xchat and perl scripts (crash)

2001-10-08 Thread Robert Rendler
Okay I don't know if this has been discussed before, and if it has I was wondering if someone could tell me where I can go to find a searchable arvhive of this list. Xchat has been crashing on me whenever I load a perl script, I've tried diffent scripts and they all seem to crash the client even a

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-08 Thread Joey Hess
dman wrote: > Yeah, the coloring in view is neat, but the scrolling and quitting > wasn't as convenient for a pager which is why I don't use it. Try the following script: #!/bin/sh -e vim -c 'so /usr/share/doc/vim/macros/less.vim' ${@:--} Needs vim 6.0 though, and I am not fully satisfied with i

Re: this list is like hotel california

2001-10-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 06:55:16AM +0800, Rino Mardo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:18:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > Some might think so. > > > > Unsubscribe problems are legion, or at least common. The best bets are > > to follow the instructions at the bot

Re: kdm, blackbox, and .xinitrc

2001-10-08 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, 08 Oct 2001 23:27:49 -0400 (EDT), Alexander N Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > > On Mon, 08 Oct 2001 23:03:58 -0400 (EDT), Alexander N Gould <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > My .xinitrc file does not seem to run when I start a bla

Re: Problem with isapnp since kernelupdate

2001-10-08 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 11:41:16AM +0200, Enton Smith wrote: > if i boot with kernel 2.2.19 the networkcard works correct > if i boot with kernel 2.4.9 (isapnp is compiled into the kernel) the > card won't work. with 'cat /proc/isapnp' i get the information that the > divce is not aktive. it seems

Re: kdm, blackbox, and .xinitrc

2001-10-08 Thread Alexander N Gould
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Mon, 08 Oct 2001 23:03:58 -0400 (EDT), Alexander N Gould <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My .xinitrc file does not seem to run when I start a blackbox session form > > kdm. It has the executable permission set, and I have not modified any of > >

Re: kdm, blackbox, and .xinitrc

2001-10-08 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, 08 Oct 2001 23:03:58 -0400 (EDT), Alexander N Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My .xinitrc file does not seem to run when I start a blackbox session form > kdm. It has the executable permission set, and I have not modified any of > the global config files. Am I forgetting something?

Re: c/c++ database libraries?

2001-10-08 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 19:39:41 -0700, Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When programming c/c++ apps, what do most open source folks use as > it's storage libraries (for example, an address book or CD list). I > can't imagine writing an app that requires mysql or postgres. Storing > data as XM

kdm, blackbox, and .xinitrc

2001-10-08 Thread Alexander N Gould
My .xinitrc file does not seem to run when I start a blackbox session form kdm. It has the executable permission set, and I have not modified any of the global config files. Am I forgetting something? Sorry if the answer is obvious - I am new at this. Thanks. -- "Of

Re: another question

2001-10-08 Thread alephtnull
press cntrl+c to freeze it and cntrl+q to unfreeze it -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Can't print via samba

2001-10-08 Thread Tomoo Nmura
Hello, This is the first post. After installing sid samba, I can't print anything. Samba said the following message. What is wrong ? [2001/10/09 11:06:18, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(40) === [2001/10/09 11:06:18, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_r

MGA G400: DRI vs Textures

2001-10-08 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, Running up-to-date woody with Matrox G400: kernel 2.4.10 and X 4.1.0-6. It seems that I have to choose in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 between DRI and textures: (**) MGA(0): Option "TexturedVideo" "on" (EE) MGA(0): Textured video enabled, not initializing the DRI The issue here is playing bzfl

c/c++ database libraries?

2001-10-08 Thread Rob Hudson
When programming c/c++ apps, what do most open source folks use as it's storage libraries (for example, an address book or CD list). I can't imagine writing an app that requires mysql or postgres. Storing data as XML seems like too much overhead. I saw a book on the Berkeley database that is a l

Re: 2.4.10 and swap usage

2001-10-08 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Mike Pfleger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hello, all. > > I was building a web-browsable directory of constructivist and post- > constructivist art, and when I was done mucking about, I noticed that > gkrellm was reporting that swap was about 40% used. To my dismay, > closing the GIMP an

Re: need help! dpkg corrupted!

2001-10-08 Thread Dmitriy
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:10:06PM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: > I have a major problem with my Debian/Testing/Alpha > system. In the process of updating my system today > via apt-get, apparently dpkg segfaulted. Apparently > due to this segfault, my dpkg-dependent files are > corrupt. For exa

drivers

2001-10-08 Thread Tom Allison
Hmm.. I tried upgrading some drivers (orinoco-0.8.tar.gz) by copying them into the linux drivers tree (/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/...) but the new modules didn't get installed when I ran 'dpkg -i ../kernel_image...' What, if anything, did I do wrong?

Re: kylix open edition and Debian 2.2

2001-10-08 Thread adcarlson
Why don't you "upgrade" from Potato to Woody (aka presently Testing). Then that will resolve your library problem without the workaround. Interestingly I've successfully installed Kylix under Progeny, on my notebook, and Progeny is supposed to be a cross between Potato and Woody in certain respec

Re: setting up network (error!)

2001-10-08 Thread MarceI Figuerola Estrada
I was adding the ip of my network card in the interfaces ( ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2) and it returned this message: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: Unknown interface: No such device Now, what it can be? Marcel - Original Message - From: "Antti Tolamo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent:

Re: this list is like hotel california

2001-10-08 Thread Rino Mardo
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:18:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Some might think so. > > Unsubscribe problems are legion, or at least common. The best bets are > to follow the instructions at the bottom of every email, ping > [EMAIL PROTECTED], and if that doesn't work, escalate to > [EMAIL

Re: apm broken in 2.4.10

2001-10-08 Thread dman
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 11:04:49AM -0500, Jack wrote: | Does any body have the same problem with apm from 2.4.10? | | . apm does not work with any arguments passed to the kernel, like: | "apm=on" I noticed this when I upgraded to the Debian-packaged 2.4.x kernel. The apm stuff is also as a

Re: sound blocking in java

2001-10-08 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 03:59:30PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I don't have a strong opinion at the moment as to whose responsibility it is, but maybe the following (untested) code snippet will help you. | in the case of it being my responsibility to open it non-blocking, how | would i

Re: Forwarding X apps

2001-10-08 Thread Kyle Girard
> The proper method is to use SSH tunnels, as posted previously. You'll > have to check your sshd allows X11 forwarding (/etc/ssh/sshd_config). > Then: > > $ ssh -C -X remotehost > I try this from debian to firewall and it logs in fine: me:/home/me >$ ssh -C -X firewall [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-08 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 03:53:03PM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: | I did the above, and it made no difference on my box. I had to switch | to using view as my pager, and I also loathe having to use ":q" to exit | my message reading session. I'm sure we're missing some embarrassingly | simple thing

YOUR MESSAGE HAS BEEN BLOCKED

2001-10-08 Thread mailadmin
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Re: setting up network

2001-10-08 Thread Antti Tolamo
At 21:53 8.10.2001, you wrote: Hi, I've just installed debian and I don't think any of my peripherals works properly. The first thing I want to do is to get my ethernet card up and running to gain acces to internet. Hope you can help me. I have a PCI ethernet card (192.168.0.2) connected to

Re: `screen`ing an x-app

2001-10-08 Thread Richard Hector
martin f krafft wrote: > > hi there, > any chance you guys know of a way to `screen` an x-app? i.e. run xcalc > and detach it from the screen while keeping it running, and possibly > allowing it to be pulled up again on some other machine, or during a > later session? I don't know about an indivi

Re: ?package with tgetent

2001-10-08 Thread Aaron Hall
On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Norbert Froese wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to build prc_tools 2.1 and am not able to configure the > build, but am getting stuck looking for tgetent. > > The exact build message (at the end) is: > Can anyone tell me which package I have to install to acquire the > necessary

Re: Raid Card

2001-10-08 Thread Doug Fields
I use 3ware RAID cards very nicely on my Debian boxes. Unfortunately, they just announced they would no longer be selling them. My vendor says there is enough stock in the channel or about six months. Damn shame; good product. Doug At 01:40 PM 10/8/2001, Jeff McIntosh wrote: Debian-User, I

Re: KDE

2001-10-08 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 04:56:25PM -0500, Mike Grover wrote: > I was just wonderinfg if there is .deb packages for the KDE desktop? > If so, where can I find them? There is if you're running woody. I just installed it tonite. -- Darryl L. Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Infobahn Offramp

Re: KDE

2001-10-08 Thread Matthew Garman
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 04:56:25PM -0500, Mike Grover wrote: > I was just wonderinfg if there is .deb packages for the KDE desktop? > If so, where can I find them? I have the following in my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://kde.debian.net potato main crypto optional deb ftp://kde.debian.net/pub/

Re: X missing DRI module?

2001-10-08 Thread Nate Custer
I have a G450 as well, I am running sid and I have those files. You are missing the files. --Nate On Mon, 2001-10-08 at 18:02, Geoff Beaumont wrote: > I'm having difficulties persuading Direct Rendering to work on my Woody > machine (Matrox G450 graphics card, XFree86 4.1.0.1) - all the relevant

X missing DRI module?

2001-10-08 Thread Geoff Beaumont
I'm having difficulties persuading Direct Rendering to work on my Woody machine (Matrox G450 graphics card, XFree86 4.1.0.1) - all the relevant packages appear to be there, kernel modules (kernel 2.4.9) and XF86Config-4 appears fine (got someone else with a working Matrox G400 to compare it with th

Re: weird 100% disk usage

2001-10-08 Thread Erik Steffl
joey tsai wrote: > > Hi, > > My drive appears to be full via df: > [corban][05:07pm][~] $ df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 61M 59M 0 100% / > > However, I'm not exactly sure I'm even getting 57M used: > [corban][05:09pm][/home/joeytsai

Re: How to run testing and stay sane?

2001-10-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 01:26:24PM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote: > * Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 07:58:03AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > Hi, > > > On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 07:38:34AM -0700, David Roundy wrote: > > > > You can have both unstable and testing in

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-08 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Stig Brautaset ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Volker Schlecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > set locale="C" > > unset allow_8bit > > set charset="iso-8859-1" > > set send_charset="us-ascii:iso-8859-1:utf8" > > > > in your .muttrc Hey. I did the above, and it made no difference on my box

Re: 2.4.10 and swap usage

2001-10-08 Thread John Patton
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 03:28:48PM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: > Hello, all. > > I was building a web-browsable directory of constructivist and post- > constructivist art, and when I was done mucking about, I noticed that > gkrellm was reporting that swap was about 40% used. To my dismay, > closin

Bug#114933: gdm: cryptic error message (was: GDM Login Error)

2001-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
Package: gdm Version: 2.2.4.1-1 Severity: minor On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 06:00:55PM -0400, Mike Kuhar wrote on debian-user: > I get this strange error after X starts, but before the GDM login > screen: > > "No servers were defined in the > configuration file and xdmcp was > disabled. This can onl

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-08 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Volker Schlecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > > Glad someone got something out of my cry for help ;) > > > > Unfortunately, my problem is still unresolved. I might have to join the > > mutt mailinglist or something (*sigh* another one.. just what I need...) > > or seriously STFW (as if

Need confirmation - try this (framebuffer - anti aliasing)

2001-10-08 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Hi, If you have the following setup, please confirm: - Kernel 2.4.9 or 2.4.10 using Vesa-framebuffer - XFree 4.1.0-6 or 4.1.0-7 - KDE 2.2.1 - font anti-aliasing ON (no matter whether with or without xfs/xfs-xtt) When changing to a virtual console (CTRL-ALT-Fn) while under X, the xserver

Re: Characters can't be shown correctly on tty

2001-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 05:11:56PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Try: > >$ reset >$ vi ZZ >$ top q > > ...which should reset your screen. Not all are necessary at all times, > but I've found that a 'reset', brief 'vi' session, and a few screen > refreshes of 'top' will fix things

2.4.10 and swap usage

2001-10-08 Thread Mike Pfleger
Hello, all. I was building a web-browsable directory of constructivist and post- constructivist art, and when I was done mucking about, I noticed that gkrellm was reporting that swap was about 40% used. To my dismay, closing the GIMP and Netscape did not free any swap. Can I assume that NS had c

`screen`ing an x-app

2001-10-08 Thread martin f krafft
hi there, any chance you guys know of a way to `screen` an x-app? i.e. run xcalc and detach it from the screen while keeping it running, and possibly allowing it to be pulled up again on some other machine, or during a later session? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)

Re: netscape/mozilla recommendations requested.

2001-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 04:01:08PM -0600, Michael Fontenot wrote: > It appears to me that the netscape package included on the > debian 2.2r3 cd's is only the browser, not the combined > browser/communicator. If I do an "apt-cache search > communicator", it just comes back with "mozilla". Perhap

Re: XFree on Sis630 / Framebuffer problem

2001-10-08 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
David - and all others, I now found a (minor?) clue to my problem (signal 11 on screen activity if xserver in background and virtual console in foreground): When I disable font anti-aliasing under KDE the xserver does NOT crash! Any idea now? (I still believe it's an xfree86 problem!) Thomas

netscape/mozilla recommendations requested.

2001-10-08 Thread Michael Fontenot
It appears to me that the netscape package included on the debian 2.2r3 cd's is only the browser, not the combined browser/communicator. If I do an "apt-cache search communicator", it just comes back with "mozilla". So if I want integrated browser/(email & newsgroups), I think my choice is to do

GDM Login Error

2001-10-08 Thread Mike Kuhar
Greetings, I get this strange error after X starts, but before the GDM login screen: "No servers were defined in the configuration file and xdmcp was disabled. This can only be a configuration error. So I have started a single server for you. You should log in and fix the configuration. Note

KDE

2001-10-08 Thread Mike Grover
I was just wonderinfg if there is .deb packages for the KDE desktop? If so, where can I find them? thanks, mike

Re: GCC cannot create executables

2001-10-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 17:23:17 -0400, Jonathan Kemp wrote: > checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler > cannot create executables. Run the ./configure with a "-v" and look in the config.log for clues. A typical caus

Re: setting up network

2001-10-08 Thread Serge Rey
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 08:53:55PM +0200, MarceI Figuerola Estrada wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed debian and I don't think any of my peripherals works > properly. The first thing I want to do is to get my ethernet card up and > running to gain acces to internet. Hope you can help me. > >

Re: Newbie compiling kernel...

2001-10-08 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi Alexander, the Debian way of compiling a kernel is using make-kpkg, which is provided by the package "kernel-package". So, do `apt-get install kernel-package` and follow the instructions outlined in the README.gz file (/usr/share/kernel-package/README.gz). Hint: The Kernel-HOWTO is also use

modutils and ieee1394 drivers

2001-10-08 Thread David Merrill
Well, I didn't see Wichert's note about modutils being broken, and now I've gotten into a state. I tried updating my kernel from 2.4.9 to kernel-image-2.4.10-k6, and the upgrade of modutils failed because of the unresolved symbols from the ieee1394 driver. Here's the output from dpkg: syrinx:~# d

ppp problem

2001-10-08 Thread guineuman
hi, all I'm new to linux and I'm experiencing a problem that is at least a bit odd: I first installed the kernel 2.2.17 and wvdial was working fine, then I installed kernel 2.4.9 and wvdial stopped working properly: it said something like "the PPP deamon has died!" right after it said the li

kde 2.2.1 won't start

2001-10-08 Thread Poul Anker Gensmann
Hi. When I try to start kdm 2.2.1-6 which I have just installed via apt-get on my debian unstable it fails, leaving the following message in /var/log/kdm.log: /usr/bin/kdm: relocation error: /usr/bin/kdm: undefined symbol: _XdmcpWrapperToOddParity Furthermore if I try to start konqueror while ru

Re: 3c905b-TX

2001-10-08 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Mike Atamas: > It is telling my that I have a 3c59x. How would I alias it? > > Mike > Others may correct me here, but I think putting 'alias eth0 3c59x' (without quotes) in /etc/modutils/aliases and then do 'update-modules' - that should successfullt update the modules and aliases fo

Re: GCC cannot create executables

2001-10-08 Thread John Patton
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 05:23:17PM -0400, Jonathan Kemp wrote: > Hi there people, > > I have a problem with my linux box. Everytime I try to ./configure a > tarball, I get this error msg : > > loading cache ./config.cache > checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu > checking target system

Re: Re: ext3 on woody safe for a production machine?

2001-10-08 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 07:42:30AM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > Has XFS gone read-write? Last I heard it was still very experimental > and read only in the kernel. It has a revision > 1.0 and read-write support for quite some time now See URL in my previous mail for more info > > Thus

GCC cannot create executables

2001-10-08 Thread Jonathan Kemp
Hi there people, I have a problem with my linux box. Everytime I try to ./configure a tarball, I get this error msg : loading cache ./config.cache checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu check

weird 100% disk usage

2001-10-08 Thread joey tsai
Hi, My drive appears to be full via df: [corban][05:07pm][~] $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 61M 59M 0 100% / However, I'm not exactly sure I'm even getting 57M used: [corban][05:09pm][/home/joeytsai] # du -shx / 23M / I find this sligh

Re: concerning ext3fs

2001-10-08 Thread Marc Becher
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 02:08:12PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 09:02:27PM +0200, Marc Becher wrote: > > don't know whether this has been mentioned already. > > > > In /etc/updatedb.conf debian sets per default PRUNEFS=" ... auto ... ". > > > > But the docs for ext3fs-patc

Re: 4 doubts on Kernel compilation (A dual boot Win-Lin Machine)

2001-10-08 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I was told that the following were the steps for making a kernel : > cd /usr/src/linux > make config > make dep > make clean > make bzImage > make modules > > I have 4 doubts : > 1. If I have made a kernel module , say prn.o , does this automatically get > entry >

Re: no shell, unable to cd to /home/*

2001-10-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 10:56:51AM +0200, Andreas von Heydwolff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello - > I upgraded potato to Debian testing (2.4.9, XFree 4.1.0-6, old /dev > structure) a few days ago, everything worked fine. Now I can no longer log in > as a user but only as root. > > Login fro

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-08 Thread Volker Schlecht
> Glad someone got something out of my cry for help ;) > > Unfortunately, my problem is still unresolved. I might have to join the > mutt mailinglist or something (*sigh* another one.. just what I need...) > or seriously STFW (as if I haven't already, but hey; practice makes > perfect :) You m

Sources for tulip

2001-10-08 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there... My laptop needs a modifyed version of tulip... I found it in www.linuxlaptop.net its tulip_core.c I'm supposed to copy it to /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/tulip and recompile the module (tulip.o) But there is nothing in the /usr/src directory since I installed from the net, and I gues

Re: How to run testing and stay sane?

2001-10-08 Thread Cam Ellison
* Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 07:58:03AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 07:38:34AM -0700, David Roundy wrote: > > > You can have both unstable and testing in your sources.list, and then set > > > up apt preferences as so: > > >

TeX problems

2001-10-08 Thread Julio Merino
Hi all When I use jadetex to process a catalan document, I get these warnings: WARNING!! - add them in language.dat and rebuild WARNING!! patterns for catalan not in format file [ lots of times the same ] I've edited the /etc/texmf/language.dat and added: catalan cahyph.tex Then, I've ran texco

Re: XFS-XTT won't (un)install

2001-10-08 Thread John Toon
On Monday 08 October 2001 21:56 pm, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > I've hit some weird nexus of realities here. I am unable to complete an > installation of XFS-XTT. But, whenever I try to do anything else from > dselect it tries to finish installing XFS-XTT. So, I selected to uninstall > it since it's

Re: this list is like hotel california

2001-10-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 08:55:49PM +0100, P Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:18:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > >on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 09:50:38AM +0800, Rino Mardo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >wrote: > > Surprised. I find sending a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

software for learning dutch

2001-10-08 Thread DvB
Was wondering if anyone knows of software (preferably OSS) for learning Dutch... if it has sound clips for pronunciation that would be as plus (and a main reson for using software and not a book). TIA

XFS-XTT won't (un)install

2001-10-08 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I've hit some weird nexus of realities here. I am unable to complete an installation of XFS-XTT. But, whenever I try to do anything else from dselect it tries to finish installing XFS-XTT. So, I selected to uninstall it since it's marked for installation, and it complains that it can't UNinstall

sound blocking in java

2001-10-08 Thread glynis
a while back, there was a thread about mozilla starting slowly, and it was attributed to a poorly-written shockwave plugin which tried to open the sound device when mozilla started. this open blocked if the sound device was being used by something else, and made mozilla's startup wait until the so

Re: applying font size and family to QT apps.

2001-10-08 Thread Geoff Beaumont
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 19:10:07 +0200 William Leese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 08 October 2001 19:00, Geoff Beaumont wrote: > > At 18:20 08/10/2001 +0200, you wrote: > > >short and simply; how is this done? > > > > > >I know KDE's window manager does this, but i don't use KDE (blackbox > i

Re: this list is like hotel california

2001-10-08 Thread P Kirk
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:18:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: >on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 09:50:38AM +0800, Rino Mardo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Surprised. I find sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe works within an hour or so. Have you tried this?

Newbie compiling kernel...

2001-10-08 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there! I need to compile scsi emulation for ide devices, but I don't know how to recompile the kernel... I checked the Faq but it's a little bit confusing to me Can someone give me a setp by step instruction on how to do this? like: 1 apt-get whatever 2 go to directory /usr... 3 Type wha

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-08 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Doug Hespe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 09:55:18PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > > > Try overwriting LC_MESSAGES, ie > > > > LANG=de_DE LC_MESSAGES=C mutt . > > > > mutt should speak English again, while showing German characters. > > > Aha! Thanks Victor

Re: webalizer

2001-10-08 Thread Martin Man
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 01:32:59PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: > Hello, > I am using Debian Stable with Webalizer V1.30-04 (Linux 2.2.12) English. > I have several websites running on my server using Apache/1.3.9 (Unix), > each site with its own config file. I have a cron to run: webalizer -c > ea

Re: this list is like hotel california

2001-10-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 09:50:38AM +0800, Rino Mardo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "...you can check in anytime you want, but you can never leave..." > > i sent an unsubscribe to the listbot three days ago and up to now it > hasn't acted on it. failing that i sent a request to the list > maintaine

Re: mutt navigating

2001-10-08 Thread P Kirk
>echo set pager_stop >> ~/.muttrc That works nicely. Many thanks!

Re: Blackbox stopped working after upgrade...

2001-10-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 05:00:49PM +0300, Jussi Ekholm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > blackbox should give some form of message on the screen stating why > > it failed. This sounds vaguely familiar. > > When I start X with rxvt as an window

Re: another question

2001-10-08 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 08:57:15PM +0200, MarceI Figuerola Estrada wrote: > When I start linux I get a list of error messages which I can't view > because the screen scrolls so fast. Is there any way to read them? > Try running 'dmesg' Also, try the ScrLck (or pause) button on your keyboard Last,

Re: serious problem, plz help

2001-10-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:16:48PM +1000, chetan mittal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Post a meaningful subject line and you'll be more likely to get real help. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave

Irda on Gericom under 2.4.x

2001-10-08 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Hi, I have the following problem regarding Irda on my Gericom Webshox (obviously identical to Clevo 2700C): Using 2.4.10 (and 2.4.9, no difference) I get the irda system working using the irda-over-tty system (not using irport and/or FIR, see below). However, connecting to my mobile phone using

Re: XFree on Sis630 / Framebuffer problem

2001-10-08 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
David Goodenough wrote: > > The only thing I did strange with X and the mouse was to get rid of gpm or > whatever it is called, and drive the mouse directly from X. David, I don't use gpm (I simply don't need it; to be honest I didn't know that I have to use gmpdata instead of the real mouse por

Re: mutt navigating

2001-10-08 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 08:05:25PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a small problem with mutt. I want to use the space bar to scroll and > the up and down arrows for previous and next messsages. However, I want to > stop mutt autoscrolling from 1 message to the next when

Re: concerning ext3fs

2001-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 09:02:27PM +0200, Marc Becher wrote: > don't know whether this has been mentioned already. > > In /etc/updatedb.conf debian sets per default PRUNEFS=" ... auto ... ". > > But the docs for ext3fs-patch recommend using auto instead of ext3 in > /etc/fstab, which is a reasona

X font problem

2001-10-08 Thread tjm
Hello. In the process of trying to correct an X problem, I developed the following problem when trying to run icewm: --- Could not load fontset '-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*'. Fallback to '*fixed*' failed. Segmentation fault. --- Can't find any info the the fontset problem or

mutt navigating

2001-10-08 Thread P Kirk
Hi all, I have a small problem with mutt. I want to use the space bar to scroll and the up and down arrows for previous and next messsages. However, I want to stop mutt autoscrolling from 1 message to the next when I reach the end of a message. Does anyone have a working setup for this? Tha

SSH2 + HostbasedAuthentication

2001-10-08 Thread Walter Hofmann
I cannot use HostbasedAuthentication with ssh. ssh just keeps on asking for the password. Here is what I tried: I have SSH (OpenSSH_2.9p2) running with RhostsRSAAuthentication just fine -- users can log in from one computer to another without using a password or setting up and .ssh/authorized_keys

another question

2001-10-08 Thread MarceI Figuerola Estrada
When I start linux I get a list of error messages which I can't view because the screen scrolls so fast. Is there any way to read them? Marcel

Re: Gnome file manager?

2001-10-08 Thread David Mohr
do a apt-get install gmc, that should put it on your system, if you don't have it (just check by executing 'gmc') then you can't drop files on your desktop. Bye, David --On Montag, 8. Oktober 2001 13:23 -0500 Matthew Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:17:39PM -060

concerning ext3fs

2001-10-08 Thread Marc Becher
hello, don't know whether this has been mentioned already. In /etc/updatedb.conf debian sets per default PRUNEFS=" ... auto ... ". But the docs for ext3fs-patch recommend using auto instead of ext3 in /etc/fstab, which is a reasonable default I think. It took me some time to notice that cron ha

Re: setting up network

2001-10-08 Thread MarceI Figuerola Estrada
Hi, I've just installed debian and I don't think any of my peripherals works properly. The first thing I want to do is to get my ethernet card up and running to gain acces to internet. Hope you can help me. I have a PCI ethernet card (192.168.0.2) connected to a 3com router (192.168.0.122) whi

Re: egcs 1.1.2 for kernel compilation

2001-10-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:36:27 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Has anybody packaged egcs 1.1.2 for kernel compilation? I did some work on it, but abandoned it as I've encountered no problems with 2.95.x in my configurations. There's a diff at http://www.cistron.nl/~jhm/egcs_1.1.2-0.diff.g

Re: 3c905b-TX

2001-10-08 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Stephen Gran: > Thus spake Mike Atamas: > > I tried to install the drivers during installation. I tried to config it > > with both DHCP and by specifying the IP and it doesnt work. What should I > > do? > > > > Mike > > > > > During the installation, Debian will ask you to install some

Re: XFree on Sis630 / Framebuffer problem

2001-10-08 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 08 October 2001 7:22 pm, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > David, > > thanks for your quick reply! > > David Goodenough wrote: > > Thomas, > > > > I think that under the covers your box is a Clevo 2700C or there > > abouts. > > Possibly, I have not opened it (yet :) ) > > > I have one of these

Re: My modem news!!

2001-10-08 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Petre Daniel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Ok,i played a little more and look where i am: > > setserial /dev/ttyS2 shows irq 2,port 0x0110 and uart 16450..till now it was > uart unknown.This is set with: > setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 9 port 0x0110 uart 16450 In the other thread you wrote

webalizer

2001-10-08 Thread Matt Fair
Hello, I am using Debian Stable with Webalizer V1.30-04 (Linux 2.2.12) English. I have several websites running on my server using Apache/1.3.9 (Unix), each site with its own config file. I have a cron to run: webalizer -c each half hour. On October 4th one of my sites got about 20,000 hits

eth0: card reports no resources. (It's back....)

2001-10-08 Thread Stan Brown
I;v built a Debian machine from a Compaq Proliant. Uisng an Intell NIC card. Here is the relevant info from dmesg: mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xeda47, last bus=5 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming

Re: package sig checking ?

2001-10-08 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 01:17:16PM +0200, christophe barb? wrote: > le ven 05-10-2001 at 20:37 Colin Watson a ?crit : > > On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:15:00PM +0200, christophe barb? wrote: > > > Is-it possible to configure apt-get to check package GPG signature > > > before installing it ? > > > >

Re: XFree on Sis630 / Framebuffer problem

2001-10-08 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
David, thanks for your quick reply! David Goodenough wrote: > > Thomas, > > I think that under the covers your box is a Clevo 2700C or there > abouts. Possibly, I have not opened it (yet :) ) > I have one of these, and am running it with kernel > 2.4.5 and XFree86 4.1.0 without either of the

Re: My modem..and logs..!!

2001-10-08 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > don't disable uart "thingies" those are your true serial ports...uart 16550A > is the standard serial port. what you may want to do is compile isapnp > support in your kernel if your modem is plug & pray. that way, you won't need > to > use i

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