Re: unable to create native thread

2001-07-14 Thread Adam Cassar
What kernel version are you using? 2.2.x has a limit of around 512 threads total for the system, and roughly 256 max for each user (512/2). To change edit include/linux/tasks.h Change NR_TASKS and MAX_TASKS_PER_USER appropriately. Then recompile and install your kernel. Do a search on google for

Re: Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem

2001-07-14 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:35:25AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Jimmy Richards wrote: > > I got something you can try. Go to you're /etc/apt/apt.conf.d dir > > directory and then edit the file named 70debconf. Add the following > > lines below the line that's already there. > > Or better, just ma

RE:Where can I find modversion.h???

2001-07-14 Thread Andrew Agno
Andrew Agno writes: > Kevin Lee writes: > > I am tring to get my network card working and recently got the > > source codes from a developer. I followed his instruction to > > compile but got the error of modversion.h not found error: > > > > Yeah, it is true that it isn't

Re: Scanner + printer choice

2001-07-14 Thread Sean
I have an older HP LaserJet 4 printer that I got off of ebay, and an equally old UMAX Astra 1200S SCSI Scanner that I also got off of ebay. I forget exactly how much I paid for each, but it was certainly less than retail, and I feel I got pretty good hardware to boot. CUPS works wonderfully with t

Re: Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem

2001-07-14 Thread Joey Hess
Jimmy Richards wrote: > I got something you can try. Go to you're /etc/apt/apt.conf.d dir > directory and then edit the file named 70debconf. Add the following > lines below the line that's already there. Or better, just make an /etc/apt/apt.conf file that contains that. -- see shy jo

xscreensaver under KDE

2001-07-14 Thread Mannequin*
Is there anyway to get KDE to use Xscreensaver instead of it's own? If so, how? Thanks. -Mannequin*

Scanner + printer choice

2001-07-14 Thread mdevin
I have decided to purchase a new scanner and printer - especially since Canon seem unwilling to help development of drivers for their scanners. I intend to ditch my Canon models to a friend and won't buy Canon again. I was considering one of those combo units with the printer and scanner together

Re: Building an SRPM on Debian?

2001-07-14 Thread Joey Hess
Paul D. Smith wrote: > %% Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > jh> Quelle strange. rpm wants a rpm database just to apply patches to a > jh> build tree? It must be on drugs. Maybe it wants to do source dependancy > jh> checking though. Does --nodeps help? > > Ah. That did it. Thanks.

Re: Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem

2001-07-14 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 09:14:55AM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Jim: > > Re your suggestion about changing the 70debconf. There was no such > file but there was an apt.conf where the line did not have > the apt die not have the || true part. > > I did the change you suggested, but I

Re: usb scanners & printers

2001-07-14 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 10:06:48AM -0700, tony mollica wrote: > Hi. The local computer fair is in town today > and I'm in the market for a new printer and > scanner, preferably USB. Any suggestions for > either of these? The printer should be able > to print a decent picture. Dunno about printe

Re: Exim as a LAN mail server [possibly-OT]

2001-07-14 Thread mdevin
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:37:44PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 06:35:53PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > > Now I am confused too. > > The original poster looked for a way to choose a `smart host' based > on the *sender's* address, were you normally choose the h

FW: RE: D-Link DFE-530TX+

2001-07-14 Thread mjevans1983011
Not really. The + series cards use a different chip then the other cards IIRC. All I know is that I've now got 3 of the + series cards, and the older 2 worked fine under 2.2.x with the rtl8139.o module. Also, the same two that are currently in use are using kernel compiled 8139too driver and hav

Re: Building an SRPM on Debian?

2001-07-14 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jh> Quelle strange. rpm wants a rpm database just to apply patches to a jh> build tree? It must be on drugs. Maybe it wants to do source dependancy jh> checking though. Does --nodeps help? Ah. That did it. Thanks. jh> Could you send me the srpm

Re: keyboard HOWTO

2001-07-14 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > In Keyboard HOWTO I found this: > > ... > > 8.5. Composing symbols > > One symbol may be constructed using several keystrokes. > > o LeftAlt-press, followed by a decimal number typed on the keypad, > followed

Re: mkfs.vfat? where is it ??

2001-07-14 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Hi, mkfs.vfat is part of the dosfstools package. Disem wrote: > > I was unable to create an *windows* filesistem... > > mkfs -t vfat /dev/myharddrivepartition.. > > mkfs.vfat: no such file or directory > > is there a feature in the kernel config that I have > to enable, or any kind of packag

Re: mformat, boot disks

2001-07-14 Thread Tom Pfeifer
One way to make a floppy boot disk that doesn't boot with Lilo... 1) copy your kernel to the (umounted) floppy disk using dd or cp: dd if=/boot/your_kernel of=/dev/fd0 cp /boot/your_kernel /dev/fd0 2) tell the kernel on the floppy disk where your root partition is: rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/yo

Re: "man" command made easy?

2001-07-14 Thread will trillich
caveat -- if your VCR is still blinking 12:00 then you're not ready for linux... On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:41:21AM -, john smith wrote: > Hi, > > I was just wondering...I don't know if this topic is for this > list but...is there a book or link somewhere that gives easier > examples of how t

Re: dpkg problem

2001-07-14 Thread Joey Hess
"Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote: > Be aware, though, that if the package is debconf'ized, debconf will > still have the *answers* to the configuration questions posted via > debconf in its own database. So --purge and reinstall will not get > rid of those. Only if the package is broken and doesn't tell

Re: Building an SRPM on Debian?

2001-07-14 Thread Joey Hess
Paul D. Smith wrote: > I'd installed the Debian RPM and I used rpm -i to install the SRPM, > which put the source in the SOURCES directory and the spec file in the > SPECS directory just fine. > > But, when I try to run the "rpm -bp" I get this error: > > error: cannot open Packages index using

SOLVED The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-14 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:56:17PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:22:44PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:01:39PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > ... > > > folder-hook . set sort=date ; set index_format="%4C %Z%{%b%d} > > > %-15.15F(%4l) %s" > > I thin

mkfs.vfat? where is it ??

2001-07-14 Thread Disem
I was unable to create an *windows* filesistem... mkfs -t vfat /dev/myharddrivepartition.. mkfs.vfat: no such file or directory is there a feature in the kernel config that I have to enable, or any kind of package that I need in order to mount/create a win partition ? :D edward

RE: NFS related error; do I need NFS? --Solved!

2001-07-14 Thread Gladimir
Yea! That's one boot problem out of 5 completely solved! I ran dpkg --status nfs-common as suggested and found the name of the package, which was nfs-common, amazingly enough. I started dselect and went right to the select screen where I located the nfs-common package and marked it for purge. T

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2001-07-14 Thread friends
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plip module cannot be installed

2001-07-14 Thread Rainer Hahnekamp
I want to install the plip module in the kernel but it did not work. I have tried all parameters according to the technical reference of the manufacturer, but without success. I always get following error message: /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/net/plip.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: thi

Setting up printing

2001-07-14 Thread Brian McGroarty
I've never configured a printer under Linux. I've got an Epson Sylus Color 740i hooked up via USB, and I've got it to the point where I can cat files directly to the device and see them printed. I'm a bit baffled by the number of choices of packages which are available, as well as the number of pr

Re: dpkg problem

2001-07-14 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> When you purge a package, not only will its conffiles be Joost> removed, dpkg will not know that it ever was installed. So Joost> if you later reinstall the package and for some reason some Joost> conffile still exist

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+

2001-07-14 Thread D-Man
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:04:24AM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: | On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Rick Commo wrote: | > >>The module is the via-rhine and it's been included in | > >>kernel since 2.2 IIRC. | > | > Watch out here. I believe that the via-rhine driver works with an earlier | > of version of this ca

mformat, boot disks

2001-07-14 Thread R1nso13
I'm running 2.2r3 i-386. 1. When I run 'superformat /dev/fd0' the disk is formatted. However, when superformat tries to run mformat to created an msdos file system, I get the error message 'sh: error:command not found' or something similar. When i simply type 'mformat' i get a similar error me

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:08:19PM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > > > What does `hostname` say ? and whats in /etc/hosts ? > > > >$ hostname > >animus > > Does /etc/resolv.conf have a domain (or search) directive ? yes, tried it with eit

font-lock-colors in xemacs21

2001-07-14 Thread Stephen Rueger
Hello! Can I tell my XEmacs21 to use different font-lock-colors, when I'm using it within X and on the console? Thanks! Stephen Rueger -- Zuerst trachtet man nach Gerechtigkeit und zum Schluss organisiert man eine Polizei (Albert Camus)

Re: Error building lm-sensors (can't find i2c headers) - More info

2001-07-14 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: David Z Maze writes: Hello! > Phew. Let's see... JP> KSRC:=/usr/src/linux JP> MODULE_LOC:=/usr/src/modules > Can you try locally changing the second line to > 'MODULE_LOC?=/usr/src/modules'? If that works, I can make the change > in the package, too. Yes, that works! I wonder why the beha

Re: NFS related error; do I need NFS?

2001-07-14 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Gladimir wrote: > 1) Do I need NFS on this linux machine? The general rule is if (a) you don't know what a service is, or (b) you don't know if you need it, you probably don't. If you did need it, you'd know. Disable rpc.statd, rpc.nfsd, portmap(per), and any other RPC-relat

NFS related error; do I need NFS?

2001-07-14 Thread Gladimir
The following error is being reported in /var/log/messages: rpc.statd forgot to set AF_INET in udp sendmsg. Fix it! The rpc.statd daemon appears to be loaded in the nfs-common rc scripts. I do plan to enable samba on my linux machine, eventually; but I don't think I have any reason to be running

Re: midi problem with on board sound i810

2001-07-14 Thread Steve Kieu
--- User zos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] Steve Kieu wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I got i810 board (sound integrated). I use alsa > > modules > > > > snd-card-intel8x0 > > > > sound system is ok just midi; when I play using > > > > playmidi test.mid > > > > it

RE: D-Link DFE-530TX+

2001-07-14 Thread Paul Tansom
On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Rick Commo wrote: > >>The module is the via-rhine and it's been included in > >>kernel since 2.2 IIRC. > > Watch out here. I believe that the via-rhine driver works with an earlier > of version of this card. The correct driver for the DF350-TX+ is rtl8139.o. > The card uses t

Re: Error building lm-sensors (can't find i2c headers) - More info

2001-07-14 Thread David Z Maze
Phew. Let's see... Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JP> So... Even though I set MODULE_LOC correctly, it is unset by the JP> script. heodd thing is that KSRC is not changed. The only part of the JP> script that seems to change these variables is in the tpo of the file: JP> JP> KSR

Re: midi problem with on board sound i810

2001-07-14 Thread User zos
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] Steve Kieu wrote: > Hi, > > I got i810 board (sound integrated). I use alsa > modules > > snd-card-intel8x0 > > sound system is ok just midi; when I play using > > playmidi test.mid > > it says > open /dev/sequencer: No such device Do you have proper permi

Which package provides pixmap for kde?

2001-07-14 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, I think I missed some package when i run konqueror I got: a lot konqueror: WARNING: Pixmap not found for mimetype image/jpeg konqueror: WARNING: Pixmap not found for mimetype image/jpeg konqueror: WARNING: Pixmap not found for mimetype kde in testing and no icon. which package I missed? th

midi problem with on board sound i810

2001-07-14 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, I got i810 board (sound integrated). I use alsa modules snd-card-intel8x0 sound system is ok just midi; when I play using playmidi test.mid it says open /dev/sequencer: No such device then I try kmid: Player :: There are no midi ports ! if I run kmidi it can play but the sound quality

RE: D-Link DFE-530TX+

2001-07-14 Thread Rick Commo
>>The module is the via-rhine and it's been included in >>kernel since 2.2 IIRC. Watch out here. I believe that the via-rhine driver works with an earlier of version of this card. The correct driver for the DF350-TX+ is rtl8139.o. The card uses the Realtek chip and in fact on my Win2K machine re

Re: Error building lm-sensors (can't find i2c headers) - More info

2001-07-14 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Ok, I found something odd... socrates lm-sensors:: echo $MODULE_LOC /home/jeronimo/Linux/kernel/modules socrates lm-sensors:: ./debian/rules KVERS="2.4.7-pre6" KSRC="/home/jeronimo/Linux/kernel/linux-2.4.7-pre6" echo /usr/src/modules ^ /usr/src/modules You don't appear

Re: Getting dselect and apt-* to work from a local file system

2001-07-14 Thread der.hans
Am 14. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Joost Kooij so: > Try to run update again from the dselect menu. If you keep having > problems with the integrity of the /var/lib/dpkg/available file, please > post again. I don't think he can. I think this is the case where debian has no net access, but can get stuff o

Error building lm-sensors (can't find i2c headers)

2001-07-14 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. I got a litle problem here... I am trying to build the version of lm-sensors in sid, that now needs the current version of i2c. I then installed lm-sensors-source, i2c-source and unpacked their tarballs (from /usr/src) in my homedir. So, since I don't compile anything in /usr/src (I buil

Upgrading to sid from potato using unofficial CD-ROM's

2001-07-14 Thread Santiago Fernandez
Hi! I'm trying to upgrade to sid from potato using unofficial CD-ROM's. They seem to be ok, but 'apt-cdrom add' says: Using CD-ROM mount point /cdrom/ Unmounting CD-ROM Please insert a Disc in the drive and press enter Mounting CD-ROM Identifying.. [44ab4f5c5591363b72fc3fe648619814-2] Scanning Di

Re: Installing Java

2001-07-14 Thread Paul Mackinney
D-Man uttered: > | It's java, why not get it from Sun? http://java.sun.com/j2se/ > > It's not "Free". I knew it, theology! > | Not quite sure what you mean by "run Java Server Pages", but I've > > He's talking about Java Server Pages (aka JSP) : _informed_ theology! The best kind... this is wha

UUCP+sendmail

2001-07-14 Thread Alexey
Hello all, I need to connect to UUCP mail service provider. Taylor UUCP Log file: ... uucico dnttm - (2001-07-15 01:47:21.47 520) Login successful uucico dnttm - (2001-07-15 01:47:22.26 520) Handshake successful (protocol 'g' sending packet/window 256/4 receiving 64/7) uucico dnttm mail (2001-07

compiling drivers, kernel; configuration strategy...

2001-07-14 Thread Gladimir
The immediate problem I am trying to address is the following error reported in /var/log/messages: PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 40, VID=1095, DID=0643 I have downloaded and expanded my kernel source code (2.2.12), which did include the desired driver source: /usr/src/kern

startx in xbase-clients 4.0.[23]

2001-07-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:36:34AM -0400, Warren Turkal wrote: > Why does a construct like startx -- :1 not work anymore (ever since > like 4.0.2 or something)? > Warren It's a bug, and it's fixed in the 4.1.0 prerelease packages at the URL in my .sig (and therefore will be in 4.1.0-1). For your

axkit on potato -- anybody?

2001-07-14 Thread will trillich
axkit is available for testing and unstable (as *.deb) but packages.debian.org doesn't reveal any are up for potato. has anybody rolled this into a surreptitious potato-happy bundle for us easily-intimidated-by-packing folk? -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #73 from USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Looking fo

RE:Where can I find modversion.h???

2001-07-14 Thread Andrew Agno
Kevin Lee writes: > I am tring to get my network card working and recently got the > source codes from a developer. I followed his instruction to > compile but got the error of modversion.h not found error: > > Yeah, it is true that it isn't found when I check the > /usr/include

Re: nullmodem connection

2001-07-14 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
hi there. This will not solve your problems, but it may help see the ppp-howto

Re: kde2

2001-07-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 01:15:57AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Saturday 14 July 2001 02:49, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > Installed KDE2 for the first time. Initially all was fine. After > > later restarting the xserver only three fonts are available to KDE. > > Looks bad. Been trying to figure this out. >

Re: fsck and non-contiguous

2001-07-14 Thread Tom Pfeifer
To put it another way, that non-contiguous percentage is totally unrelated to whether your drive is failing or not. It's just telling you the degree of file system fragmentation. Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all. > You know how every so often while booting debian, fsck will run? >

Re: missing consoles

2001-07-14 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 08:34:54AM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:29:18PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > Obviously kdm is not detaching as a background process. Perhaps it > > doesn't fork? Anyway, you can try the --background argument to > > start-stop-daemon and se

Cannot install kdevelop!?!

2001-07-14 Thread Debian User
Hoi! I have a big problem: I want to install kdevelop, but due to a version problem this does'nt work. After downloading kdevelop1.0beta1-1_i386.deb I tried to install with dpkg. But(t) dpkt quits with the error-message: " kdevelop depends on qt1g (>= 1.44-4); however: Package qt1g is not instal

Re: ftp: Illegal PORT command.

2001-07-14 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 11:02:34AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Ron Spooner wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have installed potato. I can connect to sites using ftp but entering a > > command produces this error. > > > > Illegal PORT command. > > ftp: Bind Address already i

snooping packets _before_ de-masquerading

2001-07-14 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! Is there any possibility to see packets with tcpdump _before_ they are de-masqueraded? The situation is as follows: eth0: 192.168.0.99/24 ppp0: 193.80.224.98/32 I´m masquerading all of 192.168.0/24 behind ppp0 and debugging would sometimes be much easier if I could see incoming packets

Re: RAM size.

2001-07-14 Thread Guy Geens
> "Dave" == Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> I would guess, based on their respective legacy codebases, that Dave> Win2k uses HLT and ME/XP don't, but I haven't heard anything Dave> definite about them to date. AFAIK, WinXP is based on the NT codebase, just like W2k. So I woul

Re: Getting dselect and apt-* to work from a local file system

2001-07-14 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:53:43PM -, Tommy McDaniel wrote: > I absorbed everything that was posted about this, and gained a better > understanding of how everything works, but there is still a problem. I > decided it was time to start downloading some packages and see if I could > get every

Where can I find modversion.h???

2001-07-14 Thread Kevin Lee
Hi,     I am tring to get my network card working and recently got the source codes from a developer.  I followed his instruction to compile but got the error of modversion.h not found error:   DarkHorse:/usr/src/modules# gcc -I/usr/include/linux -DMODULE -D_KERNEL_ -O6 -c winbond-840.c win

Re: Installing Java

2001-07-14 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 09:04:45AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | D-Man uttered: | > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:41:40PM -0300, Juan wrote: | > | HI, | > | | > | Which packages will I have to install to run & compile Java? And run Java | > | Server Pages? | > | > kaffe might be enough. There are

ntpdate no longer working

2001-07-14 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! Sometime this afternoon, ntpdate stopped working. Some debugging shows that it doesn´t even send out any packet to the server. strace´ output doesn´t help me, either: bash-2.03$ sudo strace ntpdate -v 193.81.13.2 <...> write(1, "14 Jul 19:55:26 ntpdate[20704]: "..., 8414 Jul 19:55:26 ntp

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:08:32PM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: ... > What does `hostname` say ? and whats in /etc/hosts ? $ hostname animus cat /etc/hosts (edited) 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 animus.localnet animus news.localnet smtp.localnet imap.localnet www.lo

Re: Installing Java

2001-07-14 Thread Paul Mackinney
Juan uttered: > At 09:04 14/07/01 -0700, you wrote: > >It's java, why not get it from Sun? http://java.sun.com/j2se/ > > > >You want either the 1.4 beta or 1.3.1. There are two packages, a RedHat > >RPM shell script and a GNUZIP Tar shell script. I've installed both with > >equal success, but if yo

Re: keyboard HOWTO

2001-07-14 Thread Paul Mackinney
Carel Fellinger uttered: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > ... > > I have tried LeftAlt with numbers from keypad and the others, > > for me only keypad nrs work, on the console that is > > > P.P.S. My /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz file have this line: > >

Re: kde2

2001-07-14 Thread csj
On Saturday 14 July 2001 02:49, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > Installed KDE2 for the first time. Initially all was fine. After > later restarting the xserver only three fonts are available to KDE. > Looks bad. Been trying to figure this out. > > What happened? How do I fix this? File a bug report? Serio

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+

2001-07-14 Thread Nuhn Yobiznez
--- Evan Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone had any luck doing a network install of > debian with a D-Link > DFE-530TX+? What module can I use and if it's not > included with the driver > set where can I download it? hi, The module is the via-rhine and it's been included in kernel si

Re: fsck and non-contiguous

2001-07-14 Thread Casper Gielen
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:17:59PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all. > You know how every so often while booting debian, fsck will run? > well, last week I noticed that after it ran, it said .3% non contiguous. > Today it ran and it said .6% non contiguous. > My question is.. why diesn'

Mouse gone in X

2001-07-14 Thread Andy Davidson
I recently ran dselect to add a couple of packages mime-support and tcpdump --- and now I cannot use my PS/2 mouse in X. I checked the archives and looked at the man pages for xdm and gpm and I think that is all set right. I certainly didn't deliberately change any of it and it worked before

usb scanners & printers

2001-07-14 Thread tony mollica
Hi. The local computer fair is in town today and I'm in the market for a new printer and scanner, preferably USB. Any suggestions for either of these? The printer should be able to print a decent picture. thanks, -- -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fsck and non-contiguous

2001-07-14 Thread David Z Maze
xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: X> You know how every so often while booting debian, fsck will run? X> well, last week I noticed that after it ran, it said .3% non contiguous. X> Today it ran and it said .6% non contiguous. X> My question is.. why diesn't fsck fix the non contiguous errors it X

Re: Getting dselect and apt-* to work from a local file system

2001-07-14 Thread Tommy McDaniel
I absorbed everything that was posted about this, and gained a better understanding of how everything works, but there is still a problem. I decided it was time to start downloading some packages and see if I could get everything to work, but when I went to dselect to see what I wanted to insta

Re: keyboard HOWTO

2001-07-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: keyboard HOWTO Date: Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:45:06PM +0200 In reply to:Joost Kooij Quoting Joost Kooij([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > > In Keyboard HOWTO I found this: > > > > ... > > > > 8.5. Compo

Re: fsck and non-contiguous

2001-07-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: fsck and non-contiguous Date: Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:17:59PM -0500 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi all. > You know how every so often while booting debian, fsck will run? > well, last week I noticed that after it ran,

fsck and non-contiguous

2001-07-14 Thread xucaen
Hi all. You know how every so often while booting debian, fsck will run? well, last week I noticed that after it ran, it said .3% non contiguous. Today it ran and it said .6% non contiguous. My question is.. why diesn't fsck fix the non contiguous errors it finds? about a month ago my hard dri

Re: [OT] job title

2001-07-14 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "D-Man" == D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: D-Man> On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:19:01AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: D-Man> | also sprach Joost Kooij (on Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:51:14PM +0200): D-Man> | > "Rechnerbeschwoerer" D-Man> So what's the literal translation? If I

Re: Error compiling kernel 2.4.6 with kernel-package

2001-07-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Jan" == Jan Tammen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jan> Hi, Jan> I'm trying to compile kernel version 2.4.6 with the latest Jan> 'kernel-package' [7.50]. Here's the program's output: Jan> tarawa:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg kernel_image Jan> [compiling fine ... snipped] Jan> install: cannot sta

Re: keyboard HOWTO

2001-07-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: ... > I have tried LeftAlt with numbers from keypad and the others, for me only keypad nrs work, on the console that is > P.P.S. My /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz file have this line: > keycode 56 = Alt same here -- groetje

Re: System-wide fetchmailrc

2001-07-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 11:33:26AM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > > So, it's fine now, but I'm still stumped as to how the system-wide > > fetchmail process ended up in a state where it was running but not > > working, and I'm not looking forward to

Re: Installing Java

2001-07-14 Thread Paul Mackinney
D-Man uttered: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:41:40PM -0300, Juan wrote: > | HI, > | > | Which packages will I have to install to run & compile Java? And run Java > | Server Pages? > > kaffe might be enough. There are different versions and vendors of > Java interpreters so it depends on which on

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:52:32PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: ... > Try this instead: > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > use Socket; > print scalar gethostbyaddr(inet_aton($ARGV[0]), AF_INET) || "(?)", "\n"; works as expected, gethostbyname works too. (I tried it in python, there I know what is done, quite

Re: System-wide fetchmailrc

2001-07-14 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 11:33:26AM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > So, it's fine now, but I'm still stumped as to how the system-wide > fetchmail process ended up in a state where it was running but not > working, and I'm not looking forward to having to periodically restart > the process myself

Re: keyboard HOWTO

2001-07-14 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > In Keyboard HOWTO I found this: > > ... > > 8.5. Composing symbols > > One symbol may be constructed using several keystrokes. > > o LeftAlt-press, followed by a decimal number typed on the keypad, > followed

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+

2001-07-14 Thread Andrew Agno
D-Man writes: > | Dunno about 2.4 series kernels. Note: That is > > '8139too' I don't know why they changed it or why they put "too" in > the name, but that's what it is. The 8139too is a different driver than the rtl8139. Comparing it to the rtl8139 driver in the 2.2, I've found that this d

keyboard HOWTO

2001-07-14 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobica
In Keyboard HOWTO I found this: ... 8.5. Composing symbols One symbol may be constructed using several keystrokes. o LeftAlt-press, followed by a decimal number typed on the keypad, followed by LeftAlt-release, yields the symbol with code given by this number. (In Unicode mod

Re: missing consoles

2001-07-14 Thread David J. Roundy
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:29:18PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > Obviously kdm is not detaching as a background process. Perhaps it > doesn't fork? Anyway, you can try the --background argument to > start-stop-daemon and see if that helps. Note: you can't rely on the > exit status of start-stop

Re: System-wide fetchmailrc

2001-07-14 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:14:06PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > It is having trouble to connect to either your SMTP listener, or the email > server. Stop it, and run it with -v to enable verbose mode, as per the > documentation in the package (FAQs, readmes, etc). > > Hint: /etc/d

Re: XFree86 4.0.3 configuration (and autoviewing HTML mail in mutt)

2001-07-14 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:59:06AM +, florentin ionescu wrote: | | Sorry for the inconvenience but I am used Hotmail web-mail because can't use Yeah, it is no fun when your preferred MUA can't be used. See below for a solution someone gave me so that HTML mail isn't too bothersome anymore (

Re: several questios

2001-07-14 Thread David J. Roundy
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:15:46PM +0200, Martin Bretschneider wrote: > > 1. I want to update gpgme (libgpgme0) that I need for gnupg-support for my > mua. In my distrubution the version 0.21 is integrated but it doesn't seem > to have a gpgme.config my mua looks for. So I thought i update to 0.22

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+

2001-07-14 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 08:39:27AM -0500, Donald R. Spoon wrote: | Evan Flynn wrote: | | > Has anyone had any luck doing a network install of debian with a D-Link | > DFE-530TX+? What module can I use and if it's not included with the driver | > set where can I download it? | | I have about 5 of

Re: Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem

2001-07-14 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:56:03PM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: | | Hi (Jim and D): | | Some further notes. The dist-upgrade seems to get stuck trying | to install libc6-dev2.2.3-5 ( it seems to think that | this depends on libc62.2.1 ) but this is not available in testing: I did have som

several questios

2001-07-14 Thread Martin Bretschneider
Hi folks, I'm still new to debian and so have some questions as well. I've got a Sid from May. 1. I want to update gpgme (libgpgme0) that I need for gnupg-support for my mua. In my distrubution the version 0.21 is integrated but it doesn't seem to have a gpgme.config my mua looks for. So I thoug

Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-14 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:56:17PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: | On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:22:44PM -0500, will trillich wrote: | > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:01:39PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | ... | > > folder-hook . set sort=date ; set index_format="%4C %Z%{%b%d} %-15.15F(%4l) %s" | | I think this

Re: System-wide fetchmailrc

2001-07-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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Re: IPtable help and comments

2001-07-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: IPtable help and comments Date: Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 10:41:32AM -0400 In reply to:dude Quoting dude([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Sorry i am posting this again to this list, > but debian-firewall list was essentially mute. Don't know what your problem is but the debian-firew

Re: Lilo & retrieving file in win

2001-07-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, you seem to have multiple problem but kinda unclear... On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:37:18PM +0930, twiz wrote: > G'day team, > I've just installed but "libxmu.so.6" didn't install properly (x wont > start). I've retrieved the package containing the library file but it > is filed in the win part

Re: woody cd pseudo-images

2001-07-14 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hmm, I seem to have realised that the images are only available as images and not as a package tree. Is this correct? Matthew On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:37:00PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to set up a pseudo image for woody on > my localhost, and have downloaded the l

Re: "man" command made easy?

2001-07-14 Thread mark
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:14:30PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > > FILES >Woman does not keep any files, but remembers everything you type. In addition, multiple instances of woman have an extensive shared memory implementation. > > BUGS >There are no bugs. Woman

IPtable help and comments

2001-07-14 Thread dude
Sorry i am posting this again to this list, but debian-firewall list was essentially mute. I am trying to run a very secure firewall which also servesa as my gateway. After reading the docs, its is still unclear how i would open up the gateway/firewall to an outside ssh connections also I would

Re: hp5l paraport print insanity

2001-07-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: hp5l paraport print insanity Date: Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 02:32:37AM -0400 In reply to:Theodore Knab Quoting Theodore Knab([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Thanks the problem was resolved by removing the ifhp.deb package and > reconfiguring /etc/printcap > > Just incase anybody

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