On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 03:19:33PM -0600, Jacob S wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:28:40 +0100
> Martin Lorenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
[...]
> >
> > did you (or anyone else) experience problems when printing pages which
> > contain non-latin-1 characters like this one:
> > http://de.wikipedia
> After you get your thinkpad call and ask for the rescue CD's. It will
> be free. It won't be exactly the same as what is on the restore
Thanks for the tip.
> license. Create a VFAT or M$ FAT to share. Read the grub manual on the
> knoppix CD, great idea if you are new to linux.
Not
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Alex Polite wrote:
I'm trying to play som mkv (matroska) video files. So far I've tried
mplayer, xine, vlc and gstreamer, all from unstable. None of them are
able to play the files. Xine complains about a missing demuxer. I know
that these programs support matroska so I guess the problem is the
deb
Tim Timmerman wrote:
> Hi,
>
>I need some help understanding this one:
>
>I'm trying to set up a mythtv system (using some debian packages
>linked to from the mythtv site, haven't got the URL to hand).
>
>I managed to get the database set up etc, but whatever I tried,
>I coul
I'm running sid on an Intel box. I have been running devfs for about 5 years.
My motherboard is a KT133 with a Southbridge PCI controller and a Promise
PDC20265 controller. I have the following drive config:
Southbridge controller:
hda: Maxtor 6Y120L0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Maxtor 6Y160P0, ATA DIS
Victor,
You are well prepared for your linux thinkpad journey.
I have a T41 with dual boot debian.
Absolutely get a thinkpad. The T series are really slim. Thinkpads are
top rated for Linux installation.
After you get your thinkpad call and ask for the rescue CD's. It will
be free. It won't b
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 9:14 pm, David P James wrote:
> just wish I could pass print jobs off to kprinter directly and not
> have to bother with Mozilla's annoying print system. Then again, I
> mainly use Konq now and that's all I use to print.
Er under Mozilla does going to Print, properti
You can make Mutt work directly with SMTP, no need for Exim, by
installing "msmtp":
apt-cache show msmtp...
Description: light SMTP client with support for server profiles
msmtp is an SMTP client that can be used to send mails from Mutt and
probably
other MUAs (mail user agents). It forwards mai
I want one that is wide on the bottom and kinda of upside-down
funnel shaped... they are much harder to tip over than usual.
Any urls would be nice.
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On Tuesday 23 November 2004 7:54 pm, Victor Munoz wrote:
> It will probably not be possible to buy a laptop without XP installed.
I believe CTL will sell you a laptop without an OS.
http://www.ctl.info/
> There's also the issue of the special "recovery" partition somewhere in the
> hard disk. A
Thomas H. George wrote:
> Since the local printer is installed and is working correctly I hesitate
> to delete and reinstall it. It would seem best to remove the printer
> from Openoffice and reinstall it there but I don't see how to do this.
Have you looked under OpenOffice.org Printer Administ
-Original Message-
From: Victor Munoz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 10:55 AM
To: debian-user
Subject: Laptop choice, first boot issues
Hello. I'm thinking of buying a new laptop. I don't know much about the
subject (I've only had one old laptop, which I b
Hello. I'm thinking of buying a new laptop. I don't know much about the
subject (I've only had one old laptop, which I bought from a friend, and he
had already installed sid). From what I've learned googling, IBM Thinkpads
seem to be one of the best options. I live in Japan, and Japanese brands ar
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 04:17:42PM +0100, Andrea Tivoli wrote:
> Mozilla uses Xprint's configurations.
While this is true, it's certainly not a *requirement*. You don't have to
use the brain-damaged Xprint unless you want to.
Continue printing via Mozilla as normal.
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On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 03:37:16 +0100, Fabian Franz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >But when I run nxclient, a window comes up with no information what so
> >ever. All I can do in this popped up window is to press the OK button.
> >I am not sure what is wrong with it.
>
> FreeNX does not ship any nxcli
On Tue 23 November 2004 19:34, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > There was a long thread about this a few months back. After
> > reading it and the bug reports the only technical reason that I
> > read was that xprt did a better job printing glyphs from other
Bruce Edge wrote:
Hi,
I need to make apt-get operate on a debootstrap built tree.
I don't want to chroot into it because I need to mount --bind my local
debian mirror then.
Is there some -o option::whatever I can use to tell it to use this built
tree as the root?
Lastly, is there a comprehensive
>But when I run nxclient, a window comes up with no information what so
>ever. All I can do in this popped up window is to press the OK button.
>I am not sure what is wrong with it.
FreeNX does not ship any nxclient for now.
So you have to download either nxclient from nomachine.com or grab the s
Cord Beermann wrote:
>Hallo! Du (ms linux) hast geschrieben:
>
>>I am currently registered in debian-users mailing
>>list,
>>but have not been recieving e-mails from the list
>>since
>>November 20th, 2004.
>>I have checked at the mailing archieves of
>>debian-users and there are still e-mails on t
Hi,
I need to make apt-get operate on a debootstrap built tree.
I don't want to chroot into it because I need to mount --bind my local
debian mirror then.
Is there some -o option::whatever I can use to tell it to use this built
tree as the root?
Lastly, is there a comprehensive list of all the s
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:00:26 +0100, Reid Priedhorsky wrote:
>
> In a fit of madness, I went on a spree of reconfiguration and
> reinstallation of font-related packages. Now, I've killed ghostscript.
Hi folks,
I still don't know what happened, but after the bludgeon of dpkg --purge
--force-depends
Thank you in advance for your help. I am experienced with
C/C++ on the WinAPI and computers in general, but I am brand
new to Linux / Debian.
My current system is configured as follows:
Dell Dimension XPS T600 (PIII/600mhz)
640mb ram
wireless keyboard, USB optical mouse
USB Konica Minolta PagePro
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 01:38:22AM +0100, Maurits van Rees wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 11:56:31PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > No, it didn't. There is a message before "Sending message..." saying
> > "Create Sent Y/n". Sent does exist on the imap server, but perhaps not
> > in the rig
Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 23 06:12 -0600]:
>> Anyway, if someone could explain or point me to a document or thread
>> (which I couldn't find) that explains why we need xprint, how it fits
>> in, and what programs it replaces, I'd apprec
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 11:56:31PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> No, it didn't. There is a message before "Sending message..." saying
> "Create Sent Y/n". Sent does exist on the imap server, but perhaps not
> in the right place. Maybe this is the snag.
Having a Sent folder is fine. A second
Clive Menzies([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> >
> > http://www.capital.net/~brittman/puppypic/puppies.html
> > for those that might want to try it for themselves.
> It prints fine here on sid (firefox 1.0) ps/cups
> Clive
Thanks Clive & Nate. This is really strange. I'm using cu
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> Wayne Topa wrote:
> | Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> |
> |>On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:52:03 -0500
> |>Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> |>
> |>
> |>>Jacob S(
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 14:09 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 12:30 -0500, Brian Pack wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 12:10 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Are those *other* kernels from the 2.4.x variety? if Yes, this does not
> > > surprise me.
> > >
> > > For the
[...]
> - here's the excerpt from the Muttrc
> manpage:
>
> sendmail
> Type: path
> Default: "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi"
>
> Specifies the program and arguments used to deliver mail sent by Mutt.
> Mutt expects that the speci-
> fied program interprets additional arguments as
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:20:14 +0100, Frederik Dannemare
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have placed them at http://www.sentinel.dk/files/
Thanks to you i found the problem:
The following lines from amavisd.conf are verry important and are
commented out by default:
$mailfrom_notify_admin = "[EM
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:30:07 +0100, Frederik Dannemare
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" actually a valid mail address that your
>mail server will accept mails for?
Yes it is.
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On Tuesday 23 November 2004 1:28 pm, Martin Lorenz wrote:
> did you (or anyone else) experience problems when printing pages which
> contain non-latin-1 characters like this one:
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%C3%9Ftheorie
Nope worked just great here; but then I /do/ have a real
postscript prin
On Monday 22 November 2004 07:06, Brian Coiley wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> As a complete newbie, I've had lots of help from people here over the
> last few days, and as a result have upgraded Woody to Sarge. However, I
> have also been advised to install a 2.4 kernel version, as opposed to the
> 2.2 vers
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:22:37 -0500
David Mandelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Raquel Rice wrote:
> > that allows telnet, then I'd check /etc/hosts/allow and
> > /etc/hosts/deny
>
> Shouldn't those be /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny ?
>
> /etc/hosts/* can't exist because /etc/hosts is a f
Raquel Rice wrote:
> that allows telnet, then I'd check /etc/hosts/allow and
> /etc/hosts/deny
Shouldn't those be /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny ?
/etc/hosts/* can't exist because /etc/hosts is a file for basic host
lookup (including localhost).
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On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 22:58 +0100, wolfgang pauli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem mounting my camera. It worked before, but since some time
> ago, it won't work anymore. Here is some output from the bash. I hope
> someone can help me to find out what's wrong.
>
> #dmesg
> scsi6 : SCSI emulation
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:12:01 +
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have telnetd installed, and my debian machine is on a network
> with Windows and Mac machines. IP addresses are set up, I can ftp
> back and forth etc.
>
> But when I try to telnet from my Windoze machine to the debian
> one, I get
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:53:04 -0600
Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 23 16:27 -0600]:
> >
> > Actually, that's not true. "apt-cache show mozilla-firefox" reveals
> > that xprt is now only in the recommended line, instead of the
> > Depends line. In
michael wrote:
Al Stone wrote:
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 13:02 +, michael wrote:
Folks - this is essentially a question of how to install Intel
compilers on a Debian box, something I would think is solved but...
Um, no, I doubt it is solved. AFAIK, Intel does not
officially support Debian.
[sni
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 06:18:07AM +0200, Tapio Lehtonen wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 08:17:42PM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 07:31:16AM +0200, Tapio Lehtonen wrote:
> > > Root can rmmod those modules, but I need to find a way for ordinary
> > > users to use
On (23/11/04 15:52), Wayne Topa wrote:
> Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:17:29 -0500
> > Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> > > > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:41:32 -0600
> > > > Nate Barg
> > Do you get an Exim banner come up?
>
> Yes, I get
> 220 potty.co-ho.net ESMTP Exim 4.34 Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:27:09 +>
>
> >
> > When you say "Sending mail normally from command line functions
> > correctly", what exactly do you mean? It is possible that the
> > command(s) you issue are no
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 09:43:34 +1300, Steven Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A useful X ie gnome or kde with say a web browser like mozilla, this URL is
> redhat 6.0 which is not even supported any more!
>
> To run say a rh 9 or fedora desktop, ie something reasonably useful, a
> semi-powerful
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 22:12 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have telnetd installed, and my debian machine is on a network with Windows
> and Mac machines. IP addresses are set up, I can ftp back and forth etc.
>
> But when I try to telnet from my Windoze machine to the debian one, I get
>
* Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 23 16:27 -0600]:
>
> Actually, that's not true. "apt-cache show mozilla-firefox" reveals that
> xprt is now only in the recommended line, instead of the Depends line.
> In mozilla-browser it's in the Suggests line. I have been following the
> latest Mozilla
Just so you know, when I said ftp, I meant using ftp for file transfer
between computers with a user/pass. Using anonymous ftp to download
files is fine.
Joe wrote:
> Thanks, I'll look at these packages. I'm using telnet and ftp out of
> ignorance I guess - relative newbie, just getting started an
* Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 23 16:38 -0600]:
> It seems that the page I can't print with firefox (with or without
> xprt) prints fine with mozilla-browser. I tried firefox with xprt and
> postscript and it continues to crash, without printing. This is with
> with the Debian packag
> On Tuesday, 23.11.2004 at 20:31 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> WHen I compose a message in mutt and hit Y, it says "Sending
>> message..." and waits, apparently not sending anything until I hit Q.
>> SO what does mutt do at this point? I must have to configure
>> something, but I'm unclear
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| Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
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|>On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:52:03 -0500
|>Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|>
|>
|>>Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
|>>
|>>>On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:17:29 -0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> kernels, some even boot but none does what I want. One thing I need to
> know is how to get modules to compile... there doesn't seem to be any
Most modules come with the kernel source code, you just have to compile
them as modules (i.e. 'm' instead of 'y' or in menuconfi
Why are you using telnet and ftp in the first place?
They are both very insecure (clear-text passwords) and you should use
ssh and sftp, rsync, or something that encrypts (or better yet, doesn't
send) passwords.
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I have telnetd installed, and my debian machine is on a network with Windows
and Mac machines. IP addresses are set up, I can ftp back and forth etc.
But when I try to telnet from my Windoze machine to the debian one, I get
almost immediate disconnection - it doesn't really seem to log on at a
I am trying to run prboom under woody. I have libsdl loaded, as required,
and this in turn requires aalib. Also got svgalib installed.
Argh! Prboom runs in text mode - ie. aalib.
So I have a script that goes:
SDL_VIDEODRIVER='svgalib' ; export SDL_VIDEODRIVER
but that makes no differenc
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've filed a bugreport against sysv-rc.
I meant sysv-rc-config, ofcourse.
Mike.
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Newbie, sort of.
I want to change the kernel on my system - some bits are not needed, other
bits not in there are now required. My stock kernel is 2.4.18-bf2.4.
I've downloaded 2.6.9 from www.kernel.org, and managed to compile a few
kernels, some even boot but none does what I want. One thin
Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
On Tue, 2004-11-23 21:40:52 +, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ cat sizes.cpp
#include
using namespace std;
int main() {
cout << sizeof(char) << "\n";
cout << sizeof(int) << "\n";
cout << sizeof(float) << "\n"
Bill Wohler wrote:
I can use the Remote Desktop under Windows XP to display the desktop of
a particular Windows machine. I thought that I could install xvncviewer
on my (much-preferred) Debian box and run "xvncviewer windows-host-name"
and it would be similar. But xvncviewer says "Connection refuse
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 21:23, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:45:44 +, Chris Lale
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 14:27, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > if you click on the gnome applications menu and navigate to the desired
> > > submenu you can
Hi,
I have a problem mounting my camera. It worked before, but since some time
ago, it won't work anymore. Here is some output from the bash. I hope
someone can help me to find out what's wrong.
#dmesg
scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: OLYMPUS Model: C-700UltraZoom
I can use the Remote Desktop under Windows XP to display the desktop of
a particular Windows machine. I thought that I could install xvncviewer
on my (much-preferred) Debian box and run "xvncviewer windows-host-name"
and it would be similar. But xvncviewer says "Connection refused."
What am I miss
Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:52:03 -0500
> Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> > > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:17:29 -0500
> > > Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Jacob S([
Punit Ahluwalia wrote:
I installed grub to /dev/hdc2 which is also /root. This is not a dual boot. It
is plain
and simple "Woody".
How do I install grub to the MBR?
you must start grub, either from in a working linux or by booting
directly into grub.
from the grub command line:
$ root = hd(x,y
Nathanael Hasbrouck wrote:
You don't need to worry about creating the MBR, I believe it's already
there.
You are correct. The MBR is a place, not a thing.
To install the bootloader, run either grub or lilo - I also
reccomend grub. 'man grub' for info, and googleing for 'installing grub'
or
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erik Dörnbach
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
Hello people,
I'm having a Debian Sarge box here running fetchmail, sendmail,
spamass-milter. Mail
retrieved by fetchmail from 2 multidrop POP accounts is delivered to
local sendmail (for
spam check) and then forwarded via
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 12:43:32PM -0800, Punit Ahluwalia wrote:
> I installed grub to /dev/hdc2 which is also /root. This is not a dual boot.
> It is plain
> and simple "Woody".
>
> How do I install grub to the MBR?
If I understand your setup correctly, you want to install grub to hda.
This is
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:45:44 +, Chris Lale
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 14:27, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
>
> >
> > if you click on the gnome applications menu and navigate to the desired
> > submenu you can *right* click and add a new menu item there. no need for
> > externa
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:28:40 +0100
Martin Lorenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 11:01:21AM -0600, Jacob S wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:17:29 -0500
> > Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> [...]
> >
> > Printing has been working great in Mozilla-browser and galeo
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:23:42 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrea Vettorello wrote:
[...]
>
> No such luck. I want to use fbdev but fullscreen, so that the video
> fills the screen. fbxine does that immediately, mplayer fills the whole
> screen but the video sits in a windo
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On Tuesday, 23.11.2004 at 20:31 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> WHen I compose a message in mutt and hit Y, it says "Sending
> message..." and waits, apparently not sending anything until I hit Q.
> SO what does mutt do at this point? I must have t
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:26:03 +0100, Alexandru Cabuz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I set up a chroot last night following the instructions in the howto.
> By the way, that howto needs some updating. There are some details
> that are not mentioned. Like when and how to run base-config to set up
> the
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:52:03 -0500
Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:17:29 -0500
> > Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> > > > On Tue, 23 Nov 20
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 08:31:17PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When I compose a message in mutt and hit Y, it says "Sending message..."
> and waits, apparently not sending anything until I hit Q. SO what does
> mutt do at this point? I must have to configure something, but I'm
> unclear wha
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:30:16 +0100, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 07:35 -0800, Jerry Turba wrote:
>> I have installed the 2.6.8 kernel and it is working fine, but I cannot
>> create a new boot disk for it (mkboot) because it complains that it runs
>> out of space.
>> Is there a wa
Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:17:29 -0500
> Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> > > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:41:32 -0600
> > > Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > * Bill
A useful X ie gnome or kde with say a web browser like mozilla, this URL is
redhat 6.0 which is not even supported any more!
To run say a rh 9 or fedora desktop, ie something reasonably useful, a
semi-powerful cpu like a p2-233 with 128+ of ram is the realistic minimum IMHO.
This is what I hav
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.11.23.2134 +0100]:
> What's the point of /home being gid staff? Means I can add user home
> directories as a user, but I still need root (or sudo) to chown them
> and add the actual users.
Brian Link says that now root can add homedirectories o
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 14:27, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
>
> if you click on the gnome applications menu and navigate to the desired
> submenu you can *right* click and add a new menu item there. no need for
> external applications.
This does not seem to work for me. Right-click on menu item = no con
I installed grub to /dev/hdc2 which is also /root. This is not a dual boot. It
is plain
and simple "Woody".
How do I install grub to the MBR?
--- CW Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 10:00:38AM -0800, Punit Ahluwalia wrote:
> > Thanks for the response. But I did dpkg
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 02:31 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> WHen I compose a message in mutt and hit Y, it says "Sending message..."
> and waits, apparently not sending anything until I hit Q. SO what does
> mutt do at this point? I must have to configure something, but I'm
> unclear what.
>
I set up a chroot last night following the instructions in the howto.
By the way, that howto needs some updating. There are some details
that are not mentioned. Like when and how to run base-config to set up
the chroot environment, and whatnot, and when and how one should run
aptitude to install al
Andrea Vettorello wrote:
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:13:29 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Debian!
I posted earlier
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=fbxine+group:linux.debian.user&hl=en&lr=&scoring=d&selm=2VxCv-5jm-9%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=2
an attempt to run fbxine: OSS sound wou
On Saturday 20 November 2004 09:38, Jason Rennie wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 04:41:26PM -0700, Justin Guerin wrote:
[snip]
>
> So, I've been succesful in getting the sound driver (vi82cxxx_audio)
> to not load upon boot. However, it now looks like the problem is
> deeper than just passing the
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:30:33 +1300, Steven Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Debian used to do a minimum spec install at 6meg of ram, this used to need
> "special floppies" I do not know if it is still available as it was 4 or 5
> years ago.
>
> With this spec machine you are planning to run in
What's the point of /home being gid staff? Means I can add user home
directories as a user, but I still need root (or sudo) to chown them
and add the actual users.
Please explain. Any input welcome.
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I have put up a set of .debs of the upcoming OpenOffice.org 2.0 version
here:
http://people.debian.org/~halls/openoffice/test/ooo1.9-java/
These are .debs generated by the new openoffice 'native installer'
system, and are not of the same quality or caliber as Debian users would
normaly expect to
WHen I compose a message in mutt and hit Y, it says "Sending message..."
and waits, apparently not sending anything until I hit Q. SO what does
mutt do at this point? I must have to configure something, but I'm
unclear what.
System is sid with exim4. Mutt is receiving imap from a remote system.
On Monday 22 November 2004 2339, somebody named Curtis Vaughan inscribed
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> > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:51:02 -0800, Curtis Vaughan
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > wrote:
> >> I just got hold of an old portable PC, which I want to put linux on.
> >> Since the networking on this device is
On 2004-11-21, Jules Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:50:38 -0500, Williams, Allen wrote:
>
>> 4. I can't log in to the X desktop as root. Where do I fix that?
>
> It's a security feature. If you're using GDM, there's a configuration
> option at the login screen to enab
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 00:03, Kent West wrote:
> Brian Coiley wrote:
> Hmmm; why a woody package on a sarge upgrade? Again, perhaps the upgrade
> wasn't completed?
Just a thought - perhaps some of the packages are downloaded and
unpacked but not configured? You can configure all unpacked but
unco
s. keeling([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> Incoming from Wayne Topa:
> > Karsten M. Self([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> > >
> > > http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Downloads/SpamTools.tar.gz
> >
> > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> >
> > Do
Op wo, 24-11-2004 te 08:30 +1300, schreef Steven Jones:
> Debian used to do a minimum spec install at 6meg of ram, this used to
> need "special floppies" I do not know if it is still available as it
> was 4 or 5 years ago.
>
> With this spec machine you are planning to run in command line mode
>
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:13:29 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Debian!
>
> I posted earlier
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=fbxine+group:linux.debian.user&hl=en&lr=&scoring=d&selm=2VxCv-5jm-9%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=2
> an attempt to run fbxine: OSS sound would quit after
Hello
David Baron (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I am seeing the "segmentation fault" message as the startup scripts
> race by. Cannot retrieve it by dmesg afterwards. It is apparently
> (hopefully) harmless. Anybody else getting this. I have the most
> recent 2.6.8-4 kernel image off Sid.
Activ
Andreas Janssen wrote:
Mark Scott (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
[Sound does not work]
I get the impression that moving to a 2.6 kernel with
alsa might fix things - but how likely is it I can do
that without breaking anything? Would that upgrade be
a sensible move? Is it really as simple as apt-get
Brian Coiley wrote:
Googling the problem reveals some folks discussing files called "Xauthority"
and "xinitrc" which are in the home directory. I have no such files.
Should I, perhaps?
Try creating a new user ("adduser testman") and then log in as that
user; see if X works.
If it does, then t
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:20:23 -0800, Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, I want to put a linux distro on an old handheld pc. Here are it
> specs. Most distros, however, don't seem to like the lack of RAM.
>
> TOSHIBA LIBRETTO 50CT
> PROCESSOR Intel Pentiumï 75 Mhz
> 16Mbit EDO DRAM
>
>
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> Brian Coiley wrote:
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> >"Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in messag
> >
> >Exactly the same. I don't think it has anything to do with the wm. From
> >what I've learned persusing archives, the "client rejected from loca
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 11:01:21AM -0600, Jacob S wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:17:29 -0500
> Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
[...]
>
> Printing has been working great in Mozilla-browser and galeon for me, as
> well. No complaints at all.
>
> I'm running Sarge, btw.
did you (or anyone
Debian used to do a minimum spec install at 6meg of ram, this used to need
"special floppies" I do not know if it is still available as it was 4 or 5
years ago.
With this spec machine you are planning to run in command line mode only? if
you expect a gui, forget this hardware IMHO. If it is for
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