unstable Xfree 4.0 video driver:driver is "glint"

2001-08-05 Thread Soren Renner
OK. 3dlabs is now "glint". Groovy. Found this out by looking at xfree.org. Cable modem is definitely a good thing. Still working on the X server. Thank you collectively. sr Soren Renner

Re: Help with ip-spoof protection in Debian

2001-08-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 11:25:42PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > Can you then have procmail to put all the mail that does not go into the > mailing list folders into a default mailbox? > > # Put mail for pkirk in its own mailbox > :0: > * ^(From|Cc|To).* > $HOME/mail/patrick > > Or would that break all

how to advise dselect of X 4.1.0

2001-08-05 Thread Robin Rowe
I've installed XFree86 4.1.0 from source. (The latest deb seems to be 4.0.3.) How do I tell dselect that I've done that? I want it to leave XFree86 4.1.0 alone, not try to bring in an updated 4.0.x. Thanks! Robin

Re: gnumeric unistallable in testing??

2001-08-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 17:51:05 +, joe golden wrote: > Is there no running gnumeric in the testing branch Apparently. There is a working gnumeric in the unstable branch, which will propagate to testing at some point. If you need gnumeric now, get the source from the unstable branch and build

Cable Modem on Linux

2001-08-05 Thread JakeCatfox
I'm setting up a cable modem in my house, and it will be connected to a hub. Can I just connect my networked computers to that hub to share the internet connection? What kind of configuration do I need to do? Also, is there anything special I need to do to use all my machines on the same IP for

Re: syn-flood on port 80 GONE WILD!

2001-08-05 Thread John Griffiths
At 11:17 PM 8/5/01 -0500, Lance Peterson wrote: >My newly polished-up Debian firewall is logging so many connection attempts >to port 80 that I truly can't believe it. All different IP's and all >day long. I'm considering just DROPing all that stuff without logging, >but I still wonder why all th

syn-flood on port 80 GONE WILD!

2001-08-05 Thread Lance Peterson
My newly polished-up Debian firewall is logging so many connection attempts to port 80 that I truly can't believe it. All different IP's and all day long. I'm considering just DROPing all that stuff without logging, but I still wonder why all these people are hitting my personal IP. I'm not harb

Re: kernel compile problem

2001-08-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 04:51:06PM -0500, Jay Latham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was going to re-compile my kernel today to get rid of some of the > things I don't need but when I got to the network card driver modules, > mine was greyed out (Realtec 8139). This is on the 2.2.19pre17 kernel. > I

Re: Long route delay after PPP connection

2001-08-05 Thread John Hasler
Ted Harding writes: > So I looked at 'man pppd' and searched for IPXCP. There's an option > -ipx-protocol which turns off IPXCP. So I changed the contents of > /etc/ppp/options > from > defaultroute > to > defaultroute -ipx-protocol > and now, lo and behold, no delay! (and all those entries in >

Re: iptables log random access attempts to my server. why?

2001-08-05 Thread Phil Brutsche
On 05 Aug 2001 13:56:57 +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > hi all, > > recently, i installed a new server in a server farm, but since it > isn't ready for production yet, it's only running ssh, everything else > is turned off and blocked with iptables en plus. the ip address is new > and unknown [1]

Re: Moving Directories

2001-08-05 Thread Steven Farrier
On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:49:28 -0400 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Boot without mounting /usr. Mount /usr somewhere else and 'mkdir > /usr'. Then 'mv /other_mount/* /usr'. how do I boot without mounting /usr? how do I mount /usr somewhere else. Steve

Re: LT WinModem and kernel headers

2001-08-05 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not going to tell you to RTFM because I hate when people say that. :) I have been reading everything I can find most of which is at LDP or places linked to there. I've found many answers but not some of the structural answers I need. I'll ad

port forwarding

2001-08-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I'm trying to set up port forwarding to permit file sharing with napster from behind my firewall. So, looking up a friendly howto, I then entered this: rabbit:~# ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 24.114.252.76 6699 -R 192.168.0.2 6699 portfw: setsockopt failed: Invalid argument

Re: where is libgl1 ??

2001-08-05 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sat Aug 04, 2001 um 11:39:56PM: > Hi - > I want to install htmldoc and in order to do this I must have > libgl1 package. I tried to look for it in the packages section > in your web but I couldn't find it at all. Where is it ??? Sure? apt-get install libgl1

Re: Script to generate XF86Config-4

2001-08-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 09:00:17AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > - Original Message - > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 11:04 PM > Subject: Script to generate XF86Config-4 > > > > Greetings: > > > > There is a script or command s

kernel 2.4 mouse problems

2001-08-05 Thread zerog
Hi, a few days ago I installed kernel 2.4 on debian potato. For somereason, when i started X my mouse did not work. I can still boot up the 2.2 kernel and the mouse works fine. Another thing is that when I boot up kernel 2.4 and I log in, If I move the mouse then my keyboard stops working as

Re: debian solution's for donated computer

2001-08-05 Thread destruss
On 5 Aug 2001, at 13:51, Matthew Davidson wrote: > > Really what's needed is a stripped-down Debian-based distro for hardware > reuse projects, with virtual packages like 'task-textnet' or > 'task-xterminalserver'. If anybody out there wants to co-operate on > assembling this, I'm in. Hi Matt

Re: No WindowManager (Was NVidia Problem)

2001-08-05 Thread Geoffrey Romer
Put a file in your home directory called .xinitrc containing the single line: exec wmaker > I now have what appears to be a X screen coming up. I get a gray screen > with a functioning mouse. I do not have a WindowManager even though I > set WindowMaker as the primary manager with update-alter

unstable Xfree 4.0 video driver: no 3DLabs driver

2001-08-05 Thread Soren Renner
Pardon me. I just started using Debian yesterday.It is truly wonderful. I have updated to the unstable Xfree package. It has no video driver for my card. The old X used the 3DLabs driver. I am reluctant to retreat to an older X package, partially because I don't know how to do it without retreatin

imap-server: A neverending story?

2001-08-05 Thread Zivildienst
Hi again! Thanks for all the help about my apt-get problem. Now there is somthing new. I would like to run an imapserver on my debian-system 2.2 unstable. I have an static-ip-adress with permanent connection and the server should relay mails for people inside AND outside (intranet and everything e

Re: Mutt questions

2001-08-05 Thread Brett Parker
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 10:39:31PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > It all works. Many thanks dman. > > > What do people recommend as a console newsreader with a mutt like > interface? > > Patrick slrn Cheers, Brett pgpZUeCy13034.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: nautilus soooooooo slow to load

2001-08-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2001-08-03T22:52:40Z, Shriram Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nestcape 4.7. I know that 6 is much slower and thus haven't upgraded. Mozilla is pretty quick as of 0.9.2. Load times are kind of long, but it's stable enough (for me, at least) that I don't tend to start it more than once

Re: Mutt questions

2001-08-05 Thread P Kirk
It all works. Many thanks dman. What do people recommend as a console newsreader with a mutt like interface? Patrick

Re: Mutt questions

2001-08-05 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 10:39:31PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: | It all works. Many thanks dman. You're welcome. BTW, I like that mapping solution Matthias :-). -D

RE:not enough partitions

2001-08-05 Thread Andrew Agno
Robin Rowe writes: > to carve up the remaining space into several partititions, but cfdisk only > offers to make one last primary partition, then there are no more partitions > available. > > Why can't I make the fourth partition an extended partition and put as many > logical partitions the

Re: [OT] Power supply specs

2001-08-05 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 04:31:31PM -0500, Jeremy wrote: | Heloo, all... | | I'm looking around for a new case to replace my current one, and in looking | at the power supplies that come with them, I've noticed that a number of them | say that they are "AMD approved". I was wondering if this means

Re: [OT] Power supply specs

2001-08-05 Thread Jeremy
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That is just marketing speak. It means that AMD has, in some shape or > form, tested that power supply with their chips and they say it works. > What you really need is enough power, not a marketing label. Great! Thanks for the info! > HTH, > -D Jeremy

S3 savage on potato

2001-08-05 Thread Sam Varghese
I have a new PC here that has some form of S3 Savage video onboard, which isn't supported by XFree86 3.3.6, but apparently is supported under version 4. I am running Debian 2.2r3 (potato), which only supports XFree86 3.3.6 -- it seems that XFree86 4 is in testing/unstable. Has anyone tried runni

Re: Moving Directories

2001-08-05 Thread P Kirk
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 09:49:36AM +1000, Steven Farrier wrote: | I have the / directory stored in /dev/hda2 and the /usr directory stored in /dev/hda3. My question, how would I move /usr to /dev/hda2 and vice-versa? Is speace an issue. What is the output of df -h

Re: ntp: not synchronized?

2001-08-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya manually set the clock within say 10 seconds of the real time... and see if ntp sync's after that ... use "ntpdate ntp.foo.com ntp.other.com" in your bootup scripts to get it close enough ... check your ntp config files - notice the "log" options c ya alvin # Example NTP con

Re: INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

2001-08-05 Thread John Patton
You should be able to fix this by editing the /etc/inittab file and either adding the -L flag to all of your getty entries, or by changing getty to something like mingetty (which requires the mingetty package). On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 06:21:44PM +0200, Jan Tammen wrote: > Hello again, > I discover

Re: Xv-problem on xfree 4.0.3

2001-08-05 Thread Jason Healy
At 997020505s since epoch (08/05/01 12:08:25 -0400 UTC), Herbert Pirke wrote: > I'm running Debian testing/unstable with an 2.4.7 > kernel and xfree 4.0.3. I have a Voodoo3 running in my > dual celeron 400, so I guess that Xv should be running > fine. You'd guess that, but alas, you'd be wrong...

Re: LT WinModem and kernel headers

2001-08-05 Thread Paul Scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not going to tell you to RTFM because I hate when people say that. :) I have been reading everything I can find most of which is at LDP or places linked to there. I've found many answers but not some of the structural answers I need. I'll admit being somewhat

Re: LT WinModem and kernel headers

2001-08-05 Thread Paul Scott
Brett Parker wrote: On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 03:34:44PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Hi, I am an experienced programmer who still has a lot to learn/remember about *nix. I am trying to get my LT WinModem running under potato 2.2.19pre17 #1 I have downloaded what seem to be the files I need.

Re: Cannot find xserver

2001-08-05 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Giri X wrote: > > hi > I recently installed Debian and i am trying to configure x windows. I used > XF86Setup. The video graphics card I have is Intel Direct AGP(810 Shared > memory) and I am not able to find a xserver for this. I tried other Intel > and AGP servers

Cannot find xserver

2001-08-05 Thread Giri X
hi I recently installed Debian and i am trying to configure x windows. I used XF86Setup. The video graphics card I have is Intel Direct AGP(810 Shared memory) and I am not able to find a xserver for this. I tried other Intel and AGP servers but I culdnt configure X windows. Can anyone help??

Re: INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

2001-08-05 Thread Joey Hess
Jan Tammen wrote: > I discovered another problem: > > After booting my machine (info see below) with a newly compiled kernel > 2.4.6, I get the following message on the "first console": > > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabling for 5 minutes > > After 5 minutes the same again ... however,

Re: Long route delay after PPP connection

2001-08-05 Thread James Preston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 05:29:27PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: > Anyway, I've just solved it, and the same may work for you. Terrific - I'll give that a go. - -- James Preston[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multimedia Database Systems Group

Re: Help with ip-spoof protection in Debian

2001-08-05 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Help with ip-spoof protection in Debian Date: Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 10:18:20AM +0100 In reply to:Debian User Quoting Debian User([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent > permitted by applicable law. > No mail. > [EMAIL

Re: font "fixed" missing

2001-08-05 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: font "fixed" missing Date: Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 12:18:00PM +0530 In reply to:harsha Quoting harsha([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > hi, >I was seting up Xwindow when the following problem occured. > > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > > search on go

mssql database to free database

2001-08-05 Thread Matt Fair
Hello, I am converting an ASP Visual Basic application to run on a linux machine. I downloaded the trial version of Chilisoft and got the ASP working, now I want to have the database be mysql or postgresql. Does anyone know of a conversion utility for mssql database to either mysql or postgres

Re: How to remove non-deb package software?

2001-08-05 Thread Allen Wayne Best
source that follows the gnu standard will be able to clean up it's own build directories with a make clean invocation. and it should also have an uninstall facility. use make uninstall to get rid of the installed bin, man, data, libraries, etc. if you have already removed the source code di

Re: Help with ip-spoof protection in Debian

2001-08-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 09:34:29PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > | > dpkg-distaddfiledpkg-preconfigure dpkg-source > | > dpkg-divert dpkg-reconfiguredpkg-split > | > | ??? > Argh! > > Sometimes I wonder if I should give it a

Re: capt in woody

2001-08-05 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
[Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 08:40:33PM -0700] Aaron : > Has capt been deprecated already in favor of > something else? Deity is the package to look out for. Capt has been obsoleted by deity and it is now a dummy package wrapper for deity. 'apt-get install deity' will help you now. -- GPG: 1024D

Re: ntp: not synchronized?

2001-08-05 Thread ktb
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 01:00:40PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 05:33:53AM -0700, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > ktb wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:25:02PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > > I have the ntp running and see no error messages

Re: timer command?

2001-08-05 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: timer command? Date: Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 07:51:53PM +0200 In reply to:Guy Geens Quoting Guy Geens([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > "Wayne" == Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Wayne> On Potato it does. On Woody 'atd' isn't starting, no > Wayne> var/run/atd.pid

Re: Help with ip-spoof protection in Debian

2001-08-05 Thread P Kirk
| > dpkg-distaddfiledpkg-preconfigure dpkg-source | > dpkg-divert dpkg-reconfiguredpkg-split | | ??? Argh! Sometimes I wonder if I should give it all up and take up knitting instead. Many thanks for pointing that out

Re: iptables log random access attempts to my server. why?

2001-08-05 Thread P Kirk
actually I just deinstalled portsentry because of this. There are a huge number of Linux boxes out there that are desperately scanning port 111 looking for a nfs type server. Its worth setting the trip wire level a little higher to avoid being swamped with spurious info.

Re: Linux on less than 8MByes of Memory

2001-08-05 Thread ktb
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:14:54AM +1000, Ian Perry wrote: > Hi, > > I have an old 486Sx dog which I want to use as a printserver. > Potato recomments at least 12MBytes of memory to do an install from CD. > Is it possible to install Potato on 8MBytes ? > Do I need to create special boot floppies o

Re: Linux on less than 8MByes of Memory

2001-08-05 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:14:54AM +1000, Ian Perry wrote: | Hi, | | I have an old 486Sx dog which I want to use as a printserver. | Potato recomments at least 12MBytes of memory to do an install from CD. | Is it possible to install Potato on 8MBytes ? | Do I need to create special boot floppies o

Re: error message with "libdb.so.3"

2001-08-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 02:35:58PM -0400, Joe Bouchard wrote: > On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 12:31:35AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 08:46:32AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > > > > I had this problem too. I copied libdb.so.3 from another box to /lib. > > > > > > Lat

Re: One silly doubt and one good one

2001-08-05 Thread Alan Shutko
Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 09:05:51AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 1. Supposing you are having a binary cose , say scoadmin , on a SCOUnix >> machine , >> , , How do I transport this binary to Linux , so that it works over there ? > > I don't know

X font error

2001-08-05 Thread Soren Renner
X will not start. "Fatal server error: could not open default font "fixed". I realize this is not a complete bug report: however, I have encountered this error before, with another distribution, and I remember that there is a simple way to fix it. But it was years ago, and the friend who helped me

X font error

2001-08-05 Thread Soren Renner
X will not start. "Fatal server error: could not open default font "fixed". I realize this is not a complete bug report: however, I have encountered this error before, with another distribution, and I remember that there is a simple way to fix it. But it was years ago, and the friend who helped me

Re: X font error

2001-08-05 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 04 Aug 2001 19:34:44 +0400, Soren Renner wrote: > X will not start. "Fatal server error: could not open default font > "fixed". I realize this is not a complete bug report: however, I > have encountered this error before, with another distribution, and I > remember that there is a simple way to

NVidia GeForce MX2 XFree86 v4

2001-08-05 Thread lance
I am having problems setting up XFree86 v4 with my NVidia GeForce2 MX. I am using kernel 2.4.5 on Woody. Has anyone gotten this card to work? Any tips on what I can try? If I type XFree86 -configure I get an -Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices Any suggestions?

Re: A good list of what Debian installs and what it doesn't

2001-08-05 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Neil Gibbs wrote: > Hey all, a Newbie here. Love Debian, but I noticed > some things were not installed by default using the > "simple" package install. On debian.org, some mention > is made of this fact, but no detailed list of what is > and isn't. For instance, teln

Re: How secure am I?

2001-08-05 Thread David J. Roundy
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:29:13PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > I need ftp. update-rc.d -f proftpd remove takes it out of the live config. > ssh in, /etc/init.d/proftpd start and I can do my backips/restores, etc then > close it again. scp would be much neater.. But dselect scp gets nothing >

Re: qtcups_2.0-4

2001-08-05 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, john gennard wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:14:29AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, john gennard wrote: > > > > > I run Potato 2.2 r3 on a PC with a 2.2.18 kernel, and have > > > tried to install the above using 'apt-get source -b qtcups' (

not enough partitions

2001-08-05 Thread Robin Rowe
Hi. I have a hard drive with ext2 (primary), swap (logical), and NTFS (primary) partitions. It's a large drive with a lot of unused space. I want to carve up the remaining space into several partititions, but cfdisk only offers to make one last primary partition, then there are no more partitions a

where is libgl1 ??

2001-08-05 Thread yossina
Hi - I want to install htmldoc and in order to do this I must have libgl1 package. I tried to look for it in the packages section in your web but I couldn't find it at all. Where is it ??? -- Yossi Naggar<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 22 Itshak Sade St., Beer-Sheva, 84230 Israel Tel: +972 8

gnumeric unistallable in testing??

2001-08-05 Thread joe golden
I am running the testing branch (kernel 2.2.19). I just ran a dselect update. dselect is telling me gnumeric depends on libgal4 which "does not appear to be available." Is there no running gnumeric in the testing branch and if so any recommendations on alternatives with graphs? Thank you,

attempted break-in?

2001-08-05 Thread Allen Wayne Best
hello: i am curious if anyone else is seeing an attempt by a user anonymous with a password of [EMAIL PROTECTED] to ftp into their system. i found the following snippits in the message log this morning. it sent up a red flag for me. i've immediately blocked access for ftp not originating from t

Re: problems upgrading from stable

2001-08-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 09:27:59PM -0700, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > I'm still new to debian, but I'm here because these things do get fixed :) Agreed. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good ide

Re: A good list of what Debian installs and what it doesn't

2001-08-05 Thread Bob Koss
A related question When I try to run an application and I get errors about missing libraries, how do I know which package a given library is in? > "Neil" == Neil Gibbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Neil> Hey all, a Newbie here. Love Debian, but I noticed some Neil> things were

Re: qtcups_2.0-4

2001-08-05 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, john gennard wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:14:29AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, john gennard wrote: > > > > > > > I run Potato 2.2 r3 on a PC with a 2.2.18 kernel, and have > > >

Keyboard vs. mouse

2001-08-05 Thread Jens-D. Neppe
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Re: timer command?

2001-08-05 Thread Guy Geens
> "Wayne" == Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wayne> On Potato it does. On Woody 'atd' isn't starting, no Wayne> var/run/atd.pid file. So forget 'at' on Woody presently. There must be something wrong with your installation: it works fine on my system. The .deb is still the same as in p

Re: A good list of what Debian installs and what it doesn't

2001-08-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 06:31:24AM -0700, Neil Gibbs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey all, a Newbie here. Love Debian, but I noticed some things were > not installed by default using the "simple" package install. On > debian.org, some mention is made of this fact, but no detailed list of > what i

Re: No WindowManager (Was NVidia Problem)

2001-08-05 Thread Lance_Hoffmeyer
Did I mention I was using XFree86-4.0.1? Version 3 does not support Gladiac MX. Lance On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 12:21:53PM -0700, Geoffrey Romer wrote: > Put a file in your home directory called .xinitrc containing the single line: > > exec wmaker > > > I now have what appears to be a X scree

Re: NVidia GeForce MX2 XFree86 v4

2001-08-05 Thread Geoffrey Romer
> I am having problems setting up XFree86 v4 with my NVidia GeForce2 MX. > I am using kernel 2.4.5 on Woody. > > Has anyone gotten this card to work? Any tips on what I can try? > > If I type XFree86 -configure > > I get an -Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices >

Re: am i being wormed? aaugh!

2001-08-05 Thread John Galt
No, you may not panic. It's an IIS exploit. Code Red to be precise. On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, will trillich wrote: >i get this http request a couple of times every hour via my own >home-grown DBIlog.pm (mod-perl/apache) httpd logger: > >at | 2001-07-19 10:19:18-05 >client | 216.82.8.136 >met

kernel compile problem

2001-08-05 Thread Jay Latham
I was going to re-compile my kernel today to get rid of some of the things I don't need but when I got to the network card driver modules, mine was greyed out (Realtec 8139). This is on the 2.2.19pre17 kernel. I then went to the 2.2.19 kernel which offered two drivers (rtl8139 and 8139too), but aga

unstable Xfree mouse

2001-08-05 Thread Soren Renner
OK! I have made progress. Now I have to get the mouse working. It is an old Logitech mouse. Under Redhat, it took the "older logitech C7 serial mouse" driver. But the "Logitech" driver doesn't work -- see previous message's appended log file. I wonder why there isn't a configuration utility like a

Re: debian: gnome is slower with testing distro

2001-08-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
Brendan J Simon wrote: > > I've been using testing for a while now on my Apple G4 laptop. I also > use some unstable packages but the apt defaults are set to testing. I > am using GNOME and Sawmill and I do an apt update/upgrade everyday. In > the last month or so I have noticed that GNOME is *

Re: imap-server: A neverending story?

2001-08-05 Thread Patrick Kirk
Puzzled. Are you asking us how to set up an open relay?

NVIDIA GeForce2 MX XFree86 v4 messages

2001-08-05 Thread lance
I downloaded the tars from www.nvidia.com and compiled. Now, with XFree86 -verbose 5 I get: I am getting the following messages now: (WW) Cannot open APM (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.4 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.2

Re: need help with dhclient.conf

2001-08-05 Thread Steve Gran
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 20:42:38 Andrew Plata wrote: > I live in Toronto, Canada and I use Rogers Cable as my > ISP. > > I am currently running Progeny Debian 1.0 and trying to configure > dhclient.conf as my dhcp client for my IP address to be assigned to me > dynamically. > > I have added my host

Re: dosemu mystery

2001-08-05 Thread Herbert Xu
Mike Pfleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > into there. Still unable to cp from my home dir (D: in dosemu) to > the tmp dir (C:\tmp\ in dosemu). > What am I missing? It's a bug. Please file it against dosemu and I'll fix it. Basically the dosemu scripts should handle the tmp directory for you.

QT - Now really....

2001-08-05 Thread Nikolai Prokoschenko
Well, this raises an old problem of checking the correctness of installed files... It's been a couple of weeks now since I get the following message when I try starting Konqueror for example: konqueror: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libqt.so.2: undefined symbol: XftDefaultHasRend

/var/log/XFree86.0.log

2001-08-05 Thread Soren Renner
If anyone would like to look at the attached log and config file and offer suggestions, I would appreciate it. Mail me at this address - I have not yet successfully subscribed to the list. sr

Re: how to advise dselect of X 4.1.0

2001-08-05 Thread der.hans
Am 04. Aug, 2001 schwäzte Robin Rowe so: > I've installed XFree86 4.1.0 from source. (The latest deb seems to be > 4.0.3.) How do I tell dselect that I've done that? I want it to leave > XFree86 4.1.0 alone, not try to bring in an updated 4.0.x. echo xserver-common hold | dpkg --set-selections T

xdvi doesn't work, fontset?

2001-08-05 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, When I tried to use xdvi the other day, it gives me this warning Mercury:~/school/rsty/proposal$ xdvi proposal.dvi Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859-1 font Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset /usr/

RE: code red goes on

2001-08-05 Thread John Griffiths
> >There has definately been a change in the original form of the attacks from ># GET /default.ida?N -snip- NN%u9090% -snip- 0%u00=a HTTP/1.0 >to ># GET /default.ida?X -snip- XX%u9090% -snip- 0%u00=a HTTP/1.0 >The second packet is also much shorter (with less X's), although the tail is >t

Netatalk: job could not be printed

2001-08-05 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
I have set up netatalk on my stable machine so that I can print from a Mac IIsi. "Deskjet" is a HP Deskjet 694C that resides on my debian machine at lp0. Here is the papd.conf file: Deskjet:\ :pr=lp0:\ :op=susan:\ :pd=/etc/netatalk/ppds/HPDJ1200C.ppd I can choose "Deskjet

Re: No WindowManager (Was NVidia Problem)

2001-08-05 Thread Lance_Hoffmeyer
I tried putting a .xinitrc with exec wmaker then exec icewm to no avail. Here is my XFree86.0.log XFree86 Version 4.1.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release Date: 2 June 2001 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is

Script to generate XF86Config-4

2001-08-05 Thread mark
Greetings: There is a script or command somewhere that generates an XF86Config-4 file from entries in the debconf data base. I know this because I've used it before but now I can't recall what it is. Would someone out there please jog my memory? -- Mark

Re: [OT] Network speed ... again

2001-08-05 Thread hansen
from 'man nfs': "Here is an example from an /etc/fstab file from an NFS mount. server:/usr/local/pub/pub nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr Options rsize=nThe number of bytes NFS uses when reading files from an NFS server. The

RE:Pump and cable modem

2001-08-05 Thread Andrew Agno
Lance Peterson writes: > What's the proper way to get pump working with [EMAIL PROTECTED] cable > modems. > They require the hostname to be seen. I have been able to get my debian > system up using Dhcpcd, but never with pump. Not an answer, but I've never been able to get pump working on e

Re: Script to generate XF86Config-4

2001-08-05 Thread San Segkhoonthod
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 san On 04 Aug 2001 21:04:17 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings: > > There is a script or command somewhere that generates an XF86Config-4 > file from entries in the debconf data base. I know this because I've > used it before but now I can't recall what i

Re: ntp: not synchronized?

2001-08-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 05:33:53AM -0700, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ktb wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:25:02PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > I have the ntp running and see no error messages while it's running > > > but ntptime returnes error, the time is few minutes o

RE: Long route delay after PPP connection

2001-08-05 Thread Ted Harding
On 01-Aug-01 James Preston wrote: > This is almost certainly not a specific Debian problem, but my > potato installation always exhibits a strange pause in updating > routing information after dial-up. > > After successful handshake and allocation of an IP and and nameserver > entries

Re: LT WinModem and kernel headers

2001-08-05 Thread Brett Parker
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 03:34:44PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Hi, > > I am an experienced programmer who still has a lot to learn/remember > about *nix. > > I am trying to get my LT WinModem running under potato 2.2.19pre17 #1 I > have downloaded what seem to be the files I need. Running the

Re: ntp: not synchronized?

2001-08-05 Thread ktb
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 02:01:10PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 03:37:49PM -0500, ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 01:00:40PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 05:33:53AM -0700, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > wro

Re: Keyboard vs. mouse

2001-08-05 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 08:28:07PM +0200, Jens-D. Neppe wrote: > Hi! > > Is there anyone who tried to control the mouse pointer(for X) via keyboard?? > Does a sotuion for this exist? Ctrl-Shift-Num_Lock Experiment with the keys on the number pad to see how it works. -- Eric G. Miller

Re: code red goes on

2001-08-05 Thread Allen Wayne Best
after reading that "apparently" the latest code red attacks are coming from unsuspecting users of that utimate computer virus, i decided to scan the access log file and send messages to the "best guess" person at the owner of the ip address (usually a dial-up provider). i modified the script by

Re: ntp: not synchronized?

2001-08-05 Thread Guenter Millahn
Hi Erik, I found that the 4.0.99g-3 versions of ntpdate and ntp doesn't work on SPARC. I submitted a bug report but nothing happened on the maintainers side. My workaround is to use the 4.0.99g-2 versions and set it into hold state. Works fine for me. Regards, Guenter On Fri, 03 Aug 2001, Erik

Re: LT WinModem and kernel headers

2001-08-05 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Sunday 05 August 2001 17:00, Paul Scott wrote: > Brett Parker wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 03:34:44PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > have you got the kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17 package installed? if > > not, that's what you are missing. > How do I determine whether that package is installed?

Where can I fine "basedebs.tgz" file for Woody

2001-08-05 Thread Stephen Jiang
Hi, I have tried to install Woody via internet. When up to "Install the Base System" part, it asked an address so that it can get a "basedebs.tgz" or a "Release" file.   So, I typed it as below: http://ftp.dists/testing/main/binary-i386/ in fact, I have tried different sites but it does not

yahoo chat client err

2001-08-05 Thread harsha
hi, When I try to launch ymessenger it gives this error message. Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkfont.c: line 220 (gdk_font_ref): assertion `font != NULL' failed. Segmentation fault I think I am missing a required package but I don't know which. I would really appreciate if somebody tell me this.

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