Re: Annoying Mozilla behavior

2001-12-06 Thread DvB
Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks, I'll definitely check out those sites. Regarding your font > advice, changing the fonts changed the browser display, but not > the JavaVM stuff. Guess that must not've been it then :-) Since the browser changed and not the JVM, I suspect it's

Re: installing debian on ppc

2001-12-06 Thread Anthony Lau
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:50:59AM +0100, Wicher W.O. Deddens wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian on a PPC 8500/150, 96 Mb, 2 Gb HD for > Webserving and Mailserving purposes. I downloaded CD1 for PowerPC, wrote > it to a > bootable disk, made a boot floppy and a root.bin floppy, made partitions

Re: prolonged number crunching

2001-12-06 Thread Michel Loos
On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 03:00, Alec wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2001 11:41 pm, dman wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:21:41PM -0500, Alec wrote: > > | Hi > > | > > | I have a program that produces output to STDOUT and will probably take > > | several days to run. I already figured that it's

Sis530 graphics adapter

2001-12-06 Thread bootah monsoon
My PC won't load X windows with debian, I think because of this asapter the SiS530. Does anyone know if Debian support this adapter? OR a workaround? Graphics cards with pci are 100 buck I'm cheap! __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings o

Re: procmail recipe not working

2001-12-06 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
[Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 07:16:48PM -0500] dman : > I saw a mention of a distributed spam-identification system in the > weekly news, so I'll check that out too sometime. Get yourselves the razor, dman. It is very good at catching and reporting spam. apt-get install razor -- ragOO, V

Re: prolonged number crunching

2001-12-06 Thread Alec
On Thursday 06 December 2001 11:41 pm, dman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:21:41PM -0500, Alec wrote: > | Hi > | > | I have a program that produces output to STDOUT and will probably take > | several days to run. I already figured that it's better to run it using > | "at" utility and collect t

IPTABLES and DHCP

2001-12-06 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I am configuring a firewall that will run dhcpcd on eth0 (it is connected to a cable modem). I have a firewall rule set (for IPTABLES) that is working on another machine with a fixed IP for eth0 In the rule set I have statements such as IF_INTERNET="eth0" IP_INTERNET="24.27.45.111" I use the $

Re: prolonged number crunching

2001-12-06 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:21:41PM -0500, Alec wrote: | Hi | | I have a program that produces output to STDOUT and will probably take | several days to run. I already figured that it's better to run it using "at" | utility and collect the results by email. This way the program will not be | bou

Re: mozilla-cvs

2001-12-06 Thread Craig Dickson
Hall Stevenson wrote: > I don't think the mozilla packager builds 'mozilla-cvs' packages every > day, so that helps. Otherwise, the nightly mozilla builds available from > mozilla.org are purely automated builds. No human checks them, therefore > they may not run at all. They could do just about a

prolonged number crunching

2001-12-06 Thread Alec
Hi I have a program that produces output to STDOUT and will probably take several days to run. I already figured that it's better to run it using "at" utility and collect the results by email. This way the program will not be bound to any specific terminal and, say crashing X, will not interrup

Re: power management & monitor

2001-12-06 Thread Shawn Lamson
> From: Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian-Users > CC: Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: power management & monitor > > Thus spake Dave Sherohman: > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:33:50PM -0800, Jeffrey > W. Baker wrote: > > > xset -dpms > > > > OK, so how do you make th

cdrom was /dev/hdd now /dev/scd0. Can someone explain?

2001-12-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
woody box with 2.4.9 kernel I compiled. I've been using this kernel since 23 Sep 2001. For over a year, /dev/cdrom has been linked to /dev/hdd, and "mount /dev/cdrom" worked with no problem. /etc/fstab entry is: /dev/cdrom/cdromiso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto,exec0 0 Tonight mou

MySQL 4.1

2001-12-06 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, In Sid, MySQL is still version 3.23. I've just visited http://www.mysql.com/products/mysql-4.0/index.html. I think it would be great if the version 4.x of MySQL is included in Sid. So that when Sid is ready to be released, then the version of MySQL in there would be the latest. Oki

right is dead

2001-12-06 Thread Gary Turner
OK, this ignorant newbie needs help. My right key is dead (I think). The literature I've seen specify using left, implicitly implying right has another function or is dead. How do I resuscitate this useful key? The XF86Config file shows how to handle key mapping in X. I'm not using X. emacs i

Re: ifconfig curiosity

2001-12-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 04:17:39PM -0800, martin f krafft wrote: > seamus:~> /sbin/ifconfig | grep MiB > RX bytes:614070395 (585.6 MiB) TX bytes:125545699 (119.7 MiB) > RX bytes:34937878 (33.3 MiB) TX bytes:34937878 (33.3 MiB) > > uhm, what are "MiB"'s? Looking at the source, they'r

Re: mozilla-cvs

2001-12-06 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011206 17:38]: > Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > This is the expected behavior of Mozilla nightly CVS builds. If you > > don't think it's fun, you'd better stick with release builds. > > No, most of the time mozilla-cvs works very well. Once in a while it > break

problems w/ vsound under kde (artsd vs esd?)

2001-12-06 Thread Eric White
I've just switched over to KDE from GNOME and for the most part I really like KDE. One thing I have discovered though, is that vsound does not seem happy under KDE. I'm guessing it's not happy playing along with artsd and esd, but I don't know enough about them to say or do much more. When I

Re: Annoying Mozilla behavior

2001-12-06 Thread Paul Mackinney
Thanks, I'll definitely check out those sites. Regarding your font advice, changing the fonts changed the browser display, but not the JavaVM stuff. My XF86Config-4 file looks like this fontwise: # This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules Load"type1" Load"freetype" #

Re: Norton Ghost?

2001-12-06 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
> Maybe. Another thing that crosses my mind; are you disk imaging or > partition imaging. I can't imagine that you're doing partition imaging > because I can't think of any way you could get as far as you have, but > as I said, it's something that crossed my mind. Definitely disk imaging. -nicole

Re: A few more questions

2001-12-06 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 07:23:44PM -0700, robinder bains wrote: | On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 18:47, dman wrote: | > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:37:56PM -0700, robinder bains wrote: | > | | > | I'm using debian woody... | > | | > | 1. How do I get sound to work in gnome? I have AC'97 sound chip and I

template parse error in /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm

2001-12-06 Thread Eric Brooks
I'm trying to move from Debian potato to woody. At configuration time I get the following error: 'Template parse error near "" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 102, chunk2.' The first time I got the error I assumed I had some sort of download problem because the line had been d

Re: UPS software

2001-12-06 Thread Daniel Freedman
Mark, I have a APC SmartUPS 1000Net and 1250 and both have served me very well. While APC used to not release any drivers (actually more like software than kernel drivers) for linux, they now not only release software, they do so (for much of it at least) under the GPL. Please see: http://www.

Debian 2.2_rev4, binary-i386-1_NONUS.iso?

2001-12-06 Thread Gabriel Lo
Hello. I'm totally new to Linux, and I wanted to start out by trying Debian. Since I'm in Canada, I wanted to get the NONUS variant of the binary-1 CD. Unfortunately, I have been unable to find any rsync server which has binary-i386-1_NONUS.iso, so I'm uncertain about what to do. Any help will

Re: exmh (tcl? sh?) quoting question.

2001-12-06 Thread Erik Steffl
Shaul Karl wrote: > > The following is an bad attempt to use exmh `Apply command to body' > feature. > However I believe it boils down to a tcl or a sh quoting question. > > What I am trying to do is to filter a message by applying a filter to > its body. > > Now this filter > > sed -n "s/I

Re: Debian Books request (fwd)

2001-12-06 Thread Eric Brooks
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 05:52:24PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > How many Debian books is there ? I don't know how many debian books exist. There are quite a few Linux administration books out there that have information that pertain to Debian as well. > I'm wondering if you guys can suggest one

UPS software

2001-12-06 Thread mdevin
I am looking at purchasing a UPS and trying to decide between APC and Best (Invensys). Best apparently used to release their source code for their unix driver - which is a big plus. But this is no longer the case. Best provides binary versions of drivers for linux which is good. Apparently APC d

exmh (tcl? sh?) quoting question.

2001-12-06 Thread Shaul Karl
The following is an bad attempt to use exmh `Apply command to body' feature. However I believe it boils down to a tcl or a sh quoting question. What I am trying to do is to filter a message by applying a filter to its body. Now this filter sed -n "s/Inst//p" $file > /tmp/apt-get-update wo

Re: A few more questions

2001-12-06 Thread robinder bains
On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 18:47, dman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:37:56PM -0700, robinder bains wrote: > | > | I'm using debian woody... > | > | 1. How do I get sound to work in gnome? I have AC'97 sound chip and I > | get an error when I try to play mp3's in XMMS > > What's the error? c

Re: Mail Alias file

2001-12-06 Thread cmasters
Greetings dman and Stephan, Thanks for the help ... *BHOKB* ... I must have read that entry 5 or 6 times, yet the 'Note:' never made it to my conscious processing. I really have to have a chat with my various sub, non and altered consciousness's. C. Masters

Difficulties w/ ipmasq]]

2001-12-06 Thread cmasters
- Forwarded message from cmasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 18:54:17 -0400 From: cmasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Difficulties w/ ipmasq] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Thu

Re: A few more questions

2001-12-06 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:37:56PM -0700, robinder bains wrote (1.00): > 2. How do I stop gpm from loading at start up? When I kill gpm my mouse > works fine in X Window System. su, then update-rc.d -f gpm remove M

Re: A few more questions

2001-12-06 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:37:56PM -0700, robinder bains wrote: | | I'm using debian woody... | | 1. How do I get sound to work in gnome? I have AC'97 sound chip and I | get an error when I try to play mp3's in XMMS What's the error? | 2. How do I stop gpm from loading at start up? When I ki

Problems with less,emacs,etc. on VT420 on ttyS0...

2001-12-06 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, I have an actual VT420 terminal connected to ttyS0 of my Linux box, running Debian woody/testing, and am having trouble using certain programs (e.g. less, jed, emacs, etc.) on the terminal, though others (e.g. lynx, vim, more, etc.) run fine. I've tried configuring the VT420 through its setu

A few more questions

2001-12-06 Thread robinder bains
I'm using debian woody... 1. How do I get sound to work in gnome? I have AC'97 sound chip and I get an error when I try to play mp3's in XMMS 2. How do I stop gpm from loading at start up? When I kill gpm my mouse works fine in X Window System. 3. How do I make evolution my default email pr

Re: XMMS kills Gnome activity!

2001-12-06 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, I'm having a problem with XMMS. I am using the version that comes with > Debian 2.2.19pre17 ISO image 1. Whenever I am playing a song, I can't open > windows, popup menus, etc. until I click STOP or the song ends. Once it ends, > it performs all the tasks I tried t

Re: ipchains log

2001-12-06 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:55:28AM +1100, Rebecca Dridan wrote (1.00): > pluto kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=1 210.86.82.93:3 xx.xx.xx.xx:3 > . > > I've found out that that's an ICMP packet, with type Desination Unreadable and > code Port Unreachable, but I'm not sure what this mea

Re: What happened to compose? - further information

2001-12-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: libreadline4 > Version: 4.2a-2 > > I have the same problem, so it would seem that this is a problem > specific to bash, or to readline. Hmm, it's readline, the compose key > fails in other programs that use readline as well, producing just a beep

Re: Annoying Mozilla behavior

2001-12-06 Thread DvB
Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The following is off-topic for this thread, but I have no idea > if it's a debian, windowmaker, java, or mozilla issue; any comments > about the following 2 issues would be greatly appreciated. If this is > too off-topic for this list, please suggest a

XMMS kills Gnome activity!

2001-12-06 Thread JakeCatfox
Hi, I'm having a problem with XMMS. I am using the version that comes with Debian 2.2.19pre17 ISO image 1. Whenever I am playing a song, I can't open windows, popup menus, etc. until I click STOP or the song ends. Once it ends, it performs all the tasks I tried to do while it was playing. What'

Re: File Manager

2001-12-06 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:44:47AM +1100, Andrew Sione Taumoefolau wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:58:23PM +0100, Arnout Bruinsma wrote: > > L.S. > > I'm looking for a file manager for use under Window Maker. > > In SuSe I used xfm but I can't find an xfm Debian package. > > I hope somebody has

Problems compiling kernel for Win4Lin

2001-12-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Dear all, when trying to compile a kernel (2.4.16) with the Win4Lin patches (kernel-patch-mki-adapter_1.0.5_i386.deb / kernel-patch-w4l-hooks_3.0.1.6_i386.deb), I get the following error messages (last screenfull): make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.16/arch/i386/mki' gcc -D__

Re: Mail Alias file]

2001-12-06 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake cmasters: > Trying this again, > > As you can see ... typing out this address every time made me so tired I > forgot the 'o' in 'org'. > > - Forwarded message from cmasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 19:04:45 -0400 > From: cmasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To

Re: procmail recipe not working

2001-12-06 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:17:30PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: | dman wrote: ... | > :0 | > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > /dev/null | > | > However the messages keep getting past these recipes and to my | > list-matching recipe. | | Those look like they ought to work. One thing, though I doubt it's | c

Re: procmail recipe not working

2001-12-06 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 05:28:02PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... | > I've been thinking of making a similar thing, just so I can list each | > spammer on one line instead of 4. | | You do know that you can use a logical "OR" in your rules right? The | "|" symbo

Re: Mail Alias file]

2001-12-06 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:22:14PM -0400, cmasters wrote: ... | I'm trying to set up aliases for the majority of addresses to which I | correspond with. I assigned these using the 'a' (create alias) command, | which then popped those entries in my alias file. This is explicitly sources | in muttrc

Debian Books request (fwd)

2001-12-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 22:48:37 +0100 (CET) From: Martin Grande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hello If this is the right e-mail adress to send to, I dont't know.. there were so many to choose from :) but I'll give it a try. I just have

Re: Annoying Mozilla behavior

2001-12-06 Thread Paul Mackinney
DvB muttered: > > All of the above actually isn't always necessary. It's usually OK to > just unpack the new build on top of the old one and it'll preserve the > plugins/talkback/etc from the old build. However, sometimes I'll run > into bugs which go away only after killing the old directory and

Re: procmail recipe not working

2001-12-06 Thread shock
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 05:32:48PM -0600, shock wrote: > > | i had the same problem with a different spammer. no matter what i did, > | i simply could not get the procmail recipe to properly filter the > | thing. > > at least I'm not a freak ;-) nope,

installing debian on ppc

2001-12-06 Thread Wicher W.O. Deddens
I'm trying to install Debian on a PPC 8500/150, 96 Mb, 2 Gb HD for Webserving and Mailserving purposes. I downloaded CD1 for PowerPC, wrote it to a bootable disk, made a boot floppy and a root.bin floppy, made partitions according the example in the manual: a 500 mb other system (MacOS 8.1, but no

Re: File Manager

2001-12-06 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:58:23PM +0100, Arnout Bruinsma wrote: > L.S. > I'm looking for a file manager for use under Window Maker. > In SuSe I used xfm but I can't find an xfm Debian package. > I hope somebody has a suggestion If you can spare the memory, try Nautilus :). -- Andrew Sione Taum

Re: ifconfig curiosity

2001-12-06 Thread Alan Shutko
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > uhm, what are "MiB"'s? One of the more stupid sounding standards to be foisted on the public. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

Mail Alias file]

2001-12-06 Thread cmasters
Trying this again, As you can see ... typing out this address every time made me so tired I forgot the 'o' in 'org'. - Forwarded message from cmasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 19:04:45 -0400 From: cmasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail Alias f

Re: procmail recipe not working

2001-12-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 05:32:48PM -0600, shock wrote: > | On 2001.12.06 20:23 dman wrote: > | > > | > I've been getting a bunch of spam on a certain list. The latest > | > message has the following From: line : > | > | i had the same problem with a different s

Re: procmail recipe not working

2001-12-06 Thread Pollywog
On 2001.12.06 22:18 dman wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:01:36PM +, Pollywog wrote: | Maybe Procmail is in a different place than you set in your | procmailrc. What do you mean by this? I also have a long list of other spammer addresses in that same file, and those others get filed pro

ifconfig curiosity

2001-12-06 Thread martin f krafft
seamus:~> /sbin/ifconfig | grep MiB RX bytes:614070395 (585.6 MiB) TX bytes:125545699 (119.7 MiB) RX bytes:34937878 (33.3 MiB) TX bytes:34937878 (33.3 MiB) uhm, what are "MiB"'s? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> m

Re: procmail recipe not working

2001-12-06 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 05:32:48PM -0600, shock wrote: | On 2001.12.06 20:23 dman wrote: | > | > I've been getting a bunch of spam on a certain list. The latest | > message has the following From: line : | | i had the same problem with a different spammer. no matter what i did, | i simply could

Re: Zope-Stuff in unstable

2001-12-06 Thread dman
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 12:43:02AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hey ! | | Does anyone knows when the rest of the zope stuff will be includet in | "unstable"/"sid". | | Since weeks I can´t update my system because nearly all zope packages will | be deinstalled. | At first the most importan

Re: Java-vm Mozilla plugin problems

2001-12-06 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:38:07PM -0500, Tomasz Kosinski wrote: | I am guessing that this error comes from followed Sun's instructions and | created the environmental variable: | | export NPX_PLUGIN_PATH=/plugin/i386/ns4 | | I have tried removing the environmental variable with | env --unset

Re: [OT] text floating around pictures using LaTeX

2001-12-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
This is just an idea, but how about using multicol.sty to divide the page into columns, then including the graphic in just one of the columns? I always find good answers to LaTeX questions on comp.text.tex. ap -- Andrew J Perrin

Re: [OT] text floating around pictures using LaTeX

2001-12-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Stig Brautaset" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to make text flow around (not just above and below) > included (eps-)graphics in LaTex? > > The problem is that I have a fairly tall but thin figure I need to > include; it takes up much of the height but little of the width. > (Changing

[OT] text floating around pictures using LaTeX

2001-12-06 Thread Stig Brautaset
Hi list, Is there a way to make text flow around (not just above and below) included (eps-)graphics in LaTex? The problem is that I have a fairly tall but thin figure I need to include; it takes up much of the height but little of the width. (Changing the orientation of the figure is not an opti

Re: viewing sgml documentation

2001-12-06 Thread Michael Wagner
On Thursday, 06. Dec. 2001 at 11:15:30, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > many documents in debian are written in SGML. > What's the recommended way to read them? Hello Matus, install the package "linuxdoc-tools" and you can convert the sgml documents to many other formats. Hth Michael -- The she

Re: HELP horrible ssh upgrade

2001-12-06 Thread Michael Wagner
On Thursday, 06. Dec. 2001 at 09:40:50, John Griffiths wrote: > #apt-get -s dist-upgrade > > which told me it had to do an ssh upgrade > > now this was always going to be interesting to do > remotely, but I use this service right? > > so it's gets to "Configuring Packages" > > and then it lock

Zope-Stuff in unstable

2001-12-06 Thread f . rosendahl
Hey ! Does anyone knows when the rest of the zope stuff will be includet in "unstable"/"sid". Since weeks I can´t update my system because nearly all zope packages will be deinstalled. At first the most important, my connection zope-popyda to my postgres database. Who knows that ? Thanx ! -

Java-vm Mozilla plugin problems

2001-12-06 Thread Tomasz Kosinski
I am running woody with Mozilla 0.9.5 - a few days ago, after failing to install the java-vm from the netscape plugin I was redirected to, I tried to download from Sun and then install myself following Sun's instructions. I couldn't make it work, so I removed it altogether and by searching the li

Re: procmail recipe not working

2001-12-06 Thread shock
On 2001.12.06 20:23 dman wrote: > > I've been getting a bunch of spam on a certain list. The latest > message has the following From: line : i had the same problem with a different spammer. no matter what i did, i simply could not get the procmail recipe to properly filter the thing. i finall

Re: see if this works

2001-12-06 Thread cmasters
working here :-)

[cmasters@despamnbnet.nb.ca: Difficulties w/ ipmasq]

2001-12-06 Thread cmasters
- Forwarded message from cmasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 18:52:37 -0400 From: cmasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debuser Subject: Difficulties w/ ipmasq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Greetings, I hope that someone cah help me with this. A couple

Re: power management & monitor

2001-12-06 Thread Brian Clark
* Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Dec 06. 2001 17:14]: > > xset -dpms > > OK, so how do you make that the default? I've commented out the I just ran it from the command line, then stuck this in my .xsession: xset -dpms xset s off Just know that if you're using something like wdm/xdm/kdm/g

Re: power management & monitor

2001-12-06 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Dave Sherohman: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:33:50PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > xset -dpms > > OK, so how do you make that the default? I've commented out the > Option "DPMS" > line in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, but it still defaults to turning the > monitor off after howev

Re: where is alias 'name' for USB controller module?

2001-12-06 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Andreas Schmidt: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:33:09PM -0500, mikepolniak wrote: > > I want to auto-load the module for the USB contoller (usb-ohci) by its > > alias in > > /etc/modules.conf: > > alias usb-ohci > > > > Where do i find the alias 'name' that kmod+modprobe use to loo

Re: procmail recipe not working

2001-12-06 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:01:36PM +, Pollywog wrote: | On 2001.12.06 20:23 dman wrote: | > | > I've been getting a bunch of spam on a certain list. The latest | > message has the following From: line : | > | > From: "Lisa J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > | > (some have a different name, but th

Re: No functional xterm access from "testing" KDE

2001-12-06 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Xeno Campanoli: > I've had this problem now for some time. I seem to have gotten beyond > some other problems which makes me think that something in this > configuration is just left out. There is an icon of a terminal partly > covered by something green but it doesn't bring up an Xter

Re: Mutt and filtering to multiple mailboxes

2001-12-06 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 04:51:40PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: | * Mark Lanett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > How do I get mutt to read my maildir? I put "mailboxes Maildir" in my | > .muttrc and it still wants to create Mail at startup. The docs say that | > mailbox type is autodetected but

Re: No functional xterm access from "testing" KDE

2001-12-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:42:10PM -0800, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > Also, I still never got an answer to my question of weeks ago about how > to change the window manager by editing a configuration file. Doesn't > anybody know this? Is it really that complex just to switch window > managers? I did

Re: File Manager

2001-12-06 Thread ben
xfm is included in testing. On Thursday 06 December 2001 01:58 pm, Arnout Bruinsma wrote: > L.S. > I'm looking for a file manager for use under Window Maker. > In SuSe I used xfm but I can't find an xfm Debian package. > I hope somebody has a suggestion > > Groetjes,Arnout

Re: power management & monitor

2001-12-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:33:50PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > xset -dpms OK, so how do you make that the default? I've commented out the Option "DPMS" line in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, but it still defaults to turning the monitor off after however many minutes. -- When we reduce our

Re: where is alias 'name' for USB controller module?

2001-12-06 Thread Andreas Schmidt
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:33:09PM -0500, mikepolniak wrote: > I want to auto-load the module for the USB contoller (usb-ohci) by its alias > in > /etc/modules.conf: > alias usb-ohci > > Where do i find the alias 'name' that kmod+modprobe use to look up this > feature? > ... According to

Re: BIG xwindow apps

2001-12-06 Thread nate
> I have never tried to use X on anything less than 1024x768, but why > should it be any worse than running MS Windows at the same > resolution? (Purely considered as a graphical display -- ignore the > issue of MS Windows crashing left and right.) everything in X is big. run for an hour or 2 i

File Manager

2001-12-06 Thread Arnout Bruinsma
L.S. I'm looking for a file manager for use under Window Maker. In SuSe I used xfm but I can't find an xfm Debian package. I hope somebody has a suggestion Groetjes,Arnout

Re: Mutt and filtering to multiple mailboxes

2001-12-06 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Mark Lanett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How do I get mutt to read my maildir? I put "mailboxes Maildir" in my > .muttrc and it still wants to create Mail at startup. The docs say that > mailbox type is autodetected but Maildir is hardly mentioned in the > documentation, FAQ, man muttrc, etc. >

Re: Why might sshd have simply stopped?

2001-12-06 Thread Craig Dickson
Andrew Perrin wrote: > This morning I could suddenly not ssh into my office machine from > home. When I came into the office, I tried and couldn't even ssh into > localhost from it. ps ax showed no sshd running. /etc/init.d/ssh start > solved the problem, but I'm left wondering (and worrying) abou

No functional xterm access from "testing" KDE

2001-12-06 Thread Xeno Campanoli
I've had this problem now for some time. I seem to have gotten beyond some other problems which makes me think that something in this configuration is just left out. There is an icon of a terminal partly covered by something green but it doesn't bring up an Xterm at all. I also see no access to

Why might sshd have simply stopped?

2001-12-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- This morning I could suddenly not ssh into my office machine from home. When I came into the office, I tried and couldn't even ssh into localhost from it. ps ax showed no sshd running. /etc/init.d/ssh start solved the problem, but I'm left wondering (and worrying) about what might have

Re: Audigy Drivers

2001-12-06 Thread csj
On Thursday 06 December 2001 18:33, David Wright wrote: > Does anyone know the status of drivers for Creative's Audigy sound > cards? I would like to buy one and use it with Debian. > > Does Alsa 0.9.x support it? If so, how to I use the Alsa drivers on a > Debian (Linux 2.4.x) system? If not, can

Re: procmail recipe not working

2001-12-06 Thread Craig Dickson
dman wrote: > I've been getting a bunch of spam on a certain list. The latest > message has the following From: line : > > From: "Lisa J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > (some have a different name, but the same address) I want to > automatically file these in the bit-bucket. Should be > straightfo

Re: Some advice to fix up my package database :-)

2001-12-06 Thread Adam Warner
On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 07:36, Joey Hess wrote: > Adam Warner wrote: > > I've been using alien for the first time today. Now I can't install any > > package using apt-get (it might not be the alien packages but I thought > > I should mention it). > > No, nothing to do with alien. > > > files list

Re: Mutt and filtering to multiple mailboxes

2001-12-06 Thread Mark Lanett
How do I get mutt to read my maildir? I put "mailboxes Maildir" in my .muttrc and it still wants to create Mail at startup. The docs say that mailbox type is autodetected but Maildir is hardly mentioned in the documentation, FAQ, man muttrc, etc. TIA, ~mark

Re: procmail recipe not working

2001-12-06 Thread Pollywog
On 2001.12.06 20:23 dman wrote: I've been getting a bunch of spam on a certain list. The latest message has the following From: line : From: "Lisa J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (some have a different name, but the same address) I want to automatically file these in the bit-bucket. Should be stra

Re: power management & monitor

2001-12-06 Thread Brian Clark
* Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Dec 06. 2001 15:39]: > Try this to see if X is doing it: > > timshel:~$ xset -q Yep, and I guess I also just figured out what I needed to know about my repeat rate. Thanks.. -- -Brian Clark

Re: power management & monitor

2001-12-06 Thread Brian Clark
* Jeffrey W. Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Dec 06. 2001 15:41]: > > I've tried poking around in the usual places and I can't seem to find > > anything. > > xset -dpms Super, thanks! -- -Brian Clark

bzip2 is absolutly Amazing!

2001-12-06 Thread Debian User
Hi there! I have just found out that bzip2 is _really_ _great_ for large files. I have tar'ed a whole debian-installation (1.2 gigs). This tar, compressed with gzip, has a size of ~390MB. The same tar, compressed with bzip2 has a size of 110MB!!! So for every body out there: If you have a large f

Re: power management & monitor

2001-12-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Brian Clark wrote: > Can anyone tell me why my monitor insists on going into standby mode > when left alone for a period of time? I've turned off all power > management stuff in the BIOS and apm appears to be disabled: > > % dmesg | egrep apm > apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x0b

Re: power management & monitor

2001-12-06 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 12:27, Brian Clark wrote: > Can anyone tell me why my monitor insists on going into standby mode > when left alone for a period of time? I've turned off all power > management stuff in the BIOS and apm appears to be disabled: > > % dmesg | egrep apm > apm: BIOS version 1.2 Fl

power management & monitor

2001-12-06 Thread Brian Clark
Can anyone tell me why my monitor insists on going into standby mode when left alone for a period of time? I've turned off all power management stuff in the BIOS and apm appears to be disabled: % dmesg | egrep apm apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x0b (Driver version 1.13) apm: disabled on user request

procmail recipe not working

2001-12-06 Thread dman
I've been getting a bunch of spam on a certain list. The latest message has the following From: line : From: "Lisa J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (some have a different name, but the same address) I want to automatically file these in the bit-bucket. Should be straightforward, right? In my .procma

Re: How to switch from X to console (ctrl+alt+Fn)

2001-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:14:25PM +0100, Carlos Betancourt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have installed Potato in an old SparcStation IPC and everything works > fine. However I'm unable to switch back to the console, as is normal in > PC machines. I mean, I don't want to kill X; I want to use th

Re: Manager for software in /usr/local

2001-12-06 Thread John Hasler
George Karaolides writes: > Does anyone remember what this was? stow -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: Manager for software in /usr/local

2001-12-06 Thread George Karaolides
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I recall recently someone on this list mentioning a software, maybe a > > Debian package, that manages installation of software under the /usr/local > > hierarchy. > > stow, maybe? Yes, that's the one, t

Re: Manager for software in /usr/local

2001-12-06 Thread Alan Shutko
George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recall recently someone on this list mentioning a software, maybe a > Debian package, that manages installation of software under the /usr/local > hierarchy. stow, maybe? -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Money may

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