Elitegroup Desknote A907 or A530+

2003-09-11 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi, anybody using one of these notebooks with debian? Do X work. How is the performance? Are they really without fan? Any problems? TIA juh -- Die Schröder-Dummies Der Autokanzler hat verstanden. http://www.sudelbuch.de/2002/20021001.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: exim4 keeps mail

2003-09-11 Thread François Chenais
We are TOMORROW !;-) I've change the conf file as suggested by rag00 and run exim4 in daemon mode as suggested by Jérome. And the result is .FINE. All the mails are delivered :-) Thanks. Jerome, the dpkg-reconfigure doesn't change the running mode (I don't found how !). You just have

Re: Mousey broken

2003-09-11 Thread Willem . Smit
Thanks for your reply Mental Patient ;-). I got the bugger working two nights ago - just didn't know it. I recompiled the kernel late wednesday night and when i rebooted i got a kernel panic, which i realised must've been because i didn't do a make clean before compilation. Anywayz yesterday i reco

Re: Moz Firebird

2003-09-11 Thread Naitik Shah
You need to edit your prefs file. Try changing the fonts in Galeon to something you know will be anti aliased. Possibly the bitstream-vera fonts. Also, you could try about:config (as a URL). It will give you finer control over gecko. Also make sure you've got the mozilla-xft package. I think tha

Re: XF86 mode question ?

2003-09-11 Thread David selby
Oki DZ wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:09:07AM +0100, David selby wrote: Its quite possible I have misunderstood how to do this, I have a lot od "Doh !" moments. I had an aha moment. I set the gdm config to have two X server settings, one with 24 and the other with 16bpp, and the Scre

Re: Cake Walk replacement

2003-09-11 Thread Kari Ruohonen
"Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > He's a musician, and relies heavily on Cake Walk. I need to find him a > replacement so I can get him, his wife, and daughter switched over to > the debian way. Check also jazz++ (www.jazzware.com). It looks good though I haven't tested it much yet.

Re: What to do with a core dump

2003-09-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 08:39:53PM -0400, Gregory Seidman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 02:34:59AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > } I just got home a couple of hours ago, and when I logged in and started > } mucking around I noticed a 36MB binary file called core.11377 with

Re: boot, init and config

2003-09-11 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030912 09:35]: > What config file tels the linux system to turn on programs like apache or > others which go of at boot? It's not a config file, but the presence of a file... read on. > > I am looking in to the init stuffies all but I would like my m

Re: Is there a problem with kernel 2.4.20 and internet connections?

2003-09-11 Thread B. L. Jilek
Hi Hans! On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Hans Wilmer wrote: > B. L. Jilek wrote: > > >works. Dig works. Internal connections (HTTP, FTP, SSH) work. > >Outside connections using Browsers, ftp or anything else like AIM will > >not connect. > > > >I booted into 2.4.19 temporarily and I could connect. 2.4.2

Re: eFax tiff viewer?

2003-09-11 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:06:18PM -0400, ccn wrote: > eFax service www.efax.com deliveres faxes as email attachments in > multipage tiff format. When I open such an attachment using tifftopnm, > gimp, or gimv I can only see the first page. > > Has anybody figured out what viewer displays all page

Re: how to get a silent harddisk?

2003-09-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 21:47, Tom Allison wrote: > Jacob Anawalt wrote: > > Joachim Förster said: > > > >>Does anybody know, why squid uses the harddisk although its (empty disk > >>cache, logs and other status files are on the tmpfs)? > >> > > > > > > I don't know why it uses the hard disk, but

Re: Moz Firebird

2003-09-11 Thread Oki DZ
I thik I'd ask another question. Galeon uses Gecko, so does Firebird; but the fonts in Galeon are not antialiased. How come? Thanks in advance, Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Moz Firebird

2003-09-11 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, Is there any Gnome theme for Firebird? I have applied Nautilus and RedHat themes, but they don't look right, I think. Thanks in advance, Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to get a silent harddisk?

2003-09-11 Thread Tom Allison
Jacob Anawalt wrote: Joachim Förster said: Does anybody know, why squid uses the harddisk although its (empty disk cache, logs and other status files are on the tmpfs)? I don't know why it uses the hard disk, but if it is only reading those files and there is enough memory that they are cached i

no shell login initialization when logging in with Gnome? (Gnome 2.2/woody)

2003-09-11 Thread Daniel B.
When I log in using Gnome, login-time shell initialization doesn't seem to have taken place (as if nothing invoked bash with -login). More specifically: - In gdmlogin, I select Gnome Session and log in. - I start an xterm (either from a window manager menu or from the Gnome menu bar at the top)

Re: XF86 mode question ?

2003-09-11 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:09:07AM +0100, David selby wrote: > Its quite possible I have misunderstood how to do this, I have a lot od > "Doh !" moments. I had an aha moment. I set the gdm config to have two X server settings, one with 24 and the other with 16bpp, and the Screen section is in t

Possible design problem: on install disk wipes disk?

2003-09-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
I haven't verified this and don't have a system handy to do so On #debian IRC, someone's just reported that he left the Debian install disk in his (powered down) system. Mom came along, booted the system, kept hitting , and ended up wiping out the root (and only) partition on the system. If

is ${HOME} supposed to work in pam_env.conf?

2003-09-11 Thread Daniel B.
/etc/security/pam_env.conf gives an example containing ${HOME}. However, ${HOME} doesn't work (it evaluates to nothing) when invoked by logging in on a console. (This is on woody.) Is ${HOME} supposed to work in pam_env.conf? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUB

eFax tiff viewer?

2003-09-11 Thread ccn
eFax service www.efax.com deliveres faxes as email attachments in multipage tiff format. When I open such an attachment using tifftopnm, gimp, or gimv I can only see the first page. Has anybody figured out what viewer displays all pages of a multipage fax? Tnx b -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Debian sunk by Windows format and install.

2003-09-11 Thread ian
Dominique Dumont wrote: William Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Got virus attacked on the Windows section of a dual boot machine that runs Debian (latest Woody) and Windows 98. Windows got into such a state between the virus and me messing with it that I ended up reformatting the C: driv

Re: xhost +localhost has no effect [SUMMARY]

2003-09-11 Thread ScruLoose
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 11:44:22PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > > So I want to log in to X as one regular (non-root) user, and then allow > a different regular user to run X apps. > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Okay, got a

RE: DMA doesn't seem to work with my custom 2.4.21 kernel

2003-09-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
That is the error you get when you don't have the right service activated for your IDE controller chip. What is your controller chip? Hugo. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To UNSUB

setting the default keyboard layout on boot

2003-09-11 Thread Bjorn Hansen
Hi I'm running testing, recently upgraded after being away for the summer, and when I boot my default keylayout is no longer set. It used to say something like "setting default keymap dvorak" - and I'd have a dvorak layout on login, now it says nothing and I've got qwerty. A little research i

Re: reinstall problems: console, klogd and modules

2003-09-11 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op di 09-09-2003, om 23:56 schreef Benedict Verheyen: > Op di 09-09-2003, om 22:21 schreef Benedict Verheyen: > > Hi, > > > > after dpkg became unworkable, i reinstalled my server. > > I encountered a couple of very annoying problems after upgrading to > > testing and that's with an almost bare sy

Re: need help getting ipchains goin'

2003-09-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:01:57PM -0700, coco the talking chimp wrote: > ipchains not installed by default? I thought Linux was made for > networking. ipchains *is* installed by default in woody, as is iptables (unless you're using a wacky architecture). -- Colin Watson

boot, init and config

2003-09-11 Thread ingirafn
What config file tels the linux system to turn on programs like apache or others which go of at boot? I am looking in to the init stuffies all but I would like my mutella program to start of immediatly and stay on. Ingirafn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: how to get a silent harddisk?

2003-09-11 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Joachim Förster said: > Does anybody know, why squid uses the harddisk although its (empty disk > cache, logs and other status files are on the tmpfs)? > I don't know why it uses the hard disk, but if it is only reading those files and there is enough memory that they are cached in the kernel fil

is ${PATH} in pam_env.conf supposed to see PATH set by login.defs?

2003-09-11 Thread Daniel B.
In /etc/security/pam_env.conf, is ${PATH} supposed to "see" the value of PATH set by /etc/login.defs? If I set PATH in login.defs (using ENV_PATH=xxx) and set PATH=${PATH}:yyy in pam_env.conf, the setting from login.defs doesn't show up (PATH gets set to ":yyy"). If I remember correctly (I looke

exim4 smtp auth via libpam-dotfile

2003-09-11 Thread Sergey V. Spiridonov
Hi I tried to make exim4 smtp auth against libpam-dotfile with no success. Is it suppoused to work? I used the following auth exim4 configuration (suggested in exim documentation): plain: driver = plaintext public_name = PLAIN server_prompts = : server_condition = "${if pam{$2:${sg{

Re: hdparm, hard drive howto, tutorial

2003-09-11 Thread Ian Silvester
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:39:41 -0700 (PDT), Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Consulting.com> wrote: On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Antonio [ISO-8859-1] RodrX wrote: Does anyone know of a good tutorial, or howto on hard drives? I would like to understand a little better this part of the hardware before playi

WebPBC with debian unstable

2003-09-11 Thread Raúl Alexis Betancort Santana
I'm trying to run WebPBC on debian unstable, with Tomcat4 4.1.27, but everytime I try to log in I get this error screen (Long log) - HTTP Status 500 - Internal Server Error type Exception report message Internal Server Error description The server encounter

Re: Open-source opportunuity?

2003-09-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:18:52 +0100, Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 06:22:09AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > ..I would think British Rail has _several_ uses for computers, > > and not just the un-written RailGear.org train simulat

Re: apt-get trying to downgrade a package version?

2003-09-11 Thread Ian Silvester
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:46:41 +0200, Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Ian Silvester (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: I am running Woody with a 2.4.20 kernel and acpi installed. When I try to install kppp or am-utils (for example) using Package Manager or apt-get, I get the following

Re: [gdm] strange behaviour when starting GDM

2003-09-11 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Pim Bliek said: > >> I played with gdm the other day, and found that if the standard greeter >> is used, gdm worked fine, but if I used the graphical greeter, I saw the >> same behavoiur of gdm trying to start 3 or 4 times and then eventually >> giving up. > > Thanx, that solved my issue! Pity tho

Re: can not start X as non-root user

2003-09-11 Thread [loonyx | rolf joho]
Kent West wrote: Check the output of "startx 2> error.log" for hints. I suspect you don't have a default wm configured properly for non-root users. Create a ".xinitrc" file in a normal user's home dir with the single line "icewm" (and make sure icewm is installed) and give it a go and let us k

Re: Open-source opportunuity?

2003-09-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:48:19 +0100, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On (11/09/03 17:58), Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:18:51 +0100, > > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On (11/09/03

Re: fetchmail q

2003-09-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.09.11.1843 +0200]: > Have you tried the option > mda "/usr/sbin/sendmail -i %T" > ? Interesting. I am going to try that the next time I am on-site. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. k

Re: Open-source opportunuity?

2003-09-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > .agreed, but I do not wanna use this list to discuss the > > details of the tender docs. ;-) > > > Agreed again but as yet there seem to only six people interested on list > and two off. Is this enough? Or more importantly do we have suffic

Re: Install stalled

2003-09-11 Thread ian
Erik Steffl wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have spent several hours studying various Linux webpage and trying to install the OS, but have not had any successes. There is lots of good information and software, but I do not know where to begin. Can you help me install the Linux OS? If

Re: Using Gshutdown with normal user

2003-09-11 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 03:41:19PM -0300, Angelo Marcos Rigo wrote: > Hi > > I would like to use the gshutdown utility from the system menu ondebian woody > but when i press it he says that only the root user can use it > > How can i use the gshutdown utility with a normal user? > without hav

Re: hdparm, hard drive howto, tutorial

2003-09-11 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Antonio [ISO-8859-1] RodrX wrote: > Does anyone know of a good tutorial, or howto on hard drives? I would like to > understand a little better this part of the hardware before playing with hdparm. > Some hdparm bash script examples would be also welcome. tip#1 when pla

Re: scanner

2003-09-11 Thread oskar debian lists
- Original Message - From: "john gennard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 4:14 PM Subject: scanner > I'm trying to install a USB scanner in Woody 3.0r1. From > the docs, I should be able to manage it. However, I'm > confused by the following

Re: kernel 2.4.22

2003-09-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 10:36, JG wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > Any word on when 2.4.22 might make it into sid? > > Tomorrow. (it is in incoming.debian.org today). Ah! I just d/l'ed the .bz2 from ftp.kernel.org. Is there usually any difference between the ke

Re: Open-source opportunuity?

2003-09-11 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 06:22:09AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..I would think British Rail has _several_ uses for computers, > and not just the un-written RailGear.org train simulator, It hasn't been British Rail since the early 90s when it was privatised. We now have separate sets of organi

Re: East Asian O/S

2003-09-11 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 08:23:01AM +0800, csj wrote: > At Tue, 9 Sep 2003 05:32:41 +0800, Katipo wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 September 2003 02:03, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > An article from the BBC Online of relative interest - Asian > > > countries investing in and turning to a *new* operating > > >

Re: 'intelligent' mail filtering

2003-09-11 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:42:57PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I've been MEANING to look into getting some sort of spam filter set up > on my mail server for quite a while now, but I've never quite gotten > around to it. Now I'm getting around to it. :) > > I've heard of filters that can "lear

Re: How do I disable "Chipaway Virus is resident"?

2003-09-11 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:45:20AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Marlize Cloete wrote: > > >Please help (in plain English please) as I am not a "rocket scientist" > >when it comes to PC's > > > > > When you first turn on your computer, you'll probably see a message > saying something like "F1 Set

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:02:53PM +1200, cr wrote: > On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:30, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > > From experience, Win95/98 needs to be on the first drive, needs to be > > in a bootable primary partition which needs to be the only/first primary > > partition. > > On the fir

Re: East Asian O/S

2003-09-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:00:50 +0800, csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:49:50 +0200, > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:50:38 +1200, > > cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Tuesday

Re: icewmbg and recent unstable updates.

2003-09-11 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Sep 11 at 16:36, Mike Dresser spoke: > Ideas why icewmbg isn't working anymore with this in my .xsession as of a > recent upgrade on unstable? I have to manually run it from an xterm now. You are probably running a version after 1.2.9. In some recent versions icewmbg must be run explicitly.

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2003-09-11 Thread john gennard
I'm trying to install a USB scanner in Woody 3.0r1. From the docs, I should be able to manage it. However, I'm confused by the following:- a. 'dpkg - l' does not show the sane package yet 'whereis sane' gives output like '/etc/sane.d /usr/lib/sane' etc. There is a man page for sane, but none

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 11:28:24PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:30:06PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > But nowadays I think that what's really needed is to take care that all > > windows partitions have there first sector(s?) cleaned prior to letting > > windows format those

Re: Cake Walk replacement

2003-09-11 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El jueves, 11 de septiembre de 2003, a las 11:34, Rodney D. Myers escribe: > He's a musician, and relies heavily on Cake Walk. I need to find him a > replacement so I can get him, his wife, and daughter switched over to > the debian way. Whether ardour, muse, or rosegarden, in strictly alphabetica

icewmbg and recent unstable updates.

2003-09-11 Thread Mike Dresser
Ideas why icewmbg isn't working anymore with this in my .xsession as of a recent upgrade on unstable? I have to manually run it from an xterm now. I kind of miss when icewmbg was part of icewm and didn't need to be loaded separately too :P .xsession is: icewmbg & exec icewm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: 'intelligent' mail filtering

2003-09-11 Thread tallison
> I've been MEANING to look into getting some sort of spam filter set up > on my mail server for quite a while now, but I've never quite gotten > around to it. Now I'm getting around to it. :) > > I've heard of filters that can "learn" what is and isn't spam by having > you feed it anything you con

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-11 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:02:53PM +1200, cr wrote: > On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:30, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:07:08AM +1200, cr wrote: > > > This may seem an odd place to ask this, but I'll bet some of the folks on > > > this list know more about the technicalitie

Re: Suggest CD RW app ?

2003-09-11 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:05:15AM +0100, David selby wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > > > >(why the OP stated that a GUI app was better for occasional use boggles the > >mind) > > Ahh .. dave logic dictates ... "if not use often, forget comand line > options ... if use lots, use comand line" Well,

Re: getting unstable

2003-09-11 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Angelo Marcos Rigo wrote: > Wich lines i do add to make an apt-get for the debian unstable? If you need to ask this unstable is nothing for you... Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `.

GNUCASH error

2003-09-11 Thread Adam Bogacki
Hi, I consistently get [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gnucash ERROR: no code for module (g-wrap gw-wct) Can someone enlighten me on what this means ? Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DMA doesn't seem to work with my custom 2.4.21 kernel

2003-09-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- David Morse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Since we're both nforce2 users, maybe we can help eachother in otherways. Like > damned if I can make alsa work. :P I just use i8x0 and it just works great. -Roberto ___ Yahoo! Messenger - Nuev

getting unstable

2003-09-11 Thread Angelo Marcos Rigo
Hi Wich lines i do add to make an apt-get for the debian unstable? cheers Ângelo Marcos Rigo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Disk I/O stalling whole system ..

2003-09-11 Thread Mariano Kamp
> > when copying from one ide disk to another ide disk on the the same > > controller the whole systems stalls. I am running 2.4.19 on unstable. > > Wow. I have the same situation, (can't give you the specs, other than > to say the primary is a 16GB drive of 1999 era, and the secondary is a > 40GB

Re: apt-get trying to downgrade a package version?

2003-09-11 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Ian Silvester (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am running Woody with a 2.4.20 kernel and acpi installed. > > When I try to install kppp or am-utils (for example) using Package > Manager or apt-get, I get the following error: > > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: >

Re: Gnome 2.4

2003-09-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 01:49, karrottop wrote: > > Does anyone know if there is a apt-get source for Gnome 2.4 yet > > anywhere...I am running unstable and i don't see it yet...although I may > > just be jumping the gun with my anxiousness > Everyon

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > cr wrote: > > >On Thursday 11 September 2003 00:15, John covici wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >>You might consider vmware -- seems much safer to me for what you want. > >> > >> > > > >Isn't that commercial? > > > > > > Yes, it is, but it w

Re: [gdm] strange behaviour when starting GDM

2003-09-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:01:26AM +0200, Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > > Also another question: has someone been able to run the accelerated Ati > > Radeon drivers? HOW??? It is an R250 chip, and uses two PCI ID's. Any > > suggestions on run

Re: [gdm] strange behaviour when starting GDM

2003-09-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:38:02PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > --- "Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi?: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I am running Sid, updated to the latest. I have a Gigabyte Radeon 9000 > pro > > > on a

Re: Open-source opportunuity?

2003-09-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/09/03 17:58), Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:18:51 +0100, > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On (11/09/03 08:09), Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 00:36, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > [ re Network Rail tender reque

Re: what is testing unstable and stable ?

2003-09-11 Thread Stefan Waidele jun.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, im not sure about this. Potato is stable woody is unstable sid is testing sarge is ? This info is one generation too old. I tried to download woody , but my laptop does not even boot form it. I have a pc which wast installed with "stable" and the downgraded to

Re: Cake Walk replacement

2003-09-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:34:35AM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: | I have a friend that want to ditch windos, worm/virus/daily reboot | routine. | | He's a musician, and relies heavily on Cake Walk. I need to find him a | replacement so I can get him, his wife, and daughter switched over to | the

Re: need help getting ipchains goin'

2003-09-11 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello coco the talking chimp (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > ok so I just found the /boot/config-2.2.20-compaq. This, i figure, is > where the options CONFIG_FIREWALL=y and CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y should > be. Of course they are not there. Should I just type them in or > what? Plus the /proc/net

Re: Mousey broken

2003-09-11 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:00:13 +0200, Willem.Smit wrote: > > Well... you're using the USB device (/dev/input/mice) and the mouse is > > plugged into the PS/2 port (/dev/psaux). What do you expect :-) > > Only one question - why the hell does my mouse work through > /dev/input/mice on 2.6.0 ??? You

Re: 'intelligent' mail filtering

2003-09-11 Thread David Z Maze
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've heard of filters that can "learn" what is and isn't spam by having > you feed it anything you consider spam. What are people's experiences > with them? Are the useful/reliable? Any problems with false > negatives/positives? I have had very good l

Re: hdparm, hard drive howto, tutorial

2003-09-11 Thread Naitik Shah
I've got a script in /etc/ini.d with this in it, case "$1" in start) echo -n "Optimizing /dev/hda performance: " hdparm -d1 -q -m16 -u1 -k1 -K1 /dev/hda > /dev/null echo "hdparm" *) ;; esac My options are hardcoded

Re: can not start X as non-root user

2003-09-11 Thread Kent West
[loonyx | rolf joho] wrote: Kent West wrote: [loonyx | rolf joho] wrote: i just set up a new woody-box with xfree 4.1 and gnome 1.4*. gdm runs fine and i can login there or running startx X as root. however, if i try to log in through gdm or running startx as a normal user, i can not run X and

Re: can not start X as non-root user

2003-09-11 Thread [loonyx | rolf joho]
Kent West wrote: [loonyx | rolf joho] wrote: i just set up a new woody-box with xfree 4.1 and gnome 1.4*. gdm runs fine and i can login there or running startx X as root. however, if i try to log in through gdm or running startx as a normal user, i can not run X and fall back to gdm or to the co

SC 0.9.5 has a problem on my machine

2003-09-11 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I just upgraded to 0.9.5, and now I have a problem with the main window. It's too big (in height), and under windowmaker I cannot get the dumb window to scroll/move to get it back into view. I've been reducing the size in the ~/.sylpheed/slypheedrc file, andything that has the word 'height' in it

apt-get trying to downgrade a package version?

2003-09-11 Thread Ian Silvester
Hi all, I am running Woody with a 2.4.20 kernel and acpi installed. When I try to install kppp or am-utils (for example) using Package Manager or apt-get, I get the following error: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: acpi: Depends: libc6 (>=2.3.1-1) but 2.2.5-11.5 is to

Re: Suggest CD RW app ?

2003-09-11 Thread David selby
csj wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:35:05 +0100, David selby wrote: I have just installed a SAMSUNG DVD - CD RW drive, done the config I tried xcdroast, I like it but it insists on a 1024x768 screen which is a bit of a problem with my eyes / monitor. I believe this has been fixed in Debian S

Re: need help getting ipchains goin'

2003-09-11 Thread -:-
Hans Wilmer wrote: There´s a very nice tutorial describing how things work, which kernel options you need, including samples that make a very good point to begin with. The tutorial is called ´Iptables Tutorial 1.1.16´ (maybe a newer version is available) and was written by Oskar Andreasson ---

Re: Open-source opportunuity?

2003-09-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:18:51 +0100, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On (11/09/03 08:09), Oliver Elphick wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 00:36, Clive Menzies wrote: > > [ re Network Rail tender request ] > > > I'm London (UK) based and have a business ba

Modem sm56

2003-09-11 Thread Angelo Marcos Rigo
Hi I would like to configure properly the sm56 modem from motorola with my debian woody any sugestion will be apreciated Ângelo Marcos Rigo http://amr.freezope.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: modem @ COM4; howto install driver

2003-09-11 Thread Larry Evans
Larry Evans wrote: Would someone suggest how I should solve this problem? I'm guessing I should just `dpkg -i` the .deb containing the dpkg-scanpackages program. If that's wrong, pls let me know. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: what is testing unstable and stable ?

2003-09-11 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Potato is stable > woody is unstable > sid is testing > sarge is ? wrong. potato = old stable woody = stable sarge = testing sid = unstable Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people

'intelligent' mail filtering

2003-09-11 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've been MEANING to look into getting some sort of spam filter set up on my mail server for quite a while now, but I've never quite gotten around to it. Now I'm getting around to it. :) I've heard of filters that can "learn" what is and isn't spam by having you feed it anything you consider spam.

Using Gshutdown with normal user

2003-09-11 Thread Angelo Marcos Rigo
Hi   I would like to use the gshutdown utility from the system menu ondebian woody but when i press it he says that only the root user can use it   How can i use the gshutdown utility with a normal user? without having to change to root user?   Thank´s in advance   Ângelo Rigo [EMAIL PROT

modem @ COM4; howto install driver

2003-09-11 Thread Larry Evans
I just installed debian 3.0; however, I can't get ppp to dial out. plog output shows: chat[263]:Can't get terminal parameters: Input/Output error setserial -g /dev/ttyS3 shows: UART: 16550A, Port: 0x1400, IRQ: 18 the Port and IRQ I got from winxp device manager. I've also got an ethnet card which

RE: Mozilla 1.4 and Java and Woody

2003-09-11 Thread Nicholas Vettese
I have a problem when I do apt-get install eclipse-sdk. When it gets to the j2re1.4 deb, I get errors. I apologize for not having them on hand, but I was wondering if I should do an apt-get testing install eclipse-sdk? Thanks in advance, Nick > > >-Original Message- > > >From: LeVA [mai

Cake Walk replacement

2003-09-11 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I have a friend that want to ditch windos, worm/virus/daily reboot routine. He's a musician, and relies heavily on Cake Walk. I need to find him a replacement so I can get him, his wife, and daughter switched over to the debian way. Thanks. -- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered

hdparm, hard drive howto, tutorial

2003-09-11 Thread Antonio RodrX
Does anyone know of a good tutorial, or howto on hard drives? I would like to understand a little better this part of the hardware before playing with hdparm. Some hdparm bash script examples would be also welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

2003-09-11 Thread Russ Cook
Russell, I'd like to thank you again for all your help. This is what makes Debian great (IMO). Now that Zope is upgraded, dselect and apt-get were able to finish installing my XWindows system and other programs. I am now fully up and functioning again. Thanks again! Regards, Russ On Wed,

what is testing unstable and stable ?

2003-09-11 Thread ingirafn
Hello, im not sure about this. Potato is stable woody is unstable sid is testing sarge is ? I tried to download woody , but my laptop does not even boot form it. I have a pc which wast installed with "stable" and the downgraded to "unstable". If anyone wants to take time to answer this sill

Mozilla 1.4 and Java and Woody

2003-09-11 Thread LeVA
Hello! I read the other mails about this issue, but those instructions did not help me. So I write my specific problem, and I can only hope, that someone will help me. I installed mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.4-huHU.tar.gz. Then after I installed sun's j2sdk-1_4_2_01-linux-i586.bin. Mozilla.org s

Re: need help getting ipchains goin'

2003-09-11 Thread Hans Wilmer
coco the talking chimp wrote: ok so I just found the /boot/config-2.2.20-compaq. It´s much easier to get a recent kernel (like 2.4.21), configure, compile and install it to set up a firewall. The options needed for that can be specified when setting up the new kernel (with make menuconfig). The

Re: Is there a problem with kernel 2.4.20 and internet connections?

2003-09-11 Thread Hans Wilmer
B. L. Jilek wrote: works. Dig works. Internal connections (HTTP, FTP, SSH) work. Outside connections using Browsers, ftp or anything else like AIM will not connect. I booted into 2.4.19 temporarily and I could connect. 2.4.20 will Right now I'm recompiling the kernel and have changed a few set

Re: Openoffice: where are templates?

2003-09-11 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dimecres 10 Setembre 2003 19:54, en Joan Tur va escriure: > Hallo! > > I was wondering where the templates were in Openoffice... or maybe only > Staroffice has got templates?? 8-? Solved. I've used the templates from Staroffice 5... because they'r

Re: need help getting ipchains goin'

2003-09-11 Thread coco the talking chimp
ok so I just found the /boot/config-2.2.20-compaq.  This, i figure, is where the options CONFIG_FIREWALL=y and CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y should be.  Of course they are not there.  Should I just type them in or what?  Plus the  /proc/net/ip_fwchains/ file isn't there but I think that's for older

Re: need help getting ipchains goin'

2003-09-11 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello coco the talking chimp (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > ipchains not installed by default? I thought Linux was made for > networking. Anyway, I'm not too familiar with this but here is my > problem. When I run ipchains it says incompatible with this kernel. > I'm on compact debian 3.0 so k

Re: mozilla & mozilla-firebird won't start separately

2003-09-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:19:08AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > after recent upgrades mozilla and mozilla-firebird seem unable to > start up separately -- if one is already running, invoking the other > just opens a new window in the existing session of the first. I seem > to recall that this didn't

Re: DMA doesn't seem to work with my custom 2.4.21 kernel

2003-09-11 Thread David Morse
Pim Bliek | PingWings wrote: You may also need to enable support for the specific chipset on that motherboard in your kernel config. See ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---> IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices ---> IDE chipset support/bugfixes. I didn't see any support for Nforce

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