Re: Fonts in GNOME badly broken!

On 2002.04.23 02:42 Aaron Traas wrote: 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 KD

Re: Aptitude fails to configure packages

On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 06:35:27AM +0400, Ricardo Fitzgerald wrote: > > > > I use aptitude exclusively for my package management. Which distro of > > Debian are you using and which version of aptitude? > > > > -Andy > > I'm using Woody PPC , can't remember which aptitude version it has to > be l

Maestro3 Howto for a Dell i8k?

Hi, i'm having a bizarre problem with my Maestro3 card on a dell inspiron 81k. i've taken off ALSA, which proved to be messing things up for the card, but now when i boot into debian both my sound.o and maestro3.o modules come up 'unused'.. ..however if i manually rmmod then insmod them [only in

Re: xauthority and root

On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 11:31:22AM -0500, Decibels wrote: > Hmmm, so maybe that is the reason. I am using kdm. > Does it work if use xdm or gdm? > Is there another way to fix it with kdm, I seem to be having > a little problem with woody and dependencies for using Gnome. > So have been using Kde an

Re: Scwawcaac: I need a little more on apps available for Linux

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 02:28:30PM -0700, David Smead wrote: > You can use LaTeX and associated programs to publish books, catalogs, data > sheets, e-commerce sites, etc. Software cost $0.00. Some learning > required. > > -- > Sincerely, > > David Smead > http://www.amplepower.com. > Just br

Re: KDM Path

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 02:57:30PM -0400, Quenten Griffith wrote: > Seems when one uses KDM it no longer reads the paths out of > /etc/profliles or ~/.bash_profile or .bashrc. Where is KDM getting the > paths? I need to add a path System wide to a program, and I use KDM at > start up thanks. >

Re: Kernel panic: NO INIT FOUND, but seems to be there.

On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 04:24, Alessandro Ghigi wrote: > Hi! > > Thank you for your answer. I have tried passing to the boot prompt > > linux root=/dev/hda9 init=/sbin/init, > > but the result is the same as before. Actually /sbin is on the root > partition. > > I guess the reason why my system h

Re: Apt-get Upgrade/Update question

Means, packages is not available in your apt sources. What are you actually trying to do with "apt-get upgrade"?   - Original Message - From: "Matthew Daubenspeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 6:58 PM Subject: Apt-get Upgrade/Upda

Re: usbkbd.c error: led urb status -32 received

On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 08:01:55PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > I keep getting this error whenever I hit my caps lock key, num lock, > or now when I use Command-left and -right arrow to change virtual > consoles (this is a powerpc iMac with 2.4.16-newpmac kernel). I > have the standard iMac key

Re: Kernel panic: NO INIT FOUND, but seems to be there.

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 04:24:54PM -0400, Alessandro Ghigi wrote: > > > Hi! > > Thank you for your answer. I have tried passing to the boot prompt > > linux root=/dev/hda9 init=/sbin/init, > > but the result is the same as before. Actually /sbin is on the root > partition. > > I guess the rea

Re: Kernel panic: NO INIT FOUND, but seems to be there.

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 04:24:54PM -0400, Alessandro Ghigi wrote: > > > Hi! > > Thank you for your answer. I have tried passing to the boot prompt > > linux root=/dev/hda9 init=/sbin/init, > > but the result is the same as before. Actually /sbin is on the root > partition. > > I guess the rea

IPCop, CIPE, FreeS/WAN

Question, opinions. Last week I tried to get IPCop up and running between 2 computers. The problem why it didn’t work, I think is because the IPCop server at my end was behind a firewall which also does NAT. So, prior to wasting a day on any other VPN software, I just wanted to know what other

Fonts in GNOME badly broken!

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: Apt-get Upgrade/Update question

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cut-n-pasting links

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:43:14 -0400 Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > >

RE: Apt-get Upgrade/Update question

Hi, If I'm not mistaken, it means that this package needs new dependencies in order to be upgraded. It happened to me today with the package links which required two new libraries. I solved the problem with apt-get install links... No problem so far, though I'm not sure it's a clean method. >

Re: PCMCIA Firewire adapters? (was Re: External USB hard disks?)

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 10:48:48AM +1000, Tony Green wrote: > I've got a couple of dual usb/fw external housings (one 5 1/4 and one 3 > 1/2). CD-RW and a 60GB drive in them and they work fantastic on both > USB and Firewire. Which enclosures are you using? I notice the maximum throughput of some

Re: Utility to convert videos

On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:16:48 -0400 Michael Kaminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My digital camera can create short movies which are in AVI file format > and use the Motion JPEG codec. I have several programs that can play > them; that's no problem. > > I have two questions: > > 1. What's the

Search and Rescue: arrow keys bug on debian

Search and Rescue, Version 0.7.20 To whom it may concern: It seems that the game Search and Rescue by Wolfpack, http://wolfpack.twu.net/SearchAndRescue/ has the following debian-specific bug: compiling the newest version(0.7.20) from source, the arrow and pg-up and pg-down keys do not work, rend

Re: netscape bus error

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 12:29:47PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > On 0, John Habermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > > > Do support for a community group that recycles computers installs debian > > and > > gives them to low income people. One of the recipients is issues with > > Netscape. Ne

Re: Gabber won't go into Gnome status dock

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=116659 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72594 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62652 Known problem. Last I heard, people were sort of bickering over who's fault it is, and who's going to fix it, and how to fix it, and if it can be

Re: Gabber won't go into Gnome status dock

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 04:08:05PM -0700, Joshua Penix wrote: | I'm running Gabber 0.8.7 on Debian Woody with a straight GNOME desktop | (Sawfish WM). The default Debian layout includes a little status dock | on the top toolbar. As I understand it, this status dock is supposed to | take the statu

Apt-get Upgrade/Update question

What exactly does this mean? ordeal:/home/mellofone# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back webalizer 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Kernel panic: NO INIT FOUND, but seems to be there.

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 05:21:23PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: | On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 15:08, Alessandro Ghigi wrote: | > Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. Hey, cool (sorta) -- someone else has this problem too. I've got a kernel that does this too. I will lo

Re: PCMCIA Firewire adapters? (was Re: External USB hard disks?)

I don't have personal experience with any PCMCIA firewire adapters, but this page may help you: http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/hcl.php Note that very likely what you want is a CardBus card, rather than a PCMCIA card. Strictly speaking, PCMCIA is the ISA bus in a small form factor to fit in

Re: PCMCIA Firewire adapters? (was Re: External USB hard disks?)

On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 10:36, Mike Frisch wrote: > I do not have anything to offer here, but am interested in hearing the > results. The external Firewire hard disk is a no brainer (AFAIK), but > the PCMCIA Firewire card may not be. > I've got a couple of dual usb/fw external housings (one 5 1/4

Re: Debian's position on MP3 encoders?

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 06:33:25PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: | Hi, | | I'm an audio/video software luddite, but I finally want to replace my | 200 CD Sony disc changer pile of junk with my fancy new Debian Woody | workstation's sound capabilities. However, I'm starting to learn that | MP3 enc

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 07:30:06AM -0500, will trillich wrote: | On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:28:17AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | > HELO dontuthink.com | > 250 server Hello 12-235-84-58.client.attbi.com [12.235.84.58] | > MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is syntactica

Re: PCMCIA Firewire adapters? (was Re: External USB hard disks?)

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 08:25:40PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > Well, my laptop doesn't have a firewire port, but I suppose this would > be a good excuse to buy a firewire PCMCIA card. Anyone have experience > using a firewire PCMCIA card and an external hard disk? I do not have anything to offer

PCMCIA Firewire adapters? (was Re: External USB hard disks?)

/ Mike Frisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:11:31AM +0200, Mark Janssen wrote: |> You'd better go for firewire then. I have the maxtor firewire 80 GB. |> It works like a charm in both linux and windows... it's faster than USB1 |> (and 2)... and it work with a st

multiple network interfaces

I have two network interfaces: * eth0 = 100mbps ethernet using 3c59x (subnet 192.168.1.0, gw 192.168.1.1); configured using /etc/init.d/networking * eth1 = wireless using orinoco_cs on D-Link DWL650 (subnet 192.168.0.0, gw 192.168.0.1); configured using pcmcia_cs When both interfaces are up, I

Re: Building kernel-image with kpkg

>>"Panuganty," == Panuganty, Ramesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ramesh> Yeah, you need the link from /usr/src/linux -> Ramesh> /usr/src/ to ease while Ramesh> applying kernel patches etc... Any kernel patch that assumes source live in /usr/src/linux is clueless enough that is is bo

Gabber won't go into Gnome status dock

I'm running Gabber 0.8.7 on Debian Woody with a straight GNOME desktop (Sawfish WM). The default Debian layout includes a little status dock on the top toolbar. As I understand it, this status dock is supposed to take the status icons from programs such as Gabber. Looking in the Gabber preferenc

eterm broken in latest woody upgrade?

ever since doing 'apt-get update' then 'apt-get upgrade' last night, my eterms have been broken. when i start one, the window is mapped to the screen, but my shell prompt doesn't appear. about a minute after i start the eterm, the shell prompt finally appears and all is well. to try to debug thi

SIOCSIFFLAGS: resource temporarily unavailable

hey yesterday i wrote a message in which i explained that my ethernet connection did not work in debian (it wont configure automatically ) even though it has worked before when i installed int a while ago..today someone told me that i hsould try to do this:ifconfig eth0 up i did that b

Re: External USB hard disks?

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:11:31AM +0200, Mark Janssen wrote: > You'd better go for firewire then. I have the maxtor firewire 80 GB. > It works like a charm in both linux and windows... it's faster than USB1 > (and 2)... and it work with a standard 2.4 kernel Seems like the obvious solution, h

Re: External USB hard disks?

On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 22:54, Norman Walsh wrote: > | Yes, I'm using a Datafab USB 1 cabinet with a 60GB disk and it works > | really well with both Linux and Windows. I think you need kernel 2.5 > | for USB 2.0 support, at least until someone backports it to 2.4. > > Ah, worth knowing. I think I'l

Re: GDM under VNC

On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 11:38:06PM -0500, hanasaki wrote: > How can VNC server, on Woody, be setup to drop into the GDM and/or XDM > login screen? It is coming up already logged in with the id of the > process runing vncserver. > It works for me by going directly to the underlying X server: $

RE: Building kernel-image with kpkg

| Fortunately, though, you've read /usr/share/doc/libc6/README.Debian.gz | and understand why you shouldn't do this. :-) Actually I use my system for pure driver development against newer kernels, hence I always link my /usr/include/linux with the appropriate kernel. I guess it is not preferred i

Re: Building kernel-image with kpkg

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 03:52:54PM -0500, Panuganty, Ramesh wrote: > Yeah, you need the link from /usr/src/linux -> > /usr/src/ to ease while applying kernel patches > etc... > > You may also thinking of creating this link > > mv /usr/include/linux /usr/include/linux.org (this would be a directo

Re: Scwawcaac: I need a little more on apps available for Linux

You can use LaTeX and associated programs to publish books, catalogs, data sheets, e-commerce sites, etc. Software cost $0.00. Some learning required. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Soul Computer wrote: > I require a professional quality publishing

Re: Building kernel-image with kpkg

Ramesh Panuganty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah, you need the link from /usr/src/linux -> > /usr/src/ to ease while applying kernel patches > etc... I've never found that necessary (though I also tend not to apply patches to my kernel source). A well-formed patch should apply cleanly to a sou

Scwawcaac: I need a little more on apps available for Linux

I require a professional quality publishing package for Linux before I can install the Operating System. It mus be able to handle page layout for paper publishing, preferably in a way like Q&A Write 3.0 for Windows by Symantec. I understand that Word Perfect may be available to fill this need,

Re: "mirror"

On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 12:56, dave mallery wrote: > hi > > i have a second machine with a minimal woody install. my main deb machine > has been upgraded daily for a long time now. i just copied the contents > of is /var/cache/apt/archive (loads) to the minimal machine. > > how do i get the m

"mirror"

hi i have a second machine with a minimal woody install. my main deb machine has been upgraded daily for a long time now. i just copied the contents of is /var/cache/apt/archive (loads) to the minimal machine. how do i get the minimal machine to recognize that all that stuff is now there s

Re: External USB hard disks?

/ Richard Moe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | man, 2002-04-22 kl. 21:25 skrev Norman Walsh: |> Does anyone have experience with external USB hard disks? I was |> looking, for example, at the Maxtor 120Gb USB2 external drive. | | Yes, I'm using a Datafab USB 1 cabinet with a 60GB disk and it

RE: Building kernel-image with kpkg

Yeah, you need the link from /usr/src/linux -> /usr/src/ to ease while applying kernel patches etc... You may also thinking of creating this link mv /usr/include/linux /usr/include/linux.org (this would be a directory) /usr/include/linux -> /usr/src/linux/include/linux -Ramesh -Original Mes

Re: External USB hard disks?

man, 2002-04-22 kl. 21:25 skrev Norman Walsh: > Does anyone have experience with external USB hard disks? I was > looking, for example, at the Maxtor 120Gb USB2 external drive. Yes, I'm using a Datafab USB 1 cabinet with a 60GB disk and it works really well with both Linux and Windows. I think you

Re: Building kernel-image with kpkg

begin Grant Edwards quotation: > > > You're arbitrarily nuking things from the source tree. > > It's not my fault, somebody told me to! This is a test. You can restore those files by typing: dpkg -P `apt-cache pkgnames` -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux suppo

Re: CUPS prints blank pages at the end of jobs

> On 22 Apr 2002, Tom Cook wrote: > > I have quickly googled this problem and can't find anything, so... > > I am using CUPS to print to a netware printer. Everything works > beautifully except that at the end of each job a blank page is > printed, which I just stuff back into the paper tray. > >

Re: Building kernel-image with kpkg

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 03:31:11PM -0500, Panuganty, Ramesh wrote: > There is a good article here on debian kernel compilation. May be useful > for you. > > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.en.html Thanks for the link -- it looks like a good reference. I did notice that it sta

Re: Building kernel-image with kpkg

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 03:56:36PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Various sources have recommended doing "rm -rf */pcmcia" before > > building a kernel from sources (assuming you're goign to use > > the pcmcia stuff in the pcmcia-cs package). > > > >

RE: Building kernel-image with kpkg

There is a good article here on debian kernel compilation. May be useful for you. http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.en.html -Original Message- From: David Z Maze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 2:57 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re:

Re: Kernel panic: NO INIT FOUND, but seems to be there.

Hi! Thank you for your answer. I have tried passing to the boot prompt linux root=/dev/hda9 init=/sbin/init, but the result is the same as before. Actually /sbin is on the root partition. I guess the reason why my system hanged, was that I tried suspending to disk while my ethernet card was w

Re: CUPS prints blank pages at the end of jobs

On 22 Apr 2002, Tom Cook wrote: > > --0aF+6pWUK5w8WdCh > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hi, > > I have quickly googled this problem and can't find anything, so... > > I am using CUPS to print to a netware

Re: Building kernel-image with kpkg

Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Various sources have recommended doing "rm -rf */pcmcia" before > building a kernel from sources (assuming you're goign to use > the pcmcia stuff in the pcmcia-cs package). > > If I do that, the "make" dies because it's looking for stuff in > those dir

PPP dial-up problem

hi all, i'm having trouble connection using ppp dial-up. when i look at /var/log/ppp.log i see the following message just before the connection i taken down: Serial connection established Coulndn't attach tty to ppp unit 0: Invalid argument so it looks like the chat script succeeded, but someth

Re: ot perl help request

Oops.. should be: (first line changed) if(!defined($name) || $name eq "") { # in this case, we redirect them to an error if the name is # undefined or it is equal to "" (blank) print $q->redirect(-location=>$ERR); } else { print $q->redirect(-location=>$OUTPAGE); } -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: ot perl help request

Hi Justin, I'm having a hard time understanding your script. What's the deal with 'Q' and import_data ? __BEGIN_REWRITE__ #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; # helps ; must declare varibles use CGI; use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser/; my $OUTPAGE = '/thankyou.html'; my $ERR = '/error.html'; my $DATA

External USB hard disks?

Does anyone have experience with external USB hard disks? I was looking, for example, at the Maxtor 120Gb USB2 external drive. I'd like to have a hunk o' portable storage for data; mostly for moving digital photos around. I'm not looking to boot off it or anything. Comments?

Building kernel-image with kpkg

Various sources have recommended doing "rm -rf */pcmcia" before building a kernel from sources (assuming you're goign to use the pcmcia stuff in the pcmcia-cs package). If I do that, the "make" dies because it's looking for stuff in those directories. Am I missing a step?? -- Grant Edwards [

Re: Mozzila: inbox message disappearing

Luiz Carlos Santos de Alencar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Shawn McMahon wrote: > > > > begin DvB quotation: > > > > > > If you see this problem with the latest version (1.0-RC1 was recently > > > released and can be downloaded from http://www.mozilla.org. The > > > latest version in Debian is

25756 segmentation fault /usr/bin/dumpkeys

Hi, after todays dist-upgrade on woody I lost my keyboard-configuration. After dpkg-reconfigure console-common I get this error: 25756 segmentation fault /usr/bin/dumpkeys >${TMP} No german keyboard anymore. Any hints? TIA juh -- Damit erhebt Heidegger das Sein zum alleinigen Autor aller we

Re: sourceforge

On 22-Apr-2002 Marcelo Leal wrote: > hi, > > i did tryed install the sourceforge package in my machine (woody), and > does not works. sorry by the english... i hope tha you understand me... >:) > then, i did heard about changes in post installation scripts, for it > works... > did you know about

NIS+ in sid?

I'm putting my desktop on the work network and we are currently using NIS+, soon to be LDAP (possibly). At any rate, I need to do some testing on the NIS+ environment and am looking for NIS+ packages. Do they exist? /var/lib/dpkg/available doesn't help too much. :wq!

sourceforge

hi, i did tryed install the sourceforge package in my machine (woody), and does not works. sorry by the english... i hope tha you understand me... :) then, i did heard about changes in post installation scripts, for it works... did you know about it? did you know how can i install the sourceforge

KDM Path

Seems when one uses KDM it no longer reads the paths out of /etc/profliles or ~/.bash_profile or .bashrc. Where is KDM getting the paths? I need to add a path System wide to a program, and I use KDM at start up thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: apt-get update via rsync

On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 07:51, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: > Hello, > > I apt-get update daily via a dial-up line. I noticed that rsyncing an > uncompressed Packages file is up to 10x faster than getting the whole > compressed one. Using > > rsync -Plptv > ftp.uk.debian.org::debian/dists/unstable/mai

Re: (Woody, XFree 4) remote x fails with tcpdump message 'cannot accessxdmcp port'

Martin Edward John Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I can't get remote x to work - even Xnest to localhost fails. With tcpdump, I see messages akin to the above, complaining that the xdmcp port can't be accessed. This port is listed in my /etc/services, I have the 'no-listen-tcp' opti

Re: Raid 5 and recoving from a crash

Hi Karsten, Since you are so far beyound my experience in this, could you point out a few of the good, and not so good, vendors and products for both the Raid and the Drives? How do you feel about IDE(and which IDE standard? 100?133?some new one I forget the name of:( ?) vs SCSI Raid (and wh

Recent upgrade to Postgresql 7.2 caused a lot of wierd problems

I recently upgraded my Woody box to include postgresql 7.2. It did not automatically upgrade the existing databases as it should have and it destroyed the old system. I do have backups, so that is not a real problem. However a wierd problem that I have discovered is that phppgadmin does not seem t

Re: Someone tell me the secret of mutt

On Mon Apr 22, 2002 at 07:36:29PM +0200, Luca Pasquali wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 06:55:27PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > Ximian Evolution really is a foul pig of an MUA. I love pine, but LOL! good answer :-) > > slow and featureless. I want to try mutt. The problem is, I can't >

Re: I can hear my mouse, but not my music

Me thinks they are on the same hardware interupt. Ut O. Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Apr 22, 2002, I.J.W. Wever ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, After being pointed to the existance of the via82xxx module, I recompiled my kernel with that module and hoped to be able to play some music. Un

Re: Mozzila: inbox message disappearing

Shawn McMahon wrote: > > begin DvB quotation: > > > > If you see this problem with the latest version (1.0-RC1 was recently > > released and can be downloaded from http://www.mozilla.org. The > > latest version in Debian is 0.9.9, AFAIK), > > bash-2.05a$ apt-cache show mozilla > Package: mozilla

ot perl help request

Hello, I'm trying to get this script to do error checking but it prints the error page every time regardless if there is or isn't input data. It works ok without the if statement but I wanted it to do the errorchecking. I spent a good amount of time trying to figure this out on my own before email

Re: Mozzila: inbox message disappearing

On Mon Apr 22, 2002 at 11:30:33AM -0500, DvB wrote: > Luiz Carlos Santos de Alencar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > After moving messages to subfolders and leave the > > inbox empty, I can not see any pos-received msgs. > > in the inbox folder. It's a pop mailbox from an > > outside server which

Re: Erratic mouse behavior

I know that for whatever reason one of our users computers also exhibits erratic mouse behavior in the GUI. But this only occurs after a reboot. The problem is apparently that there are 2 mouse device programs running at once. By killing gpm in bash, the problem is resolved. Curtis Jonathan

Has some worked on a system to test performance of NAS/XFS file system ?

Hi,   Has someone worked on a system to test performance and quality of NAS/XFS file system ? I want to test an XFS filesystem on debian LINUX .Actual physical disk is NAS(Network Atttached Storage) disk.     Problem : How do I test this ? I have heard that the use NFS V3/V2 protocols would b

Re: mutt+Maildir Pros & Cons?

On 2002-04-21 15:12:35, Karsten M. Self wrote: > It's slow on opening large folders. Discussed here in the past two > weeks. There's a patch to build an index file for folders, not yet in > Debian. http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~me/mutt/ ? Are you using that patch, any reason for not integrating it eith

Re: Woody: "xhost +" on Local Machine not Working

begin Karsten M. Self quotation: > > There is a serious problem at your site. You've raised this issue? Deaf ears. Located in another time zone, and miles above my pay grade. > I'll presume one end or the other is under your control. Yes; but BOTH ends have to allow X forwarding before it w

apt-get build-dep problem

Can anyone tell me what's going on, or even which package might deserve to get a bug filed against it, with the following? wheat:/usr/local/rootlog# apt-get -qu build-dep gnucash Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... E: Some broken packages were found while trying to process build-d

Re: Scwawcaac: Need more information before installing ...

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:58:10AM -0700, Soul Computer wrote: > I bought my new computer for use as a publishing tool (paper publishing). In > order to use it in this way, however, I need it to either be able to use > Symantec Q&A Write v3.0 for Windows, or be able to obtain a program that can

Re: Someone tell me the secret of mutt

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 06:55:27PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > Ximian Evolution really is a foul pig of an MUA. I love pine, but > it is > slow and featureless. I want to try mutt. The problem is, I can't > figure out in < 10 minutes how to do the most basic things with > mutt: > > * Config

Re: I can hear my mouse, but not my music

on Mon, Apr 22, 2002, I.J.W. Wever ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > After being pointed to the existance of the via82xxx module, I > recompiled my kernel with that module and hoped to be able > to play some music. Unfortunately, it doesn't. I've tried three different > music players (ALSA,

Re: Woody: "xhost +" on Local Machine not Working

on Mon, Apr 22, 2002, Shawn McMahon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > begin Karsten M. Self quotation: > > > > > > Unless the other machine is not administrated by you, > > > > There are few X11-capable systems whic won't allow users to run > > arbitrary clients. Including an ssh client run from fl

Scwawcaac: Need more information before installing ... (fwd)

Last time I tried to send this, it appeared to have a virus. I hope this is not the case, so I will try to send it, again. ->Scwawcaac<- Forwarded message Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:58:10 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: Automated spam reporting?

on Mon, Apr 22, 2002, Shawn McMahon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > begin Karsten M. Self quotation: > > > > First, ricochet is pretty naive. It would be very helpful to specify > > _only_ non-spoofed headers be responded to. This is difficult to do, > > spamcop does a pretty good job of it. It'

Re: Raid 5 and recoving from a crash

on Mon, Apr 22, 2002, hanasaki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I guess my main two goals are: > - 100% hardware ide raid Many solutions available. > - Ability to go to a new card and not need to do a tape restore While appreciated there are several options: - Some hardware does suppo

Re: Woody: "xhost +" on Local Machine not Working

Hi! On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > [...] > /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc . Remove it, or use "ssh -x" instead of > telnet/xhost should solve your problem. Yes, indeed. It *did* solve my problem. Thanks a lot! Greetings, Holger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Scwawcaac: Need more information before installing ...

I bought my new computer for use as a publishing tool (paper publishing). In order to use it in this way, however, I need it to either be able to use Symantec Q&A Write v3.0 for Windows, or be able to obtain a program that can do similar, if not identical work. What programs are available for

Re: Mozzila: inbox message disappearing

begin DvB quotation: > > If you see this problem with the latest version (1.0-RC1 was recently > released and can be downloaded from http://www.mozilla.org. The > latest version in Debian is 0.9.9, AFAIK), bash-2.05a$ apt-cache show mozilla Package: mozilla Priority: optional Section: web Instal

Re: Woody: "xhost +" on Local Machine not Working

Hi Bruno! On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > [...] > as others pointed out, i don't want to open the access to the X server > and am trying the ssh solution without success so far > > here's my try: > ssh -A -X router Yes, I got it solved. The "ssh -X" solution works for me

Re: Mozzila: inbox message disappearing

Luiz Carlos Santos de Alencar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After moving messages to subfolders and leave the > inbox empty, I can not see any pos-received msgs. > in the inbox folder. It's a pop mailbox from an > outside server which I use Mozzila to manage, with > important messages coming in. W

Re: KDE, baud, and configuration

More on this -- it seems that the network operates for a short time whenever I log on with Debian (KDE, Windowmaker, it's all the same effect)-- and then goes down hard. As of that point, I can get no more out of it. I can go ahead and try to ping my gateway -- nothing (self-pinging does work, th

Re: Raid 5 and recoving from a crash

I guess my main two goals are: - 100% hardware ide raid - Ability to go to a new card and not need to do a tape restore Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Apr 18, 2002, hanasaki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, hanasaki wrote:

Re: GDM under VNC

The option -broadcast is the key! Thanks. Now how do I tunnel it over ssh with a Win Client? A lin client? Thanks again. Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Apr 21, 2002, Martin Rowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sunday 21 April 2002 5:38 am, hanasaki wrote: How can VNC server, on Woo

Re: Adding kernel modules after install

On 2002.04.22 15:09 Shawn McMahon wrote: begin Pollywog quotation: > > You mean: > > make dep ; make clean ; make modules ; make modules_install ? O, no, don't do that; that will procede with later steps if an earlier step fails, scrolling that information right off the screen. Bad juj

Mozzila: inbox message disappearing

After moving messages to subfolders and leave the inbox empty, I can not see any pos-received msgs. in the inbox folder. It's a pop mailbox from an outside server which I use Mozzila to manage, with important messages coming in. What could cause such unexpected behaviour and how can I fix it, if po

Re: Woody: "xhost +" on Local Machine not Working

On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 05:51:43PM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote: > When I execute "xhost +" on localhost, telnet to another machine, set the > DISPLAY to my machine's hostname (!export DISPLAY=prag:0.0"), I get the > error message that this connection is refused by the server? Why? (It > doesn't make

Re: apt-get update via rsync

Hello, it isn't exactly what you want, but you can install apt-proxy, which uses rsync to get the archives from the "backend" (=debian mirrors) and then apt-get update from your local apt-proxy source - look at the apt-proxy documentation for more info. There's only one caveat: I recommend y

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