New Motherboard

2000-10-31 Thread Jack Morgan
I need to get a new Motherboard, I want to use my Celry 566 MHZ. Any suggestions? Has anyone got the intel 815e chip to work under with Debian? Thanks -- Jack Morgan Debian GNU/Linux Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Upgrade problems...

2000-10-31 Thread Matthew Gibbins
Hi folks. In spite of best intentions I experienced corruption of a Reiserfs partition. This was particularly noticable while running 'apt-get dist-upgrade' on a woody system. To put it briefly apt couldn't remove certain files during install and halted at the point. I rebuilt the filesystem

Re: X config problem causes me to have reinstall entire OS--!!newbie warning!!

2000-10-31 Thread Edward Craig
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Jim Merante wrote: > Is there a keystroke combination that will prompt the > boot commands and allow me to skip the load X windows > command? > Actually, what I find works is Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (repeat as necessary). Apparently (judging by other answers) XDM is stubbo

[OT] Mozilla and JunkBuster

2000-10-31 Thread Damon Muller
Hi gang, Is anyone else using junkbuster (vanilla potato version) and Mozilla (recent/latest nightlies)? I'm using the above combination and junkbuster doesn't seem to work very well anymore. I can't see how it could be possible, but I was wondering if maybe junkbuster didn't work as well with Moz

Re: ftponly

2000-10-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 12:33:20PM -0200, Flavio Alberto wrote: > I'm find ftponly shell for intall in my Debian box? i use /sbin/nologin from OpenBSD, the source compiles just fine on GNU/Linux, its about 10 lines of C source, i can send it privately if you want. i don't want to spam the list.

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-31 Thread Brian May
> "kmself" == kmself writes: kmself> If you're looking at single-user work, my understanding is kmself> that the licensing stuff doesn't really kick in. Though kmself> single-user BitKeeper is a bit like having a one-seat kmself> arena. It pretty much defeats the purpose.

Re: aegis

2000-10-31 Thread will trillich
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 11:56:32AM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 02:39:58PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > http://www.bitkeeper.com/ > > > > > > BitKeeper is "a scalable configuration management system, supp

Re: compile network driver

2000-10-31 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 09:28:21AM +0800, Gilbert.Li (§õ«Â¾§) wrote: > I am sorry, I don't describe my question clearly. > I issue the command to compile the network drive. > gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet -Wall > -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c viarhine.c -DMODVERSIONS For what

Re: [OT] Mozilla and JunkBuster

2000-10-31 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 05:40:37PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > Is anyone else using junkbuster (vanilla potato version) and Mozilla > (recent/latest nightlies)? I'm using the above combination and > junkbuster doesn't seem to work very well anymore. I can't see how it > could be possible, but I

RE: compile network driver

2000-10-31 Thread 李威儒
> -Original Message- > From: Philipp Schulte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 3:50 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: compile network driver > > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 09:28:21AM +0800, Gilbert.Li (李威儒) wrote: > > > I am sorry, I don't d

Re: [OT] Mozilla and JunkBuster

2000-10-31 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Philipp Schulte, > > Is anyone else using junkbuster (vanilla potato version) and Mozilla > > (recent/latest nightlies)? I'm using the above combination and > > junkbuster doesn't seem to work very well anymore. I can't see how it > > could be possible, but I was wondering if maybe junkbuste

Re: anyone knows DIAL-BACK ppp??

2000-10-31 Thread Andre Berger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > i dont know whether the word "DIAL-BACK" really exist,i need this > function: when i dial to a ppp server,and the server can dial > back to my pc,so i can use less telephone fee,can anyone tell me > how to config the ppp server to implementation this function > /

Re: [OT] Mozilla and JunkBuster

2000-10-31 Thread Rob
There were problems with Mozilla and proxies in the past, perhaps there's been a regression somewhere. Please search for/file a bug at mozilla.org On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 07:19:43PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > Quoth Philipp Schulte, > > > Is anyone else using junkbuster (vanilla potato version)

RE: libc6 header problems

2000-10-31 Thread 李威儒
I also have the same problem. Is there a better solution? Gilbert > -Original Message- > From: Chris Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 11:08 AM > To: Pat Mahoney; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: libc6 header problems > > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2000

Re: En snabb fr?ga...

2000-10-31 Thread Engelen
|> > There are those who would have you believe that V.Micic wrote: |> > > Var kan jag ladda hem den senaste versionen av Debian i ISO format,jag har |> > > letat men inte hittat... |> > > Tack i Förhand |> > |> > |> > I am the only one who tried to rot13 this? |> |> Well, if that doesn't work,

Re: En snabb fr?ga...

2000-10-31 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 07:39:59AM +0100, Engelen wrote: > |> > There are those who would have you believe that V.Micic wrote: > |> > > Var kan jag ladda hem den senaste versionen av Debian i ISO format,jag > har > |> > > letat men inte hittat... > |> > > Tack i Förhand > Looks more like Finnish

Re: En snabb fr?ga...

2000-10-31 Thread Jan Erik Moström
On tisdag 31 oktober 2000 10:02, Paul Dwerryhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> chirped > Norwegian, Swedish or Danish. But definitely not Finnish... I try one more time: it's Swedish. Trust me ... I know. jem -- Jan Erik Moström mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Elek

Re: x will not let me log in as anything but root

2000-10-31 Thread Shaul Karl
> Greetings, > > X will not let me log in as a regular user. I would greatly > appreciate some guidance on this one. I can go to console > and log in as a regular user, but not in X. > > Thanks for your help, > Maybe this has something to do with /etc/X11/Xserver: [12:10:38 /tmp]$ cat /etc/X1

Re: anyone knows DIAL-BACK ppp??

2000-10-31 Thread Shaul Karl
> i dont know whether the word "DIAL-BACK" really exist,i need this function: > when i dial to a ppp server,and the server can dial back to my pc,so i can use > less telephone fee,can anyone tell me how to config the ppp server to > implementation this function I am not sure but perhaps you sho

Re: Multiple e-mail personalities

2000-10-31 Thread loki
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:11:54PM -0500, Ryan Claycamp wrote: > The problem is that I have several e-mail addresses that I want to use > to send and receive mail with my home computer. I currently use mutt > as my reader and exim as my transport. Does anyone know how to > configure mutt to use

Re: [OT] Mozilla and JunkBuster

2000-10-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Likewise I'm getting alerts about cookies even through I've set > junkbuster to ignore all cookies. Maybe make sure the user-agent and referer config params are doing what you want. -chris

partition

2000-10-31 Thread Donar
sehr geehrte damen und herren, da ich normalerweise mit windows arbeite, jedoch auf linux umsteigen wollte, habe ich eine partition auf meiner festplatte für linux reserviert. Das problem ist nun, daß ich keine zeit mehr fand um mich in die umfangreiche software von linux einzuarbeiten. jetzt

Sawmill config & Gnome CC

2000-10-31 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Hi Nothing happens when I click on the 'Run configuration tool for Sawmill' within the Gnome Control Center. What gives? Jonathan

INIT respawning too fast when loading a keyboard map table

2000-10-31 Thread Costas Koulierakis
I recently installed Official Debian 2.2 r0. When the init process starts I get the following messages: Loading /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/gr.kmap.gz findfile(): timeout waiting for undead child(ren) ? After several repetitions, I get the message: INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled f

Re: partition

2000-10-31 Thread hypo crite
Hi! I thought the common language in this list is english! By chance I speak german as well... > da ich normalerweise mit windows arbeite, jedoch auf > linux umsteigen wollte, > habe ich eine partition auf meiner festplatte für > linux reserviert. Nur eine? Man braucht mindestens zwei. Eine swa

OT: common language

2000-10-31 Thread Geordie Birch
said hypo crite, on Oct 31, > Hi! > > I thought the common language in this list is english! > By chance I speak german as well... one of the little things that i like 'bout this list is the non-english posts and responses. gives it a real global feel. geordie

Re: man page question

2000-10-31 Thread Shaul Karl
> i have a cryptogram solver that i want to release to freshmeat (it's a > console/ncurses application). > > i'd like to write a man page for it, but don't want to learn troff. > > are there any applications that lets you write a text, latex or staroffice > file and turn it into a man page? >

Re: Help: Loading Netscape 4 off Potato CD?

2000-10-31 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi, > > I've posted some msgs but have yet to get Netscape 4 loaded. I've tried > apt-get netscape and it defaults to netscape3. f I try netscape4, which I > see on the package list is there, I get the base system and nothing to run. > Is Netscape 4 on the official Debian 2.2 CD ROM? If so, how

Re: what's /initrd ?

2000-10-31 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 12:22:35PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > > [12:19:02 /tmp]$ dpkg -S /initrd/ > > dpkg: /initrd/ not found. > > [12:20:09 /tmp]$ locate initrd > > /dev/initrd > > /initrd > > /usr/local/src/linux/kernel-source-2.2.17/arch/mips/boot/addinitrd.c > > /usr/local/src/linux/kernel-s

Re: libc6 header problems

2000-10-31 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 04:47:37PM +0800, Gilbert.Li (??) wrote: > > I also have the same problem. > Is there a better solution? Wait for libc6 2.1.96-1 -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- De

Re: what's /initrd ?

2000-10-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 12:52:20PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > > Is it consistent? > > [12:49:09 /tmp]$ dpkg -S /etc/nut > nut: /etc/nut > [12:50:06 /tmp]$ > > here the slash did not bother it. > dpkg -S searches the database for the package owning the file you specify, the file can be

detecting and loading modules

2000-10-31 Thread Andrew Dixon
HI All, I was trying to figure out how to look at which modules I am running and if one is not running force it to load. The module that I am specifically interested in is the tulip.o module for my pcmcia card. thanks, Andy __ Do You Yahoo!? Yaho

RE: libc6 header problems

2000-10-31 Thread 李威儒
I use Debian 2.2. I found a solution. check /usr/share/doc/libc6/README.Debian.gz You can use the -I/usr/src/linux/include on the gcc command. But you must have installed kernel-source or kernel-headers packages > -Original Message- > From: Ben Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent:

ppp problem, who can help?

2000-10-31 Thread Peter O. Fedichev
Gentlemen, I am trying ppp connection in between two linux boxes (basically to exchange files). 1) I am able to connect from the one computer to the other. When run with the debug option, pppd informs that the connection is istablished and both ip-up scripts are fired up. 2) I am able to make pin

Re: How to set the Perl include path?

2000-10-31 Thread Bernd Worsch
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 09:11:59PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 06:44:33PM +0200, Bernd Worsch wrote: > > > > Question A: Where are those paths defined? > > ($PERLLIB and $PERL5LIB are not set!) > > In the source code, at compile time. > > Che

Re: How to set the Perl include path?

2000-10-31 Thread Bernd Worsch
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 09:11:59PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 06:44:33PM +0200, Bernd Worsch wrote: > > > > Question A: Where are those paths defined? > > ($PERLLIB and $PERL5LIB are not set!) > > In the source code, at compile time. > > Che

Re: ppp problem, who can help?

2000-10-31 Thread Known Human Nick Rusnov
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>it was written: >Gentlemen, > >I am trying ppp connection in between two linux boxes (basically to >exchange files). >1) I am able to connect from the one computer to the other. When run >with the debug option, pppd informs that the connection is istablished >and both

Re: detecting and loading modules

2000-10-31 Thread Moritz Schulte
Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was trying to figure out how to look at which > modules I am running and if one is not running force > it to load. see man lsmod, modprobe (have also a look at the "SEE ALSO" -sections).. moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * h

PPPD and default route

2000-10-31 Thread Vincent Gaines
My pppd network connection will not work. I am using linux-2.4.0-test9 with ppp support compiled in and used pppconfig to set up my connection using static DNS addresses provided by my isp earthlink.net. My modem connects and negotiates a link, aassigns me an ip address however, every ping I do to

Setting Reply-To && From fields dynamically

2000-10-31 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello This is rather urgent: does anybody know how I can simply set the Reply-To: and the From: fields for mails "dynamically"? This is on a Linux machine and mail is sent using mailx's mail program. The MTA is sendmail (which I know little about). If there's anything as simple as setting an app

Re: [OT] Mozilla and JunkBuster

2000-10-31 Thread Brendan Cully
On Tuesday, 31 October 2000 at 17:40, Damon Muller wrote: > Hi gang, > > What I mean by `not working' is that lots of banner ads are getting > through that shouldn't. A page (slashdot.org, for example), where > logging junkbuster at level 1 (shows all objects fetched), and where all > the ad URLs

Inconsistent Emacs behavior in X

2000-10-31 Thread Chris Gray
I have two machines set up with Woody. When I run X Windows on one I can use Alt as the Meta key in Emacs, on the other machine I just get a beep and have to use ESC. I'd like to use Alt as Meta on both. Alt works as Meta on the console on both. Any idea what I might have done differently to ca

Persona non grata

2000-10-31 Thread guran remberg
Hi I'm a newbie to Potato, and I want to get some programs off my computer. Is there a file that I can edit, and save to a removable media, that constitutes all allowed files. Ex: I removed emacs19, because I detest it. Used it on an ATARI 1040ST in the eighties, and concludeed that if there was

Re: Setting Reply-To && From fields dynamically

2000-10-31 Thread Anthony Fox
> This is on a Linux machine and mail is sent using mailx's mail program. > The MTA is sendmail (which I know little about). > > If there's anything as simple as setting an appropriate environment > variable, that'd be just cool. The mail sending is done inside a > (bourne) shell script. You coul

dselect klobbers custom kernel image.

2000-10-31 Thread Tricky Rick
Everytime I run dselect and do Install it installs a kernel image and I have to reinstall my custom image. I try making my custom image 5.5 and it still does it. I tried to find the kernel image 2.2.17 in dselect and uninstalling it but it doesn't have have it marked installed. If it makes a di

Re: dselect klobbers custom kernel image.

2000-10-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:31:25AM -0600, Tricky Rick wrote: > > Everytime I run dselect and do Install it installs a kernel image and I > have to reinstall my custom image. I try making my custom image 5.5 and > it still does it. I tried to find the kernel image 2.2.17 in dselect > and uninstall

Re: Setting Reply-To && From fields dynamically

2000-10-31 Thread Sven Burgener
Anthony Fox wrote: > > > This is on a Linux machine and mail is sent using mailx's mail program. > > The MTA is sendmail (which I know little about). > > > > If there's anything as simple as setting an appropriate environment > > variable, that'd be just cool. The mail sending is done inside a > >

KDE 2 for potato

2000-10-31 Thread Dominique Rousset
Hello Does anyone know where I can find a http site for apt-getting kde 2 for potato ? the deb entry in sources.list is welcome ! thanks D. - | Dominique Rousset| Tel: +33 (0)5 59 92 31 71| | I

Re: KDE 2 for potato

2000-10-31 Thread Irger Armin
Dominique Rousset wrote: > Hello > > Does anyone know where I can find a http site for apt-getting > kde 2 for potato ? > > the deb entry in sources.list is welcome ! > > thanks > D. > > - > | Dominique Rousset

how to change the window manager??

2000-10-31 Thread oacl
i can fint the xinitrc in my HOME dir,how can i change the window manager in debian,i want to use gnome,not the GnuStep //bow all -- »¶Ó­Ê¹Óà 21CN µç×ÓÓʼþϵͳ http://www.21cn.com Thank you for using 21cn.com Email system

RE: Hiding an X submenu

2000-10-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-Oct-2000 Martin Godisch wrote: > Hi! > > I want to hide the submenu "Games" of the X menu tree (package menu). > This shall be done as root to affect all users. Is there a possibility > to do this in a central and reversible way? - Thanks in advance! > a) in /usr/lib/menu, remove all entr

RE: dselect klobbers custom kernel image.

2000-10-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-Oct-2000 Tricky Rick wrote: > > Everytime I run dselect and do Install it installs a kernel image and I > have to reinstall my custom image. I try making my custom image 5.5 and > it still does it. I tried to find the kernel image 2.2.17 in dselect > and uninstalling it but it doesn't have

Re: New Motherboard

2000-10-31 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Jack Morgan wrote: > I need to get a new Motherboard, I want to use my Celry 566 MHZ. > Any suggestions? Has anyone got the intel 815e chip to work under > with Debian? A week ago I bought an ASUS CUSL2 815e. Works fine once I turned off the "Boot virus detect" in the BIOS.

RE: Persona non grata

2000-10-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-Oct-2000 guran remberg wrote: > Hi > > I'm a newbie to Potato, and I want to get some programs off my computer. > > Is there a file that I can edit, and save to a removable media, that > constitutes all allowed files. > > Ex: I removed emacs19, because I detest it. Used it on an ATARI 104

RE: how to change the window manager??

2000-10-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-Oct-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i can fint the xinitrc in my HOME dir,how can i change the window manager > in debian,i want to use gnome,not the GnuStep if you can not find it, it means it does not exist, which is true by default. Simply create one. Mine looks like: geisha [~] $ ca

debian equivalent of rc.local

2000-10-31 Thread Keith S Marshall
I was wondering what the debian equivalent to rc.local is. I want to put this setting hdparm -c 1 -d 1 /dev/hda which speeds up hard disk access in one of the start up files and was under the impression that on non debian systems it would go into the bottom of rc.local <>

Re: debian equivalent of rc.local

2000-10-31 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Keith S Marshall wrote: > I was wondering what the debian equivalent to rc.local is. I want to > put this setting > > hdparm -c 1 -d 1 /dev/hda > > which speeds up hard disk access in one of the start up files and was > under the impression that on non debian systems it would go into the > bo

Re: how to change the window manager??

2000-10-31 Thread Glyn Millington
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 07:51:15AM -0800, thus spake Sean 'Shaleh' Perry: > > On 31-Oct-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i can fint the xinitrc in my HOME dir,how can i change the window manager > > in debian,i want to use gnome,not the GnuStep > > if you can not find it, it means it does not e

hdparm and hd performance

2000-10-31 Thread Anthony Fox
Hello, I have two IBM 75GXP 15.3G harddrives. The IBM website states that this particular drive can sustain data transfer rates of 37MB/sec. I am attempting to use hdparm to check my harddrive performance. I get the following values: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 21.64 seconds = 2.96

vga=791

2000-10-31 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I may have posted this before, but for the life of me, I can't find iti, or if there was any responses to my question. In Rh/SuSE/Slack I can add "vga=791" to my /etc/lilo.conf file, re-run lilo, and when I re-boot my system I get smaller text and much more info in my text consoles. I can't do t

Re: vga=791

2000-10-31 Thread Frederik
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > what I'm talking about? Can anyone point me to the "light" > on what needs to be added to the kernel? > I think you might need framebuffer support. It's one of the last options in the kernel configu

Re: vga=791

2000-10-31 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Frederik wrote: -|-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- -|Hash: SHA1 -| -|On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: -| -|> what I'm talking about? Can anyone point me to the "light" -|> on what needs to be added to the kernel? -|> -|I think you might need framebuffer sup

RE: hdparm and hd performance

2000-10-31 Thread Keith S Marshall
can't say whether your values are right,but this site might help some http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html -Original Message- From: Anthony Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 October 2000 11:36 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: hdparm and hd performanc

URGENT Need drivers for AirLancards

2000-10-31 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
Hello debian-user, I'm a Debian user at home (just starting to explore the great world of Linux :). Now I have an opportunity to get Debian in a PC in my office ( as a router ). For this I must find Linux drivers for this card ASAP ('till 02.11.2000) AirLan PC 4800 ISA/PCI Plea

How-to Find On-Site Hardware Support in Toronto?

2000-10-31 Thread Jeff Hill
I'm trying to find a company/individual that will provide on-site emergency support in Toronto, Ontario for my Debian boxes when I'm away. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to find someone? I need someone who understands a bit of RAID-1 and SCSI (I'm running 2.2.16 w/RAID-1 and Adapted 2940U2W

Oracle 8i R2 on a woody box

2000-10-31 Thread Damian Gerow
I'm having some problems creating databases with Oracle 8i (8.1.6) on a freshly-installed woody box. The Oracle HOWTO says to use RedHat, but I'm quite addicted to 'dselect'. I have been able to use Oracle on RedHat 6.2 without any problems at all. I can get it to install fine, and the listene

RE: Oracle 8i R2 on a woody box

2000-10-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > I can get it to install fine, and the listener will run properly, but on > creation of a database, dbassist stops at 2% and sits there (the second > stage, "Creating Database Files"). I noticed that Oracle pretty much > requires the original-awk installed, with a link to /bin/awk from > /usr/

Re: how to test hardware acceleration / GL / utahglx?

2000-10-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
> If you have 'mesademos' installed, try compiling and running 'spectex' > or 'texcyl'. Multi-texturing ought to bring any software renderer to > its knees. Didn't find these but found some other ones. To compile them I had to install Glut which overwrote the /usr/include/GL/glut.h from my libu

help my

2000-10-31 Thread marotto antonio
we are driver for "I have a no-name CS4232-kq-Crystal-PnP-based sound card with an on-boardIDE".   help my driver ( italy ).   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to test hardware acceleration / GL / utahglx?

2000-10-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
> >> > Finally, I've got some utahglx debs > installed, how do I test > >> whether the hardware acceleration is > working? >> chris > >> > >> Run a demo that uses textures (almost always runs painfully slow > >> using software rendering). So, does that mean acceleration == GL == 3D graphics? If

Re: Re: how to test hardware acceleration / GL / utahglx?

2000-10-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
>the GL-enhanced parts of the xscreensaver suite are a very nice possibility to test those things, You might want to launch commands, like, "gears", "lament" or "atlantis" from Your next best xterm... If You then read an output, like "@@Created GLX Context@@" in the terminal where

RE: Oracle 8i R2 on a woody box

2000-10-31 Thread Damian Gerow
> > I can get it to install fine, and the listener will run properly, but on > > creation of a database, dbassist stops at 2% and sits there (the second > > stage, "Creating Database Files"). I noticed that Oracle pretty much > > requires the original-awk installed, with a link to /bin/awk fro

Gnome: normal user, logout?

2000-10-31 Thread Gyulai Mihaly
OK, I installed helix Gnome from potato CDs. Now I can login to Gnome as root only. (the Help - which I've read - mention "to add other user", but I didn't find how...). - how can I add other user to Gnome? - how can I stop Gnome? (it seems it always run after install...) -- GYULAI Mihály http

Re: [OT] Mozilla and JunkBuster

2000-10-31 Thread Jeff Lessem
I had to stop using junkbuster a while ago because Mozilla really didn't like using it. Something about http 1.0 and 1.1, but for a long time Mozilla just plain didn't work with proxies. I ended up doing some work arounds to keep the ads from getting too annoying. Obviously, use the Mozilla cook

Re: OT: common language

2000-10-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
Geordie Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > one of the little things that i like 'bout this list is the non-english > posts and responses. > > gives it a real global feel. Yeah, plus it's funny on occasion e.g. watching Americans(TM) testing their high school Spanish. But yeah I like it. For

Re: init 3 does nothing

2000-10-31 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 04:27:20PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > > Your 2nd suggestion worked OK, but I wonder if it wouldn't be > > possible to define a new (unused) runlevel that doesn't start X > > (say 7) and then 'init 7' whenever I feel like shutting down X?

BitKeeper (was Re: password protect a directory?)

2000-10-31 Thread kmself
on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 06:28:59PM +1100, Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "kmself" == kmself writes: > > kmself> If you're looking at single-user work, my understanding is > kmself> that the licensing stuff doesn't really kick in. Though > kmself> single-user BitKeeper

Re: hdparm and hd performance

2000-10-31 Thread mike
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 06:36:23 -0500 (EST), Anthony Fox said: > Hello, > > I have two IBM 75GXP 15.3G harddrives. The IBM website states that this > particular drive can sustain data transfer rates of 37MB/sec. I am > attempting to use hdparm to check my harddrive performance. I get the >

Re: debian equivalent of rc.local

2000-10-31 Thread sena
I heard that Keith S Marshall wrote this on 31/10/00: > I was wondering what the debian equivalent to rc.local is. I want to put > this setting > > hdparm -c 1 -d 1 /dev/hda > > which speeds up hard disk access in one of the start up files and was under > the impression that on non debian syst

Re: How-to Find On-Site Hardware Support in Toronto?

2000-10-31 Thread kmself
on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 01:01:40PM -0500, Jeff Hill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm trying to find a company/individual that will provide on-site > emergency support in Toronto, Ontario for my Debian boxes when I'm away. > Does anyone have a suggestion on how to find someone? > > I need someone w

Re: debian equivalent of rc.local

2000-10-31 Thread mike
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:17:51 -0500, Peter S Galbraith said: > > Keith S Marshall wrote: > > > I was wondering what the debian equivalent to rc.local is. I want to > > put this setting > > > > hdparm -c 1 -d 1 /dev/hda > > > > which speeds up hard disk access in one of the start up f

Re: X config problem causes me to have reinstall entire OS--!!newbie warning!!

2000-10-31 Thread USM Bish
Your problem seems to be inability to get access to your computer since "xdm" is taking you directly into "X", from where the system blanks out. Try Ctrl-Alt-F10. Works with some keyboards.In case you manage to come out to console, immediately do the following as root: #update-rc.d -f xdm re

Re: man page question

2000-10-31 Thread USM Bish
May I refer you to Issue 32 of Linux Gazette for which there is a detailed description about how you can make one using pod2man (if you have Perl => 5.004). The URL is ftp://ftp.ssc.com/pub/lg/lg-issue32.tar.gz USM Bish On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:50:19AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i hav

fake dhcp bootrequests from an unknown address

2000-10-31 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi people, I was wondering if someone can tell me what is this about: Oct 29 21:36:30 hostname dhcpd-2.2.x: BOOTREQUEST from 00:00:79:58:97:27 via eth0 (non-rfc1048) Oct 29 21:36:30 hostname dhcpd-2.2.x: No applicable record for BOOTP host 00:00:79:58:97:27 via eth0 This keeps happening at fai

How to get Wacom Graphire working in X?

2000-10-31 Thread Brian Dunnette
I've recently purchased a Wacom Graphire (USB drawing tablet), and have been trying for some time to get it working in X -- I'm using kernel 2.4.0-test9, so the kernel seems to recognize the tablet (the light on the tablet itself comes on) but haven't been able to use the tablet for control in X, h

Trouble installng Tomcat on (Debian) Linux

2000-10-31 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I installed tomcat on my Debian Linux system from Apache runs fine, but I have tomcat problems. 1) How do I test it with their examples? There is a webapps/examples.war; how do I invoke it? 2) Do I have to manually start it (per the Install "how to run" instructions?), or shouldn't it be autom

Re: Gnome: normal user, logout?

2000-10-31 Thread Moritz Schulte
Gyulai Mihaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, I installed helix Gnome from potato CDs. Now I can login to > Gnome Helix GNOME is not an official part of Debian, so it's not on the 'Official Potato CDs'. > as root only. (the Help - which I've read - mention "to add other user", > but I didn't f

Re: X config problem causes me to have reinstall entire OS--!!newbie warning!!

2000-10-31 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:28:11PM +0518, USM Bish wrote: > Try Ctrl-Alt-F10. Works with some keyboards. Try Ctrl-Alt-F1 instead. Ctrl-Alt-F10 works with some _installations_, specifically those which have a getty running on tty10. The default, however, is to have gettys running on tty1-tty6, so

KDE2 -aria

2000-10-31 Thread guran remberg
Hi What a fantastic program this apt-get is, I am now writing this in KDE2. I just added deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato.kde2 to my /etc/apt/sources.list and wow. Who ever you are, tdyc, many thanks. That WindowManager I was having was clearly stupid. When I had eight programs running in different

Re: Real problem with sshd - hosts.deny

2000-10-31 Thread Aaron Brashears
Well, I guess the answer is that home.net was messed up or something. It started working again this morning. On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 01:19:56PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: > I go to work. I ssh to my home server to check email. No problem. A > few hours later, I try to ssh again, but it fails wi

Re: KDE2 -aria

2000-10-31 Thread Leen Besselink
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, guran remberg wrote: > What a fantastic program this apt-get is, I am now writing this in KDE2. > I just added deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato.kde2 to my > /etc/apt/sources.list and wow. > > Who ever you are, tdyc, many thanks. That WindowManager I was having was > clearly stu

Re: Gnome: normal user, logout?

2000-10-31 Thread Damian Gerow
> > - how can I stop Gnome? (it seems it always run after install...) > > There should be a point "logout" in you GNOME panel. Or possibly try (from a prompt): # /etc/init.d/gdm stop That should do the trick (if that's what you're looking for). This will stop the Gnome graphical login panel

imap mail server

2000-10-31 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am going to be migrating my other company's mail servers from redhat 6.x using the UW imap server to debian 2.2 running hopefully a more robust IMAP server. what i think i want is cyrus imapd. so i'm asking if anybody has an experience to share with me migrating to this system on debian. I suppos

Oracle 8i Release2 - DB creation

2000-10-31 Thread Damian Gerow
(Followup from the post a few hours ago about problems with installing Oracle 8iR2:) I'm now trying to create a DB by script instead of using the dbassist creation. After saving the script and running it, it stops at a password prompt. So I went through the scripts, and on the second command

Re: imap mail server

2000-10-31 Thread Damian Gerow
> thanks for any suggestions you may have:) i haven't used any other imap > server other then uw imap yet, and sendmail is my MTA of choice(because of > the spam filters mainly and its less complex to met hen qmail, excluding > that sendmail.cf of course!) Have you checked out postfix (http:

Re: x will not let me log in as anything but root

2000-10-31 Thread Bob Edwards
Hello. I changed the second line of /etc/X11/Xserver to allow "anybody" to ryn the Xserver with the same result. Which other X files are related to passwords? Could some other file need to be edited ? Thanks for your time, Bob Edwards Shaul Karl wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > X will not let me

RE: Re: how to test hardware acceleration / GL / utahglx?

2000-10-31 Thread Ingles, Raymond
> From: Krzys Majewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Anyway, they do say "@@Created GLX Context.." and they run OK, though > not as smoothly as, say, television or film. Also use up 65% of my cpu > (Pentium III 500). I wonder if this is the best I can do with the > current video card (ATI xp

debian on ctx laptop

2000-10-31 Thread Kevin Krafthefer
Greetings, Currently, I am attempting to tune /etc/X11/XF86Config for a CTX 764MT. If anyone has xf86 working on a CTX, what did you use for your monitor settings within XF86Config? Also, what video chipset are you using? My best attempts to date have been with NM2093; but it's very difficult to

Unidentified subject!

2000-10-31 Thread Junior
Hi. I lost my monitor´s manual and I am having some difficult to configure X-Free86. If you can, send me the horizontal and vertical sync rate of Samsung SyncMaster 3. Thanks.

Debian / Free Java

2000-10-31 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I'm interested in Debian because I understand it is a completely free/open source linux distribution. I also have been intrigued after reading this list about the package manager used in Debian. I think some of the other Linux distributions are making it hard to keep a completely free platform

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