Re: xwindows crash - bad graphics card?

2001-08-14 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 14 Aug 2001 23:48:38 -0400, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > > Hello, > xwindows is crashing,it just occured. I am getting message > something like xf86OpenConsole: no such file /dev/tty4 > Is it possible the graphics mode on my fairly old card > died - leaving text mode intact. Cannot run Xf

Re: syslog reports weird routing problems?

2001-08-14 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 15 Aug 2001 04:46:37 +, john smith wrote: > > > Mike, > > so...did you find a solution? I just added a ipchains firewall rule to block igmp (protocol 2 packets) going to 224.0.0.1 from anywhere and not log. ie: ipchains -I input -p igmp -d 224.0.0.1 No more annoying packet logs. I'm m

Re: syslog reports weird routing problems?

2001-08-14 Thread john smith
I see...so what is the problem and how do I fix it? A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Something's weird..whenever I log into a console and connect to the internet > I get this: (from syslog and messages too) continuously while I am connected > to the internet > > >

Re: when procmailrc is wacky, what happens to the mail?

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:40:35PM -0400, Bill Lovett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:44:53PM -0400, dman wrote: > > > | .forward file goes a little something like this: > > | > > | "|IFS='' && exec /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75 #username" > > > > FWIW, that line comes co

Re: Snort

2001-08-14 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 15 Aug 2001 13:06:09 +1000, Craig W wrote: > Hi, > > Real Newbie to Debian, wondering if anyone could help me to correct an issue > I am having with installing Snort. > > apt-get install snort > > Setting up snort (1.5.1-11) ... > Can't call method "template" on an undefined value at > /usr/l

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:43:48AM -0400, Gilles Pelletier wrote: > At 00:29 15-08-01 -0400, you wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:13:51AM -0400, Gilles Pelletier wrote: > >> > >> Tell me, is this what's preventing the team from offering boot diskettes > >> for Woody nearly six months after ker

Re: syslog reports weird routing problems?

2001-08-14 Thread john smith
Mike, so...did you find a solution? On 14 Aug 2001 05:51:16 +, john smith wrote: > Something's weird..whenever I log into a console and connect to the internet > I get this: (from syslog and messages too) continuously while I am connected > to the internet > LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00

Re: Unresolved Symbol: usb... but i deactivated it when making 'make menuconfig'

2001-08-14 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 15 Aug 2001 00:12:50 +0200, Jörn Dreyer wrote: > Hi everybody, > > this is my first post on a mailing list ... and as you might have guessed > im a newbie. > ok this is my problem: > > i installed linux on an old ibm ps/2 (diskette version). works fine. (read > all the mca stuff availiable a

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Gilles Pelletier
At 00:29 15-08-01 -0400, you wrote: >On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:13:51AM -0400, Gilles Pelletier wrote: >> >> Tell me, is this what's preventing the team from offering boot diskettes >> for Woody nearly six months after kernel 2.4 is out? >> > >You are seriously ill informed, or you prefer to spre

RE: How to answer

2001-08-14 Thread Ian Perry
> From: Gilles Pelletier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 2:36 PM > > I'm used to a web - news interface, but not to email - news. > I can't post > directly to th enewsgroup. I suppose that's normal. I > received two copies > of some posts, none of others. Answering to

Re: TCPQuota. possible bug?

2001-08-14 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 14 Aug 2001 22:58:09 +0100, Nick Avenell wrote: > I tried to install TCPQuota on my woody box (sacrifice) tonight, and > couldn't. This is what happened: > > ---fragment > > What is the password for the mySQL admin user? > > Is the choos

How to answer

2001-08-14 Thread Gilles Pelletier
I'm used to a web - news interface, but not to email - news. I can't post directly to th enewsgroup. I suppose that's normal. I received two copies of some posts, none of others. Answering to any any of the two copies I received, sends the reply to sender, not to the newsgroup. I'm using Eudora. H

Question about the GPL

2001-08-14 Thread brandtd
I'm a GPL advocate, but I work for a company who doesn't feel quite the same way as me. I recently edited WinVNC (yes I know it's windows, but I couldn't find a GPL mailing list). This edited WinVNC was meant to be absolutely invisible to the user of the workstation. There is no inform

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:13:22AM -0400, Gilles Pelletier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 19:18 14-08-01 -0700, you wrote: > > "Karsten M. Self" écrivait/wrote: > > Debian/stable is aimed at production systems: servers, embedded > > systems, dedicated-use systems (e.g.: public kiosk, POS ter

Getting online with a cable modem

2001-08-14 Thread Ruth Sanford
I am trying to get online with a cable modem. My server is optimum online. My network card is 3Com 3c920. I am using Progeny Debian. Thanks in advance for any helpful experience or know how.   Ed Bodfish

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:13:51AM -0400, Gilles Pelletier wrote: > > Tell me, is this what's preventing the team from offering boot diskettes > for Woody nearly six months after kernel 2.4 is out? > You are seriously ill informed, or you prefer to spread FUD. Boot disks have been available for

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-14 Thread John Galt
Because It fits with my preferences more. You see, contrary to some people around here, I LIKE to recieve copies of listmail when I'm the intended recipient. The resent-from recipie puts the personal copy in my inbox, where it recieves relatively immediate attention, and yet still keeps the flow

Re: Fwd: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1132

2001-08-14 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> For once I am ashamed to be Australian.. > No, I will never be ashamed of being an Australian. > > I am however ashamed to be living in the same country (and the same > state) as someone who is so rude and naive and abuses the rest of the > world like a spoilt child who believes that he is the on

Re: Debian as a training system.

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:28:52PM -0400, Sean Morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:47:07 -0400 > I know I'm gonna piss everyone off, but Debian isn't appropriate for > newbies who actually want to learn unix fundamentals. Apt is a really > great system and all, but it doesn

Re: gnome/mouseroller

2001-08-14 Thread Rafael Sasaki
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:04:35AM -0400, Jeff Maxson wrote: > now for the mouse roller and I am SET! Hi, if the mouse roller is the wheel, I just put on se Section "Pointer" of XF86Config file the line: ZAxisMapping4 5 and it`s working fine. HTH, Rafael Sasaki

RE: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Gilles Pelletier
At 12:16 15-08-01 +1000, you wrote: >I have used Slackware in the past and I will NEVER use it again. It was >just so damn unreliable (windows spent more uptime than the slackware >system) REALLY? You should post on alt.os.linux.slackware! They're una(slack)ware! A friend of mine has a Slack ser

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Gilles Pelletier
Sorry if this message ends outside the thread. I can't post directly to the newsgroup and replying to any of the two messages I received for each post, sends the answer back to the author. There must be some Debian style here too... GP At 22:13 14-08-01 -0400, Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écri

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Gilles Pelletier
At 19:18 14-08-01 -0700, you wrote: "Karsten M. Self" écrivait/wrote: >A Debian distro, when released, is stable. Which stuff was I reading the other day, Red Hat's or SuSE's. It said "Don't trust our stuff, it's unstable as a swamp over hell!" That's why we're thinking Debian or Slack... but I

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-14 Thread Rich Puhek
dman wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:24:31PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: > > | Personally, I'm stuck with an NT box at work, so I end up using Netscape > > Not to fear -- mutt works great with cygwin (just patch attachment.c > to use binary mode for opening files or else M$ will screw up the

RE: gnome/mouseroller

2001-08-14 Thread Jeff Maxson
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Tony Bartholomaeus wrote: > There is a commmand that starts Gnome, I think it's something creative like > 'gnome-start'. Try changing your .xinitrc to read - > > icewm & > gnome-start ahh...I remember. It's "gnome-session". Thanks for the kick in the head. Jostled the memor

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Sam Varghese
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:47:07PM -0400, Gilles Pelletier wrote: > We're a small group mulling over the respective merits of Debian and > Slackware for a newbie. Of course, since apt-get takes care of installing > dependencies and upgrading the whole installed software, we were leaning > towards D

Perl warning in apt-get operations...

2001-08-14 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hi! When i use apt-get...I've the next message: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en.ISO8859-1" are supported and installed on your s

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:26:42PM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > (snip) > > If you want stable, you get it. If you want unstable/testing (which > > means: usually works, occasionally tweaks), you get it. Choice. All > > fully up to date. > (snip) >

Re: sqrt C function

2001-08-14 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "Dimitri" == Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dimitri> * Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: >> I don't see how. I see it as a legitimate compiler >> optimization. If you have "double f = 4;", and you compile 4 as >> a double-precision value rather than

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Dave Carrigan
Gilles Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How the hell is Volkerding and his small pack managing to put out Slack 8 > with XFree86 4.1.0, kernel 2.4.5, KDE 2.1.2, GNOME 1.4, glibc 2.2.3, > Mozilla, Galeon, Nautilus, ProFTPD, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, mod_ssl, mod_php... > and all the usual utilities,

RE: Modem isn't working

2001-08-14 Thread Tony Bartholomaeus
Hi Sam/dman, I know you guys are trying to help out, but my problem is not getting online, I can do all that stuff... the problem here is that I don't want to HAVE to do it! One of the major problems Linux newbies have is getting their modem to work. The easier this process is, the more likely the

xwindows crash - bad graphics card?

2001-08-14 Thread Christopher Mosley
Hello, xwindows is crashing,it just occured. I am getting message something like xf86OpenConsole: no such file /dev/tty4 Is it possible the graphics mode on my fairly old card died - leaving text mode intact. Cannot run Xf86Setup either.

Re: .forward file format for exim

2001-08-14 Thread Sam Varghese
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 01:22:48PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > if $h_Resent-Sender: contains "debian" then > > but replaced with > > if $h_x-mailing-list matches "^" > then neither of them work for me. maybe i should make some changes in my exim.conf first. > My advice: locate and

Re: when procmailrc is wacky, what happens to the mail?

2001-08-14 Thread Bill Lovett
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:44:53PM -0400, dman wrote: > | .forward file goes a little something like this: > | > | "|IFS='' && exec /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75 #username" > FWIW, that line comes courtesy of one Timo Salmi, at: http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html#start It works, but is

Re: Modem isn't working

2001-08-14 Thread Sam Varghese
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 01:06:37PM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus wrote: > OK, I didn't realise that you wrote pppconfig... this will be a bit vague, > as I do not have access to my Linux box (I'm at work!), but here is > basically what happened. > > 1) Ran pppconfig, it appeared to set up everything w

perl problems (formerly "dpkg xlib")

2001-08-14 Thread R1nso13
>i ran >"dpkg -i --auto-deconfigure xlibs-43433-4_i386.deb" >and got >dpkg: considering removing xlib6g in favor of xlibs >dpkg: yes will remove xlib6g in favor of xlibs >dpkg: /home/wichert/debian/dpkg-1.6.15/main/archives.c:601:check_conflict: >Assertion 'fixbyrm -> client data -> istobe == itb_

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:24:31PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: | Personally, I'm stuck with an NT box at work, so I end up using Netscape Not to fear -- mutt works great with cygwin (just patch attachment.c to use binary mode for opening files or else M$ will screw up the streams)! I haven't tried

Re: Modem isn't working

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 01:06:37PM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus wrote: | OK, I didn't realise that you wrote pppconfig... this will be a bit vague, | as I do not have access to my Linux box (I'm at work!), but here is | basically what happened. | | 1) Ran pppconfig, it appeared to set up everything w

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Sean Morgan
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:47:07 -0400 Gilles Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is apt-get really worth this huge delay? We do plan to teach the newbie > some fundamentals. > > BTW, in case you wouldn't know, even newbies like to be cutting edge... > even more so than oldies I'd say : ) I know

Re: Modem isn't working

2001-08-14 Thread Sam Varghese
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:05:37PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > Do you have any suggestions as to how to make them more self-evident? > > Sam Varghese writes: > > are you trying to be a smartass? > > I'm trying to ask for suggestions on improvements to my program. I'm sorry > that of

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-14 Thread Rich Puhek
John Galt wrote: > > .procmailrc recipie: > > :0: > * ^Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > debian-user > > About 99.9995% effective. > > On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Gaelle T. Morin wrote: > Um, how about using: "X-Mailing-List: " instead of the Resent-From? I believe that's what that header

Re: Modem isn't working

2001-08-14 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Do you have any suggestions as to how to make them more self-evident? Sam Varghese writes: > are you trying to be a smartass? I'm trying to ask for suggestions on improvements to my program. I'm sorry that offends you. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill

RE: Modem isn't working

2001-08-14 Thread Tony Bartholomaeus
OK, I didn't realise that you wrote pppconfig... this will be a bit vague, as I do not have access to my Linux box (I'm at work!), but here is basically what happened. 1) Ran pppconfig, it appeared to set up everything without trouble. 2) Used pon to connect, modem dials, tries to authenticate, f

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Mark Carroll
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, dman wrote: (snip) > So you have some choices : > a) live with the way stable is, even if there is a bug > b) fix your own system > c) update your system to the "current" version (ie testing) We don't disagree. (-: Basically, I'm saying that although my preference

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:47:07 Gilles Pelletier wrote: > We're a small group mulling over the respective merits of Debian and > Slackware for a newbie. Of course, since apt-get takes care of > installing > dependencies and upgrading the whole installed software, we were leaning > towards Debian. The

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Sam Varghese
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:47:07PM -0400, Gilles Pelletier wrote: > We're a small group mulling over the respective merits of Debian and > Slackware for a newbie. Of course, since apt-get takes care of installing > dependencies and upgrading the whole installed software, we were leaning > towards D

Snort

2001-08-14 Thread Craig W
Hi, Real Newbie to Debian, wondering if anyone could help me to correct an issue I am having with installing Snort. apt-get install snort Setting up snort (1.5.1-11) ... Can't call method "template" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Question.pm line 251, chunk 1. dpkg: erro

Re: Modem isn't working

2001-08-14 Thread Sam Varghese
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:50:19PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Sam Varghese writes: > > use pppconfig (as root) to connect... > > More precisely, use pppconfig to configure and pon to connect (and poff to > disconnect). > > > ...follow the prompts all of which are fairly self-evident. > > Do you

Re: when procmailrc is wacky, what happens to the mail?

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:21:15PM -0400, Bill Lovett wrote: | A couple times now I've edited my .procmailrc file, unwittingly | screwed something up, and only discovered my mistake after a day or | two goes by with not a peep out of otherwise high traffic lists. | | But what happens to a message

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:26:42PM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: | On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: | (snip) | > If you want stable, you get it. If you want unstable/testing (which | > means: usually works, occasionally tweaks), you get it. Choice. All | > fully up to date. | (snip) |

Re: Fwd: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1132

2001-08-14 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:22:17AM +1000, Ian Perry wrote: > For once I am ashamed to be Australian.. > No, I will never be ashamed of being an Australian. > > On behalf of all the educated Australians, I pray that you do not judge us > all by the occasional fool. We are not all ignorant. O

Re: Modem isn't working

2001-08-14 Thread John Hasler
Tony Bartholomaeus writes: > pppconfig didn't work for me, I had to alter the config files manually. What did you try, what went wrong, and what did you do to fix it? As the author of pppconfig I need to know these things. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: Netscape as root, sndconfig

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:55:44AM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I recently installed Netscape Communicator, which works great, except > that I can't run it as root due to "security reasons". Does anyone > know how I can get around this? Don't run it as root. > Also, I w

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-14 Thread John Galt
.procmailrc recipie: :0: * ^Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user About 99.9995% effective. On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Gaelle T. Morin wrote: >Well, >I broke my own promise to be a lurker of this list. >However, I am just wondering on how do others read this mega list. >Is that: "d"(

RE: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Ian Perry
I have used Slackware in the past and I will NEVER use it again. It was just so damn unreliable (windows spent more uptime than the slackware system), and it became difficult to maintain... as for upgrading... to your newbies... all I can say is "I wish you the best of luck you will need it",

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Mark Carroll
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: (snip) > If you want stable, you get it. If you want unstable/testing (which > means: usually works, occasionally tweaks), you get it. Choice. All > fully up to date. (snip) Well, to an extent. Sometimes when you report a problem with a package, the

when procmailrc is wacky, what happens to the mail?

2001-08-14 Thread Bill Lovett
A couple times now I've edited my .procmailrc file, unwittingly screwed something up, and only discovered my mistake after a day or two goes by with not a peep out of otherwise high traffic lists. But what happens to a message when procmail gets confused by a broken recipe? Nothing shows up in

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:47:07PM -0400, Gilles Pelletier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > We're a small group mulling over the respective merits of Debian and > Slackware for a newbie. Of course, since apt-get takes care of > installing dependencies and upgrading the whole installed software, we > w

Turning off services

2001-08-14 Thread mdevin
I am trying to learn a little more about just what daemons I need running for the system to work and what I can do without. Now, when I installed Debian, I told dselect to not install things like: ftpd, telnetd, fingerd, talkd, and identd. From memory, the installer wanted to put these on by defa

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Ben Collins
> How the hell is Volkerding and his small pack managing to put out Slack 8 > with XFree86 4.1.0, kernel 2.4.5, KDE 2.1.2, GNOME 1.4, glibc 2.2.3, > Mozilla, Galeon, Nautilus, ProFTPD, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, mod_ssl, mod_php... > and all the usual utilities, hardly 3 months after Mandrake rushed out > t

RE: Modem isn't working

2001-08-14 Thread Tony Bartholomaeus
If all else fails, check out this site: http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html pppconfig didn't work for me, I had to alter the config files manually. Dunno if this is because of a peculiarity with the modem, or the ISP, or whatever... anyway, the info at the above should see you right if not

Re: Woody and default keymap

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:48:55PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > /etc/console-tools > > > > Copy a keymap there named as 'default.kmap.gz'. Check > > /etc/init.d/console-tools for more info. > > BTW, I forgot to say that under X the keyboard works OK and the > config

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:45:15AM -0400, Gaelle T. Morin wrote: | Well, | I broke my own promise to be a lurker of this list. | However, I am just wondering on how do others read this mega list. | Is that: "d"(elete), "d", "d", and "" once in awhile? Try also ^d (kill-thread). It's faster than p

Re: Modem isn't working

2001-08-14 Thread John Hasler
Sam Varghese writes: > use pppconfig (as root) to connect... More precisely, use pppconfig to configure and pon to connect (and poff to disconnect). > ...follow the prompts all of which are fairly self-evident. Do you have any suggestions as to how to make them more self-evident? -- John Hasler

META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-14 Thread Gaelle T. Morin
Well, I broke my own promise to be a lurker of this list. However, I am just wondering on how do others read this mega list. Is that: "d"(elete), "d", "d", and "" once in awhile? OR, procmailing certain paterns... OR, ... Looking forward for insights... -- -- Gaelle T. Morin -- http://www.nawala.

Netscape as root, sndconfig

2001-08-14 Thread Tony Bartholomaeus
I recently installed Netscape Communicator, which works great, except that I can't run it as root due to "security reasons". Does anyone know how I can get around this? Also, I will soon need to set up my souncard. This is my first experience with Debian, so I don't know which tools (if any) are a

Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Gilles Pelletier
We're a small group mulling over the respective merits of Debian and Slackware for a newbie. Of course, since apt-get takes care of installing dependencies and upgrading the whole installed software, we were leaning towards Debian. The newbie, even though his concerns for security are limited, woul

Re: Woody and default keymap

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:39:30PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > If I uninstall the console-tools and reinstall I can't select an > > > new keytable and the old russian table was loaded. Where to hell is > > > the configuration file to change this permanent? > > > > /

RE: Fwd: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1132

2001-08-14 Thread Ian Perry
For once I am ashamed to be Australian.. No, I will never be ashamed of being an Australian. I am however ashamed to be living in the same country (and the same state) as someone who is so rude and naive and abuses the rest of the world like a spoilt child who believes that he is the only one who

Re: Gigabyte GA-7DXR vs Abit KG7-RAID

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 05:45:29PM -0700, Max Kamenetsky wrote: | Hi all! | I'll be upgrading my machine fairly soon and I'm torn between | these two motherboards | | Gigabyte GA-7DXR | Abit KG7-RAID I have a Gigabyte GA-71XE4 and am happy with it. I don't have sound or RAID though. HTH, -D

Re: Woody and default keymap

2001-08-14 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> /etc/console-tools > > Copy a keymap there named as 'default.kmap.gz'. Check > /etc/init.d/console-tools for more info. BTW, I forgot to say that under X the keyboard works OK and the configurarion in XF86Config-4 simply says 'es'. Daniel -- "There is no spoon..." - The Matrix

Re: 2.4.7 kernel boot hangs with "cramfs: wrong magic"

2001-08-14 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Herbert Xu wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:46:12PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: The disk light is off. In that case please try the -386 kernel package. I tried the -386 kernel package. I no longer get "cramfs: wrong magic". The boot hangs at about the same point. The disk light is off.

RE: gnome/mouseroller

2001-08-14 Thread Tony Bartholomaeus
OK, I'm gonna take a punt at this, as I am not at my home PC right now so I can't be 100% sure... There is a commmand that starts Gnome, I think it's something creative like 'gnome-start'. Try changing your .xinitrc to read - icewm & gnome-start Bartman > -Original Message- > From: Jeff

Re: vim and Tera Term

2001-08-14 Thread Mark Carroll
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snip) > Eh, last time I peeked at them I seem to recall putty saving config > into the system's registry, instead of an INI file as tera term does. (snip) You can get around that with http://www.tartarus.org/~owen/putty-docs/Section3.13.html -- Mark

Can't java working in open office install on woody

2001-08-14 Thread John Foster
I just tried to install Open Office 632 on my Debian woody box and it claimed to not be able to find java on it. I have almost every java item in Debian installed on this thing. Any ideas to get this corrected. John

Re: Fwd: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1132

2001-08-14 Thread John Galt
Bring it on, masochist. I've CC'd your upstream just so everyone's on the same page. You subscribed to the list, you sent a confirmation email, now you threaten because it sends you stuff. WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?! I beg of optushome to redirect all mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] to /dev/null and sav

Re: mozilla fonts giant-sized

2001-08-14 Thread Ross Boylan
Despite my having done nothing, appearance is back to normal. (I did lots of things yesterday, but none of them had any effect. I've since shut down and restarted the computer. I also forgot to mention that immediately before the unpleasantness I installed realplayer.) Weird. On Mon, Aug 13, 20

Re: am i being wormed? aaugh!

2001-08-14 Thread John Galt
mine are all 403's now. I made a dummy file /var/www/default.ida with permissions of 700 owned by root. I had a theory a while ago that the CR actually resends all 202's, but experience has proven me wrong: CR sends the same amount regardless of whether or not if can find default.ida. The dummy

gnome/mouseroller

2001-08-14 Thread Jeff Maxson
I tried these questions with the newbie XFree list, to no avail. So, I thought I would try here. thanks for any help. 1st things 1st: running debian, trying to get gnome working right, trying wmaker and icewm, and my video card is ATI Rage Fury Pro (Rage 128 driver). I couldn't get X to load w

Re: vim and Tera Term

2001-08-14 Thread idalton
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 07:45:17PM -0400, Todd Combs wrote: > > I SSH into my Debian box from windows, and I use Tera Term. My > > problem is I want to use vim, but it doesn't work quite like it does when I > > am "local". Spec

Re: C man pages: where?

2001-08-14 Thread John Galt
manpages-dev On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, DvB wrote: >Does anyone know what package the C function man pages (... man strcmp) are in? > >I went to look at the man page for a C function and realized that I don't have >any of them installed on my woody system. I installed gcc-doc and just got >some info

Re: Cable Modem/NIC cards

2001-08-14 Thread John Galt
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, T.Phan wrote: >Hi All, > > Is there a way to soft reset the cable modem and the NIC on > a Debian/Linux box? > > The AT&T Cable Modem some time loses connection, sometime it > resets itself. Afterward, the Debian box will no longer be > able to establish the connection u

Re: Woody and default keymap

2001-08-14 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> > If I uninstall the console-tools and reinstall I can't select an > > new keytable and the old russian table was loaded. Where to hell is > > the configuration file to change this permanent? > > /etc/console-tools > > Copy a keymap there named as 'default.kmap.gz'. Check > /etc/init.d/conso

Gigabyte GA-7DXR vs Abit KG7-RAID

2001-08-14 Thread Max Kamenetsky
Hi all! I'll be upgrading my machine fairly soon and I'm torn between these two motherboards Gigabyte GA-7DXR Abit KG7-RAID On one hand, I've used Abit boards before and they are very good. On the other hand, the Gigabyte board has a built-in audio, so that will save me some money in not hav

Re: Modem isn't working

2001-08-14 Thread Sam Varghese
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:49:09PM -0300, Rui wrote: > My modem is conected in com3 it's a UsRobotics 33600 > I've already created a link (/dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS2) > I've already download wvdial but it couldn't find the modem. > Can anyone help me how to configure this modem. use pppconfig (as

Re: vim and Tera Term

2001-08-14 Thread Sam Varghese
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 07:45:17PM -0400, Todd Combs wrote: > I SSH into my Debian box from windows, and I use Tera Term. My > problem is I want to use vim, but it doesn't work quite like it does when I > am "local". Specificly, the up, down, left, and right arrows do funny > things in vim

Re: reiser?

2001-08-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:20:48AM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > Ok, this is getting odd then: > > vampire:/var/lib/dpkg > root:{1}: grep -i reiser available [...] > No other mention of reiser in the available packages. When I do the > apt-get install reiserfsprogs though it does install clea

Re: XFree 4.1.0

2001-08-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:56:55PM +0200, Sven Gaerner wrote: > it is planned to provide XFree 4.1.0 debs under woody? They're in sid, so they'll make it. Be patient, as woody lags behind sid by design. See http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html for an overview of the status of w

Re: wanda --> got it, thanks

2001-08-14 Thread Mike Pfleger
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Here is the PNG. I don't see any animation though, using GIMP's > Animation Playback feature. I also haven't found any easter eggs on > my own yet, and I've been using GNOME (various versions) for a couple > of years now. Hey, thanks! I'll have a boo in

Re: vim and Tera Term

2001-08-14 Thread Todd Combs
Ok, a little more info I have Tera Term set up as a VT100 terminal, and as for my local terminal it's just straight up bash, no window manager or anything. Its a Pentium 66, after all. :-) - Original Message - From: "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 7:9

Re: Modem isn't working

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:49:09PM -0300, Rui wrote: | Hi people, | | I need some help. I've been installed debian "potato" on my computer | but modem isn't working. | | I'd like to connect to the internet. | Does anyone can help me? | My modem is conected in com3 it's a UsRobotics 33600 | I've a

Re: vim and Tera Term

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 07:45:17PM -0400, Todd Combs wrote: | This doesn't totaly apply to Debian, but I figure maybe some nice person | here can help :-) :-). | | I SSH into my Debian box from windows, and I use Tera Term. My | problem is I want to use vim, but it doesn't work quite

Re: Wanda the fish

2001-08-14 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Kalle Hasselstr?m ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > You'll find the graphics for it in /usr/share/pixmaps/fish/fishanim.png. > > > > H. Having open source kind of takes the mystery out of this sort > of thing ... :-( Hrmmm. I'm not using Gnome, but would like to see this critter. I know; c

Modem isn't working

2001-08-14 Thread Rui
Hi people,   I need some help. I've been installed debian "potato" on my computer but modem isn't working.  I'd like to connect to the internet. Does anyone can help me? My modem is conected in com3 it's a UsRobotics 33600 I've already created a link (/dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS2) I've already d

vim and Tera Term

2001-08-14 Thread Todd Combs
This doesn't totaly apply to Debian, but I figure maybe some nice person here can help :-) I SSH into my Debian box from windows, and I use Tera Term. My problem is I want to use vim, but it doesn't work quite like it does when I am "local". Specificly, the up, down, left, and right a

Re: OT: SCSI hardware recommendation

2001-08-14 Thread tony mollica
Joerg Johannes wrote: > > Hi List > > Has anybody of you a dual-channel SCSI-Controller working? I have a tekram DC390U3W controller that works just the way you describe. I have Ultra160 scsi drives on the lvd channel and my cdrom and cdrw on the other. Works just fine, no problems using the

Re: turning off xdm?

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:57:45PM -0700, Paul Mackinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self muttered: > > on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:01:28PM -0700, Eric G. Miller (egm2@jps.net) > > wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 06:52:57PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2001

screen (as in program screen) question

2001-08-14 Thread Henry House
When I run screen in an xterm, it sets the title of the xterm to 'screen'. Does anyone know how to set the title of the xterm to somthing like 'screen: %s' where %s in the session name? -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgp0w7DOv1Qcx.pgp Descripti

Re: Cable Modem/NIC cards

2001-08-14 Thread Duane
I don't know if this will help, but give it a try... 1) ifdown eth0 and then ifup eth0 This shuts dowm the ethernet interface, then restarts it. 2) ifdown eth0 then remove the modules from memory, then re-install the modues and bring the eth0 back up. Hope this helps, Duane Curlee ([EMAIL PROT

Re: 8003EP nic installation woes...

2001-08-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: 8003EP nic installation woes... Date: Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 04:19:19PM -0500 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Greetings; > > I have a 8003EP nic in a 32MB/3GB 486/50. I have the base system installed > via floppy (no cd). I

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