Re: Configuring a printer whose specification is not shown by printtool

2001-09-01 Thread Christopher Mosley
On 2 Sep 2001, Jon Masters wrote: > On 01 Sep 2001 19:57:01 -0600, John Galt wrote: > > > > Use something other than a roothat-based printer configuration tool. I > > think that magicfilter knows about epson LX-300's, and I even think that > > Epson once made some filters specifically availabl

Re: Offline APT

2001-09-01 Thread John Hasler
Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > If you need to install some package in some order, install them first. Just do 'dpkg -i foo.deb bar.deb baz.deb'. The order of the package names on a dpkg command line doesn't matter. Osamu Aoki writes: > Oh well, just run above command couple times, it will resolve > depe

Re: lesser memory usage: galeon or netscape?

2001-09-01 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 07:51:51PM -0700, michael young wrote: > Hello > > which consumes lesser memory...galeon or netscape? > > also, is there a fix already for the "bug" in galeon (more on mozilla > actually) as the archives suggest...? Both consume a fair amount, though I'd hazard Galeon

Re: Mozilla is invisible

2001-09-01 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Stefan, Quoth Stefan Deibel, > I took first mozilla 0.9.1 and later mozilla-0.9.3 from unstable, compiled > and installed it in woody. First everything worked all right, except that > home banking with the downloaded JRE was everything else but performant. > However, after upgrading in memor

Re: To run a binary as a daemon

2001-09-01 Thread John Galt
you may want to run it under nohup or screen... otherwise, stdout is going to get a lot of junk, and that means that your active tty gets it if there's no internal redirection. On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >If I wish to run a binary (say, AIRC) as a daemon , what should I do ? >M

Re: ALERT: XFree86 4.1.0-3 maintainer scripts hosed; please wait for 4.1.0-4

2001-09-01 Thread John Hasler
dman wrote: > I use bash as my shell. However the depends for initrd and/or > kernel-image want ash,... Fine, but if they really need it they have to call it as 'ash' or they are buggy. > ...so /bin/sh is ash. You shouldn't need that: see above. While in theory /bin/sh -> ash should work since

lesser memory usage: galeon or netscape?

2001-09-01 Thread michael young
Hello which consumes lesser memory...galeon or netscape? also, is there a fix already for the "bug" in galeon (more on mozilla actually) as the archives suggest...? pls tell me Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1 ___

dial-up woes

2001-09-01 Thread Avdi B.Grimm
well, I finally had PPP up and running, and then I had to go and muck things up... *sigh* After much futzing with setserial, I finally managed to get the right settings (hint: tell setserial as /little/ as possible, and let it autoconfig the rest... apparently it objects to TMI). Then I went a

Re: mutt and PGP query

2001-09-01 Thread Dmitriy
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 08:29:34PM -0600, Dean Allen Provins wrote: > Hello: > > I have been trying to encrypt messages with PGP 6.5.8 when using mutt > to no avail. Signing, and decoding seem to work fine, but mutt > cannot seem to locate the correct key for encoding. > > When sending (after in

Re: Configuring a printer whose specification is not shown by printtool

2001-09-01 Thread Jon Masters
On 01 Sep 2001 19:57:01 -0600, John Galt wrote: > > Use something other than a roothat-based printer configuration tool. I > think that magicfilter knows about epson LX-300's, and I even think that > Epson once made some filters specifically available from their website. Maybe Epson do a PPD des

mutt and PGP query

2001-09-01 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Hello: I have been trying to encrypt messages with PGP 6.5.8 when using mutt to no avail. Signing, and decoding seem to work fine, but mutt cannot seem to locate the correct key for encoding. When sending (after indicating that I want the message encrypted), it asks if it should use keyID = "0x

Re: ALERT: XFree86 4.1.0-3 maintainer scripts hosed; please wait for 4.1.0-4

2001-09-01 Thread John Galt
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Craig Dickson wrote: >dman wrote: > >> I use bash as my shell. However the depends for initrd and/or >> kernel-image want ash, so /bin/sh is ash. > >I have ash installed also, but my /bin/sh --> bash. So I don't think that >the ash install script makes that association, at le

Re: Configuring a printer whose specification is not shown by printtool

2001-09-01 Thread John Galt
Use something other than a roothat-based printer configuration tool. I think that magicfilter knows about epson LX-300's, and I even think that Epson once made some filters specifically available from their website. On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I am installing Epson LX-300 and

Re: OT: WinLinux

2001-09-01 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 01 September 2001 20:24 pm, Jon Masters wrote: > Why could anyone want to install Corel/WinLinux when there is Progeny > GNU/Linux? Because my wife isn't ready to give up her Windows yet, but she has expressed interest in WinLinux. If that is a way to get her a few steps closer, th

Re: OT: WinLinux

2001-09-01 Thread Jon Masters
On 01 Sep 2001 21:19:24 -0400, Greg Buchanan wrote: > If you haven't already mentioned/explored it, CorelLinux might be worth > a look. http://www3.corel.com/ Why could anyone want to install Corel/WinLinux when there is Progeny GNU/Linux? Surely Progeny offers all the attractive features you wan

Re: OT: WinLinux

2001-09-01 Thread dman
| Bud Rogers wrote: | | This is totally OT for the list, but bear with me. | | My wife runs W98 on her PC. I've been trying to get her interested in Linux | for a couple of years now. As Linux in general and KDE in particular have | gotten more and more user friendly, she has gradually moved fr

Re: conflicting network-cards?

2001-09-01 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach dman (on Sat, 01 Sep 2001 09:17:59PM -0400): > Err, right, I meant the network address :-). i know you did. > | Actually, in older BSD net code the network was also the broadcast > | address. This still works on some IP stacks (try pinging your network > | address sometime). > > Actu

Re: conflicting network-cards?

2001-09-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 07:08:56PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: | On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 01:22:31AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: | > also sprach dman (on Sat, 01 Sep 2001 07:08:38PM -0400): | > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:51:57PM +0200, Joerg Huber wrote: | > > | > > | > ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0

Re: OT: WinLinux

2001-09-01 Thread Greg Buchanan
Bud Rogers wrote: > > This is totally OT for the list, but bear with me. > > My wife runs W98 on her PC. I've been trying to get her interested in Linux > for a couple of years now. As Linux in general and KDE in particular have > gotten more and more user friendly, she has gradually moved from

Re: conflicting network-cards?

2001-09-01 Thread Greg Buchanan
dman wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:51:57PM +0200, Joerg Huber wrote: > > | > ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 up > > This doesn't look right to me. 0.0.0.0 would be the broadcast address > for the 0.0.0.0/8 class A network. Try picking a different IP address > here. I know nothing of pppoe thoug

Re: Mozilla is invisible

2001-09-01 Thread Greg Buchanan
Stefan Deibel wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 2. September 2001 00:27 schrieb Tupshin Harper: > > I recently has this problem, and I found that esd(the enlightement sound > > daemon) was blocking it's execution. As soon as I killed esd, Mozilla > > popped right up. If you have that running, try killing

Re: Console Fonts

2001-09-01 Thread Greg Buchanan
Rob Waggoner wrote: > > Which package do I need to investigate to do to a linux console what mode > con:lines=50 did for a dos console? > > Thanks! > > Rob Waggoner > Master Applications Craftsman > WAGGS > Web based Advanced Graphics and Graphing Solutions > http://www.waggs.net > "Applying Old

Time Tracking/Task mangement

2001-09-01 Thread Jon Masters
Hi, I am after suggestions for packages which offer ``web based'' * time tracking * task management with a view to installing for use within a company I work for. Suggestions welcome. --jcm

Re: Mozilla is invisible

2001-09-01 Thread Tupshin Harper
Turns out this is actually a problem with anything using the /dev/dsp device. I'm guessing you have the flash plug-in installed. Look at bugzilla's bug 58339. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58339 -Tupshin Stefan Deibel wrote: Am Sonntag, 2. September 2001 00:27 schrieb Tupshin H

Re: conflicting network-cards?

2001-09-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 01:22:31AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > also sprach dman (on Sat, 01 Sep 2001 07:08:38PM -0400): > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:51:57PM +0200, Joerg Huber wrote: > > > > | > ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 up > > > > This doesn't look right to me. 0.0.0.0 would be the broadcast

Re: Console Fonts

2001-09-01 Thread Shaul Karl
> Which package do I need to investigate to do to a linux console what mode > con:lines=50 did for a dos console? > > Thanks! > [02:49:46 tmp]$ stty size 24 80 [02:50:23 tmp]$ stty --help | grep -A12 'Special settings:' Special settings: N set the input and output speeds to N bau

Re: conflicting network-cards?

2001-09-01 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach dman (on Sat, 01 Sep 2001 07:08:38PM -0400): > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:51:57PM +0200, Joerg Huber wrote: > > | > ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 up > > This doesn't look right to me. 0.0.0.0 would be the broadcast address ^

Re: Mozilla is invisible

2001-09-01 Thread Stefan Deibel
Am Sonntag, 2. September 2001 00:27 schrieb Tupshin Harper: > I recently has this problem, and I found that esd(the enlightement sound > daemon) was blocking it's execution. As soon as I killed esd, Mozilla > popped right up. If you have that running, try killing it. If not that, > you might tr

Re: Strange kernel start problem after compileing

2001-09-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Raffaele Sandrini([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi, > > I built a 2.4.9 kernel. When i start it i get that message right after the > kernel is loaded: > > failed to exec: modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno=8 > > And the system hangs. > > If i start it with my old kernel it work

Re: conflicting network-cards?

2001-09-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:51:57PM +0200, Joerg Huber wrote: | > ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 up This doesn't look right to me. 0.0.0.0 would be the broadcast address for the 0.0.0.0/8 class A network. Try picking a different IP address here. I know nothing of pppoe though. -D

Re: cdr trouble

2001-09-01 Thread csj
On 01 Sep 2001 17:04:24 -0500 DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having some trouble using my cdr. It appears to be recognized and, > according to /proc/ide/hdd/driver, is using the ide-scsi version 0.9 > module (which, AFAIK, is correct) but I can't get it to eject... I've > tried hitting the e

OT: WinLinux

2001-09-01 Thread Bud Rogers
This is totally OT for the list, but bear with me. My wife runs W98 on her PC. I've been trying to get her interested in Linux for a couple of years now. As Linux in general and KDE in particular have gotten more and more user friendly, she has gradually moved from polite indifference to mild

Re: x app without login

2001-09-01 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 12:28:09AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > hi, > i need to configure a computer such that when it boots, it starts the > X server and then, as a regular user, starts an X application. i don't > want any xdm login screen or anything. > > how can this be done in the best way?

Re: x app without login

2001-09-01 Thread Erik Steffl
Martin F Krafft wrote: > > hi, > i need to configure a computer such that when it boots, it starts the > X server and then, as a regular user, starts an X application. i don't > want any xdm login screen or anything. > > how can this be done in the best way? at the end of bootup process start

Re: x app without login

2001-09-01 Thread W. Paul Mills
In a startup script "su user" and then start X with "startx", "~user/.xinitrc" can then run the program you want started. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin F Krafft) writes: > hi, > i need to configure a computer such that when it boots, it starts the > X server and then, as a regular user, starts an X

Re: Mozilla is invisible

2001-09-01 Thread Jon Masters
On 02 Sep 2001 00:08:12 +0200, Stefan Deibel wrote: > However, after upgrading in memory from 128 MB to 512 MB and installing a > game from a Linux User CD, Mozilla starts 4 never ending mozilla-bin processes > but is completely unusable. There is not even a mozila window any more. > What the hel

x app without login

2001-09-01 Thread Martin F Krafft
hi, i need to configure a computer such that when it boots, it starts the X server and then, as a regular user, starts an X application. i don't want any xdm login screen or anything. how can this be done in the best way? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo ma

Re: Mozilla is invisible

2001-09-01 Thread Tupshin Harper
I recently has this problem, and I found that esd(the enlightement sound daemon) was blocking it's execution. As soon as I killed esd, Mozilla popped right up. If you have that running, try killing it. If not that, you might try killing other processes to see if anything else is causing this pro

Mozilla is invisible

2001-09-01 Thread Stefan Deibel
Hi, I took first mozilla 0.9.1 and later mozilla-0.9.3 from unstable, compiled and installed it in woody. First everything worked all right, except that home banking with the downloaded JRE was everything else but performant. However, after upgrading in memory from 128 MB to 512 MB and installin

exim woes

2001-09-01 Thread Steve Gran
Hello all, I'm having a strange problem with exim - it refuses to send to some servers. My connection is a cable modem throuh comcast (supposed to be dhcp, but never could get it to work - something with their proprietary software is a guess, so now conigured for static without a problem for the l

conflicting network-cards?

2001-09-01 Thread Joerg Huber
Hi, After the configuration of a second ethernet network card I got the following error messages in /var/log/messages: > eth0: unexpected TX-done interrupt, lasttx=20 > eth0: mismatched read page pointers 4c vs 51 But eth0, the first network card, seems to work properly. These messages are wri

cdr trouble

2001-09-01 Thread DvB
I'm having some trouble using my cdr. It appears to be recognized and, according to /proc/ide/hdd/driver, is using the ide-scsi version 0.9 module (which, AFAIK, is correct) but I can't get it to eject... I've tried hitting the eject button (of course) with no luck and I've tried 'eject /dev/hdd' w

[Fwd: Re: XFree86 4.1.0 with Potato & dri]

2001-09-01 Thread Jon Masters
--- Begin Message --- Hi, I reckon you may be missing the agpgart module though - have you done a modprobe agpgart? --jcm --- End Message ---

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 with Potato & dri

2001-09-01 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Jon Masters saw fit to inform me that: >On 02 Sep 2001 02:32:12 +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > >> Any ideas what am I missing ? > >Do you have agpgart and other modules correctly inserted? sometimes >dependencies seem to miss-generated and fail to get the correct modules >installed prior to the X s

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 with Potato & dri

2001-09-01 Thread Jon Masters
On 02 Sep 2001 02:32:12 +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Any ideas what am I missing ? Do you have agpgart and other modules correctly inserted? sometimes dependencies seem to miss-generated and fail to get the correct modules installed prior to the X server attempting to use them. What do the rele

Re: Gnome Freeze

2001-09-01 Thread Jon Masters
On 01 Sep 2001 16:37:54 -0400, dman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 05:02:34PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > | I guess that is not the answer you were expecting? > > No, but it seems someone else has correctly guessed the problem. > Anyways, that is good information for the future :-). Hehe,

XFree86 4.1.0 with Potato & dri

2001-09-01 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Colin Watson saw fit to inform me that: >On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:47:53PM +1000, Andrew Nesbit wrote: >> hi ho... I will be installing Debian 2.2r3 (Potato) for the first time >> soon, but as I understand, it comes with XFree86 3.3.6. The problem is >> that I really need XFree86 4.1.0 (due to my

overkill...

2001-09-01 Thread Jeff Maxson
ok, I installed overkill and the data file. How do I run it? it seems to need a server and a port. any ideas? -- Jeff Maxson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gnome Freeze

2001-09-01 Thread Keith O'Connell
Jon, > Do you have a sound card installed and the "sound server" options > selected? If you do not have a sound card you may find that > something is indefinately waiting to open a non-existant sound > device to play audio - certainly I've had this with nautilus on > various GNOME desktops so I'm

Re: Gnome Freeze

2001-09-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 05:02:34PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: | | > When GNOME locks up, can you press Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] to get to a virtual | > console? | | Yes - no problem. I ran top as per you instructions and the process | consuming the highest CPU value was "top" itself with a value of

Re: mandb gets stuck!

2001-09-01 Thread Rino Mardo
getting a little OT here but can all the man databases be converted to info files? what can a "python" newbie do or have to follow in order to do this? it's just a little project of mine to exercise my mind. - Original Message - From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturda

Re: question about hostname FOLLOWUP: EXIM

2001-09-01 Thread Rino Mardo
i see. looks like procmail is not the mda of debian. with my ~/.fetchmailrc i also have ~/.forward which have "|/usr/bin/procmail" (without the quotes as exim doesn't like it). so how can we tell what mda is being defaulted or used by a linux distro? - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL

Re: External IP Address

2001-09-01 Thread Rino Mardo
instead of doing it that way, which i should say is a novel approach, why not get a domain name registered for your box. check www.dyndns.org there you can register a domain like my-computer.dyndns.org even if you have a dynamic ip address. in short, your users don't have to find out what your cu

Re: Offline APT

2001-09-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 12:38:31AM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Osamu Aoki saw fit to inform me that: > >I would do quick job as follows using dpkg: > > > >$ cd download/directory/; su > ># dpkg -i *.deb > > > >If you need to install some package in some order, install them first. > > What about

Re: Returned message - mailbox size exceeded - what's going on

2001-09-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 03:53:43PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: | * Rajesh Fowkar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010901 15:47]: | | > Today I am getting the following message for each mail I post to | > the debian-user list. What is this stuff. ? Anybody facing the same | > problem ? I am subscribed to the

Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?

2001-09-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 01:01:44PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: | On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 09:05:04AM -0400, dman wrote: | > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:26:06PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: | > | On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich uttered: | > | > | > | > $ dpkg -S \*mdb

Re: Gnome Freeze (me too!)

2001-09-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:24:08AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: | Jon Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked about sound. That makes a bit | of sense in my case, because sound doesn't work too well on the laptop | (choppy) and I probably had sound turned on for close window events. I | guess I'll look

Re: Returned message - mailbox size exceeded - what's going on

2001-09-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 01:13:32AM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Hi, > > Today I am getting the following message for each mail I post to the > debian-user list. What is this stuff. ? Anybody facing the same problem ? > I am subscribed to the list in digest-mode. > > However my postings are going

Re: Returned message - mailbox size exceeded - what's going on

2001-09-01 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Rajesh Fowkar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010901 15:47]: > Today I am getting the following message for each mail I post to > the debian-user list. What is this stuff. ? Anybody facing the same > problem ? I am subscribed to the list in digest-mode. > > However my postings are going though to the list.

Re: Re: Returned message - mailbox size exceeded - what's going on

2001-09-01 Thread Hereward Cooper
> Hi, > > Today I am getting the following message for each mail I post > to the > debian-user list. What is this stuff. ? Anybody facing the > same problem ? I get it too, but the posts still come through. Hereward

Re: Returned message - mailbox size exceeded - what's going on

2001-09-01 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hi, Today I am getting the following message for each mail I post to the debian-user list. What is this stuff. ? Anybody facing the same problem ? I am subscribed to the list in digest-mode. However my postings are going though to the list. But why I am receiving the below message ? List admin ?

Re: dual boot problem

2001-09-01 Thread Greg Wiley
On Friday, August 31, 2001 9:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > > I don't know if the windows 2000 boot loader is different than windows 9x, > > > but when I used to use windows 98, I had in /etc/lilo.conf: > > > other=/dev/hda1 > > >label=win > > > > Works just fine for w2k. > > > I am no

Re: Installing vimtutor help file

2001-09-01 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
dman saw fit to inform me that: >On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:40:44PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: >| On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:14:54AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: >| > I just installed vim-rt on my system. When I'm in the vimtutor tutorial >and >| > try to obtain help by pressing F1 or with the :hel

Re: Offline APT

2001-09-01 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Osamu Aoki saw fit to inform me that: >I would do quick job as follows using dpkg: > >$ cd download/directory/; su ># dpkg -i *.deb > >If you need to install some package in some order, install them first. What about dependecies ? For that apt-get is the correct tool. If u are going to install de

Re: Offline APT

2001-09-01 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Ross Burton saw fit to inform me that: >Hi, > >At home I run Debian Sid, but only have a dial-up connection (56k). At >work, however, I run RedHat 6.2 but have a leased line. I followed the >instructions in the offline document (/usr/share/doc/apt/offline.html) >to get a package list from apt wh

Re: promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support

2001-09-01 Thread Jon Masters
On 01 Sep 2001 22:32:29 +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: Jimmy> >ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---> and then... > I went to Network Device Support -> Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) and could not > find the above card hence posted to the list. :-) Hmmm... > Your reasoning is excellent -- it's only your basic a

Re: promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support

2001-09-01 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Jimmy Richards saw fit to inform me that: > Hi, > > It is in the latest kernel, 2.4.9. Or you can get patches at >http://www.linux-ide.org/ You should be able to find it in 2.4.9 under > >ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---> >IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices ---> >[*] PROMISE PDC202{46|6

Re: FYI

2001-09-01 Thread Jordi S . Bunster
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:59:39PM -0400, Jeff Reed wrote: > i'm enjoying it immenseley. We all do ... every single day. :) -- Jordi

RE: Manually bring up NICs not found at install and/or rebuilding Kernel

2001-09-01 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, John Purser wrote: > Some success! > Great! > The command I used was modprobe eepro100 and both NIC's came up. I'm > running a Red Hat 7.1 box also but I'm hesitant to set the Debian box up > exactly the same way because of formatting differences. > > So where shoul

Re: Gnome Freeze

2001-09-01 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Jon, > > > This will sound weird... > > > Do you have a sound card installed and the "sound server" options > > selected? If you do not have a sound card you may find that something is > > indefinately waiting to open a non-existant sound device to p

Re: Mozilla & JAVA

2001-09-01 Thread DvB
Georges Goncalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le -08.31.2001 22:18:13-, « Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) » > a écrit quelques phrases célèbres sur « Re: Mozilla & JAVA » > > KW> > Arrhhh I think I tested all the > KW> > possibilities and I still don't know what

Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?

2001-09-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 09:05:04AM -0400, dman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:26:06PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: > | On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich uttered: > | > > | > $ dpkg -S \*mdb\* > | That isn't neccessay, dpkg -S includes wildcards for you, iirc. > > Actua

iptables, masquerading and ip-aliasing

2001-09-01 Thread Anders Lennartsson
Hi Is it possible, with iptables, to do masquerading or NAT from an ethernet-aliased ip-address? Or will the returning traffic originate from the physical address of the nic? As I understand this was not possible with ipchains and earlier tools. I'm asking because I have two real ip-addresses :)

Re: Gnome Freeze (me too!)

2001-09-01 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Keith O'Connell wrote: > ...when I load the Gnome desktop into play the machine will freeze at > the first gnome action I try (selecting an icon of the desktop or > similar). Locks up tight. I have to Ctrl-Alt-Bkspace to get out. If I > try to log back in a xdm it won't p

Re: Gnome Freeze

2001-09-01 Thread Keith O'Connell
Jon, > This will sound weird... > Do you have a sound card installed and the "sound server" options > selected? If you do not have a sound card you may find that something is > indefinately waiting to open a non-existant sound device to play audio - > certainly I've had this with nautilus on var

coda???

2001-09-01 Thread Martin F Krafft
coda's server and client packages exist in /debian/pool/main/c/coda/ and presumable have been there for a *while*, but my woody installation still reports fishbowl:~# apt-get install coda-client Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package coda-cl

fyi: howto set up bind chroot()ed on debian

2001-09-01 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! This is what I had to do to get bind chroot()ed on my debian (mostly) stable box, maybe it´ll be useful for others. This is "as is", your setup might differ, expect troubles, yadda, yadda. mkdir /var/local/bind mkdir /var/local/bind/etc mkdir /var/local/bind/etc/bind (cd /etc/bind; tar cv

Re: Console Fonts

2001-09-01 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 09:15:52AM -0600, Rob Waggoner wrote: > Which package do I need to investigate to do to a linux console what mode > con:lines=50 did for a dos console? If you want it to be set this way when you reboot and not change later, the easiest thing to do is put ``vga=ext'' in you

Re: Gnome Freeze

2001-09-01 Thread Jon Masters
On 01 Sep 2001 16:19:08 +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > ...when I load the Gnome desktop into play the machine will freeze at > the first gnome action I try (selecting an icon of the desktop or > similar). Locks up tight. This will sound weird... Do you have a sound card installed and the

Re: Problems with APM after recompiling of kernel.

2001-09-01 Thread Brian Nelson
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The kernel that comes with Debian testing, turns off (the power) my > machine when I run: shutdown -h now. But I wanted to recompile the > kernel and choose 2.2.18 (as I had some problems with 2.2.19). I enabled > APM in the kernel and lilo says append=

Re: Gnome Freeze

2001-09-01 Thread Keith O'Connell
> When GNOME locks up, can you press Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] to get to a virtual > console? Yes - no problem. I ran top as per you instructions and the process consuming the highest CPU value was "top" itself with a value of 0.3%. There were no entries listed under top fox XFree86, or any Gnome app. I

(OT sorta ) Re: question about hostname FOLLOWUP: EXIM

2001-09-01 Thread Cliff Rice
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:04:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > 'kay, important things first: what is that there furshlugginer "HTH"? I > notice lots o' people usin' it. :) HTH :== hope that helps > > I went onto the #debian channel on openprojects.net IRC and asked around > abo

Re: Problems with APM after recompiling of kernel.

2001-09-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 04:27:54PM +, Preben Randhol wrote: > The kernel that comes with Debian testing, turns off (the power) my > machine when I run: shutdown -h now. But I wanted to recompile the > kernel and choose 2.2.18 (as I had some problems with 2.2.19). I enabled > APM in the kernel a

Re: Gnome Freeze

2001-09-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 04:19:08PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: | This is something I have not seen mentioned before, and fro which I have | run out of (limited) ideas. | | I have four machines of varying ages and specs (all intel/amd) and I am | moving them all away from windows on on to Debian.

Re: Re: External IP Address

2001-09-01 Thread Craig Dickson
Hereward Cooper wrote: > I know that, what i wanted was a system that would read the IP > address, write it to a file, upload the file to a webserver > somewhere, people then read the file, get my ip address and > login. Long-winded, but the only way i though of. Uh, why don't you just set up an

Re: server on a 486/100 with 408mb drive

2001-09-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 04:50:55PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: > just a question of been there, done that, with potato. thought > i could get a shot at configuring iptables, that's why i > thought of 2.4. Now you are clear why you are asking this. I agree woody seems satble enough if one migraded a

Re: Re: External IP Address

2001-09-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:50:13PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: | > /sbin/ifconfig | > will display the IP address of all interfaces | > | > It would be really hard for those people to ssh in and read | > that file | > unless they first knew the IP, in which case they wouldn't | > need the |

Gnome Freeze

2001-09-01 Thread Keith O'Connell
This is something I have not seen mentioned before, and fro which I have run out of (limited) ideas. I have four machines of varying ages and specs (all intel/amd) and I am moving them all away from windows on on to Debian. They are getting there and the problems that do exist are ones that I will

Console Fonts

2001-09-01 Thread Rob Waggoner
Which package do I need to investigate to do to a linux console what mode con:lines=50 did for a dos console? Thanks! Rob Waggoner Master Applications Craftsman WAGGS Web based Advanced Graphics and Graphing Solutions http://www.waggs.net "Applying Old world craftsmanship to New world technol

Problems with APM after recompiling of kernel.

2001-09-01 Thread Preben Randhol
The kernel that comes with Debian testing, turns off (the power) my machine when I run: shutdown -h now. But I wanted to recompile the kernel and choose 2.2.18 (as I had some problems with 2.2.19). I enabled APM in the kernel and lilo says append="apm=on", but the problem is that now the kernel sto

Re: promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support

2001-09-01 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Again, I just wanted to say that after I sent off my reply on where to find it I saw that it looks like you're running the same kernel as me from reading your sig, kernel-2.4.9 w/ext3. You should be able to find it in there. Jim

Re: promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support

2001-09-01 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi, It is in the latest kernel, 2.4.9. Or you can get patches at http://www.linux-ide.org/ You should be able to find it in 2.4.9 under ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---> IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices ---> [*] PROMISE PDC202{46|62|65|67|68} support HTH, Jimmy

Re: promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support

2001-09-01 Thread CaT
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 07:34:23PM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Hi, > > I went through the kernel options but could not find support for promise > ultra ata100 controller. (Promise Technologies). > > Is the above card supported under Linux ? Natively under 2.4.x, with patch under 2.2.x I believ

promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support

2001-09-01 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hi, I went through the kernel options but could not find support for promise ultra ata100 controller. (Promise Technologies). Is the above card supported under Linux ? Thanks in advance. Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar

Re: Re: External IP Address

2001-09-01 Thread Hereward Cooper
> I'll attach a perl snippet that I used when on modem, > might give you some ideas. Stuff between ¤¤'s need to > be adapted - mainly account specific stuff. To make it > autoexecute on connection - just place it (with a > non-ignorable name) in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d > looks like just what i was wa

Re: Re: External IP Address

2001-09-01 Thread Hereward Cooper
> /sbin/ifconfig > will display the IP address of all interfaces > > It would be really hard for those people to ssh in and read > that file > unless they first knew the IP, in which case they wouldn't > need the > file ... I know that, what i wanted was a system that would read the IP addres

Re: Basic kernel 2.4.9 panic???

2001-09-01 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Vittorio wrote: 2) make-kpkg clean; make-kpkg --revision=test.01 kernel_image Have you tried: make-kpkg --revision=test.01 --initrd kernel_image 3) under /usr/src: dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.9-test.01-i386.deb 4) I've modified lilo accordingly # stock kernel (I've renamed the original

Re: External IP Address

2001-09-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 01:40:00PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: | Hi, | How can I get my machine to automatically update a file with my | current dynamic IP address? Is there a enviroment varriable | which i can read it from, write it to a file, then upload it to | a hidden section of a public web

Re: Installing vimtutor help file

2001-09-01 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:40:44PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: | On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:14:54AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: | > I just installed vim-rt on my system. When I'm in the vimtutor tutorial and | > try to obtain help by pressing F1 or with the :help command (per instruction | > in secti

Strange kernel start problem after compileing

2001-09-01 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi, I built a 2.4.9 kernel. When i start it i get that message right after the kernel is loaded: failed to exec: modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno=8 And the system hangs. If i start it with my old kernel it works perfect! Nerver saw something like that - what does it mean? cheers, Raffaele --

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