Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

2000-10-16 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 11:56:16PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 10:00:15AM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > If you want vim to be really useful you need the vim-rt package as well. > > I suspect that tips the balance. > > okay, so i > # apt-get install vim vim-rt > and

Mouse freezing in X

2000-10-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
I have noticed in the past few days that if I switch from the X display to a VC and back again that as soon as I move my mouse the cursor jumps to the upper right corner of the display and stays there. This is on a system running woody. Has anyone else noticed this? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Bob Nielsen wrote: > > If you want it to go into the low-power "green" mode (light turns > amber) you can run: > > /usr/bin/setterm -powersave on > > This works in a VC. For X you need to put the following in your > XF86Config: > > Option "power_saver" # enable VESA DPMS or use xset

Questions About dpkg and friends

2000-10-16 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I just moved over from redhat and am wondering about how to do a few things in the debian package management system. 1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what package it is part of, what's the best way to find out what package you need? 2) Once you install a package, how can you

RE: XFsetup

2000-10-16 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Is GPM loading through /etc/rcX.d? If so, then you'd need to point to /dev/gpmdata in XF86Setup instead of /dev/psaux or /dev/mouse. You can determine this by moving your mouse at the console. If you see the cursor moving (i.e. a grey rectangle), then GPM is running. HTH Patrick Cheong Informat

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

2000-10-16 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, will trillich wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 10:00:15AM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > If you want vim to be really useful you need the vim-rt package as well. > > I suspect that tips the balance. > > okay, so i > # apt-get install vim vim-rt > and vi still points to

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-16 Thread kmself
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:43:04AM +0200, Gerald Richter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > anyone remember how to get the monitor not just go black, but tell it to > use the -what was it called? > "vesa-compliant green-mode stuff-thing"... in ~/.xsession or /etc/X11/Xsession, add: xset

Re: Questions About dpkg and friends

2000-10-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:14:07PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > Hi, I just moved over from redhat and am wondering about how to do a few > things in the debian package management system. > 1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what package it is > part of, what's the best way to f

DVD movies?

2000-10-16 Thread Krzys Majewski
Anybody play DVD movies on Linux, or know somebody who does? Does it work? How does it work? What's the file size of a typical DVD movie? How does the quality compare with TV+VCR? What are the limitations? Do I need a hardware decoder? Etc., etc. -chris

Re: exim help needed (fwd)

2000-10-16 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 07:21:01PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > Did you look at /etc/aliases? > Yeah, what should it say? Mine says: postmaster: root root: phil ... > > > - outgoing mail (e.g. from Mutt) send via localhost:6025 which is port > > > forwarded to smtp.cs.ubc.ca:25. > > >

Re: machine hangs, etc. (fwd)

2000-10-16 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 07:21:22PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Yeah, I took out the CPU last night, removed the custom cooler > I put on last week, and put the stock cooler back, smearing some > standard white heatsink compound on the contact area. > The BIOS says ~35 C, which sounds OK to m

Re: Questions About dpkg and friends

2000-10-16 Thread Seth Cohn
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:14:07PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > > Hi, I just moved over from redhat and am wondering about how to do a few > > things in the debian package management system. > > 1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what

Re: Mouse freezing in X

2000-10-16 Thread Snowfox
From: Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have noticed in the past few days that if I switch from the X display to a VC and back again that as soon as I move my mouse the cursor jumps to the upper right corner of the display and stays there. This is on a system running woody. Has a

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

2000-10-16 Thread Damien
> i get no syntax hilighting at all (the 'file ends here, so > we'll show a tilde from here own down' is blue but that's all > that's colored). from the docs (place in .vimrc): """ Colour support and syntax highlighting """ " Some systems have a terminfo entry f

Re: Questions About dpkg and friends

2000-10-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Bob Nielsen wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:14:07PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > > Hi, I just moved over from redhat and am wondering about how to do a few > > things in the debian package management system. > > 1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what package it is > > p

Re: What windows ssh client you use?

2000-10-16 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 05:51:00PM -0500 or thereabouts, Snowfox wrote: > > Any of these Win clients let other machines see mapped ports? > > SecureCRT only lets localhost; don't see a way to change that. Want to > let a Linux box see mapped ports since it can't get out through work's > MSProxy s

Re: What windows ssh client you use?

2000-10-16 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:52:08AM -0400 or thereabouts, Andy Bastien wrote: > > > Another good (and free) client is the TTSSH extension to TeraTerm. > Yeah I have that too and it also timeouts. Maybe Debian is doing it? If it does then I still can't find it. -- Who's watching the watchmen?

Re: dev/mouse

2000-10-16 Thread staf wagemakers
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 06:33:29PM -0500, Gary L. Dolan wrote: > staf wagemakers wrote: > > > > /dev/mouse is (normally) a link to the real mouse device, you can create it > > with the "ln" command. > > > > ln -s /dev/mouse /dev/ttySxx ( or /dev/psaux if you've a ps2 mouse ) > > Isn't it the oth

Re: Mouse freezing in X

2000-10-16 Thread kmself
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:10:03PM -0700, Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have noticed in the past few days that if I switch from the X display > to a VC and back again that as soon as I move my mouse the cursor jumps > to the upper right corner of the display and stays there. This is o

ELO Touch Monitors

2000-10-16 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
Folks, I cannot locate the module xf86Elo.so , required for ELOTouch monitors, in the ebian archive. Any pointers? Thanks Sanjeev Gupta

Re: ELO Touch Monitors

2000-10-16 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
Folks, Found it in the xext package, thanks. Any pointers on its use? I am trying to place Linux on public access kiosks. BTW, does anyone know how to run Navigator full screen (no icons, no menu bar). I want to ensure that the user cannot close the window. Regards On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Sanje

Computer unusable -- can't get lilo to work

2000-10-16 Thread Mark Phillips
My computer is currently in an unusable state. I am borrowing my Dad's computer to write this! The story in summary form: 1. Purchased a new 15Gig IBM ATA/100 hard drive. Hooked it up as 1st drive. BIOS detects okay. 2. fdisk complains that there is no known partition table on it. I get fd

Re: Symlinking /tmp to /var...

2000-10-16 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 05:45:26AM -0500, Bud Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > > > Alternatively symlink /tmp to the existing /var/tmp > > > > That would have been my

Kde2 crashing and debugging

2000-10-16 Thread Alwyn Schoeman
Hi there, While someone was on the subject of his kde2 not working like mine is now Could we please build the kde2 .debs with debugging enabled so that our experiences can be sent back to the kde2 team and maybe help fix problems??? Thank you Alwyn

Re: ELO Touch Monitors

2000-10-16 Thread Andre Berger
Sanjeev Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, does anyone know how to run Navigator full screen (no icons, no menu > bar). I want to ensure that the user cannot close the window. Don't use a window manager, put netscape run into an infinite loop that keeps restarting it. I assume you want so

HP 4L

2000-10-16 Thread Petteri Heinonen
Hello. I've tried to make my HP Laserjet 4L to work for two nights now, and I am in need for some help. The problem is: gs prints ps-files so that only one fourth (top-left corner) of ps is actually printed (fitted on one sheet). I've checked ps's with ghostview, and they are shown just like they s

update 2.0.35 -> 2.0.38

2000-10-16 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Would someone kindly help in understanding all those new files after launching "make zImage"? This is a old system going from 2.035 to 2.0.38 and it is the first time I ever altered a system so deeply. This is what I got after compiling: In /usr/src/linux/ a vmlinux exe file, ~1,2 MB large. In /u

iproute2 and traffic control

2000-10-16 Thread Gianluca Montecchi
Hello. I am some troubles with iproute2. I am working with the kernel versione 2.4.0-test9 on a laptop with a pcmcia network card. I am trying to setup the laptop to have some control over the bandwidth, using iproute2. Following the "Linux 2.4 Advanced Routing HOWTO", I try: tc qdisc add de

Mouse in X doesn't work if gpm is installed

2000-10-16 Thread Marco Herrn
I use the potato distribution from LinuxTag 2000. If I installed gpm, the mouse in X doesn't work although I can use it under the console. After uninstalling gpm everything is OK. Does anyone know of that? How can I use both, gpm and X? Marco

Re: Questions About dpkg and friends

2000-10-16 Thread Francois Fayard
> 1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what package it is > part of, what's the best way to find out what package you need? Have a look at www.debian.org in the Package section, there is a search tool for this. Francois

ypbind memory

2000-10-16 Thread Douglas Eck
Anyone know if it's normal for ypbind to spawn four daemons that eat up 16Mb of memory? It works fine... but seems like a lot of overhead. I'm running woody... >From memstat: 4180k: PID 6497 (/usr/sbin/ypbind) 4180k: PID 6496 (/usr/sbin/ypbind) 4180k: PID 6495 (/usr/sbin/ypbind) 41

Re: update 2.0.35 -> 2.0.38

2000-10-16 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > Would someone kindly help in understanding all those new files after > launching "make zImage"? They are artifacts of the kernel compile and link. > In /usr/src/linux/ a vmlinux exe file, ~1,2 MB large. > In /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/ a zIma

Re: HP 4L

2000-10-16 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: > Hello. Hello! > I've tried to make my HP Laserjet 4L to work for two nights now, and I am in I've no personal experience with that printer, but we'll see. > need for some help. The problem is: gs prints ps-files so that only one > fourth (top-left corner) of ps is actually printed

Re: HP 4L

2000-10-16 Thread Paul Huygen
Petteri Heinonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [My] gs prints ps-files so that only one > fourth (top-left corner) of ps is actually printed (fitted on one sheet). > [I issue command] gs -q -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=/dev/lp0 test.ps If you configure the printer on your computer with magicfilter

Re: ypbind memory

2000-10-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Douglas Eck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anyone know if it's normal for ypbind to spawn four daemons that >eat up 16Mb of memory? It works fine... but seems like a lot >of overhead. I'm running woody... > >>From memstat: > 4180k: PID 6497 (/usr/sbin/ypbind) > 4

Re: Symlinking /tmp to /var...

2000-10-16 Thread Brian May
> "Daniel" == Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> In a standard installation (i.e. you havn't modified the Daniel> init-scripts yourself), /var/tmp is wiped. So the symlink Daniel> way worked for me without the slightest problem. Regards, Daniel> Daniel Are you

Re: Mouse in X doesn't work if gpm is installed

2000-10-16 Thread Danie Roux
In /etc/gpm.conf there is a line that says something about repeating. Comment that out. Sorry I can't be more specific, but I'm not near a Debian box now :-( -- Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:19:00AM +0200, Marco Herrn wrote: > I use the potato distribution from Linu

exim: Return-path:

2000-10-16 Thread Johann Spies
How can I get exim to rewrite my return-path? I tried the following line in my /etc/exim.conf, but it does not work. condition = "${lookup{$sender_address,$return_path}lsearch{/etc/exim/frommap}{1}{0}}" -- J.H. Spies - Tel. 082 782 0336 "But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,

Re: exim: Return-path:

2000-10-16 Thread Rino Mardo
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 12:11:04PM +0200 or thereabouts, Johann Spies wrote: > How can I get exim to rewrite my return-path? > > I tried the following line in my /etc/exim.conf, but it does not work. > > condition = > "${lookup{$sender_address,$return_path}lsearch{/etc/exim/frommap}{1}{0}}" >

Using GnuPG with mutt

2000-10-16 Thread Rino Mardo
Hi. Is the stock mutt.deb in 2.2 support gnupg? Reason is I can't seem to make gnupg sign my mails. -- Who's watching the watchmen? ICQ: 15096825

Re: What windows ssh client you use?

2000-10-16 Thread Snowfox
From: Rino Mardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 05:51:00PM -0500 or thereabouts, Snowfox wrote: > > Any of these Win clients let other machines see mapped ports? > > SecureCRT only lets localhost; don't see a way to change that. Want to > let a Linux box see ma

Re: exim: Return-path:

2000-10-16 Thread Alec Smith
In the Rewrite rules section (near the end of /etc/exim.conf) try something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]bcfrF This will take any mail with an outgoing domain of domain1.com, and map it to the same user, but at @domain2.com. On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Rino Mardo wrote: > On Mon, Oc

Re: exim: Return-path:

2000-10-16 Thread Rino Mardo
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:55:51AM -0400 or thereabouts, Alec Smith wrote: > In the Rewrite rules section (near the end of /etc/exim.conf) try > something like > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]bcfrF > > This will take any mail with an outgoing domain of domain1.com, and map it > to th

Re: iproute2 and traffic control

2000-10-16 Thread Colin Watson
Gianluca Montecchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am some troubles with iproute2. > >I am working with the kernel versione 2.4.0-test9 on a laptop with a >pcmcia network card. > >I am trying to setup the laptop to have some control over the bandwidth, using >iproute2. Heh, good luck. It took me a

Re: Questions About dpkg and friends

2000-10-16 Thread Colin Watson
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:14:07PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: >> Hi, I just moved over from redhat and am wondering about how to do a few >> things in the debian package management system. >> 1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what packag

disk files too large to fit on floppy disks

2000-10-16 Thread Zach Smith
Hello, I tried copying the Debian base disk files to actual floppy disks, and they are too large by about 30kB. I had to reformat my copy disks to use 81 tracks, which is risky. I am just now continuing this process, getting disk write errors... A better solution would be to recreate the files in

Re: I have apt on RH, now i want dselect (or capt or sth. like that)

2000-10-16 Thread Piotr Krukowiecki
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 07:29:13PM +0200, Piotr Krukowiecki ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:07:57AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:27:40PM -0400, David Z. Maze ([EMAIL > > > PROTEC

Where is calculator?

2000-10-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm sure I used to have a program called calculator (or xcalc?) in Slink, but it doesn't seem to be there in Potato. Is it in Woody? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Over 100 book reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreviews/ Skeptical articles:

Re: I have apt on RH, now i want dselect (or capt or sth. like that)

2000-10-16 Thread Leen Besselink
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: > I thought it's clear. There are two computers - one in my home (debian, > slow modem connection) and one where i study (RH, fast connection). > Now, i can take my /var/lib/dpkg/status file, compress it (~100KB) and > send it to RH. There i could choo

blocks on floppy disk

2000-10-16 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, I have a small (probably) stupid question. Normally, a floppy disk contains 1440 1k blocks. Well, this is what "they" always told me. When I mount an msdos floppy and I do df -k, I see that the number of blocks are 1423. I simple wonder where the other 17 are?? By the way, when I creat

Re: What windows ssh client you use?

2000-10-16 Thread Rino Mardo
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 05:52:18AM -0500 or thereabouts, Snowfox wrote: > >Same problem here with my Linux box and our M$ proxy that's why I >have to do apt updates via ftp only. All HTTP requests are blocked >and have to go via the proxy. My initial solution would be to use >Sam

Re: Using GnuPG with mutt

2000-10-16 Thread Moritz Schulte
Rino Mardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. Is the stock mutt.deb in 2.2 support gnupg? Yes, see dpkg -s mutt. > Reason is I can't seem to make gnupg sign my mails. Why not? What happens? Which error message do you get? Have you configured Mutt/GnuPG correctly? moritz -- /* Moritz S

Scheme/lisp and music was: Common Lisp

2000-10-16 Thread Thomas Guettler
Hi all! I want to learn lisp or scheme, too. I have read the faqs at www.faqs.org, and I am still not convinced which language I should start to learn. Scheme is much smaller, Common Lisp has more libraries What I want to do: I want to make some electronic music. I am dreaming of accessing th

Re: Using GnuPG with mutt

2000-10-16 Thread Rino Mardo
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 03:07:44PM +0200 or thereabouts, Moritz Schulte wrote: > Rino Mardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi. Is the stock mutt.deb in 2.2 support gnupg? > > Yes, see dpkg -s mutt. > > > Reason is I can't seem to make gnupg sign my mails. > > Why not? What happens? Which er

Re: Using GnuPG with mutt

2000-10-16 Thread Rino Mardo
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 03:07:44PM +0200 or thereabouts, Moritz Schulte wrote: > Why not? What happens? Which error message do you get? Have you > configured Mutt/GnuPG correctly? > Okay here's what happens after I've linked /usr/bin/gpgm with /usr/bin/gpg Before hitting "y" to send my email I w

Re: Questions About dpkg and friends

2000-10-16 Thread Damien
> If you grab the Contents-i386.gz (or whatever) file out of the archive - > it's in dists/stable or dists/unstable, depending - then you can grep > through that for whatever you need. I usually find that faster than the > available search tools on the web. debian provides all the necessary tools

isdn routing problem

2000-10-16 Thread Clemens Hermann
Hi, I have a little problem with my ISDN internet connection. The ISDN-Card is set up (ippp0) and I can connect to the ISP. Furthermore I have an ethernet card, connected to a local network. My problem is, that I do not know how to configure the Debian routing table to get the IP-Packages using th

IPAliasing restrictions?...

2000-10-16 Thread Max Lock
Folks, Jut a quickie, I'm using kernel 2.2.17 and I want to alias a 10.n.n.n network address to an interface with a primary ip of 212.19.n.n Is this possible or can I only alias an address that's in the same or a sub-net of the primary ip? -Thanks Max. -- Max Lock, System Administrator, TEL

Re: Where is calculator?

2000-10-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:52:25AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm sure I used to have a program called calculator (or xcalc?) in > Slink, but it doesn't seem to be there in Potato. Is it in Woody? xcalc is in the xcontrib package, and should be avaliable in potato (I haven't checked, though

Debian box sick... "hda lost interrupt" "Unknown vector 67"

2000-10-16 Thread hogan
I have a 486DX4/100 (Overdrive) with 32MB of RAM that I run Debian on.. Up until yesterday it was running like a dream.. Now it does stuff like "Unknown vector 67 in CPU#0" and after that and something about idling says "hda interrupt lost" over and over and over again. The motherboard is ISA/PCI

Re: blocks on floppy disk

2000-10-16 Thread Nate Amsden
stefan goeman wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a small (probably) stupid question. > > Normally, a floppy disk contains 1440 1k blocks. Well, this is what "they" > always told me. most/all 1.44MB disks are actually 2MB disks, the extra space is usually used for the overhead of the filesystem. i re

Re: Computer unusable -- can't get lilo to work

2000-10-16 Thread Mark Phillips
Just wanted to say that I've solved my lilo problems. I hooked up an old disk with debian on it and used the lilo on that. Now my new IBM hard drive boots properly (when made the third drive). I am still curious about why it the partition table of the IBM drive is not recognized when made the f

Re: disk files too large to fit on floppy disks

2000-10-16 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Zach, Have you used rawrite or dd? The disk-files are disk-images, this means, they should be copied bit by bit to a disk, and not by some tools which use the file-system, which is on the disk. By writing the raw images, they should fit absolutely exactly on one disk. Regards, Daniel On Su

RE: disk files too large to fit on floppy disks

2000-10-16 Thread Jason Holland
try this # dd if=imagefile of=/dev/fd0 or whatever device your floppy is Jason > > Hello Zach, > > Have you used rawrite or dd? The disk-files are disk-images, this means, > they should be copied bit by bit to a disk, and not by some tools which > use the file-system, which is on the disk. > By

switiching window managers

2000-10-16 Thread Eileen Orbell
Ho do I switch window managers? I am looking to switch to kde which I have downloaded and installed? I thought I added a line in .xinitrc #kde startkde Thanks Eileen Orbell Software & Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Fear the Penguin.

Re: need quick pointer for sound config

2000-10-16 Thread David A. Rogers
Does compiling the driver into the kernel work? I thought all the Crystal sound chips were PlugNPlay. dar On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know what it is, but I've never goten these cards to work on > Debian when built as modules (even when they worked with the

Re: Windows 2000 boot loader

2000-10-16 Thread patrick . charbonnier
I've installed without problem win2k and Deb 2.2 (using lilo as boot loader). There's a mini how to linux+NT just follows it. pch To: debian-user@lists.debian.org cc: (bcc: Patrick Charbonnier) Date: 15/10/2000 22:48 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Windows 2000 boot loader Has anyo

Re: blocks on floppy disk

2000-10-16 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Stefan, On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, stefan goeman wrote: > Hello, > > Normally, a floppy disk contains 1440 1k blocks. Well, this is what "they" > always told me. > When I mount an msdos floppy and I do df -k, I see that the number of > blocks are 1423. I simple wonder where the other 17 are??

RE: Dual NIC Problem

2000-10-16 Thread Kimsey-Hickman, Brian
Sorry I have taken so long as well. I got pulled onto another project. Yes, I have both configurations in /etc/network/interfaces. The only difference is that eth1 is on a different segment so the only number that is similar between the two NIC is the subnet mask. This is what I have (number ar

Re: Debian box sick... "hda lost interrupt" "Unknown vector 67"

2000-10-16 Thread Christoph Simon
> I have a 486DX4/100 (Overdrive) with 32MB of RAM that I run Debian on.. > > Up until yesterday it was running like a dream.. Now it does stuff like > "Unknown vector 67 in CPU#0" and after that and something about idling says > "hda interrupt lost" over and over and over again. [...] > > Any

Re: Debian box sick... "hda lost interrupt" "Unknown vector 67"

2000-10-16 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 12:06:48PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: > No, no ideas. But I'm suffering from very similar problems. It's a > network with 19 new computers, which tend to break down as often as > once a day. All of them have Asus motherboards, some have Pentium III > others have AMD K6 3D

Re: HP 4L

2000-10-16 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Paul Huygen wrote: > > Petteri Heinonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [My] gs prints ps-files so that only one > > fourth (top-left corner) of ps is actually printed (fitted on one sheet). > > [I issue command] gs -q -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=/dev/lp0 test.ps > > If yo

gnome-session quit starting sort of

2000-10-16 Thread Tricky Rick
gnome quit starting but it still shows it's running. I had to change my .xinitrc to start enlightenment. If I try to start gnome-seeion manually it still doesn't seem to be running but the process is running. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps aux | grep gnome mccombs 7879 0.0 0.9 5240 1184 pts/0

fvwm95

2000-10-16 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hello everybody, I have a question regarding the fvwm95 configuration. After I upgraded to 2.2, the little clock dissapeared from the lower right hand conner of the task bar. Could someone tell me how to get it back? thank you Lazar

Re: Debian box sick... "hda lost interrupt" "Unknown vector 67"

2000-10-16 Thread Robert Underwood
I had a very similar situation with the 2.2.16 kernel, and it only affected hda in a system with hda and hdc. (debian was on hdc, win98 on hda). in my case, it only happened when running debian. over a period of months, i drove my computer store owner bezerk, we checked the components with a dia

Re: Where is calculator?

2000-10-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Where is calculator? Date: Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:52:25AM +0100 In reply to:Anthony Campbell Quoting Anthony Campbell([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm sure I used to have a program called calculator (or xcalc?) in > Slink, but it doesn't seem to be there in Potato. Is it in Wo

Re: exim: Return-path:

2000-10-16 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 03:05:16PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:55:51AM -0400 or thereabouts, Alec Smith wrote: > > In the Rewrite rules section (near the end of /etc/exim.conf) try > > something like > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]bcfrF > > > > This wil

Re: disk files too large to fit on floppy disks

2000-10-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
you can use split. you can also use tar -M linux To err is human, to forgive is divine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ To oink is porcine, to meow is feline.http://www.dirac.org/p._. To neigh is equine to howl is lupine,

netscape and gnome (potato)

2000-10-16 Thread Sergio Brandano
Hi, apologies if this is a faq. I am running potato on i686, the packages are up to date, but the following thing happens: When calling netscape under a whatever wm than gnome, it pops up with no problem. When calling it under gnome, the program stays in memory but no main window appears.

Re: Scheme/lisp and music was: Common Lisp

2000-10-16 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Thomas Guettler wrote: > Hi all! > > I want to learn lisp or scheme, too. I have read the faqs at > www.faqs.org, and I am still not convinced which language I should > start to learn. Scheme is much smaller, Common Lisp has more > libraries > > What I want to do: I want

Password Change Machine

2000-10-16 Thread Daniel Whelan
I'm currently configuring a machine to be the master password machine for a large network of machines. Is there a way to configure it to allow only root to get an actual console, and to have all other users redirected to a password change program? Thanks, Daniel

burning CDs

2000-10-16 Thread Umum Wijoyo
Hi! Can anyone help me to burn some Debian 22 CDs? I'm using the Golden Hawk Technology software. Any reference would be helpful. TIA Umum Wijoyo -- Bandung, Indonesia

Re: Where is calculator?

2000-10-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Where is calculator? Date: Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:35:27AM -0400 In reply to:Wayne Topa Quoting Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Subject: Where is calculator? > Date: Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:52:25AM +0100 > > In reply to:Anthony Campbell > > Quoting

Re: Debian box sick... "hda lost interrupt" "Unknown vector 67"

2000-10-16 Thread Samuel Hathaway
hogan wrote: > I have a 486DX4/100 (Overdrive) with 32MB of RAM that I run Debian on.. > > Up until yesterday it was running like a dream.. Now it does stuff like > "Unknown vector 67 in CPU#0" and after that and something about idling says > "hda interrupt lost" over and over and over again. My

Re: Soundblaster AWE 64 installation and stuff

2000-10-16 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi All. Just wanted to say that I've finally got my AWE 64 working, say thanks to those who helped me out and document how I got it working. The first thing was that I had my BIOS set to PnP OS installed (dumb I know, now I wonder how it worked on RedHat?) so once I fixed that I could play waves,

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-16 Thread William Jensen
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:32:54PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:43:04AM +0200, Gerald Richter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hi! > > > > anyone remember how to get the monitor not just go black, but tell it to > > use the -what was it called? > > "vesa-complia

Re: Mouse freezing in X

2000-10-16 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Bob Nielsen wrote: > I have noticed in the past few days that if I switch from the X display > to a VC and back again that as soon as I move my mouse the cursor jumps > to the upper right corner of the display and stays there. This is on a > system r

Re: Where is calculator?

2000-10-16 Thread William Jensen
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:46:16PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:52:25AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I'm sure I used to have a program called calculator (or xcalc?) in > > Slink, but it doesn't seem to be there in Potato. Is it in Woody? > > xcalc is in the xcontr

Problem with '/etc/shutdown.allow'

2000-10-16 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
Hello, debian-users! There are two users on my debian system, who I want to be able to reboot and halt without being root. For this purpose I created /etc/shutdown.allow with the corresponding user names. Now when I press Ctrl-Alt-Del the system will reboot as expected - although I have to be logg

CD-drive blocked after successless mounting

2000-10-16 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
Hello, debian-users! I have two CD-drives: one for regular use and one for additional writing. I have been experiencing problems, when I tried to read burned CDs in the regular drive - well, that wouldn't matter much to me, but I wanted to try it out anyway. Here is what happened: $ mount /c

Re: x font server

2000-10-16 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Joseph Holland King wrote: > i just installed debian yesterday. today i downloaded and compiled the x > server and tried to get x running. in oreder to do so i rebooted my system > to make it recognize the mouse. when it tried to reboot it stopped wit

Re: Vim vs Elvis

2000-10-16 Thread will trillich
Dwight Johnson wrote: > Try this: > > $ vim .vimrc > > Place 'syntax on' in your .vimrc. In command mode, enter ':syntax on' and > start to experience syntax highlighting. wholly khow. newest vim fan, here. hiya! seeya, elvis -- wow. -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dontUthink.com/

Re: Problem with '/etc/shutdown.allow'

2000-10-16 Thread Kasatenko Ivan Alex.
Hello Andreas, Monday, October 16, 2000, 8:26:20 PM, you wrote: AH> There are two users on my debian system, who I want to be able to reboot AH> and halt without being root. For this purpose I created AH> /etc/shutdown.allow with the corresponding user names. Now when I press AH> Ctrl-Alt-Del the

Re: burning CDs

2000-10-16 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hi! Have you already downloaded the .img-images or are you using the pseudo-image-kit and which OS are you using? Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger - Original Message - From: "Umum Wijoyo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 6:12 PM Subject: burning CDs > Hi! > > Can

Re: Kde2 crashing and debugging

2000-10-16 Thread Aaron Brashears
You could do an apt-get source ... and then do a dpkg-buildpackage to build your own binary debs with debugging info. I've never done it myself, so I can't give you any pointers, but it should be possible. Alwyn Schoeman wrote: > Could we please build the kde2 .debs with debugging enabled so > tha

dselect

2000-10-16 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I'm trying to install gdk-imlib-dev package and I'm getting an error resulting from dependancies between libungif3g and libungif3g-dev. How can I just force the installation without worrying about the dependancies from within dselect? I tried Q, but then it wouldn't install them. Thanks. -Jeff

Debianized version of Interchange-Any tips or tricks

2000-10-16 Thread John Foster
I just tried to convert the RH6 version of Akopia Interchange 4.5.7 to a Debian installation via Alien on a Potato system. I seemed to work and installed OK, but Interchange did not work. Also the Debian package manager removed it all without any problems. The main areas of contention seem to be wh

Re: burning CDs

2000-10-16 Thread Jeff Green
If you are not careful Goldenhawk software by default uses "RAW" files not "ISO" files. You need to make a cue file that gives the right cluster size something like:- FILE c:\debian2-2.iso BINARY TRACK 01 MODE1/2048 INDEX 01 00:00:00 If you copy anonther cuefile to create the one you want t

Re: SCSI card

2000-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> The card came to me in a plain brown box labelled "UDS-IS11", P/N > -970160-16 > > With a bit of research I located this site: > http://support.umax.co.uk/technotes/f096B.htm > > Which tells me the card is a dtc-3181le and can be set up under linux > using: > insmod g_NCR5380 ncr_irq=2

apt-get error when updating

2000-10-16 Thread Willi Dyck
Hello! i'm getting this error msg when doing an apt-get update. i want to update from 2.1 to 2.2. W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Pac _debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file W: You may want to run apt-get update

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