Re: can't find kmod info

2001-08-22 Thread Calvin Chong
Maid = Maid's Agreed Ideal Doctrine - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 12:48 PM Subject: can't find kmod info > I am having difficulty loading the 2.4.9 kernel, I get an error in kmod, something to the effect > > kmod: failed to exec /sbin

Re: Exim behind dhcp/ipmasq

2001-08-22 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
Walter Hofmann writes: > You said that the hotmail error message was about a closed connection > after Exim sent "HELO localhost". This could easily be a spam blocker at > hotmail. SMTP says that the mailer should say "HELO name" or "EHLO name" > as the first command, where "name" is the name of y

can't find kmod info

2001-08-22 Thread bedlam
I am having difficulty loading the 2.4.9 kernel, I get an error in kmod, something to the effect kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno = 8 I have looked all over and can't find anything documenting kmod. I don't know what binfmt-464c is either. I made a list of all driv

mutt and an nfs mounted home directory

2001-08-22 Thread Jason Majors
I have an nfs mounted home directory where the user and group ids match. I can write in the ~/.mutt directory and even edit my inbox and sentbox on the client, but when I run mutt on the client machine, it tells me that the mailbox is read only. Is there a setting in mutt I can change to make it us

Re: how to make exim run queue only when ppp link is up?

2001-08-22 Thread Calvin Chong
Honestly, ps aux | grep `cat /var/run/ppp0.pid` | grep ppp > /dev/null && echo yes || echo no Should give something better than that check... eh, but it requires r00t right.. :) -calvin Maid = Maid's Agreed Ideal Doctrine - Original Message - From: "Karsten M. Self" To: Sent: Thursday

Re: DRI problems...

2001-08-22 Thread Luis Fernando Bustamante
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:19:34PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I'm trying to get this cursed Voodoo 3 3000 working in Woody, but it > doesn't seem to want to. I've installed the following packages: > > mesag-glide2 > glutg3 > libglide2 > libglide3 // i installed this after libglid

Re: how to make exim run queue only when ppp link is up?

2001-08-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:51:41AM +0100, Stig Brautaset ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self spake thus: > > on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:21:19AM +0100, Stig Brautaset ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Diald keeps bringing up the link on request from exim. I have only > > > had this

Problems with boot after vid. card switcharoo

2001-08-22 Thread Jeremy
Greetings, I have both Potato and Sid on my box. When I have to go into X on Potato, I have to pull out my Radeon VE card and put in my TNT2 since that's what works with X in Potato. This used to work fine, but I ran into a snag tonight. After the switch, I booted up into Potato, and all of a s

ADSL problem with large packets

2001-08-22 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi, I just got ADSL running on my home network with a Debian gateway (two ethernet cards). I think I've got an MTU problem. Large transfers just don't work, but I can make an SSH connection out (for example) and pinging and the likes works. I've got pty "pppoe -I eth0 -T 80 -m 1412" and mtu 141

Sound is choppy and loops

2001-08-22 Thread David Frischknecht
Hello, I am having trouble getting my sound card to work properly in Linux. I am using the precompiled kernel that comes on the 1st Debian CD. My sound card is an ESS1868 Audiodrive. It is plugged into a PCI slot. When Linux boots up, it says something about an IRQ 7 conflict. Would anyone be

Re: Kernel Support for 3COM and Intel EtherExpress

2001-08-22 Thread Calvin Chong
> that 3Com card before but can't recall which module I used before... the module should be called 3c59x rgrds, calvin Maid = Maid's Agreed Ideal Doctrine - Original Message - From: "Jeremy T. Bouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 8:28 AM

Re: 3COM and Such Cards .. The Saga Continues

2001-08-22 Thread John Galt
Do they conflict? The other thing is don't insmod, use modprobe: that way if there is a module it depends on, it'll find it and install it first. As for compiling a new kernel: if you want to do it, go ahead, it'll solve your problem, kind of in the way a good sledgehammer takes care of a fly--b

[OT] sql database webmail?

2001-08-22 Thread Eric Boo
Hi all, I would like to ask, which GPL/BSD licensed web mail program out there stores info in an SQL database? Most importantly, it must store the user and password in the database and not touch the /etc/passwd Thanks, and regards. Eric

3COM and Such Cards .. The Saga Continues

2001-08-22 Thread JakeCatfox
I installed Debian and told it to include the EtherExpress or 3COM modules, but the "installation failed". When I try to insmod the EtherExpress module, I just get a lot of Unresolved Symbols. LSPCI tells me I DO have an EtherExpress from Intel, but ifconfig eth0 doensn't work (eth0 does not ex

X Display errors

2001-08-22 Thread Jason Majors
Whenever I try to run something from an Eterm or xterm I get this error: xmms: can't open display (null) But my display is set to "sabertooth:0.0". (The correct name). I've changed it to "localhost:0.0", "127.0.0.1:0.0", and "192.168.1.2:0.0". None of them work. I tried running "xhost +". The stra

Re: how to make exim run queue only when ppp link is up?

2001-08-22 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Karsten M. Self spake thus: > on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:21:19AM +0100, Stig Brautaset ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Diald keeps bringing up the link on request from exim. I have only had > > this problem since I made a fresh install about a week ago. Earlier, the > > exim cron-entry that ru

Re: fixing demand-dialing ppp

2001-08-22 Thread Forrest Cahoon
From: Shaun Crossley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: fixing demand-dialing ppp Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:10:25 -0800 > I had this same problem, so I manually removed woody ppp and installed > potato ppp, then marked it 'hold' so that it wouldn't get replaced on the > next apt-get upgrade. What

Re: AMD Athlon optimised, customized kernel, on Woody, and kernel oopses

2001-08-22 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 23 2001, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Some more info: compiled on my own unstable machine, also got serious > problems. Then I recompiled on my machine optimising for 486 instead of > Athlon, sounds like there was no problem. So AMD optimization is broken? That's it. I've seen numero

Re: Creating Install CD with reiserfs

2001-08-22 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 22 2001, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > I noticed that the most recent woody boot disks include a directory > for Reiserfs support. How would one create a Debian install CD > (with the debian-cd package) that uses this kernel / boot image? Just prepare the tree with the packages

Re: XF86Setup in Woody?

2001-08-22 Thread Jason Majors
I just started reading this thread, but...I think I can help. Install the package xbase-clients then run xf86config It's the best X config utility I've seen. And make sure xbase-clients, xfree86-common, and xserver-xfree86 are all version 4.0.3-4. The config file will be /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. On

Re: dual displays

2001-08-22 Thread Jeremiah Mahler
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:58:34PM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Jeremiah Mahler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 06:55:12AM -1000, Andrew Austin wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm thinking about getting the ATI RADEON VE Dual Display video > > > card but haven't been able to find

Re: XF86Setup in Woody?

2001-08-22 Thread R1nso13
so then i guess those guys keyboards don't have a shift key, huh? : ) (forget who kept making the keyboard : program analogies) anyway, good! i'm getting somewhere, however i'm getting kind of tired of the debian dpkg approach. however, i'm going to make one more attempt to get a configuration

Help - Large Files Support

2001-08-22 Thread David McNab
Hi all, I've just now managed (after a few attempts) to install deb testing/unstable, and find Debian to be unquestionably the best Linux distro to date. One thing I need help with is in getting large files support working. Some of my uses (eg Freenet 0.4, which has its store as one large file),

Re: can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles

2001-08-22 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 06:08:37PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > > Would someone please post the output of "ls -l /var/lib/dhelp". > > dhelp is broken in unstable if that's what you're referring to. There's > already a bug report on it. That's it... darn

Re: Kernel Support for 3COM and Intel EtherExpress

2001-08-22 Thread John Galt
eepro100.o for the intel... There is no eepro100 ISA. On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, does anyone know what I need to enable to use the EtherExpress Pro 100 >PCI NIC card from Intel, and the 3COM Fast EtherLink PCI 10/100 NIC card in >my kernel config? All I can seem to find i

Re: Kernel Support for 3COM and Intel EtherExpress

2001-08-22 Thread Brandon High
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 08:02:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, does anyone know what I need to enable to use the EtherExpress Pro 100 > PCI NIC card from Intel, and the 3COM Fast EtherLink PCI 10/100 NIC card in > my kernel config? All I can seem to find is ISA. I tried to install these

Re: can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles

2001-08-22 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > On Wednesday 22 August 2001 17:08, Bruce Sass wrote: > > Would someone please post the output of "ls -l /var/lib/dhelp". > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build IA32 [/root] #ls -l /var/lib/dhelp > total 842 > -rw-r--r--1 root root

Re: can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles

2001-08-22 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 06:08:37PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > Hi, > > Would someone please post the output of "ls -l /var/lib/dhelp". dhelp is broken in unstable if that's what you're referring to. There's already a bug report on it. -- Eric G. Miller

Re: Kernel Support for 3COM and Intel EtherExpress

2001-08-22 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
I'm not sure on the 3Com card but the Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 should use the standard eepro100 NIC driver that is built by default on any of the pre-compiled Debian kernels... I have several machines which use this card and have no problems with it... I believe I might have used that 3Co

Re: dual displays

2001-08-22 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 22 2001, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Anyway, I've been using the latest beta Matrox drivers and XFree86 > 4.0.3 for about two months now and I've had 2 X crashes in that > time. Not bad considering my machine is up 24/7 and it boots straight > into X. What does the matrox driver offer fo

IBM/Nintendo Powerpc . . .

2001-08-22 Thread Lambrecht Joris
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/21196.html This article inspired some cuckoo idea about a spanking new linux-platform. Imagine, it's all integrated and it's running at an exceptable mhz for about any application, pour a little customized linux-sauce over it and there you go ... anyway,

Re: can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles

2001-08-22 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Wednesday 22 August 2001 17:08, Bruce Sass wrote: > Hi, > > Would someone please post the output of "ls -l /var/lib/dhelp". > > TIA > > > - Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build IA32 [/root] #ls -l /var/lib/dhelp total 842 -rw-r--r--1 root root 815104 Aug 15 10:01 dbase -rw-r--r--1 ro

can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles

2001-08-22 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, Would someone please post the output of "ls -l /var/lib/dhelp". TIA - Bruce

Kernel Support for 3COM and Intel EtherExpress

2001-08-22 Thread JakeCatfox
Hi, does anyone know what I need to enable to use the EtherExpress Pro 100 PCI NIC card from Intel, and the 3COM Fast EtherLink PCI 10/100 NIC card in my kernel config? All I can seem to find is ISA. I tried to install these from the Debian installer but it kept failing, maybe those were the ISA

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Re: AMD Athlon optimised, customized kernel, on Woody, and kernel oopses

2001-08-22 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> I am now compiling him a kernel on my machine (running unstable), hoping > this might sort it out. Might it be GCC3 issues? (What compiler is used > when using make-kpkg btw? And when compiling .deb's from source? > (gcc2.xx or gcc3)) I guess it might be testing's prerelease gcc3 > (1:3.0-0pre010

Re: Mounting MS-DOS on bootup.

2001-08-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 12:31:31PM -0700, Andrew Agno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self writes: > > Add them to your /etc/fstab with 'auto' mount options. > > Which might catch the msdos file system instead of the vfat (Win95/98) > filesystem module. Try the vfat option instead: You

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

2001-08-22 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm trying to remember a trick (probably in O'Reilly's _UNIX Power > Tools_) for removing files by inode. Trying to remember what it was or > in what context it worked. Unmount the filesystem, then do [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > /sbin/debugfs debugfs 1.

Re: ssh refuses connections

2001-08-22 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Jason Majors wrote: > I have four machines: a firewall, an internal server, and two workstations. > When I try an SSH connection from the firewall to the server, or from outside > the firewall using its port forwarding to go to the server, I get the error: > ssh_exchange_ident

INCOMPATIBILITY FOUND: Re: IrDA stopped working after kernel upgrade to 2.4.9

2001-08-22 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:47:11AM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > Hi All, > > I just stated that the reason is that the "irattach" is not running. > When I start it by hand with "irattach /dev/ttyS1", everything works > correctly. But now I really don't know what is the correlation with > kern

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Re: a woodied gnumeric

2001-08-22 Thread Bill Wohler
Thanks Ray. I noticed that Sid's version of gnumeric depended on xlibs 4.1. Does your time calculation ("as little as 5 days") include the dependencies as well? -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote L

Re: dual displays

2001-08-22 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jeremiah Mahler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 06:55:12AM -1000, Andrew Austin wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm thinking about getting the ATI RADEON VE Dual Display video > > card but haven't been able to find much info on running it in > > linux. I have heard that the RADEON serie

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vnc, wdm, xinetd, and pam: can't log in

2001-08-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
I'm using a trick I've just learned to try triggering VNC sessions from xinetd. See for more info: http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=6286 My own configuration is included below. The problem: Launching xvncviewer :50 gives me an X session and a wdm login scr

Sound is choppy

2001-08-22 Thread David Frischknecht
Hello, Whenever a sound is played under Linux, it sounds choppy. Could someone help me out with this? = David A. Frischknecht http://www.fishnetonline.freeurl.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yah

IMPORTANT HINT Re: IrDA stopped working after kernel upgrade to 2.4.9

2001-08-22 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, I just stated that the reason is that the "irattach" is not running. When I start it by hand with "irattach /dev/ttyS1", everything works correctly. But now I really don't know what is the correlation with kernel upgrade =:-( ? -- Wojciech M. Zabolotny

Re: IrDA stopped working after kernel upgrade to 2.4.9

2001-08-22 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:33:24PM +0200, thomas wrote: > > I used "make menuconfig" and configured the kernel by hand (having read > > the configuration from the old 2.2.18 config), was it wrong? > > Does "oldconfig" makes some magic conversions from old version of > > configfile? > > It only wor

Re: HELP: need help with NVIDIA kernel module

2001-08-22 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
What you should do is if you're runnin the pre-compiled kernel image package and it works is extract the kernel-source-2.4.9 tar.bz2 into /usr/src... then copy the /boot/config-2.4.9-k6 as .config in the source tree... Then you will want to run make-kpkg to build a new kernel-image-2.4.9 pa

Re: HELP: need help with NVIDIA kernel module

2001-08-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Bruno Boettcher wrote on Thu Aug 23, 2001 um 12:22:00AM: > installed also the kernel-source-2.4.9 and launched the compile But did you copy /boot/config-VERSION to .config? before doing this: > first of all il launched a make oldconfig in the kernel architecture Gruss/Regards,

Re: IRQs

2001-08-22 Thread Jason Majors
What is it? Brand, chipset, bus type, etc? If it's a PCI you shouldn't have to specify anything, due to the inherint magic of the PCI bus. If it's ISA, I wouldn't know, I don't have any ISA slots. On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 03:21:14PM -0700, David Frischknecht scribbled... > Hello, > > I was wonde

DRI problems...

2001-08-22 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I'm trying to get this cursed Voodoo 3 3000 working in Woody, but it doesn't seem to want to. I've installed the following packages: mesag-glide2 glutg3 libglide2 libglide3 // i installed this after libglide2 didn't work alone I'm using X4.0.3. I have DRI, AGP, and tdfx all compiled into

IRQs

2001-08-22 Thread David Frischknecht
Hello, I was wondering how I could specify my soundcard to use IRQ 5. I looked at the configuration in Windows, and that's what it uses. Thanks a bunch. = David A. Frischknecht http://www.fishnetonline.freeurl.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Make int

Re: HTML composer ?

2001-08-22 Thread burningclown
highlighting is (or was ... still is in some ways) one of the squirrelinesses re: bluefish. syntax highlighting doesn't seem to be exactly "as - you - type" but is updated by pressing the F5 key. on my machine this scrolls down the current file & eventually returns you to the spot you were at. bl

HELP: need help with NVIDIA kernel module

2001-08-22 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello i am using a precompiled kernel: kernel-image-2.4.9-k6 and wanted to add the nvidia kernel module, so i downloaded the nvidia-kernel-src package and followed the instructions installed also the kernel-source-2.4.9 and launched the compile first of all il launched a make oldconfig in

Re: a woodied gnumeric

2001-08-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
Michael, please fix your mail setup. Your message had Mail-Followup-To: mtaylor, debian-user@lists.debian.org which is broken. On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 12:22:19 -0400, Michael B. Taylor wrote: > Gnumeric has been updated in sid a couple of times in the past few days. > I am told that sid ->

Re: a woodied gnumeric

2001-08-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 12:02:12 -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I've had gnumeric (0.64-1) running in woody for several months without > problems. If you have it installed already, there's no problem. If you want to install it for the first time on a woody machine, most likely you can't, as the curre

Re: dual displays

2001-08-22 Thread Jeremiah Mahler
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 06:55:12AM -1000, Andrew Austin wrote: > Hi, > I'm thinking about getting the ATI RADEON VE Dual Display video card but > haven't been able to find much info on running it in linux. I have heard > that the RADEON series needs xserver 4.1.0 but this dual display card is a

Re: Killing your keyb.controller...

2001-08-22 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Emil Pedersen wrote: > is an 600-650MB, so it's recognized. I intenden to shit in two smaller > disks and use it as a firewall, but I think now it's going to be tough I know it's a typo, but it's still funny.

Re: Killing your keyb.controller... was: Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-22 Thread idalton
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 10:24:34PM +0200, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > Just to add some more noice to the list ;-) > > [statement] Hot-plugging keyboards works _MOST_ of the time. > > It is true for at least PS/2-keyboard, since the only machine I've > managed to destroy this way is an Digital Cel

Re: USB/Scanner, how to start?

2001-08-22 Thread Adam Bower
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Jan Torben Heuer wrote: > hmm, what I have to do, to make my USB Scanner working? > It's an Agfa SnapScan 1212 > > there is no /proc/pci > there is no usb entry at /proc/interrupts > however usb support ist generally compiled as module, but which modules do I > really need? Y

Re: Upgrade

2001-08-22 Thread Paul Scott
Hall Stevenson wrote: Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've gotten as far as `apt-get dist-upgrade', but it ended on a `file (pkg) not found'. As for my version of debian it's (CorelLinux)2.1... I have no experience with CorelLinux. I know that it is a derivative of Debian Corel L

Re: launching mozilla from Pine

2001-08-22 Thread W. Paul Mills
I do not think this is unique to Pine. Seems to be a mozilla thing. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Faheem Mitha) writes: > I am currently using Mozilla 9.3, and Pine 4.21. I want to launch Mozilla > from Pine using the url-viewer feature. I currently have > > # List of programs to open Internet URLs

Re: pilot-xfer stopped working after kernel upgrade to 2.4.9

2001-08-22 Thread thomas
> I used "make menuconfig" and configured the kernel by hand (having read > the configuration from the old 2.2.18 config), was it wrong? > Does "oldconfig" makes some magic conversions from old version of > configfile? It only works from 2.Y.x -> 2.Y.x anyway (not 2.2.x -> 2.4.x) afaik (you could

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-22 Thread Nathan Weston
Debian unstable should be able to give you all of the end results you are looking for. However, you also want to get these things easily -- ie, good hardware detection, ReiserFS by default during the install, etc. This you probably won't be able to do. I was recently in a similar situation to yo

Re: FortranPlus F95 Compiler Packs: New Release now shipping

2001-08-22 Thread Gerhard Kroder
NAS Marketing wrote: > Upgrade Prices > == I wonder if they will offer a cross-grade/trade-in, i might giv'em g77 ;-) gk

Gnome panel + sawfish = very slow ?

2001-08-22 Thread Neil Booth
I installed sawfish about 3 wks ago, and have installed a couple of revisions of gnome panel since then. However, if I bring up panel after starting sawfish, dragging a window becomes jerky and slow. I don't remember this behaviour in WindowMaker. Somtimes, but not always, panel complains about

Re: mplayer opengl

2001-08-22 Thread Sean Quinlan
* harsha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-08-22 19:40): >When I do ./configure for compiling mplayer it says GL includes > missing and opengl support is missing. I have a Riva TNT2 card and using > the binary drivers from nvidia. How do I get mplayer to compile with > opengl support. Actually is it ne

Re: Upgrade

2001-08-22 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > > Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I've gotten as far as `apt-get dist-upgrade', but it ended > > on a `file (pkg) not found'. As for my version of debian > > it's (CorelLinux)2.1... > > I have no experience with CorelLinux. I know that it is a > derivative of Debian Corel Linux is

RE: fixing demand-dialing ppp

2001-08-22 Thread Shaun Crossley
I had this same problem, so I manually removed woody ppp and installed potato ppp, then marked it 'hold' so that it wouldn't get replaced on the next apt-get upgrade. Since then, ppp demand-dial has been working just great on my woody ipmasq/demand-ppp 56k dail-out box. If you don't need whatev

Re: OT: AMD chips cause kernel errors and hangs?

2001-08-22 Thread Brandon High
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 01:03:05PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > I got an FIC motherboard with an AMD 1.2GHz Athlon; the mobo has a > jumper to switch between 100MHz and 133MHz bus speed. If I set it to > 133, I can then go into CMOS and watch the temperature monitor climb and > climb until the m

Re: Upgrade

2001-08-22 Thread Shaul Karl
> Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > > Is there any way to upgrade to a higher version of debian ? I always get > > > lost in `dselect' or `apt-get' . Greg > > > > > > > Which version of debian are you currently using? What is your > > /etc/apt/sources.lists looks like? What is the output of apt-get when

Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-22 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > High, > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Stig Brautaset wrote: > > > * dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:02:07PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > > > | I have a head- and keyboardless machine running debian potato that I > > >

Re: Mounting MS-DOS on bootup.

2001-08-22 Thread Andrew Agno
Karsten M. Self writes: > Add them to your /etc/fstab with 'auto' mount options. Which might catch the msdos file system instead of the vfat (Win95/98) filesystem module. Try the vfat option instead: /dev/hdb10 /mnt/dos/win98c vfat rw,gid=dos,umask=002 0 0 This will mount /dev/hdb10 as /mnt/d

Re: VMware and Debian

2001-08-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:49:17AM +0300, Dan Pomohaci wrote: > Thanks for answers but they don't solve my problem (but they are very good > hints for later operations). > I downloaded the VMware-2.0.4-1142.tar.gz from their site. I read the > INSTALL file where it is written: > > To install/upg

Re: a woodied gnumeric

2001-08-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:17:43PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > Any word on when woody will have an installable gnumeric? I've had gnumeric (0.64-1) running in woody for several months without problems. I don't recall having to install any non-woody packages to get it to install, but I have inst

Creating Install CD with reiserfs

2001-08-22 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Hi! I noticed that the most recent woody boot disks include a directory for Reiserfs support. How would one create a Debian install CD (with the debian-cd package) that uses this kernel / boot image? Thanks, Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive System / Network Manager

Re: SoundBlaster Live not recognized!

2001-08-22 Thread Scott_Patterson
>Well I am getting crazy. I do not know how to install my SoundBlaster = >Live Card. I do not know how to configure the kernel and what libraries = >or programs I need. If anybody can help me and explain step by step what = >I should do in the kernel and what files I have to install I will be =

mplayer opengl

2001-08-22 Thread harsha
Hi, When I do ./configure for compiling mplayer it says GL includes missing and opengl support is missing. I have a Riva TNT2 card and using the binary drivers from nvidia. How do I get mplayer to compile with opengl support. Actually is it neccessary that I compile it with such a support. What

Re: Ethernet Card Setup

2001-08-22 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:34:43AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > I am new to Debian, and am having difficulty > > setting up my Network Card. > > > > I currently have a 3Com 3C905-TX PCI > > 10/100 network card. > > > > It is apparently supported in the kernel distributed > > with the current

[Potato] IRQ/DMA/IO config with ISA PnP card (Was: Re: Sound cards & Linux?)

2001-08-22 Thread Phil
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 08:42:10AM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > Most SB compatibles mean the SB16 'standard'. > You need to add the lines > soundcore > sb > to /etc/modules to get it to load at boot. > and run "insmod soundcore" and "insmod sb" to get it to run now. > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 06:

Re: how to make exim run queue only when ppp link is up?

2001-08-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:21:19AM +0100, Stig Brautaset ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Diald keeps bringing up the link on request from exim. I have only had > this problem since I made a fresh install about a week ago. Earlier, the > exim cron-entry that run the queue was controlled by a set of sc

Re: OT: AMD chips cause kernel errors and hangs?

2001-08-22 Thread Kent West
Jason Majors wrote: I just got an AMD chip and noticed that witht the RAM set to 133MHz in the BIOS it would lock under Debian or Win98. It happened on my box and my girlfriend's identical box. I'd suggest checking the memory settings. On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:59:06PM -0600, Rick Macdonald scr

install problems on an lcIII

2001-08-22 Thread Troy Elseth
Ive ran linux before on an x86, but this has me baffeled.  I want to get linux going on an old Mac lcIII, but i have no internet software on it and I can't for the life of me get a boot floppy working.  I have a floppy but no cdrom on this thing.  The only other computer i have is a pentium

[Potato] IRQ/DMA/IO config with ISA PnP card (Was: Re: Soundblaster 16)

2001-08-22 Thread Phil
hello everybody ;) On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 01:10:02PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Markus Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Soundblaster 16 > Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:27:29 +0200 > i tried to install my isa pnp soundblaster like you discribed, a sound system > should be

launching mozilla from Pine

2001-08-22 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, This might be offtopic, but... I am currently using Mozilla 9.3, and Pine 4.21. I want to launch Mozilla from Pine using the url-viewer feature. I currently have # List of programs to open Internet URLs (e.g. http or ftp references). url-viewers="/usr/bin/mozilla -remote 'openURL(_U

Removing folder in KMail

2001-08-22 Thread Daniel Toffetti
I've imported an Outlook 5 folder into KMail. Now I want to delete this folder, but the Remove option in the Folder menu in grayed out. Other folders I've created previously in KMail (not imported) don't have this problem, but inbox, outbox an the other 'system' folders do, so I guess perhaps th

Re: SoundBlaster Live not recognized!

2001-08-22 Thread Jason Majors
To get my SBLive to work I had to compile a special kernel. I didn't see it in 2.2.17, so I got 2.2.19 (2.4.x would work too if you have that). On the soundcard page of the kernel config, look for soundblaster live, it will build an emu10k1.o module for you. If you don't know how to rebuild the ker

SoundBlaster Live not recognized!

2001-08-22 Thread Juan Antonio
Well I am getting crazy. I do not know how to install my SoundBlaster Live Card. I do not know how to configure the kernel and what libraries or programs I need. If anybody can help me and explain step by step what I should do in the kernel and what files I have to install I will be very ple

FortranPlus F95 Compiler Packs: New Release now shipping

2001-08-22 Thread NAS Marketing
Dear support customer, As a previous user of our customer support service, we hope you would be interested to know that Release 2.22a of our FortranPlus F95 compiler is now shipping. This new release has substantial enhancements to the Student Pack capability, and to the support software inc

Re: how to make exim run queue only when ppp link is up?

2001-08-22 Thread Mike McGuire
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:21:19AM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > Diald keeps bringing up the link on request from exim. I have only had > this problem since I made a fresh install about a week ago. Earlier, the > exim cron-entry that run the queue was controlled by a set of scripts > in diald's ip

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-22 Thread Bruce McIntyre
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:51:16PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > > | I don't have anything other than samba and python installed. How can > | /usr/share be so big? > > Actually you have a lot of stuff installed that you don't need if the > machine is only going to b

Re: a woodied gnumeric

2001-08-22 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:17:43PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > Any word on when woody will have an installable gnumeric? > Gnumeric has been updated in sid a couple of times in the past few days. I am told that sid -> woody typically takes two weeks if all goes well, so maybe in two weeks. Mik

dual displays

2001-08-22 Thread Andrew Austin
Hi, I'm thinking about getting the ATI RADEON VE Dual Display video card but haven't been able to find much info on running it in linux. I have heard that the RADEON series needs xserver 4.1.0 but this dual display card is a little different. Has anyone got dual displays running in debian usin

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-22 Thread Bruce Mobarry
Avdi B. Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's what I want out-of-box: Libranet is the closest debian solution to your requirements: ReierFS, up-to-date kde, gnome, etc. A new version will be out by the end of August, according to their newsletter. I use it at home because I don't have a bro

Re: OT: AMD chips cause kernel errors and hangs?

2001-08-22 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:59:06PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > We have a Linux cluster of 1000 nodes. I wasn't involved in setting it up. > They use RedHat 6.2 kernel 2.2.19. Dual AMD 1.2GHz, 2GB memory, 2GB swap, > GB ethernet. > Quoting the latest Kernel Traffic (kt.zork.net), which summer

Re: Encrypted Filesystems

2001-08-22 Thread Mike McGuire
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:13:02AM +, Iain Smith wrote: > > Anyone happen to know the current state of the crypto patches? I haven't seen > a new patch for 2.4 since april... for 2.4.3! Yeah, that's it, I guess. Maybe they got it right the first time. :) One minor problem (too minor to bother

Re: Peoplestreet/Microsoft/Quantum

2001-08-22 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:55:46 -0400 "Tina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PLEASE GIVE US YOUR THOUGHTS ON ANY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES > OR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS WITH PEOPLESTREET. > We will certainly welcome your donation to 'Software In The Public Interest'. See http://www.debian.org

Re: C library not found!

2001-08-22 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 00:06:13 -0400 (EDT) Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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? Ca

USB/Scanner, how to start?

2001-08-22 Thread Jan Torben Heuer
hmm, what I have to do, to make my USB Scanner working? It's an Agfa SnapScan 1212 there is no /proc/pci there is no usb entry at /proc/interrupts however usb support ist generally compiled as module, but which modules do I really need? Any hints? thanx, JT -- /--

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