sendmail on debian

2000-11-06 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, We're now running a little pentium box in the office as a mailserver running sendmail. its running potato with the security.debian.org upgrades, all packages installed via apt-get, its pretty much a base install with sendmail, perl, dnsutil

Re: why no DRI for G200 in X4

2000-11-06 Thread brian moore
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 09:57:05PM -0800, Jeremiah Savage wrote: > I've been tring to get DRI working for my G200 on 440BX w/o much > success. I've compiled linux-2.4.0-test10 with agpgart and dri, > installed the latest X4 debs (including xlibmesa3, xlibosmesa3 & > xserver-xfree86), configured wit

Re: why no DRI for G200 in X4

2000-11-06 Thread Jeremiah Savage
brian moore wrote: On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 09:57:05PM -0800, Jeremiah Savage wrote: I've been tring to get DRI working for my G200 on 440BX w/o much success. I've compiled linux-2.4.0-test10 with agpgart and dri, installed the latest X4 debs (including xlibmesa3, xlibosmesa3 & xserver-xfree86)

Re: Segmentation Faults!

2000-11-06 Thread kmself
on Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 08:40:59PM -0700, Matheson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Wow, > > I get segmentation faults whenever anything (or me) tries to remove > stuff (rm). When by system boots up, a see up bunch of segmentation > faults, cause certain things try to rm -f, and now when I try to log

Re: sendmail on debian

2000-11-06 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > We're now running a little pentium box in the office as a mailserver > running sendmail. > its running potato with the security.debian.org upgrades, all > packages installed via apt-get, its

how to load modules at boot time

2000-11-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i'd like to load two modules -- 3dfx.o and tulip.o (voodoo3 and ethernet cards) at boot time rather than modprobing them every time the system boots. i could do that by adding them to a local startup script, and that's the way i've done it for a long time. but if i wanted to be more so

Re: why no DRI for G200 in X4

2000-11-06 Thread Damien
> Same problem here. I think the problem is deeper, though, from my > xdm.log: > > (==) MGA(0): Default visual is TrueColor > (II) MGA(0): [drm] bpp: 16 depth: 16 > (II) MGA(0): [drm] Sarea 2176+632: 2808 > (0): [drm] drmOpen failed > (EE) MGA(0): [drm] DRIScreenInit Failed > > (II) MGA(0): dire

Re: how to load modules at boot time

2000-11-06 Thread kmself
on Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 11:11:56PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > dear all, > > i'd like to load two modules -- 3dfx.o and tulip.o (voodoo3 and ethernet > cards) at boot time rather than modprobing them every time the system boots. > > i could do that by adding them to a l

Q: Debian's Midnight Commander version problem

2000-11-06 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I just moved over from Mandrake, er we all have to start somewhere, and mcx worked great there. Here in 2.2 though, I noticed in syslog that evertime I started mc I got the following: mc: /dev/gpmctl: Connection refused mc: /dev/gpmcrl: No such file or directory Now I check the man pages, i

Setting the group ID on execution on directories

2000-11-06 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
Hi I have seen Debian's default behaviour is to set the group ID on execution on directories. I don't really understand the effect this has, could somebody please explain me? -- Daniel de los Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to load modules at boot time

2000-11-06 Thread Leen Besselink
> > but if i wanted to be more sophisticated about it, would i add them to > /etc/modules? > Yes, I think this is the official place (the file also won't be changed, when you (or apt-get upgrade gets) run).

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-06 Thread Erik Steffl
"John S. J. Anderson" wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > "Marc Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It's not all that hard... I went through this last night. > > Well, yah, it shouldn't have been. 8^/= I was doing the right thing, > and for some reason, it wasn'

Re: New X Server crashes

2000-11-06 Thread Erik Steffl
I have the same problem. what kind of DNS issues? I can ping localhost, jojda (which is my hostanme), 127.0.0.1 just fine... also, sometime when I restarted X (the old 3.x) when using xdm, it would take a long time (minutes!) to restart. but never when it was started for the first time... a

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 crashes hard

2000-11-06 Thread Erik Steffl
Jeremy Hankins wrote: > > Well, I've been futzing with this for a couple days now, and no luck, so > I'll see if anyone here has any suggestions. > > I've got an s3 virge card, viewsonic monitor. Come the upgrade to > XF 4.0 I've got to re-create the XF86Config file -- no biggy, I ran > xf86conf

Re: DRI diff in phase2v30 and offical?

2000-11-06 Thread Erik Steffl
yes, I am in similar situation, the DRI does not work (X 4.0.1, voodoo 3), the rest seems to work OK (I didn't do much testing). what's the reason? is it just a minor thing that's going to be fixed soon or is it missing or? card is recognized: (II) TDFX: Driver for 3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3 chi

OT: gecko rendering engine and galeon/skipstone

2000-11-06 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, After all this discussion recently on the list about opera for linux and galeon/skipstone, I looked at the galeon/skipstone webpages. So a question came to my mind: They both use the gecko rendering engine from Mozilla. They both need a full install of Mozilla on the machine to work (

Re: test patterns for adjusting monitor?

2000-11-06 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 11:25:37AM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 08:58:01PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > > > Anyone have test patterns for help with adjusting the various > > > parameters of a CRT monitor

soundblaster PCI 128 driver

2000-11-06 Thread Danny Lathouwers
Dear community,   I've got a soundblaster audio PCI 128 card. It should be supported but the names of the device drivers did not appear to include this particular name. I also reviewed this list and saw that people had used the es1370 or alsa driver. Perhaps someone can shed some light on wha

Re: OT: gecko rendering engine and galeon/skipstone

2000-11-06 Thread Damien
> Why don't the developers of galeon/skipstone follow this approach? > Anybody knowing of a browser doing this? mozilla is still under heavy development. it's not practical to extract gecko right now. stay tuned, though ;o) cheers -- Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgptjKLkVd7u4.pgp Description:

xf86cfg problem

2000-11-06 Thread Martin Würtele
hi, strange problem with xf86cfg: when runnung as user i alway get Cannot to open config file. and when running as root (su): Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.3 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.1 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1

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

2000-11-06 Thread Thomas Halahan
I solved this recently for KDE 2. My solution was 1) Use the "xev" command in an xterm to find out what keycode the Alt key is. (mine is 64) 2) Put the equivalent line in .xmod (or .xmodmap) > keycode 64 = Meta_L 3) execute "xmodmap .xmod" 4) start emacs and try. Tom On 04 3:30

installing woody-packages in potato-system

2000-11-06 Thread Thomas Guettler
I want to install a package from woody into my potato. I heard that some people had a problem with the libc upgrade, so I thought to get the sources and compile them for me. Is this the right thing to do? "apt-get source -b foo" fails, because I didn't check the build-dependancies. Does some know

Sound Card: Turtle Beach Montego A3D 64 Voice PCI

2000-11-06 Thread Yves . Pocchiola
Dear community, I' ve a Sound Card: Turtle Beach Montego A3D 64 Voice PCI (with a DELL computer). The Turtle Beach device drivers proposed by Debian 2.2 are for other types of cards and don't work. Chipset is Aureal AU8820 and AC'97 Codec according the documentation. Perhaps someone can shed som

Unidentified subject!

2000-11-06 Thread makoto sugimoto
# bye

Broken Mail after moving from IP network to dial-up

2000-11-06 Thread Tony Curzon Price
Hello, I moved my machine from the office to home - I now dial-up with a ppp connection. I would like to fetchmail from the same server as before, and have the same procmail running through it. This almost works - fetchmail does get the mail OK, but then I get: 11/05/2000 16:16:38: [m13sSTG-000

RE: soundblaster PCI 128 driver

2000-11-06 Thread Jamie MacIsaac
Danny, I'm using a SoundBlaster PCI 128 with support for es1371 compiled into the kernel and it works fine. There appears to have been more than one release of this sound card, so you might want to try the es1371 if the es1370 doesn't work. Regards, Jamie MacIsaac -Original Message- Fr

X 4.0.1 crashes (:0 and :1 running)

2000-11-06 Thread Erik Steffl
I experienced few crashes when I was running two X server (:0 and :1), all while resizing windows. anybody else experienced something similar? any ideas? I have kernel 2.2.17, debian packages for X 4.0.1, voodoo 3 erik

Re: Alternate method (was Re: Presentation software)

2000-11-06 Thread Thomas Halahan
personally i'm an acrobat fan. you get good looking results in all colours. you can even embed javascript for the forward tab functionality, and you get acrobat "full screen" option when doing the actual presentation. you can still hand out the presentation on a url. tom On 03 6:39 pm,

Re: GeForce2 w/ XFree86 4.0.1 [ a little new ]

2000-11-06 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:01:46PM -0800, Cisco.Addict wrote: > Sorry, is there any way i can get my GeForce2 GTS 64mb working in XFree86 > 4.0.1(Im hopeing to be able to play Quake3) I've got a GeForce2 GTS 32mb; I followed tomshardware instructions (+ others) to install and now I can play t

Audio IN ? --> "Is this mic on?"

2000-11-06 Thread Debian Ghost
Hello Debianers, I have been wondering what sort of program I can use that would allow recording audio in (to .wav or something similar) ? I currently use xmms for audio out. Now I need the counter part. ANY suggestions welcome! Thanks a lot! Debian Ghost. 'space ghost in a forrest'

w3m wouldn't load http://localhost

2000-11-06 Thread Johann Spies
I have apache installed and lynx, netscape and mozilla do not have a problem to load http://localhost. However, links and w3m fails. Links' error message is: "Host not found" and w3m's: "Can't load http://localhost";. Does this have something to do with apache's configuration? JOHANN -- J.H. S

i am hacked atm.. what's better thing to do?

2000-11-06 Thread Livia Admin
ey guys.. pls reply to my real email add cause i'm not in the lists i think i'm compromised. cause when i do netstat i see a telnet connection established to my box for almost 1 hour. i do ps but see only 'in.telnetd'. is there any way that i will know what he is doing before i'll disconnect him

Re: gnome-ppp

2000-11-06 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 12:00:43PM -0700, Clayton Stapleton wrote: > Hi Folks; > Have Debian 2.2 running on a Pentium 166MMX, 2 hard drives, only one > containing Debian. After configuring Gnome-ppp and attempt to dial > out get the following error "The pppd died unexpectedly". So tried the > Help

Help needed on Gimp imlib error

2000-11-06 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I don't know what is going on. I have a pretty vanilla system runnng 2.2, E, and a strict minimum of mainly console apps. Gimp was working fine. I loaded and off-loaded a couple things and now I find that when I open a file in Gimp (default version on board), on the third or fourth I will get

Re: soundblaster PCI 128 driver

2000-11-06 Thread Örn
Hi! I'm using the es1371 driver with this card and it works fine. In SuSE I use the Alsa driver and there it even runs the MIDI funktion. Helgi Örn On Mon, 06 Nov 2000, Danny Lathouwers wrote: > > Dear community, > > I've got a soundblaster audio PCI 128 card. It should be supported but > t

Re: Setting the group ID on execution on directories

2000-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have seen Debian's default behaviour is to set the group ID on >execution on directories. I don't really understand the effect this >has, could somebody please explain me? Looking in 'info chmod', 'File permissions', 'Mode structure': # For directories on some systems,

Re: w3m wouldn't load http://localhost

2000-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have apache installed and lynx, netscape and mozilla do not have a >problem to load http://localhost. > >However, links and w3m fails. Links' error message is: "Host not found" >and w3m's: "Can't load http://localhost";. > >Does this have something to do

xdm takes so long to start [was Re: New X Server crashes]

2000-11-06 Thread Shao Zhang
Me too! xdm on my machine(laptop) takes about 50 seconds to start. These are the last few lines in my xdm.log: (==) ATI(0): Backing store disabled (**) Mouse0: Protocol: "PS/2" (**) Mouse0: Core Pointer (==) Mouse0: Buttons: 3 (II) Keyboard "Keyboard0" handled by legacy driver (II) XINPUT: Adding

Re: Using dpkg-buildpackage

2000-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have been trying to build a debian package out of plain sources using >deb-make deb-make is largely obsolete. Use dh_make instead (from the dh-make package). >and dpkg-buildpackage. I need to pass an argument to configure >(--with-qt2) but I don't know how to do it f

Re: lost my backspace key - solved, new question

2000-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
David Bellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OK, I checked out the manpage for xmodmap and figured out how to get my >backspace key to work properly. I then inserted the following line into >my ~/.bashrc file: >xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace" >This does work. My question is, is this the best plac

Re: How stable are the XFree86 4 packages?

2000-11-06 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:47:21AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, I know that they're not really reccomended for the average user > yet, but I wanna try them out so bad! :-) > > I've got a K6-500, 64Mb ram, Voodoo 3 w/16Mb, and I'm running a > mostly potato system. What I would like to kn

Re: How to test HDD thoroughly? (Debian Linux "unstable" 2.2.16 kernel)

2000-11-06 Thread Rohan McLeod
A hardware solution: does the ROM BIOS offer hard disk utilites ? eg disk-format and disk scan; ...avoiding the former; try the later. regards Rohan hogan wrote: > I have a 486DX4/100 (kinda) running Debian Linux "unstable" 2.2

Re: WordPerfect 8 on Debian 2.2 with XFree86 3.3.6

2000-11-06 Thread Iohan
Thanks! I installed libc5, that fixed the initial problem. Then it started showing 'can't load library "libxpm.so.4"', so I once again searched Corel's knowledge base, and found that you had to install the libxpm from the /oldlibs folder of the Debian CD. Finally it works! Still learning...

latex question

2000-11-06 Thread Manuel Hendel
Hi All, I'm looking for a latex file like g-brief.cls which is especialy for business letters. What I need to do is to define the footnote by myself. Can anyone give me a hint. Thanks, Manuel

Re: Help needed on Gimp imlib error

2000-11-06 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:46:10PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know what is going on. I have a pretty vanilla system runnng 2.2, E, > and a strict minimum of mainly console apps. Gimp was working fine. I loaded > and off-loaded a couple things and now I find that when I open a fi

Newbie sound help

2000-11-06 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Hi all! I've got my new potato system up and running, Gnome works fine and it all looks great! Haven't fired up NT on my home box for 3 whole days! I'm starting to feel braver now, and guess it's time to start to look at sound. From what I've been able to find browsing the web, and from reading v

compiling Realtek into kernel

2000-11-06 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Make xconfig greyed the Realtek driver 8139 selection out although 10/100 ethernet support has been selected. I played a bit with selecting other options but never managed to get the Realtek driver option active! This is even more mysterious since this mashine has this ethernet card installed and

Re: Presentation software

2000-11-06 Thread Shandar Ahmad
Try magicpoint. --- "Thomas R. Shannon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My thanks to all who have replied. Actually, Star > Office is indeed > very nice but I've had a hard time importing my eps > files (generated > with gnuplot or wmftoeps) with it. I know the eps > files are good > because these

soundcore module

2000-11-06 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
What is the soundlow & the soundcore used for? I'm just trying to get my Sonic Impact to work (which should be a OSS card) and cannot find any of the below modules in 'make xconfig'. The present deb 2.2 has both modules loaded but I have no idea what they are used for. The installation routine (by

Re: compiling Realtek into kernel

2000-11-06 Thread Christoph Simon
On Mon, 06 Nov 2000 15:18:27 +0100 robert_wilhelm_land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Make xconfig greyed the Realtek driver 8139 selection out although > 10/100 ethernet support has been selected. I played a bit with > selecting other options but never managed to get the Realtek driver > option ac

Re: soundblaster PCI 128 driver

2000-11-06 Thread Ray Percival
Tyr opensource.creative.com. The drivers are IMHO really good and although it is a bit hard to get them to work with Debian once you get them set up they work great. -- Original Message -- From: Danny Lathouwers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 1

Q: CD Rom permissions from root??

2000-11-06 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I just tried loading Words from root and got a no permission error. Now I'm using the same fstab, whith slight modifications , I was using in Mandrake, so I assume Deban handles things differently. Or is it teh /dev/hdb or /dev/cdrom link, or /mnt/cdrom directory itself?? Thanks, Jonathan

Re: latex question

2000-11-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:00:32PM +0100, Manuel Hendel wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm looking for a latex file like g-brief.cls which is especialy for > business letters. What I need to do is to define the footnote by > myself. Can anyone give me a hint. You lost me. You always define footnote con

Change in bin directory of web site

2000-11-06 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
can someone explain what the change was, so that we can adjust the mirroring procedure when using rsync or whatever other method? Thanks, A.R.

Re: SB Live! (XGamer)...

2000-11-06 Thread Ray Percival
Or if you don't want to rebuild your kernel go to opensource.creative.com. -- Original Message -- From: S.Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 18:45:53 -0500 >> "RM" == Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: latex question

2000-11-06 Thread Manuel Hendel
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 10:06:57AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Received: from murphy.debian.org (murphy.debian.org [216.234.231.6]) > by cohiba.easygolucky.de (Postfix) with SMTP id 530DA3EE46 > for <[EMAIL PROT

Re: How to get ifup/ifdown source code

2000-11-06 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > i'm curious to know how ifup/ifdown does it's magic. how do > i get the source code for these using apt-get put a line like this in your /etc/apt/sources.list deb-src http://your_favourite_mirror/debian potato main contrib non-free and them cd to y

Re: xdm takes so long to start [was Re: New X Server crashes]

2000-11-06 Thread Andre Berger
Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm not sure if it will help you, but check your /etc/X11/Xresources/* files, and your ~/.Xresources. If you have something very long like a complete netscape language localization in it, xrdb -merge can take a very long time, esp. on slow machines. -- Andr

Re: Sound Card: Turtle Beach Montego A3D 64 Voice PCI

2000-11-06 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Dear community, > > I' ve a Sound Card: Turtle Beach Montego A3D 64 Voice PCI (with a DELL > computer). The Turtle Beach device drivers proposed by Debian 2.2 are for > other > types of cards and don't work. Chipset

Re: Help needed on Gimp imlib error

2000-11-06 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Ok, I remembered that I loaded Gimp from an E terminal than ran it, but that souldn't have done it. S I went the long way and unloaded: imblib1 which brought along with it: enlightenment eterm tk-imlib1 gkrellm gtk-engines-pixmap imlib-base imlib-progs libfnlib0 and I added: gimp gimp-data-e

Re: latex question

2000-11-06 Thread Florian Weimer
Manuel Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried this. But if I do \footnote{The Text I want}, I always get a > line above and number in the front. Can I change this in a way? > I need to write my address, "Aufsichtsrat" (sorry I don't know the english > meaning) and bankaccount there. Perhaps

Re: w3m wouldn't load http://localhost

2000-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: >Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I have apache installed and lynx, netscape and mozilla do not have a >>problem to load http://localhost. >> >>However, links and w3m fails. Links' error message is: "Host not found" >>and w3m's: "Can't load http://l

Re: soundcore module

2000-11-06 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > What is the soundlow & the soundcore used for? > > I'm just trying to get my Sonic Impact to work (which should be a OSS > card) and cannot find any of the below modules in 'make xconfig'. The > present deb 2.2 has both m

XFree 4 and S3 Vortex4 chipset

2000-11-06 Thread Stuart Ballard
I have a Diamond Stealth III video card which has an S3 Vortex4 chipset. I know that this chipset is not explicitly supported in XFree86 4.0.1, but the S3 ViRGE and Trio3D cards are supported. Does anyone here happen to know if the S3 Vortex4 is sufficiently backward compatible that I can get away

Re: latex question

2000-11-06 Thread Manuel Hendel
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 04:48:30PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > Manuel Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I tried this. But if I do \footnote{The Text I want}, I always get a > > line above and number in the front. Can I change this in a way? > > I need to write my address, "Aufsichtsra

Re: why no DRI for G200 in X4

2000-11-06 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 06:13:41PM +1100, Damien wrote: > > Same problem here. I think the problem is deeper, though, from my > > xdm.log: > > > > (==) MGA(0): Default visual is TrueColor > > (II) MGA(0): [drm] bpp: 16 depth: 16 > > (II) MGA(0): [drm] Sarea 2176+632: 2808 > > (0): [drm] drmOpen f

new and needing help

2000-11-06 Thread brent morrison
hello who ever reads this im new at linux and i have a 8.4 gig hd with mandrake on it now i was in tulsa OKlahoma not to long ago (my homw town basically) and went to a ham raido fest where i saw a demo of debian linux and we all got free cd roms with linux on it well i have no idea how to por

ppp problem

2000-11-06 Thread Peter O. Fedichev
Hello, since one week can not set a ppp connection in between my two computers through the phone line cat /etc/ppp/options lock crtscts modem asyncmap 0 cat ppp pppd /dev/ttyS0 38400 \ connect 'chat "" at\&p1dp2921892 ogin: ppp word: ppp001' \ debug -detach ./ppp Serial connection established

Re: audio in

2000-11-06 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 03:54:30PM -0500, Debian Ghost wrote: > Hey Guys, > Is there a program that will capture audio in? I want to record some sound > bytes. e.g. the audio/bplay package -- groetjes, carel

Re: xdm takes so long to start [was Re: New X Server crashes]

2000-11-06 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
"Andre" == Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> I'm not sure if it will help you, but check your Andre> /etc/X11/Xresources/* files, and your ~/.Xresources. If you Andre> have something very long like a complete netscape language Andre> localization in it, xrdb -merge can take a very lo

Re: DRI diff in phase2v30 and offical?

2000-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yes, I am in similar situation, the DRI does not work (X 4.0.1, voodoo >3), the rest seems to work OK (I didn't do much testing). > > what's the reason? is it just a minor thing that's going to be fixed >soon or is it missing or? > > card is recognized: >

Re: audio in

2000-11-06 Thread Stuart Ballard
Carel Fellinger wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 03:54:30PM -0500, Debian Ghost wrote: > > Hey Guys, > > Is there a program that will capture audio in? I want to record some sound > > bytes. > > e.g. the audio/bplay package For GNOME, there is a package called electric ears that appears in the

Re: Sound Card: Turtle Beach Montego A3D 64 Voice PCI

2000-11-06 Thread Alan Sobey
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 10:49:35AM -0500, Andy Bastien wrote: > There are those who would have you believe that [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Dear community, > > > > I' ve a Sound Card: Turtle Beach Montego A3D 64 Voice PCI (with a DELL > > computer). The Turtle Beach device drivers propo

Re: "non-US/main" section

2000-11-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 21:02:35 +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > As far as Debian is concerned, you can do what you like with this > software. It is up to you to judge whether any item of software is legal > within your own country. A useful resource in this regard is the Crypto Law Survey at http

Re: test patterns for adjusting monitor?

2000-11-06 Thread Gyulai Mihaly
Krzys Majewski írta, 2000-11-04, 20:58-kor kelt levelében, ami 8 sorból állt: > Anyone have test patterns for help with adjusting the various > parameters of a CRT monitor? You can find useful monitor patterns at http://www.displaymate.com The patterns are accessible also under ftp:

another name

2000-11-06 Thread Flavio Alberto
I'm have one Debian box 2.2 with name dragon.theserverone.com and like another other name eg.: tiger1.theserverone.com how I'm make this is?

tnt2 vanta and dell 21"

2000-11-06 Thread Anders Lennartsson
Hi I'm trying to configure X on a PII 300 Mhz dual proc with a Creative TNT2 Vanta PCI card and running Woody. X works in 1280x1024, but both xfree 3.3.6 xserver-svga and xfree 4.0.1 xserver-xfree86 have problem with stable picture in 1600x1200. The card should be able to do this with 85Hz vertic

SCSI & SCSI emulation

2000-11-06 Thread Brian Schramm
I am running Potato with a IDE cdrom writer and I just got the Tekram DC390U2W SCSI card so I can get some SCSI devices to run. I have tried several drivers (Tekram web site) and biltin kernel drivers to get the card to work. I finally ended up with turning off the scsi emulation in the kernel to

Re: OT: gecko rendering engine and galeon/skipstone

2000-11-06 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 10:54:01AM +0100, Daniel Reuter wrote: > Hello there, > > After all this discussion recently on the list about opera for linux and > galeon/skipstone, I looked at the galeon/skipstone webpages. So a question > came to my mind: > They both use the gecko rendering engine from

Re: DRI diff in phase2v30 and offical?

2000-11-06 Thread Burton Windle
In my setup, I had DRI working, and everything was fine with phase2ver30. I shutdown X (gdm actually, which took X with it) then did a dist-upgrade (which grabbed the offical Xf4 debs). When it was done downloading and installing, I just started up gdm again, and DRI was broken (X says it finds a

Re: libkdecore.so.3: I'm getting same error

2000-11-06 Thread Daniel Borgmann
i don't know what's up with the mandrake files but i guess it's a bug anywhere... yesterday evening i ran an apt-get update and it installed 96 (!) updated kde2 packages. i just stand up, typed startx and everything was fine again. maybe i had different versions of kdelibs and kdebase packages or

Re: soundblaster PCI 128 driver

2000-11-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i used to have the same card. it's a good card, but doesn't do midi natively (most PCI sound cards don't). the driver i used was either es1370 or es1371. you can find out which one by doing an lspci. for details on how to do this, do a make menuconfig, go to the sound section, and read the hel

Re: test patterns for adjusting monitor?

2000-11-06 Thread Scott V. McGuire
Now that this thread has got me interested, could anyone explain how to use the test patterns? On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 09:37:58PM +0100, Gyulai Mihaly wrote: > Krzys Majewski írta, 2000-11-04, 20:58-kor kelt levelében, ami 8 sorból állt: > > > Anyone have test patterns for help with adjust

Re: KDE2 problems

2000-11-06 Thread Norris Preyer
> "Daniel" == Daniel Borgmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hello! i installed the kde2 debs and everthing worked fine. > then i made an update and now i can't start it at all. the > output in .xsession-error is: *snip* ksplash: error in loading > shared libraries: /usr/lib/l

Re: how to get the latest STABLE releases?

2000-11-06 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Daniel Borgmann wrote: > 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? if there are security related problems they are: a. back fixed and up

Re: new and needing help

2000-11-06 Thread Kent West
brent morrison wrote: hello who ever reads this im new at linux and i have a 8.4 gig hd with mandrake on it now i was in tulsa OKlahoma not to long ago (my homw town basically) and went to a ham raido fest where i saw a demo of debian linux and we all got free cd roms with linux on it well i

Re: Newbie sound help

2000-11-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
peter, step 1 is to figure out which driver you need. here are various things you can do to that end: a. go to deja.com's power search and do a search on "linux crystal sound" and see what turns up. b. go to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound and do a grep "Crystal" *. c. install the 4F

How to install woody

2000-11-06 Thread Richard Taylor
Pardon me for being dense, folks, but due to some advice that I received from this list I decided to try Woody out. Now: where are the install floppy images. I tried ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/disks-i386 and a couple of the mirror sites just to check, and well, came up dry. So

Netscape spelling option

2000-11-06 Thread Debian Ghost
Hey Guys, For some reason netscape did not install with the spelling option. Is there a special way or package I need to be able to spell check? I thunk it wode reley help my work parformence. *grin* Thanks, Debian Ghost

Re: another name

2000-11-06 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:14:27PM -0200, Flavio Alberto wrote: > I'm have one Debian box 2.2 with name dragon.theserverone.com and like > another other name eg.: tiger1.theserverone.com how I'm make this is? > Use 'hostname' to set the host name. Do 'man hostname' for details on how to use the co

unmet depedencies (libgtk1.2-dev)

2000-11-06 Thread Thomas Guettler
I am running testing. Can someone help me with this problem?: # apt-get install libgtk1.2-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribu

Re: OT: gecko rendering engine and galeon/skipstone

2000-11-06 Thread Florian Weimer
"Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you want a small browser without relying on Mozilla's gecko, you > might want to try BrowseX (at www.browsex.com). > > As far as licenses go, it's free and open source, but I'm not sure if > it's Free (as in speech). The source code includes a

Re: tnt2 vanta and dell 21"

2000-11-06 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Anders Lennartsson wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to configure X on a PII 300 Mhz dual proc with a Creative > TNT2 Vanta PCI card and running Woody. > > X works in 1280x1024, but both xfree 3.3.6 xserver-svga and xfree 4.0.1 > xserver-xfree86 > have pro

Re: How to install woody

2000-11-06 Thread Shaul Karl
> Pardon me for being dense, folks, but due to some advice that I > received from this list I decided to try Woody out. Now: where are > the install floppy images. I tried > ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/disks-i386 > and a couple of the mirror sites just to check, and well, came up

Re: email alias postfix procmail

2000-11-06 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 05:38:12PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > set postmaster "dirk" > poll pop.xs4all.nl aka xs4all.nl with proto POP3 >user "dirk" there with password "very-secret" > to dirk > to adb=anna > limit 10 warnings 3600 > this "to adb=anna" delive

Re: SB Live! (XGamer)...

2000-11-06 Thread dirk
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 04:24:04PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Matthias Czapla wrote: > > > In Kernel 2.2.17 there is direct Support for SB Live!. Just compile it > > in. > > I keep hearing this and I keep looking and I can't find it in my 2.2.17 > source (from potato debia

Compiling kernels

2000-11-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
Dear all! I've possibly asked this one before but have not got any where, and am still puzzeled as to how to dort this one out! The problem is that my kernels refuse to install. I have downloaded the kernels from ftp.kernel.org, unpacked them. Configured them using menuconfig, and then cleaned

Re: latex question

2000-11-06 Thread Andre Berger
Manuel Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I'm looking for a latex file like g-brief.cls which is especialy for > > > business letters. What I need to do is to define the footnote by > > > myself. Can anyone give me a hint. > > > > You lost me. You always define foot

Re: sources.list to upgrade from slink to potato

2000-11-06 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:09:46AM -0700, Matheson wrote: > 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 appreci

cdrecord and ide-scsi

2000-11-06 Thread Olivier Billet
Hello everyone ! I have an Archos cdrw that comes with a pcmcia card : I can mount this device as hde and then read the content of the cd. So now is my question: how can I set up the ide-scsi interface to get this stuff working with cdrecord ??? (when I boot the system claims there is no driver

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