Re: kernel compilation and ncurses problem

2001-10-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
"Bambang Purnomosidi D. P." wrote: > I already have (from unstable) libncurses5, ncurses-bin, ncurses-term, and > ncurses-base. > > DId I miss something?? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l \*ncurses\* | grep ^ii | cut -b -70 ii libncurses4 4.2-9Shared lib

Woody Killed my PCMCIA

2001-10-19 Thread Chris Hanson
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 00:06:25 -0400 From: "Doc - KD4E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If you're using my kernel, it's compiled to use the kernel's PCMCIA > modules, not the external ones that come with pcmcia-cs. I am using whatever was downloaded and installed when I followed the pro

sound in gnome

2001-10-19 Thread Andreas Leitner
Hi, on my sid machine (totally recent, except for the new mozilla packages from today), I never managed to get the gnome sounds working. esd is up and running, mpg321 -o esd, and a lot of other apps all play sound without a problem (I am using the std. kernel oss drivers). But gnome never play

Re: X sessions die when using KDM

2001-10-19 Thread nate
Jason Majors said: > When I use KDM to start X, after logging in it goes right back to > the kdm login screen. > I can login from the console and run X with startx without a > problem though. Here are the lines from applicable logs: i have the same problem. tried both kdm and xdm. the only workar

kernel compilation and ncurses problem

2001-10-19 Thread Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.
I will upgrade my kernet to 2.4.12 because of security problems. When I tried to make menuconfig, it showed error: -- rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' /usr/

Re: Woody Killed my PCMCIA

2001-10-19 Thread Doc - KD4E
> If you're using my kernel, it's compiled to use the kernel's PCMCIA > modules, not the external ones that come with pcmcia-cs. Chris: I am using whatever was downloaded and installed when I followed the proceedures from http://www.progeny.com/archive/debian/support/conversion.html (please see t

New troubles with X

2001-10-19 Thread Robert Gill
Today I updated my sid machine, just as I do every day. There were some new X packages and they seemed to install cleanly. I even restarted X just to double check, and everything ran fine. So this is probably something I foolishly brought on myself. I was reading the list and there were a few po

Re: Need help with Telnet

2001-10-19 Thread Andrew Perrin
Should be: telnet stream tcp nowait telnetd.telnetd /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd (all one line). There/s no /usr/sbin/telnet, or in.telnet. There's /usr/bin/telnet (the outgoing client), irrelevant here, and /usr/sbin/in.telnetd, the right

Re: Settings for vim for C programming?

2001-10-19 Thread mdevin
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:56:32PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 11:19:19AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:45:39PM -0400, dman wrote: > | > Here's what I do: > ... > | > First I set some default values the way I want them for all buffers. > | > Then I

Fwd: Re: how to make Lexmark Z11 work with Debian?

2001-10-19 Thread Bob Underwood
On Friday 19 October 2001 21:07, Jerry Wang wrote: > On Sat, 2001-10-20 at 02:48, Bob Underwood wrote: > > On Friday 19 October 2001 11:49, Jerry Wang wrote: > > now the following packages are installed on my Debian -- cupsomatic-ppd, > cupsys, cupsys-pstoraster, xpp, apsfilter, lpr > when I exe

Re: x starts in failsafe mode, but not regular mode

2001-10-19 Thread joel_mayes
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:42:10PM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote: > I've set up xfree86-4 on my debian woody box using the nvidia binary drivers > and KDE. Now, when I run the kdm, I get to the KDE login screen, but when I > log in in default mode, the screen blanks for a minute, then a simple blue

AC kernels (was Re: EXT3)

2001-10-19 Thread Craig Dickson
Aniartia wrote: > For the sake of mild curiosty, what's 'special' about the -ac kernels? The -ac kernel patches are produced by Alan Cox (hence the name). They consist of a number of more or less experimental features that often migrate into Linus's official kernels after a while. For example, th

Re: The right to sing along with an audio CD

2001-10-19 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 03:31:03PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > * Ian Patrick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.19 08:35:48-0500]: > > After doing the above, I'm still not able to listen to cd's either. > > can you listen to mp3s? I avoid mp3's at all costs and use ogg vorbis ins

Re: Settings for vim for C programming?

2001-10-19 Thread mdevin
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:45:39PM -0400, dman wrote: > Here's what I do: > > - > " Global defaults, applies to everything > > syntax on > > if version >= 600 > filetype on > filetype plugin on > filetype indent on > endif > > set autoindent > set tabstop=8

Re: Settings for vim for C programming?

2001-10-19 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 11:19:19AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:45:39PM -0400, dman wrote: | > Here's what I do: ... | > First I set some default values the way I want them for all buffers. | > Then I have a series of auto commands to set certian properties for | > c

Re: initrd

2001-10-19 Thread dman
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 08:08:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | How do I set up my Debian workstation to use initrd, so I can | upgrade my Kernel with apt/dselect? What bootloader do you use? BTW, you can install the new kernel but still use the old one until you adjust your bootloader to us

Re: how to make Lexmark Z11 work with Debian?

2001-10-19 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 09:07:08AM +0800, Jerry Wang wrote: ... | now the following packages are installed on my Debian -- cupsomatic-ppd, | cupsys, cupsys-pstoraster, xpp, apsfilter, lpr You should also add cupsys-client and cupsys-bsd (cupsys-bsd provides the 'lpr' and 'lpq' commands, you'll pro

Need help with Telnet

2001-10-19 Thread seg
Hi, I am trying to tell net into my Linux gateway/firewall from a winXP box. I added the follwowing to inetd.conf: telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/telnet in.telnet Went I try to telnet in, I just get a black box, can't do anything from it. What is the correct line I need to add

debian unstable - X not working!!!!!!

2001-10-19 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hi :(, I did a dist-upgrade, and when I go to startx, I get Fatal server error: Caught signal 4 Aborting. Anyone know what this is and how to fix? Please help! Thanks, Rohan

Re: Settings for vim for C programming?

2001-10-19 Thread mdevin
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:45:39PM -0400, dman wrote: > Here's what I do: > > - > " Global defaults, applies to everything > > syntax on > > if version >= 600 > filetype on > filetype plugin on > filetype indent on > endif > > set autoindent > set tabstop=8

initrd

2001-10-19 Thread waynes
How do I set up my Debian workstation to use initrd, so I can upgrade my Kernel with apt/dselect? Wayne

Re: EXT3

2001-10-19 Thread Aniartia
On Friday 19 October 2001 21:18, Craig Dickson wrote: > To use ext3, you need a kernel that supports it. Patches for 2.2.19 and > the current 2.4 kernels are available online. Also, Alan Cox's current > 2.4 kernels (the -ac kernels) include ext3 support. For the sake of mild curiosty, what's 'spec

Alsa 0.9.0b7 build problem.

2001-10-19 Thread Aniartia
This only happens on my deb machine, do everything as I did on my other boxes: untar a clean source, make & make install drivers, exicute the snddev script, go into alsa-libs make & make instal, go into alsa-oss make & make install, change ld.so.conf to include /usr/local/lib, ldconfig, go into

RE: Text copy/paste feature not working for me

2001-10-19 Thread westk
>= Original Message From Kris Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >I did an install of the potato kernel and selected packages. I chose >enlightenment and gnome under X11, which I've used before under kernel 2.4. >A feature I use quite a bit, hi-lighting text with left mouse button, then >middle-

Re: how to make Lexmark Z11 work with Debian?

2001-10-19 Thread Jerry Wang
On Sat, 2001-10-20 at 02:48, Bob Underwood wrote: > On Friday 19 October 2001 11:49, Jerry Wang wrote: > > I installed the following packages:apsfilter, lprng, lprngtool > > and downloaded cZ11.tar.gz from > > http://www.kornblum.i-p.com/Z11/LexmarkZ11.html, after make and make > > install the cZ11

remote installation

2001-10-19 Thread Tom Allison
Is there anything in Debian that might allow someone to create an installatin floppy such that: I can give someone who knows nothing about Linux (or little) a CD-ROM, floppy, and one page of instructions and be able to set up an installation on a computer from scratch? The real goal here is to

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

2001-10-19 Thread Jason Thomas
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 04:28:03AM +0200, Peter Mathiasson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:03:59PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > 3. nVidia drivers are not in dexconf's database. If you use an > >nVidia card, ignore dexconf's questions and see 0. > > It is, and has been as long as I

Re: ergent: install floppy problem: can not install 4 machines

2001-10-19 Thread dman
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 05:51:21PM -0400, Timothy Webster wrote: | I have 4 machines I can't install for this reason. | When I look at the error console "Alt F4" it says proc already mounted. | | df shows nothing, but there is a /proc directory with contents. Right, /proc does not exist on any d

bastille compatible with Debian?

2001-10-19 Thread Kurt Lieber
I noticed that bastille-linux is an optional package in dselect. Yet the bastille-linux home page (www.bastille-linux.org) says that it's only compatible with RedHat and Mandrake. Has anyone used Bastille on a Debian box (preferably Woody) that can attest to how well it does/doesn't work on De

Re: upgrading to Woody, apt-utils question

2001-10-19 Thread D.
Thanks, I install the apt-utils then do the dist-upgrade. Don --- Bastiaan Huisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed this problem too.. And because I had so > much problems getting X > to start, I tried another distro. When (in the other > distro) I found the > problem why my X wo

webmin install failure

2001-10-19 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Running SID apt-get install webmin-ssl webmin-core The installation failed to create /etc/webmin/miniserv.users So, unable to access webmin, since there are no users Any ideas on how to create this file? I tried ./changepass.pl /etc/webmin root password, but this would not work without root b

Re: kdm/xdm don't start WindowManager

2001-10-19 Thread nate
Reto said: > Hi! > I have Debian Sid installed with the current XFree86 and current > drivers for my GeForce. The X Server runs fine, I can start kdm or > xdm without any problems. > But when I start one of them and it asks me for login, it is not > able to start the WindowManager itself. Screen

Re: woody + xmms v1.2.5 (deb 1.2.5-2) SEGFAULT

2001-10-19 Thread Tom Allison
Eduard Bloch wrote: #include Tom Allison wrote on Fri Oct 19, 2001 um 05:32:34PM: I can use the KDE CD player to play music. xmms results in a setfault - nothing more given. If you installed the xmms-aalsa plugin - remove it, it is broken. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg

Re: upgrading to Woody, apt-utils question

2001-10-19 Thread Bastiaan Huisman
Hi, I've noticed this problem too.. And because I had so much problems getting X to start, I tried another distro. When (in the other distro) I found the problem why my X wouldn't start (which was quite trivial), I installed debian again, and this time I did it the right way. First I installed po

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

2001-10-19 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Adam Heath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > > > 2. Dexconf asks you if you want to overwrite XF86Config-4. > > >If you answer "no", it will proceed with questions about > > >your hardware e

Re: Debian from source

2001-10-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:44:18PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=452 > > I like this concept...maybe an apt-src tool that's like apt-get but does > build-dep, makes everything and goes the extra mile to install the > resulting deb and

Re: Installation Problems

2001-10-19 Thread Jakob B. Jensen
For rescue.bin, you should point right back at the floppy!!! You are not supposed to untar base.tar.gz or drivers.tar.gz, even if you put them on floppies! There are two ways to create the floppy versions of these: The Hard Way: dd if=some512byteheader of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 dd if=base.tar.

upgrading to Woody, apt-utils question

2001-10-19 Thread D.
Hi All I'm running Potato 2.2.r3 on a HP Pavilion 5450 (PIII 800 MGZ) with a EN2442 Nic Card that I had to configure the tulip driver for. I did a dist upgrade to Woody and keep receiving the error not preconfiguring the package, apt-utils is not installed. My question is when you do a up

Re: [wm-user] WindowMaker 0.70.0-1

2001-10-19 Thread Julio Hugo Toloza
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 23:58:49 +0300 (EEST) Dan Pascu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DP> Frankly I do not see how the output from top can help us resolve the DP> problem. I haven't denied this happens. I just said I can't reproduce, DP> and seeing a top output don't give any additional clue to find it

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

2001-10-19 Thread Alan Shutko
Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, you are saying that if I run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 now, > it will only ask questions I haven't answered? IOW, it won't > ask anything, since I've just answered every question? Lessee... Of course not, else dpkg-reconfigure wouldn't be mu

Re: exim and delayed deliveries

2001-10-19 Thread dman
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:10:24AM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote: | On Thursday, October 18, 2001 8:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | > The problem that sometimes arises is that with a mainly default | > install, exim simply queues messages for delivery but doesn't actually | > deliver them until a cr

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

2001-10-19 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Adam Heath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > 2. Dexconf asks you if you want to overwrite XF86Config-4. > >If you answer "no", it will proceed with questions about > >your hardware etc. > >It should FOAD (which part of "no" does it n

Re: Font problem with Gnumeric etc.

2001-10-19 Thread Mikko Hänninen
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Fri, 19 Oct 2001: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 03:51:41 +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote: > > I have a problem with some fonts displaying the text as squares instead of > > the letters. > > See http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001/23/ under "X fonts". Th

Re: 2.4.9 hanging on laptop

2001-10-19 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:59:25PM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: | On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, dman wrote: | (snip) | > What kind of keyboard and mouse? | | I'd assumed PS/2 - the mouse definitely is, and an external PS/2 keyboard | can be plugged in - I have CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y and the mouse isn't working. |

xchat - no serverlist!

2001-10-19 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hey all, Just wondering why this was happening: When I run xchat as a regular user, there is no serverlist, and when I try to add servers, nothing happens; the list stays blank. However, when I run as root, it is fine (even though I shouldn't be) Why is this happening? It worked properly as regu

Gnome panel not showing up

2001-10-19 Thread Kris Huber
I did an install of the potato kernel and selected packages. I chose enlightenment and gnome under X11, which I've used before under kernel 2.4. My version of gnome is a bit older (at least control panel is). I'm puzzled why I don't have a panel across the bottom of the desktop. I think it is gn

problem using vgetty - modem is not picking up

2001-10-19 Thread Pim Bliek
Hi, The following is in my /etc/inittab: T0:345:respawn:/usr/sbin/vgetty -L ttyS0 38400  But my modem doesn't even pickup the line when I ring it. Did I configure vgetty incorrectly? Or is it something in my inittab? I'm trying to set my debian linux box op as a voicemail box. Regards, Pim

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

2001-10-19 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > 2. Dexconf asks you if you want to overwrite XF86Config-4. >If you answer "no", it will proceed with questions about >your hardware etc. >It should FOAD (which part of "no" does it not understand?). Not quite. It will ask you questions tha

need a daemon that kills off memory hogs

2001-10-19 Thread Avdi B. Grimm
This is driving me nuts... every now and then, for one reason or another, some program(s) will gobble up all available memory (128MB RAM, 256MB Swap) and effectively freeze the computer. It's not a single, isolateable program, it's usually caused by something different each time. Sometimes it cau

Text copy/paste feature not working for me

2001-10-19 Thread Kris Huber
I did an install of the potato kernel and selected packages. I chose enlightenment and gnome under X11, which I've used before under kernel 2.4. A feature I use quite a bit, hi-lighting text with left mouse button, then middle-clicking to produce a copy of that text, is not working. I'm not sure

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

2001-10-19 Thread Peter Mathiasson
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:03:59PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > 3. nVidia drivers are not in dexconf's database. If you use an >nVidia card, ignore dexconf's questions and see 0. It is, and has been as long as I remember. The name is nv -- Peter Mathiasson E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web

Re: woody + xmms v1.2.5 (deb 1.2.5-2) SEGFAULT

2001-10-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Tom Allison wrote on Fri Oct 19, 2001 um 05:32:34PM: > I can use the KDE CD player to play music. > xmms results in a setfault - nothing more given. If you installed the xmms-aalsa plugin - remove it, it is broken. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=xmms-aalsa Gruss/Rega

Re: Why no man pages?

2001-10-19 Thread Ken Mead
Thanks, man-db did it. Have a good weekend all. KM - Original Message - From: "Meir Kriheli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 5:36 PM Subject: Re: Why no man pages? > On Friday 19 October 2001 22:50, Ken Mead wrote: > > Hello: > > > > I have yet to find a fix for

ergent: install floppy problem: can not install 4 machines

2001-10-19 Thread Timothy Webster
I have 4 machines I can't install for this reason. When I look at the error console "Alt F4" it says proc already mounted. df shows nothing, but there is a /proc directory with contents. Thanks again -Tim. I am using disks-i386\images-1.44\udma100-ext3. When I try to install the base from t

Re: Why no man pages?

2001-10-19 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Friday 19 October 2001 22:50, Ken Mead wrote: > Hello: > > I have yet to find a fix for this problem I am experiencing. I have a > testing box without any man pages(command)! > > When i run the man command I get this error back: > > "bash: man: command not found" > > However, I do have directori

Re: Debian from source

2001-10-19 Thread Tom Allison
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=452 I like this concept...maybe an apt-src tool that's like apt-get but does build-dep, makes everything and goes the extra mile to install the resulting deb and optionally clean up source and debs, a la apt-ge

woody + xmms v1.2.5 (deb 1.2.5-2) SEGFAULT

2001-10-19 Thread Tom Allison
Does anyone have any information regarding the following problem? I have woody installed on my notebook. Along with KDE. I can use the KDE CD player to play music. xmms results in a setfault - nothing more given. www.xmms.org reports that there is a known bug in woody but says nothing more --

Problem installing X

2001-10-19 Thread Stuart Luscombe
Hey all, it's me again :P I've sorted out the mail problem...turned out to be permissions on /var/spool/mail, exim couldn't write into it. Anyway, my main problem now is that I can't install X. I need to put on X4.1.0 as I have a GeForce 2MX/400 card, so I have compiled it (after a small hiccup)

Re: Why no man pages?

2001-10-19 Thread Greg Wiley
On Friday, October 19, 2001 1:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When i run the man command I get this error back: > > "bash: man: command not found" > > However, I do have directories in /usr/man/...? I had a Woody upgrade that silently removed man support from my box. apt-get install man-db d

Re: X/WindowManager: Mouse jumping around

2001-10-19 Thread Greg Wiley
On Friday, October 19, 2001 1:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I startx the mouse jumps around wildly. It works for some seconds, > then it hops around, also pressing buttons. This makes working impossible, > of course :( I don't know, some days I think random input is as good as any I can

Re: Font problem with Gnumeric etc.

2001-10-19 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 03:51:41 +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote: > I have a problem with some fonts displaying the text as squares instead of > the letters. See http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001/23/ under "X fonts". HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages

Re: framebuffer bootup question [SOLVED]

2001-10-19 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Should have digged further! In linux/drivers/video/modedb.c there is an array of struct fb_videomode which lists the video modes that are supported by tdfx through modedb. Luckily [EMAIL PROTECTED] is compiled right in and works beautifully, too. Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://w

Re: Convert MAC to IP

2001-10-19 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Are there any utilities to convert a MAC to an IP address. Is that even >possible ? "arp -a" will list the mappings currently in use. If you run arpwatch, /var/lib/arpwatch/arp.dat will contain a list. A perl or shell script to parse it

Re: EXT3

2001-10-19 Thread Craig Dickson
Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Everywhere i hear about ext3! > > What is that? What are the advantages (disadvantages)? How can i > set it up on Debian? Ext3 is a journaling filesystem, which means that it applies database-style transaction logic to the filesystem for improved reliability in the fac

Re: Why no man pages?

2001-10-19 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 16:50:55 -0400, Ken Mead wrote: > "bash: man: command not found" apt-get install man-db HTH, Ray -- RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may not be a better one than the one the blocks live in but it'll be a sight more vivid. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C

Re: Why no man pages?

2001-10-19 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:50:55PM -0400, Ken Mead wrote: > Hello: > > I have yet to find a fix for this problem I am experiencing. I have a > testing box without any man pages(command)! > > When i run the man command I get this error back: > > "bash: man: command not found" > > H

RE: Why no man pages?

2001-10-19 Thread Mullins, Ron
>I have yet to find a fix for this problem I am experiencing. I have a >testing box without any man pages(command)! > >When i run the man command I get this error back: > >"bash: man: command not found" Make sure you have man-db installed: apt-get install man-db -- Those who would give up essen

Re: [wm-user] WindowMaker 0.70.0-1

2001-10-19 Thread Dan Pascu
I use debian unstable (up to date 18 Oct) and never encountered this behavior. You will have to narrow down the set of conditions that triggers this. You should recompile wmaker from source without any ./configure options and without any modification to wconfig.h Install it and create a new test u

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

2001-10-19 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Ok, here's what I learned. 0. Make sure you have a backup copy of XF86Config-4. 1. Dexconf (the program that configures X in debian) is run *every* time xserver package is updated. It should run 1) on initial X installation, 2) on major upgrade that introduces changes in config file, an

Re: [wm-user] WindowMaker 0.70.0-1

2001-10-19 Thread Dan Pascu
Frankly I do not see how the output from top can help us resolve the problem. I haven't denied this happens. I just said I can't reproduce, and seeing a top output don't give any additional clue to find it :P On 19 Oct, Julio Hugo Toloza wrote: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 22:34:19 +0300 (EEST) > Dan Pa

RE: download directories in ftp?

2001-10-19 Thread Kris Huber
'prompt' toggles whether it asks you or not. -Original Message- From: Alexander Wallace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 9:22 AM To: Rohan Deshpande Cc: Debian-User Mailing List Subject: Re: download directories in ftp? mget *, there are some options to make it no

Re: allowing localhost to use squid proxy from konqueror, does not work

2001-10-19 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Walter Tautz wrote: > I having difficulty getting this to work under woody... > > I am typically getting > > 1003520052.998 2 127.0.0.1 TCP_DENIED/403 1092 GET > http://www.netscape.com/ - NONE/- - > > in the access log > I have used the default debian configuratio

Why no man pages?

2001-10-19 Thread Ken Mead
Hello: I have yet to find a fix for this problem I am experiencing. I have a testing box without any man pages(command)! When i run the man command I get this error back: "bash: man: command not found" However, I do have directories in /usr/man/...? If I try to apt-get install manpages I get n

EXT3

2001-10-19 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi,   Everywhere i hear about ext3!   What is that? What are the advantages (disadvantages)? How can i set it up on Debian?   cheers, Raffaele

Re: download directories in ftp?

2001-10-19 Thread Stephen Ryan
On 19 Oct, Alexander Wallace wrote: > mget *, there are some options to make it not ask you but I don't remember > now... Sorry.., > > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Just wondering if there was a way to download full directories and their >> contents from remote p

test,ignore

2001-10-19 Thread Walter Tautz

X/WindowManager: Mouse jumping around

2001-10-19 Thread Reto
Hi again! After the very good tip about the bug with "$REALSTARTUP", I have another problem with X or maybe even at all, I don't know: When I startx the mouse jumps around wildly. It works for some seconds, then it hops around, also pressing buttons. This makes working impossible, of course

RE: Debian from source

2001-10-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Oct-2001 Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=452 > > I like this concept...maybe an apt-src tool that's like apt-get but does > build-dep, makes everything and goes the extra mile to install the > resulting deb and optionally clean up sourc

squid usage on localhost....doesn't work alas

2001-10-19 Thread Walter Tautz
I keep getting 1003520003.279 2 127.0.0.1 TCP_DENIED/403 1100 GET What gives... I am using the woody default install with some minors editing as suggested in QuickStart Basically I would like to use a browser on the localhost to use squid running on the localhost as a proxy...

EXT3

2001-10-19 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi,   Everywhere i hear about ext3!   What is that? What are the advantages (disadvantages)? How can i set it up on Debian?   cheers, Raffaele

PPPoE problem: everything fine: no ping, no access

2001-10-19 Thread Reto
Hi! I have just configured PPPoE on my Debian Sid. I finally managed to get it online. When starting plog, I get my current (dynamic) IP-adress (local and remote), and the primary+secondary DNS listed. But I cannot ping anything, I cannot get out. Ping on myself (static 192 as well as dynam

Re: framebuffer bootup question

2001-10-19 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Stephen Gran wrote: > > vga=0x317 or vga=0x318 This doesn't work, the kernel will select a 80x30 console. > Or append="video=aty128fb:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" - adjust for your values, but > this works well for me. The form is > video=:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The problem is, that even with [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: install floppy problem

2001-10-19 Thread danielt
I think the newest boot floppies take care of this. Try re-downloading and re-creating your boot-floopies. --Daniel On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:02:50PM -0400, Timothy Webster wrote: > I am using disks-i386\images-1.44\udma100-ext3. > > When I try to install the base from the network. > I get th

vgetty / mgetty

2001-10-19 Thread Pim Bliek
Hi, When I do a search through the available packages using dselect, I cannot find mgetty and/or vgetty :-( My /etc/apt/sources: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free deb ftp:

OT: English as a Second Language Software for Linux

2001-10-19 Thread Rob VanFleet
As the subject says, I am looking for some good ESL software for Linux. Does anyone have some suggestions? Thanks, Rob

allowing localhost to use squid proxy from konqueror, does not work

2001-10-19 Thread Walter Tautz
I having difficulty getting this to work under woody... I am typically getting 1003520052.998 2 127.0.0.1 TCP_DENIED/403 1092 GET http://www.netscape.com/ - NONE/- - in the access log I have used the default debian configuration Does anyone have a configuration file that will

Re: download directories in ftp?

2001-10-19 Thread Alexander Wallace
mget *, there are some options to make it not ask you but I don't remember now... Sorry.., On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wondering if there was a way to download full directories and their > contents from remote places in the program 'ftp'. In the directory > co

Re: Q: dns /exim / inetd (?) slow startup (2)

2001-10-19 Thread Mark Carroll
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Ingo Hohmann wrote: > don't know ... how can I find out? Is it even possible given your network setup? -- Mark

[no subject]

2001-10-19 Thread Pim Bliek
Hi, I'm trying to install sendmail and logcheck, using dselect. I'm getting tho following error message: Unpacking sendmail (from .../sendmail_8.12.1-2_i386.deb) ...    Unpacking logcheck (from .../logcheck_1.1.1-9_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cac

install floppy problem

2001-10-19 Thread Timothy Webster
I am using disks-i386\images-1.44\udma100-ext3. When I try to install the base from the network. I get the following error. Failure trying to run: chroot /target mount -t proc proc/proc This happens for both testing and unstable network installs. -Tim.

Re: ssh seg faulting

2001-10-19 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Bob Koss wrote: > Anyone else seeing this? Any advice on what to do? I removed the ssh > package and reinstalled. No luck. The one in unstable works... -- Baloo

X sessions die when using KDM

2001-10-19 Thread Jason Majors
When I use KDM to start X, after logging in it goes right back to the kdm login screen. I can login from the console and run X with startx without a problem though. Here are the lines from applicable logs: auth.log Oct 19 12:12:21 scd714 PAM_unix[692]: (kde) session opened for user jmajors by (ui

Re: [wm-user] WindowMaker 0.70.0-1

2001-10-19 Thread Charles Baker
I had this same problem on testing/unstable as well, but didn't associate it with the selection of omnipresent on a window. However, I just tried it, and sure enough that does send my cpu to full utilization and unchecking drops it back down to normal. --- Dan Pascu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [wm-user] WindowMaker 0.70.0-1

2001-10-19 Thread Julio Hugo Toloza
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 22:34:19 +0300 (EEST) Dan Pascu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: More information: I have just now one window switched to "Omnipresent" and from top I get 1152 root 19 0 19696 19M 1904 R58.9 15.0 15:07 X 1155 bulita13 0 2980 2980 1852 S40.6 2.2 1:16 wma

Re: download directories in ftp?

2001-10-19 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Just wondering if there was a way to download full > directories and their contents from remote places in > the program 'ftp'. In the directory containing the > directories and the contents that I want, i tried > 'get *' but it wouldn't work .. any ideas? I believe ncftp (a nicer version of ftp

Debian from source

2001-10-19 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=452 I like this concept...maybe an apt-src tool that's like apt-get but does build-dep, makes everything and goes the extra mile to install the resulting deb and optionally clean up source and debs, a la apt-get would be nice. Is there anyt

Exim + Cyrus

2001-10-19 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi All, I got a mail system with exim + cyrus with cyrdeliver as LDA. Supose the mailbox has 1 bytes of quota and it has 9000 used. The actual behaviour is that if one message of say 2000 bytes arrives, cyrus accept it, but since to delete a message, the user needs to move the message to

Re: download directories in ftp?

2001-10-19 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > Just wondering if there was a way to download full directories and their > contents from remote places in the program 'ftp'. In the directory > containing the directories and the contents that I want, i tried 'get *' > but it wouldn't work .. any idea

Re: download directories in ftp?

2001-10-19 Thread martin f krafft
* Rohan Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.19 15:20:29-0500]: > Just wondering if there was a way to download full directories and their > contents from remote places in the program 'ftp'. In the directory > containing the directories and the contents that I want, i tried 'get *' > but it woul

Re: Newsgroup / mailing list (was: Upgrade Kernel to 2.4 or later)

2001-10-19 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 19 Oct 2001, Jens Müller wrote: > This is not a real newsgroup, it is a mirrored mailing list. Please > send your posts and replies to debian-user@lists.debian.org, otherwise > they won't reach those who are not reading the list via this > particular newsgroup. What would be handy is if someon

  1   2   3   >