Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?

2004-02-11 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thursday 12 February 2004 03:45, Ken Gilmour wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I just found my old Compaq SLT|286 from the 1990ies! It has 640KB of RAM, > no mouse and a 80286 CPU at 12 mhz! I get "Non-System disk or disk error Linux requires a 386 CPU. Remember Linus wrote it as a learning project to ge

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RE: Getting DRI going for Mach64

2004-02-11 Thread David Baron
As Arnt Karlsen reaquested, here are the results of glinfo and the XFree86.0.log. I still cannot get open-gl stuff to run (problem may not be here but any ideas appreciated). Here is the glxinfo name of display: :0.0 Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer a

Re: Problem with scsi emulation

2004-02-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Martin Batermann] > Before I emulated scsi, I referred to it as /cdrom and it worked > fine. However, when I changed to the scsi emulation I couldn't get > /usr/sbin/base-config to work. Every time I try to install a > package, it wants me to insert my debian cd in /cdrom which it > couldn't fi

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Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' not working.

2004-02-11 Thread Adam Bogacki
Sorry Joostie, it did not work. Same result. At the moment it looks as if I have a de-facto 'stable' system, frozen at a moment in its ['unstable'] development path. Adam. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Bogacki wrote: > Hi, I'm running unstable and have not been able to do a successful > 'a

Re: What tool to apt-get install from non-standard place

2004-02-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
[EL Henry] > instead of doing apt-get update on my computer I would like the tool > to do this update (which will be done with another computer) and > create a copy of the said updates in a /file/ (that is, not on the > usual place). I would then use apt-get to install from that file. I believe '

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' not working.

2004-02-11 Thread Adam Bogacki
With pleasure ... Adam. On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:32:56AM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 21:08:39 +1300 > Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.pl.debian.org > > > unstable/contrib P ackages > > I feel sure that you sh

Re: Newbie install question re: Mouse

2004-02-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Adam Aube] > > 2. How can I get into a command line interface from the graphical > > login window without the mouse? > > Alt+F1 Errr, from inside X that's Ctrl-Alt-F1 Peter signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: DINB 9: rcnd: connection refused

2004-02-11 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 23:55, Joost Witteveen wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I am setting up a BIND for my local network (anydomain.bom) acessible > > only for local domain. This is the second time I build BIND, my old > > Debian crashed afte

Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:22:20PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > My hardware firewall obviously still hands out a regular IP address. > Will I need a new device? Bug your vendor for a firmware update for it. > Does IPv6 go over the same ethernet cable

Re: a2ps borders problem after upgrade

2004-02-11 Thread Nano Nano
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:12:33PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:58:16PM -0500, Petr Vanek wrote: > > i am trying to find out what happened with a2ps in unstable. recently > > after upgrade it does not react to command line switches like > > --borders=no , so i always print

Re: alternative to plesk and cpanel?

2004-02-11 Thread Sanjay Chigurupati
Hi, could you please tell us what they are used for and what features u use in those? Sanjay "Louie Miranda"

Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-11 Thread Nano Nano
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 08:11:07PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > I got an email from them telling me that they gave us more bandwidth > and to powercycle the modem. So I did. And now I've got an ip6 > address in ifconfig on eth0. I haven't gotten an email, but in the last three or four days my b

Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Paul Johnson] > I understand ip6 is designed to be considerably better about > security. Time will only tell if it works out in reality, though. Well, IPv6 makes IPsec mandatory, whereas in IPv4 of course it's optional. But AFAIK, that's the only major security difference between the two. Pet

Re: My drive only operates in UDMA2?

2004-02-11 Thread Dhiraj
I had the same problem and I passed the parameter idebus=66, and it seems that my transfer rate increased from 20 MB/s to 30 MB/s. Is it very wrong to do this ? I wouldn't say I am using a server board. It is a very cheap KT133 board. I haven't had any problems on my system for a while but it s

Problem with scsi emulation

2004-02-11 Thread Martin Batermann
I'm running Woody (2.4.22) and have two cd-roms. The first (/dev/scd0 mounted at /scsi) is a genuine scsi drive and I have no problems with it. The second is an IDE dvd-writer. I enabled scsi emulation and put an entry for it in my fstab as /dev/scd1, mounted at /dvd. Before I emulated scsi,

alternative to plesk and cpanel?

2004-02-11 Thread Louie Miranda
It cost much, cpanel and plesk. Anyone know any good alternative for it? opensource would be much helpfull. -- - Louie Miranda http://www.axishift.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-11 Thread Joey Hess
Paul Johnson wrote: > Along with the whole Disney funkitude this morning[1], I discovered > Comcast gave me an IPv6 address. Which begs the question: Now that > large ISPs now support IPv6, when will Debian beyond the kernel? Debian has a fair amount of ipv6 support. For details about status of

Re: Phone dialer for Linux

2004-02-11 Thread Mark
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:46:38PM -0500, David P James wrote: > On February 11, 2004 12:41, John Hasler wrote: > > Right... but what I'm looking for is just a way to pass a phone number > as a command line parameter so that I can then pick up the telephone > handset and start chatting away with

Re: Info vs Man

2004-02-11 Thread Florentin Ionescu
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote : » Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:52:25 -0700 » From: Monique Y. Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> » To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] » Subject: Re: Info vs Man » Resent-Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:12:17 -0600 (CST) » Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] » » On 2004-02-11, J.H.M. Da

Re: a2ps borders problem after upgrade

2004-02-11 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:58:16PM -0500, Petr Vanek wrote: > i am trying to find out what happened with a2ps in unstable. recently > after upgrade it does not react to command line switches like > --borders=no , so i always print borders and headers even i don't want > to. i suspect changes in co

ATI Radeon 9200 support (Was: Re: enabling dri makes kbd and mouse not work)

2004-02-11 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 23:13:59 -0500 Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > xfree86.org says it isn't supported. i found a site that says you can > use ChipID in the conf to force it, but that didn't work either. > > i didn't find any cvs on packages.debian.org for xfree86. i'd > appreciate it if y

What tool to apt-get install from non-standard place

2004-02-11 Thread EL Henry
Hello -- I need to know if there's a tool with the following functionalities: instead of doing apt-get update on my computer I would like the tool to do this update (which will be done with another computer) and create a copy of the said updates in a /file/ (that is, not on the usual place). I w

Re: requirements for building a kernel module

2004-02-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:20:29PM -0500, Brett Carrington wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:00:31AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > I was wondering what would be the minimal requirements > > (packages/settings) in order to build a kernel module that is external > > to the kernel source tree using

Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?

2004-02-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:48:58PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Mike writes: > > I don't think the 80286 has a memory management unit > > It does, but the architecture is different. A 286 won't run Linux. Are you sure? I thought that the mmu was introduced only in the 386. I think I still used di

how to Pin KDE?

2004-02-11 Thread Craig P. Steffen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The version of kmail in testing is broken (which is different issue). I want to have most of my packages from testing, but I would like to pin kmail (so presumably the rest of KDE too). However, this doesn't seem to work. I've used "pin" definit

Re: Phone dialer for Linux

2004-02-11 Thread David P James
On February 11, 2004 12:41, John Hasler wrote: > David P James wrote: > > I've searched and searched and I just can't seem to find a simple, > > command-line phone dialer for use with pulse/rotarty (ie non-touch > > tone) phone lines. I find it amazing that I can send out faxes via > > my modem in

Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-11 Thread No Spam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: You knew this was coming. You were warned. 8:o) Were you thinking about any of this in advance? Sure I was thinking about it, but primarily as an abstract, as have most people. I have plenty of near term projects and day to day

Re: SOLVED-netinst ISO by Blade asking for password

2004-02-11 Thread J.S.Sahambi
J.S.Sahambi wrote: I just now downladed the Netinst boot image from the following location: http://people.debian.org/~blade/boot-floppies/netinst-full-pre/bootbf2_4_iso.zip I got it. The password was on the home page which I missed. Thanks JSS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

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2004-02-11 Thread SAV_SMTP2
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Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:52:57PM -0500, No Spam wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > >No, nothis is the Comcast/Disney thing I was referring to, it's > >been all over everything today... > >http://ursine.ca/article.pl?sid=04/02/12/0046249&mode=threa

Re: enabling dri makes kbd and mouse not work

2004-02-11 Thread Tom Vier
> If its ati then its supported by both the proprietry ati modules and > the dri cvs version (there are debian packages, I can try to look them > up for you if you want). xfree86.org says it isn't supported. i found a site that says you can use ChipID in the conf to force it, but that didn't work

Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-11 Thread No Spam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: Well, of course, I know that. I have it in my kernel, or I wouldn't have gotten an IPv6 address and known about the change. But what about userspace daemons? This .5 thunderbird is driving me bonkers. It doesn't handle IMAP very

netinst ISO by Blade asking for password

2004-02-11 Thread J.S.Sahambi
I just now downladed the Netinst boot image from the following location: http://people.debian.org/~blade/boot-floppies/netinst-full-pre/bootbf2_4_iso.zip When I tried to unzip it with the command "unzip bootbf2_4_iso.zip", it is asking for a password! $ unzip bootbf2_4_iso.zip Archive: bootbf

Re: Info vs Man

2004-02-11 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-11, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) penned: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 13:10:51 -0600, Kent West wrote: >> At the risk of starting holy war, why has the GNU project decided to >> go with info pages instead of man pages? > >> Some of the other hits seemed to imply that man pages were better, >> althou

Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:46:36PM -0500, No Spam wrote: > How about a decentralized P2P using IPv6 tunneling? I realize that it is > not a userspace daemon, but it's worth thinking about. I use comcast at > home; maybe I'll have a 6 number soon. I

Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:36:34PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > Daemons for what? I set up a route out my tunnel through Unixcore.com > (Charter isn't giving me an IPv6 addr yet). There's some routing > daemons, for windows IPv6 but what do

Re: enabling dri makes kbd and mouse not work

2004-02-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 05:43:12PM -0500, Tom Vier wrote: > i have two cards. one is an agp 9200, but i don't think it's supported. > right now, i have a pci 7500 installed. i changed some stuff in the config > and now it almost works. the only problem is, the kbd and mouse buttons > don't work! th

Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?

2004-02-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:45:04AM +, Ken Gilmour wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I just found my old Compaq SLT|286 from the 1990ies! It has 640KB of RAM, > no mouse and a 80286 CPU at 12 mhz! I get "Non-System disk or disk error > replace and strike any key when ready" When i try to boot it (some thin

Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-11 Thread No Spam
Paul Johnson wrote: No, nothis is the Comcast/Disney thing I was referring to, it's been all over everything today... http://ursine.ca/article.pl?sid=04/02/12/0046249&mode=thread I was pulling your chain. My apologies. Comcast has more subscribers in Portland than any other ISP, and is som

Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?

2004-02-11 Thread John Hasler
Mike writes: > I don't think the 80286 has a memory management unit It does, but the architecture is different. A 286 won't run Linux. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-11 Thread No Spam
Paul Johnson wrote: I've been running Debian and IPv6 for quite some time. It's a function of the kernel you either compile in or load the module. Well, of course, I know that. I have it in my kernel, or I wouldn't have gotten an IPv6 address and known about the change. But what about user

Re: enabling dri makes kbd and mouse not work

2004-02-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 05:43:12PM -0500, Tom Vier wrote: > i have two cards. one is an agp 9200, but i don't think it's supported. If its ati then its supported by both the proprietry ati modules and the dri cvs version (there are debian packages, I can try to look them up for you if you want).

Re: Getting DRI going for Mach64 (was laptop HW detection ... )

2004-02-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:56:32PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 14:49:48 +0200, > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:30:00AM +0100, David Baron wrote: > > > <<< > > > Make sure you have the following l

Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-11 Thread Robert L. Harris
Daemons for what? I set up a route out my tunnel through Unixcore.com (Charter isn't giving me an IPv6 addr yet). There's some routing daemons, for windows IPv6 but what do you need for Linux? My ssh, apache2, exim, etc are all ipv6 enabled. Thus spake Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > ht

Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 07:48:26PM -0500, No Spam wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > >Along with the whole Disney funkitude this morning[1], I discovered > >Comcast gave me an IPv6 address. Which begs the question: Now that > >large ISPs now support I

Re: laptop HW detection Q (isa/video/cpu)

2004-02-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 08:33:22PM +, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Micha Feigin] > > I have a ati rage mobility M1 AGPx2 card (mach64). X recognizes it as > > 8M ram and the specs say that its 8M but lspci and lshw detect it as > > 16M. Any idea which is getting it wrong and why? > > It would

Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://learn.to/quote/ On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 07:44:13PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I've been running Debian and IPv6 for quite some time. It's a function > of the kernel you either compile in or load the module. Well, of course, I know that.

Re: Howto reinstall corrupted package?

2004-02-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 05:03:12PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: > On Wednesday 11 February 2004 03:01 pm, Frank A. Uepping wrote: > > After the corrupted package is identified, how can I reinstall the > > package? Of course, I can uninstall/install the package but this will > > force me to uninstall/ins

SOLVED: Re: My drive only operates in UDMA2?

2004-02-11 Thread Darin Strait
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 12:14 pm, Andreas Janssen wrote: > My guess: wrong type of cable. Make sure it can do more that udma2. > It's my fault, naturally... Since the cable worked (albeit slowly) and since I'm new to fast IDE drives, I never thought to blame the cable. My last desktop machi

Re: requirements for building a kernel module

2004-02-11 Thread Brett Carrington
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:00:31AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I was wondering what would be the minimal requirements > (packages/settings) in order to build a kernel module that is external > to the kernel source tree using make-kpkg --added-modules for a stock > debian kernel. apt-get build-dep

requirements for building a kernel module

2004-02-11 Thread Micha Feigin
I was wondering what would be the minimal requirements (packages/settings) in order to build a kernel module that is external to the kernel source tree using make-kpkg --added-modules for a stock debian kernel. I've been trying to give some answers on installing dri but I am using a patched vanill

Re: EXTRAVERSION problem with nvidia kernel module

2004-02-11 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 02:43, Olle Eriksson wrote: > I am using Sid and I just compiled and installed the 2.6.0 kernel from > the source package. I am using the Debian way and added > --append_to_version -040207 to the call to make-kpkg. The problem is > when I am trying to install the nvidia binary

Re: Info vs Man

2004-02-11 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 01:10:51PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > At the risk of starting holy war, why has the GNU project decided to go > with info pages instead of man pages? They feel that man pages make poor user manuals. And they don't want to have redundant information (a man page as a referenc

Re: Adjusting the speed of mouse-wheel scrolling [repost]

2004-02-11 Thread John W Clark
Hi Kristian, I think I'm having the same (or similar) problem as you. Pity no wise linux-guru's out there have responded yet. I've recently switched to using OpenBox and ROX-Session for my GUI/wm. However, my situation seems a little different from yours, in that I can't say I've noticed wheel

Re: AIDE problems

2004-02-11 Thread Adam Aube
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 12:49 pm, Keith Nasman wrote: > When my cronjob is run, it reports that it could not access > /var/lib/aide.db. > Here are what I think the relative lines are in /etc/cron.daily/aide > CONFFILE="/floppy/aide/aide.conf" > DATABASE=`grep "^database=file:/" $CONFFILE |

Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?

2004-02-11 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 21:00:57 -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: > On Thursday February 12 at 01:45am > Ken Gilmour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> a 80286 CPU at 12 mhz! >> > > Unfortunately, the linux kernel itself will not work on a 286. I > too, had a sweet 286 gotten from somewhere else that looked

Re: aol art files:

2004-02-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 07:41:57PM -0500, No Spam wrote: > Having been spanked by my own conscience, and having been exposed to an > attempted spanking by another AOL user, let's clear this up. Friends don't let friends use AOL. You got it right the

Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?

2004-02-11 Thread Johann Koenig
On Thursday February 12 at 01:45am Ken Gilmour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a 80286 CPU at 12 mhz! Unfortunately, the linux kernel itself will not work on a 286. I too, had a sweet 286 gotten from somewhere else that looked like a novelty linux machine, that might churn out 1 SETI work unit every

Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?

2004-02-11 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:32:07 -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote: >> I just found my old Compaq SLT|286 from the 1990ies! It has 640KB >> of RAM, no mouse and a 80286 CPU at 12 mhz! >> > > http://www.uclinux.com/ Thanks Mike. If i get this going it will probably be better than my 2.5GHz Workstation t

Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?

2004-02-11 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I just found my old Compaq SLT|286 from the 1990ies! It has 640KB of RAM, no mouse and a 80286 CPU at 12 mhz! I'm sorry, I don't think it will work unless you make some special effort. I don't think the 80286 has a memory management unit, and one is required to use the normal kind of Linux kernel

Debian on 640KB or RAM?

2004-02-11 Thread Ken Gilmour
Hi Guys, I just found my old Compaq SLT|286 from the 1990ies! It has 640KB of RAM, no mouse and a 80286 CPU at 12 mhz! I get "Non-System disk or disk error replace and strike any key when ready" When i try to boot it (some things never change) so i am supposing it either doesn't have a hard drive

Re: What command tells you most about your hardware?

2004-02-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 11:23:21PM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Roger Chrisman wrote: > "lshw" is what you're looking for. It's in unstable; I'm not sure > about stable and/or testing. There's also a "system information dumper" script I wrote, which I call system-info: http:

Re: "Wicked" resolver error

2004-02-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:35:40PM -0800, John Christian said > Ok, got my Packages.gz problem fixed ... now I've run into another > barrier ... > > So, I've gotten the base network install done, and have re-booted onto > the kernel running on my hard drive, which brings me to the inital > conf

Re: OT: Michael D. Schleif -- and any other social network types

2004-02-11 Thread John Hasler
Karsten M. Self writes: > I don't know if I'm the only person you spammed with your social network > invitation. You weren't. Do these guys get some sort of a kickback for bringing in more suckers? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: whew

2004-02-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 02:58:54AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > Why are you trying to use Debian at all? It's not intended for newbies Actually, it is. It's just not intended for morons. There's a difference. 8:o) Also, please learn to quote. http:/

Re: Kernel 2.6.2 and mouse problems

2004-02-11 Thread Toshiro
> Has anyone else experienced mouse problems with Kernel 2.6.2? > I just compiled with make-kpkg. Everything seems to work but > I get synchonazation problems with psmouse.c and mouse does not > function properly in either X or a console. Same problem. If > I try to move the mouse it goes all ov

Re: Old x486 as thin client

2004-02-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 04:46:07PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Where could one find a stockpile of this paleolithic hardware? In a paleolithic hardware store. Rumor is that my local school district has a warehouse filled with systems dating back to Apple ][s and other

OT: Michael D. Schleif -- and any other social network types

2004-02-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
I don't know if I'm the only person you spammed with your social network invitation. I certainly didn't appreciate it. Not recognizing your name from Adam, I simply spamlisted the from address and shot a LART off to the admin contacts for the site you were using. Don't bother replying to me as y

Re: Info vs Man

2004-02-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 01:10:51PM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At the risk of starting holy war, why has the GNU project decided to go > with info pages instead of man pages? > > I googled several times with different search terms, but didn't find > much; this was probably the

Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-11 Thread No Spam
Paul Johnson wrote: Along with the whole Disney funkitude this morning[1], I discovered Comcast gave me an IPv6 address. Which begs the question: Now that large ISPs now support IPv6, when will Debian beyond the kernel? [1] And who didn't see this coming around the time Disney got rid of it's an

Re: (un)mounting smb shares

2004-02-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 04:23:26PM +0100, Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Am Mo, den 09.02.2004 schrieb Karsten M. Self um 23:38: > > Consider using autofs to automatically mount and umount the shares on > > demand. > > Thanks for the pointer, maybe I'll try it out when I try out the 2

Re: Old x486 as thin client

2004-02-11 Thread donw
Where could one find a stockpile of this paleolithic hardware? -- Don Werve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Unix System Administrator) Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue, Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn bork! bork! bork! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?

2004-02-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 08:33:31PM +, Dave Thorn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:34:32AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > It seems to me that, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I had a window > > manager that supported maximize-vertical (as opposed to maximizing in

Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-11 Thread Robert L. Harris
I've been running Debian and IPv6 for quite some time. It's a function of the kernel you either compile in or load the module. Thus spake Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Along with the whole Disney funkitude this morning[1], I discovered > Comcast gave me an IPv6 address. Which begs the q

Re: aol art files:

2004-02-11 Thread No Spam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I keep getting a message when I close AOL that AOL is removing aol art files. Do you know how I can stop this message everytime I close AOL. Thanks Jimmy Having been spanked by my own conscience, and having been exposed to an attempted spanking by another AOL use

Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Along with the whole Disney funkitude this morning[1], I discovered Comcast gave me an IPv6 address. Which begs the question: Now that large ISPs now support IPv6, when will Debian beyond the kernel? [1] And who didn't see this coming around the ti

Re: Old x486 as thin client

2004-02-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:16:10PM +1300, Richard Hector ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 05:00:27PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > The biggest problem I see is that 486s had really minimal video support. > > 640x480, *maybe* 800x600 if you're lucky. A small color palle

Re: Failure mounting extra partition on boot

2004-02-11 Thread Bruce
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 12:20 am, Bruce wrote: > > I have a rather strange problem that I can't figure out. > You have a bad mount option. "notail" is an option for ReiserFS, not > ext3. > > Remove the "notail" option from /etc/fstab. > > Adam That was it, thanks! This was initially format

Re: saving .debs to their original name

2004-02-11 Thread Nano Nano
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:43:36AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > Why? It might change, and you don't need it. apt-get --print-uris > > gives you the URI and the filename. Since you have both, you can > > either use wget's -O to put it in the right place when downloading, > > or rename things to

Re: how to tell if anything evil lurking in an .xls file?

2004-02-11 Thread Nano Nano
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 02:52:53AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > All along there is no tool to view all of what's inside an .xls file > in cleartext or whatever. All I can use is less(1). All I can do is > trust that other programs are doing the right thing inside their black > boxes. There is no

Re: how to tell if anything evil lurking in an .xls file?

2004-02-11 Thread Brett Carrington
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 02:52:53AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > All along there is no tool to view all of what's inside an .xls file > in cleartext or whatever. All I can use is less(1). Maybe the output of 'strings' would be useful too? I've not worked with xls files before but it may help if 'l

Re: saving .debs to their original name

2004-02-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
> Why? It might change, and you don't need it. apt-get --print-uris > gives you the URI and the filename. Since you have both, you can > either use wget's -O to put it in the right place when downloading, > or rename things to the correct filename afterwards. In http://jidanni.org/comp/apt-offl

Re: how to tell if anything evil lurking in an .xls file?

2004-02-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
> You could save it in the native format of Gnumeric or OpenOffice.org Calc, > then convert it back to xls. > That will likely strip out any nastiness hiding in the original xls file. < You know you can set "Security Level = {Medium,High}" in Office right? All along there is no tool to view all

"Wicked" resolver error

2004-02-11 Thread John Christian
Ok, got my Packages.gz problem fixed ... now I've run into another barrier ... So, I've gotten the base network install done, and have re-booted onto the kernel running on my hard drive, which brings me to the inital configuration menu. After flipping through the usual inital setup menus (roo

how do I file a bug against a virtual package?

2004-02-11 Thread Nano Nano
Somehow I ended up with wcatalan and not wamerican on my system. I have "bsdmainutils" which suggests and "xscreensaver" which recommends the virtual package "wordlist", and "wcatalan" was selected to fulfill that dependency. I remember I used to be prompted if I wanted wamerican or wamerican-l

Re: ..lwresd, was meant to be: BIND 9: rcnd: connection refused

2004-02-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:19:19 + (UTC), Joost Witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > >> > When I start Bind from '/etc/init.d/bind9 start', everything > >looks> > fine, like nothing wrong. But I found out t

Re: kernel 2.6.0. build error

2004-02-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Roelof Wobben] > drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x7b100): In function `fd_mcs_detect': > : undefined reference to `mca_read_stored_pos' > drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x7b10d): In function `fd_mcs_detect': > : undefined reference to `mca_read_stored_pos' That has to do with Micro Channel support. Micro C

RE: Root Password recovery

2004-02-11 Thread Ben Yau
I use a really helpful utility called "chtpw". It's actually a mini mandrake kernel on a floppy or cd. It was originally built as a utility to reset windows admin passwords (which is also the original reason I downloaded it). However, you can use it also to boot into single user mode. It has a

question and a helpful hint (pam_tally)

2004-02-11 Thread Ben Yau
Just wanted to post something that happened to me today that may be of future help to others. One of the ops guys here installed Debian on one of our nids servers a week ago (?) . For some reason when I logged in (ssh) it automatically booted me outand I had no idea why. I would ssh in as root an

Re: Directory name completion using bash_completion in unstable (forwarded from Phil Edwards)

2004-02-11 Thread Phil Edwards
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:16:27PM -0800, Ian Macdonald wrote: > On Fri 12 Dec 2003 at 07:51:13 +0100, you wrote: > > > How is the Debian version doing this? > > The Debian version probably applies the seven or eight official patches > to 2.05b. I seem to recall this was a problem with the stock

Re: Getting DRI going for Mach64 (was laptop HW detection ... )

2004-02-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 14:49:48 +0200, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:30:00AM +0100, David Baron wrote: > > <<< > > Make sure you have the following line in the module section > > Load"dri" > > > > Also add the fo

Re: Your eMail to Gibson Research Corp. was intercepted by GRC Security.

2004-02-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:19:35 -0800, "Security " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Your eMail to Gibson Research Corp. was intercepted by GRC Security. ..huh??? > The eMail you recently sent to GRC was intercepted by our eMail > filters. > > It was immediately deleted

Re: hi QUESTION

2004-02-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 07:07:45 -0800, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 02:56:43AM -0500, ~Honorable Dr Lou Who wrote: > > YOU MUST ELABORATE ON ABOVE LINKS, like for PC266 chips to

Re: Problem getting sound to work

2004-02-11 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Mark Healey (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 09:16:36 +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: >> [...] >> > Well I managed to fix roots gnome. Is there another mixer that is > installed by default that I might try? > Try aumix. It is a command line program. There are other mixer p

Re: music mixing

2004-02-11 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 07:46, Selso DaSilva wrote: > --- techlists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey guys, I'm looking for something I can use to edit and mix music. > > Under Winblows I used Reason. But I have yet to find a linux > > equivalent. > > > > I looked on freshmeat, and found a progra

Could not load OpenGL library wiht sarge and nvidia

2004-02-11 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, here is the message in a whole [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ut2003 Could not load OpenGL library History: Exiting due to error [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I've read when I get this Error I have to delete the /usr/lib/tls dir, but then I have only more troubl

Re: mapping mouse buttons

2004-02-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Anthony R. J. Ball] > I have been looking around with no luck. > > Is it possible to map extra mouse buttons, like buttons > 6 and 7, to keycodes? There are different things you can do, yeah. Assuming of course that your mouse driver is set up to know about your extra buttons, of course.

enabling dri makes kbd and mouse not work

2004-02-11 Thread Tom Vier
i have two cards. one is an agp 9200, but i don't think it's supported. right now, i have a pci 7500 installed. i changed some stuff in the config and now it almost works. the only problem is, the kbd and mouse buttons don't work! the mouse cursor moves just fine, though. weird. here's my config:

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