Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave upand went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-17 Thread Erinn
> I never really considered Debian to be for more advanced users. I > installed it just fine back when hamm was current. Granted, the > installer can use some work, and I hear that boot-floppies is being > replaced in favor of debian-installer. It's not so much that debian is difficult to use,

modules gone after kernel upgrade

2003-01-17 Thread Debian User
I just upgraded from potato 2.2.19 to woody and kernel 2.4.18-386. Now my modules are gone in modconf? Where to put module path so it will show in modconf? I can still insmod but was wondering why the path didnt upgrade 2? Also insmod ppp ->no module by that name? ppp_generic is there but not

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Scott --sidewalking-- wrote: > > I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is > why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking > all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so > long that you have advanced your knowledge of Linux/Debian

Re: a basic aptitude question - how to install a virtual package

2003-01-17 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 03:55:45PM -0500, Seneca wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 05:56:37PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > how do i install a 'virtual' package in aptitude? for instance, i can > > see latex as a package in aptitude. when i hit +, it does not get > > marked. > > Press enter o

using modeplot to find an Xwindow setup

2003-01-17 Thread will trillich
my matrox millennium card is driving a memorex telex (mfg july 1993) monitor, for which i can't find any specs, even thru google. i've tried 'get-edid' and it borked my system beyond all hope -- a hardware reset was the only wakeup call it responded to! okay, i've got "modeplot.sh" (and gnuplot)

DHCP prob (woody)

2003-01-17 Thread thanhthuvu
Hello, I just installed Woody from my system (it was running SID before), the problem I have is I can't get dhcp working. It worked just fine on Sid before. I used the same /etc/resolved.conf /etc/network/interface files. The problem seems to be from this line in /etc/network/interface #iface et

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave up and went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 08:37:03AM -0500, Erinn wrote: > Question: Why are you picking the more advanced distro's automatically? > There is no reason to feel bad. You have to get a fundamental knowledge > base (as well as have the right hardware.) Do you want them to work for > bragging rights or s

talkd through ipmasq

2003-01-17 Thread Paul Johnson
I've been trying to get talkd to be redirected from my network's gateway to Ursine so ktalkd can actually be useful. What I've tried so far hasn't worked. iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p any --dport 517 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.4:517 I also tried -p udp and that didn't work e

Nautilus load problems

2003-01-17 Thread Robert Rati
I'm running unstable with gnome2, and nautilus has recently started going nuts. When nautilus tries to load, it takes 100% of the CPU and then endlessly starts popping up windows, all of which fail to load properly. It spews out error messages and takes up all the processing cycles on my machine.

Re: MOUSE won't function

2003-01-17 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 08:43:04AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hi everybody, > > First of all, sory about the number of mails I > allready have sent about this subject - I just want to > get debian working as soon as possible and it seems > the *only* problem right now is the lame mouse... > > I

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Pigeon
I've been mucking about with computers for over 20 years, starting with the Commodore Pet. I refuse to categorise it as a hobby or a career. I have been paid for doing it, though not very often at the moment. I do it because I enjoy it - same reason for most things I do, like electronics design a

[Fwd: Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?]

2003-01-17 Thread Scott --sidewalking--
Thus spake Scott --sidewalking-- ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > All, > > I am new to the Linux world and have settled on Debian as my > winning horse for learning Linux, to the best of my abilities. > The talk on this list is a little out of my comprehension now, > as I am so new, but I am still taking

Re: Konqueror - help please

2003-01-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 06:04:00PM +0100, Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka wrote: > Hi all, > for some reason konqueror keeps starting as a plain window, without any > menus. There is no problem with open location from bookmarks, no problem > with browsing the web, but I cannot use any item from menu, becaus

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 07:12:34AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > environment full time, I finally decided to put RedHat 5.1 on my PC. After > ignoring the moron at Future Shop who told me that you couldn't dual boot a > PC, I dual booted it just fine between Linux and '95. It didn't take long

Re: Cannot run X - missing /dev/mouse

2003-01-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
Try changing Option "Protocol" "auto" to Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 07:29:54PM -0500, Andrew Pierce wrote: > I am still not getting a mouse in X. I tried this: > > cat /dev/mouse > > moved the mouse around, and got garbage characters on the screen. This > means

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 08:50:09AM +, Glyn Millington wrote: > To some extent it goes with the OS. Maybe a liking for the > Under-the-bonnet approach goes with a certain kind of personality? > Certainly in the bad onld days of Winders 95, it was _easier_ to use > Linux than to be constantly fa

Re: Rate limit exim

2003-01-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:26:45 + (GMT) Rus Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > see anything obvious and a google doesn't chuck up anything. Can anyone > point me in the right direction? I always used the following in Exim 3. remote_max_parallel = 5 99+% of my mail gets through in under

Re: url boa de temas?

2003-01-17 Thread Francisco M Neto
Olás » Assim falou Pablo Henrique em Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:53:21PM -0300: > Aqui em casa (uso adsl 256) fica bem lento o site. > > > > A melhor sem dúvida é a kde-look. > > Bom, para mim funciona redondo. :) Vc pode tentar o kde.themes.org -- []'s, f

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 17:03, George Georgalis wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:59:00AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > >> by the way, any baddies when it comes to mobo chipset? > > > >Nforce chipsets. AFAIK you need a non-free driver to make the LAN chip > >work. > > 'in the beginning' there wa

Re: VIA bug?

2003-01-17 Thread George Georgalis
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 01:20:35AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: >Hi all, > >After a fresh install on a newish PC, I get an error like this: > >probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a >VIA686a >probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration > >This machine also had pr

Re: Apache dies every Sunday, 6:00am

2003-01-17 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 06:33:40PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Now hold on just a second, there, cowboy... Is apache _dying_ or is > it _restarting_? If you go to http://yourbox.com/ at 6:30 on Sunday > morning, do you get a response? No. And there are no Apache processes running. I have to m

Re: How to Mount Second CDROM Drive?

2003-01-17 Thread Omnecide
try /dev/cdrom1 - Original Message - From: "Thomas H. George,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 2:17 PM Subject: How to Mount Second CDROM Drive? > Is it possible to mount and play music from the second drive? The first > is /dev/cdrom and ther

Re: exim and pipe aliases?

2003-01-17 Thread Robert L. Harris
The problem is the script is actually failing. It generates this error: Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.0/LWP/Protocol.pm line 114 (#1) (W un

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 14:09, Jeff wrote: > Scott --sidewalking--, 2003-Jan-16 16:30 -0700: [snip] > You'll find that the biggest commonality among Linux users is their > love for Linux. Reasons and backgrounds vary widely. This should Or the desire to have a real workstation/server-class OS for

Re: KDE questions

2003-01-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 10:11:15AM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: > Are you sure you're accessing the same way? Yes, by http://slashdot.org/ every time. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to f

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 15:30, Sam Varghese wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 09:53:02AM -0800, Osamu Aoki spake thus: [snip] > I work as a journalist for the Tech sub-sections of the Web sites of two > Australian broadsheet newspapers - The Age (Me

Re: Apache dies every Sunday, 6:00am

2003-01-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 06:50:23PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > The Subject about says it all. For the life of me I can't track this > down. For some crazy reason, all apache processes cease to exist just > after (approx) 6:25am. This is the section of the error.logs: > > [Sun Jan 5 06:25:

Re: Cannot run X - missing /dev/mouse

2003-01-17 Thread Andrew Pierce
I am still not getting a mouse in X. I tried this: cat /dev/mouse moved the mouse around, and got garbage characters on the screen. This means the mouse driver is loaded and working doesn't it? Why won't it work in X? In /var/log/XFree86.0.log, I am still getting the message: "Cannot determine

Paris, France 20-21 January

2003-01-17 Thread martin f krafft
Hi there, Just pinging out to let you know that I will be in Paris Monday and Tuesday. If you are interested in drinking keys and signing beers, then please give me a *private* mail with your contact information. I am not sure yet whether I will have the time, but if I do, I'll call you. -- Plea

RE:ATI rage Mobility M1 and 3D accerelation

2003-01-17 Thread Hell.Surfers
perhaps glx gears is designed to run in software -- DM. On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 18:29:15 -0800 (PST) suresh kumar sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Begin Message --- HI, I have a sony vaio laptop pcg-fxa36 aka fx405 . I think it has ATI Rage Mobility M1 graphics chip . so I downloaded Mach64 ve

RE:ATI rage Mobility M1 and 3D accerelation

2003-01-17 Thread Hell.Surfers
perhaps glx gears is designed to run in software -- DM. On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 18:29:15 -0800 (PST) suresh kumar sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Begin Message --- HI, I have a sony vaio laptop pcg-fxa36 aka fx405 . I think it has ATI Rage Mobility M1 graphics chip . so I downloaded Mach64 ve

RE:ATI rage Mobility M1 and 3D accerelation

2003-01-17 Thread Hell.Surfers
perhaps glx gears is designed to run in software -- DM. On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 18:29:15 -0800 (PST) suresh kumar sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Begin Message --- HI, I have a sony vaio laptop pcg-fxa36 aka fx405 . I think it has ATI Rage Mobility M1 graphics chip . so I downloaded Mach64 ve

Re: dxr3 problems

2003-01-17 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 05:28:52PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > I just bought a DXR3 DVD decoder for a machine that I hope to set up as > an ebox (http://eboxy.sourceforge.net). Unfortunately, I bought it via > eBay, and I have no installation manuals. While putting the card in the > com

Re: Drive errors

2003-01-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mathew.. think you should swap your cable for an 18" cable.. and verify the chipset on your mb against the kernel ( might need to install the module for that chipset you're using ) have fun alvin - uptime will be sacrificed one way or other... - the question is do you drag data do

Apache dies every Sunday, 6:00am

2003-01-17 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
The Subject about says it all. For the life of me I can't track this down. For some crazy reason, all apache processes cease to exist just after (approx) 6:25am. This is the section of the error.logs: [Sun Jan 5 06:25:28 2003] [notice] SIGUSR1 received. Doing graceful restart [Sun Jan 12 06:25:

Re: How to Mount Second CDROM Drive?

2003-01-17 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 10:08:10PM +0100, Qian Gong wrote: Interesting. When I tried # ls -l /dev/cdrom I found the link was to hdc. Since hdd=ide-scsi I could try a link to hde. On the other hand, perhaps the scd? devices are meant specificly for cdrom drives? Is there info on this somewhere?

Re: exim and pipe aliases?

2003-01-17 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Robert" == Robert L Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> If I execute the script manually it works great. If I Robert> execute it via pipe with exim I get this: Robert> My pipe section of my exim.conf looks like this: Robert> [..deleted...] Robert> return_output

Re: opera or other fast browser

2003-01-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 06:57:12PM +0100, Florian Sukup ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm installing Debian on an old machine. Therefore, I need a fast browser. We just discussed this topic here. For anything PII-300+, I'd suggest Galeon, Mozilla, or Konqueror. Not snappy, but damned go

getting postfix + sasl to work

2003-01-17 Thread martin f krafft
I can't get SASL support working with postfix on Debian Woody. postfix and TLS are fully configured and operable, now I tried to enable SASL by: 1) installing - sasl2-bin and libsasl2 - libsasl2-modules-plain - libsasl2-digestmd5-plain 2) configuring postfix' main.cf

Re: apt-get remove exim .... wants to remove more?

2003-01-17 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:55:13PM -0900, Andy wrote: >> All of those packages depend on a MTA; try "apt-get install qmail." >> Apt will be much happier when it realizes that you are merely switching >> MTAs. Also, apt will leave your exim config files, so you can merely >> "apt-get install exim" a

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-17 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:59:00AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: >> by the way, any baddies when it comes to mobo chipset? > >Nforce chipsets. AFAIK you need a non-free driver to make the LAN chip >work. 'in the beginning' there was problems with the VIA IDE controller drivers (ie, my chipset, a yea

Re: error running apt-get update

2003-01-17 Thread Bill Morgan
On 1/17/03 12:12 PM, "David Roundy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. Yesterday I got the following error when running apt-get update: > > ... > Fetched 77.4kB in 33s (2284B/s) > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing libscrollkeep

Gnome2: problems with Acrobat reader and Gk dial

2003-01-17 Thread Riccardo Gusso
Hello, I have just installed Gnome2 on my Debian sid/unstable (before I was using only WindowMaker) and I have already found two small problems: 1) when Acrobat Reader starts, it presents a licence agreement window that I cannot close since I have no closing buttons on the top bar of the window, an

RE: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| That doesn't sound at all like the Brooks Robinson I'm familiar with | ... Well the story goes like this Circa 1968/1969 my (then 10 year old) brother was watching a marvelous third baseman. He turns to my mother and asks that if she has another child, could they name it Brooks. My mother

dxr3 problems

2003-01-17 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
I just bought a DXR3 DVD decoder for a machine that I hope to set up as an ebox (http://eboxy.sourceforge.net). Unfortunately, I bought it via eBay, and I have no installation manuals. While putting the card in the computer is certainly easy enough, I'm not quite sure what exactly I should be doing

bzedit (for bzflag) package interest?

2003-01-17 Thread Jesse Norell
Hello, Would anyone be interested in a bzedit package? It's the world editor for the bzflag game. I'm doing a quick pole to see if anyone has interest, and if so, the bzflag maintainer may consider creating a package. I'm not subscribed to the list - please send/Cc: replies directly to me.

Re: VIA bug?

2003-01-17 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 08:33, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 06:20, Richard Hector wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > After a fresh install on a newish PC, I get an error like this: > > > > probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a > > VIA686a > > probable hardware bug

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Chris Lale
Scott --sidewalking-- wrote: All, I am new to the Linux world and have settled on Debian as my winning horse for learning Linux, to the best of my abilities. The talk on this list is a little out of my comprehension now, as I am so new, but I am still taking general ed classes in college, and

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 09:53:02AM -0800, Osamu Aoki spake thus: > > If you want instant-Linux with passive attitudes and expectations that > evrything is configured by GUI, Debian may not be ready to address needs > of you yet. Debian does not requi

Jigdo and powerpc image

2003-01-17 Thread Robert A. Strickland
I am using jigdo on a Windows machine to try to download the powerpc disks (starting with the NONUS disc 1). I am using the .jigdo file from http://us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/current/jigdo/powerpc/. Jigdo seems to run OK, but at the end it tells me there are 46 files it could not retrieve. I

Re: How to Mount Second CDROM Drive?

2003-01-17 Thread Qian Gong
You can make a symbolic link like this # ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom2 Then you can use /dev/cdrom2 as your second CDROM. Of course, if your first CDROM uses /dev/scd0, the second one should be /dev/scd1. You can check it by # ls -l /dev/cdrom Qian On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 02:17:10PM -0500, Thomas H

Re: Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation

2003-01-17 Thread Qian Gong
The problem disappeared when the gaim was upgraded to 0.59.1. However, the warning messages are still there. Perhaps they are wrong. Qian On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 02:58:28PM +0100, Qian Gong wrote: > Hi, > > This perhaps is a general font problem. I am using gaim for msn. But when > I use it to se

Jigdo and powerpc image

2003-01-17 Thread Robert A. Strickland
I am using jigdo on a Windows machine to try to download the powerpc disks (starting with the NONUS disc 1). I am using the .jigdo file from http://us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/current/jigdo/powerpc/. Jigdo seems to run OK, but at the end it tells me there are 46 files it could not retrieve. I

Re: a basic aptitude question - how to install a virtual package

2003-01-17 Thread Seneca
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 05:56:37PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > how do i install a 'virtual' package in aptitude? for instance, i can > see latex as a package in aptitude. when i hit +, it does not get > marked. Press enter on the listed virtual package. You should then get a screen similar

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave up and went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-17 Thread Seneca
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 10:57:54AM -0700, Scott --sidewalking-- wrote: > I am REALLY liking GNOME 2.0, so Debian Sid is going to be very > welcome in my home when it shows up as a stable release! You'll be waiting a long time... sid will never be stable. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNS

Re: Transferring from X-Windows to the console

2003-01-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 03:38:04PM -0800, S Yuval wrote: > My ViewSonic P810 monitor is unable to transfer from the X Windows to the > Debian console, using Alt-F1, and displays an "invalid refresh rate" > message. I am currently using a 60 Hz refresh rate and a 1280x960 pixel > resolution. In Red

RE: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > Well, yes and no. I have sort of a round about computer history. I got my > first computer when I was 10, a TI-99/4A -- that should date me properly, I spent many hours of playing Tunnels of Doom a few months ago under MESS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Jeff
Scott --sidewalking--, 2003-Jan-16 16:30 -0700: > All, > > I am new to the Linux world and have settled on Debian as my winning > horse for learning Linux, to the best of my abilities. The talk on > this list is a little out of my comprehension now, as I am so new, > but I am still taking genera

RE: Curious...Are most of you in tech-relatedcareers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread deFreese, Barry
-Original Message- From: Osamu Aoki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:06 AM To: Scott --sidewalking-- Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling? Hi, On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:30:54PM -0700

Re: a basic aptitude question - how to install a virtual package

2003-01-17 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sandip> hello all i am really sorry to ask such a basic question. but i Sandip> could not locate the help resources. Sandip> how do i install a 'virtual' package in aptitude? for instance, Sandip> i can see latex as a package in apti

Re: Drive errors

2003-01-17 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 12:13:43PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > - what is the length of your ide cables ?? Standard, I would assume 24" > - which drive is the "Master" ?? which ide connector is the Master ? > - is the drive set to cable select or "fixed Master" This is the only drive on t

Re: Drive errors

2003-01-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya matthew - what is the length of your ide cables ?? - which drive is the "Master" ?? which ide connector is the Master ? - is the drive set to cable select or "fixed Master" - i assume you have the new 80-conductor cables - power the machine off... wiggle the cables... pull it off an

Re: X11

2003-01-17 Thread Paul Winkler
Nick - Thanks for your posting, if I can summon the courage I will give it a try. Paul Winkler > I thought so also, until I read ATI's HOWTO. The RPM converted easily > with alien, then I performd a dpkg -i --force-ovrwrite, ran 2 scripts > and then their Xfree setup utility. I had m

motherboard

2003-01-17 Thread Raymond Gree
Dear all, I would like to buy the ASUS A7N8X mother board with an AMD2100, I would like to know if some of you have experience with this board with Debian Woody Thanks for your inputs Raymond -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

RE:Can Linux run on LCPDC with SIS M650?

2003-01-17 Thread Hell.Surfers
turn off html mail option, plain text please. -- DM. On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:18:43 +0100 "L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Begin Message ---   Hi! I´m a new user of Linux. I don´t know program it. I´ve a LCDPC with SIS M650. How could I work with Debian? Could I work with my LCDPC? Is it p

Re: Question relating regexp

2003-01-17 Thread Rob Benton
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 08:03, Robert Land wrote: > This is a example one can find on one of the links > discribed in the deb HOWTO package: > > =Section Multipliers(text just pasted): > > > " > An example from the phone list: > > 1248 Kate 634 > > 1548 Kerry 534 > > > To match

Re: Terrifying compile

2003-01-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-01-17T16:49:22Z, csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The offending audio file? > "python2.3-2.2.97/Lib/test/audiotest.au" > > Play it and be terrified. LOL! Thanks for the pointer! -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg24690/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: some dhcp help needed

2003-01-17 Thread Rob Benton
From: James Vahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Rob Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: need some dhcp help Date: 16 Jan 2003 19:35:47 -0800 Rob Benton wrote: >> OK I've tried pump, dhcp-client, dhcp3-client, and udhcpc and can't seem >> to get any of them to request a hostname from my dhcp server ei

motherboard

2003-01-17 Thread Raymond Gree
Dear all, I would like to buy the ASUS A7N8X mother board with an AMD2100, I would like to know if some of you have experience with this board with Debian Woody Thanks for your inputs Raymond -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Heretic2 install-trouble

2003-01-17 Thread Claus Christian Larsen
Do anyone knows how to install heretic2 on debian 3.0 geforce2 ? clalar@debian:~$ su Password: debian:/home/clalar# cd /cdrom debian:/cdrom# sh setup.sh Unable to find file 'bin/x86/heretic2' debian:/cdrom# ls Manual.html autorun.inf bin-x86-glibc-2.1.tar.gz icon.bmpsetup.sh README

Re: Question relating regexp

2003-01-17 Thread Alan Shutko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Land) writes: > =Why, in the first example, has the author > prefaced the char 'K' with the one or more > times multiplier? He only wants to find a > name beginning with 'K'(!) The * applies to the space before the k, so " *" means "one or more spaces". In other words

Re: VIA bug?

2003-01-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 06:20, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > After a fresh install on a newish PC, I get an error like this: > > probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a > VIA686a > probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration > > This machine also had proble

Re: Can Linux run on LCPDC with SIS M650?

2003-01-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 06:18, L wrote: > > Hi! I´m a new user of Linux. I don´t know program it. I´ve a LCDPC > with SIS M650. How could I work with Debian? Could I work with my > LCDPC? Is it possible to see Linux with SIS M650? What's an LCDPC? -- +

Re: Question for PPP Users

2003-01-17 Thread John Hasler
Pigeon writes: > I have /etc/ppp/resolv/ukonline (empty) (DDNS) and > /etc/ppp/resolv/waitrose with the waitrose static DNS server addresses in > it. Automatically set up by pppconfig. Yes. I am interested in hearing from people who have edited such files to customize them by adding 'search' line

Re: Bullmastiff Breed Information

2003-01-17 Thread list-request
Hi, debian-user. Below is the information you requested about Bullmastiff Breed Information: The official information package and Breeder referral list from the American Bullmastiff Assoication, INC. is currently under revision. Please check at this address in the future for the revised package

How to Mount Second CDROM Drive?

2003-01-17 Thread Thomas H. George,,,
Is it possible to mount and play music from the second drive? The first is /dev/cdrom and there doesn't seem to be a /dev/cdrom2. Actually, the second drive is a CD-RW drive which I can use with cdrecord by including append="hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo. conf. It would be convenient to play back fro

Re: X11

2003-01-17 Thread Nick Lidakis
Paul Winkler wrote: I had a similiar problem with an ATI AIW 8500dv. I ended up upgrading to xfree86 4.2 from 4.1, (which necessitated an upgrade from "Woody" to "Testing") this fixed the problem, I specified the radeon driver. Here is a link to the ATI website where they provide instructions

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Brian Nelson
"Brooks R. Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is > | why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking > | all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so > | long that you have advanced your

carte mere

2003-01-17 Thread raymond
Bonjour a tous, je voudrai acheter une carte mere ASUS A7N8X avec un CPU AMD2100 quelqu'un a-t-il une experience de cette carte avec une distribution Debian Woody Merci d'avance Raymond -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

mother board

2003-01-17 Thread raymond
Dear all, I would like to buy the ASUS A7N8X mother board with an AMD2100, I would like to know if some of you have experience with this board Thanks for your inputs Raymond -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Rate limit exim

2003-01-17 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Rus Foster said: > Hi, > I've setup a free shell account server and so far so good. One thought > that has come to me though it that I want to try to limit the chance of > someone spamming from the service. As a first step I want to try to rate > limit exim (then I will

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave upand went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-17 Thread Erinn
> Mandrake 9.0 has GNOME 2 on it, which is cool, and it still has > development tools that I can learn on. Aside from the bad taste > that RPMS leave in peoples' mouths, is Mandrake really THAT bad? I > need more of the basics to understand this stuff. Need to spend > more time in the CLI, and

Re: exim and pipe aliases?

2003-01-17 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 07:01:28PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > Users don't need to exist. In case exim understands the command line to pipe the mail to as usernames, the mail cannot be delivered to those users if they do not exist. > There's a setting in /etc/exim/exim.conf that tells it

Re: Question for PPP Users

2003-01-17 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 07:58:22PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Pppconfig creates a resolv.conf file in /etc/ppp/resolv for each provider. > The /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/0dns-up script moves /etc/resolv.conf out of the way > and the appropriate file from /etc/ppp/resolv in when a ppp connection > comes up.

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-17 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:36:54PM -0800, nate wrote: > Sandip P Deshmukh said: > > > > any suggestions? for both console based as well as gui based browsers are > > welcome. > > > I'm sure you'll hear a lot about phoenix. I use it, it works well, loads > pretty fast. Opera still blows it away in

Re: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all scsi comp uter

2003-01-17 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 02:58:45AM -0600, Michael Kahle wrote: > > In a moment of "ah-ha" I carefully > removed two of the pressed on connectors to the ribbon cables, and then just > as carefully pressed them back on with the help of a vice and a micrometer. Coo, precision engineering! I do this w

Re: problem with tv card

2003-01-17 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 09:44:27AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > On 8 Jan 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > You have a PC dedicated to displaying TV > > Actually, a lot of people do. > > They're called TiVo's and ReplayTv's and Dishplayers and stuff like that > > :) That's nothing. I have a 60

error running apt-get update

2003-01-17 Thread David Roundy
Hello. Yesterday I got the following error when running apt-get update: ... Fetched 77.4kB in 33s (2284B/s) Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing libscrollkeeper0 (NewFileVer1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status E: The packag

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave up and went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-17 Thread Scott --sidewalking--
Steve Juranich said: All you'll > need to do is install an alsa package that matches your kernel. > Actually, the 2.4.19 and above kernels are supposed to support > this card out of the box, but I haven't tried it yet. After > installing an alsa package, you'll want to run the alsa > configu

Re: Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation

2003-01-17 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
This problem is caused in Debian by a mismatch between the defoma setup and the Xfree86 setup. In XF86Config-4 there is a line Load "freetype". defoma must now also know that we are working with freetype (not xtt). This is set by running dpkg-reconfigure x-ttcidfonts-conf (as root) and setting the

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:30:54PM -0700, Scott --sidewalking-- wrote: > I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is > why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking > all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so > long that you

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Lloyd Zusman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... > Linux is a version of Unix that first came out in the mid-1990's. > So by now, it's part of the nearly 30-year evolution of the original > Unix. I think it's worth pointing out that the "original" unix was very seriously based on (concepts of) the

installation date

2003-01-17 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Is there a way to find out which packages were installed / re-installed recently, to find out which packages were updated after a certain date, or to get a list of installed packages sorted by installation date/time? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave upand went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-17 Thread Donald Spoon
Scott --sidewalking-- wrote: Steve Juranich said: I eventually converted to Mandrake, since it was easier to maintain (they had that rudimentary up2date-like system a couple of years before RH). I then met another friend who basically called me a little girl for running Mandrake, and he in

Re: X11

2003-01-17 Thread Paul Winkler
I had a similiar problem with an ATI AIW 8500dv. I ended up upgrading to xfree86 4.2 from 4.1, (which necessitated an upgrade from "Woody" to "Testing") this fixed the problem, I specified the radeon driver. Here is a link to the ATI website where they provide instructions on how to install a

Re: sensor chipset

2003-01-17 Thread Robert L. Harris
There's a script "sensors-detect" that comes with the lm-sensors software, it'll probe through all the modules you have and tell you what and what modules you need. I seriously recomend installing from source and not the deb packages unless you always use debian packaged kernels. Thus spake me

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2003-01-17 Thread Erik Aronsson
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Re: Drive errors

2003-01-17 Thread Nicos Gollan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 January 2003 16:06, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I have been running the same woody box for more then 2 years, and I > just got the following message: > > hda: timeout waiting for DMA > hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComple

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave up and went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-17 Thread Steve Juranich
> My sound card os one of those generic VIA AC97 onboard cards, on a > Shuttle AK32 board w/Athlon 1.1. I searched the archives of this > list and there were many issues and posts with that card, and worse > yet, it seems to be a fairly generic description. Yes, this little beast has been the su

RE: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is | why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking | all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so | long that you have advanced your knowledge of Linux/Debian to these | levels that all of yo

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