init

2001-12-22 Thread Brian Clark
I'm sure I missed this memo, but why is init suddenly showing in the process list as `init [2] --init'? Ie., with the spaces and --init This is on woody. My potato system isn't like this, so I was wondering what has changed, if anything? I'm hoping this is normal.. -- Brian Clark | Debian GN

Re: Pleez help with courier-POP !!!

2001-12-22 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 17:14, Martin Puaschitz wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Marc Britten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Debian-User ML" > Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 11:53 PM > Subject: Re: Pleez help with courier-POP !!! > > >you maildir is ~/Maildir if it already exists the

Re: /dev/cdrom problem...

2001-12-22 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001, JP Glutting wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a problem with my device configuration. I have a CD player and a CD > writer (/dev/hdc and /dev/hdd, respectively), and whenever I boot up it links > up the writer on /dev/cdrom1, and the reader on /dev/cdrom2 (/dev/cdrom is, > corre

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 08:20:57PM -0800, Paul Mackinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'd love to find a local Linux group and meet people in person. Tried > BAD once, very nice people, but by the end of the night I felt like > the only person in the crowd who hadn't ever written a device driver.

/dev/cdrom problem...

2001-12-22 Thread JP Glutting
Hi All, I have a problem with my device configuration. I have a CD player and a CD writer (/dev/hdc and /dev/hdd, respectively), and whenever I boot up it links up the writer on /dev/cdrom1, and the reader on /dev/cdrom2 (/dev/cdrom is, correctly a link to /dev/cdrom1). I can change the links,

Re: epson stylus c60 in potato help

2001-12-22 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Steve Kieu wrote: Hi, In potato I can not find gimp-print, how can I install driver for epson stylus C60 in potato? AFAIK this works well under gimp-print, isn't it? Thanks a lot = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! gimp1.2-print_4.1.99-b1 is i

damn, damn, damn installation!!

2001-12-22 Thread Luiz Afonso B de Campos
Dear Sirs I had nearly installed GNU Linux Debian 2.2 potato version when in the step of installation "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules" the machine did stopped when I typing in "/instmnt/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16.2000-07-14/images-1.44/udma66" . The fact is that

Re: Galeon and Java

2001-12-22 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 09:59:04PM -0500, dman wrote: > > I have no idea for opera, but for mozilla or galeon you need the > mozilla-psm package. > As mentioned in my first mail itself, I have installed that package. Does it need any setup/configuration? -- Sridhar M.A.

Re: ide tape errors

2001-12-22 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 07:30, martin f krafft wrote: > piper:/dev# mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind > mt: /dev/ht0: Device or resource busy > piper:/dev# > > gives: > > ide-tape: Reached idetape_chrdev_open > ide-tape: Reached idetape_read_position > ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key = 3, asc = 30, a

Re: No partition table

2001-12-22 Thread Shaul Karl
> I have a 30 GB Maxtor hard drive, with a 15 MB boot partition as > the first partition. This is followed by root and swap. > > Apparently, I have somehow corrupted my partition table, because > on boot I get the message NO PT, HIT ANY KEY TO CONTINUE > > When I do so, Lilo responds with LIL- a

Re: unexpected bash behaviour

2001-12-22 Thread Shaul Karl
> How come `time a.out > /dev/null` prints "time" output, > while `time (a.out > /dev/null)` doesn't print anything at all. > Shouldn't it be the other way around? > > Thanks > > Alec [04:58:22 tmp]$ help time time: time [-p] PIPELINE Execute PIPELINE and print a summary of the real time,

Re: Galeon and Java

2001-12-22 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 08:18:02AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: | On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 08:04:38PM -0600, Kent West wrote: |> I'm currently on a box that does not have Java installed, but it does |> have Mozilla 0.9.6. Both of the links you mentioned work fine for me. I |> don't have

Re: Galeon and Java

2001-12-22 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 08:04:38PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I'm currently on a box that does not have Java installed, but it does > have Mozilla 0.9.6. Both of the links you mentioned work fine for me. I > don't have a solution (or even hints) for you, but wanted to let you > know t

Re: Where to slice a 2 gig drive ?

2001-12-22 Thread Frank Copeland
On 22 Dec 01 23:44:12 GMT, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 02:39:39PM -0500, lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Ok..I'm fairly new to linux and extremely new to debian (was mandrake >> 8.1)..I'm attempting to install 2.2r2 on a 2 gig drive here and not >> really sure where to car

Re: Galeon and Java

2001-12-22 Thread Kent West
Sridhar M.A. wrote: Hi, When I use galeon (v.1.0.1, mozilla 0.9.6) to browse some pages, after a while I get a blank page. The same pages render correctly under Win9x. I presumed it to be ndue to non-availability of java plugin under linux. Downloaded the java runtime package from blackdown and

Galeon and Java

2001-12-22 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi, When I use galeon (v.1.0.1, mozilla 0.9.6) to browse some pages, after a while I get a blank page. The same pages render correctly under Win9x. I presumed it to be ndue to non-availability of java plugin under linux. Downloaded the java runtime package from blackdown and installed the same. Ve

Re: Strange Tidings !!

2001-12-22 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two things that I did on Red Hat that I failed to on Debian : 1) I configured my sound card suuccessfully and even heard Elton John as well as Titanic on Red Hat Linux 7.1. But my Debian Potato r3 (that consists only of the free stuff - excludes the non-free s

Re: which latest kernel to use ?

2001-12-22 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 08:37:47AM +1000, Peter Good wrote: > Binutils on Sid compiled 2.4.17 fine, might be different for Woody. > Tracking woody daily. Yesterday downloaded and compiled 2.4.17 and running the same without any problems. Maybe there are some options that causes binutils to

Re: Where can I find KDE2 Debian packages ?

2001-12-22 Thread Dan S.
My Bad. The package name is: kdebase at: http://packages.debian.org/testing/x11/kdebase.html -dan On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 09:29:36PM -0800, Kendall Shaw wrote: > "Dan S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > KDE2 is now part of woody. Just do an apt-get install kde and you should be > > ok. > > I

Re: ps2dvi / pdf2dvi ???

2001-12-22 Thread David Z Maze
Timo Boewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TB> is there no PostScript to TeX / PDF to Tex converter available? This tends to be a Hard Problem, what with PostScript being Turing complete and being able to easily represent more things than TeX can (pictures and rotated text come to mind). You might

Re: Problems Installing on PowerPC Performa 6400/200

2001-12-22 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Saturday 22 December 2001 14:19, Blake Thomson wrote: > I am new to linux, so excuse any stupid, and obvious > questions. I have downloaded all three of the Debian for > PowerPC CD's, version 2.2, potato. either i made my cd's > wrong, or something else, but i cannot boot off the CD. when i > st

Re: problem with Debian woody freeze (possibly eepro 100 problem)

2001-12-22 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Saturday 22 December 2001 14:02, Faheem Mitha wrote: > Dear People, > > I recently installed Debian Woody on a IBM Netvista 6792. The > network card is the Intel 100 Pro VE. The standard driver for > this appears to be the eepro100. I'm using the standard kernel > shipped with Debian Potato/Wood

Re: Where to slice a 2 gig drive ?

2001-12-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 02:39:39PM -0500, lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Ok..I'm fairly new to linux and extremely new to debian (was mandrake > 8.1)..I'm attempting to install 2.2r2 on a 2 gig drive here and not > really sure where to carve this drive up. I'm planning on using thi

Re: Internal Modem- compatibility

2001-12-22 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, dman wrote: > I disagree here -- I have 2 real internal modems (different machines, > both are ISA, btw) and it was no trouble to set them up. I also have Never had a problem with ISA modems, as they tend to have jumpers marked out so you can tell just what the heck it's exp

epson stylus c60 in potato help

2001-12-22 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, In potato I can not find gimp-print, how can I install driver for epson stylus C60 in potato? AFAIK this works well under gimp-print, isn't it? Thanks a lot = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own!

Re: ????

2001-12-22 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Saturday 22 December 2001 20:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > salve Salve ! > il problema che non so nulla di questa sistema? > vorrei sapere se avete la possibilitià di mandarmi informazioni su > questa sistema via mail The official language of this mailing list is English, you have very li

Re: need advice pls, the best cdwriter using with Linux

2001-12-22 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Steve Kieu: > I suspect the hardware or the disk, mostly I burnt > using the cheap Sanyo CD-R 80min/700MB disk (the > surface is light green, not gold color like gold > ultima type). I've wasted a lot of time with cheap disks - sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't. It doesn't s

Re: which latest kernel to use ?

2001-12-22 Thread Craig Dickson
Peter Good wrote: > Binutils on Sid compiled 2.4.17 fine, might be different for Woody. Binutils is identical in Sid and Woody at the moment. According to the bug reports, the problem may or may not occur depending on how the kernel is configured. You got lucky; I didn't. Craig

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2001-12-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
salve io sono un utente di windoz però mi sono seccato di questo windoz e ho installato il sistema operativo di linux debian il problema che non so nulla di questa sistema? vorrei sapere se avete la possibilitià di mandarmi informazioni su questa sistema via mail l'installazione la configuraz

need advice pls, the best cdwriter using with Linux

2001-12-22 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, My friend has a 8x4x32 Acer CD-Writer and I got a lot of trouble with the quality of recording, not for sure what is the reason. cdrecord informs that everything is ok but after that the newly created cd can not be mount ; no medium found, and using another cd drive is the same. Sometimes it

Re: which latest kernel to use ?

2001-12-22 Thread Peter Good
Binutils on Sid compiled 2.4.17 fine, might be different for Woody. Peter. On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 06:33, Craig Dickson wrote: > Alan Chandler wrote: > > Since 2.4.17 is out now I would use that - IMHO its the most stable > > Of course, it just came out yesterday, so any judgment on its stability >

Re: Internal Modem- compatibility

2001-12-22 Thread Tom Massey
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 12:10:14AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sub:Internal Modem -Comptibility > > > I have an internal Modem Compaq Presario 56K-VSC.Request to find out > whether it is compatible to Linux. It works well in Windows.Ramachandran.C This appears to be a Lucent based modem, a

usb driver fpr personal jukebox (pjb-100) doesn't work

2001-12-22 Thread Erik Steffl
I've read what I've found on usb, reviewed&fixed my settings, tried various version of cpqpjb driver and I still get exactly the same results - the driver registers but that's it, it doesn't even probe for devices. I have reports that the same driver works with 2.4.14 for other people. Here are t

Re: Problems wih starting X

2001-12-22 Thread Brian Clark
* Jens Kubieziel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Dec 22. 2001 17:19]: > , [ from XFree86.0.log ] > | VESA(0): no matching modes > | Screens found, but none have a usable configuration > `-- > I tried also to work with xviddete

Re: Internal Modem- compatibility

2001-12-22 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 12:10:14AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sub:Internal Modem -Comptibility > > > I have an internal Modem Compaq Presario 56K-VSC. > Request to find out whether it is compatible to Linux. > It works well in Windows. there is a list of modems that work on Linux at linm

Re: Internal Modem- compatibility

2001-12-22 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 02:05:42PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: | On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | > Sub:Internal Modem -Comptibility I have an internal Modem Compaq | > Presario 56K-VSC.Request to find out whether it is compatible to | > Linux. It works well in Windows.Ramac

Problems wih starting X

2001-12-22 Thread Jens Kubieziel
Hallo Debian, I (Newbie to Linux) installed Debian woody few days ago and am facing some problems in starting X. I'm trying to start X with 'startx' and get following error message. , [ from XFree86.0.log ] | VESA(0): no matching modes | Screens found, but none

Re: Party with porn stars

2001-12-22 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I've been quite happy with spamassassin. Feel free to check out > > > my writeup: > > > > > > http://codesorcery.net/docs/spamtricks.html > > > > I just installed razor and it works quite well. > > > That exists only in sid. If you're running

Re: which latest kernel to use ?

2001-12-22 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 December 2001 8:33 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: > Alan Chandler wrote: > > Since 2.4.17 is out now I would use that - IMHO its the most stable > > Of course, it just came out yesterday, so any judgment on its stability > is premature. > > Th

Re: Internal Modem- compatibility

2001-12-22 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sub:Internal Modem -Comptibility I have an internal Modem Compaq > Presario 56K-VSC.Request to find out whether it is compatible to > Linux. It works well in Windows.Ramachandran.C Is it a WinModem? If so, it's going to take more work than it's wort

unexpected bash behaviour

2001-12-22 Thread Alec
How come `time a.out > /dev/null` prints "time" output, while `time (a.out > /dev/null)` doesn't print anything at all. Shouldn't it be the other way around? Thanks Alec

Re: nfs root mount problem

2001-12-22 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 11:31:29AM -0800, David Wright wrote: > > > How did you make a boot floppy that initiates the process? I am just > starting to try to make diskless systems (not to make thin clients, but to > centralize software installation on a computational cluster) and am stuck. > T

Question / Help on XFS Font Server

2001-12-22 Thread Donald R. Spoon
After a recent "upgrade" to allow TrueType fonts on my XF86 version 4.1 system via the Debian TrueType HOWTO, everything seemed to work OK, except the sidebar fonts in Netscape were VERY tiny and I could not change their size. E-Mail messages and regular Web Pages seemed to render their fonts

Re: which latest kernel to use ?

2001-12-22 Thread Craig Dickson
Alan Chandler wrote: > Since 2.4.17 is out now I would use that - IMHO its the most stable Of course, it just came out yesterday, so any judgment on its stability is premature. That said, I'm running 2.4.17 now and I haven't observed any problems yet. Btw, Debian Woody/Sid users who want to com

Re: which latest kernel to use ?

2001-12-22 Thread mikepolniak
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 19:50:45 +0100 Gerald Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello to all! > > Im currentlc tryin to get my XPert 2000 pro card to work on my woody... > In the process I'm at a point, where I suspect, that I got to get the > right Kernel with DRI compiled in ... if there is some

Re: which latest kernel to use ?

2001-12-22 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 December 2001 6:50 pm, Gerald Richter wrote: > Hello to all! > > Im currentlc tryin to get my XPert 2000 Pro card to work on my woody... > In the process I'm at a point, where I suspect, that I got to get the > right Kernel with DRI comp

Re: New user question

2001-12-22 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 December 2001 4:47 pm, kapil khosla wrote: > Hi , > I have installed Debian on my system and now want to install windows. > While installing I made a separate 7 GB FAT32 Partition. > > When I put the windows bootable disk , Linux does no

ps2dvi / pdf2dvi ???

2001-12-22 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello, is there no PostScript to TeX / PDF to Tex converter available? Locally, i cannot find one, and search on debian packages did not reveal any hits. Maybe they are inside a larger package? I can find e.g. html2ps as a single package. Thank you for any hints; greetings, Timo

Re: postgresql password?

2001-12-22 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 15:42:01 +, David & Alison Shepherd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Just installed postgresql for potato. Can anyone tell me > 1. what the postgres account password is > 2. what the postgres super-user password is Shouldn't be a password at all initially... $ su roo

Problems Installing on PowerPC Performa 6400/200

2001-12-22 Thread Blake Thomson
I am new to linux, so excuse any stupid, and obvious questions. I have downloaded all three of the Debian for PowerPC CD's, version 2.2, potato. either i made my cd's wrong, or something else, but i cannot boot off the CD. when i start up the machine, and hold down C, nothing happens differently. i

Re: problem with Debian woody freeze (possibly eepro 100 problem)

2001-12-22 Thread David Flatz
Faheem Mitha said: > when I try to run apt (apt-get whatever) which downloads files off the > net, it works fine for a bit, but then comes to a grinding halt, and > completely freezes the machine. After this not even the power button > responds. The only way to restart the computer is to pull the p

problem with Debian woody freeze (possibly eepro 100 problem)

2001-12-22 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I recently installed Debian Woody on a IBM Netvista 6792. The network card is the Intel 100 Pro VE. The standard driver for this appears to be the eepro100. I'm using the standard kernel shipped with Debian Potato/Woody, 2.2.19pre17. The card was configured automatically for me by De

which latest kernel to use ?

2001-12-22 Thread Gerald Richter
Hello to all! Im currentlc tryin to get my XPert 2000 Pro card to work on my woody... In the process I'm at a point, where I suspect, that I got to get the right Kernel with DRI compiled in ... if there is something like this option... I'm rather exhausted because of all the many things I've tried

Internal Modem- compatibility

2001-12-22 Thread chidambaram_ram
Sub:Internal Modem -Comptibility I have an internal Modem Compaq Presario 56K-VSC.Request to find out whether it is compatible to Linux. It works well in Windows.Ramachandran.C

OT: which worm is this?

2001-12-22 Thread dman
I have a friend who uses windows and aol. Yesterday he fell for the hoax that says the long-filename support files are a virus and removed it. Today he saw that many copies of a gential enlargment spam message were sent from his email account. He doesn't have any virus scan software, and I am i

SOLVED! Re: warning message from portsentry

2001-12-22 Thread rick
Problem solved. Upgrading portsenty to the current woody fixed it. On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 08:36:21AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 07:44:51PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > On 2001.12.20 19:33 Pollywog wrote: > > >On 2001.12.20 19:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>What doe

Re: New user question

2001-12-22 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Hi , > I have installed Debian on my system and now want to install windows. > While installing I made a separate 7 GB FAT32 Partition. > > When I put the windows bootable disk , Linux does not reckognize it. What > shall I do ..thanks > Kapil > I don't underst

Re: Iptables scripts

2001-12-22 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Saturday 22 December 2001 00:50, Wayne Topa wrote: > Daniel Toffetti([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Hi all ! > > > > I need to set up some simple (to start with) iptables rules for > > masquerading and port forwarding. I guess I need to write some init > > script, put it in /et

Re: Strange Tidings !!

2001-12-22 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I have two things that I did on Red Hat that I failed to > on Debian : > > > 1) I configured my sound card suuccessfully and even > heard Elton John as well as Titanic on Red Hat Linux 7.1. > But my Debian Potato r3 (that consists only of the free > stuff - exclud

[SOLVED] Re: (fetchmail) configuration problem

2001-12-22 Thread David Flatz
David Flatz said: Content-Description: Message > hi folks! > i get errors with fetchmail and i totally have no plan whats it about > can someone help me? > > thanks > David Flatz Content-Description: Error > Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost > > Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Last-Atte

Re: Fontpath "unix/:7100" in XF86Config-4 don't work

2001-12-22 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Neilen Marais: > Hi all > > The fontpath as in the subject seems to be the default for X4 setup. > Anyhow, I was surprised it did not work, since xfs-xtt does run, and is > afaik a font server. > > Upon closer investigation, it seems that xfs-xtt is running at port > 7110, since: > >

Strange Tidings !!

2001-12-22 Thread shyamk
I have two things that I did on Red Hat that I failed to on Debian : 1) I configured my sound card suuccessfully and even heard Elton John as well as Titanic on Red Hat Linux 7.1. But my Debian Potato r3 (that consists only of the free stuff - excludes the non-free stuff) , says - "Boss ! No!" t

New user question

2001-12-22 Thread kapil khosla
Hi , I have installed Debian on my system and now want to install windows. While installing I made a separate 7 GB FAT32 Partition. When I put the windows bootable disk , Linux does not reckognize it. What shall I do ..thanks Kapil

Re: No partition table

2001-12-22 Thread Russ Cook
Thanks for the reply. I ran gpart on the drive, and the result matches what Lilo wrote to /boot/boot.0300 , so I didn't rewrite the partition table. The first partition is marked bootable. Can you offer any other suggestions? On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, dman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 07:45:37AM

postgresql password?

2001-12-22 Thread David & Alison Shepherd
Hi Just installed postgresql for potato. Can anyone tell me 1. what the postgres account password is 2. what the postgres super-user password is Thanks Dave

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-22 Thread Walter Tautz
37 and working as a sysadmin, alas, have yet to convince management of debian merits. My real professional interest is mathematics with particular interest in algebraic geometry and number theory. Looking to get back into this as I did my Ph.D in this. Oh, btw, I am a member of the human species..

Re: (fetchmail) configuration problem

2001-12-22 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 04:12:58PM +0100, David Flatz wrote: | Andrew Pritchard said: | > > hi folks! | > > i get errors with fetchmail and i totally have no plan whats it about | > > can someone help me? | > | > Try sending us your .fetchmailrc file (sans password of course!!!) | > | > "I do not

Re: No partition table

2001-12-22 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 07:45:37AM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: | I have a 30 GB Maxtor hard drive, with a 15 MB boot partition as | the first partition. This is followed by root and swap. | | Apparently, I have somehow corrupted my partition table, because | on boot I get the message NO PT, HIT ANY K

Re: How do I get sound to work?

2001-12-22 Thread dman
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:28:32PM -0700, rob bains wrote: | dman wrote: | >On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 09:08:00PM -0700, rob bains wrote: | >| Hi, | >| | >| I'm using woody. I installed ac97_codec using modconf, but sound still | >| doesn't work in gnome apps like xmms. It gives an error message.

Re: (fetchmail) configuration problem

2001-12-22 Thread David Flatz
Andrew Pritchard said: > > hi folks! > > i get errors with fetchmail and i totally have no plan whats it about > > can someone help me? > > Try sending us your .fetchmailrc file (sans password of course!!!) > > "I do not agree with what you say, > but I will defend to the death your right to say

Re: (fetchmail) configuration problem

2001-12-22 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> hi folks! > i get errors with fetchmail and i totally have no plan whats it about > can someone help me? Try sending us your .fetchmailrc file (sans password of course!!!) "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (1

Re: scanner recommendations?

2001-12-22 Thread pirmin
Jens Gecius wrote: pirmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 1. 3200dpi, totalling a whopping 171.6MB took 682 seconds (ca. 260kB/s) 2. 300dpi, totalling 1.5MB took 73 seconds (ca. 21kB/s) Thank you! And how long does a b/w lineart page A4 with 150dpi take? Totalling 2.1 MB, it took 45 seconds,

Re: Nautilus in Woody Questions:Solved!

2001-12-22 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 08:04:20AM -0500, Glen Snyder wrote: > > Looking forward to nautilus-mozilla in woody. > It is already there. Just go to http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/non-US/pool/non-US/main/n/nautilus-mozilla I have downloaded the deb from there and using it. Mind you, it

(fetchmail) configuration problem

2001-12-22 Thread David Flatz
hi folks! i get errors with fetchmail and i totally have no plan whats it about can someone help me? thanks David Flatz Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Last-Attempt-Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 15:49:35 +0100 (CET) Action: failed Status: d.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: d

Re: gnutella client LimeWire spawning java processes

2001-12-22 Thread glynis
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 03:48:10PM -0800, Shawn Lamson wrote: > Can anyone either recommend a good gnutella client w/ recordkeeping or > suggest a way to manage LimeWire so that it is kept in check regarding > processes? i use gnut from debian sid. it's console-based, but it has a daemon mode too

RE: Ponuda za menadžere - Angebot fuer Geschaeftsleiter - Offer for executives

2001-12-22 Thread Bizopportunities2001
Dear Sirs! We have got your address from international business directory. We would like to present you offer of international consulting company. Please do not reply with email - if interested send a fax to United States: ++14134031693 (with your telephone/fax number and email address) . Sorry for

Re: Anyone using plip?

2001-12-22 Thread MeRp
I use plip, in module form, I could not get the IRQ mode working, but IRQ-less mode works fine, I had to use plipconfig to set both the nibble and trigger much higher than the default values.. I use 10,000 (the defaults were somewhere around 1000 if I recall).. I still get soem dropped packets, but

Mouse pointer

2001-12-22 Thread Gustav Klimt
I've installed a Matrox G200 16 MB, when I start server and open Wmaker, the mouse pointer is hide, if I move the mouse and clic on buttons appears the related menu but I don't see any arrow or other pointer on my screen, the mouse is a PS2 on /dev/psaux.

No partition table

2001-12-22 Thread Russ Cook
I have a 30 GB Maxtor hard drive, with a 15 MB boot partition as the first partition. This is followed by root and swap. Apparently, I have somehow corrupted my partition table, because on boot I get the message NO PT, HIT ANY KEY TO CONTINUE When I do so, Lilo responds with LIL- and hangs. I c

Re:Nautilus in Woody Questions:Solved!

2001-12-22 Thread Glen Snyder
Thanks for the tips. I was running gmc at the same time as Nautilus was drawing the desktop.this leads to annoying double icons. As soon as I removed gmc from the session, the problem went away. Looking forward to nautilus-mozilla in woody. -Glen

Re: Java plugin

2001-12-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 18:18:35 +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > I want to install the java plugin for mozilla/galeon/konqeror on my woody > machine. Unfortunately my searches at google/download did not yield any > good links :-( I would be thankful if someone can point me to java plugin > (preferabl

Java plugin

2001-12-22 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi all, I want to install the java plugin for mozilla/galeon/konqeror on my woody machine. Unfortunately my searches at google/download did not yield any good links :-( I would be thankful if someone can point me to java plugin (preferable a deb package). Regards, -- Sridhar M.A.

Re: vga Font in xterms

2001-12-22 Thread Thomas Augenstein
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 01:17:10PM +0200, Neilen Marais wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~$ rxvt -fn vga > rxvt: can't load font "vga" > > like I used to, and see the rude reply . > $ grep vga /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir vga11x19.pcf.gz vga11x19 $ rxvt -fn vga11x19 Hope this helps tom

vga Font in xterms

2001-12-22 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi all When I ran potato, I used to use the vga font for my xterms, due to its clarity on crappy video setups. Upgrading to woody seemed to remove the vga font, but since I inherited a slightly better video card at that time, I could read the default fixed font again, and so let it be. When my

Fontpath "unix/:7100" in XF86Config-4 don't work

2001-12-22 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi all The fontpath as in the subject seems to be the default for X4 setup. Anyhow, I was surprised it did not work, since xfs-xtt does run, and is afaik a font server. Upon closer investigation, it seems that xfs-xtt is running at port 7110, since: ps aux | grep xfs nobody 189 0.0 4.2

Re: Anyone using plip?

2001-12-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Dec 2001, Steve Kieu wrote: > --- Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > I've tried to get plip running, both in a > monolithic > > kernel and as a > > module. No luck: dmesg reports "parport0 has no > > irq". > > You have to specify io port and irq manually, this is > intended as

Where to slice a 2 gig drive ?

2001-12-22 Thread lee
Hi Folks, Ok..I'm fairly new to linux and extremely new to debian (was mandrake 8.1)..I'm attempting to install 2.2r2 on a 2 gig drive here and not really sure where to carve this drive up. I'm planning on using this box as a proxy for 6 other machines (combo of linux/98se). Linux docs has a fe

Re: Iptables scripts

2001-12-22 Thread k l u r t
here is another great resource all about firewalls with examples, HOW-TOs, guides, references, and application reviews: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/resources/firewalls-1.html - k l u r t

Masqueraded net access problem

2001-12-22 Thread Patrick Mahoney
Hello, Heres the description of my problem. Workstations inside my LAN have masqueraded access to the net. Most of the addresses can be accessed without any problem, but some of them cant be reached, yet our gateway can access them without any problem. Our gateway is directly connected to our

Re: Anyone using plip?

2001-12-22 Thread Steve Kieu
--- Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried to get plip running, both in a monolithic > kernel and as a > module. No luck: dmesg reports "parport0 has no > irq". You have to specify io port and irq manually, this is intended as irq may be assigned to another hardware as required

Re: Iptables scripts

2001-12-22 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 December 2001 1:26 am, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > Hi all ! > > I need to set up some simple (to start with) iptables rules for > masquerading and port forwarding. I guess I need to write some init script, > put it in /etc/init.d/ and link

Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 470CDT

2001-12-22 Thread Ray
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:09:59PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: > > thanks! i was looking around the 'Net and found some indications that i > might need to buy an additional HD 'caddy' or somesuch ... and what with the > holidays and all i'm fairly broke. :-) Probably not. Chances are you can just

Re: How do I get sound to work?

2001-12-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 21/12/01 rob bains did speaketh: > O.k. I made xmms use esound output plugin, still doesn't work. Ok, lets not jump the gun here. First of all... 1. what is your soundcard? 2. have you loaded the appropriate module for your card? for example, I have a SB Live! Value card, whi