Re: Software DVD players

2001-10-20 Thread Krzys Majewski
Good question! For me the attraction is that I live in a small apartment so I don't really have room for a separate TV/DVD player. Oh, and also money. My 17" ViewSonic CRT + Pinnacle PCTV card + lirc + xine + xawtv makes a very good tv/vcr. Plus I already have the cable for f

Re: New troubles with X

2001-10-20 Thread Michel Loos
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > on Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:00:54PM -0700, Robert Gill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > 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 eve

Re: Woody Killed PCMCIA

2001-10-20 Thread Doc - KD4E
> If you upgraded to woody, it should have downloaded the new > pcmcia-modules package, so you shouldn't need to copy anything. > You can check in /lib/modules/ (where is the output > of "uname -r"). There should be a pcmcia directory in there. /lib/modules/2.2.18/pcmcia/ has a bunch of modules

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-20 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:39:58PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:43:43PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > ...equinomial[1]... > > [1] no, this isn't a word. but it should be. you get the idea... > > It's a damn cool word. I second its introduction to the English > langua

Re: modules will taint the kernel?

2001-10-20 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Pollywog wrote: > > > Warning, loading /lib/modules/2.4.12/pcmcia/i82365.o will taint the kernel: > > no license > > > Anyone know what this is about and how to fix it? > > It means a particular module is not GPL. Easiest f

Re: Fonts aren't quite right (different problem)

2001-10-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 11:26:44PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Ok, I know you're all tired of hearing about X font problems, but this > problem is a bit different and wasn't solved by any of the recently > posted solutions. > > Ok, I have a woody box (that got sid by accident sever

Re: modules will taint the kernel?

2001-10-20 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Pollywog wrote: > Warning, loading /lib/modules/2.4.12/pcmcia/i82365.o will taint the kernel: > no license > Anyone know what this is about and how to fix it? It means a particular module is not GPL. Easiest fix: Don't use it. -- Baloo

Re: modules will taint the kernel?

2001-10-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 02:46:36AM +, Pollywog wrote: > I just installed kernel 2.4.12 on my laptop, and when it boots, I get > the following messages: > Warning, loading /lib/modules/2.4.12/pcmcia/i82365.o will taint the > kernel: no license This is due to kernel/modutil incompatibility. Ther

Re: Debian 'woody' + Kernel 2.4.12 recompile + modules

2001-10-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:44:08PM +1000, Tim Kane wrote: > I've succesfully compiled and booted with kernel 2.4.12 without a > problem. The issue I have is with missing modules. This is due to kernel/modutil incompatibility. There was report in debian-devel ML. In short, stable kernel changed

Re: modules will taint the kernel?

2001-10-20 Thread Lance Simmons
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 02:46:36AM +, Pollywog wrote: > I just installed kernel 2.4.12 on my laptop, and when it boots, I get > the following messages: > > Warning, loading /lib/modules/2.4.12/pcmcia/i82365.o will taint the > kernel: no license > > I get a similar message for pcmcia/ds.o > >

Re: How to apply a patch?

2001-10-20 Thread alephtnull
what...say again? actually this is what happens when I try to apply the patchperhaps it's bec. a wrong patch was applied? RRR:/usr/src# patch < ext3-2.4-0.9.5-247ac3 can't find file to patch at input line 3 Perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this

Fonts aren't quite right (different problem)

2001-10-20 Thread dman
Ok, I know you're all tired of hearing about X font problems, but this problem is a bit different and wasn't solved by any of the recently posted solutions. Ok, I have a woody box (that got sid by accident several weeks ago). I tried reordering the FontPath lines in the X config file. Then I got

modules will taint the kernel?

2001-10-20 Thread Pollywog
I just installed kernel 2.4.12 on my laptop, and when it boots, I get the following messages: Warning, loading /lib/modules/2.4.12/pcmcia/i82365.o will taint the kernel: no license I get a similar message for pcmcia/ds.o Anyone know what this is about and how to fix it? thanks

Re: insmod finds cdrom -- fails pcmcia?

2001-10-20 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 07:51:56PM -0400, Doc - KD4E wrote: | insmod finds cdrom module but fails to find the pcmcia mocule | | "find -name pcmcia" shows /lib/modules/2.2.18/pcmcia This is a directory. | | I am in the midst of upgrading Progeny to Woody and my laptop | froze up (no idea why, n

Re: GNU/HURD

2001-10-20 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Isaac Aranda Nebot wrote: Por favor, ¿dónde podría encontrar información sobre el nuevo Kernel GNU/HURD? y ¿dónde podría bajármelo? Muchas gracias. http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html -- Jerome

Re: EXT3

2001-10-20 Thread Simon Law
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Morbo wrote: > Hi, > > Where do you get those Alan Cox kernels from ? > > Many thanks in advance! > regards, > Balazs > The easiest way is to get them from kernel.org. Grab the appropriate Linus kernel and apply the -ac patch. Simon

debian hangs during boot (at fsck stage)

2001-10-20 Thread Alex Hunsley
I'm having trouble with my debian 2.2r3 (potato) box. For the past two weeks its been sitting happily on the network, doing things as expected, but now it hangs during boot. I was running samba, and a few times whilst copying lots of files from a win2000 machine to the debian box I encountered erro

Re: How to apply a patch?

2001-10-20 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > even if you don't redirect it using < or |..it *still* gets patched right? > that was what happened to me when I tried to reapply the patch using the | > operator telling me that there was already a previous patch detected... No, if there's no input on stdin, nothi

Re: framebuffer bootup question [SOLVED]

2001-10-20 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake 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 an

insmod finds cdrom -- fails pcmcia?

2001-10-20 Thread Doc - KD4E
insmod finds cdrom module but fails to find the pcmcia mocule "find -name pcmcia" shows /lib/modules/2.2.18/pcmcia I am in the midst of upgrading Progeny to Woody and my laptop froze up (no idea why, no M$ products on it!) this forced a reboot just as I was about to download a current pcmcia-cs

Re: Woody & Gnome problems

2001-10-20 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 11:33:20PM +, Vittorio wrote: | I've just installed woody with xfree 4.1 and gnome 1.4, all from scratch. | | I've had some problems to launch X because issuing "startx" linux has | been complaining that X was not executable. I've relinked X (which | pointed to a non ex

Re: GNU/HURD

2001-10-20 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:52:37PM +0200, Isaac Aranda Nebot wrote: | Por favor, ¿dónde podría encontrar información sobre el nuevo Kernel | GNU/HURD? y ¿dónde podría bajármelo? Muchas gracias. Check out the 'debian-hurd' mailing list. Be aware though that the people on it may not know Spanish.

ATENCION: Necesitamos trabajadores, URGENTE!

2001-10-20 Thread Rafael
OFERTA DE TRABAJO: Procesador de emails. Nosotros te proporcionamos las instrucciones mes a mes. Empezar es completamente GRATIS. 10-30 horas semanales. Sueldo desde $900 dolares hasta $1500 o más. Trabaja desde casa, con tu ordenador. Informate escribiendo a [EMAIL PROTECTED], y pon como Asunto o

Re: SAMBA Newbie: Running applications

2001-10-20 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 05:47:06PM -0300, Rossy Roman Salgado wrote: | On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Lars Jensen wrote: | | > We just configured a potato with samba server, and it seems to work. I | > understand that this way I can use the potato as a file server for our | > Windows PC's. My questions is w

Re: how to use true type fonts in X 3.3.6

2001-10-20 Thread alephtnull
read the debian-mini ttf-HOWTO. on a side note, why use staroffice? it'a a memory hog...use LaTeX instead if you really want to impress. -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: How to apply a patch?

2001-10-20 Thread alephtnull
even if you don't redirect it using < or |..it *still* gets patched right? that was what happened to me when I tried to reapply the patch using the | operator telling me that there was already a previous patch detected... on a side note, how do you unpatch a wrong patch? using patch -R does work?

how to get SiS735 on board sound

2001-10-20 Thread mikepolniak
I have the ECSk7s5a mb with the SiS735 chipset. According to SiS linux support, the on board sound needs SiS7018 support in the kernel. So i enabled it with CONFIG_SOUND_TRIDENT and tried it as a module and directly in the kernel. cat> /proc/pci shows the on board audio at irq 11. I can >modpro

Re: Debian tools fight biological, chemical terrorism (BioChemShield).

2001-10-20 Thread Jens Müller
"Stephen M. Benoit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As a bonus, I am giving Debian users an advance look at the press release that > the company has launched this week. Interesting new way of spamming. You know the advertising policy of the Debian mailing lists? Posted&Mailed.

Woody & Gnome problems

2001-10-20 Thread Vittorio
I've just installed woody with xfree 4.1 and gnome 1.4, all from scratch. I've had some problems to launch X because issuing "startx" linux has been complaining that X was not executable. I've relinked X (which pointed to a non existent xserver_svga) to XFree86 and it all worked properly AS ROOT.

Re: Reiser and IP Masq kernel2.4.12

2001-10-20 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Sorry, I did that too. I just didn't mention it. Lance On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 07:03:04PM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: > Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 19:03:04 -0200 (BRST) > From: Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: R

How can I create /dev/st0, when booted from a rescue disk?

2001-10-20 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to restore to a new hard drive, because my root disk is dying. I have a good backup on tape, and it looks like the rescue disk ssupports the SCSI card I have, and recognizes the tape drive. However I can't find /dev/st0. How can I create this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: illegal to link against python 2.x?

2001-10-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 06:59:13PM +0200, "Jürgen A. Erhard" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: > > [Stuff about Python licenses and the legality of Python/GPL projects > snipped] > > Karsten> IANAL, TINLA, YADA. > > For anyone who doesn't know these (an

Re: get all -dev packages relateing to my install

2001-10-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Oct-2001 Lance Simmons wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:09:32AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> >> On 20-Oct-2001 Aniartia wrote: >> > I can't see any mechanisum to get the all dev packages besided geting them >> > down by hand one at a time. Have I missed something fundmental here?

Re: New troubles with X

2001-10-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:00:54PM -0700, Robert Gill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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

Re: Reiser and IP Masq kernel2.4.12

2001-10-20 Thread Michel Loos
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Does anyone have IP Masq setup using a Reiser FS and kernel 2.4.12. > I setup IP Masq one night with kernel 2.4.12 when I had a ext2 FS on my > router. It worked fine. The next day I reinstalled my system using Reiser > FS. I installed the same kern

Re: debian unstable - X not working!!!!!!

2001-10-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:28:20PM -0500, Rohan Deshpande ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi :(, > > I did a dist-upgrade, and when I go to startx, I get > > Fatal server error: > Caught signal 4 Run: $ startx 1> startx.log 2>&1 Report on errors in start.log. See also /var/log/XFree86*.log.

Re: Administration interface ...

2001-10-20 Thread Serafim Zanikolas
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:49:20AM +0200, R. Alexander wrote: ... > I just lazily have a look from now and then at the df output, sometimes > check the faillog and other mundane tasks ... > > Is there a some sort of interface which could concentrate the more important > indicators/warnings/chores

Re: Partition

2001-10-20 Thread Serafim Zanikolas
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:45:04PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: > I am about to install debian on a 4 gig hard drive. I have looked around at > How-tos and other documentation. But I have been unable to find any solid ... > there is any debian documentation out there on these recomendations I would

Re: Navigator: icons only black and white

2001-10-20 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, If I remember correctly, netscape cannot be run in 24-bit color... Try 16 or 32. Netscape is terrible though, I would suggest switching to Mozilla if you like the netscape look and feel, although galeon is a great light-weight browser that uses the gecko rendering engine. Cameron Matheson

GNU/HURD

2001-10-20 Thread Isaac Aranda Nebot
Por favor, ¿dónde podría encontrar información sobre el nuevo Kernel GNU/HURD? y ¿dónde podría bajármelo? Muchas gracias.

Re: SAMBA Newbie: Running applications

2001-10-20 Thread Rossy Roman Salgado
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Lars Jensen wrote: > We just configured a potato with samba server, and it seems to work. I > understand that this way I can use the potato as a file server for our > Windows PC's. My questions is whether I also can run install > windows applications on the samba server and r

Re: X doesn't run -- fixed font not found

2001-10-20 Thread Adam Rotaru
--- buggz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just did an apt-get install --reinstall xfonts-base > Mine is STILL broked, sigh... > > On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, khromy wrote: > > I got this too.. apt-get install xfonts-base fixed > > it though.. > > Ed June apt-get install --reinstall was NO

Navigator: icons only black and white

2001-10-20 Thread Patrick-Oliver Lorenz
Hi, on my system (Debian 2.2r0) Navigator 4.7 (smotif) shows only black and white icons. Any ideas how to fix this? Many thanks in advance. Patrick

Questions Prior to Progeny->Woody Reboot

2001-10-20 Thread Doc - KD4E
I went and wiped everything with a fresh install of Progeny. I then walked through the Woody upgrade instructions, noting but ignoring errors. (I have them ready to post once I have a successful install.) Here, again, is the source of the instructions I followed: http://www.progeny.com/archive/d

Re: Alsa 0.9.0b7 build problem.

2001-10-20 Thread Aniartia
On Saturday 20 October 2001 17:06, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > Those are symbols from ncurses, as you would have seen if you had searched > Google for the missing symbols. You need to install libncurses5 and > libncurses5-dev packages. Well I did, and 'twas what I first thought untill: debian:/hom

Re: vgetty / mgetty

2001-10-20 Thread Pim Bliek
> When I do a search through the available packages using dselect, I cannot > find mgetty and/or vgetty :-( > My /etc/apt/sources: mgetty should be in the comm section - not sure about vgetty, it doesn't show up in apt-cache search vgetty, although mgetty-voice does - don't know if this is what

Re: KMail and Outlook?

2001-10-20 Thread waynes
Install Sun's StarOffice. It's free, and is M$ Office Compatible. Wayne Franz Keferboeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote .. > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > XAIPETE! > > Im just facing a rather "unnatural" problem: My mom uses Linux and KDE > for > several weeks now aside Win

Re: Need help with Telnet

2001-10-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:39:37PM -0400, seg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to tell net into my Linux gateway/firewall from a winXP box. I > added the follwowing to inetd.conf: Don't use telnet. Install ssh and utilize an ssh client (e.g.: PuTTY) for WinXX. Peace. -- Kars

SAMBA Newbie: Running applications

2001-10-20 Thread Lars Jensen
We just configured a potato with samba server, and it seems to work. I understand that this way I can use the potato as a file server for our Windows PC's. My questions is whether I also can run install windows applications on the samba server and run them on the Windows PC's? If so, which applica

rsync probs

2001-10-20 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi,   I writed an mesg aout the moving of Linux partitions.   Now i tried it with the command:   rsync -avuP / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/debian   it worked. But about some files it stopped and made noting anymore...   Can help me bout that?   And it seemd to me that debian has no rsh if i type man r

Re: tool to scan for open samba shares

2001-10-20 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Sat, 2001-10-20 at 20:16, dman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 05:42:01PM +0200, Oliver Korff wrote: > | Hi folks, > | > | I need a tool to scan my network for open samba or windows shares. nmap and > | netcat are well known, but I want someting thet tells me, what shares are > | open eg.: /

Re: remote installation

2001-10-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:03:12PM -0400, Tom Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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 an

Re: X doesn't run -- fixed font not found

2001-10-20 Thread buggz
I just did an apt-get install --reinstall xfonts-base Mine is STILL broked, sigh... On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, khromy wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:17:31PM -0700, Adam Rotaru wrote: > > Today I upgraded my unstable install, and X stopped > > working. It includes X packages 4.1.0-8 (was -7) > >

Re: virtual newbie needs help with lib (?)

2001-10-20 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
sam rosenfeld wrote: When I installed my current (debian-2.2r2) distribution, I think I unconsciously chose a reduced version -- that is, with a smallish subset of the files on the CD-rom. I may also have chosen a much too small set of lib files. The problem: After downloading files from the n

Re: Reiser and IP Masq kernel2.4.12

2001-10-20 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Hello: Don't you also have to do (as root): echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Dean On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 08:21:17AM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Does anyone have IP Masq setup using a Reiser FS and kernel 2.4.12. > I setup IP Masq one night with kernel 2.4.12 when I had a ex

Re: get all -dev packages relateing to my install

2001-10-20 Thread Lance Simmons
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:09:32AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 20-Oct-2001 Aniartia wrote: > > I can't see any mechanisum to get the all dev packages besided geting them > > down by hand one at a time. Have I missed something fundmental here? > > > Depends can be your friend here.

Re: X doesn't run -- fixed font not found

2001-10-20 Thread khromy
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:17:31PM -0700, Adam Rotaru wrote: > Today I upgraded my unstable install, and X stopped > working. It includes X packages 4.1.0-8 (was -7) > The messages say that it ignores most of the X font > directories, saying they are 'unreadable'. > It then exits with a fatal erro

Re: Shall I upgrade to Woody?

2001-10-20 Thread Jussi Ekholm
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some things could be broken. For example, right now X is. However, > if you check the archives, the fix is as simple as deleting 2 > characters from a one-line-long file. Umm. How is X broken? Could the fact, that I'm not able to run Blackbox or IceWM (the onl

Building updated binary cd's

2001-10-20 Thread Rob Weir
Howdy folks, Firstly, some background: I managed to build up quite a collection of downloaded debs in my /var/cache/apt/archives/, so I decided to begin doing something more organised with them. apt-move did the job, and now I have quite a nice little partial mirror of testing. Now, for the act

Re: virtual newbie needs help with lib (?)

2001-10-20 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:49:49PM -0500, sam rosenfeld wrote: | When I installed my current (debian-2.2r2) distribution, I think I | unconsciously chose a reduced version -- that is, with a smallish subset | of the files on the CD-rom. I may also have chosen a much too small set | of lib files.

Re: Gnome panel not showing up

2001-10-20 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake 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

Reiser and IP Masq kernel2.4.12

2001-10-20 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Does anyone have IP Masq setup using a Reiser FS and kernel 2.4.12. I setup IP Masq one night with kernel 2.4.12 when I had a ext2 FS on my router. It worked fine. The next day I reinstalled my system using Reiser FS. I installed the same kernel.deb that I used the previous night and now I canno

procmail fetchmail deamon

2001-10-20 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Can I setup fetchmail as a daemon using -m on am imap server? fetchmail -u user smarthost -p pop3 -m "procmail -f -" -d 60? If I fetchmail without -d 60 procmail seems to work but if I add -d 60 the rules don't seem to work. Lance

Re: need a daemon that kills off memory hogs

2001-10-20 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Alson van der Meulen: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:37:18PM -0400, Avdi B. Grimm wrote: > > 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. I

Re: tool to scan for open samba shares

2001-10-20 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 05:42:01PM +0200, Oliver Korff wrote: | Hi folks, | | I need a tool to scan my network for open samba or windows shares. nmap and | netcat are well known, but I want someting thet tells me, what shares are | open eg.: //192.168.0.55/C/ or something like that. smbclient

Re: framebuffer bootup question [SOLVED]

2001-10-20 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake 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. > > Chee

Re: upgrading to Woody, apt-utils question

2001-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:17:53PM -0700, D. wrote: > 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 upgrade like this why isn't apt-utils > installed with the upgrade if it is required for

Re: Alcatel Speedtouch USB ADSL modem

2001-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:03:41PM +0100, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > Has anyone managed to get this working under Debian in the UK? Yes, I'm using it now. > I've got a client who wants an ADSL connection. I'd love to use Linux, > preferably Debian. However all the instructions I've seen are for RH

RE: get all -dev packages relateing to my install

2001-10-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Oct-2001 Aniartia wrote: > I can't see any mechanisum to get the all dev packages besided geting them > down by hand one at a time. Have I missed something fundmental here? > not at all. Most people only need a few -dev packages and when they do they know what they want (GTK, X, image li

Re: Is the non-us.debian.org Server Down?

2001-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 12:39:55PM -0400, Doc - KD4E wrote: > I cannot connect to the non-us.debian.org server. Is it down? There seems to be some routing strangeness. Earlier today I could connect to it from master.debian.org (in the US), but not from here (in the UK), although it seems fine n

Re: virtual newbie needs help with lib (?)

2001-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:49:49PM -0500, sam rosenfeld wrote: > When I installed my current (debian-2.2r2) distribution, I think I > unconsciously chose a reduced version -- that is, with a smallish subset > of the files on the CD-rom. I may also have chosen a much too small set > of lib files.

Re: X doesn't run -- fixed font not found

2001-10-20 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
I had the same problems with fixed on my newest install and it seems related to the order of installation of various font packages. I just did apt-get install --reinstall all-the-font-packages-like-xfonts-base -jwb On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Adam Rotaru wrote: > > Check list archives for this issue,

Re: vgetty / mgetty

2001-10-20 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake 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://ftp.nl.debian.org/de

default fonts too small

2001-10-20 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
I installed a fresh Debian on a new PC and it has a problem that I haven't noticed with my other installs. The default fonts in many applications are WAY too small. For instance, the tooltips in sawfish are an unreadable blur. In Motif applications, the fonts are all 6pt which is entirely too sm

Re: virtual newbie needs help with lib (?)

2001-10-20 Thread Kurt Lieber
Have you tried using dselect and/or dpkg and/or apt-get instead of compiling things manually? Those will handle dependencies for you so if you don't have the correct lib file, it will download it automatically for you. Much, much easier than trying to compile everything yourself from source.

Re: X doesn't run -- fixed font not found

2001-10-20 Thread Stuart Luscombe
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:42:10AM -0700, Adam Rotaru wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:17:31PM -0700, Adam > Rotaru > wrote: > > > Today I upgraded my unstable install, and X > stopped > > > working. It includes X packages 4.1.0-8 (was -7) > > > Woohoo!!! So it's not just me. Alright, we g

virtual newbie needs help with lib (?)

2001-10-20 Thread sam rosenfeld
When I installed my current (debian-2.2r2) distribution, I think I unconsciously chose a reduced version -- that is, with a smallish subset of the files on the CD-rom. I may also have chosen a much too small set of lib files. The problem: After downloading files from the net (just about any file

Re: X doesn't run -- fixed font not found

2001-10-20 Thread Adam Rotaru
> Check list archives for this issue, it's been discussed frequently. The > following was how I fixed it. > > I just ran across the "cannot find font 'fixed'" on a Woody box running > XF86v4. I found the following made a difference. > > In /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias was the line: >f

Re: X doesn't run -- fixed font not found

2001-10-20 Thread Adam Rotaru
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:17:31PM -0700, Adam Rotaru > wrote: > > Today I upgraded my unstable install, and X stopped > > working. It includes X packages 4.1.0-8 (was -7) > Woohoo!!! So it's not just me. Alright, we gotta make some comparisons > here. 1) Did you reboot your computer at all

Re: upgrading to WOODY

2001-10-20 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake D.: > Hi All > I'm running Potato 2.2.r3 on a HP Pavilion 5450 (PII > 800 MGZ) with a EN2242 Nic Card that I had to > configure the tulip driver for. > I did a dist upgrade and keep receiving the error > not preconfiguring the package apt-utils is not > installed. My question is whe

Compilation Problem

2001-10-20 Thread Patrick Schnorbus
when i try to compile the cvs snapshot from licq: ---snip--- In file included from /usr/include/sys/socket.h:35, from /usr/src/licq-20011020/include/licq_socket.h:9, from /usr/src/licq-20011020/include/licq_packets.h:6, from /usr/src/licq

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Re: X sessions die when using KDM

2001-10-20 Thread Michel Loos
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, N. Raghavendra wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:23:34PM -0700, nate wrote: > > > > 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

Re: Is the non-us.debian.org Server Down?

2001-10-20 Thread Doc - KD4E
Never mind, answered my own question. Went to: http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/README.non-US Used: http://mirror.direct.ca/linux/debian-non-US/ Doc > I cannot connect to the non-us.debian.org server. Is it down? > > Is there an alternative? > > I am trying t

Re: X sessions die when using KDM

2001-10-20 Thread N. Raghavendra
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:23:34PM -0700, nate wrote: > > 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

Re: Alsa 0.9.0b7 build problem.

2001-10-20 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Aniartia wrote: > 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

Re: need a daemon that kills off memory hogs

2001-10-20 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:37:18PM -0400, Avdi B. Grimm wrote: > 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,

Re: illegal to link against python 2.x?

2001-10-20 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: [Stuff about Python licenses and the legality of Python/GPL projects snipped] Karsten> IANAL, TINLA, YADA. For anyone who doesn't know these (and for me, because I'm not sure about them): IANAL (I Am Not A Lawyer... that one's even in wtf) TINLA (

Is the non-us.debian.org Server Down?

2001-10-20 Thread Doc - KD4E
I cannot connect to the non-us.debian.org server. Is it down? Is there an alternative? I am trying to upgrade from Progeny to Woody and that is one of the two locations given for the necessary files. Thanks! Doc

Exim Virtual Domains ok. What about POP Server

2001-10-20 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I setup my exim in a Potato Debian GNU/Linux box with virtual domains and aliases. MTA is working great. It stores mails in /var/spool/mail/domain/*. My question is: What about pop? I find to use qpopper. How to use it to get mail from the ri

No x11 gs device for users, only root?

2001-10-20 Thread Bruce
I am running Debian woody/sid, and noticed that kghostview could not display ps or pdf files (would produce error "Unknown device: x11"). I thought this was odd, as certainly the gs package I am using has X11 support (gs 6.51 from sid). I then noticed it worked fine if I was root. For some reas

Re: Why can't everybody see my webserver

2001-10-20 Thread Jens Müller
"Thomas Thorsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems that some people can't load my webserver. The same people can't log > in using ssh > > i'm running apache and ssh on woody/testing > > what is causing these troubles? What is your kernel version? Firewall config?

get all -dev packages relateing to my install

2001-10-20 Thread Aniartia
I can't see any mechanisum to get the all dev packages besided geting them down by hand one at a time. Have I missed something fundmental here? Ani

Linux-Pam vs Cron

2001-10-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there, i think so much people know what is the 'mrtg' package. Well i am having a little problem (realliy its not one) which blame me a bit. As you all know the session component of pam_unix.so have not any argument. This session component of this module of pam check the open and close

tool to scan for open samba shares

2001-10-20 Thread Oliver Korff
Hi folks, I need a tool to scan my network for open samba or windows shares. nmap and netcat are well known, but I want someting thet tells me, what shares are open eg.: //192.168.0.55/C/ or something like that. Oliver -- Word 6.66: Word Processor of the Beast

X does not load anymore

2001-10-20 Thread Michel Loos
Yesterday I upgraded my system (unstable) my X does not start anymore I get a lot of "Could not init font path element" messages and finally "could not open default font 'fixed'" Any ideas on how to fix this Thanks. Michel. Pr. Michel Loos | Phone: 55 11 818 3810 p. 216 Inst. de Quim

How do I bind + in mutt?

2001-10-20 Thread John Ericson
Hi, I want to set in my .muttrc two bind lines that calls next-entry and previous-entry if Im pressing + or +. How can I do this? What is the syntax for telling that you want the bind action to occour when two (or more) buttons are pressed? Normally when shift is used with ordinary alphabetical ke

Re: [wm-user] WindowMaker 0.70.0-1

2001-10-20 Thread Charles Baker
Okay, I'll try this, given time, over the next week and report back. Question: how do I see what options my windowmaker ( installed from a deb ) was built with? --- Dan Pascu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I use debian unstable (up to date 18 Oct) and never > encountered this > behavior. You will

Re: How to apply a patch?

2001-10-20 Thread Pontus Edvardsson
Thanks! It worked much better after the redirecrion! //Pontus - Original Message - From: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pontus Edvardsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 4:00 PM Subject: Re: How to apply a patch? > On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Pontus Edvard

RE: KDE and X

2001-10-20 Thread JP Glutting
I'm not so sure it is a KDE problem. I have this same problem, but I also have it with sawfish/Gnome (it is worse - I can't get to a terminal), and even with only twm and the basic X system running. Trying to log in just puts you back to the login screen. I also have an nVidia card (GeForce2 MX

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