Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.0235 +0100]: > > you are doing apt-get upgrade and it tries to upgrade to woody. > > no, i'm not. i'm doing apt-get upDATE and then apt-get install ... > it's not like it tries to remove the old gimp, and then install the > new one, or l

Re: Anyway to emulate IE?

2002-01-07 Thread Lance Simmons
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:45:48PM -0700, Dave Price wrote: > > you could try running IE in WINE or VMWARE (now > THERE is a real test for a windows emulator) vmware runs Windows (including IE) with no problems, except you can't have hardware accelerated graphics. -- .~. /v\ Lance Simmons

Re: OT: on-the-fly cd copying

2002-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.0421 +0100]: > I'm sorry, didn't ment to be rude. > (rereading I fail to spot my rudeness though, must be bedtime then, > or my rusty knowledge of english) "i don't care... it's ... we're discussion here!" i think the "i don't care" and

Re: Anyway to emulate IE?

2002-01-07 Thread Dave Price
hmmm ... Emulate IE on an open source OS? Sounds like a contradiction in terms ... like Jumbo Shrimp or Military Intelligence. You COULD try: writing a crappy browser that displays viral tendancies of installing itself along with any number of other programs / upgrades, and set's itself up as t

Re: Anyway to emulate IE?

2002-01-07 Thread Michael D. Crawford
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 22:36, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > First of all, you might want to visit http://www.anybrowser.org/ . Another helpful page is an article I wrote: Use Validators and Load Generators to Test Your Web Applications http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk/articles/webapptesting/ Bes

Re: insmod: sr_mod: no module by that name found ; scsi_mod same

2002-01-07 Thread Shawn Lamson
--- Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 19:28:24 -0800 (PST) > From: Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: insmod: sr_mod: no module by that name found ; scsi_mod same > To: debian > > Hello all - > hope your computing is happy and the hair isnt falling out all

Re: A lilo.conf question

2002-01-07 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I think what you want is to give the vga parameter as an option to lilo itself at the top of the file, not as a parameter to a kernel in an append line. I have this on my laptop: boot = /dev/hda2 delay = 50 vga = 792 image = /vmlinuz append="ide0=autotune ide1=autotune video=atyfb:1024x768,fon

Re: Gnome stops

2002-01-07 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:31:24PM +0100, Jens Kubieziel wrote: > Hallo debian-user, > > I have a strange problem with my Gnome Desktop (Xfree 4.1 on woody > 3.0.17). > When I log on, I can use my mouse without any problems. But after a > few minutes it stops. First I thought that my mouse

Re: Framebuffer or....not to Framebuffer

2002-01-07 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > OK, I think people are missing what I'm asking. I'm using the nvidia > driver in XFree86. But, I have been doing vga=791 in lilo. So, what > I was wondering...Does it hurt my setup, or is there an advantage to > it? I take that back. Your fux0red quoting threw me o

Anyway to emulate IE?

2002-01-07 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
Hello Rebecca Bulander: > for designing the webpage of the questionnaire we used > a tool from Microsoft, which uses some Microsoft-specific-tags. > This tags can not always be interpreted by other > internet-browser-software. Therefore you can use only > Microsoft Explorer for filling in the

insmod: sr_mod: no module by that name found ; scsi_mod same

2002-01-07 Thread Shawn Lamson
Hello all - hope your computing is happy and the hair isnt falling out all over the keyboard. (how did i know that?) i just installed a GCE-8160B CDRW (brand names are LG / GOLDSTAR) which is listed on some of the compatibility lists for cdrecord... i can play cd's, mount data discs, etc... but

Re: Framebuffer or....not to Framebuffer

2002-01-07 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > OK, I think people are missing what I'm asking. I'm using the nvidia > driver in XFree86. But, I have been doing vga=791 in lilo. So, what I > was wondering...Does it hurt my setup, or is there an advantage to it? No harm to your setup, with the advantage of seeing

Re: OT: on-the-fly cd copying

2002-01-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:03:47PM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:22:11AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > > I don't care that it does data CDs or over-burning, it's audio cds we > > are discussing here! For further rebutals see my reply to Martin. > > I merely pointed

Re: this debconf stuff is crazy!

2002-01-07 Thread Brian Nelson
Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... > > > "recovering" was no big deal. like you pointed out, it saved a copy of > > > the old file. but that's like congratulating someone for takin

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

2002-01-07 Thread Erik Steffl
"Eric G. Miller" wrote: ... > > merely a subset of them (0<=i > programming languages don't provide a mechanism to express this so > > programmers approximate it with types that describe supersets of the > > set they want. (this explains why I dislike java and its type system > > so much; for C it

Re: OT window$ floppy formating

2002-01-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
mformat will do what you need: mformat a: ap -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill,

OT window$ floppy formating

2002-01-07 Thread Joel Mayes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 G'day Debianites Just a quick question, I use Debian at home and windows at work, and often carry floppies to and fro, I'm fine if I bring a win formated floppy home, but if I forget to, I have no way of formating a floppy that windows can read. Is

A lilo.conf question

2002-01-07 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to set up a amchien that I need to pass multiple append commands to. I need to tell it to use framebuffer, and to reserve /dev/hdc for the ide-scsi driver. I can make it do either, but not both. Here's the relavent peice of what I've got for lilo.conf: image=/vmlinuz label=L

Re: OT: on-the-fly cd copying

2002-01-07 Thread Philip H Sims
Yes, how rude. One of the pleasures I get from mailing lists is other people's informed opinions, even if they are somewhat "off-topic". On Monday 07 January 2002 08:03 pm, Sam Varghese wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:22:11AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:42:15

Re: Potato and ext3

2002-01-07 Thread Calyth
Thanks for all the tips... I think I'll get that done for my laptop. Hibernation is kinda funky on that thing, and it's not good to lose data. Calyth

Re: this debconf stuff is crazy!

2002-01-07 Thread John Hasler
Dimitri Maziuk writes: > The bug affects only a tiny minority of users: I've seen three reports on > d-u counting mine so far. You don't know that. For the reasons you cite, most users affected by the problem will just conclude that they don't know how to configure X (or perhaps decide it can't b

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

2002-01-07 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:27:10 -0500, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > When you say that, in C, something is an 'int', is it possible to have > a bit pattern there that is not a valid 'int'? No. 'int' describes > the set of all valid values and every possible bit pattern you can > stick the

Re: XFree86 upgrade to 4.1.0

2002-01-07 Thread David B Harris
On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 18:28:39 +0100 "stefao melchior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running debian2.2r4 with xfree86 3.3.6 on my laptop: I have tried > to upgrade the x-system to the more recent 4.1.0 release, got from the > woody release. I downloaded all the packets (.deb) from the debian's >

Re: Unidentified subject!

2002-01-07 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 06:01:47PM +0100, [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

Re: OT: on-the-fly cd copying

2002-01-07 Thread Sam Varghese
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:22:11AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:42:15AM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:26:33AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > ... > > > More seriously, there is only one *good* audio copy program on Windows > > > that I know

Re: this debconf stuff is crazy!

2002-01-07 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > > "recovering" was no big deal. like you pointed out, it saved a copy of > > the old file. but that's like congratulating someone for taking a shit > > in toilet. you'd *expect* it to go into

Re: printing stopped working--any ideas?

2002-01-07 Thread Luke Call
When I say "nothing happens", I mean that no print jobs begin, the printer (which works under Win2k, sigh) makes no sound, there is nothing in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages or the print spool files, that I can tell. If I print a large enough file (like under gimp), it takes long enough t

Re: OT: on-the-fly cd copying

2002-01-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:04:20AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.0526 +0100]: > > Maybe because they are lamers who are used to crappy products and wont > > notice that there speedy copied cd's are full of cracks and pops:) > > i've use

Re: printing stopped working--any ideas?

2002-01-07 Thread Luke Call
I get the same results with kernel 2.4.5 or kernel 2.4.17. It has worked with 2.4.17 on my machine before, and I'm not sure what I changed that could do it. Other messages in the thread have details. I'd appreaciate any ideas at all, at this point. Thanks! Luke Kurc, Marcin A. wrote: are you

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-07 Thread Seneca Cunningham
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > >I have just upgraded XFree86 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 display, the top of the lines > >we

Re: XFree86 upgrade to 4.1.0

2002-01-07 Thread Seneca Cunningham
stefao melchior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if any of you can help me suggesting how to upgrade perl > from 5.004 to 5.6. I don't know of any easy way... the way I did it was with brute force and ignorance (of conflicts) with dpkg. There are a few awkward dependencies. I did it wi

Re: X locks up - more info

2002-01-07 Thread Michael Dickey
More observations: when this happens, fonts are all messed up - larger than they should be, and parts of them are missing. When I telnet to the computer, XFree86 is consuming ~99% CPU resources, however even after I kill all x-related processes the desktop is still locked up. The only way I have

Re: X not working after upgrade [solved]

2002-01-07 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:25:47AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Hi, > > Currently I am tracking woody daily. After yesterday's upgrade, my X no > longer works. When I type starts, it just aborts. It mentions something > about the module mga_drv.o. I tried recreating the XF86Config

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-07 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 08 Jan 2002 12:33:55AM +0100, marTin insinuated: > that's the problem with apt in potato, it can't pin. do you still > have that debian.madduck.net line in /etc/apt/source.list? i could > offer a kernel update and the package compiled and ready for > potato... yup, still there. that could

Re: OT: on-the-fly cd copying

2002-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.0222 +0100]: > I don't care that it does data CDs or over-burning, it's audio cds we > are discussing here! For further rebutals see my reply to Martin. it's very good at audio too. *very good*. and overburning is surely nice... -- mar

Re: OT: on-the-fly cd copying

2002-01-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:42:15AM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:26:33AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > > More seriously, there is only one *good* audio copy program on Windows > > that I know of, i.e. ExactAudioCopy, and that one takes its time to > > grab an audio c

Re: Framebuffer or....not to Framebuffer

2002-01-07 Thread techlists
OK, I think people are missing what I'm asking. I'm using the nvidia driver in XFree86. But, I have been doing vga=791 in lilo. So, what I was wondering...Does it hurt my setup, or is there an advantage to it? Wayne Caleb Shay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote .. > On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 07:26, [EMA

Re: dpkg headache -- please help me to solve

2002-01-07 Thread Andrew Nesbit
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 20:16:25 +1100, Andrew Nesbit wrote: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-base_1.0.2+20011202-1_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/xdvi.cfg', which is also in package tetex-bin What happened, I

Re: this debconf stuff is crazy!

2002-01-07 Thread Brian Nelson
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > begin Shaya Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > what were you doing during the upgrade of the package? > > > > It clearly asked me if I wanted debconf to configure it. > > > > It even keeps a backup of the original, if you were doing it by hand and > >

Re: routing help on dual homed box

2002-01-07 Thread Willi Dyck
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 02:49:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson did this all over the keyboard: > > why do you care about your ip address? > > > > iface= > > > > ifconfig ${iface} | grep 'inet' | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d " " -f1 > > So, to block port 1524, I can say > ipchains -A input -p tcp -s 0/0 1524 -

X not working after upgrade

2002-01-07 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi, Currently I am tracking woody daily. After yesterday's upgrade, my X no longer works. When I type starts, it just aborts. It mentions something about the module mga_drv.o. I tried recreating the XF86Config-4 file, but to no avail. Has anybody faced a similar problem? I have quoted part of

cdrecord corrupts last part of every ISO burned

2002-01-07 Thread Seth Delackner
In various comments the author of cdrecord blames some kernel read-ahead bug for cdrecord damaging the last few files on any ISO that you burn. I just want to know if anyone else has either seen this problem or fixed it? Every image I burn is useless, not to mention that if I tell cdrecord to do

vorbis RC3 + Potato X11 = complete crash (not even pingable!)

2002-01-07 Thread Seth Delackner
Anyone else seeing this problem? If so much as: $ ogg123 -d oss foo.ogg & $ startx My entire machine instantly always crashes to the degree that I can't even ping it. Vorbis is from the alienized rpm packages from www.vorbis.com, X is the basic Potato installation version. Audi

Re: debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't locate Debian/DebConf/Co nfigDb.pm

2002-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:11:10PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Ed Greenberg wrote: > > I seem to have broken dpkg (or something :) by reinstalling Perl 5.6.1 from > > source. > > > > When trying to install a package I get: debconf: Perl may be unconfigured > > (Can't locate Debian/DebConf/ConfigDb

Re: Mozilla & Address Books

2002-01-07 Thread Blake Barnett
Yes, you can. It is non-trivial, but you can have a go: http://www.openldap.org On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 16:30, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 07 January 2002 04:35 pm, Blake Barnett wrote: > [snip] > > 3. LDAP > > Could my wife and I use LDAP

Re: this debconf stuff is crazy!

2002-01-07 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
begin Shaya Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 19:36, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > 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 n

Re: this debconf stuff is crazy!

2002-01-07 Thread Shaya Potter
On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 19:36, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > 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

Re: XFree86 upgrade to 4.1.0

2002-01-07 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:28:39PM +0100, stefao melchior wrote: > Hi guy, > I am running debian2.2r4 with xfree86 3.3.6 on my laptop: I have tried to > upgrade the x-system to the more recent 4.1.0 release, got from the woody > release. I downloaded all the packets (.deb) from the debian's site

Re: Missing log file

2002-01-07 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020108 09:09]: > > Hi all, > > Does anyone know what, if anything, besides foul play could cause one of > the old, compressed log files to disappear? I'm missing a whole day's > /var/log/messages.n.gz from this past week. > Old logs are deleted per

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Karsten M. Self [2002.01.07.2215 +0100]: > $ nmap -sL 216.242.0-255.0-255 i think i'd prefer 216.242.0.0/16 ... > ...how would one do this via procmail, filtering on 'Recieved' lines? > Anything from this domain should be forwarded to a spam complain > addresses and shitcanned.

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.2205 +0100]: > > so if you really want to install it, > > yes, i do; that's why i wrote to the list. you have an irrefutable point, turkey! > > then comment your potato/stable entries in /etc/apt/sources.list and > > provide similar one

Re: debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't locate Debian/DebConf/Co nfigDb.pm

2002-01-07 Thread Joey Hess
Ed Greenberg wrote: > I seem to have broken dpkg (or something :) by reinstalling Perl 5.6.1 from > source. > > When trying to install a package I get: debconf: Perl may be unconfigured > (Can't locate Debian/DebConf/ConfigDb.pm The perl that you built from source does not have the full @INC pa

Re: how to print to a printer connected to win2000prof

2002-01-07 Thread Hans Steinraht
hi, it's working, thanks to all the help I've got to my qiestion. this is what I did: first I followed the nhf from linuxnewbie.org to get samba up and running, next installed lprng and lprngtool (and mpage). I played some with the configurations in lprngtool and the commands in mpage and it's w

Re: Mozilla & Address Books

2002-01-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 January 2002 04:35 pm, Blake Barnett wrote: [snip] > 3. LDAP Could my wife and I use LDAP as a common address book? From what I understand reading at openldap.org, LDAP is a directory service for *existing* network users. Can it be used

Re: installed win2k professional in vmware successfully ..

2002-01-07 Thread Brian Nelson
Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > however can not run full screen. > either because vmware cannot use the DGA extension > in the Xserver or I don't have the DGA extension. > I am running testing with the latest XFree with > kernel 2.2.19. Is this a kernel thing? How can > i tell what I h

Re: fancy MDA sought

2002-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.2047 +0100]: > Yeah, apt won't stick it there, you (or I) would have to compile it > separately. Possibly I could just send you the binary from the > package, but when I did it at school I configured it to use my UID/GID > as the "mail" UID/GID. Th

Re: Mozilla & Address Books

2002-01-07 Thread Curtis Vaughan
On Monday 07 January 2002 14:35, Blake Barnett wrote: > 1. mime-type application hooks, look in the system configuration for > KDE. Ok, I found the hook, but now it opens a blank page in Mozilla whenever I click on a hyperlink. > > 2. KDE uses it's own clipboard. If you use the standard "Highli

Re: "char-mode"-only dist-upgrade?

2002-01-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 January 2002 04:40 pm, David B Harris wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:19:18 -0600 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > > Of course, man doesn't mention it, but is there some way to > > do this: "apt-get dist-upgrade --no-X"

Re: UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR

2002-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.2106 +0100]: > IMP/Horde. This just came up on exim-users. i couldn't really find a solution there, other than the identification of the problem. but since today is my reportbug day and i can't find the bug in the IMP bugs, i might just... -- mar

X locks up

2002-01-07 Thread Michael Dickey
Just started experiencing this problem with a fresh install of woody on my laptop. X locks up as soon as I try to do anything, and ctrl-alt-backspace won't kill it, nothing will. This happens running twm or KDE window manager. I have no idea how to troubleshoot this. Any ideas? Michael

Re: how does alsa work (was Re: OT: performance problems.)

2002-01-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 07 Jan 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.1736 +0100]: > > Ok, this sounds contrary to what I've heard before. I've heard that > > ALSA, unlike OSS, allows multiple processes to output sound > > simultaneously. How, then, can it allow that if a

Re: OT: performance problems.

2002-01-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 07 Jan 2002, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > > another. With dumb xmms, it cannot help but cause skips. Use something > > better, with huge output buffers, and you will not have so much trouble. Or > > patch the kernel. > > xmms output buffer size is configurable: Good. It still won't help unless

Re: OT: on-the-fly cd copying

2002-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.0526 +0100]: > Maybe because they are lamers who are used to crappy products and wont > notice that there speedy copied cd's are full of cracks and pops:) i've use nero for years and never had a single broken cd. truly honestly... nero is

Apache with mod_mp3 anyone?

2002-01-07 Thread Stefan Frank
Hi, i'm having a hard time to setup my apache server (1.3.22-5) with mod_mp3 (0.33-1). xmms _always_ hangs with the same error message: Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x1317)! when i ask it to play from this address: http://mp3.gallien.de/?op=play Also M$ media player aborts w

Re: GTK theme for sylpheed

2002-01-07 Thread David B Harris
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 23:36:13 +0100 R.Pac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gtk-WARNING **: Unable de locate the loadable module in module_path : > « libpixmap.so », That theme requires the pixmap GTK theme engine. Many themes use it, though not all. It's available in the package, "gtk-engines-pixmap".

Re: cdrecord problems (fwd)

2002-01-07 Thread Russ Cook
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:06:41 -0600 (CST) From: Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: cdrecord problems Problem solved - but not understood. I disconnected my external scsi hard drive, and now I can burn CDs.

Re: "char-mode"-only dist-upgrade?

2002-01-07 Thread David B Harris
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:19:18 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, when I do an "apt-get -s dist-upgrade", it wants to install > all of the gnome, font and a buch of other graphical stuff > that I don't need nor have room for. This is probably because one of the packages you have inst

Re: Mozilla & Address Books

2002-01-07 Thread Blake Barnett
1. mime-type application hooks, look in the system configuration for KDE. 2. KDE uses it's own clipboard. If you use the standard "Highlight & Middle click to paste", it should work. If not. hrmm. 3. LDAP On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 15:36, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > 3 questions: > > 1st. Under K

GTK theme for sylpheed

2002-01-07 Thread R . Pac
Hi all, how do I install the gtk theme for only one application ? Example with sylpheed ? I have puted the gtkrc from downloaded theme archive but I've got this error at startup (sylpheed) Gtk-WARNING **: Unable de locate the loadable module in module_path : « libpixmap.so », and no

Re: OT: Asian spam procmail recipies and a sig trap

2002-01-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 12:26:21AM -0800, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 2 comments: > > #1. 7-bit asian coding > Does this really catch CJKV(Chinese-Japanese-Korean-Vetonamese) Spams in > all coding schemes. It looked like unless coding schime uses high bit > characters, it does not see

Re: how to get rid of sendmail X-Authentication-Warning?

2002-01-07 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 06:55:30PM -0500, Jeremy L. Gaddis wrote (1.00): > What's wrong with editing sendmail.cf by hand? I do it > and have done it for years. I initally generate one using > m4 but usually modify it a bit to suit my needs. You used to have to sometimes, but the newer sendmail v

Mozilla & Address Books

2002-01-07 Thread Curtis Vaughan
3 questions: 1st. Under KDE, how do I make mozilla my default web browser. Every time I click on a hyperlink Kommander is used. 2nd. Why is it that, if I copy an Internet address, I can't paste it into the address line for Mozilla? 3rd. What is the best solution for maintaining a common addr

Re: Locale issues after potato -> woody

2002-01-07 Thread Petr Hlustik
On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 13:41:27 +1000 john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The output of locale under X (gnome)is: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locale > LANG=english > LC_CTYPE= > LC_NUMERIC="english" > LC_TIME="english" > [etc] I suspect the potato->woody upgrade involves a deeper issue than just setting t

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

2002-01-07 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, January 7, dman did write: > I've just come up with a good description of what a 'type' is : > A "type" is the set of all valid values. *DING*DING*DING*DING*DING*DING* Got it in one. Types are sets of values. That's all. C, C++, and Java provide a fairly limited language fo

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:05:32PM -0500, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 09:20:12AM -0500, Jens Gecius wrote: > | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 08:27:13PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > | > | Where is there a HOWTO or tutorial on using

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-07 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sun, 06 Jan 2002 03:27:32PM +0100, marTin insinuated: > apt-get in potato can't handle multiple distributions. that would explain it. > first of all, you'd need entries for potato and sid in > /etc/apt/sources.list (which i don't think you have since *i* didn't > put them there), right, wel

Re: debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't locate Debian/DebConf/ConfigDb.pm

2002-01-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
Chances are you just need to make sure perl (as installed from source) can see the Debian perl packages. try this: locate ConfigDb.pm if it shows a path, as it probably will, something like: /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ConfigDb.pm you can link the Debconf directory to somewhere perl will look. Yo

Re: routing help on dual homed box

2002-01-07 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 January 2002 7:20 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > I wonder why you have S39ifupdown, but I have S40networking? > "S40networking start" basically only does "ifup -a".  Likewise, > "stop" just does "ifdown -a". I have both - ifupdown just clears

Re: routing help on dual homed box

2002-01-07 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 January 2002 7:20 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > However, with a dhcp-assigned fully-routable IP address, how > can you create rules on it without 1st knowing the address? You don't need the IP address, just use the -i interface parameter in

debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't locate Debian/DebConf/ConfigDb.pm

2002-01-07 Thread Ed Greenberg
I seem to have broken dpkg (or something :) by reinstalling Perl 5.6.1 from source. When trying to install a package I get: debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't locate Debian/DebConf/ConfigDb.pm I searched for the above on the Debian site, and also in CPAN, with no results. Can somebod

Re: routing help on dual homed box

2002-01-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 January 2002 01:22 pm, Willi Dyck wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 01:20:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson did this all over the keyboard: > > However, with a dhcp-assigned fully-routable IP address, how > > can you create rules on it without 1st k

freenet-unstable install

2002-01-07 Thread Jonas Jermann
Hello I tried to install and run freenet-unstable, but the server didn't start (/etc/init.d/freenet-unstable export and start). My /etc/freenet-unstable/seedNodes is empty. As I run java -cp /var/lib/freenet-unstable-0.4.3.jar Freenet.node.Node ... the following error occured: Exception in th

Re: Debian install of squirrelmail

2002-01-07 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
It is just as easy (if not easier) to install and configure SquirrelMail manually. I have SM 1.2.3[cvs] installed on two seperate potato machines and they both work great. Any questions, let me know. At 11:57 AM 1/7/2002 -0800, you wrote: If I'm going about this the wrong way, please feel fr

AIPTEK PenCam USB and linux

2002-01-07 Thread Patrik Modesto
Hi, I just got %subj%. It's working fine under W2k but under Linux I can't make it work. I have Debian Woody on 2.4.16 kernel, Video4linux is compiled as modules. Hotplug finds this cam but there is no driver assigned to 0x553/0x202. I look at modules.usbmap in my modules directory and found cpia_u

Re: newbie

2002-01-07 Thread Kent West
Joe Wise wrote: 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 loo

Re: OT: performance problems.

2002-01-07 Thread Pete Ryland
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:25:45PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Graham/Aniartia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.0231 +0100]: > > Well it might not be the CPU that's at fault, what's your soundcard & > > mobo, even with the most sorted latency on VIA chipsets I'm still > > getting pro

Re: UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR

2002-01-07 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:09:54PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | has anyone seen these before? it's apparently a user on this system | using IMP/Horde to write mail to another local user. what's going on? is | this a postfix or an IMP problem? IMP/Horde. This just came up on exim-users. http:/

Debian install of squirrelmail

2002-01-07 Thread Jeff Green
If I'm going about this the wrong way, please feel free to flame/correct my thinking/bonk me on the head I'm attempting to install the squirrelmail package (latest on squirrelmail's home page, 1.2.2-1) on a production potato server. While I realize this is a woody/testing package, adding t

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-07 Thread Kent West
Seneca Cunningham 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. It spews out some messages that I cannot see because the screen goes into graphics mode, then it draws an image of a

Re: What part of XFree86 causes major display problems?

2002-01-07 Thread Kent West
Seneca Cunningham wrote: I have just upgraded XFree86 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 display, the top of the lines were 1 pixel in width and the bottom width was 3 p

Re: Framebuffer or....not to Framebuffer

2002-01-07 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:21:03PM -0500, David B Harris wrote: | On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:19:39 -0500 | David B Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > You don't want to tell XFree to do that, though, trust me. But there | | Bah, just to clear something up; I mean you don't want XFree to eschew | its

Re: OT: on-the-fly cd copying

2002-01-07 Thread Sam Varghese
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:26:33AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 11:13:44PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > 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 literal

Re: fancy MDA sought

2002-01-07 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:29:31PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.1756 +0100]: | > I really like exim's filter capabilities, but it won't play so nicely | > with postfix installed too. If you really want, I can give you tips | > on installing exim

Re: routing help on dual homed box

2002-01-07 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 01:20:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: | However, with a dhcp-assigned fully-routable IP address, how | can you create rules on it without 1st knowing the address? You know the interface, so specify the interface instead. Then you never need to stick the IP in the firewall

Re: routing help on dual homed box

2002-01-07 Thread Willi Dyck
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 01:20:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson did this all over the keyboard: > > However, with a dhcp-assigned fully-routable IP address, how > can you create rules on it without 1st knowing the address? > So, mustn't you make it S38firewall? > > Of course, if you have a dhcp-assigned a

Re: routing help on dual homed box

2002-01-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 January 2002 12:50 pm, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Monday 07 January 2002 6:32 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > As for the firewall script, I put it in /etc/init.d, and execute > > it from /etc/init/networking, just after the "ifup -a". > > > > If

"char-mode"-only dist-upgrade?

2002-01-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a very modest system (low memory, small disk) that I run in character-mode only.  No X, GNOME, KDE, audio, etc. So, when I installed via ftp, I left out as much of that as I could. Now, when I do an "apt-get -s dist-upgrade", it wants to i

Re: Switching to ALSA on Potato 2.2r4

2002-01-07 Thread Jeff
Debian User, 2002-Jan-06 22:38 -0800: > Jeff and all, > > My SuSE installation was hand compiled and installed. I have no > problems with that part. My questions all concern Debian. > > Unfortunately ALSA installs at the low level (kernel). As I found > out, one cannot merely remove the standa

Re: this debconf stuff is crazy!

2002-01-07 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Noah Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 07:19:35PM -0500, Justin R. Miller wrote: > > > > I believe also that if you run 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' you > > can choose the first option to not manage the file with debconf. > > However, I have not tried th

Re: routing help on dual homed box

2002-01-07 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 January 2002 6:32 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > As for the firewall script, I put it in /etc/init.d, and execute > it from /etc/init/networking, just after the "ifup -a". > > If you have a better place to put it, I'd love to hear it... > As I

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