Problem with load order on Gnome login

2001-11-15 Thread hanasaki
1. Gnome is setting the backround AFTER my ETerms are started. Thus they cannot get the root backround. 2. All saved windows are coming up in my first virt screen and not in the screens they were in when the log out occured. Thanks for any input.

good news for 3dfx users!

2001-11-15 Thread jeff
as you can see, i was writing several annoying emails to the list trying to figure out WTF was going on with my 3dfx card and xscreensaver. if your screensaver (mind you, NOT other opengl stuff) is running yucky and you use a 3dfx card, try editing the .xscreensaver file in your home directory.

Re: xscreensaver

2001-11-15 Thread Erik Steffl
jeff wrote: > > On Friday 16 November 2001 00:08, Erik Steffl wrote: > > jeff wrote: > > > On Thursday 15 November 2001 23:05, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > > jeff wrote: > > > > > xscreensaver runs fast and looks great in 'windowed' (even maximized) > > > > > mode but it's _really_ slow and yucky in f

Re: xscreensaver

2001-11-15 Thread jeff
On Friday 16 November 2001 00:08, Erik Steffl wrote: > jeff wrote: > > On Thursday 15 November 2001 23:05, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > jeff wrote: > > > > xscreensaver runs fast and looks great in 'windowed' (even maximized) > > > > mode but it's _really_ slow and yucky in fullscreen mode. > > > > > >

Re: xscreensaver

2001-11-15 Thread Erik Steffl
jeff wrote: > > On Thursday 15 November 2001 23:05, Erik Steffl wrote: > > jeff wrote: > > > xscreensaver runs fast and looks great in 'windowed' (even maximized) > > > mode but it's _really_ slow and yucky in fullscreen mode. > > > > > > hardware is a penitum iii, voodoo 3/200 AGP and 128 mb ram

Free ISP in California?

2001-11-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, I've just moved to Pasadena (CA) from Italy and would like to know where I can find an ISP who offers (free) dial-up connection (if any). Those whom I've been able to find all requre a Window$ program to be installed. Of course, if I won't find a FREE ISP, then I would pay...still my

Re: unmet dependencies for gnucash

2001-11-15 Thread Christopher N. Deckard
On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 23:51, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 16-Nov-2001 Christopher N. Deckard wrote: > > Hello. I'm running Debian Unstable and I want to use gnucash, but it > > depends on having libguppi, libgal, and libgtkhtml. All four of these > > packages depends on python-base (>= 1.5.

Re: unmet dependencies for gnucash

2001-11-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Nov-2001 Christopher N. Deckard wrote: > Hello. I'm running Debian Unstable and I want to use gnucash, but it > depends on having libguppi, libgal, and libgtkhtml. All four of these > packages depends on python-base (>= 1.5.2-2). > python packages are all being changed out right now. *A

unmet dependencies for gnucash

2001-11-15 Thread Christopher N. Deckard
Hello. I'm running Debian Unstable and I want to use gnucash, but it depends on having libguppi, libgal, and libgtkhtml. All four of these packages depends on python-base (>= 1.5.2-2). When I do an `apt-get -d -y upgrade` I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # apt-get -d -y upgrade Reading Package L

Re: xscreensaver

2001-11-15 Thread jeff
On Thursday 15 November 2001 23:05, Erik Steffl wrote: > jeff wrote: > > xscreensaver runs fast and looks great in 'windowed' (even maximized) > > mode but it's _really_ slow and yucky in fullscreen mode. > > > > hardware is a penitum iii, voodoo 3/200 AGP and 128 mb ram > > > > kernel is 2.4.14 w/

Notes on upgrading potato -> woody

2001-11-15 Thread Aaron Hall
I finally took the plunge and upgraded a non-critical server (just runs my domain :) to woody the other day. After having read this list for several months, I was prepared for what I thought could be a challenge. It wasn't, really, but I do have a bit of feedback, and a couple of questions. First

Re: xscreensaver

2001-11-15 Thread Erik Steffl
jeff wrote: > > xscreensaver runs fast and looks great in 'windowed' (even maximized) mode > but it's _really_ slow and yucky in fullscreen mode. > > hardware is a penitum iii, voodoo 3/200 AGP and 128 mb ram > > kernel is 2.4.14 w/DRI and voodoo compiled in openGL xscreensaver hacks or all o

Re: emacs related

2001-11-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-Nov-2001 Jeffrin wrote: > > Is it possible to do auto-formatting related to my need. > unrelated, but flyspell is also really cool.

Re: emacs related

2001-11-15 Thread Craig Dickson
Jeffrin wrote: > Is it possible to do auto-formatting related to my need. I think you want auto-fill-mode. You may also want to look at some of the Emacs Lisp variables having to do with auto-formatting, such as sentence-end and sentence-end-double-space. Craig

Re: Unable to remove mysql-server.

2001-11-15 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Chrys: > Hi, > > I tried to uninstall mysql-server to compile the original binary file, but it > looks like I have a problem :-( > Here is what apt-get shows me: > mobi:~# apt-get remove mysql-server > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following pa

Re: All-In-Wonder card support?

2001-11-15 Thread Bill Triplett
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 08:37:15PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm building my wife a new Debian machien for Christmas. One of the > requiremnts is to be able to play TV. Presently I have a Win-TV card in my > Debian worksation, and have made it work, with my ATI Radeon graphics card. > > I was won

Re: emacs related

2001-11-15 Thread Matthew Dalton
DvB wrote: > > "Jeffrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello all > > > > Can anything be done in emacs to eliminate space after a comma or a > > full stop ? > > > > hmm... run some kind of replace-regexp maybe? Don't know how much emacs > regexps support though. > Personally, I'd prob

SMTP connect to localhost failed

2001-11-15 Thread mdevin
I don't understand why I have started getting this problem. Here is my setup: Potato installation with 2.4.4 kernel using Adrian Bunk's .debs Connect to ISP using standard dialup modem - using pon Download mail with fetchmail Fetchmail delivers it to postfix Postfix gives it on to procmail Then I

Thinkpad 755c Help replace the bios battery

2001-11-15 Thread BillyBoyHarris
Hi    I am pretty handy when it comes to fixing PC type products, But I recently purchased a bios battery for my thinkpad 755c and I need some help to replace it. Are you the right person? Or Can you point me in the right direction. Thanks In Advance [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: emacs related

2001-11-15 Thread Jeffrin
Is it possible to do auto-formatting related to my need. -- Jeffrin Jose T. www.MSServices.org GPG:1024D/F5726A1B

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-15 Thread nate
Frank Zimmermann said: > As long as your talking about servers this uptime thing is ok, but > when talking about workstaions it's redicolous, premature and an > unjustifiable waste of natural resources. I sometimes think Linux > users just do this to show their Windows using friends how cool > the

Help Please.

2001-11-15 Thread BillyBoyHarris
Hi     I am pretty handy when it comes to fixing PC type products, But I recently purchased a bios battery for my thinkpad 755c and I need some help to replace it. Are you the right person? Or Can you point me in the right direction. Thanks In Advance [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

xscreensaver

2001-11-15 Thread jeff
xscreensaver runs fast and looks great in 'windowed' (even maximized) mode but it's _really_ slow and yucky in fullscreen mode. hardware is a penitum iii, voodoo 3/200 AGP and 128 mb ram kernel is 2.4.14 w/DRI and voodoo compiled in tia -jeff -- Q: What's the difference betweeen USL and

Re: Making a TCP or UDP or Unux Socket Server Listen on a port

2001-11-15 Thread nate
said: > > > My Clients and Server (socket programs) do not communicate at all > on this network . > > Please guide me on what I should do . if you figure out a way to do this lemme know theres a couple apps id like to do it with too. from what ive read there isn't a way to do it without having t

Re: X upgrade / downgrade / upgrade??

2001-11-15 Thread nate
Andrew M.A. Cater said: > effect. I may have a "mixture" of 3.3.6 and 4.0.9 packages. Help > me clear this one up to restore my X please! ive had mixtures before too.. i usually remove everything and purge everything and apt-get clean and reinstall. run through the package listing and look fo

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-15 Thread dman
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 05:50:06PM -0800, nate wrote: | DvB said: | | > Especially the monitor. I have my monitors power down not only to | > save energy, but also (at least in the case of my home box, which | > is in my bedroom) because they generate a substantial amount of | > heat which, in tur

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-15 Thread nate
DvB said: > Especially the monitor. I have my monitors power down not only to > save energy, but also (at least in the case of my home box, which > is in my bedroom) because they generate a substantial amount of > heat which, in turn, makes my A/C run more often and increses my > power bill (not t

All-In-Wonder card support?

2001-11-15 Thread Stan Brown
I'm building my wife a new Debian machien for Christmas. One of the requiremnts is to be able to play TV. Presently I have a Win-TV card in my Debian worksation, and have made it work, with my ATI Radeon graphics card. I was wondering if I could us an All-In-Wonder card, to reduce total card count

Re: X-forwarding with ssh doesn't work

2001-11-15 Thread nate
Tim Dijkstra said: > debug1: Requesting pty. > debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. > debug1: Requesting shell. > debug1: Entering interactive session. > > Is that enough? Does anybody with X-forw working correctly gets the > same output? pretty much. how bout when yo

Re: Will the Progeny graphical install process inspire our developers ?

2001-11-15 Thread Jason Currey
A GUI installer might not make install easier, but it gives first time linux users a much better feeling about installing the product. I have seen a number of linux flavour comparisons and most comparisons show the debian installer as one of the weaknesses of a debian flavoured linux.

Re: Unable to remove mysql-server.

2001-11-15 Thread Rich Puhek
I've had similar problems before. I got around them by creating the following /etc/init.d/mysql (or whatever...) file: #!/bin/sh exit 0; That way, the removal script is happy. The same trick works for upgrades as well. --Rich > Chrys wrote: > > Hi, > > I tried to uninstall mysql-server to c

Re: Unable to remove mysql-server.

2001-11-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 01:53:33AM +0100, Chrys wrote: > >/var/lib/dpkg/info/mysql-server.prerm: /etc/init.d/mysql: No such file >or directory You don't have a start|stop|reload file in /etc/init.d? How do you start and stop the mysql server? If there's a valid reason for this, ju

Re: Will the Progeny graphical install process inspire our developers ?

2001-11-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:49:14PM -0800, Dmitriy wrote: > What exactly does make a GUI install easier? > > It is a lot more hassle, and not much use. > > I agree that installer can be made more userfriendly proably for some > people, but there can be a nice Curses based install. I certainl

Unable to remove mysql-server.

2001-11-15 Thread Chrys
Hi,   I tried to uninstall mysql-server to compile the original binary file, but it looks like I have a problem :-( Here is what apt-get shows me: mobi:~# apt-get remove mysql-serverReading Package Lists... DoneBuilding Dependency Tree... DoneThe following packages will be REMOVED:  mysql-se

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-15 Thread John Hasler
Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 15/11/2001 (16:53) : > At one time, leaving a machine on overnight consumed less power than > rebooting it (i.e., shutting down and powering back up wasted more > resources than just leaving it on). Is that still the case? It never was. -- John Hasler

Re: OT: Hardware upgrades

2001-11-15 Thread Erik Steffl
Bob Underwood wrote: > > On Thursday 15 November 2001 04:16 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: > > Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: > > > > > > I have just upgraded my box ( unstable about 3-4 months berhind on the > > > updates ). The upgrade was from PII 233 BX chipset motherboard to Athlon > > > 1800+ XP VIA

Re: G400

2001-11-15 Thread John Hasler
> I recently changed from using the unstable distribution to the stable > one. In the process I ended up changing from XFree86 v4 to v3.3.6. I > never noticed any display problems under v4, yet under v3.3.6 I've > noticed that vertical colored lines sometimes appear when areas are > "re-painted"

Re: Will the Progeny graphical install process inspire our developers ?

2001-11-15 Thread Cameron Matheson
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:49:14PM -0800, Dmitriy wrote: > What exactly does make a GUI install easier? > > It is a lot more hassle, and not much use. > > I agree that installer can be made more userfriendly proably for some > people, but there can be a nice Curses based install. > > I think ma

Re: emacs related

2001-11-15 Thread Craig Dickson
Jeffrin wrote: > Can anything be done in emacs to eliminate space after a comma or a > full stop ? Your question isn't clear. Do you just want a regex search-and-replace to fix up a file, or are you trying to place controls on interactive editing, or are you trying to fix up auto-formattin

X-forwarding with ssh doesn't work

2001-11-15 Thread Tim Dijkstra
Hi, I posted something about this problem a while ago, but I'am still stuck. The problem is that X-forwarding stopt working when I upgraded from potato to testing. I tried downgrading ssh and the x-server, but didn't help. I now even tried ssh-nonfree, still nothing. OK, what is supposed to

Re: OT: Hardware upgrades

2001-11-15 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 15 November 2001 04:16 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: > Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: > >  > > I have just upgraded my box ( unstable about 3-4 months berhind on the > > updates ).  The upgrade was from PII 233 BX chipset motherboard to Athlon > > 1800+ XP VIA KT266A motherboard. The problem see

Re: Making a TCP or UDP or Unux Socket Server Listen on a port

2001-11-15 Thread Rich Puhek
>From "man services": services is a plain ASCII file providing a mapping between friendly textual names for internet services, and their underlying assigned port numbers and protocol types. So... that file is just a way to translate between port names and numbers, not a ma

Re: emacs related

2001-11-15 Thread DvB
"Jeffrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all > > Can anything be done in emacs to eliminate space after a comma or a > full stop ? > hmm... run some kind of replace-regexp maybe? Don't know how much emacs regexps support though. Personally, I'd probably just run it through perl -e

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ? - backups/ups

2001-11-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya > > > theres no longer a 497 day limit .. > > > > could someone please tell me for sure? i'm at 470 right now... :-) > > Well, if it's not, you could put a sticky saying "Add 497 days to listed > uptime" on the front. 8:o) my 2.0.35 kernel machine rolled over a day or two ago.. have oth

Re: OT: Hardware upgrades

2001-11-15 Thread Erik Steffl
Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: > > On Thursday 15 November 2001 04:16 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: > > Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: > > > I have just upgraded my box ( unstable about 3-4 months berhind on the > > > updates ). The upgrade was from PII 233 BX chipset motherboard to Athlon > > > 1800+ XP VI

RE: acroread,xpdf hassle

2001-11-15 Thread Glen Snyder
On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 15:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 15-Nov-01 Glen Snyder wrote: > > I've only seen this problem on one computer I use at work, which is > > running potato. If I try to open a pdf with acroread, the text repeats > > itself and then wraps over onto itself, making the document

Re: acroread,xpdf hassle-SOLVED

2001-11-15 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Thursday 15 November 2001 15:12, Ted Harding wrote: > On 15-Nov-01 Glen Snyder wrote: > > I've only seen this problem on one computer I use at work, > > which is running potato. If I try to open a pdf with > > acroread, the text repeats itself and then wraps over onto > > itself, making the docu

emacs related

2001-11-15 Thread Jeffrin
Hello all Can anything be done in emacs to eliminate space after a comma or a full stop ? -- Jeffrin Jose T. www.MSServices.org GPG:1024D/F5726A1B

Re: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-15 Thread JakeCatfox
We have three Linux boxes at my school-- Dell Optiplex GL+ 5100s with Pentium 1 processors, overclocked from 100mhz to 120 and 130mhz, 16-32 mb ram. They are always on (about 2 or 3 months now), and have not crashed once yet. :) -- Deven Gallo

RE: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-15 Thread nate
Mike Dresser said: > I had a system at a remote plant with 300+ days, running 2.2.16, > that I finally had to pull the plug on when we sold the plant. It > was very tempting to take it and the attached UPS back to the > office, to see how long it would have ran. =) ive done that.. i moved to a

Re: CDROM related

2001-11-15 Thread Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy
Shouldn't be any. On Thursday 15 November 2001 12:33 pm, Jeffrin wrote: > Hello all , > > Is there any problem if a hurd related iso image is written to a > CDROM using Microsoft Windows NT.

Re: screen blows up!

2001-11-15 Thread Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy
It is a stupid suggestion, but do you have any of those pesky ViewPort lines in your XF86Config? If yes, delete all of them, if no your fate lies the way of Video-Timing-HOWTO. How horrible. On Thursday 15 November 2001 05:09 pm, Hans wrote: > Running xvidtune is kind of difficult because I can'

Re: Upgraded X to 4.1: Lost 1280x1024 mode

2001-11-15 Thread Bill Wohler
"Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 08:26:56AM -0800, FGL wrote: >> I've just upgraded from potato to woody, including X from 3.3 to 4.1. As > a >> result, I've lost the 1280x1024 mode that I've been using for years. >> > ... > Mine is Matrox G200. I

RE: G400

2001-11-15 Thread nate
Kris Huber said: > If anyone has an idea why my Matrox G400 output isn't always > looking great under v3.3.6, I'd appreciate suggestions! It's not > too bad, but a little annoying. i ran it under xfree 3.3.6 up until about 50 days ago, it ran perfect. never had a single drawing issue. i don't us

Re: Questions on pop3 servers

2001-11-15 Thread nate
Mike Dresser said: > I'm looking to see if there's a replacement pop3 server I can use > that can scan the mailboxes for new mail, without having to scan > ALL of the mailfile, as it does currently. cyrus. courier can too but im not sure if the version thats in potato supports pop. i was in almos

Re: Converting From Red Hat to Debian

2001-11-15 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake dman: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 04:58:11PM -0800, Mark Seven Smith wrote: > > | ATI Rage 128 video card > > [removed all other peripherals too] > > | WHY I BELIEVE THE VIDEO CARD IS AT FAULT: > | Basically, Red Hat Linux 6.1 also had this problem--I had > | to get RH7.1 (with the new

CDROM related

2001-11-15 Thread Jeffrin
Hello all , Is there any problem if a hurd related iso image is written to a CDROM using Microsoft Windows NT. -- Jeffrin Jose T. www.MSServices.org GPG:1024D/F5726A1B

Re: no modules after upgrade to 2.4.13

2001-11-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 02:16:39 -0600, Rory O'Connor wrote: > I just upgraded from kernel version 2.2.19pre17 to 2.4.13 and everything > went fine...except that it appears no modules loaded (lsmod returns > nothing). Hmm... are you running potato (stable)? For 2.4.x kernels you need a newer "modu

Re: Way Confused about Version Numbers

2001-11-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:22:42 +, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: > But will Woody always be testing? Or will Woody become stable and will > some new name be assigned to the next testing? The latter. IIRC, the new testing tree will be named 'sarge'. Ray -- USDoJ/Judge Jackson: "Microsoft has p

Re: Will the Progeny graphical install process inspire our developers ?

2001-11-15 Thread Dmitriy
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 02:03:23PM +0100, spear wrote: > Hi there ! > > I was wondering : a few weeks ago, i contacted Steve Schaffer from Progeny, > about the graphical installation process of the Progeny Debian, wondering if > they would let it to our community ... > He said yes ... > > So, did

Re: using grub to install mbr on other hard drive.

2001-11-15 Thread Dmitriy
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 01:39:58PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: > > hey. > > i'm building a debian disk image as a linux based 802.11b access point > (using jouni malinen's host ap mode drivers). basically at this point it > works but i'm trying to convert from lilo to grub because as i become > fam

Re: Laptop install, console screen small

2001-11-15 Thread Alan Shutko
Craig Coles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In this case X is not a problem, just the tty consoles. I can't get them to > fill the entire screen. I do get all 80x25, 80x34, or whatever resolution, > just in a reduced screen size. Either turn on display stretching in your bios, or use a framebuffe

Re: ftp behind firewall

2001-11-15 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: > There should be a module named ip_masq_ftp. Ah, thanks, this is ecatly what I needed too! I ran "insmod ip_masq_ftp" as root from the command line and now ftp works from my masqueraded lan. But, what is the proper way to make this permanent so

Re: HD spin down with hdparm : HD always wakes up !!!

2001-11-15 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 15 Nov 2001, Dominique Deleris wrote: > Well, that's also to reduce the noise of my box... When I'm > working, it will spin down since I intensively use the disks, but > I want to leave it on when I'm AFK, and reduce both power > consumption and noise. I generally only have disks that aren't u

RE: Laptop install, console screen small

2001-11-15 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| In this case X is not a problem, just the tty consoles. I can't | get them to | fill the entire screen. I do get all 80x25, 80x34, or whatever | resolution, | just in a reduced screen size. | | Any ideas? How about using frame buffer. There was a discussion about the various tweakages back in

Re: HD spin down with hdparm : HD always wakes up !!!

2001-11-15 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Matthew Sackman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Could I just ask, why do you want to enable spin down? > > Hard discs consume the most power on start up. They also undergo the > greatest stress when spinning up. Therefore, if your disks keep having > to spin up, then you are actually not sav

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-15 Thread Peter Good
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:47, Kyle Girard wrote: > Here's my info: > > Debian (sid) Same > 2.4.14 -- from .deb >From kernel.org yourmirror/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.14.tar.gz > Xfree86 4.1.0 Same > Nvidia TNT Geforce II MX > gcc 3.0.2 Same Not sure why you'd be getting the unresolved symbol

Dell Inspiron 4100 Notebook

2001-11-15 Thread Roman Beigelbeck
Hi! Is someone here who use a Dell Inspiron 4100 notebook under Debian? In particular I mean XFree and the ATI Radeon Mobility chipset. Within the XFree packages in unstable this chipset is IMHO not supported yet. How did you get your X11 working on this notebook under Debian? Compile XFree from t

Re: OT: Hardware upgrades

2001-11-15 Thread Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy
On Thursday 15 November 2001 04:16 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: > Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: > > I have just upgraded my box ( unstable about 3-4 months berhind on the > > updates ). The upgrade was from PII 233 BX chipset motherboard to Athlon > > 1800+ XP VIA KT266A motherboard. The problem seems to

RE: screen blows up!

2001-11-15 Thread Hans
Running xvidtune is kind of difficult because I can't get to the buttons because of the bloated screen. Any more suggestions? --Hans At 08:30 AM 11/14/01 -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: >|-Original Message- >|From: Hans Fong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >|Sent: Wednesday, 14 November, 2001 0

Questions on pop3 servers

2001-11-15 Thread Mike Dresser
I'm currently using ipopd, with about 90 users, each checking their mail every 10 minutes. /var/spool/mail is 1.3 gig currently. Users have accounts, but are not given login access, or even their password. Users use netscape 4.78 I use clean_mail to clean out any email over 2 months old, every

Re: ftp behind firewall

2001-11-15 Thread Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy
There should be a module named ip_masq_ftp. On Thursday 15 November 2001 01:00 pm, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi, > I'm using 2.2.* series. Do you know what module I can load? > TIA,Paulo Henrique > Em Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:32:00 -0500, Dmitriy Kropivnitski

Re: HD spin down with hdparm : HD always wakes up !!!

2001-11-15 Thread Dominique Deleris
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 22:58:37 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Sackman) said: Matthew> Could I just ask, why do you want to enable spin down? Matthew> Hard discs consume the most power on start up. They also undergo the Matthew> greatest stress when spinning up. Therefore, if your disks keep ha

Re: HD spin down with hdparm : HD always wakes up !!!

2001-11-15 Thread Dominique Deleris
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 22:58:37 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Sackman) said: Matthew> Could I just ask, why do you want to enable spin down? Matthew> Hard discs consume the most power on start up. They also undergo the Matthew> greatest stress when spinning up. Therefore, if your disks keep ha

RE: Laptop install, console screen small

2001-11-15 Thread Craig Coles
In this case X is not a problem, just the tty consoles. I can't get them to fill the entire screen. I do get all 80x25, 80x34, or whatever resolution, just in a reduced screen size. Any ideas? -Craig -Original Message- Subject: Re: Laptop install, console screen small You can try d

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-15 Thread Preben Randhol
Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 15/11/2001 (16:53) : > At one time, leaving a machine on overnight consumed less power than > rebooting it (i.e., shutting down and powering back up wasted more > resources than just leaving it on). Is that still the case? This cannot be right. We are n

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-15 Thread Preben Randhol
Tom Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 15/11/2001 (13:27) : > > I agree. It's not like this has to be proven any longer. Linux will > basically run forever unless interrupted by power failure or hardware > failure. Or crackers. :-( Preben -- «Don't use C; In my opinion, C is a library prog

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-15 Thread Kyle Girard
On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 13:18, Sean wrote: > I'm currently using the 2.4.15pre4 source from kernel.org, but this also > worked with 2.4.14 (also from kernel.org). All I did to get my nvidia > kernel module to work was: > > apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src > cd /usr/src/linux > make-kpkg modules_ima

Re: HD spin down with hdparm : HD always wakes up !!!

2001-11-15 Thread Matthew Sackman
Could I just ask, why do you want to enable spin down? Hard discs consume the most power on start up. They also undergo the greatest stress when spinning up. Therefore, if your disks keep having to spin up, then you are actually not saving anywhere as much energy as you suspect, and you are also r

Re: Way Confused about Version Numbers

2001-11-15 Thread Quietman
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:22:42AM +, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: > A bit off topic: > Sid is unstable and will always be. > But will Woody always be testing? Or will Woody become stable and will some > new name be assigned to the next testing? The way I understand it is that Sid is the boy ne

using grub to install mbr on other hard drive.

2001-11-15 Thread Adam Shand
hey. i'm building a debian disk image as a linux based 802.11b access point (using jouni malinen's host ap mode drivers). basically at this point it works but i'm trying to convert from lilo to grub because as i become familiar with it i like it a lot better. this image will be batch loaded ont

Re: making lilo pretty

2001-11-15 Thread Guy Geens
> "Jason" == Jason Currey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> I noticed some previous emails about creating a lilo splash Jason> screen. My question is what version of lilo do you need to be Jason> running to add the splash screen? The current version in testing has support for splash screens

Re: Converting From Red Hat to Debian

2001-11-15 Thread Mark Seven Smith
On Wednesday 14 November 2001 06:12 pm, Steve Kieu wrote: > > So: isn't there a way to perhaps, "put the parts in > > place", > > the way they do with SlackWare? I am almost ready > > Has any one tried to install debian like this: YYS...I think that will WORK!!! :-) :-) :-) HOORA

Re: reiserfs (root partition) on lvm

2001-11-15 Thread Guy Geens
> "list" == list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: list> lvm -- lvm_chr_ioctl: unknown command 4004fe0a lvm -- list> lvm_blk_ioctl: unknown command 21264 list> Any ideas on what might be causing this ? The stock 2.4 kernel doesn't work with lvm-10. The -ac versions work though. Otherwise, downlo

Re: OT: Hardware upgrades

2001-11-15 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have just upgraded my box ( unstable about 3-4 months berhind on the > updates ). The upgrade was from PII 233 BX chipset motherboard to Athlon > 1800+ XP VIA KT266A motherboard. The problem seems to be the following: > > 1. I cannot boot o

RE: G400

2001-11-15 Thread Kris Huber
I have a G400 and know that there is support in X v4. In fact I believe the support in v4 is better than in v3.3.6. I recently changed from using the unstable distribution to the stable one. In the process I ended up changing from XFree86 v4 to v3.3.6. I never noticed any display problems under

Re: OT: Hardware upgrades

2001-11-15 Thread Erik Steffl
Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: > > I have just upgraded my box ( unstable about 3-4 months berhind on the > updates ). The upgrade was from PII 233 BX chipset motherboard to Athlon > 1800+ XP VIA KT266A motherboard. The problem seems to be the following: > > 1. I cannot boot off the hard drive. It

Re: Annoying file access behavior

2001-11-15 Thread Greg Wiley
On Wednesday, November 14, 2001 9:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > I have a bit of a problem. Every time I work with big files (movies, > converting mp3s to wavs for ripping), my system slows down to a crawl for > some time, while it is emptying the buffers I had a similar problem the first time

Re: question about /var/log/ksymooops

2001-11-15 Thread Guy Geens
> "Steve" == Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> I just saw a lot of files inside, it takes 15Mb hard disk. My Steve> question is, is there a automatically mechanisim to manage Steve> those files (like logrorate for all log files)? All files in that directory older than two days are

OT: Hardware upgrades

2001-11-15 Thread Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy
I have just upgraded my box ( unstable about 3-4 months berhind on the updates ). The upgrade was from PII 233 BX chipset motherboard to Athlon 1800+ XP VIA KT266A motherboard. The problem seems to be the following: 1. I cannot boot off the hard drive. It will see all the partitions and system

Re: Looking for a ProComm replacement

2001-11-15 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, John Purser wrote: > Hello, > > Hope this isn't too far off track. > > I'm looking for a good ProComm replacement. Necessary features would > include: > Wyse50 terminal emulation > Decent scripting language including opening, reading, writing files > Scrip

Re: Best choice for video card

2001-11-15 Thread csj
On Thursday 15 November 2001 13:05, Patrick McFarland wrote: > It isnt up to the distro or desktop enviroment to what video card you > choice. Its up to the windowing manager. I presonally recommend an > ati raedon or raedon 8500, or any recent matrox card (450+ or 550). > Nvidia likes to make thei

Re: G400

2001-11-15 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Tom Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have this Matrox G400 video card that's supposed to be really spiffy > (or was, in it's day). > I'm just trying to confirm the support in X v4. > > It seems that this card has taken a serious step back in basic > performance. I'm not talking about fr

Re: kdelibs problem

2001-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 08:47:46PM +0100, Anton Holleman wrote: > # apt-get -f install kdelibs3 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. > 8 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 02:11:42PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 06:29:51PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > The HP-UX systems on which I've upgraded kernels all required reboots. > > They can tweak certain parameters without (as far as I can tell) > > recompiling the whole

Re: abiword coughs on libexpat.so.0

2001-11-15 Thread elawson
- Original Message - From: csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 9:52 PM Subject: Re: abiword coughs on libexpat.so.0 > Sounds like he needs to upgrade abiword ;-) Self-built (from the > Debian source) 0.9.4.1 here. The feature I like best about thi

RE: acroread,xpdf hassle

2001-11-15 Thread Ted Harding
On 15-Nov-01 Glen Snyder wrote: > I've only seen this problem on one computer I use at work, which is > running potato. If I try to open a pdf with acroread, the text repeats > itself and then wraps over onto itself, making the document unreadable > (this is with any pdf file). If I try to advance

anjuta & aclocal problem

2001-11-15 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
Hi, I've install Anjuta(0.1.7) , glade and glade-- on my woody box but there are some errors when I try to create a Gnome project in it. When a project is beeing created, it tells me this: >> Warning: I'm going to run 'cnfigure' with no arguments './autogen.sh' command line. processing. deletefil

Looking for a ProComm replacement

2001-11-15 Thread John Purser
Hello, Hope this isn't too far off track. I'm looking for a good ProComm replacement. Necessary features would include: Wyse50 terminal emulation Decent scripting language including opening, reading, writing files Script Writer/Recorder to record a session I've looked at

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 06:29:51PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:29:37AM -0600, DvB wrote: > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [on-the-fly kernel upgrades] > > > Not as far as I know. It's rather difficult in a monolithic kernel (QNX > > > is a microkernel). > >

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