Gnome problem

2000-11-08 Thread Tony Schonfeld
hello, I currently have a small minor problem with gnome: when I execute gnome-control-center and that I go in screensaver the screen gele freeze. So on the other hand I use gnome-control-center with another Windows-manager it does not crash. I carried out the test in root and normal user witho

Quick way to tell if online for use in cron script?

2000-11-08 Thread Willy Lee
Hi debian-users, I wanted to run 'ntpdate' periodically via a cron script. However, I would prefer if the script would only run ntpdate if I am online (my dialup account), in order to avoid filling up my logs with 'can't find xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' messages. Is there something in /proc or a simple com

Re: Security

2000-11-08 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 09:06:32PM -0800, Vijay Prabakaran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I have been following the "horrifying suggestion" thread on > the lists and what you say about the go-gnome script makes perfectly > good sense. Has anyone talked to Helixcode about the problem

Re: Quick way to tell if online for use in cron script?

2000-11-08 Thread Damian Menscher
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Willy Lee wrote: > I wanted to run 'ntpdate' periodically via a cron script. However, I > would prefer if the script would only run ntpdate if I am online (my > dialup account), in order to avoid filling up my logs with 'can't find > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' messages. Is there someth

Re: Some Newbie Questions

2000-11-08 Thread Damien
> just to clarify: he must have meant /etc/inetd.conf here and not > /etc/inittab. yes, quite :) don't look after your security late at night ;o) cheers -- Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 'together alone' pgpyw1jPeTvLN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: machine compromise??? port 3086 open on 2.2

2000-11-08 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Daniel Freedman wrote: > > I was just running nmap on my Debian 2.2 box and noticed the following > output: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/freedman]# nmap -sT osprey > > Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor ([EMAIL PROTECTED], www.insecure.org/nmap/) > Interesting ports on os

mgetty problem: calling behind an office telephone station

2000-11-08 Thread Peter Fedichev
Hello, Please tell me if somebody knows how to make sendfax working from behind the office telephone station. The problem is that in order to place a call I have to dial "*0" and my pin code first. Only after that the dial tone shows up. Instead, sendfax quits with "NO DIAL TONE" complain. I did t

Strange message on ps -a

2000-11-08 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hello Everybody The following message appears each time I make "ps" or "ps -a": {floppy_open} {scsi_init_free} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.17 does not match kernel data. Then the running processes are listet just right. Any idea what happened to my System.map? I compiled my own kernel (with bu

(sans sujet)

2000-11-08 Thread Simonchem
i will become a debian user but i'm new in this way and i just want to solve a problem: i have 20 Go hard drive..debian ask to boot 40 Mo for BIOS deficient ask me for a 128 Mo primary partition (swap ) and

Re: Strange message on ps -a

2000-11-08 Thread C. Falconer
You've compiled a new kernel but not rebooted to load it? If so, then this is one of the few times in linux when a reboot is required. At 09:09 AM 11/8/00 +0100, you wrote: Hello Everybody The following message appears each time I make "ps" or "ps -a": {floppy_open} {scsi_init_free} Warning: /

ncr53c8xx and wd 8013 NIC problem

2000-11-08 Thread Olaf Geibig
Hello I have a problem with my ncr53c810 card (Asus SC200) and a SMC Elite 16 T network card (WD 8013). My machine runs under Debian Linux 2.2 and it uses the ncr53c8xx driver which is compiled into the kernel. When the NCR-bios of the motherboard is turned on the NIC is not working although the w

ifconfig & route

2000-11-08 Thread Petteri Heinonen
Hi. Why ifconfig adds route in localnet when I use it to bring up my eth0 interface? Shouldn't that be done with route command after using ifconfig? That is what is said in networking howto and in a Debian book I have. I read manual pages for ifconfig, and there weren't a word about this feature. N

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inetd startup warns portmapper not running?

2000-11-08 Thread Neil Darlow
Hi, My potato system has started warning that portmapper isn't running during the execution of /etc/init.d/inetd at boot. I've checked that portmap is indeed running and I've even manually executed the logic that leads to this message. After boot it doesn't match the failing condition (rpcinfo re

Linuxconfig opinions

2000-11-08 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
A question for all Linux gurus out there: I have encountered a program called 'linuxconfig' which, on the face of it, appears to be a useful system tool. It is a curses- based program, that knows where all the various debian system files are, and allows root to modify users, groups, networking co

Re: mutt

2000-11-08 Thread Glyn Millington
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:21:08AM -, thus spake John-Mark: > I have just installed mutt on my system but cant see how to configure it any > help much appreciated > jm The Mutt docs to which others have pointed you are of course the canonical source of wisdom - I found, though, that they are

Re: Where on the disks 2.2 is LyX?

2000-11-08 Thread Örn
LyX (my favorite!) isn't on the potato cd's and not on the 'stable' list but you can find it on the 'unstable' list. It installs and works beautifully! Cheers, Helgi Örn On Tue, 07 Nov 2000, A.E. Roy wrote: > Where on the disks can I find LyX, assuming that they are there? > Roy > > __

Re: Linuxconfig opinions

2000-11-08 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 11:44:24AM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > A question for all Linux gurus out there: > > I have encountered a program called 'linuxconfig' Surely ou mean "linuxconf"? > which, on the face of it, appears to be a useful system tool. It is a > cu

Diamond SOund Card MX300

2000-11-08 Thread dude
i have a sound card MX300 diamond and would like to know hp I would like to know how to enable sound in linux, thanks direct email is always welcome thanks

No Subject

2000-11-08 Thread Kaleb Daark
After downloading kernel-source-2.2.17_2.2.17pre6-1.deb (for the third time) from both ftp.debian.au.org, www.au.debian.org and ftp.debian.org and then executing "tar -Ixvf kernel-source-2.2.17.tar.bz2" in /usr/src I received the following error: .. list of files in archive ... kernel-source-2.2.

Fwd: FW: Priv: Annual meeting of women drivers

2000-11-08 Thread Lorand Somogyi
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getty, "Id "S" respawning too fast"

2000-11-08 Thread Marcin Bieńkowski
hello, I've installed Debian Potato and since then I have following problem : Every 5 (?) minutes i get this message on console : --- Usage: /sbin/getty [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I initstring] [-H login_host] baud_rate,... line [termtype] or [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t

Re: rc.boot

2000-11-08 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: rc.boot Date: Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 01:23:55AM +1100 In reply to:Daniel Knights Quoting Daniel Knights([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi all, > > I have recently installed debian for the 1st time after using redhat and > then SuSe for a few years. I have just installed ssh to m

Archive/kernel problems

2000-11-08 Thread Kaleb Daark
Sorry, on the first post, I forgot a subject.. I apologise for the duplication... After downloading kernel-source-2.2.17_2.2.17pre6-1.deb (for the third time) from both ftp.debian.au.org, www.au.debian.org and ftp.debian.org and then executing "tar -Ixvf kernel-source-2.2.17.tar.bz2" in /usr/src

Re: XFree86 4.0.1

2000-11-08 Thread mheyes
Problem solved! I had tried this earlier, but I think I put in in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 (per man XF86Config). Right now I have a copy in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb, /uet/X11/rgb and /etc/X11/rgb.txt. Is the XF86Config-4 file read at boot, login or when X starts? May explain why my previous tries failed

ipopd and imap

2000-11-08 Thread Jaume Teixi
Hi what is the deb package for the UW's imap server ? I cannot find imap-uw or so. thanks, jaume

Re: ipopd and imap

2000-11-08 Thread Colin Watson
Jaume Teixi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >what is the deb package for the UW's imap server ? > >I cannot find imap-uw or so. It's just called 'imap', in the mail section. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where on the disks 2.2 is LyX?

2000-11-08 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:11:30PM +0100, Helgi Örn wrote: > LyX (my favorite!) isn't on the potato cd's and not on the 'stable' list but > you > can find it on the 'unstable' list. It installs and works beautifully! > > Where on the disks can I find LyX, assuming that they are there? > > Roy L

Samba across internet

2000-11-08 Thread David Purton
Hello, I think I may have something v. badly set up with Samba I ntice that in the logs there are a number of connections from machines with internet ip addresses (ie not local). They are all from the same isp as my dial up connection (judging from the ip addresses anyway). I'm guessing that I

Re: getty, "Id "S" respawning too fast"

2000-11-08 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:26:10 +0100 (CET), Marcin Bie kowski wrote: >Usage: /sbin/getty [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I >initstring] [-H login_host] baud_rate,... line [termtype] >or [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I initstring] [-H >login_host] line baud_rate,... [termt

Re: keyboard configuration

2000-11-08 Thread urbanyon
XF86Setup worked great - mouse is now fine! thanks! however (isn't that always the way)... it seems that enlightenment and something called gmc are not installed. when i try to install them using apt-get, i am told that they "exist in the database" but are not found. is it possible that these se

Re: keyboard configuration

2000-11-08 Thread urbanyon
btw, here are the exact error messages from the x shutdown: /usr/X11/R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: gmc: command not found /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: /usr/bin/X11/enlightenment: No such file or directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: panel: command not found waiting for X server to shut d

Re: Samba across internet

2000-11-08 Thread John Covici
You might want to an interface line in your samba configuration file (smb.conf) such as interfaces=192.168.0.1/24 and you may need a socket address = specification. This is what I have been using. On Thu, 9 Nov 2 000, David Purton wrote: > > Hello, > > I think I may have something v. badly set

Problems with locales

2000-11-08 Thread bmontagu
Hi ! I am using a Potato system and I have got some problems with the locales : I would like to enable the french locale so that programs are displayed in french, but I cannot. I have installed the locale package and tried to set the environment variable LANG to the value "fr" in /etc/profile o

adaptec 1505 / potato

2000-11-08 Thread Dominique Rousset
I'm trying to configure an adaptec AVA1505 adaptec ISA SCSI card on a potato system. 1) default aha152x.o module included with 2.2.17-ide deb was generating unresolved symbols 2) after kernel compilation I've no more errors but a resource busy message. For the moment IRQ and IO adresses configu

mysql-perl modules

2000-11-08 Thread Eileen Orbell
Does anyone know where I can get the deb files DBI and DBD modules to connect perl to mysql? I know the tar is available on mysql.com but would rather install the .deb versions. Thanks Eileen Orbell Software & Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

gpm-configuration for use of ps2-mouse with X-Windows

2000-11-08 Thread Walther, Christoph
Dear community, because of the mouse doesn't work after starting X-Windows by startx, I tried to reconfigure the repeater-function of gpm. So I've got after starting gpmconfig: Current configuration: -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -Rms3 Do you want to change anything: y Where is your mouse [/dev/psaux]?

Re: Problems with locales

2000-11-08 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard [EMAIL PROTECTED] say > Hi ! > I am using a Potato system and I have got some problems with the locales : I > would like to enable the french locale so that programs are displayed in > french, > but I cannot. > I have installed the locale package and tried to set the e

Re: gpm-configuration for use of ps2-mouse with X-Windows

2000-11-08 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
"Walther, Christoph" wrote: > ...so gpm works correctly at the console at the test > ...but if I starting X-Windows again, the mouse doesn't still work! > Of course there is a possibility to stop the gpm manually by: > > /etc/init.d/gpm stop > > ...but I'd like to get an automatism in X-Wind

probe my ports from internet server

2000-11-08 Thread mike
I am testing my firewall and had the 'probe my ports' test run from the server at SheildsUp (grc.com). This only probes a dozen popular ports. Is there a similar net-based server i can run to probe all 65535 ports. I know about nmap, netstat and lsof, but am looking for a net-based

Re: Fwd: FW: Priv: Annual meeting of women drivers

2000-11-08 Thread Glyn Millington
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 01:03:30PM +, thus spake Lorand Somogyi: > another one for the killfile! -- * None can love freedom heartily but good men; * *the rest love not freedom bu

question about my 2.4 test10 kernel

2000-11-08 Thread oacl
i make 2.4.0 test 8 kernel before,by the common steps below: make dep;make clean;make bzImage;make modules;make modules_install but i met problem in my new compiled 2.4.0 test 10 kernel,after reboot,i cannot insmod any modules,i check the /lib/modules/2.4.0test10 dir,it seems that this version ke

Dead keys not working in kword+X4.0.1

2000-11-08 Thread F. Fernández
Hi! I don't know if this should be submited here or in the X or KDE lists. Anyway, here goes... I'm trying to keep my machine up to date with woody and the first time I installed kde I was very happy because I could write dead keys like "ã" (atilde) or "á" (aacute) directly. After another update

Re: newbiedoc.intranets.com

2000-11-08 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:10:48PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > newbiedoc.intranets.com -- the gathering place for newbies > documenting linux/debian for newbies -- already has four > members. delightful! > > anybody who wants to pitch in and scribble some notes > for future newbies to follow, pl

RE: question about my 2.4 test10 kernel

2000-11-08 Thread Jason Holland
yes, grab the latest modutils http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.3/ the latest is 2.3.19. There are quite a few changes you need to learn about. I suggest reading Documentation/Changes in your 2.4 kernel source tree. Jason > > i make 2.4.0 test 8 kernel before,by the co

boot-floppies: how do I go about making my own version

2000-11-08 Thread Walter Tautz
I am interested in creating my own boot-floppies Primarily so i can change some of the text messages and change some of the menu options. Ideally I would like to create a single boot floppie that would be expressly used to do network install. In particular I would like to have a kernel which has a

RE: question about my 2.4 test10 kernel

2000-11-08 Thread Jason Holland
oops, and woody contains 2.3.19 if your running it. Jason > -Original Message- > From: Jason Holland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 9:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: question about my 2.4 test10 kernel > > > yes, g

Question and goodbye...

2000-11-08 Thread sena
Hi... Just to ask you a question: is there a way to specify which users may start the X window system? The Xserver file in /etc/X11 allows you to limit the access to X only to users on the Console, but is there a way of doing this on a user base? I still want my users to be able to use the X clien

Re: gpm-configuration for use of ps2-mouse with X-Windows

2000-11-08 Thread Harald Weidner
Hello, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Walther, Christoph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >because of the mouse doesn't work after starting X-Windows by startx, >I tried to reconfigure the repeater-function of gpm. >So I've got after starting gpmconfig: >gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -r 15 -Rmsc > >...so

how to compile openldap-1.2.11 with libdb

2000-11-08 Thread Jaume Teixi
On potato's I need to compile openldap-1.2.11 with libdb instead of libdb2 anybody could point-me on how to do this thanks, jaume.

Q: Potato Gimp1.1 $HOME directory options?

2000-11-08 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I'm just trying out the gimp1.1 loaded on Debian 2.2 and although I changed the Preferences directories to ".gimp" it still kicks up a fuss when there is no ".gimp1.1" directory. Is there any other way of getting it to accept ".gimp"? I know this is an unfinsihed released, but... Thanks, Jon

Package hold during upgrade

2000-11-08 Thread Howard Mann
Hi All, I'm preparing to upgrade to Potato from Slink ( kernel 2.2.12) using apt-get. There are several packages (related to DocBook/SGML) I would not like to upgrade at the present time. What commands ( exact syntax for package name please ) do I issue to accomplish this ? [Do I use the releva

signing gpg key with old key ...

2000-11-08 Thread Adam Shand
... hey. i looked everywhere i can think to and i can't figure out how to do this. my old gpg key expired a few days ago so i generated a new one. now a lot of people had signed my old key so i want to sign me new key with my old key so it will be trusted as well. how do i sign my new public k

Re: New user rant..urr, questions.

2000-11-08 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 10:14:41AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:21:12PM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > --+ Anyhow. I would like some user help. I need a set of > > > links pointing towards user stories on Debian, as well as > > > variou

Re: how to compile openldap-1.2.11 with libdb

2000-11-08 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:13:49PM +0100, Jaume Teixi wrote: > On potato's I need to compile openldap-1.2.11 with libdb instead of > libdb2 > > anybody could point-me on how to do this Why? On i386-potato, it should automagically compile with db1 (libdb.so.2 from libc6 is db1). Otherwise, you sh

Re: signing gpg key with old key ...

2000-11-08 Thread Adam Shand
> how do i sign my new public key with my old private key? okay sorry to follow up my own message but i just figured it out. sometimes it seems that i have to write down (or explain it to someone else) in order to figure it out. if you need to do this it seems impossible from with in the --edi

XFree 4.0 .deb from woody on a potato system??? (fwd)

2000-11-08 Thread David Teague
Joey Hess wrote in the Debian Weekly News for November 07th, 2000: > XFree86 4.0.1 has [1]entered unstable. [snip] > The result is a surprisingly polished upgrade (by unstable's > standards anyway -- [2] many problems are still being encountered). In short, my question is Can I use the XFree

Re: Please translate .sig; was Re: Linuxconfig opinions

2000-11-08 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
David Teague wrote: > Peter > > I can't help you with linuxconfig, but I am intrigued by the .sig > quote. Can you translate it for me? > > > "Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur." Literally: "That which is said in Latin, sounds profound." -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Draco dor

Re: UNSUSCRIBE

2000-11-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank You David, The reason for my unsu...bscribing is that i finally and successfully installed Debian Linux on my PC. Now i need to learn the elementary Linux-basics before having fun with the mailing list. Most of the mails are for me like written in Arabian so first i have to learn 'Arabian'.

Re: newbiedoc.intranets.com

2000-11-08 Thread Chris Gray
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:01:26AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:10:48PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > newbiedoc.intranets.com -- the gathering place for newbies > > documenting linux/debian for newbies -- already has four > > members. delightful! > > > > anybody who w

Re: Question and goodbye...

2000-11-08 Thread Dan Hutchinson
Sena, You can add your user that need access to startx to a group, GUI for example. Then chgrp of startx to that group and chmod of the everyone to null. This is a quick and dirt way, others on this list may give you a more advance way. Dan sena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi... > > Jus

How do 3D cards work under Linux (Debian)

2000-11-08 Thread Scott Patterson
Hi all, I'm no rookie to Linux, but, I'm missing something on how 3D really works in Linux. I've been able to get 3D working but don't really understand what's going on. When I say 3D, I'm speaking of 3D video-hardware acceleration under Linux! If someone could present me with a step-by-step tuto

configuring timezones

2000-11-08 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
Hi, all In my country (Brazil), each year there is a diferent day for changing the clock to daylight saving time. This year, the clock changed in the wrong day from BRT (GMT - 3hs) to BRST (GMT - 2hs). How can I set the date that system will change my clock? Thanks Pedro

Re: Strange message on ps -a

2000-11-08 Thread Johannes Jörg
I /*did/* reboot, and this thing did not happen the first few time. Any other ideas joerg > You've compiled a new kernel but not rebooted to load it? > If so, then this is one of the few times in linux when a reboot is > required. > > At 09:09 AM 11/8/00 +0100, you wrote: > >Hello Everybody > >

Re: ifconfig & route

2000-11-08 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 11:22:21AM +0200, Petteri Heinonen wrote: > Hi. > Why ifconfig adds route in localnet when I use it to bring up my eth0 > interface? Shouldn't that be done with route command after using ifconfig? > That is what is said in networking howto and in a Debian book I have. I read

Soundblaster PCI 128

2000-11-08 Thread Marco Herrn
The last days I've read some messages that I should use the es1370 or es1371 driver for that card. lsmod identified my card as es1371 so I've loaded this driver as module. But although my card seems to be found by the kernel, there is nothing in /dev/sndstat. Did i forget something to do? I also h

Re: mysql-perl modules

2000-11-08 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:57:24AM -0500, Eileen Orbell wrote: > Does anyone know where I can get the deb files DBI and DBD modules to > connect perl to mysql? apt-get install libdbd-mysql-perl -- CueCat decoder .signature by Larry Wall: #!/usr/bin/perl -n printf "Serial: %s Type: %s Code: %s\n

Re: configuring timezones

2000-11-08 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > Hi, all Hi Pedro, > > In my country (Brazil), each year there is a diferent day for changing the > clock to daylight saving time. if you chose the correct timezone with tzconfig, it'll take care of that for you. > > This year, the clock ch

Re: Quick way to tell if online for use in cron script?

2000-11-08 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Quick way to tell if online for use in cron script? Date: Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 10:42:17PM -0800 In reply to:Willy Lee Quoting Willy Lee([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi debian-users, > > I wanted to run 'ntpdate' periodically via a cron script. However, I > would prefer if the

Re: (sans sujet)

2000-11-08 Thread Robert Guthrie
Visit this site. There is a list of places to obtain HOWTO documents translated to french there. http://www.linuxdoc.org/links/nenglish.html On Wednesday 08 November 2000 02:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i will become a debian user but i'm new in this way and i just want to > solve a problem:

Re: Please translate .sig; was Re: Linuxconfig opinions

2000-11-08 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:48:23PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > Peter Hugosson-Miller > "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus." > ("Never tickle a sleeping Dragon") better to tickle awake dragons? -- There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be don

Re: newbiedoc.intranets.com

2000-11-08 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:28:12PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:01:26AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:10:48PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > > newbiedoc.intranets.com -- the gathering place for newbies > > > documenting linux/debian for newbies

Re: mutt

2000-11-08 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:31:17AM -, John-Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten > thanks for the advice. What i am really looking for is how to actually pick > up my mail using mutt. For example how to give it my SMTP and POP3 server > details. A you may have guessed I am an absolute newbi

Re: Question and goodbye...

2000-11-08 Thread sena
I heard that Dan Hutchinson wrote this on 08/11/00: > You can add your user that need access to startx to a group, GUI for > example. Then chgrp of startx to that group and chmod of the everyone > to null. This is a quick and dirt way, others on this list may give > you a more advance way. > Th

Re: Soundblaster PCI 128

2000-11-08 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > The last days I've read some messages that I should use the es1370 or es1371 > driver for that card. lsmod identified my card as es1371 so I've loaded this > driver as module. But although m

Re: keyboard configuration

2000-11-08 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:25:09AM -0500, urbanyon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 05:32:58PM -0500, urbanyon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > > > > on Tue, Nov 07

Re: adaptec 1505 / potato

2000-11-08 Thread Michael Smith
Since the AVA1505 does not have an on-board bios, you have to tell the module where it's at. Give the options at load time with "modprobe -a aha152x aha152x=0x340,11,7"(ioport,irq,scsihostid) or using modconf, give the options where prompted. Put an append statement in lilo when you've figured

New to debian, q about pkgs "on hold"

2000-11-08 Thread Steve Juranich
I try to run apt-get upgrade once a week. I'm just pulling stuff from the potato dist, because I have no real need for bleeding-edge stuff. Anyway, for the past couple of weeks, I've been getting this message from apt-get: chester:/home/steve# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Buildi

Re: question about my 2.4 test10 kernel

2000-11-08 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 11:18:31PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i make 2.4.0 test 8 kernel before,by the common steps below: > make dep;make clean;make bzImage;make modules;make modules_install > but i met problem in my new compiled 2.4.0 test 10 kernel,after reboot,i > cannot > insmod any m

m68k virt_to_phys

2000-11-08 Thread Jerry Curry
In what library is virt_to_phys located. It is an extern in /usr/include/asm/virtconvert.h

Re: How do 3D cards work under Linux (Debian)

2000-11-08 Thread Scott Patterson
>Hi all, > >I'm no rookie to Linux, but, I'm missing something on how >3D really works in Linux. I've been able to get 3D working >but don't really understand what's going on. When I say 3D, >I'm speaking of 3D video-hardware acceleration under Linux! > >If someone could present me with a step-by-

Re: Soundblaster PCI 128

2000-11-08 Thread Johannes Jörg
Did you check your /dev's? You will need /dev/dsp for being able to hear sound. Maybe the user you are logged in as has no permission to access the sound devives. By default, these devices are accessible by the group "audio" (you can check if this is true with "ls -l /dev/ | grep audio"). If this i

Problem using gprof

2000-11-08 Thread Cyrus Patel
Hello, I am trying to profile an app I am writing using gprof. The app uses the Gnome/GTK+ libs as well as the pthreads lib. I have attached a section of the output - it doesn't seem correct. A simple initialisation function is reported to take 50% of the time whereas a complex function that is

Petition for help: console pdf viewing

2000-11-08 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
Hi, As I stated to this list before, I'm experiencing some problems viewing .pdf files in console mode. I'm trying to do this with fbi (in it's man page is stated this is possible through the help of convert). Unfortunately, this doesn't work. So my question is: could someone try to view a pdf fi

Digest (was Re: Question and goodbye...)

2000-11-08 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 03:49:29PM +, sena ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi... > > Just another thing... I'm unsubscribing debian-user.. The traffic is too > much for me to be able to read any of it... I'm thinking of subscribing the > digest version of the list.. Is it any good??? It's the sa

Re: New user rant..urr, questions.

2000-11-08 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:49:22AM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 10:14:41AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:21:12PM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > --+ Anyhow. I would like some user help.

Re: Strange message on ps -a

2000-11-08 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:50:27PM +0100, Johannes Jörg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > At 09:09 AM 11/8/00 +0100, you wrote: > > >The following message appears each time I make "ps" or "ps -a": > > > > > >{floppy_open} {scsi_init_free} > > >Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.17 does not match kernel d

Re: New to debian, q about pkgs "on hold"

2000-11-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
Most likely the packages in questions have dependencies which did not previously exist. 'apt-get upgrade' will not install them, but if you instead use 'apt-get dist-upgrade' you will get the held packages plus any required dependencies (assuming that the dependencies are available). On Wed, Nov

Re: Petition for help: console pdf viewing

2000-11-08 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 08:34:33PM +0100, Frederik Vanrenterghem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > As I stated to this list before, I'm experiencing some problems viewing > .pdf files in console mode. I'm trying to do this with fbi (in it's man > page is stated this is possible through the hel

Re: Question and goodbye...

2000-11-08 Thread Erik Steffl
sena wrote: > > I heard that Dan Hutchinson wrote this on 08/11/00: > > > You can add your user that need access to startx to a group, GUI for > > example. Then chgrp of startx to that group and chmod of the everyone > > to null. This is a quick and dirt way, others on this list may give > > yo

already-posted mini HOWTO/FAQ/INTRO's

2000-11-08 Thread will trillich
through the past coupla weeks, we've seen some mini-howto's and quick-intro's fly by on this list... would the respective FAQ authors be likely to object if we made them available at http://newbiedoc.intranets.com/ ? must better if you post them there yourselves. we've got 25megs to play with...

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-08 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Andrei Pelinescu - Onciul wrote: > make clean > make oldconfig dep bzImage > > and bzImage is in arch/i386/boot/bzImage. > > How exactly did you try to build your kernel? Did you get any error > message? > > The kernel build process has nothing to do with Debian or any other > distribution. It j

Can't login via xdm

2000-11-08 Thread Karl Philipp
Hi, I updated several packages regarding to X Windows, enlightenment and GNOME. Now, I can't login via xdm. You can read in the file ~/.xsession-errors Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server xrdb: Can't open display ':0' ... Xlib: conne

Re: Archive/kernel problems

2000-11-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:13:43AM +1100, Kaleb Daark wrote: > After downloading kernel-source-2.2.17_2.2.17pre6-1.deb (for the third I just tried it, downloading seems okee, but diffing it to an older download gives an error in char 313705, line 1282. So it seems it has been replaced lately with

Re: Soundblaster PCI 128

2000-11-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
>> The last days I've read some messages that I should use the es1370 or >> es1371 >> driver for that card. lsmod identified my card as es1371 so I've loaded lsmod shows you what drivers you have got loaded - it doesn't identify hardware. I have succesfully used es1371 with an SB PCI 128. >> this

Re: Soundblaster PCI 128

2000-11-08 Thread Marco Herrn
Johannes Jörg wrote: >add your username > to the group "audio" ([EMAIL PROTECTED] addgroup your_username audio) > Hope this helps Phil Brutsche wrote: >Everything seems to be in order - is sound still not working? After adding my account to the audio group, everything works. Many thanks for that

Re: D-Link Again!

2000-11-08 Thread Willi Dyck
Hi i did compile the module you hav sent me. but it didn't work, anyway. then i did something not logical. in /etc/modules.conf is a line like: options via-rhine irq=9 and in /etc/modutils/via-rhine: options via-rhine irq=9 i commented out both and then the card worked!! i was very surprised about

inserting one postscript file into another

2000-11-08 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I have 2 postscript files. One has pages 1-100 and the other one has pages 1-20.

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: >"make bzImage" helped to create arch/i386/boot/bzImage as you stated. >I used before make zImage which in fact had put the file in >arch/i386/boot/compressed/. So the size of about 0.6MB is valid. I was >just wondering because the 2.0.38 kernel I rec

XFree 4.0 .deb from woody on a potato system???

2000-11-08 Thread David Teague
Joey Hess wrote in the Debian Weekly News for November 07th, 2000: > XFree86 4.0.1 has [1]entered unstable. [snip] > The result is a surprisingly polished upgrade (by unstable's > standards anyway -- [2] many problems are still being encountered). In short, my question is Can I use the XFree

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