Re: USB in 2.2.19 kernel

2001-12-17 Thread nate
> I am trying to install USB support in the 2.2.19 kernel. I have a > Belkin busport USB PCI card. > I have built the kernel with the usb-uhci module. When I try an > insmod I get the following error. are you sure the uhci module is the right one to use? usually errors like that on devices like

Re: pipe mutt message into vim

2001-12-17 Thread Paul Mackinney
Karsten M. Self muttered: > > It's not clear to me what it is you're really trying to do. > > - "E" will invoke an editor on the current message. > > - You can also save a message to a file and edit this file. > > Slick. dman replied offlist, I learned something. vim does pipes: > > $ d

Re: HELP! FTP has stopped working!

2001-12-17 Thread nate
> I am running testing and when I just went to run ftp, to upload > website changes, I got the following error: > > $ ftp ftp.inetone.net > ftp: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.2: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory > $ > > Since ftp depends on libreadl

Re: pseudo-image-kit

2001-12-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:04:04 Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 02:48:43PM -0500, dman wrote: > > > > If you need the psuedo-image-kit, then you want to install debian but > > don't have it yet, thus you can't use dpkg/apt/dselect/whatever to get > > the psuedo-image-kit. > > > >

HELP! FTP has stopped working!

2001-12-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am running testing and when I just went to run ftp, to upload website changes, I got the following error: $ ftp ftp.inetone.net ftp: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory $ Since ftp depends on libreadline4 (and libread

My previous queries Re : Socket programming

2001-12-17 Thread shyamk
Dear members, I had written to the list weeks back on socket programming on Linux , and I had sent across , my TCPEchoserv.c and the TCPEchoclient.c Naren said that it worked for him , that makes me all the more desperate. I removed firewalls from my box , just in case that prevents sockets

ALSA problems, no node numbers in /dev/snd

2001-12-17 Thread Brandon N
I read somewhere that ALSA was the future of sound on Linux, if that's true, why is the documentation so far out of date? Anyway, here is my problem. I've compiled 2.4.16 and alsa-modules. I ran snddevices When I boot, it appears that ALSA loads: Starting ALSA sound driver (version 0.9.0beta9): sb

Opening URLs from Kmail & Knode

2001-12-17 Thread Alec
Hi I have a suspition that clicking on URLs in Kmail and Knode messages when konqueror is already running is wasteful WRT the system resources compared to opening a new window and typing in the URL. The reason I think so is because it takes so long (3-5 seconds) when I click on a URL in these p

Re: Ncurses on PCs

2001-12-17 Thread Peter De Wachter
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 09:46:28PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:12:34PM -0800, cuong tran wrote: > | Hi, > | > | > | I am taking C++ and Data Structures courses at San Francisco State and > | most of my programs use ncurses. I understand that ncurses is a package > | of functio

Re: Laptop screen support

2001-12-17 Thread dman
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:51:20AM +0100, Jayson-Hotmail wrote: | Ullo: | does anyone happen to know what driver can be used as a generic lcd driver.. VESA framebuffer. Look in kernel docs, then in XFree docs afterwards. (the config will be in the kernel, X will require almost no configuring) -D

Re: URGENT - Bind broken by potato-> woody SOLVED

2001-12-17 Thread john
OK, wierdness by rerunning the netbase.config and saying NO to ipv6, then removing the ipv6 lines in /etc/hosts it now works. Seems like a bug... john wrote: > Hi all, > > This has me beat, so ANY ideas are welcome. > > Yesterday afternoon I upgraded my workstation from a bastardised potato

Re: Ncurses on PCs

2001-12-17 Thread dman
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:12:34PM -0800, cuong tran wrote: | Hi, | | | I am taking C++ and Data Structures courses at San Francisco State and | most of my programs use ncurses. I understand that ncurses is a package | of functions in the UNIX library for use in C and C++ programs. Is there | any

Re: Base floppies for Woody

2001-12-17 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi, > > I am in the unfortunate situation of attempting to install Debian onto > my new IBM laptop (X22 - very nice). I have a base 2.2 CD and 6 CDs of > Sid, which I used to install Sid onto my desktop. > > However, the kernel on the Potato CD is too old to boot on the laptop > (it stops afte

USB in 2.2.19 kernel

2001-12-17 Thread Arthur H. Edwards,1,505-853-6042,505-256-0834
I am trying to install USB support in the 2.2.19 kernel. I have a Belkin busport USB PCI card. I have built the kernel with the usb-uhci module. When I try an insmod I get the following error. theory:/lib/modules/2.2.19/usb# modprobe usb-uhci /lib/modules/2.2.19/usb/usb-uhci.o: init_module: Dev

Re: Problems booting from hard drive.

2001-12-17 Thread Shaul Karl
> I just installed potato r3 on P75, 16 MB RAM and all worked fine. > But booting from hard drive seems impossible to me. I have lilo > well config, and it boots well from floppy, but I always get > an error among this ones when booting from hard drive: > * "crc error". > * "Out of memory". >

Re: startx -> /usr/bin/X11/X no such file

2001-12-17 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hello all, > > Frustrated. Original running woody now sid trying to > resolve this issue. I am hoping that one of you has > crossed this bridge and are able to help! > > xf86config runs without snag... but when > 'startx' -> fails, b/c no /usr/bin/X11/X > > My understanding is that X should

Re: GConf-problem

2001-12-17 Thread Adam Hupp
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:18:56AM +0100, Stefan Ohlsson wrote: > > I have gconf, libgconf11 and libgconf-dev installed, but still > none of the apps using gconf (gnome-gv, nautilus) works. Instead they > complain: Is your home directory mounted over NFS? If so, locking is probably broken. -Ada

Re: Gnome fonts, squares -- no, not the usual ;)

2001-12-17 Thread dman
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 06:40:53PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: | * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011217 13:00]: | | > On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 07:32:16PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | > | on Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 09:06:53PM -0500, Hall Stevenson | > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > | > | The 'square' i

Re: Gnome fonts, squares -- no, not the usual ;)

2001-12-17 Thread dman
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 06:35:49PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: | * Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011217 03:55]: | > Hi Hall! | > | > On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: | > ... | > > Don't appear to have 'xkeycaps' installed... If the part below | > > doesn't help, I'll see about instal

Re: UPS software

2001-12-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[Catching up on debian-user] > After having bought APC for years, I just bought a CyberPower U_S > > I got it from Tiger, but I tlked to cyberpower first. Nice folks, > they told me about a web site where Linux software is availible in > source and binaries. Let me know if your model of CyberPo

Re: URGENT - Bind broken by potato-> woody

2001-12-17 Thread john
Jor-el wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, john wrote: > > > > > Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT) > > target prot opt source destination > > SNAT all -- 192.168.0.0/24 0.0.0.0/0 > > to:202.92.79.119 > > SNAT all -- 192.168.2.0/24 0.0.0.0/0 > > to:202.92.79.

Re: URGENT - Bind broken by potato-> woody

2001-12-17 Thread Jor-el
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, john wrote: > > Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT) > target prot opt source destination > SNAT all -- 192.168.0.0/24 0.0.0.0/0 > to:202.92.79.119 > SNAT all -- 192.168.2.0/24 0.0.0.0/0 > to:202.92.79.119 > > > Forward is Accept >

Re: Limiting admin privileges

2001-12-17 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > robert: > > for what it is worth, the drives that i have mounted on my machine via nfs > cannot be changed via root. root is an unpriviledged user so far as the nfs > mounted files are concerned. my normal user can only change

Re: Mouse trouble in X using a KVM switch

2001-12-17 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 12/17/01 10:14:44 -0600, Kent West wrote: Thanks for the reply Kent. > This isn't a solution, but it might be a work-around. > > Try "apt-get install gpm" (and if necessary "gpmconfig") to set up gpm. > Change your XF86Config-4 file to: >Option"Device" "/dev/gpmdata" > > Then when

instalation problems

2001-12-17 Thread newman
Can you please help me?  I have debian and i'm trying to install it. I encountered a problem when setting up the X server.   It says "setting up xserver-vga16 (3.3.6-11potato32)  No default xserver previously set or previous default has been removed Do you want to make vga16 X server de

Re: Apache doesn't start

2001-12-17 Thread Jor-el
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Dragón wrote: > > > Here the attachement with the strace output. Dragon, There is something truly wierd on your system. On looking at the strace output closely, I see that apache is getting read errors on files like /etc/passwd and /etc/group . Why is this h

Mozilla and duelling java's

2001-12-17 Thread Ross Boylan
I'm running mozilla 0.9.5 on woody, and am having problems that might be java related (the real problem is that I can't access a page that uses java; the reason I say "might be" is that I can access and use some java test pages). Awhile ago I got my java from Sun, but more recently have used the

Re: [here is the output] apt-get/debconf "uninitialized variable" problem

2001-12-17 Thread java guru
Hi., Here is the output when tried to install something..Please dont mind the other unnecessary contents. thanks srini --- Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "uninitialized value in > > > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Cache.pm" and same > problem > > > repeats with other "pm"s like "Templat

Re: URGENT - Bind broken by potato-> woody

2001-12-17 Thread john
I'm also finding that apt is complaining: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = "", LANG = "english" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warnin

Re: Eficient usage of modern hardware.

2001-12-17 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Brian Nelson: > "Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have alwys in the past been using recyled older computers, so this never > > caem up. > > > > Now I find myself in the fortunate poisiton of have several modern machines > > wuth AGP 4X, AYA-100 266 MHZ bus, etc. > > > >

Re: NIS broken in debian 2.2?

2001-12-17 Thread Brent Kearney
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:44:49PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Brent Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:09:03AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > >> Brent Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: blackbox + bash aliases?

2001-12-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 17-Dec-2001 Lev Lvovsky wrote: > > is there a way to get blackbox to expand aliases in the bash .rc files? I > am opening a wterm window with the same args every time, and I'd like not > to clutter up the menu files. i've tried the "shopt expand_aliases" > option, but I still get blackbox co

Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?

2001-12-17 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 December 2001 6:51 pm, Matt wrote: > Alan, > > mplayer still relies on some win32 codecs -- these will soon be replaced > by linux native/gpl'ed codecs. Is that what you're talking about? If > it's only dvd that's not working, you probabl

Re: Gnome fonts, squares -- no, not the usual ;)

2001-12-17 Thread Hall Stevenson
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011217 13:00]: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 07:32:16PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > | on Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 09:06:53PM -0500, Hall Stevenson > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > | The 'square' is generally just an unprintable character. You might > | be able to paste it t

Re: Limiting admin privileges

2001-12-17 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Thursday 13 December 2001 08:05 am, Robert Kerr wrote: > Hi all, > My group is looking into providing Linux workstations to the engineers, > but we're worried about future problems regarding admin privileges. We > would like to give our engineers root on their boxes so they can set them > up an

URGENT - Bind broken by potato-> woody

2001-12-17 Thread john
Hi all, This has me beat, so ANY ideas are welcome. Yesterday afternoon I upgraded my workstation from a bastardised potato (ie had a lot of Adrain Bunk's pacakes) to woody. In all it went well, except that bind is now wierd. I am SOA for the LAN, and forward ns requests through our firewall fo

Re: Gnome fonts, squares -- no, not the usual ;)

2001-12-17 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011217 03:55]: > Hi Hall! > > On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: > ... > > Don't appear to have 'xkeycaps' installed... If the part below > > doesn't help, I'll see about installing it. > > use xev, it's usually installed as part of basic x clients. Th

Re: Do you lose your Drafts, bookmarks,etc. when you cvs mozilla ?...........

2001-12-17 Thread Craig Dickson
Lev Lvovsky wrote: > ~/.mozilla generally The mozilla-cvs packages use ~/.mozilla-cvs, I believe. Which would explain why the original poster thought the prefs and bookmarks were being lost after switching. Craig

Re: Configuration of SiS 6326

2001-12-17 Thread Serafim Zanikolas
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 11:51:40AM -0500, dman wrote: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 01:53:10PM +0800, Jos? Netto wrote: > | Hi, i'm trying to configure my video card SiS 6326 in > | Debian GNU/Linux r3, and until now i can't do that. > | Please support me. > > Use the SVGA or the FBDev driver. I can

blackbox + bash aliases?

2001-12-17 Thread Lev Lvovsky
is there a way to get blackbox to expand aliases in the bash .rc files? I am opening a wterm window with the same args every time, and I'd like not to clutter up the menu files. i've tried the "shopt expand_aliases" option, but I still get blackbox complaining that /bin/sh can't find the alias (

Kmail chokes

2001-12-17 Thread tabanna
~ my Kmail chokes on the character set of Matt in Toronto .. . . just wondered if html might be causing this ~ did anyone else have similar problem ? thanks

Re: Do you lose your Drafts, bookmarks,etc. when you cvs mozilla ?...........

2001-12-17 Thread Lev Lvovsky
~/.mozilla generally -lev On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Courtney Thomas wrote: > Greetings ! > > If you don't loose them, where are they after "cvs"ing mozilla ? > > Thank you, > Courtney > > > -- personal site :: www.sonous.com rave site :: raves.sonous.com I'm a DJ! site :: djkgb.sonous.com "

repairing crashed update

2001-12-17 Thread ben
my system crashed during a recent dist-upgrade. it comes back up but with various utilities (e.g. adduser) looking for .pm scripts that no longer exist on the system. if anyone has gone through the same and managed to cure it, please let me know how. not that i want to be rude, but i really don't

Do you lose your Drafts, bookmarks,etc. when you cvs mozilla ?...........

2001-12-17 Thread Courtney Thomas
Greetings ! If you don't loose them, where are they after "cvs"ing mozilla ? Thank you, Courtney

Re: Limiting admin privileges

2001-12-17 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 09:05:01AM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: > Hi all, > My group is looking into providing Linux workstations to the engineers, > but we're worried about future problems regarding admin privileges. We > would like to give our engineers root on their boxes so they can set them > up

Re: auto laptop interfaces [ was: apt-get update: Could not connect...]

2001-12-17 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 06:39:15PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 03:30:09PM -0800, Greg Wiley wrote: > | On Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:58 PM, dman wrote: > | > or not). I don't think that can be automated (GPS ;-)?). What I > | > really need to do is configure dhcpd at home some

Re: Apache doesn't start

2001-12-17 Thread Dragón
--- Jor-el <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Dragón wrote: > > > --- Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 > > 14:25:21 -0600 (CST) > > > > > > Yes that helped! > > > > Now it is UP and RUNNIG > > > > But Apache is still giving Segmentation F

Re: A rave about wine

2001-12-17 Thread csj
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 05:08, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 17/12/01 Andrew Perrin did speaketh: > > Greetings folks- > > > > I just wanted to tell you about an out-of-the-box success with > > wine. A textbook company sent me a Windows-only CD-ROM with > > software for creating exams from the

Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?

2001-12-17 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
Matt wrote: great, it works, thanks a lot. But I cant get fullcreen mode :-( on my Woody box . My graphics card is S3 Trio3D/2X AGP. What can be wrong? What video output driver are you using? "mplayer -vo sdl -fs yourfile.ext" should work if you compiled sdl in properly. As a start, try mp

Re: A rave about wine

2001-12-17 Thread Pollywog
On 2001.12.17 21:08 Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 17/12/01 Andrew Perrin did speaketh: > Greetings folks- > > I just wanted to tell you about an out-of-the-box success with wine. A > textbook company sent me a Windows-only CD-ROM with software for creating > exams from their texbooks. (As it turn

RE: A rave about wine

2001-12-17 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| I tried to install quicktime with it from the .exe a few days | ago, and it just | hung. Well that's not surprising, I've tried to install it in native Win2K, and it hung. Bug for bug compatibility! Hee, Hee, Brooks

Re: Ncurses on PCs

2001-12-17 Thread burningclown
> And how can I install Linux and Windows on the same machine (how > difficult is it)? Making a dual boot Win and Linux machine isn't too hard. Depends a bit on how much HD space you have. And it may take a bit of tinkering, so making backups is a good idea. I say 'isn't too hard' because I

Ncurses on PCs

2001-12-17 Thread cuong tran
Hi,   I am taking C++ and Data Structures courses at San Francisco State and most of my programs use ncurses. I understand that ncurses is a package of functions in the UNIX library for use in C and C++ programs. Is there any way I can download these functions and use them from my home comput

Ncurses on PCs

2001-12-17 Thread cuong tran
Hi,     I am taking C++ and Data Structures courses at San Francisco State and most of my programs use ncurses. I understand that ncurses is a package of functions in the UNIX library for use in C and C++ programs. Is there any way I can download these funtions and use them from my home compu

Broken Konqueror

2001-12-17 Thread Michael Montagne
After removing all Progeny references from sources.list and running apt-get -f dist-upgrade numerous times, konqueror seems broken. I can browse my file system but not the web. This is the error: kio (Scheduler): ERROR: ERROR 3: couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: E

Re: Help installing base system (sid i386 binary disc 1)

2001-12-17 Thread Matt
Mike, My advice is to not use the sid binary iso's at all.  Download the woody ones and upgrade to sid once the installation is complete -- if you're feeling dangerous.  If you're new to debian, stick with woody for a couple weeks until you get the hand of apt and package management.. not me

Re: A rave about wine

2001-12-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 17/12/01 Andrew Perrin did speaketh: > Greetings folks- > > I just wanted to tell you about an out-of-the-box success with wine. A > textbook company sent me a Windows-only CD-ROM with software for creating > exams from their texbooks. (As it turns out the software is nearly > useless, but tha

Re:

2001-12-17 Thread Matt
Marotta, > bonjour j aimerais savoir si la debian 2.2 et suivante parle français merci Oui, Debian 2.2+ peut "parlé" français.  Pour les details specifiques vous pourriez consulter la liste "debian-user-french" -- il n'y a pas beaucoup de monde sur cette liste (debian-user) qui peut parler f

Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?

2001-12-17 Thread Matt
> great, it works, thanks a lot. But I cant get fullcreen mode :-( on my > Woody box . My graphics card is S3 Trio3D/2X AGP. > What can be wrong? What video output driver are you using? "mplayer -vo sdl -fs yourfile.ext" should work if you compiled sdl in properly.  As a start, try mplayer -fs

Re: ALSA strikes again (sb16 no go)

2001-12-17 Thread Matt
ALSA works just fine with SB16.  Try ALSA 0.9 -- it's better.  Make sure you have the right module compile options.. oss-emulation, isa-pnp, etc.  Then use modconf to make sure that the correct ALSA modules are indeed loaded.  To make them load at boot automagically, add them to /etc/modules. 

Re: Powerchute APC software for potato

2001-12-17 Thread Christophe Chisogne
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:54:00PM +, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > error: PowerChutePlus-4.5.3-1_RedHat.i386.rpm cannot be installed > I'm used to Powerchute and quite like it. Is there anyway of installing it > on potato? I tried compiling the Redhat sources but it complained of > binary incompati

Re: NIS broken in debian 2.2?

2001-12-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brent Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:09:03AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Brent Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >I'm running the 'woody' distro on a PC with Linux 2.4.12-ac6. I >>

A rave about wine

2001-12-17 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings folks- I just wanted to tell you about an out-of-the-box success with wine. A textbook company sent me a Windows-only CD-ROM with software for creating exams from their texbooks. (As it turns out the software is nearly useless, but that's neither here nor there.) I decided to try it und

Re: 'Circuit' process?

2001-12-17 Thread Stefan Ohlsson
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, J. Rashaad Jackson wrote: >In checking my 'top' processes today, I noticed a process named 'circuit' >that was calmly sucking up 99.2% of my CPU time. I kill -TERM -ed it and it >went quietly, but I'm concerned. Anyone know what this is? Please tell me >it's not a rootkit. >

Re: Eficient usage of modern hardware.

2001-12-17 Thread Brian Nelson
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have alwys in the past been using recyled older computers, so this never > caem up. > > Now I find myself in the fortunate poisiton of have several modern machines > wuth AGP 4X, AYA-100 266 MHZ bus, etc. > > Here is the question, given a woidy instal

Re: ALSA strikes again (sb16 no go)

2001-12-17 Thread Matt
ALSA works just fine with SB16.  Try ALSA 0.9 -- it's better.  Make sure you have the right module compile options.. oss-emulation, isa-pnp, etc.  Then use modconf to make sure that the correct ALSA modules are indeed loaded.  To make them load at boot automagically, add them to /etc/modules. 

Re: ALSA and mp3

2001-12-17 Thread Matt
Hi Jose, On Sun, 2001-12-16 at 10:31, José Luis Ayala wrote: > Hi, > > I've just configured my sound car (Intel 820 chipset AC'97) with ALSA (unstable) but it does not work properly. I can listen to the sound events of the desktop and CDs (with the gnome utility) but I can't listen to wav

Re: emu10k1 troubles...

2001-12-17 Thread Matt
Brad, Sounds like you just have mixer issues.  Try apt-get'ting "aumix-gtk" and using it to tweak your sound levels.  It's a little better than alsamixer.  Also, when you install the aumix deb, make sure to comment out the lines in /etc/aumixrc (add a # character to the beginning of the lin

Re: pseudo-image-kit

2001-12-17 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 02:48:43PM -0500, dman wrote: > > If you need the psuedo-image-kit, then you want to install debian but > don't have it yet, thus you can't use dpkg/apt/dselect/whatever to get > the psuedo-image-kit. > So you are claiming that we do not support the creation of Debian cds

Re: NIS broken in debian 2.2?

2001-12-17 Thread Brent Kearney
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:09:03AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Brent Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm running the 'woody' distro on a PC with Linux 2.4.12-ac6. I > >installed the 'nis' debian package, and followed the nis.debian.howto > >that

Re: Boot process freezes on laptop

2001-12-17 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 09:06:04PM -0600, Charles Janik wrote: | I am trying to install debian 2.1 from a CD that came with a book | about debian. I am trying to install it on a 933 mnz laptop and when | I try to boot it for the first time she whole system freezes at the | line that says: | | md d

Laptop screen support

2001-12-17 Thread Jayson-Hotmail
Ullo: does anyone happen to know what driver can be used as a generic lcd driver.. i've got an opti 9000 series 640x480 vga driver for my laptops lcd screen... unfortunately, the only thing i can get to work is the generic vga on 320x260.. and that's unreadable... ideas or solutions, anyone? (for t

Re: pseudo-image-kit

2001-12-17 Thread dman
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 11:27:39AM +, Keith O'Connell wrote: | I started to play with the CD pseudo image kit this morning, and I was | just wondering why the kit is not included in the distribution? The | first place I looked for it was in dselect | | I am using stable, and when woody becomes

Re: apt-get/debconf "uninitialized variable" problem

2001-12-17 Thread java guru
--- Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "uninitialized value in > > > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Cache.pm" and same > problem > > > repeats with other "pm"s like "Template.pm" etc. > > > > There should be more detail in the error messages, > including line > > numbers. It would be very usefu

Re: emu10k1 troubles...

2001-12-17 Thread Matt
Brad, Sounds like you just have mixer issues. Try apt-get'ting "aumix-gtk" and using it to tweak your sound levels. It's a little better than alsamixer. Also, when you install the aumix deb, make sure to comment out the lines in /etc/aumixrc (add a # character to the beginning of the line) tha

Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?

2001-12-17 Thread Matt
Alan, mplayer still relies on some win32 codecs -- these will soon be replaced by linux native/gpl'ed codecs. Is that what you're talking about? If it's only dvd that's not working, you probably need libcss (the supposedly illegal library) to play it. You can grab all of this.. or at least tips

Re: JBoss & Linux Threads

2001-12-17 Thread Greg Wiley
On Sunday, December 16, 2001 11:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > each thread uses up one available process in the > So the "bad" thing about this is that you need one PID for each > thread? What's the advantage of lightweight threads compared to > intra-process threads. I think you mean to compare l

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

2001-12-17 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 01:07:48PM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:00:47PM -0800, nate wrote: > > > > 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 > wow, am i silly or what the whole tim

Re: potato installs and the aftermath

2001-12-17 Thread David J. Roundy
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 09:37:04AM -0800, brian r wrote: > > cdrom and audio: > > I want one of my workstations to be an MP3 server. It is a Pentium 150, > 48 MB of RAM, and 15 GB HD. I installed Afterstep, and a bunch of > cd/audio/mp3 software from the potato cd. My problem is cdrom won't rea

Problems booting from hard drive.

2001-12-17 Thread Alberto Cabello Sanchez
I just installed potato r3 on P75, 16 MB RAM and all worked fine. But booting from hard drive seems impossible to me. I have lilo well config, and it boots well from floppy, but I always get an error among this ones when booting from hard drive: * "crc error". * "Out of memory". * "Less than 4

Re: procmail redirect problem

2001-12-17 Thread Craig Dickson
Martin A. Hansen wrote: > i have set up procmail to sort incoming mail into subfolders. the mail > is sortet and put in the subfolders all right, but every mail is put > inside its own folder so i get: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/maasha/mail# ls -al debian-user/ > total 44 > drwxr-xr-x2 maash

stable->testing wants to remove loads of packages ...

2001-12-17 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Hi all. Just wondering if anyone knows why the following's happening: # apt-get -f dist-upgrade The following packages will be REMOVED: console-tools gdm gnome-control-center gnome-gturing groff gs gv libguile6 locales man-db task-gnome-apps task-gnome-desktop task-gnome-games task-gnome-n

Re: apt-get/debconf "uninitialized variable" problem

2001-12-17 Thread Joey Hess
> > "uninitialized value in > > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Cache.pm" and same problem > > repeats with other "pm"s like "Template.pm" etc. > > There should be more detail in the error messages, including line > numbers. It would be very useful if you could copy and paste them > word-for-word. > > I

Re: Gnome fonts, squares -- no, not the usual ;)

2001-12-17 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 07:32:16PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 09:06:53PM -0500, Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | The 'square' is generally just an unprintable character. You might be | able to paste it to another window and get the hex or octal code that |

RE: i mean..we are using an illegal hacker operation system

2001-12-17 Thread techlists
Okay, my bad...I started to look at the links on the page...It's a joke. When he talks about disaplining his kid he refers to spanking, which is a link to a spanking porn site. Wayne Manuel Ferrero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote .. > > This guy either is extremy clueless or just ironic. I'm > > af

RE: i mean..we are using an illegal hacker operation system

2001-12-17 Thread techlists
This has got to be a joke. Looking through the site, this guy has made comments to other people's stories. And there are alot of them bad mouthing Linux. Well, everytime he posted he spelled Linux correctly, so why now when he's really bashing it he spells it lunix. Plus if you folow the lin

potato installs and the aftermath

2001-12-17 Thread brian r
Hi, I have a comment and a question. Installing: --- First, once I have Debian running I really like it. Especially the apt-get solution for upgrading. However, I have installed Debian on 3 different workstations and 1 file server and the process was very different each time. From th

Re: startx -> /usr/bin/X11/X no such file

2001-12-17 Thread csj
On Monday 17 December 2001 11:40, W. Paul Mills wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Hello all, > > > > Frustrated. Original running woody now sid trying to > > resolve this issue. I am hoping that one of you has > > crossed this bridge and are able to help! > > > > xf86config runs without snag

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

2001-12-17 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 05:52:29PM +0100, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Hi! > > Is libarts-alsa installed and is the soundserver configured to use > alsa in the control cener? Hmm, sometimes trying different sond > system settings on the sound server configuration page in kcontrol > also helps. > >

Eficient usage of modern hardware.

2001-12-17 Thread Stan Brown
I have alwys in the past been using recyled older computers, so this never caem up. Now I find myself in the fortunate poisiton of have several modern machines wuth AGP 4X, AYA-100 266 MHZ bus, etc. Here is the question, given a woidy install, what do I need to to to make certain each of these ne

Re: su does not appear to be working

2001-12-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 12:01:53PM -0500, Jason Stechschulte wrote: > If I look at the permissions for /bin/su, on a working machine: > -rwsr-xr-x >^ > I'm assuming this has something to do with it. From my limited > knowledge, I believe this is called the sticky bit? Close, but not quite: -

su does not appear to be working

2001-12-17 Thread Jason Stechschulte
I've encountered a strange behavior with a debian machine I have inherited. If I try to su to root, it always comes back with: su: Authentication failure Sorry. If I look at the permissions for /bin/su, I see this: -rwxr-xr-x ^ If I look at the permissions for /bin/su, on a working machine: -

Re: GConf-problem

2001-12-17 Thread Greg Lopp
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:18:56AM +0100, Stefan Ohlsson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Debian3.0 (woody) and kernel 2.4.13. > > I have gconf, libgconf11 and libgconf-dev installed, but still > none of the apps using gconf (gnome-gv, nautilus) works. Instead they > complain: > > "GConf Error: Failed

Re: watchdog temperature

2001-12-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, David Z Maze wrote: > temperature from one line at a time. It doesn't look like lm-sensors > exports such a special file; it's not clear what this support in > watchdog was supposed to be used with. (If nothing else, there's the > question of "what is *the* temperature"; my

Re: apt-get/debconf "uninitialized variable" problem

2001-12-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 04:19:03PM +, java guru wrote: > 1. The exact message(part of) is as follows.. I'm following up back to the mailing list. I'd rather that other people had the opportunity to reply as well as me, so please keep the conversation on the list. > "uninitialized value in > /

Re: lock-up when rebooting 2.5.1

2001-12-17 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:44:49PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > >Any clues hos to figure out why it's locking up? > > Err... you're using a beta kernel that has a high potential to > smash your system? I'd not even call it 'beta', despite what slashdot calls it. The 2.5 series is alpha.

Re: 2.2.19-compact

2001-12-17 Thread Lars Jensen
I believe you need to run rdev on the kernel image to set the correct partition to boot from. Lars. On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > When I downloaded kernel-image-2.2.19-compact it ran a script to produce > a boot floppy. The floppy produced does not work - a disappointment

'Circuit' process?

2001-12-17 Thread J. Rashaad Jackson
In checking my 'top' processes today, I noticed a process named 'circuit' that was calmly sucking up 99.2% of my CPU time. I kill -TERM -ed it and it went quietly, but I'm concerned. Anyone know what this is? Please tell me it's not a rootkit. -- I have spoken. J. Rashaad Jackson

Re: security ftp branch

2001-12-17 Thread Paul Scott
Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 05:45:08PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 01:44:13PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates main contrib non-free Security updates won't be issued for woody on security.debian

Re: watchdog temperature

2001-12-17 Thread David Z Maze
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PJ> When using sensord/lm-sensors, what device should the software watchdog PJ> check to see what the CPU temperature is? *looks at watchdog source* Hmm. It looks like watchdog expects there to be a character device (or maybe a pipe) that it can read the t

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