Re: Mutiple mail servers : REPOST

2001-10-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
> If you should dare to run sendmail on Debian box, you should know the > answer to what you should to get what you want: > > "Just set up vertual domain." I meant to type: If you should dare to run sendmail on a Debian box, you should know the answer to what you asked: "Just set

Setting up a server for XDMCP

2001-10-17 Thread Lars Jensen
How do I set up a server for XDMCP - do I need to do more than edit the Xaccess file to allow any user to connect? Thanks, Lars. %%% Lars Jensen, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno NV 89512-3999. Tel: 775.673.7113 E-mail: [

Re: Shall I upgrade to Woody?

2001-10-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:22:06PM +0200, Sigue wrote: > I know this is a bit to generic question, and it has been probably > already discussed a 1000 times, but I'm fairly new, so please forgive > me if I ask it nevertheless. Yes. If you ask this question here, answer is NO. (Half joking ...

php4-mysql package

2001-10-17 Thread Patrick Lane
Which packages do I need to install to be able to use mysql and php4 together? There are more mysql packages than just php4-mysql I'm assuming. I currently have apache, php4, and php4-mysql installed. --Patrick

GeForce3: X won't start!!!!

2001-10-17 Thread Aaron Traas
I just got a new GeForce3, and am having problems getting X working at all. I'm using an AMD 760 based motherboard with a 1ghz Athlon and SB Live!. I compiled a new kernel, and the NVIDIA kernel module and GLX package. I modified XF86Config-4 as the instructions said. When I type "startx", I get

Re: Apple Keyboard

2001-10-17 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once in debian galaxy, I heard Tomoo Nmura say > Hello, > > I'm using Sid i386. > Currently, I choose Apple USB keyboard. > When touching key, Linux always goes to freeze. > I reconfigure console-common and set keyboard as qwert, US america, > Apple USB keyboard but the problem still exist. > An

GeForce3: X won't start!!!!

2001-10-17 Thread Aaron Traas
I just got a new GeForce3, and am having problems getting X working at all. I'm using an AMD 760 based motherboard with a 1ghz Athlon and SB Live!. I compiled a new kernel, and the NVIDIA kernel module and GLX package. I modified XF86Config-4 as the instructions said. When I type "startx", I get

Re: IPchains output

2001-10-17 Thread John Patton
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:27:21AM +1000, Craig wrote: > Hi, > I am curious as what each field refers to I know that the example is, date > hostname then deny 24.242.71.87 src port 137 to my box on port 137 proto 17 > which I believe is udp, however the rest fails me (also does someone have a > com

Re: Mutiple mail servers : REPOST

2001-10-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, If you should dare to run sendmail on Debian box, you should know the answer to what you should to get what you want: "Just set up vertual domain." You can run as many sendmail(MTA) in theory using chroot and different port. I see no point running another MTA. I can assure you that

Re: extra text prints at the end of jobs

2001-10-17 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:28:28PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: | Why bother using postscript interpreter (GS) on Linux work for Windoze | machine? | | Make an lpr device without filtering (RAW) and access it though samba | from windoze. Let windoze machine worry formatting for windoze. | | Cheers ;

Re: supercomputer (sort of?)

2001-10-17 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:35:53PM -0700, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: | Is there any info anywhere on linking with other | computers (not LAN) on the Internet to form a higher | computing capacity entity (LINUX specific, non-LINUX | specific)? HOWTO's? Books? Online sources? CORBA is one platfo

Re: extra text prints at the end of jobs

2001-10-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Why bother using postscript interpreter (GS) on Linux work for Windoze machine? Make an lpr device without filtering (RAW) and access it though samba from windoze. Let windoze machine worry formatting for windoze. Cheers ;-) On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:03:51PM -0400, dman wrote: > > I now have

Re: can i run caldera linux with windows xp together?

2001-10-17 Thread dman
Your subject doesn't match ;-). I'll assume the subject is in error and you meant Debian. On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 03:17:16PM -0700, Shouguo Li wrote: | hi, i have a question about installing debian linux on my computer. | i have a laptop with windows xp installed, can i partition my hard | drive

Re: how to remove penguin logo

2001-10-17 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:35:18PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: | > do you have to use fb? I think the logo is mandatory w/ framebuffer... but | > when you clear the screen, it's supposed to go away | | No, as far as I know, I don't need to use fb. I too think that you are using the fb, whethe

Apache Method: POST

2001-10-17 Thread Michael W. Cole
I am trying to get the method Post to work with Apache 1.3.9 and PHP4. I can't get the POST method to go through. I have looked at the Apache newsgroup but can't seem to find anything on there that will work. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you. Michael begin:vcard n:Cole;Michael tel;pager:

rescue recovery

2001-10-17 Thread Tom Allison
I finally got 90% of my notebook back up and running. Someone else mentioned they were in the same spot. Here's what I've managed to do so far: First, no I did not make a backup kernel. No I did not RTFM some critical 'M' No I did not pay any attention to all the questions being asked of me duri

Re: gnome slowdown

2001-10-17 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:10:57PM -0400, dman wrote: | On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 02:22:10PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: ... | | After compiling and installing ALSA, apt-get installing esound, and adding | | myself to group "audio", GNOME was clipping right along. | | | | I think that GNOME sho

ATI Radeon 7500 (XFree86 config problem)

2001-10-17 Thread Thedore Knab
I recently purchased an ATI Radeon 7500 over a GEForce because of the opensouce support. The ATI Radeon is supported by XFree86 according to #283 on http://www.xfree86.org/cvs/changes.html I am running XFree86 4.1.0-7 (unstable). I have compiled in DRI and Radeon support in the 2.4.12 k

Re: How can I get ntp working?

2001-10-17 Thread Tom Allison
The answer is Use a simple server for your ntpd and never ever let it go down. Some places I know have something not much better than a Pentium 1 with kernel 2.2.xx on it. Uptimes for things like this and DNS servers should be in the years, if all goes well. Unfortunately, if you've got

emacs & w3m problem

2001-10-17 Thread Tomasz Kosinski
I am not able to get w3m to run successfully from within emacs. w3m works fine outside of emacs, and I can browse-url successfully with w3 or with lynx from within emacs. Each time I try to start w3m, either with "M-x w3m", I get messages back starting with "Dump Header", then ultimately the error

Re: Linux RAM drive support/performance

2001-10-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 05:42:23PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 01:49:01PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: > | > | Does Linux support any RAM drive(s)? How much faster are these drives over > | an attached drive? Is there a CPU performance penalty? > > According to the kernel FAQ, Lin

Re: Debian books

2001-10-17 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
ramsubs wrote: > The book's back cover indicates Reader Level is "Beginner to Advanced". Unfortunately, Debian is not for beginners. Use Mandrake, as long as you do not encounter problems! (See the Debian FAQ for more detail). In my place, there are *many* "Debian Server" maintainers who are u

Re: Mutiple mail servers : REPOST

2001-10-17 Thread Debian GNU
Hi Mike, For some reasons, I would like to have another one. Main reason is space constraint in the existing one. It it is the case with only one server, I wouldnt have posted this question. :) Deb --- Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I was just wondering why you don't just h

Forwarding Debian-user "digest": what is the best current practice?

2001-10-17 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
Hello: I would like to know the "best current practice" of forwarding an *EDITED* debian-user thread to another list. 1. Should I notify each original writer, or should I also post the digest to the debian-user list, or just do nothing (default)? 2. I prefer not to disclose the writer's em

Re: supercomputer (sort of?)

2001-10-17 Thread Jens Gecius
"Mr. Jan Hearthstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any info anywhere on linking with other > computers (not LAN) on the Internet to form a higher > computing capacity entity (LINUX specific, non-LINUX > specific)? HOWTO's? Books? Online sources? > Thanks, Hearthstone. Plenty... Mo

Re: Shall I upgrade to Woody?

2001-10-17 Thread Shaul Karl
> I know this is a bit to generic question, and it has been probably already > discussed a 1000 times, Actually I believe it was discussed less then you imagine. > but I'm fairly new, so please forgive me if I ask it nevertheless. > It seems to me that this should be the major factor by whic

supercomputer (sort of?)

2001-10-17 Thread Mr. Jan Hearthstone
Is there any info anywhere on linking with other computers (not LAN) on the Internet to form a higher computing capacity entity (LINUX specific, non-LINUX specific)? HOWTO's? Books? Online sources? Thanks, Hearthstone. = Modelling the Future http://homepages.about.com/hearthstone/ecosu

Re: how to remove penguin logo

2001-10-17 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Petre Daniel wrote: > JCR> Well, I have installed 2.2 on a i386 system with a Matrox Millenium MGA > JCR> G100 AGP card and a ViewSonic P655 monitor. The logo looks bad, but that > JCR> doesn't matter. (The student using the workstation was new to Linux and > JCR> couldn't ev

X server hangs during test config

2001-10-17 Thread Jijo.Jose.A
dear debianists, i am a newby in debian, i installed debian sid 3.0 and kernel 2.4.19. but i can't configure X server . my system is AMD duron 700, biostar - VIA KT 133 chipset S-A-M7VKL, with integrated video - S3 ProSavage4, x will detect it as S3 ProSavage KM133 rev 0, so i installed S3-xser

Apple Keyboard

2001-10-17 Thread Tomoo Nmura
Hello, I'm using Sid i386. Currently, I choose Apple USB keyboard. When touching key, Linux always goes to freeze. I reconfigure console-common and set keyboard as qwert, US america, Apple USB keyboard but the problem still exist. Any solutions ? Tomoo -- ** Nomura Technical Management Offi

Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

2001-10-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 07:35:20AM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > > > "Karsten M. Self" writes: > > > > > To this extent, the CSS spec is severely flawed in that it grants > > > precedence to website author, not reader. This

Re: Any windowing system in text mode?

2001-10-17 Thread ramsubs
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:00:44PM +0800, ramsubs wrote: > > If I wanted to write an app which runs on a pseudo windowing system in > > text mode, what tools do I use? By this, I mean something similar to > > Foxpro for DOS which has a windowing system running in DOS mode where > > you can drag

Re: /proc permissions

2001-10-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:53:07AM +, andrej hocevar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:01:12PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:19:35PM +, andrej hocevar ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > lately i've inherited my brother's rockwell mode

Re: Problems browsing a site

2001-10-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:32:05PM -0700, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 08:33 PM 10/16/01 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > >on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:54:14PM -0700, Ross Boylan > >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/javascript-rant.html > > > >Write

Font problem with Gnumeric etc.

2001-10-17 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Hello, I have a problem with some fonts displaying the text as squares instead of the letters. I noticed the problem initially with Gnumeric, but it also appears with xmms playlist display. So I don't think it's a Gnumeric problem, rather than a problem with fonts in X, or how Gnome is handling

Hard drive repartitioning..

2001-10-17 Thread Petre Daniel
Well,i have a pc without a floppy disk,with only cdrom and a 3 gb hard drive. I've put a first 1,8 gb windows partition and a 1,2 gb debian partition.Now,since i'm not using any X thingie,i'd like to know an easy way to repartition my hardrive like 2,3 gb hdd windows and only 700 megs of debian. I

Evolution - sorta fixed.

2001-10-17 Thread Steve Downing
I had been having troubles with the mail component of Evolution appearing to crash, and after finding killev and oafslay (more programs to kill runaway processes!), I was a bit happier, but it seems that the source of my troubles lay deeper. I was running Nautilus and Evolution at the same time

X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

2001-10-17 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Hi boys and girls, anyone can tell me what the fuck is that dexconf crap and how do I get rid of it? I mean, really, which genius came up with the idea that I need to regenerate a perfectly working config file every time I update $PACKAGE? Jeesus F. Christ... it could at least ask me if I *rea

IPchains output

2001-10-17 Thread Craig
Hi, I am curious as what each field refers to I know that the example is, date hostname then deny 24.242.71.87 src port 137 to my box on port 137 proto 17 which I believe is udp, however the rest fails me (also does someone have a complete listing of proto numbers to names (such as proto 17

Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

2001-10-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:52:52PM -0400, Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" writes: > > > To this extent, the CSS spec is severely flawed in that it grants > > precedence to website author, not reader. This is bass ackwards. > > One major point of CSS was explicitly to

Re: how to remove penguin logo

2001-10-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, The kernel Documentation has something about that in the framebuffer directory... If I remember correctly, someone had written a gimp-plugin to convert any image to a file that you replaced the penguin w/... Cameron Matheson - Original Message - From: Robert L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: How can I get ntp working?

2001-10-17 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 19:03:30 EDT, Tom Allison writes: >Additional comment. >ntpd on Server 'A' will not accept any time synchronization requests until it >is satisfied it's got a reasonable time, then Computer 'B' will be able to >synchronize with Server 'A'. >After you run ntpdate and start ntp

Fw: root raid & xfs journalling file system - woody

2001-10-17 Thread Callide- Eagle Engineering
- Original Message - From: "Callide- Eagle Engineering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 18 October 2001 9:25 Subject: root raid & xfs journalling file system - woody > Hi, > > Please cc me as I'm not on the list yet. > > I'll be soon setting up a server at wor

mozilla

2001-10-17 Thread Ranko Veselinovic
Hi folks I just want to ask if anybody has observed the same symptoms described below? Well, I installed Mozilla/5.0 (X11;U;Linux 2.2.19 i586;en-US;m18) Gecko/20001103. I'm running Icewm (without gnome,kde) with the default theme. After a while the colors of the window-manager and mozilla starts

Re: How can I get ntp working?

2001-10-17 Thread Tom Allison
On Wednesday 17 October 2001 14:13, Dave Sherohman spewed forth: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:44:50PM +0530, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: > > [Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:36:38AM -0500] Dave Sherohman : > > > ntpdate sets the time to be correct now. > > > > ntpdate sets the system time after syncing with

Re: gs 6.5 package anywhere?

2001-10-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ari Pollak wrote: > The newest gs 6 packages are at http://incoming.debian.org. hopefully > they should be in unstable tomorrow. > > > > The gs package is terribly outdated. Anyone know of a gs 6.5 > > > package built with stp support? Yes, and it has stp support! I finally got my Canon S400

Re: File corruption

2001-10-17 Thread Russell Coker
Firstly I think this is more suitable for debian-user, so I'm BCCing -devel and CCing -user. Please CC me on any follow-ups. On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:27, Steven Mooij wrote: > Hello, I'm not a debian developer (yet), but I hope I am allowed to post a > message here. It is about a potential bug, bu

Re: font problem in kde

2001-10-17 Thread Tom Allison
On Wednesday 17 October 2001 14:56, Mario Olimpio de Menezes spewed forth: > Hi, > > I'm experiencing a weird problem in kde: > - when using kde wm, I can't access all fonts available in my > system; it defaults to a very ugly and almost unreadable font (Arnold > Boecklin). > - wh

Re: how to remove penguin logo

2001-10-17 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:28:04AM +0200, Petre Daniel wrote: > Hello Jeremy, > > Thursday, October 18, 2001, 01:26:41 Acasica, you wrote: > > JCR> Well, I have installed 2.2 on a i386 system with a Matrox Millenium MGA > JCR> G100 AGP card and a ViewSonic P655 monitor. The logo looks bad, but th

Re: gnome slowdown

2001-10-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 03:02:09PM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: > hello, > after i finally solved my sound problems in gnome, the bugger is > gnawing at my nerves again.. now it slows down in a very haphazard > manner.. first of all it seems to start up slower than before.. Gnome slow? Gee,

Re: KDE v's Gnome font rendering & how do I get all of gnome Anyways?

2001-10-17 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Aniartia wrote: > I've just finaly got X working only to find KDE, correctly, uses 75dpi font > rendering but gnome for some god forsaken reason is using 100dpi, anyone got > any ideas how to get gnome & kde on the same page, prefrably the 75dpi page? Check /etc/X11/xinit/x

Re: how to remove penguin logo

2001-10-17 Thread Volker Schlecht
* Robert L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011018 00:32]: > How do you change the logo? I remember back when he came out there were > alot of alternatives. I'd like to find something a bit more interesting. http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~piefel/debian/ is probably what you are looking for.

Re: Change XFree from 4.1.0 to 3.3.6 in testing?

2001-10-17 Thread Mark S. Mathews
Ok, I figured it out. I used the 3.3.6 packages that dselect shows but had to go and get the xserver-mach64 package from potato. It seems to be working OK now...except I can't use a framebuffer console with the mach64 server, but that's a different problem. -M "Mark S. Mathews" wrote: > > Hi F

Re: how to remove penguin logo

2001-10-17 Thread Robert L. Harris
How do you change the logo? I remember back when he came out there were alot of alternatives. I'd like to find something a bit more interesting. Thus spake Cameron Matheson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hey, > > do you have to use fb? I think the logo is mandatory w/ framebuffer... but > when yo

Re: how to remove penguin logo

2001-10-17 Thread Tim Moss
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:15:11 -0700 "Jeremy C. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --snip-- > The problem is that the logo stays on the screen even after the kernel > and > the system boots. It uses up screen space (plus it never drew > correctly > in the first place). > --snip-- Are you talking abo

Re: how to remove penguin logo

2001-10-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, do you have to use fb? I think the logo is mandatory w/ framebuffer... but when you clear the screen, it's supposed to go away Cameron Matheson - Original Message - From: Jeremy C. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 4:14 PM Subject: how to remove pengu

Re: how to remove penguin logo

2001-10-17 Thread Glyn Millington
"Jeremy C. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I have installed 2.2 on a i386 system with a Matrox Millenium MGA > G100 AGP card and a ViewSonic P655 monitor. The logo looks bad, but that > doesn't matter. (The student using the workstation was new to Linux and > couldn't even recognize that

KDE v's Gnome font rendering & how do I get all of gnome Anyways?

2001-10-17 Thread Aniartia
I've just finaly got X working only to find KDE, correctly, uses 75dpi font rendering but gnome for some god forsaken reason is using 100dpi, anyone got any ideas how to get gnome & kde on the same page, prefrably the 75dpi page? Next thing, how do I get all of gnome down devel libs n' all with

Re: how to remove penguin logo

2001-10-17 Thread Petre Daniel
Hello Jeremy, Thursday, October 18, 2001, 01:26:41 Acasica, you wrote: JCR> Well, I have installed 2.2 on a i386 system with a Matrox Millenium MGA JCR> G100 AGP card and a ViewSonic P655 monitor. The logo looks bad, but that JCR> doesn't matter. (The student using the workstation was new to Linu

can i run caldera linux with windows xp together?

2001-10-17 Thread Shouguo Li
hi, i have a question about installing debian linux on my computer. i have a laptop with windows xp installed, can i partition my hard drive and install debian linux, too? thanks = Shouguo Li __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! P

how to remove penguin logo

2001-10-17 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Well, I have installed 2.2 on a i386 system with a Matrox Millenium MGA G100 AGP card and a ViewSonic P655 monitor. The logo looks bad, but that doesn't matter. (The student using the workstation was new to Linux and couldn't even recognize that it was a penguin.) The problem is that the logo stay

Re: gnome slowdown

2001-10-17 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 02:22:10PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: | On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Frank Preut wrote: | > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 03:02:09PM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: | > > hello, | > > after i finally solved my sound problems in gnome, the bugger is | > > gnawing at my nerves again.. now i

Re[2]: Help: SB16 & 'potato'

2001-10-17 Thread Petre Daniel
Hello Joseph, Wednesday, October 17, 2001, 22:16:54 Acasica, you wrote: JWD> On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Petre Daniel wrote: >> it's not hard. >> i have a creative sound blaster 16 myself. >> just do "modprobe sb" and you're all set. JWD> I'm surprised - that *did* work. I had managed to get it work

Re: Shall I upgrade to Woody?

2001-10-17 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:22:06PM +0200, Sigue wrote: | I know this is a bit to generic question, and it has been probably already | discussed a 1000 times, | but I'm fairly new, so please forgive me if I ask it nevertheless. | | Is there a big risk in upgrading to Woody now? ^^^ I d

Re: galeon crashing - solutions so far?

2001-10-17 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > Hey again, > > THe problems I am having are with plugins (java, realplayer, flash, > etc.); when any plugin is called, galeon just quits. It's annoying > because these plugins are use a lot, and my browser just crashes in > the middle of doing work.

Re: Linux RAM drive support/performance

2001-10-17 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 01:49:01PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: | | Does Linux support any RAM drive(s)? How much faster are these drives over | an attached drive? Is there a CPU performance penalty? According to the kernel FAQ, Linux ext2 implementation is fast enough that it is not necessary to

Re: galeon crashing - solutions so far?

2001-10-17 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hey again, THe problems I am having are with plugins (java, realplayer, flash, etc.); when any plugin is called, galeon just quits. It's annoying because these plugins are use a lot, and my browser just crashes in the middle of doing work. Cheers, rohan

Re: galeon crashing - solutions so far?

2001-10-17 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > Greetings all, > > Just wondering what those of you in unstable are doing with the current > galeon problem. Any idea when it will be fixed? Any solutions as of yet > (besides compiling from source)? It is working fine on my unstable machines. Wha

galeon crashing - solutions so far?

2001-10-17 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Greetings all, Just wondering what those of you in unstable are doing with the current galeon problem. Any idea when it will be fixed? Any solutions as of yet (besides compiling from source)? Cheers, rohan

Re: Shall I upgrade to Woody?

2001-10-17 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Sigue: > Some related problems: > 1. Just checking. If I would want to upgrade to Woody, I'd need to add > 'testing' or 'woody' to the sources.list, > and then I'd need to issue 'apt-get dist-upgrade'? yes - just replace all instances of stable or potato with woody or testing. then ap

Re: gnome slowdown

2001-10-17 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Frank Preut wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 03:02:09PM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: > > hello, > > after i finally solved my sound problems in gnome, the bugger is > > gnawing at my nerves again.. now it slows down in a very haphazard > > manner.. first of all it seems to

Re: gnome slowdown

2001-10-17 Thread Frank Preut
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 03:02:09PM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: > hello, > after i finally solved my sound problems in gnome, the bugger is > gnawing at my nerves again.. now it slows down in a very haphazard > manner.. first of all it seems to start up slower than before.. > secondly, applicati

Re: The right to sing along with an audio CD

2001-10-17 Thread martin f krafft
* Piet Knoester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.17 23:00:29+0200]: > chmod /dev/hd? a+r the right syntax would be chmod a+r /dev/hd?, but DON'T DO THIS. the above works, but i doubt for multiple files... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|

Re: The right to sing along with an audio CD

2001-10-17 Thread martin f krafft
* Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.17 14:03:04-0700]: > Erk! I should have followed that up with "replace ? with the > appropriate drive letter or you will have bad things happen." This > would likely be hdc for most people. I kind of misread the question - access to the CDROM

The right to sing along with an audio CD - Solution !!

2001-10-17 Thread Piet Knoester
On the command line chmod /dev/hdd a+r did the trick. As user I was already added to the group "audio". I'am enyoing the music, thanks for the tips. Greetings Piet Knoester

Gnome Panel crashing all the time...

2001-10-17 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi, Don't know if it is just me, I am using unstable and upgrade recently. And Gnome Panel just crashed a lot of the time when I exit X window. I don't have much info so far. Just wondering if it is a bug or just me -- Edwin ERTW Lau __

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2001-10-17 Thread Gerhard Kroder
there is something wrong, isn't it? README says: >cd /usr/lib >mkdir -p dosemu freedos >ln -s ../freedos dosemu my guess here: "mkdir -p dosemu/freedos; cd dosemu/freedos" before linking? Gehard

Re: The right to sing along with an audio CD

2001-10-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, martin f krafft wrote: > * Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.17 13:02:24-0700]: > > chmod /dev/hd? a+r > > > aaah! don't do this, unless you want your users to be > able to read /etc/shadow. Erk! I should have followed that up with "replace ?

Re: booting W95 from a second harddrive with grub

2001-10-17 Thread Klaus Ade Johnstad
#this is to boot W95 from a slave/second harddrive, with GRUB title WIN95 boot menu map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 GnuPG v1.0.6 Fingerprint:67E6 1D18 B2C4 4F8A 3DA3 5C6D 849F 9F5F 26FA 477D Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics/www.astro.uio.no

Default font does not display properly

2001-10-17 Thread descdata
Hi, I have a problem with fonts generally and vim-gkt particularly, the initial screen has Roman crosses for tilde characters and boxes for normal characters. I have a similar problem with other applications, like AbiWord. Other applications display text fine, except for the About box, which

Re: The right to sing along with an audio CD

2001-10-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 01:02:24PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Piet Knoester wrote: > > On my potato box with kernel 2.2.19 most things work fine but not the > > cdplayer. When I try to use a program to play an audio cd it gives an > > error. When I do this as root my

Re: The right to sing along with an audio CD

2001-10-17 Thread martin f krafft
* Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.17 13:02:24-0700]: > chmod /dev/hd? a+r aaah! don't do this, unless you want your users to be able to read /etc/shadow. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailt

Re: nvidia-kernel + 2.4.12...

2001-10-17 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Mart van de Wege ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 23:24, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > I use 2.4.12 with nVidia drivers -- works just fine. I installed from > > nVidia tarballs (plus devfs patch). > > > > Does anyone know if/which debian packages overwrite nVidia's GL st

Re: nvidia-kernel + 2.4.12...

2001-10-17 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Michael C. Alonzo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:24:09PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > * David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > ... ... > 2.4.9 + 1541 = STABLE > 2.4.12 + 1541 = stable with eterms except XTerm > > whenever i close an Xterm, that's when X

Re: nvidia-kernel + 2.4.12...

2001-10-17 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Michael C. Alonzo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:24:09PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > * David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > ... > > > I'm using 1541 + vesafb successfully so I doubt it's that. > > > > > > Have you tried just grabbing the tarballs direc

Re: DSelect again

2001-10-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Reto wrote: > Hi! > Does DSelect log the installation anywhere? How else can I see, which > package produces an "Internal Error"? Nope. If you get errors, leave dselect and tryp apt-get dselect-upgrade and see what it does. > How can I unselect everything but the packages a

Re: Help: SB16 & 'potato'

2001-10-17 Thread Joseph William Dixon
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Petre Daniel wrote: > it's not hard. > i have a creative sound blaster 16 myself. > just do "modprobe sb" and you're all set. I'm surprised - that *did* work. I had managed to get it working before on a previous installation of potato I had by jumping through hoops with ins

nfs warning: mount version older than kernel

2001-10-17 Thread Matthew Garman
I've got two computers on a small home LAN. One is my Debian "workstation" and the other is an OpenBSD firewall/NAT "server." I have some NFS shares on the OpenBSD box which I would like to have mounted (on the Debian system) at boot time. So I have some entries in /etc/fstab like the following

Re: host name in e-mails reply-to field in mutt

2001-10-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Nicolau Werneck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011017 10:01]: > hello... > > I read my e-mails in an acount at yahoo, using mutt, > and access it via a dial-in ISP. Every now and then, > my e-mails are rejected because the adderess > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" doen't exist. > > "aquarius" is the hostname I've

strange error files

2001-10-17 Thread Jason Majors
I get strange empty error files in my root directory. I have no idea what causes them. Here's a listing: -rw---1 root0 Oct 12 21:49 errs3IY3FQ -rw---1 root0 Oct 15 20:56 errs83W4Qt -rw---1 root0 Oct 16 22:48 errs8oJuts -rw---1 root

Re: Any windowing system in text mode?

2001-10-17 Thread Matthew Garman
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:00:44PM +0800, ramsubs wrote: > If I wanted to write an app which runs on a pseudo windowing system in > text mode, what tools do I use? By this, I mean something similar to > Foxpro for DOS which has a windowing system running in DOS mode where > you can drag windows ar

Re: I've done it! Wanted SMP now I get Kernel Panic!

2001-10-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Mark Lanett wrote: > When I have recompiled and installed my kernel, I get a new "LinuxOLD" entry > in Lilo automatically. I guess the dpkg install step does it. I'm running on the assumption that most people grab the official tarballs off kernel.org, which sounds like is the

Re: The right to sing along with an audio CD

2001-10-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Piet Knoester wrote: > On my potato box with kernel 2.2.19 most things work fine but not the > cdplayer. When I try to use a program to play an audio cd it gives an > error. When I do this as root my room is filled with lovely music. Looks > like a matter of rights but where d

Re: The right to sing along with an audio CD

2001-10-17 Thread shöck
edit /etc/group and add yourself to the audio group. like this: audio:x:29:shock, fame On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Piet Knoester wrote: > On my potato box with kernel 2.2.19 most things work fine but not the > cdplayer. When I try to use a program to play an audio cd it gives an > error. When I do th

Re: How to stop the 'beeps'

2001-10-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Morbo wrote: > Is it possible to stop the terminal windows from beeping every time I press > tab where there are multiple > matches etc.? Well, there's always options for that but the easiest way from my experiance is to pop the case and either flip the speaker jumper or unpl

Re: The right to sing along with an audio CD

2001-10-17 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Piet Knoester wrote: > On my potato box with kernel 2.2.19 most things work fine but not the > cdplayer. When I try to use a program to play an audio cd it gives an > error. When I do this as root my room is filled with lovely music. Looks > like a matter of rights but where

Re: The right to sing along with an audio CD

2001-10-17 Thread martin f krafft
* Piet Knoester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.17 21:31:07+0200]: > On my potato box with kernel 2.2.19 most things work fine but not the > cdplayer. When I try to use a program to play an audio cd it gives an > error. When I do this as root my room is filled with lovely music. Looks > like a matt

The right to sing along with an audio CD

2001-10-17 Thread Piet Knoester
On my potato box with kernel 2.2.19 most things work fine but not the cdplayer. When I try to use a program to play an audio cd it gives an error. When I do this as root my room is filled with lovely music. Looks like a matter of rights but where do I have to do what. Has anyone a good suggest

Re: GPL issues [Was: Old debian package source archive - where?]

2001-10-17 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:12:20PM +0100, Richard Davies wrote: > > Putting on my devil's-advocate hat to troll for a minute, why isn't > this GPL violation (or LGPL or whatever for this specific package)? > > Given we've got separate binary and source packages, it would seem > that we probably d

Shall I upgrade to Woody?

2001-10-17 Thread Sigue
I know this is a bit to generic question, and it has been probably already discussed a 1000 times, but I'm fairly new, so please forgive me if I ask it nevertheless. Is there a big risk in upgrading to Woody now? What speaks agains it? What is the main advantage in doing so? Also to give a little

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