Re: [OT] Printer recommendations

2003-06-10 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 19:28, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Greetings list, > > It's official: my Epson Stylus Color 400 is dead after 6 years of faithful > service. > > I'm in the market for a new printer and I would like some suggestions. > Here are my parameters: > > - Laser printer (the inkjet has

Re: [OT] Printer recommendations

2003-06-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:28:42AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Greetings list, > > It's official: my Epson Stylus Color 400 is dead after 6 years of faithful > service. > > I'm in the market for a new printer and I would like some suggestions. > Here are my parameters: > > - Laser printer (t

Re: Gnome & KDE confusions

2003-06-10 Thread L J Laubenheimer
Kent West wrote: [snip] I've seen this sort of behavior, but didn't find the answer 'till after I no longer needed it. I've also seen postings about this sort of thing, and the answers provided have been to add a line to /etc/X11/XXF86Config something to the effect of "swcursor" "on". I don't r

Re: sound: loading of sound driver fails after reboot from Windows

2003-06-10 Thread Brian P.D. Smyth
Ben Kal wrote: On 2 Jun 2003 "Gary L. Dolan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 12:28:45AM +0100, Ben Kal wrote: Hi folks, Do some of you know more about the following inconvenience I have with sound on my Linux machine: sound works fine if I boot directly into Linux af

Re: Good Open Source Web Development software

2003-06-10 Thread Kevin Mark
> To sum it up, yes, it is possible to easily design a fully W3C compliant > web page, which IE is not able to handle correctly. Two years ago, I > would have ignored this problem, arguing that many people are using NS. > But, nowadays, how can I convice myself to ignore 90% ? So contrary to p

Re: [OT] Printer recommendations

2003-06-10 Thread Allan Wind
On 2003-06-10 23:58:15, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Surprising - that's not been my experience. I have two 1200SE's (one at > home, one at work) and I just use the psonly-1200 filter from magicfilter. > No ppd, nothing special - it Just Works. My wife's jobs (Win 98 and Win > XP) generate a blank page

Re: [OT] Printer Languages (WAS: Re: [OT] Printer recommendations)

2003-06-10 Thread Allan Wind
On 2003-06-11 05:23:17, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > OK. So I took a look at the HP site and looked at the entry level personal > laserjets. I liked the 1300 (20 ppm, 1200x1200, network capable, parallel) > and it seems like a good deal at $399 (from the Hp site, I can probably do > better somewhere

Re: [OT] Printer Languages (WAS: Re: [OT] Printer recommendations)

2003-06-10 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, [iso-8859-1] Roberto Sanchez wrote: > what are these languages and what do they mean? > > HP PCL 6, HP PCL 5e, HP printer language (emulates Adobe® PostScript® > Level 2) PCL is HP's standard page description language; it's adequate but, to paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen, "it'

Re: Attack?

2003-06-10 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:27:52AM +0800, Rolf Schatzmann wrote: > One of my debian servers (stable) has been locking up over the last > few prior to this it has been rock solid for over a year. I > had suspected that there might be a hardware failure somever > however the last error in

Re: [OT] Printer recommendations

2003-06-10 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 10 June 2003 03:28 pm, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Greetings list, > > It's official: my Epson Stylus Color 400 is dead after 6 years of > faithful service. > > I'm in the market for a new printer and I would like some suggestions. > Here are m

Re: [OT] Printer recommendations

2003-06-10 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Allan Wind wrote: > ... > It surprised me that you still need to run a driver in the form of a ppd > to get things going perfectly (otherwise jobs would terminate abnormally > elsewise, never had that problem with the Texas Instrument aka Sharp > PostScript printer that I had

Re: fstab Mystery

2003-06-10 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Wednesday 11 June 2003 02:15 am, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (11/06/03 00:37), Carlos Sousa wrote: > > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:37:12 +0100 > > From: Carlos Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: fstab Mystery > > > > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:16:24 -0700 Vineet Kumar w

Re: lib6c

2003-06-10 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 11:18 pm, Arthur E. Groen wrote: > Hi, I tryed to upgrade my lib6c so I could use i586-mingw32msvc/3.2.1 > but things got mixed up. > > apw # apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to co

Re: framebuffer

2003-06-10 Thread Drew Roedersheimer
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 13:00:11 +0200, LeVA wrote: > Hi! > > I have installed a matrox g200 video card. I compiled the kernel with fb > devices etc.. etc.. > With the fbset program program I can setup my resolutions, and refresh > rates fine, but what is in the fb.modes file, is not enough for me.

Re: Inserting Init script

2003-06-10 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 06:37 am, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 22:45:30 +0200 > > Marino Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Once I placed a bash script in /etc/init.d, how do I create a link so it > > is executed during halt (runlevel 0) and reboot (runlevel 6). I tried > > this

Re: play mp3 files on xmms

2003-06-10 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 05:11 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:48:29AM -0400, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > > I'm running woody 3.0_r1 and I'm looking for same way to play mp3 files > > on xmms. Is it possible? Is there any plugin? In case the answer is not, > > which player do you

Quantian 0.3 released

2003-06-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Version 0.3 of Quantian is now available. o Now based on clusterKnoppix: this adds support for OpenMosix, including terminalserver support for booting cluster nodes off the machine running quantian o Bowing to popular demand, we added the comedi control and measurement device interfa

[OT] Printer Languages (WAS: Re: [OT] Printer recommendations)

2003-06-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Allan Wind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On 2003-06-10 21:36:54, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > I like my HP laserjet 1200SE, which meets all your criteria. Fast, cheap, > > postscript, parallel. > > Agree. If you want ethernet you can always add a jet direct to the > mix (internal or external).

gl screensavers problem

2003-06-10 Thread Kenton Brede
I've installed testing. Installed xscreensaver, xscreensaver-nognome and xscreensaver-gl. xscreensaver works fine except no gl screensavers show up in the preview window. Just the message "no preview available." I found a bug report that pointed to installing package libutahglx1 which tried t

Re: fstab Mystery

2003-06-10 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:09:12 -0500 Joel Konkle-Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I'm not mistaken, uid and gid need actual user and group ID numbers, > not names. So your line would be: > > "/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs,ro,noauto,users,exec,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0" > > if "1000" is the ID of "m

Re: framebuffer

2003-06-10 Thread Marcelo Ramos
El(On) 10/06/2003 (12:34:10), LeVA escribió(wrote): [...] > The other question is, how to set up at boot time, that _all_ of my > consoles get the appropriate fb values. Switching to every console, and > typing 'fbset 1024x768-75' is boring :). I use the pm2fb framebuffer module (permedia chip

Re: [OT] Printer recommendations

2003-06-10 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 21:36:54 -0400 (EDT) Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I like my HP laserjet 1200SE, which meets all your criteria. Fast, > cheap, postscript, parallel. This is my printer as well, and I concur. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cupsys works, lpr does not

2003-06-10 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:12:28AM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: >> The best success I think is having 'only' cups installed, no LPR stuff >> installed. From your account it seems cups worked from the browser tool but >> it appears you had LPR stuff ins

More help with mixed versions

2003-06-10 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
Sort of... I'm running Woody, and adding sources with Woody backports, so I can run GnomeMeeting (>0.93), OpenOffice.org, etc. I have Gnome 2 up, and most packages with it, but gaim won't load. It claims missing dependencies. So, I actually have a philosophical question - is this right? I mean

Re: [OT] Printer recommendations

2003-06-10 Thread Allan Wind
On 2003-06-10 21:36:54, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I like my HP laserjet 1200SE, which meets all your criteria. Fast, cheap, > postscript, parallel. Agree. If you want ethernet you can always add a jet direct to the mix (internal or external). It surprised me that you still need to run a driver in th

Re: xtide vs xtide-data in testing

2003-06-10 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 08:18:13AM -0400, stan wrote: > > Todays dist-upgrade "held back" xtide-data". Is this package being merged > > with xtide itself? Or what is the deal here? > > No, the new xtide-data only works with a new xtide. Normally this woul

Re: Wifi

2003-06-10 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 19:50, tt tt wrote: > Can anyone recommend any wifi cards they have used with debian > (without re-compiling the kernel if possible)? My 3Com AirConnect 3CRWE737A loads ok, and I've gotten enough of a connection to my Clie to ping the Clie (new to this myself, and other fish

Attack?

2003-06-10 Thread Rolf Schatzmann
Title: Message Hi,   One of my debian servers (stable) has been locking up over the last few days, prior to this it has been rock solid for over a year. I had suspected that there might be a hardware failure somever however the last error in Syslog before it locks up is shown below, is this

Re: play mp3 files on xmms

2003-06-10 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Eduardo" == Eduardo Gargiulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eduardo> Hi all I'm running woody 3.0_r1 and I'm looking for same Eduardo> way to play mp3 files on xmms. Is it possible? Is there Eduardo> any plugin? In case the answer is not, which player do Eduardo> you recommend me

Re: Nic Issues..

2003-06-10 Thread Johan Kullstam
"Tom Kloppel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First of all, im using a DECchip 21041 card, it is supposed to use the > 'Tulip' module. I installed debian with the normal woddy > kernel(2.2.20-idepci) and the network card worked just fine. Last night I > compiled/installed/upgraded to the 2.4.18 ke

Re: [OT] Printer recommendations

2003-06-10 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:28:42AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > I'm in the market for a new printer and I would like some suggestions. > Here are my parameters: Does it have to be new, or is used OK? > - Laser printer (the inkjet has just been a money pit for the last year) Lasers aren't all

Re: [OT] Printer recommendations

2003-06-10 Thread Andrew Perrin
I like my HP laserjet 1200SE, which meets all your criteria. Fast, cheap, postscript, parallel. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: secure kernel

2003-06-10 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Derrick" == Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Derrick> It isn't the kernel you want. You want Derrick> 'kernel-image-2.4.18-1-386' (as recommended by the DSA). Actually, the DSA does mention an updated kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4, which should have the appropriate pat

Re: Good Open Source Web Development software

2003-06-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 06:15:13PM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote: > I'm afraid this is not the case Paul. IE is not always able to render > fully compliant pages, in a decent way. I've yet to see it do that, but if that's the case, that's IE's problem, go

Re: What is the best Xfree Setup Program?

2003-06-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 07:54:41PM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: > I imagined so, but I was trying to understand why dpkg-reconfigure > wouldn't be enough to fully perform the necessary hardware detection and > server reconfiguration. The X installer doe

Re: Can't locate module sound-slot-1 [SOLVED]

2003-06-10 Thread Brian Poole
This problem is caused by KDE probing for a second sound card. You can tell kde not to probe for a second sound card by going to control centre -> sound -> Mixer Here you'll find the Option "Maximum count of tested devices per mixer" which is on the value "2". Change the value to "1" and confir

Re: XMMS-SingIt

2003-06-10 Thread Joey Hess
Patrick Greenwood wrote: > I've recently installed the SingIt plugin (apt-get install xmms-singit). > I'm unclear about how to create or where to place a lyrics file. Do the > lyrics files go in the same subdirectory as the .mp3 files? > > If I call up an mp3 file then is XMMS supposed to automati

Re: fstab Mystery

2003-06-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/06/03 00:37), Carlos Sousa wrote: > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:37:12 +0100 > From: Carlos Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: fstab Mystery > > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:16:24 -0700 Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * Carlos Sousa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030610 15:19]: > > > On

Re: fstab Mystery

2003-06-10 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Mark Annandale wrote: Hi Guys This is an extract from my /etc/fstab - "/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs,ro,noauto,users,exec,uid=mark,gid=mark 0 0". As user mark I cannot open this folder, but can as root. The installation is a hd install from a knoppix CD, giving me pretty much a woody installation A

Re: Jerky Screen Saver

2003-06-10 Thread alex
Jerry wrote: I have a Radeon 7500 card. Using KDE 3.1.1a on Woody system. I have screensaver Solar Winds selected. When it runs, it runs jerky. It will move about an half an inch and stop, then move another half an inch and stop. It just keeps repeating this behavior continuously. Is this norm

Re: fstab Mystery

2003-06-10 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:16:24 -0700 Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Carlos Sousa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030610 15:19]: > > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:05:17 +0200 Mark Annandale wrote: > > > Hi Guys > > > > > > This is an extract from my /etc/fstab - > > > "/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs,ro,noauto,users,exec,uid=mark,

Re: X server fails to start

2003-06-10 Thread Gary L. Dolan
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 09:56:55AM +0100, Ben Kal wrote: > On 7 Jun 2003 "Fred Bowker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have just installed debian linux woody 3.0 r1 When it starts up it tries > > to load the x server then fails > > I used XFree86 -Configure and this gave me a new config file to

Re: Gnome & KDE confusions

2003-06-10 Thread Kent West
SJ wrote: I have a weird problem that is driving both me and my sysadmi roomie to distraction. Periodically, but on a very erratic basis, while in either gnome-sawfish or kde where the mouse cursor shows to be is not where the system thinks it is when I click on something. For example (ascii

[OT] Printer recommendations

2003-06-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Greetings list, It's official: my Epson Stylus Color 400 is dead after 6 years of faithful service. I'm in the market for a new printer and I would like some suggestions. Here are my parameters: - Laser printer (the inkjet has just been a money pit for the last year) - Reasonably priced (less th

Re: fstab Mystery

2003-06-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Carlos Sousa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030610 15:19]: > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:05:17 +0200 Mark Annandale wrote: > > Hi Guys > > > > This is an extract from my /etc/fstab - > > "/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs,ro,noauto,users,exec,uid=mark,gid=mark 0 0". >^^^ ^ > 1

Re: VMWare

2003-06-10 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 05:36:16PM -0500, Michael Kahle wrote: > [snip] > > I wouldn't bother with anything before workstation 4. > [end snip] > > I used Workstation 3 for about a year before, just recently, upgrading > to 4. No problems with 3 at all... Agreed, but 4 has some very nice improv

Re: secure kernel

2003-06-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 07:54:44PM +0200, Shamot wrote: | yes...I have downloaded the kernel as I wrote. | kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 | | so, this one is secure ? For one thing, look at the date it was compiled. Is it before or after the DSA (Debian Security Announcement)? If it was built befor

RE: VMWare

2003-06-10 Thread Michael Kahle
[snip] > I wouldn't bother with anything before workstation 4. [end snip] I used Workstation 3 for about a year before, just recently, upgrading to 4. No problems with 3 at all... Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Gnome & KDE confusions

2003-06-10 Thread SJ
I have a weird problem that is driving both me and my sysadmi roomie to distraction. Periodically, but on a very erratic basis, while in either gnome-sawfish or kde where the mouse cursor shows to be is not where the system thinks it is when I click on something. For example (ascii art warning

Jerky Screen Saver

2003-06-10 Thread Jerry
I have a Radeon 7500 card. Using KDE 3.1.1a on Woody system. I have screensaver Solar Winds selected. When it runs, it runs jerky. It will move about an half an inch and stop, then move another half an inch and stop. It just keeps repeating this behavior continuously. Is this normal, or what mi

Re: IMAP is too secure...

2003-06-10 Thread Mark C
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 14:01, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: > > I cannot log into my IMAP server any more... It keeps saying Invalid > > password. I can only assume it's using password encryption, but I don't > > know how to turn it off. Has it added any new options to the config file? I have this pro

Re: Lightweight Word Processor

2003-06-10 Thread Mark C
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 17:34, Nick Wilson wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm looking for a lightweight but full featured word processor for a > very low spec machine. Give Abiword a go (apt-get install abiword), but do not use the version from sid. Mark -- To steal ideas from one person is plagiari

Re: fstab Mystery

2003-06-10 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:05:17 +0200 Mark Annandale wrote: > Hi Guys > > This is an extract from my /etc/fstab - > "/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs,ro,noauto,users,exec,uid=mark,gid=mark 0 0". ^^^ ^ 1 - ntfs should be separated by space/tab from whatever follows. 2

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Re: Good Open Source Web Development software

2003-06-10 Thread Joe Lazaro
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:10:45AM -0400, lists1 wrote: > On Monday 09 June 2003 14:03, Kevin Griffis wrote: > > I would like to eventually do all my web development on my Linux laptop and > > ditch FrontPage altogether. I am planning to build a site on a LAMP > > machine and was wondering what Op

Re: xfree and mouse buttons

2003-06-10 Thread Travis Crump
LeVA wrote: Hi! I'm using 4.1.0 xfree, and a m$ intellimouse explorer 3.0a usb mouse. The mouse has 5 buttons. I want to use all of the 5 buttons, and the scrolling wheel too, which also has button numbers, what I must assign to the 'ZAxisMapping' option in the XF86Config file. Here is my conf

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Re: Laptop PCMCIA Troubles

2003-06-10 Thread Ben Kal
On 9 Jun 2003 Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm unable to get pcmcia working on a laptop. > > Here's what I've got so far: > > I've installed the pcmcia modules for my system (Woody 2.2.20). > I've installed pcmcia-cs package. > > I've made an effort at setting up my /etc/pcmcia/config.opts

Re: Nic Issues..

2003-06-10 Thread Ben Kal
On 9 Jun 2003 "Tom Kloppel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, i gave that a shot, as far as i could tell dhcp is installed and the > "/etc/network/interfaces" file is correct. allthough I am a "newb" so Ill > attach that... > > When i tried the network restart it gave me: > > Reconfiguring network

X server fails to start

2003-06-10 Thread Ben Kal
On 7 Jun 2003 "Fred Bowker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just installed debian linux woody 3.0 r1 When it starts up it tries > to load the x server then fails > I used XFree86 -Configure and this gave me a new config file to test > however this gave me the same problems Your error log at o

lib6c

2003-06-10 Thread Arthur E. Groen
Hi, I tryed to upgrade my lib6c so I could use i586-mingw32msvc/3.2.1 but things got mixed up. apw # apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencie

Re: Wifi

2003-06-10 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 19:50, tt tt wrote: > Can anyone recommend any wifi cards they have used with debian > (without re-compiling the kernel if possible)? For PCI: Cisco Aironet 4800 For pcmcia: Compaq HNW-100 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter ($45 at radio shack!) neither requires anything but stock ker

Re: secure kernel

2003-06-10 Thread David Dumortier
Hello Le Tue Jun 10 2003 à 07:54:44PM +0200, Shamot ecrivit : > yes...I have downloaded the kernel as I wrote. > kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 > > so, this one is secure ? Nothing is secured. But linux 2.4.18 is safer than 2.4.0 but less than 2.4.18 from Debian. Perharps, you should browse archiv

Re: [OT] ergonomic setups

2003-06-10 Thread Mike M
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 12:26, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i guess this thread is > demonstrating well that it's really all a matter of personal > preference, and that what works for some may be what's causing pain in > others. Take wrist health very seriously though. The damage to wrists is slow a

Re: Getting Gnome to run on testing

2003-06-10 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:45:38AM -0700, David Monarres waxed eloquent and said: > On Tuesday 10 June 2003 03:20 am, Sam Varghese wrote: > > How does one get Gnome 2.2 to run on testing with its default window > > manager? I've done the necessary down

fstab Mystery

2003-06-10 Thread Mark Annandale
Hi Guys This is an extract from my /etc/fstab - "/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs,ro,noauto,users,exec,uid=mark,gid=mark 0 0". As user mark I cannot open this folder, but can as root. The installation is a hd install from a knoppix CD, giving me pretty much a woody installation AFAIK. Could anyone t

Re: xfree and mouse buttons

2003-06-10 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 09:04:37PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > I'm using 4.1.0 xfree, and a m$ intellimouse explorer 3.0a usb mouse. > The mouse has 5 buttons. I want to use all of the 5 buttons, and the > scrolling wheel too, which also has button numbers, what I must assign > to the 'ZAxisMapping' opt

Re: exiting chroot

2003-06-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:20:31PM -0400, Geordie Birch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 12:06:39PM -0600, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: > > Hugh Saunders wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 05:53:22PM -0400, Charles Roberts wrote: > > > > > >>Hi; > > >>I am installing Debian

Re: [OT] IBM clicky keyboards (was Re: ergonomic setups)

2003-06-10 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:54:10 -0500 Brian McGroarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can find original IBM keyboards and Northgate keyboards all over > ebay, if you're into that sort of thing. You'd think with the number of geeks around that prefer the click the keyboard manufacturers would get

Re: [OT] ergonomic setups

2003-06-10 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 06:00:35PM +, p wrote: > ...and for me, dvorak makes all the difference in the world. I personally love my Acer TravelMate (laptop) keyboard. It's every so slightly curved and has enough depth where the track pad sits that my wrists can sit flat across the top of the co

Re: Doubling 100MBit ethernet by splitting the cable <-- bad idea

2003-06-10 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:10:12 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > These cables will buzz out fine with a DC ohmmeter. If you buy > a "cable tester" that says these cables are okay, ask for your > money back. A cat-5 tester should tell you whether each pair is > within 3% of 100 Ohms, and a cable whe

Re: framebuffer

2003-06-10 Thread Eric Toullec
Le Mardi 10 Juin 2003 12:34, LeVA a écrit : > Hi! > > I have installed a matrox g200 video card. I compiled the kernel with fb > devices etc.. etc.. > With the fbset program program I can setup my resolutions, and refresh > rates fine, but what is in the fb.modes file, is not enough for me. I > wis

xfree and mouse buttons

2003-06-10 Thread LeVA
Hi! I'm using 4.1.0 xfree, and a m$ intellimouse explorer 3.0a usb mouse. The mouse has 5 buttons. I want to use all of the 5 buttons, and the scrolling wheel too, which also has button numbers, what I must assign to the 'ZAxisMapping' option in the XF86Config file. Here is my config:

Re: amaya was Re: Good Open Source Web Development software

2003-06-10 Thread Bruce Sass
I don't know; a home built gtk-gl version also bombs, but a build against lesstif works fine. You could do: cd /usr/src ; apt-get source amaya modify the debian/rules file to say --without-g... then build a package ("debian/rules -b") sans gtk-gl. I've used "../configure --with-x --withou

Re: TCPd and Xinetd....

2003-06-10 Thread Mark Ferlatte
RB said on Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:15:21PM -0400: > I'm planning on switching a server of mine from inetd and tcpd over to > xinetd. I'm wondering if there is any benefit to using tcpd with xinetd? Nope. xinetd links with libwrap, which is what tcpd uses. > It looks to me that xinetd combines t

Re: What is the best Xfree Setup Program?

2003-06-10 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 02:22:58 +0100 Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 01:55:53AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:54:24 -0400 Geordie Birch wrote: > > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 will allow you to reconfigure X, > > > but > >

TCPd and Xinetd....

2003-06-10 Thread RB
Howdy All, I'm planning on switching a server of mine from inetd and tcpd over to xinetd. I'm wondering if there is any benefit to using tcpd with xinetd? It looks to me that xinetd combines the features of inetd and tcpd into one process. Thanks, RB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bind for beginners

2003-06-10 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Keith, > 1: How do I convert a debian machine from dhcp to static ip > address man interfaces > 2: Can a network exist with some machines dictation their IP > address and other (windows) machines getting their addresses > from a dhcp server, and all of

Re: secure kernel

2003-06-10 Thread Shamot
yes...I have downloaded the kernel as I wrote. kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 so, this one is secure ? On Tuesday 10 of June 2003 01:28, Hubert Chan wrote: > You'll want to look at the latest DSA: > http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-311 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: [OT] ergonomic setups

2003-06-10 Thread p
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:26:49PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Sat, 07 Jun 2003 02:23:19AM -0700, Paul Johnson insinuated: > > I mostly hate the MS "natural" keyboards with a purple passion. > > Yeah, they have a nice angle that keeps your wrists fairly nice and > > straight horizontally, but

fd0hxxx missing, (vmware fault?)

2003-06-10 Thread Alfredo Valles
Hi debianeers. I installed vmware4.0 play with it and then decided to go back to my old vmware 3.2. Then I discovered that my floppy drive isn't reading my floppies anymore, even if the led indicates that the drive is working. (This is of course with the vmware not running, besides I always dis

Re: [OT] ergonomic setups

2003-06-10 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > demonstrating well that it's really all a matter of personal > preference, and that what works for some may be what's causing pain in > others. Indeed, if I use an "ergonomic" split keyboard I usually get wrist/arm pains in about 15 minutes, but can ty

Re: DC-220 Camera

2003-06-10 Thread tallison
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:58:55PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: >> I had this camera working under USB with the application called 'ks'. >> But that was on another hard drive > > Another machine, you mean? > Another Debian Installation on another machine. > >> I'm trying to get this working un

Re: ipmasq dns problem - Solved

2003-06-10 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:06:19AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 02:09:27PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * Thomas H. George ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030609 13:34]: > > > I have installed ipmasq as a firewall on a debian computer (Woody, > > > kernel 2.4.18) placed between

Re: KDM won't start

2003-06-10 Thread David Meiser
Looks like I perhaps spoke a little too soon. I logged into KDE using GDM and found all my menus to be screwed up. All text in every menu seems to be skewed about half a line down from where it is supposed to be. Any suggestions or workarounds for the KDM problem? Peace, DAVE David Meiser wr

Re: PureSecure and MySQL on Woody

2003-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:53:44AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to install Demarcs PureSecure on my Debain Woody Stable > machine and everytime I run the installer the MySQL section dies at > the same point. Here is the last few lines of the install > > libmysql.c: In function

Re: Mysterious network traffic

2003-06-10 Thread ScruLoose
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:14:47AM -0400, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 15:15, ScruLoose wrote: > > > > > My machine is connected to a DSL-modem via a little router-box. The > > > > router has the usual little LEDs on the front to indicate activity. > > > > In the last couple of

Re: [OT] ergonomic setups

2003-06-10 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:53:01AM +0200, Christoph Groth insinuated: > Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > do you all use some combination of careful keyboard > > height/placement, a good chair, and a good keyboard? is there > > some other component that you take into account? i'm inte

Re: Amaya

2003-06-10 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
I just installed the debian package that's distributed from the W3C with much better luck! http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/BinDist.html I used: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/Distribution/amaya_gtk-8.0-1_i386.deb When I did dpkg -i amaya_gtk-8.0-1_i386.deb and it told me which gk library I was mi

Re: [OT] ergonomic setups

2003-06-10 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sat, 07 Jun 2003 02:23:19AM -0700, Paul Johnson insinuated: > I mostly hate the MS "natural" keyboards with a purple passion. > Yeah, they have a nice angle that keeps your wrists fairly nice and > straight horizontally, but the steep angle of the damn things tend > to encourage you to bend your

Problem with setuid script starting pppd

2003-06-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
I have written a setuid/setgid-root Perl script that does the following: #!/usr/bin/suidperl -T use strict; use warnings; $ENV{'PATH'} = '/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin'; @ARGV == 1 and my ($isp) = $ARGV[0] =~ /^([-0-9A-Za-z_]+)$/ or die "Usage: ppp-on \n"; $< = $>; # set real to effective u

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-10 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Karsten M. Self said on Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 05:27:00PM +0100: > > encountered is discover, so it's a pretty small number). > > This is a bug and should be reported as such. It was reported, but not by me. > Does Bug #178944 match your observations? That would be the one. M pgp0.pgp Des

Re: Amaya

2003-06-10 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:44:08PM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: > Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > >I think I get a little further than that...Do you remember what packages > >were installed? > > It installed just the amaya package. I removed it and installed it again > to be sure but the result was the s

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:08:22PM +0100, Ben Kal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 4 Jun 2003 lists1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <...> > > Did I make opt too small? > > Only you may know. What would you want to put into it? It is true that > by default there is no /opt in a Debian installation, bu

Re: play mp3 files on xmms

2003-06-10 Thread p
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:48:29AM -0400, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > Hi all > > I'm running woody 3.0_r1 and I'm looking for same way to play mp3 files > on xmms. Is it possible? Is there any plugin? In case the answer is not, > which player do you recommend me to play mp3 files? > > thanks in adv

Re: Good Open Source Web Development software

2003-06-10 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 06:15:13PM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote: > On Tuesday 10 June 2003 11:42, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:10:45AM -0400, lists1 wrote: > > > It works heavily toward w3c standard compliant code (and if you > > > look at the top 100 sites, I doubt 10% of them ar

Re: Doubling 100MBit ethernet by splitting the cable <-- bad idea

2003-06-10 Thread cls-du
>On Tue, 27 May 2003 05:40:06 +0200, J F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>Splitting the cable >I've seen a network set up with most of the cables were doubled up to >carry 2 10/100 connections over one wire. I don't think any of the >computers in the office were connecting at 100mb and the network h

[OT] Lustre filesystem

2003-06-10 Thread Richard Heycock
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone on the list has had any experience with the Lustre file system (http://www.lustre.org/) and if so what their thoughts are. rgh -- "It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity" -- Steph

Lightweight Word Processor

2003-06-10 Thread Nick Wilson
Hi everyone, I'm looking for a lightweight but full featured word processor for a very low spec machine. It absolutely must have a footnotes and word count feature. Currently I have Ted running on another machine and it looks pretty much what I need but as it's for someone else I thought I'd a

Re: Switching Desktops

2003-06-10 Thread Nick Wilson
* and then Clive Menzies declared > > Sorry for the lame quesiton ;-) I just can't find the 'button'! > > > > I installed on a very old machine but made sure twm was installed. Now, > > half an hour later I can get KDE (default) up but would like to change > > the default desktop to twm. > >

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