Re: package mystery

2001-11-07 Thread Allen Wayne Best
mike: gnome-config comes from gnome-libs-devel-x.x.x. On Wednesday 07 November 2001 18:09, you did posit: > Hello. > > I'm running testing, and am trying to build terraform from source. > > Does anyone know where /usr/bin/gnome-config comes from? I don't > have it on my system. I'm also appar

Re: CD audio

2001-11-07 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
When you play a CD, can you confirm that the activity light on the front of the drive is lit or flashing? Can you hear them if you plug headphones into the jack on the front of the drive? After adjusting the volume dial on it? Check your mixer settings (with a program such as gmix for gnome environ

TV Tuner

2001-11-07 Thread Reza
Hi.. I just had a TV Tuner (AVERMedia98). I've no idea what's the module to load it since I've never had any TV Tuner before.. Can please anybody help me?? I'll appreciate that.. Thank you __ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://care

Re: tape drive

2001-11-07 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 17:40, Matt Fair wrote: > Has anyone setup a scsi PowerVault 100T DDS4 tape drive? > I have tried to get it working on linux, but have not been able to work. > Should it be the same as all other scsi tape drives? > My computer reconizes it on boot but not in linux, even though

Re: xscreensaver on woody

2001-11-07 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 16:15, George Karaolides wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm running woody, using the icewm window manager. > > I can start xscreensaver from the command line, and I need to get it to > start when I log in (from wdm). I've tried to put "xscreensaver > -no-splash &" in my ~/.xsession fi

Re: sound configuration

2001-11-07 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 09:17, Nicolas Lamirault wrote: > i have a little problem to configure my soundcard > i try to find a solution in the archive, but i found nothing > > i'm on debian testing > > i think the important file are : > > $> more /proc/ioports > e000-efff : PCI Bus #02 > ec40-ec7f

Re: Linux RAM drive support/performance

2001-11-07 Thread Cory Snavely
Sure, I just happened across some at http://www.cdw.com/shop/search/results.asp?FilteredGroup=HSO but can't claim any experience with any of the hardware. Have fun! > Cory, > > > I saw them for $2K for 2 GB which is 3-4x the cost of the memory. I'm not > > sure how the performance would com

Re: samba problem

2001-11-07 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 09:14, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: > Hi, > on my Woody box I'm running Samba 2.2.2 > when I set security = share in smb.conf, all Windows desktops around > can easily find this server a connect. > If I set security = user (this is my prefered setting) then Windows desktops > cant e

Re: woody - problems with dns

2001-11-07 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 17:57, Steffen Evers wrote: > Hello, > > I have some problems with the DNS service on my woody system and I think > I have experienced the same problems on my sid installation: > > Maybe I have misunderstood something, but I think this behavior is not > correct: > > When I

Re: Occasional Network/DHCP weirdness

2001-11-07 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
[Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 07:50:58PM -0500] David P James : > our ISP uses DHCP that's what the server set to use and most of the > time it works just fine (It's set up with dhcp-client). But every now > and then it loses the connection altogether Is the server a 'Potato' one ? I have observed

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Re: max RAM size

2001-11-07 Thread dman
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 08:19:21AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: | | On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, François THOMAS wrote: | | > Hello list | > | > I have upgraded the physical amount of RAM on a Potato server (r3). | > Unfortunately, it looks like only 960M are managed by the kernel... Is there | > a *saf

Re: Promise Ultra100 TX2

2001-11-07 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Matthew Daubenspeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Has anyone tried using a Promise UltraTX2 ATA/100 controller under Debian? > > I can get them for dirt cheap, and they have performed wonderfully > otherwise, but haven't tried it with Debian. > > Any comments/suggestions would be appreciated. >

Come to ALS Debian BOF Thurs 11/8 6-8 PM Oakland, CA, USA, Earth

2001-11-07 Thread tluxt
The (San Francisco) Bay Area Debian group invites you to attend the Debian BOF at the Annual Linux Showcase technical converence. This is the largest technical Linux conference in the USA (says Maddog). The technical talks and exhibits are all free. http://www.linuxshowcase.com/bofschedule.html

X windows does not work after Licq install

2001-11-07 Thread Ramachandran Chidambaram
I have Debian 2.2 with X windows installed. I installed Licq.X windows stopped working afterwards.I removed Licq. X windows started working as before. Why this incompatibility? Ramachandran __ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://caree

Re: Big time problem after disk crash

2001-11-07 Thread calyth-shaw
Thanks for the tip! I'll check it out. I was watching it boot after fscking all the disk (and sure did they fsck =) and it was fine.. It's just that my regular user got the checker background and never jump into gnome/enlightenment. I'll check it out as soon as I have time =) As to RPM verify i

John "Maddog" Hall for the Annual Linux Showcase (ALS) 11/8-10 (video)

2001-11-07 Thread tluxt
Check it out: http://168.103.109.171/ Thanks to Bay Area Debian, Linux & other volunteers for helping. Now, hop on a plane & get yourself out here! :) __ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com

Re: debian read mac formatted zip disk question (2)

2001-11-07 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
jim R. wrote: HI, What i meant was how can i make debian linux to recognize mac formatted zip disk?. mounting is easy. but how to mount so that linux can recognize mac formatted disk. drive on linux is parallel not scsi. Jim __ Do You Yahoo!? Fi

Re: .deb archive?

2001-11-07 Thread Craig Dickson
Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 04:35:14PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > > Is there any place where copies of superseded .deb packages go to die? > > No official one, no, as the archive doesn't have enough disk space. If > you're looking for a particular one, name it and somebody here

Re: debian read mac formatted zip disk question (2)

2001-11-07 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 17:39:59 -0800 (PST), "jim R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI, > What i meant was how can i make debian linux to > recognize mac > formatted zip disk?. mounting is easy. but how to > mount so > that linux can recognize mac formatted disk. drive on > linux is parallel not scsi.

package mystery

2001-11-07 Thread Mike Pfleger
Hello. I'm running testing, and am trying to build terraform from source. Does anyone know where /usr/bin/gnome-config comes from? I don't have it on my system. I'm also apparently missing: /usr/local/lib/gnomeConf.sh which is allegedly generated by gnome-libs install. (?) Does anyone have the

Re: upgrades in woody: "dhelp_parse: can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles"

2001-11-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 03:30:30AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > Mario Vukelic wrote: > > This has been going on for a long long time. dhelp was pretty much unmaintained for a long long time, but it's recently acquired a new maintainer who's fixing its bugs. > The bug, or a related one is still open

Re: .deb archive?

2001-11-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 04:35:14PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > Is there any place where copies of superseded .deb packages go to die? No official one, no, as the archive doesn't have enough disk space. If you're looking for a particular one, name it and somebody here might still have it lying aroun

debian read mac formatted zip disk question (2)

2001-11-07 Thread jim R.
HI, What i meant was how can i make debian linux to recognize mac formatted zip disk?. mounting is easy. but how to mount so that linux can recognize mac formatted disk. drive on linux is parallel not scsi. Jim __ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post you

Re: upgrades in woody: "dhelp_parse: can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles"

2001-11-07 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi, > > when I apt-get update and upgrade in woody I get the above error message > for a lot of packages. When a special package is upgraded (I think dhelp > itself, but maybe another part of the help system) I get a _lot_ of > these, obviously when the package builds some kind of database. > >

Re: .deb archive?

2001-11-07 Thread Shaul Karl
> Is there any place where copies of superseded .deb packages go to die? I > want to revert to a version of a package that is no longer in any of the > active dists. > > Thanks > > Chris > You might want to take a look at http://www.debian.org/distrib/archive -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: XFree86-4: No screens found

2001-11-07 Thread Jeff
Marcel Figuerola Estrada, 2001-Nov-08 01:48 +0100: > I get a fatal error when trying to start x: no screens found. Another message > says screen(s) found, but none have a usual configuration. > > It's very strange because I specified some screed should be good. I have a > Geforce MX2 Card. I att

Re: CD audio

2001-11-07 Thread John Griffiths
At 07:10 PM 11/7/01 -0600, Rory O'Connor wrote: >I got the soundcard working, I can see the audio files on the audio CD >(titles even loaded from cddb), and I can even play them. I just can't >HEAR them. Is there some trick to being able to hear audio from the CD? > I checked and the CD player

CD audio

2001-11-07 Thread Rory O'Connor
I got the soundcard working, I can see the audio files on the audio CD (titles even loaded from cddb), and I can even play them. I just can't HEAR them. Is there some trick to being able to hear audio from the CD? I checked and the CD player is plugged in to the soundcard's CD IN jack. I ca

Re run network setup...

2001-11-07 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hi there... I know I can change the network settings by modifying /etc/networ/interfaces, but, can someone tell me how to re run the network setup program that runs when you install debian? is this possible? Thanks!

Re: sid mp3 woes

2001-11-07 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi Anthony On 2001.11.05 17:39 Anthony Liu wrote: On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 08:56:03PM -0600, David Rose wrote: > 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 th

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Occasional Network/DHCP weirdness

2001-11-07 Thread David P James
Hi all, I've got a network server set up that runs a basic installation of Debian Potato - no X, etc. Because our ISP uses DHCP that's what the server set to use, and most of the time it works just fine (It's set up with dhcp-client). But every now and then it loses the connection altogether. A

XFree86-4: No screens found

2001-11-07 Thread Marcel Figuerola Estrada
I get a fatal error when trying to start x: no screens found. Another message says screen(s) found, but none have a usual configuration. It's very strange because I specified some screed should be good. I have a Geforce MX2 Card. I attach the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and the last few lines of the

Re: Which installer? Aptitude, dselect deity...

2001-11-07 Thread Aniartia
On Thursday 08 November 2001 00:31, Brian Nelson wrote: > Jesse Goerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I had been using this method for about a year before I even > > learned of apt-cache search, et all. > > > > If you install a program and it's missing a feature, check for > > suggests and recommen

Re: max RAM size

2001-11-07 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 05:21:45PM +0100, François THOMAS wrote: | | | > -Message d'origine- | > De : Schnorbus, Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > Envoyé : mercredi 7 novembre 2001 17:11 | > À : 'François THOMAS' | > Cc : debian-user@lists.debian.org | > Objet : max RAM size | > | > >

Re: weird nvidia problem in unstable

2001-11-07 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
does your XFree86 config file refer to the right driver - i.e. nvidia, not nv ? just a though Shri --- Mental <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I've run accross an odd condition on my debian (unstable) box. It > seems that Quake3 is no longer textured properly on my geforce card. The > game

Re: [typo@netcabo.pt: X upgrade broke NVIDIA binary driver]

2001-11-07 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
> > I don't know if you care about binary drivers but the last X upgrade broke > 3D/DRI/GLX in the nvidia's driver. > you might have to change the display card driver to nvidia from nv. I had to do that as well as install the nvidia driver packages as mentioned by Dominique HTH Shri __

Re: Which installer? Aptitude, dselect deity...

2001-11-07 Thread Brian Nelson
Jesse Goerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I learned on dselect and used it for 2 months or so because I > didn't even know there was a thing called apt-get. I have long > forgotten how to use dselect :). Use apt-get, to find out more > information on a package, like what is suggested and reco

Re: Big time problem after disk crash

2001-11-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:23:22PM -0800, calyth-shaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was rebooting the system when it froze, right after sending the "wall" > message to all users that it's going to reboot. It resulted in an > unflushed disk cache reboot, and I know it was going to be massive. >

Re: Newbie question

2001-11-07 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Wednesday 07 November 2001 15:31, Jason Machacek wrote: > Is there any way to make the ls command permanently use the > --color option? > > Thanks, > Jason Machacek Usually the default install of debian already includes a bunch of alias options in the file located at /home/you/.bashrc. Here

Re: Which installer? Aptitude, dselect deity...

2001-11-07 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Wednesday 07 November 2001 14:10, David Z Maze wrote: > ol1 writes: > ol1> Also sprach Preben Randhol: > PR> Which installer should I recommend to a beginner of > Debian (and Linux?). PR> > PR> I remember I saw somewhere on the web an article that > covered a lot of PR> debian installers, bu

Re: Purify for Linux

2001-11-07 Thread Gary Hennigan
"T.Phan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any purify clone for linux? > TIA! There are various free bounds checkers for Linux. The only one I ever used was Electric Fence and that was a LONG time ago. I think there are others. If you want a commercial product you can look at Parasofts I

tape drive

2001-11-07 Thread Matt Fair
Has anyone setup a scsi PowerVault 100T DDS4 tape drive? I have tried to get it working on linux, but have not been able to work. Should it be the same as all other scsi tape drives? My computer reconizes it on boot but not in linux, even though I installed scsi tape support in the kernel. Any h

Re: Promise Ultra100 TX2

2001-11-07 Thread nate
Matthew Daubenspeck said: > Has anyone tried using a Promise UltraTX2 ATA/100 controller under > Debian? anything different from the "normal" Ultra ATA/100 controllers from promise? i use promise ata/100 controllers in 3 systems and they are ROCK SOLID. i wouldn't use the raid editions but the non

Re: OT: 3Ware vs. Promise

2001-11-07 Thread nate
Martin Loschwitz said: > What IDE-Raid-Controller would you prefer? The 3Ware Escalade > 6410 or anyone from Promise? And why? 3ware. promise may be good but their driver support for linux is very bad. beware of 3ware's raid 5. DO NOT USE IT. at least not for a while. it still has serious issues(w

Re: apt-get: precedence of apt_sources ?

2001-11-07 Thread David J. Roundy
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 02:10:59PM -0800, tom schuetz wrote: > My apt_source has both ftp sites and cds listed on it. > > How does apt determine which source to try first? Do I need to take the > cd's off of the source document if I want to get debs from the ftp sites? Apt pays attention to the

Purify for Linux

2001-11-07 Thread T.Phan
Hi, Is there any purify clone for linux? TIA! --- tcp

Big time problem after disk crash

2001-11-07 Thread calyth-shaw
I was rebooting the system when it froze, right after sending the "wall" message to all users that it's going to reboot. It resulted in an unflushed disk cache reboot, and I know it was going to be massive. Now I'm left with at least a problem in which X wouldn't start for my regular user, yet it s

Re: Do you use atari800 package?

2001-11-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Dale Scheetz wrote: > > I'm about ready to release the 1.0.7 version of the atari800 package, and > I'd like some feedback from folks who are actually using the package. > > If you use this package, please take a look at the following issues and > let me know how they impact your use: > > 1. The

Re: Weird File Permissions

2001-11-07 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, "s" is the setuid and/or setgid permission: setuid in the user field, setgid in the group field. On files, setuid/setgid allow the group/user ID of the process started when invoking an executable file to be set to the group/user ID owning the file, respectively. Setting the setgid bit on a

Re: Weird File Permissions

2001-11-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:42:37PM +, Aniartia wrote: > On Wednesday 07 November 2001 22:33, Sunny Dubey wrote: > > hey, > > > > what does it mean to have an S or an s when doing ls -l ?? > > > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])(/)$ ls -l | grep home > > drwxrwsr-x8 root staff1024 Oct 15 12:

Re: Weird File Permissions

2001-11-07 Thread Gary Hennigan
Aniartia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 07 November 2001 22:33, Sunny Dubey wrote: > > hey, > > > > what does it mean to have an S or an s when doing ls -l ?? > > > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])(/)$ ls -l | grep home > > drwxrwsr-x8 root staff1024 Oct 15 12:02 home > > I thoug

Re: MBR erased

2001-11-07 Thread David Z Maze
Rick Thomas writes: RT> 1. I have two hard drives sda1 and sdb1. I have RedHat installed on sda1 RT> and Debian installed on sdb1. The master boot record on the sdb1(Debian RT> disk) was accidently erased. I can still mount the drive but I can no RT> longer boot from the sdb1 drive. Are you u

Re: Slow ETerms

2001-11-07 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 15:21, DvB wrote: > > Is anyone else seeing this? On my Debian unstable system when I start > > an Eterm there is a pause of 2 or so seconds before the window is > > usable. At work under RH62 and a machine of similar speed an Eterm pops > > up in 1/2 second. I ran strace o

OT: 3Ware vs. Promise

2001-11-07 Thread Martin Loschwitz
What IDE-Raid-Controller would you prefer? The 3Ware Escalade 6410 or anyone from Promise? And why? best regards, Martin "Madkiss" Loschwitz

Re: Weird File Permissions

2001-11-07 Thread Aniartia
On Wednesday 07 November 2001 22:33, Sunny Dubey wrote: > hey, > > what does it mean to have an S or an s when doing ls -l ?? > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])(/)$ ls -l | grep home > drwxrwsr-x8 root staff1024 Oct 15 12:02 home I thought s = execute with SUID And this is the point where I

Re: Newbie question

2001-11-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 01:03:14PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Alan Shutko wrote: > > > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Huh? "ls --color=auto" does the right thing. > > > > Unless something is using a pty to talk to ls. But that only disturbs > > emacs shell mode, afaik

Re: E-mail address list

2001-11-07 Thread dman
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:48:02AM +0100, Ágics Balázs wrote: | Hi all, | | I want to set up an e-mail alias. It's a list of my clients, and I want | restrict this. How can I set up that just I can send an e-mail to this | address, everybody else no? I see you are using KMail. If only you are

Re: apt-get: precedence of apt_sources ?

2001-11-07 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
Normally, apt takes the one first, which is the first one in the file. Don't know, if cds are treated specially. hope it helps, daniel On Mittwoch, November 7, 2001, at 11:10 Uhr, tom schuetz wrote: My apt_source has both ftp sites and cds listed on it. How does apt determine which sourc

Weird File Permissions

2001-11-07 Thread Sunny Dubey
hey, what does it mean to have an S or an s when doing ls -l ?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])(/)$ ls -l | grep home drwxrwsr-x8 root staff1024 Oct 15 12:02 home thanks for any info =) Sunny Dubey

Re: Which installer? Aptitude, dselect deity...

2001-11-07 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 21:33:24 +0100 Johnny Ernst Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I only know two installers (apt-get and dselect), and have only seen > other peoples comments on the other two (aptitude and deity). > > The sad truth is that currently there is _no_ installer recommendable > fo

Re: mount mac zip disk on debain question

2001-11-07 Thread Craig Holyoak
jim R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, > I have mac zip disk that i like to mount them on > debian linux. > How do i do this?. > Jim If it's from your mac, it's probably SCSI, so just plug it into your scsi card, bung in a disk and type something like: # mount /dev/sda /mnt/zip Of course, if you

apt-get: precedence of apt_sources ?

2001-11-07 Thread tom schuetz
My apt_source has both ftp sites and cds listed on it. How does apt determine which source to try first? Do I need to take the cd's off of the source document if I want to get debs from the ftp sites? Thanks, Tom

xscreensaver on woody

2001-11-07 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, I'm running woody, using the icewm window manager. I can start xscreensaver from the command line, and I need to get it to start when I log in (from wdm). I've tried to put "xscreensaver -no-splash &" in my ~/.xsession file without success. Any ideas? George Karaolides 8, Costakis P

mount mac zip disk on debain question

2001-11-07 Thread jim R.
Hi, I have mac zip disk that i like to mount them on debian linux. How do i do this?. Jim __ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com

Re: .deb archive?

2001-11-07 Thread Andy Hartford
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 04:35:14PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > Is there any place where copies of superseded .deb packages go to die? I > want to revert to a version of a package that is no longer in any of the > active dists. > > Thanks > > Chris > try /var/cache/apt/archives/ Andy

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-11-07 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 04:18:36PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: | I have feelers out for some ram but am not going to worry too much | about a gui at present. Plenty to learn at the prompt. Unfortuantely, _new_ RAM is cheap, but _old_ RAM is very expensive. You can get a new 128MB PC133 DIMM for a

Re: errors with db2html or sgmltools --backend=html

2001-11-07 Thread csj
On Wednesday 07 November 2001 07:21, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > am trying to learn to write and format DocBook XML documents.  I > want to write a programmers manual for ZooLib > (http://zoolib.sourceforge.net/ So far I've succeeded in creating a > small docbook xml file that includes another fi

MBR erased

2001-11-07 Thread Thomas, Rick
1. I have two hard drives sda1 and sdb1. I have RedHat installed on sda1 and Debian installed on sdb1. The master boot record on the sdb1(Debian disk) was accidently erased. I can still mount the drive but I can no longer boot from the sdb1 drive. Is there any way to copy the MBR back to drive

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Re: Eterm weirdness (figured out)

2001-11-07 Thread Jim McCloskey
Simon Law wrote: |> Have you tried opening a plain old xterm? What about your PS1? |> Maybe your prompt is doing funny stuff. Thanks for your reply, Simon. The problem is unique to Eterm---nothing similar with xterm or with rxvt (or in the console). But it turned out that the problem w

.deb archive?

2001-11-07 Thread Chris Gray
Is there any place where copies of superseded .deb packages go to die? I want to revert to a version of a package that is no longer in any of the active dists. Thanks Chris

Re: Installing grub directly to a file

2001-11-07 Thread csj
On Thursday 08 November 2001 00:48, Timo Benk wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 01:38:30AM +0800, csj wrote: [...] > > Is there a way for me to install grub directly to "grub_boot.fdd" > > and have a file system on that file at the same time? [...] > Try the following: > > this recipe is heavily ba

XF86Setup

2001-11-07 Thread Jason Machacek
Sorry to keep hitting you guys with newbie questions, but when I run XF86Setup, I can get my mouse working and set everything up. However, my Radeon isn't listed in the list of cards because it's not supported by my current version of XFree86. When I use the "generic VGA" or "unsupported VGA" and

Re: apt-get upgrade woes

2001-11-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 08:01:37 -0800, P Kirk wrote: > > Preparing to replace util-linux 2.11h-1 (using > > .../util-linux_2.11l-3_i386.deb) > > ... > > install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or > > directory > > dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status

Re: Dumb postgresql questions

2001-11-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 21:43:13 -0600, Corey Halpin wrote: > 1. Is there some simple way to convert a mysql database into a postgresql > database? There are various ways. For a simple database, dump it, try to import it, fix problems by hand, try again etc. There are also conversion utilities for

No umlauts with mutt

2001-11-07 Thread Jan Tammen
Hello everyone, I got a weird problem with mutt (1.3.23-2). I am using xdm, I log into as a user and windowmaker is started. When I start a terminal (e.g. xterm or rxvt), umlauts are displayed correctly in mutt (and also in other applications, like vim). Now I created a 'shortcut' (a dock-app) to s

Re: Newbie question

2001-11-07 Thread Craig Dickson
Alan Shutko wrote: > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Huh? "ls --color=auto" does the right thing. > > Unless something is using a pty to talk to ls. But that only disturbs > emacs shell mode, afaik. It also won't work for anyone who wants to pipe ls into a pager. This, to me

Re: Newbie question

2001-11-07 Thread Alan Shutko
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Huh? "ls --color=auto" does the right thing. Unless something is using a pty to talk to ls. But that only disturbs emacs shell mode, afaik. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! If we were meant to get up early, God would h

Re: Newbie question

2001-11-07 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 02:32:10PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > * Jason Machacek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > Is there any way to make the ls command permanently use the --color > > > option? > > > > You do realise that it will

Re: Which installer? Aptitude, dselect deity...

2001-11-07 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Johnny Ernst Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > PR> Which installer should I recommend to a beginner of Debian > > (and Linux?). PR> ... > Both aptitude and deity have had the majority's verdict "thumbs down" > at their current state. (That is not to say that they won't be > excelen

Re: Newbie question

2001-11-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 02:32:10PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Jason Machacek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Is there any way to make the ls command permanently use the --color option? > > You do realise that it will break any scripts that parse output of "ls", > yes? Huh? "ls --colo

upgrades in woody: "dhelp_parse: can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles"

2001-11-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, when I apt-get update and upgrade in woody I get the above error message for a lot of packages. When a special package is upgraded (I think dhelp itself, but maybe another part of the help system) I get a _lot_ of these, obviously when the package builds some kind of database. The file exists

Re: debian install

2001-11-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 11:14:53AM -0800, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hello: > > i got the following error while trying to install debian in the dselect stage: > > E: Internal Error, couldn't configure a pre-depend. Some errors occurred > while unpac

Re: How does Ethernet device know address of transfer buffer

2001-11-07 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I can successfully install the 3c905 Ethernet driver, > but I don’t know why it works. This proves I don’t know > what is going on. I hope that someone can offer some > light. > > I use install parameters “irq=11" and I don’t set an

Re: Which installer? Aptitude, dselect deity...

2001-11-07 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
> PR> Which installer should I recommend to a beginner of Debian > (and Linux?). PR> > PR> I remember I saw somewhere on the web an article that covered > a lot of PR> debian installers, but I cannot seem to find it. > ol1> > ol1> apt-get > ol1> all the gui stuff is just confusing. > > But how do

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-11-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 05:42:51AM +0200, Ian Balchin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, all, > > My last post seemed to have evaporated into thin air. Tere have been no > answers so imagine that you didn't see it either. > > Dman, to answer you, I can print via lpr but nothing out of cat [file]

Re: Newbie question

2001-11-07 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Jason Machacek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Is there any way to make the ls command permanently use the --color option? You do realise that it will break any scripts that parse output of "ls", yes? Dima --

Re: Newbie question

2001-11-07 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
hi, > Is there any way to make the ls command permanently use the --color option? yes use alias ls='ls --color' i have a few aliases in my .profile file: eval `dircolors` alias ls='ls --color=auto ' alias ll='ls -l' alias la='ls -lA' . > Thanks, > Jason Machacek bye -- I am Martin Kacerovsk

Re: Newbie question

2001-11-07 Thread jeff
On Wednesday 07 November 2001 15:31, Jason Machacek wrote: > Is there any way to make the ls command permanently use > the --color option? > > Thanks, > Jason Machacek to make the color appear permanently, you should use the alias command in a bash startup script...like the one that should be 's

Re: Newbie question

2001-11-07 Thread jeff
On Wednesday 07 November 2001 15:31, Jason Machacek wrote: > Is there any way to make the ls command permanently use > the --color option? > > Thanks, > Jason Machacek learn about the alias command my friend :) try this: alias ls="ls -F --color=auto"

Newbie question

2001-11-07 Thread Jason Machacek
Is there any way to make the ls command permanently use the --color option? Thanks, Jason Machacek

How does Ethernet device know address of transfer buffer

2001-11-07 Thread descdata
Hi, I can successfully install the 3c905 Ethernet driver, but I don’t know why it works. This proves I don’t know what is going on. I hope that someone can offer some light. I use install parameters “irq=11" and I don’t set an io address. If I try fill in the address e.g. “io=0x220" I receiv

Re: man formatting

2001-11-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:17:54AM -0800, Mark Lanett wrote: > Is there a way I can get man to not print out the page break stuff? Or > maybe to think that pages are 1 lines long instead of 66. Upgrade to the version of groff in testing/unstable. > Also can I get it to format to terminal widt

Re: XFree 3 config - Modelines - Optimum monitor performances

2001-11-07 Thread Patrick Mahoney
> If you have Potato: > - ask me for an backport I have Potato! :) Pat Mahoney, no 22

Anyone using "Q" in dumps ?......

2001-11-07 Thread Courtney Thomas
Greetings ! I've read the docs on dump but the labyrinthine disquisition on the Q option is beyond my understanding. If anyone's using it, I'd be grateful for a lesson. Appreciatively, Courtney -- Naturity: in contradistinction to the oxymoronic humanity, and as evide

IBM ServeRAID driver

2001-11-07 Thread Aaron Burt
Howdy. We have a handful of IBM servers that use the IBM ServeRAID SCSI card, with the "ips" driver. Problem is, on the NetFinity 6000R 4-way boxen, the standard kernel in 2.2R3, 2.2R4 and Woody does an OOPS when it initializes the card. The Progeny kernel works fine. I suspect the driver hasn'

Quotas support and quota packages

2001-11-07 Thread Calyth
If I start using quotas in the kernel, which package should i install? Quota, quotatools or both? Calyth pgpkz9bDnSsNo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: NS4.78, symlinks and plugins

2001-11-07 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 04:19:25PM +0100, Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have just installed Netscape 4.78 in /usr/lib/netscape/478 (downloaded > > from netscape.com and installed it like the previous (debian) version),

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