Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-13 Thread traxlend
Here's an extension to that question: Is anyone familiar with PCI dual-port 100 Mbit Ethernet cards that work well in Linux? My router is out of PCI slots, but I need to add another network card. Tips are appreciated! -- Nick On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:34:16PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > I'm goi

Re: GRUB question

2002-05-13 Thread traxlend
Here's a related question: does anyone know if there is a grub graphic available for Debian? Redhat's looks pretty cool, and Debian just has the text menu. The image goes in /boot/grub and is a ".xpm.gz" file. -- Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-13 Thread Michael Mueller
On Monday 13 May 2002 06:51 pm, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Mon, 13 May 2002 23:34:16 +0100 > > "Alex Hunsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are there any net cards with a good reputation for stability and ease of > > install (i.e. not having to compile my own driver would be a plus)? > > Persona

Re: GRUB question

2002-05-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:25:03PM -0400, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2002-05-13 23:11:43, Scott Henson wrote: > > I am trying to install grub on my system so I can try out the GNU/HURD, > > but I cant seem to get grub to install properly on my system. I can get > > grub to boot and everything. I can

Re: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg

2002-05-13 Thread Corrin Lakeland
On Tue, 14 May 2002 13:37, Joe Biron wrote: > Now, I'm not just a Debian newbie, I'm sort of a Linux intermediabie, > and as I edited sources.list, I had no clue as to what I was doing, but > nevertheless, I seem to have the latest versions of Debian (3.0?) and > GNOME, after hours of playing with

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-13 Thread Mike Frisch
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 22:22, Scott Henson wrote: > I think that is the main difference. Also with some other really cool > functionality that no one really ever uses. Basically what it comes > down to is 3com has a better reputation and is great for machines that > need the extra functionality.

Re: Change compile options wi/ apt-get source?

2002-05-13 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I don't know, but I would very much like to recompile glibc, the Xlib, and the gnome libraries to be optimized for the different processors I'm running. Recompiling the kernel to optimize for a particular processor is a significant performance boost but it would help to optimize the libraries t

Change compile options wi/ apt-get source?

2002-05-13 Thread Nathan Weston
Is there a way to compile with different options, CFLAGS, etc, when using apt-get source? Can I specify a default CFLAGS to use? Thanks, Nathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GRUB question

2002-05-13 Thread Allan Wind
On 2002-05-13 23:11:43, Scott Henson wrote: > I am trying to install grub on my system so I can try out the GNU/HURD, > but I cant seem to get grub to install properly on my system. I can get > grub to boot and everything. I can even boot into all my OSes, but I > cant get it to show me a menu.

Re: GRUB question

2002-05-13 Thread Michael D. Crawford
You wrote: > menu.1st It's menu.lst, with a loweracse "l", not a "1". dot ell ess tee. Grub rocks. I use it on all my x86 systems. No more failing to boot when I install a new kernel and forget to run lilo. Also I can try out new kernel parameters by just typing them in at boot time from

Soundblaster Live! Card Not Working

2002-05-13 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I just bought a Soundblaster Live! soundcard, and I can't get it to work. I'm running Debian GNU/Linux with the 2.4.19-pre8 kernel. When I do a "modprobe emu10k1" it says: /lib/modules/2.4.19-pre8/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused

GRUB question

2002-05-13 Thread Scott Henson
I am trying to install grub on my system so I can try out the GNU/HURD, but I cant seem to get grub to install properly on my system. I can get grub to boot and everything. I can even boot into all my OSes, but I cant get it to show me a menu. My menu.1st file is attached. I basically pulled th

Re: building deb-src packages

2002-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 16:08, Simon Law wrote: > On 13 May 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Help! I need a Manual to Fscking Read! > > > > I've downloaded the mozilla source package, but am unsure > > of what to do next. > > Do I do this: > >dpkg-deb --build /etc/apt/mozilla-1+rc1 > > or > >

Re: potential new Debian user

2002-05-13 Thread Darren
Thanks for all of the suggestions. > "out of date" meaning "not released yesterday". We are currently without KDE > v3 (the files in there are KDE v2). The maintainer is trying to not deal with > KDe v3 until woody is shipped. Hmm. I really like KDE3. And, I thought I saw it in the packages a

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-13 Thread Scott Henson
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 22:06, Mike Frisch wrote: > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 20:36, David Wright wrote: > > I know they work, and I don't want to risk changing. But can anyone tell > > me what makes the 3com card supposedly better? The specs I know are > > exactly the same. > > Don't 3Com cards have

Re: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg

2002-05-13 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Joe Biron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could someone point a newbie to an explanation of the Debian release > universe? A friend explained it to me as "Woody is the newest... you > want Woody". Well, is Potato then the "stable" and Woody the "testing"? Yes. > My \etc\apt\sources.list is

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-13 Thread Mike Frisch
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 20:36, David Wright wrote: > I know they work, and I don't want to risk changing. But can anyone tell > me what makes the 3com card supposedly better? The specs I know are > exactly the same. Don't 3Com cards have a processor that off-loads network traffic from the CPU hand

Re: You knew this question was coming :-)

2002-05-13 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 19:12, stan wrote: > > OK, A recent Slashdot story leads me to the question. > > > > Is ther spectographich (audio) software that I can run on my Debian woody > > box? > > What is spectographich software? Do you mean "spectrag

Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 20:01, Seneca wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 06:40:56PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > > Bummer... I presume you are proscribed by Higher Authority > > from running IP Masquerading on a "real" firewall? That > > laptop with 2 PCMCIA NICs would make a great small, sile

Re: You knew this question was coming :-)

2002-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 19:12, stan wrote: > OK, A recent Slashdot story leads me to the question. > > Is ther spectographich (audio) software that I can run on my Debian woody > box? What is spectographich software? Do you mean "spectragraphic"? Sounds like the "graphic" 1/2 of a graphic equalize

Re: nvidia geforce2 mx 200 video card not working

2002-05-13 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 08:23:54PM -0400, Ja 5 wrote: > my friend (who knows a lot more about installing linux than i) and i > attempted to install debian 2.2r6 (potato) on a partition on my new compaq > presario 6024 with an nvidia geforce2 mx 200 64 meg video card, we got it > to co-exist with

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 19:07, Alex Hunsley wrote: > Tom Cook wrote: > > > > On 0, Alex Hunsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > and tried setting it to auto mode, half duplex, full duplex, but still, after > 5 > mins of heavy network traffic my box just freezes every time and I have to > power

potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg

2002-05-13 Thread Joe Biron
Title: Message Could someone point a newbie to an explanation of the Debian release universe?  A friend explained it to me as "Woody is the newest... you want Woody".  Well, is Potato then the "stable" and Woody the "testing"?  My \etc\apt\sources.list is   #deb http://http.us.debian.org/deb

Re: nvidia geforce2 mx 200 video card not working

2002-05-13 Thread Decibels
I have the mx400 and use the nv driver just like I did with my RivaTNT. Then upgraded to the Nvidia drivers. So either should work. Check in your /etc/XF86Config-4 and see what driver it is using, should be 'nv'. Ja 5 wrote: my friend (who knows a lot more about installing linux than i) and i

Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-13 Thread Seneca
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 06:40:56PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 17:13, Seneca wrote: > > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 04:58:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 15:09, Seneca wrote: > [snip] > > > > Not just any web proxy, but one that requires me to login, and

Re: Java

2002-05-13 Thread Tinus Kotze
On Mon 13 May 02 20:15, dman wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 07:42:27PM +0200, Tinus Kotze wrote: > | Sorry, I know this is not the correct place to post this, but I > | really urgently need an answer. > > Is this for your homework? If not, why is it urgent? :-) Yes, you could say it is homewor

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-13 Thread jeff
Alex Hunsley wrote: > > I'm going to buy a new network card for my machine (running Debian potato > 2.2r6). > > Are there any net cards with a good reputation for stability and ease of > install (i.e. not having to compile my own driver would be a plus)? > > thanks > alex > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-13 Thread David Wright
Btw Tom, which driver are you using for that 3c905C-TX? I use a 3c905-tx in 9 different computers at work, all running sid with 2.4.17 and 2.4.18 kernels. I use the 3c59x driver that ships with these kernels. I have never had problems with them, including with a 2-card firewall with traffic t

Re: pcmcia orinoco in a desktop, problems

2002-05-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Mark" == Mark Lanett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> I've been trying to set up a desktop machine to act as a Mark> wireless router and am having trouble getting the wireless Mark> card to work. This is an orinoco silver in a Lucent PCMCIA Mark> adapter - I chose to go with

nvidia geforce2 mx 200 video card not working

2002-05-13 Thread Ja 5
my friend (who knows a lot more about installing linux than i) and i attempted to install debian 2.2r6 (potato) on a partition on my new compaq presario 6024 with an nvidia geforce2 mx 200 64 meg video card, we got it to co-exist with windows xp but when trying to configure xwindows we couldn't

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-13 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Alex Hunsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Cook wrote: > > > > On 0, Alex Hunsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm going to buy a new network card for my machine (running Debian potato > > > 2.2r6). > > > > > > Are there any net cards with a good reputation for stability and ease of

You knew this question was coming :-)

2002-05-13 Thread stan
OK, A recent Slashdot story leads me to the question. Is ther spectographich (audio) software that I can run on my Debian woody box? Somehow, I just never thought of this a being a software function before, strange. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neit

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-13 Thread Alex Hunsley
Tom Cook wrote: > > On 0, Alex Hunsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm going to buy a new network card for my machine (running Debian potato > > 2.2r6). > > > > Are there any net cards with a good reputation for stability and ease of > > install (i.e. not having to compile my own driver would

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-13 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Alex Hunsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going to buy a new network card for my machine (running Debian potato > 2.2r6). > > Are there any net cards with a good reputation for stability and ease of > install (i.e. not having to compile my own driver would be a plus)? My 3com 3c905C-TX

Re: OT: java.log of failed java program, any ideas

2002-05-13 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am currently trying to run matlab which apparently uses > its own java stuff. Are there any java experts that can > deciper the log file. . Apparently there is a segmentation > violation. Perhaps one of the dynamic libraries is at fault. > > The

Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 17:13, Seneca wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 04:58:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 15:09, Seneca wrote: [snip] > > > Not just any web proxy, but one that requires me to login, and requires > > > java and javascript to do so. > > > > Sounds like MS P

Re: dpkg: parse error

2002-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:32:51PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 12078 package > `cln-dev': > too many values in file details field `MD5sum' (compared to others) Looks like a corrupted available file. Fortunately this file is usually j

Re: building deb-src packages

2002-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 06:27:17PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 16:20, Colin Watson wrote: > > (I hope you didn't unpack it in /etc/apt! Use 'apt-get source' as an > > ordinary user, not as root, and usually somewhere in your home > > directory.) > > Uh, yeah. That's where I

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-13 Thread Mike Frisch
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 18:34, Alex Hunsley wrote: > Are there any net cards with a good reputation for stability and ease of > install (i.e. not having to compile my own driver would be a plus)? I have been using AOpen Realtek-based cards very successfully. They're dirt cheap (I pay about $20 CAD

Re: building deb-src packages

2002-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 16:20, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 03:19:34PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > I've downloaded the mozilla source package, but am unsure > > of what to do next. > > Do I do this: > >dpkg-deb --build /etc/apt/mozilla-1+rc1 > > or > >cd /etc/apt/mozilla

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:34:16PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > I'm going to buy a new network card for my machine (running Debian potato > 2.2r6). > > Are there any net cards with a good reputation for stability and ease of > install (i.e. not having to compile my own driver would be a plus)? >

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-13 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Mon, 13 May 2002 23:34:16 +0100 "Alex Hunsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any net cards with a good reputation for stability and ease of > install (i.e. not having to compile my own driver would be a plus)? Personally, I'm partial to the Realtek based cards (used frequently on inex

Re: potential new Debian user

2002-05-13 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Mon, 13 May 2002 15:24:34 -0700 "Andrey Vlassov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am in one boat with you - new to Debian. I was trying install X11 by > hand and endup installing it through "tasksel". If you will select to > install "Desktop System" it will install KDE and GNOME for you and bunch

Re: potential new Debian user

2002-05-13 Thread T .
This is how I get a "desktop system" Install Debian, set up everything including a new kernel. Then: apt-get install x-window-system x-window-system-core fluxbox xf86config cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4-old cp /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 startx regards, T. On Mo

Re: Is there any tool like purify(memory leak check tool) for LINUX

2002-05-13 Thread Rafael Sasaki
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:36:31PM +0530, Deepak Kotian wrote: > Is there any tool like purify(memory leak tool) for LINUX. Or any free > software which > > can be used to check memory leaks on a C/c++ program. > > If anyone has any idea. Please let me know. I use LeakTracer. It just looks for

good choice of network card?

2002-05-13 Thread Alex Hunsley
I'm going to buy a new network card for my machine (running Debian potato 2.2r6). Are there any net cards with a good reputation for stability and ease of install (i.e. not having to compile my own driver would be a plus)? thanks alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

dpkg: parse error

2002-05-13 Thread Alex Hunsley
I've encountered the following problem whilst trying to install the kernel source from a cd: bosnia:/var/lib/dpkg# apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.19 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: bzip2 libbz2 The following NEW pa

Re: potential new Debian user

2002-05-13 Thread Andrey Vlassov
Darren, I am in one boat with you - new to Debian. I was trying install X11 by hand and endup installing it through "tasksel". If you will select to install "Desktop System" it will install KDE and GNOME for you and bunch of another KDE and GNOME applications. In short it was as avalanche - you ju

Re: potential new Debian user

2002-05-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Since, I will be using it almost exclusively as a desktop, I'm most > concerned about access to current builds of my favorite packages like KDE3, > OpenOffice 1.0 & Mozilla 1.0RC2. Of course, OO and Mozilla have pretty good > installers that come with them. I'm happy with those and could use

Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-13 Thread Seneca
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 04:58:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 15:09, Seneca wrote: > > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 03:01:38PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 14:20, Seneca wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 01:58:14PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > >

Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 15:09, Seneca wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 03:01:38PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 14:20, Seneca wrote: > > > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 01:58:14PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 13:39, Seneca wrote: > > > > > On Mon, May 13, 20

potential new Debian user

2002-05-13 Thread Darren
I'm looking for comments/suggestions regarding Debian on the desktop. I'm what you might call a "fairly experienced newbie". I currently have installs of FreeBSD, Mandrake and Gentoo, at home. I have been using FreeBSD on its own box as a server while my Linux partitions share HD space on anothe

Re: building deb-src packages

2002-05-13 Thread David Z Maze
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've downloaded the mozilla source package, but am unsure > of what to do next. > Do I do this: >dpkg-deb --build /etc/apt/mozilla-1+rc1 > or >cd /etc/apt/mozilla-1+rc1 && dpkg-buildpackage -ai686 > > Or something totally different? What are yo

Re: building deb-src packages

2002-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 03:19:34PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > I've downloaded the mozilla source package, but am unsure > of what to do next. > Do I do this: >dpkg-deb --build /etc/apt/mozilla-1+rc1 > or >cd /etc/apt/mozilla-1+rc1 && dpkg-buildpackage -ai686 (I hope you didn't unpack i

Re: Is there any tool like purify(memory leak check tool) for LI

2002-05-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > I'm informed by the guy at work who's been spending a lot of time > working on and with valgrind that "yesterday's version is old". > I see (-: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is there any tool like purify(memory leak check tool) for LI

2002-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 12:59:38PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 13-May-2002 Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:36:31PM +0530, Deepak Kotian wrote: > >> Is there any tool like purify(memory leak tool) for LINUX. Or any free > >> software which can be used to check memory le

Re: pcmcia orinoco in a desktop, problems

2002-05-13 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Mon, 13 May 2002 14:03:32 -0700 "Mark Lanett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been trying to set up a desktop machine to act as a wireless router > and am having trouble getting the wireless card to work. This is an > orinoco silver in a Lucent PCMCIA adapter - I chose to go with the name > b

Re: building deb-src packages

2002-05-13 Thread Simon Law
On 13 May 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: > Help! I need a Manual to Fscking Read! > > I've downloaded the mozilla source package, but am unsure > of what to do next. > Do I do this: >dpkg-deb --build /etc/apt/mozilla-1+rc1 > or >cd /etc/apt/mozilla-1+rc1 && dpkg-buildpackage -ai686 > > Or

pcmcia orinoco in a desktop, problems

2002-05-13 Thread Mark Lanett
I've been trying to set up a desktop machine to act as a wireless router and am having trouble getting the wireless card to work. This is an orinoco silver in a Lucent PCMCIA adapter - I chose to go with the name brand to minimize problems. However: Using: kernel-2.2.20-idepci, pcmcia-modules-2.2.

syslog logrotate not rotating

2002-05-13 Thread justin cunningham
Hi, I have a potato server and syslog isn't taring up the log dailys. I thought this was the default config? I looked at /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd and /etc/syslog.conf and they look correct. What am I missing? Regards, Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

OT: java.log of failed java program, any ideas

2002-05-13 Thread Walter Tautz
I am currently trying to run matlab which apparently uses its own java stuff. Are there any java experts that can deciper the log file. . Apparently there is a segmentation violation. Perhaps one of the dynamic libraries is at fault. The annoying thing is I have it working on one woody box but no

building deb-src packages

2002-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
Help! I need a Manual to Fscking Read! I've downloaded the mozilla source package, but am unsure of what to do next. Do I do this: dpkg-deb --build /etc/apt/mozilla-1+rc1 or cd /etc/apt/mozilla-1+rc1 && dpkg-buildpackage -ai686 Or something totally different? Thanks, Ron -- +-

Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-13 Thread Seneca
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 03:01:38PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 14:20, Seneca wrote: > > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 01:58:14PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 13:39, Seneca wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:50:32AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > > >

Re: Debian packages MD5 sums

2002-05-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 13:54, Scott Henson wrote: > Try debsums. Not all packages have it, but some do. Also a few weeks > ago there wa You can get the MD5 sums for the current packages by checking Packages.gz for the appropriate distribution. This is relatively reliable for Woody and Potato, but

Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 14:20, Seneca wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 01:58:14PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 13:39, Seneca wrote: > > > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:50:32AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > > > On 2002.05.13 05:18 Miroslav Mazurek wrote: [snip] > > > I currently

Re: Is there any tool like purify(memory leak check tool) for LI

2002-05-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-May-2002 Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:36:31PM +0530, Deepak Kotian wrote: >> Is there any tool like purify(memory leak tool) for LINUX. Or any free >> software which can be used to check memory leaks on a C/c++ program. > > Try valgrind (http://devel-home.kde.org/~seward

Re: Is there any tool like purify(memory leak check tool) for LI

2002-05-13 Thread Rick Macdonald
Paul Smith said: > %% "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > sp> none of them are as cool and featureful as purify. Of all of the > sp> tools I have used, I miss that one most. Unfortunately apps like > sp> that are decidedly hard to write and the commercial ones are sp> > REA

Re: Intermittent System Lockup (long) [RESOLVED!}

2002-05-13 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:55:20 -0500 "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm hoping someone here might be able to give me a few pointers on how > to track down a strange system lockup. (snip) I would like to thank everyone for assistance with my intermittent system lockup. I believe I

Re: Is there any tool like purify(memory leak check tool) for LI

2002-05-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We'd buy it at work in a heartbeat if it were available on Linux: Purify > _is_ cool. But, it's not available on Linux and I've not heard Rational > provide any details on whether it ever will be :(. Insure++ (http://www.parasoft.com) has almost all the

Re: xfree redux

2002-05-13 Thread Robin Putters
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 05:35, Tom Cook wrote: > > 3) how do I delete the self-installed version and not hurt the debianized > > one? > > I wouldn't worry. > Use cruft (apt-get install cruft) to find out which files don't belong on your system... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

RE:Is there any tool like purify(memory leak check tool) for LINUX

2002-05-13 Thread Andrew Agno
Nothing to equal purify (or so I've heard), but there are some things that help: mpatrol Electric fence (efence) A garbage collector: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/ I've had very good success by using a combination of the latter two--efence is quite a memory hog, but works, and gc

Re: Is there any tool like purify(memory leak check tool) for LI

2002-05-13 Thread Paul Smith
%% "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: sp> none of them are as cool and featureful as purify. Of all of the sp> tools I have used, I miss that one most. Unfortunately apps like sp> that are decidedly hard to write and the commercial ones are sp> REALLY expensive for most ho

Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-13 Thread Seneca
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 01:58:14PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 13:39, Seneca wrote: > > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:50:32AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > > On 2002.05.13 05:18 Miroslav Mazurek wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >Maybe I made mistake before, but its 16MB (no further

Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 07:05:51PM -0700, Jeffrey Baker wrote: > On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 05:06:53PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 20:08, craigw wrote: > > > On Sat May 11, 2002 at 11:57:19PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 23:37, Miroslav Mazurek wrot

Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 13:39, Seneca wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:50:32AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > On 2002.05.13 05:18 Miroslav Mazurek wrote: > > > > > > > >Maybe I made mistake before, but its 16MB (no further upgrade > > >possible). > > > > FWIW, I've successfully run X (3.3.6) o

Re: Debian packages MD5 sums

2002-05-13 Thread Scott Henson
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 00:01, Sandeep Gopal Nijsure wrote: > Hi all, > > I am looking for MD5 sums of the latest versions of clean Debian packages > for "testing" distribution. I wanted them so that I could compare them > with the sums of packages installed on a machine to see if a machine has > b

Re: debconf problem during upgrade

2002-05-13 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>whatever question was pending goes through before you have a chance to >>>answer it. It's like hitting the space bar acts as a return and the >>>default action gets executed. >> The reason why i always press Strg/Ctrl to get out of Screensavermode >>

Re: problems with cyrus (sid) on woody

2002-05-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 05:26:32PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > > How did you manage? > > Whatever I try, I can't get authorisation to work:( > > Oops, at which point do you stuck? Everything is working fine now at my > side.:-) For authorisation I use PAM with mysql. Good to hear it's

Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-13 Thread Seneca
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:50:32AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > On 2002.05.13 05:18 Miroslav Mazurek wrote: > > > > >Maybe I made mistake before, but its 16MB (no further upgrade > >possible). > > FWIW, I've successfully run X (3.3.6) on a P75 w/16MB RAM (2.2 kernel, > glibc) using IceWM. So

Re: Is there any tool like purify(memory leak check tool) for LINUX

2002-05-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 13:12:48 -0500, dman wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:36:31PM +0530, Deepak Kotian wrote: > | Is there any tool like purify(memory leak tool) for LINUX. > memprof is one such tool. I've used it a little bit. I've also heard of > Electric Fence Electric Fence is used t

Re: affichage déporté

2002-05-13 Thread gerhard
Am Sonntag, 12. Mai 2002 11:39 schrieb Antoine Jacoutot: > j'ai fait "xhost +". > Sur le client, je lance l'applicarion "xterm -display serveur:0" > Et il me dit "Can't open display: serveur:0. Hi Antoine, je ne compris pas beaucoup sur ce probleme, mais si moi taper sur mon clavier [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Is there any tool like purify(memory leak check tool) for LINUX

2002-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:36:31PM +0530, Deepak Kotian wrote: > Is there any tool like purify(memory leak tool) for LINUX. Or any free > software which can be used to check memory leaks on a C/c++ program. Try valgrind (http://devel-home.kde.org/~sewardj/, or packaged in unstable). -- Colin Wat

Re: Is there any tool like purify(memory leak check tool) for LI

2002-05-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-May-2002 dman wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:36:31PM +0530, Deepak Kotian wrote: >| Hi, >| >| Is there any tool like purify(memory leak tool) for LINUX. Or any >| free software which can be used to check memory leaks on a C/c++ >| program. > > memprof is one such tool. I've used it a

Re: Mozilla can't post at Kuro5hin

2002-05-13 Thread Alexander Konovalenko
--- "Michael D. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't seem to be able to post any comments at > http://www.kuro5hin.org/ with Mozilla 0.9.9 on Woody. General things to do before reporting a bug Have you tried Mozilla 1.0rc2? Did you search bugzilla ( http://www.mozilla.org/bugs/ ) for s

Re: Java

2002-05-13 Thread dman
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 07:42:27PM +0200, Tinus Kotze wrote: | Sorry, I know this is not the correct place to post this, but I really | urgently need an answer. Is this for your homework? If not, why is it urgent? :-) | Is it possible to create for example 2 | classes(each in its own respecti

Re: Is there any tool like purify(memory leak check tool) for LINUX

2002-05-13 Thread dman
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:36:31PM +0530, Deepak Kotian wrote: | Hi, | | Is there any tool like purify(memory leak tool) for LINUX. Or any | free software which can be used to check memory leaks on a C/c++ | program. memprof is one such tool. I've used it a little bit. I've also heard of Electr

Is there any tool like purify(memory leak check tool) for LINUX

2002-05-13 Thread Deepak Kotian
Hi,   Is there any tool like purify(memory leak tool) for LINUX. Or any free software which can be used to check memory leaks on a C/c++ program. If anyone has any idea. Please let me know. Thanks and Regards Deepak    

Re: Video Editing

2002-05-13 Thread Florian Struck
On Sunday 12 May 2002 19:39, Hereward Cooper wrote: > ** I'm off list so please CC: me! > > Does anyone know of some video editing software that can chop some > frames from a DivX avi? The only ones I have seen do camcorder stuff. Im using "transcode" its a really nice tool it includes "avimerge"

Re: Java

2002-05-13 Thread Jason Healy
At 1021336947s since epoch (05/13/02 13:42:27 -0400 UTC), Tinus Kotze wrote: > Sorry, I know this is not the correct place to post this, but I really > urgently need an answer. Is it possible to create for example 2 > classes(each in its own respective file), and include them in the same > packa

Re: Java

2002-05-13 Thread hanasaki
Answer: yes Feed a man a fish.. Join this list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read the tutorials on www.javasoft.com Just try it and see Tinus Kotze wrote: Sorry, I know this is not the correct place to post this, but I really urgently need an answer. Is it possible to create for ex

Java

2002-05-13 Thread Tinus Kotze
Sorry, I know this is not the correct place to post this, but I really urgently need an answer. Is it possible to create for example 2 classes(each in its own respective file), and include them in the same package. Then make the one class extended from the other class in the package? Your help

Re: Hardware?

2002-05-13 Thread Scott Henson
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 11:52, Xingbo Wang wrote: > I'm a newcomer in Linux World and Debian World. I'd like to know >whether my hardware allow me installing Debian? > My motherland is ECS P6IWP-FE,including CM8738 soundcards,Intel >82810 graphics controller,pctel AMR modem and Davicom 9102A etherne

Re: Performance question

2002-05-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:03:01AM +0100, Damir Dezeljin wrote: > I would apreciate any sugestion about how to set up the machine for the > greatest performance for NFS and Samba sharing. Also which version of For NFS, I would imagine that the kernel NFS server will provide greater performance.

Re: Video Editing

2002-05-13 Thread csj
On Sun, 12 May 2002 22:46:10 +0200 Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 06:39:26PM +0100, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > ** I'm off list so please CC: me! > > > > Does anyone know of some video editing software that can chop some > > frames from a DivX avi? The only

cisco vpn client?

2002-05-13 Thread Roach, Mark R.
Has anyone had any luck using the cisco vpn client? I have tried on kernel 2.4.16 and 2.4.18(after changing get_fast_time to do_gettimeofday) and have the same problem on both, the tunnel appears to be established, but the cipsec0 interface never comes up. I have tried both 3.5 and 3.5.1 versions

Re: Plans for upgrading to woody & ditching HD

2002-05-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks to all for the comments. I had assumed that /dev/hd* simply started at a and incremented by 1, but am happy to know the two IDE channels are separate. Karl, thanks for the cautious tips -- I'll pay attention to them :). Note that / and /boot are on hdb, not hda, so there's literally nothing

Problem with cups (cupsd and admin.cgi hang)

2002-05-13 Thread Michael Schwind
Hello, i have Problems when i want to add a Printer, the command line tool and the web interface will not work. After pressing the button where you can choose the printer, the admin.cgi hangs with about 30% CPU-Time and cupsd needs about 60% CPU-Time. While booth are hanging, cups fills then fi

Evolution calendar crashes

2002-05-13 Thread Daniel D Jones
I have Evolution installed on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 8100) under Debian testing. Evolution starts fine and the email client works fine, but as soon as I try to access calendar, I get an error that says that the component which runs the calendar has crashed and I'll need to restart Evolution to re

Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 09:50, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > On 2002.05.13 05:18 Miroslav Mazurek wrote: > > > > > Maybe I made mistake before, but its 16MB (no further upgrade > > possible). > > FWIW, I've successfully run X (3.3.6) on a P75 w/16MB RAM (2.2 kernel, > glibc) using IceWM. So long as yo

Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-Announce] Building Debian Packages: By Example

2002-05-13 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 9:29 AM -0400 5/13/02, Chris Fearnley wrote: Where: 133 North 4th Street (at 4th and Cherry) Philadelphia, PA And because it was a hot issue last month, I will point out that if you are driving and can not find something on the street, then I HIGHLY recommend the p

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