Re: xserver-svga geforce2 woes

2001-07-08 Thread Kyle Girard
Upgrading to XFree86 4 from and either using the "nv" driver or the "nvidia" driver from nvidia should solve your X problem... but you won't be using the SVGA server although I don't know why you would want to use it .   I'm using nvidia's drivers  on a TNT and my housemate's on a Geforce and w

Re: Apache.pm failed to load

2001-07-08 Thread Tommy Wu
scheme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That seems to be partially related to perl package. As I downgraded to > the packages apache-common and apache-perl found in potato 2.2r3, it > refused to work as well, though the message was not that Apache.pm > cannot be loaded but "httpd could not be start

asus a7v-e mobo and debian

2001-07-08 Thread Jason Majors
I'm getting an asus a7v-e (with the VIA Apollo KT133 which has the VIA VT8363 UDMA controller). I'd like to know if anybody on the list has any experience with getting one of these chips to communicate with Linux. I have kernel 2.2.19 but did not see any options for this chip specifically. Will I h

OT // Re: [Newbiedoc-discuss] Re: cvs server saga -- continued

2001-07-08 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 11:10:15PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 09:58:29PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > | now that i've renamed the huge logfiles (syslog and > | daemon.log among them) i've restarted various servers > | (mysql, postgresql, apache) but how to i re-es

STB Velocity 4400

2001-07-08 Thread Jonathan Daugherty
Hello all, I just recently came into a STB Velocity 4400 agp graphics card. I know it's TNT-based. Can anyone give me an opinion on this card, including feelings about support, compatibility for 3d gaming in linux, etc? -- Jonathan Daugherty Dept. of Computer Science / UCNS Workstation Suppo

Apache.pm failed to load

2001-07-08 Thread scheme
;; Please cc to me for I'm not subscribing debian-user list. I'm using woody on PIII. I found since June 26 or so when I dist-upgrade the system, my apache server reported "Apache.pm failed to load" and refused to work. Does anybody know how to solve the problem? That seems to be partially r

xserver-svga geforce2 woes

2001-07-08 Thread Patrick Gray
hello. i have been toying with the idea of switching to debian gnu/linux as my main OS (as opposed to win98), so i partitioned off an extra 5 gigs of space for me to experiment with getting everything running all smoothly before i commit myself to a bunch of data loss, and a couple nights of kickin

Re: help! can't start X anymore

2001-07-08 Thread Andrew Kae
Hi,   I'm kinda digging up this thread from april becuause i'm having the same problem and there didn't seem to be a definite answer to the thread.   I've been using xfree86-common 3.35 then decided to update to the testing-distribution and now i have xfree86-common 4.something   When I tried star

Re: Internet connection

2001-07-08 Thread John Hasler
D-Man writes: > Why do you say the [/dev/modem] link is a bad idea (serious question)? Locking. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: cvs server saga -- continued

2001-07-08 Thread D-Man
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 09:58:29PM -0500, will trillich wrote: | now that i've renamed the huge logfiles (syslog and | daemon.log among them) i've restarted various servers | (mysql, postgresql, apache) but how to i re-establish new | "syslog" and "daemon.log" entries? sure

Re: Internet connection

2001-07-08 Thread D-Man
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 08:24:33PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: | Kent writes: | > /dev/modem is usually a symbolic link to the actual ttySx; either tell | > wvdial to use /dev/ttyS1 instead of /dev/modem, or create the link with | > the command "ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem". | | Please do the former

cvs server saga -- continued

2001-07-08 Thread will trillich
i'm still trying to get a cvs/repository SERVER going on my potato system -- by (thanks for the link, Jesse) following the instrux on http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html -- but: will$ df -h /var FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda7

Re: Frame buffer at boot

2001-07-08 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 09:15:33PM +0200, Fr?d?ric de Villamil wrote: > -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > hQIOA9mN6tpqz4aGEAf8C7cY4OqHHsi2XrJ2rmu5h78sJVvLTg2YHFEaE7YyBDPT > Tl+L6qmL28EXqOWT9DjxKryF1muqVcIOj239XLFNU46oL/

Re: NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-08 Thread JoshNarins
Thanks for the very full explanation. Sigh. Reinstall? I have done fresh installs many times. Sorry I don't know the drill for reinstalls. I could move the stuff I want to save to one parti tion, and then reinstall on just / and /boot? Josh Narins PS Tough to type like that :)

Re: Starting mail retrieval agent: system-wide fetchmail not configured

2001-07-08 Thread Shaul Karl
> when i boot woody it says: > > Starting mail retrieval agent: system-wide fetchmail not configured > I hope the following might help: [05:42:42 tmp]$ head -19 /etc/init.d/fetchmail #!/bin/sh # # Fetchmail/fetchmail-ssl init script # $Id: fetchmail.init,v 1.16 2001/05/13 17:41:19 hmh Exp $ #

Re: Installing device drivers

2001-07-08 Thread Shaul Karl
> I recently have decided to install Debian on my computer after a long > absence from the Linux world. However, I bought a cheap Winmodem and > after a long, involved search I have actually found a device driver for > Linux. Can you post the URL? Have you tried looking in http://www.linmo

Re: xv alternatives

2001-07-08 Thread Joey Hess
Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hmm. > > I'd argue that this is what good coding is for. Even good coders make mistakes. My resource limits have saved my system from OOM due to badly behaved code I was writing or debugging, accidental fork bombs (yes, it can be done!), etc, more times than

Re: NO! chmod strikes! -- ooopss

2001-07-08 Thread Alvin Oga
On 8 Jul 2001, David Z Maze wrote: > Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AO> if you only wanted to change the local dot files... oh well... > AO> we all learn and remember the hard way... :-) > AO> shoulda been: chmod pattern ~/.* > > ...which will still catch ~/. and ~/.., which you don

PS/2 mouse problems

2001-07-08 Thread Khavkine Igor
I have an Asus P5A motherboard and I'm running Linux-2.4.5, custom compiled. I have a problem using my PS/2 mouse port. I have enabled PS/2 mouse support in the kernel. I get this message when the computer boots up: ... Starting kswapd v1.8 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. <--- pty: 256 Unix98 ptys

Re: NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-08 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: j> 1. ( ) text/plain (*) text/html No need for HTML on the mailing list. j> I tried, in a subdir of /root, the command j> chmod -R o-rwx .* j> It changed the permissions on the parent directory, j> the parent's parent directory, all the

Re: Broken Library : How to fix?

2001-07-08 Thread John Patton
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 06:57:12PM -0500, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having a little trouble installing the python-base package on a > Potato system. > > Here's where it gets up to: > > (Reading database ... 30058 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking python-

Re: NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-08 Thread David Z Maze
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AO> if you only wanted to change the local dot files... oh well... AO> we all learn and remember the hard way... :-) AO> shoulda been: chmod pattern ~/.* ...which will still catch ~/. and ~/.., which you don't want. (Particularly as root, whose home dire

Re: Help: pppd broken in Testing

2001-07-08 Thread Miles Bader
> Now I'm away I cannot connect. The modem connects ok but then > pppd terminates:- > Serial connection established > transfer_ppp failed: wanted unit 0, got 1 > Hangup (SIGHUP) > Exit > Can anyone tell me what is wrong? I can't tell you what's wrong, but I had the same problem, and worked arou

Re: NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya josh the .* told it to change it to the directory above it too... geez what fun if you only wanted to change the local dot files... oh well... we all learn and remember the hard way... :-) shoulda been: chmod pattern ~/.* an easy fix might be: ( your system might/

Re: Internet connection

2001-07-08 Thread John Hasler
Kent writes: > /dev/modem is usually a symbolic link to the actual ttySx; either tell > wvdial to use /dev/ttyS1 instead of /dev/modem, or create the link with > the command "ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem". Please do the former. The link is a bad idea. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler

Re: Swapping /usr and /

2001-07-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya dave... no, am agreeing with you... dont need rescue disk, unless something goes wrong.. but am adding that the rescue disk should be standalone with its own root fs so that things can be fixed ( if its not stand alone... its not a rescue disk ( but a mere "boot disk" whic

Re: NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-08 Thread Alan Shutko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is there any chance chmod -R o-rwx .* started working > on subdirectories of / ? Yes, since that's what -R means. Your system is hosed. Reinstall. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Do not think by infection, catching an opinion like a co

Re: Swapping /usr and /

2001-07-08 Thread Dave Carrigan
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi ya dave, original poster > > the "rescue disk" must be standalone .. because > the current / fs might be corrupted during the copying for stuff around... > or your a live cdrom will do the trick too I have gone to single user mode and moved / to a

Broken Library : How to fix?

2001-07-08 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Hi all, I'm having a little trouble installing the python-base package on a Potato system. Here's where it gets up to: (Reading database ... 30058 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking python-base (from .../python-base_1.5.2-10potato11_i386.deb) ... Setting up python-base (1.5.2

Re: Swapping /usr and /

2001-07-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya dave, original poster the "rescue disk" must be standalone .. because the current / fs might be corrupted during the copying for stuff around... or your a live cdrom will do the trick too have fun alvin On 7 Jul 2001, Dave Carrigan wrote: > Andrew Overholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wri

Re: Going slightly spare!

2001-07-08 Thread Paul Tansom
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 11:42:12PM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:20:54PM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: > > > > I'm trying to compile a driver from scyld.com on my Debian 2.2r3 > > > > insta

Re: NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-08 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 06:25:27PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ah, I see now how -R and .* could get kinda crazy. > > Thank you. > > But I changed the perms of / a bit, but it still won't > work (cd is now working for regular user, but no logins, > nor does ls work). /bin/login is setui

Re: Internet connection

2001-07-08 Thread Kent West
malcolm jordan wrote: My Task: To connect my PC to the internet via an ISP using a newly installed Debian/Linux OS. (This is the official potato distribution Debian/Linux 2.2r2 that was purchased from a vendor through the postal service.) Problem: When (run as root) the command "wvd

Re: grub booting message

2001-07-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
I don't know why it might have changed, but if you want to restore the backup of your bootsector, you can do so with dd. See a few posts about a week ago with subject "dd question" for more discussion on how to do it. Vineet * Regnat Nikolaus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010626 22:46]: > I'm using debian

Re: New kernel pre21?

2001-07-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
2.2.19pre21 would be the 21st prerelease candidate for kernel 2.2.19. If you have 2.2.19, then you have the actual release. 2.2.19 is still the latest in the 2.2.x series of the Linux kernel. In general, you should check the changelogs to decide if there's reason to upgrade your kernel. If everyth

Re: OpenAFS under Potato: can't compile...

2001-07-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
apt-get install debhelper , which includes /usr/bin/dh_testdir Vineet * Andrew Perrin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010625 17:40]: > Please forgive my poor understanding of kernel-level things. > > I'm trying to get openAFS (the client side) running under potato. I looked > at the instructions from www.

Internet connection

2001-07-08 Thread malcolm jordan
My Task: To connect my PC to the internet via an ISP using a newly installed Debian/Linux OS. (This is the official potato distribution Debian/Linux 2.2r2 that was purchased from a vendor through the postal service.)   Problem: When (run as root) the command "wvdial" is given, I get the follo

RE: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-08 Thread Huebel, David
Bayer lost the trademark in the US in the case Bayer Co. v. United Drug Co., 272 F. 505 (S.D.N.Y. 1921), in which the term "aspirin" was ruled to be generic. Before 1915, Bayer marketed acetylsalicylic acid powder to physicians and pharmacists under the name "Aspirin," the same name under which

Re: NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-08 Thread JoshNarins
Ah, I see now how -R and .* could get kinda crazy. Thank you. But I changed the perms of / a bit, but it still won't work (cd is now working for regular user, but no logins, nor does ls work). Does anyone have a proper perms setup for / ? Is there any chance chmod -R o-rwx .* started working on

Re: xv alternatives

2001-07-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:29:33AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 02:53:22AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Carl Johnson wrote: > > > I haven't tried imagemagick recently, but it's crashed my system > > > enough times over the years that I avoid it when

Re: xv alternatives

2001-07-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:26:37PM -0400, Rick Pasotto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:16:17PM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote: > > > "Noah" == Noah L Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Since xv is being removed from the distribution, I would > > >

Re: dpms and X4

2001-07-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:59:12PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 07:35:40PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > Ola. > > > > Under XFree86 3.3.6, I could execute the following to turn on dpms. > > > > xset +dpms > > xset dpms 12

Re: Reading WordPerfect files

2001-07-08 Thread Mike Nachlinger
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: I had this same problem. As I recall WP is looking for a specific libXt library. Installing the libc5-compat version should do it. Don't forget to link it. Regards, Mike > On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:26:01PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > Okay folks

Re: Help in selecting laptop

2001-07-08 Thread Brendan O'Connor
On Friday 06 July 2001 23:10, Dale Morris wrote: > I've done some > research, seems the modem can be a snag.. While most winmodems don't work, I've had good experiences with the Lucent winmodem's driver -- it works just fine. Of course, a standard modem (prolly hafta get a pcmcia one) will be e

Re: wine question

2001-07-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 01:59:45PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > dear all, > > as i understand it, wine comes with its own libraries which implement the > win32 API. Yes. > i also understand that if we somehow have access to a windows CD, all legal > issues aside, we can

Re: Going slightly spare!

2001-07-08 Thread Brendan O'Connor
On Friday 06 July 2001 11:20, Paul Tansom wrote: > I'm trying to compile a driver from scyld.com on my Debian 2.2r3 install. > I have the kernel source downloaded from kernel.org (as this isn't for my > Debian install - I have also tried the sources from Debian with now luck), > but when I compile

Re: debian vs suse

2001-07-08 Thread Peter Kok
Hi Faheem, Osamu Many tks for your precious information In fact, there are many linux distribution. Eg: openlinux Redhat slackware turbo linux I want to learn much about linux and would like to know Someone have experience to share about their Stable and security comparision. Eg: RH, openlin

Re: How do I clear out a list

2001-07-08 Thread Brendan O'Connor
On Friday 06 July 2001 13:32, Brian Schramm wrote: > I did a apt-get update. Acually I followed the instructions on > www.progeny.com web site. For your instructions, would that install them > or remove them? > > Brian As others said, you need to do an update from dselect, because apt and dsele

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 07:04:32PM -0400, Carl Fink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:39:33PM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: > > Probably because if you don't protect your trademarks in this country, > > they fall into the public domain. That's why you can say "asprin" > > when yo

Re: Not Debian related. wvdial

2001-07-08 Thread Brendan O'Connor
On Saturday 07 July 2001 17:42, Kent West wrote: > I don't know how familiar you are with Linux, so let me ask the first > obvious question: is your modem a so-called "winmodem"? If so, you're > not likely to ever get it to work with Redhat (or Debian, or BeOS, or > OS/2, or anything except what t

Re: KDE 2.1.1 for potato?

2001-07-08 Thread Brendan O'Connor
On Sunday 08 July 2001 15:29, Bernard Reißberg wrote: > BeRnArD29ReIsSbErG04IlMeNaU1980 > > Hi people! > > Does somebody knows, if there are debs of KDE 2.1.1 for potato available > on their servers? I've found it on the the sourceforge-mirror of kde.org, > but I don't know if it is wise, to downl

Re: KDE 2.1.1 for potato?

2001-07-08 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Bernard Rei_berg wrote: > > BeRnArD29ReIsSbErG04IlMeNaU1980 > > Hi people! > > Does somebody knows, if there are debs of KDE 2.1.1 for potato > available on their servers? I've found it on the the > sourceforge-mirror of kde.org, but I don't know if it is wise, to > downlo

Re: KDE 2.1.1 for potato?

2001-07-08 Thread CM
On Sunday 08 July 2001 16:29, Bernard Reißberg wrote: > BeRnArD29ReIsSbErG04IlMeNaU1980 > > Hi people! > > Does somebody knows, if there are debs of KDE 2.1.1 for potato available > on their servers? I've found it on the the sourceforge-mirror of kde.org, > but I don't know if it is wise, to downl

Re: [users] Harddrives not mounting properly

2001-07-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 02:21:31AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: ... > You may also > > addgroup dos > grep dos /etc/group # say it is 123 > > Then put these options in /etc/fstab: > > rw,gid=123,umask=002,mode=770 > > For any $user that is allowed write access: > > adduser $user dos or bet

KDE 2.1.1 for potato?

2001-07-08 Thread Bernard Reißberg
BeRnArD29ReIsSbErG04IlMeNaU1980 Hi people! Does somebody knows, if there are debs of KDE 2.1.1 for potato available on their servers? I've found it on the the sourceforge-mirror of kde.org, but I don't know if it is wise, to download it from there. Can somebody give me a hint? Thanks a lot

Installing device drivers

2001-07-08 Thread David Meiser
I recently have decided to install Debian on my computer after a long absence from the Linux world. However, I bought a cheap Winmodem and after a long, involved search I have actually found a device driver for Linux. After consulting with a couple of friends, none of us were able to figure o

no swap

2001-07-08 Thread G.LeeJ
huh?..all of a sudden I see I have NO swap file..at least according to my gnonme system info menu option.. I know I have a swap partition..or used to or so I thought one was created when I installed progeny?...but according to /proc/partitions its only 1 block long thanks lee -==

Re: NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-08 Thread D-Man
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 04:17:34PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I tried, in a subdir of /root, the command | chmod -R o-rwx .* | It changed the permissions on the parent directory, | the parent's parent directory, all the way up. Yes, '.*" includes ".." which is the parent directory. | No

NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-08 Thread JoshNarins
I tried, in a subdir of /root, the command chmod -R o-rwx .* It changed the permissions on the parent directory, the parent's parent directory, all the way up. Now only root can use my computer. Was chmod supposed to understand .* so differently than /bin/ls does? I am running 2.2.19-pre17 on i

Re: Not Debian related. wvdial

2001-07-08 Thread D-Man
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 08:54:17AM -0400, Wayne wrote: | The output from wvdial 2>&1 | tee wvdial.out [...] | The output from ifconfig --- [...] | ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol | inet addr:216.204.114.201 P-t-P:216.204.109.6 | Mask:255.255.255.255 [...] | The output from

Re: FRIACO

2001-07-08 Thread Martin Rowe
On Sunday 08 July 2001 19:30, George wrote: > If anyone here has any experience with FRIACO and linux, or btinternet > friaco in particular could you drop me an email. > > Cheers > > George I have a couple of hours experience - is that enough? ;-) Just switched over from Freeserve Unlimited to th

Re: Printer help please!

2001-07-08 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > bernard wrote: > > > For the last three days I have been banging my head against the wall > > ("don't worry dear, its as pointy as ever it was" says my sympathetic > > girlfriend) trying to get my printer to work. I installed potato some > > time a

Re: How to use preferences (/etc/apt/preferences)

2001-07-08 Thread der.hans
Am 08. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Alan Chandler so: > First - does /etc/apt/preferences file apply when you use dselect, or only > when you use apt-get? Don't know. Don't use dselect. > Second - what I currently do is a) have /etc/apt/sources.list lines that > get my packages from testing > > b) When I

Re: apt-get/dselect-problem

2001-07-08 Thread der.hans
Am 08. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Martin Bretschneider so: > I've got four Sid-images (from may) and wanted to update some proggies. > But there weren't any updates for gpgme (lobgpgme0) that doesn't installed > a config-file that is needed to compile my mua with gpg-support. > > Nevertheless, now I want

FRIACO

2001-07-08 Thread George
If anyone here has any experience with FRIACO and linux, or btinternet friaco in particular could you drop me an email.   Cheers   George

Frame buffer at boot

2001-07-08 Thread Frédéric de Villamil
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Starting mail retrieval agent: system-wide fetchmail not configured

2001-07-08 Thread Lukas Sobik
when i boot woody it says: Starting mail retrieval agent: system-wide fetchmail not configured and when i run fetchmail -v its puts this out: fetchmail: 5.8.3 querying pop3.account.de (protocol POP3) at Sun Jul 8 20:18:28 2001 fetchmail: POP3< +OK ready <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fetchmail: POP3> CA

Mozilla + Java for potato

2001-07-08 Thread Christoph Simon
FYI I've installed the unofficial debs for mozilla 0.9-1, which Robert Bihlmeyer made available, and had no problems installing Java or other plugins, while I do remember somebody reporing such troubles. This time, I needed to set up a very stripped down system with mozilla, and all of the sudden

Re: [users] Re: /var being eaten

2001-07-08 Thread Leonard Leblanc
I think you should both *grow up* and just forget about this whole thing right now, if you are going to continue to flame each other then do so privately. I don't really want to waste my time reading this garbage and I'm sure alot of other people don't want to either. On Sunday 08 July 2001 0

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-08 Thread John Hasler
csj writes: > How about Kill Illustrator? It sounds like it anyway - KILLustrator. That would infringe as much as Killustrator does. The trick with FAIR is that you can let everyone know what it stands for and not infringe as long as you don't use the word 'Illustrator' in the labeling of the pro

isdn dialup

2001-07-08 Thread cooher
Hi, Firstly what is a MSN/EAZ and how do i find mine? Secondarly, I'm trying to get my isdn card to dial a BT Surftime number (0844) but it wants to continually put an international dialing code on the front, which i think BT doesn't allow. How do i switch international dialing off? When i lo

apt-get/dselect-problem

2001-07-08 Thread Martin Bretschneider
Hi folks, I've got four Sid-images (from may) and wanted to update some proggies. But there weren't any updates for gpgme (lobgpgme0) that doesn't installed a config-file that is needed to compile my mua with gpg-support. Nevertheless, now I wanted to install some packages from the cds, but dsele

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-08 Thread csj
On Sunday 08 July 2001 10:12, John Hasler wrote: > Erik Steffl wrote: > > they should rename KIllustrator to: Adobe Illustrator Replacement > > > > that should be covered by fair use (it only refers to adobe > > illustrator which is allowed) > > "Fair use" is a term in copyright law. It has no mea

Re: debian vs suse

2001-07-08 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 10:59:46PM -0400, Peter Kok wrote: > > What is the different between debian and suse? I am currently running SuSE (6.2) and Debian (2.2r3) (just newly installed on my machine, and have been using SuSE on my machine since S

Re: file transfer via serial link to windows box

2001-07-08 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Does anyone know what simple small program I can uses to transfer files > from the notebook to the desktop. All you need on the Windows side is HyperTerminal; on the Debian system you need

Re: Microsoft Reader... argh!

2001-07-08 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 07/08/01 10:26:34 -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I'd like to assign a book for a class this fall that is published only in > hardcover and in something called "Microsoft Reader" format. The MS > Reader format is about 1/2 the price, which matters (I don't like to make > students pay more than nec

Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's ins

2001-07-08 Thread Marko Simendic
D-> Subject: Would like to ask for some information regarding about D-> debian's ins D-> From: D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D-> Sender: debian-user@lists.debian.org D-> Header-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org D-> On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 07:07:11PM -0500, John Hughes wrote: D-> | On Thursday 0

printing

2001-07-08 Thread Marko Simendic
JC> Newbie here... JC> I've used unix systems for years and am certainly not an expert. JC> I'm new to Linux and just installed it on my pc. Why can't I print? JC> There is no lp, lpr command. There is a /dev/lp0 device and JC> my printer was recognized during installation. JC> I found docum

networking windows and linux

2001-07-08 Thread Marko Simendic
DC> I'm currently trying to network a windows box and a debian box. I'm = DC> using ethernet cards and am able to ping both boxes respectfully. I use DC> = the windows box for the internet and mail (although once I am = DC> comfortable with Linux I will be converting fully).My question is how

newbie installation problem

2001-07-08 Thread Marko Simendic
ft> seem to find the module for the CD ROM drive during the installation. I ft> could ft> however run a shell & make a directory as /mnt/fd0 using ft> #mount -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom and then *cd* into cdrom and browse ft> directory etc of installation CD!! ft> And I also checked /lib/2

Re: gdm slight differences

2001-07-08 Thread Kyle Girard
When you login via gdm  ~/.gnomerc is executed so put your stuff in there or symlink to it or whatever else make you happy. :o) Kyle On 08 Jul 2001 17:33:03 +, Victor wrote: > When in a console I log in as user the file ~/.bashrc -tailored to add ~/bin to the path directory - is executed.

Re: PPP dialup utility

2001-07-08 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
use pppconfig and select your user! On Sunday 08 July 2001 10:20, Victor wrote: > While as root I'm able to define new accounts and use them as root > with PPP dialup utility under Gnome, I can't even see the accounts and > define new ones as a user. > > What should I do? > > Ciao > Vittorio --

Re: Microsoft Reader... argh!

2001-07-08 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:26:34AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > According to Amazon, the MS Reader is available only for Windows. Have you tested it under WINE? That would let Linux and certain other Unix-derivative users run it, although MacPeople would presumably still be out of luck. There

PPP dialup utility

2001-07-08 Thread Victor
While as root I'm able to define new accounts and use them as root with PPP dialup utility under Gnome, I can't even see the accounts and define new ones as a user. What should I do? Ciao Vittorio

gdm slight differences

2001-07-08 Thread Victor
When in a console I log in as user the file ~/.bashrc -tailored to add ~/bin to the path directory - is executed. Booting the PC up with gdm and logging as user it looks as though ~/.bashrc isn't executed because under Gnome terminal I can't use any script in ~/bin unless I issue the command

[OT] sendmail FEATURE access_db - configuration help needed

2001-07-08 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Again, I should have added that I get the following messages in my log when trying use that config... Jul 8 06:49:52 c243491-a fetchmail[9371]: SMTP error: 451 4.3.0 Temporary system failure. Please try again later. Jul 8 06:49:52 c243491-a sm-mta[9373]: ruleset=check_relay,

Microsoft Reader... argh!

2001-07-08 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings folks- I'd like to assign a book for a class this fall that is published only in hardcover and in something called "Microsoft Reader" format. The MS Reader format is about 1/2 the price, which matters (I don't like to make students pay more than necessary, particularly at a public school

Re: xv alternatives

2001-07-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 02:53:22AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Carl Johnson wrote: > > I haven't tried imagemagick recently, but it's crashed my system > > enough times over the years that I avoid it whenever possible. Unless > > it has changed recently, it doesn't check memory. If it runs out of >

Re: Acrobat Reader & Linux distributions

2001-07-08 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 02:18:46PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm having problems with Acrobat Reader (version 4.0) segfaulting > repeatedly on a SuSE-7.2. (This is with "Smooth text and images" > turned on -- turning this off seems to cure it). > > What are people's experiences wi

Re: [users] xset (and therefore Abiword) doesn't work

2001-07-08 Thread George Fischer
Well, the directory already has a fonts.scale and a fonts.dir, but I did this anyway. There was no change to the error message (and the new .scale and .dir files were much smaller than the old ones; I think because there are other font types in the directory besides AFM and PFB) "Martin F. Kraff

[OT] sendmail FEATURE access_db - configuration help needed

2001-07-08 Thread Jimmy Richards
Greetings GNU/Linuxer's, I am hoping someone might be able to help me with the access_db feature in sendmail. Here's what I did to try and get it to work. I made a file /etc/mail/access containing one line followed by a newline, is the newline ok to have in there? (username changed

gcc problems compiling pcmcia

2001-07-08 Thread Matteo Semplice
Hi guys, I am a little screwed up here... I upgraded some time ago to potato (from slink) but I haven't yet upgraded to 2.2 kernels. The story starts when I decided to recompile my 2.0.38 kernel to include vfat support (not sure why it wasn't in in the first place given that I have a win in

Re: Problem with grep ?

2001-07-08 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 03:29:20PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) writes: > > > No. It appears to work fine, here. > > > > $ type grep > > grep is hashed (/bin/grep) > > This is it ! Some days ago, I put an alias in my .bashrc as > follows: > alias grep='grep

Re: [OT] detecting the RAM speed

2001-07-08 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 02:04:18PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > hi guys, > a guy on ebay is trying to cheat. i got a 256Mb/133 SDRAM module from > him, which wwas defective (according to memtest86). so i sent it back, > and received a replacement. this replacement was not detected by my > machi

Unidentified subject!

2001-07-08 Thread dude
Hi all. I am looking for software that help documentation. Something like a note-taking system, but where i can add subcategories to a sectiona dn continually add to it as need. Thanks

Re: Problem with grep ?

2001-07-08 Thread Dominique Deleris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) writes: > No. It appears to work fine, here. > > $ type grep > grep is hashed (/bin/grep) This is it ! Some days ago, I put an alias in my .bashrc as follows: alias grep='grep -l' Commenting out this alias makes everything work fine again. I simply did not remem

Acrobat Reader & Linux distributions

2001-07-08 Thread Ted Harding
Hi Folks, I'm having problems with Acrobat Reader (version 4.0) segfaulting repeatedly on a SuSE-7.2. (This is with "Smooth text and images" turned on -- turning this off seems to cure it). What are people's experiences with this version of Acrobat Reader on other recent Linux distributions? Wit

Re: Printer help please!

2001-07-08 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:37:51AM +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > bernard wrote: > > > For the last three days I have been banging my head against the wall > > ("don't worry dear, its as pointy as ever it was" says my sympathetic > > girlfriend) trying to get my printer to work. I installed pot

Re: [users] Re: /var being eaten

2001-07-08 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:57:15PM -0700, Kevin wrote: > excuse me mister super leeto linux man. if you looked at the headers > you'd see im not even using ms-oe so blow me. wtf should i use your > standard for replies. get a life. I know you're not using OE (which I didn't claim), but you're us

Re: Not Debian related. wvdial

2001-07-08 Thread Martin Rowe
On Sunday 08 July 2001 13:54, Wayne wrote: > After I do all this I then start Netscape and try to go to some web > page. The responds I get it that Netscape is unable to locate the web > page. > > I tried to telnet into my isp, but I get host name undefind. I don't > know which file telnet is look

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