Re: How can i install woody?

2001-12-10 Thread Paul Condon
Michel Loos wrote: > On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 02:37, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Michel Loos wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 19:14, Brian Clark wrote: > > > > * Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Dec 09. 2001 01:25]: > > > > > > > > > > > > But I don't believe there are any install floppies yet f

Re: lm-sensors build, sanity check

2001-12-10 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:54:17PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm already building kernels using the kernel-package tools. One of the > nice things about this is that I can place the kernel sources in arbitrary > places, such as ~/kernel_build/. If I am reading the lm-sensrs > source README corectl

mutt recipe wanted

2001-12-10 Thread will trillich
so i turn my back for a coupla weeks and suddenly my debian-user mailbox is THIRTY-FIVE MEGABYTES. wow. who's got a cool mutt sequence for purging -- or at least hilighting -- say, - small threads (big threads are often religious wars but can sometimes contain interesting points)

Re: X starts on boot--no exit--shades of J P Sartre

2001-12-10 Thread Gary Turner
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:05:35 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: >On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:51:53PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > >> I can stop X, but just as fast as it dies, a new login screen appears. >> does the same. BTW, does nothing. > >I suspect that Ctrl-Alt-Fx will work. That's the keystroke from

Re: X4.1.0-10 disaster

2001-12-10 Thread Eugene Tyurin
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:00:42PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > The fact that X 4.1.0-10 replaced your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. That is *not* the problem in my case. I have restored my original config file, so that X finds the correct driver (Matrox in my case). Now, loading that driver cau

Re: YMH OPL3-SA2 and ALSA. Comments?

2001-12-10 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
On 10 Dec 2001 21:15:15 -0600, DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using ALSA's snd-card-opl3sa2 driver on my sid box (Panasonic > > CF-C33EJ8C, kernel 2.4.16, libc6 2.2.4-7, alsa-source 0.9+0beta9-1). > > It works fine. (e.g. playing music with xmms) > What about mixer channels? Do you see '

Re: X starts on boot--no exit--shades of J P Sartre

2001-12-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:51:53PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > I can stop X, but just as fast as it dies, a new login screen appears. > does the same. BTW, does nothing. I suspect that Ctrl-Alt-Fx will work. That's the keystroke from within X. > Now if someone will tell me what to look at an

Re: X4.1.0-10 disaster

2001-12-10 Thread Craig Dickson
Eugene Tyurin wrote: > Now, I'm totally confused. I downgraded my X back to 4.1.0-9 - the > version that worked perfectly yesterday - and it still dies with the > exact same message. > > What else can possibly effect this? The fact that X 4.1.0-10 replaced your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. Your

X starts on boot--no exit--shades of J P Sartre

2001-12-10 Thread Gary Turner
I configured xfree86 but I'm not running X because 1) my mouse acts squirrelly and 2) I haven't downloaded the i810e server yet. Tonight I wanted to study/work on the shutdown procedures, and said shutdown -r now. This was first reboot since installing X. The X or gnome or some graphic login scr

Re: Missing zip drive devices with devfs

2001-12-10 Thread Eric G. Miller
On 10 Dec 2001 22:11:32 +, Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using kernel 2.4.16 and devfs. When I install the ppa module I get > a directory structure /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target6/lun0 which represents > the zip drive. However, when I insert a zip disk I do not get file

New LINUX Site - Greetings

2001-12-10 Thread Murali Kumar
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Re: YMH OPL3-SA2 and ALSA. Comments?

2001-12-10 Thread DvB
Tatsuya Kinoshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:42:11 -0600, > DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Has anyone with a Yamaha opl2-sa2 or opl2-sa3 sound card been using the > > ALSA driver? If so, with what results? > > I'm using ALSA's snd-card-opl3sa2 driver on my sid box

Re: Homework

2001-12-10 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:52:23 -0500, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > Maybe I should, just to cover my butt from annoyed, veteran users. Thing > > is, though, > > that this list is called "User", not > > "Upper-echelon-kernel-developers-do-not-disturb". > > > I see so many reques

Re: Dual Boot Problems

2001-12-10 Thread Anthony Lau
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:11:14PM +0100, Erik Andreas Fjogstad Brandstadmoen wrote: > David Raeker-Jordan, > > other=/dev/hda1 > > label=win > > table=/dev/hda > > > > other=/dev/hdb1 > > label=winbak > > map-drive = 0x80 > > to = 0x81 > > map-dri

Re: Installing ALSA?

2001-12-10 Thread Anthony Lau
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 02:36:52AM +0800, csj wrote: > Looking at the tail of your output, I think you compiled it okay: > > Module /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver-0.5-0.5.10b-9 processed fine > > Wild guess: did you install the module? Also check to see if sound support has compile (in or module'd

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-10 Thread Christian Eyre
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 06:19:38PM -0800, Didier Malenfant wrote: > Sorry if this is a re-post, I'm not sure the first one went through > since I wasn't subscribed on the list. > > I've installed Debian 2.2r2 on a cheap Powerspec 8250 computer which > comes with a Soundblaster PCI 128 sound card (

lm-sensors build, sanity check

2001-12-10 Thread Stan Brown
OK, I'm trying to get lm-ensors working. Several people have pointed me to the lm-sensors source, and i2c source packages, and the kernel-package package. I'm already building kernels using the kernel-package tools. One of the nice things about this is that I can place the kernel sources in arbitr

Re: Odd LILO message

2001-12-10 Thread dman
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:28:34PM -0600, shock wrote: | when i run /sbin/lilo, i get the following message: | | Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different | head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80 | | anybody know what this means? should i be concerned about it? I know

Re: two font servers?

2001-12-10 Thread Christoph Simon
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 00:29:51 + Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to run and use two font servers simultaneously? > I could not find instructions for doing this. Just use a different port for each and specify that in your XF86Config. -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: kernel packages

2001-12-10 Thread dman
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 07:57:39PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: | I make my own kernel packages. | | I have one question. | | How do I remove the obsolete ones from the dselect tree? I think I just | did the dselect equivelant of dpkg -r kernel-image and it totally | messed up my lilo. In w

Odd LILO message

2001-12-10 Thread shock
when i run /sbin/lilo, i get the following message: Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80 anybody know what this means? should i be concerned about it? -- ) ,_),_) (-(__ |_ _ _ |/ ) | |(_)(_ |\ (

Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-10 Thread Didier Malenfant
Sorry if this is a re-post, I'm not sure the first one went through since I wasn't subscribed on the list. I've installed Debian 2.2r2 on a cheap Powerspec 8250 computer which comes with a Soundblaster PCI 128 sound card (ES1371 chip). I can't get xmms to work, after adding my username to the aud

Re: xmms<-couldn't open audio, huh?

2001-12-10 Thread Didier Malenfant
Is your username added to the audio group? if not try: adduser audio (replace by your username) -D On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 17:57, Greg Norris wrote: > Are you running esd? If not, try using the libOSS.so plugin instead... > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:05:43PM -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote: >

realplayer installer: can I fix it or hold it?

2001-12-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I am using realplayer8 with trplayer, which allows it to work easily in a non-graphical environment. However, apt-get keeps wanting to have me upgrade using the realplayer installer. If I say "yes" dpkg-configure returns an error code 1 and my working installation of realplayer has to be installed

Re: using mkinitrd

2001-12-10 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001, Richard Weil wrote: > I've compiled a custom kernel using kpkg, but I'm > unsure how to make an initrd like the official > kernels. I configured a 2.4.16 kernel with support for > cramfs and initrd. I tried using mkinitrd by invoking: > > mkinitrd /lib/modules/2.4.16 > > and

Re: xmms<-couldn't open audio, huh?

2001-12-10 Thread Greg Norris
Are you running esd? If not, try using the libOSS.so plugin instead... On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:05:43PM -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote: > Greetings ! > > I have installed SBLive! card under Debian-2.4.6 using emu10k1. > > When I click on the play button, the mp3 is downloaded and after > buffer

Re: Problems upgrading kernel

2001-12-10 Thread Stephen P Williams
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 01:58:59PM -0800, William P Martin wrote: > I have been trying to upgrade both a woody box and a sid box to a 2.4 kernel > (2.4.16 and 2.4.14 respectively). I use make-kpkg and everthing seems to > work fine but I don't have a network when I reboot into the new kernel. It >

Re: X4.1.0-10 disaster

2001-12-10 Thread Eugene Tyurin
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 07:16:25PM -0500, Eugene Tyurin wrote: > Symbol XAA_888_plus_PICT_a8_to_ from module > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o is unresolved! > Symbol fbPictureInit from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o is > unresolved! Now, I'm totally confused. I do

Re: Re: Patititioning hard drive

2001-12-10 Thread Paolo Falcone
Tetsu Oni wrote: >I have configured my system to have a separate /tmp partition, but >when it is >mounted, its permissions are set 755. How can I get the >/tmp partition to >have the correct permissions after it is mounted? >How does it appear in your >/etc/fstab? # chmod 1777 /tmp No need

Re: Installation help

2001-12-10 Thread Michel Loos
On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 21:52, Richard Frovarp wrote: > I'm looking for some help in installing the stable version of Debian. I > am having a problem with it reading the root disk. After loading the > rescue disk it prompts for the root disk, but does not read the drive. > After hitting enter I get

ucspi-tcp-src doesn't build

2001-12-10 Thread Tom Allison
build-ucspi-tcp results in the following: tcpclient.c: In function `main': tcpclient.c:77: warning: return type of `main' is not `int' dns.o: In function `resolve': /tmp/ucspi-tcp/ucspi-tcp-0.84/dns.c:62: undefined reference to `__dn_expand' dns.o: In function `findname': /tmp/ucspi-tcp/ucspi-tc

xmms<-couldn't open audio, huh?

2001-12-10 Thread Courtney Thomas
Greetings ! I have installed SBLive! card under Debian-2.4.6 using emu10k1. When I click on the play button, the mp3 is downloaded and after buffering, play is halted at once with the message popup "couldn't open audio". output plugin -> libesdout.so blocking programs -> I have no idea

Re: crontab $MAILTO question

2001-12-10 Thread Carlos Sousa
DvB wrote: Alec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: (...) Can I configure cron to mail me a) *only* when there were errors b) email only STDERR (not STDOUT) (...) I assume you're asking about some type of special cron functionality which e-mails automatically... however, I would probably do this

kernel packages

2001-12-10 Thread Tom Allison
I make my own kernel packages. I have one question. How do I remove the obsolete ones from the dselect tree? I think I just did the dselect equivelant of dpkg -r kernel-image and it totally messed up my lilo. Is there a right & wrong way of doing this?

Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-10 Thread Didier Malenfant
I've installed Debian 2.2r2 on a cheap Powerspec 8250 computer which comes with a Soundblaster PCI 128 sound card (ES1371 chip). I can't get xmms to work, after adding my username to the audio group the mp3 file starts playing and stops immediately. After a little bit of investigation I came up w

Re: YMH OPL3-SA2 and ALSA. Comments?

2001-12-10 Thread Steve Kieu
> > i'm using the opl3-sa2 driver. i've compiled them > as modules, and it > > works great. i have *never* gotten alsa to work. > i've spent alot of Which is VERY strange, I configure alsa with opl3sa2 for my friend comp; it works very well Which alsa version do you use? I use the stable drive

Can anyone offer any help w/ cvsupd/cvsup?

2001-12-10 Thread Jeff Vincent
This may be obvious, but I have never used cvsup(d) nor have I used sup. I want to sync and backup a complete directory tree from Server1 to Server2, both running the latest Debian 'woody' testing build. The directory I want to sync is a CVS repository and other related files located at '/cvs'.

Re: YMH OPL3-SA2 and ALSA. Comments?

2001-12-10 Thread shock
* DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > shock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Maybe you're not seeing the same problem I'm seeing? Whenever I boot up, > I get the following: this is from my /etc/modules.conf: options opl3sa2 io=0x370 mss_io=0x530 mpu_io=0x330 irq=7 dma=0 dma2=1 hope it helps.

Re: YMH OPL3-SA2 and ALSA. Comments?

2001-12-10 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:42:11 -0600, DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone with a Yamaha opl2-sa2 or opl2-sa3 sound card been using the > ALSA driver? If so, with what results? I'm using ALSA's snd-card-opl3sa2 driver on my sid box (Panasonic CF-C33EJ8C, kernel 2.4.16, libc6 2.2.4-7, alsa-s

using mkinitrd

2001-12-10 Thread Richard Weil
I've compiled a custom kernel using kpkg, but I'm unsure how to make an initrd like the official kernels. I configured a 2.4.16 kernel with support for cramfs and initrd. I tried using mkinitrd by invoking: mkinitrd /lib/modules/2.4.16 and it output lots of junk to the xterm I was in. So, before

Re: Homework

2001-12-10 Thread Gary Turner
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:49:56 -0800, martin f krafft wrote: >also sprach Nicolás Conde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.10.0901 -0800]: >> 1. RTFM (Read The Friendly Manual) >> 2. Search the {archives | HOW-TOs} > >the debian community is very newbie friendly, and we understand that >these resources mi

two font servers?

2001-12-10 Thread Pollywog
Is it possible to run and use two font servers simultaneously? I could not find instructions for doing this. thanks -- Andrew

X4.1.0-10 disaster

2001-12-10 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, I upgraded my machine to the latest X version, and now X doesn't start anymore: (==) MGA(0): Write-combining range (0xdc00,0x100) Symbol XAA_888_plus_PICT_a8_to_ from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o is unresolved! Symbol fbPictureInit from module /usr/X11R6/li

Re: Homework

2001-12-10 Thread Stig Brautaset
* martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > also sprach Nicolás Conde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.10.0901 -0800]: > > 1. RTFM (Read The Friendly Manual) > > 2. Search the {archives | HOW-TOs} <> > anyway, i think the general feel is that anyone should rather post a > question on this list

Re: spam filter false positives

2001-12-10 Thread dman
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:32:37PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: | I've had about a dozen people from this mailing list tell me that their | spam filters catch my messages. Does anyone know why? Is there a | standard spam filtering package for Debian that is prone to false | positives? Commonly

Re: spam filter false positives

2001-12-10 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've had about a dozen people from this mailing list tell me that > their spam filters catch my messages. Does anyone know why? Is there > a standard spam filtering package for Debian that is prone to false > positives? As far as I know, there

Installation help

2001-12-10 Thread Richard Frovarp
I'm looking for some help in installing the stable version of Debian. I am having a problem with it reading the root disk. After loading the rescue disk it prompts for the root disk, but does not read the drive. After hitting enter I get this error: request_module [block-major-2]: Root fs not mo

Re: devfsd and kde

2001-12-10 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 December 2001 2:06 pm, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 11:31, Alan Chandler wrote: > > The reason I need to understand (and what actually triggered me off in > > this direction in the first place), is that I have a similar probl

Re: spam filter false positives

2001-12-10 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've had about a dozen people from this mailing list tell me that their > spam filters catch my messages. Does anyone know why? Is there a > standard spam filtering package for Debian that is prone to false > positives? Hey Jeffrey. Yeah, I used t

Re: kdm

2001-12-10 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 10 Dec 2001, Goeman Stefan wrote: > Hello All, > > After upgrading to woody (from potato) I get some unexpected behaviour from > kdm. > > 1) In the kdm window, I see a lot of users listed, basically all users are > listed. I only > want root and myself listed there (as it was when I was runni

Re: SunBlade 100 install problems

2001-12-10 Thread Bob Van Cleef
Using the tftpboot kernel found at: http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/sun4u/ However, it then shifts back to trying to boot of a disk instead of the net Bob - ok boot net expert=1 Resetting ... Sun Blade 10

Re: kde qt

2001-12-10 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Monday 10 December 2001 20:43, xbud wrote: > Hi, > I have been having problems getting kde* ,base,libs,network,etc.. to get > passed the configure on my box because of the Qt libraries.. The problem is > I compile and install the Qt libraries fine... I even went as far as > compiling them on ano

Re: YMH OPL3-SA2 and ALSA. Comments?

2001-12-10 Thread DvB
shock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Has anyone with a Yamaha opl2-sa2 or opl2-sa3 sound card been using the > > ALSA driver? If so, with what results? > > i'm using the opl3-sa2 driver. i've compiled them as modules, and it > works great. i have *neve

Re: Homework

2001-12-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Nicolás Conde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.10.0901 -0800]: > 1. RTFM (Read The Friendly Manual) > 2. Search the {archives | HOW-TOs} the debian community is very newbie friendly, and we understand that these resources might not be very helpful to people who are just entering the domain

Re: mount --bind and fstab

2001-12-10 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:08:42PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote (1.00): > I think this should do it: > > none /dev/shmtmpfs defaults0 0 > /dev/shm/tmpnone rw,bind 0 0 Perfect! That's exactly it. M

gpm config continued

2001-12-10 Thread cmm37
I have verified that my ps2 port is in fact working. Strangely, I actually got a cursor spasm on my screen when I was fiddling with the mouse, so I guess my problem is simply a gpm configuration problem after all. -Conor

Re: [PART-SOLVED] Re: Network config problem

2001-12-10 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:46:56PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote (1.00): > Reading again /etc/init.d/dhcp I see the following: > > # Add all interfaces you want dhcpd to handle here Change the lines in /etc/init.d/dhcp that look like start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $DH

spam filter false positives

2001-12-10 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
I've had about a dozen people from this mailing list tell me that their spam filters catch my messages. Does anyone know why? Is there a standard spam filtering package for Debian that is prone to false positives? -jwb

fg/su confusion

2001-12-10 Thread martin f krafft
is this normal: fishbowl:~> sudo xconsole Password: zsh: 19222 suspended sudo xconsole fishbowl:~> bg fishbowl:~> su [1] + runningsudo xconsole zsh: 19222 suspended sudo xconsole fishbowl:~> bg su behaves like fg and i can't get su to work... sudo shouldn't

RE: crontab $MAILTO question

2001-12-10 Thread KenrickC
>> Hi >> >> I make backups using a cron job and I set MAILTO="" >> Can I configure cron to mail me >> a) *only* when there were errors >> b) email only STDERR (not STDOUT) Why not just remove the MAILTO line, and redirect standard output from the backup to /dev/null. Presuming the application on

Re: [PART-SOLVED] Re: Network config problem

2001-12-10 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Monday 10 December 2001 16:23, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > But now (and this is why I say PART-SOLVED) the internal hosts are > not assigned a valid internal IP from the proxy via pump. I even > copied the file dhcpd.conf from my old proxy to the new, tried > changing from pump to dhcpcd in the int

Re: YMH OPL3-SA2 and ALSA. Comments?

2001-12-10 Thread shock
* DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Has anyone with a Yamaha opl2-sa2 or opl2-sa3 sound card been using the > ALSA driver? If so, with what results? i'm using the opl3-sa2 driver. i've compiled them as modules, and it works great. i have *never* gotten alsa to work. i've spent alot of tim

Re: crontab $MAILTO question

2001-12-10 Thread DvB
DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi > > > > I make backups using a cron job and I set MAILTO="" > > Can I configure cron to mail me > > a) *only* when there were errors > > b) email only STDERR (not STDOUT) > > > > > I assume you're asking about some ty

Missing zip drive devices with devfs

2001-12-10 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, I am using kernel 2.4.16 and devfs. When I install the ppa module I get a directory structure /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target6/lun0 which represents the zip drive. However, when I insert a zip disk I do not get file in this directory for the disk and the partitions on it. The zip drive works fi

Re: mount --bind and fstab

2001-12-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What I can't figure out is how to mount tmpfs on /dev/shm, and then do >the equivilent of >mount --bind /dev/shm /tmp > >in /etc/fstab. I think this should do it: none/dev/shmtmpfs defaults

Re: crontab $MAILTO question

2001-12-10 Thread DvB
Alec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > I make backups using a cron job and I set MAILTO="" > Can I configure cron to mail me > a) *only* when there were errors > b) email only STDERR (not STDOUT) > I assume you're asking about some type of special cron functionality which e-mails automatica

YMH OPL3-SA2 and ALSA. Comments?

2001-12-10 Thread DvB
Has anyone with a Yamaha opl2-sa2 or opl2-sa3 sound card been using the ALSA driver? If so, with what results? In light of all the trouble I've been having with the current OSS driver (I finally got all the modules to load manually, but I still can't get the master-volume/treble/bass mixer channel

Re: debconf XFree86 settings

2001-12-10 Thread Dmitriy
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 10:35:29PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > I had a problem today thanks to the latest round of XFree86 upgrading in > Sid. I logged out, and gdm failed to come up. I rebooted and it again > failed. /var/log/syslog simply said that it had failed, but not why. > /var/log/XFree86

crontab $MAILTO question

2001-12-10 Thread Alec
Hi I make backups using a cron job and I set MAILTO="" Can I configure cron to mail me a) *only* when there were errors b) email only STDERR (not STDOUT) Thanks Alec _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.co

Re: gpm config difficulties

2001-12-10 Thread cmm37
> Does /var/log/dmesg indicate the PS/2 mouse port was detected? > > -- > Jerome > As a matter of fact dmesg does not indicate that a PS/2 mouse port was detected. I am not sure why this is, because the box certainly does. Alas, I guess I have to start digging around and see if I can find out w

Re: Galeon, travelocity, and javascript?

2001-12-10 Thread Daniel Katz
> "DvB" == DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DvB> with are 1) make sure mozilla-psm is installed (I assume DvB> travelocity opens a secure connection for logins) and 2) make That was it -- for some reason I didn't have mozilla-psm installed. Thanx. Dan

Re: DOSEMU with DOS on a 2nd hard drive

2001-12-10 Thread Imre Vida
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 06:13:14PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 07 Dec 2001, Lawrence F Povirk wrote: > > I'm no expert but I think you should NOT mount the drive in Linux if you > > are going to use it for direct partition access under dosemu. Did you > > try using > > > > $_hdimage =

Re: How to get IRQ/io inventory...?

2001-12-10 Thread Dale Kosan
cat /proc/pci

Weird boot problem

2001-12-10 Thread shock
I'm running Debian Woody, and have been using kernel v2.2.18 for a long while. Recently, I upgraded to 2.4.16. make, make modules, and make modules_install worked great. However, when I boot to the new kernel, as soon as Lilo.. finishes, the system reboots. Just for kicks, I tried with 2.4.

Re: Galeon, travelocity, and javascript?

2001-12-10 Thread DvB
Daniel Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. > > I've been using Galeon as my day to day web browser and like it a > lot. However, I've had a nagging problem with certain sites like > Travelocity. In particular, when I try to log into my travelocity > user account, the "Log In" button simply d

using PAM modules(more specifically libpam-mysql)

2001-12-10 Thread nate
hi there is suprisingly little information on using libpam-mysql. i have it working successfully(compiled the woody version under potato). but wanted to know if anyone had any experiences they'd like to share. ive found only 1 or 2 posts in the archives about it. and searching google doesn't come

Re: Galeon, travelocity, and javascript?

2001-12-10 Thread Marc Moody
On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 13:11, Daniel Katz wrote: > I've been using Galeon as my day to day web browser and like it a > lot. However, I've had a nagging problem with certain sites like > Travelocity. In particular, when I try to log into my travelocity > user account, the "Log In" button simply doe

Re: building 3rd-party modules into the kernel package

2001-12-10 Thread Michael Wagner
On Monday, 10. Dec. 2001 at 15:17:58, Joshua Goodall wrote: > I have a handful of 3rd-party modules that I want to include in my kernel > package. That is, their source resides in /usr/src/modules/ > > Right now, I do > make-kpkg kernel-image modules-image > > and I get a kernel .deb and a sep

Re: Copying a harddisk to another using dd

2001-12-10 Thread Michael Wagner
On Monday, 10. Dec. 2001 at 17:50:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can someone give me someadvice on how I > would use dd to copy the contents of one > harddisk to another hardisk on the same > machine. > > I want really to copy my linux stuff to a > new harddisk and get rid of the old hd. Hell

Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD

2001-12-10 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 09:08:25AM +1000, john wrote: > Fred Bloom wrote: > > > Cobalt is a linux ISP out of the box. > > > > J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > > > > Many people regard Cobalt as a piece of junk aimed at wannabe ISPs. My > impression > is that the original poster is > working for an a

Re: Homework

2001-12-10 Thread Chad Morgan
This topic has been discussed in great depth on many occasions. If you really want to know what how every feels about this I suggest that YOU read the archives before filling up everyone's mail box with more why don't people RTFM posts. Chad On 2001.12.10 09:01 Nicolás Conde wrote: >Hello. >

Re: Homework

2001-12-10 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:06:52PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > Dima (see headers for relevant tags) > > It takes all the sport out of it when you specifically tell people > where to look... The sad part is having to tell them at all... but

[PART-SOLVED] Re: Network config problem

2001-12-10 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Sunday 09 December 2001 16:24, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > It's strange to me that 'pump -i eth1 --status' shows correctly the > > gateway (10.7.2.1), nameservers, etc. So I tried to add the two > > missing entries, and it failed. > > > > root:> route add default gw 10.7.2.1 dev eth1 > > SIOCA

Re: Any GOOD bttv grabbers ?

2001-12-10 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hi ! > > Does anyone know any _good_ bttv grabbers ? Up to now I know only bad ones: > > On woody and unstable: > > apt-get install vcr Thank you, but this one is not good either: it has a fixed aspect ratio, even worse: it has only fixed resolutions, without the VCD standard 352x288 :( Why do

Re: Any GOOD bttv grabbers ?

2001-12-10 Thread Markus Grunwald
> > > Does anyone know any _good_ bttv grabbers ? Up to now I know only > > > bad ones: > Maybe what he (the original poster) That would be me :) > really needs is a good $$$ card. No. My wintv delivers video in vcd resolution as I want it to do. There only seems to be no single capture program

Re: IRC server

2001-12-10 Thread dman
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 01:41:53PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: | Suggestions on which IRC server to use? irc.debian.org irc.openprojects.net (same thing, DNS alias or somesuch) this is given on www.debian.org -D -- The Lord detests all the proud of heart. Be sure of this: They will not

Re: OT: Generall (GCC) compiler question

2001-12-10 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Raffaele, > Whats the difference or for what are the *.a files and the *.so > OR *.dll files used? Libraries ending in *.a are statically linked libraries. If you compile a program against these, the library code is built into the program. It makes the executable more portable, but much larger.

Re: Homework

2001-12-10 Thread dman
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:51:08AM -0800, ben wrote: | 2. the purpose of a mailing-list is to provide a place where even stupid | questions can be asked. The purpose of a maililng list is to provide a channel of communication between a distributed group of people. It is not necessarily appropr

OT: Generall (GCC) compiler question

2001-12-10 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi, I have a short question about Libraries in GCC. I recognized that almost everywhere there is a libxyz.a AND libxyz.so or under Windows a libxyz.a AND xyz.dll. Whats the difference or for what are the *.a files and the *.so OR *.dll files used? Could it be true that the *.a files have to be c

Re: ATI video card confusion

2001-12-10 Thread csj
On Monday 10 December 2001 12:43, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > All the Radeon lines work with the "radeon" XFree86 driver, so it > doesn't matter if you got a mixed bag.   After the latest XFree86 4.1 gloriously overwrote my months-old config file, I found out that my Radeon VE 64MB also works when

Re: Homework

2001-12-10 Thread Wayne Topa
tom schuetz([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > >* Nicolás Conde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > >>Hello. > >>I don't mean to be rude with this, but i've noticed that few people > >> do their homework before posting. I've seen some questions over and over > >> again for which

kde qt

2001-12-10 Thread xbud
Hi, I have been having problems getting kde* ,base,libs,network,etc.. to get passed the configure on my box because of the Qt libraries.. The problem is I compile and install the Qt libraries fine... I even went as far as compiling them on another box and just transfering all files over to the

Re: Homework

2001-12-10 Thread ben
On Monday 10 December 2001 09:01 am, Nicolás Conde wrote: >Hello. >I don't mean to be rude with this, but i've noticed that few people > do their homework before posting. I've seen some questions over and over > again for which answers exist in the {manual pages | list archives}. >Looki

Re: Dual Head Probleme

2001-12-10 Thread Michael Wagner
On Sunday, 09. Dec. 2001 at 11:33:50, ben wrote: > erstens--gibt es denn wirklich keine deutsch-sprachigen debian-user liste? Hallo Ben und Frank, gibt es. Man kann sich subscriben unter "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mit subscribe im Subject. Hth Michael -- Registred Linux-User: 183712 GnuPG Key: B3F0

should tetex handle defoma registered font

2001-12-10 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I don't know if tetex can handle defoma registered font. If not, is it a wishlist bug? I think the defoma idea is cool but only if application know how to use it. And also, I feel that the font handling in Linux is pretty complicated compare to windows, (too many different

IRC server

2001-12-10 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
Suggestions on which IRC server to use?

Re: Installing ALSA?

2001-12-10 Thread csj
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 01:17, Frodo Baggins wrote: > Hi debianers, >   I have a big problem in installing and configuring ALSA modules. At > boot time I got the folowing message > > Starting ALSA sound driver (version none):modprobe: Can't locate > module snd failed. > > I got the same msg whe

Getting email together with dman Newbie #61

2001-12-10 Thread Ian Balchin
dman, hi, mutt! good grief. EXIM I ran eximconfig again, correctly, and am sure there is no problem there. > The "visible" mail name of your system should be the same as "echo > $HOST". Don't worry about it too much, just don't pick the name > of your ISP (or some other real server). l

/etc/init.d/rc :2 and HPT370 ( The second) Thanks :-)

2001-12-10 Thread Josef Oswald
Now after I compiled a new kernel ( 2.4.16) I found that the kernel Module for hpt370 is not in Block-devices (as someone on the Net suggested)but it is in IDE/ATI/MFM/RLL section -> Enhanced /IDE/MFM/RLL disc/cdrom/ etc. So :-) Finally the good trusty Debian runs now :-) -- LinuxUser aka

Re: Homework

2001-12-10 Thread tom schuetz
>* Nicolás Conde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: >>Hello. >>I don't mean to be rude with this, but i've noticed that few people >> do their homework before posting. I've seen some questions over and over >> again for which answers exist in the {manual pages | list archives}. >>Looking

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