Re: .Xdefaults or .Xsession ( Test-post)

2001-10-11 Thread Dmitriy
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 02:21:04AM +0200, Josef Oswald wrote: > Hi all:-) Hi! > > First off I would like to thank all those people who made Debian to > what it is now :-) Right now I do use Progeny-Debian, and I like what > I see. > > A couple of questions though: > Which version ofg Debian doe

Re: gotmail

2001-10-11 Thread Marc Wilson
If that was really your whole .procmailrc, then all the recipies are missing from it, so I dunno what you expect it to be doing when you receive mail. Ok, now as for gotmail delivering the message locally, does the user 'cat' exist on the local machine? When gotmail downloads the message, it's go

Re: fish tank desktop background?

2001-10-11 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 06:36:59PM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote: > So this is admittedly unimportant and frivolous, but when I first saw Debian > in use a few years ago, the computer I saw had a fish tank set as the desktop > background with fish swimming around, bubbles rising and oth

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Re: fish tank desktop background?

2001-10-11 Thread Keith Willoughby
Andrew Sione Taumoefolau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Related: I've now seen, twice, a little fish swim across my gnome desktop. > > > I have three widescreen displays so this lasts for several minutes. I > > > think it is an easter egg in Nautilus perhaps? > > > > So I'm not going crazy! I

Re: gotmail

2001-10-11 Thread alephtnull
what did you mean gotmail can deliver the message locally? when I run gotmail from the terminal it does go and get the message. however, I can't find it anywhere in my local machine.. what is also missing in my .procmailrc file? thanks -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: fish tank desktop background?

2001-10-11 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
> > Related: I've now seen, twice, a little fish swim across my gnome desktop. > > I have three widescreen displays so this lasts for several minutes. I > > think it is an easter egg in Nautilus perhaps? > > So I'm not going crazy! I've seen something similar. > > I don't have Nautilus installed

Re: fish tank desktop background?

2001-10-11 Thread Keith Willoughby
"Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > That would be xfishtank > > Related: I've now seen, twice, a little fish swim across my gnome desktop. > I have three widescreen displays so this lasts for several minutes. I > think it is an eas

Re: ethernet card IO address

2001-10-11 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Nathan E Norman: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:34:49PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > > Thus spake MarceI Figuerola Estrada: > > > > This looks to me like you're choosing wrong module. > > > > Which card was it ? > > > > > > My card is a standard 100/10M ethernet PCI one. To be exact it's

Re: fish tank desktop background?

2001-10-11 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > That would be xfishtank Related: I've now seen, twice, a little fish swim across my gnome desktop. I have three widescreen displays so this lasts for several minutes. I think it is an easter egg in Nautilus perhaps? I think it is very endearing. -

Changing keymap (was Re: question)

2001-10-11 Thread Helmut Trinkl
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:33:01PM +0200, Carl VdB wrote: > how can i change my keyboard from qwerty to azerty (or to BE) in my > debian bash shell ? # dpkg-reconfigure console-common at least in testing/unstable. Check it up though. Helmut

Re: fish tank desktop background?

2001-10-11 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Kurt Lieber wrote: > So this is admittedly unimportant and frivolous, but when I first saw Debian > in use a few years ago, the computer I saw had a fish tank set as the desktop > background with fish swimming around, bubbles rising and other cool stuff. > (not the screensave

fish tank desktop background?

2001-10-11 Thread Kurt Lieber
So this is admittedly unimportant and frivolous, but when I first saw Debian in use a few years ago, the computer I saw had a fish tank set as the desktop background with fish swimming around, bubbles rising and other cool stuff. (not the screensaver -- the desktop) I always thought it was pr

Kmail won't retrieve local mailbox w/ file locking on

2001-10-11 Thread Kurt Lieber
I'm using Kmail 1.2 and cannot get it to retrieve my local mbox unless I set it to use no file locking. If I set it to any other type of locking offered in the kmail config screen, the mail just sits in my mbox -- I can get to it through mutt (or by simple cat'ing the file) but not through kmai

*total* switch of CapsLock and Ctrl

2001-10-11 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, I would like to remap CapsLock and LeftCtrl keys on my system - not only for X, but also for console system-wide. Obviously, I have to do better than .Xmodmap. I tried using loadkeys(1) with /usr/share/keymaps/i386/include/ctrl.inc but it didn't seem to change anything... What should

Re: ethernet card IO address

2001-10-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:34:49PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake MarceI Figuerola Estrada: > > > This looks to me like you're choosing wrong module. > > > Which card was it ? > > > > My card is a standard 100/10M ethernet PCI one. To be exact it's a SURECOM > > EP-320X-R. > > Hello, >

Re: potato on 486

2001-10-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 04:06:21PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > I think I have the CDROM identified and I think I have what I need on > the Caldera boot disk but I should be able to find it on the net > otherwise. I'm trying to put together a good boot disk tool kit for > these situations. Do yo

Re: How do I install lilo?

2001-10-11 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: > HI, > > I have a quick question. I have a new HD that I used to backup my linux > system to part of the drive (the drive also contains NT 4.0). After > duplicating the entire HD, I was thinking of making it bootable to linux. > Question: how do I install lilo now that

Re: ethernet card IO address

2001-10-11 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake MarceI Figuerola Estrada: > > This looks to me like you're choosing wrong module. > > Which card was it ? > > My card is a standard 100/10M ethernet PCI one. To be exact it's a SURECOM > EP-320X-R. Hello, This site http://www.surecom-net.com/support/download/dl-drvs.htm says that you

.Xdefaults or .Xsession ( Test-post)

2001-10-11 Thread Josef Oswald
Hi all:-) First off I would like to thank all those people who made Debian to what it is now :-) Right now I do use Progeny-Debian, and I like what I see. A couple of questions though: Which version ofg Debian does Progeny use, can I install or mix packages from different distributions? Does D

Re: exim sending problems (dial-up) need to be masqed?

2001-10-11 Thread Geoff Beaumont
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:48:27 -0500 (CDT) Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Really? I thought this type of spam-block involved looking up the > hostname > in DNS, rather than doing a reverse DNS lookup on the IP address. I > could > be wrong, though. So could I ;c) I've just been looki

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-11 Thread Stig Brautaset
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:03:46PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > > > > l10n support > > > > If you want to see non-ASCII characters on a Debian system, there's no > > use fiddling with the variable "charset", as described in th

Re: X won't start without .xinitrc/.xsession

2001-10-11 Thread Marc Wilson
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2001/debian-x-200110/msg4.html Read. On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 05:45:52PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I'm running XFree86 Version 4.1.1.1 on Debian (Sid) with a 2.4.7 kernel. > This is a fresh install. > > If I create a .xinitrc in my home directory and put a wi

X won't start without .xinitrc/.xsession

2001-10-11 Thread Kent West
I'm running XFree86 Version 4.1.1.1 on Debian (Sid) with a 2.4.7 kernel. This is a fresh install. If I create a .xinitrc in my home directory and put a window manager in it, X starts fine. However, without the .xinitrc X won't start. On all other systems I've installed, X starts without a user

Re: exim sending problems (dial-up) need to be masqed?

2001-10-11 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, October 11, Geoff Beaumont did write: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 20:45:45 + > "john smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am stll having trouble with exim. I need to have my header re-written > > in > > order to be able to send messages over the internet since I

Re: potato on 486

2001-10-11 Thread Paul Scott
Osamu Aoki wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 03:37:29PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: That's exactly the case. The W98 bootdisk has lots of CDROM drivers. The Caldera Lisa even recognized it but I didn't know to get to a shell to install. Am I really stupid?? I could have just switched virtual te

Re: potato on 486

2001-10-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 03:37:29PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > That's exactly the case. The W98 bootdisk has lots of CDROM drivers. > The Caldera Lisa even recognized it but I didn't know to get to a shell > to install. Am I really stupid?? I could have just switched virtual > terminals!!? AL

Re: Querying apt-get

2001-10-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 05:15:01PM -0300, Daniel Serodio wrote: > How can I find out which installed packages are not from my > APT::Default-Release? I use woody for almost everything, but some > selected packages from sid. I'd like to know which packages came from > sid. Thanks. $ apt-cache

Re: potato on 486

2001-10-11 Thread Paul Scott
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 09:34:18AM -0700, Paul Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 02:00:47AM -0700, Paul Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sounds like you may have a nonstandard CDROM device. Look at the CDROM suppor

Re: Cable Modem Problems

2001-10-11 Thread Kyle Girard
Nope i'm using the stock debian kernel On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 14:37, Luke Reeves wrote: > Strange. I'll try that when I get home today. Did you change any of > the kernel parameters in the /proc filesystem? I remember reading a > blurb about that somewhere affecting DHCP systems. Thanks! > >

Re: dead/slow mirrors?

2001-10-11 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 02:32:20PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > What does it take to setup a mirror? I have largely idle bandwidth in an > abovenet colo that would be fine for a debian mirror. > Not long, as Debian provides most of the scripts that you need in order to set it up. Right n

Re: allowing access to rsh from client...works but I don't know why

2001-10-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 10:05:44AM -0400, Walter Tautz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am allowing rsh access from a select client list > by adding them to .rhosts file which only read permission > and this works. Yeah I know this is inherent insecure but > it is required for what I am tryin

Re: Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 06:52:40AM -0500, Alexander Wallace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello there, I hope you can forgive my ignorance in this issues, I'm very > new to debian and linux/unix in general... > > I installed potato in this ibm pc 325 i got from ebay, everything is > working great,

Re: gotmail

2001-10-11 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:02:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > my .gotmailrc > > user=bobwe2302 > pass=** > proxy=no > forward=cat > onlynew=yes > markread=no > delete=no > # folder_directory= don't know if this is relavant and what's it used for > since formail should # forward i

Re: ALSA loaded, but not playing sound

2001-10-11 Thread Kurt Lieber
That definitely wasn't the answer I wanted to hear, but you were right. I junked all the debian alsa packages, downloaded the latest source, compiled it and had it up and running in no time. For anyone else who runs into the same problem, I was using the deb packages from testing. Thanks fo

Re: exim sending problems (dial-up) need to be masqed?

2001-10-11 Thread Geoff Beaumont
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 20:45:45 + "john smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am stll having trouble with exim. I need to have my header re-written > in > order to be able to send messages over the internet since I get this > error > when sending a test message: > > > This message wa

Re: potato on 486

2001-10-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 09:34:18AM -0700, Paul Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 02:00:47AM -0700, Paul Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I have been trying to get Debian installed on a 486 that does not know > >>how

How do I install lilo?

2001-10-11 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
HI, I have a quick question. I have a new HD that I used to backup my linux system to part of the drive (the drive also contains NT 4.0). After duplicating the entire HD, I was thinking of making it bootable to linux. Question: how do I install lilo now that the HD is not booting into linux

Re: dead/slow mirrors?

2001-10-11 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, David Z Maze wrote: > Jeffrey W Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > JWB> On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > g> i use http.us.debian.org in my sources.list, and it's been terribly > g> troublesome recently. apparently one or 2 hosts in that round-robin > g> ar

Re: question

2001-10-11 Thread MarceI Figuerola Estrada
kbdconfig I think... but I'm not sure. Marcel - Original Message - From: "Carl VdB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 11:33 PM Subject: question > how can i change my keyboard from qwerty to azerty (or to BE) in my > debian bash shell ? > thanks in advance > >

question

2001-10-11 Thread Carl VdB
how can i change my keyboard from qwerty to azerty (or to BE) in my debian bash shell ? thanks in advance

Re: Managing tasks through remote access

2001-10-11 Thread Keith Willoughby
"Morbo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to log in through telnet and ideally also through X into the > Linux machine, start an ftp client or irc client etc. then close the > connection again with the started applications continueing to run? > > Also if I could do that, could I then l

Display total No. of messages in KMail

2001-10-11 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello List, Is there anyway I can get the folders panel in Kmail to display the total No of messages in each folder as well as the No. of unread messages? Haven't found anything in tfm. TIA LeeE

Re: dead/slow mirrors?

2001-10-11 Thread David Z Maze
Jeffrey W Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JWB> On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: g> i use http.us.debian.org in my sources.list, and it's been terribly g> troublesome recently. apparently one or 2 hosts in that round-robin g> are not responding, so my updates and upgrades always ge

Re: I'm in a loop

2001-10-11 Thread Josh McKinney
The person is using AOL. On approximately Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:11:42PM +, Piotr Foremniak wrote: > Try to remove CD from drive? :-) > > On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 16:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After making choices (series of questions), I'm told that I've reached the > > moment of truth.

Re: Cable Modem Problems

2001-10-11 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 12:50:25PM -0400, Luke Reeves wrote: > Hello everyone. I've recently erased my RedHat Linux machine and > installed Debian Woody. I used [EMAIL PROTECTED] (in Canada) with RedHat > just > fine, using either Pump or DHCPCD - specifying the hostname and > i

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-11 Thread csj
On Thursday 11 October 2001 17:14, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > Linux is a couple of steps behing in ease of use in comparison to > windows. Windows is weak where linux is especially strong like > stability and flexibility. Ms has billions of dollars to invest > getting windows to be as good as Linux

gotmail

2001-10-11 Thread alephtnull
Hello, I gotmail installed and tested it. the message was there (on the hotmail server) but when I run gotmail in the terminal it does retrieve the message but doesn't forward it to my mailbox (i.e. bash still reports no mail for me) my [EMAIL PROTECTED] is different from my u [EMAIL PROTECTED] lo

Re: /etc/aliases file

2001-10-11 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 11 October 2001 10:16 am, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > > Did you run newaliases? > > > > from the man of newaliases: > > DESCRIPTION >This is a simple shell script calling /usr/lib/sendmail >with the -bi option. It is provided for compatibility with >the se

Re: About Managing tasks through remote access

2001-10-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 01:40:31PM -0700, MRZ wrote: > Do these types of solutions work bothways a-la pcAnyWhere? I'm thinking of > looking into > that VNC option but want to be able to control the Win box from Linux and > not necessarily the other way around. VNC will let you control the window

exim sending problems (dial-up) need to be masqed?

2001-10-11 Thread john smith
Hi, I am stll having trouble with exim. I need to have my header re-written in order to be able to send messages over the internet since I get this error when sending a test message: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). A message that you sent could not b

About Managing tasks through remote access

2001-10-11 Thread MRZ
>Morbo wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have two computers at home. On one I'm running Linux, and > > machine if I want to use it. I'm also want to try some free X servers for > > Win32 (any suggestions?) so that I could actually log in through X. > > Balazs > Luke Reeves replied: > For an X-server f

Re: gtk themes

2001-10-11 Thread Harold Bibik
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 05:27:48PM +, Kurt Dresner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something like: > I installed it into .themes, and I still get the same error message: > > Gtk-WARNING**: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: > "libpixmap.so", > over and over. I believe you are trying

Querying apt-get

2001-10-11 Thread Daniel Serodio
How can I find out which installed packages are not from my APT::Default-Release? I use woody for almost everything, but some selected packages from sid. I'd like to know which packages came from sid. Thanks. -- []'s Daniel Serodio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

mySAP.com WebApp Server on Debian?

2001-10-11 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
Hello, some months ago [when I was a SuSE user], I tried to install the SAP WebApplication Server w/ a basic R/3 onto my SuSE 7.2. Well, finally it did not run due to an incompatible glibc, it was only certified for SuSE 7.0 (or 7.1?) and RedHat 7.1 Enterprise (am I right?). My question: has anyon

Re: dead/slow mirrors?

2001-10-11 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i use http.us.debian.org in my sources.list, and it's been terribly > troublesome recently. apparently one or 2 hosts in that round-robin > are not responding, so my updates and upgrades always get hung up. is > it possible to get these broken hos

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-11 Thread Erik Steffl
Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:44:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:28:42PM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote: > > > > And he does have a point. The anti-M$ sentiment has led to a number of > > > > comments on this list that, wer

dead/slow mirrors?

2001-10-11 Thread glynis
i use http.us.debian.org in my sources.list, and it's been terribly troublesome recently. apparently one or 2 hosts in that round-robin are not responding, so my updates and upgrades always get hung up. is it possible to get these broken hosts out of the list? or is it just me? this happens to

Re: SSH2 + HostbasedAuthentication

2001-10-11 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Mon, 08 Oct 2001, Walter Hofmann wrote: > I cannot use HostbasedAuthentication with ssh. ssh just keeps on asking > for the password. Here is what I tried: [...] I solved this now. There were two errors: 1) You need to swich on HostbasedAuthentication in the _client_! The manual page is wrong

Re: Managing tasks through remote access

2001-10-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 08:30:34PM +0200, Morbo wrote: > Unfortunatly I have only space for one screen and keyboard. I could use some > switch, but they usually degrade image quality at high resolution (or cost a > fortune), so I found it's much more convenient to telnet/ssh into the linux > machin

Re: ALSA loaded, but not playing sound

2001-10-11 Thread Kurt Lieber
No -- I did that using: amixer set Master on amixer set PCM on amixer set Master 75% amixer set PCM 75% Thanks for the suggestion, though. --kurt On Thursday 11 October 2001 h:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > did you forgot to "unmute" the card? under "WARNING" you should have read

Re: [Emu10k1-tools-devel] Re: emu10k1 for debian

2001-10-11 Thread Daniel Bertrand
Hi, The rule of thumb is: -Older driver (post kernel 2.4.8), newer tools: ok -Newer driver, older tools: not ok -Really old driver ( driver version 0.7 or earlier - before 2.4.8 and any 2.2.x): not ok, use "dm" tool instead (http://opensource.creative.com/dist.html). If you find this isn't true,

Re: ALSA loaded, but not playing sound

2001-10-11 Thread alephtnull
did you forgot to "unmute" the card? under "WARNING" you should have read WARNING!!! The mixer channels for the ALSA driver are muted by default!!! ** You would use some ALSA or OSS mixer to set the appropriate volume. you ca

Re: Managing tasks through remote access

2001-10-11 Thread Luke Reeves
For an X-server for Windows, the two I use are: WeirdX - http://www.jcraft.com/weirdx/ - This is an open-source 100% Java server, works fairly well (but you need a hefty system to run it) NetSarang X Manager - http://www.netsarang.com/download/download.html - A really good fast and stable

Re: Lost cursor in X

2001-10-11 Thread Roland Hinkley
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Angelo Cano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:37:22PM +0100, Roland Hinkley wrote: >[snip] >> I recently did an upgrade and now I do not have a cursor visible in X. >> The mouse works as the screen will move in the virtual desktop as you >> move

Re: Managing tasks through remote access

2001-10-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
There's an adequate X server for windows that used to be free but is now $25 shareware: http://www.microimages.com/mix/ it will probably do what you need. I haven't played with the cygwin one. -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Managing tasks through remote access

2001-10-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Morbo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi, > > I have two computers at home. On one I'm running Linux, and it is turned on > non-stop. On the other I'm running W$ndows (mainly for games). This one is > only running if I'm doing something on it. > Unfortunatly I have only space for one screen

Re: Best route to testing/unstable?

2001-10-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 05:24:45PM +, Aniartia wrote: > I've got a 2.2 r3 CD, an inet connection.. what's the quickest and pain-free > way to get to testing/unstable? Multi step approach may be a good idea unless you already upgraded apt to woody. 1. edit /etc/apt/souces.list to include sta

Re: Cable Modem Problems

2001-10-11 Thread Luke Reeves
Strange. I'll try that when I get home today. Did you change any of the kernel parameters in the /proc filesystem? I remember reading a blurb about that somewhere affecting DHCP systems. Thanks! Luke Kyle Girard wrote: I have rogers and I'm working fine although my setup is a lit

RE: Best route to testing/unstable?

2001-10-11 Thread John Gilger
Justin Hahn noted: Actually, dist-upgrade is probably the method of choice for all upgrades once you start using unstable. dist-upgrade tends to resolve dependencies and such that upgrade does not. Since these sorts of things changes (potentially) frequently under unstable it helps keep things r

Managing tasks through remote access

2001-10-11 Thread Morbo
Hi, I have two computers at home. On one I'm running Linux, and it is turned on non-stop. On the other I'm running W$ndows (mainly for games). This one is only running if I'm doing something on it. Unfortunatly I have only space for one screen and keyboard. I could use some switch, but they usuall

Re: emu10k1 for debian

2001-10-11 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:19:22 -0500 > "Scott" == Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Scott> Scott> * Alexander Kotelnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011011 11:06]: >> Once I wrote about an intention to package emu-tools. I prepared Scott> Scott> How linked are the tools version to the driver

Re: Best route to testing/unstable?

2001-10-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:51:19PM +0200, Pawel Dudek wrote: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:28:59PM +0200, Pawel Dudek wrote: > > > Change apt sources in /etc/apt/sources.list to woody or sid archives, and > > > then run apt-get update and next apt-get upg

RE: Best route to testing/unstable?

2001-10-11 Thread Justin Hahn
Actually, dist-upgrade is probably the method of choice for all upgrades once you start using unstable. dist-upgrade tends to resolve dependencies and such that upgrade does not. Since these sorts of things changes (potentially) frequently under unstable it helps keep things running right. --jeh

RE: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-11 Thread Brad R
I don't think you're going to have much luck with those entertainment games. Most of the new ones depend heavily on DirectX and custom hardware drivers, but I could be wrong. I play Windows games on my home computer quite a bit so I'd be interested if you suceed. If I might say about this MS-bash

Re: Best route to testing/unstable?

2001-10-11 Thread Pawel Dudek
I always use apt-get upgrade. Hm, maybe I've luck that everything going good by this way of upgrade. However, thanks for correct my mistake. Best regards, Pawel On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:28:59PM +0200, Pawel Dudek wrote: > > Change apt sources in /etc

Re: Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Alexander Wallace
Thank you! I think I'll follow your suggestion... On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > Actually, according to FHS, anything that might be modified in the > course of using (as opposed to doing maintenance on) the system > should not be placed under /usr. This enables admins to mount /

Re: Best route to testing/unstable?

2001-10-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:28:59PM +0200, Pawel Dudek wrote: > Change apt sources in /etc/apt/sources.list to woody or sid archives, and > then run apt-get update and next apt-get upgrade. Always use 'apt-get dist-upgrade' when upgrading between distributions rather than 'apt-get upgrade'. The lat

Re: Cable Modem Problems

2001-10-11 Thread Kyle Girard
I have rogers and I'm working fine although my setup is a little different from yours (2.2.17 kernel, unstable). I used dhcp-client and here's my dhclient.conf file send host-name "hostname"; and here's my /etc/network/interfaces iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet dhcp And everything works

Re: Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 10:06:56AM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote: > However, to answer your question more directly, it can really go anywhere you > want. There's no right/wrong answer on where to put those kinds of files. > (There are some conventions, but nothing set in stone) /home or /usr would b

Re: Takin' the plunge...

2001-10-11 Thread csj
On Thursday 11 October 2001 02:06, Wayne Brown wrote: > on 10th Oct Royce Bell wrote >   > > > Sheesh, you guys are scaring the pants off me!  Or, maybe I'm > > just getting > > to old to go about things like I did 30 years ago...hmmm?   > IMHO Mandrake 8.0 would be a good starter for ease of conf

Re: Best route to testing/unstable?

2001-10-11 Thread Pawel Dudek
Change apt sources in /etc/apt/sources.list to woody or sid archives, and then run apt-get update and next apt-get upgrade. Best regards, Pawel On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Aniartia wrote: > I've got a 2.2 r3 CD, an inet connection.. what's the quickest and pain-free > way to get to testing/unstable?

Re: gtk themes

2001-10-11 Thread Kurt Dresner
I installed it into .themes, and I still get the same error message: Gtk-WARNING**: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libpixmap.so", over and over. -Kurt From: Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User Subject: Re: gtk themes Date: 11 Oct 2001 14:04:33 +0100 MIME-Ver

Best route to testing/unstable?

2001-10-11 Thread Aniartia
I've got a 2.2 r3 CD, an inet connection.. what's the quickest and pain-free way to get to testing/unstable? TIA Ani

Re: routing protocols

2001-10-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 06:46:16AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > * Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.10 17:08:15-0500]: > > We're way off topic here. Any decent networking with IP text will > > answer these questions. > > again, sorry. i panicked. much more chilled this morning. than

Installing swatch

2001-10-11 Thread HdV
Hi, I am trying to get swatch installed before I leave for the States tomorrow, since I expect to need it over there. However I am having some trouble getting it installed, so I am in a bit of a spot here. Any help would be appreciated (and needed I am afraid `;-) The problem is when I run perl M

Re: Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Alexander Wallace
Wow! Great! Thanks, That linux conf is very nice! Thanks for your answears, I'll give all that stuff a try! Take care! On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Kurt Lieber wrote: > > I want to work with my partner developing some software, I would like to > > have acommon place in which we put our stuff. Like a c

Re: I'm in a loop

2001-10-11 Thread Greg Wiley
On Thursday, October 11, 2001 9:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After making choices (series of questions), > I'm told that I've reached the moment of truth. > Excited, I follow the instruction to reboot and > find myself back at the welcome screen which > leads nowhere except through the same

Re: I'm in a loop

2001-10-11 Thread Piotr Foremniak
Try to remove CD from drive? :-) On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 16:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After making choices (series of questions), I'm told that I've reached the > moment of truth. Excited, I follow the instruction to reboot and find myself > back at the welcome screen which leads nowhere exc

Re: Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Kurt Lieber
> I want to work with my partner developing some software, I would like to > have acommon place in which we put our stuff. Like a common directory for > the proyects we share and files we share... > > How would I go about that? does it go in /home? You may want to look at CVS (www.cvshome.org) It

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-11 Thread John Gilger
From: "Hall Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Finally, what I'm really interested in is the adamant MS-bashers and when they've last used Windows. If they're s against it, I assume they either never have or it's been 5+ years. I'm not an "adamant MS-bahser", at least I don't think so ;) Howe

Re: ALSA loaded, but not playing sound

2001-10-11 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Kurt Lieber wrote: > I've been unable to get alsa working on my Woody installation. Here's what > I've done so far: > > * installed/compiled alsa-source > * run alsaconf to configure my sound card > * run update-modules to update modules.conf > * cat /proc/interrupts to mak

ALSA loaded, but not playing sound

2001-10-11 Thread Kurt Lieber
I've been unable to get alsa working on my Woody installation. Here's what I've done so far: * installed/compiled alsa-source * run alsaconf to configure my sound card * run update-modules to update modules.conf * cat /proc/interrupts to make sure I don't have an IRQ conflict (I don't) * looked

I'm in a loop

2001-10-11 Thread CICVET
After making choices (series of questions), I'm told that I've reached the moment of truth.  Excited, I follow the instruction to reboot and find myself back at the welcome screen which leads nowhere except through the same questions.  What am I doing wrong, or not doing right?  Your help is apprec

Re: Takin' the plunge...

2001-10-11 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
tony, wayne: as promised, here are the files which you would need to update for adsl usage 1) /etc/resolv.conf 2) /etc/network/interfaces 3) firewall scripts - i am not fimilar with the way debian does this as this machine is behind a firewall already 1) contains the nameservers and related

Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there, I hope you can forgive my ignorance in this issues, I'm very new to debian and linux/unix in general... I installed potato in this ibm pc 325 i got from ebay, everything is working great, I love it! I want to work with my partner developing some software, I would like to have acommon

Re: Hello and 1st Question

2001-10-11 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 12:29:39PM -0400, Brad R wrote: > Hello everyone. > > Forgive me if my first several questions sound stupid, I've just begun with > Linux and have tried to learn what I can, but there is so much to learn. > I'm familiar with Unix protocols on the wire, but have never worked

Cable Modem Problems

2001-10-11 Thread Luke Reeves
Hello everyone. I've recently erased my RedHat Linux machine and installed Debian Woody. I used [EMAIL PROTECTED] (in Canada) with RedHat just fine, using either Pump or DHCPCD - specifying the hostname and interface - with no problems whatever. Now when I try to use the dynamic IP configura

Re: Hello and 1st Question

2001-10-11 Thread Robert L. Harris
Debian has 3 distrubitions I guess you'd say. The current "stable" distribution of Debian Linux (gnu/linux) is named Potato. The current "testing, soon to be stable" distribution is named Woody. At some point in the future Woody will replace Potato as stable and a new unstable will be named (

Hello and 1st Question

2001-10-11 Thread Brad R
Hello everyone. Forgive me if my first several questions sound stupid, I've just begun with Linux and have tried to learn what I can, but there is so much to learn. I'm familiar with Unix protocols on the wire, but have never worked directly with the OS before a couple months ago. Microsoft has f

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