Now that X4.0.1 Is Woody-Fied.

2000-11-04 Thread Corey Popelier
Most of you might have gotten bored to tears by my running efforts to get the X4.0.1 in woody functional, and probably know by now I have, so I thought I'd quickly and briefly say how: After the updates and mountains of installs/removes: Run XFree86 -configure This creates a /root/XF86Config.new

Re: software raid

2000-11-04 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya manuel.. raid0/raid1 is by default "working"...nothing special to do other than define your raid partitions... /etc/raidtab if you want to run raid5 ... than you need to patch the kernel and tweek it.. and yes...have raid5 running on 1U chassis w/ debian-2.2 have fun alvin ht

Re: woody upgrade still breaks apt-get

2000-11-04 Thread Russ Pitman
Tried both upgrade and dist-upgrade, can't be certain now but one gave a bunch of errors and declined to work. The one that did loaded 57 files including pcima stuff which I did not have or want and libc6 v2.1.96-1. Apt-get update failed after the files were installed, so now I have two installs o

Re: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-04 Thread Damien
> While I'm trying not to buy into Yet Another Editor Holywar, my > favourite EMACS backronym (found in some file that comes with the EMACS > distribution, I believe) is: why not a holy war? i always find them interesting, because when people sit down and advocato what they're interested in, the o

Re: Disappearing ldconfig

2000-11-04 Thread Mariusz Klimczak
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 05:44:14AM -0500, John Kiff wrote: > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.3-10) but 2.

Hylafax and Sedlbauer speedfax + PCI ISDN

2000-11-04 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, I can send a fax using my new Sedlbauer speed fax + pci. But when I try to receive a fax on this card I get some kernel messages in my syslog and receiving the fax is aborted. This is a part of my syslog. Nov 1 20:52:47 shining isdnlog: | Sedlbauer#0 : incoming^IFax^I0 Nov 1 20:52:47 shi

pico why not jpico (was Re: Which editor for programming?)

2000-11-04 Thread adam
Damien wrote: > > > While I'm trying not to buy into Yet Another Editor Holywar, my > > favourite EMACS backronym (found in some file that comes with the EMACS > > distribution, I believe) is: > > why not a holy war? i always find them interesting, because when people sit > down and advocato what

Re: 'Generic' Firewall Rulesets?

2000-11-04 Thread Felix Hagemann
Troy Telford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [`Good firewall'] > I'm more interested in learning how to create a good firewall than > simply having one. (So I can make one from scratch should I ever have a > specific need). Instead of using scripts you don't understand (which leads to a false impre

Re: ISDN

2000-11-04 Thread Gnanasekaran Thoppae
hi again, i figured out that my isdn card support is not available in the potato's kernel (2.2.17). I have ELSA Microlink ISDN PCI internal isdn card and I do not see this card entry in modconf hisax module insertion step. What surprising me is that redhat 7.0 which uses 2.2.16-22 kernel is ab

Re: woody upgrade still breaks apt-get

2000-11-04 Thread Russell Davies
; Tried both upgrade and dist-upgrade, can't be certain now but one gave a ; bunch of errors and declined to work. The one that did loaded 57 files ; including pcima stuff which I did not have or want and libc6 v2.1.96-1. ; ; Apt-get update failed after the files were installed, so now I have two

set up telnetd and ftpd on a rescue cd

2000-11-04 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, I'm actually building a Boot Rescue CD and have some problems. (Security is at this point no concern, I just want that it works) 1. I can't set up in.telnetd. If i telnet into my rescue system i got the following error: Trying 192.168.0.250... Connected to 192.168.0.250.

how to get the latest STABLE releases?

2000-11-04 Thread Daniel Borgmann
hello! i just switched to debian and it simply rocks! yesterday i added the kde2 line to sources.list, started the download and went to bed. next morning i typed "startx" and everything was up and running! i still can't believe it. now the only downside of debian is that potato isn't up to date.

proftpd - user-accounts

2000-11-04 Thread Michael Mertins
While anoymous-login is pretty easy with proftpd, i wonder how i can setup restricted logins with individual username and password? -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

woody & security

2000-11-04 Thread Michael Mertins
are there any security-sources for apt in woody? or is woody a mere testing environment for security-updates on the stable-release? -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: ISDN

2000-11-04 Thread Moritz Schulte
Gnanasekaran Thoppae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i figured out that my isdn card support is not available > in the potato's kernel (2.2.17). I have ELSA Microlink ISDN PCI > internal isdn card and I do not see this card entry in modconf > hisax module insertion step. You mean this screen, wh

Re: woody & security

2000-11-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 02:03:20PM +0100, Michael Mertins wrote: > are there any security-sources for apt in woody? > or is woody a mere testing environment for security-updates on the > stable-release? s/potato/woody/ in the potato security apt sources should work, at least it used to when potato

grub?

2000-11-04 Thread Markus Hareide
I'm an old Mac user trying to learn to use Linux. At first Iwas using Mandrake 7.1, but I decided to switch to Debian because of the philosophy behind it. I bought the O'Reilly book "Learning Debian GNU/Linux written by Bill McCarty. This book contained an CD with Debian 2.1. The book explain how t

Re: grub?

2000-11-04 Thread Moritz Schulte
Markus Hareide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I bought the O'Reilly book "Learning Debian GNU/Linux written by Bill > McCarty. This book contained an CD with Debian 2.1. I recommend that you try Debian GNU/Linux 2.2. (`Potato')! :) > The book explain how to install the system. But after I'm done

Re: using "-nolisten tcp" with X

2000-11-04 Thread mike
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 23:39:01 +, Jim Breton said: > I have been aliasing startx to "startx -nolisten tcp" in my local users' > ..bash_profiles in order to prevent X from listening on port 6000 on > startup. > > However, display managers (at least gdm anyway) don't care about these > alias

HBCI and masquerading

2000-11-04 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, Does anybody know if HBCI works through a masquerading server? Ciao, Timo<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- .-'~~~-. .'o oOOOo`. | Timo Benk ;~~~-.oOo o`. | Germany `. \ ~-. oOOo. | `.; / ~. OO: | Fax/Voicemail:+49891488214215 .' ;-- `.o.'

APC UPS-Pro 650 anyone ?

2000-11-04 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi, im using PowerChute fromn APC. All works well except that the UPS doesn't put itself to sleep, so it runs "On battery" forever. I've tried the same ups an same cable with a WinBug box and all work well. So the choice are the Linux "powerChute" bugware or the serial port. Anyone with success

Re: grub?

2000-11-04 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, FYI - I remember seeing some posts that indicated that the CD that was shipped with this book has problems. I do not know what the "grub>" prompt is all about though. Debian 2.1 is what I run on my Thinkpad 560, but a friend copied the CDs for me, from the "official" ones. John From:

Off topic - Netscape

2000-11-04 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
Sorry for the off-topic, but does any one know how to get rid of that stupid "Shop" button from the top of the netscape screen? BTW... I down loaded the newest 4.76 version from the Netscape site. I installed it in /usr/local/netscape476 and copied the "plugger.so" files over. Seems to be extre

gedit/potato segfaults

2000-11-04 Thread Andre Berger
Anyone with the following segfault problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gedit Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GnomeApp' I thought the potato version 0.5.4-1 was stable? -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany

Re: HBCI and masquerading

2000-11-04 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:50:07 + (GMT), Timo Benk wrote: >Does anybody know if HBCI works through a masquerading server? Sure. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\

Re: how to get the latest STABLE releases?

2000-11-04 Thread Daniel Borgmann
well, isn't this a bit stupid? i mean, to get new MORE STABLE versions i have to use the UNSTABLE tree? why aren't stable packages for the unstable tree moved to the potato tree? am i dammned to use years old unstable software packages until woody is released next year? can i use single woody pack

Re: Mozilla M18 on potato (pentium100)

2000-11-04 Thread Daniel Borgmann
hello! i just downloaded M18 from this place and unpacked the archive to /usr/local/mozilla/ but i have problems to start it. when i try to run mozilla as root it says: - ranger:/usr/lib# /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla /usr/local/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin MOZILLA_FIV

Re: Off topic - Netscape

2000-11-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 09:02:50AM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > Sorry for the off-topic, but does any one know > how to get rid of that stupid "Shop" button from the > top of the netscape screen? from ~/.Xresources: ! shut off garbage toolbar buttons Netscape*toolBar.myshopping.isEnabled:

Re: grub?

2000-11-04 Thread Moritz Schulte
"John Miskinis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FYI - I remember seeing some posts that indicated that the > CD that was shipped with this book has problems. I > do not know what the "grub>" prompt is all about though. GRUB ist the GNU Bootloader, it's a very powerfull one. AFAIK Mandrake uses GRU

Re: Mozilla M18 on potato (pentium100)

2000-11-04 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Daniel Borgmann wrote: > when i try to run mozilla as root it says: > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 > - > what does that mean?? and yes, i did start it in X. > when i do the same as a regular user, i get no error message at all. Sounds like you log

Re: Mozilla M18 on potato (pentium100)

2000-11-04 Thread sena
I heard that Leen Besselink wrote this on 04/11/00: > Sounds like you logged in as a regular user, opened up a terminal program > like xterm, Eterm, Konsole, etc., and su'd (with the 'su' command or > similair) to root and tryed to start mozilla as root. This does not work > in Unix en thus Linux.

Re: grub?

2000-11-04 Thread Alan Salewski
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 01:59:58PM +, John Miskinis wrote: > Hello, > > FYI - I remember seeing some posts that indicated that the > CD that was shipped with this book has problems. I > do not know what the "grub>" prompt is all about though. GRand Unified Bootloader http://www.gnu.org/softw

Why doesn't alt-x in Emacs doesn't work?

2000-11-04 Thread Dan Griswold
> "Scott" == Scott V McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Scott> In a recently installed and apg-get dist-upgraded potato, I Scott> can't use alt-x in emacs. Does anyone know why? Scott> (I know I can use escape-x, but I'm used to alt-x) Scott, I've had a problem like this befo

Re: Off topic - Netscape

2000-11-04 Thread mike
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 09:02:50 -0500, Christopher W. Aiken said: > Sorry for the off-topic, but does any one know > how to get rid of that stupid "Shop" button from the > top of the netscape screen? > Read the Netscape.ad file (application defaults) and put the desired default lines in y

PPP Configuration

2000-11-04 Thread Marco Herrn
Hello, I tried to configure my internet connection on my potato system via wvdial an pppconfig, but neither of this works correctly. When running wvdial, it starts the connection and holds it, but I cannot access the internet (I tried it with netscape and lynx). When running pon, it dials, but imm

Testing modems

2000-11-04 Thread Cam Ellison
I am having problems with my USR 1171; among its uses is to answer the phone and take faxes. Now PMfax isn't happy with it, and I suspect some of the registers may be screwed up. Does ayone know of a test application (maybe something like Telix, which runs on DOS) that will poke around in the mod

Re: APC UPS-Pro 650 anyone ?

2000-11-04 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 10:57:10AM -0300, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > > Hi, im using PowerChute fromn APC. All works well except that the UPS > doesn't put itself to sleep, so it runs "On battery" forever. > > I've tried the same ups an same cable with a WinBug box and all work > well. > >

Installing LILO in MBR or in another partition

2000-11-04 Thread Terry Boon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In "Running Linux", the example lilo.conf includes the line boot = /dev/hda This will install LILO into the master boot record (MBR) of hda. The explanation continues "If you give a partition device name (such as /dev/hda2), instead of a drive de

XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-04 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings -- Did the XFree86 upgrade last night. Wasn't too bad; if I hadn't mis-remembered the video card in this box, I think it would have been seamless. As it was, I had to do some reading and playing around to get /etc/X11/XF86Config set up the r

RE: Installing LILO in MBR or in another partition

2000-11-04 Thread Jason Holland
> In "Running Linux", the example lilo.conf includes the line > >boot = /dev/hda this is used if LILO will be the controlling boot manager for the system. The bios will read this first when the system is turned on. > > This will install LILO into the master boot record (MBR) of hda. The > ex

Re: Testing modems

2000-11-04 Thread Andrew Hagen
You'll need either a paper manual for the modem, or a downloadable one. I think you can download modem manuals from the USR or 3COM site. After reading the manual, open a comm program. Programs for these are in the communications tree of packages. Once you are able to type in "AT" and get back "

Re: Java 2 Runtime Environment

2000-11-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Put this in your sources.list: deb ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/java-linux/debian woody non-free You can replace the first part url with any mirros listed on blackdown.org Shao. Jay Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Guys, > Im running apache and need to add Java 2 Runtime Environment v 1

Re: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Damon Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Disclaimer: I use emacs for heavy duty stuff (eg., my thesis in LaTeX), > and Vim for everything else... Could you let us know how you live on both emacs and vim? Do you have to use the vi mode in emacs when using emacs? I tried out emacs before and ca

Re: Testing modems

2000-11-04 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 04 Nov 2000 11:28:28 EST, "Andrew Hagen" writes: >After reading the manual, open a comm program. Programs for these are in the >communications tree of packages. Once you are able to type in "AT" and >get back "OK", you are communicating with the modem. Then you can alter >the registers an

email alias postfix procmail

2000-11-04 Thread dirk
Hi all. I thought I had some simple problem, but I don't have any clue how to solve it. I made an alias for my own emailadress and this alias I want to use for another user. I have a dial-up machine and I am almost the only user. I am subscribed to several mailing lists and sort them out using proc

Re: Off topic - Netscape

2000-11-04 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 10:06:09AM -0500, mike wrote: -| -|On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 09:02:50 -0500, Christopher W. Aiken said: -| -|> Sorry for the off-topic, but does any one know -|> how to get rid of that stupid "Shop" button from the -|> top of the netscape screen? -|> -| Read the Netscape.a

How to get ifup/ifdown source code

2000-11-04 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
i'm curious to know how ifup/ifdown does it's magic. how do i get the source code for these using apt-get -- "As a general rule, if you have trouble with the binary system, then probably it is because you do not really understand the decimal system ..." R.W. Hamming

Re: New user rant..urr, questions.

2000-11-04 Thread David Teague
Hi Sy Many thanks for your detailed response. You asK > > > Question for you, if I may: > I am using an x86 system. If Debian ended up being my sole OS, > are there advantages to switching to another hardware platform? > Does Debian run better on other platforms? (all else being equal - > li

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-04 Thread USM Bish
Thanks to all those who have replied either to the list or on my personal mail. Finally decided to give it a try. Downloaded the static binary from the Opera site (Ver 4.0b1). Run it for over 2 hrs right now. Initial impressions ... not that bad at all (but being a beta release, many things d

mv -i doesn't work?

2000-11-04 Thread Krzys Majewski
Anybody else have this problem? /bin/mv -i and /bin/mv --interactive do not prompt before moving. From the stable fileutils. -chris

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-04 Thread wulfie
I'll second the anti-Nvidia driver lobby. I too have had severe lockups either starting XF86 4.0 or ctl-alt-Fx'ing to a text console. My specific hardware is a 16Mb Sparkle Nvidia Vanta AGP 2x card, this on my main SuSE (sorry!) box. == Paul Sims ([

installation problem

2000-11-04 Thread lhomer
I have an asus-cubx motherboard with intel 440BX AGPset 100 MHZ W/ ATA100 and intel p3750EF, 750MHZ cpu I have two ide hard drives, either can boot windows with no difficulty The windows system reports a scsi device described as a "Windows 95-98 Promise Ultra 100 (tm) IDE controller (PDC202

Re: mv -i doesn't work?

2000-11-04 Thread David Teague
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Anybody else have this problem? /bin/mv -i and /bin/mv --interactive > do not prompt before moving. From the stable fileutils. -chris Chris mv -i is not interatctive, rather it is query before overwrite. Exerpt from man mv: mv - move (rename) file

install via FTP HOWTO?

2000-11-04 Thread W. Lindenschmidt
Greetings, Debianites! I am a pseudo-newbie (been using RedHat 6.1 for about a year), but I want to upgrade to Debian. Since I am a student, I will wait until the winter break to do so, since Linux (Evolution, Mozilla, and StarOffice 5.2) is my working environment. I was wondering if there is

Re: I messed up Xfree86

2000-11-04 Thread Claudette Woodgate
Corey, Where shall I send the case of beers and the strippers? I finally have my Xfree86 4.0.1 up and running, at 1280x1024x16bpp. Thank You ! Now, I understand that Xfree86 4.0.1 has built-in True Type support. So that means I can do away with the xfstt? What lines do I need to add to my XF86Co

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-04 Thread wulfie
ttmkfdir in the ttf dir :) Add the path to your fonts section in XF86Config, freetype to the modules section (you already did both, it seems) & you're there. == Paul Sims ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SpireLUG - the Chesterfield Linux User Group www.spirelug.o

RE: PPP Configuration

2000-11-04 Thread Nick Cook
On 04-Nov-2000 Marco Herrn wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to configure my internet connection on my potato system via > wvdial > an pppconfig, but neither of this works correctly. > When running wvdial, it starts the connection and holds it, but I > cannot > access the internet (I tried it with netsc

Re: installation problem

2000-11-04 Thread wulfie
Most likely the kernel is not aware of the ATA100 interface yet. If you can, slot in a multi-I/O card with IDE i/f & use this to install. You'll have to seek out a kernel patch for the ATA100 controller. The reported "Promise" controller is the ATA100 chipset being detected but not recognized. ==

new to Debian....

2000-11-04 Thread wulfie
although not new to linux. A little bit of skewed logic in places - I install C dev system & kernel sources, but the .debs do not include libcurses5 as a "recommended" to "make menuconfig". Huh? I'd have thought many kernel hand-rollers would do menuconfig & so this would be a popular reccomen

sources.list to upgrade from slink to potato

2000-11-04 Thread Matheson
Hey,   I'm trying to upgrade my slink to potato with the three cd-set of binaries, but I don't know what my sources.list should look like to include all three cd's.  If someone could please send me an example file, I would appreciate it.   Thanks, Cameron Matheson  

sgml and latex

2000-11-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I have a computer software manual written in sgml using Docbook. Now, in one of my latex documents, I would like to include this sgml manual as an appendix of my latex document. But I don't know how to do it. I can only convert sgml to jadetex, but not latex, so I cannot just use latex's \inc

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-04 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 wulfie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ttmkfdir in the ttf dir :) Add the path to your fonts section in > XF86Config, freetype to the modules section (you already did both, it > seems) & you're there. What's the exact path to ttmkfdir on your box? I do

Debian Potato and Alcatel Speed Touch USB?

2000-11-04 Thread Ringo De Smet
Hello, At last I have the opportunity to get an ADSL connection through the local phone company (Belgacom - Belgium). There are several ISP's offering the combined ISP/ADSL account, but all with the same hardware. I can get an Alcatel Speed Touch PSTN (connects to a NIC) or I can get the USB v

Re: I messed up Xfree86

2000-11-04 Thread Corey Popelier
Claudette if I get either the beers or the strippers, you will have made a friend for life. In fact just the suggestion of them makes you a friend automatically :) I must thank whoever mentioned the XFree86 -configure command, that starting point was the catalyst to getting X working - the rest wa

Message from syslogd...

2000-11-04 Thread J.P. Larocque
I went away for a few days, leaving my computer running (as it always is) and I had an Eterm open in my X session. When I came back, I got this: Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Thu Nov 2 16:46:54 2000 ... omega FYI, omega is my computer's hostname. Now, what exactly does this cryptic messag

Re: Why doesn't alt-x in Emacs doesn't work?

2000-11-04 Thread Chris Gray
I just asked this question last week. What you probably need are the following lines in the keyboard section of your /etc/XF86Config file: Section "Keyboard" LeftAlt Meta RightAltMeta Cheers Chris On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Scott V. McGuire wrote: > > In a recently installed a

Re: how to get the latest STABLE releases?

2000-11-04 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Daniel Borgmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: db> why aren't stable packages for the unstable tree moved to the db> potato tree? Because that would be very difficult. First, packages all depend on other packages. The package in woody may well depend on other packages with newer versions in

Making the computer less noisy

2000-11-04 Thread Jean-Michel Kelbert
Hi ! i am wondering if there is a way to make the computer less noisy at some moment (the NIGHT). What I mean is that the CPU fan does a lot of noise, and the Hd too. Is there a porgram to make the cpu fan less rotating (if the cpu doesn't work !) Thank Jean-Michel

Re: Debian Potato and Alcatel Speed Touch USB?

2000-11-04 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 04 Nov 2000 20:27:59 +0100, Ringo De Smet writes: >Q: >Does the USB backport for 2.2 kernels supports networking stacks? Or am >I better of with the NIC connected ADSL modem? I don´t know about linux+USB+networking, but we have extensively tested the Alcatel Speed Touch here in .at-land

Re: How to get ifup/ifdown source code

2000-11-04 Thread sena
I heard that Patrick Dahiroc wrote this on 04/11/00: > i'm curious to know how ifup/ifdown does it's magic. how do > i get the source code for these using apt-get > Well, first you need a deb-src line in your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main con

Re: Installing LILO in MBR or in another partition

2000-11-04 Thread David Z Maze
Terry Boon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TB> In "Running Linux", the example lilo.conf includes the line TB> TB>boot = /dev/hda TB> TB> This will install LILO into the master boot record (MBR) of hda. The TB> explanation continues "If you give a partition device name (such as TB> /dev/hda2), i

libqt2.2.x help

2000-11-04 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, I am attempting to './configure' a new kde2 utility (http://www.1409.org/projects/kpsk/) and it depends on qt2.2 or better. This am, my apt-get included 19 megs, of the updates, qt2.2 was included - To my surprise. Yet, after a boot (just in case), I attempted to run the configure scr

installing without a cd-rom

2000-11-04 Thread social reject
Hello! My computers cd-rom does not work at all. I have Debian on CD, so I was wondering if there is anyway I can still install it onto the system? I have like 4 other computers, so is there anyway I can jus put it all on floppies or something? Thanks..

Re: installing Star Office 5.2

2000-11-04 Thread cls-colo spgs
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 08:43:40PM -0600, Bob Edwards wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to install Star Office 5.2 ? > I have downloaded the file which is a .bin file, and > put it in a seperate directory. what is next ? I know > how to install .tar files and .gz files, but not > .bin files. > > I d

X4.0.1 crashing -- help!

2000-11-04 Thread Dan Griswold
Hi all, I was hoping that somebody could help me figure out what's going on. I am getting lock-ups on my computer when sound is playing and some sort of X activity occurs (such as moving a window or switching between virtual desktops). To get out of these I have to cycle the power: ctrl-alt-del d

try it again

2000-11-04 Thread Arne
-- Spruce: because this planet is being FedEx'd to hell 2 Description: Binary data

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-04 Thread Phillip Deackes
USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to all those who have replied either to > the list or on my personal mail. Finally decided > to give it a try. Downloaded the static binary > from the Opera site (Ver 4.0b1). Run it for over > 2 hrs right now. > > Initial impressions ... not that ba

Re: I messed up Xfree86

2000-11-04 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 11:13:41PM -0500, Joel Dinel wrote: > OK, I found out that you don't use XF86Setup anymore. > > XFree86 -configure seems to detect my stuff OK. When I run XFree86 > -xf86config /root/whatever.file I get a nice empty gray screen, and > the mouse won't mouse. That's as far as

Re: I messed up Xfree86

2000-11-04 Thread Claudette Woodgate
Actually, It's Joel. I'm using the wife's Pc right now. Yes well I believe there is a sample of a XF86Config fore buried in my filesystem somewhere. I'll try to figure out the syntax for the fonts from there. When I exit X, I noticed a message about not being able to load the Speedo fonts and tha

Re: Now that X4.0.1 Is Woody-Fied.

2000-11-04 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 02:13:48PM +0800, Corey Popelier wrote: > Most of you might have gotten bored to tears by my running efforts to get > the X4.0.1 in woody functional, and probably know by now I have, so I > thought I'd quickly and briefly say how: [snip] Err... did you try running the littl

debian file server

2000-11-04 Thread Sebastien Lacour
Hi all, I have a few ix86's sharing NIS & NFS on a LAN (with alphas and IBMs, but no matter) and i'd like to install potato2.2.17 on my 6 PCs. The problem is i just can't figure out how to install a file/application server properly. i use 'dselect'. i've got a partition for /usr only on my se

Re: libqt2.2.x help

2000-11-04 Thread Daniel Borgmann
try ./configure --with-qt-dir=/path/to/qt2 i guess there is a problem finding qt2 when qt1 is installed too. i'm not an expert in this, but maybe it works for you On Saturday 04 November 2000 21:13, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Hello, > > I am attempting to './configure' a new kde2 utility > (ht

Re: X4.0.1 crashing -- help!

2000-11-04 Thread iehrenwald
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Dan Griswold wrote: > Hi all, > > I was hoping that somebody could help me figure out what's going on. [snip] Make sure you're using the NVIDIA supplied GL and GLX libs. Follow the instructions on their web site for manual installation. Try adding Option "NvAgp" "0" to you

testing mutt

2000-11-04 Thread Rafael A . Schmitt
ignore this...sorry :/ Rafael. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | Rafael Alexandre Schmitt| | Blumenau - Santa Catarina - Brasil | | Powered by Debian 2.2 (Potato) | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-04 Thread marco
Saturday 04 November 2000 21:20, Phillip Deackes wrote: > I have been waiting for Opera for Linux for *ages* and am very pleased > indeed with what I have seen of the second beta. I hate Netscape more > than I hate Internet Explorer. Mozilla is just not usable at the moment > and although it gets

Re: Does a debian-user webring or links list exist?

2000-11-04 Thread sysy
>have you been pointed to www.debianplanet.org yet? --+ No actually! L=) It didn't come up with a brief (very) search for debian resources. Thanks lots.

Re: Does a debian-user webring or links list exist?

2000-11-04 Thread sysy
Thanks for your help.. I'll add that to my 'must read' list. =) Original message from: will trillich >nosing around, i found this debian faq, >which i may have run into earlier, but >now that i know as much as i do, i wish >i'd seen it sooner! > >http://ftp.opensource.captech.com/debian/doc/FAQ/d

Re: New user rant..urr, questions. (fwd)

2000-11-04 Thread sysy
>I encourage you to install Debian and keep notes, and to post the >notes, regardless of whether you stick with Debian. Your experiences >will help us. All of us. --+ Thanks for your encouragement. I, with previous projects, didn't approach a task with documenting it in mind.. so this is all new

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-04 Thread Kristian Rink
Obviously Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thinks that: > I have been waiting for Opera for Linux for *ages* and am very pleased > indeed with what I have seen of the second beta. H, my $0.02 is that I am running (Debian) GNU/Linux for 99.95% because of the licensing and distribution po

KDE2 + utah-glx?

2000-11-04 Thread Kristian Rink
Hi, folks! :)) Being a GNOME user for most of the time, now I am trying to mess around with KDE2 (or, 1.1.99 beta, to be honest :))) ), and, putting all of those to my potato without problems as *.deb-packages, everything seemed to be fine... Sadly things drastically changed after reinstalling

DEBIAN 2.2: LOCAL PRINTER INSTALLATION

2000-11-04 Thread Yves POCCHIOLA
I have replaced today my Suse2.3 version of Linux by a Debian 2.2 . I managed to get a working installalion at the exception of the local printer (HP Desk Jet 510 on parallel port). I didn't notice any question during the installation process concerning the printer. I certainly missed something b

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-04 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that wulfie wrote: > I'll second the anti-Nvidia driver lobby. I too have had severe lockups > either starting XF86 4.0 or ctl-alt-Fx'ing to a text console. My specific > hardware is a 16Mb Sparkle Nvidia Vanta AGP 2x card, this on my main SuSE > (sorry!)

Re: Making the computer less noisy

2000-11-04 Thread David Rysdam
Check out hdparm. I use it to spin my server's HD down after (IIRC) 10 minutes. Makes a HUGE difference in sound. On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 08:16:32PM +0100, Jean-Michel Kelbert wrote: > Hi ! > > i am wondering if there is a way to make the computer less noisy at some > moment (the NIGHT). What I

Off Topic; can't mail Chris (Was: Re: libc6 header problems)

2000-11-04 Thread Pat Mahoney
Uh, Chris, I can't send email to you at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got the following errors: - The following address has permanent fatal errors - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (reason: 550 5.1.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown) blah... ... while talking to mailhub.9netave.ca -- Pat Mahoney

running ftpd other than root

2000-11-04 Thread Kelly Corbin
Is it possible, for securities sake to run wu-ftp as another user other than root? I can't find any info on this. Thanks! Kelly -- -- Kelly Corbin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- On the web @ http://www.theiqgroup.com -- The IQ Group, Inc. -- 6740 Antioc

OFFTOPIC weird URL's

2000-11-04 Thread Pollywog
I received a spam which promoted a website but the problem was the URL has something like this http://2704935062/somestupid/pornpage.html It was not an IP address or domain, so the only way I could find out what it was was to plug this into my browser and then do a "netstat". The website is hos

Re: DEBIAN 2.2: LOCAL PRINTER INSTALLATION

2000-11-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
Yves POCCHIOLA wrote: >I have replaced today my Suse2.3 version of Linux by a Debian 2.2 . I >managed to get a working installalion at the exception of the local >printer (HP Desk Jet 510 on parallel port). I didn't notice any question >during the installation process concerning the print

Re: running ftpd other than root

2000-11-04 Thread C. Falconer
At 05:34 PM 11/4/00 -0600, you wrote: Is it possible, for securities sake to run wu-ftp as another user other than root? I can't find any info on this. Thanks! Yes, absolutely... but any ftp daemon must be started as root to open ports below 1024. All of the popular ones drop to a designat

Re: Off topic - Netscape

2000-11-04 Thread kmself
on Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 09:02:50AM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sorry for the off-topic, but does any one know > how to get rid of that stupid "Shop" button from the > top of the netscape screen? You've found your answer. See attached, though, for additional Netscape

Re: DEBIAN 2.2: LOCAL PRINTER INSTALLATION

2000-11-04 Thread Mario Vukelic
> Yves POCCHIOLA wrote: > >I have replaced today my Suse2.3 version of Linux by a Debian 2.2 . I > >managed to get a working installalion at the exception of the local > >printer (HP Desk Jet 510 on parallel port). I didn't notice any question > >during the installation process concerning

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