Re: instalar linux

I would like to translate the mail : Please Linux and manuals :) Atent. | Raspu | - Original Message - From: "Shaul Karl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "okito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 3:43 AM Subject: Re: instalar linux > Although there are Spanish (?) reader

turning on X extensions with XFree86 4.0.x

i installed xserver-xfree86_4.0.3-4_i386.deb today, and simple things like the shaped window extension disappeared. xdpyinfo reports: number of extensions:8 LBX MIT-SHM SECURITY XC-APPGROUP XFree86-Bigfont XInputExtension XKEYBOARD XTEST However, i see a bunch

Re: xemacs21-gnome-nomule breaks lisp packages?

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 21:33:15 +0200 Mart van de Wege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm having one of those weeks again :( When rebuilding my laptop after a > HD crash, I saw that xemacs is now available in a gnome version (in > unstable). Me being the fool that I am, I also imm

Re: Is there something wrong with my CPU ?

>> CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 05 >> Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting >No. It's telling you how the Floating Point Unit interacts with the >CPU. Does that mean FPU using a methord called "exception 16" to report error to CPU ?

Re: Good (Sun)day Members !

also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Sun, 22 Jul 2001 05:44:27PM +0530): > Where (in which directory) do Linux users get their mail (So that if you > place size > restrictions > upon him in this directory , he will have to clear all his mails regularly) > : Is it > /var/spool/mail/ ? It depends ho

Re: exim no longer works?

Hi, So I guess that means I have to add myself to the mail group right? well, that's alright. Well, isn't that's a bit weird considering the fact that I have to add every user to mail group... I am using the default header rewrite from the exim.conf which change any login name t

Re: RBL for hire

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 05:52:15PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > Effective Midnight 7/31/2001, all non-subscription access to > MAPS'SM services will cease. Anyone wishing to transfer or query > MAPS'SM data must have a signed contract with MAPSSM, and have > access enabled in our ACL

Help!! Dependancy Issue with dpkg install!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I finally got the iso burned, the OS installed, and am in the middle of the upgrade to the unstable version so that I can run Xfree86 4.x when I get a series of dependancy errors that seem to all stem to libc6 v.2.1.3-18, which I am attempting to rep

Re: procmail script question

I would pipe the contents of echo to a shell script. In that script you could test for xmms with something like the following: #!/bin/bash xmms=`ps -ef | grep xmms | grep -v grep` if [ "X$xmms" = "X" ]; then # xmms not running echo "$* | festival --tts" else

Re: kernel 2.4: where's the FM?

Subject: Re: kernel 2.4: where's the FM? Date: Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 09:34:34PM -0400 In reply to:D-Man Quoting D-Man([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I don't seem to have that on my system right now. Wouldn't that be a > part of the new package? How can I read the doc before I install

Re: kernel 2.4: where's the FM? (found)

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 09:34:34PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:54:45AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: | | On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 07:59:15PM -0400, dman wrote: | | > I've just spent some time on kernel.org and elsewhere, but I can't | | > find any FMs to R regarding the procedure to

Re: instalar linux

Although there are Spanish (?) readers on this list, please use English in your messages. This will make your message readable to all of us and thus make it possible to respond. --- Begin Message --- Sres. por favor necesito contactarme con uds. pues quiero instalar linux, en este momento ten

Re: viewer

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Markus Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >hi guys >does anyone know which program i can use to >view >pdf, ghostscript and postscropt files? There are serveral: gv, ghostview, kghostview (KDE), gnome-gv (GNOME). All of them are merely front ends to ghostscript, so you need to

Re: viewer

> hi guys > does anyone know which program i can use to > view > pdf, ghostscript and postscropt files? > thank you for helping > markus > [04:33:39 tmp]$ grep-available -PX gv Package: gv Priority: optional Section: text Installed-Size: 487 Maintainer: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architectu

Re: kernel 2.4: where's the FM?

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:54:45AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: | On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 07:59:15PM -0400, dman wrote: | > I've just spent some time on kernel.org and elsewhere, but I can't | > find any FMs to R regarding the procedure to upgrade from kernel | > 2.2.19 to 2.4.x. Is an apt-get instal

Re: RBL for hire

hi ya there are other equivalent lists... and a new not-for-profit anti-spam db being setup too ... donno if they wanna annouce it yet.. - if ya wanna help set it upemail me offline and will forward you to them to help manaage the new anti-spam filters c ya alvin On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, B

Re: Unable to upgrade libc6, cannot find why

> > It's already filed as an important bug in the libc6 package. > > It broke during the unpacking, as the error messages say. In such case, > dpkg will roll back to the previous version of the package. So the > preinst script on your disk is the old one, without the cp -L. > > I'm afraid you're

Re: Removing a brokenly nstalled package?

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 08:07:37PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > By not paying enough attention to the depedncies that dselect picke, I > would up with a broken install of aolserver. I don't need this package at > all, but dpkg --remove aolserver fails. > > How can I remove all traces of this package

Re: kernel 2.4: where's the FM?

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 07:59:15PM -0400, dman wrote: > I've just spent some time on kernel.org and elsewhere, but I can't > find any FMs to R regarding the procedure to upgrade from kernel > 2.2.19 to 2.4.x. Is an apt-get install enough (and point grub at the > new image of course)? Where can I

Re: viewer

David Maze writes: > I've generally found the non-free Adobe Acrobat Reader (acroread package) > to have the best results when displaying complicated PDF files, though. This not a good time to be recommending Adobe software. In fact, depending on what happens tomorrow, I just might file a bug ask

RBL for hire

On http://mail-abuse.org/subscription.html, I read: Effective Midnight 7/31/2001, all non-subscription access to MAPS'SM services will cease. Anyone wishing to transfer or query MAPS'SM data must have a signed contract with MAPSSM, and have access enabled in our ACL. There are se

Re: Anti-aliasable fonts in KDE?

Geoffrey Romer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The optimal solution would seem to be to get anti-aliasable versions > of Helvetica and Courier. Is this possible? Yes. Any Postscript Type 1 or TrueType fonts will work. Therefore, you can buy fonts from a number of places, use fonts from (say) an o

Re: Unable to upgrade libc6, cannot find why

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:00:39AM -0400, J.F.Gratton wrote: > --- > Preparing to replace libc6 2.1.3-18 (using .../libc6_2.2.3-7_i386.deb) ... > cp: invalid option -- L > Try 'cp --help' for more information. > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.2.3-7_i386.deb > (--unpack): >

Re: Can run testing with slow net connect?

"David A. Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've got a 56k modem on my home machine. Is it feasible/reasonable for me > to run testing on this machine? I've got 2.2r2 CDs. Any guesstimates as to > how long it will take for the initial upgrade to testing? Part of it depends on what you have

Re: ALSA compile problems

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 12:21:39AM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > Does anybody have any idea about what to do? If it's a bug in > make-kpkg, is it known or fixed anywhere? Did you look yet on http://bugs.debian.org/kernel-package ? Cheers, Joost

Re: OT: Scanning Pictures

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 07:39:59AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:28:58AM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote: > > But I do need to create an online album of some sort. My question is, > > which > > are the best settings for me to upload my images in? Like what size should > > they

Re: Unable to upgrade libc6, back to square 1

Hi J.F.Gratton! On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, J.F.Gratton wrote: > > > > cp from potato doesn't have the -L option. > > > > Maybe you should upgrade fileutils manually first (maybe recompiling > > if it doesnt install: cd; apt-get source -b fileutils; dpkg -i > > fileutils-.deb). > > > > chris > > OK

Removing a brokenly nstalled package?

I'm building a new STABLE machine this weekend. By not paying enough attention to the depedncies that dselect picke, I would up with a broken install of aolserver. I don't need this package at all, but dpkg --remove aolserver fails. How can I remove all traces of this package? -- Stan Brown

Re: exim no longer works?

Hmmm ok... so I think there is a bug in the new version 3.31 exim. when I step down to 3-21 and rerun the config(config from 3.31 didn't work) and everything work perfectly (the [EMAIL PROTECTED] is replaced by [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Anyone care to file a bug report... =)? Edwin Lau On Sun, Jul

Anti-aliasable fonts in KDE?

This comes from a previous question, but I've spun it off as a new thread because the topic has changed significantly. I've had some trouble switching to anti-aliased fonts in KDE. Enabling anti-aliasing disables a large number of nice X fonts, and the remaining selection is meager, including few

Re: [OT] HUB question

Actually the "uplink" port on most hubs is simply a crossed-over regular port, so assuming your distances and hops are within the spec, you can use a crossover cable between two of the same kind of ports (uplink or regular) or a non-crossover between the two (one side uplink , the other side regula

kernel 2.4: where's the FM?

Hi all, I've just spent some time on kernel.org and elsewhere, but I can't find any FMs to R regarding the procedure to upgrade from kernel 2.2.19 to 2.4.x. Is an apt-get install enough (and point grub at the new image of course)? Where can I find an FM to R on this? Thanks, -D

Re: viewer

gv or ghostview will do all of these format for you. -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel

Re: viewer

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 12:14:32AM +0200, Markus Hansen wrote: > hi guys > does anyone know which program i can use to > view > pdf, ghostscript and postscropt files? > thank you for helping > markus > Try xpdf, acroread, xv, gv. See which you like. Bec

Re: viewer

Markus Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MH> does anyone know which program i can use to view pdf, ghostscript MH> and postscropt files? ("Ghostscript files"?) I typically use gv for viewing PostScript files, and it can display PDF files as well. ghostview is an older program which can also dis

Re: screen 1024x768 desktop 1600x1200

Salut, On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 08:27:48PM +0200, Markus Hansen wrote: > Thank you for your help, but one last question: > the solution of my display is now 1024x768, but the > desktop has still 1600x1200, so it scrolls while using it, how can i > stop > that? > thank you for helping me! > markus A

Re: exim no longer works?

Quoting Edwin Lau on Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 07:25:16PM -0400: > Hi everyone, > > I am using exim, and it seems like the outgoing > mail no longer works. I suppect is the header > rewriting part error. it used to work. exim bounced my > email back every time I send an outgoing message and > the e

Re: soundblaster sb 16

Subject: soundblaster sb 16 Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 12:18:17AM +0200 In reply to:Markus Hansen Quoting Markus Hansen([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > hi guys > i have a soundblaster isa pnp sb 16 > i tried some things discussed in the mailinglist, but some things like > pnpdump (how to g

Re: viewer

Subject: viewer Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 12:14:32AM +0200 In reply to:Markus Hansen Quoting Markus Hansen([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > hi guys > does anyone know which program i can use to > view > pdf, ghostscript and postscropt files? apt-cache search pdf (or postscript or ghostsc

Reading .doc files from within Mutt

Hi all, What is the best (simplest) way to read .doc files from within Mutt? For example, I can read .pdf files straight away on trying to open their attachments and it automatically uses xpdf (which is loaded on my system). So, two questions: 1. What is the best, quickest, simplest, smallest p

gdm and xdm question

I recently added a usb-mouse to a Linux box and decided to do a clean reinstall with an unofficial woody image, and an upgrade to the 2.4.6 kernel. (This turned out to be much more difficult than just doing a dist-upgrade to testing from potato that I had done on another computer). Anyway, the mous

RE: TIME, DATE and CRON... trap for the unwary

Yes, restarting crond would also work I have been working with windoze too long rebooting all the time is rubbing off. > -Original Message- > From: Walt Mankowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 8:13 AM > To: 'Debian Users' > Subject: Re: TIME, DATE and CR

libc6 2.2.3-7 post-inst error

Hello all, elm:# dpkg --configure libc6 Setting up libc6 (2.2.3-7) ... date: invalid date `Mon Jul 23 07:32:48 WST 2001' dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: libc6 This happens o

exim no longer works?

Hi everyone, I am using exim, and it seems like the outgoing mail no longer works. I suppect is the header rewriting part error. it used to work. exim bounced my email back every time I send an outgoing message and the error is sth like don't accept mail from this domain. and I saw that local

Re: viewer

try having a go with kghostview. Hereward On Sunday 22 July 2001 22:14, Markus Hansen wrote: > hi guys > does anyone know which program i can use to > view > pdf, ghostscript and postscropt files? > thank you for helping > markus

Re: viewer

Salut, On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 12:14:32AM +0200, Markus Hansen wrote: > hi guys > does anyone know which program i can use to > view > pdf, ghostscript and postscropt files? > thank you for helping > markus e.g. gs, gv, xpdf will do the job Try 'apt-cache search viewer' jops,

Re: viewer

Markus Hansen wrote on Mon Jul 23, 2001 at 12:14:32AM: > view pdf, ghostscript and postscropt files? xpdf, acroread |-for-> pdf gv |-for-> ps ghostscript is no file-Format but somthing like a software-based postscript implementation Matth¡as -- Matthias Richter --+- stud. soz. & inf. -+-- http:/

Re: dist-upgrade from potato to woody

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:17:27PM +0100, Graham Ward wrote: | I just tried to upgrade my system from potato to woody. I believe | these are the correct steps: | | (1) replace "potato" with "woody" everywhere in /etc/apt/sources.list | (2) apt-get update | (3) apt-get dist-upgrade. These

Re: mitsumi 4802 te

Markus Hansen wrote on Sun Jul 22, 2001 at 11:52:06PM: > hi does anyone have experience or know > wheter the mitsumi 4802 te works with linux or not? Works flawlessly with ide-scsi. Simply follow the CDWRITING-HOWTO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html> and: http://www.fokus.gmd.de

Re: [OT] HUB question

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 05:42:32PM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote: | hey, | | I have two hubs, and I'd like to be able to connect them to each other. Both | have a port called "uplink port", do I need to use a cross over cable to | connect both hubs using their uplink ports, or should I use a normal

re: [OT] HUB question

>hey, > >I have two hubs, and I'd like to be able to connect them to each other. Both >have a port called "uplink port", do I need to use a cross over cable to >connect both hubs using their uplink ports, or should I use a normal cable to >connect the both of them? No you don't. Connecting two sim

Re: Email line-length defaults to about 76; how to increase?

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:22:07PM +0200, Matthias Richter wrote: | Andy Mott wrote on Sun Jul 22, 2001 at 07:45:14PM: | > Bud Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > > | > > Ah, yes. I didn't think of MUA's that call external editors. I've | > > used kmail for the last year or so, and gnus for ye

Re: c++ conversion

Yes, that was it. Thanks! -- David --- On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 02:39:40PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry muttered: --> --> On 22-Jul-2001 David Turetsky wrote: --> > I would like to migrate some large c/c++ programs from Windows to Linux. --> > Right now I'm invoking gcc -- and even

Re: Can run testing with slow net connect?

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:54:11PM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote: | I've got a 56k modem on my home machine. Is it feasible/reasonable for me | to run testing on this machine? I've got 2.2r2 CDs. Any guesstimates as to | how long it will take for the initial upgrade to testing? A few weeks ago I

Re: Email line-length defaults to about 76; how to increase?

also sprach Bud Rogers (on Sun, 22 Jul 2001 02:13:19PM -0500): > Ah, yes. I didn't think of MUA's that call external editors. I've used > kmail for the last year or so, and gnus for years before that, so I tend to > think of the reader and the composer as one and the same. Are there not some

soundblaster sb 16

hi guys i have a soundblaster isa pnp sb 16 i tried some things discussed in the mailinglist, but some things like pnpdump (how to get it into a file, for example isapnp) didnt really work. i dont know what to do really, my brother has a sb 128 pci and it works fine, but buying new cant be the cure

Re: screen 1024x768 desktop 1600x1200

Hey, Glad you were able to find and cure the problem with the help of the debian-user mailing list! {:-) Jim Richards The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems they never come out again. --Al Goodman On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 11:48:16PM

Re: [OT] HUB question

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 17:42:32 EDT, Sunny Dubey writes: >I have two hubs, and I'd like to be able to connect them to each other. Both >have a port called "uplink port", do I need to use a cross over cable to >connect both hubs using their uplink ports, or should I use a normal cable to >connect

Re: grave pppconfig bug

Joost writes: > The menu selection works fine here, on sid, pppconfig version 2.0.8. It > sounds like a dialog/curses/terminal problem. It does. I can't produce the same symptoms here, but I was able to generate an internal error which went away when I upgraded ncurses. If no one else is seeing

viewer

hi guys does anyone know which program i can use to view pdf, ghostscript and postscropt files? thank you for helping markus

mitsumi 4802 te

hi does anyone have experience or know wheter the mitsumi 4802 te works with linux or not? and if yes how? i am using kde 2 with debian gnu/linux 2.2 potato it is an ide cd-rw 8x read 4x write 2x rewrite thank you for helping me markus

Re: screen 1024x768 desktop 1600x1200

> yes thank you! this line virtual 1024 768 was the solution markus > Hi, > > I'm reading the man page for XF86Config to try to come up with a > solution. I see in there an option called 'Virtual ' that > looks like it would be in the Screen Configuration section. Do you have > a

procmail script question

I use the following procmail script to make festival speak the FROM and SUBJECT headings of new email through my speakers: SUBJECT=`formail -xSubject: \ | expand | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//g' -e 's/[ ]*$//g'` SENDER=`formail -xFrom: \ | expand | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//g' -e 's/[ ]*$//g'` :0c | echo "New mail f

[OT] HUB question

hey, I have two hubs, and I'd like to be able to connect them to each other. Both have a port called "uplink port", do I need to use a cross over cable to connect both hubs using their uplink ports, or should I use a normal cable to connect the both of them? thanks Sunny Dubey

RE: c++ conversion

On 22-Jul-2001 David Turetsky wrote: > I would like to migrate some large c/c++ programs from Windows to Linux. > Right now I'm invoking gcc -- and even for the most trivial program I am > getting the error message: "installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1plus': > no such file or directory" > gcc

Re: c++ conversion

Hi! Yeah, there are just some packages on your computer missing. Try . If that doesn't help, and there's still a file missing, you can go to ;the lower search form is a search for files in the distro. It gives you the names of the packages the missing fi

Re: Helvetica disappeared from KDE!

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Geoffrey Romer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Did you enable anti-aliasing in KDE? Is helvetica not the only font >> you're missing? > >Yeah, there's the problem. Turning off AA fixed it. > >> I haven't had time to solve that issue yet, so for now I'm just using >> KDE without

snort dies

hey all, i looked in the debian bug system, and aside it being mentioned, i have not found an answer. /etc/cron.daily/5snort seems to kill snort when configured in start-at-boot mode. however, if i run the cron script manually, it restarts just fine. but after a day, snort will silently die on the

logitech oem mouse

hi guys i have a logitech oem mouse model m-s48 it has a wheel to scroll up and down webpages. does anyone know how i can make this thing work? the mouee works fine as a 2 bottom mouse, but the wheel does not work! Thank you for helping me markus

xemacs21-gnome-nomule breaks lisp packages?

Hello everybody, I'm having one of those weeks again :( When rebuilding my laptop after a HD crash, I saw that xemacs is now available in a gnome version (in unstable). Me being the fool that I am, I also immediately upgraded my desktop machine. Now I tried to update a few webpages I maintain for

Re: ipchains for the firewall challenged

On 07/22/01 17:27:58 +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: > Have a look at > http://logi.cc/linux/ipchainsLogAnalyzer.php3 I'm sure I'll be using this to decipher logs in the near future. Thanks for the link! -- Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Keeping kernel compilation options

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 02:49:00 +1000 Steve Kowalik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 05:14:22PM +0200, Mart van de Wege uttered: > > Sorry to butt in in this thread, but my question seems to belong here > as > > well. I noticed yesterday that installing kernel-package on i386 does

Re: high resolution fonts?

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 01:08:00PM -0500, Matthew Garman wrote: > Is there a package that will give me some "high resolution" fonts, or at > least allow my existing fonts to scale better? > > For example, I would like to design a simple logo for my website using the > gimp. If I use my text tool

Re: Email line-length defaults to about 76; how to increase?

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 01:48:57PM -0400, Jameson C . Burt wrote: > My email lines get split after about 76 characters. > How could I change this to something longer, > or should email lines be split at 76 characters? Please do keep sending your regular email with line breaks at +/- 70 characters.

Re: grave pppconfig bug

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:25:23PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Can anyone out there reproduce this? > > Package: pppconfig > Version: 2.0.8 > Severity: grave > > If I add a new connection pppconfig will allways select "Number" of all > menu items. Quit doesn't work either. Only thing w

Re: Newbie Question

Subject: Re: Newbie Question Date: Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 07:40:57AM -0400 In reply to:dude Quoting dude([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > What yopu can do is use debfoster > > ie it will see what o have removd and see what other packaged go along > with it and ask you if you want th

Re: screen 1024x768 desktop 1600x1200

Hi Again Markus, Yeah. I know what you mean. You have like a virtual dektop setting. I was hoping one of my suggestions would work for you. Darn. Well, if you have the resolutions in the 'Modes' line like in the example I gave you, you should see if pressing CTRL-ALT-MINUS_ON_YOUR_

Re: Helvetica disappeared from KDE!

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Thomas J. Hamman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:49:09PM -0700, Geoffrey Romer wrote: >> >>> Where does KDE get its' font listing from? How can I determine if Helvetica >>> is actually g

Re: screen 1024x768 desktop 1600x1200

Hi, I'm reading the man page for XF86Config to try to come up with a solution. I see in there an option called 'Virtual ' that looks like it would be in the Screen Configuration section. Do you have any line in you're XF86Config-4 file that has 'Virtual' on it? If so it is probab

Re: Email line-length defaults to about 76; how to increase?

Andy Mott wrote on Sun Jul 22, 2001 at 07:45:14PM: > Bud Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Ah, yes. I didn't think of MUA's that call external editors. I've > > used kmail for the last year or so, and gnus for years before that, > > so I tend to think of the reader and the composer as on

Re: Soundblaster 16

thank you...strange thing. so you dont have any idea? but thank you anyway. markus > The only difference I see is that you show nothing under Installed > drivers or Card config. > > Here is what mine shows: > OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130 > Load type: Driver compiled into kernel > Kernel: Linux bob 2.2.

Re: Email line-length defaults to about 76; how to increase?

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 10:48:57 Jameson C . Burt wrote: > My email lines get split after about 76 characters. > How could I change this to something longer, > or should email lines be split at 76 characters? > > This limit causes problems whenever I email Linux syslog lines, > which are seldom less t

c++ conversion

I would like to migrate some large c/c++ programs from Windows to Linux. Right now I'm invoking gcc -- and even for the most trivial program I am getting the error message: "installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1plus': no such file or directory" I'm also surprised to see that g++ is not recognized

Re: instalar linux | to install linux

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 13:23:06 okito wrote: > Sres. por favor necesito contactarme con uds. pues quiero instalar > linux, en este momento tengo windows millenium > mi mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ahí pueden enviarme como instalarlo y de donde conseguirlo. gracias > ivonne lepo

Re: ipchains for the firewall challenged

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > If I may ask, why do you not like it? The rules it produces are long and complex - that makes it hard to figure out if you did something wrong while configuring the firewall. > Is there so

Re: Email line-length defaults to about 76; how to increase?

Bud Rogers wrote: > > This limit causes problems whenever I email Linux syslog lines, > > which are seldom less than even 90 characters in length. > > And how often do you email syslog entries as compared to other types of text? > Everyone understands that log entries are going to wrap. If it's

Re: Newbie question - XFree86 configuration - (not sure if this is the right list)

Alexandre Dornback wrote: Newbie alert. I'm new to linux and am having issues. _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 This particular error line is useless; you get it for almost any problem with X. What we need are the lines above this error line. In particular, look for a

Re: configuring cups

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:02:03PM -0600, Phil Reardon wrote: > I understood cups had a script or gui for configuring cups, but I can't find > one. Was I wrong? How can I configjure cups for my HP deskjet 840C? > TIA, PCR > ... Hi Phil, the command-line tool for configuring the printers with c

Re: Helvetica disappeared from KDE!

> Did you enable anti-aliasing in KDE? Is helvetica not the only font > you're missing? Yeah, there's the problem. Turning off AA fixed it. > I haven't had time to solve that issue yet, so for now I'm just using > KDE without anti-aliasing. Try turning anti-aliasing off and restart > KDE, and

Re: screen 1024x768 desktop 1600x1200

hi Jimmy Richards the solution of the display is 1024x768, but the desktop is 1600x1200 large. you know the desktop is bigger than the screen, so you see only a part of it, if you get up with your mouse, the screen scrolls up, if you go left, down, right, the same procedure... i have your lines yo

Re: screen 1024x768 desktop 1600x1200

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 08:27:48PM +0200, Markus Hansen wrote: > Thank you for your help, but one last question: the solution of my > display is now 1024x768, but the desktop has still 1600x1200, so it > scrolls while using it, how can i stop that? In the "Display" subsection where you specify th

Re: lprng for a home computer

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:06:21AM +0900, Marshal Wong wrote: > Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I can't help you with your lprng question, but a firewall actually > > makes sense even on a stand-alone workstation or laptop. You can > > filter in the input chain just like you'd do on

Re: X freezing seconds after starting when mouse moves

* Kurt Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-22 18:40): > I just installed XFree86 4.0.3-4 on my Debian woody box and > am having some trouble with it. I can startx and everything > seems fine. However, if I move the mouse at all, the entire > screen freezes after a few (3?) seconds and I have t

Re: screen 1024x768 desktop 1600x1200

* Markus Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-22 19:30): > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 01:46:48AM +0200, Markus Hansen wrote: > > > hi my debian gnu/linux 2.2 potato uses kde2 only with 1600x1200 > > > display. everything is small and bad to read, so i would like > > > to change solution to 1024x768,

Re: Email line-length defaults to about 76; how to increase?

Bud Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Ah, yes. I didn't think of MUA's that call external editors. I've used > kmail for the last year or so, and gnus for years before that, so I tend to > think of the reader and the composer as one and the same. Are there not some > settings in .muttrc

Re: Email line-length defaults to about 76; how to increase?

On Sunday 22 July 2001 01:56 pm, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach Bud Rogers (on Sun, 22 Jul 2001 01:08:20PM -0500): > > It almost certainly set in your MUA. > > well, or the editor associated. i use vi, so there is no mutt setting > involved... Ah, yes. I didn't think of MUA's that call ex

Re: ipchains for the firewall challenged

On 07/22/01 02:27:26 -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > I'm not a big fan of it but pmfirewall is a popular starting point for > people new to setting up firewalls. It can be found at > http://freshmeat.net Thanks for the link. I used to to get set up and now I'm in the process of looking through the

RE: ipmasq ipchanis; newbie question

um, it works now. basically I don't really know what I did except just flush out ipchains and redid my network interfaces. I think I have some kinda weird startup script that messes everything up. or just maybe don't have any startup scripts and it defaults to somethin I don't want. in any case, I

Re: X freezing seconds after starting when mouse moves

I had the same problem. You've probably got xfree86 set your mouse as /dev/psaux , but you also have GPM installed. They sometimes conflict. Remove gpm and you should be OK Wayne On Sunday 22 July 2001 12:36, Kurt Lieber wrote: > I just installed XFree86 4.0.3-4 on my Debian woody box and > am

Re: ipchains: cannot open file `/proc/net/ip_fwnames' (was: Re: "No such file or directory" - huh?!)

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 05:15:11PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:59:15AM +0200, Gary Jones wrote: > > Joost Kooij wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:34:48PM +0200, Gary Jones wrote: > > > > ash-ock:/etc/init.d# ./firewall > > > > bash: ./firewall: No such file or

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