Re: OT: performance problems.

2002-01-06 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:52:14PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > in such a situation, xmms (or mpg123 without X, it doesn't matter) > continuously skips on MP3s and it's *very* annoying. i even went as far > as to renice xmms to -20 *and* rsync/bzip/gzip/make-kpkg to 20, but it > doesn't really h

Re: MainActor or Broadcast 2000c with Potato?

2002-01-06 Thread John
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 05:30:25PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > > I downloaded Broadcast 2000c and tried it, but it won't even load up. I'm > assuming it expects to be installed on a Red Hat system. I downloaded the > MainActor demo, but it exists only as an RPM, and using alien and installing > it

passwordless ssh on woody failed

2002-01-06 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I have to Debian woody with ssh-3.0.1p1-1.2. In Debian A, I ssh-keygen the public key, scp and append to Debian B ~/.ssh/authorized_keys Then I try to ssh login from Debian A to Debian B again, but still got the password prompt. Is there something wrong? -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PR

Re: How to start OSS/Commercial Automatically + upgrade LD

2002-01-06 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:11:44AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > I have a few questions, first off how can I run the soundon command to > > start up OSS automatically at bootup? > > I don't know what this means. If you need to load your sound module at > boot time, use modconf or just manually

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-06 Thread Paul E Condon
MH wrote: > > "Nori" == Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > > Nori> from http://spamassassin.taint.org/dist/README: " On Debian, > Nori> you can apt-get it from unstable, thanks to Duncan Findlay." > > Nori> debian confirms this at > Nori> http://packages.debia

Re: Windows client with debian server.

2002-01-06 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 05:51:31PM +0100, Alok Menghrajani wrote: | Hi, | | I would like to know if it's possible to have windows machines connect to a | linux server at login, so that all the windows user profiles are saved on | the server. This way if I work on win machine A and then go to win m

Re: headerless emails through procmail

2002-01-06 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:44:29AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | any help appreciated. especially if someone could attach a gzipped | version of that email (id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to an email to | me. gzipped so as to make sure that it passes the filters... Done. (announced just so martin doe

Re: Mouse Wheel/Screen Saver

2002-01-06 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:09:36PM +, Nick Dyer wrote: | I've noticed that xscreensaver doesn't count mouse wheel movements | when deciding whether to blank the screen or not, so if I've been | paging through a web page for enough time without moving the mouse, | the screen blanks. Can anyone s

Re: remote mutt - printing local?

2002-01-06 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:55:30PM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: | is it possible to start mutt remote, but to use a local printer? Sure, if anything (eg 'lp' or 'lpr') can spool to the local printer. What's the remote system, and do you have admin access to it? The solution (only one I know

Re: OT: performance problems.

2002-01-06 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 11:48:41PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.2127 +0100]: | > | i even went as far as to renice xmms to -20 *and* | > | rsync/bzip/gzip/make-kpkg to 20, but it doesn't really help. | > | > Well, kernel compilation is very CPU i

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-06 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:54:34PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote: | Jason Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Try using xf86config, of xf86cfg to reconfigure X, and see what happens. | | xf86config changes my old X3 config file, and xf86cfg messes up my screen. Try "X -configure" instead. X4

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-06 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 11:32:54PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.2015 +0100]: | > > the exim setup proposed it surely interesting as it allows SMTP | > > level filtering, but you can only really do this on a single-user | > > system. after some exp

Re: GDM and ESD not exitting cleanly

2002-01-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 11:04:11PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello listers, > I have just decided to give GDM a try on a box running Woody. I have > found oddly, that esd no longer exits when the user does. Before I > used GDM, when the user logged out of their X session (which was > started b

Re: Locale issues after potato -> woody

2002-01-06 Thread David B Harris
On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 13:41:27 +1000 john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure this isnt right. > On the console I'm getting 'C' for all values except LC_ALL, which is > unset. > > Any ideas on how to fix this are appreciated. How are you setting those variables? If you're setting them in ~/.xsess

Help, can't build working netfiler

2002-01-06 Thread Graham/Aniartia
Okay I did a dist-upgrade to the latest SID on 5/01/2002, replaced the new bin-utils that caused the kernel not to compile but now I can't build netfiler, I try any kernel and any version I get the following (or something very simlar to). This is from a clean 2.4.13 source & then patched with a

Re: Supported video cards

2002-01-06 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002, Penguin wrote: > In general, is it okay to buy an AGP video card for Debian Potato 2.2r4? I > really don't want the hassle of trying to upgrade to XFree 4+ (I've tried and > failed many times) and I'm not sure if I want woody or sid just yet. AGP in general is fine. > Wher

Locale issues after potato -> woody

2002-01-06 Thread john
Hi all! I still have problems after a potato -> woody upgrade. Some are DNS related, but I also seem to have locale issues. From apt: ;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/init.d# apt-get install ddd ;Reading Package Lists... Done ;Building Dependency Tree... Done ;The following NEW packages will be installed:

Re: Still can't install :-(

2002-01-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 07:40:50PM +1100, Penguin wrote: > I am still having problems installing Potato. I always use `simple' install > mode and not select X, so I can install the unofficial XFree 4.x debs from > someone who is listed in Debian (http://people.debian.org/~someone) I http://peop

Re: OT: performance problems.

2002-01-06 Thread Graham/Aniartia
On Monday 07 January 2002 1:54 am, Dries Kimpe wrote: > on the original and copy. While I was doing that, load also got up to 3-4. > Looking at top, I saw that some kernel daemon (think kupdated) got *AlOT* > of CPU. The system also started responding slow (missing eth0 traffic, > ...) > > Maybe it

Re: Dual head with two cards?

2002-01-06 Thread David Z Maze
William Burrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it technically possible to construct a dual head machine by using > two video cards (say a PCI and AGP card)? Any tips where to look? Yup, I have this with two PCI cards and it works fine. The XINERAMA-HOWTO has lots of useful tips, even if you don

Re: ht0 freezing computer IDE tape

2002-01-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 01:10:26PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I am using kernel 2.4.16 and have IDE TAPE built into the kernel. At > boot I get a lot of info concerning the tape drive but when I attempt to > write to the tape drive it locks the entire system up and I have to > press the reset

Ext3 and Woody

2002-01-06 Thread William P Martin
If I install woody or sid for that matter and use the ext3 ata100 disks can I upgrade the kernel to 2.4 with ext3. Is there something I have to build into the kernel specifically?   Thanks WP

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2002-01-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:48:31 -0500 (EST), William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Eric G.Miller wrote: > > > is one of the reasons pointers to char are so common. However, there > > is a little trick that's guaranteed to always work: > > > > struct foo { > > size_

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2002-01-06 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:48:24PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: | On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:48:31 -0500 (EST), William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Eric G.Miller wrote: | > | > > is one of the reasons pointers to char are so common. However, there | > > is a little

Re: Potato and ext3

2002-01-06 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Calyth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I remember that converting to ext3 requires to have the drive to be > umounted before you can convert. On my laptop, I was lazy and I only > have one partition for linux (the root partition). If so, then > wouldn't I need to use a boot disk to convert ext3?

I think I found a bug in apt-get

2002-01-06 Thread dman
I think I've found a bug in apt-get : Just now I tried the following : # apt-get -t unstable install python2.1-numeric -s Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: python-gnuplot python-numeric The following packages will be

Re: Kernel boots from floppy, not from hard drive

2002-01-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 08:14:46AM -0800, Albert Kinderman wrote: > I dual boot, using another boot manager to get to lilo on my > debian partition. > > Everything worked fine until two days ago, when I made a new > kernel using make-kpkg. I used dpkg to install the resulting .deb > and created a

Re: cdrecord problems

2002-01-06 Thread Max Smolens
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:25:12AM +, Mark Charter wrote: > > > also sprach Mark Charter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.0107 +0100]: > > > Maybe a problem with kernel compatibility? Have a look at Debian bug > > > report #127895. > > > > i use cdrecord from woody on a 2.4 kernel without pro

Re: OT: performance problems.

2002-01-06 Thread Dries Kimpe
> > Linux piper 2.4.9 #1 Tue Sep 11 15:39:28 CEST 2001 i686 unknown > 16:45:25 up 13 days, 1:17, 7 users, load average: 3.40, 3.56, 3.70 > 84 processes: 83 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 0.8% user, 22.3% system, 1.0% nice, 75.9% idle

Re: Switching to ALSA on Potato 2.2r4

2002-01-06 Thread Jeff
Debian User, 2002-Jan-06 17:41 -0800: > I need assistance getting the ALSA sound drivers installed on Potato > - 2.2r4. > > I recently switched my old SuSE 6.3 box to Debian using the 2.2r4 CD > images. Everything is going swimmingly, with only a few, minor > issues. On my old SuSE installation

Re: libssl09 for postgresql_7.1.3 ??

2002-01-06 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 03:57, Petre Daniel wrote: > well,i need the postgres above 7 and i got the unofficial cds from > ftp.fsn.hu and i cant install the postgresql 7 packages cause they need > libssl09 which i was unable to find whatsoever neither on 1,2,3 or the > extra 2 cds.. > how can i searc

Re: Netscape

2002-01-06 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > I have been trying to apt-get install netscape with no luck. My >sources.list is using us.debian.org. Can someone point me in the >right direction? What Netscape version are you trying to install? 4.xx? try apt-get install navigator or apt-get install communicator 6

Re: Problems with Intel Pro 100 NIC

2002-01-06 Thread Gary Turner
On Sun, 06 Jan 2002 15:25:59 -0600, Ernesto Gonzalez Gomez wrote: >Hi, > >I´m installing Debian (potato) on a Compaq Proliant ML 350 server, that >have a Intel Pro 100 NIC. I have the Red Hat drivers, but after used Alien >to imports this drivers, I get all Kind of error with "make install", are

Switching to ALSA on Potato 2.2r4

2002-01-06 Thread Debian User
I need assistance getting the ALSA sound drivers installed on Potato - 2.2r4. I recently switched my old SuSE 6.3 box to Debian using the 2.2r4 CD images. Everything is going swimmingly, with only a few, minor issues. On my old SuSE installation I was using the ALSA sound drivers with my Creativ

Re: Netscape

2002-01-06 Thread Jeff
Larry W. Irwin Sr., 2002-Jan-06 11:08 -0600: > I have been trying to apt-get install netscape with no luck. My > sources.list is using us.debian.org. Can someone point me in the > right direction? > > Larry What errors are you getting? 'apt-get install netscape' should install several other pa

Re: Netscape icon in Gnome

2002-01-06 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > Previously there was a Netscape icon included somewhere with > > the Gnome packages (the Netscape logo mapped onto a cube). > > It also was automatically added to the panel on first run. > > > > Now, however, when I upgraded to the latest testing sources, the > > icon disappeared. Do I need to

Potato and ext3

2002-01-06 Thread Calyth
I remember that converting to ext3 requires to have the drive to be umounted before you can convert. On my laptop, I was lazy and I only have one partition for linux (the root partition). If so, then wouldn't I need to use a boot disk to convert ext3? can someone help? Calyth

bounces from naver.com

2002-01-06 Thread Pollywog
Can't the list admin unsubscribe the subscriber responsible for the naver.com bounces? I just bounce them back to naver.com since I also got spam from that network, but there has to be a better solution. -- Andrew

Re: OT: Cache Server side-effects

2002-01-06 Thread Dries Kimpe
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Kent West wrote: > > So my questions: > 1) Does anyone have experience enough with caching servers to > verify/deny that it is causing the problems? > 2) Are there any client-side settings that I can make on my Debian > boxes to bypass the cache server? > 3) If t

Re: OT: performance problems.

2002-01-06 Thread Graham/Aniartia
On Sunday 06 January 2002 3:52 pm, martin f krafft wrote: > folks, sorry if i am posting this here, but i am sort of clueless, and > i'd love some advise from you wise people! > > i have this AMD Thunderbird 1.3 GHz machine with 512Mb of SD-RAM, a 1Gb > swap partition on a 20Gb 5400 seagate IDE dri

Re: man page errors

2002-01-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:08:09AM +1100, Andrew Nesbit wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >Yeah, man-db in potato was pretty broken in a number of ways. > > Since upgrading, this problem has gone away, and things are much smoother. Glad to hear it! > >man-db in woody won't do this. Maybe I should p

Re: this debconf stuff is crazy!

2002-01-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 19:19:35 -0500, "Justin R. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus spake John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Many: my favorites are emacs and vi. Just edit the damn file and > > ignore the Yast^H^H^H^H Debconf stuff. If an upgrade destroys your > > changes file a bug. >

Re: newbie

2002-01-06 Thread Jeff
Joe Wise, 2002-Jan-06 15:20 -: > >I just got my CD this afternoon. My CD shows up in the CMOS, but I >cannot get it to boot. So, I made the floppies and booted using >them. Now I am installing the kernal. Still no CD. What do I need >on the floppies to pull this off? I ha

Re: Did something break with gnome 1.4?

2002-01-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 09:05:37AM -0600, Jor-el wrote: > Hi, > > I did an apt-get upgrade a couple of days ago, and I noticed that > I was getting updates to GNOME which would take me to v1.4 . However, I > didnt restart my window manager till yesterday - which was when I > discovered that

Supported video cards

2002-01-06 Thread Penguin
In general, is it okay to buy an AGP video card for Debian Potato 2.2r4? I really don't want the hassle of trying to upgrade to XFree 4+ (I've tried and failed many times) and I'm not sure if I want woody or sid just yet. Where can I get the list of video cards that Debian Potato supports? I wil

Re: OT: performance problems.

2002-01-06 Thread Christoph Simon
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 01:36:18 +0100 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.0143 +0100]: > > only thing I can think of is to try xmms without the cpu hogging stuff > > to make sure that it is the cpu causing the skips and not a slow > >

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2002-01-06 Thread Erik Steffl
dman wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 09:38:01PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > | dman wrote: > ... > | > In C/C++ there is an invariant on strings ("char*", which is > | > essentially equivalent to "char[]") that they end with a NUL byte. > | > | no, that's not true. > > It is true. A type is

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2002-01-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:48:31 -0500 (EST), William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Eric G.Miller wrote: > > > is one of the reasons pointers to char are so common. However, there > > is a little trick that's guaranteed to always work: > > > > struct foo { > > size_

Re: OT: performance problems.

2002-01-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.0143 +0100]: > only thing I can think of is to try xmms without the cpu hogging stuff > to make sure that it is the cpu causing the skips and not a slow > internet connection. > > I dont enough about how all the stuff works in linux but it

Re: this debconf stuff is crazy!

2002-01-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
begin Justin R. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thus spake Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > ok, my XF86Config-4 is all wrong now. i need to edit this file. if > > we're not supposed to edit between the "BEGIN DEBCONF" and "END > > DEBCONF", how the hell am i supposed to get a working X

Re: OT: performance problems.

2002-01-06 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 15:52, martin f krafft wrote: > folks, sorry if i am posting this here, but i am sort of clueless, and > i'd love some advise from you wise people! > > i have this AMD Thunderbird 1.3 GHz machine with 512Mb of SD-RAM, a 1Gb > swap partition on a 20Gb 5400 seagate IDE drive. t

Re: this debconf stuff is crazy!

2002-01-06 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Many: my favorites are emacs and vi. Just edit the damn file and > ignore the Yast^H^H^H^H Debconf stuff. If an upgrade destroys your > changes file a bug. I believe also that if you run 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' you can choose the first op

Re: this debconf stuff is crazy!

2002-01-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 06:05:08PM -0500, Justin R. Miller wrote: > Try 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86'. Maybe it's just me, but if that's required, isn't it a bug that it isn't mentioned *in the configuration file itself*? If that was in the file, a whole class of problems could be eliminat

Re: cdrecord problems

2002-01-06 Thread Mark Charter
> also sprach Mark Charter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.0107 +0100]: > > Maybe a problem with kernel compatibility? Have a look at Debian bug > > report #127895. > > i use cdrecord from woody on a 2.4 kernel without problems. > or am i missing the point? > The binary version of cdrecord in

Re: cdrecord problems

2002-01-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.0038 +0100]: > Track 01: 0 of 562 MB written. > cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error > CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F 00 > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) > Sense Bytes: 70 00 06 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 29 00 00 00

Re: cdrecord problems

2002-01-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Mark Charter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.0107 +0100]: > Maybe a problem with kernel compatibility? Have a look at Debian bug > report #127895. i use cdrecord from woody on a 2.4 kernel without problems. or am i missing the point? ps: please don't CC me on list messages, i *do* re

Re: man page errors

2002-01-06 Thread Andrew Nesbit
Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 05:30:24PM +1100, Andrew Nesbit wrote: Whenever I try to view manpages that don't exist on my system, I get the following error: man: can't open /usr/X11R6/man/man1/bitmap.1x: No such file or directory man: warning: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/atobm.1x.gz:

Re: this debconf stuff is crazy!

2002-01-06 Thread John Hasler
Peter Jay Salzman writes: > is there a tool that allows us to change this file? Many: my favorites are emacs and vi. Just edit the damn file and ignore the Yast^H^H^H^H Debconf stuff. If an upgrade destroys your changes file a bug. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wi

Re: cdrecord problems

2002-01-06 Thread Mark Charter
Russ Cook writes: > log with -vv is attached > > On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > > > also sprach Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.2335 +0100]: > > > Now I get errors when trying to burn CDs. I have attached a log > > > file. Can anyone help? > > > > give the outpu

Re: Matrox drivers + XFree86 package

2002-01-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 14:40:40 -0500, "Justin R. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus spake Eric G. Miller (egm2@jps.net): > > > Why bother? The X drivers are perfectly good for the G200. It's > > probably only useful to get the Matrox driver's for the newest cards, > > or those with OpenGL o

NAVER-MAILER and procmail recipes

2002-01-06 Thread Richard Cobbe
Greetings, all. I'm tired of getting bounce messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] every time I post to this list, so I thought I'd add a recipe to my .procmailrc to drop these into /dev/null automatically. Unfortunately, none of my attempts seem to work; the messages are delivered as normal. I've curr

headerless emails through procmail

2002-01-06 Thread martin f krafft
hi folks, i keep getting a message from my POP3s daemon (courier) about headerless emails, so i went VERBOSE on procmail and inspected postfix logs to discover one such instance: Jan 7 00:17:10 seamus postfix/smtpd[4796]: connect from murphy.debian.org[216.234.231.6] Jan 7 00:17:11 seamus

newbie

2002-01-06 Thread Joe Wise
Title: Message I just got my CD this afternoon.  My CD shows up in the CMOS, but I cannot get it to boot.  So, I made the floppies and booted using them.  Now I am installing the kernal.  Still no CD.  What do I need on the floppies to pull this off?  I have been looking all over the Debian

Re: cdrecord problems

2002-01-06 Thread Russ Cook
Drive is scsi, adapter is adaptec aha02940. Never had problems before. I attached a log using script instead of just redirecting the output. On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.0013 +0100]: > > log with -vv is attached > > mh... no

Re: this debconf stuff is crazy!

2002-01-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > after upgrading woody today, my XF86Config-4 file looks like: > >### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION ># ># If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only make ># changes before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION" line abov

Re: this debconf stuff is crazy!

2002-01-06 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > ok, my XF86Config-4 is all wrong now. i need to edit this file. if > we're not supposed to edit between the "BEGIN DEBCONF" and "END > DEBCONF", how the hell am i supposed to get a working XFree86 again? > > is there a tool that allows us to c

Re: cdrecord problems

2002-01-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.0013 +0100]: > log with -vv is attached mh... no extra info... is this an IDE or a SCSI drive? and if IDE, are you using ide-scsi.o? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto

Re: cdrecord problems

2002-01-06 Thread Russ Cook
log with -vv is attached On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.2335 +0100]: > > Now I get errors when trying to burn CDs. I have attached a log > > file. Can anyone help? > > give the output of the same operation with the -vv option t

Re: Netscape icon in Gnome

2002-01-06 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 11:56:09PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > Hi! > > Previously there was a Netscape icon included somewhere with the Gnome > packages (the Netscape logo mapped onto a cube). It also was > automatically added to the panel on first run. > > Now, however, when I upgraded to the

Re: Windows client with debian server

2002-01-06 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 06 January 2002 10:44 pm, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > "Alok Menghrajani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to know if it's possible to have windows machines connect to > > a linux server at login, so that all the windows us

this debconf stuff is crazy!

2002-01-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
after upgrading woody today, my XF86Config-4 file looks like: ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION # # If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only make # changes before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION" line above, and/or after # the "### END DEBCONF SECTION" line below.

Netscape icon in Gnome

2002-01-06 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! Previously there was a Netscape icon included somewhere with the Gnome packages (the Netscape logo mapped onto a cube). It also was automatically added to the panel on first run. Now, however, when I upgraded to the latest testing sources, the icon disappeared. Do I need to install another pa

Re: cdrecord problems

2002-01-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.2335 +0100]: > Now I get errors when trying to burn CDs. I have attached a log > file. Can anyone help? give the output of the same operation with the -vv option to cdrecord. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)

Re: OT: performance problems.

2002-01-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.2127 +0100]: > | i even went as far as to renice xmms to -20 *and* > | rsync/bzip/gzip/make-kpkg to 20, but it doesn't really help. > > Well, kernel compilation is very CPU intensive, and bzip2 can do lots > of computation as well. What you have is

Re: iptables redir of 80 to 8080

2002-01-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.2028 +0100]: > | i'll assume your LAN to be 192.168.1.0/24, and i assume A to be at > | 192.168.1.1. furthermore, should A be accessible from the outside? if > | yes, then you have a problem if you have a dynamic IP. > > Yes I do want you to be able

Re: Kernel boots from floppy, not from hard drive

2002-01-06 Thread Albert Kinderman
Yes, I ran lilo (several times). As I indicated, lilo runs correctly and starts loading the kernel before the kernel load halts. I understand from my reading that if there is an error in lilo running, I would see only L, LI, or LIL on the screen. Since I get LILO loading KERNEL ., I infer th

RE: Windows client with debian server

2002-01-06 Thread Donald R. Spoon
"Alok Menghrajani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I would like to know if it's possible to have windows machines connect to a linux server at login, so that all the windows user profiles are saved on the server. This way if I work on win machine A and then go to win machine B, I still have my w

Re: routing help on dual homed box

2002-01-06 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 06 January 2002 8:22 pm, dman wrote: > > I wrote /etc/init.d/FIREWALL, a shell script I wrote to configure > iptables. Then I added a symlink to it > > $ ls -l /etc/rc2.d > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 20 Aug 19 16:59 S13FIREWALL

Re: OT: COX cable internet service change (after @home)

2002-01-06 Thread Pollywog
On 2002.01.06 22:17 dman wrote: In any case, get the 'ddt-client' package and register on ddts.net. Then regardless of what your IP becomes you'll have a name to reference your machine with (check it out : dman.ddts.net :-)). I use EasyDNS for that, with my DSL, which has dynamic IP. I use m

cdrecord problems

2002-01-06 Thread Russ Cook
I have had no difficulty burning CDs until after my recent 'apt-get upgrade.' The CDRECORD package warned me that I was not running a 2.4 kernel, so I should compile the source. I did this using 'apt-get source' and installed the packages. Now I get errors when trying to burn CDs. I have attac

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.2015 +0100]: > > the exim setup proposed it surely interesting as it allows SMTP > > level filtering, but you can only really do this on a single-user > > system. after some experience with anti-spam filtering, i have > > decided that system-wide fil

freedos package?

2002-01-06 Thread DvB
Since there doesn't appear to be an official package for freedos (needed by dosemu), is there an unofficial package I can install? TIA

MainActor or Broadcast 2000c with Potato?

2002-01-06 Thread Carl Fink
Some may remember that I'm trying to create VCDs using Debian Potato (i386 Linux). None of the various methods posted here have worked for me, mostly because no one posted a way to convert existing DivX or MPEG4 video to MPEG1 for VCD burning. (There are lots of ways to capture video as MJPEG and

trouble with install, hard drive error

2002-01-06 Thread Gabriel Farrell
I'm installing Debian 2.2r potato off the CDs onto my Toshiba Satellite Pro 405cs laptop. I ran into trouble while installing the packages with dselect. While unpacking, I received error messages on a couple packages (gimp and something else, i think), and it told me to run dpkg --configure -a.

OT: on-the-fly cd copying

2002-01-06 Thread martin f krafft
can someone tell me why there exists a plethora of cd cloners for windoze, with which, given a moderately rapid audio-extracting CD reader, you can literally make full use of a 16x CD writer and have a perfect copy of your audio CD in 4 minutes, but for UNIX, there isn't one? the closest i've come

Re: OT: COX cable internet service change (after @home)

2002-01-06 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:12:41PM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: | | Greetings: | | I have been (trying) to keep up with the @home status. I learned last week | that if you are a [EMAIL PROTECTED] user, you will migrate away from @home to cox.net | in the coming weeks. | | No worries

Mouse Wheel/Screen Saver

2002-01-06 Thread Nick Dyer
I've noticed that xscreensaver doesn't count mouse wheel movements when deciding whether to blank the screen or not, so if I've been paging through a web page for enough time without moving the mouse, the screen blanks. Can anyone suggest how to fix this? If it is a bug, which package is likely to

How to start OSS/Commercial Automatically + upgrade LD

2002-01-06 Thread Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999
Hello all, I've installed debian and have to say I feel quite a bit more at home with Debian than any other Linux system I've used. I am a NetBSD user for the mostpart. I have a few questions, first off how can I run the soundon command to start up OSS automatically at bootup? Second I'm ru

Re: HELP! please, the packaging system has a package stuck in it's craw!

2002-01-06 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 11:20:26AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | I'm trying to upgrade a machine from progeny, to woody. | | At the moment my main problem is that the packaging system has the package | trafstats stuck in it's craw, and I cna't seem to get it out! | | dselect shows it as status "C",

Re: Problems with gnome sound after "upgrade" from Progeny to woody

2002-01-06 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:05:59AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | I finally bit the bullet, and "upgraded" one of my Progeny machines to | woody this weekend. | | Things went reasonably well, althoug certainly not automaticly. | | In any case, when I loged inot a Gnome session, things were not very |

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-06 Thread Seneca Cunningham
Jason Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 04 January 2002 10:13 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > I have just upgraded X from 3.3.6 to 4.1.0. After completing the upgrade, I > > changed from tty1 to X's display and saw the image on the screen consisted > > of vertical lines running down my d

remote mutt - printing local?

2002-01-06 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, is it possible to start mutt remote, but to use a local printer? I am searching for something similar to the attached-to-ansi printing of pine. Best wishes, Kerstin -- Dr. Kerstin Hoef-Emden Gyrhofstr. 15 Universität zu Köln 50931 Köln Botanisches I

Re: GDM and ESD not exitting cleanly

2002-01-06 Thread dman
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 11:04:11PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: | Hello listers, | I have just decided to give GDM a try on a box running Woody. I have | found oddly, that esd no longer exits when the user does. Before I | used GDM, when the user logged out of their X session (which was | started b

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2002-01-06 Thread William T Wilson
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Eric G.Miller wrote: > is one of the reasons pointers to char are so common. However, there > is a little trick that's guaranteed to always work: > > struct foo { > size_t length; > char str[1]; > }; > > ... > > struct foo * str_to_foo(char *a) > { > size_t

Re: Galeon for testing?

2002-01-06 Thread Thomas Deselaers
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 11:52:02AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I've been playing around withe Galeon browser on another OS and I decided I > really like it. > > I wnet to instll it on my Debian "testing" system using dselect, and I > can't seem to find it. > > Anyone know where I can get a .deb? >

Problems with Intel Pro 100 NIC

2002-01-06 Thread Ernesto Gonzalez Gomez
Hi, I´m installing Debian (potato) on a Compaq Proliant ML 350 server, that have a Intel Pro 100 NIC. I have the Red Hat drivers, but after used Alien to imports this drivers, I get all Kind of error with "make install", are there someone that have the e100.o driver? or anyone knows where can

Re: Zaxis maping in XFree864?

2002-01-06 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:04:15PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | I'm seting up a machine with scrollwhell mouse using woody. | | It seems to me that I should be able to use Zaxidmapping to map the | scrollwhell to up and down mouse movements. | | Is this possible? If so how? Yes : Section "InputDe

Re: Total lockups - could it be my ISP?

2002-01-06 Thread ben
On Sunday 06 January 2002 01:59 am, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 04 Jan 2002, ben wrote: > > On Friday 04 January 2002 10:46 am, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > On 04 Jan 2002, ben wrote: > > > > On Friday 04 January 2002 02:46 am, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > I only have Linux at present, thoug

Re: Galeon for testing?

2002-01-06 Thread William Burrow
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 11:52:02AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I've been playing around withe Galeon browser on another OS and I decided I > really like it. > ... > Anyone know where I can get a .deb? >From a response to a message I posted a while back: Hmmm... Relevant sites, in /etc/apt/

Zaxis maping in XFree864?

2002-01-06 Thread Stan Brown
I'm seting up a machine with scrollwhell mouse using woody. It seems to me that I should be able to use Zaxidmapping to map the scrollwhell to up and down mouse movements. Is this possible? If so how? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charlesto

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