I forgot to add the following information into my previous question

2001-10-25 Thread shyamk
I forgot to add the following information from fips run on windows :- (Maybe , I now have to try to partition D: instead of E:) Partition table: || Start | | End | Start |Number of| Part.|bootable|Head Cyl. Sector|System|Head Cyl. Sector| Sector |Sectors |

A safe approach whereby , I can have Debian on a Windows partition , sans data loss

2001-10-25 Thread shyamk
Could somebody please advice me on a safe approach whereby , I can have Debian on a Windows partition , sans data loss . ie : I want both the OSes , for different reasons . Can somebody who has done a similar thing , please outline what steps are to be taken to this end , such that it is 100% ce

xchat font problems

2001-10-25 Thread shock
i'm running xchat on a woody installation. the problem is that when xchat starts, instead of letters, all i see is square boxes. i'm sure this is a font-related problem, but am unsure how to correct it. any advise would be greatly appreciated. thx. -- ) ,_),_) (-(__ |_ _ _ |/

building e17 with debuild?

2001-10-25 Thread DvB
Has anyone done this? If so, how well does it work (both building and e17 itself) and does it co-exist with e16 so that I can just check it out and then switch back to e16 if I decide I don't want to run it anymore. TIA

Terminals not closing?

2001-10-25 Thread Ian Su
Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this problem, when I exit an rxvt or Eterm (using exit, or Ctrl-D), the terminal just hangs, bash becomes defunct but the terminal process doesn't die. gnome-terminal and xterm still exits properly. I'm wondering why, and whether other ppl have this p

Re: How to know whether a package is obsolete?

2001-10-25 Thread Craig Dickson
Shaul Karl wrote: > Perhaps /var/lib/dpkg/{available,available-old,status,status-old} can > be useful too. /var/lib/dpkg/available seems to be the right thing. I can grep for all the "Filename:" lines, use sed to throw out all but the actual filenames, and then grep the resulting file for all th

Re: gif support grayed out..

2001-10-25 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:15:53 -0700 (PDT), "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 26-Oct-2001 Rohan Deshpande wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Using gimp1.2, i notice the GIF save as file type is grayed. I have > > gimp1.2-nonfree installed; is it because of the type of image im making?

Re: Getting Grub to Recognize Kernel Update to 2.4.12

2001-10-25 Thread dude
I good way to see if grub is acutally seeing what you think it sees is to hit [TAB] so see what come after / Just like looking at a directory and looking G On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, eDoc wrote: >Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 23:09:33 -0400 >From: eDoc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], progeny

Re: gif support grayed out..

2001-10-25 Thread Steven Yap
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:40:09PM -0500, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > Hi, > > Using gimp1.2, i notice the GIF save as file type is grayed. I have > gimp1.2-nonfree installed; is it because of the type of image im making? > i made a new, 300x300 pixel white background workspace, and in save-as > it i

problems with 3c905C-TX

2001-10-25 Thread C. Cherng
I have been attempting to move from redhat to debian, but I am running into problems. First, since I have a A7V133 motherboard with a promise ata100 controller, my hard drive isn't detected. That's solved by passing the kernal parameter "ide2=0x9400, 0x9002, ide3=0x8800, 0x8402". Now something goe

Re: No cursor

2001-10-25 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 18:27, Nate Custer wrote: > Hey guys, > > I just redid my xconfig so that my new wireless mouse will work. It is > working fine, my cursor however is not. It works fine when I log into X, > but the first time I switch to a console ( ctrl + alt + f1) and then > come back, my c

Re: cups win2000 samba

2001-10-25 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Tried the config below, but to no avail. also: smbclient //server/tmp -Ulance tree connect failed:ERRDOS - ERRnos ... You specifed an invalid share name even on shares which are rw from Win2000 such as /pub? smbclient -L server I receive list of shared including LaserJet as printer which is

Re: Linux RAM drive support/performance

2001-10-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 08:45:29PM -0400, Cory Snavely wrote: > > Does Linux support any RAM drive(s)? How much faster are these > > drives over an attached drive? Is there a CPU performance penalty? Yes RAM disk support (CONFIG_RAMFS) > > We would like to replace our mechanical drive with a smal

Re: Getting Grub to Recognize Kernel Update to 2.4.12

2001-10-25 Thread The Doctor What
* eDoc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011025 22:10]: > > To boot the kernel from /dev/hda2 with ide bus speed set to 66MHz, enter > on > > the GRUB command line: > > root (hd0,1) > > OK. > > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 idebus=66 > > When I enter this I get an "Error 15: File not found" > > What

Main laptop problems solved!

2001-10-25 Thread Mark Carroll
I have a laptop where if I started gpm or xdm under kernel 2.4.9, the keyboard and mouse would stop working. Thanks to Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I found out that the kernel yenta stuff grabs IRQ 12 for the pcmcia cardbus controller where my mouse is. Adding append="pci=irqmask=0xafff" to

Re: Acroread broken?

2001-10-25 Thread Arne Goetje
> * Change your X display depth and try again. > > * Do some searches on acroread and your display driver. Perhaps there is > an incompatibility in the driver. > I tried, but the same result. I even switched from vesa driver to sis... > And in the meantime use another PDF viewer such as gv or xpd

Re: LILO

2001-10-25 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 October 2001 06:56 pm, Scott Henson wrote: > OK I have lilo set up and everything. I put the entry for windows 98 > into lilo.conf. I upgraded to the lastest version of lilo in > testing. And now I cant change the mbr. I run lilo aft

Re: LILO

2001-10-25 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 21:56, Scott Henson wrote: > OK I have lilo set up and everything. I put the entry for windows 98 into > lilo.conf. I upgraded to the lastest version of lilo in testing. And now I > cant change the mbr. I run lilo after editing lilo.conf, but after I reboot > lilo only has

Re: gif support grayed out..

2001-10-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Oct-2001 Rohan Deshpande wrote: > Hi, > > Using gimp1.2, i notice the GIF save as file type is grayed. I have > gimp1.2-nonfree installed; is it because of the type of image im making? > i made a new, 300x300 pixel white background workspace, and in save-as > it is still grayed. What to d

Woody and kernel 2.4.13 ide cmd erros on shutdown

2001-10-25 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Has anyone noticed the same problem I am having? When I do a shutdown.. the ide driver says that there is a cmd error... I end up needing an e2fsck on reboot Thanks.

Re: How to know whether a package is obsolete?

2001-10-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Oct-2001 Craig Dickson wrote: > I want to write a bash script that will run through my > /var/cache/apt/archives directory and determine which ones are obsolete > (either not the latest release, or no longer available at all from the > standard Debian package repository). How can I tell whic

Re: How to know whether a package is obsolete?

2001-10-25 Thread Shaul Karl
> I want to write a bash script that will run through my > /var/cache/apt/archives directory and determine which ones are obsolete > (either not the latest release, or no longer available at all from the > standard Debian package repository). How can I tell which packages are > obsolete? > In ca

Getting Grub to Recognize Kernel Update to 2.4.12

2001-10-25 Thread eDoc
> To boot the kernel from /dev/hda2 with ide bus speed set to 66MHz, enter on > the GRUB command line: > root (hd0,1) OK. > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 idebus=66 When I enter this I get an "Error 15: File not found" What is it that it cannot find and how do I go about repairing that, pl

Success: Some routing advice (connecting through SSH)

2001-10-25 Thread Adam Warner
I wrote: > I haven't worked out the > correct format of ssh -L yet, but I'm sure I'll figure that out. Phenomenal. It works perfectly. It really is impressive. And connecting is just so easy. My browser is set with HTTP Proxy 127.0.0.1 and port x The connection command is nothing more diff

LILO

2001-10-25 Thread Scott Henson
OK I have lilo set up and everything. I put the entry for windows 98 into lilo.conf. I upgraded to the lastest version of lilo in testing. And now I cant change the mbr. I run lilo after editing lilo.conf, but after I reboot lilo only has linux as its options. The new entry for win98 doesnt sh

Re: help

2001-10-25 Thread Shaul Karl
> hey...i need to get a version of linux on floppies...people have told me that > debian will do the trick...how would i go about getting it? > Linux is too general term here. In particular, it can be anything from a few hundredth KB to hundredth MB and possibly more. What are you looking for

gif support grayed out..

2001-10-25 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hi, Using gimp1.2, i notice the GIF save as file type is grayed. I have gimp1.2-nonfree installed; is it because of the type of image im making? i made a new, 300x300 pixel white background workspace, and in save-as it is still grayed. What to do? Many thanks, Rohan

What's happening to the Progeny installer?

2001-10-25 Thread Mike Williams
>>> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:34:02 +0200 (CEST), >>> "Wilmer" == Wilmer van der Gaast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wilmer> There are some Debian-based distro's with very nice installers and Wilmer> things like that already. One of then is Progeny ... Problem is that Wilmer> Progeny is dead n

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

2001-10-25 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 06:38:45PM -0500, Lex Spoon wrote: > > I think for the kind of money you are talking about, you can hire > administrators who know Unix. Honestly: wouldn't you want professional > (or at least competent) adminstrators for Windows, too? Ease of Windows > administration is

Re: X can't init font path elements?

2001-10-25 Thread alephtnull
just add the 'fixed' font in your default path i.e. FontPath/path/to/your/fixed/font hth -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: Some routing advice (connecting through SSH)

2001-10-25 Thread Adam Warner
On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 13:16, Dan Christensen wrote: > Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:54:56PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote: > >>> I want to route some traffic though a remote computer (R) to my home > >>> c

Re: Apt preferences (was Re: apt question)

2001-10-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 06:10:10PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Even after pouring over the apt-preferences man page a few times, I > > have no idea what is meant by the second stanza. > > > > Examples should be added to /usr/share/doc/apt as we

Re: dpkg -i * gives segmentation fault

2001-10-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 05:35:25AM -0700, Hamma Scott wrote: > I was trying to upgrade to Woody. I've downloaded the > packages and did the following through instructions > (thank you by the way for all the help so far) > > # dpkg -i perl* Where are you? /var/cache/apt/archives ? This is last

Re: PCMCIA -- Unstable -- Kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 08:00:15PM +0100, Tom Breza wrote: > > Wow, Tom is right but kernel recompile is the more painful way. I have > > gone through this pain of upgrading for my i486DX2 gateway. > Why compiling kernel is painful Point well taken. Yes "compiling" is fun :-) What I m

Re: changing default text color in console & xterm

2001-10-25 Thread Richard Cobbe
Re-CC'd debian-user. Lo, on , October 25, Bob Koss did write: > > "Richard" == Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Richard> For xterm, take a look at the -fg and -bg command line > Richard> args, or the following X resources: > > Anyone know how to do this for kde konso

Getting 125 dpi fonts under X

2001-10-25 Thread David Z Maze
I'm trying to use X fonts that actually correspond to the size of my display. XFree86 4 is good about letting you specify the physical size of your display in the XF86Config file, and reporting that as the display resolution via xdpyinfo. So far, so good; on my laptop, it tells me I have 123x124

Re: [Fwd: Re: What's apt-get doing to me?]

2001-10-25 Thread Peter Hutnick
Peter Hutnick said: > So, does anyone know a way to /actually/ get XFree 4 out of the apt system? So, I don't know why the 3.3.6 servers are still hanging around in unstable, but the answer to my own question is: apt-get remove xserver-svga apt-get install xserver-xfree86 -Peter

X can't init font path elements?

2001-10-25 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. I have a little problem with a sid box here: since 4.1.0-8, it looks like X can't work with some of my fonts. It complains about: Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc, removing from list! Co

Re: Apt preferences (was Re: apt question)

2001-10-25 Thread Brian Nelson
Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Even after pouring over the apt-preferences man page a few times, I > have no idea what is meant by the second stanza. > > Examples should be added to /usr/share/doc/apt as well. http://bugs.debian.org/114417 -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Fwd: Re: What's apt-get doing to me?]

2001-10-25 Thread Chris Jenks
I don't know if you'll want to or not, but the Progeny archive/source tree had X-4 something. That is where I got mine from, but only on my Progeny laptop. With Progeny shutting down the Linux Distro, I don't know if you can still get it. At 09:01 PM 10/25/01, Peter Hutnick wrote: > You clearl

Re: xlibs

2001-10-25 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:28:41 -0400, "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey people. > > One of the things that I love about Debian is that all library packages > begin with lib. At least, I thought so. Is an exception made for the X > libraries? Yes. xlibs, xlibs-dev, xli

Re: [Fwd: Re: What's apt-get doing to me?]

2001-10-25 Thread Peter Hutnick
> You clearly have the latest version installed. Perhaps you also have legacy > version? It turns out that unstable uses the 3.3.6 xservers(?) See http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=xserver&searchon=names&subword=1&version=unstable&release=all to see what I am talking a

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

2001-10-25 Thread Lex Spoon
> Ofcourse my thoughts went directly out to Debian, as a personal > favorite. It would take some time to create an enviroment where all > these (simple) users would be content in, it would take even more time, > testing and support for them to be glad with it, but that wouldnt be > much of a probl

Re: Linux RAM drive support/performance

2001-10-25 Thread Cory Snavely
You mention heavy activity and drive fatigue--is your system thrashing? Maybe it doesn't have enough physical memory to begin with. If that's not the problem and you just really have an incredibly disk-intensive application, you might consider a solid state disk if it's really that important. You

Re: Trouble installing Potato on Dell Poweredge 2450

2001-10-25 Thread Peter Hutnick
Stuart Allen said: > At 11:43 24/10/2001 +1000, Stuart Allen wrote: >>I am having trouble installing Potato on a Dell Poweredge 2450. The >>problem appears to be the Perc 2/DC RAID controller. When booting off the >>rescue floppy, the system hangs after the following three lines of output: >> >>meg

Re: help

2001-10-25 Thread Kurt Lieber
It's a long shot, but you might try www.debian.org ;) Specifically, the user documentation page (http://www.debian.org/doc/) has a couple of installation guides. --kurt On Thursday 25 October 2001 17:01, Daniel J Salvat wrote: > hey...i need to get a version of linux on floppies...people have t

Re: /dev/snd help

2001-10-25 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Yes, delete /dev/snd. Whatever was using /dev/snd should point to /dev/dsp You don't need ALSA/OSS/esound/etc. with emu10k1. Cheers, Rohan * Kevin C. Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I once was using ASLA. I no longer doing so, but the following remains: > > /dev/snd -> /proc/asound/dev > > I

Re: Trouble installing Potato on Dell Poweredge 2450

2001-10-25 Thread Stuart Allen
At 11:43 24/10/2001 +1000, Stuart Allen wrote: I am having trouble installing Potato on a Dell Poweredge 2450. The problem appears to be the Perc 2/DC RAID controller. When booting off the rescue floppy, the system hangs after the following three lines of output: megaraid: v1.11 (Aug 23, 2000)

Re: Does frame buffer only work with sepcifc video cards?

2001-10-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011025 19:10]: > I started to enablee framebuffer, in a new kernel I was building > I today, but was confised about whether it was supported only on > I specif video cards. > > Is it general purpose, with optimizations for certain video cards, or > is it only suppo

Re: Some routing advice (connecting through SSH)

2001-10-25 Thread Dan Christensen
Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:54:56PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote: >>> I want to route some traffic though a remote computer (R) to my home >>> computer (H). > > [web traffic] > >> Another way of doing it, a

help

2001-10-25 Thread Daniel J Salvat
hey...i need to get a version of linux on floppies...people have told me that debian will do the trick...how would i go about getting it? Make a difference, help support the relief efforts in the U.S. http://clubs.lycos.com/live/events/september11.asp

Re: Does frame buffer only work with sepcifc video cards?

2001-10-25 Thread Tim Moss
Apparently, on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 06:39:46PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > I started to enable framebuffer, in a new kernel I was building today, but > I was confised about whether it was supported only on specif video cards. > > Is it general purpose, with optimizations for certain video cards, or

help

2001-10-25 Thread Daniel J Salvat
hey...i need to get a version of linux on floppies...people have told me that debian will do the trick...how would i go about getting it? Make a difference, help support the relief efforts in the U.S. http://clubs.lycos.com/live/events/september11.asp

/dev/snd help

2001-10-25 Thread Kevin C. Smith
I once was using ASLA. I no longer doing so, but the following remains: /dev/snd -> /proc/asound/dev I am using the emu10k1 module from the 2.4.12 kernel. What should this link point to know? Or should I just delete it? Thanks, -- Kevin C. Smith | "They that can give up essential lib

Re: [ot] Gimp filetypes...

2001-10-25 Thread alephtnull
what did you mean can't open? is it "grayed" out or something? try rerunning the app after you "apt-get" the gif and tiff support files.. -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: encrypted filesystem

2001-10-25 Thread Adam Warner
On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 11:26, Gabor Gludovatz wrote: > Hi, > > does someone know of a sulution which I could use to encrypt a filesystem > transparently? I want my data to be encoded on the disk and I'd like to > mount it at the same time, and access+modify it. > > In the good old times there was

Re: Emacs21 on Stable - any joy.

2001-10-25 Thread joel_mayes
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:01:00PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > Built it last night, the install uses texinfo 4.0b which you can build > > from the unstable sources, it also depends on dpkg 1.9.17 from unstable > > which you can just build from the unstable sources again, the install >

Re: encrypted filesystem

2001-10-25 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:26:46AM +0200, Gabor Gludovatz wrote: > Hi, > > does someone know of a sulution which I could use to encrypt a filesystem > transparently? I want my data to be encoded on the disk and I'd like to > mount it at the same time, and access+modify it. > > In the good old tim

Re: [Fwd: Re: What's apt-get doing to me?]

2001-10-25 Thread Adam Warner
On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 11:16, Peter Hutnick wrote: > >>But KDE clearly (?) states I am running 3.3.6-11, which is the stable > >>package, AFAIK. > > You have it pointing to all 3 different flavors of Debian. Comment out the > > others, leave unstable uncommented, run apt-get update, and try again

Re: how to install aha1542 kernel module

2001-10-25 Thread Darren Wyn Rees
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:16:11AM +, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: > If you have the binary CDs you can use modconf (or is it modconfig) to install > and remove modules. > It's menu driven and easy to use. > > I beleive you should install the sg module (SCSI Generic). Thanks. That's a lot ea

Does frame buffer only work with sepcifc video cards?

2001-10-25 Thread Stan Brown
I started to enablee framebuffer, in a new kernel I was building today, but I was confised about whether it was supported only on specif video cards. Is it general purpose, with optimizations for certain video cards, or is it only supported on the short list in the kernel config? -- Stan Brown

Apt preferences (was Re: apt question)

2001-10-25 Thread Bill Wohler
I asked myself the questions: How do I add the occasional unstable package to my testing system in a better way than downloading debs and using dpkg to install them? How do I track packages in testing that I originally got out of unstable? Finally, and less often, how do I track a particu

Re: changing default text color in console & xterm

2001-10-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 16:21:30 -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Thursday, October 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] did write: > > I'd like to change the default console text from white to blue on > > blackground ;). also xterm (from black over white to blue on > > blackground) > > Can't help you with t

encrypted filesystem

2001-10-25 Thread Gabor Gludovatz
Hi, does someone know of a sulution which I could use to encrypt a filesystem transparently? I want my data to be encoded on the disk and I'd like to mount it at the same time, and access+modify it. In the good old times there was a patch, the kerneli patch, with which I could encrypt any filesys

Sudo and sudoers file

2001-10-25 Thread Lindsey Simon
In the bottom of /etc/sudoers I have Defaults timestamp_timeout=0 Defaults passwd_timeout=1 Defaults tty_tickets Defaults authenticate But I can still logout and back in without retyping my passwd and similarly I can exit the shell and log back in on the same tty and sudo zsh without a passwd.

Re: Some routing advice (connecting through SSH)

2001-10-25 Thread Adam Warner
On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 03:07, George Karaolides wrote: > Sorry again, I didn't get exactly what you were trying to do from > your first message. That's alright. If some people were thinking that, it's best I had the opportunity to clarify. > Now to determine some more facts about the network geo

[Fwd: Re: What's apt-get doing to me?]

2001-10-25 Thread Peter Hutnick
Patrick Lane said: > Peter Hutnick wrote: >>The problem is if I try to upgrade my X thus: >> >># apt-get install xfree86-common/unstable >> >>I get: >> >>Reading Package Lists... Done >>Building Dependency Tree... Done >>Selected version 4.1.0-8 (Debian:unstable) for xfree86-common >>Sorry, xfree86

[ot] Gimp filetypes...

2001-10-25 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there... I installed Gimp1.2 Is thera a package I need to get to have more filetypes? It currently only works with gimp's oun file format... I apt-got gimp1.2-nonfree but I still can't get any gif files to open... Or should I just get gimp without the 1.2? Thanks!

How to know whether a package is obsolete?

2001-10-25 Thread Craig Dickson
I want to write a bash script that will run through my /var/cache/apt/archives directory and determine which ones are obsolete (either not the latest release, or no longer available at all from the standard Debian package repository). How can I tell which packages are obsolete? The idea here is th

Re: UNATTACHED INODE

2001-10-25 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
> Hello, > > After a crash during booting I now get the following error message: > > UNATTACHED INODE 161806 > /dev/hda2: UNEXPECTED INCONSISENCY; RUN FSCK MANUALLY. (i.e. without -a or -p > options) > > Please repair manually and reboot. > > To remount it rw: do mount -m -o remount, rw / > >

Re: [slightly OT] Emacs21 new features (was Re: kudos)

2001-10-25 Thread Britton
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Matthew Garman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:23:03PM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: > > > I'm a fairly experienced user (since 1988) and I'm used to doing lots > > > of customization, but I've not noticed anything annoying so far. What > > > has been very impressive is tha

Re: Anyone gottem mndi to work?

2001-10-25 Thread Martin Rowe
On Thursday 25 October 2001 8:17 pm, Stan Brown wrote: > I want to create a disaster recovery CD using mondo. The first step to > doing this is using mindi to create boot floppy images. > > I've tried to do this on 2 different machines, and it has failed 2 > different ways. > > Has anyone gotten t

Re: ogle vs xine vs mplayer

2001-10-25 Thread Alan Shutko
Thomas Hallaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If there is any interest I'll package it for sid and some of the libs > needed to compile it (new libdvdread) etc. Do it! -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its outp

Re: anyone have libgwrapguile1_1.1.11-1?

2001-10-25 Thread Craig Dickson
Thus spake Jeremiah Mahler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am trying to get 'gnucash' working and according to the bug > report (#116700) it works with the -1 version of gwrap as > opposed to -2. But I cannot find the -1 version anywhere. > > libgwrapguile1_1.11-1_i386.deb Here you go... http://

Re: How to apt-move?

2001-10-25 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: > >>> So I try to apt-move, but I fail, and I do not understand why. > >>> Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong and what I need to do to > >>> get on with it? > > >>You have to edit /etc/apt-move.conf and put in APTSITES those of > >>your sites from /etc/apt/source

xlibs

2001-10-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. One of the things that I love about Debian is that all library packages begin with lib. At least, I thought so. Is an exception made for the X libraries? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "Pretty soon, massive bloat is

Re: Navigating IMAP in Mutt

2001-10-25 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:43:51AM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:32:01AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > I'm using Mutt 1.3.12i on Potato against Cyrus IMAP. I can browse my > > IMAP folders fine using 'c'. Question is, how can I see the *messages* > > in a subfolde

Re: /etc/princtap && opera

2001-10-25 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hay there. I had this problem a while back. Simply create a simlink linking /etc/printcap to /etc/printcap.cups (which cups maintains). Then, all of your KDE applications and Opera will use /etc/printcap which will in turn cause them to see your CUPS printers. HTH, Matthew On Thu, Oct 25, 200

Re: Config file for kernel compilation

2001-10-25 Thread Igor Mozetic
> I'm ready to compile and install the new kernel 2.4.13 in my box. I've > done it before without problems, but now I want to know if it is safe > to load a config file from an older version. > make xconfig allows (I guess all other config interfaces do it as well) > to load config options from a c

Re: changing default text color in console & xterm

2001-10-25 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, October 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] did write: > I'd like to change the default console text from white to blue on > blackground ;). also xterm (from black over white to blue on blackground) Can't help you with the console: while this may be possible; I don't know how to do it. For xt

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2001-10-25 Thread Igor Mozetic
> I'd like to change the default console text from white to blue on > blackground ;). also xterm (from black over white to blue on blackground) For xterm, change your ~/.Xresources, eg, I have: xterm*background: LightGray xterm*foreground: black -Igor Mozetic

UNATTACHED INODE

2001-10-25 Thread John Lord
Hello, After a crash during booting I now get the following error message: UNATTACHED INODE 161806 /dev/hda2: UNEXPECTED INCONSISENCY; RUN FSCK MANUALLY. (i.e. without -a or -p options) Please repair manually and reboot. To remount it rw: do mount -m -o remount, rw / Can you guess the ne

Re: Navigating IMAP in Mutt

2001-10-25 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake David J. Roundy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm guessing you want to hit return. Actually, you'll want to hit 'space' to change into a folder, since Cyrus supports folders with both subfolders and messages. -- Justin R. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP/GnuPG Key ID 0xC9C40C31 (preferred)

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

2001-10-25 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: > Better yet, lets convince package maintainers not to unnecessarily > update all their dependencies to the latest libs in unstable so that > packages can be easily backported with 'apt-get -b source ...' My guess > is that 60-90% of the packages in uns

Re: kdm & gdm + woody

2001-10-25 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 1. Why does GDM not accept the root password, when the console does? You need to specifically enable root logins in gdm. Check out /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf. > 2. Why does KDM not show KDE as a choice? You need to check out the configuration fo

Re: anyone have libgwrapguile1_1.1.11-1?

2001-10-25 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Jeremiah Mahler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am trying to get 'gnucash' working and according to the bug > report (#116700) it works with the -1 version of gwrap as > opposed to -2. But I cannot find the -1 version anywhere. > > libgwrapguile1_1.11-1_i386.deb I believe I have this. I

RE: Unable to telnet to localhost

2001-10-25 Thread John Purser
Many thanks to all who responded. I've installed ssh and can talk to myself now. I've also checked to be sure telnetd was not installed. Appreciate the prompt accurate help! John Purser -Original Message- From: Mark Lanett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 12:1

vlc problems

2001-10-25 Thread Adam John Henry
I recently installed and compiled the source deb for vlc, but once everything's installed playback doesn't occur. ii libdvdcss0.0.3 0.2.90-1 a portable abstraction library ii vlc0.2.90-2 a free MPEG and DVD player ii vlc-alsa 0.2.90-2 ALSA plugin for v

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Re: 'Failed to fetch... ' in apt-get update

2001-10-25 Thread Sławomir Ładygin
Dnia 01-10-25 14:47 Michael Heldebrant napisał: > Ok. Try: > deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib > non-free That was it!! Thanks for your quick help! It works now. Regards, Slawomir -- Sławomir Ładygin *

funny ps output

2001-10-25 Thread Jonathan B. Leffert
I'm seeing the following errors when I invoke 'ps': {netlink_unicast} {netlink_unicast_R__ver_netlink_unicast} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.4.13 does not match kernel data. {netlink_unicast} {netlink_unicast_R__ver_netlink_unicast} Warning: /usr/src/linux/System.map does not match kernel data. PI

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

2001-10-25 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:21:08AM +0200, Alex de Landgraaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Also, Debian focuses on its rock-solid stability and sturdiness. This is > wonderful, but Debian isn't moving very fast, IMHO. The reason this is a problem, IMO, is primarily the recent explosion

Re: 'Failed to fetch... ' in apt-get update

2001-10-25 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 14:23, Sławomir Ładygin wrote: > Dnia 01-10-25 13:36 Michael Heldebrant napisał: > > > > deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US > ^^^ > > I have this line: > > > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib > > non-fr

/etc/princtap && opera

2001-10-25 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hi there, I use Opera, and sadly it is based on /etc/printcap for printing. However, I use CUPS, and I don't have an /etc/printcap. How can I have /etc/printcap redirect to either CUPS or 'lpr', since I have cupsys-bsd installed? Thanks much :), Rohan

Re: 'Failed to fetch... ' in apt-get update

2001-10-25 Thread Sławomir Ładygin
Dnia 01-10-25 13:36 Michael Heldebrant napisał: > > deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US ^^^ > I have this line: > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free I've got it too. What I need is to get apt-get source working: "deb-

variable ramdisk greater than 4megs

2001-10-25 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
Hello, I am using XMMS for playing my ogg/mp3 audio. The thing is that XMMS very often accesses my hard drive (approx. all three seconds). On my laptop this is not really wanted... Thus my idea: why not creating a ramdisk, loading an album to it and playing from the mounted ramdisk (automatized w

Anyone gottem mndi to work?

2001-10-25 Thread Stan Brown
I want to create a disaster recovery CD using mondo. The first step to doing this is using mindi to create boot floppy images. I've tried to do this on 2 different machines, and it has failed 2 different ways. Has anyone gotten this working under Debian? On the machine I most need to do this o

Re: PCMCIA -- Unstable -- Kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-25 Thread Tom Breza
Hi > Wow, Tom is right but kernel recompile is the more painful way. I have > gone through this pain of upgrading for my i486DX2 gateway. Why compiling kernel is painful I belive he have relatively new laptop with strong CPU a lot of ram, Hardware shoud not be a problem, any way if u have s

controlling sleep/suspend time?

2001-10-25 Thread Shaya Potter
One thing I haven't seemed to be able to figure out, is how I can control when my laptop suspends/sleeps? I don't want my laptop to ever suspend/sleep if its plugged into power, unless I explicitly tell it to, via apm --sleep/suspend Is this configurable? thanks, shaya

Re: cups win2000 samba

2001-10-25 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Lance Hoffmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I have cups installed and I am trying to setup a Win2000 > machine to print. Samba is configured and working, I have > shared drives. I changed the smb.conf file > > printing = cups > printcap name = lpstat (which is not in docs) > > and w

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