Re: Sharing dotfiles between diverse accounts

2001-12-12 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, David Z Maze wrote: > In my ideal world, I'd like some sort of update system where I can > change a dotfile on one machine and everything magically changes > elsewhere. You can try Coda filesystem; http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu. But still, you'd need a server machine for the ma

setleds error?

2001-12-12 Thread Curtis Farnham
I, too, prefer my Num Lock key on. I have tried several times to set it that way, but all the solutions I've seen involve a "setleds" command, from which I keep getting the same error message: KGETLED: Invalid argument Error reading current led setting. Maybe stdin is not a VT? C

Re: VNC

2001-12-12 Thread Jeff
Oki DZ, 2001-Dec-13 10:08 +0700: > Hi, > > What is the best way to log out from a VNC session when you are using > Gnome? Just kill the VNC client? > > TIA, > Oki I've always just closed the window, which kills the process. You don't want to log out from within the vnc client session, because t

Re: Need help w/ dhcpd and shared-network option . . .

2001-12-12 Thread Jeff
Jeff Vincent, 2001-Dec-12 15:49 -0700: > Ahh!! The fog is beginning to lift. Thank's Jeff and Brandon (and > others)! :-) > > /*- From dhcpd.conf ?--- */ > option domain-name ""; > option routers X.Y.D.254; > option subnet-mask 255.255.252.0; > > default-lease-tim

Re: VNC

2001-12-12 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, It seems that as long as you don't kill the server, everything would be as what you left out. Interesting... It's kinda neat, I think. Next time you logged in to the remote host using the xvncviewer, you'd get your last desktop. Oki

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 11:10:42PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | On Wed Dec 12 22:39:50 2001 dman wrote... | >On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:34:11PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | >| On Wed Dec 12 00:20:27 2001 dman wrote... | >| > | >| >For lilo both vga= and video= should be in "append". I've also read | >

Re: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 ??

2001-12-12 Thread nate
> A new woody machine that I am seting up just started dispaying this > on the console. > > spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 Are you using a SMP kernel on a UP machine? running a quick search came up with this: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0010.1/0420.html another thread mentioned

Evolution Conduits

2001-12-12 Thread Dave Steinberg
Hi all, I just installed evolution-ssl_1.0-1, and I'm not finding the configuration applets for Evolution's gnome-pilot conduits (EAddress, ECalendar, and ETodo) The libs for the conduits themselves are there (in /usr/lib/gnome-pilot/conduits), but I can't find anything for configuration. The Ev

Re: Sharing dotfiles between diverse accounts

2001-12-12 Thread nate
> This seems like a common enough problem that anybody sufficiently > geeky (say, who has a Debian machine at home and some Unixy machine > at work/school) would have run into it. Are there any pre-canned, > or at least not-too-groady home-baked solutions out there? i run about 35 debian system

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-12 Thread Stan Brown
On Wed Dec 12 22:39:50 2001 dman wrote... > >On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:34:11PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >| On Wed Dec 12 00:20:27 2001 dman wrote... >| > >| >| Adding "video=vesa" made lilo fail to run, I also tried it in an >| >| append statment, still no framebuffer. >| > >| >For lilo both vga=

Sharing dotfiles between diverse accounts

2001-12-12 Thread David Z Maze
I have about four completely different login accounts that I use regularly. They may as well be in separate universes; one is on my laptop, for example, while another will let me log in on most of the machines on the main MIT campus (with a fairly non-standard filesystem setup). Regardless, thoug

Re: sendmain mail without body text

2001-12-12 Thread nate
> e.g. > mail -s "test message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] i usually use cat or echo: echo "" | mail -s "test message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] nate

Re: A package that does not want to die

2001-12-12 Thread nate
> Hello All, > > > I have tried installing the package but it is Fd. Can anyone > help me on removing it? if apt-get can't remove it and dpkg can't..id say fuckit and edit the /var/lib/dpkg/status file and remove it from there, then the system should no longer think its installed. ive edited

Re: does mydql-server require more than loopback interface?

2001-12-12 Thread nate
> hello, > > anyone ever used a similar setup with only lo? try loading it with the option of --bind-address=127.0.0.1 or --skip-networking. i use the --bind-address=127.0.0.1 for secure mysql servers that recieve client connections from stunnel. you can use --skip-networking if you want to ONLY

Re: No GnuCash in woody?

2001-12-12 Thread Craig Dickson
Brian Nelson wrote: > The gnucash package is a mess due to the rapidly changing libs in its > dependencies. ATM, you'd need to pull down the source from unstable > and build it against the libraries on your system (the deb in unstable > is uninstallable because libguppi13 is no longer in the arch

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Stephen Gran
Just redirected to the list - the output doesn't help me, but someone else may have an idea. Just for info, here's the output to the strace of the play program. It hangs on the last wait4 but it seems like whatever was writing the trace info just got stopped in its tracks before that line was fin

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:34:11PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | On Wed Dec 12 00:20:27 2001 dman wrote... | > | >| Adding "video=vesa" made lilo fail to run, I also tried it in an | >| append statment, still no framebuffer. | > | >For lilo both vga= and video= should be in "append". I've also read |

Re: Amount of RAM L1 cache on a processor will support

2001-12-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 03:14:20PM -0500, David Teague wrote: | | Thanks to Aaron, Nate, dman, and Gary, especially for the web page | references. I'll spend some time looking at that before asking | again. | | Your articles were enlightening, but you don't address my question. ... | I have spe

php4-cgi and php4-cgi-mysql in Woody

2001-12-12 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, I installed php4-cgi(Version: 3:4.0.100-1) in my woody then I'd like it to support mysql, so I apt-get install php4-cgi-mysql, but it complains: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: php4-cgi-mysql: Depends: php4-cgi (= 4.0.3pl1-0potato1.1) but it is not going to b

Re: No GnuCash in woody?

2001-12-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:01:22PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | I'm building a new woody system. I just tried to add GnuCash using dselect, | but searching for cash in dselect did not turn up anything. It used to be the same version as potato (really old). Get it from sid. Unfortunately gnucash ha

VNC

2001-12-12 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, What is the best way to log out from a VNC session when you are using Gnome? Just kill the VNC client? TIA, Oki

Re: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 ??

2001-12-12 Thread hanasaki
Hmmm no clue.. but I get it too. Stan Brown wrote: A new woody machine that I am seting up just started dispaying this on the console. spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 Whar?t's it trying to tell me?

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Didier Malenfant
On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 18:57, Stephen Gran wrote: > I missed the beginning of this thread, sorry, but I guess the basics - > are the relevant modules loaded? Here's what it started with, the card seems detected (dmesg): es1371: version v0.22 time 19:13:40 Nov 18 2000 es1371: found chip, vendor id

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Didier Malenfant: > gmix reports all the sound levels are in the middle. > > play prints 'Playing Chord.wav' and then hangs there just like 'cat > sound.raw > /dev/dsp' would do and I have to CTRL-C out of it. > > No sound. > > I'm beginnning to think I have a conflict but dmesg doesn

Re: /usr/bin/studio in two packages kdestudio and linuxvideostudio

2001-12-12 Thread Mark Purcell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:44, Ben Burton wrote: > Hmm. I realise this is kind of graceless but I'm going to request that > linuxvideostudio change its filenames. :) The reasons being: Hi Ben, Yes I am happy with that. I'll change the filenames in lin

Re: Can't find vroot.h

2001-12-12 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Bob Underwood: > On Wednesday 12 December 2001 16:32, Stephen Gran wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am trying to compile a couple of screensavers, and they call for a > > file called vroot.h, apparently in /usr/X11R6/include/X11/. I looked > > at packages.debian.org for which package it come

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Didier Malenfant
Tried it. Both 'play sound.wav' and the 'cat > /dev/dsp' just hang there with no sound coming out. I don't thing it's a permission problem, I just don't know where to attack the problem from. -D On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 18:31, Courtney Thomas wrote: > Didier Malenfant wrote: > > > > gmix reports a

Re: php4 parameter problems

2001-12-12 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, I use the php4 debian package from woody. But in this case, I can't print the value of $test_par, which should be "aaa" If I get php4 source tarball and compile myself, the function is working. I wonder why the php4 shipped from woody can't work. BTW, I have register_globals = On in php.

Re: sendmain mail without body text

2001-12-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya > how do i send mail from the command line of a debian box > without needing body text? > > e.g. > mail -s "test message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail -s "test message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null or echo "any msg" | mail -s "test message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] c ya alvin -- trying to play

sendmain mail without body text

2001-12-12 Thread Adrian Bolzan
Hi, i hope this is the write forum but... how do i send mail from the command line of a debian box without needing body text? e.g. mail -s "test message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then return to the command prompt thanks for any help. adrian

Re: More lm-sensors questions

2001-12-12 Thread David Z Maze
Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> I built, and installed a 2.4.16 kernel using kernel-package (with all 12c SB> options slected). SB> SB> The i unpacked the debian source lm-sensors modules package in /usr/src. SB> The I compiled using the dbian/rules. This all went well. (I tend to reco

Re: No GnuCash in woody?

2001-12-12 Thread Brian Nelson
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm building a new woody system. I just tried to add GnuCash using dselect, > but searching for cash in dselect did not turn up anything. > > Am I doing somehting wrong? The gnucash package is a mess due to the rapidly changing libs in its dependencies.

Re: A package that does not want to die

2001-12-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Dec-2001 Stephen J. Thompson wrote: > Hello All, > > I have a package that does not want to be removed. All I keep getting is the > following: > > ferengi:~/temp# apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: The package firebird-classic needs to

Re: A package that does not want to die

2001-12-12 Thread D.
I would suggest doing a dpkg --list |more and see if the package is listed. If not then you might have come configuration files still on your system that were not removed from your last removal. To remove these I would do a apt-get -purge . Then I would do the apt-get -remove Then you can reinst

Re: No GnuCash in woody?

2001-12-12 Thread Simon Wong
On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 12:01, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm building a new woody system. I just tried to add GnuCash using dselect, > but searching for cash in dselect did not turn up anything. I found the same problem the other day too. It has some conflict with libguileXX. Not sure what's happening w

Re: /dev/dsp not found: KDE/ALSA

2001-12-12 Thread Ross Boylan
The things is, I ran snddevices when I did the original install. I think the can't find /dev/dsp message is more of a complaint about nothing functioning being there; /dev/dsp is a link to /dev/dsp0 for me: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root9 Dec 21 2000 /dev/dsp -> /dev/dsp0 crw-rw

No GnuCash in woody?

2001-12-12 Thread Stan Brown
I'm building a new woody system. I just tried to add GnuCash using dselect, but searching for cash in dselect did not turn up anything. Am I doing somehting wrong? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useles

Re: NVidia GeForce 2 and XFree86

2001-12-12 Thread Brian Nelson
"Kirk Cheney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I have a GeForce 2 video card and Debian 2.2r2, and cannot start X windows at > all. I have been looking at some of the previous postings about these cards, > but am confused. I looked at the instructions on the NVidia site, and noted > that I

Re: emu10k1 troubles...

2001-12-12 Thread Brian Nelson
"Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm having weird problems with sound using the emu10k1 module. The > system bell is coming out through the speakers, but other sound (xmms, > gcd, etc..) seems to play (ie no complaints about devices, > visualization shows levels) but no

Re: Can't find vroot.h

2001-12-12 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 16:32, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello all, > I am trying to compile a couple of screensavers, and they call for a > file called vroot.h, apparently in /usr/X11R6/include/X11/. I looked > at packages.debian.org for which package it comes in (I would have > thought xlibs-d

spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 ??

2001-12-12 Thread Stan Brown
A new woody machine that I am seting up just started dispaying this on the console. spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 Whart's it trying to tell me? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a

More lm-sensors questions

2001-12-12 Thread Stan Brown
I'm still trying to get lm-sensors working on my new machine. The motherboard in question si a Gigabyte GA-71XE. Here is what I have done so far. I built, and installed a 2.4.16 kernel using kernel-package (with all 12c options slected). The i unpacked the debian source lm-sensors modules pack

What does xconsole display? (was: Re: proper set-up of xconsole ?)

2001-12-12 Thread Brian Nelson
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:54:16PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I've noticed that the default persmissions on xconsole are : > > > > ~ $ ls -l /dev/xconsole > > prw-r-1 root adm 0 Dec 11 22:52 /dev/xconsole >

Re: Difference between APT pin and dpkg hold

2001-12-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:27:12PM +1100, Andrew Nesbit wrote: > > What is the difference between pinning a package (as described in the > > APT HOWTO), and setting the ``hold flag'' using dpkg? > > pin decides priority of archived packages against instal

Re: evolution

2001-12-12 Thread ben
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 03:20 pm, DvB wrote: > Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This list is debian-user, no specific language specified, even if we use > > much more english > > Well, there *is no* "debian-user-english" so I think this probably *is* > the English list, even though

dopewars on potato

2001-12-12 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hello, i have dopewars (1.5.2-1 from woody) installed on my potato box. my sources.list points to potato, but i downloaded the deb and: dpkg --ignore-depends=libc6 --ignore-depends=libgtk1.2 --ignore-depends=libncurses5 --ignore-depends=xlibs -i dopewars_1.5.2-1_i386.deb to get it installed. it

does mydql-server require more than loopback interface?

2001-12-12 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hello, i'm running php-nuke with mysql on potato with apache. at home, i'm running woody. i have the same set up (apache, mqsql-server, php4, the php-sql package)... at home, i only have a lo (loopback) interface, no eth, no ppp. mysqld starts just fine, no errors. i think i've narrowed down the

Re: evolution

2001-12-12 Thread DvB
Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This list is debian-user, no specific language specified, even if we use > much more english > Well, there *is no* "debian-user-english" so I think this probably *is* the English list, even though it doesn't explicitly say so in the list's description.

NVidia GeForce 2 and XFree86

2001-12-12 Thread Kirk Cheney
Hi, I have a GeForce 2 video card and Debian 2.2r2, and cannot start X windows at all. I have been looking at some of the previous postings about these cards, but am confused. I looked at the instructions on the NVidia site, and noted that I needed to upgrade my XFree86. I looked at the XFree86

Re: Kernel v2.4.16 problems

2001-12-12 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:57:03PM -0600, shock wrote: > > Get one of the 2.4.17-preX kernels (X == at least 6), the problem is fixed > > in this. > > yep. that fixed it. thanks! (odd that it compiled on my other debian > woody machine..) That might have one of the following reasons: a) you

Re: procmail recipe not working

2001-12-12 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 06 December 2001 17:32 pm, shock wrote: > So far, it's been *fantastic*. Mail::SpamAssassin is unbelievably > accurate, and the filter script behaves exactly as I expect it to. I've been trying to install this module from CPAN with dh-make-perl. The build fails claiming it can't fi

Re: Kernel v2.4.16 problems

2001-12-12 Thread shock
* Stephen Rueger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:28:28PM -0600, shock wrote: > > I just downloaded v2.4.16 and am trying to get it compiled. Following > > is the output from make: > > [the binutils vs. 2.4.x kernel thingie] > > Get one of the 2.4.17-preX kernels (X

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Didier Malenfant
gmix reports all the sound levels are in the middle. play prints 'Playing Chord.wav' and then hangs there just like 'cat sound.raw > /dev/dsp' would do and I have to CTRL-C out of it. No sound. I'm beginnning to think I have a conflict but dmesg doesn't report any hardware at the same IRQ (5) as

Re: Found GOOD bttv grabber !

2001-12-12 Thread csj
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 02:37, Markus Grunwald wrote: > Hi! > > Some time ago I wrote: > > - xawtv or streamer: too many lost frames which don't appear in > > bttvgrab and it has a FIXED aspect ratio so that I cant grab in > > 352x288 which is the vcd standard > > thats not true. streamer CAN

Re: Need help w/ dhcpd and shared-network option . . .

2001-12-12 Thread Jeff Vincent
Ahh!! The fog is beginning to lift. Thank's Jeff and Brandon (and others)! I pasted in the output from ifconfig along with my dhcpd.conf as it is being used now (and appears to be working). /*- From ifconfig —--- */ eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:AC:4C:5B:3F

Re: Kernel modprobe boot error

2001-12-12 Thread Barbara Pfieffer
No, I have all the programs updated as of today. Everything is as required. I'll try reconfiguring the kernel Barbara Michael Wagner wrote: On Mittwoch, 12. Dez. 2001 at 12:36:35, Barbara Pfieffer wrote: When I boot the new kernel, it starts to boot, then I get over a screenful of the same

Re: Debian Weekly News - December 12th, 2001

2001-12-12 Thread Bob Hilliard
(This message was sent to Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and the -devel list. I screwed up the copy to -user.) > Too Many Acronyms? The Debian mailing lists are rife with Linux gurus > and newbies alike. When a newbie wanders into a discussion the acronym > and jargon ratio is usually mo

Re: evolution

2001-12-12 Thread m\(y\)
> > Quelqu'un peut il me dire quels paquets je devrai installer à la main ? Les paquets necessaires pour installer la version developpement d'evolution sur un systeme debian sont disponsible à: ftp://spidermonkey.ximian.com/pub/evolution-snapshot/debian-potato-i386/ Je crois qu'il y avait un "apt

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-12 Thread Stan Brown
On Wed Dec 12 00:20:27 2001 dman wrote... > >| Adding "video=vesa" made lilo fail to run, I also tried it in an >| append statment, still no framebuffer. > >For lilo both vga= and video= should be in "append". I've also read >for older versions of lilo that it didn't handle hex numbers correctly >

Found GOOD bttv grabber !

2001-12-12 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hi! Some time ago I wrote: > - xawtv or streamer: too many lost frames which don't appear in bttvgrab > and it has a FIXED aspect ratio so that I cant grab in 352x288 which is > the vcd standard thats not true. streamer CAN grab with any aspect ratio (while xawtv can't...). Sorry for that !

Re: Kernel modprobe boot error

2001-12-12 Thread Michael Wagner
On Mittwoch, 12. Dez. 2001 at 12:36:35, Barbara Pfieffer wrote: >When I boot the new kernel, it starts to boot, then I get over a >screenful of the same error message: > >kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno = 8 > >Where did I go wrong? Hello Barbara, you didn't read the

A package that does not want to die

2001-12-12 Thread Stephen J. Thompson
Hello All, I have a package that does not want to be removed. All I keep getting is the following: ferengi:~/temp# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: The package firebird-classic needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it. I have

Re: Gnome window manager problems with woody.

2001-12-12 Thread Stan Brown
On Wed Dec 12 00:27:45 2001 Marc Wilson wrote... > > >--ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Disposition: inline >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:01:14AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >> I'v added swafish-gnome, but when I try to

Re: php4 parameter problems

2001-12-12 Thread Brian Clark
* Patrick Hsieh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Dec 12. 2001 01:25]: > http://host.domain.com/test.php?111+222+&test_par=aaa&; > > then in test.php, I can get > 111 as argv0 > 222 as argv1 > &test_par=aaa& as argv3 > > but I can't get the value of $test_par, which should be aaa What's wrong with just usin

Re: space usage misreported?

2001-12-12 Thread Adrian Bolzan
On 12 Dec 2001 at 0:36, nate wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > where did the other 1.6GB go? > > did you delete a buncha stuff? in many cases deleted > data is not actually freed up until the process that > was using the data exits. one quick way to be sure > all processes exit cleanly is to go t

Re: space usage misreported?

2001-12-12 Thread Adrian Bolzan
On 12 Dec 2001 at 2:02, ben wrote: > On Tuesday 11 December 2001 11:26 pm, Adrian Bolzan wrote: > [snip] > > When using 'df -h' we receive the following: > > > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/sda1 1.4G 757M 577M 57% / > > /dev/sda5 1.8

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Didier Malenfant
Nope, just tried that too. I also, as someone suggested, tried to just cat a raw file to /dev/dsp and that justs hangs. I wish I could find the right steps to get an idea of where the problem lies. -D On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 13:17, Courtney Thomas wrote: > Didier, > > Check your preferences by r

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Network config problem

2001-12-12 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Monday 10 December 2001 19:39, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > 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 $DHCPDPID

Re: accented chars in abiword

2001-12-12 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
Hi, I used biznet(iso8859-2) type 1 fonts it does not crash for me, but accented char are bad displayed. It looks, that AbiWord handle bad accented chars ... Elf Thomas Kral wrote: Hello, Has anyone tried typing accented chars using iso8859-2 type1 font in abiword0.7.7-1 st

Can't find vroot.h

2001-12-12 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, I am trying to compile a couple of screensavers, and they call for a file called vroot.h, apparently in /usr/X11R6/include/X11/. I looked at packages.debian.org for which package it comes in (I would have thought xlibs-dev) but oddly, there is no such file. Googling it I find that it "

Re: central repository of changelogs for debian packages?

2001-12-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, DvB wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yes, you can subscribe yourself to one of the -changes list in > > lists.debian.org. > > Which one should I subscribe to for testing/i386? I see > "debian-all-changes", "debian-changes", "debian-i386-cha

Re: emu10k1 troubles...

2001-12-12 Thread Christoph Simon
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:57:50 + Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 12 December 2001 4:11 pm, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having weird problems with sound using the emu10k1 module. The > > system bell is

accented chars in abiword

2001-12-12 Thread Thomas Kral
Hello, Has anyone tried typing accented chars using iso8859-2 type1 font in abiword0.7.7-1 stable? I have some ult1mo(iso8859-2) type 1 fonts installed in lieu of those provided by abiword-0.7.7-1*.deb. I have set XkbKeymap to "xfree86(us_cz_qwertz)". Well, when I try to use accented chars of

Re: /dev/dsp not found: KDE/ALSA

2001-12-12 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hi! I've had quite a similar problem... maybe this will fix it: Search all packages for the script file "snddevices" by typing dpkg -S snddevices Then cd into the directory where the script is and call it... after that the devices should be there. Cheers, Stephan - Original Message

Re: wp8 for linux

2001-12-12 Thread Steve Kieu
> vanished from all web sites. Dunnt no > Can it still be downloaded somewhere? Search in LimeWire network, may be you will find it somewhere sometime > Just wondering.. = S.KIEU http://shopping.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Shopping - Free CDs for thousands of Priority Shoppers!

Re: evolution

2001-12-12 Thread Michel Loos
Si ton probleme est similaire au mien, regarde: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200111/msg04113.html This list is debian-user, no specific language specified, even if we use much more english Michel. On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 18:07, herve wrote: > > > J'utilise une woody mais

Re: vncserver ignoring ~/.vnc/xstartup :(

2001-12-12 Thread Martin Rowe
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 19:12, Francois Gouget wrote: > On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Martin Rowe wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > I'm trying to get VNC running on my home box and vncserver sems to be > > bypassing the xstartup script. Instead of running Blackbox, it pulls up > > KDE. The .vnc/ session log doe

Re: emu10k1 troubles...

2001-12-12 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 December 2001 4:11 pm, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having weird problems with sound using the emu10k1 module. The > system bell is coming out through the speakers, but other sound (xmms, > gcd, etc..) seems to play (ie no c

wp8 for linux

2001-12-12 Thread Thomas Kral
Hello, Does eanybody know what happened to wordperfect8 it has literally vanished from all web sites. Can it still be downloaded somewhere? Just wondering..

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Didier Malenfant
It's not an xmms problem. I have two files to try, a .raw and a .au Catting those to /dev/dsp just hangs there, no sound and I have to CTRL-C out of it. -D On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 12:24, Courtney Thomas wrote: > Didier Malenfant wrote: > > > > I just did that to be sure and it still does the sam

Re: evolution

2001-12-12 Thread Sebastiaan
Bonjour, On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, herve wrote: > > > J'utilise une woody mais pour les paquets nouveaux je charge en unstable. > je pratique comme ça depuis un certain temps. et si j'admets que cette > pratique n'est pas othodoxe, je n'ai pas rencontré de problème jusqu'alors. > J'ai essayé Evolut

Divulgação do meu site e icq

2001-12-12 Thread Michael William Cypriano
B"H (Baruch Hashem) Paz Profunda. Saudação em todas as pontas do sagrado Triângulo. Sempre Alerta!! *** olá este é o meu site e meu icq /// S

Re: Amount of RAM L1 cache on a processor will support

2001-12-12 Thread David Teague
Thanks to Aaron, Nate, dman, and Gary, especially for the web page references. I'll spend some time looking at that before asking again. Your articles were enlightening, but you don't address my question. I know only 256 or 384 K will be in the cache at anyone time. I also know that the tag ram

Re: evolution

2001-12-12 Thread DvB
herve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > J'utilise une woody mais pour les paquets nouveaux je charge en unstable. > je pratique comme ça depuis un certain temps. et si j'admets que cette > pratique n'est pas othodoxe, je n'ai pas rencontré de problème jusqu'alors. > J'ai essayé Evolution à divers sta

Re: central repository of changelogs for debian packages?

2001-12-12 Thread DvB
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Kurt Lieber wrote: > > Is there a way to easily and quickly tell what has changed from debian > > package to debian package? (i.e. short of downloading the source of each > > package and reading the changelog.) > >

Re: Rendering difference between Galeon and Mozilla

2001-12-12 Thread DvB
Dominique Deleris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello. > > I've recently (yesterday) installed galeon and mozilla from sid. I'm > experiencing strange rendering issues with galeon : > > Try to go to http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/ with both > browsers and feel the difference !!! A lot

Re: How to capture start up messages?

2001-12-12 Thread Brian Nelson
DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I need to be able to capture the start up messages issued when my woody > > system boots. > > > > dmesg only gives me up to the point control is transfered from the kernel, > > and I'm seeing erros after that, that

NFS problem

2001-12-12 Thread Peter Billson
Hello *, I am having permissions problems with a NFS mount that I just can't figure out and I'm hoping someone can help. I am NFS mounting a USB floppy drive on machine A by using automount on machine B. The floppy shows it is mounted rwxrwxrwx and owned root.root. Any user can read and wri

evolution

2001-12-12 Thread herve
J'utilise une woody mais pour les paquets nouveaux je charge en unstable. je pratique comme ça depuis un certain temps. et si j'admets que cette pratique n'est pas othodoxe, je n'ai pas rencontré de problème jusqu'alors. J'ai essayé Evolution à divers stades de son développement et à part les bu

Re: [slightly OT] How the heck can the private LAN make DNS requestsbehind a proxy?

2001-12-12 Thread Calyth
I guess i'll set up a split DNS because I do have a domain (shh... don't ask) and I need to get a DNS running anyways. Is it possible for me to move the internal DNS to another machine other than the firewall? Calyth

Re: Kernel v2.4.16 problems

2001-12-12 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:28:28PM -0600, shock wrote: > I just downloaded v2.4.16 and am trying to get it compiled. Following > is the output from make: [the binutils vs. 2.4.x kernel thingie] Get one of the 2.4.17-preX kernels (X == at least 6), the problem is fixed in this. greets, Stephen

Re: lm-sensors build, sanity check

2001-12-12 Thread David Z Maze
Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MW> On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:06:13AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: DZM> If you're using an older kernel or want the updated i2c drivers, DZM> you can also install them from the i2c-source package (in which DZM> case you should completely disable i2c in the

Re: Dual Processor machine

2001-12-12 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001, Jérôme-Georges-Michel BENOIT wrote: > Thanks you very much for your advice. > > > do you have a real smp kernel installed? > > Good question ;-) > > I guess that I have installed Debian > in the basic way: > 1] how can I check this point ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep SMP /b

Kernel v2.4.16 problems

2001-12-12 Thread shock
I just downloaded v2.4.16 and am trying to get it compiled. Following is the output from make: make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.16/arch/i386/lib' ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux-2.4.16/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o i

Kernel modprobe boot error

2001-12-12 Thread Barbara Pfieffer
I'm currently running Woody, with kernel 2.2.19pre17. I wanted to try the newest kernel 2.4.16. I downloaded the kernel source and the pcmicia source, since this is a laptop with a pcmcia network card. I unpack them, run make menuconfig, being sure to put pcmcia in as a module. I run make-kpkg

Re: Rendering difference between Galeon and Mozilla

2001-12-12 Thread Dominique Deleris
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 13:21:16 -0500, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: dman> | Try to go to http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/ with both dman> | browsers and feel the difference !!! A lot of other sites behave dman> | like this. dman> Both browsers look the same to me. Can you post a scre

Re: Rendering difference between Galeon and Mozilla

2001-12-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 06:48:18PM +0100, Dominique Deleris wrote: | Hello. | | I've recently (yesterday) installed galeon and mozilla from sid. I'm | experiencing strange rendering issues with galeon : I haven't gotten galeon from sid recently. I have : galeon 0.12.4-0.1 mozilla-brow

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Didier Malenfant
I tried both and no luck. What happens in xmms is that the song/wav file (I've tried both) doesn't even start playing. I hit play and it stops right away. Is there anything I can do to test the sound seperatly from xmms? cat a file to /dev/dsp -D On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 23:24, Cameron Matheso

libapache-mod-mp3 doesn't stream ogg files

2001-12-12 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
Hello, I've spent 6 or so hours trying to play my mixed mp3/ogg home music collection on my office computer. They both run Debian/unstable, so I set up libapache-mod-mp3 and used documentation from http://media.tangent.org/faq.html to set it up. After some banging on the wall I now have xmms pl

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Didier Malenfant
I just did that to be sure and it still does the same thing. Is there any basic thing I can do to test the sound without using XMMS? that would enable me to make sure it's not just an XMMS problem. -D On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 06:28, Courtney Thomas wrote: > Didier Malenfant wrote: > > > > On Mon,

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