what non-free packages do I have installed?

2003-07-26 Thread Dan Jacobson
What is the command to see how much non-free software I have installed? I.e. those with Section: non-free... in Packages.gz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie question on partitioning (primary/logical drive ?)

2003-07-26 Thread Andrew McGuinness
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ThinKer wrote: | Hello all, | [...] | I am currently trying to install Debian as my fourth Linux | distribution. I have used Mandrake, Redhat and SuSE in the past and I | wanted a more challengeing installation so that I might learn more about | Linux.

Re: Newbie question on partitioning (primary/logical drive ?)

2003-07-26 Thread ThinKer
Thanks to input from Kent and Bret, I have decided to do the following ... /200 MB /dev/hda1 primary /usr 2500MB /dev/hda2 primary /var 500MB /dev/hda3 primary /tmp 100MB /dev/hda4 primary swap /dev/hdc1 1.2GB primary /home /dev/hdd1 4.1GB primary Questions... 1. When I delete the drive a

Re: Newbie question on partitioning (primary/logical drive ?)

2003-07-26 Thread Rthoreau
ThinKer softly asked, > So I am sitting here looking at the screen (cfdisk 2.11n) and it is > asking me to select a drive to partition with the list of > /dev/hda > /dev/hdc > and > /dev/hdd. Debian can be confusing if you really do not have much experience with partitioning. I would suggest y

Re: Newbie question on partitioning (primary/logical drive ?)

2003-07-26 Thread Kent West
ThinKer wrote: What do I do with the rest of the space on the 1.2 GB drive? Someone suggested that I use the entire drive as swap space as doing that would speed up the system tremendously. Does this make sense? If not the enitre drive, how much would be the max? Sorry; neglected to answer your ot

Re: Newbie question on partitioning (primary/logical drive ?)

2003-07-26 Thread Kent West
ThinKer wrote: Thanks for the information, but I do have a question about your suggested partitioning. On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 23:48, Kent West wrote: Everybody has their own ideas of how best to partition. I would probably do the following: / 200 MB /dev/hda1 primary /usr 2500MB /dev/hda2 lo

Re: RedHat more debian like?

2003-07-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 12:19, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 01:32, Paul Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:20:11PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Since there's still only(?) GPL s/w in RH9, and they give it away > > >

Re: Newbie question on partitioning (primary/logical drive ?)

2003-07-26 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 22:46, ThinKer wrote: > Primary IDE Master: 4.1 GB > Primary IDE Slave: 1.2 GB > Secondary IDE Slave: 4.1 GB > /dev/hda <= primary master > /dev/hdc <= secondary master > and > /dev/hdd. <= secondary slave Primary slave is /dev/hdb. At least as I understand it. Are you

Re: Newbie question on partitioning (primary/logical drive ?)

2003-07-26 Thread ThinKer
Thanks for the information, but I do have a question about your suggested partitioning. On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 23:48, Kent West wrote: > > > Everybody has their own ideas of how best to partition. I would probably > do the following: > > / 200 MB /dev/hda1 primary > /usr 2500MB /dev/hda2 logic

Audacity sound problems

2003-07-26 Thread Brian P.D. Smyth
I can play sound files in XMMS, noatun mplayer, etc. but Audacity 1.0.1 won't let me select /dev/dsp as the playback device. The preference dialog gives me an error message "Invalid playback device". I have seen threads on this problem in the list archives of several sites but no one seems to h

Re: Newbie question on partitioning (primary/logical drive ?)

2003-07-26 Thread Kent West
ThinKer wrote: How should I allocate this space? I deleted one of the drives and selected 'NEW'. Then it asks me [Primary] [Logical] [Cancel] , so I selected 'Primary'. Gave it the full size and now I have no idea what to do. I am not really sure what I just did. Oh yeah; I meant to mention. I

Re: Newbie question on partitioning (primary/logical drive ?)

2003-07-26 Thread Kent West
ThinKer wrote: Primary IDE Master: 4.1 GB <-- This is /dev/hda Primary IDE Slave: 1.2 GB<-- This is /dev/hdb Secondary IDE Slave: 4.1 GB <-- This is /dev/hdd So I am sitting here looking at the screen (cfdisk 2.11n) and it is asking me to select a drive to partition with the list of /dev/

Re: bash: finding if mozilla is running

2003-07-26 Thread K S Sreeram
> This might help in the future, Seneca: > > ps a | grep slrn | grep -v grep > 863 pts/3S 0:00 slrn > > There's always the 'pgrep' command just do: pgrep slrn -ks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-26 Thread Jianan Huang
Hi folks, I would like to thank those who have replied to this thread and update you folks on how the various suggestions have helped. 1) Xwrapper.config has been fixed by reconfiguring xfree86-common. The interesting thing is that eventhough I specifed a 'nice' value of -10, the xdm log warned

Newbie question on partitioning (primary/logical drive ?)

2003-07-26 Thread ThinKer
Hello all, I am in need of some Newbie help. If this is the wrong list, can someone please tell me the correct list on which to post these questions. (BTW - I've read the installation manual on this a couple of times and now I am even more confused than before I read it.) I am currently trying

Re: WindowMaker 'applications' menu SNAFU ...

2003-07-26 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 10:07:55 +1000 Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for the WWII jargon but I've installed some themes into > > ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes > > but the 'applications' menu does not show any. In fact it has not been > working at all in this WM installation,

Re: newibie question?

2003-07-26 Thread John Hasler
CHI writes: > ii have used redhat two years. By default, when i type useradd , it will > create thier home directory, how does debian do that? The same way. You can also use adduser, which is slightly friendlier. man adduser -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmw

Apache:mod_ssl:Error: Private key not found.

2003-07-26 Thread Francisco Castellon
Hello list: I just finished the installation of libapache-mod-ssl and everything seems to have gone ok until I configured httpd.conf to recognize mod_ssl. I tried to stop and start apache as the mod_ssl "readme" documentation says to do at the end of the configuration, but when I try to start apac

newibie question?

2003-07-26 Thread CHI
ii have used redhat two years. By default, when i type useradd , it will create thier home directory, how does debian do that? edit the adduser.conf? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Patch to add resolution information to iscan

2003-07-26 Thread Ross Boylan
[OK, this time with the patch!] On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 03:42:59PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I have attached a patch so that iscan, scanning software for Epson > scanners from Epson Kowa, will record the scanning resolution when > saving .png files. Without this, some programs (e.g., hylafax) ha

Re: automount permissions problem

2003-07-26 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sun, July 27 at 12:51 AM EDT Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Shawn Lamson wrote: > >> On Sat, July 26 at 5:49 PM EDT >> Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[AutoFS problem] > >> I don't use automount but to get proper permissions for my vfat fs's >i> use this type or entry i

Defective Gnumeric cursor

2003-07-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi, Just started up Gnumeric (version from unstable: 1.1.19-1) for the first time in a while. The Gnumeric cursor, the one that looks like a cross, appears to be deformed. This isn't a problem with the app itself, because upon installing the gnumeric1.0 package instead (which is based on GTK+

Re: 2.6.0-test1 PCMCIA requires two insertions

2003-07-26 Thread Christopher Swingley
Marino, * Marino Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Jul-25 14:32 AKDT]: > > In short, to make PCMCIA devices work, it appears I need to insert > > them twice. The second time it recognizes them and works it's > > magic. > > > Why you don't do lsmod when it does not work and then lsmod when it

Re Request for Hardware Compatability Resources!

2003-07-26 Thread Rthoreau
> ASUS A7S333-WA with a 1800+ V.S. ASUS A7V8X-X something faster. > These motherboards alone are priced around $100.00 Canadian, > my spending limit. > How would you compare these two for use with Debian. I have searched > the > archives using google, with the keywords debian and "model-#". > The

Re: GNOME broken in Sarge?

2003-07-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 02:33:15PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I just upgraded from Woody to Sarge. > > I boot to a command line and use startx to run X. I have been running > Gnome, but, since the upgrade, startx is now loading KDE. If I try to > run gnome-session to run Gnome I get the foll

evolution hack tip on reply-to-list

2003-07-26 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi evo-deb-ML reader, dont know if you were looking for this but I thought it might be a useful tip. I was looking for it and found it very useful. the tip came from http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01995.html to add a keyboard shortup (control-l) to 'reply to list'. /usr/share/evol

Re: DISK BOOT FAILURE

2003-07-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 19:13, Debian User wrote: > after bios, i think lilo is not ever run. the bios displays the system > configuration then the error message: > > DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER > > my boot sequence is A,C. IIRC the machine is not seeing the drives proper

Re: Can't enable DMA

2003-07-26 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Shyamal Prasad wrote: "Andrew" == Andrew McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> If you look at the pci_ids.h for 2.4.18, you can see that Andrew> there is an id for the VT8233, which it seems you have Andrew> with the KT266, but not for the VT8235, which Aaron has Andre

Re: Request for Hardware Compatability Resources.

2003-07-26 Thread Andrew McGuinness
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Hunt wrote: | I have been looking for resources to evaluate two motherboards, | for my main system, where stable is the main feature / requirement, | and quality audio output next, performance / cutting edge features | are a distant third. | | ASUS

Re: DISK BOOT FAILURE

2003-07-26 Thread Debian User
i have with no success. fdisk /dev/hdc1 does not see the device. i think there may be two problems ... the boot on /dev/hda and not seeing the second drive /dev/hdc >> when i try to mount to the /dev/hdc drive, >have you tried to mount them by hand? > >The list needs info! Specific error me

Re: DISK BOOT FAILURE

2003-07-26 Thread Debian User
after bios, i think lilo is not ever run. the bios displays the system configuration then the error message: DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER my boot sequence is A,C. the boot floopy i am using is 2.2.20. the machine was booting 2.4. 18 ... for months before this problem o

Re: automount permissions problem

2003-07-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Sat, July 26 at 5:49 PM EDT > Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [AutoFS problem] > I don't use automount but to get proper permissions for my vfat fs's i > use this type or entry in fstab > /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win98 vfatdefaults,gid=6,umas

Re: DISK BOOT FAILURE

2003-07-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 17:51, Debian User wrote: > i am unable to boot from /dev/hda. What error? Lilo error? > i have a boot disk and that worked. I saw from below -- which kernel does it boot? Lilo, grub? have you tried re-lilo-ing? > i am trying to figure out why i cannot boot from the hard dri

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

2003-07-26 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hiyall & Nick & Paul, who typed Nick Lidakis wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 01:28:10PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: Check out the release notes for the driver. They provide specific instructions on how to get the RPM install

Patch to add resolution information to iscan

2003-07-26 Thread Ross Boylan
I have attached a patch so that iscan, scanning software for Epson scanners from Epson Kowa, will record the scanning resolution when saving .png files. Without this, some programs (e.g., hylafax) have to assume a resolution, and can be terribly wrong. (I was inspired to do this because only the

DISK BOOT FAILURE

2003-07-26 Thread Debian User
i am unable to boot from /dev/hda. i have a boot disk and that worked. i am trying to figure out why i cannot boot from the hard drive. i have compaired this to a machine that boots but i cannot figure out what is wrong. help!! my root filesystem looks like: server:/# ls backuphda1 bin de

Re: reiser kernel support?

2003-07-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"hashi" == hashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: hashi> I was informed that hashi> mount: fs type reiser not supported by kernel hashi> Now I presume that this means that I have failed to install hashi> reiser support for the kernel -- but mkreiserfs did not hashi> seem

Re: 'Non-empty' directory deletion.

2003-07-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 27 July 2003 01:01, Adam Bogacki wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to delete > > /home/adam/.enlightenment/themes/FossilsOfTheMachines > > but I can't get 'rmdir' to work on a full directory. Neither > > rmdir -r [filename] > rmdir s [filename] /or/ > rmdir --ignore-non-empty-directory [filename] >

Re: SUCCESS compiling iscan

2003-07-26 Thread Ross Boylan
Epson Kowa released a 1.5.2 version of their iscan scanner software compiled with gcc 3.2 recently (it has some binaries that aren't free, and source that is). I had some trouble getting it to work, but just solved the last problem. Note also that libgtk1.2-dev is required. Here's a copy of my m

WindowMaker 'applications' menu SNAFU ...

2003-07-26 Thread Adam Bogacki
Sorry for the WWII jargon but I've installed some themes into ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes but the 'applications' menu does not show any. In fact it has not been working at all in this WM installation, but has not troubled me until now. Any ideas out there ? Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Can't enable DMA

2003-07-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Andrew" == Andrew McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> If you look at the pci_ids.h for 2.4.18, you can see that Andrew> there is an id for the VT8233, which it seems you have Andrew> with the KT266, but not for the VT8235, which Aaron has Andrew> with is KT266A and

Re: automount permissions problem

2003-07-26 Thread Neal Lippman
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 18:06, Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Sat, July 26 at 5:49 PM EDT > Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I don't use automount but to get proper permissions for my vfat fs's i > use this type or entry in fstab > /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win98 vfatdefault

'Non-empty' directory deletion.

2003-07-26 Thread Adam Bogacki
Hi, I'm trying to delete /home/adam/.enlightenment/themes/FossilsOfTheMachines but I can't get 'rmdir' to work on a full directory. Neither rmdir -r [filename] rmdir s [filename] /or/ rmdir --ignore-non-empty-directory [filename] ... work. What am I missing here ? Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: reiser kernel support?

2003-07-26 Thread eamon-roque
Hi, [aggregious snip] > Just what *do* I have to install to get the > necessarykernel support? 'mkreiserfs' doesn't require kernel support for the file system type, you're not 'working' with it, just creating it. You need to load the module for reiserfs to mount the file system. With 'modconf' y

Re: automount permissions problem

2003-07-26 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sat, July 26 at 5:49 PM EDT Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Here's my problem, maybe someone can help. I have a usb media reader >than handles smartmedia, compact flash, etc. It works fine in the sense >of being able to put media into it and mount the media, using the >usb-storage mod

Re: Toolchain to run 2.6 kernel?

2003-07-26 Thread eamon-roque
Hi! You could just pick up the newest version of module-init-tools from ftp.kernel.org, the address is listed in the "Changes" text that comes with the kernel source... HTH Eamon Roque. Thus spake Viktor Rosenfeld: > Since the module code has changed (once again) in 2.6, I guess I need > new uti

Re: reiser kernel support?

2003-07-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [making reiserfs partition] > mount: fs type reiser not supported by kernel > > Now I presume that this means that I have failed to install reiser > support for the kernel -- but mkreiserfs did not seem to have any > relevand > dependencies. Just what *do* I have

Re: reiser kernel support?

2003-07-26 Thread Seneca
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 05:29:36PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > mount: fs type reiser not supported by kernel > > Now I presume that this means that I have failed to install reiser support > for the kernel -- but mkreiserfs did not seem to have any relevand > dependencies. Just what *d

Re: OT: Four leads = 10Mbit? (was: Network speed)

2003-07-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 24 July 2003 16:00, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:50:48AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > >If it's running at 10Mbit, it will never be full duplex. If you're > > >running at 100, then it could be full or half. If your network > > >cables only have four l

automount permissions problem

2003-07-26 Thread Neal Lippman
Here's my problem, maybe someone can help. I have a usb media reader than handles smartmedia, compact flash, etc. It works fine in the sense of being able to put media into it and mount the media, using the usb-storage module, and copy files off the media. The devices look like scsi disk drives, as

Re: sound configuration in Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Richard Lyons
Thanks guys. Andreas, Greg, and Paul: all your advice was good. Added the module and all is sunshine! -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

reiser kernel support?

2003-07-26 Thread hashi
I just installed the woody version of reiserfsprogs onto my woody system. Afterward, mkreiserfs /devhdc1 seemed to have created the file system OK (but suspiciously quickly for a 120G partition), but when I tried to mount it I was informed that mount: fs type reiser not supported

Re: ls in color

2003-07-26 Thread Robin Gerard
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 06:59:14PM +0800, Johnny wrote: > As of what I saw in slackware, ls is capable of displaying itz results in > color. But up till what I have seen in debian, the ls in debian seems to be > black and white. Can anyone tell me how to turn the color option on? btw > ls --color=

Re: dpkg/apt-get Broken

2003-07-26 Thread Wim De Smet
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:52:46 -0700 (PDT) Steven Schlansker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having trouble configuring packages. When they are installed, it > skips the configuration. When I run dpkg-reconfigure, it returns > immediately. What should I do about this? Thanks. > Steven Schlansker

Request for Hardware Compatability Resources.

2003-07-26 Thread Dan Hunt
I have been looking for resources to evaluate two motherboards, for my main system, where stable is the main feature / requirement, and quality audio output next, performance / cutting edge features are a distant third. ASUS A7S333-WA with a 1800+ V.S. ASUS A7V8X-X something faster. These mother

Re: sound configuration in Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 26 July 2003 09:23 am, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Saturday 26 July 2003 13:57, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > [...] > > > # adduser fred audio > > I was hoping this was my problem too, but no. Mine is not a > soundblaster, it is woody on a thin

Re: RedHat more debian like?

2003-07-26 Thread Andrew J. Montalenti
> I know Libranet sells a debian-based distro and has paid support. I dont > know anything about them. Does anyone else have a opinion of them? > -Kev Kevin, I run Libranet 2.8. I am happy with my purchase. Their distro is fully compatible with official Debian repositories, and is based on test

Re: sqwebmail vs. squirrelmail

2003-07-26 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 03:18, Johnny wrote: > I've been looking at sqwebmail and squirrelmail as possible candidates for > setting up our webmail interface on top of qmail. Does anyone have a > recommendation one way or the other? (preferably with some reasons why) sqwebmail. performance. sqwebma

Re: PDF viewing and such

2003-07-26 Thread Nathan Poznick
> > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:12:46PM -0400, Aaron wrote: > > > I am wondering what everyone here uses to view PDF files in Linux > > > these days? I do use text2pdf for instances where I only care about > > > the textual content, but copying the PDF to OS X or Windows to view it > > > in Reader i

Re: Wanted to build: bare minimum Debian system

2003-07-26 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-07-26T19:03:09Z, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 15:55, Kirk Strauser wrote: >> *Thin* client. As in, *no* clients running locally. > mozilla takes about 24M with nothing loaded and evolution somewhere around > 22M. For clarity's sake, *no* clients will

Re: PDF viewing and such

2003-07-26 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 the mental interface of Paul Johnson told: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:12:46PM -0400, Aaron wrote: > > I am wondering what everyone here uses to view PDF files in Linux > > these days? I do use text2pdf for instances where I only care about > > the textual content, but copyin

Re: Wanted to build: bare minimum Debian system

2003-07-26 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 15:55, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-07-25T03:16:19Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hope you've got 192MB swap (16x RAM). > > Actually, I have 512MB swap (the drive was migrated from a Webplayer that > I'd hacked). > > > Imagine how fast that, say, "apt-get

GNOME broken in Sarge?

2003-07-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
I just upgraded from Woody to Sarge. I boot to a command line and use startx to run X. I have been running Gnome, but, since the upgrade, startx is now loading KDE. If I try to run gnome-session to run Gnome I get the following error: (gnome-session:535): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display

emacs segmentation faults

2003-07-26 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hi, I just installed emacs on a woody system. When I do a little bit of editing it crashes with: Fatal error (11).Segmentation fault How can I get more information to see what the problem is? Rudy -- Rudy Gevaert[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web pagehttp://www.webworm

Re: sound configuration in Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Paul Dersey
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 06:23:56PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Saturday 26 July 2003 13:57, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > [...] > > # adduser fred audio > > I was hoping this was my problem too, but no. Mine is not a > soundblaster, it is woody on a thinkpad570, which I believe has a > Cirrus

Re: sound configuration in Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Richard Lyons wrote: > On Saturday 26 July 2003 13:57, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > [...] >> # adduser fred audio > > I was hoping this was my problem too, but no. Mine is not a > soundblaster, it is woody on a thinkpad570, which I believe has a > Cirrus Logic CS 4614 Chip (but I don't know

Re: on-screen keyboard

2003-07-26 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Jianan Huang wrote: > I need a on-screen keyboard. I have used a very good one called > Click-and-Type, a free software but only runs on MS-Window. I have not been > able to find one in Debian Packages. Does any know of a good one for Linux? Looking through apt-cache, I fin

Re: sound configuration in Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 26 July 2003 13:57, Andrew McGuinness wrote: [...] > # adduser fred audio I was hoping this was my problem too, but no. Mine is not a soundblaster, it is woody on a thinkpad570, which I believe has a Cirrus Logic CS 4614 Chip (but I don't know as it's second user kit with no docume

Re: RedHat more debian like?

2003-07-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 01:32, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:20:11PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Since there's still only(?) GPL s/w in RH9, and they give it away > > for free from FTP, why complain? > > Mostly because their d

Re: Adding ipchains to kernel

2003-07-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Steven wrote: > On Saturday, July 26, 2003, at 09:06 AM, Andreas Janssen wrote: >> Steven wrote: >>> I'm recompiling my kernel - I forgot to add ipchains support last >>> time. >>> The problem is that ipchains isn't listed in the menuconfig stuff. >>> Where do I build it in? I also se

Re: Adding ipchains to kernel

2003-07-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Steven ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030726 09:44]: > > On Saturday, July 26, 2003, at 09:06 AM, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > >Hello > > > >Steven wrote: > > > >>I'm recompiling my kernel - I forgot to add ipchains support last > >>time. > >> The problem is that ipchains isn't listed in the menuconfig

Re: PDF viewing and such

2003-07-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Brian Gonzales wrote: >> There are several packages available to view PDF documents, among them >> xpdf, gs, kghostview and Adobe's Acrobat Reader. The last one is not >> available as an official package, but there is a package available from >> marillat.free.fr. Add >> >> deb http://maril

Re: PDF viewing and such

2003-07-26 Thread Brian Gonzales
> What's the package's name? > > Thanks. > Duh, sorry... acroread. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PDF viewing and such

2003-07-26 Thread Brian Gonzales
> There are several packages available to view PDF documents, among them > xpdf, gs, kghostview and Adobe's Acrobat Reader. The last one is not > available as an official package, but there is a package available from > marillat.free.fr. Add > > deb http://marillat.free.fr stable main > What's

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

2003-07-26 Thread Nick Lidakis
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 01:28:10PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: Check out the release notes for the driver. They provide specific instructions on how to get the RPM install with Debian. I got it going ina few minutes using alien

Re: Adding ipchains to kernel

2003-07-26 Thread Steven
On Saturday, July 26, 2003, at 09:06 AM, Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Steven wrote: I'm recompiling my kernel - I forgot to add ipchains support last time. The problem is that ipchains isn't listed in the menuconfig stuff. Where do I build it in? I also searched .config for ipchains, but it

Re: Hercules 9800 Pro and XFree under unstable.

2003-07-26 Thread Nick Lidakis
Rus Hughes wrote: Sorry for not replying sooner but I've only just now had time to try it out. I did exactly as you said, although they updated the driver on the site to: Driver Version X4.2.0-2.9.13 on July 22 (I also downgraded to the 2.4.21 kernel) and the fglrx module compiled and installed pe

Re: Toolchain to run 2.6 kernel?

2003-07-26 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Viktor Rosenfeld: > Since the module code has changed (once again) in 2.6, I guess I need > new utils to accompany the new kernel. Is that in unstable already? module-init-tools -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Buying on trust is the way to pay double. - Anonymous pgp0.p

Toolchain to run 2.6 kernel?

2003-07-26 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, I build a 2.6.0-test1 kernel recently and, sure enough, it booted right the first time. One thing that's not working though is module support. Eg `lsmod` gives me some obscure error "QT_Module not supported" or something like that. Since the module code has changed (once again) in 2.6, I gue

Re: Adding ipchains to kernel

2003-07-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Steven wrote: > I'm recompiling my kernel - I forgot to add ipchains support last time. > The problem is that ipchains isn't listed in the menuconfig stuff. > Where do I build it in? I also searched .config for ipchains, but it > wasn't found. Thanks for any help. > Steven What kernel

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-26 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 16:30:14 +0200, Darin Strait wrote: > I have a simple Gateway consumer-grade machine with an i810e motherboard, > 866MHz/128MB/120MB ide. I am running 2.4.21-2-686. Using grub to boot my old > 2.4.20 does not help. > > I had left the machine running for a few weeks, when I ne

Re: Cannot connect to http://localhost:631

2003-07-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello J. Zidar wrote: > I have a HP Deskjet 656C printer that I would like to set up using CUPS, > but when I try to connect to http://localhost:631 Mozilla complains > about not being able to connect to that server.Running the command > cupsdconf as root gives the error: > Unable to retrieve con

Re: Can't enable DMA

2003-07-26 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Andrew" == Andrew McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Andrew> Aaron wrote: > >> > >> I've been having this same problem, but apparently my VIA > >> version doesn't match 82CXXX, so I'm completely dead in the > >> water for DMA (I know, VIA is

Re: bash: finding if mozilla is running

2003-07-26 Thread Greg Norris
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 07:36:47AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > This might help in the future, Seneca: > > ps a | grep slrn | grep -v grep > 863 pts/3S 0:00 slrn You can cut out an unnecessary process (not that it's likely to be a big deal these days) with: ps a | grep "[s]lrn" -

Adding ipchains to kernel

2003-07-26 Thread Steven
I'm recompiling my kernel - I forgot to add ipchains support last time. The problem is that ipchains isn't listed in the menuconfig stuff. Where do I build it in? I also searched .config for ipchains, but it wasn't found. Thanks for any help. Steven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Pilot sync software that can install to VFS

2003-07-26 Thread Kirk Strauser
I use Kpilot to sync my m130 over USB, and it works great. However, I *really* need the ability to install files directly to VFS, instead of installing them to RAM and manually copying them over. For example, certain doc viewers are perfectly capable of reading 20MB files, but it's simply not pos

Cannot connect to http://localhost:631

2003-07-26 Thread J. Zidar
I have a HP Deskjet 656C printer that I would like to set up using CUPS, but when I try to connect to http://localhost:631 Mozilla complains about not being able to connect to that server.Running the command cupsdconf as root gives the error: Unable to retrieve configuration file from the CUPS ser

Re: bash: finding if mozilla is running

2003-07-26 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jul 26 07:35:08 2003 > > > > > On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:22:53AM +0100, David selby wrote: > > Writting a small script to make mozilla show the results of HTML code=20 > > written in vi, when vi saves, the script automaticly changes mozilla to= > =20 > > show that

Re: Can't enable DMA

2003-07-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Andrew" == Andrew McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> Aaron wrote: >> >> I've been having this same problem, but apparently my VIA >> version doesn't match 82CXXX, so I'm completely dead in the >> water for DMA (I know, VIA is bad). I want to buy a PCI IDE

Re: bash: finding if mozilla is running

2003-07-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"David" == David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> PS what is this Galleon thing ? That's any easy question to answer ;-) $ dpkg -p galeon Package: galeon Priority: optional [...deleted.] Description: Mozilla based web browser with GNOME look and feel Galeon is a fast Web Br

Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-26 Thread Darin Strait
I have a simple Gateway consumer-grade machine with an i810e motherboard, 866MHz/128MB/120MB ide. I am running 2.4.21-2-686. Using grub to boot my old 2.4.20 does not help. I had left the machine running for a few weeks, when I needed to shut it down. After rebooting, my USB mouse is frozen upo

Re: bash: finding if mozilla is running

2003-07-26 Thread David selby
David selby wrote: Hello, Writting a small script to make mozilla show the results of HTML code written in vi, when vi saves, the script automaticly changes mozilla to show that HTML. I need to know if mozilla is running, if not I need to call it first ... seemed simple if ! ps ax | grep "m

Re: bash: finding if mozilla is running

2003-07-26 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 13:50:05 +0200, Seneca wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:22:53AM +0100, David selby wrote: >> Writting a small script to make mozilla show the results of HTML code >> written in vi, when vi saves, the script automaticly changes mozilla >> to show that HTML. >> >> I need to

set www-browser to galeon

2003-07-26 Thread Paul Worrall
Greetings! I have just installed the news aggregator 'Straw' and find that whenever I click on a hyperlink in it, a terminal window is opened entitled www-browser and the link is opened in Links. I would like to change this behaviour to make it open in a new tab in galeon. I have looked at updat

Re: sound configuration in Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Italian Superstar wrote: Hi, I use a Sound Blaster PCI sound card but my X-Window cannot recognise it. It displays a message saying "/dev/dsp cannot be opened. Permission denied. Sound output is null". Can someone tell me how to configure my sound card on Debian. It's not X that uses the sound

Re: bash: finding if mozilla is running

2003-07-26 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 11:30:06 +0200, David selby wrote: > I need to know if mozilla is running, if not I need to call it first ... > seemed simple Yeah. That's why I use Galeon. I never understood Mozilla's remote control. :-) Of course, Galeon has other advantages, too... > Whatever I grep for,

Re: abcde is failing me. SOLVED

2003-07-26 Thread Antonio Rodr
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:56:43 -0400 Antonio RodrX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I run it as root, it works good. If I run it as user, not so. I've > tweaked the $HOME/.abcde.conf and have been able to make the list of > errors get smaller, but still. Next I copy what I keep getting. It > seems as

Re: sound configuration in Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Italian Superstar wrote: > I use a Sound Blaster PCI sound card but my X-Window cannot recognise > it. It displays a message saying "/dev/dsp cannot be opened. Permission > denied. Sound output is null". Can someone tell me how to configure my > sound card on Debian. This has nothing to do

sound configuration in Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Italian Superstar
Hi, I use a Sound Blaster PCI sound card but my X-Window cannot recognise it. It displays a message saying "/dev/dsp cannot be opened. Permission denied. Sound output is null". Can someone tell me how to configure my sound card on Debian. PS. Thanx to everyone who's helped me configure my wirel

Re: bash: finding if mozilla is running

2003-07-26 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Saturday 26 July 2003 11:22, David selby wrote: > Hello, > > Writting a small script to make mozilla show the results of HTML code > written in vi, when vi saves, the script automaticly changes mozilla to > show that HTML. > > I need to know if mozilla is running, if not I need to call it first

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