Re: install usb thumb drive

2002-12-03 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Thank you. Is there any way to make the Linux automount the thumb drive and execute my customized command when I connect the usb thumb drive to the usb port? If automatic command execution is possible, then it will be very interesting. > Another solution is to run 'MAKEDEV', which is a script

Re: Partition size

2002-12-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 01:47:37PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > and -o noatime will only block writing "inode access times". True, it's not the solution the XFree86 problem, but it does seem to be an important flag for laptops. > But once I found out how to stop X from repeatedly telling me th

Re: undo a dselect?

2002-12-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 05:19:40PM +0100, Holger Wiechert wrote: > I've got two questions: > 1) how can I get dselect to ignore the settings I (somehow) > selected during the last dselect session, and No idea. > 2) how do I get dselect only using certain things from > the unstable branch, but oth

Re: edit menus under gnome2

2002-12-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 01:56:45PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 06:34:11PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:05:20AM -0800, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > Also the desktop pager won't show viewports, only workspaces under > > > sawfish, and the tasklist only s

Re: install usb thumb drive

2002-12-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:39:38PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > problem solved! > I noticed that all /dev/sd* were gone. So I copy the /dev/sd* from another > machine. And every works! Another solution is to run 'MAKEDEV', which is a script that knows how to create device nodes for you. -rob

Re: SB Live

2002-12-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:06:57PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > Hmm, which kernel are you using? I am using 2.4.18.bf24. It was only > loaded because I chose to install it when I first installed the > system. The boot floppy kernels are missing a bunch of stuff since they're not intended for normal

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

2002-12-03 Thread Andrew R Reid
When I start a Gnome Session I get the following errors. Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: SESSION_MANAGER=local/cpserver:/tmp/.ICE-unix/5946 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C li

Re: apt error, Dynamic MMap ran out of room

2002-12-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 03:20:50PM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > Yes, I did manage to find out the likely variable the weird thing > is changing one of the sources lists entry to point to another server > fixed it... later I changed the Cache-Limit also it's not as though > I had a 100 e

Re: weird X effect

2002-12-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:29:47AM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > Rob, > > I am currently using this in my .Xresources: > lucidasanstypewriter-12 (xfonts-75dpi). > It worked fine in twm and this is the default font I've always been using. > I'm very picky about fonts in my system. What's weird is thi

Re: Sound (SBLive) | Gnome Problems

2002-12-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:48:17PM +, Pigeon wrote: > Soundblasters have the aforementioned FS-unfriendly problem and also > apparently resample everything to 48kHz, so CMI8738 it was. There are > still driver problems, both in Windoze and Linux, but at least in > Linux it's possible to hack ro

Re: SB Live

2002-12-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 09:40:11AM -0500, Peter van Oene wrote: > When modprobe tells me i'm missing emu10k1, do I just go to creative and > download it? > > > almo:~# modprobe emu10k1 > modprobe: Can't locate module emu10k1 It's standard in the 2.4 kernels. 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.

Re: Depends: perlapi-5.6.1

2002-12-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:14:50PM +0100, Holger Wiechert wrote: > Thanks for the reply! > > After a hell of a ride with dselect, > I finally have the following situation: > In short, I still want to install mysql-server. Through > a chain of dependencies that end up in perlapi-5.6.1, > this is no

Re: X11 problems...

2002-12-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:39:38PM +0100, Tom wrote: > >I had installed xserver-xfree86. I ran xfree86config. But when i tried to > >run X command, i got this error. "NO SCREEN FOUND". Can someone help me > >please? > > > >I got a Geforce 2 mmx 64mb video card > > It probably

Re: audio problem restated

2002-12-03 Thread Shawn Lamson
see mine at this link: http://members.verizon.net/~vze25q2q/ let me know how it looks... --- Bruce Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Debian users, > > I'm going to restate my problem regarding this audio cd problem > that I'm > having. But first, I would like to thank all those that hav

Re: audio problem restated

2002-12-03 Thread Adam Warner
Hi Bruce Park, > When I run XMMS from the shell, I get this error: libmikmod.so.2: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory Bruce, head off to http://packages.debian.org and type libmikmod.so.2 in "Search the contents of packages". Click search and you'll find the library is su

Finding out how fragmented an ext3 journal is

2002-12-03 Thread Adam Warner
Hi all, Some advice is listed here on how to find out how fragmented an ext3 journal is (a small concern for those who have upgraded a heavily fragmented ext2 partition to ext3): https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/ext3-users/2001-November/002152.html One is told: `use "debugfs" to find the inod

Re: Uninstall X

2002-12-03 Thread Adam Warner
Hi Dominic Iadicicco, > Does anyone know how to unistall Xfree86? Without using deselect. > Example deleting files and links and so forth... You work out what packages install X and then "remove --purge" them (purge also removes any custom configuration info). This is probably a good start: ap

Re: blackdown java

2002-12-03 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 05:40:15PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: | Darryl, | | So which one is more compliant? [comparing Blackdown and Sun's JVM distributions] I believe that the two releases are the same. Several years ago the Blackdown people signed NDAs with Sun so they could get the source code

Re: Open Source alternatives to HighWire and PowerPCB

2002-12-03 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 00:20, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > To my most-helpful net community: > > I'm looking for open-source alternatives to HighWire (DOS) and PowerPCB (WinDoze) > that will run on Debian GNU/Linux. These are programs for designing circuit > boards. > > Google turned up this index

Re: .Xresources file

2002-12-03 Thread sean finney
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 02:31:12PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: > > iirc, .Xresources is deprecated in favor of .Xdefaults. > > > > Hmm, I thought it was the other way around .Xdefaults deprecated... > anyway I always make one a symlink to the other. yeah, right you are. likewise i symlink one

Re: audio problem restated

2002-12-03 Thread sean finney
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:12:41AM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > don't think it's a group related problem. When I run XMMS from the shell, I > get this error: > libmikmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory no, i get that error all the time too. i think it's just a missi

Re: .Xresources file

2002-12-03 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021204 14:23]: > heya, > > iirc, .Xresources is deprecated in favor of .Xdefaults. Hmm, I thought it was the other way around .Xdefaults deprecated... anyway I always make one a symlink to the other. Just my 2 yen, Nick. -- Debian testing/unstable Lin

Re: .Xresources file

2002-12-03 Thread sean finney
heya, iirc, .Xresources is deprecated in favor of .Xdefaults. i had the same problem taking the .Xresources file from a solaris box and not understanding why it wasn't being applied to my debian defaults. sean On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:10:50PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > Hello Debian u

Open Source alternatives to HighWire and PowerPCB

2002-12-03 Thread Doug MacFarlane
To my most-helpful net community: I'm looking for open-source alternatives to HighWire (DOS) and PowerPCB (WinDoze) that will run on Debian GNU/Linux. These are programs for designing circuit boards. Google turned up this index, but it's from Sept. 1999: http://www.rdrop.com/~cary/mirror/tools

Re: audio problem restated

2002-12-03 Thread Nick Hastings
* Bruce Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021204 14:13]: > Hello Debian users, > > I'm going to restate my problem regarding this audio cd problem that I'm > having. But first, I would like to thank all those that have contributed in > this matter. > I am currently running kernel 2.4.18-bf24. I have

Re: audio cd

2002-12-03 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Bruce Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021204 14:04]: > Nick, > > I took myself off the disk group. I see your point in how dangerous that > can become. > You stated you have this: > >lrwxrwxrwx1 root root8 2000-11-08 18:13 /dev/cdrom -> > >/dev/hdc > >brw-rw-rw-1 root

audio problem restated

2002-12-03 Thread Bruce Park
Hello Debian users, I'm going to restate my problem regarding this audio cd problem that I'm having. But first, I would like to thank all those that have contributed in this matter. I am currently running kernel 2.4.18-bf24. I have a IDE-CDRW from LG. I'm running KDE3.0.5 and I have XMMS with

Re: new installation -- install lilo after making boot floppy

2002-12-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"John" == John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Note, I have installed the compact flavor (i386) on a single John> drive system that was just running Debian and on a mac 68K John> and powerpc, but don't have any experience with lilo in a John> dual boot situation. I d

Re: audio cd

2002-12-03 Thread Bruce Park
Nick, I took myself off the disk group. I see your point in how dangerous that can become. You stated you have this: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root8 2000-11-08 18:13 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc brw-rw-rw-1 root disk 22, 0 2002-05-13 18:06 /dev/hdc Guess what? That' exactly w

Re: audio cd

2002-12-03 Thread John Griffiths
sorry to state the bleeding obvious, but is the user in the audio group? At 08:48 PM 12/3/02 -0800, Shawn Lamson wrote: >Did you try to install cdcd ? Or try running xmms from an x-term to >see if there is any error message? I think that /dev/cdrom should be a >sym link to /dev/hdc and should ha

Re: audio cd

2002-12-03 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Bruce Park wrote: Shawn, Well, here's what I have so far. /cdromroot /dev/cdrom root /dev/hdc disk I took the liberty to add myself to group disk. In KDE control center, the CD device is listed as /dev/cdrom. I can mount data

Re: Quick way to set up printing?

2002-12-03 Thread ZephyrQ
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 19:40, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:06:27AM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: > > > > But I can't seem to link to localhost:631! I tried with both Galeon > > and Mozilla and Lynx! I keep getting an error! > > If you cannot connect to localhost:631, the cupsys

Re: audio cd

2002-12-03 Thread Shawn Lamson
Did you try to install cdcd ? Or try running xmms from an x-term to see if there is any error message? I think that /dev/cdrom should be a sym link to /dev/hdc and should have matching permissions and you will have to make it belong to the disk group too. Here is mine: slamson@callerio:~$ l /de

Re: audio cd

2002-12-03 Thread Kent West
Bruce Park wrote: Shawn, Well, here's what I have so far. /cdromroot /dev/cdrom root /dev/hdc disk I took the liberty to add myself to group disk. In KDE control center, the CD device is listed as /dev/cdrom. I can mount data cds just fine so

Re: .Xresources file

2002-12-03 Thread Nick Hastings
* Bruce Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021204 13:13]: > Hello Debian users, > > I just recently realized that my .Xresources file is not being run > everytime I log into my account. While I can easily put this in my .bashrc xrdb -merge ${HOME}/.Xresources > file and execute it with the xrdb command,

Re: audio cd

2002-12-03 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Bruce Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021204 13:04]: > Shawn, > > Well, here's what I have so far. > > /cdromroot > /dev/cdrom root > /dev/hdc disk > > I took the liberty to add myself to group disk. I recomend that you remove yourself from the

Re: Window manager (sensible sessions solution)

2002-12-03 Thread Mr. David Bersson
--- On Tue 12/03, Osamu Aoki < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:From: Osamu Aoki [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 18:47:26 -0800Subject: Re: Window manager (sensible sessions solution)Hi, David, Are you sure what you posted is right wa

Re: new installation -- install lilo after making boot floppy

2002-12-03 Thread Bruce Park
John, From what I can see it looks like you should install it in the MBR. When you initially installed Lilo, it should have prompted you for that. It also should have prompted you to put everything into a menu so that you can easily choose which OS to boot without having to formally type the

new installation -- install lilo after making boot floppy

2002-12-03 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I just installed GNU/Linux using the compact boot floppies onto my boss's windows 98 computer. He has 2 hard drives, the first, hda devoted to windows 98, and the second drive hdb devoted to linux. At the end of the installation, when it says make the system bootable, I decided to go ahe

.Xresources file

2002-12-03 Thread Bruce Park
Hello Debian users, I just recently realized that my .Xresources file is not being run everytime I log into my account. While I can easily put this in my .bashrc file and execute it with the xrdb command, I am trying to understand what's going on here. Can anyone tell me why this doesn't get ex

Re: audio cd

2002-12-03 Thread Bruce Park
Shawn, Well, here's what I have so far. /cdromroot /dev/cdrom root /dev/hdc disk I took the liberty to add myself to group disk. In KDE control center, the CD device is listed as /dev/cdrom. I can mount data cds just fine so I don't think the gr

Re: Today's Evolution

2002-12-03 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:18:38PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > I had this problem when evo 1.2 first appeared in sid. I'd built evo > snapshots and gtkhtml1.1 from source, and when I removed my build, I > missed gtkhtml1.1-editor in /usr/local/bin. Could this be your problem > also? I don't kno

Re: Updates to Sarge?

2002-12-03 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 18:45:38 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Should we expect that when glibc is ready, we will be looking at an > > apt-get upgrade for a system pinned to Testing will prove to be > 100 > > packages? > > It wouldn't surprise me. There are currently 900 packages

Re: Window manager (sensible sessions solution)

2002-12-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, David, Are you sure what you posted is right way to activate WM Session? On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:18:09PM -0500, Mr. David Bersson wrote: > I tried to post this once, but it didn't go through. > Here's the command to add window managers to your > sessions files. (Assuming you use gdm) > >

Re: Mozilla 1.2.1

2002-12-03 Thread CaT
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 09:35:12PM -0500, D. Clarke wrote: > Since the one apt is so uh.. apt at installing is 1.0.0, I'd really like > a newer one, but I don't want to potentially break things by installing > with an external file... You wont. It installs itself in one directory (generally /usr

Re: why is the package being pulled from testing?

2002-12-03 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 23:12:41 +0100 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Both stable and testing are pinned in the 100-999 bracket, so apt > > is perhaps feeling free to download whichever package is the most recent > > (the one in testing). > > ok. i raised stable to 1001, which did the

Mozilla 1.2.1

2002-12-03 Thread D. Clarke
Hi, Can anybody tell me where I can find a .DEB file for a newer mozilla? (preferably an apt-source, but anywhere in which I can fetch it is fine...) Since the one apt is so uh.. apt at installing is 1.0.0, I'd really like a newer one, but I don't want to potentially break things by installing

Re: Can't get ATI Rage128 to work with XFree86 on Debian

2002-12-03 Thread Carlos Sousa
I'm sending this to debian-user as well, hoping to draw out some more helpful comments. On 03 Dec 2002 12:43:10 -0500 "Timothy J. Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's what I am currently using. Maybe it will you. > > 1. Output from lspci: > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technolo

Re: /etc/fstab OR harddrive crash

2002-12-03 Thread J Q Private
--- Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:17:43AM -0500, Narins, > Josh wrote: > > Dear Debian folk, > > Important Question... If my hard drive crashed, > and my machine boots > > from the hard drive, how far in the boot process > would it get? > > How long is a piece

Re: Reset old package state after running dselect's install

2002-12-03 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:40:38PM +0100, Holger_ wrote: > > I've got two questions: > 1) how can I get dselect to ignore the settings I (somehow) > selected during the last dselect session (reset the packages > info to the currently installed state. Right now, dselect > tells me for instance, tha

Re: your mail

2002-12-03 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 09:56:45AM -0700, Gregg & Monica wrote: > I need to know if my computer can support debianand I need to knwo if it > will support the gui...here are my computers info... > > > cyrix MII 266Mhz, 4gig hard drive, windows ME loaded and updated, sound card > w/powered spea

Re: Quick way to set up printing?

2002-12-03 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:06:27AM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 22:52, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:05:59PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: > > > Somehow, printing didn't get set up when I installed lpd. I need a > > > quick and dirty way to get my OOffice stuff

Re: Booting 2 Linuxes with LILO

2002-12-03 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 05:48:56PM -0800, alberto wrote: > > Please, send reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have 2 debians installed on my system but I'm having troubles with having > LILO allowing me to boot any of those. > > I have potato on /dev/hda3. > I just erased win on /

Re: kbdrate as ordinary user

2002-12-03 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 05:50:38AM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:00:00AM +, Ward Vandewege wrote: > Setu/giding a shell script doesn't work. Damn, I knew this - ran into it 5 years ago or so at college... > You have to setuid the shell > which is running the script. And y

Re: Help-please: sunffb

2002-12-03 Thread sean finney
i've gotten debian to run in X on ultrasparcs, but unfortunately the ones i have use a different graphics card. i have a couple questions for you though. - does your kernel support your graphics card / fb? - did you try installing with the appropriate debian package? if yes to both of those, try

SOLVED! Can not log into Gnome2

2002-12-03 Thread Anthony and Mary Ann Tantillo
As Homer Simpson would say, Dooh!. It turned out that somehow I managed to change my .ICEauthority file ownership to root:root. Once I used a non-graphical login it was easy to spot. I also noticed that Windowmaker gave the same "security violations" in logcheck. Sorry for the wasted bandwidt

XVideo and ATI's firegl 8800

2002-12-03 Thread pasha
Hello, I have recently installed an ATI FireGL 8800 card; I use the latest fglrx driver provided by ATI (precompiled for X 4.2). After installation of the driver I've noticed that viewing video files via XVideo extension produces a horizontally stretched image, as if the aspect ratio was tweaked.

drivers

2002-12-03 Thread Bruce Park
Hello Debian users, I am currently looking for two drivers for a microsoft sidewinder joystick. Currently, I'm using kernel 2.4.18.bf24. I found some drivers for earlier kernels but I'm afraid that I won't be able to use these in my kernel. Is there a site where all update drivers downloadable?

Re: In a bind about named and network printing.

2002-12-03 Thread Paul Lewis
On 2002.12.03 18:06 Gary Hennigan wrote: "Paul Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: So far so good. How do your internal machines resolve external addresses? Does each of them have a resolve.conf that points to your ISP nameservers, as well as your internal nameserver, or do you have your interna

Re: Help configuring old mozilla compile

2002-12-03 Thread John Griffiths
Phoenix it's light, it's fast, it's *just* a browser, its moz/gecko based. only at 0.4 but even here in windows land it's what we've waited these long years for t 08:08 PM 12/3/02 +, Pigeon wrote: >On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 01:59:11AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: >> Oki DZ wrote: >> > On Sun, De

Re: Help configuring old mozilla compile

2002-12-03 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 01:59:11AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Oki DZ wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 03:24:11AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > > >>But I've got this infuriating circular problem. It wants to link with > >>the libraries libjs.a and libjsj.a. What source package are these provided > >

Re: EXIM relay for specific users

2002-12-03 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 08:28:56PM -0800, Michael Olds wrote: > I guess I didn't see the post with the RTFM and YFA. Nor did I, though I got several the replies quoting it. Weirdness? Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: /etc/fstab OR harddrive crash

2002-12-03 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:17:43AM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote: > Dear Debian folk, > Important Question... If my hard drive crashed, and my machine boots > from the hard drive, how far in the boot process would it get? How long is a piece of string? > If I just messed up /etc/fstab (1)

Re: audio cd

2002-12-03 Thread Shawn Lamson
--- Bruce Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew, > > Thanks for posting suggestions. I see that a lot of Debian users are > very > friendly when it comes to helping out others unlike the Redhat > mailing > lists. With that being said, I think Redhat is going to ban me > because I've > been

Re: Window manager (sensible sessions solution)

2002-12-03 Thread Mr. David Bersson
I tried to post this once, but it didn't go through. Here's the command to add window managers to your sessions files. (Assuming you use gdm) cp -a /usr/bin/wmaker /etc/gdm/Sessions/Windowmaker This copies your startup script into your Sessions files. You then need to give it permissions. ch

Re: where is apt-get update's source?

2002-12-03 Thread Bruce Park
Seneca, Download netselect and try this. Netselect requires wget. 1) bash$ netselect-apt Use either stable or unstable or testing for . This will generate the fastest site and create a sources.list in the CURRENT directory. You can then use move this to /etc/apt/ and then run: apt-get update H

Re: audio cd

2002-12-03 Thread Bruce Park
Matthew, Thanks for posting suggestions. I see that a lot of Debian users are very friendly when it comes to helping out others unlike the Redhat mailing lists. With that being said, I think Redhat is going to ban me because I've been bad mouthing them eversince I installed Debian. Anyhow, gett

Help-please: sunffb

2002-12-03 Thread Tom Huggett
?Did I install or congfigure something wrong? OR is this some kind of new installation bug? Any recommendations? How about consultants for hire? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 408-378-5564 -Original Message- From: Tom Huggett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 6:12 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: where is apt-get update's source?

2002-12-03 Thread Seneca
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 03:34:25PM -0700, eric lin wrote: [If you want to start a new thread, don't do it in a reply] > for atp-get sources, > in my progeny 1.0, it seem in /var/state/apt/lists > all sources are from progeny site, but all not be found at this time, > how do I adding debian's sour

macromedia flash player

2002-12-03 Thread Shawn Lamson
I can view presentations and play games in macromedia flash player using mozilla 1.something... but it is about 1/3 the speed that it should be. Has anyone else experienced this? I can view/play them fine in win2k, so it isnt a processor/connection issue ( i think ) unless linux doesnt handling t

Re: Uninstall X

2002-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 01:56:04PM -0800, Dominic Iadicicco ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Does anyone know how to unistall Xfree86? Without using deselect. > Example deleting files and links and so forth... # dpkg --get-selections | grep xfree ...will show the major packages. If you want

Re: Window manager

2002-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:42:20PM -, news.ntlworld.com ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What is the coolest window manager to use with knowe of KDE? > Enlightenment and Windomaker look really cool. Much better than W**dows. The coolest one is the one you like. It's possible to install multiple

Re: unable to fork

2002-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:12:46AM -, Mikael Jirari ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi I'm trying qmail-scanner and I got this message in my syslog > > X-Qmail-Scanner-1.15: [mailsvr103891358642412441] Unable to fork > /var/qmail/bin (#4.3.0) - Permission denied > X-Qmail-Scanner-1.15: [mailsvr10

blackdown java

2002-12-03 Thread Bruce Park
Darryl, So which one is more compliant? I know that there is an ANSI C/C++ but as far as JAVA is considered, I believe there isn't one. I think I'm leaning more towards the Sun side of JAVA since I've learned that Sun implemented JAVA. bp From: "Darryl L. Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Br

Re: Debian linux

2002-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 07:56:16PM +1300, Andre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey, > > I have been through your help files and cannot find think one thing > Ive been trying to do... > > Well i have installed Debian and created 2 accounts (root and my own). > So anyway it starts up(eveything is fine

Re: where is my java?

2002-12-03 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 05:13:06PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > On 2002.12.03 16:57 Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > >My apt/sources line is: > > > >deb > >ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian > >testing non-free > > > >E: Package j2se-common has no installation candid

Re: bad error

2002-12-03 Thread J Q Private
Thank you Dennis, but... Dennis Stosberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am 03.12.2002 um 13:29 schrieb J Q Private: >> Both of the other heretofore bootable kernels on the machine (all >> 2.4.18) result in the same error during the boot process, and >> booting from A: results in a similar message.

Re: commercial scientific programs on Debian

2002-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:09:25AM +, Faheem Mitha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dear People, > > I was wondering whether how well (or at all) some commercial > scientific programs run on Debian, say Sarge. Specifically, I was > wondering about Gauss, Mathematica, Matlab, SAS, Splus. All are

Re: ISDN Config - Default Gateway

2002-12-03 Thread mess-mate
Hi Gary, I couldn't configure my isdn ( and not yet), so I builded an isdn-router and now all goes like a charm. No more troubles with any distribution :-) Debian, Mandrake, FreeBSD, Redhat. mess-mate On Tue, 03 Dec 2002 20:53:40 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary Ross) wrote: | Gary Ross wrote: |

Re: Maintain gtk1.x apps

2002-12-03 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 21:43, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > I don't like (not used to) gtk2 looks and feels but seems like they will > gradually take over all the gtk based apps. Correct, GTK+ 1.x is now dead an unmaintained. If you don't like the default look and feel, just install the relevant GTK+ 2

RE: Depends: perlapi-5.6.1

2002-12-03 Thread Holger Wiechert
Thanks for the reply! After a hell of a ride with dselect, I finally have the following situation: In short, I still want to install mysql-server. Through a chain of dependencies that end up in perlapi-5.6.1, this is not possible. I've realized that I have installed (somehow) perl5.8.0. I've got

Re: where is my java?

2002-12-03 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2002.12.03 16:57 Rick Pasotto wrote: > Hey, dude! Check in your /usr/lib/j2se directory (if you have it). Did > you install the Blackdown JDK or are you running one of the other Javas? OK, evidently I've got an old java since all I have in /usr/lib is jdk1.1. My apt/sources line is: deb ftp

Re: why is the package being pulled from testing?

2002-12-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Carlos Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.03.1646 +0100]: > > Package: * > > Pin: release a=stable > > Pin-Priority: 999 > > > > Package: * > > Pin: release a=testing > > Pin-Priority: 333 > > Both stable and testing are pinned in the 100-999 bracket, so apt > is perhaps f

Re: [Quotas] Freespace

2002-12-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Daniel Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.30.1549 +0100]: > check their free diskspace. So is there a command for the user to find out > how much diskspace is left? /usr/bin/quota from the 'quota' package -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian dev

Re: SB Live

2002-12-03 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 03 December 2002 2:40 pm, Peter van Oene wrote: > When modprobe tells me i'm missing emu10k1, do I just go to creative and > download it? > This is in the standard debian 2.4 kernels - set up one of these thats appropriate to your CPU - -

Re: where is my java?

2002-12-03 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:56:19PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > On 2002.12.03 15:30 Rick Pasotto wrote: > >I can compile and run java programs from the command line (java and > >javac are both in /usr/bin) in addition to running applets in mozilla > >but when I tried to install openoffice.org i

Uninstall X

2002-12-03 Thread Dominic Iadicicco
Does anyone know how to unistall Xfree86?  Without using deselect.  Example deleting files and links and so forth... If you know of any good books or websites that would be of any help please make suggestions.   Thanks all...Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now

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Re: audio cd

2002-12-03 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 03.12.2002 um 16:39 schrieb Bruce Park: > I'm thinking that I should at least able to see the files in the cdrom > directory. There are no "files" on an audio cd. Everything konqueror shows you is just a virtual representation of the audio tracks. > When I use konqueor to go in there, I se

Re: Spam alert

2002-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:02:34AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > A word of warning to all the gentle folk here. The archives to this > (and, I guess, other Debbian lists) are published at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/ > > This list is a wonderful source of em

Re: how does one format a floppy to use a vfat partition

2002-12-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.03.0323 +0100]: > also, formatting a partition should be the same as formatting a floppy. on UNIX, you don't format. you make filesystems, the process of which is independent of the medium (hdd, floppy, file)... -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL

Re: ipsec (freeswan)

2002-12-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Noah L. Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.03.1600 +0100]: > I've never known anybody to use this mechanism. now you do. even personally ;^> (could you sign my other two UIDs at one point?) > You either want pre-shared keys or X.509 certificates for > authentication. start off wi

Re: audio cd

2002-12-03 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Bruce Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 03 December 2002, 04:21 PM -0500): > I'm having a problem loading any audio cds. I currently have KDE as a > desktop and I can run mp3 and ogg files. I know the cables are plugged from > the CDRW to the sound card because they work in Windows20

Re: blackdown java

2002-12-03 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2002.12.03 16:35 Bruce Park wrote: Just exactly what is blackdown java? Is this java2 from sun? I installed j2sdk1.3 when I was in Redhat but since I converted, I'll need to install the appropriate software. Any help or suggestion is greatly appreciated. Sun has their implementation of the J

Maintain gtk1.x apps

2002-12-03 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
I don't like (not used to) gtk2 looks and feels but seems like they will gradually take over all the gtk based apps. Many apps in Sid (pan, d4x, logjam etc) are only available for gtk2, I was force to either put those on hold or manually compile them ... Sooner or later, gtk apps in Sid then Sarg

Re: bad error

2002-12-03 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 03.12.2002 um 13:29 schrieb J Q Private: > Both of the other heretofore bootable kernels on the machine (all > 2.4.18) result in the same error during the boot process, and > booting from A: results in a similar message. Take this as a lesson: Always keep a known good kernel image in your boot

Re: audio cd

2002-12-03 Thread Bruce Park
Dennis, I'm thinking that I should at least able to see the files in the cdrom directory. When I use konqueor to go in there, I see nothing. I also try to open the files using xmms. I have the audio plugin and it seems to be doing nothing. Data cds work fine and that's great but I'm one of thos

Re: ipsec (freeswan)

2002-12-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ionel Mugurel Ciobica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.02.2232 +0100]: > Also I don't understand this: "Insert the record into DNS, or have a > system adminstrator do it for you." There is no way that the sysadmin > will enetr something in the DNS, only because I say so... so don't use opp

Re: audio cd

2002-12-03 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Dennis Stosberg wrote: Am 03.12.2002 um 16:21 schrieb Bruce Park: I'm having a problem loading any audio cds. I currently have KDE as a desktop and I can run mp3 and ogg files. I know the cables are plugged from the CDRW to the sound card because they work in Windows2000. Is there something s

Re: ipsec (freeswan)

2002-12-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ionel Mugurel Ciobica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.02.2209 +0100]: > Is someone using ipsec from freeswan? yes. > I run stable, and I tried the freeswan 1.96, but when I go through the > documentations it says to run ipsec verify, try ipsec whack --status ipsec verify only works

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