Re: bad superblock recovery help?

2001-08-28 Thread Mike McGuire
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:41:37PM +1000, Serge Rey wrote: > ... > > i tried a reboot, to see if i could get into the windows partition but > when i selected that stanza in lilo, lilo hangs at "L?" > (again, this used to work prior to this recent problem). > > i can boot into linux just fine. T

Re: networking problem during install

2001-08-28 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 09:33:06PM -0700, Bob Galloway wrote: | Howdy, deb folk! | | I'm trying to turn an old AT&T Globalyst P90 box into a firewall | running Debian. Installation via NFS would be much easier if I could | get networking to work! Too bad I can't seem to get the box to notice | i

Re: [OT] package in a bad way - what to do

2001-08-28 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 28 Aug 2001 21:30:39 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:01:12PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On 28 Aug 2001 22:51:00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > <...> > > > > I keep thinking, hey, this is a MUD server thang, it can't have fing

Re: bash-2.05.0(1) bug or new feature

2001-08-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: bash-2.05.0(1) bug or new feature Date: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:21:52PM -0700 In reply to:Dan Wilder Quoting Dan Wilder([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've recently upgraded a number of systems to debian-woody, current > as of a couple of days ago, and run into a bug or a new fea

Re: Dialin Problem: How to Transmit Whole E-mail Address as Username?

2001-08-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:40:08PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: > How can I transmit my whole e-mail address as my username for > a dialin account login? Do the "@" and dots in the domain name > need to be escaped somehow? > > My ISP is transferring all dialin accounts to another ISP, thus > t

Re: package in a bad way - what to do

2001-08-28 Thread burningclown
Arrgh ... on -all- of these I get dpkg: unknown force/refuse option 'reinstreq' wtf? i say, wtf? ... I'm reading the same man pages that are recommending the same things that get called 'unknown' when I try to invoke them. G ++ http://www.burningclown.com "Everyone's Portal to

Re: gnucash: opening account freezes X for 10s

2001-08-28 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 28 Aug 2001 21:30:49 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > relevant packages: > > gnucash1.6.1-3 > fvwm 2.4.0-3 > > debian unstable, kernel 2.4.5, X 4.1.0 > > I noticed following problem (today): whenever I double-click account > the X windows freezes for about 10 seconds (n

networking problem during install

2001-08-28 Thread Bob Galloway
Howdy, deb folk! I'm trying to turn an old AT&T Globalyst P90 box into a firewall running Debian. Installation via NFS would be much easier if I could get networking to work! Too bad I can't seem to get the box to notice incoming packets. Symptoms: - running linux x86 2.0.36, with the tulip d

Re: package in a bad way - what to do

2001-08-28 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 28 Aug 2001 23:24:25 -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On 28 Aug 2001 23:08:04 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > Okay: > > > > > Take a shot of whiskey and type: > > > dkpg --force-remove-reinstreq aime > > > > Did this. And got this: > > > > dpkg: need an action option > > > > Typ

Re: package in a bad way - what to do

2001-08-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:01:12PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 28 Aug 2001 22:51:00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: <...> > > I keep thinking, hey, this is a MUD server thang, it can't have fingers in > > too many of the system pies (can it?), isn't there a way ju

gnucash: opening account freezes X for 10s

2001-08-28 Thread Erik Steffl
relevant packages: gnucash1.6.1-3 fvwm 2.4.0-3 debian unstable, kernel 2.4.5, X 4.1.0 I noticed following problem (today): whenever I double-click account the X windows freezes for about 10 seconds (nothing works, mouse pointer moves), then the window is opened and al

Re: who has *arguably* the best iptables firewall script around here?

2001-08-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: who has *arguably* the best iptables firewall script around here? Date: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:55:19PM +0200 In reply to:Cliff Sarginson Quoting Cliff Sarginson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:42:39PM +0200, thomas anderson wrote: > > Hello, > > >

Re: Monitor standby

2001-08-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Monitor standby Date: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:54:14PM +0200 In reply to:Arthur Buijs Quoting Arthur Buijs([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I installed Linux (Debian Potato) for the first time. During installation I > had to choose between simple and advanced for installing additio

Re: java

2001-08-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: java Date: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:07:02PM -0500 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi all.. For some reason, Java doesn't work with netscape. Is there > a seperate package I need to install to get java to work with > netscape?

Re: On replying to the list (NOT!)

2001-08-28 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 05:42:01PM -0700, Mark Seven Smith wrote: | Blank | | "Karsten M. Self" wrote: | | >Reply to list mail on list, please. | | *DANG!* Did I do it again? I'M always the one chiding others | about that... If I do it again, please just shoot me, OK? | Thanks! :-) Using OE

Re: package in a bad way - what to do

2001-08-28 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 28 Aug 2001 23:08:04 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Okay: > > > Take a shot of whiskey and type: > > dkpg --force-remove-reinstreq aime > > Did this. And got this: > > dpkg: need an action option > > Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*]; > Use dselec

Re: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 v5 has no IRQ

2001-08-28 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:23:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Tue, 28 August 2001, dman wrote: | > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:07:44AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > | In my ongoing effort to put a second NIC in my computer I have | > | purchased a new NIC, an EtherFast 10/100 version

Re: package in a bad way - what to do

2001-08-28 Thread burningclown
Okay: > Take a shot of whiskey and type: > dkpg --force-remove-reinstreq aime Did this. And got this: dpkg: need an action option Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*]; Use dselect for user-friendly package management; Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debu

Re: package in a bad way - what to do

2001-08-28 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 28 Aug 2001 22:51:00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > dpkg -r someprogram > > > > and let us know your results. > > Here's what came back: > > dpkg: error processing aime (--remove): > Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should > reinstall it before attempting a removal.

Re: bash-2.05.0(1) bug or new feature

2001-08-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:21:52PM -0700, Dan Wilder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've recently upgraded a number of systems to debian-woody, current > as of a couple of days ago, and run into a bug or a new feature > (I hope not) in bash-2.05.0(1) or some related library. This new > feature conf

Re: package in a bad way - what to do

2001-08-28 Thread burningclown
> dpkg -r someprogram > > and let us know your results. Here's what came back: dpkg: error processing aime (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: aime ... essentially the same t

Games Graphics problems

2001-08-28 Thread Curt Howland
I think these are related... This happens in window maker, olwm, and when using no window manager at all, ala "startx lxdoom": lxdoom window opens, the game plays, but it is displayed entirely in grey, like the red colour gun isn't working. The rest of the X desktop is uneffected. quake-x11 wi

Re: xinit as normal user

2001-08-28 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 27 Aug 2001 20:14:39 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My debian install on one laptop lets me xinit as any user, but my other > laptop won't. I've even chmod'ed all the xf86 servers as g+x, what am I > missing? Try reconfiguring the xserver package to allow console users to start x. dpkg-re

Re: bash-2.05.0(1) bug or new feature

2001-08-28 Thread ktb
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:21:52PM -0700, Dan Wilder wrote: > I've recently upgraded a number of systems to debian-woody, current > as of a couple of days ago, and run into a bug or a new feature > (I hope not) in bash-2.05.0(1) or some related library. This new > feature confounds an untold numb

Dialin Problem: How to Transmit Whole E-mail Address as Username?

2001-08-28 Thread Art Lemasters
How can I transmit my whole e-mail address as my username for a dialin account login? Do the "@" and dots in the domain name need to be escaped somehow? My ISP is transferring all dialin accounts to another ISP, thus the change from transmitting whole e-mail addresses instead of only username

bash-2.05.0(1) bug or new feature

2001-08-28 Thread Dan Wilder
I've recently upgraded a number of systems to debian-woody, current as of a couple of days ago, and run into a bug or a new feature (I hope not) in bash-2.05.0(1) or some related library. This new feature confounds an untold number of shell scripts. The bash "cd" builtin now apparently echos its

Re: An MP3 player

2001-08-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 03:52:33PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > > mpg123 is non-free. it's only free-as-in-free-beer, not > free-as-in-free-speech. It uses the Fraunhofer codec. > > On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > >On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:59:04AM -0700, David Frischknecht wrote: >

Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-28 Thread Arno
|In the bash shell, right Alt - " - A just returns to the | beginning of the line; in vi it's \xe4; in emacs it's nothing at all. | | However interestingly enough, in pico (the pine editor) it works | great! Can someone inform this poor ignorant user as to what the | differences might be?

Re: how to use ip-up.d and ip-down.d?

2001-08-28 Thread Dmitriy
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:19:56AM +, john smith wrote: > Hi, > > I have created and added a script in the ip-up.d directory...theoretically, > it should start when I connect to the internet..however, it doesn't and I > still manually have to run it > > _

Re: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 v5 has no IRQ

2001-08-28 Thread bedlam
On Tue, 28 August 2001, dman wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:07:44AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | In my ongoing effort to put a second NIC in my computer I have > | purchased a new NIC, an EtherFast 10/100 version 5. However, Linux > | or my box doesn't see the NIC enough to give it

java: netscape-java-476

2001-08-28 Thread xucaen
nevermind!! I found it!! netscape-java-476 ;-) xucaen

Re: package in a bad way - what to do

2001-08-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 06:18:14PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > As has happened sometimes in the past, I've got a package that seems to be > in "trouble," and I can't figure out what to do with it ... since it never > -really- seems to get all the way installed

Re: On replying to the list (NOT!)

2001-08-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 05:42:01PM -0700, Mark Seven Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Blank > > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > >Reply to list mail on list, please. > > *DANG!* Did I do it again? I'M always the one chiding others > about that... If I do it again, please just shoot me, OK? >

java

2001-08-28 Thread xucaen
Hi all.. For some reason, Java doesn't work with netscape. Is there a seperate package I need to install to get java to work with netscape? thanks! xucaen p.s. reply to me directly.. for some other reason I am not receiving the list emails.

Re: ProFTPd and NIS problems

2001-08-28 Thread Philippe Gramoulle
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 05:30:25PM -0500, ^chewie wrote: > > Before I shoot of a bug report to the ProFTPd guys, I was wondering if > > any of you have run into this one before. We're using ProFTPd > > Version 1.2.0pre10, and I've experienced this problem with both the > > 2.0 and 2.1 packages.

Re: package in a bad way - what to do

2001-08-28 Thread hansen
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:39:16PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > Have you tried apt-get --purge remove > > Just did this. I got the following > > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > The following packages will be REMOVED: > aime* > 0 packages upgraded, 0

Re: Problem with the installation of debian locking up

2001-08-28 Thread Mark Seven Smith
"David Nusinow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > As for free vs. non-free, check out www.gnu.org/philosophy for tons of > explanation. AH--I get it...I think. But it indeed makes sense. Thank you very much for pointing it out: this page seems to be the most relevant: http://www.gnu.org/philosop

how to use ip-up.d and ip-down.d?

2001-08-28 Thread john smith
Hi, I have created and added a script in the ip-up.d directory...theoretically, it should start when I connect to the internet..however, it doesn't and I still manually have to run it _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer

Re: Problem with the installaion of debian locking up

2001-08-28 Thread David Nusinow
Hi, It depends on which distro you want. You probably want potato if you're going to make a production server. If it's just for personal use, you want either testing (woody) or unstable (sid). Your choice. Testing has less bugs, but you have to wait a little while to get your software.

Re: Streaming and Win Media Player plug-in

2001-08-28 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 02:48 pm, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > Hi folks ! > > I tried to access the page of a streaming broadcast, and Mozilla send > me to go download the plug-in... right here !! > > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/en/Download/ \ > default.asp?tcode=9#location2?applica

Re: Problem with the installaion of debian locking up

2001-08-28 Thread Mark Seven Smith
Blank (Ignore the auto-generate word, "BLANK" at the beginning of this post, that's Outlook Express doing that.) Karsten M. Self wrote: What does a "FrameBuffer" screen look like? In the Debian install program, (which comes up as soon as you type when the "boot:" prompt comes up, the screen c

Re: Problem with the installaion of debian locking up

2001-08-28 Thread Mark Seven Smith
Blank Karsten M. Self wrote (I just noticed this): >The book and CD are very poor. They can be used for installation, >however many people report serious problems. Hmm...Question #1: What would be the recommended way of installing Debian? I have cable Internet access, and I have the "Potato" ve

On replying to the list (NOT!)

2001-08-28 Thread Mark Seven Smith
Blank "Karsten M. Self" wrote: >Reply to list mail on list, please. *DANG!* Did I do it again? I'M always the one chiding others about that... If I do it again, please just shoot me, OK? Thanks! :-) --mVIIs

Re: package in a bad way - what to do

2001-08-28 Thread burningclown
Hi, > Have you tried apt-get --purge remove Just did this. I got the following Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following packages will be REMOVED: aime* 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed

Re: Sys Admin guide specific to Debian?

2001-08-28 Thread Jeremy
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > > There is also _Learning Debian GNU/Linux_ from O'Reilly, though some of > > it may be a little dated at this point since it's a few years old. > > I can't recommend this book. Neither can I. I accidentally picked this one up before I knew better. > - Nemeth,

Re: package in a bad way - what to do

2001-08-28 Thread D. Hoyem
Have you tried apt-get --purge remove --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > As has happened sometimes in the past, I've got a > package that seems to be > in "trouble," and I can't figure out what to do with > it ... since it never > -really- seems to get all the way installed. I'd > like to

Re: [sid] TrueType in XFree86 4.1.0

2001-08-28 Thread stevencooper
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 01:14:57AM +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > I lost TrueType fonts support in X. I have 'Load "freetype"' in > XF86Config-4, TTFs in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType and mkttfontdir in > /usr/local/bin. I go to font dir, run mkttfondir >fonts.dir and restart X. > Still nothing

Re: vi recovery

2001-08-28 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:20:20AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: | I've been troubling you kind folks of late with my segfault problems | with vi. Since I don't try to do startlingly original things but | am capable of messing anything up, I find it hard to believe that I | would have found a previo

Re: [TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-28 Thread Nick Croft
Stephen, Thanks for that tip. Any clues on getting an xterm to list files created with these ümläuten? Nick

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-28 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 28 2001, Aaron Traas wrote: > Aren't True Type Fonts Antialiasable? If so, the msttcorefonts > package will (upon installation) log on to MS's web site and > download all of the free (as in beer) "Microsoft Core Fonts" > including Arial, Comic Sans, Times New Roman, Tahoma (my personal > fav

Re: ProFTPd and NIS problems

2001-08-28 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 03:46:27PM -0700, Jeremy B wrote: > I've experienced similar problems with ProFTPd not honoring the > PAM authentication via LDAP and those having to be compiled with the > ProFTPd mod_ldap module included... I think it is just bad coding on > the part of ProFTPd as ev

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-28 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 28 2001, William Leese wrote: > Oddly enough, at home I have debian unstable running on a machine > with an Ati Rage Pro, which ofcourse is Mach64 based, _with_ the > RENDER extension. Although before XFree86 4.1 there didn't seem to > be support for it (atleast, i never got it work), but n

Re: devfsd + xconsole

2001-08-28 Thread Eamon Roque
Am 28 Aug 2001 14:54:05 -0400 schrieb dman: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:14:51PM +0200, arf wrote: > | Le Mardi 28 Août 2001 16:49, dman a écrit : > | [snippely, snippely] > | > | > | > | I have no idea if there is an issue with devfs, but are you sure > | > | xconsole is trying to read from the co

package in a bad way - what to do

2001-08-28 Thread burningclown
Hi, As has happened sometimes in the past, I've got a package that seems to be in "trouble," and I can't figure out what to do with it ... since it never -really- seems to get all the way installed. I'd like to just do away with it entirely. The package in question is the MUD server aime. Here i

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-28 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 27 2001, Slaven Peles wrote: > On Monday 27 August 2001 15:23, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Is it not possible to implement the RENDER extension with this > > hardware or isn't there demand for it? I'd surely love to get > > my notebook working with one of these. > > Nowhere at XFr

Re: cdrecord

2001-08-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 18:59:32 EDT, Titus Barik writes: >I get the following when doing cdrecord -scanbus: > >chronos:/home/barik# cdrecord -scanbus >Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jrg Schilling >cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. >cdrecord: For p

Re: Options passed to ./configure for the official debian packages

2001-08-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Options passed to ./configure for the official debian packages Date: Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 12:11:12AM +0800 In reply to:Calvin Chong Quoting Calvin Chong([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas, > where the perfect gas

Re: parport driver problems

2001-08-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: parport driver problems Date: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:24:06PM +0530 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am having an error with my parport driver : > > Starting lpd :parport0 : detected irq 7 ; use procfs to enable

vi recovery

2001-08-28 Thread David Jardine
I've been troubling you kind folks of late with my segfault problems with vi. Since I don't try to do startlingly original things but am capable of messing anything up, I find it hard to believe that I would have found a previously undiscovered bug, and I think my latest problem arose from a rash

cdrecord

2001-08-28 Thread Titus Barik
Hi, all. I am running cdrecord 1.9 under Woody, with a custom 2.4.6 kernel using the Adaptec 29160 SCSI card (using 789x SCSI driver). I get the following when doing cdrecord -scanbus: chronos:/home/barik# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jrg Schilling c

Streaming and Win Media Player plug-in

2001-08-28 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi folks ! I tried to access the page of a streaming broadcast, and Mozilla send me to go download the plug-in... right here !! http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/en/Download/ \ default.asp?tcode=9#location2?application/x-mplayer2 Is there any chance I can listen to this broadcasts w

Re: ProFTPd and NIS problems

2001-08-28 Thread Jeremy B
I've experienced similar problems with ProFTPd not honoring the PAM authentication via LDAP and those having to be compiled with the ProFTPd mod_ldap module included... I think it is just bad coding on the part of ProFTPd as everything else seems fine... Jeremy On Tue, Aug 28, 200

quick question-where does XFree86 put drivers it uses?

2001-08-28 Thread jdls
Hi, I am currently using the default nv driver for my X-server and would like to upgrade to the newer NVdriver from NVIDIA. I have successfully built the binary version of the driver and the readme tells me I need to put this where XF86Config file can see it...However, I can't seem to find th

ProFTPd and NIS problems

2001-08-28 Thread ^chewie
Before I shoot of a bug report to the ProFTPd guys, I was wondering if any of you have run into this one before. We're using ProFTPd Version 1.2.0pre10, and I've experienced this problem with both the 2.0 and 2.1 packages. Some users, all users are authenticated via NIS, cannot list the contents

Re: [TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-28 Thread Stephen Ball
I just caught hold of this thread so sorry if this fix has been mentioned but has anyone suggested the Multi_Key? You can setup Xmodmap to configure a key as the multi_key, right now I'm using the righthand tux (windows) key. What it does is act as a starter key for ascii combinations, for exa

Re: who has *arguably* the best iptables firewall script around here?

2001-08-28 Thread Jason Healy
At 999056559s since epoch (08/28/01 16:42:39 -0400 UTC), thomas anderson wrote: > > If you think you do please tell us why I do, for one good reason: I *understand* it. Firewalls are one of those things where you really should have at least some of an idea of how they work. Who writes your fire

Re: who has *arguably* the best iptables firewall script around here?

2001-08-28 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:42:39PM +0200, thomas anderson wrote: > Hello, > > If you think you do please tell us why and also kindly send me a copy too! > :) > Well, mine seems ok, I do not run inetd when connected, which does not really lose me that much in pratcise. Nexus's only complaint abou

Re: Problem installing sis900.o on Potato

2001-08-28 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 4:49 pm, Chan Siu On wrote: > > > Do you mean I have to install 2.4.x kernel and download the latest > > sis900 > > > > module? 2.2.15 and later kernel seems to support sis900. But I will > > upgrade > > > > my system anyway - I don't have any better idea. > > > >No, I mea

Re: Fw: Re: Sid Newbie - some questions

2001-08-28 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
my 2 bits worth! (an' that tells my age!!!) i most whole heartedly agree that this mailing list is most usefull, and quite slow to shoot at the questioner for their audacity to not already know the answer (or where/how to find it!) my experience here is that everyone acts like a responsible adu

Re: OT: vim syntax highlight on C program files only?

2001-08-28 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:18:43PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:31:18AM -0400, Rob Ransbottom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Osamu Aoki wrote: | > | > > Just a thought and matter of taste, but... | > | > You may also embed commands near the star

Re: An MP3 player

2001-08-28 Thread John Galt
mpg123 is non-free. it's only free-as-in-free-beer, not free-as-in-free-speech. It uses the Fraunhofer codec. On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Bob Nielsen wrote: >On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:59:04AM -0700, David Frischknecht wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Does anyone know where I can get a free MP3 player prepa

Re: An MP3 player

2001-08-28 Thread John Galt
mpg321 for free as in free speech mpg123 for free as in free beer xmms for free as in free GUI junk On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, David Frischknecht wrote: > >Hello, > >Does anyone know where I can get a free MP3 player prepackaged into a >.deb file? Thanks. > > > >David A. Frischknecht >http://www.fish

Re: Printer spooler

2001-08-28 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
jens: have you tried $ lpc status all lp0: queuing is enabled printing is enabled 1 entry in spool area sending to 15.16.129.10 assuming your printer is "connected" to lp0, you should see something like this. (if you've more printer queues, they will also be prin

Re: Sys Admin guide specific to Debian?

2001-08-28 Thread John Galt
apt-get install ldp-sag sysadmin-guide That'll get you both the HTML-ified/PS-ified and the text file. On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Steve Dondley wrote: >I'm a Linux beginner with Debian installed. I'm looking for a beginner's >guide to System Administration and I'm wondering if there might not be one

Re: Loadlin Memory Limit

2001-08-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:21:31PM -0700, Larry Fletcher wrote: > On Aug 28, 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:22:02PM -0400, dman wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:01:29PM -0400, Robert Mosher wrote: > > > | I recently started using Loadlin as my boot manager, and I

Re: Fw: Re: Sid Newbie - some questions

2001-08-28 Thread John Galt
"Friendly" can often be harshing on someone in a helpful manner ratehr than ignoring them. I for one would much rather be called the worst name in the universe and helped than be treated with kid gloves and continue to have the problem. I have noticed that there is a lot of harshing in the debia

Re: Using a MTA

2001-08-28 Thread John Galt
You can't get around having one. cron requires one, to name the first example I can think of. However, you really don't need much more than exim in "local-only" configuration. On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Steven Farrier wrote: >I am using a Debian Linux computer which does not have its own domain, is

Re: talk under X

2001-08-28 Thread John Galt
Try ktalkd if you don't mind a little KDE in the mix... It's designed to talk to $DISPLAY. On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Christian Jaeger wrote: >Hello > >How to setup [y]talk[d] so that one gets talk requests under X? Using >gnome-terminal I just don't get the request message. I've tried xitalk >(potat

Printer spooler

2001-08-28 Thread Jens-D. Neppe
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Re: kernel 2.4.x (what compiler?)

2001-08-28 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:51:20PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: | | Something that seems odd: | | Documentation/Changes says to use gcc-2.91.66 but this old version isn't | available as a Debian package! Use 2.95. You shouldn't have any problems. -D

Re: a news reader able to extract correctly the stuff of a.b.* groups?

2001-08-28 Thread tempsch
On 28 Aug, Alan Shutko wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> But if you can make trn save all tagged/selected messages individually >> into a folder you could then use 'juju' on the contents of that folder >> and let it find and order all the pieces and then decode them. > > Or uudeview, which

Re: Linux LDAP problem

2001-08-28 Thread Petro
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 09:23:47AM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote: > Hey, > I've got a slight problem, at school we run two major networks, one half is > Novell Netware based, and the other half is unix based. We basically one > centralized system of authentication, so that user don't have to remembe

Re: OT: vim syntax highlight on C program files only?

2001-08-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:31:18AM -0400, Rob Ransbottom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > Just a thought and matter of taste, but... > > You may also embed commands near the start of your file: > > :vi set tabstops=4 showmatch: Is there a setting whi

Re: Loadlin Memory Limit

2001-08-28 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:21:31PM -0700, Larry Fletcher wrote: | On Aug 28, 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: | > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:22:02PM -0400, dman wrote: | > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:01:29PM -0400, Robert Mosher wrote: | > > | I recently started using Loadlin as my boot manager, and I

Re: Rerunning software installation utility

2001-08-28 Thread Arthur Buijs
You could try "dpkg-reconfigure base-config" Art - Original Message - From: "Steve Dondley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-Users" Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 7:51 PM Subject: Rerunning software installation utility > Hi, > > Situation: > I did a bare installation of Debian on my co

Re: Stop the beeping

2001-08-28 Thread Kent West
Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: My problem is that the machine beeps a lot via the PC Speaker. For example, Sometimes when Galeon opens a new window, it beeps. Sometimes the machine just beeps and I'm not doing anything. It always beeps when I shade/unshade a window. I have turned off beeping at t

Monitor standby

2001-08-28 Thread Arthur Buijs
I installed Linux (Debian Potato) for the first time. During installation I had to choose between simple and advanced for installing additional software. I used simple and selected all the packages containing the word Gnome or the character X (as recommended in "Installing Debian Potato by M

Re: Sys Admin guide specific to Debian?

2001-08-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 09:33:27AM -0700, Tim Moss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Steve Dondley wrote: > > I'm a Linux beginner with Debian installed. I'm looking for a > > http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/nag2/index.htmlbeginner's > > guide to System Administration and I'm wondering if there might not

Re: Yet another apt/deselect question

2001-08-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Yet another apt/deselect question Date: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:13:24PM -0500 In reply to:Colin Watson Quoting Colin Watson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:19:45AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > You didn't update the dselect available list tho, only ap

Re: Loadlin Memory Limit

2001-08-28 Thread Larry Fletcher
On Aug 28, 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:22:02PM -0400, dman wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:01:29PM -0400, Robert Mosher wrote: > > | I recently started using Loadlin as my boot manager, and I noticed that > > | Linux only sees 64MB of my 256MB of RAM. Is there a

who has *arguably* the best iptables firewall script around here?

2001-08-28 Thread thomas anderson
Hello, If you think you do please tell us why and also kindly send me a copy too! :) -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: a news reader able to extract correctly the stuff of a.b.* groups?

2001-08-28 Thread Preston
Hello Bruno, Tuesday, August 28, 2001, 11:42:58 AM, you wrote: BB> Hello! BB> i am experiencing some problems with my favourite newsreader (trn) to BB> extract archives from alt.binary groups. BB> in fact if the order isn't exactly matched or if by some means another BB> archive begiinning c

Re: OT: vim syntax highlight on C program files only?

2001-08-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:05:48AM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 06:26:41PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > | I'm starting to play with C a bit. Discovering some nice things in vim. <...> > A side effect of that, as Karsten pointed out, is that much of the > sy

Re: The Sound of Silence

2001-08-28 Thread Mike McGuire
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:33:21AM +0900, Curt Howland wrote: > Sorry for the multiple replies, but I have some new data. > > Adding to the audio group didn't work, because the SB modules never > loaded. I have figured out finally that the sound card modle is > "ES1869", but I have not yet found a

Re: Sound for regular user & 16bpp color.

2001-08-28 Thread Ian Lee
The default depth configuration may depend on which version of Xfree86 you are running. Check /var/log/XFree86.0.log I'm running version 4 (woody) and in /etc/X11/XF86Config I have Section "Screen" ... DefaultDepth 16 ... End Section I used XF86Setup to create the file in version 3

Re: kernel 2.4.x (what compiler?)

2001-08-28 Thread Rick Macdonald
Something that seems odd: Documentation/Changes says to use gcc-2.91.66 but this old version isn't available as a Debian package! Quote: Kernel compilation == GCC --- The gcc version requirements may vary depending on the type of CPU in your computer.

Sawfish tooltips (was Re: Stop the beeping)

2001-08-28 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:33:13AM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > Is there a system-wide way to get rid of the system beep? Perhaps I can > > > compile it out of the kernel? > > > > I reali

installing on an ext.2 partition created by partition magic

2001-08-28 Thread billy badass
is it possible to install debian on an existing ext2 partition? when i use cfdisk or fdisk it screws up my partition table. i'm attempting to multi-boot Win98, W2K, and Linux.Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $0.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger.

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-28 Thread Aaron Traas
William Leese wrote: > > > Oddly enough, at home I have debian unstable running on a machine with an > Ati Rage Pro, which ofcourse is Mach64 based, _with_ the RENDER extension. > Although before XFree86 4.1 there didn't seem to be support for it (atleast, > i never got it work), but now RENDER s

Re: Stop the beeping

2001-08-28 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:33:13AM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > Is there a system-wide way to get rid of the system beep? Perhaps I can > > compile it out of the kernel? > > I realize you're probably looking for a software solution, but have >

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