Re: Is Redhat that bad - a question.

2001-05-18 Thread Dana J . Laude
On Fri, 18 May 2001 23:00:40 you wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2001, David Underwood wrote: > > I really don't know enough to comment on anything posted in that thread, > > my Linux knolwedge experiance / knoledge is'nt that extensive. > > > > I am aware though that the Debian policy is much stronger

Re: opera

2001-05-18 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hey, Reset your ur screen res. Is good beyond 800x... I know what you mean, I had it running on a laptop at 640, not much room left for rendering eh! imnsho, opera dusts nutscrape, slowzilla and konq on most sites. Konq is gonna rock shortly, the coders seem to be hell bent for the gold on it.

Re: Is Redhat that bad - a question.

2001-05-18 Thread freedman
On Sat, May 19, 2001, David Underwood wrote: > I really don't know enough to comment on anything posted in that thread, > my Linux knolwedge experiance / knoledge is'nt that extensive. > > I am aware though that the Debian policy is much stronger in relation to > the 'packaging issue'. Presumably

Is Redhat that bad - a question.

2001-05-18 Thread David Underwood
I really don't know enough to comment on anything posted in that thread, my Linux knolwedge experiance / knoledge is'nt that extensive. I am aware though that the Debian policy is much stronger in relation to the 'packaging issue'. Presumably this is one of the contibuting factors to it's 'legenda

Re: Questions (and hello) from a new (Progeny) Debian user.

2001-05-18 Thread DvB
Krisno Pryosusilo wrote: Thanks Colin and Lee for your very helpfull answers! I stumbled upon dpkg in an article on Debian Planet, and it was nice to get verification from you both. Cheers Krisno You might also want to check out the debian FAQ at http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ Especially

galeon compile

2001-05-18 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i'm trying to compile the latest version of galeon. make craps out with: In file included from autobookmarks.c:19: galeon.h:42: gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.h: No such file or directory In file included from autobookmarks.c:19: galeon.h:45: gnome-xml/xmlmem

Re: opera

2001-05-18 Thread Dana J . Laude
On Fri, 18 May 2001 21:06:15 Brian Nelson wrote: > It's all configurable... except for the toolbar with the ads which is > the biggest and most annoying one. I played with it for a while but > couldn't come up with a configuration I liked. > > Besides, it's not free in any sense of the word, un

Using /dev/dsp?

2001-05-18 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I have a bunch /dev/dsp's (/dev/dsp is a symlink to /dev/dsp0, but I also have /dev/dsp[123],etc). I can't use them though... Are they only available if you have multiple sound cards, or how can i access them (i want to be able to play mp3s and have sound in gaim, etc) Thanks, Cameron Math

Mozilla M18-3 SSL support? (was Re: Unable to gain access to secure sites)

2001-05-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:00:07AM +0800, Tham Kine Seng ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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 For Netscape, there are packages available, responded to elsewhere. For Mo

Re: cp binary cd to hd

2001-05-18 Thread Andreas Hatz
cp -d will work, but I reckon cp --archive (same as cp -dpR) is better for these purposes. (as always, a look at the man page is informative :) I did this exact same thing to install onto an old laptop without a cdrom drive. Only I created some virtual hosts in my apache conf file and just added t

Re: opera

2001-05-18 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 18 May 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: > > Can't say I'm all that impressed with it though. The damn toolbar/ad > crap takes up half the damn screen. Maybe you're not missing out on > much... i guess i've been using it so long that i don't really

Re: opera

2001-05-18 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 08:42:15PM -0500, Dana J . Laude wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2001 20:12:57 Brian Nelson wrote: > > > Can't say I'm all that impressed with it though. The damn > toolbar/ad > > crap takes up half the damn screen. Maybe you're not missing out > on > > much... > > Actually, i

Re: [users] packaging hell

2001-05-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 02:09:59AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Stable? You seem to have your system somewhere between stable and > unstable at the moment ... > > libc6 | 2.1.3-18 |stable | i386 > libc6 |2.2.3-1 | testing | i386 > libc6 |2.2.3-1 | uns

Re: opera

2001-05-18 Thread Dana J . Laude
On Fri, 18 May 2001 20:12:57 Brian Nelson wrote: > Can't say I'm all that impressed with it though. The damn toolbar/ad > crap takes up half the damn screen. Maybe you're not missing out on > much... Actually, it's all configurable. Ya just got to play with the settings. Personally after yo

Re: ntpdate woes - no suitable server

2001-05-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya hahaski add ntpdate ntp.your_isp.com into your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file or rdate instead of ntpdate in your /etc/ntp.conf - find and add the nearest public ntp server http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.htm c ya alvin On Fri, 18 May 2001, Hanasaki JiJi wrote

Re: Questions (and hello) from a new (Progeny) Debian user.

2001-05-18 Thread Krisno Pryosusilo
Thanks Colin and Lee for your very helpfull answers! I stumbled upon dpkg in an article on Debian Planet, and it was nice to get verification from you both. Cheers Krisno

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-18 Thread Brian Schramm
Kernel source is not part of the defalt load for Debian. You have to choose that package after you have the system installed. Brian Michael Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Here's a newbie question about the instructions below: > > If I load Potato from scratch, will there be a kernel > sou

Re: /etc/conf.modules is more recent ? !!

2001-05-18 Thread Balbir Thomas
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 01:14:14AM +0100, Gordon Hart wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 06:49:48PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using kernel 2.2.19 and with debian 2.2r2 and keep getting the > > following > > message at boot up : > > > > Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-18 Thread Brian Schramm
I never ran mrproper. The last time I did that I had trouble bringing everything back to a good compile so I don't do that any more. Admittedly, that was a long time ago and many kernels back. I have looked in the directory that you said and I have a modversions.h file. So, I do not know what I

Re: ATI Rage 128 virtual screen

2001-05-18 Thread Dana J . Laude
On Fri, 18 May 2001 18:07:24 Martin WHEELER wrote: > [Please cc responses direct, as not subscribed to list] > > Can any of you good folks help me out with a correctly configured > XF86Config-4 file, set up for an ATI Rage 128 with 16M of memory, to > give an actual window of 1024x768 on a v

Re: Questions (and hello) from a new (Progeny) Debian user.

2001-05-18 Thread Gordon Hart
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:03:59AM +1000, Krisno Pryosusilo wrote: > Hi, > Question 1 : -> Is there a simple blow by blow description on how to > install a deb package which is currently in a directory on my > hard-drive? dpkg -i filename > The reason : -> > I'm trying to install Opera and under

Re: opera

2001-05-18 Thread Dana J . Laude
On Fri, 18 May 2001 17:14:44 MaD dUCK wrote: > trying to install opera, i got dependency errors, which even apt-get > -f install couldn't fix. subsequently i isolated the dependency, and > one of those were liblcms. but an apt-get install liblcms yielded: > > Package liblcms has no available ver

Re: More Dpkg Broken errors

2001-05-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 10:49:48AM +1000, Kieren Diment ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 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:

Re: opera

2001-05-18 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 07:03:42PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 06:14:44PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > > trying to install opera, i got dependency errors, which even apt-get > > -f install couldn't fix. subsequently i isolated the dependency, and > > one

Re: [users] packaging hell

2001-05-18 Thread Colin Watson
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:34:11PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: >> run 'apt-get -f install' >> >> then try again. if that doesn't work, repeat, but don't retry. >> anything related to libc etc al. is sketchy to update. if libstdc++ >> won't install, you c

Re: Questions (and hello) from a new (Progeny) Debian user.

2001-05-18 Thread Ian Lee
- Original Message - From: "Krisno Pryosusilo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 2:03 AM Subject: Questions (and hello) from a new (Progeny) Debian user. > Hi, > I'm a relatively new user of Linux and have since yesterday, migrated > from SuSE 7.1 to a boxed version 1

Re: Questions (and hello) from a new (Progeny) Debian user.

2001-05-18 Thread Colin Watson
"debian-user@lists.debian.org" wrote: >Question 1 : -> Is there a simple blow by blow description on how to >install a deb package which is currently in a directory on my >hard-drive? .. or is anyone able to help me as I appear to be lacking a >basic understanding here. Don't use apt here, use th

Re: /tmp trouble

2001-05-18 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 01:33:56AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 10:34:51PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > > I just wanted to experiment with partitions. So, created a 30 MB > > partition, and modified /etc/fstab as > >/dev/hda7 /tmp ext2defaults 0 0 > > > >An

Questions (and hello) from a new (Progeny) Debian user.

2001-05-18 Thread Krisno Pryosusilo
Hi, I'm a relatively new user of Linux and have since yesterday, migrated from SuSE 7.1 to a boxed version 1.0 of Progeny Debian. I chose Progeny because of my perception that Progeny would be easier to install and get running than the non-commercial Debian. However, the progeny users site is extr

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:40:39PM -, Brian Schramm wrote: > Ok I am lost. I installed this system that I am running with potato and > 2.2.17. I then downloaded the kernel source for 2.2.19 and compiled it the > way I need it for my current system. So, what is this about keeping the > .confi

Re: Snort config

2001-05-18 Thread Francois Gouget
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Iwan Mouwen wrote: > * John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010516 15:24]: > > >DEBIAN_SNORT_STATS_RCPT="root" > > ^ > > Change this just on principle: using root to check system email is just > > another thing you can do as a user and not have to be lo

Re: /etc/conf.modules is more recent ? !!

2001-05-18 Thread Gordon Hart
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 06:49:48PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > Hi, > I am using kernel 2.2.19 and with debian 2.2r2 and keep getting the following > message at boot up : > > Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.19/modules.dep > > I read the earlier post in this mailing

Re: Linux compatible IDE CDRW

2001-05-18 Thread Gordon Hart
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:43:21PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Plextor's 2mb. I assume, all things being equal, this would be an > >advantage. Is this a valid assumption? > > My understanding after reading about Burn-Proof on the Plextor web page is > that > this technology pretty much p

Re: opera

2001-05-18 Thread mark
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 06:14:44PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > trying to install opera, i got dependency errors, which even apt-get > -f install couldn't fix. subsequently i isolated the dependency, and > one of those were liblcms. but an apt-get install liblcms yielded: > > Package liblcms has no av

Re: opera

2001-05-18 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 06:14:44PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > trying to install opera, i got dependency errors, which even apt-get > -f install couldn't fix. subsequently i isolated the dependency, and > one of those were liblcms. but an apt-get install

/etc/conf.modules is more recent ? !!

2001-05-18 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, I am using kernel 2.2.19 and with debian 2.2r2 and keep getting the following message at boot up : Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.19/modules.dep I read the earlier post in this mailing list saying it was a bug in 2.2.17 . So I upgraded to 2.2.19 and it still hap

Re: opera

2001-05-18 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 06:14:44PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > trying to install opera, i got dependency errors, which even apt-get > -f install couldn't fix. subsequently i isolated the dependency, and > one of those were liblcms. but an apt-get install liblcms yielded: > > Package liblcms has no av

Re: [users] Re: [OT] Is Redhat *that* bad?

2001-05-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 07:23:03PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Alan Shutko (on Fri, 18 May 2001 05:58:29PM -0400): > > Nobody can find convincing arguments for linuxconf... but nobody > > forces you to use it. Many RHL users remove it on sight... I did, > > when I was using it. > > so di

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-18 Thread Brian Schramm
Ok I am lost. I installed this system that I am running with potato and 2.2.17. I then downloaded the kernel source for 2.2.19 and compiled it the way I need it for my current system. So, what is this about keeping the .config file and configuring it the same way that the kernel was configured?

Re: lm-sensors problems

2001-05-18 Thread Philipp Lehman
On 18 May 2001, David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >PL> In order to access the hardware sensors on my motherboard, I >PL> installed the lm-sensors-source package and the corresponding >PL> userland utilities. I need the i2c-viapro kernel module for

Re: /tmp trouble

2001-05-18 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 10:34:51PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > I just wanted to experiment with partitions. So, created a 30 MB > partition, and modified /etc/fstab as >/dev/hda7 /tmp ext2defaults 0 0 > >And rebooted. Now, mutt, lynx et al couldn't create tmp files, and won't >b

Re: [users] Re: [OT] Is Redhat *that* bad?

2001-05-18 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Alan Shutko (on Fri, 18 May 2001 05:58:29PM -0400): > Nobody can find convincing arguments for linuxconf... but nobody > forces you to use it. Many RHL users remove it on sight... I did, > when I was using it. so did i. nevertheless, i don't know about redhat 7.x anymore, but redhat 6

ATI Rage 128 virtual screen

2001-05-18 Thread Martin WHEELER
[Please cc responses direct, as not subscribed to list] Can any of you good folks help me out with a correctly configured XF86Config-4 file, set up for an ATI Rage 128 with 16M of memory, to give an actual window of 1024x768 on a virtual screen area of 1600x1280? One that works? I can't seem

Using old libc for some programs?

2001-05-18 Thread Paul D. Smith
I've just upgraded my testing distribution which installed libc6-2.3.1. Now, one of my apps (a daemon that uses sockets (I guess)) isn't working anymore. That is, the daemon starts and appears to be running normally with no errors in the log, but none of the clients can attach to it: they all giv

Re: [users] packaging hell

2001-05-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:34:11PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > > run 'apt-get -f install' > > then try again. if that doesn't work, repeat, but don't retry. > anything related to libc etc al. is sketchy to update. if libstdc++ > won't install, you can always force it to... Yeah, I tried that al

Small LAN problem

2001-05-18 Thread Alexander Poquet
Hi there, I have a newbie networking problem. I've never really done any networking before. I recently got an UltraSPARC 10 running Solaris 8, and decided it would be fun, useful, and educational to network it to my debian box. My debian box connects to the internet sometimes via ppp, but is ge

opera

2001-05-18 Thread MaD dUCK
trying to install opera, i got dependency errors, which even apt-get -f install couldn't fix. subsequently i isolated the dependency, and one of those were liblcms. but an apt-get install liblcms yielded: Package liblcms has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means th

Re: 12 box network in small school

2001-05-18 Thread Forrest English
definitly. at freegeek.org we run 10+ machines sans disks by using a diskless setup, and getting their x sessions from another box completely. the server i belive is a dual ppro 180.and we've been using client machines of 486 and pentiums on a 10Mb network. so, i think you'll be fine with th

Re: lm-sensors problems

2001-05-18 Thread David Z Maze
Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PL> In order to access the hardware sensors on my motherboard, I PL> installed the lm-sensors-source package and the corresponding PL> userland utilities. I need the i2c-viapro kernel module for my MB PL> (VIA KT133A/82c686b chipset). PL> PL> Now, when I

Re: Module agpgart not loading

2001-05-18 Thread mikepolniak
Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a Matrox G400 video card and have configured X (4.0.3) with the > mga driver and DRI. Upon boot I get an error message, that the drm > module (part of DRI, as I understand) failed to load because of the > agpgart module wasn't loaded before (well, it

Re: Running X apps in Windows

2001-05-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:33:46PM -0500, Jonathan Daugherty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does anyone know of a FREE package allowing one to run an X app on a > linux box in such a way that it can be used across a network on a > windows box, in the same way that X apps can be run over networks?

Re: [OT] Is Redhat *that* bad?

2001-05-18 Thread Alan Shutko
MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > alright then, i'll expand: redhat hurts especially if you know linux > very well. or can you find convincing arguments for linuxconf??? or > rpm??? Nobody can find convincing arguments for linuxconf... but nobody forces you to use it. Many RHL users remove

Re: [OT] Is Redhat *that* bad?

2001-05-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 04:01:36PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > From the front page at http://www.linuxcentral.com : > "Red Hat Linux 7.1 contains the basics for setting up a Linux > workstation or server. Ideal for the ex..." > > Now, I know Redhat's Linux distribution s

Re: Running X apps in Windows

2001-05-18 Thread D-Man
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:33:46PM -0500, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: | Does anyone know of a FREE package allowing one to run an X app on a | linux box in such a way that it can be used across a network on a | windows box, in the same way that X apps can be run over networks? Cygwin has XFree86 wit

Re: [users] Re: [OT] Is Redhat *that* bad?

2001-05-18 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Alan Shutko (on Fri, 18 May 2001 05:44:31PM -0400): > > ever used it? it hurts! > Most distributions hurt if you don't know how to use them. alright then, i'll expand: redhat hurts especially if you know linux very well. or can you find convincing arguments for linuxconf??? or rpm???

Re: [users] [OT] Is Redhat *that* bad?

2001-05-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:36:41PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Noah L. Meyerhans (on Fri, 18 May 2001 04:01:36PM -0400): > > Now, I know Redhat's Linux distribution sucks, but is it bad enough that > > it should be considered "ideal for the ex"??? > > read the page the link points to... i

Re: [OT] Is Redhat *that* bad?

2001-05-18 Thread Alan Shutko
MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ever used it? it hurts! Most distributions hurt if you don't know how to use them. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.

Re: Running X apps in Windows

2001-05-18 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Jonathan Daugherty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010518 17:44]: > Does anyone know of a FREE package allowing one to run an X app on > a linux box in such a way that it can be used across a network on a > windows box, in the same way that X apps can be run over networks? I don't know if this is what you

Re: [users] [OT] Is Redhat *that* bad?

2001-05-18 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Noah L. Meyerhans (on Fri, 18 May 2001 04:01:36PM -0400): > Now, I know Redhat's Linux distribution sucks, but is it bad enough that > it should be considered "ideal for the ex"??? read the page the link points to... it's ideal for the "experience user", not your ex... :-> but hey, i

Re: [users] packaging hell

2001-05-18 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Michael Soulier (on Fri, 18 May 2001 04:18:32PM -0400): > And there they are. run 'apt-get -f install' then try again. if that doesn't work, repeat, but don't retry. anything related to libc etc al. is sketchy to update. if libstdc++ won't install, you can always force it to...

Re: Make Menuconfig Problem

2001-05-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 04:46:49PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: >In file included from lxdialog.c:22: >dialog.h:29 curses.h No such file or directory apt-get install libncurses5-dev. This is not an essential package, which is why your fix-broken-upgrade and friends had n

Re: 12 box network in small school

2001-05-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:08:55PM +, joe golden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Our school has a Dell Dimension XPS T450 with > pentium III x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 3 450 MHz processor > 128 MB Ram > one 5GB hard drive and one 3GB hard drive > ethernet card > So

Running X apps in Windows

2001-05-18 Thread Jonathan Daugherty
Does anyone know of a FREE package allowing one to run an X app on a linux box in such a way that it can be used across a network on a windows box, in the same way that X apps can be run over networks? -- Jonathan Daugherty Dept. of Computer Science / Student Technology Support The University

Re: lprng problem.

2001-05-18 Thread Steve Gran
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Joel Mayes wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:45:00PM -0500, Dana J . Laude wrote: > > 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 w

Re: X problems

2001-05-18 Thread Steve Gran
On Fri, 18 May 2001, harsha wrote: > > hi, >i was using a potato system. i did a dist-upgrade to woody. the upgrade > went without a hitch but for X. some packages were of version 3.3.6-18. i > tried removing 3.3.6-18 but said dependency problems. > > I have Riva TNT2 ULTRA card. download

Re: lprng problem.

2001-05-18 Thread Dana J . Laude
> G'day Dana, > Thanks for the reply I've followed your advise but still no > luck, ( no change at all actualy ) just a black page or a > "No way to print this type of file, ASCII Text' message, > printed on the printer :( > > I'll agree with you about Debian though, it is the best Dist > I've c

Re: lm-sensors problems

2001-05-18 Thread mikepolniak
Philipp Lehman wrote: > In order to access the hardware sensors on my motherboard, I installed > the lm-sensors-source package and the corresponding userland > utilities. I need the i2c-viapro kernel module for my MB (VIA > KT133A/82c686b chipset). > > Now, when I try to patch the kernel (stricly

Make Menuconfig Problem

2001-05-18 Thread Thomas H. George
I sent this message two days ago but missed any answers as I had not subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am recovering from a disk crash and installed linux2.2.17 from an official binary-i386, version 2.2_r0 CD set. I rushed and missed the option which would have included parport in the install

Re: woody upgrade

2001-05-18 Thread Steve Gran
On Fri, 18 May 2001, "Chris Parker" wrote: > > Please HELP. Upgraded potato to woody. That went fine. Trying to go to > kernel 2.4.4. Used dselect for kenel and other packs like xfree86. Some > have installed but others will not! > ERROR MESSAGE: > [Scanning packages]Template parse error nea

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-18 Thread Michael Mueller
Here's a newbie question about the instructions below: If I load Potato from scratch, will there be a kernel source directory that has a modversions.h file in it? Mike --- "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:24:17PM -0400, Brian > Schramm wrote: > > > >

Postgresql 7.1 + unixODBC 2.0.5 + StarOffice 5.2

2001-05-18 Thread Jorge Santos
Hello, I have installed all the above (see subject) software and whenever I try to see the tables in a database with DataManager (a program supplied alongside unixODBC), th program just won't show any tables. The same problem happens with StarOffice. I know the driver manager and database driver

dbootstrap

2001-05-18 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Hi All, Does anyone know where the source for dbootstrap lives. I wanted to take a look at it and find out what it actually does but I haven't been able to find it. thanks, Andy

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

2001-05-18 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Dave Sherohman wrote: > 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. Time to file a wishlist severity bug report. > > So I configured i

packaging hell

2001-05-18 Thread Michael Soulier
Hey people. So, could someone explain this? g++ won't install because: g++: Depends: libstdc++2.10-dev (>= 1:2.95.2-10) but it is not going to be installed It would be _really_ nice if it explained _why_ it's not going to be installed, BTW. So, I try to install it. libstd

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:24:17PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: > > Any other ideas? > The kernel needs to be configured (i.e. make config || make menuconfig || make xconfig must have been run). The modversions.h file you mentioned (in a long list of other garbage, all of which I chopped out) is

Re: making woody...

2001-05-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:12:05PM -0400, Dutch wrote: > My plan is: > got to ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/ > and grab everything from Admin to X11 and stick it in a folder called ??? Unfortunately that won't all fit on a CD. http://cdimage.debian.org has some scrip

[OT] Is Redhat *that* bad?

2001-05-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
From the front page at http://www.linuxcentral.com : "Red Hat Linux 7.1 contains the basics for setting up a Linux workstation or server. Ideal for the ex..." Now, I know Redhat's Linux distribution sucks, but is it bad enough that it should be considered "ideal for the ex"??? ;^) noah -- ___

Re: Disable bootps/netbios

2001-05-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi! > I discovered something weird :) > When doing a 'nmap -v localhost' I see; > > PortState Protocol Service > 21 opentcpftp > 22 opentcp

Re: [users] Re: perl locale

2001-05-18 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Ilya Martynov (on Wed, 16 May 2001 11:57:57AM +0400): > >> Why are you setting LANG=en instead of LANG=en_US? > Md> i am not setting anything anywhere. in fact, i am lost! > check /etc/environment cool. i didn't know this file existed. how does it tie in? when is it sourced? martin;

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-18 Thread D-Man
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:24:17PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: | OK, I am ccing the list on this. I do have the source installed. I | installed the deb package for 2.2.19 and compiled the kernel for the | machine that it is running on. I want to use that kernel also since that | is the one that

Re: ntpdate woes - no suitable server

2001-05-18 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Hanasaki JiJi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Could someone please help me out with this? I have heard that the high > stratum number is bad and could be the cause of the error. What does stratum > mean? Why would i get this problem even locally? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[12]~ ntpdate -q l

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-18 Thread Brian Schramm
OK, I am ccing the list on this. I do have the source installed. I installed the deb package for 2.2.19 and compiled the kernel for the machine that it is running on. I want to use that kernel also since that is the one that I am using for the new system too. So, I do not believe that the sys

making woody...

2001-05-18 Thread Dutch
I going to try and make debian cds of Woody. I have a pretty "average" pc, no scsi, typical hard drive, zip drive, floppy, CD...Its a gateway and had debian on there before... Just wanted to know what I should put on my CDs and -where- as I know it will look for them and expect to find them in cer

stopped working in X

2001-05-18 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! After I yesterday updated some packages to be able to install KDE base from unstable, my key seems to have stopped working properly. It used to work in most places, but now it does some really weird things in several programs (most notably ncurses program and the bash shell). In my Xmodmap (

Disable bootps/netbios

2001-05-18 Thread Jan Enning
Hi! I discovered something weird :) When doing a 'nmap -v localhost' I see; PortState Protocol Service 21 opentcpftp 22 opentcpssh 25 opentcpsmtp 80 opentcphttp 110 opentcppop-3 And

Re: Configuring Networking - Newbie - add'l info

2001-05-18 Thread Bob Underwood
this is my first time writing to the list, so i left out info in my newbieness this is a new install, barebones 2.2r2 from cd (cheapbytes) with dist-upgrade to the current stable dist, and security updates. ip masquerading is enabled in the kernel and ipmasq is installed with the default scripts

ntpdate woes - no suitable server

2001-05-18 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Could someone please help me out with this? I have heard that the high stratum number is bad and could be the cause of the error. What does stratum mean? Why would i get this problem even locally? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[12]~ ntpdate -q localhost server 127.0.0.1, stratum 16, offset -0.93, del

Re: X problems

2001-05-18 Thread Jeffrin
Hello You can try this ... 1. Add " deb http.us.debian.org/debian sid main " to your /etc/sources.list 2. apt-get update 3. apt-get install xserver-xfree86 4. Download nvidia's driver sources ( NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769.tar.gz and NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769.tar.gz

opengl (mesa) compiling problem.

2001-05-18 Thread Jan Krupa
I would like to use the mesa (opengl) library in C or C++. I installed (debian2.2 potato) mesa-glide2 3.1-17 mesa-widget 3.1-17 mesademos or tried (instead) mesa-dev mesag3 I tried to compile some example of using opengl (mesa) library with the following heather: #include and using the foll

Re: Wave Splicer

2001-05-18 Thread Robert Voigt
On Friday 18 May 2001 01:41, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: > 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 doe

smc-ultra problem (loading problem)

2001-05-18 Thread Jan Krupa
I have tried to install (via html or ftp) the latest debian2.2 on my pentium machine (32MB RAM, 75MHz), smc-ultra card. I prepared three disc floppies: rescue.bin, root.bin, driver-1.bin. When I tried to install(load) the smc-ultra module I got the following message: /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17-com

Stil struggling with sound

2001-05-18 Thread Johann Spies
I am still stuck with my soundcard. I have done a $pnpdump --config > /etc/isapnp.conf and $isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf Board 1 has Identity a9 ff ff ff ff 36 42 63 0e: CSC4236 Serial No -1 [checksum a9] CSC4236/-1[0]{WSS/SB }: Ports 0x538 0x388 0x220; IRQ5 DMA1 --- Enabled OK CSC42

Re: /tmp trouble

2001-05-18 Thread Colin Watson
"V.Suresh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just wanted to experiment with partitions. So, created a 30 MB > partition, and modified /etc/fstab as > /dev/hda7 /tmp ext2defaults 0 0 > > And rebooted. Now, mutt, lynx et al couldn't create tmp files, and won't > budge. What's wrong? I had

Re: Linux compatible IDE CDRW

2001-05-18 Thread Scott_Patterson
>On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:36:02AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Which would be the best for me to get? >> >> Plextor CD-RW PX-W1210TA 12/10/32 IDE 2m Buffer Burn-Proof >> Sony CD-RW CRX160EBK 12/8/32 Internal IDE Retail Kit 4mb PC/MAC >> Yamaha CD-RW Internal 16Wx10RWx40R IDE Retail Kit C

Configuring Networking - Newbie

2001-05-18 Thread mgk
I've seen this discussed previously, can't find the solution though. The external connection works fine, I can't access the local network from my gateway box though. The routing table looks like this: DestinationGatewayGenmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface xx.xx.xxx.x 0.0.0.0

Re: XFree86 4.0.x & tdfx DRI

2001-05-18 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Ian Eure wrote: > has anyone out there been able to get DRI working properly with XFree86 > 4.0.x and a 3dfx board? > > it _seems_ to work, but framerates are low... not at low as with software > rendering, but low. i also get horrible flicker when polygons are redrawn. > > i was told that install

Re: Printing problems with pdq & Kernel 2.4.4

2001-05-18 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Volker Schlecht wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:19:49PM +0200, Volker Schlecht wrote: > > Kernel Versions: 2.4.2 & 2.4.4 > > pdq: 2.2.1-4 > > on Woody > > When I tell pdq to print a given (Postscript) document, it tells me that > > it doesn't know how to print this filetype and cancels. > > Ac

/var/log/messages permissions woes

2001-05-18 Thread au516
Hello all, This is a real mystery for me, and I need an answer to this problem: As a regular user (not root) I want to be able to do a 'tail -f /var/log/messages' whenever I dialup my ISP. This is all set up fine but there is a recurring permissions problem: every time I reboot, *something* chan

/tmp trouble

2001-05-18 Thread V.Suresh
I just wanted to experiment with partitions. So, created a 30 MB partition, and modified /etc/fstab as /dev/hda7 /tmp ext2defaults 0 0 And rebooted. Now, mutt, lynx et al couldn't create tmp files, and won't budge. What's wrong? I had to revert back, to put /tmp under / partitio

Re: user dialout problem.

2001-05-18 Thread V.Suresh
Once upon a time, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard. And typed: >V.Suresh writes: >> any help? > >Not without much more information. _Exactly_ what have you tried and >_exactly_ what happened? >-- >John Hasler >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Dancing Horse Hill >Elmwood, Wisconsin > > >-- >To

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