Re:problems installing 2.4 kernel (2)

2001-10-22 Thread Irvine Russell
Thanks to nate and jerome. I followed your suggestions and have another problem. When I: apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.9-386 I get the following (I haven't include the whole text) Sorry but the following packages have unmet dependencies: kernel-image-2.4.9-386: Depends : init

Re: RE. Learn Languages

2001-10-22 Thread Robert L. Harris
sorry, must have been in reply-to. Thus spake Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com): > on Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:51:18PM +, Juan Monzon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > > I am from spain (speak spanish). > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Juan. > > > > Juan Monzon Escritos: > > > > >

Package configuration with /tmp mounted noexec

2001-10-22 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi, I've got /tmp mounted rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev because I think I read somewhere that that was a good way to go security-wise. It seems that some package related configuration stuff writes temporary scripts into /tmp, which then don't run because /tmp's mounted noexec Should perhaps such script

Re: upgrading strategy

2001-10-22 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
(cmiiw, may I conclude/rewrite) [Aurelio Turco] Of all the Linux Distributions, Debian is said to have the most advanced packaging system. I regard the packaging system as very important. So, I will be installing Debian (probably 2.2r2, from CD). But before I do that, I would like to clarify wha

Re: Debian S-L-O-W Upgrading

2001-10-22 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Paul M Foster wrote: > I just know I'm gonna get flamed for this, but... > > I love Debian, I truly do. Upgrades/updates are seamless. No crappy > proprietary admin tools, just bare metal and vi for configs. Lots of > little programs you don't get on other distros. Rock solid. > > But... it's l

Re: Debian S-L-O-W Upgrading

2001-10-22 Thread Noah Meyerhans
(note: I am speaking as a Debian developer and 5 year Debian user) On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:36:24PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > I realize that the all-volunteer nature of Debian means that testing and > such take much longer. And that the testing results in a more stable > distro. I believe t

Re: nfs share user group

2001-10-22 Thread nate
Lance Hoffmeyer said: > Why is this? I thought I understood group permissions but > maybe not (obviously). what username are you trying to write as? root ? by default nfs blocks root access. if you need root access change exports to something like: /pub M1(rw,no_root_squash) otherw

Re: Debian S-L-O-W Upgrading

2001-10-22 Thread nate
Paul M Foster said: > So I guess my question is: what do you other Debian users do to > resolve the long lead times for Debian releases? i've been usin debian since just after 2.0 was released ... before that i was a slackware 3.x user. i did tons of manual kernel and libc and other upgrades ...

Python and gdk-imlib

2001-10-22 Thread Fabien Piuzzi
Hi all, I am having some troubles with python-gdk-imlib on Sid. In short, it doesn't work at all, I can't even run the example program. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/doc/python-gdk-imlib/examples/imlib % ./view.py Fatal Python error: can't initialise module _gdkimlib zsh: abort ./vi

Upgrade to Unstable

2001-10-22 Thread Doc - KD4E
Just did the Unstable upgrade from Progeny: # apt-get update # dpkg --purge --force-deps libfreetype6 # apt-get -f dist-upgrade. I bypassed the recommended shut down of PCMCIA for fear of losing PCMCIA entirely and having to start all over again! I presume that I need to reboot to see the results

Re: riddle me this??

2001-10-22 Thread nate
D. said: > I was looking at updating a Potato 2.2.r3 running > kernel 2.4.9 (from Bunks page) to Woody. Following > this list I have noticed all of the problems woth x > font and the Xserver's. I did a apt-get update > pointing to the testing and then did a apt-get -u > dist-upgrade and looked at

Re: make a module?

2001-10-22 Thread nate
Jeff Maxson said: > > I seem not to get sound, and from trying different things, it seems > that the module "snd" never got made when I installed. How does > one go about generating a module without rolling the entire kernel? should probably make your own kernel..i don't see drivers named "snd" i

Re: problems installing 2.4 kernel

2001-10-22 Thread nate
said: > However when all was finished it seems that only > that only 9 packages were upgraded and none were > newly installed. last i remember, apt did NOT upgrade kernels automatically. especially a 2.2 to a 2.4 that would be a bad thing to do automatically. you have to specifically tell it to

Debian S-L-O-W Upgrading

2001-10-22 Thread Paul M Foster
I just know I'm gonna get flamed for this, but... I love Debian, I truly do. Upgrades/updates are seamless. No crappy proprietary admin tools, just bare metal and vi for configs. Lots of little programs you don't get on other distros. Rock solid. But... it's like a year behind every other distro

Upgrading Progeny to Unstable

2001-10-22 Thread Doc - KD4E
I am trying the comand (see below) sequence just to see if it works better than the Progeny->Woody version that repeatedly fails to support pcmcia on my laptop. This is an upgrade to Unstable. There is one change, on line two "deps" needs to be "depends". Also, under "Configuring PCMCIA" it asks

Making setterm permanent (was: How to turn off screen blanking)

2001-10-22 Thread Jason Bleazard
Mark Carroll wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Doug Fields wrote: > (snip) > > How do I turn off the automatic screen blanking features? > > setterm for text consoles, xset for X, might be what you need? > > -- Mark 'setterm -blank 0' works for me at the text screen. On a related topic, what's t

Re: default-route?

2001-10-22 Thread Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Karl wrote: > Hi! > I have a Debian Sid with PPPoE, using two network cards. > My problem is, that I have to do a > "route del default" and then start PPPoE every time I want to connect to > the net. Does anyone have an idea what I have to do so that the normal > startup works

Re: using pcf fonts (like shine) in gtk

2001-10-22 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:46:59 -0500, Rohan Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was sent a font 'shine' and it is in pcf format. I got it to work in > terminals, but how do I use it in gtk apps? How can I also change the > size of it too? Unless I'm mistaken, X can (and does) use pc

nfs share user group

2001-10-22 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I created a file server with a pub directory and a data directory /pub/data I then created a group share of which I (lance) am a member and made pub and data of group (share). I have made /pub and /pub/data rwx for group 'share'. I also have a user account on the server where I am a member of t

Re: Virtual POP

2001-10-22 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I'm totally in lost yet. I tried cucipop, qpopper, solid-pop3d, pop3lite and none work! Does anyone have this situation configured as bellow with Exim? Much thanks,Paulo Henrique Em Sun, 21 Oct 2001 07:30:16 -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptis

Re: Green blinking 'D' in console

2001-10-22 Thread Dmitriy
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:13:19AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > wayne wrote: > > > > Hi Aaron, > > I run RedHat and I get the same thing. > > I don't have a solution for you. > > Wayne > > > > Aaron Maxwell wrote: > > > > > Hi. I'm running yesterday's sid. In the console, occasionally a green >

make a module?

2001-10-22 Thread Jeff Maxson
I seem not to get sound, and from trying different things, it seems that the module "snd" never got made when I installed. How does one go about generating a module without rolling the entire kernel? Furthermore, along the lines of teaching a guy to fish instead of just giving him fish, what boo

Re: RE. Learn Languages

2001-10-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:51:18PM +, Juan Monzon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I am from spain (speak spanish). > > Best Regards, > > Juan. > > Juan Monzon Escritos: > > > > > SORRY FOR THIS MENSSAGE, It is not SPAM, only is for to learn languages. > > > > I am looking for people to ex

Re: using pcf fonts (like shine) in gtk

2001-10-22 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Rohan Deshpande ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011022 20:42]: > > I was sent a font 'shine' and it is in pcf format. I got it to work in > terminals, but how do I use it in gtk apps? I don't think 'fixed' fonts are selectable using the gui-font-selection tools. There may be a text config file somewhere t

Re: problems installing 2.4 kernel

2001-10-22 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all I recently installed debian potato 2.2 and quickly discovered that I would need to install a 2.4 kernel so that I could get the computers network card working. I read through the mailing list archives and decided to do the following. 1, add the followin

Re: /var/spool/mail/USER

2001-10-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
I think I miss interpreted original poster's message. Vector send me a following message. I hope this solves your problem. > I'm replying to you off-list because I don't want this email address > spammed to carnation. procmail will change the permissions on a > mailbox when it delivers mail if

Re: KMail and Outlook?

2001-10-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:24:20PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I'm just facing a rather "unnatural" problem: My mom uses Linux > > > and KDE for several weeks now aside Windows (same HDD!) - and > > > she's really satisfied. She does all Internet-stuff in Linux, > >

Re: No keyboard after upgrade to testing

2001-10-22 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 06:12:06PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: | Hey, | | I was upgrading one of my debian boxen to testing, but during the install my | keyboard stopped working. I figured it was a hardware problem (unplugged | keyboard or something), but when I couldn't find anything wrong, I

Re: apt from cd

2001-10-22 Thread Paolo Falcone
Reza wrote: >Hi guys.. >I just burned extra unofficial cd for debian potato. >What should I put in /etc/apt/sources.list so when I >want to apt-get install it will search deb >file in the CD? apt-cdrom add Paolo Falcone __ www.edsamail.com

Re: apt from cd

2001-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:24:40PM -0400, Shaya Potter wrote: > From: "Reza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | I just burned extra unofficial cd for debian potato. > | What should I put in /etc/apt/sources.list so when I > | want to apt-get install it will search deb > | file in the CD? > > a file:// url s

Re: gzip/zcat changes file?

2001-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:55:56PM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > I am using a statistical package (Stata 7.0 for linux) that, among other > things, can read in raw data and create a database from it. I have an > ascii file of data, and the program reads the data just fine. The files > that I wo

Re: Will the upstream OpenSSH be made available?

2001-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 05:26:02PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote: > I'm running some non-Debian servers, with a freshly-built version of OpenSSH, > version 2.9.9p2. > > On my Debian desktop, the latest available reports itself as 2.9p2. > > I'm told that the extra ".9" patchlevel makes a difference f

Re: How to set system-wide PATH

2001-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:55:27PM -0400, Joe Hu wrote: > Does anybody know how to set default sytem-wide PATH? After installing > Apache, I'd like to add /usr/local/apache/bin to the system path. I don't > want to do it in the .bash_profile, because that only works after a shell > session is start

Token Ring and 2.4.10

2001-10-22 Thread mike_phillips
Bob, Token ring pcmcia support works fine on the 2.4.x kernels using the built in pcmcia drivers. Check out http://www.linuxtr.net for more details on token ring and linux. Mike Phillips Linux Token Ring Project http://www.linuxtr.net

Re: No keyboard after upgrade to testing

2001-10-22 Thread idalton
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 06:12:06PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I was upgrading one of my debian boxen to testing, but during the install my > keyboard stopped working. I figured it was a hardware problem (unplugged > keyboard or something), but when I couldn't find anything wrong, I

Re: How do I bind + in mutt?

2001-10-22 Thread Andras BALI
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 04:50:15PM +, John Ericson wrote: > 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 a

Re: How to set system-wide PATH

2001-10-22 Thread Shaul Karl
> Does anybody know how to set default sytem-wide PATH? After installing > Apache, I'd like to add /usr/local/apache/bin to the system path. I don't > want to do it in the .bash_profile, because that only works after a shell > session is started. > > Thanks in advance. > joe > > P.S. I'm also sen

No keyboard after upgrade to testing

2001-10-22 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I was upgrading one of my debian boxen to testing, but during the install my keyboard stopped working. I figured it was a hardware problem (unplugged keyboard or something), but when I couldn't find anything wrong, I decided to just reset. The keyboard worked fine in the bios, and during fs

Win4Lin .deb

2001-10-22 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
i'm currently running win4lin v2.x with kernel 2.2.18. i've recently upgraded my kernel to 2.4.6, and find myself needing to upgrade to win4lin 3.0. i've patched my kernel and all that good stuff. however, when i run the win4lin-install, it doesn't see my current win4lin installation (i.e., it's

Re: LILO won't boot after dist-upgrade to testing - HELP!

2001-10-22 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Morbo wrote: Hi, [snip] I've installed the kernel source and compiled and installed the kernel useing kernel package. Then rebooted, and now I'm not able to boot any of the LILO images. Hi, Did you run lilo after installing your new kernel image? What is contents of your lilo.conf? --

problems installing 2.4 kernel

2001-10-22 Thread irvine
Hello all I recently installed debian potato 2.2 and quickly discovered that I would need to install a 2.4 kernel so that I could get the computers network card working. I read through the mailing list archives and decided to do the following. 1, add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:

Re: keyboard

2001-10-22 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Patrick L. McGillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Hi, > I am looking for the C syntax to check to see if a key was pressed. This > would be non-blocking, as there are other things happening in the > program, besides waiting on user input. Any help or pointers is > appreciated. Hi Patrick, T

Re: What's the reasonable time to mirror a hard disk?

2001-10-22 Thread Cory Snavely
It's possible you might actually want a software RAID 1, which would keep the partitions duplicated in real time, and if one fails, the file system would still be usable. Of course the partitions are not really meant to be mounted directly--they're meant to be treated as a single RAID unit. Maybe

Re: Can't find ide-cd at power down

2001-10-22 Thread Andras BALI
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 05:53:33PM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: > Since a recent upgrade (sync'd with "testing"), just about the last thing > my machine says when powering down is that modprobe can't locate module > ide-cd, hdc: drive not present. (kernel 2.2.19) This is because the rc script (/etc

Re: a bit OT: testing my hard disk

2001-10-22 Thread Andras BALI
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 03:52:20PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > Since my debian has just crashed out with possible disk corruption on a > newly bought HD, I'd like to get hold of a good hard disk testing util - > can anyone suggest any good free utils? Something bootable from floppy > and linuxy w

Re: RE. Learn Languages

2001-10-22 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Juan Monzon: > > I am from spain (speak spanish). > > Best Regards, > > Juan. > > Juan Monzon Escritos: > > > > > SORRY FOR THIS MENSSAGE, It is not SPAM, only is for to learn languages. > > > > I am looking for people to exchange mails to exercise languages. > > > > i would like

Re: Sound...

2001-10-22 Thread D.
With Debian you have to give permission for the user to use sound i.e. as su or root adduser audio. With the maestro3 on my laptop I also had to make sure that the ac97_core.o driver was available. The way that I did it was add maestro3 and ac97_core to my /etc/modules . HTH Don --- Alexander Wa

Re: Patching and unpatching

2001-10-22 Thread Andras BALI
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:14:50AM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > If i want the ac version of the 2.4.12 kernel i have to download it and patch > it with the ac patch. Correct. > How is it if the new stable is 2.4.13? I can't just take the normal linux > patch because that is assuming that i

keyboard

2001-10-22 Thread Patrick L. McGillan
Hi, I am looking for the C syntax to check to see if a key was pressed. This would be non-blocking, as there are other things happening in the program, besides waiting on user input. Any help or pointers is appreciated. Patrick

Problems with exim and fetchmail (on woody)....

2001-10-22 Thread Chris Concannon
I'm running woody on my desktop machine and I'm running into problems trying to get email working. I want to get my email with fetchmail, read it with mutt, and send it with exim. I'm on a network link at my university and my IP address isn't going to change all year. Fetchmail and exim do not

Re: How to set system-wide PATH

2001-10-22 Thread Alexander List
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Joe Hu wrote: > Does anybody know how to set default sytem-wide PATH? After installing > Apache, I'd like to add /usr/local/apache/bin to the system path. I don't > want to do it in the .bash_profile, because that only works after a shell > session is started. $ man bash # se

Re: How to set system-wide PATH

2001-10-22 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
> Does anybody know how to set default sytem-wide PATH? After installing > Apache, I'd like to add /usr/local/apache/bin to the system path. I don't > want to do it in the .bash_profile, because that only works after a shell > session is started. > > Thanks in advance. > joe > > P.S. I'm also sen

Re: How to set system-wide PATH

2001-10-22 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:55:27PM -0400, Joe Hu wrote: | Does anybody know how to set default sytem-wide PATH? After installing | Apache, I'd like to add /usr/local/apache/bin to the system path. I don't | want to do it in the .bash_profile, because that only works after a shell | session is start

Patching and unpatching

2001-10-22 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi, I have a question about patching a kernel to the ac version. If i want the ac version of the 2.4.12 kernel i have to download it and patch it with the ac patch. How is it if the new stable is 2.4.13? I can't just take the normal linux patch because that is assuming that i use the normal ke

Re: Will the upstream OpenSSH be made available?

2001-10-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
My debian use 2.9p2 too (testing/unstable). It is already 6th build of 2.9p2. (dated Sep/19) Debian does not always follow upstream minor versions but instead patch selectively for the best of stability. They are usually good at it. On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 05:26:02PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:

Re: lpr and pdf

2001-10-22 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
> Is there a HOWTO or other guide on how to setup lpr/lpd to > be able to print PDF files? > > Robin > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know about any such HOWTO, but i can give you an advice: i

Re: ^S/scroll-lock in konsole

2001-10-22 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, October 22, Mark Carroll did write: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, 'cduck' Chris Grierson wrote: > > > anyone know what signal ^S sends, and how to unfreeze a konsole when it > > My guess would be SIGSTOP. No. SIGSTOP actually stops (i.e., suspends) the process to which it is sent. (SI

Re: installing XMPS

2001-10-22 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:20:49PM +, Hans Steinraht wrote: > Anyone an idea how to solve this? Sure. Wait until the packages you want to use are recompiled against the new libsdl1.2 and THEN install them. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpKYTcOtMzYe.pgp Descripti

Re: samba mounts encripted?

2001-10-22 Thread Marc Wilson
The connection certainly isn't. The authentication MAY be, depending on what authentication method you're using. IMHO, SMB-over-Internet is an extremely silly idea. If you need to transfer files, that's what sftp is for. On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:47:00AM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote: > I'm j

Re: HELP - Can't boot kernel 2.4.10 - Resets after loading

2001-10-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 11:19:56PM +0200, Morbo wrote: > Hi, > > I've dist-upgraded to testing, and now every time I try to boot the new > 2.4.10 > kernel, it will just reset the machine as soon as the kernel is loaded (I > think). > LILO will start to load the kernel some dots appear and then it

Re: Sound...

2001-10-22 Thread Sunny Dubey
On Monday 22 October 2001 12:00 pm, Alexander Wallace wrote: > Hello there... > > I just recompiled the kernel with sound support for maestro3, I have the maestro3 too :^) > which is the > card I have. The kernel starts up ok, it says it detects the card. But I > get no sound from gnome or enligh

using pcf fonts (like shine) in gtk

2001-10-22 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hi, I was sent a font 'shine' and it is in pcf format. I got it to work in terminals, but how do I use it in gtk apps? How can I also change the size of it too? Thanks, Rohan

Another interrupt thing

2001-10-22 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
Hi. I'm trying to put to work 4 com ports in my pc. I have 2 on board, and bought an old Multi IO card with another 2, & a parallel port. Because the Multi IO card is tied up to irq 3 & 4, I had to make some hardware changes. I noticed that serial ports module, could enable IRQ_SHARE and so instead

How to set system-wide PATH

2001-10-22 Thread Joe Hu
Does anybody know how to set default sytem-wide PATH? After installing Apache, I'd like to add /usr/local/apache/bin to the system path. I don't want to do it in the .bash_profile, because that only works after a shell session is started. Thanks in advance. joe P.S. I'm also sending this message

Re: ^S/scroll-lock in konsole

2001-10-22 Thread Matthew Garman
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 03:16:54PM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, 'cduck' Chris Grierson wrote: > > it's really frustrating because i often fat-finger ^S when reaching for > > ^A or ^E (which i often use, resulting in far too frequently locked > > sessions). > > You can probably

hylafax-server in stable

2001-10-22 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hello all, I'm trying to get hylafax-server working on a fax gateway I'm setting up. However, the hylafax suite cannot find my font metrics. I've tried FontPath /usr/share/enscript/afm as well as /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts (for kicks) and nothing from hylafax can find font metrics. I

Re: potato e RAID software

2001-10-22 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi there, I have it working here - software RAID 5 on an IDE disk (yes, pointless all being on one IDE disk - I was just experimenting with it!). AFAIK, the most important thing is to set the partition type to RAID autodetect (fd). Once you've done this you should find that the kernel will automa

Linuxconf doesn't do anything...

2001-10-22 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there! I apt-got linuxconf, It runs and all that, but so far, whatever I've tryed, it doesn't seem to affect my system, except on creating groups and users... Last night I tryed to configure the network using it and although it saves (somewhere) the changes I made, it never reflected them in

Re: apt from cd

2001-10-22 Thread Petre Daniel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 apt-gett add cdrom or apt-add cdrom and then apt-get install blabla that's it :> Dani, dpkg support. R> Hi guys.. R> I just burned extra unofficial cd for debian potato. R> What should I put in /etc/apt/sources.list so when I R> want to apt-get install

Will the upstream OpenSSH be made available?

2001-10-22 Thread Phil Edwards
I'm running some non-Debian servers, with a freshly-built version of OpenSSH, version 2.9.9p2. On my Debian desktop, the latest available reports itself as 2.9p2. I'm told that the extra ".9" patchlevel makes a difference for some of the things I'm going to be doing. Before I go through the pain

HELP - Can't boot kernel 2.4.10 - Resets after loading

2001-10-22 Thread Morbo
Hi, I've dist-upgraded to testing, and now every time I try to boot the new 2.4.10 kernel, it will just reset the machine as soon as the kernel is loaded (I think). LILO will start to load the kernel some dots appear and then it just resets. It will boot the old 2.2.19pre17 kernel just fine,thoug

unsuscribe

2001-10-22 Thread Juan Carlos Calderon
unsuscribe --- DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Álvaro Eixea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Pretendo instalar una pantalla plana TFT FLATRON > LCD > > 563LE de LG y no hay manera. > > > > Cuando configuro las X con una targeta GEFORCE2 > MX2 de > > 64MB de memoria la targeta se me config

Re: debian hangs during boot (at fsck stage)

2001-10-22 Thread Shaul Karl
> > Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > > > > > Sorry, should have done some reading before posting the above, my bad... > > > > > > I've read the LILO howto and that says that pressing tab should do the > > > trick, > > > or holding down alt or shift when the LILO bit comes up. But neither of > > > thes

Sound...

2001-10-22 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there... I just recompiled the kernel with sound support for maestro3, which is the card I have. The kernel starts up ok, it says it detects the card. But I get no sound from gnome or enlightenment... If I type esd as root I hear the sounds (you know, the little scale it plays) but even unde

gzip/zcat changes file?

2001-10-22 Thread Brian Stults
I am using a statistical package (Stata 7.0 for linux) that, among other things, can read in raw data and create a database from it. I have an ascii file of data, and the program reads the data just fine. The files that I work with are quite large, though, so it is useful to gzip them (in fac

aRE: Frequent lock-ups

2001-10-22 Thread Lambrecht, Joris
Hi Nate, I'm not suspecting the driver for now. I'm using a Matrox Millenium G200 ... Not go near kernel 2.4 ... What do you mean ? i've used my card in every recent linux install without prior problems ... Regards, Joris []-Original Message- []From: nate [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Frequent lock-ups

2001-10-22 Thread Lambrecht, Joris
Sound good, thanks. Rings a bell. []-Original Message- []From: Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note [][mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] []Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 12:38 PM []To: Lambrecht, Joris []Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' []Subject: Re: Frequent lock-ups [] [] []Try to disable gpm, that

telnet and ftp won't list directory

2001-10-22 Thread Eric Cheney
Hi folks. I'm trying to put together an office server with woody. When users log in via telnet or ftp, the login session hangs when a lot of text gets printed to the (remote) screen. Same problem if you were to use vi or something that prints a lot of text to the screen. No problem exists

Re: Software DVD players

2001-10-22 Thread Matthew Garman
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 12:26:23PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > To shift the gear again. Has anyone succeeded in outputting the DVD > stream to a TV connected to the second head of a Matrox G400? I really > wanna be able to watch DVD on the TV when I have guests over. I have the same que

samba mounts encripted?

2001-10-22 Thread Alexander Wallace
I'm just curious... If i mount a directory over the internet using samba, is the connection encripted in any way? is the password used to establish the mount encripted? Thanks!

zip drive under DevFS

2001-10-22 Thread Joe Barnett
since i've installed devfs, i haven't been able to get at my zip drive. when the kernel boots, it initially sees my zip drive as hdd. in fact, if i go to /proc/ide, there is a symlink called hdd to /proc/ide/ide1/hdd, which contains the following information: $ ls capacity driver geometry i

Re: /var/spool/mail/USER

2001-10-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
This seems to be issue of install script. You should be able to avoid it by modifying post/pre install script. You seem to use sendmail. Then file a bug to sendmail if this is their fault. I think what they do is reasonable since script does not know who should be the owner. I am curious why t

Re: apt from cd

2001-10-22 Thread Shaya Potter
a file:// url should work I believe. shaya - Original Message - From: "Reza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 3:21 PM Subject: apt from cd | Hi guys.. | I just burned extra unofficial cd for debian potato. | What should I put in /etc/apt/sources.list so when I | w

Re: apt from cd

2001-10-22 Thread Alexander Wallace
To do it automatically just run apt-cdrom add and that will put the necesary stuff in sources.list On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Reza wrote: > Hi guys.. > I just burned extra unofficial cd for debian potato. > What should I put in /etc/apt/sources.list so when I > want to apt-get install it will search

installing XMPS

2001-10-22 Thread Hans Steinraht
Hi, I'm trying to install XMPS mediaplayer. When I do an apt-get it says that there are broken dependencies, and that I have to get "libsdl1.2" first. Ok, so I did, but I only could get "libsdl1.2debian-all" from the unstable dir (my system is a unstable Debian). But now when I try to get XMPS

Re: How to turn off screen blanking

2001-10-22 Thread Petre Daniel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 try setterm -blank 0 gluck. Dani, dumb terminal support. DF> Hello, DF> My computers are primarily servers (Debian/woody) which display diagnostic DF> information. DF> How do I turn off the automatic screen blanking features? DF> Thanks, DF> Doug

Re: ^S/scroll-lock in konsole

2001-10-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* 'cduck' Chris Grierson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011022 11:56]: > anyone know what signal ^S sends, and how to unfreeze a konsole when it > gets pressed? on one of the system consoles (tty1-6; btw, what is the > proper name for these?), it is effectively a scroll-lock (the scroll- > lock light on the

RE: Win4Lin & 2.4.10

2001-10-22 Thread Mautz, John
> IIRC, they at least have patches for 2.4.9. You really run 2.4.12 > instead of 2.4.10 btw. I'll be moving to the latest Win4Lin supports. > (I assume you've win4lin 3, if you've win4lin 2, I suggest to upgrade to > win4lin 3, since newer patches only work with version 3) I don't have either ye

Re: ^S/scroll-lock in konsole

2001-10-22 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, 'cduck' Chris Grierson wrote: > anyone know what signal ^S sends, and how to unfreeze a konsole when it > gets pressed? on one of the system consoles (tty1-6; btw, what is the > proper name for these?), it is effectively a scroll-lock (the scroll- > lock light on the keyboa

Re: ^S/scroll-lock in konsole

2001-10-22 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:35:58AM -0700, 'cduck' Chris Grierson wrote: > anyone know what signal ^S sends, and how to unfreeze a konsole when it > gets pressed? on one of the system consoles (tty1-6; btw, what is the > proper name for these?), it is effectively a scroll-lock (the scroll- > lock l

Re: upgrading strategy

2001-10-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:11:02AM +, Aurelio Turco wrote: > > Of all the Linux Distributions, Debian is said to have the most > advanced packaging system. I regard the packaging system as very > important. So, I will be installing Debian (probably 2.2r2, from CD). > But before I do that, I w

Re: ^S/scroll-lock in konsole

2001-10-22 Thread Erik Steffl
'cduck' Chris Grierson wrote: > > anyone know what signal ^S sends, and how to unfreeze a konsole when it > gets pressed? on one of the system consoles (tty1-6; btw, what is the try ctrl-q erik

apt from cd

2001-10-22 Thread Reza
Hi guys.. I just burned extra unofficial cd for debian potato. What should I put in /etc/apt/sources.list so when I want to apt-get install it will search deb file in the CD? Thanks Reza __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals

Re: How to turn off screen blanking

2001-10-22 Thread Mark Carroll
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Doug Fields wrote: (snip) > How do I turn off the automatic screen blanking features? setterm for text consoles, xset for X, might be what you need? -- Mark

Re: ^S/scroll-lock in konsole

2001-10-22 Thread Mark Carroll
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, 'cduck' Chris Grierson wrote: > anyone know what signal ^S sends, and how to unfreeze a konsole when it My guess would be SIGSTOP. > gets pressed? on one of the system consoles (tty1-6; btw, what is the ^Q usually works for me. (snip) > it's really frustrating because i o

Re: ^S/scroll-lock in konsole

2001-10-22 Thread John Hasler
Chris Grierson writes: > anyone know what signal ^S sends,... ^S is X-OFF. > and how to unfreeze a konsole when it gets pressed? ^Q, which is X-ON. This a FAQ. > on one of the system consoles (tty1-6; btw, what is the > proper name for these?) Virtual consoles. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTE

xmcd (testing)

2001-10-22 Thread judd
Hi, all, I am running an up-to-date testing box (using kernel 2.4.4). I have a problem with xmcd. The CD-Rom which I use for audio is a Samsung SC-140B ATAPI drive (/hdc). It used to work fine, but now it only plays one track and then pauses, which is pretty annoying. I don't recall when

Re: ^S/scroll-lock in konsole

2001-10-22 Thread Jesper Holmberg
* On Mon Oct 22, 'cduck' Chris Grierson wrote: > anyone know what signal ^S sends, and how to unfreeze a konsole when it > gets pressed? What signal it sends, I don't know. But to disable it, press ^Q. HTH, Jesper -- Jesper Holmberg|"But how can | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Win4Lin & 2.4.10

2001-10-22 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 09:56:31AM -0700, Mautz, John wrote: > My current PC is dual booting between Win 95 and Woody running 2.4.9-K6. I > want to take the plunge and nuke the Win 95 partition and run Win4Lin for > the 3 apps that I need under Windoze. I consider myself a newbie as I > haven't c

Re: dpkg and apt questions :)

2001-10-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:51:41AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > > BTW, I know I can put a package on hold using dpkg --force-hold, but I > > do not know how (or if it is possible) to see which packages are on > > hold > > 'dpkg --get-selections' Right. But this will be too long and too noisy to s

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