Re: apm strangeness

2002-03-05 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi Charles, * Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020306 13:43]: > > --- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Look in /proc. There should be an apm file there. > > If not, linux is NOT using > > apm. > > Okay, no /proc/apm but what could've killed it for > 2.4.17 ? It was working

Re: What shows what an uninstalled package does?

2002-03-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Dave" == Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> Sorry, I was unclear... I was wondering what advantages Dave> grepping/emacsing/lessing /var/lib/dpkg/available has over Dave> apt-cache. Similar to the advantages dselect has, in a way -- I can look at _all_ known packag

Re: AVI/DivX -> MPEG1 converter?

2002-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> there's http://packages.debian.org/ which >> may help. see newbieDoc.sf.net/system/apt-get-intro.html (items >> 7 and 12, specifically) for more ideas... > > Probably blind but I don't see anything there abou

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-03-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Corrin" == Corrin Lakeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Corrin> I've been ignoring this thread for a while, but I thought I'd Corrin> add some support for Harry's point of view here. Actually, I would like to know what that is. Do we have problems with testing/unstable? Yes, that is

Re: Generic file finder question ..what tool or database

2002-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Simon Hepburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 05 Mar 2002 7:25 am, Harry Putnam wrote: >> If I have the name of a file like xpm.h and want to know what package >> contains it. And I find that `apt-cache search xpm.h' doesn't know >> about it. > > apt-cache search only checks package name

Re: AVI/DivX -> MPEG1 converter?

2002-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > there's http://packages.debian.org/ which > may help. see newbieDoc.sf.net/system/apt-get-intro.html (items > 7 and 12, specifically) for more ideas... Probably blind but I don't see anything there about finding files that are not installed. (not packa

Re: Redhat to Debian?

2002-03-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 07:59:46AM -0500, infotechsys wrote: > Hi, > Is there a HOWTO on how to go from > a redhat system to Debian system? If > so, couls someone point me to it. I could find > anything at the Debian site. > Thanks. > Wayne I think someone else already mentioned major configur

Re: Disabling interactive init on Debian

2002-03-05 Thread Michael Danicich
This, as far as I know, is actually referring to the feature in Red Hat (and Red Hat variants, like Mandrake) where you can press 'i' while init is starting. This allows you to interactively choose which things you want to run and which you want skipped. To answer the original question: don'

Re: OT: Aliens in the heavans (was Re: seti@home)

2002-03-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 17:19, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 14:13, Gary Turner wrote: > > > I've been running setiathome on my winboxes and am considering adding my > > > linbox to the mix. So, the question is what is the appropriate > >

Re: The quest for rodent power

2002-03-05 Thread Simon Hepburn
On Wednesday 06 Mar 2002 2:02 am, Harry Putnam wrote: > That gives me some almost laughable output: > > root # /usr/sbin/gpm -D -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -Rraw > Alarm clock Could that be a wake up call ? Purge gpm. Reinstall it. Simon Hepburn.

Re: XFree86 4.1.x ATI Radeon support?

2002-03-05 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 20:33, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > So, can I get myself a Radeon card? Yes you can. I have Radeon VE, which is a Radeon 7500 but suped up... It runs fine under E... also I personally think it runs better than under windows. And if you check on xfree86.org you can check compatib

Re: The quest for rodent power

2002-03-05 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 06:09:29PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > Yes, both configs the ones that work for X and the ones that don't > have been posted in the last 2 hours or so. Maybe a little longer by > now. saw them. There still is this delay

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-03-05 Thread Simon Hepburn
On Wednesday 06 Mar 2002 2:25 am, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > Firstly, stable vs woody. We recently had a thread on -devel where we > concluded that ordinary users are best running testing. You can't complain > they have a hard time installing testing when that is what we tell them to > run. Yes t

Re: The quest for rodent power

2002-03-05 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 06:02:26PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > /usr/sbin/gpm -D -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -Rraw ... > That gives me some almost laughable output: > > root # /usr/sbin/gpm -D -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -Rraw > Alarm clock I've checked the gpm s

Re: ALSA modules not loading

2002-03-05 Thread Caleb Shay
Let me guess. You used alsaconf to configure alsa, right? I ran into the same problem. If you edit your alsa config file (in /etc/alsa/modutils) you will see the line that contains the snd_dac_etc stuff, just delete the whole line and things should work. Caleb On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 16:23, Rich

Re: XFree86 4.1.x ATI Radeon support?

2002-03-05 Thread Rogério Brito
On Mar 05 2002, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > So, can I get myself a Radeon card? I can't speak about Radeons, but I *can* speak about Rage 128s (used, for instance, in my iBook, which, of course, runs Linux). It works quite well and has xv (among other things) supported

Re: apm strangeness

2002-03-05 Thread Charles Baker
--- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Look in /proc. There should be an apm file there. > If not, linux is NOT using > apm. Okay, no /proc/apm but what could've killed it for 2.4.17 ? It was working just fine before I installed 2.4.18 . = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hacking is a "Good

Re: apm strangeness

2002-03-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Look in /proc. There should be an apm file there. If not, linux is NOT using apm.

kernel-2.4.18-686-image and pcmcia

2002-03-05 Thread Charles Baker
I did an apt-get install of kernel-2.4.18-686 on my Dell Latitude yesterday. Everything looked good, but when I rebooted into 2.4.18, I had no pcmcia network connection. A little investigation showed that the pcmcia modules were installed to /lib/modules/kernel-pcmcia-2.4.18-686 instead of /lib/mod

apm strangeness

2002-03-05 Thread Charles Baker
I had kernel-2.4.17-686-image running just fine w/ apm support on my Dell Latitude. I think it's very nice of the package maintainers to include that, btw. I have the line append="apm=on" in my lilo.conf. Yesterday I installed kernel-2.4.18-686-image. Now when booting back into 2.4.17, wmbattery wo

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-03-05 Thread Corrin Lakeland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been ignoring this thread for a while, but I thought I'd add some support for Harry's point of view here. Firstly, stable vs woody. We recently had a thread on -devel where we concluded that ordinary users are best running testing. You can't

Re: x-forwarding with ssh

2002-03-05 Thread Tom Cook
Vineet Kumar wrote: [snip] > Also, please, please, PLEASE! DON'T do this: > > local$ ssh remote > remote$ export DISPLAY=local:0 # DON'T EVER DO THIS!!! > remote$ xterm > > As others have already explained. You might as well be using telnet. > This defeats the entire purpose of tunneling. What yo

Re: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-05 Thread Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 01:41, Oki DZ wrote: > Michael Marziani wrote: > > I've installed debian quite a few times and it's not a big deal, but > > every once in a while I wish it would just auto-detect my network card, > > graphics card, etc just to save me the trouble of looking them up. Not

DVD players under Linux (was: Re: 2.4 kernels with potato and Movie players)

2002-03-05 Thread Rogério Brito
On Mar 05 2002, user list wrote: > I'm thinking of installing a 2.4 kernel on a potato box. Is there > any problem with stability? Well, you'll have to upgrade some packages first (mainly those related to kernel modules). If the box is not critical (i.e., if it is just a de

Re: The quest for rodent power

2002-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:29:20PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > ... > > Just to make this one stick out amidst all advice given sofar! > >> Be sure that /etc/init.d contains gpm. Check the script that it hasn't >> been disabled, eg. an exit 0 thrown in

Re: problem with modem connection

2002-03-05 Thread Oki DZ
Ulf Martin wrote: Although there is more to do to set up Debian, You might find that you'd set up the system once in your lifetime; so the hassles worth knowing your system deeper. BTW, for the second, third, and so forth installs, you'd always have "cp -avf" handy... :-) So basically, ther

attached: error output for X

2002-03-05 Thread xucaen
I've attached a file conatining the output I am getting from startx. I don't understand it. Can anyone help? xucaen XFree86 Version 3.3.6a / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: xx November 2000 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or

Re: The quest for rodent power

2002-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /usr/sbin/gpm -D -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -Rraw > > The -D should be very helpful here; it should keep gpm running in the > foreground and log messages to stderr. Leave that going on a console to > see what's going wrong. If gpm just won't start at all, that'

Re: Problem with ATI Rage 128 Pro TF

2002-03-05 Thread Anthony and Mary Ann Tantillo
Although this is late, I found the following website was extremely useful in setting up my ATI Xpert 2000 card (AGP). This card uses an ATI Rage 128 chip set http://two.ucdavis.edu/~holland/unix/xpert2000.html Although I am not a graphics card expert (no pun intended), it appears that the XF86 c

Re: x-forwarding with ssh

2002-03-05 Thread Vineet Kumar
* steve downes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020305 01:10]: > debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. that looks good. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xterm > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ vncviewer > Error: Can't open display: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Tha

Re: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-05 Thread user list
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 04:46:23PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 05-Mar-2002 Michael Marziani wrote: > > I've installed debian quite a few times and it's not a big deal, but > > every once in a while I wish it would just auto-detect my network card, > > graphics card, etc just to save m

Re: More on RealPlayer and galeon

2002-03-05 Thread Bill Wohler
Ionut Georgescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 10:18:36PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > Hmm, something is still not rigt here. > > > > I copied that file over, and now about->plugins shows that tyep: In this case you don't need the plug-in at all ;-). Just add a handler fo

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-03-05 Thread Petro
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 04:31:54PM -0600, Pete Harlan wrote: > > I leave gnomeicu running all the time and my process table get filled > > with defunct gnomeicu processes. I have to stop/restart gnomeicu to get > > rid of them. > > I've had this "fork: ..." message happen when I had only around 30

Re: Ugly Fonts

2002-03-05 Thread Simon Hepburn
On Tuesday 05 Mar 2002 9:41 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Wouldn't he have to restart xfs (and xfstt)? No, he has reconfigured X to use the X font server instead of displaying tt fonts directly with the xtt or freetype backend. He would only have to restart the font server if he changed the font se

XFree86 4.1.x ATI Radeon support?

2002-03-05 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Hi, I am looking for a video card for the new Linux only computer. I noticed that /usr/doc/xserver-xfree86/README.ati on my current Woody installations (xserver-xfree86 4.1.0-14) says --> The newer Rage 128 and Radeon chips are not yet supported by --> this driver. Rage 128's and Radeon

Re: a grep question

2002-03-05 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020305 16:13]: > When searching only a single directory, without its subdirectories, you > probably don't really need find; it would do as well in most cases just > to redirect grep's stderr to /dev/null, like this: > >grep "pattern to seach for" files 2>/d

Re: problem with modem connection

2002-03-05 Thread Ulf Martin
Hi Debianicans. Thanx to all! It still doesn't work, but the message is a different one now. See the very end of this mail. > > Finally I made it to this distribution. > > Great. > Although there is more to do to set up Debian, it feels better than the more "commercial" distribs. > > Use "ATM

Re: x-forwarding with ssh

2002-03-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Tom Cook wrote: > My 2 bits worth of experience: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xterm > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: This shouldn't be happening; my results: nujoma:~> ssh -v -X geingob SSH Version OpenSSH-1.2.3, protocol version 1.5. ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xterm debug: Re

Re: How do I turn off the Virtual Desktop?

2002-03-05 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on , March 4, O Polite did write: > > > > a. keep hitting "alt +" until it is no longer virtual > > > > I never got this trick to work. Is this behaviour controlled from > XF86Config-4? I can't see anything in there that indicates that. I'm > using KDE. Might standard KDE key settings be h

Re: Getting lm-sensors to detect fan speed, etc

2002-03-05 Thread Simon Hepburn
On Tuesday 05 Mar 2002 2:54 am, csj wrote: > #cut here > # I2C adapter drivers > # modprobe unknown adapter bt848 #0 using Bit-shift algorithm > # modprobe unknown adapter bt848 #0 using Bit-shift algorithm > i2c-viapro > # I2C chip drivers > eeprom > lm80 > lm75 > #cut here This

Re: Problems printing postscipt with magicfilter

2002-03-05 Thread Jeff
Wolfgang Hlawatsch, 2002-Mar-05 21:49 +0100: > I am fairly new to Linux, and I am just about to install my printserver > with Debian (Potato). > > The printer refuses to print a postscript file by use of lpr. I used > "magicfilterconfig --force" several times, but I receive no printout. I > looked

Re: SoundBlaster Live!, /dev/audio, and bad sound quality

2002-03-05 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, March 3, Rick Macdonald did write: > On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > Greetings, all. > > > > New sound card (actually, new computer). It's a SoundBlaster Live!, so > > I've compiled in support for the emu10k1 module. > > > > Up-to-date potato, kernel 2.2.20, SMP.

Re: SoundBlaster Live!, /dev/audio, and bad sound quality

2002-03-05 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, March 4, dave mallery did write: > On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > Greetings, all. > > > > New sound card (actually, new computer). It's a SoundBlaster Live!, so > > I've compiled in support for the emu10k1 module. > > > > Up-to-date potato, kernel 2.2.20, SMP. >

Re: SoundBlaster Live!, /dev/audio, and bad sound quality

2002-03-05 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, March 4, Dave Sherohman did write: > On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 01:22:38PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > In general, everything works fine, except that sending .au files to > > /dev/audio has really lousy sound quality. You can hear the sound, but > > there's a loud hissing or stati

Re: a grep question [and now an ftp perm ?]

2002-03-05 Thread Oki DZ
justin cunningham wrote: ... I've been reading a linux security book and I believe I recall it saying I'd need to specify an 'unmask' (not sure the spelling here) and subtract bits from 777 to lock down the user's access but that books at home :( There are many ways of doing things in Linux (as

Re: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Mar-2002 Michael Marziani wrote: > I've installed debian quite a few times and it's not a big deal, but > every once in a while I wish it would just auto-detect my network card, > graphics card, etc just to save me the trouble of looking them up. Not > to mention that xfree86setup is a pain

Re: The quest for rodent power

2002-03-05 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:02:17PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:29:20PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > ... > > Just to make this one stick out amidst all advice given sofar! > > > Be sure that /etc/init.d contains gpm. Check the script that it hasn't > > been disabled,

Re: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-05 Thread Oki DZ
Michael Marziani wrote: I've installed debian quite a few times and it's not a big deal, but every once in a while I wish it would just auto-detect my network card, graphics card, etc just to save me the trouble of looking them up. Not to mention that xfree86setup is a pain. Try to ask RedHat

Re: Star Office Installation

2002-03-05 Thread Bob Thibodeau
What's the output of ls -l /usr/local/soffice ? Bob On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 05:26:07PM -0500, Bannerman, Israel wrote: > > To all: > > I just downloaded Star Office and I am trying to install the application. > > Before downloading the file I did: > > mkdir -m 0755 /usr/local/soffice > chown

ALSA modules not loading

2002-03-05 Thread Richard Weil
Yet another ALSA question ... Problems are with a maestro-2 (es1968) soundcard running on 2.4.18-ac3, ALSA compiled from source on an up-to-date Woody system.[Same problems occurred with other kernels, but I never fixed them.] In a nutshell, the ALSA modules won't load automatically. If I use "i

Re: Problems printing postscipt with magicfilter

2002-03-05 Thread Michel Loos
Em Ter, 2002-03-05 às 17:49, Wolfgang Hlawatsch escreveu: > I am fairly new to Linux, and I am just about to install my printserver > with Debian (Potato). > > The printer refuses to print a postscript file by use of lpr. I used > "magicfilterconfig --force" several times, but I receive no printou

RE: Kernel panic on install, Dell Poweredge 350

2002-03-05 Thread Michael Marziani
This happened on a fresh CDROM install of a brand new server with no OS installed. Potato 2.2r5. I fixed it by booting up with a win98 boot disk with CDROM support, and then running D:\install\boot.bat from the CDROM. That worked perfectly. I'm not really sure what the original CD install was tr

Re: a grep question

2002-03-05 Thread Tom Cook
Michael Jinks wrote: [snip] > find /path/to/cgi-bin -type f -exec grep '10.0.0.1' {} \; If I were doing it this way I would use: find /path/to/cgi-bin -type f -exec grep -H '10.0.0.1' {} \; or find /path/to/cgi-bin -type f -exec grep '10.0.0.1' {} \; -print so you know which files the matches

Re: problem with modem connection

2002-03-05 Thread Oki DZ
Ulf Martin wrote: Hi Debians! Finally I made it to this distribution. Great. Now I have a problem connection to the net via modem under Debian: The device itself seems to work (it's actually making a hell of a noise -- how can I stop this), Use "ATM0" as your modem init string. but it

Re: Email Clients

2002-03-05 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"dman" == dsh8290 writes: dman> On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:57:25PM -0500, Bannerman, Israel dman> wrote: Israel> To all: Are there any linux email clients that will work Israel> with an Exchange system? (supporting Mapi) I read Israel> something about Insight but figu

Re: problem with modem connection

2002-03-05 Thread Tom Cook
Ulf Martin wrote: > > Hi Debians! > > Finally I made it to this distribution. > > Now I have a problem connection to the net via modem > under Debian: > The device itself seems to work > (it's actually making a hell of a noise -- > how can I stop this), > but it does not hold the connection. > I

Re: a grep question

2002-03-05 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 03:52 pm, justin cunningham wrote: > I want to search for the 10.ip in the files from > the site's root directory. cd to the root directory and type: grep -r 'your grep search term here' ./* the '-r' flag tells grep to search directories recursively. --kurt

Re: suggestion[data in .sig file]

2002-03-05 Thread Wendell Cochran
Tue, 5 Mar 2002 11:36:15 -0600 will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : >>On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 10:31:00AM -0800, Wendell Cochran wrote: >> A calculated concentration of essential information is surely a useful >> exercise for any novice. Then in time of trouble he (or she) can

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-05 Thread Petro
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:28:30PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Well, it really is too late now, as this was my root partition and I > couldn't unmount it immediately even if I had known what to do. I had > already looked at Midnight commander but your additions were helpful as I > only saw the in

Re: NEWBIE TIP #110 [was Re: suggestion[data in .sig file]]

2002-03-05 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Hans" == Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hans> This tip is bad. It does not work. The first line makes the Hans> following fail (or, I think, in case of bad security on client Hans> succeed but by-pass the ssh-tunnel). no, it works as expected. if the tip had been client> s

Re: x-forwarding with ssh

2002-03-05 Thread Tom Cook
steve downes wrote: > > Tried the -v option & all seemd OK. (listed below) It seems to be > allowing X. > > However it still isn't functioning. > > Sorry for the delay, I decided it might be policy to upgrade the > server to Woody before carrying on but the only difference in this > context is t

Re: a grep question

2002-03-05 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:52:44PM -0800, justin cunningham wrote: > Hi, I read through man on find and grep and am trying to search for an > ip in some files contained in folders but every time I type in grep > options it just hangs. What am I doing wrong? > > Conversely i can go into /site.com/

RE: a grep question [and now an ftp perm ?]

2002-03-05 Thread justin cunningham
Thanks mike, I found what I needed from info i.e. grep -r '10.x' /path/to/be/searched Help says try grep -ld 10.x I tried changing syntax to grep -l-directories 10. or l-directories=read or 'read' and so on but got nothing. What is correct syntax anyways? On a different note someone just asked

Re: ALSA or XMMS problem?

2002-03-05 Thread Stefan Bellon
csj wrote: > On Mon, 04 Mar 2002 08:45:46 +0100 > Stefan Bellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > Already have done that. Anyway: sound now works for users as well. > > It was just a reboot and it worked. Strange. I thought this is > > only necessary on Windows. ;-) > Just caught the thre

Re: a grep question

2002-03-05 Thread DvB
"justin cunningham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I read through man on find and grep and am trying to search for an > ip in some files contained in folders but every time I type in grep > options it just hangs. What am I doing wrong? > > Conversely i can go into /site.com/cgi-bin then cat a

OT: Aliens in the heavans (was Re: seti@home)

2002-03-05 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 14:13, Gary Turner wrote: > > I've been running setiathome on my winboxes and am considering adding my > > linbox to the mix. So, the question is what is the appropriate > > directory to unpack and run this little bippy? How does t

Re: Problems printing postscipt with magicfilter

2002-03-05 Thread Gary Turner
On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 21:49:40 +0100, Wolfgang Hlawatsch wrote: >I am fairly new to Linux, and I am just about to install my printserver >with Debian (Potato). > >The printer refuses to print a postscript file by use of lpr. I used >"magicfilterconfig --force" several times, but I receive no printou

2.4 kernels with potato and Movie players

2002-03-05 Thread user list
I'm thinking of installing a 2.4 kernel on a potato box. Is there any problem with stability? Also, I'm trying to install a DVD player. What is the best linux player with debian? Art Edwards

Re: really stuffed up news system!!!!!!!

2002-03-05 Thread Glyn Millington
Ian Balchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: OK, let me just catch up here!! You are running a. Leafnode? b. slrn on debian stable? on a dial-up machine? On the assumption that all these are answered yes (the debian verson will not make much difference) A. LEAFNODE The _poi

Re: seti@home

2002-03-05 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> P.S. - If we expect _others_ to broadcast, why don't we broadcast > in all directions around the globe, hoping that someone else hears > us? We've been doing that since Tesla, err... Marconi invented the radio. -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer Systems Manager

Re: a grep question

2002-03-05 Thread Craig Dickson
begin justin cunningham quotation: > Hi, I read through man on find and grep and am trying to search for an > ip in some files contained in folders but every time I type in grep > options it just hangs. What am I doing wrong? Hard to be sure, since you haven't shown us the command line you're

Re: a grep question

2002-03-05 Thread Pete Harlan
Well since you don't show what command you actually typed, it's hard to tell you what you did wrong. But this might give you what you're looking for: find /etc -type f | xargs grep -H '10\.' where /etc is the root of whatever tree you want, obviously, and "-type f" tells find to only lis

Re: Kernel panic on install, Dell Poweredge 350

2002-03-05 Thread Corey Halpin
> The last message I get is: "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs > on 01:00" that's a pretty common error if you've borked your kernel install. It means that either you don't have drivers for your hard disk built in the kernel, or that you don't have drivers for your filesystem built

The future of Debian install??

2002-03-05 Thread Michael Marziani
I've installed debian quite a few times and it's not a big deal, but every once in a while I wish it would just auto-detect my network card, graphics card, etc just to save me the trouble of looking them up. Not to mention that xfree86setup is a pain. Is auto-detecting a PS/2 mouse really that ha

Re: The quest for rodent power

2002-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Simon Hepburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looks reasonable.try this from console as root: > > #gpm-mouse-test > > Anything useful ? If not, re-run gpmconfig, when you get to mouse type, type > help. You should see a list of all the supported mice types including some > odd ps2 ones. Suck

Re: backlight off w/o suspend

2002-03-05 Thread Remy Indebetouw
Apologies for any protocol breach; I started this question on debian-laptop, but thought there might be a few more kind people to help on the higher-traffic list. Original question: > I'd like to turn off the backlight when I'm away for the day, but leave > unsuspended so I can connect back from w

Re: home directory permissions

2002-03-05 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Xeno Campanoli wrote: > Actually, I think you just change the permissions in the file Sorry! I meant in the directory /etc/skel! Bleh! > /etc/skel. I'm not sure though, so let us all know if that works. > There may be a umask thing you'll want to change too. -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [E

Re: a grep question

2002-03-05 Thread Michael Jinks
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:52:44PM -0800, justin cunningham wrote: > Hi, I read through man on find and grep and am trying to search for an > ip in some files contained in folders but every time I type in grep > options it just hangs. What am I doing wrong? We don't know unless you show us the pr

Re: The quest for rodent power

2002-03-05 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:36:36PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > >> Mouse doesn't work in X with these settings either. > > > > ofcourse not, because X depends on gpm to repeat the mouse events to > > /dev/gpmdata. Without gpm there won't be anythi

Re: what about /etc/X11/app-defaults?

2002-03-05 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 04:12:42PM +0800, Ren Weili wrote: > > hallo, > I have sent this mail yesterday,but no answer.so it's resent. > > > there is a infinitive loop symlink called app-defaults, what's about > > it? > > Strange! On my system it is a normal directory which contains fil

Star Office Installation

2002-03-05 Thread Bannerman, Israel
To all: I just downloaded Star Office and I am trying to install the application. Before downloading the file I did: mkdir -m 0755 /usr/local/soffice chown me /usr/local/soffice I then downloaded the application to the /usr/local/soffice directory. I then did: chmod 0755 so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-

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2002-03-05 Thread chris chitsinson
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Re: X not starting properly in woody

2002-03-05 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:20:16PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > installed without a hitch except one: xdm didn't > install and no longer runs when I boot and when I > run X I get the grey background with the 'x' > mouse pointer but nothing else. the X server just > sits there. I am able to move the mous

Re: cdrom music

2002-03-05 Thread Craig Dickson
begin csj quotation: > Well, you can sort-of mount an audio CD using the cdfs (kernel) module. > Imagine being able to rip a CD without using cdparanoia. The module > tends to choke on bad disks however, which can have the unfortunate > consequence of locking your cdrom drive until the next rebo

Does anyone have a Voodoo card working right with hw. acceleration????

2002-03-05 Thread Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso
Well, if I install libglide3 on my system XFree reports that it's using DRI with Mesa Voodoo ... as rendered but glxgears drops about 60 FPS where it should to drop A LOT more. If I uninstall glide then XFree reports that it's NOT using DRI but INDIRECT acceleration and glxgears drops about 100

re not seeing mail postings

2002-03-05 Thread justin cunningham
Hi listmaster, I sent a few posts to the deb user list today but don't see 'any' of them. If you get this; please reply. Thanks, justin

quake2 install problem

2002-03-05 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hello, Yesterday I tried to install quake2 via apt-get. But when installing the quake2-data package, I had to choose between getting the files from: net/cd/... I choose the net, and via ftp (because I don't need a proxy for that). But, the install script uses wget, the location of the file is i

Re: The quest for rodent power

2002-03-05 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:29:20PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: ... Just to make this one stick out amidst all advice given sofar! > Be sure that /etc/init.d contains gpm. Check the script that it hasn't > been disabled, eg. an exit 0 thrown in to stop the script. Indeed check that /etc/init.d/gpm

Re: seti@home

2002-03-05 Thread burningclown
I've used TkSeti some, and it is quite nice. On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Gary Turner wrote: > I've been running setiathome on my winboxes and am considering adding my > linbox to the mix. So, the question is what is the appropriate > directory to unpack and run this little bippy? How does the graphic

what up deb list

2002-03-05 Thread justin cunningham
I sent two emails and have seen zero posted to the list. justin

Re: seti@home

2002-03-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 02:13:16PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > I've been running setiathome on my winboxes and am considering adding my > linbox to the mix. So, the question is what is the appropriate > directory to unpack and run this little bippy? I put it in ~carlf/bin >How does the graphic

problem with modem connection

2002-03-05 Thread Ulf Martin
Hi Debians! Finally I made it to this distribution. Now I have a problem connection to the net via modem under Debian: The device itself seems to work (it's actually making a hell of a noise -- how can I stop this), but it does not hold the connection. I am using a Lucent Winmodem on a Dell Lap

Re: OT: ping puzzler

2002-03-05 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Nigel Pauli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020305 05:36]: > I'd be grateful if someone can set my mind at rest on this one. > > I've got a network 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0. A DHCP server running on NT4 > at 10.0.0.3 looks after a scope running from 10.0.0.25 to 10.0.0.225 > with 10.0.0.200 to 10.0.0.225 e

Re: [Harry Putnam ] Re: Terminfo and emacs

2002-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If this analysis is correct, there is no bug in emacs (well, > there is nothing emacs21 packages can do to avoid this). Just don't > go removing dirs ;-). I generally put things in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp, > which takes precedence over pa

Re: Netscape - no javascript, no import of certificates - please help!

2002-03-05 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi Jeff, many thanks for your input. Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas Goesele, 2002-Mar-05 04:00 +0100: > > I have purged all netscape and communicator packages and installed > > 4.79 from the netscape site into a different location. (Some of you > > recommended so: Thanks!) But it di

RE: Kernel panic on install, Dell Poweredge 350

2002-03-05 Thread justin cunningham
I have the same server and got the same error with all of my potato isos but woody works fine. I've yet to recompile-- I hope that doesn't cause your current problem. justin -Original Message- From: Stan Kaufman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 12:20 PM To: Michae

Re: seti@home

2002-03-05 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 05 March 2002 11:13 am, Gary Turner wrote: > I've been running setiathome on my winboxes and am considering adding > my linbox to the mix. So, the question is what is the appropriate > directory to unpack and run this little bippy? How doe

Re: IP blocked by router. Linux blocked. Win OK

2002-03-05 Thread Vineet Kumar
* hanasaki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020305 12:49]: > Here is the situation. It looks like something in the route is blocking > IP traffice based on the Linux IP stack. The below is repeatable with > Different external IP's assigned from RR to diff NIC w/ diff MAC's > > Win2000 -> RoadRunnderCableM

update-mozilla-chrome seg fault

2002-03-05 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a woody box with KDE from Sid . When trying to install Mozilla from Woody I get the following message: updating mozilla chrome registry /usr/bin/update-mozilla-chrome: line 49: 14658 segmentation fault regxpcom >/dev/null 2>/dev/null any

Re: IP blocked by router. Linux blocked. Win OK

2002-03-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 13:08:02 -0600, hanasaki wrote: > Here is the situation. It looks like something in the route is blocking > IP traffice based on the Linux IP stack. Perhaps you have ECN enabled? See http://lwn.net/2001/0201/kernel.php3 . HTH, Ray -- "A.O.L.. C.I.A.. NSA. Whatever. They

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