SB Audigy

2003-07-03 Thread James LeClair
Well, after fussing with the upgrade from SB ISA 16 sound to SB PCI Audigy I finally have sound in Woody again. Used this walkthrough as a "rough" guide. Hope it helps someone else! http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=541&page=1 -- T

Re: documentation was Re: Worked around (dirty...)

2003-07-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 01:16, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:06:57PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > > Basically the submission process for the LDP goes like this: > > I forgot step zero: subscribe to the discuss mailing list. Which is where > you present the idea you're thin

Re: Debian and S3 ProsavageDDR KM 266

2003-07-03 Thread Jacob Anawalt
A month ago I had debian stable (woody) installed on my XPC which has the ProSavageDDR (savage8) onboard with the via chipset. I used apt pinning to get the unstable XFree86 4.2 (seems like that's in testing now) package xserver-xfree86. I combined that with the savage driver debian package by

Woody KDE 3 packages

2003-07-03 Thread Shaun Jackman
I'm using the following APT line deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.2/Debian stable main When I update, the Release file is ignored by apt-get. Why is this? Also, I can't seem to upgrade or install the new packages. What have I done wrong here? Please cc me in your reply. Thanks, Sh

finding an iso for net-install w/ reiserfs disk support

2003-07-03 Thread Justin Bauer
I'm setting up a new computer, and thought it would be nice to use a minimal cd rather than the normal disks. I'll be running sid, but I don't care whether the cd is for stable or testing, just as long as it will format/install onto reiserfs. Thanks, Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: debian popularity contest mail bounce

2003-07-03 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > Configure your mailer to send out mail with real addresses that can be > mailed by the rest of the world. If necessary, send mail through a > properly configured smarthost. This is a generally good thing, not > something in any way unique to popularity-contest. Except of cour

Re: new debian box reboots itself?

2003-07-03 Thread Joey Hess
i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > ok, color me confused. my new machine (which is not primary yet) > rebooted by itself tuesday morning around 3:50am. it was a software > reboot, as it came back up cleanly by itself - i found it later that > afternoon sitting at the x login screen, when i

Re: suggestions for a good MTA?

2003-07-03 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 05:44:47PM -0700, Tom Anderson wrote: | I need some suggestions on a good MTA for a workstation. Here's what | I'd like for it to be able to handle. postfix. exim. Take your pick. | The hard part seems to be selective rewriting. | or rewrite no matter what (exim, etc.).

Re: suggestions for a good MTA?

2003-07-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Tom" == Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> I need some suggestions on a good MTA for a workstation. Tom> Here's what I'd like for it to be able to handle. Tom> 1. Immediate delivery of local mail (messages from daemons, Tom> etc)... in other words I'd like to avoid

Re: HowTo for Gnome2??

2003-07-03 Thread Todd Pytel
I don't see exactly what the fuss is. Fonts are fine for me - I do remember previous updates (maybe a month ago) in testing breaking them momentarily, however, so this may not be a GNOME issue. As for the rest of the GNOME2 packages, they're just not here yet - deal with it. I backed up my sour

Re: HowTo for Gnome2??

2003-07-03 Thread Jacob Anawalt
John, I installed straight to testing (but using a stable netinstall CD) a couple months ago. When gnome2 into was released into it from unstable a couple weeks ago I ran into similar issues. I am looking forward to watching this thread to see what the expert insight to this is. My opinion is

Nagios cgi login fails

2003-07-03 Thread Dale Miller
I am trying to confgiure nagios and get it working and am having problems at the login to get to the main page. I am using the unstable distribution. The following are the versions of the packages I am using. apache 1.3.27.0-2 nagios-mysql 1.1-1 mysql __ Do you Ya

Re: HowTo for Gnome2??

2003-07-03 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:17:46PM -0600, John W. M. Stevens wrote: > I upgraded from stable to testing, in order to be able to start using > Gnome2, only to find that there was no good way to get a complete, > usable Gnome2 installation. "Oops." GNOME in testing seems to be in very poor shape rig

Re: HowTo for Gnome2??

2003-07-03 Thread Oki DZ
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 09:17, John W. M. Stevens wrote: > I upgraded from stable to testing, in order to be able to start using > Gnome2, only to find that there was no good way to get a complete, > usable Gnome2 installation. Try to get to Sid; I think Sid's Gnome is much better. > 1) Fonts. The

Re: Change Apt source

2003-07-03 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:49:29PM -0500, Abrasive wrote: > I FINALLY got my NIC to work properly. Now, how do I change the apt > sources so that my Debian box will look on the web for new packages > and the like? And also security updates? Look at

Re: sound support

2003-07-03 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:44:59AM -0300, james leclair wrote: > much probs. Now, since upgrading to a SB Audigy, I just cant seem to get it > working. Does anyone know of a good site for tutorial/walkthrough to help Should be a matter of editing /e

Re: From header in Tin

2003-07-03 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:44:55AM +0200, Wim wrote: > I'm using the newsreader-client Tin (1.5.12) and when I reply or > follow-up a posting, the From header reads: Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > In ~/.tin/attributes I filled in my e-mail address

HowTo for Gnome2??

2003-07-03 Thread John W. M. Stevens
Hello, I upgraded from stable to testing, in order to be able to start using Gnome2, only to find that there was no good way to get a complete, usable Gnome2 installation. Many things are broken, including: 1) Fonts. They are really ugly, and it seems that the previous defaults were just ign

Re: suggestions for a good MTA?

2003-07-03 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 05:44:47PM -0700, Tom Anderson wrote: > The hard part seems to be selective rewriting. Everything I've looked > at seems to either want to forward everything (nullmailer), or rewrite > no matter what (exim, etc.). Is there anything which can handle this? Sure. Exim. The

Re: xterm configuration

2003-07-03 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:40:55AM +0100, Paladin wrote: > How do I configure xterm/Eterm so that it uses a font that can > display ncurses frames? For xterm, use one of the fixed fonts. They all have the line-drawing characters. If you're running xterm AA'd, you're SOL unless you're up to build

Re: sound support

2003-07-03 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:44:59AM -0300, james leclair wrote: > Now, since upgrading to a SB Audigy, I just cant seem to get it working. > Does anyone know of a good site for tutorial/walkthrough to help out with > this. The kernel doesn't support the Audigy. You need to use the SourceForge driv

suggestions for a good MTA?

2003-07-03 Thread Tom Anderson
I need some suggestions on a good MTA for a workstation. Here's what I'd like for it to be able to handle. 1. Immediate delivery of local mail (messages from daemons, etc)... in other words I'd like to avoid shipping it off to my ISP, since I'm just going to turn around and re-fetch it. No addre

xterm configuration

2003-07-03 Thread Paladin
Hi, How do I configure xterm/Eterm so that it uses a font that can display ncurses frames? Thanks, --- Paladin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Woody install problem

2003-07-03 Thread Stefan Platamone
Hi, I'm a newb trying to install "woody" off of a CD I downloaded from the web. After booting from the CD, things start off fine until the "Partition check:"- where I see hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 > hdd:hdd: lost interrupt //followed by repeating 'hdd: lost interrupt' By suggestion, I

Re: Repartitioned, now can't mount root

2003-07-03 Thread Ryan Heise
Here are more details about exactly what I did: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:00:38AM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > It sounds like you had an installed system, with files in /boot and /, > and now it's all one big partition. How did you go about consolidating > the two partitions? I temporar

Re: Intel D875PBZ or MSI 87P NEO-FIS2R

2003-07-03 Thread Nick Lidakis
Michael Epting wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:18:52PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: They were using a 2.4.20 kernel or a pre 2.4.21 kernel IIRC. I plan on using it with PATA drives, so I can't offer any advice on SATA. I prefer the Intel board cause it lacks all the bells and whistles other

Re: compiling lufs

2003-07-03 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 21:20:11 +0200, Ken Bloom wrote: > I've also tried from the kernel source directory (Adding > --append-to-version) but the module has unresolved symbols when I run > depmod. I get unresolved symbols here, too. Other modules work fine (ALSA, LIRC, NVIDIA). IMHO this is a bug in

Re: HI Liunx Help ??

2003-07-03 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 17:09, RCN wrote: > I installed Debian woddy via the net using DHCP for my network configuration > and a cable modem however I wasn't able to specify the domain name for the > system.. I already have a registered domain name .I'm pretty new to > this so as you can tell

Re: apache

2003-07-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Michael" == Michael Wordehoff writes: Michael> 1) apache started from inetd ? Michael> I thought it's not neccessary to have it listen all the Michael> time. So i removed the rc symlink, and configured: I believe this is a truly bad idea. You really do want apache to run all

Re: Where to set moz GUI font?

2003-07-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
Subject: Re: Where to set moz GUI font? From: Andrew E. Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > QUESTION: with Moz's Edit, Preferences, Appearance, Fonts the > font(s) of Moz´s *content* can be set. But where can the *GUI* > font be set (and fixed against the effects of upgrades)? In ~/.mozilla/default/*/

Re: Network issue with WOODY

2003-07-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Robert" == Robert Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> Hi all, I tried searching the archives with no luck. I Robert> have a standard load of Debian running and am constantly Robert> having problems with the network not responding when Robert> trying to connect to the box.

Re: apache

2003-07-03 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:25:29PM +0200, mi wrote: | Now it seems the server is terminated immediateley after every single request | from a broser, | thus for every request newly started from inetd. | In other words, a ps aux doesn't show any apache though browser can open | localhost:80. | Is

Re: sound support

2003-07-03 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 18:30:16 +0200, james leclair wrote: > Now, since upgrading to a SB Audigy, I just cant seem to get it working. I don't have a tutorial at hand, but just look around you. The Audigies and their problems are discussed quite often on this list. -- Best Regards, | Hi! I'm a

Re: How to have 'apt-get clean' automatically after apt-get install?

2003-07-03 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote: > [20030703] Bruce Sass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > script it <...> > Thanx alot. I was thinking doing it via a script, however I > was searching for an apt option to put in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ > Is there

ddtp [SCRIPT]: merging translations with english package description files

2003-07-03 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi all, I wrote a small script which simplifies the usage of translated package descriptions. Please see the comments in it for details. Feel free to use and distribute it. PS: Please CC me, as I'm not subscribed to this list. #!/bin/sh # Copyright 2003 Jens Seidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # Licen

apache

2003-07-03 Thread mi
Hello debian people ! I am a happy user of woody 3.0.1. I tried to set up apache for local use (to read dhelp and info2www and to learn more about networking). After installation, it worked fine. However, i face two mysteries: 1) apache started from inetd ? I thought it's not neccessary to hav

Re: Where to set moz GUI font?

2003-07-03 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op do 03-07-2003, om 19:31 schreef Jan Willem Stumpel: > This was my experience with the Mozilla GUI font: > > 1) Moz 1.0 running on Woody: no particular problem. But of course > this is 1.0, and Woody, and one likes to upgrade. > > 2) After upgrade to Sarge, Moz is still 1.0, but Moz´s GUI font

Re: ugly fonts in X apps (xclock & xbuffy)

2003-07-03 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op do 03-07-2003, om 17:42 schreef nori heikkinen: > suddenly, my fonts in X are all weird. gtk stuff is still fine, but > xbuffy and xclock have been beaten with an ugly stick. i posted once > on this about 10 months ago[1], and didn't receive an answer ... but i > fixed it, and don't remember h

Re: OT? www.donotcall.gov problem

2003-07-03 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 03:03:43PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Caller ID works infrequently between area codes. > > That's not really the problem. Nobody uses Caller ID for this sort of > thing... they have ANI (Automatic Number Identification), whi

Re: Cisco router simulator?

2003-07-03 Thread Thomas Richter
Hallo Paul > I'll take a look at zebra later. Since people have also suggested > buying hardware, anybody know how much Cisco 2600 units are going > for? i bought a 2503 two hours ago. 142 euros on german ebay. the seller have a second one he didnt sold. kind regards thomas richter -- * al

HI Liunx Help ??

2003-07-03 Thread RCN
I installed Debian woddy via the net using DHCP for my network configuration and a cable modem however I wasn't able to specify the domain name for the system.. I already have a registered domain name .I'm pretty new to this so as you can tell I'm stomped. I'm trying to host a small site on

Re: cdrecord warning message

2003-07-03 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Marc Wilson [Wed, Jul 02 2003, 10:01:53PM]: > Either run cdrecord as root (using sudo, for instance), or set it suid > root, so that it can do what it wants to do. Will work with SUID only with the latest Sid version. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Worked around (dirty...) How to apply no-debianized kernelpatch to debianized kernel-source?

2003-07-03 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op wo 02-07-2003, om 21:18 schreef Kevin Mark: > > > > I wrote the documentation > > for myself and have offered it to the open source community as a > > "here you might find this useful" kind of document. I was then asked > > by one debian user to contribute my documentation to The LDP. > > T

Re: How to have 'apt-get clean' automatically after apt-get install ?

2003-07-03 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030703] Bruce Sass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > script it > > --- /usr/local/sbin/aptinstall --- > #! /bin/sh > if [ "$1" = "" ]; then > echo "$0: missing package name(s)" > exit 1 > fi > apt-get install $1 && apt-

Re: bash: a pipe bodge, is there a better way ?

2003-07-03 Thread Alan Shutko
David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This seems a bit of a bodge and I am sure there is a better way.. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with it... You _could_ do something like (cd $tempdir/websync ; echo $scanhtml | csplit -f index -q - /lock/ {*} ) or echo $scanhtml | (cd $tempd

Re: OT? www.donotcall.gov problem

2003-07-03 Thread Alan Shutko
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The easy answer is ditch your landline in favor of a cell-phone. It's > illegal to make unsolicted commercial phone calls to cell-phones in > the US, and telemarketers do respect this. Well, they sort of respect it. They'll still call, but they'll hang

Re: Debian and S3 ProsavageDDR KM 266

2003-07-03 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 10:55:14 -0500 Julian Hernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 04:04:00PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > It 'should' work. My new motherboard has ProSavageDDR. I had to use > > Knoppix, to get it identified, but it's working like a champ. > > Hi! > > C

Re: ugly fonts in X apps (xclock & xbuffy)

2003-07-03 Thread nori heikkinen
on Thu, 03 Jul 2003 02:39:48PM -0400, Chris Metzler insinuated: > On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:42:34 -0400 > nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > suddenly, my fonts in X are all weird. gtk stuff is still fine, but > > xbuffy and xclock have been beaten with an ugly stick. i posted once > >

Re: 2.4.20 => no wireless network

2003-07-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks to all who responded to this query. As it turned out, the problem was that I had selected "PCMCIA Wireless Networking" and "Hermes Wireless Adapter" in the kernel, but not "Hermes PCMCIA adapter." I therefore didn't have an available driver for the card. I do find it kind of confusing. Can

Re: Activating vim color?

2003-07-03 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:01:35 -0400 "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:45:50AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > | For example I load some sample Python code into vim and kgim (gvim > | didn't start for some reason). Here's the differences: > Was gvim not

KDE packages for woody

2003-07-03 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi There are unofficial but official ( :)) ) packages of KDE 3.1 for woody. They are avail on the KDE servers and its mirrors. These packages are good but i think that they are not really woody packs because there are packages wich breack depencies wich are not broken on on unstable. This is t

Re: Where does Mozilla get its list of printers?

2003-07-03 Thread Andre Berger
--qcHopEYAB45HaUaB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2003-07-02 18:35 -0400: > I use CUPS to print from my Sid system. When I go to print from Mozilla,= I > get to choose from:

Re: compiling lufs

2003-07-03 Thread Ken Bloom
On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 15:10:11 +0200, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:49:04PM -0700, Ken Bloom wrote: > } How do I compile the LUFS kernel module from its official debian package > } to run on a debian stock kernel (in this case 2.4.20-3-686) > > apt-get install kernel-headers-2

Re: bash: a pipe bodge, is there a better way ?

2003-07-03 Thread David selby
David selby wrote: I have a pipe of commands echo $scanhtml | csplit -f index -q - /lock/ {*} I want the output to go to $tempdir/websync/ ... Is there a more elegant way than my present solution of .. cd $tempdir/websync echo $scanhtml | csplit -f index -q - /lock/ {*} This seems a bit o

Kernel Modules

2003-07-03 Thread Abrasive
Okay, once again I'm having trouble installing a display driver: Intel 845-G I downloaded the drivers from http://www.intel.com And after unpacking the tarball, I run ./install.sh Everything runs fine until it needs to compile a new agpart module, and a DRM module: Error Follows: Compiling new ag

Re: Change Apt source

2003-07-03 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:49:29PM -0500, Abrasive wrote: > Now, how do I change the apt sources so that my Debian box will look on the > web for new > packages and the like? And also security updates? Or is it easier to > just find them and download > them manually? man sources.list. It tel

Re: ugly fonts in X apps (xclock & xbuffy)

2003-07-03 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:42:34 -0400 nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > suddenly, my fonts in X are all weird. gtk stuff is still fine, but > xbuffy and xclock have been beaten with an ugly stick. i posted once > on this about 10 months ago[1], and didn't receive an answer ... but i > fix

Re: From header in Tin

2003-07-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:44:55AM +0200, Wim wrote: > I'm using the newsreader-client Tin (1.5.12) and when I reply or > follow-up a posting, the From header reads: Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > In ~/.tin/attributes I filled in my e-mail address in the 'from' field, > but that doesn't help.

Cannot mount cdrom if I use GRUB

2003-07-03 Thread Marino Fernandez
This must be a very simple and dumb problem, but I cannot figure it out. If I boot with LILO, I can mount my CD/DVD w/o any problem. If I boot with GRUB I get an error message that says that my /dev/dvd is not a valid block device (same with /dev/cdrom, /dev/sr0, /dev/scd0, even as root). I have

Where to set moz GUI font?

2003-07-03 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
This was my experience with the Mozilla GUI font: 1) Moz 1.0 running on Woody: no particular problem. But of course this is 1.0, and Woody, and one likes to upgrade. 2) After upgrade to Sarge, Moz is still 1.0, but Moz´s GUI font is very ugly. This is caused by a bad Helvetica font and/or a bad T

Re: weird tcpdump dependency on libaviplaydha

2003-07-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030703 02:20]: > I am thoroughly confused. I have had what seems to be major > filesystem corruption. Is there any corruption that can happen to > a Linux FS (Reiser, ugh!) which would leave the binary untouched > (MD5sum identical) but cause it's dependencies

Re: Change Apt source

2003-07-03 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 12:49:29 -0500 Abrasive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I FINALLY got my NIC to work properly. > Now, how do I change the apt sources so that my Debian box will look on > the web for new > packages and the like? And also security updates? Or is it easier to > just find them a

Re: Does anyone use an All-in-One Printer!

2003-07-03 Thread Rthoreau
In regards to the OT topic of faxing over a broad band connection, the answer would be is you don't need a dedicated fax machine to fax messages over the internet. I also think that many All-in-ones can recieve a fax, as a standalone fax machine without needing a computer. here is a quick lin

Re: mantis security upgrade breaks user configuration

2003-07-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:26:12PM +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote: > i learned from the debian-security-announce mailinglist that mantis (a > php bugtracking system) has insecure permissions on the configfile that > stores the database password. so i did an 'apt-get update ;apt-get > upgrade' and was

Re: Activating vim color?

2003-07-03 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:45:50AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: | On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 08:53:57 -0400 | "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Since gvim has more colors available to it, the tags and comments in | > XML become different shades of blue (which really is much nicer) and |

Re: How safe is Linux system

2003-07-03 Thread Don Werve
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:10:39PM -0400, Vivek Kumar wrote: > > Any thought on this as far as Linux systems are concerned. What are the > few things we should take care of ? Same things you should *always* be taking care of; making sure your system is patched, up-to-date, and not running unnec

Re: Where does Mozilla get its list of printers?

2003-07-03 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:38:43AM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Kirk" == Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Kirk> Great. Yet another printing system to futz with. :-/ > > Yeah, I wish everything just spoke CUPS. That would make things so much easier. Even IPP would be nice si

Change Apt source

2003-07-03 Thread Abrasive
I FINALLY got my NIC to work properly. Now, how do I change the apt sources so that my Debian box will look on the web for new packages and the like? And also security updates? Or is it easier to just find them and download them manually? Thanks! -Abrasive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: How do you creat an alias in postfix.

2003-07-03 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 03:28:37PM -0500, Marino Fernandez wrote: [...] | > Run "postmap /etc/postfix/aliases" and "postfix reload". | > | An I get this: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo postmap /etc/postfix/aliases | postmap: warning: /etc/postfix/aliases, line 1: record is in "key: value" | forma

Re: Does anyone use an All-in-One Printer?

2003-07-03 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 05:14:12PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: | Sorry for an OT question: Is it possible to FAX if you have a | broadband internet connection? I suspect one has to buy a modem just | for faxing. Faxing is defined by the telephone system. So, no, you can't fax over IP. (your Int

Re: Where does Mozilla get its list of printers?

2003-07-03 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Kirk" == Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kirk> At 2003-07-03T02:14:58Z, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> AFAICT, mozilla uses the Xprint system. See the xprt-xprintorg >> package, or xprint.mozdev.org. Basically, Xprint is like the X11 >> protocol implemented for print

Re: Boot floppies with XFS

2003-07-03 Thread Eamon Roque
Hallo, Ghe Rivero schrieb: Hi! I'm looking for some boot floppies that i found a lot of time ago that allows you to install debian with XFS (SGi file system) anybody knows where are they?¿ Ghe Rivero http://people.debian.org/~blade/XFS-Install/ HTH Eamon Roque. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

From header in Tin

2003-07-03 Thread Wim
I'm using the newsreader-client Tin (1.5.12) and when I reply or follow-up a posting, the From header reads: Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In ~/.tin/attributes I filled in my e-mail address in the 'from' field, but that doesn't help. Who knows where I can fill in my e-mail address so Tin uses

[OT] (possibly): libglide3 / libGL errors

2003-07-03 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Dear all, Not sure if this is a problem with Debian packages or my own programming blunders. Please excuse my off-topic post in case this turns out to be my errors. I've been playing with GLUT and OpenGL. I get the following run-time error message: libGL error: can't find Glide library, dlope

Re: what is bf2.4, actually?

2003-07-03 Thread Víctor Zabalza
Duane Winner wrote: > But until I reach that point (compiling kernel), is there a better > stable kernel I might want to install? There are the kernel-image-* packages for each of the architectures supported. I think there are images in sid for the 2.4.21 kernel. They provide a binary pre-compiled

Re: Intel D875PBZ or MSI 87P NEO-FIS2R

2003-07-03 Thread Nick Lidakis
Dave Howorth wrote: Hi Nick, Thanks for that. I read the review but was still left with some questions. (This may just be due to my lack of expertise in kernels). It seems that the reviewers didn't get even Intel's RAID 0 to work, and they installed on a 'PATA' drive and were only able to see

Re: How safe is Linux system

2003-07-03 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:10:39PM -0400, Vivek Kumar wrote: > Hi there, hi, > Cyber security organizations warned network administrators on Wednesday > about a Web site hacking contest that appeared to be scheduled to begin > on Sunday, July 6. > > Any thought on this as far as Linux systems a

Re: Boot floppies with XFS

2003-07-03 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Ghe Rivero [Thu, Jul 03 2003, 01:58:02PM]: > Hi! > I'm looking for some boot floppies that i found a lot of time ago that > allows you to install debian with XFS (SGi file system) anybody knows > where are they?¿ people.debian.org/~blade/XFS-Install -- Aber wofuer kann ich dann

Re: error installing Display Drivers

2003-07-03 Thread Abrasive
I downloaded the package: kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4_2.4.18-5woody1_i386.deb copied it over to /usr/src ran: dpkg -i kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4_2.4.18-5woody1_i386.deb Still no change in the problem with installing the drivers. Did I skip a step? Any help? Thanks At 11:11 PM 7/2/2003 +0200, And

Re: what is bf2.4, actually?

2003-07-03 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include > Could somebody please breifly explain to me what the bf2.4 variant on > the 2.4.18 kernel in Woody is all about? Not somebody, something. apt-cache show kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 > Why is it called bf2.4? Some people claimed it to be Big Fscking, but it means just Boot Floppy varia

Re: Boot floppies with XFS

2003-07-03 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 03 July 2003 03:58 am, Ghe Rivero wrote: > Hi! > I'm looking for some boot floppies that i found a lot of time ago that > allows you to install debian with XFS (SGi file system) anybody knows > where are they?¿ > > Ghe Rivero F

How safe is Linux system

2003-07-03 Thread Vivek Kumar
Hi there, Cyber security organizations warned network administrators on Wednesday about a Web site hacking contest that appeared to be scheduled to begin on Sunday, July 6. Any thought on this as far as Linux systems are concerned. What are the few things we should take care of ? -- V Kumar

sound support

2003-07-03 Thread james leclair
Hello all. My experience with debian has been great so far. When first started using, I had gotten my sound blaster isa sound card working without much probs. Now, since upgrading to a SB Audigy, I just cant seem to get it working. Does anyone know of a good site for tutorial/walkthrough to help

Re: what is bf2.4, actually?

2003-07-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:16:03AM -0400, Duane Winner wrote: > I'm relatively new to Debian, and have had pretty good success with it > so far, but am trying to become more knowledgable about it. > > Could somebody please breifly explain to me what the bf2.4 variant on > the 2.4.18 kernel in Wood

Re: what is bf2.4, actually?

2003-07-03 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:16:03AM -0400, Duane Winner wrote: > I'm relatively new to Debian, and have had pretty good success with it > so far, but am trying to become more knowledgable about it. > > Could somebody please breifly explain to me what the bf2.4 variant on > the 2.4.18 kernel in Wood

Network issue with WOODY

2003-07-03 Thread Robert Webb
Hi all, I tried searching the archives with no luck. I have a standard load of Debian running and am constantly having problems with the network not responding when trying to connect to the box. No matter waht I try to hit, smtp ssh web, it will not respond unless I try and re-connect many t

Please help out and visit WWW.DEBIANFORUMS.ORG

2003-07-03 Thread SpArTaK
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Woody+Bunk, Java plugin freezes Mozilla

2003-07-03 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hi, I have a weird problem with Woody (plus latest updates from Adrian Bunk, including Mozilla) and Java plugin in the Mozilla. I tried different Java suits: from java.sun.com (1.3.1, and 1.4.2), from Blackdown (1.3.1 from the Debian packages, 1.4.1 from tarball and from inofficial repacked DEBs),

Re: installing saxon

2003-07-03 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:02:53PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > The Saxon processor itself just comes as a set of Java libraries, I > believe. Ahhh, that makes sense. http://saxon.sourceforge.net/saxon6.5.2/samples.html It also seems like there are a few applications (in redhat RPMs) that are sax

ugly fonts in X apps (xclock & xbuffy)

2003-07-03 Thread nori heikkinen
suddenly, my fonts in X are all weird. gtk stuff is still fine, but xbuffy and xclock have been beaten with an ugly stick. i posted once on this about 10 months ago[1], and didn't receive an answer ... but i fixed it, and don't remember how i did it (this time i'll be sure to write it down!) a s

Re: Debian 2.1 Interface - GUI?

2003-07-03 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:04:21AM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > Is it a matter of using an earlier version, or just a matter of not > loading all sorts of things one doesn't need/want for a limited machine? Look at just window managers and not

Re: new debian box reboots itself?

2003-07-03 Thread i'll teach you to turn away .
Jake Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JJ> Maybe someone was playing a trick on your for leaving yourself logged JJ> in! (Not a very good practice) thanks for your non-help. i live alone & already stated the box is not on any network. lish [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

mantis security upgrade breaks user configuration

2003-07-03 Thread Alexander Meyer
hi all, i learned from the debian-security-announce mailinglist that mantis (a php bugtracking system) has insecure permissions on the configfile that stores the database password. so i did an 'apt-get update ;apt-get upgrade' and was quite surprised, as this upgrade didn't just fix permissions on

Re: what is bf2.4, actually?

2003-07-03 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 03 July 2003 16:02, Duane Winner wrote: > Sorry to be a pest, but what optimizations am I missing? Well, some processors can do stuff others can't. Basically, for Intel architectures, the smallest common set is the i386. This does not use any improvements made to the command set sinc

Re: Turn on DMA on boot

2003-07-03 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 03:50:52PM +0200, Mathias Gygax wrote: > > Long time linux user, recent Debian convert. I like it. I like it a lot. > > All my redhat servers are going the way of the dodo to be replaced by > > Debian, slowly but surely. > > > > Anyway: What would be the most "Debian" way

Re: Where does Mozilla get its list of printers?

2003-07-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-07-03T02:14:58Z, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AFAICT, mozilla uses the Xprint system. See the xprt-xprintorg package, > or xprint.mozdev.org. Basically, Xprint is like the X11 protocol > implemented for printers. Great. Yet another printing system to futz with. :-/ > The

Re: Debian 2.1 Interface - GUI?

2003-07-03 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 15:04, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > Is it a matter of using an earlier version, or just a matter of not > loading all sorts of things one doesn't need/want for a limited machine? > > After all, one of the differences between earlier and later distros is > better security and

Re: How to resize Pictures

2003-07-03 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Thursday 03 July 2003 16:32, Jake Johnson wrote: > Is pnm better (in speed or quality) over mogrify (imagemagick)? > Most likely it is slower, because three conversions have to be made instead of one: 1.) Convert to pnm 2.) resize 3.) Convert from resized pnm to desired format mogrify will wo

Re: How to resize Pictures

2003-07-03 Thread Jake Johnson
Is pnm better (in speed or quality) over mogrify (imagemagick)? Regards, Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best prices on Rims, Car Audio, and Performance Parts. On Thu, 3

Re: what is bf2.4, actually?

2003-07-03 Thread Duane Winner
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 09:45, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Thursday 03 July 2003 15:16, Duane Winner wrote: > > Could somebody please breifly explain to me what the bf2.4 variant on > > the 2.4.18 kernel in Woody is all about? > > The bf2.4 is a 2.4 kernel that's built for compatibility so it can be us

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