Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

2002-11-26 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hi Stefan I really like the makefile approach, but I will have to read the "make"-nutshell book before I understand what the snipped you gave me really does... Thanks anyway. joerg I would use a Makefile like -[snip!]--- FROM = $(subst .eps,.pdf, $(wildcard

Re: ES1371 not functioning

2002-11-26 Thread nate
Andrew R Reid said: > This has been bugging me for months - so I want to fix it. > > I have an ES1371 on my server that I would really like to get going so > that when I work on it on weekends I can have nice sounds when I an in > gnome ;-) I don't mean to sound mean or anything, but are your spea

ES1371 not functioning

2002-11-26 Thread Andrew R Reid
This has been bugging me for months - so I want to fix it. I have an ES1371 on my server that I would really like to get going so that when I work on it on weekends I can have nice sounds when I an in gnome ;-) This is the result of lspci -v 02:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1370 [A

Re: upgraded kernel, lost eth0

2002-11-26 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Tim Verry wrote: I can mount -t smbfs now!!! Thanks everyone! I do have to modprobe smbfs but I'll figure that out. I ran apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-386 (not sure about that tsc crap on this pentium 200) and it went pretty well. However, when I rebooted I saw a message flash by tha

Re: Searching for sources

2002-11-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 06:38:48PM -0500, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: > Hi David, > > thanks for answering, but what I meant was that if I wished to look for > another package that, as just like the case of pine, DOESN'T have a > binary version due to license restrictions or anything else, I could

Today's Evolution

2002-11-26 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I just downloaded Evolution. My system is Sid. Evolution could only run up into the main window. When I tried to send an email, it complained about the unavailability of gtkhtml1.1; which in fact I have it. Do you have any problems with Sid's Evolution? Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-26 Thread Chris Lale
Pigeon wrote: Read the line in my original post immediately after "every time it logs on"... :-) Thanks, anyway! Sorry! I had deleted previous messages in the thread before your post caught my eye. Here's a solution you may not like! If all else fails, connect to ukonline using Windows us

Re: Correction: ext2 vs ext3 vs xfs vs reiserfs

2002-11-26 Thread Oki DZ
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 06:44:06PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > The problem with xfs_repair is that it can't be used on a mounted > filesystem (even mounted read-only). It's the same thing for reiserfs; reiserfsck --check has to be done on an unmounted filesystem. I had problems on reiserf

Re: ide-scsi grabs everything

2002-11-26 Thread Jason Pepas
thanks for the responses guys, looks like I should be able to get it sorted out with your help. -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: embedding sed scripts in .procmailrc

2002-11-26 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, csj wrote: > On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 06:24:11 +0100, Oliver Fuchs wrote: > > > > On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, csj wrote: > > > > > Why doesn't the following .procmailrc recipe work? > > > > > > :0fwh > > > > it has to be > > > > :0 fwh > > > > > | sed -e 's/^List-Post:/X-Mailing-Lis

Re: computer dead; help!

2002-11-26 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 27 Nov 2002 05:55:11AM +0100, Robert Ian Smit insinuated: > * Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27-11-2002 05:39]: > > > the screen goes off, totally black, as if it had lost power. > > okay, i can now get in from elsewhere, so i'm less scared. but > > still no video whatosever! > >

Re: computer dead; help!

2002-11-26 Thread pierre
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 21:22, Nori Heikkinen wrote: to me it seem your GNu desktop is corupted,when you boot try to boot with your 3.5 disk you made . Pierre > just got back to my room, and found my computer happily sleeping and > xscreensaving. moved the mouse, clicked over a few desktops

upgraded kernel, lost eth0

2002-11-26 Thread Tim Verry
I can mount -t smbfs now!!! Thanks everyone! I do have to modprobe smbfs but I'll figure that out. I ran apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-386 (not sure about that tsc crap on this pentium 200) and it went pretty well. However, when I rebooted I saw a message flash by that said "eth0 devic

Re: libc6_2.2.5-13 not in stable

2002-11-26 Thread Rob Weir
[please wrap your lines at something sensible, it makes your messages much easier to read] On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:57:43PM +0100, Wanou wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to install avview 0.10.8-1 in order to watch TV with my > ATI card. I've downloaded the debian package of avview, but when I >

Re: Why sid instead of sarge??

2002-11-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 06:10:35PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > That did help. Thank you!! One more question, though. It's my > understanding that in order to, for example, change the cc from > gcc to gcc-3.2 and add compiler optimisations, you must edit > debian/rules. Is this true? I don't kno

Re: computer dead; help!

2002-11-26 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27-11-2002 05:39]: > > the screen goes off, totally black, as if it had lost power. > okay, i can now get in from elsewhere, so i'm less scared. but still > no video whatosever! Are you able to turn on the monitor and is it not receiving a signal from you

Re: computer dead; help!

2002-11-26 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27-11-2002 05:29]: > just got back to my room, and found my computer happily sleeping and > xscreensaving. moved the mouse, clicked over a few desktops, and the > screen goes off, totally black, as if it had lost power. all > connections and cables still fine

Re: computer dead; help!

2002-11-26 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:22:42PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: > just got back to my room, and found my computer happily sleeping and > xscreensaving. moved the mouse, clicked over a few desktops, and > the screen goes off, totally black, as if it had lost power. all > connections and cables st

Re: apt-get - what is it aware of?

2002-11-26 Thread David Z Maze
Tim Verry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > apt-get is completely unaware of things you install or update by hand? It > only knows about apps that were installed/updated using apt-get (or dselect > or dpkg)? Yes. In practice, this covers the vast majority of things you want to use; if you want so

computer dead; help!

2002-11-26 Thread Nori Heikkinen
just got back to my room, and found my computer happily sleeping and xscreensaving. moved the mouse, clicked over a few desktops, and the screen goes off, totally black, as if it had lost power. all connections and cables still fine. of course i should have tried to ssh in from somewhere else at

Re: Automatic creation of VMware kernel modules?

2002-11-26 Thread Jeff
Kai Großjohann, 2002-Nov-26 16:56 +0100: > When building a new kernel (with make-kpkg) I always forget to also > build new VMware kernel modules. > > It would be easy to put make-kpkg and vmware-config.pl into a script, > but that is not enough: we have multiple machines using the kernel > package

Re: Compiling kernel for AMD CPU with gcc 3.02 How?

2002-11-26 Thread Colin Watson
[Please don't send me private copies of list mail. I read the list and prefer not to get duplicates unless something requires urgent attention. Thanks.] On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:02:34PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > Well I tried setting these in /etc/environment I wouldn't use /etc/environment fo

Re: ip_table problems

2002-11-26 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:05:44AM +, daves debian wrote: | I run kernel 2.4.19, I want to run firestarter as a GUI firewall, it needs | IP chains enabled in the kernel ipchains or iptables? The two are quite different. | I finaly tracked down an article telling me what modules to enable, |

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-26 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:37:01 -0500, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This one time, at band camp, Pigeon said: >> Can you supply the magic words for dynamic DNS please? >> >> Thanks to everyone who replied, >> >> Pigeon > >In /etc/ppp/peers/ukonline, make sure you have 'usepeerdns' somew

Re: Modem IRQs, password & mail problems

2002-11-26 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 22:35:42 +, "Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 07:42:18PM +, Pigeon wrote: >> A few small questions: >> >> 1) How do I tell Linux that my modem on /dev/ttyS2 wants to use IRQ5? >> It's a non-PnP ISA hardware modem. > >setserial wil

Re: How to enable DMA at boot time

2002-11-26 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 00:41:22 +, Clive Standbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Following the tips in another thread, I have successfully >used hdparm to enable DMA and to measure its improvement >on my IDE hard disk. > >Now I want to enable DMA at boot time. According to the >kernel docs (ide

Re: laptop questions

2002-11-26 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 04:15:58PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: | On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 04:39:59PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: | | > 1) PCMCIA cards. We have a linksys ethernet card that is recognized as | > an NE2000 compatible ethernet card. When I did the install, the only | > way

Re: Compiling kernel for AMD CPU with gcc 3.02 How?

2002-11-26 Thread John Foster
Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:23:20PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said: Only if you bump the version number a bit in debian/changelog and arrange to have the packages put on hold, of course. With most packages, yes, but this

Re: Compiling kernel for AMD CPU with gcc 3.02 How?

2002-11-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:23:20PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said: > > Only if you bump the version number a bit in debian/changelog and > > arrange to have the packages put on hold, of course. > > With most packages, yes, but this seems to be an odd ca

Re: apt-get - what is it aware of?

2002-11-26 Thread nate
Tim Verry said: > apt-get is completely unaware of things you install or update by hand? It > only knows about apps that were installed/updated using apt-get (or > dselect or dpkg)? yes this is true. unless you make dummy packages and feed them to the database(by installing them) you can get ap

Re: Compiling kernel for AMD CPU with gcc 3.02 How?

2002-11-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said: > Only if you bump the version number a bit in debian/changelog and > arrange to have the packages put on hold, of course. With most packages, yes, but this seems to be an odd case - I get .debs named: cpp_3.2.1-1_i386.deb g++_3.2.1-1_i386.deb gcc_3.

Re: ext2 vs ext3 vs xfs vs reiserfs

2002-11-26 Thread Oki DZ
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:16:13PM -0800, nate wrote: > perhaps this is why reiserfs does the same, it's nice to be able to > mark blocks as bad, but whenever I see bad blocks, I get ready for > an RMA, because most likely when bad blocks start showing up on the > filesystem itself, the drive has a

Re: ide-scsi grabs everything

2002-11-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Jason" == Jason Pepas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> hello, I have both ide-cd and ide-scsi compiled as modules. Jason> When I modprobe ide-scsi, it grabs all non-hard drive ide Jason> devices (the burner and the zip drive). Is there a way to Jason> make it just grab the

Cups and a Lexmark z22

2002-11-26 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
I've gotten all the necessary packaeges for Cups and my printer, and now I have my Lexmark z22 recognized in the cups web administration tool, but when printing a test page it does not print (no errors, nothing in the printjobs section.) Do I have to set permissions or anything? Are there any ad

Re: audio problems

2002-11-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"ernst" == ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ernst> Hi Can u get sound working if u are root? If so, do 'chmod ernst> a+rw /dev/dsp'. Nope. It is "better" to add the user to the 'audio' group instead (edit /etc/group file, or use 'adduser userid audio'). By default /dev/dsp permiss

Re: Why sid instead of sarge??

2002-11-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 18:10, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 14:12, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:49:47AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] > > Weird. I just tried it and I also get the unstable version. However, > > there is a workaround: > > > > Use `apt-cac

CD-RW Requirements?

2002-11-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
This is not specifically a Debian question, or even, really, a Linux question, but I don't know where else to ask. Why do CD-RWs have such ungodly system requirements? I was just looking at a CD-RW (24/10/40) that actually specified Linux compatability (Slackware, but a Linux driver is a Linux dr

Langsing dan Greeng !!

2002-11-26 Thread langsing_Greng
Mohon maaf bila email ini mengganggu anda, bila tidak berkenan mohon agar dihapus saja. Langsing dan Greeng !! Anda kegemukan ? Jangan risau, banyak jalan menuju tubuh ideal. Salah satu jalan menuju tubuh ideal murah dan mudah tanpa efek samping ialah mengkonsumsi secara teratur : Coarse Rice Pow

RE: How to enable DMA at boot time

2002-11-26 Thread Charlie Reiman
> -Original Message- > From: Clive Standbridge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 4:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How to enable DMA at boot time > > > Following the tips in another thread, I have successfully used > hdparm to enable DMA and to measure

Re: simple (hopefully obvious) question + thankyou

2002-11-26 Thread matt
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:36:03 +1100, "Nick Hastings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > * Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021127 12:23]: > > > > kernel-release is 2.2.20-idepci (same that was used durring install), > > and the output of both find commands is nothing. > > OK, that kernel doesn't have those mod

Re: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?

2002-11-26 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:42:16 -0800 (PST), "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pigeon said: > >> In Nero 5.5 you set "Iso Level 2 (max 31 chars)", "ISO 9660", >> "Joliet", "Allow path depth of more than 8 directories" and "Allow more >> than 255 characters in path" in the ISO tab of the New >> Compi

Re: xdm and startx

2002-11-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
(I had to do some manual attribution-fiddling; I hope I put all the right words in the right people's mouths.) * Levi Waldron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021122 11:28]: > On November 22, 2002 11:05 am, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > * M.Wegmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021122 16:29]: > > > Try "apt-get install x

Re: group sudo

2002-11-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.27.0234 +0100]: > Googling for "sudo group Debian" returns the answer as the first hit > ... and indeed Debian's sudo package is configured using > --with-exempt=sudo. thank you -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :pr

Re: libc6_2.2.5-13 not in stable

2002-11-26 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 6:57, Wanou wrote: > I would like to install avview 0.10.8-1 in order to watch TV with my ATI > card. I've downloaded the debian package of avview, but when I want to > install it with 'dpkg -i', there is a dependencie problem : > > dpkg: dependency problems preve

apt-get - what is it aware of?

2002-11-26 Thread Tim Verry
apt-get is completely unaware of things you install or update by hand? It only knows about apps that were installed/updated using apt-get (or dselect or dpkg)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: group sudo

2002-11-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.27.0230 +0100]: > Put people who should be allowed to use sudo in that group. In > /etc/sudoers, add an entry for group sudo. For example, to allow > everyone in the sudo group to run any command as root, enter > > %sudo ALL = (A

Re: simple (hopefully obvious) question + thankyou

2002-11-26 Thread Nick Hastings
* Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021127 12:23]: > > kernel-release is 2.2.20-idepci (same that was used durring install), > and the output of both find commands is nothing. OK, that kernel doesn't have those modules. > is is possible to download > the modules from somewhere?  I've looked through a d

Re: group sudo

2002-11-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 02:22:15AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > what's group id 27, 'sudo' used for? Googling for "sudo group Debian" returns the answer as the first hit ... and indeed Debian's sudo package is configured using --with-exempt=sudo. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?

2002-11-26 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 17:01:58 -0500, "Wathen, Metherion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >that sounds good cause youre absolutely right when i started setting up this >system i used some old dos 6.22 disks to get the hd formatted. my kernel is >2.2.19 'potato' >so how do i rebuild my kernel with joliet

Re: group sudo

2002-11-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 02:22:15AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > what's group id 27, 'sudo' used for? Put people who should be allowed to use sudo in that group. In /etc/sudoers, add an entry for group sudo. For example, to allow everyone in the sudo group to run any command as root, enter %

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-26 Thread John Hasler
Stephen Gran writes: > In /etc/ppp/peers/ukonline, make sure you have 'usepeerdns' somewhere > towards the bottom of the file (at least, that's always been it's place < > in my experience, don't know if it really matters). Pppconfig should have put usepeerdns in the file if he selected 'Dynamic'.

group sudo

2002-11-26 Thread martin f krafft
what's group id 27, 'sudo' used for? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system NOTE: The public PGP keyservers are broken! Get my key here: http://people.debi

Re: ide-scsi grabs everything

2002-11-26 Thread Shawn Lamson
--- Jason Pepas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > I have both ide-cd and ide-scsi compiled as modules. When I modprobe > > ide-scsi, it grabs all non-hard drive ide devices (the burner and the > zip > drive). Is there a way to make it just grab the burner? I found these two on Google: -

ip_table problems

2002-11-26 Thread daves debian
I run kernel 2.4.19, I want to run firestarter as a GUI firewall, it needs IP chains enabled in the kernel I have checked /usr/src//Documentation zip I have read man ipchains zip of use I finaly tracked down an article telling me what modules to enable, I have in Network options M Pa

Re: Compiling kernel for AMD CPU with gcc 3.02 How?

2002-11-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 07:46:34PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said: > > They're deliberately not /etc/alternatives links; they're installed by > > the gcc packages, and will be set back to the current links when you > > upgrade. So no, that's probably not

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-26 Thread Pigeon
On 26 Nov 2002 14:58:20 -0600, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pigeon writes: >> Read the line in my original post immediately after "every time it logs >> on"... > >For ukonline you want to select 'Dynamic' in the 'Configure Nameservers' >screen. For Waitrose you want 'static'. I must b

Re: simple (hopefully obvious) question + thankyou

2002-11-26 Thread Matt
kernel-release is 2.2.20-idepci (same that was used durring install), and the output of both find commands is nothing.  is is possible to download the modules from somewhere?  I've looked through a debian mirror, but couldn't find them. thanks, -matt ps. u can cc me replies if you wish. On Tu

The Superb Debian Reference

2002-11-26 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Oh, i forget to add that one of the most helpful docs ( if not the) is > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ > or more recent: http://qref.sourceforge.net Too bad, that that reference location is not obvious at all. I guess that many newbie

Re: Compiling kernel for AMD CPU with gcc 3.02 How?

2002-11-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 09:12:14AM -0600, John Foster wrote: > > I was hoping for something that would work across the system. > > I was wondering if I altered the /etc/alternatives links for @cc @cpp > > @gcc etc. to their corresponding newer ve

How to enable DMA at boot time

2002-11-26 Thread Clive Standbridge
Following the tips in another thread, I have successfully used hdparm to enable DMA and to measure its improvement on my IDE hard disk. Now I want to enable DMA at boot time. According to the kernel docs (ide.txt.gz and kernel-parameters.txt.gz) I should be able to do this with the kernel parame

Re: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?

2002-11-26 Thread nate
Pigeon said: > In Nero 5.5 you set "Iso Level 2 (max 31 chars)", "ISO 9660", > "Joliet", "Allow path depth of more than 8 directories" and "Allow more > than 255 characters in path" in the ISO tab of the New > Compilation dialog. I seem to remember joliet barfing on files with more then 1 period

[SOLVED, sort of] Re: drivers for HP Laserjet 3330?

2002-11-26 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 01:54:36 + (UTC), Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wondered if anyone has tried using the Laserjet 3330 under Linux. I > just set this up for someone using the generic HP Laserjet Postscript > driver. With this driver I can only print at 600dpi though it has > su

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Pigeon said: > Can you supply the magic words for dynamic DNS please? > > Thanks to everyone who replied, > > Pigeon In /etc/ppp/peers/ukonline, make sure you have 'usepeerdns' somewhere towards the bottom of the file (at least, that's always been it's place in my ex

Re: Modem IRQs, password & mail problems

2002-11-26 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 07:42:18PM +, Pigeon wrote: > A few small questions: > > 1) How do I tell Linux that my modem on /dev/ttyS2 wants to use IRQ5? > It's a non-PnP ISA hardware modem. setserial will change the kernel's idea of what IO/IRQ the modem is on. It won't change the settings on

Re: Why sid instead of sarge??

2002-11-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 14:12, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:49:47AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > Weird. I just tried it and I also get the unstable version. However, > there is a workaround: > > Use `apt-cache showpkg pan' to find out what the available versions > are;

Re: ide-scsi grabs everything

2002-11-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jason Pepas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021126 14:57]: > also, before I modprobe ide-scsi, the burner should still be /dev/hdc, but I > cannot mount it (mount reports not valid block device). Any ideas? Can you mount via /dev/scd0 in place of /dev/hdc? good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/

Re: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?

2002-11-26 Thread John Hasler
Levi Waldron writes: > I guess that's because your cd burning software added the Joliet > extensions for long filenames in windows, but not the Rock Ridge > extensions that Linux needs to see the long filenames. Linux supports the Joliet extensions to ISO9660 and the stock Debian kernel appears to

Re: [OT] Debian vs Gentoo (discussed in newsletter)

2002-11-26 Thread Benedict Verheyen
- Original Message - From: "Benedict Verheyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 12:39 AM Subject: [OT] Debian vs Gentoo (discussed in newsletter) > Hi, > > i just saw the topic raised in the newsletter. I would > never use Gentoo: > * sinc

Re: Searching for sources

2002-11-26 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
Hi David, thanks for answering, but what I meant was that if I wished to look for another package that, as just like the case of pine, DOESN'T have a binary version due to license restrictions or anything else, I couldn't. Or at least up to now I don't know how to work it out. Another example cou

Re: Quota

2002-11-26 Thread Lucas Barbuto
Hi Marcus, On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 09:08:32PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a question about quotas.. Can somebody suggest > me a file-format version? Should I use vfsv0 or vfsold? > What are the differences between those formats? If you are running Woody, I strongly suggest strictly a

[OT] Debian vs Gentoo (discussed in newsletter)

2002-11-26 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, i just saw the topic raised in the newsletter. I would never use Gentoo: * since i'm lazy and i do NOT want to compile everything. i'm a software engineer so i compile enough at work and when i come home i want something that works :-) * debian has all the tools to compile sources, be t

Re: printer driver list

2002-11-26 Thread Allan Wind
On 2002-11-26 15:56:47, Liudmila Yafremava wrote: > Might you tell me how to find out which driver my printer is currently > using? And how do I switch from one driver to another? It depends on what printer system and possible filters you using. Are you using cups or one of the traditional print

RE: keyboard and mouse do not work in X

2002-11-26 Thread Sunaj
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 16:57, Mike wrote: > Hello everyone, first time poster long time lurker :) > > I'm only having one problem with debian at the moment and that is whenever I > start xdm/kdm/gdm my mouse and keyboard become unresponsive. Unfortunately > I'm pretty new to linux/debian so I'm not

ide-scsi grabs everything

2002-11-26 Thread Jason Pepas
hello, I have both ide-cd and ide-scsi compiled as modules. When I modprobe ide-scsi, it grabs all non-hard drive ide devices (the burner and the zip drive). Is there a way to make it just grab the burner? also, before I modprobe ide-scsi, the burner should still be /dev/hdc, but I cannot mo

Packages for Debian 3.0 (Alpha 2)

2002-11-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
I have prepared some packages that update some packages that are not or only in an older version in Debian 3.0r0. Please read [1] for more information (and read the FAQ before sending mails to me). I try my best to avoid problems with both installing these packages on a Debian 3.0 and upgrading wi

Re: laptop questions

2002-11-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 04:39:59PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > I've recently installed debian testing on my wife's old p-120 laptop, > and I've got a few questions about some laptop specific issues. > > 1) PCMCIA cards. We have a linksys ethernet card that is recognized as > an NE2000

Re: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?

2002-11-26 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 26, 2002 04:10 pm, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > well here's the weird thing, > if i look at the files on my windows pc using filemanager the filenames are > long, if i use mc on my debian machine the filenames are shortened with a > tilde filling in the missing parts. > so what ive been

Re: CNAME in DNS: having a cname for a different domain than my domain...

2002-11-26 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On 26 Nov 2002, 08:33:56, Irvin Temp wrote: > > > i set up apache and name-base virtualhosting on my > box. my pcs name is home-woody.dm0nkz.net then > created a vhost of > > a) vhosta.testing.org > b) vhostb.dm0nkz.net OK DNS - my Best Thing in db.dm0nkz.net: home-woody A 192.1

Re: laptop questions

2002-11-26 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 04:39:59PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > 1) PCMCIA cards. We have a linksys ethernet card that is recognized as > an NE2000 compatible ethernet card. When I did the install, the only > way I could get it to be recognized for the network installation was > as eth0

Re: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?

2002-11-26 Thread Travis Crump
Wathen, Metherion wrote: well here's the weird thing, if i look at the files on my windows pc using filemanager the filenames are long, if i use mc on my debian machine the filenames are shortened with a tilde filling in the missing parts. so what ive been doing is umounting the cd, putting it in

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

2002-11-26 Thread Stefan Janecek
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 13:42, Jörg Johannes wrote: > Hi everybody > > For my documents, I have to use both LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. The problem I > have is, pdflatex does not (at least per default) understand .eps and > .ps files. So I have to convert my .eps figures from gnuplot into .png > for pdfl

Re: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?

2002-11-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021126 13:46]: > You may be lucky: Joliet is a kernel option; if your kernel doesn't > have it you will only see the short filenames (IIRC). Solution: > rebuild your kernel and enable Joliet. I don't know if the prepackaged > kernels include Joliet support, but I'd be

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RE: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?

2002-11-26 Thread Wathen, Metherion
that sounds good cause youre absolutely right when i started setting up this system i used some old dos 6.22 disks to get the hd formatted. my kernel is 2.2.19 'potato' so how do i rebuild my kernel with joliet enabled, speak slowly i'm a newbie :) thanks, mw. -Original Message- From: Pige

printer driver list

2002-11-26 Thread Liudmila Yafremava
Hi! Might you tell me how to find out which driver my printer is currently using? And how do I switch from one driver to another? Many thanks, Luda -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT: Cellular Automaton Java Library sought

2002-11-26 Thread martin f krafft
Folks, please excuse, I am once again abusing your wisdom (and the size of this mailing list). I just spent two hours searching the web for a Java library for cellular automata, and couldn't really find anything. So I am wondering whether you can give me a pointer. It should not be a library to be

Re: pthreads man pages not in Debian 3.0r0?

2002-11-26 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm running Debian 3.0r0 and I can't find the pthreads man pages. I've already installed the packages 'manpages' and 'manpages-dev' but the pthreads man pages are not included in them. So, anyone knows where are the pthreads man pages? Regards, Yeah. Unfortunat

Re: Mouse config!

2002-11-26 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:43:18 -0800 (PST), Samaad Story <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello , I have just installed Linux and I am currently >on the xterm, but the problem is I cant seem to >configure the mouse properties in order to get it to >work properly or at all for that matter, can you >please

Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?

2002-11-26 Thread Stefan Janecek
On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 07:21, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hi, > > > Am 09:17 2002-11-20 -0500 hat Wathen, Metherion geschrieben: > > > >Hi all, > >I need to know how to add CD's with programs and dependencies I downloaded > >from Debian.org to the list searched by dselect. > > What about deselect

laptop questions

2002-11-26 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
I've recently installed debian testing on my wife's old p-120 laptop, and I've got a few questions about some laptop specific issues. 1) PCMCIA cards. We have a linksys ethernet card that is recognized as an NE2000 compatible ethernet card. When I did the install, the only way I could get it to be

Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?

2002-11-26 Thread Levi Waldron
Just curious, why did you make up a CD of .debs and other programs, as opposing to installing directly from a debian online source using apt (ie, apt-get install package-name? If you don't know what I'm talking about, fess up and we'll point you in the right direction. The easiest way to insta

Re: unsubscribe

2002-11-26 Thread Diego Sarasua
JAA sorry thanks diego - Original Message - From: "Mike Dresser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pigeon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 5:41 PM Subject: Re: unsubscribe > On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Pigeon wrote: > >

Re: pthreads man pages not in Debian 3.0r0?

2002-11-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 06:35:06PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm running Debian 3.0r0 and I can't find the pthreads man pages. I've > already installed the packages 'manpages' and 'manpages-dev' but the > pthreads man pages are not included in them. > > So, anyone knows where are the pthr

Re: CNAME in DNS: having a cname for a different domain than my domain...

2002-11-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Irvin Temp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021126 08:48]: > i set up apache and name-base virtualhosting on my > box. my pcs name is home-woody.dm0nkz.net then > created a vhost of > > a) vhosta.testing.org > b) vhostb.dm0nkz.net > > so i then created a cname for vhostb.dm0nkz.net and > vhosta.testing

RE: pthreads man pages not in Debian 3.0r0?

2002-11-26 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| So, anyone knows where are the pthreads man pages? IIRC, there are none. apt-get install glibc-doc file:///usr/share/doc/glibc-doc/html/chapters_34.html#SEC670 HTH, Brooks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APT Documentation

2002-11-26 Thread Mike Markley
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 09:07:14PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > I think that this is also interessting for people using apt-rpm. I have > a small collection of apt-rpm sources for RH here: > http://cs1.telelev.net/rh73-public.sources.list > http://cs1.telelev.net/rh80-public.sources.list > > If yo

Re: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?

2002-11-26 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:27:00 -0500, "Wathen, Metherion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have files that have been downloaded from the Debian site and burned to >cdrom, when i use mc to copy the files to my harddrive for installation a >big part of the long name is replaced with a tilde; how do I get

RE: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?

2002-11-26 Thread Wathen, Metherion
well here's the weird thing, if i look at the files on my windows pc using filemanager the filenames are long, if i use mc on my debian machine the filenames are shortened with a tilde filling in the missing parts. so what ive been doing is umounting the cd, putting it in the windows box, writing t

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-26 Thread John Hasler
Pigeon writes: > Read the line in my original post immediately after "every time it logs > on"... For ukonline you want to select 'Dynamic' in the 'Configure Nameservers' screen. For Waitrose you want 'static'. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUB

Re: CNAME in DNS: having a cname for a different domain than my domain...

2002-11-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:33:56AM -0800, Irvin Temp wrote: > home-woody.dm0nkz.net. A 192.168.0.1 > > vhosta.testing.org. CNAME hanz-woody > vhostbCNAME hanz-woody > cname for vhosta.testing.org? can i do this at all? or > i need to setup a > anot

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