread Ralf Batri
On Don, Mai 17, 2001 at 08:27:22 +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > Are there any avaliable debs of Jakarta Tomcat for Potato? > -- I did a search a while ago and failed after 2 days. So if you find some, please let me know ! Greetz Ralf Ralf Batri e-mail: [EMA

Documentacion sobre el enrorno grafico

2001-05-17 Thread Alvaro Martinez
Hola todos:   alguien me podria decir donde puedo encontrar documentacion acerca de las Xwindow

Re: galeon - skipstone?

2001-05-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:39:46AM -0700, Francois Gouget ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2001, Tommi Komulainen wrote: > [...] > > Hmm, now how on earth can I get all my cookies and bookmarks shared among > > all (mozilla, galeon, skipstone, konqueror, w3m) browsers..? > > Import/Expo

Re: XFree86 4.0.x & tdfx DRI

2001-05-17 Thread Ian Eure
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 12:05:23 -0500 (CDT) > From: Andrei Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Ian Eure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0.x & tdfx DRI > > > has anyone out there been able to get DRI working p

Re: galeon - skipstone?

2001-05-17 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:39:46AM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote: >I can't help for cookies. But for bookmarks, I long ago decided to > write an html file with all by bookmarks and use it as my home page. At > the time I did it to share them between IE and Netscape but the > principle is univers

Re: Want to set up Dual Boot (sort of)

2001-05-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
Another way to dual-boot (MS-based, not sure about ME) without messing with the boot sector is to set up a menu in config.sys and have it use loadlin to boot Linux. Of course, after a few years of this I bit the bullet and now only boot Linux (I do have Win4Lin and VMware to run Windows apps when t

RE: shutdown -r now won't work

2001-05-17 Thread Brett
I didn't manually touch the initctl file but I just checked the timestamp and it was altered right about the time I did the kernel recompile. Is this initctl unique to each system? If not, I was thinking of just copying one over from a machine that does shutdown properly. Should I refrain? -Or

Re: [users] Re: What every retailer should know

2001-05-17 Thread D-Man
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:36:07PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: | also sprach D-Man (on Thu, 17 May 2001 02:11:46PM -0400): | > """ | > Limited Developer Tools | > | > There are limited developer tools available for Linux. Those that are | > available are much more difficult to use than Microsoft Visual

vpn

2001-05-17 Thread Petteri Heinonen
Hello. I've set up a pptp VPN using poptop. VPN server is in out campus network, and everything works fine if I'm connecting to server from machine _in_ our campus network. However, if i try to connect from my home machine which is outside the campus, I can't connect. pptpd gives following lines

staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
Hi, is there any staroffice package available from debian? thank you

Re: galeon - skipstone?

2001-05-17 Thread Glyn Millington
One of the many "obvious" tricks I would never have discovered for myself - many thanks from an eavesdropper! Glyn -- so here we are then http://members.tripod.co.uk/Christchurch2000uk Running Debian/Gnu Linux

Re: Want to set up Dual Boot (sort of)

2001-05-17 Thread Michael B. Taylor
Call me a rebel, or whatever, but I prefer not to put lilo in the harddrive boot sector on a machine that will dual (duel :P) boot with MS. I prefer to let MS have its way with the boots sector, an boot Linux with a lilo floppy, backed up by a spare lilo floppy and a rescue disk. Here is why: I

Re: galeon - skipstone?

2001-05-17 Thread Francois Gouget
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Tommi Komulainen wrote: [...] > Hmm, now how on earth can I get all my cookies and bookmarks shared among > all (mozilla, galeon, skipstone, konqueror, w3m) browsers..? > Import/Export is really not an option anymore :-/ I can't help for cookies. But for bookmarks, I long a

Re: [users] Re: What every retailer should know

2001-05-17 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach D-Man (on Thu, 17 May 2001 02:11:46PM -0400): > """ > Limited Developer Tools > > There are limited developer tools available for Linux. Those that are > available are much more difficult to use than Microsoft Visual Studio. > Thus, the same application can take much longer to develop

debconf problem

2001-05-17 Thread Viljo Marrandi
Greetings, I have following problem - some time ago i was upgragding some parts of 2.2 system and apparently screwed something really up. When i try to install some new packages that require debconf i get error (at the end of message), btw. i get same error when trying to install debconf too. I ch

Re: Console keyboard mapping

2001-05-17 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:00:41PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: > Some time ago, during an "apt-get upgrade" in testing, I've lost > my swiss-french keyboard layout for the console. I am not able to > get it back :( > > It seems that kbdconfig has disappeared in utils/kbd from woody. > > What'

Re: What every retailer should know

2001-05-17 Thread Eric Richardson
D-Man wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:19:38PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > > I am a software engineering student. The funniest part of the > article, for me, is this paragraph : > > """ > Limited Developer Tools > > There are limited developer tools available for Linux. Those that are > avai

tomcat for potato?

2001-05-17 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
Are there any avaliable debs of Jakarta Tomcat for Potato? -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Selling Soluciones Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r3 __

Re: What every retailer should know

2001-05-17 Thread D-Man
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:19:38PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: I am a software engineering student. The funniest part of the article, for me, is this paragraph : """ Limited Developer Tools There are limited developer tools available for Linux. Those that are available are much more difficult to use

Console keyboard mapping

2001-05-17 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hi list ! Some time ago, during an "apt-get upgrade" in testing, I've lost my swiss-french keyboard layout for the console. I am not able to get it back :( It seems that kbdconfig has disappeared in utils/kbd from woody. What's the alternative ? Thanks for your help Dominique

Re: Want to set up Dual Boot (sort of)

2001-05-17 Thread Anthony Lau
At 10:08 AM -0700 5/17/2001, Jim Darrough wrote: I have an Athlon 650 with 128M of memory, Voodoo 3 PCI and a Viewsonic E771 monitor. I would like to add an additional 30g hard drive and set it up as a Debian-only drive, booting from a floppy. Unfortunately I still require Windows on this machine,

Re: what is portmap?

2001-05-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:11:25PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > What is the portmap process meant for? Shall I safely >update-rc.d remove it? If you're not using NFS or NIS then you can safely remove it. Those are the 2 main services that need it. Don't use update-rc.d remove, though.

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