Re: [update] Re: CUPS: now pdf files don't print

2002-04-17 Thread David Smead
Run pdf2ps and see if it converts to ps. It could be something is wrong in the pdf file. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On 17 Apr 2002, DvB wrote: > > Apparently, it's just one pdf file in particular that refuses to print > and all others work (or at least all others tha

Re: NOSQL

2002-04-17 Thread Mike Thompson
NOSQL fills all my requirements, which are simple, small table, sport player database eg. A similar interesting database can be found below Starbase: A User Centered Database for Astronomy http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/web/ADASS/adass_proc/adass_95/rollj/rollj.html -- Mike Thompson [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Intermittent System Lockup (long)

2002-04-17 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 17 April 2002 11:29 am, Jamin W. Collins wrote: >yup, snipped it all< Greetings Jamin: I built a box for a young friend as a gift. It is back on my bench now. Seems it has a memory *socket* issue. Installing DIMMS would cause the

Re: view output of process while

2002-04-17 Thread Dave Carrigan
Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to log back into a machine over ssh and 'attach' to a > running process so that one can see the output of, say, a kernel > compile? If you find that you often need to reattach to processes between ssh sessions, look into running scr

GNOME font wierdness

2002-04-17 Thread Aaron Traas
I helped a friend install Debian today. My friend is new to Linux so I decided to install KDE and GNOME, plus a few window managers, and showed him how to use KDM to switch between them. To make a long story short, GNOME does not function properly. I'm a KDE user myself, and haven't tried GNOME in

Re: Allow root to telnet

2002-04-17 Thread Ramesh Panuganty
1. If you are able to telnet as any other user from the same system, probably you are not stuck with tcpwrappers. If not, look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny   2. For the information needed to be added in /etc/securetty, look at my tips in http://panuganty.tripod.com/debiantips/boot

Re: Boot Floppys

2002-04-17 Thread David Kimdon
Hi, debian-boot only deals with problems getting a basic Debian system up, that doesn't include X. I'm forwarding this to debian-user where there are more knowledgable people for this type of problem. -David Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 01:39:39PM -0400 wrote: > Gentlemen/Ladies, > > Have in the past

Re: Allow root to telnet

2002-04-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Michael Watts wrote: > I have had a look through the man pages, and looked into /etc/securetty > but get stuck there. Do I have to add an entry for telnet to securetty > to allow root to login that way? Or is it done elsewhere?? Add ttyp0, etc (I think) to /etc/securetty and

Re: Allow root to telnet

2002-04-17 Thread Dave Price
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:32:45AM +0800, Michael Watts wrote: > Hi, > > I am having trouble with a few services and want to allow root to telnet > to a Debian 2.2r5 system for testing purposes, but can not find the way > to allow this to happen. > Can't you achieve the same thing by connecting a

Re: [update] Re: CUPS: now pdf files don't print

2002-04-17 Thread dman
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:48:32PM -0500, DvB wrote: | Apparently, it's just one pdf file in particular that refuses to print | and all others work (or at least all others that I've tested). I found one of those too. (I think the one I found didn't even display right even in acroread) | This i

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread dman
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:39:32PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: | On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:58:24PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: | > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: | > | > > I notice that "woody" installs a 2.2 kernel instead of a 2.4 | > > kernel. Are the reasons behind that dec

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Grant Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:58:24PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > > > I notice that "woody" installs a 2.2 kernel instead of a 2.4 > > > kernel. Are the reasons behind that decision? > > >

Re: xscreensaver

2002-04-17 Thread Paul Mackinney
Karsten M. Self declaimed: > In a suitable window manager, you can then bind the "lock screen" > command to a key combination. I have a majick three-finger salute that > activates xscreensaver for me, damned convenient. I find this more > useful than, say, an icon button. Cool idea, I will implem

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:58:24PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > I notice that "woody" installs a 2.2 kernel instead of a 2.4 > > kernel. Are the reasons behind that decision? > > 2.2 was current when woody was in development. I'm not sure

Allow root to telnet

2002-04-17 Thread Michael Watts
Hi,   I am having trouble with a few services and want to allow root to telnet to a Debian 2.2r5 system for testing purposes, but can not find the way to allow this to happen.   I have had a look through the man pages, and looked into /etc/securetty but get stuck there. Do I have to add an en

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2002-04-17 Thread Christian Jaeger
With a change back to nnml, the 'Wrong type argument' piece went away and really, I have now a listing of the mails I've always downloaded from emacs. But...: 'Window height 0 too small (after splitting)', I can't open the individual mails. Argh. ChŠ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2002-04-17 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 21:49 Uhr -0500 17.04.2002, Shyamal Prasad wrote: ;;; -*- Mode: Emacs-Lisp -*- I've tried this file (with my name in place of yours and localhost as news server). Since I'm getting mail delivered to /var/mail/chris (what's the format of mail delivered to ~/Mail/spool and how?), I've also

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2002-04-17 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 21:39 Uhr -0500 17.04.2002, Bud Rogers wrote: I ran gnus in Xemacs for a long time and loved it. As I remember, gnus can be built for either Xemacs or Emacs but cannot be compatible with both at the same time. You might want to rebuild/reinstall your gnus with the version of emacsen you inte

Re: Intermittent System Lockup (long)

2002-04-17 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:53:10 -0700 "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > on Wed, Apr 17, 2002, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > - CPU -- a continuous kernel-build loop is a pretty good test. > > > You're looking for SIG-11 errors. > > > > I'll give that a try, how long would you sugg

[update] Re: CUPS: now pdf files don't print

2002-04-17 Thread DvB
Apparently, it's just one pdf file in particular that refuses to print and all others work (or at least all others that I've tested). This is pretty weird, but at least not as serious as I thought at first. DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I *finally* got my HP DeskJet 932C to work with cups

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: > I notice that "woody" installs a 2.2 kernel instead of a 2.4 > kernel. Are the reasons behind that decision? 2.2 was current when woody was in development. > Is the plan to have "stable" 3.0 run a 2.2 kernel? Yes. > I'm planning on building a custom

Re: Running Yahoo Messenger??

2002-04-17 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Shawn McMahon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020417 12:16]: > begin Noah Sombrero quotation: > > > > Go to the Yahoo web site and establish an identity there. > > Or, better yet, don't, since that's an email harvesting service for > spammers now. And even a telephone number harvesting service for > tele

Re: cut-n-pasting links

2002-04-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Rick Pasotto wrote: > How can I cut-n-paste something that shows as a link in Mozilla and/or > the gnome terminal? Every key combination I've tried seems to activate > the link instead of putting the text in the buffer. Highlight the text. This copies. Middle click where yo

Re: debian for embedded...original playstation

2002-04-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, java guru wrote: > Hi., >Is there any debian port i could run on original > playstation ? Any help is appreciated. I don't think any distro's been ported to the PS. At this point, if you want Linux on that hardware, you're likely going to have to do all the gruntwork you

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2002-04-17 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Christian" == Christian Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christian> Does anyone actually use Gnus under Christian> xemacs21-gnome(-nomule)? I've used GNUS to read email in xemacs for at least two years now. On a Solaris box, and xemacs21-nomule on this Debian system. It's a mystery

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2002-04-17 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 17 April 2002 18:46 pm, Christian Jaeger wrote: > Hello > > Beginning to use some emacsen, I prefer XEmacs' handling in X (trying > the 21-gnome-nomule version). But I can't seem to get Gnus fetching > new mail when running it under xemacs. Running Gnus under gnu emacs21 > works fi

Re: Anti-aliased fonts in Mozilla 0.9.9

2002-04-17 Thread Travis Crump
If you roll your own there is a build option --enable-xft which implies that this option should do something, but I don't think it is enabled by default. Alan Shutko wrote: John Krasnay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm running Debian testing and I just got Mozilla 0.9.9. The anti-aliasing wo

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2002-04-17 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello Beginning to use some emacsen, I prefer XEmacs' handling in X (trying the 21-gnome-nomule version). But I can't seem to get Gnus fetching new mail when running it under xemacs. Running Gnus under gnu emacs21 works fine. I have these files on my system: ~/.gnus ~/.xemacs/gnus.el ~/.xema

mkhybrid question

2002-04-17 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I have a question about how to use mkhybrid to create a CD image that can be used from both Mac OS and Windows. There's two ways you can do this. One is to make an ISO9660 filesystem that has both the Apple and the Joliet extensions. The other way is to make an ISO9660 filesystem with the Jo

CUPS: now pdf files don't print

2002-04-17 Thread DvB
I *finally* got my HP DeskJet 932C to work with cups and now I can print test pages from the web front end and ascii pages from the command line using lp, but I can't print pdf file with either acroread or xpdf This was working at first and I printed several documents that I'd been meaning to prin

Re: Mouse problem

2002-04-17 Thread John Hasler
Andy writes: > That is correct and mentioned on the Debian website - potato is no longer > being actively maintained. Potato _is_ being actively maintained, and will continue to be until Woody is released. It is just not having new packages or new versions of old packages added. Security fixes a

Re: Anti-aliased fonts in Mozilla 0.9.9

2002-04-17 Thread Alan Shutko
John Krasnay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running Debian testing and I just got Mozilla 0.9.9. The > anti-aliasing works, but I'm trying to enable subpixel rendering. I've > added `match edit rgba = rgb;' to my /etc/X11/XftConfig, but the > anti-aliasing hasn't changed...it still uses grey fo

RE: Swapfiles

2002-04-17 Thread Wienand Ian
I would have thought it was only on 386 as the the 286 did not have a MMU to handle address translation, protection, etc. > -Original Message- > From: Michael D. Crawford [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:50 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject:

Re: stoppling console logging

2002-04-17 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:27:18PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > /etc/init.d/cron restart > > Whatever that was supposed to do, it didn't make any difference. I think you are trying to get rid of the messages syslog(?) directs to the console. I believe your solution lies in the tweaking of t

Re: Swapfiles

2002-04-17 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I used to do tech support for Microport System V/AT. It was Unix System V ported to 80286 IBM AT's. When I started work there, Microport had swapping. A program would be read into memory in its entirety, or it would be disk resident. It wasn't paged. A program's memory was swapped out to d

Re: Mouse problem

2002-04-17 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 06:06:26PM -0700, David Smead wrote: > Apparently potato doesn't default install to XF86Config-4. I figured it > was best to start with stable before moving to Woody, but maybe stable has > been orphaned. > That is correct and mentioned on the Debian website - potato is no

Re: Mouse problem

2002-04-17 Thread Kent West
David Smead wrote: Jamin, Thanks for the response. Here's what /etc/X11/XF86Config says about the mouse. Section "Pointer" Protocol"Microsoft" Device "/dev/mouse" BaudRate1200 Emulate3Timeout 50 Resolution 100 Buttons 3 Emulate3Buttons EndSe

Re: Why was Galeon droped from STABLE?

2002-04-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 07:22:26PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 12:33:07PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > I believe the reason was something along the lines of galeon was > > dependent upon a version of mozilla that had RC bugs, and both were > > removed but mozilla made it ba

Re: stoppling console logging

2002-04-17 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:24:14AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 08:32:33AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > syslog keeps sending messages to whichever console I happen to be on, > > thus messing up the display. Recently I started getting these messages > > every couple of minut

Re: net connect problem, sleep?

2002-04-17 Thread Michael Wördehoff
Hello Ron Johnson, Jr.  ( Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ! You may have a look in your Kernel-Config. Perhaps you have turned on there APIC or APM or something alike ? Linux won't need the BIOS-Setup. -- Michl. > to the outside world. When I leave the office and the machine is not > > being used

Re: choose slackware or debian?

2002-04-17 Thread David Smead
I'm getting into this discussion late. Slackware 8 is extremely easy to install and configure off the CD set. It's the best example of generic Linux from my config point of view. I did have some issue with partitioning the disk with lots of partitions which I favor. On the other hand Debian app

Re: Swapfiles

2002-04-17 Thread David Smead
I remember `demand paging' on the PDP-11, which predates the VAX. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On 17 Apr 2002, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > Executables, being read-only, are mapped directly from disk and never > > use any swap at all. Only data gets mapped to swap

Re: getting CUPS to work.

2002-04-17 Thread dman
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 03:02:13PM -0700, Patrick Lane wrote: | On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 05:19, dman wrote: | > On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:25:38PM -0700, Patrick Lane wrote: | > | I have a HP DeskJet 880C. I installed CUPS, configured the printer. The | > | CUPS server shows all test pages as being pr

Anti-aliased fonts in Mozilla 0.9.9

2002-04-17 Thread John Krasnay
Hi, I'm running Debian testing and I just got Mozilla 0.9.9. The anti-aliasing works, but I'm trying to enable subpixel rendering. I've added `match edit rgba = rgb;' to my /etc/X11/XftConfig, but the anti-aliasing hasn't changed...it still uses grey for partial pixels. I've even tried putting ga

Re: Mouse problem

2002-04-17 Thread David Smead
Jamin, Thanks for the response. Here's what /etc/X11/XF86Config says about the mouse. Section "Pointer" Protocol"Microsoft" Device "/dev/mouse" BaudRate1200 Emulate3Timeout 50 Resolution 100 Buttons 3 Emulate3Buttons EndSection Apparent

Re: Samba alternative

2002-04-17 Thread dman
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 05:14:40PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: | On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: | | > * curtis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: | > > In a contribution to the Samba alternative discussion: | > > | > > I have heard on beachmark tests, Samba, however, is much faster tha

Re: mutt and my email address

2002-04-17 Thread dman
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:54:25PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: | On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 12:09:28PM -0500, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: | > Greetings, | > Okay, so I'm trying to transition off of pine and Microsoft Outlook and | > move to mutt. I've got most things tweaked the way I like the

Re: Swapfiles

2002-04-17 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Executables, being read-only, are mapped directly from disk and never > use any swap at all. Only data gets mapped to swap. Karsten writes: > Is this a GNU/Linux thing or a more general Unix/POSIX thing? Neither. It's a virtual-memory thing. It's the obvious thing to do as soon as y

Re: choose slackware or debian?

2002-04-17 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 04:04:10PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 19:25, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > > Hello list, > [snip] > > 2. Debian has 3-tier open-developing model; slackware is kind of > > close and conservative in this way > > What is a 3-tier open-development model? stabl

pump / ifupdown bug?

2002-04-17 Thread Marc Mims
I believe I've discovered a minor bug, but I don't know which package I should submit a bug report for. Some guidance would be appreciated. When I boot, /etc/init.d/networking calls /sbin/ifup, which in turn starts the pump daemon when it brings eth0 with a DHCP assigned address. Later (like 40

Re: view output of process while

2002-04-17 Thread Peter Whysall
On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 01:05, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 13:22:18 + > "Rory Campbell-Lange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is it possible to log back into a machine over ssh and 'attach' to a > > running process so that one can see the output of, say, a kernel > > compile? >

Re: Emacs advice,what to install?

2002-04-17 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Henrik Enberg quotation: > > Nope, It is a way of life, the only religion worth following. You can spot an Emacs user by the brand-new tennis shoes poking out from under the purple sheet. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com

Re: Mouse problem

2002-04-17 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:21:13 -0700 (PDT) "David Smead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NFS looks like it starts OK this time but I haven't tried it yet because > this time around I have problems with X. Everything works but the > middle button on a Logitech mouse which uses the M$ protocol. Nothing

Re: ispell

2002-04-17 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Arthur H. Edwards,1,505-853-6042,505-256-0834 quotation: > > /usr/lib/ispell > > is gone. I have tried installing, removing and installing, purging and > installing. So far nothing has worked. dpkg -L ispell ...will show you what files are in that package. There are none in /usr/lib/i

solved - Re: dell lattitude - console screen size

2002-04-17 Thread Dave Price
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:01:44AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 03:11:26PM -0600, Dave Price wrote: > > [ snip ] > > AFAIR (Haven't used a latitude for 'bout a year), Fn+F7 should help you > out here. It might not be F7, but it *should* be labelled "Font". The > BIOS s

Mouse problem

2002-04-17 Thread David Smead
I've used RH and Slackware since 1994, and would like to use Debian. My first net install of potato give me 4 days of fits with NFS, at which time I did a reinstall with initialized partitions from scratch. NFS looks like it starts OK this time but I haven't tried it yet because this time around

Re: Setting up a DHCP connection

2002-04-17 Thread David Smead
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO/ -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello > > My work is currently organizing the installation of a broadband > internet connection (via a digital set top box) into my home. The > intention bei

Re: view output of process while

2002-04-17 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 13:22:18 + "Rory Campbell-Lange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to log back into a machine over ssh and 'attach' to a > running process so that one can see the output of, say, a kernel > compile? I would think it would be easier to redirect the output (stdout

view output of process while

2002-04-17 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Is it possible to log back into a machine over ssh and 'attach' to a running process so that one can see the output of, say, a kernel compile? -- Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: Running Yahoo Messenger??

2002-04-17 Thread Addis Perez
YES! gaim is _the_ way to go! apt-get the latest version and you even get nice emoticons :) It has good functionality. I highly recommend it! On Wednesday 17 April 2002 06:39 am, Jeff wrote: > Try using gaim, it provides good Yahoo Messenger support and > has proxy support built-in. Addis ".

isync: the package dreams are made of (was: Someone tell me the secret to mutt)

2002-04-17 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
isync is the software package i've wanted for at least five years. i frequently say to myself that it would be great to be able to use fetchmail bidirectionally to keep imap folders in sync. isync does that, and as a bonus i don't have to use fetchmail. woohoo (this message sent from evolution

Re: Setting up a DHCP connection

2002-04-17 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Wednesday 17 April 2002 07:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would be very grateful if anyone could give me some pointers as to > how to set-up DHCP or a good source of information on the subject. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=linux+dhcp+client First result displayed: http://www.tldp

Re: Setting up a DHCP connection

2002-04-17 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 00:19:34 +0100 (BST) "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would be very grateful if anyone could give me some pointers as to > how to set-up DHCP or a good source of information on the subject. It tends to be easy unless the remote end is looking for some particu

Re: Bug#143343: ITP: webcamd -- Capture images from video devices and upload or save it in a directory

2002-04-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Julien Danjou wrote on Wed Apr 17, 2002 um 10:45:10PM: > * Package name: webcamd > Version : 0.7.6 > Upstream Author : Pierre Dinh-van <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://webcamd.tuxfamily.org/ > * License : GPL > Description : Capture images fr

Re: ispell

2002-04-17 Thread ktb
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 03:39:08PM -0600, Art Edwards wrote: > Thanks for the recommendation. Does this integrate easily with > emacs/xemacs? > I don't use emacs so don't know for sure but it is claimed to be a drop in replacement for ispell. I use it with mutt and off the command line. kent --

Setting up a DHCP connection

2002-04-17 Thread james
Hello My work is currently organizing the installation of a broadband internet connection (via a digital set top box) into my home. The intention being that it will be mainly used to network a company Windose laptop. The installation technician saw my Debian box (Woody on a Compaq Professional Wo

Re: dell lattitude - console screen size

2002-04-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 03:11:26PM -0600, Dave Price wrote: > [ snip ] > > Only question is - does anyone know what linux boot commands i need to > use to get the console screens to use the whole display - right now they > are 80x25, but with a ~1.5" margin all the way around the border - AFAIR

Problem installing SMC 8013wc NIC

2002-04-17 Thread rh . ccm
Hello, I am trying to install Debian Potato on an Compaq Prolinea 4/50 with an SMC network card, and am having a problem. When I go to "Configure the device driver modules" and then to the "net - Drivers for network interface card..." step, it won't install the modules for the network card.

Re: X

2002-04-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:57:49PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 05:36:27PM -0400, Aravind Vinnakota wrote: > >Hi all, > > Somehow I successfully installed Debian 2.2r6 on my Ultra 5 sparc. But I > >having trouble in using X. Whenever I use X, I get the following error > > >

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2002-04-17 Thread Anssi J. Alhonen
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Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Herbert Xu
Xeno Campanoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, I can't get 2.2.20 by default. I don't see it on stable, and > last time I asked about it I was told to get it off "testing". Kindof > bad since security listings strongly recommend updating production > systems to 2.2.20. 2.2.19 in Debian's

Re: Why was Galeon droped from STABLE?

2002-04-17 Thread Brian Nelson
Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020416 20:10]: > > > > Indeed, having now done an upgrade myself (I use apt-get, not dselect) > > I see that the latest mozilla that is in testing is what would > > force my (old) galeon package out. I haven't tried, but I w

Re: dell lattitude - console screen size

2002-04-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Dave Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.17.2311 +0200]: > Only question is - does anyone know what linux boot commands i need to > use to get the console screens to use the whole display - right now they > are 80x25, but with a ~1.5" margin all the way around the border - install the

Re: Gnome-terminal problems.

2002-04-17 Thread dave mallery
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Michael A. Nachlinger wrote: > Having problems getting gnome-terminal to work after an update. > > Messages- > > Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation > Gdk-Warning **: ISO8859-1 > Gdk-Warning **: ISO8859-1 > gnome-terminal:relocation error: > gnome-terminal

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 02:10:17PM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > Actually, I can't get 2.2.20 by default. I don't see it on stable, and > last time I asked about it I was told to get it off "testing". Kindof > bad since security listings strongly recommend updating production > systems to 2.2.20

Re: [headed OT] Re: scripting

2002-04-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Eric d'Alibut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.17.0500 +0200]: > I see no one has commented on your example, which I take as proof > positive that this entire thread belongs in a museum somewhere, perhaps > next to the 'How many angels can dance on the head of a pin' scholastic > debates.

Re: getting CUPS to work.

2002-04-17 Thread Patrick Lane
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 05:19, dman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:25:38PM -0700, Patrick Lane wrote: > | I have a HP DeskJet 880C. I installed CUPS, configured the printer. The > | CUPS server shows all test pages as being printed, however, the printer > | receives no data. > > That's a parall

Re: X

2002-04-17 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 05:36:27PM -0400, Aravind Vinnakota wrote: >Hi all, > Somehow I successfully installed Debian 2.2r6 on my Ultra 5 sparc. But I >having trouble in using X. Whenever I use X, I get the following error > >Fatal server error: >No valid modes found. > >The whole error can be see

Re: dell lattitude - console screen size

2002-04-17 Thread Joshua Penix
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 14:11, Dave Price wrote: > Only question is - does anyone know what linux boot commands i need to > use to get the console screens to use the whole display - right now they > are 80x25, but with a ~1.5" margin all the way around the border - On most laptops that's up to you

Re: System-Native LDAP authentication client on Debian 2.2 ?

2002-04-17 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Hi, ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does Linux Debian 2.2 accepts a system-native LDAP authentication > client ? > > The aim is to authenticate SUN Solaris and several Linux > Distributions(especially Debian 2.2) stations with iPlanet Directory > server. The authentication process must be base

Re: net connect problem, sleep?

2002-04-17 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On 17 Apr 2002 16:25:18 -0500 "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 19:47, Ric Otte wrote: > > but I couldn't find any power saving system > > turned on in the bios (snip) > > Have you looked in the BIOS setup program. based on his statement that you quoted, I would s

X

2002-04-17 Thread Aravind Vinnakota
Hi all, Somehow I successfully installed Debian 2.2r6 on my Ultra 5 sparc. But I having trouble in using X. Whenever I use X, I get the following error Fatal server error: No valid modes found. The whole error can be seen at http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~aravind/error/X_error Any suggestions will b

Problems with libgtk1.2

2002-04-17 Thread Art Edwards
I'm reposting this with a more enticing subject line. During a dist-upgrade apt-get failed to replace libgtk1.2-common because it couldn't overwrite /usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/gtk+.mo because it is also part of the libgtk1.2 package. Do I have to remove libgtk1.2 and reinstall libgtk1.2

Re: ispell

2002-04-17 Thread Art Edwards
Thanks for the recommendation. Does this integrate easily with emacs/xemacs? Art Edwards On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 02:08:24PM -0500, ktb wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 12:23:40PM -0600, Arthur H. > Edwards,1,505-853-6042,505-256-0834 wrote: > > After a testing dist-upgrade I lost ispell. The ent

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 02:10:17PM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > I did. I didn't find the answer to my question. Can you tell > > > me which section explains the reasons why Debian still uses a > > > 2.2.20 kernel by default instead of a 2.4 kernel like most > > > other distros? > > Actually,

Re: net connect problem, sleep?

2002-04-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 19:47, Ric Otte wrote: > I am running Debian 2.2.17 on my office machine connected to a university > network. When I'm in my office things work well, and I am connected well to > the outside world. When I leave the office and the machine is not being used, > it cannot be pin

Re: ispell

2002-04-17 Thread Art Edwards
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 12:00:29PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > Do you have an ispell-dictionary package installed (iamerican, > ibritish, etc., etc.)? The ispell package itself does not use > /usr/lib/ispell. That was the problem. Thanks. > > Bob > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 12:23:40PM -0600, Art

Re: Samba alternative

2002-04-17 Thread Andrew Perrin
Except that the OP said he was dropping Windows hosts, so this concern is irrelevant. -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Xeno Campanoli
> I did. I didn't find the answer to my question. Can you tell > > me which section explains the reasons why Debian still uses a > > 2.2.20 kernel by default instead of a 2.4 kernel like most > > other distros? Actually, I can't get 2.2.20 by default. I don't see it on stable, and last time I a

dell lattitude - console screen size

2002-04-17 Thread Dave Price
Well, so far we have much success. I have now successfully installed woody from the new isolinux minicd that is at debian.org alongside win2k on a small partition borrowed from the win-os hard drive. All is well - the Xirxom pc-card and dhcp 'just worked' and we are up and running with a nice lit

Re: choose slackware or debian?

2002-04-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 19:25, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello list, [snip] > 2. Debian has 3-tier open-developing model; slackware is kind of > close and conservative in this way What is a 3-tier open-development model? -- ++ | Ron Johnson

Re: Intermittent System Lockup (long)

2002-04-17 Thread James D Strandboge
> Originally, I suspected the problem had something to do with system load > and that it was simply happening more often with Mozilla due to the load > that Mozilla placed on the system. Then I suspected that the problem > might be memory related and only showing itself when the system was using >

Re: Help installing packages (newbie but refusing to give up)

2002-04-17 Thread Karsten Heymann
* Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020417 19:44]: > On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 18:27, GQ Kokidko wrote: > > I am a new user and have installed the base system of the stable debian > > linux on hdb1 and windows 2000 on hda1. I can boot to linux and windows > > and > > have lilo configured properly b

Re: a closed bug reappears

2002-04-17 Thread ben
On Wednesday 17 April 2002 01:35 pm, ben wrote: > On Wednesday 17 April 2002 01:08 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > About a month ago a bug (not yet archived) that I had filed was closed. > > I couldn't reproduce the bug after using a newer upstream version. The > > problem is, is that the bug is b

Re: Alternative to DEBIAN-CD

2002-04-17 Thread David Bell
I find this works quite well, but, the version of apt from Woody or Sid must be used. On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 00:10, ben wrote: > apt-get -t testing , or have i missed the gist of this? > > ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: Apache and mod_ssl

2002-04-17 Thread David Bell
Yes, if you created the site certificate with mod-ssl-makecert. During the process of creating the certificate, there's an option to add a passphrase. If you don't want to have to enter a password at each apache startup, then you don't want to add this passphrase. If you didn't create the certif

Re: a closed bug reappears

2002-04-17 Thread ben
On Wednesday 17 April 2002 01:08 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > About a month ago a bug (not yet archived) that I had filed was closed. > I couldn't reproduce the bug after using a newer upstream version. The > problem is, is that the bug is back with the packaged version of this > newer source, an

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
On Wednesday 17 April 2002 21:46, jeff wrote: > well, how about a few of us on the list get our heads together and make > our own debianized release with all the new goodies we would like to > see. i think it could be done - maybe a little part-time project - for > peeps who could dedicate at least

Re: Samba alternative

2002-04-17 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* curtis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > In a contribution to the Samba alternative discussion: > > I have heard on beachmark tests, Samba, however, is much faster than > NFS. In fact, as I understand this person recommends using SAMBA over > NFS even in pure Linux environment for this reas

Re: a closed bug reappears

2002-04-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > Do I send a message to the old bug report, directly tell the maintainer, > or do I just file a new bug report. You mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], tell it to "reopen #bug !" (see http://bugs.debian.org/ for full instructions. Then you send a message to the

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