Re: packages needed for basic X install?

2001-08-17 Thread Andrew Agno
Karsten M. Self writes: > on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:43:27PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > i'm upgrading to woody, and for various reasons, i'm not able to use > > apt-get. > > I'd strongly suggest resolving your apt-get issues. Having a working > packaging s

Re: Boletín Informativo - Agosto 2001

2001-08-17 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Friday 17 August 2001 11:29, GLOBALTECH CORP. wrote: > > > << snipped >> For those of you, non spanish-enabled, here goes the funniest parts: "to ease the management of the daily matters of a Church"... "record of offerings or donations made by members, classified by type (tithe, regular

Unsubscribing feature ?? Ex: Re:

2001-08-17 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> > unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Okay everyone, make a procmail rule for this e-mail address. > He's not going to get unsubscribed this way... Perhaps it is possible to set up some e-mail address, say [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that when someone wants to be unsubscribed, just need to click in th

Re: packages needed for basic X install?

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:43:27PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i'm upgrading to woody, and for various reasons, i'm not able to use > apt-get. Or your caps key? I'd strongly suggest resolving your apt-get issues. Having a working packaging system is an extremely usef

Re: Opera 5.05 and Java

2001-08-17 Thread tony mollica
Hall Stevenson wrote: > > My problem is that I can't get it to recognize my Java installation. I > downloaded Sun's J2RE as suggested by Opera's website. I've tried the > various instructions they give for enabling Java too -- all with no > luck. > Has anyone tried this newest version ?? If so,

Re: kernel compilation & LILO

2001-08-17 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 06:00:39PM +0200, Peter Palmreuther uttered: > This way you're able to archive even the last 10 kernels you build just for > fun and boot them to see _what da he**_ you changed since then :-) > Boot them? Who said anything about booting them? :-) If you used kernel-package,

packages needed for basic X install?

2001-08-17 Thread R1nso13
i'm upgrading to woody, and for various reasons, i'm not able to use apt-get. i am, however, able to download packages and install them using dpkg. so far i've installed xdm and xserver-ggi however i get the following message when i run 'startx' " /usr/X11/R6/lib/X11/xini/xserverrc: /usr/bin/X11/

Re: i740 X server

2001-08-17 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:23:43PM +, Ch?taignier Etienne uttered: > I've got a intel 740 graphic card and I don't know how to > make it work for the debian because I didn't find the i740 > X server. Can you help me please? > *kicks his stoopid i740* Depends on which X version you're running

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-08-17 Thread Jeff Maxson
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As to linux being viral, I'm guessing that they are assuming the > majority of viruses and worms (or what have you) are being > produced on a linux system. After all, linux has always been a I don't think that was their point. It is not viral in th

RE: HELP: lilo wasn't able to install...

2001-08-17 Thread Raj Wurttemberg
DOH! Smack me now... I think I burned the ISOs of the m68k CDs instead of the i386!! Auuugghh! /*Raj*/ > -Original Message- > From: Raj Wurttemberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 5:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: HELP: lil

Re: How can I make a bootable, Woody, base-only cd?

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:22:20PM -0700, George Jetson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How can I make a bootable, Woody, base-only cd? I'm a MS Windows guy trying > to break into linux as a newbie. Please don't tell me to go to > cdimage.debian.org. Thanks. There are a number of other options.

Re: Silly mutt/debian list question

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 06:10:55PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > I've been experimenting with "subscribe" (had previously used "lists"), > and am trying to use folder-hooks to set index_foramt, but the following > settings are generating > > %Z: unknown variable >

Re: Silly mutt/debian list question

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:45:31PM -0700, Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010817 11:55]: > %F author name, or recipient name if the message is from you > > %L list-from function > > Woops, I realized what I originally cited may not have be

Re: Acrobat plugin for Mozilla

2001-08-17 Thread Alan Shutko
Max Kamenetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, that's not the problem. I've tried it with both the actual file > and a symlink. You seem to be using Mozilla yourself, were you able > to get it to recognize the Acrobat plugin? I've never gotten Mozilla to work with the acrobat plugin... there

Re: Går inte starta X

2001-08-17 Thread Emil Pedersen
Fuel wrote: > > Jag har ett TNT2 Ulra AGP kort som inte hittas vid installation.. och jag > lyckas inte heller konfigurera xf86config så att X går starta :-( > > Hjälp en stackars newbie att kunna starta X och se hur debian ser ut .. > > Tacksam för hjälp Jag skulle peta in xf86setup och kö

Re: X exits into unreadable screen

2001-08-17 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 19:16:06 CDT, Kent West writes: >If I understand you correctly, what you're describing I've seen also, but it >wasn't related to Linux. It's related to a setting in the laptop's CMOS >("Expand Video", or some-such) and the way that setting interacts with video >modes. If you

Re: X exits into unreadable screen

2001-08-17 Thread Kent West
On Friday 17 August 2001 18:51, Robert Waldner wrote: > > >>When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the > > >>screen that comes up is unreadable. It is a black screen with lots of > > >>vertical white lines of varying width. When I type, it just produces > > >>more vert

Re: Acrobat plugin for Mozilla

2001-08-17 Thread Kent West
On Friday 17 August 2001 17:28, Max Kamenetsky wrote: > * Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08/17/01 14:32] wrote: > > Max Kamenetsky wrote: > > >Has anyone been able to get the Acrobat Reader plugin working on > > >Mozilla? It works fine under Netscape, but putting nppdf.so in > > >/usr/lib/mozi

Re: Local DNS?

2001-08-17 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Jeffrey Nowakowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there some way I can use a local DNS server to cache DNS queries? > I ask because my current DNS server is sometimes slow; I have a cable > modem and configure DNS automatically through DHCP. Ideally I'd like > to configure a local DNS server to

Re: Local DNS?

2001-08-17 Thread Bud Rogers
On Friday 17 August 2001 06:46 pm, Jeffrey Nowakowski wrote: > Is there some way I can use a local DNS server to cache DNS queries? > I ask because my current DNS server is sometimes slow; I have a cable > modem and configure DNS automatically through DHCP. Ideally I'd like > to configure a local

Re: Exim behind dhcp/ipmasq

2001-08-17 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: > Thank you! I use exim and Mew (IM). I should have read your mail more closely. But it helped, at least. > in ~/.im/Config appears to have fixed the SF problem. I don't expect > this to fix the hotmail problem, though, since that was a diffe

Re: IOMEGA ZIP-100 / ZIP-250 -- banging my head against the wall

2001-08-17 Thread Phil Edwards
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:12:03AM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote: > * Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-08-17 23:50): > > I'm not subscribed -- haven't needed help yet, Debian is that good :-) -- > > so please cc me on replies. > > Done, I'd suggest sending all replies to this mail to the list as

Re: Network keeps going down repeatedly

2001-08-17 Thread BT
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:44:12PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 05:17:43AM -0500, BT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 12:14:30PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 02:52:53AM -0500, BT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Hi, >

Re: X exits into unreadable screen

2001-08-17 Thread Robert Waldner
> >>When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the > >>screen that comes up is unreadable. It is a black screen with lots of > >>vertical white lines of varying width. When I type, it just produces > >>more verticle white lines where the text should be. > > It is likely

Re: X exits into unreadable screen

2001-08-17 Thread James D Strandboge
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 02:15:03PM -0400 or thereabouts, Brian Stults wrote: > I tried that, but it doesn't change anything. You wouldn't happen to have an ATI card with Xfree86 4.1.0 would you? If so, there is a bug report regarding this. THe bug report has a crude hack to get the screen back un

Local DNS?

2001-08-17 Thread Jeffrey Nowakowski
Is there some way I can use a local DNS server to cache DNS queries? I ask because my current DNS server is sometimes slow; I have a cable modem and configure DNS automatically through DHCP. Ideally I'd like to configure a local DNS server to use the cable's DNS, but cache host lookups for somethi

Partition Numbers

2001-08-17 Thread Steven Farrier
I seems that my Partition Numbers all change after boot up. On my hard drive these are my partitions hda1 Windows hda2 Debian /boot hda3 Freebsd Freebsd "virtual partitions" hda4 extended hda9 unused Linux partition hda10 Debian swap hda11 unused Linux Partiti

Netscape and Esound

2001-08-17 Thread Bek Oberin
How do I get Netscape to make sounds through esd? I have everything else working through Esound - my voice synth, CD player and mp3s, but I can't make Netscape work :( bekj -- : Usual state: (e) None of the above. : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : It can't rain all

dropping multicast protocol in iptables howto?

2001-08-17 Thread john smith
I would like to know how to drop multicast protocols in iptables since I get this annoying message "IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=209.247.5.159 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=16163 PROTO=2" when logged into the console. I have attached my firewall script if it could help... thanks

Re: Exim behind dhcp/ipmasq

2001-08-17 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
Walter Hofmann writes: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: >> 451 rejected: temporarily unable to verify envelope sender address <[EMAIL >> PROTECTED]> > Maybe your mailer sets the "From:" address correctly and fails to > set the SMTP sender. What program do you use? If it se

Re: Silly mutt/debian list question

2001-08-17 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:45:31PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: | mails from you (my, aren't we vain? ;-), you'll probably want to set or perhaps you want to quickly identify which messages in the thread you don't need to read because, after all, you wrote it :-). Since it is in the lists's folder

IPMI support in Debian

2001-08-17 Thread Steve Scott
Hi, Is their IPMI platform management interface support or drivers in Debian? If yes, what distribution? And exactly how can I locate the sourc code for th drivers? I am trying find a Linux OS that has an IPMI implementation. Any ideas? -- Steve Scott, Phoenix, AZ

Re: IOMEGA ZIP-100 / ZIP-250 -- banging my head against the wall

2001-08-17 Thread Sean Quinlan
* Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-08-17 23:50): > I'm not subscribed -- haven't needed help yet, Debian is that good :-) -- > so please cc me on replies. Done, I'd suggest sending all replies to this mail to the list as well as myself, as you'll reach a much larger audience :) > Quick ve

Re: X exits into unreadable screen

2001-08-17 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: X exits into unreadable screen Date: Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:10:37PM -0400 In reply to:Brian Stults Quoting Brian Stults([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Karsten M. Self wrote: > >on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:54:21AM -0400, Brian Stults > >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >>Hell

Re: Network keeps going down repeatedly

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 05:17:43AM -0500, BT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 12:14:30PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 02:52:53AM -0500, BT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am on debian unstable. After the last update (yesterday) I find my

Re: Silly mutt/debian list question

2001-08-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010817 11:55]: > * Paul Mackinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010816 16:39]: > > I've recently changed my email address, and of course I've been playing > > with my mutt and exim configurations to get the new address to show up > > in the From: header. This seems to be

Re: abiword: can't load fontset

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:11:50PM -0500, DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I can't seem to get abiword to work on one of my machines, it always > gives me a dialog about not being able to find the Times New Roman > fontset and then exits. Even after upgrading to the version in unstable, > I still g

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-08-17 Thread csj
On 16 Aug 2001 09:23:05 +1000, Serge Rey wrote: > unsubscribe > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think there will be less room for misunderstanding if the instructions read: To UNSUBSCRIBE, send an emai

Re: Exim behind dhcp/ipmasq

2001-08-17 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: > 451 rejected: temporarily unable to verify envelope sender address <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> SF checks if the host name of the sender resolves. It must resolve (or have an mail exchanger entry) because otherwise you cannot get bach delivery erro

Re: X exits into unreadable screen

2001-08-17 Thread Aidan Christian O'Reilly
Me too, just got a chance to catch up on mail--my setup is Sid, custom kernel 2.4.8 (it happened w/2.4.7 as well), X version 4.1. It's an ATI Rage 128, Princeton 17" monitor. Aidan On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 04:22:32PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Brian Stults wrote: > >Hello, > > > >When I drop down

Re: X over ssh

2001-08-17 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:47:56PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: | | At 2001-08-17T19:13:34Z, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > When I login I get : | > | > $ ssh redoaksw.com | > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: | > /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: not found | | That's the error message I usually get wh

Re: Acrobat plugin for Mozilla

2001-08-17 Thread Max Kamenetsky
* Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08/17/01 14:32] wrote: > Max Kamenetsky wrote: > >Has anyone been able to get the Acrobat Reader plugin working on > >Mozilla? It works fine under Netscape, but putting nppdf.so in > >/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins seems to have absolutely no effect. I > >checked to

Permissions on /floppy

2001-08-17 Thread Eamon Roque
Hi! After I upgraded to unstable, I've been getting strange default settings on my /dev/floppy. No matter what I enter, a.e -o rw,user etc., the mount options on the device are always the same: /dev/fd0 on /floppy type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) These permissions don't match my /etc/fstab or

Re: Preventing logins /bin/false ?

2001-08-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ian Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010816 20:11]: > Hi, > > Quick question. > I have been using /dev/null to prevent shell logins (yet still leave pop3 > etc running) as follows: > username:x:1000:1000:Mr User,,,:/home/homedir:/dev/null > > I noticed that the shell can also be put as /bin/false as

IOMEGA ZIP-100 / ZIP-250 -- banging my head against the wall

2001-08-17 Thread Phil Edwards
I'm not subscribed -- haven't needed help yet, Debian is that good :-) -- so please cc me on replies. Quick version: after perusing the archives of this list, I found my ZIP-250 drive (hdd) and tried mounting a plain ZIP-100 disk with 'mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt/point'. I got the 'bad superblo

Re: Acrobat plugin for Mozilla

2001-08-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Max Kamenetsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010817 11:45]: > Hi all! > Has anyone been able to get the Acrobat Reader plugin working on > Mozilla? It works fine under Netscape, but putting nppdf.so in > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins seems to have absolutely no effect. I > checked to make sure the permis

Re: Anyone using IMP to check their debian.list mail?

2001-08-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Mike Egglestone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010803 10:58]: > Hi.. > I was just wondering > becuase when I send an email to > debian-user@lists.debian.org > > The email obviously, gets sent to me > but when using IMP to see the message from the "INBOX" > it says the email is from "To: debian-use

HELP: lilo wasn't able to install...

2001-08-17 Thread Raj Wurttemberg
Well, I am able to mount the partition with mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 [directory] There were files on the drive, three tarballs, and fdisk was able to access the drive and list the partitions. Now what? Thanks, /*Raj*/ > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: X over ssh

2001-08-17 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:10:03PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:13:34PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:39:27AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | > | on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:23:19AM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > | >

help with diskless debian

2001-08-17 Thread Denzil Kelly
I've used apt-get to install the diskless packages, however I've not had much luck getting it to work. Evidently there was supposed to be a script that ran upon the installation of the diskless however this didn't happen. Has anyone had any success getting this to work? ___

Re: X exits into unreadable screen

2001-08-17 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Brian Stults ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Touloumtzis, Michael wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:54:21AM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > > > >>When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the > >>screen that comes up is unreadable. It is a black screen with lots of > >>ver

Re: Acrobat plugin for Mozilla

2001-08-17 Thread Kent West
Max Kamenetsky wrote: Hi all! Has anyone been able to get the Acrobat Reader plugin working on Mozilla? It works fine under Netscape, but putting nppdf.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins seems to have absolutely no effect. I checked to make sure the permissions are right, but that doesn't seem

Re: making unstable the default

2001-08-17 Thread neonatus
* On 17-08-01 at 21:09 Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > Have you tried searching the list archives? > Yes, but found nothing :/ [...] > > Are you running apt 0.5.3? That's out of testing. 0.3.19 in stable doesn't > have support for /etc/apt/preferen

Re: konqueror/flash 5

2001-08-17 Thread Matthias Richter
'cduck' Chris Grierson wrote on Fri Aug 17, 2001 at 01:09:45PM: > i am assuming it absolutely normal for konqueror to segfault > when a page with a flash animation exits (refreshed, or left > that page). is this what everyone else gets? Maybe: http://www.konqueror.org/faq.html#flash> The problem

Re: X exits into unreadable screen

2001-08-17 Thread Kent West
Brian Stults wrote: Hello, When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the screen that comes up is unreadable. It is a black screen with lots of vertical white lines of varying width. When I type, it just produces more verticle white lines where the text should be.

Re: Network keeps going down repeatedly

2001-08-17 Thread BT
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 12:14:30PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 02:52:53AM -0500, BT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > I am on debian unstable. After the last update (yesterday) I find my > > network (columbus.rr.com, cable modem) keeps going down repeatedly. > > And

apt-get package priorities / installing KDE troubles

2001-08-17 Thread Walter Hofmann
[SORRY, BUT THIS IS LONG] Hi, I'm running an up-to-date "testing" system and I would like to upgrade a minimum set of packages so that I can use KDE 2.2 without useing the rest of unstable. I read the other posts (especially the one about pinning packets) and the /etc/apt/preferences manual page,

Går inte starta X

2001-08-17 Thread Fuel
Jag har ett TNT2 Ulra AGP kort som inte hittas vid installation.. och jag lyckas inte heller konfigurera xf86config så att X går starta :-( Hjälp en stackars newbie att kunna starta X och se hur debian ser ut .. Tacksam för hjälp

Progress and unresolved symbols in LT WinModem install

2001-08-17 Thread Paul Scott
After reading the install scripts I believe I got past the kernel header problem with the ltmodem-5.99b install. I renamed kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17-idepci directory to kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17 and edited version.h to match. Now after successfully building the required modules the script d

Re: X over ssh

2001-08-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2001-08-17T19:13:34Z, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I login I get : > > $ ssh redoaksw.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: not found That's the error message I usually get when the X libraries aren't installed on the machine I'm ssh'ing into. Are you posit

Exim behind dhcp/ipmasq

2001-08-17 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
Hi, Until recently, my machine had a permanent IP address and DNS name and I had no problem using Exim to send mail. Now I am home for the summer and we have one DSL line for the whole house, so there is a router which lets everyone access the net with an internal IP address. Now Exim works most

tex4ht

2001-08-17 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Has anyone had problems configuring tex4ht? Mine is not creating the images... Complains about some missing font(?)

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-08-17 Thread Bud Rogers
On Friday 17 August 2001 07:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As to linux being viral, I'm guessing that they are assuming the > majority of viruses and worms (or what have you) are being > produced on a linux system. The term 'viral' in connection with Linux or Open Source software in general

mc internal shell is not 8-bit clean?

2001-08-17 Thread Sándor Bárány
rxvt or mc has no problems with 8-bit file name by me. However, the shell which is used by mc is not able cd to such directories. Is there a way to configure mc or some global shell variable to avoid this?

Re: Home & End keys not working in xterm

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 09:11:43PM +0200, fl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My home & end keys don't work in xterm / rxvt / konsole (I only get a beep > when I hit the keys) when I'm in the shell (bash). > > What's confusing me is that they work fine in console and all the other x > apps I've tried.

abiword: can't load fontset

2001-08-17 Thread DvB
I can't seem to get abiword to work on one of my machines, it always gives me a dialog about not being able to find the Times New Roman fontset and then exits. Even after upgrading to the version in unstable, I still get the error. Abiword, however, runs fine on my other machine which, upon comp

Re: X exits into unreadable screen

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:10:37PM -0400, Brian Stults ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:54:21AM -0400, Brian Stults ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > >>Hello, > >> > >>When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the > >>

Re: X exits into unreadable screen

2001-08-17 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: X exits into unreadable screen Date: Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:54:21AM -0400 In reply to:Brian Stults Quoting Brian Stults([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello, > > When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the > screen that comes up is unreadable. It is

Re: X over ssh

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:13:34PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:39:27AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > | on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:23:19AM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > | > > | > This isn't really Debian related, but I'm having some trouble with

konqueror/flash 5

2001-08-17 Thread 'cduck' Chris Grierson
i am assuming it absolutely normal for konqueror to segfault when a page with a flash animation exits (refreshed, or left that page). is this what everyone else gets? -c [ Structural Informatics Group ] [ Dept. of Biological Structure ] [ University of Washington ] [ 206.616.7356:office ]

Re: X exits into unreadable screen

2001-08-17 Thread Touloumtzis, Michael
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:36:39PM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion. I will look into savetextmode and > restoretextmode. Do you have any idea why this would be happening, > though? True, when I reboot everything goes back to normal and I can > work at a console again.

Solved: Re: ntp: not synchronized?

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 09:26:02AM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) spake thusly: > ... > > > > Would that be port 123 then? What port am I communicating on locally? > > > > And, if I'm NATting my outbound, shouldn't this clear the fire

freshmeat for deb packages - alias: dselect forgot the new list

2001-08-17 Thread Sándor Bárány
Hi all, I was already in the Select menu in dselect (successfully updated the package lists) and saw some new packages at the top of the list. dselect then was inadvertently terminated. After the restart the new packages were sorted into the 'Available' lists. I have no backup from the /var/lib/d

Re: X exits into unreadable screen

2001-08-17 Thread Brian Stults
Touloumtzis, Michael wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:54:21AM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > >>When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the >>screen that comes up is unreadable. It is a black screen with lots of >>vertical white lines of varying width. When I type, it

Re: X exits into unreadable screen

2001-08-17 Thread Touloumtzis, Michael
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:54:21AM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the > screen that comes up is unreadable. It is a black screen with lots of > vertical white lines of varying width. When I type, it just produces > more verticle

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안녕하세요? 최신CD를 엄청싼 가격에 판매합니다 유틸프로그램.게임.성인비디오CD. 등등 컴퓨터에 관련된 모든 시디를 취급합니다 신용은 물론 100프로 확실합니다. 첨부된 화일(cd list. zip)을 다운받으신후에 압축을 풀고 살펴ë

Re: Network keeps going down repeatedly

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 02:52:53AM -0500, BT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > I am on debian unstable. After the last update (yesterday) I find my > network (columbus.rr.com, cable modem) keeps going down repeatedly. > And I need to run pump or restart /etc/init.d/networking. route hangs > when t

Re: X over ssh

2001-08-17 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:39:27AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:23:19AM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > | > This isn't really Debian related, but I'm having some trouble with X | > over ssh. I am at a win2k box with XWin32 running (& access control | > dis

Home & End keys not working in xterm

2001-08-17 Thread fl
My home & end keys don't work in xterm / rxvt / konsole (I only get a beep when I hit the keys) when I'm in the shell (bash). What's confusing me is that they work fine in console and all the other x apps I've tried. They even work fine in vim inside an xterm, therefore I guess that my keyboard co

Re: X exits into unreadable screen

2001-08-17 Thread Brian Stults
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:54:21AM -0400, Brian Stults ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the screen that comes up is unreadable. It is a black screen with lots of vertical white lines of varying width.

Re: picture browser for debian

2001-08-17 Thread Arno
Hi, If running unstable, look for iv. It's small and fast and has some basic editing features. - Arno

Re: making unstable the default

2001-08-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 08:52:53PM +0200, Bostjan Muller wrote: > * On 17-08-01 at 19:26 Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > +Here quoted text begins+ > > > > In fact I'm told this works fine if you "pin" testing as preferred; > > packages from sid will then be installed if you as

Unidentified subject!

2001-08-17 Thread fl
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: fl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Unix To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Home & End keys not working in xterm Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 20:57:54 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit My

Re: making unstable the default

2001-08-17 Thread Bostjan Muller
* On 17-08-01 at 19:26 Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > > In fact I'm told this works fine if you "pin" testing as preferred; > packages from sid will then be installed if you ask for them > specifically (e.g. via apt-get install). > > However, I don'

Network keeps going down repeatedly

2001-08-17 Thread BT
Hi, I am on debian unstable. After the last update (yesterday) I find my network (columbus.rr.com, cable modem) keeps going down repeatedly. And I need to run pump or restart /etc/init.d/networking. route hangs when the network is down. What may be wrong ? TIA bt

Re: External modem line drops with activity

2001-08-17 Thread John Hasler
Martin F. Krafft writes: > ...or use pon/pff with pppconfig, adding the line debug to > /etc/ppp/peers/. pppconfig adds that line by default (you can turn it off in the 'Advanced' menu). > ...while monitoring /var/log/ppp.log. Which you can do with plog. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing

Re: X over ssh

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:23:19AM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > This isn't really Debian related, but I'm having some trouble with X > over ssh. I am at a win2k box with XWin32 running (& access control > disabled). I use ssh (from cygwin) on that box to login to a FreeBSD > box (o

Re: X exits into unreadable screen

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:54:21AM -0400, Brian Stults ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the > screen that comes up is unreadable. It is a black screen with lots of > vertical white lines of varying width. When I type, it

Re: Silly mutt/debian list question

2001-08-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul Mackinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010816 16:39]: > I've recently changed my email address, and of course I've been playing > with my mutt and exim configurations to get the new address to show up > in the From: header. This seems to be working, but I've noticed a > change: When I look at the de

RE:partititions

2001-08-17 Thread Andrew Agno
Markus Hansen writes: > i have the following problem: > i want to have a harddisk like this: > hda1 : /boot > hda2 : / > had3 : /home > > hda3 is no problem (mount /dev/had3 /home) > but i installed a debian 2.2 potato on hda2 and i think it hadnt done > anything with hda1. > how can i f

Acrobat plugin for Mozilla

2001-08-17 Thread Max Kamenetsky
Hi all! Has anyone been able to get the Acrobat Reader plugin working on Mozilla? It works fine under Netscape, but putting nppdf.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins seems to have absolutely no effect. I checked to make sure the permissions are right, but that doesn't seem to be the problem. It d

Fwd: two problems with building a bootdisk

2001-08-17 Thread Martin F. Krafft
are there no sympathetic souls out there who'd help me? - Forwarded message from "Martin F. Krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - hi, i would like to build a 1722k bootdisk for a diskless router. sure, linuxrouter.org exists, but i would like to make it an exercise to do it myself. i have compile

Boletín Informativo - Agosto 2001

2001-08-17 Thread GLOBALTECH CORP.
Title: promocion_email_agosto_2001 GLOBALTECH CORP. Un mundo de tecnología al alcance de tus manos...  

Re: X exits into unreadable screen

2001-08-17 Thread Brian Stults
Paul Scott wrote: Brian Stults wrote: Hello, When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the screen that comes up is unreadable. It is a black screen with lots of vertical white lines of varying width. When I type, it just produces more verticle white lines where th

Re: External modem line drops with activity

2001-08-17 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach adam krell (on Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:06:25AM -0700): > I have an external modem (Hayes Accura 336 V.34) > connected to ttyS1. I have configured wvdial and I > can call out and establish a ppp connection > successfully. However, when I start some network > activity (ping an address, get

Re: low power PC

2001-08-17 Thread Justin Wojdacki
Miaoling Chiu wrote: > > I understand how to do downclocking by resetting > jumpers. And I could install a LCD monitor, or > just turn the monitor off when I'm away from the > machine. What I don't understand though is how to > power down a hard disk (or how to install without > a hard disk). I've

Re: X exits into unreadable screen

2001-08-17 Thread Paul Scott
Brian Stults wrote: Hello, When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the screen that comes up is unreadable. It is a black screen with lots of vertical white lines of varying width. When I type, it just produces more verticle white lines where the text should be.

External modem line drops with activity

2001-08-17 Thread adam krell
Hi, I have an external modem (Hayes Accura 336 V.34) connected to ttyS1. I have configured wvdial and I can call out and establish a ppp connection successfully. However, when I start some network activity (ping an address, get a web page, etc.) the phone line drops and the modem resets and dial

Re: woody or sid

2001-08-17 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 12:16:47AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's kind of neccesary that my system is stable cause it is running a > website. > But my whole problem started when I wanted to install the unstable nmap > cause I wanted the newest as possible. I'm now thinking of installing s

Re: Chrooting a user?

2001-08-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Sunny Dubey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010812 22:17]: > hey > > How would i Chroot a user? I want him to be able to log into the machine > like any other user, however his home directory would be his root directory, > and he could do whatever he wants below it. Something like this .. > > (must ha

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