Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-15 Thread Ignasi Tura
I hate Windows (1995-now) so I start to get interested in Linux. (1997) but I don't have the adequate attitude/knowledge (1998. Debian 2.0 install ok but problems with Winblows, still needed at the time). I keep on trying (1999. RedHat, but flakey e

Re: Creative Ensoniq modules..

2001-01-15 Thread Ignasi Tura
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:03:56AM -0700, Stefan Srdic wrote: > I just upgraded my sound card from an Vibra 16x to a Creative Ensoniq > PCI. My question is, which modules do I need to use this card. I know > that the es1371.o module will work with the card, but what other modules > > do I need to

Re: OT: X window-managers

2001-01-15 Thread Ignasi Tura
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:23:26AM -0600, ktb wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:47:28AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > > Hi all. I'm curious.. > > I installed X for the first(?) time last weekend > > and I installed FVWM. I had heard about Gnome, > > but decided not to use it because I wanted > > somet

Re: potato instalation error

2000-12-29 Thread Ignasi Tura
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 10:33:19PM -0200, Antonio wrote: > I`m trying too install the potato with CDROM (with the 5 boot`s floppies: > rescue, root, driver1, driver2 and driver3). > It`s all well until the Base System instalation. I select the CDROM > instalation and it begin read the Debian

Re: Locale annoying warning

2000-12-29 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hola Pedro, On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:13:00AM -0500, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > I have a fresh unstable install and every time I operate on the packages > with apt-get I get the following: > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: >LAN

Re: 'sendmail' option -commented- in Muttrc... (SOLVED)

2000-12-27 Thread Ignasi Tura
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:10:56PM -0500, D-Man et al wrote: >[...] commented out [...] default value [...] Oh, thank you. I thought that all missing parameters like this commented out one, would result in mutt complaining when sending mail. > PS. I would guess that english isn't your native l

Re: 'sendmail' option -commented- in Muttrc but working??

2000-12-26 Thread Ignasi Tura
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 01:44:24AM +0100, Ignasi Tura wrote: > > Dear colleagues, > > > > I am able to send mail correctly with Mutt. > > > > I take a look to what happens when I send mail with mutt, and the manual > > sends it sends a command to send

'sendmail' option in Muttrc but working??

2000-12-26 Thread Ignasi Tura
Dear colleagues, I am able to send mail correctly with Mutt. I take a look to what happens when I send mail with mutt, and the manual sends it sends a command to sendmail (in this case, aka exim). It seems that it's done through the option 'set sendmail' in /etc/Muttrc. But I have this option

exim pop auth question

2000-12-23 Thread Ignasi Tura
Dear colleagues, I use a mail service that needs POP authentication before sending messages through SMTP. I've read the exim FAQ and it points me to the http://cc.ysu.edu/~doug/exim-pop.tar.Z in order to solve this. But I'm no expert and I haven't any 'make it easy' guide in order to have it

Re: Merry Christmas

2000-12-22 Thread Ignasi Tura
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:24:08PM +0100, J. Reilink wrote: > Alex Horsnell wrote: > > > > To everyone on the list, > > > > Thank you for all your help and advise this year, I hope you all have a > > _VERY_ > > Merry Christmas and a brilliant Millennium!! > > > > I look forward to further help

Re: I can't type any ü, ä or ö in a shell

2000-12-20 Thread Ignasi Tura
> can anyone give me a hint wy I can't use ä,ö,ü in a shell. "less" is > also not able to show these letters. Where's the problem? What do I > have to look at to fix it? in /etc/profile use export LANG= and then, put your locale (mine is ca_ES, which means Catalonia_Spanish State). so exp

Re: diskless debian

2000-12-19 Thread Ignasi Tura
In www.debianplanet.org or in www.debianhelp.org there was a document that treated this issue. Hope that helps, Ignasi __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

Re: [OT] Recent increases in d-u posts?

2000-12-13 Thread Ignasi Tura
> > Hi folks, > > > > I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed a signigicant increase > > in posts in the last few weeks. Yes, I noticed it so. I usually go to geocrawler.com to read debian-user archives. There is there a top ten mailing list. Since August we were the third (SuSE Linux-

Re: Going Debian: advice request

2000-12-11 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hola Rodolfo, salutacions des de Barcelona! > After long doubts and four years using Linux, I'm finally decided to > use Debian as my distro and not change anymore. Good decision! :) > > I'm thinking of installing potato, since am really fed up of half-boiled > distros (RH7, for instance), bu

Re: odd gpm behavior

2000-12-07 Thread Ignasi Tura
> I'm running potato, and have recently been having trouble with my > mouse not working under X (XFree86 3.3.6), even though it worked > fine on the console. That (and some tinkering and reading) led me > to believe that gpm might be causing trouble. > > At the same time, my dialup with ppp and

wmaker crashes. Locale involved?

2000-12-07 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hi again, I'm recently experiencing a much larger wmaker crashes. My locale ca_ES is not supported by it. But I can do several long sessions without problems. My problem is this one: I don't know what can cause the crash. my most recent .xsession-errors are quite simple: Warning: locale not sup

Re: Getting off-line version of debian manual

2000-12-06 Thread Ignasi Tura
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 02:04:24PM +1000, Michael Glickman wrote: > > Is there a way to read the manual off-line (e.g. a tarball that has all > html's or a postscript version) ? > > Awaiting reply impatiently. > > Michael Package: debian-guide Version: 1.0.0 Filename: dists/potato/main/binar

Re: WM for GNOME

2000-12-06 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hi Marcin, F12 on wmaker -> window managers -> info panel... wmaker says it's Gnome compliant. There are a pair of options in WPrefs, at the far right of the menu, regarding compatiblity with Gnome. Hope that you like Gnome (I'm also ru

Fetchmail skips messages that Netscape Messenger does not

2000-12-05 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hello list, I have the following problem with Fetchmail. Now it does skip letters that should be downloaded. It run appropiately in the past but now I don't know what happens. I've tried to download the mail with Netscape Messenger, and it behaves correctly.

Kernel config questions: SCSI, Tux and letters

2000-12-05 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hello list, I have a SCSI card Symbios Logic 53c400. Searching list archives I read that the kernel option for my card was the NCR 5380. But if I look the kernel options in SCSI low-level drivers I find the following options: NCR53c7,8xx SCSI support NCR53C8XX SCSI support and a final SY

Re: Netscape

2000-12-05 Thread Ignasi Tura
Netscape 4.73 from Potato r0 works well here. Best, Ignasi On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:31:26PM +, Timothy Bedding wrote: > Is anyone using version 4.6 of Netscape? > > I get a crash when downloading > http://www.ishipress.com/chess.htm > > Do anyone else get that? If so, can you > email me

Re: Mail deleted locally -> deleted on the server?

2000-12-04 Thread Ignasi Tura
> That's be fetchmail's default. If it's not doing it, then check your > configuration (options like 'flush', 'keep' and 'nokeep' affect these > things). See man fetchmail for the nitty gritty. Thanks for your answer, but perhaps I've not done the question with much accuracy. I know that fetchma

Mail deleted locally -> deleted on the server?

2000-12-04 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hi list, I'd like to know if I can enable any option in the typical Debian mail combination fetchmail-mutt-exim to do like the Netscape Messenger option "When deleting a message locally, remove it from the server". Thank you. Ignasi

Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?

2000-11-30 Thread Ignasi Tura
I won't say much more that has been said before (actually I wouldn't be able to say halfof the comments said, he). But, as an ex-Eudora Light user I'll tell you something that perhaps you'll appreciate a lot. When emptying the trash (200 messages per day, to say the least) the difference

Re: Purging a package with apt (was: Re: Q: Why 24 depth/not 32?)

2000-11-29 Thread Ignasi Tura
> > apt-get --purge xdm > > > It should be : apt-get --purge remove xdm Hi, I've grepped /usr/doc/apt for 'purge', man apt, apt --help and I haven't found any reference towards 'purge'! I should repeat the commands and clean my glasses, or the docs must be updated? A purge option f

Re: password, username in .muttrc

2000-11-28 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hi, On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 06:32:23PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > The truth is that I am not sure. I supposed that it was in .muttrc, > that's probably the reason why I could not see anything in the > documentation. Does it mean that mutt uses fetchmail to fetch the > messages? >From /us

Re: Modem info needed...???

2000-11-26 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hi Larry, I'm owner of Pavilion 8550 with the same crap as you. I also took off that "board" with any unpleasant result. The Rockwell is also a soundcard which is pretty uncompatible with SoundBlaster, which was another reason to remove it and leave it waiting for bette

acceleration + threshold vs. speed

2000-10-06 Thread Ignasi Tura Olivella
Dear colleagues, Under 1024x768 the idea of 'acceleration' and 'threshold' from xset values dizzies me a lot as a Windoze user. I was very used to the simple 'speed' value under Windoze. Can anyone point me to any direction so I can be able to get something similar to just speed, like I have unde