xlate 8-bit MAC ascii to 8-bit latin1 ascii?

2001-06-20 Thread will trillich
looking for a charset translator, in all the wrong places-- man ascii man iso_8859_1 man iso_8859_7 man iso_8859_15 man utf-8 man charsets been through all those. is there a facility to translate the macintosh-extended ascii set to iso_8859_1 or si

Java2 Problem

2001-06-20 Thread Dale Morris
I just finished filing a complaint with citibank because their citibankonline website isn't working with either Netscape 4.77 or the 6.0 version I have on my wife's computer. (I can log on, the page loads but returns an empty form..) When I called Citibank support they give me the runaround that t

Re: cvs/networking/aaaargh!

2001-06-20 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 11:44:57AM -0700, Glen S Mehn wrote: > ok, this is a wierd wierd wierd problem: > > I ahve a cvs server. I use pserver auth for it. okay, just so you know, i won't be able to help you. but maybe vice-versa... i'd like to get my potato serving cvs: where's the step-by-step

Re: NVidia RivaTNT2 M64

2001-06-20 Thread Jeffrin
Hello These are the links to latest drivers for your card. Download both these files. http://www.nvidia.com/docs/lo/201/SUPP/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-1251.tar.gz http://www.nvidia.com/docs/lo/201/SUPP/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1251.tar.gz Please ask if any mo

Re: IPMasqing finale

2001-06-20 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:05:20AM -0700, Stephen Handley wrote: > Hi all, > > First of all thanks Will for the help. It turned out I had everything set up > correctly and had for quite some time. The problem was a CLOGGED (for want > of a better word) DSL modem. However, it wasn't clogged enough

Re: how to find a package that provides ____._____

2001-06-20 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:55:22PM -0700, Kevin Dalley wrote: > If you didn't already know the answer, you could try: > > apt-cache search libXt > > Of course, libXt can be substituted by any other string. > > rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Howdy all, > > > > I need libXt.so.6 and libX

NVidia RivaTNT2 M64

2001-06-20 Thread Reza
Hi there.. I just wondering if I was right or wrong, I'm using xserver-svga for my XWindows on my NVidia Riva TNT2 M64 Vga card.. and is it correct, or is it another one, that's more specific? because I saw some people asked about NVidia drivers for their XWindows..Thank you very much Regards, Re

Re: Defaulting system to mono display

2001-06-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:36:55AM +0200, Karsten Heymann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi List, > > what is the best/correct way to tell the system that it's running on a > mono-display? Esp. I want mutt to use colours when reading mail over ssh > from my notebook, but using plain b/w mode when r

Re: Ripping MP3s

2001-06-20 Thread Joel Mayes
< --- ME --- > > > > > > > > > G'day Gary, > > > > I use Grip as a GUI, it includes the cdparanoia ripper so you don't need to > > install the cdparanoia package unless you want to also rip from the console > > to encode MP3's I use gogo which is an enhanced version of the lame encoded > > opti

Re: Ripping MP3s

2001-06-20 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 21-Jun 01:09, Joel Mayes wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:34:23AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can anyone recommend any package for creating mp3s from CDs (yes, I do own > > them :) under Debian? I tried searching the package list but there was > > nothing obvious, only players it se

Re: [users] Re: oldtimer pc

2001-06-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: [users] Re: oldtimer pc Date: Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 11:03:38PM +0200 In reply to:MaD dUCK Quoting MaD dUCK([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Wed, 20 Jun 2001 03:38:47PM -0500): > > Either kernel should be fine, though you should really get more ram

Re: another strange bootup message: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

2001-06-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: another strange bootup message: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument Date: Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 01:26:51PM -0800 In reply to:Britton Quoting Britton([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Oddly, this one does't show up in dmesg. It happens a couple of times > during bootup and thats it. Idea

Re: Ripping MP3s

2001-06-20 Thread Joel Mayes
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:34:23AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anyone recommend any package for creating mp3s from CDs (yes, I do own > them :) under Debian? I tried searching the package list but there was > nothing obvious, only players it seemed. > > For bonus points you might also

Re: Shutdown -h now

2001-06-20 Thread Dana J . Laude
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 19:58:10 Andrew Overholt wrote: > Hello again all, > > Does anyone else have a problem with proper soft power off? I realize > it's a faq but I've never actually seen a clear-cut answer. What Steve Cooper mentioned works. Compile APM support into you're kernel. The apm=o

GPG/PGP Keys

2001-06-20 Thread Chris Davidson
Hello, I am trying to setup GPG on my machine, i have it installed a key all setup, my problem is how do i setup my Key to get attached to emails. I use mutt and vi for the editor for sending emails. My other question also is how do i grab other people's key (i have heard something about a ke

Re: lilo &kernel upgrade

2001-06-20 Thread Dana J . Laude
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 19:34:40 Chris wrote: > Could anyone list a proper lilo.conf file for me to referrence mine > against.. I plan to upgrade to kernel 2.4.5 and the last time i did Here's mine: # Support LBA for large hard disks. # lba32 # Prompt - missing from default Debian install for some r

Re: how to find a package that provides ____._____

2001-06-20 Thread Kevin Dalley
If you didn't already know the answer, you could try: apt-cache search libXt Of course, libXt can be substituted by any other string. rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Howdy all, > > I need libXt.so.6 and libX11.so.6 to run Wordperfect how do I find > out which .deb package provides these

Re: man problem

2001-06-20 Thread Joel Mayes
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:21:24PM +0200, thomas wrote: > > > 'apt-get install less' to get a better pager, and your problems should > > go away. If that doesn't work, 'update-alternatives --config pager' to > > change what /usr/bin/pager points to. > > you were right. thx. > > thomas > > G'da

APM console blanking

2001-06-20 Thread Brian McGroarty
I'm using the stock potato 2.2.19 kernel and I've added apm=on to the kernel command line. How do I enable apm console blanking? I'm not using X on this system, and I'd like to power off the display after 5 minutes of no mouse/keyboard. __ Do You Y

dist-upgrade failure

2001-06-20 Thread G.LeeJohnson
upgrading probeny to unstable via: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade ...IT was all going quite well ( i have to answer alot of questions maybe I made mistake somewhere) till: --- Unpacking replacement gftp ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/ca

Re: modem

2001-06-20 Thread Shaul Karl
> Üdv > van 1 nagy problémám > most raktunk fel az 1ik haverommali debian a gépemre de > sehol nem találtam valami drievrt a belsõ morotola modemhez > lécci ha tudtok olyan helyet ahonnan le leeht tölteni akkor > küldjétek el a linket mert most ezzel a mikrofos termékkel > kell neteznem és már

Re: Shutdown -h now

2001-06-20 Thread stevencooper
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:58:10PM -0400, Andrew Overholt decreed: > Does anyone else have a problem with proper soft power off? I realize > it's a faq but I've never actually seen a clear-cut answer. Building a kernel with APM functionality enabled solves the problem. Cheers, Steve Cooper

RE: Shutdown -h now

2001-06-20 Thread KenrickC
>Does anyone else have a problem with proper soft power off? I >realize >it's a faq but I've never actually seen a clear-cut answer. Its a lilo or grub setting, according to a previous post. Basically append="apm=on" (lilo)or apm=on (grub), specified on the line with the kernel settings. Al

Re: Shutdown -h now

2001-06-20 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:58:10PM -0400, Andrew Overholt wrote: | Hello again all, | | Does anyone else have a problem with proper soft power off? I No. | realize it's a faq but I've never actually seen a clear-cut answer. What is your problem? [tries to check with psychic hotline, doesn't

Shutdown -h now

2001-06-20 Thread Andrew Overholt
Hello again all, Does anyone else have a problem with proper soft power off? I realize it's a faq but I've never actually seen a clear-cut answer. -- Andrew Overholt EngSci 0T3 Junior Bnad Leedur of the Lady Godiva Memorial Bnad ERTW

Re: Windows-like crashes!

2001-06-20 Thread Andrew Overholt
Well thanks to all for the suggestions and help! It turns out that it was a kernel problem 'cause I tried a different kernel and now it's working fine! Thanks again, Andrew -- Andrew Overholt EngSci 0T3 Junior Bnad Leedur of the Lady Godiva Memorial Bnad ERTW

Can only open one xterm

2001-06-20 Thread Astrogeek
I have a problem which is probably easy to solve, but I'm having a hard time with it. The problem is that I can only open one xterm/aterm/etc at a time under X. If I try to open any more as a user (in group tty) it reports that I can't get permission to do that. My permissions seem to be set ok,

lilo &kernel upgrade

2001-06-20 Thread Chris
Could anyone list a proper lilo.conf file for me to referrence mine against.. I plan to upgrade to kernel 2.4.5 and the last time i did all i got during bootup was kernel panic...unable to mount root partition root=?  So I need a copy of a workable kernel and possible instructions on upgradi

Re: Exim Rewriting rules problems

2001-06-20 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 12:51:28AM -0400, William Cooper wrote: > Hi, > have a similar situation in the office. According to the Exim docs, Exim > was > not made to handle this problem. The work arounds are: Things have changed, newer exim versions (at least newer then potato's), allow to spe

Re: unpredictable crashes, lock up, freezes, whatever

2001-06-20 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Heather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Okay, so I compiled a kernel without any APM support, installed > > and tried it. My system froze within half an hour :-( > > You must compile with one of the two flavors of power management, or > else there

Defaulting system to mono display

2001-06-20 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi List, what is the best/correct way to tell the system that it's running on a mono-display? Esp. I want mutt to use colours when reading mail over ssh from my notebook, but using plain b/w mode when reading mail on my mailrouter's mda (yes, not even hercules!) display. Is there a global option a

Re: C programming: What does this construct in printf(_(" means?

2001-06-20 Thread Brian May
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does the construct _("What ever format string I use") means in the context of printf? For example: [00:50:20 tmp]$ grep -C1 printf\(_\( util-linux-2.11b/misc-utils/script.c if (!strcmp(argv[1], "-V") || !strcmp(argv[1], "--version")) {

Re: [users] Re: oldtimer pc

2001-06-20 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 11:03:38PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Wed, 20 Jun 2001 03:38:47PM -0500): > > Either kernel should be fine, though you should really get more ram. > > A router in 8 MB ican get ugly :) I've run 16 MB in my router and was > > happier with 32 (my

apt-get without (direct) internet connection?

2001-06-20 Thread Chris Kenrick
I have two boxes here, a Debian woody box, not internet connected and a Windows NT box, internet connected. It's not an option to connect the Debian box to the net, but it is an option to connect it to the NT box via a null modem cable... So what I am asking is, how can I get apt to not download

kdm keyboard input problem

2001-06-20 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, Strange thing is happening to my newly upgraded kdm (deb version 2.1.1.0-10). After I reboot the machine, it would not accept any keyboard input unless I restart the X server. After that, everything seems to be fine. Any ideas? --ET.

Re: boot disk dilemma

2001-06-20 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:03:33PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: > so i finally managed to boot off the floppy disks and am now in the > debian installation menu, just short of installing the operating > system. i have a local debian mirror, so i'd like to install via > network (ftp) -- especially because

Re: pon allowing modem to auto redial on disconnect

2001-06-20 Thread John Hasler
Mark writes: > Am I to presume that this ['persist'] means auto redial (as in persist - > keep trying) Yes. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: Monitor not remembering settings

2001-06-20 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 11:38:38AM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > Hi, > > I have Debian unstable set up with KDM and KDE2 to dual-boot with a WindowsMe > system. My problem is that each time I boot to Debian, I have to readjust my > monitor's settings because the screen is all bent out of shape. A

Re: more boot floppies questions

2001-06-20 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Osamu Aoki (on Wed, 20 Jun 2001 03:53:49PM -0700): > Are you potato or woody? potato. martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "there are more things in heaven and earth, horatio, than are dream

Re: [users] Re: more boot floppies questions

2001-06-20 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Hoeteck Wee (on Wed, 20 Jun 2001 06:03:30PM -0400): > Here are the network related modules that are provided with driver-1.bin > in the compact images. The 3c509 might work with your 3c59x card, but I'm > not too sure about that. i have looked at, and unpacked the drivers.tgz archive,

Re: more boot floppies questions

2001-06-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 11:32:14PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: > i swear, i read all the readmes and did the websearches, but i don't > arrive. i am still baffled as to what these driver_[1-4].bin images > are supposed to be used for - or more likely, how they are supposed to > be used. Are you pota

Re: more boot floppies questions

2001-06-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
During a floppy installation, you boot with the rescue floppy and will be prompted to install the root floppy and later the driver floppy or floppies. vanilla has a lot more drivers available and therefore requires more disks. The kernel-config files list which drivers are included in each flavor

Re: more boot floppies questions

2001-06-20 Thread Hoeteck Wee
> realtek, tulip, 3c59x, sis900, and ne modules, which are supposedly on > the driver-? disks. Here are the network related modules that are provided with driver-1.bin in the compact images. The 3c509 might work with your 3c59x card, but I'm not too sure about that. /lib/modules/2.2.19-compact$

RE: Reading BIOS information

2001-06-20 Thread Donald R. Spoon
> Greetings folks. > > I've been working on getting a new video card installed in my machine, and > have what I think is an IRQ conflict (it's PCI, and I think the BIOS is > assigning it a shared IRQ, which doesn't make it happy). What I'm > wondering is if there's any way to read information fro

pon allowing modem to auto redial on disconnect

2001-06-20 Thread mark
Hi all, Iam using a 56k modem on potato and have set up my modem using 'pppconfig' and it works great apart from the fact it will not auto redial once a connection has been terminated ( as my uk isp only allows 2 hrs on line at a time, then i can automatically redial). Ive check

Re: C programming: What does this construct in printf(_(" means?

2001-06-20 Thread Moritz Schulte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > What does the construct > >_("What ever format string I use") > > means in the context of printf? This construct is often used for 'gettext'. gettext translates text messages. >From gettext's info page: Many packages use `_' (a simple underline) as a keyword

C programming: What does this construct in printf(_(" means?

2001-06-20 Thread shaulka
What does the construct _("What ever format string I use") means in the context of printf? For example: [00:50:20 tmp]$ grep -C1 printf\(_\( util-linux-2.11b/misc-utils/script.c if (!strcmp(argv[1], "-V") || !strcmp(argv[1], "--version")) { printf(_("%

Re: oldtimer pc

2001-06-20 Thread Nik Makepeace
At 21:26 20/06/2001 +0200, Paul Huygen wrote: MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so i pulled this old 486-33 machine out of the basement, it's got 8Mb > RAM, a shitty graphics card, and 240Mb of HDD space. it's ISA only, > but i want to try using an AVM FritzCard and a cheap NE2000 compatible

Mouse and libSDL

2001-06-20 Thread Andre Alexander Bell
Hello! I've started the game mobility on my debian/woody system. I'm running XFree4.0.3. The Mouse in X is set up on /dev/psaux with PS/2-Protocol. Mobility uses libSDL and as soon as I start the game there is no longer a mouse pointer, but there should be one. The same happens with descent compi

more boot floppies questions

2001-06-20 Thread MaD dUCK
i swear, i read all the readmes and did the websearches, but i don't arrive. i am still baffled as to what these driver_[1-4].bin images are supposed to be used for - or more likely, how they are supposed to be used. but right now, i am wondering why each of the falvors, vanilla, compact, idepci,

Re: Dual processor PIII 866 versus single Pentium 1.4Ghz

2001-06-20 Thread Lee Elliott
Dunno about expert, but I have some experience in this area. The P4, having a long pipeline, is more suited to streaming type processing: the pipeline has to be 'full' before it'll give peak performance. I think that most of the s/w that supports the new clever bits in the P4 are benchmarking pac

Re: Dual processor PIII 866 versus single Pentium 1.4Ghz

2001-06-20 Thread Vector
Sweet! I'll check it out and let you know what it's like... I was once a big fan of Tyan boards but had to get away from them for a while because they weren't releasing boards that were meeting my needs. Thanks for the heads up! vector > Tyan has released a dual Athlon motherboard. According

Re: configuring Xircom Realport CardBus Multi-Function Card: RBEM56G-100 under Linux

2001-06-20 Thread David L. Craig
On Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 21:09:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:50:20PM +0100 Waldemar Brodkorb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Wilson Yau wrote: > > > Hi, I am trying to get a Xircom RealPort CardBus multi-function card > > (10/100

Re: [users] Re: oldtimer pc

2001-06-20 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Wed, 20 Jun 2001 03:38:47PM -0500): > Either kernel should be fine, though you should really get more ram. > A router in 8 MB ican get ugly :) I've run 16 MB in my router and was > happier with 32 (my router is a 486/25 old timer with 2 3c509b :) I'm > running 2.2.

"kabelfoon" modem installation

2001-06-20 Thread Tino Uffelen
I just installed Debian version 2.0.38 and now I have a lot of questions The first, and most important one, is how to get my "kabelfoon" modem (cablemodem) to work. It's connected to a normal serial port. I get some reaction from it just using PPPconfig but then it just dies. I seems I have

Re: standard filepermissions

2001-06-20 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, June 19, bernd b did write: > Hi, > > In DEBIAN new directories are made > drwxr-sr-x. Of course this can be changed with umask > But where is the default file permission and the setgid bit set? > How should i create dirs which are default drwxr-xr-x; without the gid bit > set?

Re: ActiveState--Komodo

2001-06-20 Thread CM
That worked : ) Thanks for you time Hoeteck CM On Wednesday 20 June 2001 16:25, CM wrote: > I'll try that now thanx > > CM > > On Wednesday 20 June 2001 15:59, you wrote: > > > /home/rex/Komodo/Mozilla/mozilla-bin: error while loading shared > > > libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open

Re: oldtimer pc

2001-06-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 07:23:28PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: > so i pulled this old 486-33 machine out of the basement, it's got 8Mb > RAM, a shitty graphics card, and 240Mb of HDD space. it's ISA only, > but i want to try using an AVM FritzCard and a cheap NE2000 compatible > to make it be a masquera

Re: ActiveState--Komodo

2001-06-20 Thread CM
I'll try that now thanx CM On Wednesday 20 June 2001 15:59, you wrote: > > /home/rex/Komodo/Mozilla/mozilla-bin: error while loading shared > > libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No > > such file or directory > > It appears that you are missing /usr/lib/libstdc++

Re: ActiveState--Komodo

2001-06-20 Thread Hoeteck Wee
> /home/rex/Komodo/Mozilla/mozilla-bin: error while loading shared libraries: > libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > directory It appears that you are missing /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2, which on my Woody system is provided by: libstdc++2.9-gl

Re: boot disk dilemma

2001-06-20 Thread Paul Mackinney
Can't help with the install issue, sorry. On a different tack, you might check out the Linux Router Project at http://www.linuxrouter.org/ if you just want a router with IP Masquerading. supposedly you can get all the software you need to run from a locked floppy on system with no hard drive at al

Infinite Reboot

2001-06-20 Thread joe golden
Just repartitioned my 4GB hard drive and copied all files (except /proc, /dev, /usr, etc.) from root system that was previously on /dev/hda2 to /dev/hda1. Modified /etc/fstab to reflect changes. Modified lilo.conf then ran lilo. On rebooting I never get a login prompt>> system reboots before

Re: boot disk dilemma

2001-06-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
I guess loop back device/module is not available in boot diski kernel image. Well try idepci if you have some pci network card or just roll your own boot disk by replacing boot option which include network device or loop back... but this is too much:-) I usually do not mind having few driver

RE: oldtimer pc

2001-06-20 Thread Paul Rae
either that or my personal choice is smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) and the setup you descruibe below is ideal for a smoothie based machine -Original Message- From: Paul Huygen To: debian users Cc: Paul Huygen Sent: 20/06/01 20:26 Subject: Re: oldtimer pc MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: oldtimer pc

2001-06-20 Thread Paul Huygen
MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so i pulled this old 486-33 machine out of the basement, it's got 8Mb > RAM, a shitty graphics card, and 240Mb of HDD space. it's ISA only, > but i want to try using an AVM FritzCard and a cheap NE2000 compatible > to make it be a masquerading router. it's pro

Re: Dual processor PIII 866 versus single Pentium 1.4Ghz

2001-06-20 Thread Mike
Vector wrote: > For multiprocessor support, intel is not as horrid as you proclaim it to > be. No question, AMD rocks. But there are not many (any at all?) dual > cpu boards out there and the support for more than one processor with AMD > is still quite immature. For mid-range and up servers, mu

ActiveState--Komodo

2001-06-20 Thread CM
Hi all, I'm trying to run Komodo, its a scripting IDE by Active State. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/Komodo/More Apparently, from reading their docs it does not work on Debian anymore. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a .deb that I can try. Or could help me debug and suggest a

Problems with kdm and sessreg - not all user sessions are recorded

2001-06-20 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
Hello to all, i have a network with diskless X workstations running. Every client is asking the server for everything above the Xserver (using ver 4.0.3) with XFree86 -query sonne (where sonne is the name of the server). On the server X is configured to answer these requests and everything is

Re: Dual processor PIII 866 versus single Pentium 1.4Ghz

2001-06-20 Thread Vector
For multiprocessor support, intel is not as horrid as you proclaim it to be. No question, AMD rocks. But there are not many (any at all?) dual cpu boards out there and the support for more than one processor with AMD is still quite immature. For mid-range and up servers, multiple CPU's can be a

Re: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0_HELP?

2001-06-20 Thread Frans Schreuder
I appollogize for this rude dump of information. But I'm really thankful that you are willing to help Regards, Frans cat /var/log/syslog | more: Jun 20 19:50:40 venom -- MARK -- Jun 20 20:06:37 venom init: Switching to runlevel: 6 Jun 20 20:06:40 venom /sbin/rpc.statd[289]: Caught signal 15, un-r

Reading BIOS information

2001-06-20 Thread ANDREW PERRIN
Greetings folks. I've been working on getting a new video card installed in my machine, and have what I think is an IRQ conflict (it's PCI, and I think the BIOS is assigning it a shared IRQ, which doesn't make it happy). What I'm wondering is if there's any way to read information from the system

cvs/networking/aaaargh!

2001-06-20 Thread Glen S Mehn
ok, this is a wierd wierd wierd problem: I ahve a cvs server. I use pserver auth for it. every now and then, connections from the cvs server hang, and they seem to tear down my networking. this is what happens (when the connection hangs): if I ssh to the box, I get a "Bad remote protocol version

Re: boot disk dilemma

2001-06-20 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Osamu Aoki (on Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:38:10AM -0700): > dd driver disks (3 of them for compact) to Floppy as originally designed > like boot/root disks. Good luck :-) well, i understood that, and i have my disks. but in the installationprogram, there are two options: - preload modules

Re: RealPlayer Installer

2001-06-20 Thread Janto Trappe
On [20-06-01 13:09], Hall Stevenson wrote: > > Has anyone managed to get the RealPlayer installer > > package to work under sid? Mine crashes out. > > Mine doesn't crash, it just doesn't prompt me for the file > it's looking for... I haven't dug at all though. I rarely use > RealPlayer and the on

Re: boot disk dilemma

2001-06-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
dd driver disks (3 of them for compact) to Floppy as originally designed like boot/root disks. Good luck :-) On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:03:33PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: > so i finally managed to boot off the floppy disks and am now in the > debian installation menu, just short of installing the op

Re: Monitor not remembering settings

2001-06-20 Thread stevencooper
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 11:38:38AM -0500, Bart Szyszka decreed: > I have Debian unstable set up with KDM and KDE2 to dual-boot with a WindowsMe > system. My problem is that each time I boot to Debian, I have to readjust my > monitor's settings because the screen is all bent out of shape. Any idea

Re: oldtimer pc

2001-06-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 07:23:28PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: > so i pulled this old 486-33 machine out of the basement, it's got 8Mb > RAM, a shitty graphics card, and 240Mb of HDD space. it's ISA only, ... > question is: 2.2.x kernels or 2.4.x? i'd tend for the latter, but i > don't know is that

Re: boot disk dilemma

2001-06-20 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:03:33PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: | so i finally managed to boot off the floppy disks and am now in the | debian installation menu, just short of installing the operating | system. i have a local debian mirror, so i'd like to install via | network (ftp) -- especially because

Re: oldtimer pc

2001-06-20 Thread D-Man
| In MaD dUCK's email, 20-06-2001: | so i pulled this old 486-33 machine out of the basement, it's got 8Mb | RAM, a shitty graphics card, and 240Mb of HDD space. it's ISA only, | but i want to try using an AVM FritzCard and a cheap NE2000 compatible | to make it be a masquerading router. it's proba

boot disk dilemma

2001-06-20 Thread MaD dUCK
so i finally managed to boot off the floppy disks and am now in the debian installation menu, just short of installing the operating system. i have a local debian mirror, so i'd like to install via network (ftp) -- especially because i don't have the cds. i am using the "compact" kernel. i am deal

RE: Dual processor PIII 866 versus single Pentium 1.4Ghz

2001-06-20 Thread Paul Rae
personally i would always stick to intel, especially in a server environment, and in your situation i would go for the dual p3 soloution -Original Message- From: John To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Debian-user Sent: 20/06/01 18:29 Subject: Re: Dual processor PIII 866 versus single Pentium 1.4Ghz

Re: another strange bootup message: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

2001-06-20 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:36:24PM +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > Britton wrote: > > > Oddly, this one does't show up in dmesg. It happens a couple of times > > during bootup and thats it. Ideas what is going on would be mose welcome. > Hi There, Don't know if I can

Re: Ripping MP3s

2001-06-20 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:34:23AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anyone recommend any package for creating mp3s from CDs (yes, I do own > them :) under Debian? I tried searching the package list but there was > nothing obvious, only players it seemed. Take a look at package abcde (ABette

Re: oldtimer pc

2001-06-20 Thread CS/MATH stud.
In MaD dUCK's email, 20-06-2001: > so i pulled this old 486-33 machine out of the basement, it's got 8Mb > RAM, a shitty graphics card, and 240Mb of HDD space. it's ISA only, > but i want to try using an AVM FritzCard and a cheap NE2000 compatible > to make it be a masquerading router. it's probabl

Re: RealPlayer Installer

2001-06-20 Thread Daniel T. Chen
Mine crashes as well, but I work around that by choosing not to set it up during apt-get install; instead I place the rpm in /tmp and run `dpkg-reconfigure realplayer`. Cheers, dtc --- Dan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key: www.cs.unc.edu/~chenda/pubkey.gpg.asc On Wed, 20 Jun 2001,

ntpdate on two machines: all the details included this time around

2001-06-20 Thread Theodore Knab
Hello, I have an ntpdate/date problem. I originally posted this question through my friend that has recently converted me into a Debian user.I am now subscribed to the list. I am running ntpdate as a cron job on 2 different machines. The time is not being stored correctly on 1 of the 2 machin

oldtimer pc

2001-06-20 Thread MaD dUCK
so i pulled this old 486-33 machine out of the basement, it's got 8Mb RAM, a shitty graphics card, and 240Mb of HDD space. it's ISA only, but i want to try using an AVM FritzCard and a cheap NE2000 compatible to make it be a masquerading router. it's probably going to fail, but i want to try anyway

Re: linux & Pacbell DSL (CA only)

2001-06-20 Thread Stan Kaufman
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Hello, > > My friend down the road has DSL at her home now. Here computer was just > upgraded with debian stable (dualboot with winyuck98). I installed the DSL > modem and it syncs, so is ready to go. > > My question is this; Does she have to use the CDrom that com

Re: Dual processor PIII 866 versus single Pentium 1.4Ghz

2001-06-20 Thread John
Ill tell you right now. DONT GET INTEL CPUS. they are horrid now-a-days. AMD chips are based off of newer architecture, have 33% more on-chip chache, and can run at even 266mhz system bus, as opposed to only 133mhz p3. Athlons also have 3 Floating point pipelines, as opposed to p3's 1. all of t

Re: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0_HELP?

2001-06-20 Thread Guy Geens
> "Frans" == Frans Schreuder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Frans> mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for Frans> potential clues. Does anything appear in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/kern.log ? -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: getting started w/ debs

2001-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
"Michael O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'd like to create a deb to install some custom packages on my machine. >I was curious if there was a good document that walks someone thru >changing a set of files into an installable deb? Yep, the New Maintainers' Guide (http://www.debian.org/doc/mai

Re: linux & Pacbell DSL (CA only)

2001-06-20 Thread david
> My question is this; Does she have to use the CDrom that comes with the > PacBell kit or can we use pure debian for the VERY FIRST LOGIN? If so, how > shall we go about it? Seems like it would be really neat if we can do this M$ > free. I have the PACBELL DSL myself. I've not had to use the CD

Re: ./configure of GTK+ fails

2001-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
"Rajkumar S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Colin Watson wrote: >> What does config.log say about it (down near the end)? > >This is the relevent portion of the config.log > >configure:9966: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -g -Wall conftest.c -lX11 -ldl >1>&5 >/usr/bin/ld: cannot find

Re: RealPlayer Installer

2001-06-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Has anyone managed to get the RealPlayer installer > package to work under sid? Mine crashes out. Mine doesn't crash, it just doesn't prompt me for the file it's looking for... I haven't dug at all though. I rarely use RealPlayer and the one that's currently installed worked last time I tried i

Re: another strange bootup message: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

2001-06-20 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Britton wrote: > Oddly, this one does't show up in dmesg. It happens a couple of times > during bootup and thats it. Ideas what is going on would be mose welcome. IIRC i was having something like that on boot when i've upgraded from slink to potato, try looking in your /etc/network but don't re

Re: [Debian] Samba: Can't Rename the Log File

2001-06-20 Thread Frank Fürst
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hubert Palme) writes: > Hmm..., I'll try it once more because I can't beleive that nobody can > give me a hint... [...] > > in the syslog file I repeatedly find the following messages: > > Jun 8 08:19:40 wrpc3 smbd[8296]: [2001/06/08 08:19:40, 0] > lib/debug.c:check_log_size

getting started w/ debs

2001-06-20 Thread Michael O'Brien
Hola~ I'd like to create a deb to install some custom packages on my machine. I was curious if there was a good document that walks someone thru changing a set of files into an installable deb? MO -- Michael O'Brien Tools Pixar

RealPlayer Installer

2001-06-20 Thread Stephen J . Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Has anyone managed to get the RealPlayer installer package to work under sid? Mine crashes out. Regards, Stephen. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iQIXAwUBOzDUx7qZwrUTrK

Re: memory

2001-06-20 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 05:40:54PM +0200, Adri wrote: > Hello all, > > I have some scattered questions > > a) I read that sometimes linu doesn't see all the ram you have installed on > your machine. > How can I verify hao much ram does my debian sees? And how can I correct > the situation in ca

Re: Problem with woody statd? (was Re: RPC failures)

2001-06-20 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I've been having NFS locking trouble on my sid system for a while, but never got around to really looking at it. Based no your mail I did a little debuging and discovered statd was dying here too with: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jon]$ sudo /sbin/rpc.statd -F -d 06/20/2001 12:19:25 rpc.statd[6177]: V

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