Re: UPS made by MGE?

2002-01-30 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:19:28 -0500 (EST), Mike Dresser wrote: >On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Henry House wrote: > >Don't be fooled by VA ratings. Go find a standard load on whatever you're >comparing, and see how long the actual run time is. I could make a 300VA >unit, that will run for 6 weeks off a 9

UT

2002-01-30 Thread Corey Halpin
Does anyone know how to install UT such that it doesn't use software rendering when one has a matrox g400 card? Using debian unstable. I'll gladly provide more system details for solutions. :-) thanks, crh -- Corey R. Halpin (http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~halpin/ ) Student of Electrical Engine

Re: dpkg Weirdness

2002-01-30 Thread Chris Cheney
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:42:55AM +, Nick wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:58:30 -0600, Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >kde (meta) -> koffice (meta) -> kivio -> python2.1 > > > >maybe kivio in woody depends on python 1.5 ? > > OK, thanks. I wasn't expecting KDE to depend on sc

Re: Quake III

2002-01-30 Thread Corey Halpin
> I'm using the following hardware: Pentium-II, 320M RAM. Intel 440LX AGP > chipset. Matrox g400. > When I run quake 3, it runs for a few minutes, and then locks X such that I > can't switch consoles. The video freezes where it was, and the sound starts > looping on itself. I can ssh in.

apt-get isntall error, mmap run out of room, urgent

2002-01-30 Thread eric
Dear Debian users: When I used apt-get update, I get the following error at end: Fetched 2374kB in 45s (52.7kB/s) Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing tomcat (NewVersion1) E: Problem w

Re: bash history file

2002-01-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:57 PM +0200, Ian Balchin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > My commands are no longer recorded in .bash_history > > HISTFILE. HISTFILESIZE, & HISTSIZE are all set. > > What have i done? This is apparent in my user login, commands as > root are still recorded. > >

Re: libz1 package

2002-01-30 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:14:39 -0800, Doug Jolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi -- > > I'm new to Debian. Can anyone please tell me what the deal is > with the libz1 package? It seems to be needed by quite a few > other packages. Accordingly, I was surprised when I couldn't > find it on my dis

Re: Installing Debian over Network with the e100-driver

2002-01-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 04:02:31PM +0100, Hanno B?ck wrote: > I would like to install debian on my laptop over > network/dsl-connection. Is there a possibility to load the e100-driver > from the installer? How can I install debian over network?? Rescue disk (Floppy) is DOS floppy. You can read i

Re: dpkg Weirdness

2002-01-30 Thread Ben Burton
> >kde (meta) -> koffice (meta) -> kivio -> python2.1 > > > >maybe kivio in woody depends on python 1.5 ? The version of kivio in woody is very old and still depends on python 1.5 packages. I'm still holding out hope that the newer koffice will enter woody in a matter of days - the build for the

Re: [OT] dpkg Weirdness

2002-01-30 Thread David B Harris
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 03:31:44 + Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well I'm not at the box at the moment - I'll have a ferret around on > it tomorrow. I've remembered that I have kernel source debs for > 2.2.19 and 2.2.20, and one of them is unpacked, so that's another, > what, 150 Mb ? It'll b

Re: Latest kernel

2002-01-30 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Oki DZ quotation: > I'm using woody; what is the latest kernel that is suitable for the > distribution? Any good 2.2 or 2.4 kernel will do. 2.2.20 and 2.4.17 are the latest of each series, and both seem to work well in my experience. Craig pgpyyk1bpWWiL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Latest kernel

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:16:55AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using woody; what is the latest kernel that is suitable for the > distribution? 2.4.17 I'm not sure but since 2.4.15 (I think) all new kernels in 2.4.x series are just bug fixes. - Adam

Re: libz1 package

2002-01-30 Thread Doug Jolley
>I wondered about that myself, when I first started with Debian. zlibg1 >provides libz1, so you need to install it. Ah. That's undoubtedly it. (An important thing to know I might add.) Thanks for the input. ... doug _ Dou

Re: dpkg Weirdness

2002-01-30 Thread Nick
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:58:30 -0600, Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >kde (meta) -> koffice (meta) -> kivio -> python2.1 > >maybe kivio in woody depends on python 1.5 ? OK, thanks. I wasn't expecting KDE to depend on scripting language packages. I guess in these days of large hard disks

Re: [OT] dpkg Weirdness

2002-01-30 Thread Nick
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:06:16 -0500, David B Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 01:28:13 + >Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The KDE 2.2.2 Woody/unstable box that I'm building ran out of disk >> space the other day (already over 900 Mb used, and all I have is gcc, >> perl,

Re: libz1 package

2002-01-30 Thread Seneca Cunningham
Doug Jolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi -- > > I'm new to Debian. Can anyone please tell me what the deal is > with the libz1 package? It seems to be needed by quite a few > other packages. Accordingly, I was surprised when I couldn't > find it on my distribution CDs. I was even more surpri

FreeSwan

2002-01-30 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I was trying to install the .deb, but I had the following: Kernel support for IPSec not found, aborting. What kernel version should I use? TIA, Oki

Latest kernel

2002-01-30 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'm using woody; what is the latest kernel that is suitable for the distribution? TIA, Oki

libz1 package

2002-01-30 Thread Doug Jolley
Hi -- I'm new to Debian. Can anyone please tell me what the deal is with the libz1 package? It seems to be needed by quite a few other packages. Accordingly, I was surprised when I couldn't find it on my distribution CDs. I was even more surprised when I couldn't find it in the packages sectio

Re: network isues.

2002-01-30 Thread David B Harris
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 02:41:02 + (UTC) "Andrew J. Hoyos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently tried to set-up exim for sending mail on my lan. I have a 5 > computer setup with one computer masq'ing my ppp connection. > > I can send and receive mail locally, and receive "internet" mail, but >

Re: Is Framebuffer needed?

2002-01-30 Thread David B Harris
On 30 Jan 2002 20:36:14 -0600 Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In trying to optimize my Voodoo 3500 with mplayer I compiled my kernel > 2.4.17 with framebuffer support. Is this necessary, or what > advantages do framebuffers have? In the docs it seems that fb's > simply allow for simi

Re: [OT] dpkg Weirdness

2002-01-30 Thread David B Harris
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 01:28:13 + Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The KDE 2.2.2 Woody/unstable box that I'm building ran out of disk > space the other day (already over 900 Mb used, and all I have is gcc, > perl, python, kde, kdevelop and koffice ... jeez). Just to let you know, I just ran a fr

Re: failure notice

2002-01-30 Thread eric
Dear Debian users: When I used apt-get update, I get the following error at end: Fetched 2374kB in 45s (52.7kB/s) Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing tomcat (NewVersion1) E: Proble

aolserver and symlinks in /usr/lib/cgi-bin

2002-01-30 Thread Andre Berger
I'm running aolserver 3.4.2 on potato and would like to give mailman a try. Mailman installed in the into /usr/lib/ and put a symlink into /usr/lib/cgi-bin/, like: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -l /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 18 Jan 30 21:43 mailman -> ../mailman/cgi-bin/

Re: Compaq qvision 2000+ and x

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:53:58PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone have any information on how to configure xf86 for a Compaq > qvision 2000+ video card and Compaq 1024 monitor. At this point I'm pretty > sure there is no driver support for this card but any ideas or suggestions > wo

network isues.

2002-01-30 Thread Andrew J. Hoyos
I recently tried to set-up exim for sending mail on my lan. I have a 5 computer setup with one computer masq'ing my ppp connection. I can send and receive mail locally, and receive "internet" mail, but can't send it out. I am getting errors in mainlog, that say "Network is unreachable" For exampl

Re: potato boot floppy

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 05:33:31PM -0500, scook wrote: > I kept trying, changing to idepci flavor and using different diskettes, > and finally got one to format without errors. > Now I am just using lilo on hda and when I give up I > dd if/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 > (from page 137

Is Framebuffer needed?

2002-01-30 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
In trying to optimize my Voodoo 3500 with mplayer I compiled my kernel 2.4.17 with framebuffer support. Is this necessary, or what advantages do framebuffers have? In the docs it seems that fb's simply allow for similar config's on different architechures. Therefore, if one is running an Intel

Re: Compiling pcmcia-source

2002-01-30 Thread Seneca Cunningham
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:00:30PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > [ moved prefix reply to end (hi Karsten)] > > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > > I need the pcmcia module to get access to my ethernet card and cdrom, but I > > > just

Cheap XXX Videos and DVDs

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Trying to install version 2.1 on my laptop (je parle aussi français)

2002-01-30 Thread Frédéric L. MIR
Hi, This is my first attempt to install Linux ever, and this from the CD coming with the book Installing Debian GNU/Linux (version 2.1). I have a Fujitsu laptop with a CDROM drive, a floppy drive and a 4Gb harddrive which i repartitionned using PartitionMagic 7.0 (i kept 2Gb for Windows on hda1 a

Compaq qvision 2000+ and x

2002-01-30 Thread pkinch
Does anyone have any information on how to configure xf86 for a Compaq qvision 2000+ video card and Compaq 1024 monitor. At this point I'm pretty sure there is no driver support for this card but any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. _

Re: dpkg Weirdness

2002-01-30 Thread Chris Cheney
kde (meta) -> koffice (meta) -> kivio -> python2.1 maybe kivio in woody depends on python 1.5 ? Removing python2.1 on a sid system would require that kde, koffice, and kivio at minimum to be removed. Chris

Re: printcap problem

2002-01-30 Thread John
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:43:58PM -0800, Jeff wrote: > eric, 2002-Jan-30 12:42 -0500: > > >lp|hplj4l|HP Laserjet 4L:\ > > > :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:\ You sure your printer port is /dev/lp1 & not /dev/lp0 ? Just a thought. John > > > :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ > > > :if=/

Re: device 3dfx ker 2.4.17

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 07:11:24PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I am trying to optimize my Voodoo 3500. I have compiled the kernel > with 3dfx support. It is my understanding that I should now have a > /dev/3dfx drivers, but I do not. I had downloaded the device3dfx > drivers but after readi

dpkg Weirdness

2002-01-30 Thread Nick
[1] KDE depends on Python !?! [2] apt-get remove estimates space-to-be-freed badly The KDE 2.2.2 Woody/unstable box that I'm building ran out of disk space the other day (already over 900 Mb used, and all I have is gcc, perl, python, kde, kdevelop and koffice ... jeez). So I set about removing

device 3dfx ker 2.4.17

2002-01-30 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I am trying to optimize my Voodoo 3500. I have compiled the kernel with 3dfx support. It is my understanding that I should now have a /dev/3dfx drivers, but I do not. I had downloaded the device3dfx drivers but after reading the docs I was lead to believe that these were only for 2.2.x kernels

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. [Thanks!]

2002-01-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andreas Goesele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.31.0115 +0100]: > PS: I hope it's not premature to report the problem solved. As the > German saying goes: Man soll den Tag nicht vor dem Abend loben. "Thou shalt not praise the day before night hath come." i *am* shakespeare. or elvis? i f

php and java

2002-01-30 Thread Hans Steinraht
hi, Can someone help me with getting java running with php. I'm just new to php and read that I have to compile php4 with java-supprt in it. For that I think I need some php-sourcecode to do it. I have installed the php4-package, but I can't find anything that I can compile. Also I can't find any

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. [Thanks!]

2002-01-30 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, having uninstalled tiger and cfingerd the problem didn't return for some days. So it seems one of them was the culprit. Why a tiger or cfingerd cronjob could lead to a situation where most programs can't start anymore remains a mystery to me. Thanks to all who helped! Andreas Goesele PS: I

Re: Fetchmail locking up

2002-01-30 Thread Bob Thibodeau
It sounds like you're set to download only unread messages and these 11 have been marked as read even though the initial download didn't complete. Try running a session explicitly telling fetchmail to get all messages. I'm in Windows hell right now, so I can't tell you how to do that. HTH Bob Q

Re: printcap problem

2002-01-30 Thread Jeff
eric, 2002-Jan-30 12:42 -0500: > >lp|hplj4l|HP Laserjet 4L:\ > > :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:\ > > :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ > > :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet4l-filter:\ > > :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: > > > > > >but it still not print, if I run lpd, I got: Did you

Re: install

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 04:44:10PM +, Krzysztof wrote: > Witam! > Mam takie pytanko: Jak skonfigurowa? bezpieczny serwerek dost?powy na > SDI ?. Dodatkowo wyposa?ony w Firewall kt?ry zapewni bezpiecze?stwo > na wysokim poziomie). English in the list please... I don't know what SDI is. If

Re: potato boot floppy

2002-01-30 Thread scook
I kept trying, changing to idepci flavor and using different diskettes, and finally got one to format without errors. Now I am just using lilo on hda and when I give up I dd if/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 (from page 137 of _Running Linux_) My big problem now is hard disk errors that

console-common and an unwanted amiga keymap

2002-01-30 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, all efforts to apt-get upgrade aor install new packages fail due to a problem setting up console-common. the error message is below. I've tried setting the warning levels in Debconf at low to see a more helpful message. Can anyone spot how to fix this? [~]: dpkg --configure -a Setting

woody iso

2002-01-30 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! Can someone please tell me where to get the latest woody (testing) working woody iso image. Regards/Lep pozdrav Boštjan Müller -- [*] Boštjan Müller - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://neonatus.net/~neonatus [*] [*]GPG/PGP key -> finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED], DSA id: 0x9B2FF108[*] [*] Celular

Fetchmail locking up

2002-01-30 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, For years now I've used fetchmail to get mail and now its suddenly stopped working. What happens is that fetchmail seems to freeze instead of flushing the account. Its set to pick up every minute...it takes several minutes on just one of my mailboxes and thus never actually gets any mail

Re: potato boot floppy

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 06:32:04AM -0500, Sam Cook wrote: > I am a new user trying to install vanilla potato from an existing dos > partition. Everything seems to go okay until I try to create a boot > disk. > I get errors with the format of the floppy (invariably). Dos system has > no problems wi

Re: sound module for CS4236 in Potato-r4?

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 08:17:41PM -0800, Klaus Neumann wrote: > Hi, > Can't find the right sound module for my CS4236 in Debian potato r4. Any hint > will be appreciated. Thanks! This is from kernel 2.2.19, Documentation/sound/README.OSS Crystal CS4232 and CS4236 based cards such as AcerMagic

Printer bandwagon

2002-01-30 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Although I hate using this as a solution to problems, rebooting got my printer working. However, in light of the fact that apsfilter didn't offer me an HP4L, I chose just the HP4. This is not the right printer specs obviously. How do I know change the specs to what I need? Thanks, Curtis

Re: How to use the BTS?

2002-01-30 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
martin f krafft wrote: > you either email > > @debian.org > > or you use the tool 'reportbug' in the equally named package, which > makes it a lot easier. Umm, of course! Thanks, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpgbxB6wyOFK.pgp Description: P

Re: Mailing list recomendation

2002-01-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.30.2042 +0100]: > I have a Potato system with sendmail and need to run only a few small > lists (<100 users) but for different domains. the only one i would suggest, which i actually find better than any of the usual ones, including mail

Re: Mailing list recomendation

2002-01-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.30.2052 +0100]: > I would go with Mailman. It's served me well for many lists. i would too, but not with the potato version. get 2.0 at the very least because 1.x lacks some features. i don't remember which, but i had to switch to fall in love

lpstat -- connection refused

2002-01-30 Thread benfoley
i had a functioning cups system going up to two days ago. all of a sudden, i get "connection refused" when i run lpstat, run in response to a can't connect from the browser. essentially, localhost:631 is refusing connections. has anybody had that or have any clue as to why that port would reject

jed-testing driving me mad by redefining "Alt-F" (Esc-F)

2002-01-30 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, is there anyone who can help me with disabling this f*ck*ng keystrokes to enable the menus??? I already edited /usr/share/jed/lib/jed.rc by changing the following lines: % enable_menu_keys (); enable_top_status_line (0); If I'm not totally mistaken this used to do the trick in

Re: x-configuration (initialization) problem - MOUSE

2002-01-30 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Dear Claus, give more info: What sort of mouse? What connection? Do you use gpm? What is written in XF86Config? Regards, Joachim On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 05:36:54PM +0100, Claus ladekjær wilson wrote: > Mouse doesn't work. At first it runs really fast and nobody knows where. > Then it disappear

pflogsumm for sendmail?

2002-01-30 Thread andrew . clark
Just wondering if anyone knew of a package/app that works like pflogsumm but operates on sendmail logs? Please CC replies to me. R, Andrew Clark

Re: Why do I need all these apt-howto-* files?

2002-01-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 10:34:04 -0800 Anton Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Submitted 30-Jan-02 by Ron Johnson: > > > > $ dpkg -l | grep apt-howto > > ii apt-howto1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT > > ii apt-howto-en 1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT > > ii apt-howto-

keyboard issues on debian => RH sessions -- inputrc?

2002-01-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
I'm having some issues with input and display artifacts on ssh sessions from a Debian box to several RH boxen here at work. Typically, a shell session works OK, but vi, vim, and less have problems usually with backspace keys (backspace/delete seem to be mapped oddly). This also seems to be related

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-30 Thread Preben Randhol
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/01/2002 (19:15) : > > The second part applies. I remember reading that computer users should > take hourly breaks. Walk away from your box and stare into a gray wall. > I should know. I used to do DTP where I'd be staring at the screen far > too long figuring if

bash history file

2002-01-30 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, My commands are no longer recorded in .bash_history HISTFILE. HISTFILESIZE, & HISTSIZE are all set. What have i done? This is apparent in my user login, commands as root are still recorded. Thanks for any tips. Ian -- Ian Balchin http://www.imaginet.co.za/fables This machine is running

Re: nVidia GeForce Ti

2002-01-30 Thread Jason Majors
> >>I can now get a decent resolution but X is acting very weird, the system > >>locks up every now and then for 5-10 seconds (the mouse cursor > >>dissapears when that happens) and then returns to normal. > >> > >>It's obviously not happy. :o) > >> > >I've had similar problems on a TNT2, GeForce

Re: Jumping on the printer setup problem bandwagon

2002-01-30 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Trying "a2ps" yields the same results were I to try "lpr": i.e., sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1 connected to 'localhost' requesting printer [EMAIL PROTECTED] error 'LINK_TRANSFER_FAIL' sending str '^Blp' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] job '[EM

Re: nVidia GeForce Ti

2002-01-30 Thread Didier Malenfant
Did you manage to use the 'nv' driver instead? I couldn't get the GeForce3 to work with that. Jason Majors wrote: I can now get a decent resolution but X is acting very weird, the system locks up every now and then for 5-10 seconds (the mouse cursor dissapears when that happens) and then retu

RE: Mailing list recomendation

2002-01-30 Thread Jeremy L. Gaddis
As Brian Clark already suggested, I'd have to agree with mailman. I can't comment on any of the other list programs as I haven't used any of them. I've been running mailman and haven't felt the need to explore any other options. j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -Original Mess

Re: nVidia GeForce Ti

2002-01-30 Thread Jason Majors
> I can now get a decent resolution but X is acting very weird, the system > locks up every now and then for 5-10 seconds (the mouse cursor > dissapears when that happens) and then returns to normal. > > It's obviously not happy. :o) I've had similar problems on a TNT2, GeForce2 MX, and GeForce3

sound problem within gnome

2002-01-30 Thread Karlheinz Nolte
Hi, I have a strange sound problem within gnome. I ask this already on the german list, however nobody could help me so far. I can play any sound file using the esdplay command when gnome is running. However no sound events are played automatically. And when I use the play button in the gnome con

Re: Jumping on the printer setup problem bandwagon

2002-01-30 Thread Andre Berger
* Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-01-30 14:46 -0500: > Background info: Using potato > installed: lprng > installed: apsfilter > > Apsfilter seems to have successfully set up my printer. I assume this as it > successfully printed the test sheet. When I try to print any file from bash

Re: Mailing list recomendation

2002-01-30 Thread Brian Clark
* Erik van der Meulen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Jan 30. 2002 14:44]: [...] > - sympa > - mailman > - fml > - smartlist > - listar I would go with Mailman. It's served me well for many lists. > I would welcome recomendations for the one that would suit my needs > best. Ease of installation, configur

Re: nVidia GeForce Ti

2002-01-30 Thread Didier Malenfant
Hi, I'm also trying to get a Leadtek card with the GeForce3 Ti 500 to work under 2.2r4. I couldn't get it to work under XFree3.3 (would only display in 640x480 8bit) so I upgraded to XFree4.1.0 with Nvidia's own drivers. I can now get a decent resolution but X is acting very weird, the syst

Re: nVidia GeForce Ti

2002-01-30 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:27:02AM -0800, Tongke Xue wrote: > Greetings! > I have a nVidia GeForce Ti500 AGP graphics card. It > worked (probably not at fullest though) under RedHat > 7.2 ... I tried setting it up under Debian 2.2r4 ... > but had no luck. Anyone with suggestions/past > experience

Jumping on the printer setup problem bandwagon

2002-01-30 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Background info: Using potato installed: lprng installed: apsfilter Apsfilter seems to have successfully set up my printer. I assume this as it successfully printed the test sheet. When I try to print any file from bash (i.e., cat printcap > /dev/lp0), however, paper just runs through the prin

Mailing list recomendation

2002-01-30 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Hi all - I am looking for a mailing list server to replace Majordomo since that does not seem to be available in Debian anymore. I have a Potato system with sendmail and need to run only a few small lists (<100 users) but for different domains. A search in Potato packages shows: - sympa - mailma

Re: printcap problem

2002-01-30 Thread eric
Kurc, Marcin A. wrote: why do you run lpd from a command line? lpd is already running, use 'lpr' to print do this cp /var/tmp/printcap /etc/printcap /etc/init.d/lprng stop /etc/init.d/lprng start lpr /etc/group -Original Message- From: eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

exim routers, local delivery of remote address

2002-01-30 Thread Vineet Kumar
Hi, I was playing with my exim configuration last night, and I did manage to get it to do what I want it to do, but I'm not sure it's the best way (it doesn't feel like it's the Right Way). Here's what I'm trying to do: this config is running on my desktop machine, called gobo. My mailserver run

RE: printcap problem

2002-01-30 Thread Kurc, Marcin A.
why do you run lpd from a command line? lpd is already running, use 'lpr' to print do this cp /var/tmp/printcap /etc/printcap /etc/init.d/lprng stop /etc/init.d/lprng start lpr /etc/group -Original Message- From: eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 12:15 PM

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Re: printcap problem

2002-01-30 Thread eric
Kurc, Marcin A. wrote: Sorry, my mistake. Magicfilterconf generates printcap file in /var/tmp Printer name Short name Spool dirDevice Input filter --- HP Laserjet 4 hplj4l /var/spool/lpd/hplj4 /dev

RE: printcap problem

2002-01-30 Thread Kurc, Marcin A.
Sorry, my mistake. Magicfilterconf generates printcap file in /var/tmp Printer name Short name Spool dirDevice Input filter --- HP Laserjet 4 hplj4l /var/spool/lpd/hplj4 /dev/lp1 ljet4l * Is this o

Re: printcap problem

2002-01-30 Thread eric
Kurc, Marcin A. wrote: carefully read magicfilterconf messages your new printcap is in /tmp Marcin Kurc CAD Systems Administrator Cooper-Standard Automotive -Original Message- From: eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 11:11 AM To: debian-user; [EMAIL PROT

Re: printcap problem

2002-01-30 Thread Andre Berger
* eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-01-30 13:13 -0500: > after I run magicfilterconf, choose all default, hp laserjet 4 and > related filter > my /etc/printcap still have nothing. > > actaully my printer is brother laser mfc 8500, I ever configure it as > mfc8300 at rh7.2, it work good there,(lprng,

Re: Why do I need all these apt-howto-* files?

2002-01-30 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 30-Jan-02 by Ron Johnson: > > $ dpkg -l | grep apt-howto > ii apt-howto1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT > ii apt-howto-en 1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT > ii apt-howto-ko 1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT > ii apt-howto-pl 1.7.6-4

Re: Why do I need all these apt-howto-* files?

2002-01-30 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Ron Johnson quotation: > $ dpkg -l | grep apt-howto > ii apt-howto1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT > ii apt-howto-en 1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT > ii apt-howto-ko 1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT > ii apt-howto-pl 1.7.6-4

nVidia GeForce Ti

2002-01-30 Thread Tongke Xue
Greetings! I have a nVidia GeForce Ti500 AGP graphics card. It worked (probably not at fullest though) under RedHat 7.2 ... I tried setting it up under Debian 2.2r4 ... but had no luck. Anyone with suggestions/past experience? Thanks, --Tong-Ke Xue __

Re: ETH interface in full duplex mode

2002-01-30 Thread Jeff
Jos?, 2002-Jan-30 14:59 +0100: > hi all ! > > > how to verify if an ETH interface is in fdx (full duplex) mode ? > something in /proc ?? > > if the iface is in half mode , how to force it in full mode ? > > thx 4 any help. > Jos?. You can try using ifport to change on the fly, that is if the d

RE: printcap problem

2002-01-30 Thread Kurc, Marcin A.
carefully read magicfilterconf messages your new printcap is in /tmp Marcin Kurc CAD Systems Administrator Cooper-Standard Automotive -Original Message- From: eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 11:11 AM To: debian-user; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: printcap pr

Why do I need all these apt-howto-* files?

2002-01-30 Thread Ron Johnson
$ dpkg -l | grep apt-howto ii apt-howto1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT ii apt-howto-en 1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT ii apt-howto-ko 1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT ii apt-howto-pl 1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT ii apt-howto-pt-br

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-30 Thread csj
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:18:46 +0100 Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/01/2002 (11:13) : > > > > Oh c'mon. There's a reason for the fish. If you see the fish, it simply > > means that "You're spending too much time with your computer. Prolonged > > expo

printcap problem

2002-01-30 Thread eric
after I run magicfilterconf, choose all default, hp laserjet 4 and related filter my /etc/printcap still have nothing. actaully my printer is brother laser mfc 8500, I ever configure it as mfc8300 at rh7.2, it work good there,(lprng, I installed it) it also work good at mandrake8.0(cups) hope

Re: announcing documentation on setting up exim with spamassasin

2002-01-30 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:35:41 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, as for not getting X-Spam-Status, take a (real) message in a file > (call it "msg"). What does : > > $ cat msg | spamc -f | grep -i spam > > output? It should outupt the X-Spam headers and the SPAM: report (if > there was

Re: base-passwd fixed?

2002-01-30 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Michael P. Soulier quotation: > I saw the warning about base-passwd being broken, and not to upgrade. I > searched and found this > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=130735 > > Is this problem fixed? This isn't the same problem as the one that gen

Re: pcmcia support in r3.0

2002-01-30 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Pieter De Troyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm installing debian woody (r3.0) on a laptop. I want to do a > network-install. The bootfloppies I 've got don't seem to get my network > working right. I loaded (manually, because mdprobe didn't do it) the > following modules: > > pcmcia_core > i8

Re: Come and see Debian at LinuxWorld!

2002-01-30 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 06:29:06AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: | If you are in the New York area, come and see us at the LinuxWorld | conference and expo in the Jacob Javits Center today though Friday. We're | in booth #29 in the .org pavillion. | | You can see Debian on a variety of architectu

Re: General Update Hints Potato->Woody

2002-01-30 Thread John Kuhn
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 09:35:37PM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > Hi! > > Is there something like a "upgrade HOWTO" describing upgrading > Potato->Woody in more detail? If so, pointers are most welcome. > > Is it "safe" to upgrade to Woody/testing at present or may it leave the > system unusable?

x-configuration (initialization) problem - MOUSE

2002-01-30 Thread Claus ladekjær wilson
Mouse doesn't work. At first it runs really fast and nobody knows where. Then it disappears. I tried to work around with /etc/X11/XF86Config on basis of older XF86Config's but with no good result. What is wrong? Greetings Claus Wilson

pcmcia support in r3.0

2002-01-30 Thread Pieter De Troyer
Hi I'm installing debian woody (r3.0) on a laptop. I want to do a network-install. The bootfloppies I 've got don't seem to get my network working right. I loaded (manually, because mdprobe didn't do it) the following modules: pcmcia_core i82365 pcnet_cs ds 8390 the led's on the pcmcia connec

Re: Installing Debian over Network with the e100-driver

2002-01-30 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
Hanno =?iso-8859-15?q?B=F6ck?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have a Sony PCG-GR114MK-Notebook. It has an Intel Network card and it seems that it can only be installed with the intel e100-driver. The e100-driver is only in the nonfree-part of debian and there only as a source. the eep

BIND slave refresh timeout

2002-01-30 Thread martin f krafft
hi all, only recently i started getting these in the logs of one of my slave nameserver: Jan 30 11:19:44.973 general: info: zone dyn.madduck.net/IN: refresh: failure trying master 195.226.187.154#53: timed out Jan 30 11:19:45.663 general: info: zone metrosophia.com/IN: refresh: failure try

Re: AMD's PowerNow?

2002-01-30 Thread Jason Majors
> > So, any comments on how ACPI helps? Can it exploit PowerNow or is it > > something else that makes it run cooler? > > The main trouble with ACPI on Linux appears to be that Linux's support > for it is still in fairly early stages and may or may not be stable > (ACPI is a pretty complex way of

boostrapping woody on PowerMac

2002-01-30 Thread Rich Johnson
Hey folks-- Well, I've been trying to bootstrap woody on an Powermac 8500. I've managed to make it through most of the connection / malformed release / and corrupted package minefield. The packages are all downloaded, validated and extracted, but...how do I get around the "Failure trying to run :

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