Re: some questions (after a HD crash)

2001-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 08:55:06PM +, ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > IBM pc level hardware has always sucked, Ben: Unsubstantiated blanket statements are always wrong[1]. IBM's created quite a bit of solid consumer hardware. Thinkpads come to mind, and their HDs are generally pretty goo

Sound configuration

2001-11-04 Thread JimmyMah
I am new user to Debian linux. I have install Debian linux on my laptop and I am unable to activate the sound. I have an integrated ESS1688 sound chip and I could not find the drivers in modconf.     Do I need to recompile a new kernel? Could you please advise the steps necessary to solve t

Re: nameserver problems

2001-11-04 Thread nate
Rebecca Dridan said: > home to query this server to test it, I get connection timed out, > no servers found. you runing NAT or is the DNS on a real ip address? if NAT is the port(s) forwarded in? if the firewall is restrictive (e.g. default deny) then i reccomend configuring bind to use port 53 f

Re: some questions (after a HD crash)

2001-11-04 Thread lloyder
DISCLAIMER: I am employed by IBM as a software developer in Database Technologies. Ben, fact or assertion? Assertion. There is IBM hardware in many PC level hardware components that you own and think are some of the best. IBM is a major EOM supplier of PC level hardware. Example, IBM made mo

Re: Stale Documentation: ethernet cards

2001-11-04 Thread nate
said: > SUMMARY: > * getting Debian setup is very likely to be very > dependent on "manually" getting the ethernet card(s) > online > * Linux Ethernet-Howto is very stale! > ** many other Howto's are also very stale! lotta howtos are really old this is true. probably because not many people like

Re: some questions (after a HD crash)

2001-11-04 Thread ben
IBM pc level hardware has always sucked, one of the greatest ironies in the history of personal computing, which goes to show that making the first of something doesn't necessarily mean that you've made the best. maxtor drives are pretty solid and relatively cheap, as are fujitsu drives. but, for i

Stale Documentation: ethernet cards

2001-11-04 Thread lloyder
SUMMARY: * getting Debian setup is very likely to be very dependent on "manually" getting the ethernet card(s) online * Linux Ethernet-Howto is very stale! ** many other Howto's are also very stale! I am trying to shed the shackles of M$, but documentation has weighed upon me like a mountain.

Re: sid mp3 woes (Meta)

2001-11-04 Thread lloyder
* Meta-discussion * I really think that is bad news for newbies and many others. Why do they call it an unstable then? What is debian-test for then? or any of the other debian mailing lists? Surely, there must be a better forum for the next, next release?! Best regards, Lloyd - Original

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX: the -REAL- driver

2001-11-04 Thread Chris Keelan
On Sunday 04 November 2001 20:35, Raphael Bustin wrote: The 530TX is not an 'exotic' card. I use the via-rhine module and it works perfectly. - C

Re: sid mp3 woes

2001-11-04 Thread Craig Dickson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am new, so do not eat me, but is this the best place > (debian-user) to be discussing 'sid'. We have not > even got woody out the door. Save us newbies from the > discussion, when we cannot even getting potato > sliced. debian-dev or debian-test appropriate? No,

Re: sid mp3 woes

2001-11-04 Thread lloyder
I am new, so do not eat me, but is this the best place (debian-user) to be discussing 'sid'. We have not even got woody out the door. Save us newbies from the discussion, when we cannot even getting potato sliced. debian-dev or debian-test appropriate? Best regards, Lloyd - Original Mes

sid mp3 woes

2001-11-04 Thread David Rose
I just installed sid on my IBM Thinkpad 560X, and had a hard time getting sound to work. I've got it working now, but using XMMS or plaympeg, I get a horrible static hiss rather than music. mpg123 sounds fine, however. I really want to use XMMS because most of my music listening is done via Shout

Re: [debian-user] I'm coming on board

2001-11-04 Thread lloyder
Mark et all, You have it right. Exactly right! If the installer is currently in a similar state, the kernel modules stuff should be taken out of the installer, net cards should be handled well, kernel modules stuff should be well documented, and people should be educated on the 'lsmod' and '

Re: [debian-user] I'm coming on board

2001-11-04 Thread Raphael Bustin
At 07:23 PM 11/4/01 -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 06:39:28PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please please tell me that the install has significant > improvements in woody? That is package 'boot-floppies', right? One would hope. On the other hand... I'm apparently one

Re: [debian-user] I'm coming on board

2001-11-04 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 06:39:28PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please please tell me that the install has significant > improvements in woody? That is package 'boot-floppies', right? One would hope. On the other hand... I'm apparently one of the few people who have had no problems instal

Re: ssh works from windows not from linux; protocol version difference?

2001-11-04 Thread lloyder
Hello Gianguido, The quick answers. Yes, it defaults to 1.5, it is simple to invoke in 2, -2, but using 1.5 or 2 is not so simple as getting the latest and greatest. If you really only plan on using 2 and there is no chance that you are / will be going commercial, do check out http://www.sn

Re: ssh works from windows not from linux; protocol version difference?

2001-11-04 Thread Gianguido Cianci
So now I have OpenSSH installed (btw, dselect was unable to remove the ssh directories). It uses protocol 1.5 it seems I am running potato and would like to use protocol 2.0 Is that possible? How do I set other preferences like encryption and stuff?? btw, is there any GUI to ssh and its

Re: OT: SQL + PostgreSQL

2001-11-04 Thread bob parker
--- Oliver Elphick wrote: > > For PostgreSQL, pgsql-general@postgresql.org and > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (If you are very inexperienced, > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Go to > www.postgresql.org to find subscription details. > > You can also raise Debian PostgreSQL problems on > debian-user; I don't > read

Re: [debian-user] I'm coming on board

2001-11-04 Thread lloyder
What have I brought myself into... I do not think that I am going to get done any of the things that made me want to switch to Linux and Debian... I am going to be contributing to Debian (documentation) :-| Documentation being out of date is the understatement of the last century! Please ple

D-Link DFE-530TX: the -REAL- driver

2001-11-04 Thread Raphael Bustin
I found a very interesting page on D-Link's website: wherein a clue may perhaps be found. It seems that Revisions A, B and C of this board (the DFE-530TX+) do indeed use rtl8139.o from the standard distribution. However: For Rev. D1 and D2 o

Re: some questions (after a HD crash)

2001-11-04 Thread Darren Wyn Rees
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 10:05:44AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > The hard disk is an IBM 40GB. Not sure of the model, but it's > > only about 4 months old, so I should be able to return it under > > the guarantee. What is the best way to WIPE data on the disk ? > > GTX (?) disks are widely

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-11-04 Thread dman
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 10:24:13AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: | dman et al | | .za stands for Zuid Afrika which is from the Dutch who founded the | colony at the Cape Of Good Hope. Oh, ok. | Last night I went through the info documentation system which i | thought would be a good start. Then rea

Upgrade 2.4.3 => 2.4.13 kernel WinTV locks system

2001-11-04 Thread Stan Brown
I've been using Framebuffer TV and XawTV for quite some time now on a potato + Progeny + 2.4.3 kernel. Works great. Today I built a 2.4.13 kernel, and I get hard system lockups within a few seconds of firing up eihter. I had turned on MTR's but I tokk them back out, so the configs for the 2 kernel

Re: Linux RAM drive support/performance

2001-11-04 Thread Cory Snavely
> > 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 can buy them with IDE or SCSI > > interface, so they > > look and act like regular hard drives. > > This is a very good i

Re: Right way of installing woody?

2001-11-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 06:41:24PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 02:10:53PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > If you have choice, do not dist-upgrade after many programs are > > installed. > > Why not? Sometime, I am "overly cautious". I know and I usually do not bother this ca

Re: Broadcast 2000

2001-11-04 Thread adcarlson
Thanks very much...this did the trick, although I also had to drag a copy of the so file over to the Broadcast directory as well. So far its a bit unstable on my system...but it might be OE (operator error) right now, as I start getting used to playing with video editing. On 04-Nov-2001 csj wrote

Re: Unresolvable installation problem?

2001-11-04 Thread Harry Palmer
Thanks Adam, I can see how that would be ideal, but with the laptop housing the only (stupid!) LS120 drive, I can't see a way of getting the image onto a disk. Harry On 04 Nov 2001 13:26:56 -0500, you wrote: >You could try using an LS-120 disk and a 2.88 mb image. Thereby >elimnating the need

Re: programming

2001-11-04 Thread Erik Steffl
martin f krafft wrote: > > * Eric G. Miller [2001.11.04 10:56:49-0800]: > > > char *buff = (char*)malloc(128); > > > sizeof(buff) == 4 // on i32 machines > > > > > > --> problem! > > > > Depends on what "buff" is, its scope and how sizeof is used. > > which is why i declared it as a pointer to

How can I change the cursor (framebuffer)

2001-11-04 Thread Stan Brown
I would like to change the huge blocky blinking cursor that I have in my framebuffer sessions. How can I amke it say a non-blinking underscore? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a min

Re: ISA AWE64 not detected

2001-11-04 Thread Erik Steffl
Ron Golan wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:47:08PM -0600, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > > [...] > > > > > 10. As root, open up /etc/modules with a text editor and add the > > following below what is already there: > > > > awe_wave > > opl3 > > > > [ note that is oh-pee-el three] > > I'm using a

Re: Another deb package questions :-)

2001-11-04 Thread Steve Kieu
> Ugh - building from source is so much easier. :) Yes, but I downloaded the gimp-source from gimp site, before when I got slackware, so I dont have deb source packages Any way, flexible is better :-); another chance for understanding debian > Provides: fields can't currently satisfy versioned

Re: Another deb package questions :-)

2001-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:41:15PM +1100, Steve Kieu wrote: > So, I extract the deb fine onto a directory like gimp, make > subdirectory DEBIAN and create a control file inside, here is the > control file Ugh - building from source is so much easier. :) > By adding Provides field I hope the packa

Re: Debian base creation

2001-11-04 Thread Sunny Dubey
On Sunday 04 November 2001 07:30 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > That version of glibc will have been in unstable for some time, and > developers compile against that. Packages don't have to be built against > the exact same version of glibc due to the way shared libraries work. ahhh, I see, I was unde

Re: Right way of installing woody?

2001-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 02:10:53PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > If you have choice, do not dist-upgrade after many programs are > installed. Why not? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: woody stable?? when?, measuring the notion of stable releases

2001-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 08:13:14AM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 06:53:56PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > Incidentally, where is the release process / requirements documented? > > > > There are some vague guidelines in the d

Re: Debian base creation

2001-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 10:35:50AM -0500, Sunny Dubey wrote: > hey, > > how do the guys at debian compile the base system to be linked with the > version of glibc that ships with base system?? That version of glibc will have been in unstable for some time, and developers compile against that. Pa

Re: VIM color syntax]

2001-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 07:21:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all... I tried this but it didn't work. I got this error: > > Can't open file /usr/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim > > where can I find syntax.vim? Install the vim-rt package. > why doesn't debian install it? It isn't require

VIM color syntax]

2001-11-04 Thread xucaen
Hi all... I tried this but it didn't work. I got this error: Can't open file /usr/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim where can I find syntax.vim? why doesn't debian install it? I am running the version of vim that is part of the Debian 2.2r3 Stable release. thanks! xucaen - Forwarded message f

Re: IMAP security

2001-11-04 Thread Hanasaki JiJI
Does cyrus have the "all folders show up under INBOX" problem as courier does with netscape and mozilla? Appearantly this is a result of the client not the server? If cyrus doesn't how do they get around it? Thanks nate wrote: Antti Tolamo said: And surprise suddenny I can seewhole cont

Re: IMAP security

2001-11-04 Thread nate
Antti Tolamo said: > And surprise suddenny I can seewhole contents > directory of /var/www from Eudora. are you using UW IMAP ? if so that is no suprise. that is part of the design of UW ..i believe its intentional too. i personally prefer cyrus, but many like courier imap. i'd reccomend not u

Re: Netgear FA311, usable under Linux ?

2001-11-04 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 09:37:26AM +, John Griffiths wrote: > tulip has run just fine for me in the past with these > Tulip drives the Netgear FA-310. The 311 and 312 are based on a different chipset, and use the natsemi driver. The driver is included with kernel 2.4.x. It's available for

Re: nameserver problems

2001-11-04 Thread Rebecca Dridan
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:25:15AM +0100, j wrote: > On Sunday 04 November 2001 23:33, Rebecca Dridan wrote: > > > I can connect using ssh to the machine from outside, when I nmap it, it > > says port 53 is open > > did you run the portscan from the Internet ? > try ... nmap -p 53 -sU -P0 I get

Re: nameserver problems

2001-11-04 Thread j
On Sunday 04 November 2001 23:33, Rebecca Dridan wrote: > I can connect using ssh to the machine from outside, when I nmap it, it > says port 53 is open did you run the portscan from the Internet ? try ... nmap -p 53 -sU -P0 Are there any errors in /var/log/daemon.log when starting bind ? > not

Re: ATI Rage 128 frambuffer questiosn

2001-11-04 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Stan Brown: > I have a machine with an ATI Rage 128 video card. This machine has potato + > Progeny + 2.4.13 kernel. I have manged to get frambuffer working, but I > can't figure out how to use anything other than the default resolution/font > size. I managed to amke it use a higher deni

Re: Network card problem

2001-11-04 Thread Raphael Bustin
At 11:36 PM 11/4/01 +0100, you wrote: On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 14:32, Raphael Bustin wrote: > As it turns out, the file rtl8139.o exists on my > debian/potato box, in at least one or two places. Which Chip is it? Realtek 8139 or 8129? If you have the 8139 you could/should use the 8139too # drive

Re: startx problems

2001-11-04 Thread John Lord
Hi Kevin , On 04-Nov-01, you wrote: >> /bin/startx: /bin/xauth: cannot execute binary file >> /bin/startx: /bin/xinit: " " " >> I have updated some files over the net and can't quite work out what has >> happened. I am a relative newbie to Linux though have been reading some >> d

IMAP security

2001-11-04 Thread Antti Tolamo
Just noticed something odd, not sure is this a security problem or what. I have Debian potato server for own use , where I few days ago installed IMAP 4.7c-1 because WAP email reading PHP/WML script from: http://e-sphere.net/ needs it. Just few minutes ago I tried to fetch mail from one acc

Re: newt.h ?

2001-11-04 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Martin Kacerovsky: > > I'm trying to build the latest version of mondo on a potato system, and > > it's complaining about not finiding an inclued file called newt,h. Sounds > > like in might be a curses, or termcap relate file? > > Hi , > I am not sure but headers are always in developm

Re: newt.h ?

2001-11-04 Thread Brian Nelson
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to build the latest version of mondo on a potato system, and > it's complaining about not finiding an inclued file called newt,h. Sounds > like in might be a curses, or termcap relate file? > > Anyone know what package contains this file, and

Re: Netgear FA311, usable under Linux ?

2001-11-04 Thread Steffen Evers
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 23:22, Steffen Evers wrote: > natsemi # driver for ethernet card with National Semiconductor chipset I have looked it up. FA311 is my card and I have checked the chipset. Module natsemi is exactly for this card, though other drivers work as will. So, I suggest to use 'natsem

Re: Network card problem

2001-11-04 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Paul Deniston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to install via http w/ a cable modem. My problem is that > I've installed base using floppies but my card (a d-link DFE-530TX+) is > not supported in the drivers disks. My card did come w/ a disk w/ linux > drivers on it, but I have to compil

Re: Cable Modem Setup?? (Newbie...)

2001-11-04 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Raphael Bustin: > Adelphia uses DHCP, and AFAIK there are no fixed > IP addresses anywhere, other than the reserved > address used by the Linksys router: 192.168.1.1 That's a private network address, not the 'real' one, but it might be enough. > How would I set up /etc/network/interface

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 10:24:13AM +0200, Ian Balchin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Amazingly he replied that he had a book on Linux. You can guess which > one that is! He had given it away to another dealer but hopefully > will get it back for me. I looked at the Linux Bible on line by Steve > H

Re: Broadcast 2000

2001-11-04 Thread csj
On Sunday 04 November 2001 05:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just wondering if anyone has ever tried to run Broadcast 2000 under a > Debian system. I've attempted to convert an RPM of this app via > Alien. > > However I hit a roadblock with reference to an item called libXv.so.1 > Apparent

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-11-04 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Ian Balchin: > Where has my floppy drive gone? I can find it nowhere. I can find no command > in > mc to change drive (come back PCTools, all is forgiven!) There is nothing in > /floppy and nothing in /dev/fd Peripherals - floppy, CD-ROM, etc usually aren't mounted automatically on b

Re: Getting Linux

2001-11-04 Thread csj
On Sunday 04 November 2001 04:51, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On 3 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What makes going to http://cdimage.debian.org/ "the preferred > > method", and http://www.linuxiso.org/ "the the cheap copout". > > Debian does it the way they do to try and preserve space and

Re: Network card problem

2001-11-04 Thread Steffen Evers
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 14:32, Raphael Bustin wrote: > As it turns out, the file rtl8139.o exists on my > debian/potato box, in at least one or two places. Which Chip is it? Realtek 8139 or 8129? If you have the 8139 you could/should use the 8139too # driver for ethernet card with Realtek chipset

Re: Netgear FA311, usable under Linux ?

2001-11-04 Thread John Griffiths
tulip has run just fine for me in the past with these At 05:29 PM 11/4/01 -0500, dman wrote: >On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 05:02:25PM +, Courtney Thomas wrote: >| Greetings ! >| >| If said card is usable, > >Yes. > >| what module can be used ? > >I don't really remember, but try 'tulip'. If that

nameserver problems

2001-11-04 Thread Rebecca Dridan
Hi all, I'm having some problems with the nameserver on a webserver I am setting up at a company I work for. I'm running bind from potato, and the machines on the internal network can use my server as a name server, no problems, but when I try and set my machine up at home to query this server to

Re: Netgear FA311, usable under Linux ?

2001-11-04 Thread dman
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 05:02:25PM +, Courtney Thomas wrote: | Greetings ! | | If said card is usable, Yes. | what module can be used ? I don't really remember, but try 'tulip'. If that fails, the 'rtl8139' based cards are quite common (try that module). -D

Re: Netgear FA311, usable under Linux ?

2001-11-04 Thread Andrew . Clark
On Sun, 04 November 2001, Courtney Thomas wrote: > > Greetings ! > > If said card is usable, what module can be used ? > > Appreciatively, > Courtney Last time I used a Netgear card (310tx) there was a code for the appropriate kernel module on the disk. If there isn't, it might be the tulip

Re: Netgear FA311, usable under Linux ?

2001-11-04 Thread Steffen Evers
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 17:02, Courtney Thomas wrote: > Greetings ! > > If said card is usable, what module can be used ? I think it was natsemi # driver for ethernet card with National Semiconductor chipset Bye, Steffen

Re: Right way of installing woody?

2001-11-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 01:02:01PM +0200, Andriy Korud wrote: > I'd like to install Debian with relatively fresh software (XFree 4.1.x, libc > 2.2.x, kernel 2.4.x, etc). > Which will the best way: > - install 2.2r3 and then upgrade everything I need? or > - install woody "from scratch"? Both worke

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Re: startx problems

2001-11-04 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:05:37PM +0100, John Lord wrote: > Hello, > > Can someone let me know what the following errors mean, and how to fix them > please? > > /bin/startx: /bin/xauth: cannot execute binary file > /bin/startx: /bin/xinit: " " " > > I have updated some files over

Re: programming

2001-11-04 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
right. It should be strlen(buff ) thanks everyone for your help. I think I will try fgets instead. regards J.A.Serralheiro

Re: Squid in a school - problems with https

2001-11-04 Thread nate
Phillip Deackes said: > It might be useful if you could email me your squid.conf. i can't email it ..opera/linux cannot upload files through https(known bug). and since im writing this from a webmail app i can't attach files :) put i'll put it here: http://portal.aphroland.org/squid.conf as for

Re: some questions (after a HD crash)

2001-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 01:18:07PM -0600, Scott Wehrenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 03:21:34PM +, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > > the guarantee. What is the best way to WIPE data on the disk ? > >I actually had the same error while running Reiser-FS on my IBM box.

Woody - upgrade woes

2001-11-04 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a server running woody. This afternoon I tried to install fte-xwindows package, but ftp.uk.debian.org hadn't got the package. This is normally time to do an upgrade. So (in dselect - which I normally use) I did one There is something wrong

Re: Unresolvable installation problem?

2001-11-04 Thread Adam Jacob Muller
You could try using an LS-120 disk and a 2.88 mb image. Thereby elimnating the need for a root floppy Adam Jacob Muller On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 12:53, Harry Palmer wrote: > I have a (decent, 400MHz PII) laptop with no CDROM and an LS120 IDE > floppy drive instead of a standard floppy (which bo

Re: timezone -0200

2001-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:11:03AM +0100, Martin Kacerovsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > I always view timezone of messages coming into list because I like > trying to guess where is sender of that message living (East Coast, > West Coast, Europe, UK, ...) > > but today I found some mess

Re: Squid in a school - problems with https

2001-11-04 Thread nate
martin f krafft said: > > is no way that it can decrypt the stream and cache the data - > unless something here is entirely broken, or i am failing to > understand the trivial. i wouldn't want squid to cache https data. all squid has to do is allow the connection. from what ive heard from the dev

Re: Bug#118173: xmms: playlist fonts screwed up, shows empty squares instead of text

2001-11-04 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 08:38:49PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 04:33:08PM -0500, rj fleck wrote: > > Package: xmms > > Version: 1.2.5-2 > > Severity: important > > > > seems to have only started happening on newer versions of the x-libraries > > > > ii xlibs

startx problems

2001-11-04 Thread John Lord
Hello, Can someone let me know what the following errors mean, and how to fix them please? /bin/startx: /bin/xauth: cannot execute binary file /bin/startx: /bin/xinit: " " " I have updated some files over the net and can't quite work out what has happened. I am a relative newbie t

Audio S/PDIF out on Trident & OSS/Free

2001-11-04 Thread Scott Bronson
I just upgraded my Debian system to testing + the 2.4.12 kernel, and now I can't get any audio to play on my Trident sound card's S/PDIF out port. The analog output works perfectly. I looked over the kernel source, and at first glance, it appears to me that the OSS/Free drivers simply do not supp

Netgear FA311, usable under Linux ?

2001-11-04 Thread Courtney Thomas
Greetings ! If said card is usable, what module can be used ? Appreciatively, Courtney -- Naturity: in contradistinction to the oxymoronic humanity, and as evidenced by the natural mercy of death releasing living beings from the unnaturalness and "inhumanity"

Re: Squid in a school - problems with https

2001-11-04 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 12:06:14 -0800 (PST) "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > would be helpful if you gave error messages. i am writing > this email from squirrelmail(web email) running on apache-ssl, > composing from Opera 5.0/linux running through a squid 2.2.5 > proxy through SSL no problems. i u

Re: Squid in a school - problems with https

2001-11-04 Thread martin f krafft
here are some links that confirm what i said: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2817.txt http://www.web-cache.com/Writings/Internet-Drafts/ draft-luotonen-web-proxy-tunneling-01.txt http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-1.html#ss1.12 *but*: work is in progress: http://squid.sourceforg

Re: ssh works from windows not from linux; protocol version difference?

2001-11-04 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Sunday 04 November 2001 12:20 pm, Gianguido Cianci wrote: > first o fall which ssh should I install? ssh or Openssh? any practical > difference? as oppoesed to ideological difference??? >From what it sounds like you're trying to do, I'd say OpenSSH is a better choice. I believe the other ssh

Re: Squid in a school - problems with https

2001-11-04 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 20:33:18 +0100 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [cc'ing to debian-user since this is about the 15th time i am > answering this question... which i am glad to do, don't get me wrong!] Sorry - I spent much of Friday and today going through newsgroups (Debian-User is a

Re: Squid in a school - problems with https

2001-11-04 Thread martin f krafft
* nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.04 12:25:37-0800]: > > squid for SSL? uhm, how? > > easy. > > acl all src 10.10.10.0/255.255.255.0 166.128.21.107/32 > acl manager proto cache_object > acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 > acl SSL_ports port 443 563 > acl Safe_ports port 80 21 443 563

IMP/POP3 server conflict

2001-11-04 Thread martin f krafft
hi, i am using spop3d and courier-imap to provide mail retrieval services on potato, with Maildir as the mail store. on top (IMAP), there is IMP, and it all works beautifully - *except*: if a user reads an email in IMP, which hasn't been downloaded, spop3d won't serve that email no more, so s/he wo

Re: Squid in a school - problems with https

2001-11-04 Thread nate
martin f krafft said: > * nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.04 12:06:14-0800]: >> would be helpful if you gave error messages. i am writing >> this email from squirrelmail(web email) running on apache-ssl, >> composing from Opera 5.0/linux running through a squid 2.2.5 >> proxy through SSL no probl

Re: Squid in a school - problems with https

2001-11-04 Thread nate
martin f krafft said: > * nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.04 12:06:14-0800]: >> would be helpful if you gave error messages. i am writing >> this email from squirrelmail(web email) running on apache-ssl, >> composing from Opera 5.0/linux running through a squid 2.2.5 >> proxy through SSL no probl

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-11-04 Thread Ian Balchin
dman et al .za stands for Zuid Afrika which is from the Dutch who founded the colony at the Cape Of Good Hope. One of my colleages in the book trade specialises in cookbooks. Amazingly he replied that he had a book on Linux. You can guess which one that is! He had given it away to another de

Re: ssh works from windows not from linux; protocol version difference?

2001-11-04 Thread Gianguido Cianci
I think it might be a little more complicated than what's below (?) > Hello everyone, > > > after an afternoon fighting with my ethernet card I have finally solved my > problems with it (I hope... :-( ) > > I have installed ssh but can't log into a machine. the strange thing is that > I can

Re: Squid in a school - problems with https

2001-11-04 Thread martin f krafft
* nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.04 12:06:14-0800]: > would be helpful if you gave error messages. i am writing > this email from squirrelmail(web email) running on apache-ssl, > composing from Opera 5.0/linux running through a squid 2.2.5 > proxy through SSL no problems. i use squid everyday on

Re: Squid in a school - problems with https

2001-11-04 Thread nate
Phillip Deackes said: > Trawlling through the news archives it is obviously a lot of people > are having problems accessing secure web sites using squid. If > there is no easy solution, would moving to an older version of > squid help? We are not bothered about features, we just need a way > of ma

Re: Bug#118173: xmms: playlist fonts screwed up, shows empty squares instead of text

2001-11-04 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 04:33:08PM -0500, rj fleck wrote: > Package: xmms > Version: 1.2.5-2 > Severity: important > > seems to have only started happening on newer versions of the x-libraries > > ii xlibs 4.1.0-7X Window System client libraries I've got xlibs 4.1.0-

Re: Network card problem

2001-11-04 Thread Raphael Bustin
At 01:47 PM 11/4/01 -0500, Paul Deniston wrote: RESEND of previous html message: I'm trying to install via http w/ a cable modem. My problem is that I've installed base using floppies but my card (a d-link DFE-530TX+) is not supported in the drivers disks. My card did come w/ a disk w/ linux d

Re: Squid in a school - problems with https

2001-11-04 Thread martin f krafft
[cc'ing to debian-user since this is about the 15th time i am answering this question... which i am glad to do, don't get me wrong!] * Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.04 19:16:14+]: > Thanks, Martin. Could you explain a little more, please. I am > primarily a teacher, so only have

ATI Rage 128 frambuffer questiosn

2001-11-04 Thread Stan Brown
I have a machine with an ATI Rage 128 video card. This machine has potato + Progeny + 2.4.13 kernel. I have manged to get frambuffer working, but I can't figure out how to use anything other than the default resolution/font size. I managed to amke it use a higher denisty font briefly, during boot u

Re: programming

2001-11-04 Thread martin f krafft
* Eric G. Miller [2001.11.04 10:56:49-0800]: > > char *buff = (char*)malloc(128); > > sizeof(buff) == 4 // on i32 machines > > > > --> problem! > > Depends on what "buff" is, its scope and how sizeof is used. which is why i declared it as a pointer to buffer space. i know that if it is a comp

Re: some questions (after a HD crash)

2001-11-04 Thread Scott Wehrenberg
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 03:21:34PM +, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > the guarantee. What is the best way to WIPE data on the disk ? I actually had the same error while running Reiser-FS on my IBM box. I, apparently erroneously since you appear to be using ext2, attributed the error to Reiser a

Re: programming

2001-11-04 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Eric G. Miller (egm2@jps.net) spake thusly: [ sizeof stuff snipped ] Of course, writing char buf[80]; buflen = sizeof(buf); makes no sense. It's not like you don't know what buffer length is. #define BUFLEN 80 char buf[BUFLEN]; ... Dima -- Surely there is a polite way to say FOAD.

Re: Installation problem: Network card

2001-11-04 Thread dman
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 12:40:54PM -0500, Paul Deniston wrote: | I'm trying to install via http w/ a cable modem. My problem is that | I've installed base using floppies but my card (a d-link DFE-530TX+) | is not supported in the drivers disks. IIRC it is an rtl8139 card. The standard kernel has

Re: programming

2001-11-04 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 16:56:58 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.04 16:51:09+0100]: > > while (fgets(buff, sizeof(buff)-1, filestream) != NULL) > > { > > /* do something with the 'buff' variable */ > > } > > char *buff = (ch

Network card problem

2001-11-04 Thread Paul Deniston
RESEND of previous html message: I'm trying to install via http w/ a cable modem. My problem is that I've installed base using floppies but my card (a d-link DFE-530TX+) is not supported in the drivers disks. My card did come w/ a disk w/ linux drivers on it, but I have to compile them. I can't

svga, via apollo kle-133, KinetiZ7L

2001-11-04 Thread thomas . kral
Hello there, I have got KinetiZ7L m/board w/ VIA Apollo c/set (VT8361) and I cannot set svga 3.3.6 for higher freq. than 70Hz though my Hyundai V770 is 1024x768 @ 85Hz capable. Inbuilt agp gets recognised as Trident CyberBlade/i1, luckily, there does not seem be any via support yet. Best resu

Re: some questions (after a HD crash)

2001-11-04 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 10:05:44AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > GTX (?) disks are widely reported to have quality issues, as previously > noted. > IBM 75GXP is the model. I know, since I'm running one on my workstation as of now and are just waiting for it to give up. :( Something about using

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