Re: New IDE drive dramatically slow system?

2003-07-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya daniel On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Daniel B. wrote: > Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > > > ... > > > > -- dont mix drives unless they are both ata-100 > > > > and both have 2MB disk buffers .. etc.etc.. > > > > > > > > c ya > > > > alvin > > > > >

Re: insmod fails SiS900; No MII transceivers found! (rewritten and reposted)

2003-07-22 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Tue Jul 22, 2003 at 11:51:07PM +0100, Tim wrote: > I cannot insmod sis900 with a 2.2.20 or 2.4.18 kernel on a friends desktop. Do you # insmod sis900 or do you # modprobe sis900 ? Please do the modprobe since it resolves module depencies. I think that sis900 depends on mii and it's not in

insmod fails SiS900; No MII transceivers found! (rewritten and reposted)

2003-07-22 Thread Tim
Hi folks, Thought that if I were to recompile this email it might be made into some sense by an helpful person out there. Sorry for being OT. If inappropriate, what list could you suggest I send to? The short problem: I cannot insmod sis900 with a 2.2.20 or 2.4.18 kernel on a friends desktop

Re: OT: Secure (?) way of displaying a popup window

2003-07-22 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi everybody. > > I have written a short perl script which reads the battery status of my > laptop out of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state, to be able to see how much > time I have left until I have to shutdown or running to the nect power > jack. I kn

Re: Copying a dvd movie

2003-07-22 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Jeff Wiegley, Ph.D. wrote: > I've spent four *days* trying to get SMTP-AUTH working > with pam and sendmail. Something that should darn well > be the default. Why should smtp-auth be the default? For non-mail server systems, the only reason a smtp daemon will be running is

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-22 Thread Alan Connor
In response to: From: John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roberto Sanchez wrote: >This Slashdot story >(http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/1516240&mode=thread&tid=130&tid=18 5&tid=187&tid=1

Re: New IDE drive dramatically slow system?

2003-07-22 Thread Daniel B.
Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > ... > > > -- dont mix drives unless they are both ata-100 > > > and both have 2MB disk buffers .. etc.etc.. > > > > > > c ya > > > alvin > > > > > > > I've never heard of matching buffers before. > > mixing w/ 8MB buffer

Re: iptables woes on woody, not accepting inbound connections

2003-07-22 Thread John Hedge
Have a look at Shorewall (http://www.shorewall.net). It's a lot easier than struggling directly with iptables and Tom Eastep is a great manager of his list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] John On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 13:30, Shaul Karl wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:56:48PM +0100, Mark C wrote: > >

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-22 Thread John Foster
Roberto Sanchez wrote: This Slashdot story (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/1516240&mode=thread&tid=130&tid=185&tid=187&tid=190&tid=88) references this Yahoo! story (http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030721/lam075_1.html) where they talk about this: "... it will offer UnixWare® licenses ta

Re: iptables woes on woody, not accepting inbound connections

2003-07-22 Thread Shaul Karl
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:56:48PM +0100, Mark C wrote: > > I decided to test iptables, using a very,very basic script below: > [ ... ] > This is driving my mad, can anyone possibly point me in the right > direction, as it seems there may be something debian specific that I'm > missing. >

Network speed

2003-07-22 Thread Dan Jones
Is there a straightforward way to determine what speed (10 or 100mbs) a NIC is running? How about to determine if it is in half or full duplex mode? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fetchmail with antispam still clogged

2003-07-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 08:45:13PM -0400, J F wrote: | | Repost, the first post didn't make it thru. | | # fetchmail -v | ... | fetchmail: SMTP< 250-VRFY | fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP The '<' lines are received by fetchmail from your MTA. This is just the tail end of the 'ehlo' response. | fetch

Re: Kernel image 2.6.0 test

2003-07-22 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 2:52 pm, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > On July 22, 2003 12:33 pm, Chris Anderson wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:37, Christopher Swingley wrote: > > > Leo, > > > > > > * Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Jul-22 07:42 AKDT]: > > > > Anyone have experience wrt the reliabi

Re: configuring DHCLIENT-2.2.x

2003-07-22 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Lars" == Lars Unin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> A network install is how I installed Debian in the first Lars> place, THAT WORKED. Its inside woody that it doesn't. The network install and Woody are the same thing, are they not? What do you mean by "inside woody"? Lars> I

ATI releases update Linux drivers for Xfree 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3

2003-07-22 Thread Nick Lidakis
I thought someone on the list might want to know that ATI released updated drivers for their Radeon Fire GL and consumer 8500 series and above video cards. The release notes are exactly the same as the previous version, but I thought I might give them a spin since Xv was a bit broken in the last

php4 and apache

2003-07-22 Thread svenpaci
There is some strange behaviour on woody if I install first the apache and afterwards the php4 module. It asks me to fi apache should configure the httpd.conf to add the php4 line. However, after pressing "y" the line even has an "#" in the beginning, which means, php4 isn't enabled. Maybe it's a f

New packages

2003-07-22 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, I've found a rather useful little app that doesn't appear to be in the distribution yet. How can I go about getting it in there? I have looked through the Debian policy page, but couldn't find what I was looking for. The other thing is that clearly it would need to go into unstable firs

Re: Kernel image 2.6.0 test

2003-07-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On July 22, 2003 06:13 pm, Marino Fernandez wrote: > On Tuesday 22 July 2003 2:52 pm, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > On July 22, 2003 12:33 pm, Chris Anderson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:37, Christopher Swingley wrote: > > > > Leo, > > > > > > > > * Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Jul

Re: iptables woes on woody, not accepting inbound connections

2003-07-22 Thread Mark C
Just to confirm, if I do not use state connections, and use static instead i.e: /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 22 \ --sport 1024:65535 -j ACCEPT /sbin/iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -o eth0 --sport 22 \ --dport 1024:65535 -j ACCEPT It works perfectly. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: X server won't start

2003-07-22 Thread David Z Maze
Steven Schlansker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Please configure your mailer to send only plain-text mail, not HTML.) > I'm trying to install Debian What version? > on a PC as a server for my school, and the administrator decided > that he

Re: nvidia graphics cards

2003-07-22 Thread gerard
you can try this package nvidia-kernel-src or do an apt-cache search and search for the right package. Also nvidia has all of the sources on their site, that might be the easiest way. ~gerard On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 20:25, James LeClair wrote: > Hello. I'm doing a reinstall on my system. Went to in

How to delete or reset Mozilla default printer

2003-07-22 Thread Ross Boylan
I'm running Debian testing with Mozilla 1.0. I installed and ran mozilla before I had my printing system setup. Probably because of this, it now lists a weird default printer. It also lists my regular printer, but I have to reset this every single page I print. How do I get it to see reason? I

Samba Password Expiration

2003-07-22 Thread Ian Melnick
Hi all, I recently upgraded to sarge, and now my samba passwords expire every couple of weeks (i think). I also think it's using this new password database. How do I turn off password expiration? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Difference between dhcp clients

2003-07-22 Thread Nicolas
Which of the dhcp client is the best for a router/firewall? dhcp-client, dhcp3-client, dhcpcd or udhcpc? Nic Cola -- Kettering's Observation: Logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Kernel 2.6.0test1 Mini-HOWTO

2003-07-22 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Monday 21 July 2003 11:31 pm, arief_mulya wrote: > Dear Marino, > > > Nice HOWTO. > > I like to know, if the change to fstab (sysfs and usbfs) will affect how > 2.4* kernel works? Have you tried that? Yes, I already changed fstabs and I do not have any problems using usb devices under 2.4.21..

Re: Kernel 2.6.0test1 Mini-HOWTO

2003-07-22 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Monday 21 July 2003 11:16 pm, Marino Fernandez wrote: Fixed: A) ALSA fixed... just forgot to compile supoort for my kernel. TODO: A) Enable USB support from startup... I guess adding usbcore and uhci-hcd to /et/modules will do... B) try ACPI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Kernel 2.6.0test1 Mini-HOWTO

2003-07-22 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 3:50 pm, Micha Feigin wrote: > The usbfs does matter if you also use usb file system on 2.4 since the > name has been changed from usbdevfs. There is back support for the old > name but I don't belive that forward support ;) I do not think so. I changed /etc/fstab like this

Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-22 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Michael D. Schleif (Tue 22 Jul 02003 at 05:43:37PM -0500): > Also sprach Gregory Seidman (Tue 22 Jul 02003 at 06:12:31PM -0400): > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 05:04:28PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > [...] > > } Eureka! > > } > > } This works: > > } > > } mutt.vt100.translations:

Re: Lexmark USB Printer

2003-07-22 Thread ghwb
Tinus Kotzé wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 03:15, ghwb wrote: Tinus Kotzé wrote: Good day I am setting up my first USB device. It is the Lexmark z25 printer. Under kprinter(add local printer) it is listed under the usb devices as a lexmark z25_z35 printer. Everything seems fine, accept that if I p

Re: can't configure authentication in exim

2003-07-22 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Francesc" == Francesc Oller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Francesc> Hi all! I'm trying to configure exim 3.35 as relying to Francesc> a outgoing smarthost which Francesc> client_send = ": francesc oller : my_passwd" I'm *guessing* that exim is being tripped up by the space in you

RE: Network speed

2003-07-22 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Have you tried using 'ethtool'? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -s ethtool Package: ethtool Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section: misc Installed-Size: 156 Maintainer: Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.7-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) Conflicts: sparc-utils (<< 1.9-1) Descriptio

iptables woes on woody, not accepting inbound connections

2003-07-22 Thread Mark C
Hi, I'm in the middle of trying to build a secure webserver, using stock woody (2.4.18-bf2.4), the box is completely updates from last night. I install just the base (never used deselect or taskselect) during the install, Once it was installed, I have installed: apache php4 ssh dnsutils lynx ip

Postfix

2003-07-22 Thread Mick Reichelt
Does anyone know of a postfix-pgsql package for woody? I can't seem to find one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: java vm plugin under mozilla/galeon?

2003-07-22 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > How do I enable the java vm plugin? > > I tried installing both suns jre1.4 and the debian packages of > balckdown's j2sdk, both of which claim to supply a java plugin but its > still doesn't seem to be recognised. > Plugin doesn't appear under mo

Re: Debian Installation- difficulties configuring system and installingpackages

2003-07-22 Thread Allasso
Thanks, I got my problem fixed. I installed another version of debootstrap (debootstrap_0.1.17.30_i386) and it seems to be going okay, though I haven't gotten it to boot yet. The version that didn't work was 0.1.17_i386 I am not sure if the one I am using now is the most stable version availab

java vm plugin under mozilla/galeon?

2003-07-22 Thread Micha Feigin
How do I enable the java vm plugin? I tried installing both suns jre1.4 and the debian packages of balckdown's j2sdk, both of which claim to supply a java plugin but its still doesn't seem to be recognised. Plugin doesn't appear under mozilla's installed plugin page under the help menu. Thanx -

Re: X server won't start

2003-07-22 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Steven Schlansker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I'm trying to install Debian on a PC as a server for my school, and the > administrator decided that he wanted a graphical interface, so I installed > XFree86 (X11R0 I think) > But, the server won't recognize the video card which is a built-in

Re: sed tutorial

2003-07-22 Thread Robin Gerard
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 04:42:37PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > Search on Google for 'sed tutorial' > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=sed+tutorial&; > btnG=Google+Search > > First link is not broken: > http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/unix/sed.html > Second

Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-22 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Gregory Seidman (Tue 22 Jul 02003 at 06:12:31PM -0400): > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 05:04:28PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > [...] > } Eureka! > } > } This works: > } > } mutt.vt100.translations: > } None: string(>>) \n\ > } None: string(<<) \n > } > } Why d

Re: Smaller margins in postscript documents.

2003-07-22 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:54:07 +0200 Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > I want to shrink the margins of postscript documents, thereby > enlarging the text to occupy a larger portion of each page. Any > suggestions? pstops, in the psutils package. Man is your friend. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyn

Re: nvidia graphics cards

2003-07-22 Thread Tom Stuart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 23 July 2003 01:25, James LeClair wrote: > Hello. I'm doing a reinstall on my system. Went to install my graphics card > and discovered that my unofficial source for nvidia debs wasn't available > anymore. Can anyone point me in the right

Re: corrupted dpkg?

2003-07-22 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 23:30:07 +0200, Kent West wrote: >> Use of uninitialized value in exists at >> /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 29, <> line 4. [...] > > I'm no expert, but what I'd try is to find the mozilla-xft.deb and > liblocal-gettextdeb files, perhaps in /var/cache/ap

Anyone setup Directfb?

2003-07-22 Thread Chris Anderson
Has anyone successfully setup directfb in debian? I'd be interested in knowing how if so. Thanks -Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-22 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 05:04:28PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: [...] } Eureka! } } This works: } } mutt.vt100.translations: } None: string(>>) \n\ } None: string(<<) \n } } Why does sequence of these two (2) mappings matter? That's just bizarre. You should need at le

X server won't start

2003-07-22 Thread Steven Schlansker
I'm trying to install Debian on a PC as a server for my school, and the administrator decided that he wanted a graphical interface, so I installed XFree86 (X11R0 I think) But, the server won't recognize the video card which is a built-in Savage 4 http://www.pcwave.com/prod-m925aluv71.html   I used

Re: corrupted dpkg?

2003-07-22 Thread Kent West
Sridhar Srinivasan wrote: Kent West wrote: I'm no expert, but what I'd try is to find the mozilla-xft.deb and liblocal-gettextdeb files, perhaps in /var/cache/apt/archives, and try installing them manually with "dpkg -i liblocdeb". I tried that for other files. Results in the following

Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-22 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Michael D. Schleif (Tue 22 Jul 02003 at 04:40:09PM -0500): > Also sprach Gregory Seidman (Tue 22 Jul 02003 at 05:07:38PM -0400): > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:01:43PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > [...] > > } Yes, I figured out the xrdb -load idiom; and, I also corrected my use

Re: Mozilla Very Very slow in rendering

2003-07-22 Thread MJM
On Thursday 17 July 2003 02:05, Christopher L. Everett wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 23:43, Christopher L. Everett wrote: > > > >Does top(1) indicate excess memory or CPU usage? > > When the problem is at its very worst mozilla is using 98+% of the CPU . > RAM footprint seem

Replying by email to the newsfeed [Was: Re: Linux Commands]

2003-07-22 Thread Anthony Rowe
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 07:00:21PM +0200, Alan Connor wrote: > > Tried to pipe the articles, with |, to mutt but it hasn't worked so far. I save articles I wish to keep or reply to (using 'o' in slrn) to the default file (probably ~/News/Linux.debian.user). Then browse this file using my MUA ('

Re: how to have a gpg public key?

2003-07-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:56:16PM -0700, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > What do you do when you switch systems? E.g. I heve done the key-gen > thing and all, but now I want to gen a new Debian Sarge from scratch. I don't understand what you mean by "gen a new Debian Sarge from scratch". Keys are indepe

Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-22 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Gregory Seidman (Tue 22 Jul 02003 at 05:07:38PM -0400): > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:01:43PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > [...] > } Yes, I figured out the xrdb -load idiom; and, I also corrected my use of > } -title to -name. > } > } Yet, it still does *not* work in pager ;< > }

Re: how to have a gpg public key?

2003-07-22 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > "Jeff Wiegley, Ph.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... >> 2nd: Louie, the answer to your question is: >> > > What do you do when you switch systems? E.g. I heve > done the key-gen thing and all, but now I want to gen > a new Debian Sarg

Re: corrupted dpkg?

2003-07-22 Thread Sridhar Srinivasan
Kent West wrote: Sridhar Srinivasan wrote: Hi, I was upgrading mozilla on my Debian unstable box when the power went and my box crashed. On rebooting, it turns out my filesystem was messed by and required manual fsck'ing. Now whenever I try to install/upgrade anything, my dpkg is complaining

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-22 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:20:58AM +, Jianan Huang wrote: > Hi folks, [Questions 1, 2 and 4 snipped] > 3) Font size of characters in text windows such as Bash, Xterm etc. are too > small. How to adjust them ? As far as an Xterm is concerned you could create (if it does not already exist) $

Re: corrupted dpkg?

2003-07-22 Thread Kent West
Sridhar Srinivasan wrote: Hi, I was upgrading mozilla on my Debian unstable box when the power went and my box crashed. On rebooting, it turns out my filesystem was messed by and required manual fsck'ing. Now whenever I try to install/upgrade anything, my dpkg is complaining about mozilla and

Re: nvidia graphics cards

2003-07-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, James LeClair wrote: > Hello. I'm doing a reinstall on my system. Went to install my graphics card > and discovered that my unofficial source for nvidia debs wasn't available > anymore. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I was under the > impression that th

Re: how to have a gpg public key?

2003-07-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
"Jeff Wiegley, Ph.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Bah dum ba... > > 1st: A problem with this list is its huge signal to noise ratio. > If you don't have an answer to give jokes are less than helpful. > > 2nd: Louie, the answer to your question is: > W

Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-22 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:01:43PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: [...] } Yes, I figured out the xrdb -load idiom; and, I also corrected my use of } -title to -name. } } Yet, it still does *not* work in pager ;< } } What else need I do? Hm. Does it work in the index? If you hit : and scroll th

Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-22 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Gregory Seidman (Tue 22 Jul 02003 at 04:39:52PM -0400): > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:23:45PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > [...] > } OK, I have created a standalone ~/.Xdefaults, including *only* your > } suggestion; and, I have added your two (2) bind's to ~/.muttrc. > } > } I am

nvidia graphics cards

2003-07-22 Thread James LeClair
Hello. I'm doing a reinstall on my system. Went to install my graphics card and discovered that my unofficial source for nvidia debs wasn't available anymore. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I was under the impression that there aren't nvidia sources available as debs in the offici

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
"Jianan Huang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Hi folks, > > This is my first mail from my first Linux installation. It means I have got > Debian GNU/Linux, X-Window and Mozilla all running. I feel good. There re > some fine tuning to be done. > 4) Is there

Re: Kernel 2.6.0test1 Mini-HOWTO

2003-07-22 Thread Micha Feigin
I am using 2.5.75 and am guessing that 2.6.0-test1 should be about the same. The sysfs doesn't hurt 2.4 kernels and is not actually needed. I am mounting it through automount, and even without it I only needed it for the cpufreq access. The sysfs gives access to the kernel data structures for users

Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-22 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:23:45PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: [...] } OK, I have created a standalone ~/.Xdefaults, including *only* your } suggestion; and, I have added your two (2) bind's to ~/.muttrc. } } I am not sure about xrdb; but, I did /etc/init.d/kdm restart -- is it } the same? I

Re: printer

2003-07-22 Thread Chris Anderson
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Have a windowsxp2003---cannot get Lexmark printer to print Perhaps try a windows list then -Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

corrupted dpkg?

2003-07-22 Thread Sridhar Srinivasan
Hi, I was upgrading mozilla on my Debian unstable box when the power went and my box crashed. On rebooting, it turns out my filesystem was messed by and required manual fsck'ing. Now whenever I try to install/upgrade anything, my dpkg is complaining about mozilla and doesn't let me do anything

Install problem

2003-07-22 Thread Philip Juels
Hi all, I'm attempting to install version 3.0r1 on an AlphaServer 800 via ftp and when I get to the Base installation it bombs out complaining it couldn't download the libpcre3 package. I'm booting off the rescue and root floppies. Help? Thanks, Philip Juels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-22 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Gregory Seidman (Tue 22 Jul 02003 at 03:38:18PM -0400): > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:16:04PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > [...] > } However, when I am reading long emails, it would really be nice to use > } the mouse wheel to scroll down the page, just as I do with webpages. > >

Re: Kernel image 2.6.0 test

2003-07-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On July 22, 2003 12:33 pm, Chris Anderson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:37, Christopher Swingley wrote: > > Leo, > > > > * Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Jul-22 07:42 AKDT]: > > > Anyone have experience wrt the reliability of this test kernel? > > > > I've been running 2.6.0-test1 (cu

Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-22 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:16:04PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: [...] } However, when I am reading long emails, it would really be nice to use } the mouse wheel to scroll down the page, just as I do with webpages. I actually read the mutt user list and saw the messages fly by on the topic toda

Re: Kernel image 2.6.0 test

2003-07-22 Thread Chris Anderson
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:37, Christopher Swingley wrote: > Leo, > > * Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Jul-22 07:42 AKDT]: > > Anyone have experience wrt the reliability of this test kernel? > > I've been running 2.6.0-test1 (custom compiled by me for my hardware) > for 8 days on my work

Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-22 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Michael D. Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Seems like such a simple little thing. > > Yes, I know that this is not really on-topic. > > However, when I am reading long emails, it would really be nice to use > the mouse wheel to scroll down the page, just as I do with webpages. mutt doesn'

Re: How to view FAX in M$ generated .FXO format

2003-07-22 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:23:48AM -0400, Lance Heller wrote: > > How can a FAX generated by a M$ product as a .FXO file be viewed. > Imagemagick, netpbm, and OpenOffice1.1 don't appear to handle it. You could run 'file whatever.fxo' and see whether it is encoded as a group 3 or group 4 fax file

mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-22 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Seems like such a simple little thing. Yes, I know that this is not really on-topic. However, when I am reading long emails, it would really be nice to use the mouse wheel to scroll down the page, just as I do with webpages. I'm running mutt in rxvt, if that matters. I asked this in mutt-users.

Re: Kernel image 2.6.0 test

2003-07-22 Thread Geordie Birch
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 08:42:38AM -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > If I install the 2.6.0 test kernel can it be added to grub just like > any other kernel image so I can boot back into my 2.4.20 kernel if it > turns out not to work? Yes. > Anyone have experience wrt the reliability of > this te

Re: Some shell's problem

2003-07-22 Thread David selby
James Ng Yuen Sum wrote: Hi, I am a chinese user. If i want to use xcin(one input chinese characters XIM server), I need to open a konsole and type the following command: export LANG=zh_TW.Big5 env|grep LC I have tried to add the above command in ~./bashrc and ~/.profile, but when i start kde aga

Re: OT: Secure (?) way of displaying a popup window

2003-07-22 Thread David selby
Joerg Johannes wrote: Hi everybody. I have written a short perl script which reads the battery status of my laptop out of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state, to be able to see how much time I have left until I have to shutdown or running to the nect power jack. I know there exists a kde applet whic

can't configure authentication in exim

2003-07-22 Thread Francesc Oller
Hi all! I'm trying to configure exim 3.35 as relying to a outgoing smarthost which uses PLAIN AUTH. Lines from /etc/exim/exim.conf (transport, router and client authentication respectively): #--- # This transport is used for delivering messages over SMTP connections. remote_smtp: d

Re: webmin-quota fails

2003-07-22 Thread Robert C. Mosher II
No, I didn't. Now that I have I first get the message 'Quotas inactive.' When I click on the link to 'Enbable Quotas' I get this error message. Failed to turn on quotas : quotaon: using /home/quota.group on /dev/hda8 [/home]: Invalid argument quotaon: Maybe create new quota files with quotacheck(8

printer

2003-07-22 Thread Bdhrt
Have a windowsxp2003---cannot get Lexmark printer to print

Re: Kernel image 2.6.0 test

2003-07-22 Thread Christopher Swingley
Leo, * Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Jul-22 07:42 AKDT]: > Anyone have experience wrt the reliability of this test kernel? I've been running 2.6.0-test1 (custom compiled by me for my hardware) for 8 days on my workstation. It does a fair amount of http / php / mysql stuff, as well a

Re: configuring DHCLIENT-2.2.x

2003-07-22 Thread Lars Unin
A network install is how I installed Debian in the first place, THAT WORKED. Its inside woody that it doesn't. I followed the full instructions at http://WWW.DEBIAN.ORG/releases/stable/i386/ ch-install-methods.en.html#s-boot-drive-files basically you download the disk images leave 'em o

OT: Secure (?) way of displaying a popup window

2003-07-22 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody. I have written a short perl script which reads the battery status of my laptop out of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state, to be able to see how much time I have left until I have to shutdown or running to the nect power jack. I know there exists a kde applet which does this job, but I

Re: webmin-quota fails

2003-07-22 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Robert C. Mosher II wrote: > I tried both the testing and unstable versions. Testing gives the exact > same error. Unstable gives this: > > HTTP/1.0 500 Perl execution failed Server: MiniServ/0.01 Date: Tue, 22 > Jul 2003 12:40:04 GMT Content-type: text/html Connection : clos

specifying geometry in GNOME

2003-07-22 Thread ScruLoose
Hi all, I'm trying to set up a couple of programs to be launched when I log in to Gnome. I'm running gnome 1.4 on woody. So I added Licq and gbuffy into Sessions -> Startup Programs in the Gnome control center, and they both start at login. Now, Licq remembers its window size and position, so w

Re: webmin-quota fails

2003-07-22 Thread Robert C. Mosher II
I tried both the testing and unstable versions. Testing gives the exact same error. Unstable gives this: HTTP/1.0 500 Perl execution failed Server: MiniServ/0.01 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 12:40:04 GMT Content-type: text/html Connection : close Error - Perl execution failed Undefined subroutine &mou

Re: Linux Commands

2003-07-22 Thread Alan Connor
In response to: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: Re: Linux commands Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux.debian.user, you wrote: >> >> Alan, I think you posted this to the newsfeed only, so people on the >> debian-user mailing list would never see it (at least it isn

Re: Graphic boot...

2003-07-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.22.1530 +0200]: > How could I set lilo (or the kernel?) to have that penguin at boot > time? Configure the kernel to use a console framebuffer. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROT

Kernel image 2.6.0 test

2003-07-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Hi, I was just wondering if it is considered fairly safe to install the new kernel-image-2.6.0-test1-1-386 package in unstable.. I'd really like to help test the new kernel but I don't really have the time to rebuild my system if it screws up. If I install the 2.6.0 test kernel can it be adde

Re: Problem with apt

2003-07-22 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
> I am using debian, linux kernel 2.4.21, unstable. > I recently updated my system applications and have developed a problem > with all the applications that use debconf because debconf won't > configure. The debconf version is 1.3.4. The other applications are > dependent on this. If I try to r

How to view FAX in M$ generated .FXO format

2003-07-22 Thread Lance Heller
How can a FAX generated by a M$ product as a .FXO file be viewed. Imagemagick, netpbm, and OpenOffice1.1 don't appear to handle it. TIA Lance -- Lance Heller | ATD Software Engineer |

Re: Problem with apt

2003-07-22 Thread Michael Ward Cole
I am using debian, linux kernel 2.4.21, unstable. I recently updated my system applications and have developed a problem with all the applications that use debconf because debconf won't configure. The debconf version is 1.3.4. The other applications are dependent on this. If I try to remove debc

Re: mouse pointer does not show

2003-07-22 Thread Charles-Roberts
Marvin Aguero wrote: OK Guys, My mouse is finally working thanks to Hurbert Chan who gave me trick that made the difference. All I had to do was to include the SWCursor option in the XFConfig86-4 in the section for the video card. My thanks are extensive to all of you who replied to my message.

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-22 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 08:26:49AM -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: > > I guess I'll be going back to 2.2 until this nonsense blows > oversigh. For a business, I'd just check to be sure that 2.2 will be okay for your needs. But I wouldn't step back to 2.2 until SCO actually makes the claims publi

Re: SMTP AUTH with Postfix and SASL

2003-07-22 Thread Harley Peters
Jan Tammen wrote: Bonjour. I am trying to setup SMTP AUTH with Postfix and SASL on Debian unstable. So far I got these packages installed: postfix 2.0.13-1 postfix-tls 2.0.13-1 libsasl2 2.1.12-1 libsasl2-dev 2.1.12-1 libsasl2-modules 2.1.12-1 sasl2-bin2.1.12-1

Re: strange ifconfig output

2003-07-22 Thread Nicolas
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 00:16, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 12:20, Nicolas wrote: > > I have a working ethernet card on a router with strange output. It has > > no TX paquets and a lots of errors. I tried to change the NIC ant PCI > > socket. I event switch the two interfaces (eth0

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-22 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030722] Jianan Huang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 2) I have to open a Bash window to 'pon' before entering Mozilla and leave > Mozilla to do a 'poff'. Can these be done from within Mozilla? Do : $ zcat /usr/share/doc/ppp/README.Debian.gz | more and find the lines

Re: SSL

2003-07-22 Thread David Z Maze
Francisco Castellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Please configure your mailer to send only plain text, not HTML.) > I am wanting to be able to use SSL on my current apache installation > (version 1.3.26). However I was doing some reading on

Re: Loading drm

2003-07-22 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 03:30:09 +0200, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: >> The minus sign doesn't mean "not installed". It means "not loaded". >> Anyway, agp_try_unsupported isn't a silver bullet. If there's a working >> patch as Roberto described, then use that. > > Do I 'have' to have a 2.4.2x kernel to a

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-22 Thread John Hasler
Kent West writes: > Sounds like what you want is an autodialer. Not having to use dial-up > anymore (Yea! for cable modems! Woot!), I'm not familiar with them, but > the command "apt-cache search dial|more" turned up "diald" which looks > like it might be what you want. He just needs to run pppcon

Re: /proc/partitions does not match /dev

2003-07-22 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian P. Flaherty) writes: > Today I built my own kernel 2.4.21 and when I run lilo, I get the > following message: > > Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure. >Name change: '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disk' -> '/dev/hda' >The kenrel

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