menu_update vs. .twmrc

2001-08-20 Thread Robin Rowe
Hi. If I don't have a .twmrc file then the menus I find in twm are the ones provided by debian menu_update. That's almost what I want, but that doesn't give me the standard twm choices for raising and lowering windows, etc. If I provide the standard .twmrc file then I don't have any debian menus. I

got galeon downloaded but...

2001-08-20 Thread James A. Hilsenteger
I successfully downloaded Galeon and installed.  Two problems: 1) text was not showing up on Galeon or other display-type apps.   I then rebooted and now I cannot even get 'startx' to work.   At one point in the install, it mentioned something about locale.gen concerning fonts.     Thanks fo

Re: Permissions on /floppy

2001-08-20 Thread Guy Geens
> "Eamon" == Eamon Roque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eamon> Hi! After I upgraded to unstable, I've been getting strange Eamon> default settings on my /dev/floppy. No matter what I enter, a.e Eamon> -o rw,user etc., the mount options on the device are always the Eamon> same: /dev/fd0 on /floppy

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

2001-08-20 Thread Guy Geens
> "F" == F Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Peter" == Peter Bartosch wrote: >> > I've never heard why they come with slice 4 as the active >> partition. Peter> that is/was because of compatiblity-reasons to mac's No, there are special Mac formatted ZIP disks. I assume they hold

Re: 486 install from the internet

2001-08-20 Thread Joe Heuring
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 01:49:58PM -0700, Tandex wrote: > Now I have 486 with 800mb harddisk and 20mb-ram, that > I want to use like gateway, buth there is non cd-rom > in it only floppy. How can I install debian from the > net, Can someone give me some link to some HOW-TO or > some documation. If

Re: Devfsd Audio Permissions

2001-08-20 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On 2001.08.17 09:01 Michael Heldebrant wrote: > I have stuff like: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/devfs/conf.d$ cat alsa > # device permissions for ALSA sound devices. > REGISTER ^snd/.*PERMISSIONS root.audio 0660 > I did have this installed, which was odd, because I don't use alsa, although I hav

Re: tar/gzip mistake

2001-08-20 Thread hansen
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 10:50:20PM +0020, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi > > I made a big mistake, instead of updating my tar and gzip files I deleted > them. > Installing them again with apt didn't work because the tar and gzip packages > need to be unpacked themselves. > I tried to find the s

WinModem Driver

2001-08-20 Thread Naiara Nozella
Is there already driver for the modem 3Com USRobotics 56Kbps V.90 Winmodem ISA model number 5683 ? Na _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: C library not found!

2001-08-20 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 21 Aug 2001, Yong Jing Hung wrote: > Does anyone know why the C library doesn't work? I try to do 'man > fork' but it doesn not pick up. It simply says that there isn't any > manual page for it? Can someone help me here? Thanks. You want the libc info manual. Install the deb package glibc-do

Proxies, transparent and otherwise, ports to use. (was Re: upgrading more than one box...)

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:02:22AM +0200, "Jürgen A. Erhard" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: > > "Dave" == Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dave> Also, if you prefer not to use a transparent cache (I > Dave> sometimes want to bypass

Re: Console dead after update

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:10:49PM +1000, Darren Marsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I updated from the testing tree 2 days ago and after all the packages > were installed the keyboard appeared to go dead. The system was still > running fine as I could telnet to it and all services appeared to be

Re: trouble with apt-get update

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 01:00:42AM -0700, hilsy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm getting the following error message (repeated many times) when > trying to run apt-get update: > > Err http://us.debian.org sid/main/contrib Packages >Something wicked happed resolving 'us.debian.org/http' > > H

Re: Strange system lockups.

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 05:07:33PM -0700, Kamil Kisiel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On August 20, 2001 12:54 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:00:53PM -0700, Kamil Kisiel > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Note that caching and high disk use are two separate things. Are yo

cannot open dhelp file

2001-08-20 Thread destruss
Hi all: I'm trying to install icewm-gnome in woody, and the install stops trying to install a dependency icewm-common (1.0.7-1) with the complaint of : cannot open dhelp file ' /usr/sbin/install-docs line 559. Geocrawler had e-mailswith this complaint but the only solution given was to remove

Re: Potato to woody problem

2001-08-20 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:25:49PM -0700, tluxt wrote: | > The correct solution to this is to | > | > apt-get install libdb2 | > | > since that package provides libdb.so.3. | | 1. Are you _sure_ installing the libdb2 package ___that W/testing | currently points to___ will solve this p

Re: True Type Fonts-Solved!

2001-08-20 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Dale Morris: > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Dale Morris wrote: > > > I've been working on true type fonts and can't get them to work on > > XF86-4.3. I'm using Paul Smith's TrueType Fonts on Debian XFree86 4.x > > I was finally able to get true type font package working, but it > entailed rei

Re: dhpcd.leases, why GMT?

2001-08-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 05:43:55PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > I was just curious to why the dhcpd.leases file has > all the leases set to GMT time? Internally, *nix does everything in GMT and only converts it to local time when a human asks for it to be displayed. This carries through to man

Re: HTML composer ?

2001-08-20 Thread hansen
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 10:54:14PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > > >Is there any graphical HTML composer which runs happily on Woody and > > >KDE ? I don't need any advanced features, only lists, performatted > > >paragraphs and the like. I just want to avoid typing the tags... > > > > IBM Websp

Re: creating a cd-image

2001-08-20 Thread Jeremy
Philipp Bliedung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to create images off the potato cds. Which program could I use? Well, if you're looking to just make images (copies) from the CDs, I believe that readcd should work. (it comes with the cdrecord package) > After I have these images I just hav

Re: Chiliasp troubles

2001-08-20 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 03:27:12PM +0200, Francois Thomas wrote: > > Hello list > > I am trying to use chilisoft ASP on a potato (r3) box. I use apache 1.3.14 > and postgresql 7.0.3. > I face strange errors (illegal operation, invalid cursor state) when using > the asp recordset.update method. >

Re: dhpcd.leases, why GMT?

2001-08-20 Thread John Hasler
Mike writes: > I was just curious to why the dhcpd.leases file has all the leases set to > GMT time? Time zones and DST, most likely. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: Using lm-sensors

2001-08-20 Thread Ross Boylan
I'm not sure if it's significant, but I noticed a few errors toward the end of the build that look as if the current scripts still have a few places where they ignore the settings for the actual location of the kernel files. I noticed some earlier reports about this, though I believe they said tha

Re: Strange system lockups.

2001-08-20 Thread Jeremy
Unfortunately I don't have anything to add as a suggestion, but I just wanted to say that I've had this same problem. For me, I don't have a remote way into my box, so I have no way of killing whatever process may be doing this, but just recently I had this happen upon opening my email and it corr

Re: Potato to woody problem

2001-08-20 Thread tluxt
Thanks dman for you response on this issue. ... But, ... (I'm in the process of learning about this now - would you please help me out?) --- dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 10:38:07AM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: > | I changed the references in my apt/sources.list to po

wierd firewall thing!

2001-08-20 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
hi all, we have a linux (2.2 debian) firewall with two eth cards running here. ip_forward is 1 and on each side of the firewall is a /25. packets are routed through okay but a couple of days ago i noticed something *very* strange. packets coming into eth0 were not only going out eth1 (as they sh

Re: HTML composer ?

2001-08-20 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> >Is there any graphical HTML composer which runs happily on Woody and > >KDE ? I don't need any advanced features, only lists, performatted > >paragraphs and the like. I just want to avoid typing the tags... > > IBM Websphere runs pretty well, but isn't GPL and uses some funky > WINE gear > Nets

Re: 486 install from the internet

2001-08-20 Thread Tandex
Yes, I have it now, it was eazy when you know what disks you need. --- John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you need the root, rescue, and driver disks > > instruction are there at www.debian.org > > you can choose "net install" for the base system. > and from there it's just matter of w

Re: Logging

2001-08-20 Thread Christopher Maujean
Doh! In my initial system lockdown run (/etc/inetd.conf, /etc/securetty, etc) I inadvertantly shut off syslog in /etc/services. its all better now. --Christopher On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 03:40:10PM -0700, Christopher Maujean wrote: > After installing potato and running fine for several days, all

trouble with apt-get update

2001-08-20 Thread hilsy
I'm getting the following error message (repeated many times) when trying to run apt-get update: Err http://us.debian.org sid/main/contrib Packages Something wicked happed resolving 'us.debian.org/http' Here's the first two lines in my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://us.debian.org/debian s

Re: HTML composer ?

2001-08-20 Thread John Griffiths
At 10:19 PM 8/20/01 -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: >Is there any graphical HTML composer which runs happily on Woody and >KDE ? I don't need any advanced features, only lists, performatted >paragraphs and the like. I just want to avoid typing the tags... > >Daniel IBM Websphere runs pretty well,

Re: HTML composer ?

2001-08-20 Thread burningclown
If those are the only features you want, I'm not sure whatcha mean by graphical ... Dreamweaver-ish? I find a combination of Emacs and html-helper-mode does the trick quite nicely for me. Bluefish is a good little HTML editor but has some quirks that keep sending me back to Emacs. Of course there

Re: Video card and CD-rom or CD_RW recommendations

2001-08-20 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Rog?rio Brito ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Aug 19 2001, Abner Gershon wrote: > > I am building a new computer (a first for me) and will be using an > > Abit KT7A motherboard with Athlon 1.3 Ghz cpu. > > Perhaps you'd like to see http://cr.yp.to/hardware/abit.html > before purchasi

HTML composer ?

2001-08-20 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Is there any graphical HTML composer which runs happily on Woody and KDE ? I don't need any advanced features, only lists, performatted paragraphs and the like. I just want to avoid typing the tags... Daniel -- "There is no spoon..." - The Matrix

Re: syntax of /etc/cvs-pserver.conf [solution]

2001-08-20 Thread Adam Shand
> I'm trying to setup a CVS server with multiple allow-root commandline > options. the new cvs 1.11.1p1-1 package does this with cvs-pserver > wrapper instead of adding options directly to the /etc/inetd.conf > file. as always as soon as i post a question i figure out the answer. in case anyone

syntax of /etc/cvs-pserver.conf

2001-08-20 Thread Adam Shand
Hi. I'm trying to setup a CVS server with multiple allow-root commandline options. the new cvs 1.11.1p1-1 package does this with cvs-pserver wrapper instead of adding options directly to the /etc/inetd.conf file. however i can't find an example syntax of of the /etc/cvs-pserver.conf file anywhe

debian linux and SMP

2001-08-20 Thread nick lidakis
Does anyone on the list have any experiences with debian or linux on a Tyan Tiger 230 SMP board? Is there a list for people running debian SMP? Thinking of purchasing this board with 2 933eb intel proc's. Any info would be appreciated. Nick

Re: Logging

2001-08-20 Thread Christopher Maujean
Yes they are. any other ideas? (I have a gig free in /var so thats not it.) On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 04:27:48PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 03:40:10PM -0700, Christopher Maujean ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > After installing potato and running fine for several days,

dhpcd.leases, why GMT?

2001-08-20 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi I was just curious to why the dhcpd.leases file has all the leases set to GMT time? thanks Mike

Removing kdm-krb

2001-08-20 Thread Steven Farrier
I been attempting to remove kdm-krb but when I do I get these errors Removing kdm-krb ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/kdm-krb.prerm: message: command not found dpkg: error processing kdm-krb (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127 /var/lib/dpkg/info/kdm-krb.postinst: clean

Re: Strange system lockups.

2001-08-20 Thread Kamil Kisiel
Ok, this acct program is not going to do it. According to it's man pages, the kernel only logs to acct after a process has terminated. Since whatever is locking up my system obviously doesn't terminate (otherwise my system would not be locked up from processor/HD use), this doesn't do me a whole

Re: me mandem emails

2001-08-20 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Monday 20 August 2001 18:39, Michael William Cypriano wrote: > sou amante do debiam, mais sofro de vez em quando. queria receber > estudos do debian The official language of this list is English, don't expect too much responses when writing in portuguese. Try posting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your

Re: Strange system lockups.

2001-08-20 Thread Kamil Kisiel
On August 20, 2001 12:54 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:00:53PM -0700, Kamil Kisiel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I am having some weird system lockup problems. My computer goes in to > > heavy HD caching every Sunday evening or Monday morning and locks up, > > I cannot m

RE: creating a cd-image

2001-08-20 Thread Tony Bartholomaeus
You can use 'mkisofs' from the command line. This can be a bit tricky the first time, read 'man mkisofs' carefully first. There may be an easier way, using a GUI based prog like xcdroast... maybe someone else can verify. > Original Message- > From: Philipp Bliedung [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: Why so big?

2001-08-20 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 20 2001, dman wrote: > I agree with this. I had a gateway system setup on which I manually > picked the packages and it only used ~120MB. I'm sure several of that > were used by /var/cache/apt/archives -- whenever you 'apt-get upgrade' > a copy of the .deb file is cached in that directory.

Re: Why so big?

2001-08-20 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 20 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > If you want a "small setup" you shouldn't choose any task package at > all ... do the base install, install what you need (and possibly > uninstall what you don't; base still has a bit of "cruft"). Voila. > Yes, it does. Like PCMCIA packages th

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 02:26:37PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hello: > > i have managed to insert a bullet in my poda courtesy of tar and my > ineptness! that is, i did: > > tar -cvIf --remove-files /tmp/foo.tz /opt/tmp > > silly me fill

Re: Why so big?

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:48:38PM +0100, P Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > When I installed slink, there used be a small system option that > required 34 MB. With potato, I choose simple setup, select SAMBA > server and then install vim from dselect. Its close on 200MB. You can v

Re: Logging

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 03:40:10PM -0700, Christopher Maujean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > After installing potato and running fine for several days, all logging has > stopped. Is there a common cause for this? Are your logging daemons running? To check: $ ps aux | grep [l]ogd To (re)start

Re: Why so big?

2001-08-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:48:38PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > When I installed slink, there used be a small system option that required 34 > MB. With potato, I choose simple setup, select SAMBA server and then > install vim from dselect. Its close on 200MB. > > Is there a small Debian setup I missed

Re: Why so big?

2001-08-20 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 05:52:55PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: | On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:48:38PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: | > Hi all, | > | > When I installed slink, there used be a small system option that required 34 | > MB. With potato, I choose simple setup, select SAMBA server and then | >

Logging

2001-08-20 Thread Christopher Maujean
After installing potato and running fine for several days, all logging has stopped. Is there a common cause for this? The machine has: base C/C++ Development sendmail procmail logcheck imapd ipop3d -- Christopher Maujean IT Director Premierelink Communications www.premierelink.com [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Autodetect hardware...

2001-08-20 Thread Tom Pfeifer
To add to the previous message about needing the newer version of modutils with a 2.4.x kernel. If you're running potato (stable), you'll need to go here to find that deb package along with some others you'll need: http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html As far as other software packages

Re: Abiword font problem

2001-08-20 Thread csj
On 19 Aug 2001 13:35:55 -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: > I am running debian unstable, and can't seem to get abiword to work. It > complains that it can't find it's fonts -- specifically, Times New Roman. I > checked the shell script that runs abiword, and it adds the abiword font > directory to th

Re: Why so big?

2001-08-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:48:38PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > When I installed slink, there used be a small system option that required 34 > MB. With potato, I choose simple setup, select SAMBA server and then > install vim from dselect. Its close on 200MB. > > Is there a small Debian s

RE: Preventing logins /bin/false ?

2001-08-20 Thread Ian Perry
> From: Martin Fluch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martin > Fluch > Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 5:19 PM > > > I would rather give people as little information about the system as > > possible. There is also a risk (however slight) that > /bin/false could > > be replaced with a bash program

Re: 486 install from the internet

2001-08-20 Thread John Griffiths
you need the root, rescue, and driver disks instruction are there at www.debian.org you can choose "net install" for the base system. and from there it's just matter of waiting. At 01:49 PM 8/20/01 -0700, Tandex wrote: >Now I have 486 with 800mb harddisk and 20mb-ram, that >I want to use like

Why so big?

2001-08-20 Thread P Kirk
Hi all, When I installed slink, there used be a small system option that required 34 MB. With potato, I choose simple setup, select SAMBA server and then install vim from dselect. Its close on 200MB. Is there a small Debian setup I missed? -- Patrick Kirk GSM: +44 7876 560 646 ICQ: 42219699

Linking with X

2001-08-20 Thread Timothy Bedding
I am getting this link error /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so: undefined reference to `getpwnam_r@@GLIBC_2.0' Does this mean I need an extra library? If so, which one?

486 install from the internet

2001-08-20 Thread Tandex
Now I have 486 with 800mb harddisk and 20mb-ram, that I want to use like gateway, buth there is non cd-rom in it only floppy. How can I install debian from the net, Can someone give me some link to some HOW-TO or some documation. __ Do You Yahoo!? Ma

Packages to run kernel 2.4.x on potato (release 18)

2001-08-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
I have prepared the packages needed to run kernels up to 2.4.9 on a Debian 2.2r3 (potato) system. Please read [1] for more information. Changes since the last release: + added: kernel-image-2.4.9-i386 Binary packages: o kernel-headers-2.4.9 o k

Re: upgrading more then one box by downloading the files once!

2001-08-20 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: > "Dave" == Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> Also, if you prefer not to use a transparent cache (I Dave> sometimes want to bypass squid), then you can install a Dave> normal squid proxy and set an environment variable:

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-20 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
greg, bud: thank you very much. my disk has much more room now. thanks for the prompt replies. On Monday 20 August 2001 15:03, Bud Rogers wrote: > On Monday 20 August 2001 04:54 pm, Greg Wiley wrote: > > On Monday, August 20, 2001 2:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > silly me filled up my cu

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-20 Thread Stig Brautaset
* allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > hello: > > i have managed to insert a bullet in my poda courtesy of tar and my > ineptness! that is, i did: > > tar -cvIf --remove-files /tmp/foo.tz /opt/tmp > > silly me filled up my current directory with a fi

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-20 Thread Aaron Maxwell
Try this: rm -- --remove-files The '--' means 'none of the following arguments are command line switches, even if they really look like one.' best, Aaron On Monday 20 August 2001 14:26, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > hello: > > i have managed to insert a bullet in my

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-20 Thread Bud Rogers
On Monday 20 August 2001 04:54 pm, Greg Wiley wrote: > On Monday, August 20, 2001 2:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > silly me filled up my current directory with a file called > > "--remove-files". > > > my question is: how the heck to i get rid of this beast > > > > i've tried > > Here is a

Re: Using lm-sensors

2001-08-20 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:34:56AM -0400, David Z. Maze wrote: > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > RB> Thanks for the info. So is the relation between lm-sensors and > RB> lm-sensors-source that the latter provides drivers used by the former > RB> (sort of like alsa, where you need to buil

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-20 Thread Greg Wiley
On Monday, August 20, 2001 2:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > silly me filled up my current directory with a file called "--remove-files". > my question is: how the heck to i get rid of this beast > > i've tried Here is a C program that will do it: #include int main() { char *fname = "-

Re: dhcp configuration

2001-08-20 Thread Titus Barik
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, dman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 07:16:29AM +1000, Serge Rey wrote: > > | for the benefit of future users who may run into the same issue you did, > | could you tell us what did you uninstall and reinstall? > > # apt-get remove --purge > # apt-get install >

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me mandem emails

2001-08-20 Thread Michael William Cypriano
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how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-20 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
hello: i have managed to insert a bullet in my poda courtesy of tar and my ineptness! that is, i did: tar -cvIf --remove-files /tmp/foo.tz /opt/tmp silly me filled up my current directory with a file called "--remove-files". my question is: how the heck to i get rid of this beast

Re: Help: DVDs players and Linux

2001-08-20 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 13 2001, Rogério Brito wrote: > Last week, I bought myself a new DVD drive, an Asus E608, > which is a RPC1 drive. (...) I have described some of my experiences with DVD playing under Linux at http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/diary/. Below are the relevant

Re: dhcp configuration

2001-08-20 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 07:16:29AM +1000, Serge Rey wrote: | for the benefit of future users who may run into the same issue you did, | could you tell us what did you uninstall and reinstall? # apt-get remove --purge # apt-get install (in his case, was "pump") -D

Re: dhcp configuration

2001-08-20 Thread Serge Rey
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 03:33:10PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: > On 20 Aug 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > What does your /etc/pump.conf file look like? > > > > --mike > > Hmm, it works now. I simply uninstalled (with purge) and reinstalled and > everything seems to be okay. I guess that's w

ghostscript- any success with ibmpro device

2001-08-20 Thread Christopher Mosley
Hello, Just wondering if anybody has successfully used an ibm proprinter dot matrix printer with ghostscript. Thanks

Re: tabs in xemacs

2001-08-20 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Alan Shutko wrote: > > > > Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Does anyone know how to set xemacs to use 4 spaces when you hit the tab > > > key? > > > > What mode? > > C programming mode. (That's a guess. I don't know anything

Re: Sound problems

2001-08-20 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:43:00AM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: > I am running Potato that was moved from Progeny. I am haveing a very > bad sound problem. At this time sound does not work at all. Here is > the details: > > Dell Opliplex gx 110 computer stock. > Intel 810 sound card in it > KDE

Re: tar/gzip mistake

2001-08-20 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 10:50:20PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Hi | | I made a big mistake, instead of updating my tar and gzip files I | deleted them. Installing them again with apt didn't work because | the tar and gzip packages need to be unpacked themselves. I tried | to find the so

Re: tar/gzip mistake

2001-08-20 Thread Jordi S . Bunster
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 10:50:20PM +0020, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there some other way to get tar and gzip back on my system > without reinstalling? Unpack the source somewere else, and pack it with ar or zip, or whatever else you may have already installed on your system. Rsync maybe. Or w

Re: tabs in xemacs

2001-08-20 Thread Alan Shutko
Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > C programming mode. (That's a guess. I don't know anything about > xemacs modes but I'm using it to edit C source files.) Ah, yes, changing things are completely different! First, start out by taking a look at

Re: fd0/fd1H1440 "not configured"

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 02:15:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to use a Mac emulator in Linux, and it requires I have > a symlink to fd0 called fd1H1440, apparently. It used to make the > drive hum for a second, then quit. But now it says the device isn't >

tar/gzip mistake

2001-08-20 Thread phantomlord
Hi I made a big mistake, instead of updating my tar and gzip files I deleted them. Installing them again with apt didn't work because the tar and gzip packages need to be unpacked themselves. I tried to find the source files of them but I could only find tarballed archives of them. Is there some

Re: 2.4.9 won't boot

2001-08-20 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 20 August 2001 8:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have recently installed Debian on an old Pentium computer using the > official image from debian.org. I have it running w/ kernel 2.2.19pre17, > however this does not support my Netgear fa311 NIC and I've been > unsuccessful in compili

Re: Dselect blues (a.k.a. how-to start a riot)

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:54:07PM +0200, Sándor Bárány ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > In general though, it's a good idea to know what you have (dpkg > > --show-selections), what you want, and what you don't want. > > Sorry to ask but what do you mean with dpkg --sh

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Re: tabs in xemacs

2001-08-20 Thread Andrew Dixon
Alan Shutko wrote: > > Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Does anyone know how to set xemacs to use 4 spaces when you hit the tab > > key? > > What mode? C programming mode. (That's a guess. I don't know anything about xemacs modes but I'm using it to edit C source files.) Than

Re: True Type Fonts-Solved!

2001-08-20 Thread Dale Morris
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Dale Morris wrote: > I've been working on true type fonts and can't get them to work on > XF86-4.3. I'm using Paul Smith's TrueType Fonts on Debian XFree86 4.x I was finally able to get true type font package working, but it entailed reinstalling XFree86 binaries and overwrit

Re: libgnomeprint dependency

2001-08-20 Thread James D Strandboge
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 04:13:13PM -0400 or thereabouts, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > stumped by a libgnomeprint dependency. Apparently the new GNOME stuff coming > from Debian doesn't like Ximian's version. That's right. You need to remove all the ximian stuff then remove the ximian line form /

libgnomeprint dependency

2001-08-20 Thread James Lindenschmidt
Greetings, In trying to upgrade from potato/ximianGNOME/KDE2.1.1 to testing/woody, I am stumped by a libgnomeprint dependency. Apparently the new GNOME stuff coming from Debian doesn't like Ximian's version. When apt-get dist-upgrade stopped, I tried doing apt-get -f install (which I'd success

Re: 2.4.9 won't boot

2001-08-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I have recently installed Debian on an old Pentium > computer... > I've been trying to compile and use the 2.4.8 kernel... Did you make sure to check and/or change the CPU type spec'd ?? It defaults to a Pentium II and higher, I believe. This got me once... Also, don't try and use your .conf

Re: Strange system lockups.

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:00:53PM -0700, Kamil Kisiel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am having some weird system lockup problems. My computer goes in to > heavy HD caching every Sunday evening or Monday morning and locks up, > I cannot move the mouse in X nor can I switch to any other virtual > t

Re: tabs in xemacs

2001-08-20 Thread Alan Shutko
Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know how to set xemacs to use 4 spaces when you hit the tab > key? What mode? If it's a programming language mode, it's handled differently from text modes. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! DM Advice: Never gr

Re: More problems with xfstt

2001-08-20 Thread Alan Shutko
Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But the same problem is popping up in other places, including xdvi > and xfontsel. In both of these places, all buttons and menus are > displayed in a barcode font, making them unusable to anyone without > a photographic memory. If you don't specify a

Re: tabs in xemacs

2001-08-20 Thread Jason Healy
At 998336235s since epoch (08/20/01 14:37:15 -0400 UTC), Andrew Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > Does anyone know how to set xemacs to use 4 spaces when you hit the tab > key? I've tried adding: > > ;;Use spaces instead of tabs > (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) > ;;set the width to 4 > (setq-default

Re: dhcp configuration

2001-08-20 Thread Titus Barik
On 20 Aug 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > What does your /etc/pump.conf file look like? > > --mike Hmm, it works now. I simply uninstalled (with purge) and reinstalled and everything seems to be okay. I guess that's what I get for running testing. Thanks for all your help. Titus Barik ([EMAI

Re: tabs in xemacs

2001-08-20 Thread Andrew Dixon
Ramesh Venkitaswaran wrote: > > Hi Andy > You could try this command - It worked for me. > M-x edit-tab-stops > Nope. It doesn't do anything. I can't even get it to break! Now I know something is wrong. > HTH > -- > Ramesh. > > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Andrew Dixon wrote: > > > Hi All, > > Do

Re: 2.4.9 won't boot

2001-08-20 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 12:02:52PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have recently installed Debian on an old Pentium computer using the | official image from debian.org. I have it running w/ kernel | 2.2.19pre17, however this does not support my Netgear fa311 NIC and | I've been unsuccessful in

Re: dhcp configuration

2001-08-20 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 20 Aug 2001 14:33:20 -0400, Titus Barik wrote: > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, dman wrote: > > > | Debian. Can someone tell me what the preferred (and hopefully best) way > > | to setup DHCP is? I also notice that there is another dhcp client that > > | one can choose from (dhcpcd). > > > > What networ

Re: 2.4.9 won't boot

2001-08-20 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 20 Aug 2001 12:02:52 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have recently installed Debian on an old Pentium computer using the > official image from debian.org. I have it running w/ kernel 2.2.19pre17, > however this does not support my Netgear fa311 NIC and I've been unsuccessful > in compili

2.4.9 won't boot

2001-08-20 Thread bedlam
I have recently installed Debian on an old Pentium computer using the official image from debian.org. I have it running w/ kernel 2.2.19pre17, however this does not support my Netgear fa311 NIC and I've been unsuccessful in compiling their source code. I've been trying to compile and use the 2

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