XFree86 turns off the screen when using usb mouse

2003-06-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Hi, I have a small problem that I'd like to solve. X automatically blanks the screen after a while. It unblanks it if you use the keyboard or the mouse. However it only works with serial or ps2 mice. I'm using a USB mouse and sometimes i'll be using my computer to browse the web or play music and

Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

2003-06-21 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 13:10, Ric Otte wrote: > Hi, > > I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and I called them > up to ask if it would work with Linux. The woman at tech support > confidently assured me, over and over, that it would not work with > Linux. I spoke to her a long tim

Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

2003-06-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Ric" == Ric Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ric> Hi, I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and > Ric> I called them up to ask if it would work with Linux. The > Ric> woman at tech support confidently assured me, ov

Re[2]: Wheelmouse

2003-06-21 Thread Paul Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello Haldor, Saturday, June 21, 2003, 11:36:30 PM, you wrote: HR> On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 05:48, Piero wrote: >> I'm not able to make my wheelmouse work. It's a basic Logitech wheelmouse. >> HR> his is what I did, Anyone have any wisdom for *serial* wheelmice/mo

Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

2003-06-21 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Ric" == Ric Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ric> Hi, I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and Ric> I called them up to ask if it would work with Linux. The Ric> woman at tech support confidently assured me, over and over, Ric> that it would not work with Linu

Large X Fonts after switching to font server

2003-06-21 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Hi Everyone, I switched from using font files to using a font server and now the standard font size is larger, especially on Mozilla. For example, Mozilla's 'Preference' page takes up practically 90% of the screen vertically as before it was more of a normal window. Plus, the link names in the

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 01:07:21AM +1200, cr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Saturday 21 June 2003 21:55, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Well, I have no conscience whatever about stealing Micro$oft software. > The way I look at it, if I'm forced to use their software for any > particular application it'

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 04:55:47AM -0500, Alex Malinovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My first ever Linux install was done with Potato a year and a half ago. > The only experience I had had with anything remotely linux related > before then was using cygwin for a few months. So essentially I knew

Re: wireless access point

2003-06-21 Thread David Z Maze
matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what wireless access points (wap) are linux users using? I happen to have a D-Link DWL-900AP 802.11b access point. It works fine, except that I forgot the administrative password and now can't reconfigure it at all. > obviously cost, administration

Re: how to use rpm in debian

2003-06-21 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 14:49, Bob Proulx wrote: > Mathias Peters wrote: > > i need to install the db2 v8.1 personal edition on debian. the > > tar-file i got on ibm.com only produced some rpms that are installed > > via install-skript, so i can't use alien. does anybody know how to > > install the

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Jerry Quinn
Paul Johnson writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 11:08:22AM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > My mother needs to access her email. I installled Debian on the > > computer. She has no problems using Debian. However, I had to do the > > instal

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Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

2003-06-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Ric Otte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030621 16:39]: > Hi, > > I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and I called them > up to ask if it would work with Linux. The woman at tech support > confidently assured me, over and over, that it would not work with > Linux. I spoke to her a long t

Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

2003-06-21 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
My DSL connection is a SBC Yahoo DSL line... It was originally ordered as an SBC Enhanced DSL package... I have 5 static addresses so a lil different than the regular DSL package offering... In my case since they are statically assigned address block there was no pppoe or dhcp configuration

new gnome2 in sarge : startup error

2003-06-21 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
just updated to gnome2 in sarge with an: apt-get update apt-get distupgrade worked like a charm, till a logout / login gdm tried to login my id and something failed and send me back to gdm. nothing in the log files. same result from startx from the cmd line. deleted ~/.xinitrc a

Re: logging apt-get/dpkg activity

2003-06-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 06:28:48PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: > > You could eliminate all of the non-portable stuff in the above by > > changing the single 'echo -e' to 'printf'. This is functionally > > equivalent. > > That isn't the only bashism in

Window manager troubles in Sid

2003-06-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I just installed Debian on a friend's machine yesterday. I used Knoppix to detect the hardware (and write down what it produced) then I used an old Woody CD to get a base system in place. I changed the sources.list to point at unstable and then did apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. Everyt

Still having trouble with XVideo

2003-06-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
After diffing the conifg files for my stock 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel and my home rolled 2.4.20 kernel, I figured out that the major differnce was that my custom kernel did not have frambuffer support. So, I tweaked the settings, recompiled and reinstalled. On reboot, I chose the 2.4.18 kernel and test

Re: Wheelmouse

2003-06-21 Thread Haldor Riddering
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 05:48, Piero wrote: > I'm not able to make my wheelmouse work. It's a basic Logitech wheelmouse. > his is what I did, I installed gpm, then /usr/sbin/gpmconfig Current Configuration: -m/dev/psaux -t imps2 -Rraw Device: /dev/psaux Type: imps2 Repeat_Type: raw /etc/X11/XF86Con

Re: cannot access my computer (debian woody)

2003-06-21 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sat, June 21 at 5:54 PM EDT Jean-marc Belley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't remember exactly what i did, that the problem. > I think i run the ./bin/bash command and maybe > cause some library to link somewhere else. Since, i reinstall woody > on my machine to fix the problem. It's for t

Re: Cannot acces my machine (woody)

2003-06-21 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:50:57AM -0400, Jean-marc Belley wrote: > I have a problem to access my computer. > I cannot access to root or any user. > When i tried to login as root or user i have > the following error: > > Cannot Execute /bin/bash: Exec format error > > So i cannot access my

Re: logging apt-get/dpkg activity

2003-06-21 Thread Bob Hilliard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: > You could eliminate all of the non-portable stuff in the above by > changing the single 'echo -e' to 'printf'. This is functionally > equivalent. That isn't the only bashism in that script. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard

exim4

2003-06-21 Thread Robin Gerard
Hello, I installed exim4 on my box. There are 3 users: root user1 user2 For user1 all is ok: messages being sent and received correctly. For user2 messages are sent ok, but for the receiving of the messages I get: 1 message for fu.bar (user2) at pop.free.fr (945 bytes) reading message [EMAIL PR

Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

2003-06-21 Thread Michael Larry Strean
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 01:10:06PM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > Hi, > > I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and I called them > up to ask if it would work with Linux. The woman at tech support > confidently assured me, over and over, that it would not work with > Linux. I spoke to h

Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

2003-06-21 Thread Donald Spoon
Ric Otte wrote: Hi, I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and I called them up to ask if it would work with Linux. The woman at tech support confidently assured me, over and over, that it would not work with Linux. I spoke to her a long time, trying to figure out why it wouldn't w

Re: Please help with Sarge and my network card

2003-06-21 Thread Florian Krohs
Hallo Bob,* * Bob Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [21-06-03 18:01]: > Dear Friends, > I am trying to get Sarge installed on my brand new Thinkpad T40. > > This little gem has an "Intel(r) Pro/1000 MT Mobile Connection" Gigabit > Ethernet card on board. > > I am not able to get this working and am

Re: Installing linux inside linux?

2003-06-21 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 11:23, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > I've heard of several methods of installing Debian within an already > running Debian install on the same partition. > > - Bochs: an emulator, does this recreate a system worthy of a debian > install? or will emulator-specific problems ari

Re: logging apt-get/dpkg activity

2003-06-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Hilliard wrote: > I suspect the easy availability of script(1) discouraged people > from expending any effort on it. I finally got tired of editing out > all the bogus newlines (^M) from script's output, so I wrote the > following wrapper for apt-get, which I have installed as > /usr/loca

SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

2003-06-21 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and I called them up to ask if it would work with Linux. The woman at tech support confidently assured me, over and over, that it would not work with Linux. I spoke to her a long time, trying to figure out why it wouldn't work. She said t

Re: Laptop tape backups

2003-06-21 Thread Bill Wohler
Thomas Krennwallner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What do you use to back up your laptop? > > I use a network backup solution: amanda. See http://www.amanda.org/ and > http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/amanda-server.html for further > details. Amanda is great if you have lots and lots of m

Re: logging apt-get/dpkg activity

2003-06-21 Thread Bob Hilliard
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Probably both. Has anyone been interested enough to implement it > themselves and send a patch? I suspect the easy availability of script(1) discouraged people from expending any effort on it. I finally got tired of editing out all the bogus newlin

Re: iso images etc

2003-06-21 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 06:30:25PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > I have become interested in the creation of a personalised distro. > 'Gentoo' was on the CD which accompanied my monthly Linux Magazine, > but this only contained tarballs for 3 stages. After asking around, > I was referred to 'Linuxfr

Re: Wheelmouse

2003-06-21 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 07:48:56PM +0200, Piero wrote: > I'm not able to make my wheelmouse work. It's a basic Logitech wheelmouse. > > The corresponding lines in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file are: > > Section "InputDevice" > > # Identifier and driver > >Identifier "Mouse1" >Driver

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Peter Whysall
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 18:56, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Anyone who thinks it's hard to install debian should try installing > redhat on pa-risc or sparc! (It's not difficult -- it's impossible! > (AFAIK)) Feh! Installing Debian onto my HP D330 was a doddle. Easier than the i386 install, actually.

new mobo, and no video

2003-06-21 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I grabbed a new mobo yesterday, and PCDDR266. I bought one of their mobo's a few months ago, to use for redhat, so I assumed this one would work as well. according to knoppix, everything is found, but The onboard video is "found" as [S3 Pro Savage (ProSavageDDR K4M266)], for whatever rea

Re: iso images etc

2003-06-21 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 19:50:09 +0200, john gennard wrote: > Sometimes I have access to an ADSL line, so I have downloaded an .iso > image of Gentoo. So that's why you came here?! This is debian-user... > Now, I realised that I didn't understand exactly what an .iso image was, > so I've googled and

cdrom creation

2003-06-21 Thread Rodney D. Myers
In the past month, I've grabbed updates to sarge, and have them "archived" onto cdrom. Now that I've re-installed woody, and upgraded back to sarge, how do I get apt-get to see these updated files, so I can save a bit of time sing a dialup internet connection. How do I create a cdrom, that apt-ge

Re: Wheelmouse

2003-06-21 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 20:20:12 +0200, Piero wrote: > I'm not able to make my wheelmouse work. It's a basic Logitech wheelmouse. > > The corresponding lines in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file are: > > Section "InputDevice" > > # Identifier and driver > > Identifier "Mouse1" > Driver "mo

Re: Tab-Completion in gnuplot

2003-06-21 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 04:53:56PM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Quoting /usr/share/doc/gnuplot/README.Debian: > > > > > > libreadline > > > --- > [...] > > Of course I don't fully understand all the "

Re: Wheelmouse

2003-06-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Piero wrote: > I'm not able to make my wheelmouse work. It's a basic Logitech wheelmouse. >Option "Protocol""PS/2" > Anything tu suggest? Thanks Change that line above to be: Option "Protocol""ImPS/2" Wheelmice use InteliMouse protocol. If you are using 'gpm' then also make that

Re: how to use rpm in debian

2003-06-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Mathias Peters wrote: > first of all, i'm not subscribed, so please cc me to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks. Let me suggest including a Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] header in your email so that people responding will automatically be directed to do what you wish? See m

Re: Mail delivery failure

2003-06-21 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 at 4:07pm, Patrick Wiseman wrote: :I've been getting a bunch of these messages on a fairly new testing :installation. According to the Exim FAQ, this error happens when users :don't have home directories, but I do. My exim.conf includes localhost in :the local_domains definit

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 13:41, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 11:08:22AM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > My mother needs to access her email. I installled Debian on the > > computer. She has no problems using Debian. However, I had

Re: Windows NT/2000/XP related problems

2003-06-21 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 20 June 2003 06:45 pm, Abdul Latip wrote: > Hi > > Since I am not so familiar with Windows NT/2000/XP, > I am wonder which are the good "Windows Clue for Linux > users" webpages on web. Any URL? > > Basically, some of the problems are that I

Re: Wheelmouse

2003-06-21 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Piero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030621 19:48]: >Option "Protocol""PS/2" Try ImPS/2. Sincerely Alexander pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: No sound - onboard VIA VT8233 AC97

2003-06-21 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 17:20:11 +0200, Josh Metzler wrote: > I would appreciate any advice anyone can give me as to how to get sound > working on my new box. What about loading a sound driver? The module is called snd-via82xx or similar. -- Best Regards, | Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me i

Re: Wheelmouse

2003-06-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 13:48, Piero wrote: > I'm not able to make my wheelmouse work. It's a basic Logitech wheelmouse. > > The corresponding lines in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file are: > > Section "InputDevice" > > # Identifier and driver > > Identifier "Mouse1" > Driver "mouse" >

Re: how to view changelogs?

2003-06-21 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 17:50:04 +0200, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > Unfortunately, that's pretty much the only way to go. Personally I > can't believe there's still no way to view package changelogs on the > web. It's not exactly inconvenient, but for big packages, I check http://changelogs.cre

Re: Wheelmouse

2003-06-21 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* Piero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [21-06-2003 20:21]: > I'm not able to make my wheelmouse work. It's a basic Logitech wheelmouse. As in the wheel doesn't work, but I can move the pointer and click? Or does the mouse not work at all? > The corresponding lines in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file are: >Op

Compiling winex

2003-06-21 Thread Bradley Alexander
I downloaded the latest cvs from sourceforge (which is getting almost unreasonably congested, but thats another thread) on my sid box. Thus far, I have had zero luck getting it to compile. I have tried it with gcc-2.95 and gcc-3.3, and it seems to be having problems with flex. I also backrevved fle

Re: Wheelmouse

2003-06-21 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Saturday 21 June 2003 19:48, Piero wrote: > I'm not able to make my wheelmouse work. It's a basic Logitech wheelmouse. > > The corresponding lines in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file are: > > Section "InputDevice" > > # Identifier and driver > > Identifier "Mouse1" > Driver "mouse" >

Re: iso images etc

2003-06-21 Thread Bob Proulx
john gennard wrote: > I have become interested in the creation of a personalised distro. > 'Gentoo' was on the CD which accompanied my monthly Linux Magazine, Oops! I think you meant to send this message to gentoo-users and not to debian-users. We are all friends here but I think you would have

Re: Debian Linux Version

2003-06-21 Thread Bob Proulx
anubhav dubey wrote: > I wish to purchase your Debian Linux Version but i am not sure whether the > same will automatically detect my onboard sound and graphics card. I am new > to linux so i am not much aware of it. As you may now be aware the Debian distribution is a free distribution. There

Re: iso images etc

2003-06-21 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [21-06-2003 19:46]: > I burned the .iso image to a CD, but to make it bootable, I was > asked to add the contents of a floppy - presumably containing > drivers to activate a CD-ROM drive. > 1. How to I get the CD to boot? Use the right tool to burn the iso. Don

Re: nfs through dsl router

2003-06-21 Thread Bob Proulx
James Strandboge wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > /etc/exports: > > /home/me *(rw) > > (obviously not a good plan for permanent use...) > Ouch. You may already be hacked. Agreed. That scares me just thinking about it. Script kiddies are always probing my network for NFS vulnerabilities. If you

Re: howto use defaults/preferences to keep to testing ???

2003-06-21 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Colin Watson (Sat 21 Jun 02003 at 05:41:51PM +0100): > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:17:58AM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > Also sprach Colin Watson (Sat 21 Jun 02003 at 12:58:47PM +0100): > > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 07:20:16AM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > > > Can I ask why you d

Wheelmouse

2003-06-21 Thread Piero
I'm not able to make my wheelmouse work. It's a basic Logitech wheelmouse. The corresponding lines in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file are: Section "InputDevice" # Identifier and driver Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol""PS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 11:08:22AM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > My mother needs to access her email. I installled Debian on the > computer. She has no problems using Debian. However, I had to do the > install because she has no clue about settings i

Re: No sound - onboard VIA VT8233 AC97

2003-06-21 Thread Donald Spoon
Josh Metzler wrote: I would appreciate any advice anyone can give me as to how to get sound working on my new box. The mother board is the Shuttle AV49N, which has onboard VIA VT8233 AC97 sound. I have been testing with cat reflect.au > /dev/dsp. (reflect.au is a sound that comes with kbounce

Re: backporting Questions

2003-06-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Elliot Dray wrote: > > To build the package it needs root-like privileges and so use > > fakeroot. But don't use real root. > > Is it just because of good practice why you shouldn't use root? there is no > technical reason, is there? Good practice, good sense. Building packages implies debug a

iso images etc

2003-06-21 Thread john gennard
I have become interested in the creation of a personalised distro. 'Gentoo' was on the CD which accompanied my monthly Linux Magazine, but this only contained tarballs for 3 stages. After asking around, I was referred to 'Linuxfromscratch' - its literature is very detailed and after reading it two

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 01:07:21AM +1200, cr wrote: > On Saturday 21 June 2003 21:55, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > And, just so I can join in the foray of the auto-detect flame-fest here, > > if a user doesn't know his hardware well enough to be able to pick it > > from a list he shouldn't be install

Re: HOWTO layout formatting

2003-06-21 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:00:30 -0400 Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey all, > > i want to write a mini-howto on all the black magic i had to go > through to get debian onto this dell inspiron 8000 (i know there are > lots out there; i want to write another). is there any specific > t

Re: howto use defaults/preferences to keep to testing ???

2003-06-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:17:58AM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Also sprach Colin Watson (Sat 21 Jun 02003 at 12:58:47PM +0100): > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 07:20:16AM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > > Can I ask why you do $dselect update instead of $apt-get update ? Maybe > > > dselect looks

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 15:01, Joris Huizer wrote: > --- Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > > Wow, there must really be something wrong with me, > > because I actually > > _like_ the debian installer. I find it simple and > > flexible. I can't say > > I have ever tried to install on a m

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 14:50, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 13:45, Mark Roach wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 13:42, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > > > What about a Box that says: > > > "Do you want me to AutoDetect your hardware? > > > Yes or No" > > > > I'm not saying that I thin

Re: you guys are great!

2003-06-21 Thread Aaron
On -708-Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 08:59:43AM +0100, David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > > > so, thanks guys! if i have problems i (or my friends) can't solve, > >i'm coming right here. i've already learned much just from reading others' > > I can only

Re: how to view changelogs?

2003-06-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 11:04, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 04:09:39AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > After i do a 'apt-get update', Is there a convenient tool to look at > > > what has changed in the updated packages, before downloading the > > > packages and installing them?

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 07:12, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 10:39:47PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 18:41, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > > Also, Debian has the ability to use 4 kernels (NetBSD, FreeBSD, Hurd and > > > Linux) while SuSE and RedHat are Linux-Only.

Please help with Sarge and my network card

2003-06-21 Thread Bob Alexander
Dear Friends, I am trying to get Sarge installed on my brand new Thinkpad T40. This little gem has an "Intel(r) Pro/1000 MT Mobile Connection" Gigabit Ethernet card on board. I am not able to get this working and am therefore stuck since Sarge netinst CD works but has no network and Sarge full IS

RE: KDE problem on startup

2003-06-21 Thread Vaughan, Curtis
Christophe's solution did not work. To be more exact in my wording, KDE boots to the point where it says "Initializing System Services". Any input will be greatly appreciated. Curtis -Original Message- From: Christophe Courtois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 12:37

Re: how to view changelogs?

2003-06-21 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 10:04, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 04:09:39AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > After i do a 'apt-get update', Is there a convenient tool to look at > > > what has changed in the updated packages, before downloading the > > > packages and installing them?

Installing linux inside linux?

2003-06-21 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I've heard of several methods of installing Debian within an already running Debian install on the same partition. - Bochs: an emulator, does this recreate a system worthy of a debian install? or will emulator-specific problems arise? - chroot: what's a chroot? - UML: patch for kernel? I don't

Re: howto use defaults/preferences to keep to testing ???

2003-06-21 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Colin Watson (Sat 21 Jun 02003 at 12:58:47PM +0100): > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 07:20:16AM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > On Fri, June 20 at 5:19 PM EDT > > "Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Based on the preferences set, I fail to see how my update installs so > > >

Re: Changing UID's?

2003-06-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 05:36, cr wrote: > I'm 'cr', UID 1000 in my Debian setup.However, under RedHat I was > UID 500 and all my heaps of data (left over from RedHat) is filed as owner > 500 group 500. This means I can't readily access it without changing > something. > > I could, of c

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 18:37, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > They could use knoppix also (sadly Knoppix includes the non-free > > adobe pdf reader...). > > I have remastered Knoppix 3.1, upgraded some of it's components like KDE > to 3.1, removed some non-free software (mpg123 and acroread) and made > F

Re: howto use defaults/preferences to keep to testing ???

2003-06-21 Thread Bill Morgan
On 6/21/03 6:58 AM, "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 07:20:16AM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote: >> On Fri, June 20 at 5:19 PM EDT >> "Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Based on the preferences set, I fail to see how my update installs so >>> much un-

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 09:45, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 02:16:00PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > But the first week I spent staring at a bash prompt was different. I > > might have enjoyed it because I'm a geek, but I'm sur

Re: how to view changelogs?

2003-06-21 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 04:09:39AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > After i do a 'apt-get update', Is there a convenient tool to look at > > what has changed in the updated packages, before downloading the > > packages and installing them? > > There certainly is. It's called apt-listchanges. It d

Re: Gzip problems

2003-06-21 Thread Larry
--- Elizabeth Barham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is strange is this sounds a lot like tar. Here > is the 512 byte > header I made using the command 'tar cf test.tar > main.cpp': > A couple of very good suggestions. I'll experiment a bit with tar and see what comes up. Also, thanks for

Cannot acces my machine (woody)

2003-06-21 Thread Jean-marc Belley
I have a problem to access my computer. I cannot access to root or any user. When i tried to login as root or user i have the following error: Cannot Execute /bin/bash: Exec format error So i cannot access my computer. I tried with the rescue disk and same error. Thanks. -- To UNSUB

No sound - onboard VIA VT8233 AC97

2003-06-21 Thread Josh Metzler
I would appreciate any advice anyone can give me as to how to get sound working on my new box. The mother board is the Shuttle AV49N, which has onboard VIA VT8233 AC97 sound. I have been testing with cat reflect.au > /dev/dsp. (reflect.au is a sound that comes with kbounce.) This returns with

Re: USB adsl modem

2003-06-21 Thread Juergen Stuber
"Willem-Jan Meijer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > A friend of my has an adsl connection for a week now and he wants a server > with debian. > > The modem is a USB modem Which one? > and my experiences with debian and usb aren't that good > that I can say it's going to work. How can I get the mo

Re: Debian Linux Version

2003-06-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 06:51:01AM +0530, anubhav dubey wrote: > I wish to purchase your Debian Linux Version but i am not sure whether the > same will automatically detect my onboard sound and graphics card. Nothing is autodetected. Know your hard

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 02:16:00PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > But the first week I spent staring at a bash prompt was different. I > might have enjoyed it because I'm a geek, but I'm sure some people > get fed up at some point. And Debian is not

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 04:55:47AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > My first ever Linux install was done with Potato a year and a half ago. > The only experience I had had with anything remotely linux related > before then was using cygwin for a few mon

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 01:07:21AM +1200, cr wrote: > > And, just so I can join in the foray of the auto-detect flame-fest here, > > if a user doesn't know his hardware well enough to be able to pick it > > from a list he shouldn't be installing an OS

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 03:36:19PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > He can't make that choice. He can't decide oh well I don't feel like > installing Debian it's too hard, I'll just run Debian :) He has to > install it first. Sure he can. Find your lo

Re: Easy firewall advice

2003-06-21 Thread Richard Beri
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 18:06:47 -0500 Joel Konkle-Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a stock Woody system with Gnome 1.4 running, connected to the > 'net via a 802.11b connection. I want to put a simple firewall on there, > just to keep things locked down a little more than they are now. >

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:49:02PM -0400, Kevin MacNeil wrote: > Forgive me for asking such an obvious FAQ, but is there a HOWTO anywhere > that details how to do this? The apt howto...just edit sources.list. The only version that won't give you biza

Re: Cupsys trouble

2003-06-21 Thread gk on the road...
Johannes Graumann wrote: Hello, I'm running Cupsys 1.1.19final-1 on a testing system dito, running fine now. Does anybody have an idea where my problem could be? Please push me into the right direction! thought it could be related to java/javascript, since i don't exactly know how webinterface

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:57:25PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > I don't see how adding hardware detection to i386 hurts any of the other > architectures. Having to support two different installer designs gets messy fast. That's just begging for eve

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:32:47PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > Debian runs on many architectures (have you even looked > > athttp://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual recently?) > (This sounds like an insult, this is mean, and I don't

Re: Mail delivery failure

2003-06-21 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 at 11:50pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: :On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 04:07:11PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: :[...] : :| This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). :| :| A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its :| recipien

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread cr
On Saturday 21 June 2003 21:55, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > > Well, popular reviews are usually aimed at 'new users', or intelligent > > amateurs, and from their point of view the install is a major > > consideration. (Professionals probably won't be reading that sort of > > reviews and the 'just

Re: Changing UID's?

2003-06-21 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/06/03 21:36), cr wrote: > > I'm 'cr', UID 1000 in my Debian setup.However, under RedHat I was > UID 500 and all my heaps of data (left over from RedHat) is filed as owner > 500 group 500. This means I can't readily access it without changing > something. > > I could, of course

Re: Changing UID's?

2003-06-21 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > I'm 'cr', UID 1000 in my Debian setup.However, under RedHat I was > UID 500 and all my heaps of data (left over from RedHat) is filed as owner > 500 group 500. This means I can't readily access it without changing > something. > > I could, of course,

Kernel Panic: Aiee, Killing Interrupt Handler!!

2003-06-21 Thread Shimul Kanti Barua
Hi all,   Having the following system configuration...   VIA EDEN 800 MHz processor 256 MB RAM Wildcard X100P   Debian 3.1 kernel-2.4.18-bf2.4   I am gtting this error when I want to load wcfxo driver   general protection fault CPU: 0--<0> Kernel panic: Aiee, k

Re: Do DVD-drives support booting?

2003-06-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 18:12, alberto wrote: > Hi folks, > > I thought they would, but I purchased a second-hand laptop VERSA SXi > with a DVD drive who won't boot my Woody disks (nor any other) > > BIOS is OK, and the drive itself, also. > > Have you got any idea what may be wrong, if there

Re: howto use defaults/preferences to keep to testing ???

2003-06-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 07:20:16AM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Fri, June 20 at 5:19 PM EDT > "Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Based on the preferences set, I fail to see how my update installs so > > much un-stable ?!?! > > Can I ask why you do $dselect update instead of $a

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